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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-06-26
A Dcmented Girl.

New YoRK, June 2G.-Josie Wheeler, q
young girl, was found this morning by the
police wandering about the piers in tho
upper part of the city. She had lost her
reason. She said that she lived with her
family in this city, but few weeks ago had
come from Albany where they had resided at
38G South Pearl street. She stated that Il
strange woman took her away to house
and stripped her of her good clothes and
money. Josie was day ia court commit
ted until her friends are heard from.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-06-26
Hoycotting q Crime.

MILWAUKEE, Wis, June 26.-In tho pre-.
sence Of large audience, comprising many
of the leading members OF the local bar,
Judge Sloan yesterday delivered an opin-
ion on the motion to unash the indictment
of Robert Schilling State organizer of the
Knights of Labor, who is OIL trial on the
charge Of conspiracy and making threats in
connection with boycotts. AS Judge Sloan
practically held that boycotting Isl crime
punishable under the statutes, the decision
has created lively interest. Judge Sloan
ruled that since Schilling threatened to put
the machinery Of the Knights of Labor in
operation TO prevent the public from patron
izing the firm boycotLed, he injured the
firms income, which was rs much property
rs machinery or buildings, and that to NJ
tempt to dictate to them against their will
lei ocnse All organizations OF the kind
seeking to inter lerc with the business Of man.
ui;lcturers or others arc not in accordance
with law. Said the Judge: 'Laborers or
capitalists may organize for their own pro
lection, but have 10 right to take the ag
gressive. In our social and Industrial life
and our government the socialist, the an
archist and the boycotter have no place"
The afternoon was spent in securing jury.
Eleven jurors have been secured. Several
Of them are credited with being Knights of
Labor
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-06-26
ST. MARY's ACADEMY.

The anuual commencement exercises OF this
institution, directed b. the sisters ofthe Holy
Cross, has always been an enjoyable affair
and the one which took place yesterday
morning at Lannon's Opera House was no
exception, as was evidenced by the pleasure
and satisfaction manifested by the large
audience assembled there. Several Catholic
clergymen from Washington city as we'll as
the resident priests, were present. The
programme throughout was exceedingly in.
tercsting and the young ladies who took
part acquitted themselves in manner that
reflected credit upon the school. Tho mu-
steal part Of the exercises was especially fine
and is deserving Of praise. 1t was partici
pat ed in by a number Of Young ladies whose
brilliant performances on the piano and
whose sweet and regular tones Of voice
showed the careful training they had re-
ceved from the sister, who is an accom-
plished musician
The va!edictory was delivered by Miss 81
Rafferty, in very creditable manner. Az
ter the rendition of the interesting pro.
gramme. Rev. Fathers O'Kane aad Stack
awarded the premiums and conferred the
diplomas and gold medals. The Gistribu
ton of flowers, sent by the friends Of the
young ladies, was feature of the entertain
ment. The display was beautiful and the
number of boquets so large that it required
Messrs. h. NJ. Latham, NJ. B. Harlow, NJ.
Ahern, Lee Cole and Chas Carlin, who had
charge of the distribution. long time to
complete their pleasant task.
The following list of premiums was dis
tributed:
Senior Departmental Mary Rafferty,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-06-26

N. n. AND NJ. V. RAILwAY.-The New
port News and Mississippi Valley Railway
has leased the Chesapeake and Ohio Rail.
road, this consolidation making a grand
trunk line under one management from
Newport News to New Orleans, where it
will connect with the Huntington system to
the Pacific ocean. The consolidation will
not affect the present management Of the c..
4 O, as the officers of that company occu-
py the same positions in the Newport News
and Mississippi Valley Railroad. President
G. =. Huntington is reported as saying that
in less than two years there will be ten
thousand miles Of railroad tributary to New
port News. In few days the name OF
Chesapeake and Ohio will be dropped, and
the road will he known as the Newport
News and Mississippi Valley Railway.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-06-26

A SEVENTY YEARS OLD FATHER.-A
unique celebration took place in Washing
ton last night. Judge Penkerton. of Zanes-
vile, Ohio, and in the Second Comptroller's
Office, celebrated the anniversary Of his sew
entieth birthday. At the same time he eel.
ebrated the arrival of an heir. The seventy
year old father married pretty maiden
clerk in his Office about five years ago. She
was about forty years of age. The old gem
tleman is happy, and all his friends wish
him continued long life and q similar cele-
bration. The mother and babe are both
doing we'll.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-06-26
Death of Hon. David Davis.

BLOOMINGTON, Ill.,, June 2G.-David Davis
died ut o'clock this morning. He sank
into comatose state twelve hours before
the end and passed panlessly away sur
rounded by his family. During the early
part of last evening he appeared to he fail
ing, and it was felt certain that he could not
live through the night. At | O'Clock he
revived somewhat and was given milk and
atimulantS
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-06-26

COURT OF APPEALS AT WYTHEvILLE,
Juno 25 -GiDboney's executrix Vs. Kent OF ais.
Appeal from Montgomery County Court. Cald-
well for appellant; Junkin & Phlegar for appel
lees. Argument concluded.
County Court. Staples & Sullivan for appellant :;
Phlegar for appellee. Case partially argued and
carried over until Monday.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-06-26
District.

THE FACT that the chief reason why
Northern republican partisans, now that
a democratic administration has the
disposal of the Governments patronage,
favor the civil service rules, is that
by those rules all ex-Confedeates
are excluded from office, is surely no
good reason why ex-Confederate democrats
should be enamored Of those rules, as some
of them seem TO be.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-06-26

TIE REPUBLICANS in Congress, Win
characteristic effrontery, profess to ieg'sia'e
in the interest of the poor. With their past
record the absurdity of such profession
becomes grotesque. But their present
curse makes that profession no less r'a'cu
lous, for they now not only refuse to permit
a change in the tariff, and consequent re-
ductiop in the cost of the neccssarlcs OF ne
but they also refuse TO permit the laying OF
an income tax upon rich people. Under
the present system of federal taxation the
DOOR man pays as much toward tho support
Of the Government as his rich neighbor, and
as the Government is chiefly maintained ior
the protection of property, all fair minded
men must concede that such system Is un-
lust,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-06-26

THE PRESIDENT may be, and certainly 49,
wrong in his civil service ideas; but that ne
ia right in his numerous vetoes of pension
bills is not whit less certain. Ii Congress
be the branch of the Government by winch
nension claims arc to be granted, why the
necessity for maintaining the expensive
mansion bureau for the same purpose? Ii
the President would 60 step further and
veto the general pension bills now before
Congress, or the bills containing appropria.
lions for the purposes of such bills, he would
lose the support of pension agents, but ne
would regain the support of thousands OF
other people which he has lost by his silly
or ohstinafa mllrWumDerY.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-06-26

1T IS by no means wonderful that Sen
ate which rejects the nomination of man
because he has spoken otherwise than in
praise of all its members, and which defeats
a resolution prohibiting its members from
accepting fees in cases upon which they are
to sit in judgment, has lost the respect it
formerly merited and received
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-06-26

THE REJECTION Of Matthews, the colored
New Yoker, for recorder Of deeds for the
District of Columbia, by the Senate's District
of Columbia Committee, as stated in yester
days's GAZETTE, does not necessarily imply
that that rejection will be approved by the
whole Senate, but it looks that way, espe-
cially as the nomination has naturally
proved so Objectionable to the people of the
District
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-06-26
or obstinate mugwumpery.

THE BILL restoring General Fitz John
Porter to his rank in the army, having pre-
viously passed the United States House OIL
Representatives, yesterday passed the Sem
ate, and now needs only the signature OF
the President TO make it effective. General
Porter should hold the South in grateful
remembrance as long as he lives, for it was
BY the votes of Southern men that this great
relief has at last been afforded him.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-06-26

The POLICE commission Of New York,
with the entire concurrence of it's republic
an members, has rejected the application
of colored man for position on the police
force of that city. And yet there are thou
sands of colored voters in New York. But
the republicans of New York, like all other
Northern republicans, think the only place
for colored policemen is the South.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-06-26

The DIFFICULTY of obtaining jury in
the immense city Of Chicago TO try the
murlerous anarchists OF that city, because
of the fear of the danger to which the jurors
might be subjected in case of conviction,
affords another to the innumerable reasons
why the jury system, as conducted in this
country, should be abolished, and some
other mode be adopted for the tria! of GRIM
inols
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-06-26

If LABOR pays all taxes, the striking Ia
borers in New York, Chicago, Milwaukee,
St. Louis and in all the other cities in which
such laborers have resorted to violence,
must have stood very much i'll their own
light, for in all those cities the violence re-
ferred to has been the meas of increasing
the police force thereof, and, consequently,
tho burden of taxation.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-06-26

A single locomotive on the Louisville,
New Orleans and Texas Railway recently
pulled into New Orleans train containing
al cars. The total weight of the train was
over 1850, 600 pounds, and it was nearly q
mile long. The distance traversed was i21
miles, and the time consumed twelve hours
and forty six minutes.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-06-26
The President and PARTY.

FORT MONROE. Va, June 26.-The yacht
Corsair with the President and party on
board arrived at one p M, made the circuit
of the Roads and stood out to sea,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-06-26
ALEX CAMBRIA.
SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE &c.

CIVIL SERVICE does not seem to be very
popular with the republican majority Oh Inc
couacils of Richmond. So eager are Inc
newly elected city fathers there ior tiie
hooas or tbe democratic officials Of that city
that ten days in advance Of their mee'ins
they have decreed that largo numoer o,
faithful democratic officials shall be removed
and their places be filled, in many cases. by
rannblicans unknown, except for their ma
lieuant and persistent opposition in the past
tn tbe democracy of Richmond. In spite OF
the frequent assertions that the result OF the
election meant no harm to the democracy
of the Capital city, it does look as II .he
$500 negroes who voted tho reform ucket
in May last are going to be we'll rewarded
in the distribution of the spoils.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-06-26
DIED.

Thi; morning, June 26. 1886 8. 8. COLEMAN,
aged AS years. G.y- Funeral from his late resi-
dsnce, on Monday morning, at 1880 o'clock.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-06-26
General Mahone's Committee.

Special dispatch TO the Alexandria GAzErrEl
WASHINGTON, D. c., Juno 90 A p. m.-Thc
republican State committee of Virgins is still in
session. No definite determination has been reach.
ed of times and places for holding nominating con.
ventions in the various Congressional districts.
Contests will be made in all the districts. The
session may continue several hours longer Ahout
scvcnty.fve pcoplc are in attendance.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-06-26
CONGRESSIONAL.

WASHINGTON, d. c., juno %, 1856.
SENATE.
The Senate was no. in session to-day,
having adjourned yesterday till Monday.
HOUSE.
The House st an early hour went into COM
mittee of the whole, OH the sundry civil
appropriation bill.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-06-26

The closing exercises Of ST. Mary's paro-
chial school, also under the management Of
the Sisters Of tho Holy Cross, took place at
the Opera House on Wednesday evening.
The little boys and girls, in very credita-
bic manner, rendered an interesting pro-
gramme, which consisted Of little play,
songs, drill, Rotations, dialogues, can.
tata and tabeau, after which came the
awarding of medals and the distribution of
nrnmi inns
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-05-08
EMTERpRLHLNG MEN

Fort worth II 10. day the best advertised city
IN the statei and whyi The answer Is simple
II supports its newspapers Handsomely. There
10 not merchant Of any Importance In thai
city who docs not advertise In the home paper
Because trade IL too dull or because II will moi
do any good, ia never given as an excuse by
those shrewd business men. An Intelligent
business ian can tell by looking at the local
paper of town whether TIA citizens are tho
kind Of people 10 build city. Capital does
not seek dead towns for Investments Paris
News.
Fort Worth papers have wide awake, enter
prlsing merchants 70 back them. None OF your
picayune fellows, who think a newspaper can
be run for nothing, and newspaper men live on
air.-fDenison News.
The pluck and Enterprise OF Fort Worth
merchants bear fruit not only in state
wide reputation but in actual dollars and
cents, They know the value Of printers
Ink and pay for 1t, not as gratuity but
because II brings them tangible returns.
TnE GAZETTE is proud of Its people and
sympathlzes with every tribute 20 their
pluck and enterprise and unity. The
business men OF Fort Worth have made
the town what Il is, and their liberal
patronage enables THE GAZETTE to help
them In the good work. ThE GAZETTE
Is the creation Of Fort Worth's llberality
and enterprise and any recognition of its
people Is grateful to The GAZETTE.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-05-08

ties Of tho state. Not many years ago
the attcHyt TO grow cotton in Dallas
county was ridiculed Last summer for
the frst tine was demonstrated the
adnptaDIlity Of the staked Plain country
for wheat and oatgrowing Acareful Of
fetal compilation Of statistics will teach
our farmers more in few years than
they would ever ind out by experimenting
themselves, for by this means each will
have the collective experience Of every
other farmer In the state.
The plan is a good one, and we hope
that the Legislature will be wise enough
to embody It in laws, which that body
will be asked TO do in his first official
message by Mr.. Swain when he succeeds
10 the governorship,
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-05-08

TnE Chicago Times explains good
deal In a few words. IL says "of course
public attention will be directed to the
significant fact that, In the war at MIL
waukee as we'll as at Chicago, the enc
my's forces are not Americans, and do
not light under the American colors. The
insurgont army at Milwaukee Is described
as body of three or four hundred
'Polacks and Bohemians, armed with
clubs, knives aud stones,' and led by
hlrsute desperadoes with such names as
Warzlnski, ilirth, and other Cossack and
heathenish appellations, The insurgent
force that attacked the Mccormick fac
tory In this city was IRuch larger body,
but also was mainly composed OF Polacks,
Bohemians, Schwabs, Serbs and other of.
soourings of Europe. There were no
Americans among them. They were the
cohorts of the red flag; the socialists, the
anarchists, the nihillsts, the rag.tag and
bob-tall cut-throats OF Beelzebub from the
Rhine, the Danube, the Vlstula and the
Elb; descendants OF the turbulent bar
barlens whose dominlons Russia, Prussia
and Austria appropriated, hut whose vie
seed they unfortunately failed to extermi.
nate.n
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-05-08
A STATE BUREAU or AGRICUL
TIME

In Mr.. SWANS statement OF policies,
rs gwen In this mornings GAZETTE, are
two propositions that viii attract public
attention, not for their novelty, but for
the utility of the measures urged. These
are, the creation OF an agricultural de.
partment 10 connection with the state
government and, Supplementary 1t, a
state census to be taken In 1887, and there.
after midway between the federal deceu.
NAL censuses.
The agricultural interest has suffered
much neglect, and II is time that this la.
Justice was being corrected. a bill has
been brought before congress to reeos.
niEo the Importance OF agriculture by
giving II representative IN tho cabinet.
Nothing has ever heeG done, by state
authority, In Texas TO gather Information
OF ofieial authenticity regarding the cana.
bllities and productions OF the farms OF the
state NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. thanauy other
state, as varied IN its different parts as
Illinois and Colorado, or Louisiana and
Kansas, absolutely nothing has ever been
attempted toward proving what is best
for each diEeront soil or climate. BY dear
experience the farmer learns that a crop
which succeeds wen in one county is
total failure ia the next. To learn the
lesson may have cost him fortune, when,
II the state had maintained such an asri- /
cultural bureau as Mr.. Swain suggests, a
knowledge Of the various resources Of !
The state might have been had without
expense,
We doubt II the people Of Texas them.
selves, even those who have lived here
Aetilne, realize the agricultural posslbill.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-05-08
judicial district was ImuatcrIal. Amrmod ror

judicial district was immAtefiai. Alarmed. Por
cnrlam.
Crozier ct al vs. j. y. Henderson, appeal
from Dallas This was suit by landlord and
distress for rent. Pending the suit the chattcls
taken In diatresa were ordered sold and the
money paid Into the regiairy Of the court. The
dletrese proceedings were qnashed but the
Judgment foreclOeed The landlords lien, and
ordered the money paid over 20 tho landlord
There was no error In this. The land.
lords lien was Independent OF any
proceeding by distress. and was properly fore
closed 81 Tex, 80. Affirmed. Per curlam.
Gulf Colorado 4 Santa Ne Railway Company
W.. A. L. Cornelius, appeal from Dallas. The
bill of oxccpiiope In the record setH ont the
questions which were propoundcd TO the wit.
ness, and which tho court refused 10 allow him
10 answer, but does not show what tho answerB
OF the witness would have been, nor is II
shown Otherwise what II was proposed to
prove by this witness. Undcr tho well cstab
lishcd rule this BIN Ia defective, and cannot
enable this court TO revise the ruling OF the
trial court. There IA no statement OF facts In
the record. Affirmed. Per curtain.
Marony OF al W.. Hamilton 4 Young, appeA
from Clay. Where the contest Is between the
plaintiff In attachment and n claimant as 10
whether sale TO the claimant Is In fraud OF
creditors, the burden OF proof 10 show The
validity OF tho sale ia upon the claimant n al
the time OF the levy he was not In possession OF
the property, The rule Ia different where nos
session 10 In the claimant; IN such case the
plaintiff In attachment must chow fraud Al.
lrmed. Per cuslnm.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-05-08

IN seems to be coming out that the
great strike wes TO put Mr.. @. A. Hall
back in position from which he had been
discharged for alleged Incompetence.
That Is, three or four thousand men quit
work, throwing out ten thousand others,
blocking the traffic Of six million peo-
pie, causing direct aud indirect loss Of
hundreds Of thousands Of dollars, 10 en-
force the principle that an employer shall
not discharge an unsatisfactory workman
without the consent Of the other work
menl
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-05-08

THE GRANGE went into politics, and the
Grange Is dead II the Alliance was in
stituted to become political party II has
the undoubted right to do so. But when
II becomes political party 1t must be cx-
pected TO be treated as such, and not as
an organization TO promote the material
Advancement OF farmers. As political
party, II must deal with all political ques-
tions, and become strong or weak as It's
tenets attract or repel popular sympathy
All men sympathze with what are now
understood to be the objects OF the AL
liance but when the Alliance announces
It's political platform, all men will decide
whether they can desert their present
party connections, aud the Alliance will
stand or fall upon It's record as politi-
cal partyi but what will become of the
original end and aimf The Grange went
into politics, and the Grange is dead.
There are men In Texas to-day who
would lead the Alliance TO grave beside
the Grange.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-05-08

THE man who has aughl Of sympathy
with the scum Of Europe that Is now
vainlY trying to substitute anarchy for
law IN our cities and towns is unworthy
OF life In free country. America owes
II TO It's own people and to It's own liberty
to shoot down these vermin like dogs.
These cowardly assasslns Of life and Of
liberty and OF law, imported from lands
OF despotlsm, do but cumber the earth
with their vile carcasses, II lisa duty to
God and TO man to kill them without
remnrse.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-05-08
TIE PEOPLES FORUM.
Stop and Consider.

Fort WORTH, TEX May G,--Edltor
GAZETTE; There is difference Of
opinion In regard to the advance per cent.
in wages. II the employees receive the
same pay for eight hours work that they
are now getting for ten, the advance ac-
cordlng TO my calculation would be 20
per cent. Suppose workman receives
81 for ten hours labor, for one hour he
would get 10 cents; If he received the
same amountl 81 for eight hours work,
the rate would be l24 cents per hour, (21
more than 10 cents, the pay he would be
now getting) 21lequals / of l0l, or
25-l00 or 20 per cent. II a company pays
Sl0,000,000 for labor, and the contem-
plated change is made, 81, 100000 would
be the sum paid for the same amount of
work. Should the proposed change be
made suddenly 1t would be hard on most
business enterprises, and probably in
many cases disastrous. A change could
be made gradually, allowing employers to
accommodate their business to It. Ex-
ceptlng the farmers, perhaps the commun-
i'y generally would be more willing to
pay higher rates for said road facilities
and higher rates to manufacturers
NNAh w Nv hniuopNh ~ COU-
hlcts between capital and labor, one party
generally striving to get the lions share
of this worlds goods, the other TO earn a
pittance to keep soul and body together.
But, as you intimate, what will
the poor farmer dor "There's
the rub" IL would seem to be
Just to exempt the farmer from taxation.
II the workmen win heed Mr.. Powderly
they will win. 1t Is not unusual when
masses combine TO remove any griev-
ance for the most ultra and violent ele.
ment to gain the ascendency until the
movement run aground. In the present
labor troubles If one counsels modera-
ton he Is often accused of being tool of
Jay Gould.
There Is power greater than that of
any combination OF capital or labor, that
OF the great body Of the American people.
When that says "halt," halt it must be.
G.. w. DAME