Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-01-13
NEWS 0R TIE EAY.

GOFtN-uYS THOUSAND Su5ulsu tIUtpo
are still LETT 10 Cuos-17 900 at Matan-
zas and $4,000 at Cieniuegos.
The opinion is prevalent in Berlin
that Great Britain is bent on exacting
further concessions from France.
Chaplain Samuel W. Small, Third
Engineers, hasibeen honorably discharg-
ed from the service OF the United
States.
The art collection of the late Baron
Ferdinand James de Rothschild, valued
at 100000, has been given to the
British Museum.
By decision rendered at Scranton.
Pa, the city OF Winchester will receive
about 500, 900 as the residuary legstee
OF the late Judge John Handley.
Chsuncey N. Depew was named as
United States Senator from New York
by the republican caucus yesterday
evening and his election will follow
next week.
Isaac N. Witmark, who earns about
seventy five cents q week in New
York, was sued for breach OF promise
by Mary Namm, who demanded
$4,000. The jury returned verdict
for $3.50.
". Beaurepaire's charges that con-
spiracy in favor Of Dreyfus existed in
the Court OF Cessation led to test vote
yesterday in the French chamber OF
deputies, in which the government was
sustained.
Gov. Gen. Brooke, OF Havana, has
been carefully considering the forma-
ton OF g cabinet of civil advisers, and
nas decided 10 have four secretaries
the first, OF State and government; the
| second, OF finance: the third OF justice
and public instruction. and the fourth,
Of agriculture, industry, commerce ana
public works. Only prominent residents
OF the island will be invited to join the
cabinet.
a FIRE which broke out 10 Memphis,
Tenn, at 7:30 o'clock yesterday even
ing in the wholesale and retail dry
goods house OF the ]. s. Menken Com
| pany, one OF the largest establishments
OF its kind in the South, caused an esti-
mated loss OF $3.50, 900. The Menken
building occupied frontage Of l25 feet
on Main street, and extended 80 feet
on Gayoso street. It was FIVE stories
in height, and adjoined the Gayo=o
Hotel.
Rev. Thomas Dixon, IT,, will resign
the pastorate OF the Peoples church,
next Sunday morning. a. the Grand
Opera House in New York. Mr. Dixon
will hercsforth make his home in
Cape Charles, Va, where he has 3
} summer residence. he intends tc
! abandon pulpit work. 1t is limited that
mis- determination TO resign was partly
caused by the fact that his congrega-
tons recently have not been so large as
formerly.
A little girl in Washington had beer
battling the skill OF physicians by sueeZ-
ing 100 times minute or $4,000 TINES
a day until about month ago when
her complaint gave way to medical
treatment. Her disease is known as
perhophics, or an abnormal growth in
the nose, and their removal was made
with electric needles. 4 number Of
operations had to be performed before
all the abnormal growth was eradica-
ted, but from the first the sneeziDg be-
gan TO grow less and less frequent ~.
til it fuslly ceased about the 1st CT
December.
The United States Senate held en-
executive session yesterday evening
and discussed a motion to consider the
treaty With Spain in open session. TIE
majority Of the Senators were opposed
to the proposition. Senators Davis,
Frye and Gray, all members of the
peace commission, united in saying
that their experience il formulating the
treaty had convinced them that much
would come up in considering it in the
Senate, which should not be given to
the public. Their views had an appre.
cable effect upon other Senators, and it
is not regarded as likely that the debate
on the treaty will be conducted in
public.
Assistant Secretary Meiklejohn mas
make public Father Thomas E. Sher-
mans report to General Brooke OF his
recent trip through the Island OF Porto
Rico. Father Sherman says that the
state Of religion on the island is very
unsatisfactory. All the inhabitants Of
the island, with few exceptions, sre
nominally, at least, Roman Catholics.
Very few of the men are more than
Catholic in name. They are baptized.
married and buried by the priest; that
is the extent of their Catholicism.
When the congregations have become
accustomed to sustain their priests the
Catholic religion, he says, gill flourish
much more in Porto Rico than it has
under Spanish rule.