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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1881-04-16

Tho Nov York Herald says "VirgiLil should
pay her dab:." AID tic Hersll is light; but tho
Herald 1t tho sslne Time. supports Genera! Ma.
hone, aod tho Herald is wrong for how can
VT2i:ia pny her debt if the man succeeds who
says tbst s!le. ons Third Of i. hes bEen assigned
to West Virginia moro than ono :hrd CT The re-
mainGcC shall be repudia.ed? The Herald
shords e tsir sample Of Nolthera logic on the
Question Ct The Virginia debt. Tho Chicago
Tribune ssys general Mahono wants to pay
All tho Virginia cob. except the one third as
s;GnoI TO Wts: Virginia" Tho Tribune affords
e fair SIMPLE OF Northern intelligence sb:u. the
same qaesti~C. ]! is no. wonderful that the
Northern peo2!o should Eavo vague and ilcor-
rec: ideas about .rgiais. whea thei. moa. widely
circulated newspapers STE 80 silly sad gnorsn!
with -ega.l 10 her most inlpoitan! affairs,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1881-04-16

re Ra:siaas harScd %cmsr IL! completely
IL The s4.as:ins'i,n Ct tic h!o Czs7, bu: she
eckcoTitd ed hsr cuist kai gItred ic it. The
reDu5lclas hsaeei oae ior compi,!;g ia the
assassination Of pGcsiIsos L;cc,!a, but she died
ps5c9'ilg h:r iaocc.lca. her religion, confes.
scr aT0ucEe! il. sad ji'no las proved it. Fd.ure
ki;tl!iacs will place he hu:ssrs o. higher
plane ct c;7i,.z ,ti5a iLaa the people OF the
Uait ] Sta.as Q? tic SANE period.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1881-04-16
Fires.

NEW YORK April l7-BtoadTa2 and Be.vec
street ct BoS!iug Graeo ara piIad high to d y
With hundreds CT co!ton bales thrown blazing
from the windows OF the warehouse at Nc S
Beaver st., that co. % fire cary tbs mcrpiu..
The binding is fi7: stories high. The Gte vs.s
gottco uodcr control 10 sbcus two hours
STANTON, Va. April l6.-rhe mill Of Joto
keraer. in Augusta county, was butIca las;
night. together With two thousand bushels t.,
wheat snd 81 900 baIrais of fur. Loss sic.
O00 insurance So. 600
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1881-04-16
LIST OF LETTERS.

Aie ,1lloWlng is list of the letters remaining
Persons calling for letters will say thev sresI.
Vertlsed and give the date Of the list.
If not called for within thirty DAYS. tbcv w;,, be
sent to the dead letter Office. in Washington.
aaEusns' John Hsr5es, q
Bell, Mrs Selma Hill MI. 49,.
Beal Horace HoIma, M S.s,h
EE aib' mss Loula Jenkins, Rober:
S Soouer.' hooeIs Jchnston, Miss Maggie
SSoope'' MSS othe Smith, Charles
E Eu: Mrs Washington, Mrs 81 a
Godney, Mrs Sutan Wilson MrsG A's' q a
Gafvey, Michael Wnaor. Mamie
Garnet, A G
II LEWIS fcKESzIsi P,M,
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form

VINEYARD HAVEN, Mass, April lG,-Tbe
hardest northeast gale experienced in two ycsrs
or more passed over here during las. night &C.
eomaanisd with rain and snow. In the hsrbor
threo vessels lying at thu wharf broke their
fastenirRs aud were driven ashore,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1881-04-16

I'LL c!ed, u0 S. ;bau o:c tGni:c3 and sixty.
SIX uillioa3 CT d3iiG,a, fer which th1so YVES
Eothirg 10 sloz. aud The Slos. Of which had
been spent upou courtlElcs sud the faro backs
By the pTcfisa:o t5!:vea who composed and
carried On these g:7crEmoo's. Forsun,tI7
for Virginia. Ter sutIstines from c,rpet-tasisn
weyc Gs pohirg 10 those e tor sister Southern
States. tic puaaersd AID outraged people Ct
which tet WHEN they r2saiocd possession OF
hep, Ike the 1Gg' o praschcr, she, when bis
hat c:m] hack empty lrcm o o)iecliou round,
ihat 1cd God it hsd returned to linn SAFELY.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1881-04-16
COMMERCIAL.

ALEXANDRIA MARKET, april lG, lssl.-The
mS'Set IL active s-d prices FIRM There are no
changes 10 Ictc in Flour. The offerings of
Wheat amounted 10 1916 bushels, and ss!ss were
made at llo, l!6 aad lis for Fullz, III for mixed
ane 10 io' Lancaster Abcu: GEO bushels Of
who and miIsd Cora cold g. 81. No Oats 70.
ported, and one lot of Rye brouybt 7oa
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Snow In West virginia.

RICHMOND. April lG.-Advices fem G,cer-
bsler ccusty, W. Va, reported Sow sixteen
ln,hes deep yesterday in tina. county, thirty.
i've miles wcs; Ct White Sulphur SPRINGS.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1881-04-16
ICONlMUSIC3TED

Whsre i, tho wisdom Of Gu, City Fathers in
making the retail Of a.h monopoly in our old
city of progress. Is i. so that the trade will only
suppo;. one retail deser, end is the grea! mass
OF cit:z !ns to ba subjected to the demands
of thai ona denler. however Just his re-
quirements msy bs2 There Is a grave error
sou e@here, monopo!ies .hould not be fos-
tered to tho detriment Of the communi-
ty while the rights of tho people, 10th buyers
boring city, the great metropolis, fish are ret,il-
cd Let only in the market but from stores and
wagons unde. certain restrictions, but the more
humble dealer from his wheelbarrow is allowed
TO retail fish On the streets without let. hndrance
or license. Cannot cur people, especially the
poor. enjoy tie privileges of our neis bor? The
attention CT cur lsW makers is respectfully called
10 this III Dortsnt subject w.
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Editor Inter OCEAN, Chtcaqo, III. =

Ed!t0r Inter OCEAN, Chicago, Ill.,
Feeling that the Information conveyed will
DO OF material benefit to mary of your readers,
l SEED the loowiog: Ooe OF cur Oldest Oil.
zons Captain Q. w. Boynton, tho Government
Li2ht House Keeper a! this point. is probably
ono of the Oldest scancn 10 America, having
sailed t%enty.six years ca cur lakes, and twenty
years on salt water. After this forty six years,
service his ty1 sight failed him. and for a long
tiuo hc kept the Light at Chicago. until the
Government butt lhs Gross Point Light here,
when nc was transferred. Whilo seated 10 mp
store this morning The Captsic vcl1nseered tho
iouoRinS written statement;
This is to certify that have been I'll cseS.
with rheu na!lsm for tHen Toy years. both
10 my sldo aud limbs. | AN happy to say, that
after using l.ss than Two bottles OF the St. ia.
c!6s W, l AGO entirely free from raio. though
still Ilmp!sg somewhat whe walking, from Ions
tGrc, of habit 9. W, BoYNToN
net r:iag to tee i.restiag facts, might
aEude tonuner9us similar cases that hava o,me
TO my, notice. but void to the wise is sufi-
cienf. JOHN GoEBsL.
Pharmacist, Evanston, III,
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Defeated,

CAFE Town. April 1G-The Bssu!o, hs7.
been defeahd st Terrible with heavy !oa.. Tn,
Colonial los, ia si .b!.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1881-04-16

IL s'othe disturbed f,eiags bycu,ht ou By a
old. srd to cu7o Coughs. Crcup ard H,.Is,-
ness, take Dt Bulls Cough Syrup. P.ico IS
cnnis
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1881-04-16
Political.

\ irl;osFy tlsc.'on FOR F4ls Ctur,A district
vas tcld at BiiIey's Cross Reads, 90 Sat-
urdfy. The Ga iret.. 20 nominate candidates 70.
the cisl:c: ot1eas. nd 10 cleo: three delegates
to attcOd convention to 30 Ecld ct Fairtsx
Courthouse Ga Moais7. 10 nouinlto caudi.
dateE fer the cleis ship Of tho said Circuit aud
County Ccuf's. Tie very largo attendance
;nsp:tst:d the deep interest our cit;Z,ns feel in
tho necessity Of securing tie bes. nca 70 repre-.
GsGt them 10 these local officers aad is sure
i0iicaliou CT what thy mesn to d. 10 regard
% tie c2sGDg election; great ha,n?uy and
ea;i-o uuGniniy prlvaiieS.
The meeting Was ca!!sd to arjer by D.. J. J
Moran, a2d hy vote lie 0as r!sds tie rorFaane1t
chai5inGn Ga iHot;oa. Mr J. S. K. H.9x-
Aul2t W2a mode SecEa:sTy.
The iviaviag laIsd Ac2i: mo- waro uasni.
a.4usg lomioa;cd to FL tic local { .es Of The
G.a!:c:
%cnsr7i,vr. D.. j. J. Morss; C,uni.sicucrs
Ct Roads Truman Erls'. Matlcx Smith, Gee.
ALL; OvsIsaer OF the PoCr, D. &. Watkins;
Coos, able. James Wstkias; Magistrates. -
Snoa.. ---- BrJsn, y, II. Shrcevt; Delegates
II TIC Convection. d.. }. j. Moran Philip
ii2w2F3, Ihcnas Tsrrett
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a DISTRESSING SCEHE-Ia the c1ss Of De-
jarnet!e on trial fo- .he murder Of lis sister at
DsEvilie. yesterday Yves taken up in hearing
evidence !or The dsfense. Or. +. i, Gregory, of
Grsene borough, II. G., taking most Of tho time,
Or. Gregory testified as an expert, and ssd that
from all the ovideEco 50 taken and heard BIZ him
at this trial he believed tia. The prisoner was ia.
sane; tbs. he YVES suffering from delusional in.
sanity. All tho e7ideEc, has now been hoard,
except the. OF Df. Grissoa, superintendent OF The
lunslc asylum ST Raleigh. n. G, VINO will be
examined rs So expert to dsy, srd the argument
will commence. There ara 2 number Of speeches
to be msde; which will probably cause the Gaze
TO 20 over into next week before given to the
Jury. The younger sister OF tho prisoner sp-
poared IS witness for the defsnse Yesterday
morning, md testified 10 his kindness to her
and tbs Blister whom he slot and their mother.
The meeting bc.woon her sud tho prisoner ia
open court was distressing scene.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1881-04-16

dyes FOR EGGs.-We bevs IL. .e.-:1-;
~ smother supply Of Pas Dyss ~ ee CIV 90
psckf ges at cts. each, or the six coors f.. Ok
GEMS. !hey are used now almost e1cIna,va 10 .
Tor co:oring eggs TOR Easter. oAeiusiVe'y
sel4 e. 8. LEADBEATER g. RRo
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1881-04-16

Another petard wss exploded yesterday 10
Madrid at the door OF church. Nobcdy ga,
hurt.
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Il. 4. Rsmaey, jr, member of the l:m CT
Ksmsey & Son, doing bushes, ut the stock
yards, Chicago. committed suicide by shooting
himself yesterday morning. No cause is as
signed for the act, save that he had q iorebodirc
that DO should end his live in this manner.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1881-04-16

Tho dtAi body of Nancy BOYLE, eighteen
years oil, who les been missing fo' The past six
weeks fTcn l. = home mes. Wtstpor! N. Y,
92s found y5s!sfIsy ny.:iiGs il SCHOOL house,
xix :c,;lss !Io:c her scsiie:Ga From the appear
snca Of tho body i. IS ryii-n: she had been raw
shed and killed.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1881-04-16

The resolution adopted By the Bosrd of Al.
Germen being received aud read
Mr.. JaVns moved to concur in The action Of
the Common Council.
Mr.. Rice thought "the whole business was
toIa foolefy moro child's plsy; tto:o was law
enough On the subiect" He moved GokinSly)
that the Messrs. Smoors tAnnery and Captsin
Herbert 8rysnts nil bs removed TO Shutters
Hill for the benefit of the health OF the city"
The resolution permitting the establishment OF
The msnufact;ry wac then adopted unanimously
SID .he fo2rd adjourned.
The Portland daily press., 1881-05-03
THIEVES PARADISE.

Troy, New York, Without Police Force
Troy, n. Y, May lowing to deadlock
in the police board the old force went out of
existence this noon and the city is now without
police protection. The Legislature created
non-partisan board of commissioners and pro-
vided that non-partisan force should be APP
pointed, to go on duty at noon May ID. The
Democratic commissioners refused to make any
compromise, demanding whole or nothing. AS
result the station houses are locked up
Trouble is feared, but all is quiet as yet.
Bankers and business men have employed
private watchmen. A circus arrived in the
morning and it is expected thieves and roughs
from all over the country will concentrate
here upon learning the condition of affairs
There is much feeling in South Troy over the
recent riot, by which Quinn and Mahan were
killed and several persons wounded. Serious
trouble is liable to arise at any moment.
Mayor Murphy declares he has no power to ap-
point special officers, and the sheriff say he has
no authority to act i'll the premises unless a riot
or disturbance takes place. The absence of a
police force will doubtless be made use of by
thieves and incendiaries.
The Portland daily press., 1881-05-03
SUPREME COURT.

Allotments OF the Judges-A Stay Of
Proceedings in the Wooden Goods
Case.
WASHINGTON, May 2.-The following order
was announced by the Supreme Court to-day:
1t appearing to the court that new allot-
ment of chief justices and associate justices Of
this court among circuits now existing by law
is required and is expedient by reason of the
protracted disability Of Mr.. Justice Clifford and
the resignation of Mr.. Justice Swayne the fol-
lowing allotment is made:
First Circuit-Mr. Justice Harlan
Second Circuit-Mr. Justice Hunt.
Third Circuit-Mr. Justice Bradley.
Fourth Circuit-Chief Justice Waite.
Fifth Circuit-Mr. Justice Woods.
Sixth Circuit-Mr. Justice Bradley.
Seventh Circuit-Mr. Justice Miller.
Ninth Circuit-Mr Justice Field.
The court has adjourned for the tenn,
Among the proceedings to-day the court
granted a stay of mandate and leave to file a
petition for. re-hearing in the recently de-
cided case of Frederick Victor vs. c. A.
Arthur, collector, which has excited SO much
attention among manufacturers of wooden
goods and upon which was founded the ruling
of the Treasury Department to which the
manufacturers have so generally taken excep-
rions
The Portland daily press., 1881-05-03
THE DEADLOCK.
Agreement of the Republican Cau-
Gus Committee
EXECUTIVE SESSIONS TO CONFIRM
UNCONTESTED NOMINATIONS.

WASHINGTON, May 2.-The committee of
seven Senators appointed by the Repu blican
caucus last week to prepare plan of action in
regard to the contemplated holding OF execu-
tive sessions reached an agreement to-day,
which will be reported to the caucus to-inor-
row. They will recommend that executive
sessions be held forthwith for the transaction
of business in the following order:
First-To refer to the appropriate commit
tees all nominations on the table,.
Second-To take up for final action the vari-
Gus treaties which now await ratification, and
in the next place to consider all uncontested
nominations already reported or that may
hereafter be reported from the Senate commit
tee.
The term "uncontested," as used by the
committee, is intended to include every nomi-
nation which is not objected to by one Rspub-
lcan Senator from the State to which it be-
longs. The report will not take the ground
that no other nominations should be consider
ed during the present session, but merely that
the programme of business should be restrict
ed in this manner for the present or until
otherwise determined by the caucus. The
committees recommendations, if adopted by
the caucus, will probably result in the holding
of an executive session tomorrow afternoon.
The Portland daily press., 1881-05-03
THE STAR ROUTES.
$2o, $50 for Carrying Empty Mail Pouch

$29, $50 for Carrying Empty Mail Pouch
BOSTON, May "A Washington despatch to
the Boston Journal says the latest develop
ment in the Star mail service is one of the
most extraordinary yet made. 1t appears that
aa steamboat aSG man during last year received
$29,980 for carrying an empty mail bag be.
tween st. Louis and st. Paul. The facts are
said to be these: Last year a contract was
made to carry daily mail by packet on the
Mississippi river from st. Paul to St. Louis,
for which there was to be paid quarterly ST.
1877. 1t requires five days for the boat to go
from st, Paul to st. Louis when the river is
not frozen, which it has been most of this
winter, and one day is necessary to traverse
the same distance by railroad on nearly par
allel route The railway postal officials in
Chicago upon receiving orders to deliver a
mail to the steamboat contractor, protested on
the ground that the route was entirely useless
and that the mail would be greatly delayed.
The protest was overruled by the department.
authorities in Washington The railway pos
men, and were not disposed to delay the mails
four or five days; so while obeying their orders
from the Post Office department they sent the
mail matter by railroad under another con-
tract requiring that they should do so, and de-
livered only empty pouches to the steamboat
men. This continued for nine months, when
the contract was terminated March 81 last.
Numerous special agents of the Post Office de-
partment who visited the west were informed
by the railway post office officials of these ex-
traordinary circumstances. These agents rec
commended The abolition of the steamboat
route, and SO reported to Washington. The
general superintendent of the railway mail SER
vice, approved the discontinuance of the route,
but finally was advised by his subordinates in
the west that the postmaster at st. Paul bad
received instructions from the contract office,
branch of the office of the Second Assistant
Postmaster General, directing him to dispatcb
one empty mail pouch daily from St. Paul by
the steamboat route labeled "St. Louis, Mis-
souri," Finally Mr.. Thompson. general su-
perintendent of the railway service, directed
Capt. White of the western division, to send
the mails by the most expeditions routes only,
adding, however. that if the Second Assistant
Postmaster General had ordered the postmast-
er at St. Paul to dispatch an empty pouch from
that place to st. Louis, he (Thompson) had no
power to countermand it. The enormity of
this proceeding will be seen when it is learned
that the contract YVES allowed to continue for
nine months of the year by the contract, and
that the steamboat man was actually paid for
transporting these empty mail bags $29, $3.50.
The Portland daily press., 1881-05-03

tbV Iele2raDn.l
NEW YORK. May 2-Evening.-Flour market
grades under 10 30 W Dbl scarce and in moderate
request at steady prices: grades above dull and in
buyers favor; export limited; jcbbing confined to
pressing wants. W
Receipts Of Flour %, 742 bbls; exports 1924 bbls
sales 10, 100 bbls; No 2 at 3 05a3 t5; Superfne
Western and State 1894 40 common to good ext
Western and State 5094 so; good to choice Wes
tern extra at 00G6 70; common t, choice White
Wheat Western extra 00G6 90; fancy do at s 10
OF 90; common to good extra Ohio at 55a6 IL:
common to choice extra st. Louis at 65a6 rs:
Patent Minnesota extra at s5a6 80: choice to
double extra at 90oS 90, including 1900 bbls of
City Mills extra, part to arrive, at G0a5 10; IeCO
bbls No at 3 U0G3 55; 1900 bbls SUPPORTING 3 75
q a. SO; 200 bbls low extra at 1904 50; 5000
Minnesota extra at 456S OO;Southern dour we,I.
common to fair extra logs 20; good to choice do
at 3067 90. Rive Flour is dull and besvv at
75@s Is for S1pe,fine. Corn Meal is dull Vel.
low Western SOG3 20. Wh~ai-receipts 1877 :
1870 bush: exports 107 GOO bush; laSalM his5er
with a limited export business and moderate specu-
GOO busa on spot; rejected Spring at 9sc@I 6oc No
at 1 l5(al IL; uDgrads led Red 15(dl 261s: No z
do oa 2219 a.. ! 25; No z Red 25l4a1 26; No do
2SKG1 30; Mixed Winter at l 221s al 23: mn.
graded White at l101 %; No do 2Oal 81
No do $1,000 bush at 1 230l 23H; No2 Red
The Portland daily press., 1881-05-03
Degradation of the Body.
[Dr. F. L. Oswald. in Popular Science Monthly f

lDr. II. l.. oswald. in Popular Science Monthly 70
May.l
About six hundred years before the begin
ming of our chronological era, speculative
philosopher of northern Hindostan SGT about to
investigate the origin of the sufferings which
50 often make human life a burden instead of
blessing, and, failing to trace these Affections
10 any ayoidable Cause, he took 1t into his head
that terrestrial existence itself must be an evil
and conceived the unhappy idea of preaching
crusade against the love of earth and the
rights of the human body, as distinct from
supposed preternatural part of our being. His
success has been, beyond all compare, the
greatest calamity that ever befel the human
race since the days of the traditional deluge;
not only that the doctrines of Guatama bore
their fruit in the utter physical degeneration
OF his native country, and the populous en-
pires of Eastern Asia, but, seven centuries af-
ter, the essential doctrines of Buddhism, inten-
sifed by an admixture of Gnostic demonism
and Hebrew mythology, were preached upon
the shores Of the Mediterranean and invaded
the paradise of the Aryan nations. A mania
OF self-torture aud miracle-worship broke out
like a mental epidemic, and. at the very time
when the influence OF Grecian civilization be-
gan 30 wane, the new creed spread into Italy,
and the friends of science and freedom were
confronted with the fearful danger of an anti
natural religion. What that danger meant
our liberated age can hardly realize unless we
review the fate of those nations to whom saliva
ton came too late; on whose destiny the curse
of that superstition has been wrought out to
the bitter end. The attempt so carry the theo-
ries of the Hebrew fanatics into practice led to
a state of affairs against which the unposSeSSed
part of mankind had to combine in sheer self
defense; the maniacs were over powered, but
only after struggle which has trampled the
chief battle-felds into dust, and not before
they had turned the Mediterranean God-gar
den into such pandemonium of madness, tyr
amy, and wretchedness that the lot OF the
African savages seemed heaven in comparison.
The annals of pagan despotism furnish no par
allel to the pages stained with blood and tears
that record the horrors of the inquisitorial
butcheries aud man-hunts of the middle ages
The Portland daily press., 1881-05-03
TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 3.

has seen the firemen at work on a hand EN-
CINE will understand the motion readily. They
keep this up for five or ten minutes, talking
like brace of -rrots all the time, till one of
them screams with all her might and runs to
the bath-house. She stops TO remark that she
cause of her scare-a blade of eel grass wound
tightly about her ankle Spunking up cour-
age, they again seek the water, and once more
the hand engine man9uvre is repeated. Then
one of them whispers, There's man!' And
with all her might to the nath-house Then the
one who has seen the man, saunters slowly af-
ter, picking up shell or two on tho way pre-
tending to think there isn't such thing as
man in creation By and by they emerge from
the bath house, and ostentatiously display the
key, towels, and bathing dresses, chattering in
the most volube manner. "It was Just lovely!'
one remarks. And the other says she feels $50
refreshed YOU know"