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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-07-31
Tho Senata TODAY passed the resolution

The Senate to-day passed the resolution
providing for the creation of commission
to consider the advisability of the establish
ment of per manent exposition in this city
to celebrate the one hundredth anniversary
of the existing form of government in this
country, and the four hundredth anniyersa'
~ of the discovery of America.
A great ado was kicked up day or two
ago by the sailing of the Yantic fron Port
land under sealed orders. 1t is now stated
on the authority Of prominent naval ofti.
Ger that the Yantic has gone on drill
cruise.
Postmaster General Villas yesterday told
a gentleman who called upon him to re-
commend the removal of some offensive re.
publican office holders in the South tnat
"the administration must move slowly IL IL
would placate the North" Southern mem.
bers of Congress who have heard OF this ex-
traordinary remark, say it will not conduce
to their reelection.
MIR. Evarts in the Senate to-day INTRODUCED q
resolution requesting the President to open cor
respondence with foreign governments, having
for its object the discovery of the causes OF tho
depreciation of silver, and tho means by which IL
can bo remonetenized. He asked for its lmme
date consid eration, but Mr. Riddleberger, for no
other apparent reason than the fact that he had
the power to do so, objected. SO that the resolu-
ton had to go over until Monday.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-07-31
Seven Persons Drowned.

HIGHLANDS, N. j., July 3l.-Intelligence
has been received here that schooner
yacht from Philadelphia upset near the
Government dock at Sandy Hook, during
the storm last evening. Six ladies and
young man was drowned. The body of one
person was recovered. Nine of the yachts
party, who were found cinging to the rig
ging, after she capsized, were rescued by q
tug. The yacht was the Sarah Craig.
She capsized Off the point of the
Hook. The names of those lost
were Mrs. T. H. Stevens; her two daughters
Miss NJ. Stevens and Mrs. Askin two sis.
tiers, Miss Emma and Miss Bessie Merritt,
Miss Maud E. RetteD, and Mr.. Chester
Clark. The saved are q. W. Jordan, AL
fred Potter, Frank W. Hall, W. 8. Buckley,
Capt. Edward rutland, mate Charles Fereu.
son, steward Lewis Bowman, Sam Jones
and William Paris. Mrs Stevens body has
been recovered. The schooner has been
lowed to near the Government dock, whore
the bodies will be taken out.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-07-31

A TRAGEDY IN CuLPEPER COUNTY
News has been recsived of a fatal shooting
affair Thursday evening about y miles
from Culpeper c. Fl. 1t appears that some
DAYS ago Capt. Clatterbuck and Edward
Green two prominent farmers, had diff
iculty about Green turning some cattle III
one of Clatterbuck's fields. The men came
to blows, and Green is reported as whipping
Clatterbuck and his son. Thursday Clat-
terbuck and two others rode up to Green's
barn and called him from his work in the
field. They had some words, and one re-
port says Green advanced towards Chatter,
buck, when the latter drew revolver and
shot Green twice, once in the stomach ana
once in the head. DR.. Brown was imme-
diately summoned, but Green was dead be-
fore he arrived. There is good deal of ex'
element over the affair, as both men are
we'll known and prominent 10 the county.
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ICON MI-NICATkD

The City Surveyor, in Thursday s GAZETTE in
answer to my communication of the day before,
attempts to explain why the cutters, etc, alluded
to in my communication, were m:.dr higher than
the nd dining lots. IL is an error To say that the
water which formerly stood on these lots will be
carried oil by the CATERS that arc now in o!
construction. when the cutters several inches
higher than the lots. You might lust rs well say
that tho waters Of spring nj the foot of noun
tain, instead Of flowing or into the valley, would
ascend to the top. In rainy weather tho water in
this locality was bad enough. without building
barrier to keep the little that would run oil from
tors laid to suit tho property the waller would
have been worse. The land NJ this artcmlar
point doesn't seem TO be any lower than Other
places in this section. consequently this couldn't
BIO. 1t WAS bad enough before tho gutlcis wero
laid but now it will ho wuisc, rs the water that
gets there will have to stay. The tenor OF his
communication conveys tho impression that pr.
vste property must be sacrificed for the sake OF
public property Ii this is according to tho laws
have no moro to say, but l seriously object to
having vacant lots in my noighborhOod beins
made cess pools for breeding diseases, which often
eliminate in death, and think the city should do
something to prevent tho water standing in these
places ] would mako ono suggestion. however,
which think would provo cilectual if put into
operation, viz: In tho water be gotten oil
in no other way why not employ various small
boys, at nominal salary, furnish them with
"squirteTs," set them to work ut eight hours day
Ito prevent strikes), and prophcsy that in the
course of year or two all tho water will be OIL
ST.. JOHN.
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A.. ID. p
CULPEPER NOTES.

Especial dispatch To tho Alexandria Gazette
CULPEPER G. H., July 3l.-Messrs. Hume
and Brent were here the first Of the week.
and Gen. Rooney Lee to-day. 1t is believed
here that the vote of this county on tho
first ballot in the Congressional convention
will be for John Strothcr as compliment;
then solid for Lee Possibly this precinct
mag be for Hume, but such is not the cacu'
lation. In this district Messrs. Johnson,
Slrotber John Rixey Mr.. Iancy and Fray
will have no opposition.
The "Virginia House, is finely kept by
Mrs. Hicks, who was n Miss Cooney, OF
Alexandria.
Rain has fallen every day of late. Flo
CANT crops will be the result. The country
looks splendid.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-07-31

TERRIBLE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Ter,
one of the Eskimos who arrived at st. John g,
N. F., from Okkak, Labrador, says that the
population of that settlement was nearly
100, yet, when he left with his wife, not q
soul remained. Early in March food gave
out. Every drop of oil and bit of sealskin
was utilized. and at rare intervals a bear
was killed, but finally the supplies were
quite exhausted. On June they had eaten
nothing for six days, and, goaded by hun
ger, they feasted upon the corpses of several
whales and few Indians that had been
killed by the cold. When one of their own
party died the body was cut open, the en-
trails, were taken out and the remainder
was frozen up for use. From this food ter.
rible dysentery set in among the survivors,
and on July there were but sixteen per-
cons left alive, the bodies of over twenty
FIVE having been eaten. The sixteen sur
vivors started down the coast in sledge
drawn by four dogs, the only living crea-
lures left then, their ponies having been
sacrificed to appease hunger long before.
When about twenty -four miles from Cape
Mugford q heavy snowstorm get in. While
the party were endeavoring to find their
way they we're attacked by while pears to
the number of twenty iva or thirty, which
killed all of the party but two, the survivors
being among the number at Cape Mugford.
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The Execution of Francisco Arresures.

GALVESTON, Tex, July 3l.-A special to
the Ncws from Austin says: Governor Ire
land having been advised Of the surrender
and execution of Francisco Arresures, tele-
graphcd to Mr.. i. D. Linn, tue American
Consul at Piedras Negras, for particulars,
and has received the following response:
EAGLE PASS, July 80.
Your telegram just received. Francisco
Arresures was arrested by Deputy Sheriff
Diaz, at Eagle Pass, by order of Sheriff
Oglesby on the night of the Goth inst. He
was handcufed, and in fifteen minutes was
delivered to Mexican officers across the Rio
Grande river. Sheriff Oglesby claimed that
he acted on a warrant of county Judge
Hofstetter, who says that Sheriff Oglesby
persuaded him to sign the order for Are
suers' arrest and delivery. There were no
papers for his arrest from Mexico, except
q letter from Mondragon, Captain of the
Slate Rangers in Coahuila, who made
general charge of horse stealing against
Arresures. A protest against being deliver
ed to the Mexican officers was strongly
made by Arresures, who insisted that he
would be killed by Mondragon, his personal
enemy. He appealed to me for protection
ON the morning of July 81, and l at once
demanded his return TO Texas on the ground
of his being kidnapped, and also had Ogles-
by to demand the prisoners return on the
same grounds. Both demands were refused
by Mondragon. At one o'clock at night
Arresures was taken from Jail and brutality
murdered by three of Mondragon's troops
In 1878 Arresures made declaration of Citi-
zcnship in Maverick county. He lived with
his family in Eagle Pass at the time OF his
arrest, and he was an omnibus driver. The
best citizens in Eagle Pass aud Piedras Ne
gras testify 10 his good character. Sheriff
Oglesby says he had n private understand
ing with Mondragon, by which an escaped
murderer from Texas, for whom large re-
ward had been offered, was 10 be delivered
to Oglesby in exchange for Arresures. Pub.
lie indignation is very great on both sides of
the river over this affair.
E. ID. LINN, U. S. Consul.
Gov. Ireland has sent Secretary Bayard
u copy of this correspondence and the facts
in the casa, and calls upon the United
STATES to avenge the insult, which be says is
n specimen Of what has been suffered from
the Meyicans for long time
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-07-31

MIR. jerks must be man of whose ser.
vices the President, at least. thinks the country
stands greatly in need. The President ap'
pointed him assistant Secretary of the In.
terror Department, where there was wide
field for the operation of talents of ser.
viceable order but Mr.. jerks finding more
profitable employment resigned that place.
Now that he has been appointed Solicitor
General, it is hoped he may ''stick, at least
until he shall have had an opportunity OF
making the country, as we'll as the Presi-
dent, aware of the great value of his SER
vices
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-07-31

We have received from Messrs Wise &
Co., insurance agents, of this city, beaut-
full photograph of n group of Confederate
commanders, including the Hon. Jefferson
Davis. This picture has been gotten up At
great COST by the Travellers Insurance Co.,
of Hartford, Conn. The likenesses arc all
good and comprise the following distin-
guished representatives Of the Confederate
Army: Generals H. f.. Lee, Joseph T.. John
ston, James Longstreet, A. =. Hill, "Stone-
WALL Jackson, p. G. Il. Beaurcgard, J. b.
Hood, J. +. Il. Stuart and smaller portrait
of Albert Sidney Johnston.
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ALEX
SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 81.

The ENORMOUS robberies to which some
of the cities of this country are subjected by
their own dishonest officials are inducing
the plundered people thereof to agitate the
question of returning to the old system OF
conducting city governments upon the plan
of joint stock companies, by which no BODY
except stock holders, that is, the owners OF
property in the city upon which taxes are
collected, were allowed to take any part IN
municipal affairs, or to vote upon questions
relating to such affairs. Under the present
system adventures, with no interest what
ever in the cities referred to except what
they can make out Of them by the prostitu-
ton of their official positions to dishonest
purposes, set the price of water and gas
establish the tax rate and the rate at which
money is borrowed for city uses, give out
contracts, and appoint the assessors and COL
lectors of taxes, though, as far as they are
individually concerned, it is all the
same to them whether taxes be high
or low, as they pay none. No right
thinking man, whether he be property
owner or not, can see either Justice or Wis
dom in such a system as the latter, and the
facility it affords plunderers to feather their
nests at the expense of the people among
whom they sojourn, is constantly apparent
to the readers of the daily newspapers.
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CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATES.
Especial dispatches to the Alexandria GAZETTE.
FAUQUIER COUNTY.

Especial dispatches to the Alexandria GAZETTEJ
FAUQUIER COUNTY.
REcToRTowN, July 31.-The following
delegates were to-day elected to the Alex
andria convention: Messrs. G.. B. Gibson, c.
P. holland. B. b. Turner, J. S. Mason and
8. W. Trplett, from Scott district. All for
Lee. Z. II. W.
MARSHALL, July 3l.-At the township
meeting here to-day, G. W. Davis, chair
man, the following delegates were elected;
r. A. Beverly, ]. M. Rixey, J. W. Wright,
Geo. B. Davis, S. J. Weadon, and Luther
Ashby. The delegates are supposed to lie
for Foster }. H.. i.
WARRENToN, July 3l.-Messrs. X. 1
Scott, A. ID. Payne, J. p. Jeliries, A. G.
Smith, Jno. r. Basay and Thos. Forbes were
10 day elected delegates to the convention
-four arc for Meredith and two for Lee.
Lee is second choice Of Meredith men, and
Meredith second choice Of Lee men.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-07-31

The PRESIDENTS prominent Virginia
nominations have not, as general rule,
been at all conducive to the popularity OF
his administration. Whether the effect OF
the latest one will be otherwise is un-
known. But no one acquainted with
him will deny General Maury's fitness
for the position to which he has been ap-
pointed; aud his pronounced stand in favor
of the payment of the State debt. if nothing
else, will induce all the wise friends OF the
State to hope that his nomination may be
cnnfirmad
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IRON WARRINGTON.
Especial Correspondence Of the Ale1s. GAZETTE
WASHINGTON, d. c., July 81, 1886.

lspesial Correspondence Of the Ale1s. GAZETTE
WASHINGTON, D. c., July 81, 1886.
The appointment of General Dabney
Maury. of Richmond, to the position OF U.
8. Minister to the United States Of Colombia
is considered here in the light of recon-.
pense to Virginia for the rejection OF Mr..
Goode for Solicitor General. The President
ju selecting him also endorsed the debt pay
ing element of the Virginia democracy, as
General Maury is a pronounced supporter
of that element.
Capt. John Wise is here to-day in con-
sultation with Senator. elect Daniel, OF his
State, in reference to the suit for damages
merchant of Baltimore has brought against
a labor newspaper in Richmond for publish.
ing him as under the boycott, in which suit
both the gentlemen referred to have been
engaged as counsel by the defendant.
The conference report on the river and
harbor bill occupied the attention of the
House during large part of to.day's sss-
sion. the opponents of that bill, among the
most strenuous Of whom is Mr.. Randall,
doing all they could to defeat the adoption OF
the report. and the defeat of the bill and all
its provisions.
In the Senate to-day Mr.. Edmunds re-
norted fayorably bills to relieve the political
disabilities of B. P. Loyal and Seth NJ. Bar
ton, of Virginia, and of Eugene Mclean, OF
New York.
Mr.. Goodies friends here endorse his state.
ment that his rejection was caused by .
conspiracy the chief parties to which were
Senator Mahone, his old personal enemy,
and the Bell telephone company, the agent
of whom in tho Senate was Mr.. Hoar and in
the House Mr.. Ranney.
A resolution will be introduced inl Con-
press to-day, and be adopted, extending the
appropriations of last years sundry civil
bill for ten days, until the new one can be
nassed and put into operation. The Presi-
dent signed the legislative bill last night,
but as that, if it shall stand, will make the
preparation of two pay rolls Necessary one
for thirty days of the current month Lam, and
the other for one day, and the latter differ
ing in hundreds of particulars from the for
mer, he has been beeought BY the officials to
withdraw his signature and withhold 1t I'M
til to-day, so that the bill will not 60 into
effect until to- morrow, and thereby let the
nayments for July be made nnder the last
nil. and those of August under the new one.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-07-31

The Century for August has been received
from its publishers, the Century Company,
New York. It's contents are: Algiers and
its Suburbs, The Minister'S Charge, Heidel-
berg, A Gypsy Beauty, Col. Spaight's Pref
udices, Sea Birds at the Farne Islands, Is it
Peace or War? The Western Art Move.
ment, John Burroughs and his Last Two
Books, The Casting Away of Mrs. Lecks
and Mrs. Aleshire, Lee at Fredericksburg,
The Battle of Fredericksburg, Summers
Right Grand Division, rankings Left
Grand Division, Why Burnsde did not Re-
new the Attack at Fredericksburg, The
Falsehood of Extremes, Democracy in
England, Open Letters, Brio A Brac, and
some poetry.
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the details of the plot for the attack upon

the details of the plot for the attack upon
the train.
The United States Senate was engaged
nearlya all of yesterday in discussing Morri-
sons surplus resolution, which was finally
passed with amendments. In the House Of
Representatives several unsuccessful efforts
were made to pass pension bills over the
Presidents veto. The Intestate Commerce
bill was taken up and the Reagan substitute
ed for the Senate bill, and passed. An
agreement was reported on the River and
Harbor bill. -...--------..---
The 100 employees OF Mertz & Sons. car
penters and ioners, Portchester, N. Y, in-
sisted Thursday upon attending picnic Of
the Friendship Social Club, a socialist or.
ganization, in spite of the protest of their
employers Yesterday when they came to
work they found the shops locked and no.
tice on the door saying that it was Mr.
Merits time now to have picnic, and that
the shops would be closed indefinitely. The
men arc very angry.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-07-31

ATTORNEY GENERAL GARLAND says that
while there is nothing unconstitutional
about the oleomargarine bill, its approval by
the President will be of doubtful expediency.
But the President is on record as saying it
is for Congress to pass the laws, his duty
only being to see that they be executed. If
the bill be constitutional the President
should sign it, as it is the deliberate e1-
preston of both the mediate and immedi-
ate representatives of the people OF the
country. II its effects be Injurious, the Con-
gress and not the President, will be re-
sponsible. The question of expediency has
nothing to do with the matter Of his ap-
prevail, and if he shall allow that question
any weight he will greatly surprise the
country, by reason of the TACT that hereto
fore he has apparently acted as though e1'
pedienoy was thing to which he paid no
attention.
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Railroad Accident.

LEBANON, Pa, July 81 The market train
on the Lebanon Valley road was wrecked
near Derry last night by wash-out The
train of three passenger cars and tho To-
connective were thrown down sixty. feet
enbankment. Engineer Stanton was killed
and the fireman had both legs broken.
There was only one passenger and he es-
caped injury.
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FOREIGN NEWS
but couciusl

The appointment of Henry Matthew'S to
be home secretary has caused much surprise
in England.
1t is charged that Germany has been se
cretly training carrier-piSeons in France for
war purposes.
Mr.. Leonard Lyeli, Glalstoninn, has been
re elected TO the British House of Commons
for Orkney and Shetland.
The presence of newspaper correspond
ents at the Austrian autumn military man
euvrea in Gallcia has been forbidden.
The London Times, referring to the fishery
question between the United States au,i Can
ada, says that al II last resort The controversy
can be solved only by arbitration or treaty
Prince Regent Luitpold, of Bavaria, has
sent al autograph letter to the Pope, asslr-
ing him that Luitpold will consider it his
personal duty TO protect the interest Of the
Catholic Church in Bavaria
The parents of Eliza Armstrong, the
young girl who figured 80 conspicuouslv in
the Pdt Mall Gazette exposures, have ar
ranged to bring suit for $4,000 damages
gainst Mr.. Stead, the then editor Of the Ga
=cife it's publishers and General Booth, of
The Salvation Amy.
The cholera reports from Austro Hungary
for yesterday were Trieste, . new cases 5
deaths; Fiume, l new case, no deaths The
Italian returns were Manduria, &c new cases,
deaths; Bologna, Is new cases, S deaths !;
Ravena, 10 new cases, deaths, and 90 new
cases and deaths elsewhere.
The rioters who were killed during the
eel killing game disorders last Sunday and
Monday were buried yesterday. Great crowds
attended the funerals, which, contrary to
general expectation, were not accon panied
by any turbulence, even the socialist
speeches delivered at the graves producing
no excitement.
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Approved.

WASHINGTON, July 3l.-The President
has approved the act in regard to the con-
struction of a public building at Galveston,
Tex; the act to prohibit the passage oflocal
or special laws in the territories of the
United States and 10 limit territorial in
debtedness, and eight private pension bills.
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Duel with Sabres

ALeIERs, July 31.-Two French sub.
officers of the army stationed here became
involved in quarrel, and challenge to
fight duel resulted. The weapons chosen
were sahres. The head Of one of the cnn.
testants was cleft in twain.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-07-31
Lieut. ScheutZe.

WASHINGTON, July 31.-The Navy De-
partment is advised of the arrival Of Lieut..
ScheutZe at Irkutsk on his return from
Siberia and OF his intended departure on the
10th of July.
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Fire in London.

LONDON, July 3l.--The shoe factory Of
Stead, Simpson II Co., at Leicester, has been
destroyed by fire. The loss is c250, 900. Fiji.
teen hundred persons are thrown out of en-
ployment.
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Fleeing from the Drought.

WACO, Texas, July 3l.-Every day brings
new arrivals here OF people moving from
the drought-sticken counties in the west Of
Texas, Many of them are almost destitute.
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LIST OF LETTEPs

The following is list OF the letters remaining in
the Alexandria postoilice July 81.
Persons calling for letters will please say they arc
advertised
Advertised letters, not called for within thirty
days, will be sent to the dead letter office.
Alexander, Celindria Jones, Susan
Borden, Miss Sally Kelly, &C.
Brooks, Mrs Harriet Ianham, Thos
Bolden, Mrs Mary Icgett, james
Carlnon Il Manloy, Henry
Cameral, Robt Mays, Miss III
Craven, Mrs Aramin:a Mason, RI
Davis, Mrs Martha Peters, Mrs Il
Frazier. Ernest Parks. Miss frankie
Gan, Frank Pendlcton, John
Gaines James Peters, w Fl
Grayson, Mrs Emma Robcy, G.
Green, John S Roberts, John
Grady, William Rup, Mrs Margaret
Harrington, David J. Rotchforj, Richard
Hamilton, Mrs Fannie shuts $
Harper, ] Newton Smith, Mrs Camilla
Hue Mrs rcnncsson, Mrs Sarah
Jackson, Mrs Marin Turner, Miss Jennie
Johnson, Mrs IA Wells, Jane
Johnson, Robert White Julia
W. W. HERBERT p. NJ.