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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-08-03
The Constantinople Conference.

At the sitting of the conference ut Con
stantinople yesterday NJ Onon, the Russian
representative, and Said Pasha, the Turkish
delegate, made declarations on behalf of
their respective governments. Lord Dulter-
in explained England's action at Alcxan-
dria He said that the forts had been de-
stroyed solely as a measure of defense. and
that the steps which followed were imposed
by force mUesire. England's sole object
was TO restore peace and order, to secure
free navigation of the Suez Canal, and to-
restore the authority Of the khedve. While:
reservlng liberty of action, events might
render it necessary for England TO ac-
cept cooperation Of any power ready to
give it. Lord Dufierin added: "Wc also
accept the Sultan's friendly aid. We are
glad to be relieved Of the uncertainty re-
garding the real intentions of the Sultan,
caused by the decoration bestowed upon
Arab Pasha. We still require that Il
proclamation be issued supporting the au-
thority of the khcdive and declaring Arab
PaSha rebel"
The Ottoman plenipotentiaries made the
following declaration: We have taken note
of the communications Of Lord Dullerin and
of each member of tho conference. Re-
garding the point that England is obliged
to maintain troops in Egypt in consequence
of the inaction of the Porte, the Ottoman
representatives are of opinion that action
on the part Of the Sultan would be more
practical and cilicacous than action by
England. The assertion Of iuaction ON the
part of the Porte is untounded, as after the
presentation of the identical note the Porte
agreed to take part in the conference and
TO dispatch troops to Egypt Secondly, the
resolution Of the Porte to dispatch troops TO
Egypt was based upon the tenor of the
identical note, and satisfied the powers;
but the attitude adopted by England in
subordnating her acceptance of the arrival
and cooperation Of Turkish troops TO the
proclamation of Arab P;sha as n rebel is not
in accordance with the satisfaction express
ed by the powers.
Thrdly-The Porte never declined the
assistance of the powers to maintain the
status quo, which was proved by Turkey
accepting the conditions of the Identical note
relating to the future Of Egypt.
FOuthly-Regarding the issue of proca-
nation declaring Arab Pasha rebel, the
Porte hopes the conference will approve of
proclamation being issued simultaneously
with the presence Of Ottoman troops in
Egypt in order to obtain an ellicacious and
practical result whenever disorders require
the adoption of rigorous measures AS the
proclamation is to explain the situation and
to impeach subject of the Sultan who was
decorated at moment when manifesting
fidelity, it must derive lis force from the i'm
mediate cooperation Of imperial troops,
whose absence at the PRONUNCIATION would
render the provisions Of the proclamation
barren ofresult and aggravatc the present
statesofthings. The conference will recog-
nize in the Porte sincere desire TO restore
order and to establish Il loyal understanding
with the powers.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-08-03
Russia Defines her Position.

A semi-oflicial statement Is published at
st. Petersburg that Russia never Endorsed
the Anglo-French naval demonstration in
Egyptian waters, but, on the contrary, de-
clared that although not wishing TO oppose,
she would never encourage isolated action.
This continues to be the standpoint of
Russia. who aims to induce Great Britain
again to join in the European programme,
and to combine her action with that of the
Porte on the basis of the decisions Of the
conference.
1t is reported at Rome that Count Corte,
the Italian ambassador, has been Instructed
to bring forward at the next sitting of the
conference at Constantinople the proposal
formulated by Italy for collective action in
regard TO the Suez canal, subsequent TO the
invitation addressed to her by France and
England in regard to joint action. The
proposal provides for the concurrence of all
the powers, Turkey included, and stipulates
that the collective action shall be restricted
to police supervision of an exclusively
naval character, in conformity with the
previously established regulations, it being
reserved to the powers to concert regarding
other action, should the above measures be
insufficient.
1t is reported at Berlin that the powers
are willing to leave the Egyptian question
as distinguished from the question of the
Seuz canal for arrangement between Tur-
key and England, subject to the final assent
OF Europe. Sc
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-08-03
The Markata

BALTIMORE, Aug. 3.--yirgnia Is deferred =;
do consolidated cog; do second series 34a, past
due coupons COZ; new 1O.4Os 43E bid to-day.
Cotton higher; mddlings 127s. Flour unchanged.
Wheat southern fairly active and higher; West
crn easier, closing firm; Southern red i12a114: do
amber 115a117; No 1 Nd 115 asked; No >
Western winter red spot 114l,a114a.; Aug
ll4Eal ii y Sept 11fa1144l Oct 115%a al 1874.
Corn--Southcrn steady and quiet; Western quiet
and steady; Southern white 100; do yellow 90:
western mixed spot "a lsaS6; Aug SAY Sept
Southern tnew) 5GaG2; Western white G3a65 do
mixed G1aG2 Pcnna G0aG5. Rye quiet at G5a
40. Hay firm and unchanged. Coffee firm; Rio
cargoes ordinary to fair 9tha9at. Sugar firm: A
soft 9's. Whiskcy steady at 81 49,
New York. Aug. 3-Stocks weak. Money 3.
cotton steady; uplands 13; Orleans 1914, Flour
dull aud unchanged. Wheat opened laa1 j, lower
subsequently recovered portion of decline. Corn
-Nov &c better; others Aa31.c lower.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-08-03

How INDIANS FARM.-A gentleman just up
from Standing Rock Agency, in answer to an in
qury as to how the reds were progressing in the
peaceful ways of grangering, smiled and said their
manner was odd. Every year they seemed to
know less about how to farm. This is attributed to
the fact that they are learning the ways of the
whites too rapidly. They begin to understand
that rs soon rs they can grow crops their rations
will be cut oil, and hence their growing ignorance
of agriculture. If they are given bushel of bsans
to plant they will eat nine tenths of the amount
and plant onc-tenth, and the one tenth will lie
dumped in three or four holes in the ground. Last
spring they were given five bushels of onion seeds.
They could not eat them, and consequently plant
ed the entire five bushels on piece of ground
fifty by one hundred feet. They were too lazy to
prepare larger patch besides it would have been
contrary to their policy of maintaining the ration
system. When the onions came up it was curl
Gus sight 70 see the young stinkcrs crowd each
Other. The whole dry, naked surface, of the
ground was raised up top of the sprouting plants.
1t IS our informants opinion that the present gen.
Grafton OF lnjuns will not make successful gran
gers.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-08-03
LOCAL BREvITIEs.

Mr. w. {. Overall father-in-law of Mr. r.
d. Reyes, of this city: has discovered a rich
vein OF iron ore, including lumber of a supcr.
lor quality,on his farm, in Page county, Va.
A match game of base ball was PLAYED IN
this city yesterday afternoon between thn
Alexandria Base Ball Association and th.
Resolutes, resulting in victory for the
former by q score of9t TOD. fl.
COMMONWEALTH Attorney Leonard Mar
bury, who has been quite i'll at Broad Run
tauquier county, for several weeks past, has
his many friends will be glad TO learn So
far recovered as to be. able to beahout again,
The personal effects of the late WASHING.
ton Blythe; consisting Of machinery iormoj;.
ing barrels, engine, &c, have been sold by
City Sergeant Smith, the whole briucin.
about $500. The engine and boiler MAS
purchased by Basshor 4 Co, of Baltimore,
for $21O.
The dredging machine is at work tiruin.
out the docks under control of MesSrs. Wm
A. Smoot & Co. ,whonow have 20 lcct'ofwa,cr
III one dock and 10 feet in another. Thcr,
are now lying at the wharvcs of the firm
some half dozen schooners, one of them, the
Martha n. Hale, from Windsor, with bias
ter, drawing 10 feet inches of water.
Races on the river opposite this city be-
tween sailing boats are being arranged to
take place at an early day as follows :
The yacht Americas and the sloop Lizzie
Lane; Watch-Me-Josh and Lucy. The
schooner Annie Gibson, now being rebuilt
at Dean 4 Dishman's ship yard. when COM
pleted, will also enter the racing list. m
Nellie Parker, Nellie Shrcves and Mary Brooks,
young white women from Washington. were ar.
rested this afternoon by .oilcers Smith and
Goodrich for being drunk and disorlcrly Oh the
streets The women. after quarrcling for some
time, using the vilest language, came to Blow.
and n rough and tumble fight ensued, which con
| tinued till the arrival of the officers
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-08-03
The August Meteors

On the nights of the 9th, 10th, and 18th a
display of celestial fireworks may be look
ed for. The earth then plunges throughthe
domain of the cratic member Of the system
known as the August meteor zone. This
zone is gigantic cllipse or hoop whose
perihelion is within the earth's orbit, and
whose aphclion reaches beyond the orbit of
Neptune. 1t is mystcrio,lsly associated, as
SchIaparclli discovered, with the second
comet OF 1862, or has been gradually formed
from its substance. The meteors are dis
trihutcd through every portion of the ring,
though somewhat ncqually. Every year
therefore, when the earth crosses the zone,
about the 10th of August, there is shower
OF mctcors more or less abundant according
to the density of the cosmical cloud The
mcteors shoot from the constellation Per
sclls, which Is for this reason called the radi-
cnt point, ami the metcors are called Per-
seidrS. Sometimes the showers are very
brilliant, almost rivaling the famous No
ycmbcr ones At ordinary times an obser-
Yer may be reasonably sure ofseeing several
hundreds on The nights mentioned. These
mcteors are distinguished from those be-
longing TO other meteor systems by their
yellow color. and they leave behind them
trails of luminous yapor that often last sew
eral seconds Poetry and superstition have
given 10 the August meteors the name of
fiery tears of st. Lawrence, because they oc'
cur on the anniversary of the day made
memorable by the mart yrdom of the famous
saint The constellation Perseus rises late
in the evening in the northeast, and may be
known by scmi-crcle Of stars forming the
sword of the hero Observers on the nights
mentioned will he sure to see u moderate
display of meteors. They may be rewarded
for their pains by Sthe sight of a golden
shower of unusual abundance and beauty
Proridence r. T., Journal.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-08-03

dust AND DUsTING.-Do not dust, but
wipe. The buster, that peaceful emblem of
domestic labor, may, under certain circum-
stances, become dangerous weapon to han
die. We are in earnest. An eminent scien-
fist declares it to be a fact. Do you know
what you are doing when you brush away
dust. You disseminate in the air, and con-
ssequently introduce into your own interior,
into your tissues and respiratory organs, ali
sorts of eggs, spores, epidemic germs and
murderous vibi-ones which dust contains
One movement with feather duster may
be enough to poison both you and your
neighbors-to innoculate you all with ty-
plus, raroloid or cholera strange as it
may appear. Instead ola feather buster take
damp cloth; wipe away the dust instead of
stirring it up: In short, wipe-never dust.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-08-03
The War inEgvut.

VIENNA, Aug. Sit is reported here that
Arab Pacha is negotiating with the palace
ut Constantinople about kind of parallel
action between his own and the Turkish
troops toAe sent to Egypt. Arab, it is said
proposes that the Turks occupy Cairo, while
ne Will remove to some central position in
the delta provided the Turks promise not to
attack his rear.
LONDON, Aug. 1-2:3O p, ma dispatch
to the exchange Telegraph Company, dated
Alexandria $50 o'clock this afternoon an.
nounces that all the British troops have
been ordered to the front, an attack being
expected.
CoNSfANTINoPLE. Aug. Sat the sit
ting of the conference yesterday Count Cor
Il, the Italian ambassador, introduced the
propose formulated by Italy in regard to
the Sue% Canal. The representatives OF
Germany, Austria and Turkey Immediately
slgnltied adhesion to the proposal, but Lord
Dufierin and the Marquis De Noailles, the
English and French ambassadors respective.
ly, declared that they must consult their
governments before coming to decision.
LONDON, Aug. "a dispatch to the Ex-
change Telegraph Company from Suezstates
the that town has been occupied by the
British. The telegraph Office has been re
opened.
CoNsTANTINoPLE Aug. 3.-M. Onou the
Russian representative, on rejoining the con
ference yesterday gave no reasons for so do
ing. NJ Onon announced that Russia also
adhered to the proposal ofItaly inregard to
the SueZ Canal
ALEXANDRIA, Aug. Last evening and
to-day alarm was caused by rumors of al
impending massacre of christians. The pa.
trolls have been ordered to increase theil
vigilance and the police to confscate sticks
from the natives, Criers have paraded the
native quarters of the city enjoining the PEG
to remain at home at three o'clock in the
afternoon, the hour which it is reported has
been fixed for the massacre.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-08-03
Open Letter to Mr.Johu F. Dezendorf.

The following letter, written by Mr.. J. T.
Pritchard, the deposed postmaster at this
place, has been handed us for publication
FREDERICKSBURG, Spotsylvania CO.. Va,
July 29th, 1882.
Sir-Do not stop the good work, but
place in each district of Virginia republic
can candidate for Congress. The cause for
which Garfield died must not be lost. The
republicans Of Virginia, who will not sur
render their political rights, aud who are
determined to maintain at all times and I'M
der all circumstances, the exercise of their
own conscience and judgement concerning
public affairs, their attachment to the prin-
ciples Of the republican party: freedom.
union, nationally, equal rights before the
law. maintenance of the public faith-State
and National-protection to home industry,
and demand that the record which has been
so nobly made shall be wisely and fearlessly
perpetlIated; to take up the work which fell
when Garfield fell demand, in place of the
"spois SYSTEM" the reformation of the Civil
Service by law, so that the appointive places
therein may be freely open to all fit and
meritorous citizens, and removals shall be
only for good and sufficient public causes
We demand, instead of the public service TO
private uses, its recognition as a high and
honorable trust, to be administered for the
peoples benefit with efficiency economy and
integrity. Demand, instead of the insolence,
prescription and tyranny of "Bossism' and
machine rule, the free and conscientious
exercise of private judgment in political af-
fairs. and the faithful discharge, by those
who assume representative trusts, Of the ex-
pressed will Of the people. Approve the
platform Of the Republican convention held
in Richmond, Va. on the Goth of July, 1882
to restore The Republican party TO the high
estate in which the immortal Lincoln found
it, and in which the sainted Garfield would
have left it. So again, put in each district
Republican candidate for Congress, and
all will be we'll. Respectfully,
~. T. PRITCHARD.
Hon. John +. Desendorf, N. c., Washington
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NEWS OF THE DAY
10 show The uery age and body fthe Times. y

A wealthy Chinaman died Yesterday in
Baltimore and received Christian burial :
Yellow fever was developed at Browns
vile, Texas, yesterday. There were sever
al cases reported, but no deaths
+, Secretaries Folger and Bristow have left
the disposition of the income tax suit against
s. ]. Tilden to the government counsel in
New York, who are understood to favor it's
dismissal.
1t is stated at the Treasury Department
that the government water power property
at Harpers Ferry will not again be put up
at public auction unless there is some ass,r-
ance that bid of,,about $4,000 would be
made ~ - *
Mr.. Richard J. Cuttings, leading men,
Der of the Baltimore bar. died yesterday at
Ocean City after three days illness; and DR..
James S.,Stevenson a we'll known physi-
| clan ofthe same city, died yesterday at his
residence on Gilmore st. ...
Mrs. Affinger n wife of respectable Ger
man farmer of Umatilla county, Oregon,
has committed suicide by taking strychnine.
| The tragedy was the result of malicious
conduct on the part of some young men
whom she had prevented from associating
with her youngest daughter, and who, in
revenge, accused Mrs. Affnger of perpetra.
ting petty burgaries and larccnics, which
had occurred in the vicinity.
! Walter Agilonby, aged twenty-five years
Il resident of Shenandoah Junction, Jctier-
son county, w. Va, WAS yesterday morning
found dead in Il sleeping-car at. the Jersey
City depot of the Pennsylvania Railroad.
He was on his way TO Nantucket, Massachu-
sets. Young Aglionby WAS Il son of Mr.
Charles Aglionby, one of the we;.lthicst cit
liens and largest landowners III Jefferson
county, and was young man Of excellent
habits.
Judge Hughes says that the Thornton
sample license case will not have Il rehearing
before Judge Bond, ofsthe' Circuit Court
The decision Of Judge Hughes was submit
ted to Judge Bond with the request that 0
rehearing would be granted it upon exami
nation of the law adduced if any ground
could be found for such course Judge Bond
agreed entirely with the decision Of Judge
Hughes, and therefore the case may be con
sidered AS settled.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-08-03

KouMlss. - koumiss has almost hecemea
popular beverage since it was brought into
prominence by the late Presidents physici-
ans. 1t isa pungent, pleasant drink which
CHEERS, but not inebriates, and physicians
are prescribing it freely for dyspepsia. The
Tartars make koumss of mares milk A
little sugar added to COWS milk answers the
sanepurpose. The beverage can be made
at home, and here is a formula for it: Fill
quart champagne bottle up to the neck
with pure milk ; add two tablespoonful of
white sugar, after dissolving the same in
little water over hot fire add also quar-
ter of twO-cent cake of compressed Yeast.
Then tie the cork on the bottle securely and
soak the mixture well place it in room
OF the temperature of so to 95-degrees Fab
renheit for six hours, and finally in the ice
box over night Drink in such quantities
asthe stomach may require 1t will be we'll
to observe several important inunctions in
preparing the koumiss, and they are First,
TO be sure that the milk is pure: second
that the bottle is sound third that the Yeast
is fresh; fourth to open the mixture in the
morning with great care on account Gifts
etfervescent properties; fifth, not to drink it
at all if there is any curdled or thickencd
part resembling cheese, as this indicates;
that the fermentation has been prolonged
beyond the proper time.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-08-03

WHEN THE present session of Congress
adjourns, which will be in a day or two,
Virginians will look in vain for any Of the
benefits that were promised them as the
sure result Of General Mahone's influence
The money that Virginia advanced the Gen
eral Government has not been returned to
her, her old men who fought in the Mexican
war have not been pensioned, no appropra-
ton has been made for the negro schools
her taxpayers are bound to support, nor
has any reduction been made in the tax on
the tobacco she raises. The General has
profited individually by having the Govern
ment relieve him of some of his obligations
by giving Offices TO those who have done
him service, but two small public buildings,
one at Hnrrisonburg and the other at Abing-
don, are no equivalent to the State he mis-
represents in the Senate for his putting that
body in the hands Of the republicans by Il
diSgraceful bargain
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From the Lynchburg Advance. ]
TO the Republicans ofthe iSirth Gonq7.essiont
A Card.

TO The Republicans Of thef'Sirth Congressional
District Of Virginia:
| hayebeen an earnestand warm advocate
Of the Coalition movement from its first in
ception: 1 now renounce. coalition and re-
new my allegiance to the Republican party
and will battle for it's principles and it's can
didate for Congress for the State at large,
the Hon. J ohm NJ. Dawson, of williamsburg,
Va, and the candidate for Congress in this
district, who will endorse and advocate his
election.
Why do take this course my friends
may ask. will answer by stating that
believe that if justice had been done us as o
party, the Coalitionists would have elected
the Hon. John F. Lewis, Republican, in.
stead ofMr. Riddleberger, Liberal Democrat
Not content with having cast aside the in.
luence we by right Of numbers ought to
have in party management, they have per-
sistcntly, in all their acts never consulted
our feelings, and have put the Hon. Jonn
;. Wise upon their ticket and ordered the
Republican party to support him. Can any
honest Republican longer consent to lay
aside the Republican party at the d:ctation
of this coalition. |, as one man, answer no.
Your friend, MARTIN HARRIS.
LYNCHEUKt, July 81, 1882.
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reSentatiVe:

THREE STATES are directly interested in
the reelection of Senator Davis, of West
Virginia own, Virginia and Maryland
The two latter don't presume even to re-
commend to the former what she shall do
in the case, but they tell her that if she does
re-elect the Senator they will be greatly
obliged to her, for he is not only us faithful
and efficient representative as it is posi-
BILE for her to have in the Senate, but he also
looks after their interestsanddoes everything
he can to promote them. Owing to recent
remarkable condition Of political affairs in
Virginia she will have no true representa-
tive in the Senate during the next Congress
and she is therefore specially DESTROYS Of Mr..
Davis's reelection because her people know
that in him they have an efficient friend
upon whom they can always rely 1t is a
selfish hope, but it nevertheless reflects
honor upon both Mr.. Davis and his own
State
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ALEXANDRIA, VA.
THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST ,, 1892.

Mr.. FINLEY, whose seat in the U. S.
House of Representatives was taken away
from him by the republican majority of that
House in order to give it to a member of
their party who had been legally defeated
at the polls, has been renominated by accla-
NATION by the democrats of the Jacksonville
district, in Florida, and will be elected by
an increased majority. And so it will be
with all the other Southern democrats who
have been deprived Of their seats in the
House by the INSCRIPTIONS republican ma
jorits in order to increase that majority and
to increase the number of republican con-
testans from the South for seats in the next
House. Men who were not favorable to
them before will support them now because
they have been badly treated, and because
the people of their districts have been I'M
justly deprived Of their legally elected rep
reSentatyes
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Petsrd Thrown,

TRIESTE, Aug 3.-While the Society of
Veterans were marching through the Corso
yesterday to salute the Archduke Charles
Louis, brother Of the Emperor a petard
was thrown into the ranks and several of
the men were injured. An angry crowd
subsequently broke the windows in houses
frequented by the Italian faction.