Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-02-07
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The reported engagement Of Miss Winnie
Davis TO lIr. James Il. Richardson, of New
O .lesrs. Is depisd By the latter.
EH5rts are being made TO secure provis-
ion fnr tie Fsencn spolitations and direct
tax cl;imsin the general deficiency bill.
Wa. D. Gross, the neg:o vile murderer,
who aGs to have been hung in Washin'on
CT Fri3aY OF next week, will be reepited to
pe..ait tbs beariog OF bis appeal February
16
TIE SUI qasbeuns Coal Ocmpany's mine
ct Na, t oot.e, Penn, is burning. o gas
| feeder neing igniteG yesterday. No lives
rave been lost. but The FIRE means enforced
~iileaoss and coneequen9 p,iVstion to hun
dreGS o! miners.
Judge Robinson, of the Maryland Court
Of Appeals, fled his dissenting opinion in
the Aus.rGilsn ballot law csses yesterday.
he ha!ds 5hat it is iava.id because OF the
G%cvsrec:'s p!ocIeetiuation in signing 1t, and
bscsuss 1t does net apply to all The voters il
the Safe.
TIE rapid increase oil the disease known
as tbs peach yeilows" In tae orchards Of
Dsiswars is asiteti1g the fruit growers at
present and uplees some radical steps
are taken to prevent the spread OF the dis
ease, the days Of peach growing In Delaware
are numbered.
Joseph Thomas, g w%ell-known and highly
respected coiorsd man Of South Baltimore,
died at his hcme, in :hst civ Yesterday,
Thomas vas bora 10 slaverY in 1871 In North
umberlnrd county, Va. and when ten Yeas
Did went to Ba.t more where be sccumulai-
ed q fortune Of S75 600.
A dispatch from WASHINGTON says Secre.
tary Blaine is . presidential Candidate from
this time en-, scG thinks he sees victory
aheed both 10 the party convention and In
the general campaign. He was only walt
ing 10 SOC how bis stforts st negotiating reci-
procity agreements with couniTies south
turned out.
John 81. Heiser, the pension Office clerk
vino was found with bis foot nashed oil be-
side the Metropolitan track of The Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad in Washington On the
| evening of the Is b of January, havin been
robbed and thro9n eff the train, died yes
terdsy. Mr.. Heiser went to Washington
from Woodstock.
The New York Sun says A proclamation
from the President may be expected, prob
calling an extra session of the Uaited States
Sspst, to inset on the 4 h OF March or i'm
mediately afterwsid Il may be presumed
tina; the business to be brought before this
called session will be of more than old nary
Importance.
Mr.. Qlay 10 an interview yesterday said !:
II regard Hili's election to the Senate, If
it secures TO Cleveland the nomination, as it
is alleged it will DO, ths best thing that could
happen for the republicans. IL is plain that
Hill on's can carry New York and that
CleoelenG would lo,e the State without any
doubt" Mr. Qray fsvors Mr.. Blaine as the
republican Presidential candidate.
The republican members of the special
committee Of the House Of Representatives
appointed to investigate charges against
Gan Green 8. Rum, United States con-.
missioner of psns,ous, agreed upon a report
yesterday that the charges bad not been
sustained by proof. The democratic mem
bers OF the committe promise to throw some
further light on the matter IN a minority re-
port.
Refusing to believe that his beloved daugh-
ter Mamie is dead. George Potts, of Ocean
Grove. II. j., refuses to have her inferred.
Miss Potts, who was 19 years old. was q pupil
in the Comstock school, Nav York city, and
she apparently died after having taken MGR
phipe pills en- Sunday last. The pills had
bssn prescribed by q young medical student.
The body eiill rests IN q receiving vault With
the Id of the ccfin off.