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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-06-19

TWENTY MINISTERS DENOUScE BLAINE-The
Rev. DR.. Howard Crosby, of New York, said Sun.
day: al don't like the nomination of Blaine at
all. think Mr.. Blaine is an unprincipled and
reckless politician He is just the man to involve
the nation in difficulties with foreign countries if
given loose rein, and would no doubt do so if
elected. If the democrats nominate any decent
man, like Bayard or Cleveland, l shall certainly
vote for him, although have voted the rcpubl-
can ticket nearly all my life, and voted the wing
ticket before voted that. l was in the company
of twenty ministers Saturday and every one of
them expressed tho same opinion. | think the
democrats will get 10000 republican votes in
New York city if they put up any decent man.
IL they put up political montebank like Ben
Butler don't know what we shall do"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-06-19

TIE true story of how the late Chas. O'Conor
came to act as counsel in the Forrest divorce case
is told by the Syracuse Herald. Mrs. Forests
friends at first tried to engage him, but he re-
fused positively to have anything to do with the
case. But they had spread abroad reports of their
intention to engage him. hoping thus to frighten
Mr. Forrest, and Forrest had heard and believed
them. A few hours after his final refusal to be
Mrs. Forests counsel Mr. O'ConGr took his seat
in r horse car to 60 home. A moment later For
rest entered. His eyes fell upon O'Conor and
dashed fire. Believing the lawyer to be his wifc's
counsel he strobe up TO him, and in the presence
of the assembled passengers deliberately trode on
his toes. Mr. OConor rosc quilted the car and
returned to his office There he wrote brief
note to Mrs. Forrest, accepting her case without
retainer, and moro rcmorcless warfare was never
wagcd by counsel upon an adversary's client than
that which Mr.. OConor opened against the great
actor the next day.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-06-19

The EMPRESS EUGENIE's CoURTsHIP.--
There are some curious anecdotes about
Napoleon III in the "Souvenirs Of Com
peigne," who appears to have been one OF
the legitimist ncighbors of the emperor in
the vicinity of Compiegne forest. The same
chronicer tells us that Napoleon's fascina-
ton for Mademoiselle de Montiio, who after.
ward became the Empress Eugene, dated
from the time when that sprighty beauty
gave him sharp horsewhipping. The en-
peror had invited Mademoiselle de Montjo
and her mother to Compiegne, and showed
them much attention at hunting parties.
One evening, when the huntcame home late
Napoleon so enraged the beauty that she
caught up her riding whip and gave it to him
over his head and ears. This soon brought
about an explanation and in the course of time
came the famous letter in which Napoleon cy
pressed his desire ~ have MademOsellc Eugenic
to wife-a letter which the mother lost no time
in making public, and which is now rcligiousiy
preserved in the archives of the family at Madrid.
According to ''Sylvanecte" the future empress
was much prosecuted by Napoleon before he made
her his proposal of marriage and it is related that
on OHe occasion he was so Gnraged because she
would not grant him a rendcZvous-ask for
while they were ont riding-that he put spurs to
his horse and gallOped away, leaving her to find
her way home through the forest hest sho could.
The poor girl lost her way, and did not reach the
palace until 9 O'clock in the evening, when all
the guests and domestics were thoroughly alarm
cd for her safety.-Iaris Letter in Boston uHrnni,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-06-19
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

The Ohio prohibition convention met at
Columbus to-day.
The fiftieth birthday of Rev. Charles b.
Spurgeon was celebrated by jubilee in
London last night
Stanley the defaulting cashier OF the
Bank of Commerce of Cleveland, Ohio, has
been released on bail.
By The explosion of the boiler of saw
mill ut Laurel Run, near Bolton, w. Va,
Yesterday two men were killed and several
injured.
A fight between Indians and whites has
occurred in northwestern Texas. Five OF
the former were killed and several of the
latter.
J. Kennedy & Co., clothiers ofProvidence
J. Henry Sears & Co., merchants of Boston,
and John Callahan &. Co., liquor dealers OF
Louisville, KY, have failed.
An east-bound passenger train on the
Burlington and Missouri River Railroad
went through bridge near Hubbel, Mo-,
yesterday. About thirty persons were in
ilred some of whom will die.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-06-19
LONG DISTANCE TELEPHoNING.-A Gin

LONG DISTANCE TELEPHoNING.--A Gin
cinnati correspondent says: The feat of
talking over one thousand two hundred
miles of wire connecting two telephones,
with no perceptible loss of power by Undue.
ton, has been performed here. A telephone
was placed in The operating room of the
Baltimore and Ohio Telegraph Company
and another in the cellar. The instruments
were first connected with wires to and from
Chillicothe, nearly POO miles, when the con-
versation was heard distinctly, though car
ried on in a tone not distinguishable few
feet from the instrument. A like line was
then formed to Grafton, West Virginia, GOO
miles, with the same result, and then to
Baltimore, 200 miles, with no perceptible
difference in the distinctness with which
the conversation was heard. There was
absolutely no apparent loss by induction,
though IA telegraph wires alongside were in
full operation. No sound of an instrument
could be heard. The instrument used was
the new Hopkins transmitter. There was
no conversation with Baltimore, the line
merely passing through that city.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-06-19

STRANGLED TO DEATH.-One of the most
thrilling scenes that has occurred in Spain
for some time took place last week at Jerez,
where seven socialists we're to be executed
for participation in the Mano-Negro out
RACES All during the previous night small
bands of socialists and members of the Black
Society kept arriving in the town, and at
an early hour in the morning, when their
numbers had increased to several hundred,
they proceeded toward the prison wherein
were contiued their brother socialists, de-
termined upon their rescue. The govern
ment having learned that an attempt would
be made to rescue the condemned men had
large number of troops struggled into
the town and quartered in the prison
and the building adjacent thereto. When
the would-be rescuers presented them
selves in front of the prison they were con-
fronted with such q large force OF troops
with fixed bayonets that they became over
awed, and, after hooting the military, allow
ed themselves to be driven back q safe dis
lance from the prison without offering any
resistance; although, had they had bold
leader, they might have effected the rescue.
Meanwhile the preparations for the execu-
tons were being rapidly pushed forward,
and the seven socialists were quickly
strangled to death by means of the garrote,
three executioners being employed to do
the horrible work.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-06-19

The committee instructed Mr. Wilson, one
of its members, to prepare an additional
section to the bill of 1881-which locates
the bridge at the Aqueduct bridge and Sc
cures the preservation of the Aqueduct, and
which gives $4,000 for the use of the piers
providing that in case good title can not
be obtained to those piers within sixty or
ninety days, the bridge can be located at the
Three Sisters. Mr.. Riddleberger commended
that good title could not be obtained to
the piers, and Mr.. Mushbach that it could.
Mr.. Bliss, who has ceased to call the
President "Chet" since the latter failed to get
| the Chicago nomination, was again before
the Springer committee to-day, in reference
to the star route trials, but made no new
developments.
The House to-day passed the bill compel
| ling the subsidized railroads to increase the
per centage OF their sinking funds.
The bill to prevent the importation of
contract labor was under consideration in
the House this afternoon.
The joint commission to arrange for the
ceremonies to mark the completion of the
Washington monument met to-day and ap-
pointed q subcommittee, on which is MIR.
Tucker of Virginia, to take charge of the
preliminary work.
1t is stated at the Capitol to. day that
Gen. Malone has positively refused to &C
cept or even to recognize any proposition
from the straightout republicans looking
toward withdrawal of his Presidential
electoral ticket and the formation of another
one upon which there shall be the names
of at least some Virginia republicans.
In the Senate to-day Mr.. Buffers resolu-
ton for an investigation of the banks OF
New York came up, and Mr.. Morgan made
a long speech thereon.
A distinguished Southern Senator in q
short talk with the GAZETTE's correspond
ent yesterday, said that Ingalls, attack on
Mr.. Brown was not only malicious but ut.
terly unjustliable, and why he should have
picked out a man near seventy years old to
insult so grossly was suggestive, to say the
least Continuing, he said, if he had as
sailed me in that way | should have retort-
ed in much stronger language that Mr..
Brown used would have gotten my words
in before | could have been called to order,
and would not have retracted them. He
said that he was assured by republican Sen
ators that they would try to adjourn by the
3rd of July, and that they were as anxious
to adjourn rs anybody else. He said he
thought Cleveland the strongest man the
democrats could nominate; considered the
Flower boom a grotesque joke, and said that
| if unasked advice, when opposed to desires,
was not always thankless, he would advise
Senator Bayard, who is his personal ia
| vorite, not to allow his name to 60 before
| the Chicago convention.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-06-19

BISHOP SIMPSON, who died in Philadelphia
yesterday, has for many years been the GEN.
trail figure of the Methodist episcopate. The
son of an Irish immigrant who landed in
Baltimore near the close of the last century,
and born in Ohio in pioneer days, he not
only inherited but imbibed from practical
experience that spirit of sturdy selfreliance
which was always a prominent trait in his
character. He entered the ministry in 1885
and came prominently into view at the Gen.
eral Conference in Boston in 1914, in the de-
bate on the slavery question Eight years
later he was chosen bishop, and as one Of
the representative men ofhs church his pro-
nounced and aggressive course during the
period of the civil war in favor of the eman-
cipation of slaves and in support ofthe pres
ovation of the Union attracted the attention
of the country. In recent years he has con-
tinued to occupy commanding position
among the Methodist bishops, and his talents
as preacher, as we'll as his rare admins
tratiye qualities, have made his voice poten
tial in the weightier deliberations of the,
Methodist communion both at home and
abroad
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-06-19

A SINGULAR ACCIDENTAL dispatch from
Louisville, KY, says: One of the most re-
markable accidents that has occurred about
the falls in long time, in which the lives OF
twenty men were involved, happened at
the foot of Jackson street vest erday. Some
men were employed in unloading large
barge of gravel, when suddenly the barge,
which was old and rotten, sprung aleak and
collapsed before the men could get off,
breaking violently into three pieces. 1t
threw twenty men high in the air, and they
all fell in a mass into fifteen feet of water
After awhile the scene was one of the Wild
est confusion. The men on shore threw
ropes and planks to them, and all were
drawn out except one, a colored man nam
ed Fletcher Phillips, who went down with
the barge. The majority Of the men were
uninjured, but three or four were seriously
hurt by being struck by the timber of the
barge. These are George Warren, George
Smith ard Jim Hatch. Hatch was drawn
ashore after having been under water for
several minutes. He is in an unconscious
condition, having received internal injuries
from which be will die. Several men had
to be resuscitated after being brought
ashore.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-06-19

In VAIN is the net spread in the sight of
the bird. Mr. Blaine tries to get votes in
this State By saying there was no right au-
thority for the dismemberment of Virginia,
and that the national government should
pay part of her debt. When Mr.. Blaine
could have helped Virginia his mouth was
Theoretically sealed. His influence, as Pres
ident, in favor of project for the Govern
ment to pay her debt would not, even if
exerted, be as potential as that of single
Sanofnr
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-06-19
VIRGINIA NEWS.

The commencement exercises OF Hamp'
den Sidney College, which closed last
week, were the most successful since the
war.
The commencement exercises of Bethel
Academy, at Warrenton, took place yester'
day. The prizes were distributed by ex'
Gov. VIM. Smith.
George Donald, white, was arrested in
Lynchburg yesterday, charged with bigamy
He confessed his guilt. One of his wives
lives in Amherst county and the other in
Appomattox county.
The Charlottesville Wooden Mills have
been awarded q contract to supply the
United States army Is, 900 yards of mill
tary cloth, and have been invited TO bid on
10000 yards of q coarser cloth, with
probability of being awarded the same.
The frame of the Mccormick Observatory
at the University of Virginia has been com
pleted and workmen are now engaged in
placing the dome in position. This will be
accomplished soon, when the telescope
which is now ready to be shipped) will be
placed in position.
Memorial Day was observed in Norfolk
yesterday for the first time since the war
and was very imposing demonstration
the military of the two cities, Confederate
camps, Mexican veterans and members o.
the Grand Army of the Republic partici
pating. Stores were closed, and the people
generally attended. Judge II. S. Garrett
delivered the Grafton and Capt. James Bar
ron Hope read poem.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-06-19

FROM WASHINGTON it is learned that
Gen. Malone has now reinstructed the mes
sengers at the Capitol and the clerks at his
hotel to bring him no more cards. This is
by no means surprising, for the Generals
followers are not such as any man would be
proud Of However, as they have made
him what he is, the fact that he is ashamed
of them indicates any thing else than big
heart and manly spirit. But such quail
ties are not attributed TO Gen. Malone even
by his most devoted slaves.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-06-19

KNIFE, ROPE AND PIsToL.-A shocking
murder, followed by the suicide Of the as
sassin, has been committed in Paris at a
house in the Rue de Poteau, inhabited by
an artisan named Jean Dovallois and his
family. 1t appears that last month Nine.
Devallois went to the hospital, leaving her
four children 1.-THE eldest of whom is girl
Of fifteen) with her husband. Devalois lost
no time in installing a former mistress, one
Julie Bardou, separated from her husband,
in his abode. Quarrels soon arose between
the guilty pair, Devallois being of a very
jealous disposition, while the woman Bardou
constantly threatened to return to her home.
About nine O'Clock one morning sounds
of violent alteration, followed by cries
for assistance, were heard by neigh
Dor, Nine. Disard. Knocking at the door,
which was at once opened by Devallois, she
saw Julie Bardou lying dead on the floor.
The man told her that she might so for the
police, as all was over; and after she had
left he committed suicide in the most de-
liberate manner. First he shot himself with
revolver, then stabbed himself with q
knife, and when the police made their ap-
pearance they found him hanging lifeless
from rope attached to the ring to which
the bed curtains were fastened. The young
est child, an infant of six months, was lying
in the room at the time.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-06-19

The FAILURE of Ward and Grant has re-
moved all doubts about the fallibility of
General Grant. His famous remark, there
fore, to the effect that whenever the repub-
licans were in danger the democrats al
ways came to their rescue, is not now &C
cepted as Gospel truth. No, the democrats
will not help them out, this time at least.
Flower, or Bayard or some other weak can
didate will not be chosen to assist them,
but Cleveland, who will make their present
discontinue an utter, overwhelming and ir-
rctrievable rout and disaster.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-06-19
FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence OF the ALEXANDRA Gazette
WASHINGTON, D. c., June 10, 1884.

WASHINGTON. D. c., June 10, 1884.
The action of the Saratoga convention, so
far rs the majority Of the members of both
houses of Congress is concerned, settles, not
only that of the national democratic con-
vention next month, but that of the cleo.
ton to be held in November. OF course the
original Cleveland men are exultant. Some
New Workers, who were at Saratoga, have
already returned. They say the Cleveland
men there had everything their own way,
and would have instructed for Cleveland il
those who had the management of the Gov
ernor's affairs had SO desired. The prevail
ing democratic sentiment at the Capitol to-
day is that the democrats of New York have
acted wisely, and that if the national demo
cratic convention shall follow their example
all will be well. While Bayard is undoubt-
edly the favorite of many Southern Congress
men, they realize the fact that he occupies
to the Northern people u position some
what similar to that which the late John
Minor Bolts would occupy toward the peo-
pie of the South, were he alive, and that
consequently he would Of necessity be a
weak candidate. So far as the Virginia con-
gressional delegation is concerned, it is I'M
derstood that all of them are for Cleveland
| aud it is said here that most of the dele
gates from that State to the national demo-
cratic convention are also for him, and that
all will be when they reach Chicago, see
how things are there, and have q confer
ence among themselves. Some of the dele
gates are now here, and they say the in
tiuence of Virginia will not be lost in the
convention by divided vote, but that her
vote will be cast, as that of New York will
be, solidly for Cleveland, who it is now con-
,l.,I bo n,,1x, fh, cYooacof,1
didate for nomination, but also for election.
Secretary Frelinghuysen was before the
House Committee on Appropriations to-day
and made such statements as to induce the
committee to agree to the $3.50 900 asked
for to buy the franchises of the Nicaragua
Canal Company, so as to keep them out of
the hands of Lesseps.
At the meeting to-day of the House COM
mittee to investigate certain charges of
breaches Of the privileges of the House by
ex members, Mr.. White, of Kentucky, tes-
titled that Green G. Raum, an ex-member,
was frequently upon the floor while acting
as an attorney in the interests of the bill for
the extension of the time for bonded whis-
key Several members testified that Mr.
English, an ex-member, was also upon the
floor of the House talking to members in
the interest of his son, but that he observed
all the proprieties. Mr.. Dunn withdrew
the charges be made against an ex-member
yesterday.
The House District Of Columbia Commit
tee met to-day and heard Senator Riddle
berger argue for the adoption of his bill for
free bridge across the Potomac at the
Three Sisters, and Mr.. Mushbach, of Alex.
andria, argue against that bill and for one
providing for free bridge at the present
Aqueduct bridge, and for the preser-
walton of the Alexandria Canal Aqueduct.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-06-19
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The democrats of Colorado and Michigan
have declared for Cleveland.
The anthracite coal companies will stop
work two weeks in July and advance the
price of coal.
The Senate yesterday passed the Utah
BILL Senator Hoars motion to abolish
woman suffrage in the territory of Utah was
voted down.
Earl Spencer, lord lieutenant of Ireland,
unveiled the Queens portrait at Belfast yes.
terday. At the town hall he was greeted
with mingled cheers and groans.
An artillery regiment en- route to Tar
bert, mutinied yesterday at Gin, a market
town near Limerick, Ireland, and attacked
ahe townspeople and wounded several of
them.
It has been ascertained that the defalca.
ton of Joseph J. G. Dougherty, late chief
clerk of the money order division of the
postoffce in Baltimore is q little over % 600.
Mr.. Dougherty was arrested yesterday after
noon and committed for hearing on Sat-
urday next.
Congressman Finerty, of Chicago, denies
that his Irish-American newspaper, pub
lished in Chicago, will support Blaine and
Logan. On the contrary, he considers the
nominations unfit and will oppose them
vigorously. He is an independent demo-
crat.
The Saratoga convention was singularly
harmonious. Tammanys discordant voice
was silenced by the concession of increased
representation in the party councils. The
"County Democracy of New York city
surrendered seven of its thirty-eight dele
gates to Tammany Hall, making the repre-
sentation of the latter equal to its OWL,
while Irving Hall retained its ten votes.
The convention relegated the making of a
platform to the Chicago convention, restrict
ing it's efforts in this direction to definition
of the programme of the party in New
York. The adoption Of the unit rule, taken
in connection with the commentator of
Governor CIeveland's administration, and
the fact that the majority of the delegates
to Chicago are favorable to Gov. Cleveland
may be taken rs an indication that the
Governor is to be supported at Chicago by
the seventy votes of New York.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-06-19

THE FOLLOWING from the N. Y. Herald,
of this morning, is fair indication of what
the people OF that State think Of the demo-
cratic convention at Saratoga yesterday:
'But the substantial result Of the day IS
labor is that the democracy had an en-
thusiastic and harmonious convention, and
that the party sends from this State to Chi
cago delegation which will present the
name of Governor Cleveland as the candi-
date of the democracy of the State"