Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-04-25
NEWS OF THE DAY.

NEWS OF THE DAY.
The Baltimore Sugar Refinery, at
Curtis Bay, will resume operations
early in May.
The Duke de Veragua and his party
were received by the President yester-
day, dined by Mr.. and Mrs. Caideron
Carlisle. and entertained with ball by
Senator and Mrs. Brice.
Sixteen House of Refuge boys made
a break for liberty in Baltimore early
yesterday morning, but before sunset
all but six of them had been captured
and returned TO the institution.
Governor Carr, of North Carolina, left
yesterday for James City with military
force to evct colored squatters from
the lands of James A. l.. Bryan. The
coloreG people decided to surrender to
the rightful owner of the land.
Rev. DR.. VIM. Nelson McVickar, of
Holy Trinity Church, Philadelphia, has
declined the call from the leaders of the
caucus of the Broad Church conference,
which met in Boston to elect a success
sor to the late Bishop Phillips Brooks.
Opponents of home rule yesterday
offered amendments to the bill in the
House of Commons, to debar the pro-
posed Irish government from the as
sistance of the British army in main
tanning the authority of the home rule
parliament.
Secretary Morton has appointed Maj.
II. H. c. Dunwoony as assistant chief
of the Weather Bureau, vice Maj. 5. 5.
lockwood, resigned, to take effect on
the 1st G May. Major Dunwoody has
been connected with the Weather Blu
reau for many years, having been pro-
noted under General Greedy.
John Peterson, colored, was lynched
at Denmark, S. c., last night. He was
convicted of assault on a young white
sri by vigilante committee organized
for the purpose. He was hanged on a
pine tree near the scene Of the out
rage and shot to death. Five hundred
citizens participated in the lyncbing.
Commissioner Carter, the only one OF
the Hawaiian commissioners sent by
the provisional government to the
United States who is still in Washing
ton, expects to leave the city to-day
He is going home to Honolulu, where
he hopes to catch Minister Stevens and
Especial Commissioner" Blount before
they start back for the United States.
The trial of Daniel Barber, colored,
charged with the murder of Mr.. Fran,
els NJ. Bowie on the evening of Palm
Sunday, for which William Pinkney,
colored, was convicted last week, be-
gan in the Circuit Court at Upper Mari.
poro, Md, yesterday morning. Barber
elected to be tried before the court
The defense endeavored to prove ar
abb.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis has written from
New York in reply to an invitation re
getting that physical disability vii
prevent her going to New Orleans tt
accompany her husbands remains tc
Richmond. II shall only meet then
there" she says, ''as | am rarely able
to leave the house. My daughter vii
90 to New Orleans only in time to &C
company the remains back to Rich
mori."
The most important news about thu
financial situation yesterday was thu
fact that Secretary of the Treasury Car
Isle had received assurances from
bankers-most of them in the West
but some of them also in the East
that they will furnish enough of thei
boarded gold to the Treasury Depart
ment to maintain the S100,0O0,OO0 re
serve against all the demands for OK
port during the next two weeks.