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The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-01-19
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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-04-12
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The California crop reports show that 1t
is probable the Pacific coast will have an un-
precedented wheat yield that will exceed
the crop of 1880.
A Grand Army reunion was held last
night in Washington, at which speeches
we're made by the President, ex President
Grant and others.
And so it appears that Anthony Com
stock gets the snug little sum of $4,000 per
annum for "suppressing vice" Hundreds
would undertake the job at half that
amount.
A special dispatch from Rome announces
that special police precautions were taken
yesterday to prevent threatened communis-
tic demonstrations and atheistic orgies in
the neighborhood of the Vatican. 1t was a
part of the plan contemplated also to in
vite the American league" 20 invade Aus.
| tria.
The death of NJ. Jean Baptiste Dumas, in
| Paris, aged 81, was announced in yester-
days GAZETTE. He was vice-presdent of
the Senate from 1861 to 1863 He attained the
rank of Grand Cross in the Legion of Hon
or, and became, in 1868, the permanent Sec
rotary of the Academy of Sciences. NJ. Du-
mas delivered the first Faraday lecture be-
the Chemical Society, Of London, in 1869
was a member of the international moneta-
ry commission 1875 IS, and on June l, 1876,
was installed member of The French Acad-
envy as the successor of NJ. Guizot.
The late Charles Reade was the youngest
of seven sons. His mother was the daugh-
ter of Major Scout Warning, NJ. p, whose
name is remembered in connection with
Warren Hastings impeachment. Reade
graduated from Oxford in 1885, when be
was in his 2lst year. His first works,
"Cbristie tombstone" aud peg Wellington"
though readable, brought him neither fame
nor money. ut is Never Too Late to
Mend" brought him into prominence. His
other principal works were: The Cloister
and the Hearth" Put Yourself in His
Place." "White Lies" ''Griffith Gaunt,' u
"a Terrible Temptation" and 1.-THE Com
ing Man"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-04-12

FOUND DEAD.-Yesterday morning the
jailor at the Henrico county jail in making
his rounds found Julia Payne, an old negro
woman about IS years old, lying upon her
cell floor dead. The stove was overturned,
and about one-halfof the flooring burned
up. The old woman wasa lunatic who had
been in Jail for about two months because
the superintendent of the Central Lunatic
Asylum could not take her in consequence
Of that institution being overcrowded with
patients. 1t is supposed that in her rawlings
she overturned the stove which set fire to
the floor, and she was suffocatsd by the
smoke
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-04-12
THE ASYLUM BOARDS, AGAIN.

The act Of Assembly removing the old
Board of the Deaf, Dumb and Blind Insti-
tute, and providing for the appointment of
new one, did not vacate the offices of the
Institute. Hence the Board, at its meet
ing day before yesterday, did not do any
thing in the matter of electing officers.
Their action was watched with much inter.
est to see if they would re-elect Mr. Roller,
the readjuster superintendent.
There is movement on foot, which has
the support of some democrats, looking TO
the retention of DR.. Ferguson (colored) as
one of the assistant superintendents Of the
Central Asylum.
At the call of his Excellency Governor
VIM. E. Cameron, president of the Board,
the Board OF Public Works met in the Gov
ernor's office yesterday afternoon for the
purpose of electipg SUCCESSORS to Messrs. B.
S. Ewell and James c. Lamb, Of the East
ern and Central Boards of Directors respect
lively.
Col. Morton Marye nominated Mr.. P. NJ.
Thompson, democrat, TO fill the vacancy
occasioned by the resignation Of Mr.. Ewell,
of the Eastern Asylum Board but Mr..
Barksdale, State Treasurer, and Gov. Cam
eron voted for George E. Richardson, CO.
alitionist from James City county, and he
was elected.
Col. Archer Anderson, democrat, from
Richmond, was unanimously elected to suc-
coed Mr.. J. G. Lamb on the Board of Direc.
tors Of the Central Asylum.
1t appears that there was some mistake
in the statement that r. H. Booker was
elected at the first meeting of the Board Of
Public Works as director for the Eastern
Lunatic Asylum. 1t was not r. H. Booker,
but R. NJ. Booker, a staunch democrat
Rich. Dis. of to-day
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-04-12
lars having been spent In fruitless efforts to

lars having been spent In fruitless efforts to
serve notice upon the witness Walsh.
Il is reported here to day that the straight
out Virginia republicans, in order to show
the sincerity of their efforts to effect solid
opposition to the democracy next fall, will
propose to General Malone an equal divl-
sion of the delegates to the national repub-
lican convention, and of the Presidential
electors in the State Those who know
the General say he will reject this advance
with scorn, aud that if his delegates be re-
fused admittance to the convention he will
again be up for PerDambuco and market.
1t is reported on the streets to-day that
the detectives now on trial in the criminal
court of this city for collision with thieves
will be acquitted.
Messrs. Trigg, Fulkerson and Rhea, OF
| Washington county, Va, who have been
here for some days trying to remove the
obstacle to the erection of public building
at Abingdon, which the Secretary of the
Treasury, at the instance Of Gen. Malone,
is delaying, say that the House Committee
on the Judiciary, to whom the bill for
changing the place for holding the q. S..
court 10 Wythevlle was referred, promise
them an unfavorable report upon that bill
at an early day, and that then they suppose
Mr.. Folger will allow the work to proceed.
Tuesday nextis the day on which Mr.. Nor
rson will call up his tariff bill in the House.
The present understanding is that Mr. Ran
dali, the other Pennsylvania democrats,
and some other democrats will vote with
the republicans against its consideration, but
that not only the democrats who support
that bill but some of those who are opposed
to it twill vote for its consideration, and that
it will he thoroughly discussed.
Mr.. John s. Wise presented his brief in
the contested case Of Massey VS.. Wise to the
House Elections Committee to-day, five
days after the expiration Of the prescribed
time. As stated yesterday, it is understood
that this case will he considered by the
whole and not by subcommittee. Mon
day is the day for the meeting of the com.
mittee, but whether it will meet or not, or
whether if it shall meet this case will be
considered, no body knows, for of all uncer-
tain things the mo st uncertain is the action
of the Elections Committee of the present
s. House of Representatives.
Mr. Kelley, OF Pennsylvania, known as
the father of the House, is seventy years
old to day. Some friend who remembered
that fact placed beautiful bouquet upon
his desk.
Mr. J. NJ. Johnston, Of Alexandria, counsel for
the Alexandria Canal Company, was again in the
House District Of Columbia Committee room to.
day. and completed amendment to the free
bridge BILL by which, he says, the Government
can secure such title as it wants to the piers OF
the aqucduct for bridge purposes. The bill will
probably up i'll the House on Monday next
Secretary Chandler and several other officials
left here to day for Chester to witness the launch
ing Of the L. s. ship Dolphin, the first ship of the
new navy now in progress OF construction.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-04-12
ALEXANDRIA, VA.
On SENATOR VANcE's recent visit to his

On SENATOR VANCE's recent visit to his
home in North Carolina he was met at Pitt
sylvania Court House by delegation ofthe
white people of Danville, who escorted him
to their city, where he was publicly enter
tanned and formally thanked by the assem-
oled citizens for defending them, before the
Senate of the United States, from the gross,
Ibelous and Infamous assaults made upon
their character by the two members OF that
body from their own State. Was the like OF
that ever heard of before in the history ofthis
country d? Citizens Of one State, of both the
national parties ofthe country, manltestlng
their gratitude 10 Senator from another
State for defending their reputation, as we'll
az that of the entire white community IN
which they live, from the foul aspersions cast
upon it by The Senators from their own
State Yes, such things eau be, now, and do
overcome us like summer cloud without
our special wonder.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-04-12

WHAT'S THE MATTER ON THE MooN?-
Signs Of peculiar and decisive changes were
observed on the slender crescent of the
present new moon. An astronomer within
the past ten days claims to have discovered
something unusual going on in the great
peak Of Tycho Brahe, q big mountain which
has always been prominent object on the
eastern side side of the moon. Tycho is q
volcanic crater, nearly 10000 feet high and
fifty miles in diameter, and it had up to
within few days peak mile high, stand
ing in this crater. This peak, which was
only bright spot in the midst of black
crater, has suddenly grown to be gigantic
mountain, nearly filing the entire basin of
the crater and towering above every other
mountain on the moon. 1t is estimated now
to be thrice as high as it was, and promises
some startling phenomena. Tbs moon has
been called dead globe, but if it's in
ternal fires can give it any claims to life it
is certainly living corpse. The signs of
renewal of volcanic action. which began to
be discussed century ago, are now not
merely scientific nuts to be cracked BIZ the
astronomers, but they are claimed to be
facts for the people. ford Times.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-04-12

An Quo MANS INVENTION Charlie
Kuge, an ingenious fellow in GAINESVILLE,
Ohio, has constructed sheet iron hen that
promises to lay him a golden egg. 1t is fin
ished up to life, full size, cackles, clucks
and looks with one eye at time so natu-
rally that it will deceive the oldest hen hawk
in the county. 1t is so arranged that when
hawk, mink or polecat pounces on to it
the back springs open and the wings fly up
and force the assailant on to ravenous buzz
saw that makes seventeen hundred revolu-
lions per minute. After moving half min
ute the saw stops. the hen closes up, folds
its wings and begins TO cackle as though it
had just laid an egg. One winding.up will
answer for three massacres, providing the
rather delicate machinery does not get clogg-
ed up with TOO much blood, bones and feath-
ers. lie set IL freshly painted one out in
the sun to dry last Wednesday which at
tracted tho attention of fine old cat be-
longing to a doctor who had been poking a
a great deal of fun at the fool thing. The
heu is there but the cat is hence Chicago
Inter. Ocean,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-04-12

MEDICAL COLLEGE OF VIRG1NIA-The
Board Of this institution will meet on the 9th
Of May to elect four professors. DR.. Coleman,
the late distinguished professor of obstetrics,
being dead, his chair must, Of course, be
filed. The voice of DR.. James B. McCaw,
professor of Practice of Medicine, has be-
come so seriously impaired by his late
severe illness that he is unable to stand the
strain of the continuous effort unavoidably
required in six.months' course of lectures,
and for this reason he has resigned. Pro-
fessors Thompkins and James having de-
termned to become candidates for the
vacant chairs have resigned their positions
in the chairs they now hold-viz., Anatomy
and Materia Medica and Therapeutics. No
doubt there will be plenty of candidates
from which the Board will he able to select
competent professors for all the places, and
the college will proceed in its present course
of usefulness -Richmond Dispatch.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-04-12
Wostmoreland county, Va. April 10.

OYSTER DEPREDATIoNs.- George
Nj. Human, oyster inspector for the eastern
district Of Virginia, states that be has never
seen such daring efforts on the part of dred-
gers to violate the law us during the past
season. He thinks they are impeled to this
course in part by the scarcity Of oysters on
the old dredging grounds, and in part by
the determination which many of the dredg-
ing schooners seem to have arrived at TO
take oysters regardless Of the law. Capt.
Human has made it his business during the
past season to sail up and down the sound,
and when be saw boats depredating to 60
ashore, collect posse Of men and feet of
canoes, which were armed with his own
weapons, and as many more rs he could col.
lect, and then return to the dredging
grounds and drive the intruders off. Some
times he would frighten away as many as
ten or fifteen vessels armed with repeating
rifles. The result Of his vigilance is that
the sound is now well set with al excellent
growth Of young oysters He says the Vir-
ginia boats gave him more trouble, and were
more daring and persistent than the non
residents. He thinks that under the new
police laws of the two States the oyster
grounds can be thoroughly protected if ef-
ticient officers command the boats.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-04-12

COUPONS REFCsED.--In Richmond few
days ago 7. T. Moore rendered his license
tax as sample merchant in coupons, and
demanded from the City Treasurer certf-
cate that he had deposited the coupons with
him. The Treasurer refused to receive the
coupons and to give him Il certificate. Moore
then made an affidavit to these facts
and handed it to the Commissioner of Rev
enue and demanded license, which the
Commissioner refused to issue. Thereupon
Moore sold goods by sample without IL
cense. He was arrested and locked up in
the city Jail. His counsel applied to Judge
Bond, OF the United States Circuit Court for
a writ of habeas corpus, on the ground that
the law under which he is held is unconst-
tutional. Judge Bond granted the writ and
and made it returnable before himself to-
day, with the proviso that if be Judge
Bond) were not present, then the q. S. COM
missioner should admit the petitioner to bail
until April "a.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-04-12
THETREAsURY TROUBLE. encounter

THE TREASURY TRoUBLE.-An encounter
occurred between Mr.. John R. Risdon and
clerk named John F. Cramer, yesterday
morning in the treasury department. 1t is
stated that Cramer procured clerks ship for
a near lady relative of Risdon's last Monday
in the treasury department, and since that
time sent four insulting letters to her and
two railroad tickets, with the request that
she meet him alta certain place outside of the
city. She Immediately told Mr.. Risdon
and the latter went to the treasury depart.
partment yesterday morning and thorough.
ly thrashed Cramer who was afterwards dis
charged by Secretary Folger.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-04-12

To GET RID OF RATs.-A writer in the
Scientific AMERICAN" says: 1--WE clean
our premises of the detestable vermin, rats
by making whtewash yellow with copperas
and covering the stone and rafters with it.
In every crevce in which rat may go we
put the crystals of the copperas and scatter
in the corner of the floor. The result was
a perfect stampede of rats and mice. Since
that time not foot fall of eitherrats or mice
has been heard around the house. Every
spring coat Of yellow wash is given the
cellar as purifier, as rat exterminator,
and no typhoid, dysentery or fever attacks
the family. Many persons deliberately at
tract all the rats in the neighborhood BY
leaving the fruits and vegetables uncovered
in the cellar. and sometimes even the soap
is left open for their regalement. Cover up
everything eatable in the cellar and pantry
and you will soon starve them out. These
precautions, joined to the service of cat,
will prove rat exterminator as good as the
chemist can provide. We never allow rats
to be poisoned in our dwelling. They are
so apt to die between the wall and produce
such annoyance.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-04-12

HALF MAN, HALE WoMAN.-A person
who attracted much attention from the fact
that fine black moustache bloomed on the
upper lip, while the body was attired in fe-
male apparel, arrived at Castle Garden yes
terdny on the steamer Elbe. A brother of
the person said: HE is my sister, She is q
woman from from the waist down, but a
man above. His name is Frederic Ross and
he was born in Dautzig, Prussia. Since the
day Fred was born he has never spoken a
word nor can he understand anything that
is said to him. He can hear, however,
where all ordinary person cannot, and has
often signiGed to us that person was ap-
preaching whose footsteps we could not
hear for some minutes afterwards. Fred is
a repulsiye looking being, with large, bony
and horribly manned hands, while his feet
are exceedingly small aud well shaped. His
mother, who accompanied her two sons here,
is a healthy we'll formed woman, and seems
to admire her unfortunate son. In Prussia
Fred attained fame for his graceful dancing,
and the ladies frequently overlooked his
horrible deformity in order to dance with
him. The party are bound for Detroit
where the father resides in good circum-
stances.-N. Y. World.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-04-12

FROM THE action of the Board of Direct
ors of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal at
Baltimore last Thursday, in reducing the
tolls on that canal from 40 to Sc cents, in
stead of to 25 rs asked for by every interest
on the canal, it would seem that the men,
beers of that board are more interested in
the welfare Of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
road than in that of the canal of which they
are the directors, rs by that action they
have probably transferred the whole bust
ness of the canal to the railroad, because at
that rate Cumberland coal can be put into
Baltimore at cheaper rates by the railroad
than into Alexandria by the canal.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-04-12
VIRGINIA NEWS.

The Court Of Appeals will not meet again
until Tuesday.
DR.. Henry Latham, the Oldest and most
prominent practicing physician of the State,
died at his home in Lynchburg last night,
of paralysis.
A movement is on foot to secure the
Marye House and grounds at Fredericks-
burg as the site for the proposed Soldiers
Home for INDECENT and crippled Confederate
soldiers.
James A. Waddell, civil engineer, Of
Rockbrdge county, fell from second-story
window in Montgomery, Alabama, Wednes-
day night, and received injuries which
caused his death in a few hours.
Col. Archer Anderson. Of Richmond has
been elected member Of the Board of D-
rectors Of the Central Lunatic Asylum in
place of Mr.. Lamb resigned, and G.. Z. Rich
ardson appointed on the Eastern Asylum
board in place of Mr.. Ewell, resigned.
The work Of removing the bodies of the
miners from the mine at Pocahontas, in
which they have been entombed since the
explosion of last month, was continued yes
terday. The bodies as they were recovered
were placed in boxes on the inside of the
mine, and miners acquainted with the vic
TINS endeavored to indemnity them as they
were brought out, but Of the sixteen so fur
recovered only six were known Many Ct
the bodies are horribly man3led, some with
the heads blown off, and others with arms
and legs torn from the sockets. The char
red remains Of a miner with dinner bucket
clasped in his arms was found near other
bodies. Several miners were found with
picks in hand. A large crowd of women
stood at the entrance of the mine all day
trying to identify the bodies.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-04-12
FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence OF the Alexandra GaEet
WASHINGTON, d, c., April u, lSS

iSpvcinl Correspondence OF the hlexaiorla Gazette
WASHINGTON. D. c., April -, 1884
General Mcdonald, of the famous whiskey
ring who has been here for sorue time past
fighting the confirmation OF the promotion
Of General Babcock, who he says, was as
deep in the mire as he was, and who was
once an influential republican, says that as
soon as the Presidential nominations are
made he will take the stump for the demo-
Gratis and do what he can 10 depose party
that of two men guilty of precisely the same
identical otfense, sends one to the peniten-
tiary and conters honor and emolument
upon the other.
In the House to-day Mr.. Phil. Thompson,
according to his announcement of yester-
day, moved to suspend the continuing or
der, passed by a two-third's majority, for
the consideration of bills for public build
ings. The consideration of this motion last
ed until two o'clock, when another order
went into etfect-that for eulogics upon the
late Mr.. Herndon, of Alabama.
A well known Southern republican now
here says that in conversation with Gen
eral Grant, since his arrival in this city, the
General asked him the class of the Arthur
support in the South, and that he told him
il was altogether the Office holding class :;
that the General said he had supposed so,
aud then implied ifhe did not express his dis
satisfaction with the present administration,
and his disapprovai of the way in which it
had treated Mr.. Conkling. The General and
his wife left here for New York to. day.
The Springer committee has agreed TO
report bill limiting the time during which
offenders under the internal revenue laws
can be tried to two instead offve years as at
present. The committee this morning cousd-
cred the ACCESSIBILITY ofsummoning the grand
Jury In the star route cases to appear before
them and state the evidence to which they
had listened in those cases. All the ap.
preparation for the Department of Justice
for this year has been expended on the star
route cases. as much as five thousand dol
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-04-12

THAT THE recently developed strength OF
Blaine lis candidate for the republican
Presidential nomination, and, what is equal
" as surprising to him. the manifest strength
Of the straightout republicans in Virginia,
who are for Blaine, have greatly alarmed
General Malone, is evnced by the fact that
though until recently he has had no hest
fancy in expressing his opposition to Blaine,
his own paper now says that though Blaine
is not its first choice, yet, if nominated, it
will support him heartily. The Generals
political life is now rapidly reaching the
condition of JOY that has come and gone.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-04-12
LIST OF LETTERS.

The following is list of the letters remaining in
the Alexandria, Virginia, postofice April ~.
Persons calling for letters will say they adver-
tsed and give the date of the list.
If not called for within thirty days, they will be
sent to the dead-letter office, in Washington.
Baggett, Alexander Harrison, John
Brent. Miss Louisa Hunter Mrs Clsrsa
Bradshaw. Mrs MaryJ Jenkins, II W
Bond, T D Morgan, Cbas
Clark, Miss Mary Ones, Mrs Sarah
Cook, Miss NJ & Price, Max
Davis Miss Fannie Tress, II B
Durving WR Thomby, Alice
Fuller Miss Matte Thornton. Mrs Mary
Ford, John Triplett Mrs Thomas
Fuller, Geo S Washington, Miss Mary
Green, Charles Ward, Mr.
Giesse, Janet Wright, c II
Hall, Miss Jennie
1t D. A. WINDSOR P. N.