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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1878-09-24

THE MIDLAND RAILROAD CAsE,-Judee
Keith, 10 the case of Graham. vs.. the virginia
Midland Railroad, decided this morning
1. That the claims Of employees and parties
furnishing supplies do not take priority over
lbs mortsaced debt. The Judge declared
his sympathy to be with the claimants, but the
law beiug SO we'll established against them, he
would not subject himself to reversal, or them
to costs by decision in their favor.
2. Six per oentum interest to be allowed on
past due and funded coupons.
5. The frat mortgage of the Orange, Alex
andra and Manassas Railroad Go. takes pIlorl.
ty as to the Manassas Gap Railroad from Man.
assas TO Harrisonburg over the previous mort.
cages Of the Orange and Alexandria Railroad.
In other words, that the road from Manassas
to Harrisopburg was not latter acquired prop.
crty'' Of the Orange and Alexandria Railroad
Co. By reason of tho consolidation under the
act of Assembly creating the Orange, AleXan-
dria and Manassas Railroad Co., and did not,
therefore, pass under the mortgages OF the
Orange and Alexandra Railroad made previous
to the consolidation.
1. The executions against the Virginia Mid.
land Railroad Company which had been issued
and the liens Of which had attached at the time
said road passed into the hands of the receiver
were liens on any funds of the company then in
hand, and if said funds have been since other
wise appropriated, they must be now replaced
out of the receipts aud applied to the discharge
Of 5aia executions
S. The claim of Adams, Hammer & Co., for OK
ira compensation, ia rejected on the ground that
it had been released by the act of the claimants
when they assigned all their demands against
sid company to the 3. Il 0. r. r. &c.
6. As to tho claim Of the B. Il 0. Il. Il. 60.
20 be subrogated to the right Of the State of
Virginia, uader the Sd mortgage, the Court
took further time to consider.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1878-09-24

oSI-On King or St. Asaph streets yester-
49, asy evening, a GOLD BREAST PIN,
or s u, pearl set. A suitable reward will be paid
~ us return to this ofics. 1t
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1878-09-24

)RESS GOODS, &c.-Plsin and Figured
- Aus.res, Fancy Alpacas, DcBaize Colcred
MAO Black Csshmcres. full line Of Corsets very
ffnesp also Ladies Merino Vests. Invite all
'om elty and country to give me an early csll.
sep4 WIN N BERKLET .
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1878-09-24

NEW SCALED SUOTCu HEHRING for
~ snlo by [aep q j. G. MlLBURN.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1878-09-24
NOTICE 70 GAS CONSUMERS.

,. eono bills for the ousr.or ending June 18th
fr ou.ah unpaid. The fow of GAS will DO stopped
b v ~ Oil consumers whose bills arc rot settled
asv 'I s zssh Instant as hAve to settle Oh thai
lay with the committee,
Sep 23-4t + Royp11py cn,i
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1878-09-24

tuSuA,SsANT ROOMS. with BOARD and
Te,mss o IN COMFORT, At No TO Duke st.
ao9eEase. SEP 9.2W
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1878-09-24

A FULL LINE OF WHITE and BROWN
"a SUGARS III st0ro and for sale cheap at
seplj j. g. MlLBURN'E.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1878-09-24

ElHUiCE FAMILY ard EXTRA FLOUR
" fer sul1 q, loV rates by
sep23 d. Z. MlLBURN.
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-11-14
A CEN TRIAL AMERICAN EARTHQUAKE.

A letter from Panama, October 2G, says: "At
6o'clock in the evening OF October severe
earthquake was experienced in the village of
Jucuaph and neighbOling towns in the depart
mcnt of UsuIatan, in the southern portion of
the republic Of Salvador. Nearly all the
houses in JuCuapa were destroyed and many
families buried in the ruins, particularly in
the outskirts of the town. where tho means Of
escape We're confined to narrow streets, and
where tho houses were not so solidly con-
structed rs in the centre Here the plaza
furnished security to the distressed people
who were trying to avoid the crumbiing walls
and failing roofs Of their ruined dwellings,
At last auViccS ten bodies had been recovered,
and many more were supposed to be buried
under the ruins, as some are missed by
friends or relatives. The towns included in
the disaster are Guadalupe, Neuva Guada-
lupe, Chnameca, Usulatan. the Caserio del
Arenal, Santiago de MOra, which is entirely
ruInnu and some lives lost, a condition In
which are also found Tecapa, Triunfo and
San Buenaventure In Nueva Guadalupe
and Chinnmcca the ruin is complete, and the
loss Of life is also to be lamented. San Miguel
fortunately escaped without injury.
The shock which produced the greatest
damage was at first q kind Of osciIatory
movement which lasted over forty seconds
and terminated in what felt like a general up
hcaval OF the earth, and was SO violent that
solid walls and arches and StrOngly-braCcd
roofs were broken and severed like pipe stems
The movements proceeded from the south
west to the northeast, and are supposed to
have been occasioncd by an eruption Of the
volcano of Tecapa, The government has be-
gun the work of creating houses for the un-
fortunates and will supply them with food
until they are ablo to provide fcr themselves.
The district which has been devastated is
one OF the most thiclSly settled portions of the
country. The people devote themselves to
the cultivation of indigo, sugar cane and to-
hacco, are industrious and economical and
many OF them were in very comfortable cir
cumstanccs. The failure Of the indigo crop
on account of the lOcusts, and the destruction
of their homes by this dread visitation, are
double calamitics which should awaken pity
and active sympathy for them in the bosoms
Of their neighbors.
The idco Of Santa Ana reports that appre-
tensions exist in the public mind that the
volcano of Santa Ana is about to be in a state
OF eruption, from the effects of which serious
CONSEQUENCES are feared
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-11-14
TRUSTEES.
MEDICAL NOTICE.

eases, Private Diseases and Female Diseases
has Just returned from Europe Office, 1876 Canal
street. between Dryades and Rampant streets
caused by abuse or age, ALWAYS cured ip q
short time. Private Diseases treated after new
sure and quick method, Female Diseaseg treated
with greatest SUCCESS.
DR.. Bil1e's reputation as skilled and SUCCESS.
ful physician Is already years ago established
ln New Orleans and vicinity, and he has cured
had failed to benefit, which Is well known to the
public, Dr. bile is graduate from one Of the
3istant physician to Prof. Rieord, Paris. Oon.
5ultations and correspondence strictly conf.
dential. Charges moderate. 1e8 Canal street
DE- ". BILLIE 1875 lanai street. dec
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-11-14
ETssENIE'S FLIGHT,
The Fall of the NapnfeOnIc Empire i'm

In "Notcs in 1870 Senator Eugene Peletan
published in the Paris Ruppci graphic ac-
count OF the Empress Eugenes flight. After
burning all her letters and private papers she
retired to her "rogal apartment' to prepare
for a digDitied retreat: TN this dressing room
the Empress passed her last moment AS a
sovereign, She had to choose a travelling cos
tune suited to the circumstances. Doubtless
she hesitated about the head arrangements,
Judging by the quantity of bonnets scattered
all about the cabinet. The Empress talked a
great deal which saved her from reflection. She
had said i shall not fall like Marie Antonette.
! shall be able rather to ride away on horse
back Indeed she had remarkable skill as a
horsewoman- But when the time came to put
her foot in the stirrup, the blood rushed to
her heart. and she trenbied, though no dan
ger threatened her. The people were moving
peaceaby beneath her windows without look
ing up. They had already forgotten the En-
press: they saw in her a woman and they
passed by in silence. At the moment of de-
parture she asked for cup OF b0uitlon. She
had not the strength to take it. We found the
cup still full with bit of bread beside it.
When she started to go she could not walk,
and had to be supported Her loneliness
frightened her She looked about for her
War Minister; absent! Her Prefect of Po-
lice; fled! Every one for himself; saue qui
peut', Everything in disorder; SO the Empire
was to end'
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-11-14

Sworn to and subscribed before me this
twenty day of May, 1873
ALFRED INGRAHAM
Notary puhIfn.
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-11-14

James Ell. Slater, the new United States
Senator from Oregon, is an old settler, having
gone thither when the Territory was almost
a wilderness. He is an Illinois man: fifty
for many years He WAS a member of the
Territorial Legislature, and subsequently Of
the State Legislature, and in 1870 was elected
to Congress, serving one term. He defines
himself as Democrat opposed to intlatiOn
but. in favor of substituting greenbacks for
national bank notes.
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-11-14

At the city election at Iowa City last spring
the Judges refused the ballot Of f. A. Wander
pOel, a student in the State university. After
a tedious trial the case has been decided, the
jury finding a verdict for Vanderpoel of $500.
The case will go to the Supreme Court, and
probably determine the right Of students to
vote
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-11-14
HEADQUARTERS LADIES PEABODY J
Auxiliary Association,
New Orleans, October 81, 1873. J
LADIES' EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.


LADIES' EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
MRS JOHN 3. LAFITTE. Chairman.
First Distric-Mrs. W. G. BLACK.
Second Dist!ict.,Mrs. J; z . SARRAZIN Z, r z,
Fourth District-Mrs. W. T. HARDIE.
Fifth Distrirt-Mrs. A. HIItSCH.
Sixth Dstrict-Mrs, J. TAkLETON.
Seventh District Miss NJ. DEEVES.
- Ali applieatfons for assistance to the Ladies
Executive Committee must be made in writing,
giving the district In which the applicant re-
sides; also, street and number Of residence.
These applications shall be made through the
Postoffice, which shall be directed as follows.
For First District -Po5tofGice box 252
For FecOnd District-POstOfiCe box 2o2.
For Third Dstrct-Postoffice box 312.
For Fourth strict-Postoffice box 38l.
For Fifth District-POstOffice box AL.
For Sixth District-P0stOffice box 473.
For Seventh District-Postoffice box 482.
All such applications will receive prompt at
tenton. No calls Or app ications at headquar-
tors or the private residences Of the members
Of the association will be received or eDter-
tanned.
or22 i'm SAM'L CARTER. Secretary.
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-11-14
TWENTY-NINTH
ANNUAL STATEMENT
G Il E S G z n IT vi UTU AL
Insurance Company.

New ORLEANS, May %, 1878.
The Trustees, In conformity with amended
charter. submit the following statement of af.
fairs of the company ON the thirtieth Of April
1873:
Fire premiums .s1s0, ,751 18
Marine premiums. 3G72a Is
River premiums. 49, 1856 90
------- s299, GIG 81
Earned premiums, loss reinsurance
ana return premtums.,.....,..,. 229, ,g31 30
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-11-14

nothing very exciting or encouraging to the
Democrats was effected at the last election.
Owing to the epidemic and to the grinding sea-
son. the white people took very little interest
in the elections, and polled but about half
their strength. OF 2G0O registered voters, the
vote pollod was but 2OOO, Owing to a com
promise between tho Democrats and one Of
the Republican factions, but moro on ac-
count Of an attnmptdof the Nationals to run a
local ticket, the bulk Of Republican voters re-
fused to support Gardner and CuIIom and
voted blank for these two offices, by which
means our two candidates, Burke and Ellis,
obtained majority over their Red Warrior
opponents.
Dickcrson, defeated by Como for the House,
is preparing a contest for the seat.
All the sugar houses are in a blaze sugar
making. The sugar crop is fair, but not more
than average. Thus far the cane has aver
aged a hogshead per arpent. The cane is
mature and the quality OF the sugar general
ly good. Yours respectfully,
ArADTAE
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-11-14

The Board Of Trustees this day resolved that
after paying the annual dividend of TEN PER
CENT on Capital Stock of Company, that a
dividend of TWENTY PER CENT In cash be
paid On Monday June 10. to those parties On.
titled to receive the same,
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-11-14
INSURANCE.
EIgsUEsAHCHg.
ANNUAL STATEMENT
OF THE
NEW ORLEANS INSURANCE COMPANY,

NEW ORLEANS INSURANCE COMPANY,
UP to December oil, 1877.
ESTABLISHED IN 1905.
Fire premiums. 1896 1881 O7
Marine premiums "a, $50 ~
Rlver premiums 29248 0A
Total premiums-....... eseo,75s
less
Premiums on unexpfred
Bisks''..'' .''''''............ s86067 GO
Return premiums. .......... IL, ,1eo 1B
Relnsurances. ..'.'..,.".... 2o.749 &c. 118,sso 10
Net earned premiums. s........... 1851, ,7es =
Add interest and salvages 41,B28 81
ssoe.5D2 30
Fire losses, $3.50. .sGs417 80
Marine losses..- 17,722 90
River losses. II 800 s5- S96, AGO 10
Rebate &C. Is perscent...... 46,4ee o.
Genera expenses. g4214 10
State and city taxes and
license. ....- .............- IO,242 10
Board Of Underwriters. G.759 55- 1eA, ,f7s 45
Deduct
Dividend. June
80, 1877. .s25, 900 90
Dividend. De-
cember 81. 1877. 25. 900 CO. $4,000 90
Balance-,...- .',..........-.- 300 6G- 109.A1s 81
ASSETS OF THE COMPANY AT THErB
MARKET VALUE.
Cash In bank. ......s......... s5s065 10
Real estate ................. 1895
United States Gold Bonds.
New Orleans City Rail-
road Company, Jackson
and Great Northean Rail-
road Company list mort
gage bonds) Bank and
Insurance stocks and
Louisiana State Consols. 195,g9o ~
Bills receivable tfor pre-
mtumSl. ....,.....,.. l1,A29 30
First mortgage notes and
pledge notes. .....-........ 166,523 "a
Premiums In course Of coll
lection. T0210 g4-s619 6g5 40
The above statement Is true and correct
transcript from the books Of the company,
J. TUYES. President
J. ", HINOKs, Secretary
Sworn to md subscribed before me, this six.
teenth January, A. D. 1878.
JCHN LARESUHE,
Third Justice OF the Peace
At q meeting OF the Board of Directors hold
on the kenth instant. 1t was resolved to pay the
semi-annual interest DIVIDEND OF FIVE PEI
GENT on the capital s1ock to the stockholders
Or their legal representatives. on and after the
tenth instant,
J. W. HINCKS. Secretary.
New Orleans, January &c. 1878.
DIRECTORS:
Ernest Merih. H. Galiy
Charles La1tte. Ant. Carriers.
Charles E. Schmidt. Jules Aldfge,
Charles J. Leeds. W. A. Bell.
ID. FabO. Pferre POutz.
A. Sohreiber. Jules Tuyes.
ia1e
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-11-14
HOMEOPATHIC RELIEF ASSOCIATION
Rooms No. zs2 canal street.

This Association having extended It's facilities
for rendering aid to the sick. offer their services
to any who desire medical treatment and care
Application made to the above address, Or to
any Of the undersigned officers, will receive
prom pt and efficient attention.
ALBERT VOORHEES,, President
J. 6. e. BEtpEN, FL I, NJ ". p, D.,
Vice Presidents,
O. G.. FISHER. Secretary.
Fl. L. STEVENSON Treasurer
SSaaaHtf
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-11-14

The above statement is true and correc.
transcript from the books Of the Company.
THOS. A. ADAMS. President
HENRY '. OGDEN, Secretary.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-06-05
Patrons OF Husbandry.

great revival OF interest in the work and in
crease of membership in the grange has taken
place in some localities In Vermont since the
ratification of the amendment to the consti-
tuition Of the National Grange reducing the
initiation fees, One grange is reported as hay-
ing gained fifty members since January LIST.
After the great rush in organizing oranges in
1874 and 1875 was over there seemed TO be a re-
action, and many oranges lost largely in member
ship, and few oranges ceased to exist, yet the
better class OF members remained true to the or
der; the reaction has now ceased, and there IL
this year an apparent gain everywhere in the
state, and the meetings are more interesting than
at any previous period in the history of the
grange movement, The opponents of the order
have ceased TO denounce il and declare that 1t IL
about to perish, and now respect it as fixed
power and factor in all that pertains to the farm
ing interest and the members have learned that
the grange has higher and noJler purpose than
the mere saving of u few dollars and cents to its
members-such meetings as have been held at
North Montpelier and in other parts OF tho state
lately demonstrating the fact that the social and
educational is the true and great work OF the or
der, while the financial is only an auxiliary branch
of work, and should always be subsidiary to the
first named feature, The grange fair, grange life
and fire insurance companies, county oranges,
grange pcnics, lectures, essays and discussions,
will contribute largely to the success and perma-
neney of the order; while the financial feature
will continue to be managed by agencies and
private enterprise, and will be considered in a
few years as no part of the work Of an ordinary
grange meeting, and the benefits TO be derived
from the financial features will then become
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-06-05
"Iength OF Days.

The New York Times publishes some
what curious table showing the notable
longevity of The old, original Abolitionists,
the early leaders in the anti-slavery move
ment. In the list we find the names of Will
liam Lloyd Garrison, the Father of Ameri-
can Abolitionism, aged seventy-three Wen
dell Phillips, sixty-six; Ralph Waldo Elmer
son, seventy-fve; William Cullen Bryant,
eighty-four; Lydia Maria Child, seventy
five, (she wrote an Appeal in Behalf Of that
Class Of americans called africans, one OF the
first distinctively anti.slavery books pub
lished in the country George b. Cheever,
seventy-one; Arad Gilbert, seventy-six; Lu-
cretia Mott, eighty-fve; Sidney Howard
Gay, sixty-two; Henry w. Longfellow, sew
enty-onc; Henry Ward Beecher sixty-ive; A..
Bronson Alcott, seventy-nine; Oliver John
son, sixty-nine; John G. Whittier, seventy !;
Henry w. Bellows, sixty-four; Frederick
Douglass, sixty-one; Elizabeth Cady Stan
ton, sixty-two; George Ripley, seventy-six
Cassus NJ. Clay, sixty-eight; Harriet Beecher
Stowe, sixty-six; William Henry Furness,
seventy-six; Calvin f. Stowe, seventy six !;
James Freeman Clarke, sixtyeight; James
Russell Lowell, ffty-nine; Edward Everett
Hale, sixty-two; Parke Goodwin, sixty-two !;
and dozens of others who might be men,
toned, between the ages of sixty and eighty
five. On the other hand, as the Times points
out, very few of the noted pro-slavery lead
ers and advocates are now living, the most
conspicuous being jefferson Davis and Rob
ert Toombs. William l.. Yancey and j. ID.
b. De Bow, one of the great political apos-
ties of secession, and the other the indefa-
tigable advocate of the kingship of cotton,
have passed away so have Preston S.
Brooks, Senator Wigfall, Francis w. Pick
ems, John c. Breckenridge, Henry A. Wise,
Robert L. Lee, Laurence M. Keith, Duff
Green, Barnwell Rhett John NJ. Daniel,
Edward A. Pollard, Clement c. Valland-
igham, George +. Pugh jesse d. Bright,
Garrett Davis, w. II. Taber, Jr., and most
of the men influential in bringing and keep
ing up the civil war by their counsel, SYM
pathy, and material and moral aid
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-06-05
Notes and Notions.

SENATOR PATTERsoN's son says his father
is cred hot for bouncing Hayes" One Of
the Presidents strong points is that peniten
tiary birds are down on him.--Republicdn
THE passenger steamer Idaho, of the vii
liams Guion line, ran ashore on Satur
day night in fog on the Irish coast and
foundered. She left New York on the 2lst
ult., with thirty-seven cabin passengers. For
tunately no lives were lost.
TnE Watertown Times in speaking of the
political effect of the Potter-Tiden business
says the Republican party is now more
united than it has been for years, while the
democratic party is full of contentious, and
is demoralized in advance at thick coming
omens of disaster.
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT met with a
severe accident while ascending the stone
steps of house in New York, Wednesday
of last week. He had been attending the
unveiling of a monument for several hours
and in the act of entering the house Of a
friend became unconscious, fell backward
and struck his head upon a stone step. II
was severe blow, but the good old poet
seems likely to recover.
THE Michigan state Congregational church
association has had an attack of the woman
question. The point at issue was whether
women should be allowed to meet as dele.
gates with the association. 1t was stoutly
contended that they should not, and stoutly
held that delegate was word without gen
der, perfectly applicable to women. Finally
they fixed it that women should be admitted
if the churches chose to send them--like Mr.
Greeleys platform on the tariff question
which left the matter to the congressional
districts for settlement.
THE famine in China has reached proper
tions of which we have no adequate idea
The stricken section is twice as large as al
the New England and Middle States, and
has a population twice as large as the whole
United States. The dead lie about unburied
and are eaten by dogs or starving men. The
iaihiHe 10 Sauocu ny q uiouli vi bWo yediS
continuance, and it is stated that it will be
almost impossible for the section to recover
from the effects of it unaided, as all the
grain has been consumed, so that none is left
forplanting even if a wet season should come
Two things have been made perfectly
evident since the passage of the Potter res
olution. One is that the action of the House
is the beginning of an attack upon the It'll,
of the President, and the other that the at
tack becomes necessarily the immediate anG
paramount question. This is inevitable, fol
the movement is one of revolution. 1t car
settle nothing, but it can unsettle every
thing 1t is fatal to every industrial in
terest, and to the tranquility and prosperit,
of the country, and offers nothing but pro
longed excitement and agitation and posi-
BILE civil mmotion.-Harper's Weekly.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-06-05

PEACE TRIUMpH.--The English peace
party comprises powerful body of men,
whose influence has been wonderfully eff
fectve agent in dispelling the recent threat
ening war cloud in the East A declaration
against war was put forth, alleging the belief
of the signers that there had not existed
during the past year, and did not then exist
any justification for a war between Russia
and England, and that they should hold
their government guilty of the grossest
crime towards the nation should it lead
England or allow her TO drift into war. The
signers to this paper number nearly quarter
of million, and first among the names ar,
those of the Earls of Westminster, Bail
and SALISBURY. Mr.. Jacob Bright, JOSEPH
Arch, Thomas Carlyle, Rev. r. w. Dale j
Anthony Froude, Thomas Hughes aud viii
liam Morris were among those who solicited
signatures. The roll has been closed for tn,
present, all indications now pointing to tn,
triumph of peace.