Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-01-01
RsWs OF TIE DAY.

Senator Hoar has gone &c bis home ir
Massachusetts for brief rost.
Mr.. Decatur II. Miller, q leading cit;z u Of
Baltimore, died yesterday in ths 70th year CT
his age.
ParrelI end O'Brien will likely hold an
other conference next week, a. which Tim
othy Hsrrgan will be Present.
The annual frolic of the members of the
Baltimore Corn and Flour Esonas ga yes 81 :
day included mock Iudiao fight.
The total prod uction OF anthracite coal il
Pennsylvania 1889 Was 40 665 l52 tons OF
2 .24O pounds, valued st 500 It's .l65.
Gen. Francis E. Spinner. formerly United
States treasurer, died yesterday at Jackson
villa, Fla, aged eighty-eigat sears.
The weather ls 60 cold in Vienna that ell
OF the springs which furnish the city'5 water
supply are frozen and water famine is
feared.
Tt is said that Mr.. Christopher L. Mage
is full-asdged candidate for the Unlted
States Senate fsom Pennsylvania Ia 1893,
against Mr. Q1ay.
James MacFarlane, Of Toronto. Ont, was
yes.e 6ay sentenced 10 FIVE years In the pan
itentary aod to recsive 40 !asnes, heiug
found guilty Of Incest.
Hiss Mary Doench, 6 rather pretty young
woman, was held On 81 500 bait flr the
&C Ian o: the United States Court at Baiti-
more yesterday, on the chargs Of seeding
obscene letters and postal cards through the
mail.
Reimbursement of the N5w Y srii city AS
ssmby districts, ta,ed on Mr.. PorteT'a
census, would give the democrats ns
iority 10 the House. a fir canvass OF tha
Coneressiona! districts gives the democrats
| seventeen and the republicans sixteen, with
one in doubt.
The Nav York Supreme Court fads that
Lily w. Churchill, Duchess Of Marlborough
and formerly widow of millionaire Louis q.
Hammersley, has net iDcone Of $3.50, 0O0 d
year. aod il will require Der 10 apply $50, COG
a year TO the paVmsnt OF Judgments, aggre-
eating nearly 500 COO. recovered against hei
recently by john jafftSy.
The Austrian Ambassador to Great Britain
and the secretary CT of the AustriaE smbss
sey 10 London q1arseied az 10 walsh of the
gentienens wives should have precedepce
on social and Official occasions. As e result
the Diplomats fought q duel With pistols
near Vienna, bat failed to hit eech other
though several shots were exchanged.
Superintendent Por>er, of the Census b
relu, mas submitted report of the opera.
tons of the bureau for six months. The
feld-work Of the eleventh census is prsct
ca!iy flushed. Nearly ell this supervisors
and ennmerators have been paid The spa
cial agents engaged IN pbstEaotT 6 mortgages
have completed their WORK end the returns
are ln course of tabnlation. MF. Porter ex
poets to complete the cansus 10 TWO years.
Republican Senators W hold capcut
next week in the hope of resching rev
agreement upon the force dill. II is under
stood that al effort wiIl be made TO amend
the bill, SO az to remove the most chi ectiou-
able features, and render it practically az
election bill by name. By this means il is
thought vote can be reached without re-
sorting to ohangein the rules. Vice Pres
ideot Moyton'5 ruling yesterday thst So ap-
peal freq, the decision Of the chai. is de.
batable Is very unsatisfactory TO the gag,
law Senators.