Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-07-20
NEWS OLE THE DAY.

Contracts will be awarded the
Craml for building Two steamers like
the City OF Paris.
The steamer Ryvingen arrived at
Baltimore yesterday from Port Antonio,
with II, 900 punches of bananas.
Secretary Of War Elllins has de-
clincd to be the republican candidate
for Governor of West Virginia.
1t is understood that Mr.. Andrew d.
White, OF New York, is to beappointed
United States Minister to Russia.
The Eastern Shore, Nd, peach crop is
better than was expected, and in Wash
ington county it is reported good.
w. 4. Strickland, Of Alfalfa, Ohio,
has divine inspiration that pension
money was curse, and he returned it.
The country in the vicinity of Terry,
Miss, is greatly inundated, and the
cotton and corn crops are considered
destroyed.
Senators Aldrich and Carlisle are ex-
pected to make speeches before Con-
gress adjourns on the question how the
tariff affects prices.
Mr. Tom Carter, the new chair
man of the republican national commit
tee, yesterday rendered his resignation
us commissioner of the land Office.
The President yesterday nominated
George Shiras, il, of Pennsylvania, to
lie Associate Justice of the Supreme
Court of the United States to ill the
vacancy caused by the death of Justice
Bradley.
1t is announced in New York that
Miss Marguerite Inman, daughter OF
Mr. John II. Inman, former president
of the Richmond and Danville Railroad,
will be married in Paris next month 10
Mr. Westmorcland Davis.
Mir Valentine a. Buckley, aged
seventy-eisht years died yesterday in
| Cumberland. Nd. lie served two terms
in the City Council during the war.
On June II, 1868, he was the acting
Mayor, and surrendered the city OF
Cumberland TO the Confederate troops.
He was born in Centreville, Fairfax
county, Va.
DR.. Rojas Paul. cx-Prcsidont Of Ven
ezucla, has returned to Caracas from
his voluntary exile, in the hope that he
may aid in restoring peace. There are
many complications in the situation.
and should he be elected President
General Sarria may lead a new revolu-
ton. Meanwhile hostiltics have been
suspended pending Il meeting of Con
gress.
Chairman Carter, of the national re,
publican executive committee, arrived
in Washington yesterday and spent the
afternoon at the Capitol, where he held
consultations with nearly every one o.
the republican Senators. One result O
the talk will he the appointment of eX'
Representative Louis L. McComas, O
Maryland, as secretary of the natlcna
republican committee.
The Carnegie officials at Homestead
Pa, will not oppose Burgess McLuckie'!
release on bail About $50 men are a
work in the Homestead mill, most o
them new employees. -Four furnace:
in the armor-p!ate department wert
charged Yesterday, and a complete re
sumption in this department will take
place to-day The melting department
has been fired up, but it will take sever
days to get this branch of the mill run
ming again.
Democrats from all over the country
are gathering in New York to attend
the notification tonight Of c2l-Prcsidcn
Cleveland and General Stevenson. tho
democratic nominees. Madison Square
Garden will need to be four times a:
large as it is if all the good democrat:
anxious to witness the notification are
to get in. The national democratic
committee will meet this evening at
o'clock and adjourn i'll order to attent
the notification meeting.
Hon. Adlai f. Stevenson, the demo
cratic nominee for Vice President, ma:
written a letter to Col. Thos. w Strange
of Wilmington, n. c., in which he
states that he expects to make at leas
five speeches in that State during The
campaign and he names Wilmington
Fayetteville and Charlotte as three o
the places nj which he desires to speak
Though born in Kentucky Mr.. Steven
sons parents were North Carolinians
and the delegates from that States were
enthusiastic in his support at the Chi
cago convention.
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