Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-02-18
NEWS OFF THE DAY.
The net result of President Harrison
sport at Bengies was one rabbit.

sport at Bengies was one rabbit.
The home lule bill was read the first
time in the House Of Commons yester-
day.
Catholics have started movement
to raise funds to build a permanent
residence for Archbishop Satolli.
1t is said that DR.. Huntington, of
Grace Church, New York, will not per.
nit the use of his name for Bishop OF
Massachusetts,.
1t is generally believed in Washing,
ton that Representative Culbertson, OF
Texas, is to be Attorney-Genera IN MIR.
Cleveland's Cabinet.
The Pope yesterday received 5000
pilgrims from various parts OF Italy,
who visited Rome in connection With
the episcopal jubilee.
Ex-Congressman Barksdale, of Jack
son, Miss, died suddenly Yesterday Oh
his Yazoo county plantation of heart
failure. aged 10 years. He WAS prom
inent man in anIe-bellum times.
Mr.. Cleveland announced yesterday
evening that j. Sterling Morton, OF Ne
braska, who visited him at Lakewood,
at his request, was rendered the secre-
taryship of agriculture, and accepted it.
The report of the official experts in
the case of the alleged lunacy of How
AID J. Schneider, under sentence OF
death for the murder of his wife III
Washington, will be handed to the
judges on Monday.
The Panama investigating committee
of Congress yesterday decided that
subcommittee, to consist of Messrs.
Patterson and Storer, should go to
Terre Haute, Ind, and take the testl-
mony of ex-senator Thompson there on
Monday next.
The House committee on the library
have ordered a favorable report on the
Senate resolution appropriation SILL
1868 for the construction of q wharf as
means of approach to the monument
to be erected at Wakefield, to mark the
birthplace ofWashington.
Charlie Mitchell says he will not
fight Corbett unless the purse is dirld-
ed. Corbett holds out for all or moth
ing, while the English boxer wants
twenty per cent. of the club stake.
Everything else is satisfactorily arrang-
ed for the proposed fight.
The pension appropriation bill was Ii
nally passed by the House yesterday,
after having occupied the floor for eight
DAYS, during which it had been the sub
iect of nest heated debate and mad
aroused much bitter feeling. All the
reform amendments to the bill were de-
feateG.
A dispatch from Chicago says: Judge
Gresham is besieged, both by mail and
in person, for offices under his coming
Secretary of State position. They
gather at his office, in the government
building, long before his arrival in the
morning, and, forming in line, take
their turns. 1t does not take the
Judge long to turn them away. In
view of the Judges political career,
both democrats and republicans apply
to him.
A dispatch from Tangier, says ::
"Mulev Mohammed, the Sultan's son.
Yesterday summoned to his presence
Weda, the Kaid of Markash, in order
to convey to him severe reprimand
from the Sultan for his ill-treatment OF
the Jews in Morocco. 1t is reported
that, after stormy interview, Weida
fired pistol at Muley Mohammed,
but without doing him any injury, and
then fled to the sanctuary in order to
escape the punishment of his attempt
ON the life Of the Sultan's son.