Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-19
NEWS OF THE DAY.

NEWS OF THE DAY.
Bishop Paret. of Maryland, is be-
lievcd to be on his way home from
Europe.
TIE British parliament was pre-
rogueG yesterday evening until De-
celnher i.
The national je,4ocratic campaign
committee yesterday decided to estab-
lish branch headquarters in Chicago.
The State Treasurer of Pennsylvania
has paid out $4,000 on account Of
the service Of troops at Homestead.
The republican national campaign
opened in Springfield, H., yesterday.
Nh Whitelaw Reid spoke there last
night.
Under p'.essure w. T. Baker has re-
signed as president of the Worlds Co.
lumbia Exposition Company, and II. n.
HigSinbotham has been chosen to sue
coed him.
Charles II. Peckham, who had been
crazcd BY reading the reports of the
Borden murders at Fall River and gave
himself up as the criminal, has been
sent home to his family
An important dinner to millionaires
and national politicians was given at
the Union League in New York last
night by Treasurer Bliss, of the nation
al republican committee.
The United States consul at La
guayra has informed the Secretary o.
State that the government Of Vene-
zucla has reduced the import duties on
rice, corn, peas, beans and potatoes.
a stranger who attempted to intro
duce politics into farmers alliance
meeting in Worcester county, Md, yes
terday was surrounded by the Snow
Hill brass band and blown off the
stump.
Several oyster planters are removing
from Talbot county, Md, to Virginia,
where the laws are more liberal and
encouraging to the planting industry.
A planter in Virginia can take up TWEEN
| ty acres, paying the State an annual
rental of fifty cents an acre.
The Hotel De Grinnell, near Bcrne,
Switzerland, was destroyed by fire yes
terday 1t was thronged with Ameri-
can and European tourists. The origin
Of the fire is not known, but it swept
through the village with great rapidity,
destroying the hotel and 80 houses.
The tourists had Il narrow escape from
the flames, but they all got out safely.
The worlds pacing record was
broken at Chicago yesterday. Old
Johnson who paced his mile in 2:O6f
October, 1854, at Chicago West Side
Driving Park, has been dethroned, and
Hal Pointer reigns in his stead. The
game son of Tom Hal went around
Washington Park track in 2:05f, max
ing the fastest mile ever gone in har-
ness.
Silver sold during the past week at
S2t cents per ounce, at which price
the quantity of silver in our stand
ard silver dollar is worth 633 cents.
The record is broken again by this Ia
test price, and again in the wrong di-
rection. We are buying 4,500, 600
ounces month under the act of July
IA. 1890, in order, as alleged, to keep
up the price At the beginning of the
year 1890 silver was selling at Sc cents
an ounce.
The Texas democratic State conven-
ton, composed of supporters of Gov
ernor Hogg, met at Houston yesterday
morning and adopted the majority re-
port of the platform committee, which
indorses free and unlimited coinage OF
silver. j. S. Hogg was then renomi,
mated for Governor. The Clark faction
of the convention also held meeting
and nominated part of the State
ticket with Clark for Governor and adj
journed to await further developments
in the Hogg convention.