Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-07-22
NEWS OF THE DAY.
Cardinal Gibbons will be fifty-eight

Cardinal Gibbons will be fifty-eight
years old tomorrow.
1t is stated in Philadelphia that the
price of anthracite coal will be adj
vanced August /.
The President has approved the joint
resolution providing for an investiga-
ton of the "slums Of cities .
Maurice Tuker, Russian, aged 81
years, married his aunt, aged So, with
eight children, in Toledo yesterday.
Five of the largest flour mills on the
Atlantic Seaboard, those in New York
and Brooklyn, have formed syndicate
The stallion Pale Alto, who holds the
stallion trotting record of 20S3, died at
Senator Stanford's farm near Redwood,
Cal, yesterday ofpneumonia.
President Harrison has issued proc
lamation calling for Il general obscrv-
ance of the 400th anniversary Of the
discovery of American on October q.
Hon. Barnes Compton has issued an
address to his constituents in the 9TH
Maryland district saying he would not
be a candidate for reelection to Con-
gress.
Mr.. Gladstone is trying to obtain
an absolute assurance from the
anti-Parnellitcs of their support in the
event Of an attack on the government
by q mo confidence amendment.
One thousand acres Of shooting
grounds, the property Of the famous
Deals Island Shooting Club, situated in
Cul1ituck, on the North Carolina coast,
was sold in Norfolk yesterday to a Nor
folk party for 81, $50.
Grover Cleveland and Adlai E.
Stevenson smoked last night the calu
met with the Sagamores of Harlem, n.
Y, where n reception was rendered the
two leaders of the democratic party. 1t
was q great time for the people OF Har-
lem. and not democrat of any note in
tee annexed district was absent.
The U. s. Senate yesterday passed
the House bill granting pensions to the
survivors of the Indian wars Of 1882 to
1872 inclusive. In the House q num-
Der of measures pertaining to military
and naval matters were passed, but pos
tai affairs were not so successful, the
only measure of general importance
called up, for the issuing ofpostal frac-
tional notes, not reaching Il favorable
conclusion.
At the session in Washington yester-
day of the joint immigration committee
engaged on the Ellis Island investiga-
ton Representative Stump, of Mary
land, used some very plain language
toward Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury Nettleton. Mr.. Stump said
that copy of his report which Mr.. Net
Teton had in his possession had been
surreptitiously obtained.
The national democratic committee
in New York yesterday adopted a plan
of organization and campaign formu-
lated by Mr. Whitney. 1t is thought
branch headquarters will be established
in Chicago or Indiana, and that special
efforts will be made to carry Illinois
and northwestern States. 1t is rumor-
ed that Mr.. William G.. Whitney will
be made chairman of the advisory COM
mittee provided for in the plan of or
ganization.
Becoming madly infatuated with
ROLAND Moore, boy Of 10, Mrs. DR..
John Aldrich, aged rs, of Cincinnati,
O., offered him $4,000 to marry her.
He did so three years ago. The matter
was kept secret until yesterday, when
the woman refused to turn over the
money. Moore has left for parts un-
known with n goodly sum of her
money Both parties occupy high So
cial positions. The boy husband lived
like monarch while in Cincinnati.
Messrs. Buchanan, of Virginia, Cul-
berson, of Texas, Bynum, of Indiana,
and Goodnight, ofKentucky, four ofthe
strongest ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS of the jul
dietary committee, have united minor
ity report. presented to thcdouse ycster-
day, protesting against the passage OF
the Torrcy bankruptcy bill. The mi
nority oppose the passage of any ma
tional bankruptcy law, and says our
experience with past laws on this sub
ject has not been such as ought to in
duce us to venture upon q new law
without the existence of much stronger
reasons than have been produced.