Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-12-26
NEWS OF THE DAY.


There were seventy-nine wrecks dur
ing the recent terrible storm off the
British coast.
Christmas was more generally OBJ
served throughout the country yester-
day than ever before.
The illness of Lord Randolph Church
i'll has assumed a critical phase. and
be is semi conscious condition.
Mrs. Sarah 1. Lee, NJ. D., wife of DR..
J. NJ Lee, of Rochester, n. Y, has
given up the practice ofthe homeopath-
lc school, and become faith healer.
1t is said that the friends of the cur
rency bill are ready to modify the
in any way necessary to make
it more popular in the House of Repre-
sentatives.
The tariff question is causing some
relations between the United
States and Spain, and it may be neces-
sary for this country to resort to re-
policy.
The Sultan of Turkey has positively
declined to allow Consul Jewett to ac-
company the European commission
that will make an investigation of the
Armenian outrages.
Harry Menier, the English bridge
inmper, yesterday leaped from the top
rail of the Poughkeepsie bridge with
his parachute, and, apparently, sustain
ed no injury from his foolhardy act.
The German Embassy in Paris has
issued note denying all direct or in
direct relations with Captain Dreyfus,
the French army officer who has just
been convicted OF treason.
Samuel C. Seely, the defau]ting book
keeper of the Shoe and Leather Bank,
was sentenced in New York on Satur-
day evening to eight years at hard labor
in the Kings county penitentiary.
Rev. DR.. Edward McGlynn celebrat-
ed mas, in Catholic church in New
York Yesterday for the first time in
eight years. The Church of the Holy
Cross was crowded with people to hear
him.
Charles Schall, a photographer, kill
cd himself at Hagerstown, yesterday
by poison, which he took in the pres
ence of young woman he said he
loved, but who did not reciprocate his
aft ction.
Til trouble in Brooks county, Ga.
has subsidized. The murder OF white
men by an organized gang of colored
outlaws brought many to arms in an
effort to break up the outlawry. Three
colored men were killed.
DIR. Henry Korwin Kalusowski, a
Pole of distinguished birth and achieve
ments. prominently identified for many
wears with the instructions of his dis
membered country, died Sunday even
ing at his residence in Washington.
Miss Bessie H. Snowden was acct
dentally shot by young man while
at target, near Laurel, Md,
on Monday. The ball struck her in the
abdomen inficting serious wound
from the effects of which she died yes
terday.
The grand jury at New Orleans a.
ter sitting two months, on Monday
brought in a report charging public Of
ficials with venal sale of franchises
with wholesale bribery, and with wilful
perjury to cover up their crimes. The
city engineer was indicted for extor-
ton.
The duel between M. Jaures, the so
cialist leader, and DR.. Barthou, minister
of public words, growing out of the
discussion in the French Chamber OF
Deputies on Monday, took place yes
terday morning at st. Ouen-sur-Seine.
Two shots were exchanged, with the
result usually attending French duels;
that is, nobody was hurt.
At Chicago on Monday, D. McFlan-
nigan, Edward Sullivan and John Cos
tello, city employees, were injured by an
explosion of gas in a sewer. Tine men
had entered manhole, when the light
from match caused the explosion,
which hurled them ten feet above the
street level. Sullivan was fatally in
iured, but the others will recover.
The daughter of the late Jefferson
Davis, Miss Varina Anne Davis, has
Just finished her first novel, and under
its title of the "The Yelled Doctor" it
will be published within fortnight.
Miss Davis's novel is rather in the ma
ture of a marriage story depicting the
trials of an over-sensitive man, who
finds himself married to a not very SEN
sitive young woman.
The President and the members of
the cabinet celebrated Christmas in the
way, making it essential
Iy family affair. At the White House
It was genuine children's day, every
thing being given up to the pleasure of
The little ones. There was Christmas
Tree set in the library, the first that
The Cleveland children have called
heir own, and Mrs. Cleveland herself
added the finishing touches to the
rec, which was very beautifully trim
ned. Gifts for the little ones were nu-
nervous, and almost until noontime ex-
press wagons aud messengers came
alden to the White House.