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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1883-03-23
VIRGINIA NEWS.

J. B. Eastman, an old citizen of Green
county IS dead
Gordonsville, has eight churches and
another is being built
Yankee Allen has resigned the office of
commemorative attorney ofPrince Edward
county.
The Southampton wife murderer, Lewis
Carter, has been taken to Norfolk, and
lodged in Jail for safe keeping.
Over 1000 bales of hay, raised In Madison
county, has recently been shipped to Dau-
vile and other points.
Il. B. Burnly has been appointed clerk of
the county court of Albemarle 10 fill the va
eancy caused by the dealL of Major John w.
Goss.
The farm of the late D. c. CofInan, in
Page county, l60 acres, has been sold to
Jacob Warner, Of Shenandoah county, for
$1,000
Mayor Darlington, of Richmond, has ap.
proved inc ordinance appropriating $3.50.
OOO for the erection ola new city ball in that
city.
The residence of the late Dr.. Samuel R.
Rlxey, at Culpeper Court House, has been
purchased by Mr. James Vass, of Fredericks-
burg, for 81, $50.
Cedar Point farm. the residence Of the
late Colonel John Mercer Waller, in Spotsyl.
vania county, has been purchased by Mr..
John Bell Bigger, OF Richmond, for So 800
Hon. Charles Pelham Cliutou, cousin of
the present Duke of Newcastle, has recently
purchased ''Brookside Hill" the home OF
Capt. Frize'le. near Charlottesville.
thirteen-year old colorcd girl YES
fatally burned en- Tuesday last, in Fred.
eric&sbu.g, by her clothes igui:inc while
making ire il the cooking stove.
The management of the Richmond, Fred
erlcESbnrg aud Potomac Railroa! deny that
ihey rendered coupons 10 the Auditor in
payment OF State taxes. They say they
pald their taxes in money last December
The Board of Directors of the State Nor
maj Colored Institute, to be erected i'm Ches-
teriield county, near fredericksburg, has
adopted plans and specifications for the
building. which, when Completed, will ac-
commodate 500 pupils and is to cost $50 900
The site was purchased at cost of SIS 500.
The building Is to be one of the finest Of its
kind in the South. Work will be com.
menced at once.
The auditor has commenced to carry out
the policy outlined by Gov. Cameron in ref.
erence to the railroads. Trains OH the Valley
and Chesapeake & Ohio have been levied on
and seized for taxes due by the companies.
The trains were released upon indemnify ing
bonds being given by the companies agents.
The auditor intimates his determination to
hold the Petersburg and Weldon Road for
taxes covering period of ten years or more.
The Seaboard aud Roanoke is said also to
be in arrears. The roads that have ,lined
to pay their taxes in money are the Chesa-
peake and Ohio, the Valley. the Winchester
and Potomac, the Winchester and Strasburg
and the Strasburg and Harrisonburg.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1883-03-23
MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL,

Business during tho week has been decidedly
quiet, and the weather has materially affected
trade as we'll as retarded all spring operations.
In money matters everything is quiet hereabouts.
In New York money during the greater part of
yesterday loaned between and 10 per cent. but In
the late dealings suddenly advanced to 25, react.
Ing to 20 per cont at 3 o'clock, closing at 20. In
Baltimore tho money market was steady, with
moderate demand fur bank aud outside accommo.
daton. New loaus were made at 6 per cent in
most cases, though there was considerable
amount of business running at 8. Discounts rule
at the higher figure for best single.name paper.
U. s. bonds are quiet hut steady. The Treasury
Department. has ordered the prepayment Of Gov.
eminent interest due 1st Of April on Monday,
2Gth instant, without rebate. The amount of In.
t,rest due is $7.a75,7S5, the quarterly accru.
insnt on the per cents. Virginia bonds are dull
and the tendency is rather lower. Consols are
quoted nom nally at 4Oa42, and 1O-4Os sold yes.
trrday ut San. closing offered at 34la without
bidders. The tax coupons were fraction better
but very quiet Pseer bonds were steady at 351a
bid and the new 3s were quoted 50ssa51 Rail.
road shares are quiet, and the quotations made
fail to Indicate any change in values. Sales of
Virginia Midland IDS at 10Y and 5ths at 95.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1883-03-23
aEWs CT TIE DAT.

The London Times saws the new tariff law
in the United States is only u step towards
free trade.
John Taylor, an old grave digger at Fay.
ettsviile, y. c., while digging a grave YES
terday, was killed by the earth cuviny in
upon him.
a fire ON the 9Th instant at Port au Spain
on the Island of Trinidad, destroyed various
warehouses and stores. Loss $500 900; IN.
surance $4,000 In English companies.
inquiries in Louisville Yesterday among
ministers aud business aud professional men
develupe practically Unanimous opposition
TO the presentation of Salmi Morsc's Passion
Play in that city.
Capt. Eads maintains that there is danger
OF the bulk of the water of the Mississippi
river finding its way to the gulf through the
atcha!alaya outlet, and in that event New
Orleans would be left on the hunks of a dead
lagoon.
1t has been ascertained that the defalca-
ton OF Ray, the late buokkeeper of the
Merchants and Planters Bank of Montgo-
merry, Alabama, will amount TO $4,000.
The bank has sufficient money to meet all
demands.
Gov. Buffers executive council, which Is
composed Of seven republicans and one dem
ocrat, yesterday rejected the nomination of
Noah 4. Plympton for insurance commits
| sioner of Massachusetts. Gov. Butler imme-
diately renominated him.
Three boys under l8 years of age, students
Of Wabash College, Charlottesville, Ind,
have been arrested for setting fire to the
south hall Of the college on Sunday night.
They confessed, and also said they broke in
TO a store in the city within the past six
weeks and set it on fire.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1883-03-23
EDITORIAL BRIEFS
Winter lays superhuous.

WINTER rags superhuouS.
Good Frday-a bad day.
The beautiful snow - wish it would
go-to
"A good cold is bad thing to have,
which is the experience of all so afflicted.
Tie wntry winds are still blowing"
and wntry clouds are still spowing- aud
will it thus ever be-?
Primary meetings are to be held by the
democrats Fairfax on the 25th of April to
select candidates for the county offices,
A wooden mills com pany, with capital
ofnot less than 100000 has been Incorporated
III Richmond. Just what is wanted in Alex
and ria.
The Culpeper Exponent says that "Cul.
pepper county seems to produce the most re.
markable hens i'll the world" and it might
have added roosters too.
When Napoleon was In Egypt and the
army was about to be attacked by the
Alamclukes the order was always "savans
and jackasses to the centrc'-not the front.
The republicans of spotsylvania are
not disposed TO permit their organization to
be ignored by readjuster politicians. and de-
cline the coalition programme for the spring
election for county officers.
Lookout The good people Of this city
are soon to be treated to an entertainment
that promises to be the most gratifying
since the trial by jury" The ladies have
it in nand-and when they will they will you
may depend ont.
The body Of Charles Soehner, German
reVolutionist, was taken to the crematory at
Washington Pa, yesterday, inclosed in a
sheet, and placed In the retort. In short
time it was reduced to ashes, which were
| placed in an urn, and will be returned to
Indianapolis, where they will doubtless be
overturned by some careless house maid in
busting off the mantle-piece, and scattered
to the four winds.
We have received the first number of
the Chronicle, published at Bland Court
House. 1t is democratic and starts its first
number with local salutatory in poetry, in
which the editor says:
I'm politics, I'll keep quite cool.
| And not get on spree;
! For I'm no politician
And ne'er expect TO be-
But should my toes be tramped
| III hardly stand alooi
To save the precious 'parngs" or
| The Boss dainty hoot"
She has 'ern -We knew it all the time,
but did not like to say so. But now that
the ''grandes. lady In all the land" avowa
the fact, why should people of ''lower de-
gree" put on airs anu affect climb" "pedes-
tails, pins, &c. The Queen likewise has
q knee, the swelling Of which, caused by
the fall she got going down stairs the other
day, is suOsidug, aud she will soon lie able
10 wear her garter; at which announcement
some ovcr-proper people will blush and ex-
claim, Oh shame. Butts all true ueverthc.
less God, save the Queen"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1883-03-23
The Court Of Appeals Yesterday,

Cason VS.. Seldner. From the Corpora
ton Court of the city of Norfolk. Rever.
sed, Judge Lewis delivering the opinion.
Vaughan vs.Johnston. sergeant. and Morse
We. Same. Upon writs of habea corpus.
The plaintiff Vaughan was discharged from
custody, and the plaintiff Morse remauded
to custody, Judge Lacy delivering the opin.
ion.
Yuelle's administrator va. Wimbish's adj
ministrator and ais. From the Circuit Court
OF Charlotte county, Affirmed, Judge Faunt.
leroy delivering the opinion. Concurred in
ny judges Lacy, Lewis, and Hinton, Judge
Richardson dissenting.
Woodhouse against Filbates. From the
Circuit Court of New Kent county. Rever-
sed, Judge Hinton delivering the opinion,
Judge Lacy not sitting.
Fitzpatrick and ais. against Smith and ais.
Argued and submitted.
WimbiSh against Breeder Argued for
appellant.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1883-03-23

LAWYERS FIGETINa.-Before one of the
city Auditors of Baltimore yesterday an al.
tercation occurred between two we'll known
members of the bar, Lewis Hochheimer and
Archibald Fl. Taylor. Hochhemsr was un.
dergolnS cross-examinatiun by Taylor,
when the disturbance arose ending in Hoch-
heimer characterizirg Taylor as no gentle
man, and following it up by denoupcing him
as a liar" Taylor jumped from the stand
and struck Hochheimer powerful blow.
The latter retaliated and a lively pugilistic
encounter ensued, which was finally ended
by the interference of several members Of
the bar. The belligerents were in a terri.
BILE state of excitement when they left the
office, and 1t was intimated that the Quarrel
had not yet ended, and that resort TO the
code might be made to settle the differ
ences between the parties
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1883-03-23
Perhaps This Was Wigein's Theo-v

Reading in the Journal the announcement
by Virgins that "he would publish to the
world. the theory on which he based his
representations" it reminded me of an in.
stance which happened in Vermont in
1887, in which big storm was predicted.
and the theory on which the prognoslica
tons were based" Judge Buckley resided
IN Berlin, just across the river from Mont
pelier. One member of the Judges family
was sou named Frank, who was a half.
witted fellow, and queer in many ways. In
the summer of 1887 some friends from York
State came to visit the Judge. aud after a
stop ola few days started on Saturday
morning on their way home intending 10
stop over Sunday with friends few miles
down the river. Frank heard their plans
talked over. and then said:
You better not start there Is going to
be big storm that will carry all the brid.
ges away, and you will have to come back :,
The sky being cloudless the gentlemen
laughed at Frank aud drove off. In the af
ternoon the storm began and all that Frank
had predicted came true. One ofthe gentle
mems curiosity was so excited that he re-
turned after the storm to learn from Frank
If possible, how he knew there was to be
such storm. After much coaxing Frank
promised If ne would come out with him he
would tell.
Going out few rods from the house 90 a
view could be had, Frank in his drawing
way, said: You see that bslsam tree down
in that swamp hole ?"
The man said he did.
We'll" said Frank, when you zee that
old yaller COW stand licking her tail round
that balsam tree you may know there is go
ing to be : of storm Letter to Boston
Journal
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1883-03-23
To-DAys TgLtGkhaalC NEWS

One nnEdred and forlyelght immigrants
left C"unrmard yesterday for this cuuutry
The New Jersey Legislature adjourned
sine die 1t noon to-day.
The reported injuries sustained by Queen
Victoria in falling down stairs are said TO be
Of the most lriain2 nature.
John G.. Dale, the New York agent of the
Tnman Steamship Company, died suddenly
this morning.
There were 1875 business failures through.
Oh. The country during the past seven days
agains! 225 last week.
Good Friday was generally observed
throughout The country, the banks and pub
lie Offices being closed.
The trial of Joe Brady for participation
in the Phoenix Hall murders has been fixed
for the 10Th proximo.
Five Of the principal anarchists have been
released from custoLyiu Paris. The others
it is said. will be liberated shortly.
Four prisoners confined in the penitentl
airy at Boise City, Idaho, overpowered the
guard yesterday and escaped.
The body Of John Howard Payne laid in
state in the City Hall, New York to day,
aud was viewed by large numbers. At four
O'Clock the remains were conveyed to the
Pennsylvania Il. r. depot and turned over
TO the Washington committee.
The complications in the municipal af.
fairs of Petersburg, Va, which have exist
ed since last June are at last at an end
The last Of these cases is that of Col. F. H.
Archer, democrat and T. ]. Jarratt, read
juster, claimants of the mayoralty of the
city. Jarratt was elected mayor at the last
municipal election, but being a member of
the city council at the time, and failing to
qualify for the mayoralty his right to the
Office was contestested by Archer. The
case was taken to the Court Of Appeals, of
Virginia, and by agreement neither of the
parties attempted to hold court. The Court
of Appeals has just decided that Jarratt, was
legally elected mayor, and he will enter
apon The discharge of his duties probably on
Monday next
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1883-03-23
4 UCTIOS SlLES.
By Green c Wise, Aucsioneeys.
JBLIC SALE
VALUABLE WAREHOUSE AND WEARS
PROPERTY

By virtue oil 4 decree of the Corporation Cour,
OF the city OF Alexandria, Va rendered at its snp
tember term, 1882. in The cause Of Jno II. Inma,
ct ais, vs. Peter Wise, trustee. ct ais, will ofT,r
ior sale by public auction. III front Of tina on.
trance to the Court rooin, on Fairfax street in L
oity of Alexandria. Va, on
SATURDAY, the 2lst day of April, 1888
az l. CLOCK NJ, tie following valuable prooertr
to-wir: '
ALL OF THAT LOT OF GROUND with IT,.
TWO BRICK WAREHOUSES; and other i.nprors
ments thereon. In the said city OF Alcxantrl.
vs.. BOUNDED as follows Beginning ct 4 paint a.,
the east side OF Union street lis feet 4 ipch,,
north of DuSe street and at the north line at
u. fIoirtts lot, and running thence north NJ,
Union street 30 feet: thence c st parallel will,
Duke street luto the Potomac rivcr thence south
and parallel with Union street 30 feet theme.
west In straight line TO tho beginning Of which
said lot uf ground q strips five feet w!do on tb,
northern ptrt thereof fronting on Union street
and attending east 10 Potomac strand has been laid
OH as part Of ten icrt aier with the use of said
alley IN Common with others entitled thereto AVID
I'll fisnls and sppnrtsnsnceo u the said lot y;
ground belonging.
Also ALL I HAT DOCK or water lot living ess,
Of tnat one OF the BRICK warehouses on the above
described lot Of ground which fronts on the Strand
and which binds OH the south side OF a wharf
formerly owned by Josiah IL Davis; said dock OF
water lot being In front 3 feet and running east
wardly the same width rs il front into the Poto.
mac river with the usu OF he south side Of the
said wharf and al rights and aprurtenances OF
every Kind 10 the aid dock water lot belonging
Terms OF Sale: Onr-inurth OF the purchss.
money to he paid in cash. and the residue in 8, ~
and u months, with interest from day Of sale
the bonds OF the purchaser with good personal Sc
curtty to be given for the deferred payments and
the title to be retained until thy are paid.
mh2O-2awts PETER WISE. Trustee
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1883-03-23
IL0MMESICATEn

IOUMMCNICATED.
PROTEST AND pIscLAIMER-The original
Xxx earnestly requests the gentleman who wrote
the article In tho GAZETTE of the 21st instant to
assume some other signature, if he intends 70
favor US with another etfusion. While he does
not claim any patent right to HE signature
courtesy ought to dictate to the pseudo Xxx that
ne should not pirate anothers nonme de plume ,
To do this Is sailing under false colors, and among
It's savans Is considered literary piracy! The orig.
nal Xxx would also beg leave to say that he is IN.
capable Of writing such an article as the one above
mentioned, because be would not wantouly attack
the memory Of q highly respectable sea captain
and the "wretched fate" of his family and it is
not his wont to fulsomly laudate the living who
may happen to be doing business in our midst
Xxx
The author of the piece referred to above did
not sign Xxx, but as 1t came into the office with.
out signature the printer merely used the afIlx.l
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1883-03-23

IHE PEOPLE of Botetourt county in public
meeting assembled, have protested against
the behavior of the man General Malone
made their county judge, who, in their own
language, "instead of using at all times his
important Office for the ends ofjustice, pros
tisutes the power vested in him for part-
san purposes, carrying 1t to the extent of
packing grand jury with partisans of like
Tx with himself. bent on making political
capital" 1t is impossible for people outside
Of Virginia to conceive of the extent "a
which thejudiciary and tho public achools
of the State have been prostituted BY Cen
eral Malone to the lowest of partisan nur-
poses. Nothing but actual experience could
induce them to believe that what has bee,
done and is now in progress in the courts
and public schools of Virginia could be
possible In State of the American Union.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1883-03-23

During the political campaign Of last fall
the Baltimore America. and Herald made
certain declarations concerning City Colec.
tor Webb of that place. which caused the
grand jury to indict the proprietors Of those
papers for criminal libel. The cases were
settled yesterday by the presentation of
apologies from the managers Of the papers.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1883-03-23

The Fairfield Is. CO. election case was
concluded yesterday before the United
State Commissioner at Columbia A person.
al encounter which followed drew forth a
statement from the government lawyer for
which he was reprimanded.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1883-03-23

The debt Of Helena. Ark, having reached
one nsii the amount of the real value OF the
properly, and the tax now being six per
o esu. per annum, tbs town will surrender its
charter aud compromise its debt,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1883-03-23

Do sandwiches come from the Sandwich
Islands OF course not, but consumption al
ways comes from neglected colds. And a
bottle of DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup taken in
time will save much suffering.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1883-03-23

Proctor the astronomer has been predict.
ing the world would go to smash this year,
but this should not deter people from keen.
ing on hand Dr., Bulls Cough Syrup, tie
great household remedy for Coughs and
Colds.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1883-03-23
ALEXANDRIA, VA.
FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH %.

A WOMAN who is to be hanged at Wind.
sor, VT. for the murder of 81 little girl. wrote
to her husband and daughter asking them
to visit her before she is murdered" This
virago of course believes she is to fall a vic
tim to what some are pleased to term "a
chaotic fragment from primitive or bar
barous code" That capital punishment is
indispensable in the present order of things
is patent fact to every rejecting person.
and its utility is exemplifed beyond gain
say by the past history of the world. Were
it not for visions Of the cross beam and halt.
ter, murderers would be as numerous as
bankrupts, and penitentiaries crowded with
characters the blood of whose victims would,
like the souls under the altar in the poca-
lyse, be imploring the vengeance of heaven.
In nearly every instance where lawmakers
have allowed affected philanthropists and
dreamy humanitarians TO prevail on them
to abolish this necessary statute, the folly OF
the proceeding has too quickly been made
manifest by the simultaneous increase OF
murders, and in all cases re-enactment OF
the law was found to be imperative One
of the flimsiest objections to capital punish.
ment ever promulgated in an intelligent
community is the oftrepeated one that it is
a Jewish institution, and destined unde,
the theocracy to rank with the one punish.
ing blasphemers with death, but "barbarous
to sensitive people living in the blaze of the
civilization of our day." Did 1t ever occur
to such croakers that as soon as Noah
emerged from the ark, several centuries be-
fore the giving oft Mosaic code, God him.
self gave the law from heaven? Gen. tx, {.
And the patriarch standing as the repre-
sentive of our race, received what all sensi-
BILE people should receive q perpetual or
dnance, framed by Him who cannot err
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1883-03-23

Mr. Thomas N. Henley, Tappabannock,
Va, says u consider Browns Iron Buffers
the best tonic have ever used.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1883-03-23

THE COMPLIMENT Of dinner rendered
Mr.. Benjamin BY the English bar, of which
he has been distinguished member ever
since he left the shores of this country, is as
gratifying to the numerous friends of Mr..
Benjamin on this side of the Atlantic as it
must be to himself Mr.. Benjamin is a ma.
tive of Santo Domingo but came to Sa-
vannah when child, and, after grad
uating at Yale, settled in New Orleans,
where his superior talents soon elevated him
to high positions both in law and politics.
He entered the L. S. Senate as whig, but
like nearly all the other Southern wings,
was forced by the sectionalism Of the repub
lican party to join the democrats. He was
unqestionably the ablest man in the Cabinet
Of Mr. Davis, and, had bis advice been taken,
the fate of the Confederscy, which was not
unexpected to him, might have been diff.
ferent
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1883-03-23

Flour is without change and quiet The re-
ce!psS Of grain are very light aud the market
closes easy; good milling aud shipping lots bring
outside lsurss whla Off, grades are dull; only
25l bushels Of fair Fultz Whea. were sold TODAY.
there being no choice Futz, mixed or Longberry
offered 6'o bushels Of Corn brought from 60 to
o. as to quality. A small lot of Rye sold st 20.
There Is al active demand for all kinds of pro.
daoe with very small receipts, aud We revise quo
tations Clover Seed frn, scarce and higher.
Bacon La. advanced and is firm ct outside Quota.
tioas.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1883-03-23

erect ball. "
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1883-03-23

GEORGETOWN CATTLE MARKET, Mar, %
At Drovers' Rest this week some few Cattle of.r.
Cd, with sales at 4a7 cents per ID. Some few
sheep were offered and sold at 6aa7L cents Dor
10. A few Cows sud Calves brought $3oa6O per