Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-27
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Col, Abrial w. Fisher, eX-cnlef CLERK
of the pension Office, died in Washing
ton yesterday.
Stonebraker & Hutchins, dealers in
wagons and other vehicles in Balti-
more, made an assignment yesterday.
President Cleveland is in doubt as to
the extent of his authority under the
Walcott resolution to send delegates to
IN international monetary conference.
An important discovery of rock salt,
at a debth of over 500 feet beneath the
surface, has been made on Orange Is
land, La, the property of Joseph JEFF
ferson.
The President expects to leave the
White House with his family next
week and occupy Woodley, his country
residence in the suburbs of Washing
ton.
1t is reported that a fight has occur
red between Hippolyte's army and a
strong band of rebels in the north OF
Haiti. The rebels are said to nave
been beaten.
In the New York Legislature a bill
has been introduced to prohibit wo-
men from appearing in tights or lnde-
cent costume, and to prohibit pictures
of the nude in posters and publications.
A German physician, a professor in
the University at Toxic, who has eX,
amined LII lungs wound, says he Will
die. The wound is in the face and the
bullet is beyond the reach of the
surgeons.
The President yesterday afternoon
appointed Col. Thaddeus 81. Stanton
to be paymaster general of the army,
with the rank of brigadier general, to
succeed Gen. William Smith, who was
yesterday retired.
A dispatch from Hong Kong says a
bubonic plague has appeared among
tie natives at Kowloom, neal Hong
Kong. A dispatch from Shanghai con-
firms this report, and says that four
incurable cases of the disease have
been reported.
Aschool girl, fourteen years of age,
daughter of Jacob Dean, of Harmony,
Caroline CO., Md, vas murdered yester-
day by some one unknown and her
body thrown into a stream. Her throat
was cut while going to or returning
from school.
John A. Ryder, professor of compare
tive embryology at the University of
Pennsylvania, died at his home in Phila-
delphia yesterday, aged forty-three
years. He was formerly prominent as
a member of the Fish Commission, but
resigned in 1856.
Major John G. D. Knight has been
appointed by the chief of engineers to
succeed Col. G. H. Elliott, in charge OF
all the engineering work ofthe United
States in the District, except the i'm
provement at the Davecain reservoir
improvement.
A special from Hartford says "Mrs.
Harriet Beecher Stowe, who is ap-
preaching her eighty-second birthday,
has been growing weaker mentally
every day until now there is rarely a
flicker of reason in her once bright
mind. She is now childish and plays
with dolls.
The Pittsburg fire department turned
a stream of water from their hose upon
a party of Baltimore and Ohio track
layers at Pit.sburg, Pa, yesterday, the
right of way being in dispute. The
track-layers were held at bay until a
preliminary injunction was secured and
served upon the Baltimore and Ohio
officials.
A piano lamp in the bay window OF
DR.. E. K. Goldsborough's residence,
No. 1881 K street, northwest, Wash
ington, yesterday evening set fire to the
drapery and in a few minutes S25, 00O
worth of property was destroyed. None
of the family were at home at the time
except DR.. Goldsborough's children
and the servants.
The election for a Second Branch
councilman in the Fifteenth and Six
teenth wards, Baltimore, yesterday re-
suited in the victory of Charles t.
Mitchell, democrat, who defeated Mel
son Baker, republican, by twenty-seven
votes. There was much disorder, and
many arrests resulted. Louis Gernert
was shot by Harry W. Daneker, at the
eighth precinct, Fifteenth ward.
John @. Thompson, editor and pro-
prietor of the Sunday Chronicle, has en-
tered suit, in Washington, for $500
against Recorder of Deeds Charles b.
j. Taylor. 1t is claimed by plaintiff
that the money! is due for editorials and
other articles published at the instance
of or written by the recorder, and re-
quested by him to be published during
the months of April, May and June.
Rosetta D. Sprague, eldest child of
Fred Douglass, and wife of Nathan
Sprague, of Washington, filed a petit
ton yesterday in the Probate Court, in
that city, in which she charges Helen
Douglas, her step-mother, and Lewis
H. Douglass, her brother, with unlaw-
fully retaining possession of her fathers
property, and requests the court to
grant her letters testamentary upon the
estate.
THOUGHT SHE WAS A WITCH.-A
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