Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-10-04
NEWS OF THE DAY.

divine, died at his nome IN chicago ldSI
night of acute jaundice.
II is reported in Paris that the Prince
of Naples, the crown prince OF Italy,
is engaged to marry an English
princess.
At Portland, Me-, yesterday, Direc-
tum won his stallion race with Nelson.
The first heat was in 2.10@ second,
2.13i third, 2.0Sf.
The Anti Cruelty to Animals Society
in Albany has petitioned that cats be
licensed, and that women refrain from
wearing the plumage of birds.
The wife of Charles SIZZLING, a grocer
and capitalist in San Francisco, has
eloped with q street car conductor, tax
ing with her $3.50 600 of her husbands
property.
1t is reported in a dispatch from
Paris, that British diplomacy has recog-
nized the validity of the French pro:
tectorate over Madagascar, and will not
interfere in that matter.
The Chinese troops that retreated
from Ping Yang have taken up a po-
sition at Negon, where they have been
Joined by reinforcements. The Japan
ese have effected a landing in the rear
of Lou Chun.
The marriage of the Czarewitch to
Princess Alix of Hesse has again been
postponed, this time on account of the
illness of the Car. 1t is now ex-
pectel that the marriage will not take
place until June next.
The democratic county convention
met at Orange yesterday, and after
finding that a majority of the delegates
were for Mr.. George Watson Barbour,
he was unanimously nominated to fill
the unexpired term of Captain r. Z.
Graves, deceased, in the House of Dele
gates.
A statement obtained from the rec
ords of the Treasury Department shows
that under the high protective tariff of
the Mckinley law the receipts Of the
United States treasury diminished un-
til there was a startling deficiency.
The gold in the treasury at present
amounts to nearly sec, 900, 900 and is
gradually increasing.
More than fifty human bodies have
been washed up along the reefs near
Key West in the last few days, most of
them being badly ~decomposed. They
were buried where they were found.
1t may be that the bodies are from YES
sells wrecked by the recent hurricane in
the Gulf of Mexico, and have been car
ried to Key West by the Cult Stream.
James Corbett has changed his mind
about fighting "Bobn Fitzsimmons for
the championship of the world. VIM.
4. Brady said in Boston last night that
Corbett has posted $4,000 to fight
Fitz=immons and a conference will be
held in New York October IL. The
Olympic Club of New Orleans has mott
fed Corbett that he has been deprived
of the title of champion and Fitzsim-
non named in his place.
The officials of the British foreign of
fee deny that the summoning of the
cabinet council for to-day is due to a
hitch in the negotiations with France
in regard to Madagascar, but to the ne
cessity of discussing several interna-
tional questions, one ofthe chief subjects
to be brought up being the safety of Brit
ish subjects resident in China. A
blockade of the ports of the Island OF
Madagascar has been proclaimed by
France.
The democrats yesterday carried
Georgia, but the majority for W. Y.
Atkinson, the democrat, over James
Hine, popuiist for Governor will be
smaller than two years ago, when Gov.
Northen carried the State by $1,000.
The populists have gained some mem
bers OF the Legislature, but not enough
to block democratic legislation. 1t can
be stated with certainty that the entire
democratic ticket is elected by a ma
jority approximating 10000. The third
party maiorities have been reduced in
several instances from the figures of the
last congressional election.