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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-12-31
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Samuel Conner, for many years merchant
of Charlottesville, died Tuesday
Mrs. Josephine Stuart, wife Of the late A..
D. Stuart, of Stanton, died Saturday. Her
husband was brother of the Hon. A. II. II.
Stuart.
Rev. Carter Helm Jones, of Richmond,
son of the Rev. J. VIM. Jones, has accepted
a call to the pastorate of the First Baptist
Church, Elizabeth, n. J.
Rev. DR.. y. X. Mcfarland Of Oxford,
Miss, has been called to the pastorate OF
the First Presbyterian Church, Stanton.
It is believed he will accept
The cotton factory on Canal street, in Pc
tersburg, which was purchased short time
ago by Messrs. Baldwin & Co., ofBaltimore,
will resume operations about the middle OF
next month. The resumption Of work at
the factory will give employment to many
men, women and children.
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Deaths from Trichiuosis.

STREAToR, ILL.,, Dec 3l.-About two weeks
ago physician was called upon to attend the
family Of an old German named August
Feldt, the members of which seemed to he
suffering from some strange disease. The
doctor ascertained that the family had eaten
heartily ofpork purchased from butcher
in this place, and after obtaining some of
he proceeded to examine it with micro
scope, finding unmistakable evidence OF
trichine. About q week later one Of the
children, aged ten years, died, and the fol-
lowing day another child, boy fiji years
was taken away. The mother was then
Frustrated and in few days she, too, died.
During this time several doctors were called
in but could do nothing toward checking
the disease. On Monday last another men,
Der of the family, a girl of - years, died and
the father now lies in condition beyond
recoYerY
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COMMUNICATED
That Railroad on Lee Street.

What does the w., 0. & w. r. r. want
with track to King street? It has no
rival, and merchants who receive or send
freight to Loudoun must send it to its depot
wherever located. Passengers for Loudoun must
go to the depot wherever it may be- Passengers
down the read wishing to visit Washington can
and do-go directly to that city. Why then does
the company wish to incur the expenses of new
tracks, &c? Is it for the accommodation of tho
public? Scarcely. "Eqao ne redite Teucri" The
friends of the extension talk glibly about the half
hourly communication with Washington, reduced
rates &c, &c.; all very desirable. II any railroad
will give all that let 1t have all the streets it
wants, but make the bargain before hand Tie re.
cent change of tickets on the A. & W r. B
and its odd hours for trains don't look very much
like desire to accommodate Alexandria or to
increase its population. We have an opposition
line now in the ferry; let that get into railroad
hands and where shall We be? The truth is that
railroads, like most individuals, get all they can
and keep all they get; let our City Council learn
lesson from them. The people look to it for
protection. FIDELIs
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-12-31
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The net debt of Maryland at the close of
the year 1885 is Sc, 344 ,545 81.
The losses by fire in Bal in 1885 up
to December aggregate s406,767.
A census of Charleston, S. c., just com
pleted, shows total population OF 6o,14o,
of which 80, $40 are colored.
Lieut.. Gen. Stephenson, commanding the
British forces in Egypt, has attacked and
defeated the rebel forces at koseh.
A mob took Thomas Lyde and Thomas
Sharp, both colored, from Jail at Crawford,
Miss, yesterday, and hanged them to atree
They had been caught setting fire to cotton.
M. de Lesseps has been assured that a
majority of the members of the French Con-
gress will vote in favor of authorizing the
lottery scheme in aid Of the Panama canal.
It is announced that Miss Mary Gladstone,
the daughter of Mr.. VIM. E. Gladstone, is
to be married to the Rev. Harry Drew, q
curate of the Church of England, at Hawar-
den.
The owner of the yacht Puritan will sail
her over to England in the coming spring
and challenge for the Brenton's Reef Cup
that the Genesta took away from this coun-
| try.
Peter B. Sweeny, the noted city chamber
lain of the Tweed regime, arrived in New
York from Europe yesterday, after ten years
absence. Ho was heartily welcomed by q
number of city politicians. 1t is generally
believed Sweenv will remain in New York
and possibly 60 into policies if the oppor'
tunity offers.
US. Treasury officials express the opin
ion, founded on the fact that the receipt:
have been very light during the month
while pension pay ments have been made tx
considerable amount on account Of las
month, that the debt statement will show
al increase of nearly two million dollars ir
the public debt during the current month
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-12-31

The Century for January has been received
from its publishers in New York. It's con-
tents are: The City of Teheran, The Crick-
cts in TIE Fields, The Bostonians. a Rose of
Joy, Feathered Forms Of Other Days. Love
that Lives, Typical Dogs, A French Painter
and his Pupils, John Bodewin's Testimony,
A Second Thought. The Cloverfeld's Car
rage, TheSong He Never Wrote, The Lesson
of Greek Art, Canada, Some European Re
publicans, Verdi, Trouble Lost Noun
tain, Spiritual Preaching for our Times, The
Second Battle of Bull Run, Recolleciions OF
a Private. Topics of the Time, Open Let
tiers, ard Bric-a-Brac.
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zaSlg3'
PRESS DISPATCHES
Meeting of the Virginia Legislature,


RICHMOND, Dec. 3l.-The General Assem-
bly, met to day at noon. After being in ses.
sion few moments the roll call in the
House showed only Is members present, six
less than quorum, and recess was there
upon taken till p. NJ.
In the Senate, with quorum present, a
joint resolution was adopted requesting
Governor-elect Lee and Lieut.. Governor
elect Massey to take the oath of office
tomorrow at noon in the hall of the House
of Delegates, in the presence Of both bodies
of the General Assembly, before one of TIE
Judges of the Supreme Court Of Appeals.
Some time was spent in the discussion of
report of the Committee on Courts of
Justice to the effect that tho term Of office
of all county court judges expire January
1st, 1856, regardless Of the date of their
election, after which it was adopted. The
Senate then went into executive session.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-12-31

DOUBLE CRIME.--At Mt. Pleasant, vii
lage near Charleston, 8. c., on yesterday, a
terrible tragedy was enacted. F. Geretti,
an Italian, was beating his wife. when his
brother, s. Gerett, and James P. Colburn,
we'll known insurance agent of the city,
interferred in the woman's behalf. The
wife, with her four little children, escaped
from the Infatuated husband, who, incensed
at the interference, crept up behind Colburn
and fired three shots at him, one of the balls
lodging in his spine and inflicting what is
thought to be fatal wound. After shoot
ing Colburn, Geretti fed to his farm, about
aquarter ola mile distant, pursued by the
town marshal and posse. He locked him
self up in his house, and, the posse being un-
armed, defed them to arrest him. While
the pursuers were celebrating, Geretti
placed the muzzle of his pistol in his mouth
and blew out his brains.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-12-31

The QUESTION of the ACCESSIBILITY of filing
the Austrian mission has been revived by
some of tho Northern republican newspapers
who think the vacancy should exist no long,
or. It is hoped that their advice may not
be adopted. No matter how Secretary
Bayard may have acted in other affairs,
in that of Mr.. Kelley he was right.
The vacancy should be perpetual; and
the fact that no il! effects will result
therefrom may possibly induce the first wise
Congress that may be elected to abolish all
the other missions.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-12-31

IT Is we'll known fact that regularly or
ganized and active Mormon churches exist in
Boston, New Bedford and Fall River, Mas
sachusetts, and in other parts of New Eng.
land. But the members thereof are not ex-
Guided from the jury box, nor do federal
judges refuse them the privilege of natural
ization. It is only the Mormons of Utah
who are denied such privileges, and that,
too, though they do not now, and never
intend to. practice polypamy.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-12-31

The New York Sun says: when there
is democratic administration, let the Of
fees all go to democrats and when the
republicans get into power, let their turn
come. This is tho way to distribute the
Offices equally" There is no doubt that,
whether right or wrong, the Sun thus
voices the opinion of nineteen.twentieths of
the men whose votes put the new admins
tration into power.
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Fatally Shot.
recovery.

GALVESTON, Tex, Dec, 3l.-A special to
the News from Blossom Prairie Gays: Gar
rett, the murderer of Deputy Sheriff Davis,
was surrounded in the woods, several miles
from town, yesterday, and captured. He
fired on his pursuers, wounding John An
derson. Garrett received five wounds, any
one of which would have been fatal. He
has since died.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-12-31

The North american Rerie,U for January
has been received from its publishers, in
New York. It's contents are: The Shiloh
Campaign, by General Beauregard; The
Work of the Church in America, by +. w.
Farrar; Canadian Prospects and Politics;
Landlordism in America, Lucretia Borgia,
Democracy in England. The Dlsfrauchse.
ment of Delaware, At Last-the Hope of
Ireland Sherman on Grant, and Notes and
Comments.
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Tire

NASHVILLE, Tenn, Dec. 3l.-lutelligence
has been received this morning to the effect
that the fire at Lebanon last night, after
consuming five of the most prominent bust.
ness houses, was subdued at o'clock. No
estimate of the losses can yet be given,
though the amount will be quite large, ard
is almost entirely covered by insurance.
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M pastanr,s patianta

PARIS, Dec. SIN. Pasteur to-day finally
inoculated the four children from Newark,
NJ. NJ. Pasteur says that the children are
progressing favorably, and he is confident
that all of them will escape hydrophobia.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-12-31
SALE
OF
VALUABLE PERSONAL PROPERTY.

VALUABLE PERSONAL PROPERTY.
Having rented my farm, l will offer at public
sale on said farm about three miles south OF ccs.
burg, on TUESDAY, January 18th, 1886, if fair,
if not, the next fair day, all my personal proper
ty, consisting Of: 10 Horses and Colts, among
them No. work Horses; brood Mares, now
in foal by Paxtons Ramoz. and two thrce-suartcr
Percheron Colts; good Mich Cows, sows and
Pigs, S fine Shoats l six-hOrso road Wsgon, ono
two.horse Wagon, jump seat Carriage ] no top
Buggy, 1 oue-horse Spring Wagon, / Cart,
Johnson Reaper (Good as new, buckeye Mower,
l Horse Bake, Empire Drill. . Oliver chilled
3.horse PIoughs, 8 or 10 double and single shovel
Ploughs, 2 Hsrrows, Cutting Boz Rockaway
Wheat Fan, 1 Corn Shelter, q sets Wagon Har-
ness in good condition, ! set double Harness,
set single Harness, s sets Plough Gear Shaltcr
Saddle, Brides, Collars, Hatcrs and housing for
6 horses Shovels, Forks, l Log Chain, Fifth
Chains pair Platform Scales, Grain Cradles and
farming implements of all sorts too varied to
enumerate. 200 bbls CORN, 1 stack good HAY,
a lot of Poplar Weather boarding and 900 nice
Oak Palings Also HOUSEHOLD and KITCHEN
FURNITURE. including 1 PIANO, set Parlor
Furniture, embracing two Sofas, dozen Hair
Cloth Chairs, 3 Rocking Chairs, narble-top
Centre Tables, Gets Chamber Furniture, shuck
and Hair Mattresses, 3 Feather Beds. Ward
robes, a lot of Carpeting, / Extension Dining Ia
BILE, 1 dozen Dining Room Chairs. 2 Clocks,
What-Not, Tables, Chairs, Looking Glasses, Wash
stands, Knives and Forks Glass and China Ware
in abundance, l Safe 1 Cupboard, , Parlor
Stovea 1 Fire place Heater, Cook Stove Tubs,
Barrels, Earthenwsre, &c lin short, an unusual,
ly large collection of useful house hold goods All
in good condition. Also . bts excellent Clder
Vinegar.
Terms: On all sums of 500 and upwards
credit of nine months will be given, the purchaser
to execute notes satisfactorily approved. bearing
interest from date. and waving homestead ex-
emptions and negotiable ana paya W d. tne Lou
der 500 cash. No property to be removed until
terms are complied with
salo to begin at 10 o'clock a. IN.
SAMUEL ORRISON.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-12-31

TIE sEGAR makers in San Francisco have
jumped out of the trying pan into the fire.
Having driven of Chinese competition, they
are met with that of labor from the Eastern
cities, which has focked in and is pushing
them to the wall by the superiority and
.9restor CELEBRITY of its workmanship.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-12-31
lCOllMUNICATED

COMMUNICATED
Address from Massachusetts to Virginia.
What asks the Old Dominion If now her sons
have proved
False to their fathers memory, false TO the Filth
they loved
If they can mock at freedom and its great charter
Must we of Massachusetts from truth and duty
turn :?
Wc hunt your bondsmcn, Hsing from slavery's
hateful hell
Our voices, at your bidding, take up the Blood
hounds yell.
We gather at your summons above cur fathers
graves,
From freedoms holy altar horns to tear your
wretched slavca
Thank God f.! not yet so Wiley can Massachusetts,
The spirit of her olden time is with her even
now.
Think not because her Pilgrim blood flows slow,
and calm and cool,
She thus can stoop her chainltSs neck, a sisters
slave and tool
All that sister State can do, all that FREQ State
may,
Heart, hand and purse we proh'sr, as in our early
day.
But that ono dark loathsomc burden ye must stag
ger with alone,
And reap the bitter harvest, which ye yourselves
nave soHn.
%
Lower than the plummet soundeth, sink the Vir-
ginian name
Plant, if We will your fathers graves with rank
est weeds of shame,
Be- If ye will, the scandal of Gods fair universe,
We wash our hands forever of your sin, and
shame, and curse!
We wage no war, we lift no arm, we fling no torch
within
The fre-damps of the quaking mine beneath your
soil of sin;
We leave you with your bondsmen to wrestlc
while you can,
With the strong upward tendencies and god-like
soul of man,
). G. WHITTIER.
Ezpostulation of the Bondholders to Virginia.
What asks the British bondholder? If now your
sons shall grow
False to their solemn promises, false to the debt
they owe;
If they can mock at honesty and perretrate G
fraud,
Must We the wretched creditors, submit without
word2
You see your "bondsmen" trying hard to break
the hateful spell.
Though, thus far, Readjustment has proved an
awful selD
They drag you, at their summons, to court gu
preme and grave,
Where jnstien is not gsrbled by some readjusting
knave.
Thank heaven not successful guile is heidelberg
or yet,
The bondsmen's "RoyaND" spirit will not be cow
ed you bet.
Think not because the Britisheris slow, d.calm,
and cool,
That he will give hi, coupons up, and thus be
mado fool.
All that an honest State should do, all that rich
State may,
To keep its sacred covenant, we ask of you to day.
Else with the burden Of default you must stagger |
on alone,
And wish you'd never listened to the counsels OF
Malone
Write down tho word "Defauter" against Virgin
las name.
Cast if ye will, reproach upon the great Republics
fame,
See, if ye will, your credit not valued at rush,
And stoop TO do what would have made your Pc.
cahontas blush.
We wage fair war, we lift our voice. and publish
it abroad
That prosperous Virginia can advocate a frand
We leave you with your ''bondsmsn" to Wre:tlc,
whilst you cause
Tho strongest downscard tendencies By your Rid
dicberger laws"
-BoNpHoLDER
London, Eng, Dec. 10.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-12-31

Salvation Oil is the greatest pain destroy
er of the age. 1t instantly relieves and
speedily anDihiates pain, whether it arises
from cut, bruise, scsld, burn, frost bite, or
from a wound Of any other kind. Price on
ly 25 cents a bottle.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-12-31

The recent numbers of the Norelist, the
cheap weekly issued by ]. B. Alden, the
New York publishers, contains chapters of
some of the most interesting stories now
being published.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-12-31
Failure.

LONDON, Dec 31.-Eugene Scharrer & Co., West
India merchants. have become bankrupt. Their
liabilities are reported at 100000 and their
assets are said to be "shadowy"
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West, Rebecca, May 10.
Waller, Constance, June 10.
Wheat, Matilda, T., July 2.
Warder, Vandelia, August 2.
Warning, Thomas E., August 20.
Warren, Edward, December 10.
Woolls, Mary, December %.
Zimmerman, Catharine, April Is.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-12-31

Humboldt, in his Cosms, thought he
showed up the world. Suppose he had liv-
ed to know DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup. But
he didn't, alas.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-12-31

IT IS REPORTED that Mr.. Bayard is at
tempting to frame the House Commi-
ttee on Foreign Affairs, and objects to
thu appointment of Mr.. Curtin, of Penn.
sylvapia, as its chairman, the reason
assigned by some for his opposition
being that the Pennsylvania delegation
did not support him for Presidential honors.
II this be true it. ia the most autocratic
Of all the Premier's attempts to invade the
official territory of other officers, and it is
hoped that the Speaker will as promptly
silence this assumption as Gen. Stoneman,
of California, for less reason, recently did
with such conspicuous emphasis.
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ALEXANDRIA, VA
THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 81.
THE OLD year will in few brief moments

TIE OLD year will in few brief moments
be only memory. During its heeting hours
each life has bad its labors and It's aisap-
pointments; yet golden periods and bright
honcrs have been scattered through it, and
to many it has brought wealth and exalted
station, and though the old year has seen
the palace of many human heart ruined
and the empire of many human mind de-
throned, it has not dealt unkindly, as Inc
years 60, with humanity. The consuming
fires of ambition have eaten into many
life and corrodcd the promise OF many
fair existence. Fortunes have vanished,
reputations have been stained, ana nresioee
bona been destroyed. But to the bravo
.heart disappointment is only teacner'
lin whose experience lessons of wisdom
and philosophy may be drawn. Fate-the
memorable master of every life-flls one
cup with sparkling wine and one with
hemlock, and the dice of fortune decides
which glass each baud shall raise. But we
arch the past and future with the span OF
hope, and the dawn Of the new year will
break upon US with possibilities Tor all, and
we hail the stranger with acclamations of
delight In the new year supineness should
give place to activity, sloth to energy, inert
ness to labor, aud the gospel of hate should
vanish before the religion of forgiveness;
malice should bow to pardon, and the
special care that frets each life with peculiar
sting should be nursed in concealment
Despair should disappear before the bright
and rising star OF expectation. The sunset
of the old year may sink in night, but, sus-
tanned by unfalteripg hope, inspired by un-
measured zeal, and upheld by unquestioned
faith, the sunrise Of the new year will
brighten with full reward for those who
make duty the north star of their direction.
-
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J. A. Rinker, Auctioncer.
Ieesburp. Va dec24- eots
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London, Eng, Dec. 10.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-10-29

A WORD TO WoRKINGMEN-Dr. Lyman
Abbott contributes to the November Century
an article on the labor problem entitled
Danger Ahead" in which he says
II wish I had The ear Of the working
mems organizations. | would put these
figures before them, and then would adj.
dress them in some such terms as The follow.
ing: Do you nots the fatal defect fall your
organizations? You combine only that you
may not work. In one summers telegraph
ic strike you spent $400, 900 for the right to
be idle. Why did you not expend it for The
right to be independent? Half million
dollars. plus all the best telegraphic talent
in the United States, with the sympathes of
the nation as reserve, combined TO estab.
fish Eostal biography, might have given you
success instead Of failure. Strike, not for
better wages in scrvludc, but for independence.
Organize not to be idle, but t. be busy. Combine
not against your employers, hut that you may en-
ploy yourselves. You battle not for the rights of
labor, hut for the right not to labor it is barren
fruitcss right not worth fighting for. Victory is
as bad as defeat. For combination put cO-opera.
ton for few hours and fair wages put indepcn-
dence; for 4 right to be idle put power to work.
Make yourselves capitalists, combine your capital
with your industry, and add to it by your credit
and SO become your own masters"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-10-29
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The steamship Great Eastern was sold al
London yesterday for e26, 200.
Mr.. Tilden has given $500 to the New
York democratic campaign fund.- :.
The English Yacht Genesta made the trip
across the Atlantic in 20 days and 10 hours.
The wife of Hon. William Pinkney Whyte
died at her residence in Baltimore yester-
day.
F. H. Winston, of Chicago, has been Sc.
lected for appointment as Z. s. minister to
Persia
The Chesapeake and Ohio railroad direc-
tors have decided that the company's earn
lngs will not enable them to pay the ap-
preaching November interest on the first
mortgage gold bonds, series B, for s15, OOO,.
600. They decided to pay the coupons due
Nov. l, half cash and half script.
The trial of Ferdinand Ward, of the firm
of Grant & Ward, was concluded in New
York yesterday, when the jury returned a
verdict of guilty of grand larceny, the pen
atty for which is Imprisonment in the State
penitentiary for not more than ten wears.
Sentence was postponed until Saturday next.
Counsel for Ward intend taking the case 10
the Court of Appeals.