Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-05-13
NEWS OF TEE DAY.

LIZ ia seriously OeneVeu IN TbsniURtou
that Justice Bradley will give President
Harrison the opportunity to appoint bis sue
cessor.
Johanna Muller 6ied at ST. Francis Hos
pital, New York, yesterday of tricbinoels.
Her husband Ia at the hospital afflicted vii
the same disease and is expected TO die.
A cloudburst washed away party OF
campers near Liberty. N. NJ. Monday night.
The water came down the Craw several feet
high, drowning E ]. Wilcox. The others had
Darrow escape.
Governor Hill Is expected to hold on to
both the Governorship of New York and the
United States Senatorship inGeinitely, be-
Ing unwilling to let 90 his control OF the
State machine"
A denial Is made of the story sent from
Chicago that George Pullman, of palace Car
fame. is paying the expenses of President
Harrison's trip through the West. The
President is paying his own way.
Johu W. Llnck, special agent of the Trea.
eury Department, has found that eince the
| operation OF the Mckinley law, Cuban
cigars are made looser and smaller, saving
from two to three pounds in every thousand
cigars.
- CuEl Ny 0OSAOAoAy oS
ter to examine the management Of the Bu-
rssu OF Engrayiog and Printing in Wash
ington by Chief Meredith, found that ell the
| charges brought by the Knights of labor
we're un!ounded.
The opinion 10 Washington is that Gov.
error Boyd, OF Nebraska, made big mis-
take In yielding to the decision of the gu
| prems Court OF that State declaring him in
| T. ;,f hounht hic fnr
! legislative action.
On Monday night discovery was made in
foul smelling hut In Montcair, n. j.. OF
,be body OF womsn, who had evidently
been dead several days, and har ei2ht-yesr-
old son, who for nearly week bal innc-
Gently slept beside the corpse
a dispatch from Centreville. Md, sa3s :
1.-THE two hundred colored residents Of the
town of 400 inhabitants ase talking of VEN
geance for The lyncbiog of Asbury Green,
colored. They have no leaders, but are
ready to do mischief. One hundred white
citizens are pstrolling tbs streets.
| Ex-P.esident Cleveland was the guest and
speaker at the opening of the new and ele-
/ CANT clubhouse of the Cleveland democracy
! OF Buffalo, n. Y, last night. He made G
/ speech IN which be denounced The big sp-
| propyiations OF the Billion Dollar Congress,
and anuuded the battle Cry of the democrats
! fer 1892.
| The New York P:e.bytery yesterday
adopted the majority report, by vote
of forty-four TO thirty, coDdsmning Raw.
DR.. Briggs fcr heroay, and authorized
the moderator TO appciat r. judiciary ccrn
mittee TO Try the case. A. the next regular
meeting OF the Presby cry, in June, 1t will
probably be determined when the trial shail
| be2iu.
NJ. Thomas A. Edison, the electrician
spd inventor, says he will have ready for
the Chicago Worlds Fair combination o!
photography and electricity whereby man
can st in biz own parlor and see depicted
upon a curtain the forms Of the players IN
opera upon q distant stage ard hear the
voices of the singers. Each movement and
color will be plainly reproduced. The sys-
TEN can be applied 10 prizs-Gsh's. the noise,
blows, talk end everything being trans
mltted.
The Southern Baptist Convention adj
burned at Birmingham, Ala. yesterday, 10
meet next year in Atlanta, Ca. rasolu-
ton condemnng the Louisiana State Loite-
~ was unanimously adopted. A resolution
OF sympathy with Atlanta in her fight
against the saloons provoked considerable
discnssiop, but wac finally adopted. The
convention adopted the arbitration overture
cent By the Presbyterian General Assembly,
ard appointed President Haracon dele
| gate TO the general meeting for which 1t
| provides.