Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-11-23
TELEGRAPHIC BRETITIES.

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Mrs. Laura Wallace Buchanan,
former belle of Baltimore, and Mr.. }.
NJ. Wainwright, a well-known young
man of New York, were married in the
latter city to-day.
Edwin Willett, representative OF the
Wilmington, Del, shipbuilding firm
of Harlan s. Hollingsworth, commit
ted suicide at his boarding house, inPhii-
adelphia, yesterday.
Atlanta, Ga, social circles are stirred
up to-day by the elopement of Miss Ju, .
liza Weed Palmer, q near relative OF
Bishop Weed, of Florida, with Edward
Harker, clothing store clerk.
Notwithstanding the constant ram
for the last five days, the rivers OF
western Washington are getting back
into their banks and the flood will pro-
badly be over in another "a hours.
There is every reason to believe that
a clear day tomorrow will find 10000
or more people at Manhattan field, New
York, to witness the Yale-Prlnceton
football game. The demand for seals
is unprecedented.
Lord Dunraven's letter to the New
York Yacht Club was received this
morning. 1t is said that the race for
the America cup is assured and that
the challenging boat will be eighty
four feet long.
A sensation has been created in rail
road circles in Texas regarding the dis
covery that C. p. Huntington and Jay
Gould have been quietly obtaining con-
troll of the franchises of certain small
roads in that State.
1t is rumored in Washington that
Mr.. Charles Slater, son and heir of Col.
Slater, the Washington millionaire, has
been married to Miss Cora Van Tassel,
an actress, but Miss Van Tassel, who is
in New York, denies the report.
The Herbert CANNED wedding which
was originally announced for to-day
in Newport, R. l., has been necessarily
postponed until December IA, as Mr..
Herbert is at present just recovering
from a severe illness II Englaed.
Full returns of yesterdays Provi-
dence, Il. l., city election shows the
choice of the entire democratic city
ticket headed y ii tyor VIM. X. Pot
ter and the election of a City Council of
the same political complexion as the
present one, largely republican.
Hon. w. ]. Pirkle, the third party
member of the Georgia Legislature
from Forsyth county, died this morning
from a stroke of paralysis. This is the
second death in the Legislature since
its opening, both from strokes of paraly-
sis. Mr.. Pirkle was one of the leaders
of the new party but was elected by
small majority. A democrat will prob
ably succeed him.
Cora Parsons Tyler, the alleged
Darling Cita," of Mortimer F. Taylor's
seething love epistles, according to the
complaint of the husband, Geo. c. Ty-
Ter, in his suit for 100000 damages
from Dir. Taylor, has added a new
phase to the sensation by serving pa
pers on her husband in New York in n
counter suit for divorce, in which she
charges brutality and infidelity.
Archbishop Satolli, the representa-
tive of the Pope at the dedication of
the worlds fair buildings at Chicago,
pontiflcated to-day in the Seminary of
st. Mary of st. Sulpice, Baltimore.
Graduates of the old college and semi
nary-both lay and clerical-attended
from all parts of the country and even
from Canada, for this is alumni day rs
we'll as the feast of st. Sulpice. Cardinal
Gibbons and Bishops Keane, Chapelle,
Kahn and Curtis were the members of
the episcopacy present.
The strength of sterliug exchange
has led to talk in New York, of ex-
ports of gold either, this or early next
week. A prominent shipper says:
"Gold will certainly go forward unless
Europe turns up as buyer ofour secur-
tiles. 1t has stopped selling and it
looks now as if the foreigners will send
orders for the better class of stocks and
bonds. Exports of products are light
and cotton has reached point where
Liverpool is selling futures in this
market. One thing in our favor is
that none of the leading European
banks are paying a premium for our
gold as they did early in the year"
Charles W. Hawley who shot assistant
cashier Frank Keplcr, and John Courtney,
Who was the other ringleader in the recent
II .u.,mpted robbery of the Keystone National
B enk at Midday Pa, were yesterday given
10 and II years respectively in the peniter-
tiai y
Tie court overruled the motion for new
trial III the case of William Bond, convicted
of the murder of Margaret Cephas, colored
woman. near Unity, Md, and Judge McShcrry
has prc bounced sentence of death.
The discovery has just been made that the
wheat crop of Minnesota and Dakota is many