Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-07-24
NEWS OF THE DAY.

warm advocate of the army bill.
". J. Chamberlain, an insurance
agent, who was arrested at Walnut
Bridge, Ark, on a charge of forgery,
committed suicide in Jail yesterday.
After four years experiments special
agent Smith of the Agriculture Depart
ment, is satisfied peach yellows cannot
be prevented or cured by fertilization OF
the soil.
E. F. Cleve, an escaped inmate Of
Mount Hope, committed suicide on
Saturday by drowning himself IN the
fountain pond at Franklin Square,
Baltimore.
Drunken Huns and Poles got to
fighting in Briceburg, Pa, on saturday
evening and took possession OF the sa-
looms, and the battle ended in thirty OF
the rioters being badly hurt.
The pistol with which Guiteau shot
President Garfield has been missing
from the police department in Washing
ton since the trial, when it was turned
over TO District Attorney Corkhil.
Cardinal Gibbons celebrated his fifty
ninth birthday quietly at the home OF
Mr.. Daniel J. Foley, in Baltimore coun-
~, yesterday. He received a large
number Of coDgratulatory kilograms
and letters.
The British steamer Campania, Cap
tain HaiDes, from Liverpool which sail
ed from Queenstown at l:02 p. m. yes
for New York. intends to take the
northern course with view Of lower
ing the record.
Thirty cavalrymen and engineers at
West Point yesterday engaged ID
drunken fighting. Four of them were
badly hurt as we'll as two constables.
Arrests followed and an example will
be made Of the culprits.
The British House OF Lords is ex.
pected TO reject the Irish home rule bill!
by vote Of 10 to /. The minority will
number hardly more than forty-two
The Marquis Of Londonderry will move
the rejection of the bill.
Mrs. Henry Bailey, nee Naomi Suth,
erland, one of the famous seven Suth'
erland sisters, who are known through,
out the length and breadth Of the land
as having extraordinary long hair, died
in Niagara county, n. y, last week.
Bishop H. NJ. Turner, of the African
Methodist Episcopal Church, was mar
ried in Xenia. Ohio, last Tuesday, tc
Martha Z. Dewitt, of Bristol, Pa, Bish'
op Payne, the oldest bishop in that
church, if not in the world, officiating
The single scull race Saturday be-
tween Hanlan and Gaudaur, at Orillia
Ont, was won by Hanlan. Time 2l.l2
Gaudaur quit before turning the buoy
but the race will be rowed over again
to-day, as darkness caused the men &c
foul.
Regulators" of Bloomfield, n. J..
met their match in Mrs. Gertrude
Cregier. She shot their warning full O.
holes, posted public answer to their
threats and stands ready to greet with
bullets any persons who try to ride hei
on rail.
A dispatch from Paris says that Eu
rope is beginning to get anxious over
the Franco Siamese quarrel, which, j
England should side with Siam, may
easily prove the long expected fire
brand that will set the continent ablazt
once more.
Gov. Markham, Of California, has APP
pointed George c. Perkins as the sue
cessor of Mr.. Stanford in the United
States Senate. DIR. Perkins is an ex
governor of California and has fillec
many State offices. He was born il
Maine in 1929.
1t is reported that southern demo
cratic Senators, in recognition of the
aid given them by western republican
Senators in defeating the force bill, may
lin the western men in opposing the
unconditional repeal of the Sherman
silver-purchasing bill.
A dispatch from Rio Janeiro says
that revolution has broken out in the
State of Santa Catharina, which Dor
ders Rio Grande do Sui. Government
troops are reported to have joined the
revolutionists, whose purpose is to de-
pose the Governor of tie State.
The resignation Of Hon. VIM. A
Maury, assistant attorney general, has
been rendered TO Attorney General Oh.
ney. Mr.. Maury has been in the ser,
vice of the department Of justice over
II years, and now resigns to return to
the general practice of law in Washing,
| ton.
Senator Vance, of North Carolina has
written a letter in which he says he is
materially opposed to the repeal of the
Sherman silver bill unless a satisfactory
substitute is adopted. He says this is a
rich mans panic and that he will stand
by the fellows who handle the dollars
and the halves.
While contractors were blasting rock
in New York on Saturday afternoon ali
explosion sent huge mass of rock,
weighing about two tons, crashing
through the side wall of 81 east 122nd
street, killing two people and seriously
injuring several others, some of whom
will probably die.
Fire at Hagerstown, Md, yesterday
burned the large three-story grocery
store of Jones & South, two stables,
badly damaged two dwellings and 9th
er buildings. The loss will probably
reach $4,000, only partly covered
by insurance. Help was sent from
Iartinsburg, w. Va, Chambersburg
and Waynesboro, Pa.
The steamer Paris on her last run
again demonstrated her great speed,
having eclipsed any previous fast pas
sage between Southampton and New
York. Passengers who breakfasted on
Sotn,Jo,, mounting tho 18th inct in