Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-04-18
NEWS OF The Day.


Brazil is increasing.
Mr.. Rutherford B. Hayes sailed from
New York yesterday for Bermuda.
The st. Louis Pfesbytery have voted
against revision by large majority.
The members of the Pan American Con-
gress will leave Washington on their south
ern trip tonight.
The price of foreign fruit is advancing,
owing to the increasing demand, which more
than equals the supply.
Louis Franks & Co., silk importers, of
New York, yesterday made an assignment.
Liabilities about 100000.
The Louisiana levees are ia a critical COL
dition. Five thousand men are working TO
save the Point Coupee levees.
The Westinghouse Electric Company is
negotiating for the purchase OF the Brush
electric light plant in Baltimore.
Secretary Window pronounces the Vance
bill to give government aid direct to farmers
unconstitutional and impracticable.
The bond of Mr.. E. 81. Brown, the new
State treasurer Of Maryland, was approved
Yesterday and he formally took charge OF
the treasurer's office.
The Massachusetts Senate has adopted a
resolution addressed to Congress in favor OF
thorough revision of the tariff and the re-
ductlon of duties on raw materials.
g. Chinaman was yesterday refused adj
mission to Canada, and was not allowed to
enter the United Statee. In consequence he
remains on the bridge between the two
countries
It was discovered yesterday at Castle Gar
den that of ,403 French and Italian imm:-
grants on board the steamship Cachemlfe.
the majority were bound for Pittsburg under
contracts made in Italy.
J. W. Helm, notorious crscksman, and
several other convicts while being convey
ed to Kentucky prison on railroad train
yesterday, overpowered the guard, leaped
from the train and escaped.
A colored woman in Salem county, Mass,
three weeks ago gave birth to child who
was asleep when born and has not yet
awakened II has not been heard to cr9
and apparently is in trance.
A steamship from Hull, England, yeste'-
day brought to New York as freight 10Y
Shetland ponies. Among these is one which
is only thirty one inches high, said to be the
smallest Shetland pony living.
The opening of the Cape Fear end Yad-
kin Valley railroad, which connects Greers-
bo-o, N. @, with Wilmington, via Fayette-
vile, was the occasion of tremendous civic
demonstration in Wilmington yesterday.
The greatest price ever paid in New y ork
for parcel CT Fifth avenue land was OBJ
tsiDed on the Real Estate Exchang under
the hammer piece sdjolDng Delmonico's
brought 1921 $40, which s equal to Sll5 a
quare foot.
of hp lei N q
Legislature, proposition will be submitted
hy the Louisiana Lottery Company to pay
the State $12, 100000 for the privilege of
maintaining the lottery for q period OF
twenty-five years.
Mrs. Vandegrift, of Burlington, N. j.,
who is accused of attempting to poison her
sop. was followed on her way to court yes
terdsy by bowling mob who wanted to
lynch her In court she was held for trial
aud locked up in default oil bail.
Prof. Langley, of the Smithsonian, read a
paper before the National Academy of Sci
ences in Washington last night on 1.-THE
Cheapest Light" in which he said there was
a probability that the processes of nature in
making light without heat would be success
fully initiated.
In the German Laudtag yesterday Herr
Bruel and DR.. Windthorst raised the ques-
ton of the abolition of the Guelph
fund, the moneys accruing from the
sequestrston of the kingdom of Hanover
By Prussia, and which are claimed by the
Duke of Cumberland.
The grand jury Of Wheeling, W, Va, has
created panic. Nearly 200 indictments
were found against gamblers and ssloonists.
Among the indicted are prominent repu6-
| al g.. ~ nd tcrn Of ho
leading politicians of the State, besides 3
dozen high church members
The gross revenue of the British govern
ment from alcoholic beverages for the past
| fiscal year was twenty -1ine and quarter
million pounds sterling. which Mr.. Goshen,
chancellor of the exchequer, says indicates
a universal rush to the beer barrel, the spir-
it bottle and the wine decanter.
Tho train bearing the remains of Samuel
J. Randall arrived at Philadelphia few
minutes after three O'Clock yesterday, ana
the cortege proceeded TO Laurel Hill Gems
| tery, where the r, mains were inferred.
vast crow OF sympathetic spectators had
gathered at this station and hundreds follow
ed the funeral procession to the cemetery.
James s. Caswell. who was convicted of
the murder of George Gould, his sentence
being imprisonment for life, was married
yesterday to Mrs. Laura Gould, wife of the
murdered man. The marriage took place
through the bars of Csswell's call, in the
Vermont psuitentiary. Caswel and Mrs.
Gould lived as man and wife for twenty
wears previous to Mrs. Gould's marriage to
| Gould.
A CIVIL SERVICE DICUssIoN.-The Q. S.
Senate yesterday considered the House joint