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The Daily telegraph., 1886-06-15


ported to the House in day or two.
81 The Reception 81
The presidents reception yesterday
afternoon was attended by about 100
persons. including an old couple-man
and wife-who said they had walked
from Missouri to shake hands with the
President.
All ladies in families of members of
the cabinet have been invited to assist
Mrs. Cleveland at the presidents re-
ception to-day. 1t is expected all will
be present except Mrs. Manning, who
Is now at Hot Springs, Ark.
The President Calls For Time.
The following Is furnished the assO>
ciated press with request for publicas
ton 4:
EXECUTIVE HANsIoN,
WASHINGTON, June IA, 1886.
Notwithstanding the announcement
heretofore made by the president re.
serving Monday In each week for
transaction of such public bus ness as
absolutely requires freedom from in.
terruption, be finds that through
Ignorance of the rules adopted, or from
other causes, the time he thus seeks to
reserve is to great extent engrosssd
by those whose calls are of ne yonal
and social nature or by pres en- tation of
business which might easily be post,
poned until another day. AT 1.So
every Monday and at the same hou,.
Wednesdays and Fridays of each week
the president will meet all who desire
10 pay respects. He earnestly requests
that with the exception of the above
specified hours, the remainder O: Mon.
day and remainder of other days in
the week may be allowed him by the
public, not for pleasure, but for the
performance OF official duty and
Tor the ;ansac..on Of public bus ae ,s.
Mr.. Morrison in an interview with
a reporter of the Associated Press ye ,.
terday, said he woald surely move to
consider the tariff biz Thursday. He
said very candid'y that he could not
speak positively ss to the chances of
success, as it all depended on the vote
OF New York Democratic mem bers.
and had f;Om the fl. st the committee
on ways and means been entirely har.
monious he could have brought in or
called up the bill at any time since
February, but he had deemed it uu.
safe to do so knowing that he could
not succeed without New York. The
fact that the bill had been favored bv
the administration had led him to ex.
pect nearly unanimous vote of it's
friends In that State.
The Daily telegraph., 1886-06-15
FROM WASHINGTON.
Gone to Arizona.

WASHINGTON, June 15.-Five mem.
bers Of the signal corps stationed Mt
Fort Myer, Va, left there Saturday
for Fort HOWE, Ara, for duty under
Gen. Miles in operations against hos
lie Indians.
The Daily telegraph., 1886-06-15
Appropriations.

AS agreed upon in committee the
sundry civil appropriation bill appro.
PIRATES s2O,052,s22. Estimates a:gre.
gated sSs,554,eoo. The appropriation
for the present year was $21, ,05s, 1922.
This bill shows larger reduction as
compared with estimates than any
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-07-03
MAN EATERs.-C Conscious cannbalism is

MAN EATERs.-Conscious cannbalism ia
by no means confined to the Fiji islands.
The Rio Virgen tribes Of the Arancanos In
dians on tho northern coast Of Chill, do not
hesitate, in hard winter, to keep the pot
boiling by slicing up few OF their supclllu-
ons relatives; and DR.. Nachtigal is positive
that tho country north and east Of tho Con-
go il swarmiDg with two legged man eaters
The Dyaks of Borneo, who gather skulls as
our rod men used to gather scalrs, now and
then eat a personal enemy as Il matter of
hygienic precaution, on the theory that the
wizard spells Of the dead mans relatives can
thus be rendered Intellectual. Sporadic
cases of cannibaIi5m occur in every East In.
dian famine. The nations OF Europe alone
are in that respect total abstainers at pres
ent at least, for Roman traditions date back
to Il time when the L;rstrygones of southern
Italy kept special stockyards for fatlepiDg
their prisoners Of war.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-07-03

VIRGINIA NEWS.


It is 8 slated that only about thirty persons
in Richmond have rendered coupons in pay
ment OF taxes.
The sales of tobacco in Danv!!e for june
amounted to 4, 573 ,163 pounds, the total price
paid for which was 1891 .6G1.
Mr.. James A. Robinson, an old and re-
spected citizen of Manchester and soldier
in the Mexican war, died yesterday aged 81
years.
Mr.. VIM. N. Cabell, Of Buckingham coun.
ty, declines 10 contest for the democratic
Congressional nomination in the Tenth dis
trict, to succeed Hon. ]. Randolph Tucker,
on account of i'll health.
Capt. Thompson Lenning, Il wealthy
Pennsylvanian has purchased tract Of
land lying just beyond the corporate limits
of Harrisonburg, and vii! establish q
stock farm, with Wow to raising blooded
horses.
Work on the dry dock which it is pro
posed to build at Newport News is to be
commenced next month and it Is expected
that the work will be completed in a year
The dock, with the machine shops and 9th
or auxlaries, will cost 100000.
There is a gloomy outlook for crops in
Surry and Sussex counties. Corn, wheat
and peanuts, the latter the staple crop, are
in distressing condition. The corn and
wheat on the low lands Of James river have
been almost completely swamped.
Mr.. John S. Wise has written letter in
which his disgust at the failure Of the re-
mathematician coalition to capture the
city Offices in Richmond is apparent. Mr.
Wise says he is not in politics now, does not
want any office and in q few days will leave
Virginia for long absence.
Several trestles on the Richmond and ALE
ghany Railroad have been washed away
causing temporary suspension of travel
The rise of the waters in the North Anna
river caused stoppage Of trains on the
Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac
Railroad. Washouts on the Richmond and
Danville Railroad also stopped traffic over
that line.
The heavy rainfall caused damaging rise
| in all the streams in some sections ofthe State
The James river was ten feet above high
| water mark in Richmond last night aud al
the wharves in the lower part of the city
| (Rocketts) were submerged, the water be
Ing about two feet deep in lower Mar
street. The people living in that vicinity
had to move out, and merchants removed
their goods to places of safety.
The common council of Petersburg have
elected all republican caucus officers, made
some changes in the police corps and re-
moved Mr.. Price, who has been for several
years the engineer at the water works. Hi'
place was given to o colored man. The
democratic members of the council were
given no representation on the finance com
mittee, although they represent the people
who pay the bulk Of the taxes.
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Grit to the Death.

A special dispatch from, Gainesville, Texas,
says: Much excitement prevails through
out the neighborhood over the duel that took
place on Monday between James Cooper
and Thomas Van Winkler. twas one of the
bloodiest fights within the memory of the
oldest inhabitants, the story that has previ,
ously been sent out failing to describe it
with anything like accuracy. Each man
literally carved tho other before the eyes oil
his neishbors, the whole struggle lasting so
short time, however, that interference on
the part Of the bystanders was useless al
most as soon as it YVES thought Of. Both
men are we'll to do aud highly respected
| and the cause of the quarrel can only be
coniectured Rumor has it that Van Wink
| Ter, who is handsome man, had been pay
| ing marked attention to relative Of Coop
err, much sgainst the wishes of the latter
Meeting III the street on Monday evening,
the two meu were observed to be engaged in
| animated conversation, the supposition bo-
| ing that Cooper WAS insisting that Van
Wlnkler's attentions 10 the young lady
should cease. Almost simultaneously both
rcn reached for their revolvers, and the
trouble began.
FROM XII cJc "lt.loSh liz 10 iC's' ''iiI tbGt
Van Winklcr, who WIS tho more ready 81
the Two, got Tho drop on Cooper aud fired
| several shots into tho latter's head without
a response. BY that time, however, Coop
cr's weapon was brought into play, and
without moments pause he empted shot
after shot from his Colts navy revolver
into Van Winkler bowels. The latter fell
forward on his face, but retained sufficient
vitality to raise on arm and fire two more
shots at Cooper who was beginning to reel
from loss of blood. AZ this juncture IN at
tempt was made to soperate them, which
however, proved futile. Throwing away
their empty revolvers, they rushed at each
other with knives, Van Winkler having an
ordinary two-inch rn-handled pocket
knife and Cooper wislding hunting knife.
simultaneously they slashed each other in
the stomach and breast. Every oody who wit
messed it declares that. although the whole
encounter occupied only Il little over two
minutes, it was the most terrible fight with
in his recollection. The men hoWled and
cut like manacs, ard only des;sted at last
from sheer exhaustion.
When this remarkable duel was over, both
men presented sickening spectacle. Van
Winkler's intestines were exposed, while
his arms and fuUe and, In fact, his entire
body were slashed and bleeding from the
effect of both knife and pistol. Cooper had
solid piece of flesh cut from one side OF
his face, and his head was mass Of bloody
spots where the balls had entered It is
impossible for the men to survive.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-07-03

CONGRESSMAN LEFEvRE, Of Ohio, will not
be candidate for reelection, and says no
man can live as Congressman should live
on i've thousand dollars year. 1t is prob
ably for that reason that Senators Edmonds,
Evarts, and the other republican Senators,
who are lawyers, oppose Senator Beck's reso-
luton prohibiting Senators from accepting
fees as counsel for the railroads who have
claims before Congress. But it would seem
that ordinary decency and respect for pub
lie opinion, if not common honesty, would
induce the Senators to whom reference is
made to follow Mr.. Lefevre's example, ana
withdraw from Congress rather than subject
themselves to the imputations necessarily
consequent to their opposition to the Beck
resolution. 1t is against human nature not
to doubt the righteousness of the decision OF
a judse in favor of man from whom he has
received valuable gifts, and there is nothing
in the past history of any of the Senators
referred to that tends to place them above
suspicion in that respect.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-07-03
GLADSTONE PREPARING HIS SPEECHES.

GLADSTONE PREPARING HIS SPEECHES.
We are told, on good authority, this ia Mr..
Gladstone's method of preparing bis
speeches; He keeps box in. to which he
is in the habit Of throwing cuttings from
newspapers and other memoranda of facts
bearing upon the subject in hand On the
morning Of the day preceding any great
Grafton ne goes through his box and picks out
his notes of the particular facts which he
wishes TO use These he gums in their pro.
per order upon large sheet of paper
and uses them as the plots upon which the
speech itself is to be hung. Then be ina
gines himself actually speaking-comp
his Grafton in fact, in his head. After he is
satisfied with it, he dismisses the subject
from his mind, and occupies himself until
the hour for speaking comes in reading a
a novel. His memory is so great that his
previously composed sentences come back
to him without WhitehaU Regiev.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-07-03

LADY CAMPBELL's DIVORCE SUIT.-Iu
the divorce case of Lady Campbell against
her husband, Lord Colin Campbell, fifth son OF
the Duke of Argyll, the defendant yesterday
applied to the Divorce Court, in London, for
peImission to have stricken from the plant
ifs petition the paragraph charging him
with "adultery with persons unknown"
The court reserved decision on the prayer
for fortnight, and in the meantime will
read the whole correspondence and all the
afidavits submitted by Lord Colin Camp
bell in his cross suit to substantiate his
charges that Lady Campbell had been gull
ty of adultery with the Duke Of Marble,
rough, Chief Fire Commissioner Shaw and
others.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-07-03

NOTWITHSTANDING THE progressive
ness" of this country, it is still considerably
behind staid and slow England in respect OF
many things. One is the duration of polit'
cal campaigns. In this country the CAM
paign for the Congressional elections to be
held near the end of next November has
already commenced five months IN
advance. In England the elections for the
next Parliament are nearly over already,
though the campaign has not been IN prog
ress more than two or three weeks. Why
political contests should be 80 prolonged
here, where everything else is 80 hurried Is
one of the many American puzzles.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-07-03

AHusBAND's TERRIBLE VENGEANCE
Great excitement prevails at junction City,
a small station fifteen miles south Of Marsh
field, Wis, regarding the shooting Of
James Malloy by A. w. Hodges Tuesday
It seems that early in the day Malloy, who
had been on q protracted spree, went to
Hodges house and asked admission. Mrs;
Hedges admitted him. He then t. n in nseaax
ed her, evidently thinking her alone. Hod.
ges, who was at work in the garden, heard
her screams and rushed in and seized
double barrel shotgun. He fired one bar
rel, loaded with buckshot. at Malloy, the
charge lodging in the mans stomach. Nal
loy was taken to the hotel and cared for,
but his wound is fatal. There is indigna-
ton at the murder, as il is said that
Hodges rested his gun over his wife's
shoulder when he fred at Malloy, who was
not ten feet away and was almost helpless
from drink.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-07-03

MAKING GIRLS STEAIGHT.-The Hindoo
girls are gracefully and exquisitely formed.
From their earliest childhood they are ac-
customed to carry burdens on their heads.
The wafer for family USE ia always brought
by this way. TIE exercise is to strcng then
the muscles Of the back. while the chest is
thrown forward. No crooked backs are
seen in lIindoc.tnn. Dir. II. Spray says
this exercise Of carrying small vessels Of
wate. on the lead might DO advantageously
introduced into boarding schools and phi
va,e families, and that it might entirely
supercede the present machinery Of dumb
belle, black-hDaids, skipping.ropes, ETC.
The young ladies ought TO be taught to car
ry the jar Ms the lIindoo women DO, without
ever touching it with their hands. The
same practice of carrying water leads pre-,
c;sely to the same results in the South of
Italy ~ i'll India. A Ncopolitan female peasant
will carry OH her head n vessel full of water to
the hrim over rough road and not spill drop Of
il, and the acquisition Of this act or knack gives
her the SAME elastic gait.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-07-03

THE PLATFORM adopted by the State re-
publican convention of Pennsylvania, which
has Just adjourned contains no mention OF
civil service reform. The republicans have
their eyes open, and are wise enough to
t,ke practical views of what they see. The
civil service law, as at present administered,
is Just as unpopular with the republicans
as with the democrats, because it not only
excludes from Office all men, republicans as
we'll as democrats, over certain age, but also
all others who cannot pass an examination
that would qualify them for the position OF
school teacher. The Pennsylvania republican
managers know this as we'll as sny body
else, and their failure to notice the CIVIL
service law now is only the prelude to their
omen denunciation of it next year.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-07-03
Narrow Escape.

CHICAGO, July 3-Four small children
were nearly sutlocated 10 death last night
in small frame cottage 1T No GAG South
Morgan street. The house is occupied by
several families, among them Paul Ora
bowsky, his wife and four children, aged
respectively, 5, 6, ! and O. When the fire in
the Carter feed store broke out the parents
locked the house aud went to the fire, leav-
ing the children in bed. During their alb
sence the house caught fire from some UNI
known cause. Tho fire started in n pantry
or shed, just off the room in which the
children were sleeping, and filled the bed
room with smoke. The little ones were
overcome, and when rescued were uncon-
scious. Two of them are still in a very
critical condition.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-07-03
The RATTL EsNAKEs OF PYRAMID LAKE

The RATTLEsNAKEs OF PYRAMID LAKE
One ofthe small, rocky islands of Pyramid
lake, Nevada, is alive with rattlesnakes. 1t
is supposed that the progenitors of these
snakes were waited to the island on punches
of floating driftwood. There are thousands,
if not millions-the people about the lake
say millions of the rattlers on the island,
and their right to it there is none to dis.
pute." The reptiles have their homes
among the rocks, and feed upon the eggs
and young of waterfowl and dead fish that
are cast upon the island. Stories have been
told of these snakes rushing forth in body
Kissing and rafting 10 attack any one land
ing upon the island. The rattesnakes OF
the island, when disturbed, glide away and
hide themselves in the crevices of the rocks,
just as would similar snakes on the main.
land, though they halt and show fight when
hard pressed Chicago Herald
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-07-03
A NARROW EscAPE.-We learn that q

A MARROW EsCAPE.-We learn that as
the train, Thursday morning, from WASH
iugton was passing curve this side of Falls
Church, the engineer discovered two small
colored children lying between the cross
ties on the road. He stopped his train as
quickly as possible, but part of the engine
passed over the children; the ash box did
not quite reach them. They were taken
out, one had cut on the forehead, and the
other was not injured. They held in
their hands q corn cake, which they had
been eating, and from the appearance ofthe
children, the impression was they bad been
drugged, and were in semi.unconscious
condition. They we've given to their friends.
Fashingtonian.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-07-03
lCNMMIINIcATEll

As ono advances in life, the recurrence Of
the 4th Of July brings up "reminiscences of
those that have preceded it. We we'll re-
member a 4th of July in the 1908 1.-THE par
ticular year not recollccted) that was cele-
brated at Shutters Hill, in Fairfax county,
at which the following toast was drunk :
1.-THE lifty-six signers OF the Declaration OF
Independence, the heaviest lifty-six great
Britain ever undertook to lift" This was
received with perfect storm of applause.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-07-03

CAPT. JOHN WIsE's experience with the
knights of labor in Richmond, while highly
praiseworlhy to the knights, and advan-
tageous to the city, has been just the reverse
to the Captain and has so disguised him
that he declares he is not in politics, wants
no office, and will soon leave Virginia for
long absence. The Captain has now learned,
what most of the other people Of his State
know by intuition, that he, aor General
Malone, whom he calls his master, nor any
other man, can deceive and decoy white
Virginians az easily as the ignorant aud pre-
JUDGED negroes have been herded ard
driven nv himself and General Mahone's
other jackmen.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-07-03

THE TREASURY statement completed up
to June 3O:h, the end of the fiscal year.
shows that the affairs of that department are
in most gratifying and satisfactory condl'
ton. The receipts for the last were greatly
in excess of those of the preceding year,
while the expenditures were corresponding
" less, and the decrease in the puoilc deo'
considerably greater. All this, it will be re-
membered, in the face of the facts
that during the last Presidential campaign
the republican speakers and writer's prophe.
o;.d that the certain result of the election OF
a democratic administration would DC the
wreck and ruin of the Treasury.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-07-03
Death of Cashier Whitney.

WASHINGTON, July s.. Horace A. Whit.
ney, Of New York, Cashier in tho Treasur-
er's office, died suddenly about II o'clock
this morning from an attack of apoplexy at
his residence on It'll street, between M and
N streets. He was employed in tho CASH
ier's room about 81 years and was promoted
to the office Of Cashier n little over q year
ago. He was on duty yesterday as usual
and seemed in particularly good spirits.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-07-03

MARRYING A CHILD.-A Newburg, n.
Y, dispatch relates the following story
Mrs. Isabella Green brought to Middletown
recently Mary f. Johnson, who will be
twelve years old this month, and who, she
said, was her daughter. She said the girl
was abducted from her home in Sullivan
county, and married to wood chopper,
twenty-one years old, named John Corwin.
The girl last Christmas was placed in the
homo of DR.. Bonestet, at Summtsville, Sui
livan county, and while there Irene Bell, a
widow, and q relative of the child's faith
err, induced her in April TO run away
from Bonestet's house. The child was
secluded in an unfreuuented place. On
April Is the Bell woman, with young Cor
win and little Mary, appeared before JUS
tice Evans, at Birmingham, and they were
married, the girl asserting that she was six
teen years old. Mrs. Green says that after
hearing Of the illegal marriage Of her daugh-
ter she went 10 Sullivan county 10 get her.
She found CorWin and the child living to-.
gether AS man and wife at Mrs. Bells house.
Mrs. Bell and her friends were in Middle.
town trying, with the assistance ola lawyer,
TO get the child away from her mother. The
girl, however, preferred to remain with her
mother The child says that Mrs. Bell
induced her to go to parties against
DR.. Bonestet's wishes. Bonestet told
her if she went out at nights she would
have to leave altogether. She did
90 out, and left the Doctors house and went
to live with Widow Bell where Corwin
boarded. Corwin made love TO her, and Mrs
Bell took hand 10 the love-making, too, and
induced her to receive Corwins attention.
She told the child that after leaving DR..
Bonestet's her mother would kill her if she
returned home. Believing what Mrs. Bell
told her, the child says she preferred mar.
riage to returning home, and accordingly
went to Justice Evans and was married to
Corwin. They lived at Mrs. Bells, tho
child earning her board by doing house.
work, and Corwin paying his from the pro-
ceeds of his labor as wood. chopper. She
says Corwin has treated her kindly, but she
wants the marriage annulled.