Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-06-19
NEWS OF TEE D&T.

federal elections bill in the House.
The manufacture Of artificial ice In Balti-
more is steadily developing as ca industry.
A London fnapcier offers million and
quarter dollars year for the Louisiana lot
terry privilege.
1t ia reported that President Harrison Is
satisfied with one term, and will not seek q
denomination.
Hon. VIM. L. Scott has been nominated
for Congress by the democrats CT the Erie
Pa district.
A combination to raise the price of fire
crackers on the Glorious Fourth has been
formed in New York.
It is said that pressure is being brought en-
Senator Calvin S. B,ce to secure his retire.
ment from the craftsmanship of the demo-
cratic national committee.
Col. II. G. Jones, of Charlotte, N. c., a
candidate for Congress, yesterday declined
to sign alliance pledges, and said no stocc
On the democratic platform.
The monument to the memory Of the late
Thomas A. Hendricks, Vice President OF the
United States, built by popular subscription,
will be unveiled at Indianapolis on July l.
The treaty with Great Britain bars The
building of the Naval Academy practice
vessel on Lake Michigan, and our naval
officers consider the treaty one-3lded al
fair.
The Philadelphia physician, D.. D. Hayes
Agnew, has expressed the opinion that the
climatic changes which are now going Oh
will, In time. cause the flora ofthe tropics to
flourish up North.
The Committee Oh ;ho Liberation of The
| Russian People has issued manifesto an
nouncing revolutionary intentions. Many
arrests have been made in Moscow, st. Re
| tersburg, wilma and Odessa.
Congressman William McAdoo. of Hnd-
son county, N. Y wrote letter yesterday
denying the report that he intended to take
up his residence In Virginia and get elected
tc Congress from there.
The Richmond Terminal directors in New
York yesterday empowered President ln-
man to negotiate for share in the syndicate
which bought the city of Baltimore's and
other holdings OF Baltimore and Ohio stock
Under the act recently passed by Congress;
it is declared that sin time of peace the
President may, in his discretion aud under
such rules and upon such conditions as he
shall prescribe, permit any enlisted mau te
purchase his discharge from the army"
Mr.. Whitelaw Reid, minister to France
pays S27 600 year for mis- Paris house, ano
his expenses will probably run close tt
$1,000 His salary is only SIT 500, and Il
thus takes SO 900 more than this to pay hi
house rent.
10 New York yesterday total of 1854.
$50 in gold was taken for foreg n export
making a total of g, 254 $50, including las
Saturdays shipment. Uncertainty regard
ing the silver question is believed to be a
the bottom of this gold export movement.
The Occidental Club, OF San Francisco
announces purse of $50 900 for fight be
tween Billy Murphy and Jack McAulifie
and the California Athletic Club has deci
dsd to match the winner In the Sullivan
Jackson fight against the winner of the
SIayin- McAuliffs contest In London.
A second section of the bridge leading
from the eea wall in front Of the Hudson
Square PARK, Hoboken, TO tho free baths
gave away last night, and precipltatec
about forty persons into the water beneath
There was great excitement among the hun
dreds of people who were on other parts O
the bridge and in the neighborhood, snd
their frantic movements greatly retarded
the rescuing OF the drowning people. They
were all rescued, however.