Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-04-24
yEws OY TIE Day.

Holiday, the lone highway man, lmprlsoE-
ed in Marquette, Mich, is trying TO starVe
himself.
The exscs amount OF the defslcatiou of
State Treasurer Archer, CT Maryland, was
1872 .4O1 %.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis aeys she would like
to 90 to Richmond to the Lee unwilling,
but cannot.
The House Committee on territories are
preparing plan for the admission of Utah
aud New Mexico SO as to insure boin States
being republican.
The Baltimore Presbytery yesterday re-
fused, by tie vote, 33 to SO. to reconsider
it's action on the revision question taken last
December. Last December it voted for re-
vision.
A large party of South Boston, Halifax
county, negroes were baked in their exc
dus expedition to Colorado, by the failure
of the employing agent to meet them 10
Lynchburg yesterday.
The conference report on the bill to pre-
vide temporary government for the 1e'f!-
tory of Oklahoma was adopted by the SEN
ate yesterday. and the bill now goes to the
President for his signature.
Secretary Blaine has sent messages to the
various southern committees who had pro
pared to entertain the Pan American dele-
gates expressive of his regret that the south
ern excursion had to be abandoned.
Peculiar charges of fraud are made
AGAINST Ex-Governor Aorzo 3. Cornell, OF
New York. in a s1it involving note for
So 900. mads by Jacob Lorillard, and no"
in the possession of the Garfield National
Bank.
The recent large mortgage sales of miner
al lands, furnaces, ETC., in Alabama, When
the property brought one third less than the
amount for which it was mortgsged, looks
like collapse was about to take place IN
values in that State.
The United Service Club has bought pol
ton of the lot ofthe late W. w. Corcoran at
the southeast corner Of Connecticut avenue
| and street, in Washington. TIE lot is III
BIZ so feet and sold at SO per square foot.
A handsome clubhouse will be erected on
| this ste.
The little town OF Kyle, twenty miles
south of Austin, Texas, was visited by c5 :
clone Tuesday night and many houses were
overturned and several swept away. Sew
eral people were Injured. The Kyle Semi
nary, a large frame building, was lifted from
it's foundation and carried some twenty feet
The President OF the provisional govern
meut of Brszl says he is determined 10 de-
liver the government to the legislative Coz
gress just as soon as possible, and that inter
nal peace and order shall be maintained at
any cost. There ia some talk of removing
the capital of the republic from Rio de ia
metro.
An amendment to the diplomatic appro-
priation bill has been reported favorably in
the Senate giving the title of Ambassador to
the American ministers in Great Britain,
France, Germany and Russia, the salaries to
remain as now, and slightly increasing the
salaries of the ministers to Turkey, Denmark
and to Greece. A similar proposal was de-
feated in the last Congress.
1t Is said that Gov. Eagle. of Arkansas,
has discovered within the past few days,
through private agencies, evidence sufficient
| to convict the man who assassinated John
| M. Clayton nearly two years ago. The evil
deuce, it Is said, will show that the assassin
believed that John NJ. Clayton was ex-Gov.
Powell Clayton, AID fred the shot, believing
that he was about to avenge the death OF q
relative whose life was taken in 1865 by
Clayton's militia.