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West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-03-31
18th dag of AprGL, 1886,


THAT being q Court dayl at the front door of
The Court House of Wood county, West Va,
proceed to sell at public sale the lands re-
quired by said decree to be sold, viz: tract
of SIXTY THREE ACRES of land on the
waters of Big Rum in Williams District, in
Wood county, adjoining lands of F. A.
Athey and others, ind being the same land
particularly described in deed OF convey
ance from Elizabeth A. Bunch to Chas. w.
Athey, Dated Sept. 9TH, 1870, and recorded
in Deed Book, No. A, on page-227, in the Of
fee of the Clerk of the County Court of
Wood county, to which reference is here
had.
Also two other tracts of land adjoining
each other, on the waters of Big Run in
said District of Williams, Woodycounty ,one
containing 46A acres, conveyed to Chas. W.
Athey by Zillah Athey, by deed dated Feb.
u, 1861, and recorded in Deed Book, No. "a,
page lSd, in said County Clerk IS office; and
acres on the South. These TWO tracts con-
tanning Ie]14 acres, are described by metes
and bounds in plat filed in the papers
of said cause as exhibit No. %, with Lem
uel Athey's deposition.
There is excepted from the 571a acres the
Mansion house and three acres around it,
which belongs to Alice A. A they.
The above lands will be sold free of dover,
the said widow having elected to accept a
sum in gross out OF the purchase money in
lieu of dOWery. The said 5T% acres will
be sold!subi cot to life estate in Zlllah Athey
now eighty years old.
The said 60 acres will be sold separately,
ana une lGa3A Will DE SOlQ IN Two paR6eiS OIL
vided by q north and south line
80. TERMS OF SALE.
One-third of the purchase money to be
paid cash. and the residue in two equal in
stallments of one and two years respectively
the purchaser being required to give his
notes bearing interest. with good security
for the deferred payments, and lien will
be retained ON the land as an additional
security. DAVE d. JOHNSON,
Special Commissioner.
l, o. M CLEMENS Clerk of the Circuit
Court of Wood Co9nty do certify that Dave
ID Johnson the Special Commissioner above
has given h9nd as required by law,
and by the terms ofSaid decree of sale above
mentioned.
lTEsTE: O. NJ. GLEN EMS, Clerk
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-10-14
Damage by Storm.

NEW ORLEANS, Oct. ia special from
| Fort Eads to the Times. Democrat saws j: The
total extent Of tho damage occasioued by
the late storm is not known, tut it has been
Widespread from The ,jetties to Poute a Ia
Hache. The wind had been fresh Saturday
night, was blowing hard all day Sunday.
and on Monday increased to hurricane
There werc two aud u half feet of water in
iort hads. and the sea was running heavy
over The east side Of the elties. Here is
situated great concrete wall, extending
from The iuaer reef to the end of the works.
which is Intended TO prevent tho waves of
The Gull from washing sand into the chan
mel. 1t is nearly PARALLEL to and distant
about 200 yards from the jetties proper. I'm
meu5e blocks OF concrete had been moulded
IN boxes, and measured 10 sold contents
eight feet by fifteen feet, and weighed
many tons apiece. \ house had also beeh
nu'lt where cement was stored for concrete
blocks. Some idea OF the terrific force Of
the gale snd pounding sea can be arrived
at when 1t is known that many of these
heavy blocks were lifted out Of position and
swallowed up in the sen. Others were
stood upon end and others twisted out of
place causing considerable damage. The
hulEhead that is being built between this
wall and the Jetties proper was entirely
submerged and the waters rolled over it
rom end to end. The building was swept
away, not vesage having been left to
mark The spot where it stood The plank
road that served Port lIads az a public
street Heated olf'ana became debris among
The white caps.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-10-14
ANOTHER DECISION AGAINST TpE SrATr

ANOTHER DECISION AGAINST THE STATE.
The suit brought by 4. NJ. Willis against
W. G. Miller, treasurer of Rappahannock
county, for trespassing in levyng upon his
property after tender of coupons in nav
ment OF taxes had been made. was decided
i'll the U. s. Circuit Court in Richmond
Judge Bond presiding, yesterday. The
damage was laid by plaintiff at $4,000, and
the jury rendered verdict for $50. JUDGE
bond said in this case, that under the act of
1884, which segregated the taxes levied nv
law and collected by its :reasurers, the
right to tender coupons in payment of the
State school tax was no longer allowable
By the act of 1871 the coupons rendered in
this case by the plaintiff in payment Of his
State taxes were made receivable for all
public taxes and dues. The Supreme Court
OF the Unlted States has decided that this
was contract between the State and the
coupon holder, which no subsequent legisla-
ton could impair, and he cannot now see
why the tact that the Legislature has alter
Cd the method of collecting the school tax
or the method OF Its distribution, or the fact
That 1t has segregated it from the gross tax
collected, could alter its contract to receiva
its own evidence Of debt in payment of that
tax. 1t is public due. The tender of
coupon is the tender of recent
and so much money already in the
State treasury. Ii the money represented
by the coupon is not in the treasury it il as
much the duty of the State to have it there
as 1t IS to support the public schools.
Mr.. Jas. ). Cooper, the English bondhold
er, was present in the court during the
trial OF this case There are about 81 other
similar suits pending, which the attorney.
general expects to be settled to .dsy upon
the basis of the one disposed of.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-10-14

THE HOLDERS OF CLARKE BoSps vs..
CLARKE Co.-Judge Turner, or Wednesday
of last week, rendered his decision in II. F..
CaZanove and others vs. The W. & O. r. K.
and Clarke county. The purpose of the suit,
brought by the holders of Clarke county
bonds issued about 80 years ago in aid OF
tho Alexandria,. Loudouu and Hampshira
Railroad, was TO obtain payn ent OF Tie iu,
tereSt now due, and the question was who
should pay 1t the county, or the W. @. K
W. K. K. Co.. who have taken the shoe; of
the Alexandria, Louiouu & Hampshire Co.
The county had voted substitution of
500, 1000 10 the said road, upon certain con
dlllons, to-wit, that the road should be built
through the county within reasonable
time and that Berryvlle should he made a
point. The railroad company was anxious to
get the benefit GCIarke's albscrip.ion, but it
was not ct the time able to comply with the
terms thereof, so it agreed to execute a
first lien on its property in favor of the county to
indemnify her against any loss by reason of
Transferring bonds before the terms az sllbscrir
ton were complied with by tho railroad companv
These proceedings for The protection of the conn
ty were complied with and the necessary papers
executed. The railroad has never reached the
Clarke line. The court in substance, holds by
Its decision that the bonds were tho genuine
bonds OF the county, aud were issued under prom.
er authority, but that the railroad company, by
reason of the bond of indemnity executed for the
benefit of the county, was bound To pay the ac.
cincd interest to the exoucration of The county.
and ordered sale of the property Of the railroad
company embraced in the deed of trust to secure
the indemnity bond. Tho court docs not decide
whether the railroad company could recover, if
they should now mako THOR road through Clarke
county from her what they may DO obliged TO
pay under the present decision, nor did il nndcr.
take to say that under such contingency the
county would be liable for both interest and
principal of tho bonds. These questions will bc
determined when the occ lsion for so doing arts O.,
Clarke Courier.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-10-14
9(S5:5z
ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES
Knights az Io6H,.

RICHMOND, Va, Oct. 1i.-The executive
board OF the KING hts of Labor held meet
ins at 5 o'clock this morning to consider tho
question of sending aid to tho locked ont
cotton workers ut Augusta, Ga, the curriers'
anu tanners at Salem and Peabody, Mass,
and tbs journeymeu plumbers at New York
City. Tho General Assembly had already
voted That money should be appropriated
for their relief 1t was resolved that the
sum ct 900 should be devoted 20 this
purpose, ana 5000 in each of the cases
considered, and that further sums ne sent
rs needed. Mr.. Powderly held confer
ence at Fo:d's Hotel last night with fifteen
or sixteen colored delegates to the General
Assembly. They represented the COL
cred assemblies of the Knights of
Labor of Virginia, Georgia, Florida
Mississippi and other Southern States
The object OF the conference was the forma.
llan cfa bureau Of colored knights through
out the Southern States, for the purpose of
procuring accurate statistics relative to the
condition Of the colored people and their re-
lation to white laborers, wherever they are
employed together. These statistics are to
comprise everything in connection with the
houra OF labor, treatment they receive from
their employers, their wages, coss of living,
e!c. IS purposed to learn whether thoy
receive tho fall liberty aud rights to which
they arc legally entitled. But Mr.. Powder
ly said in speaking of the conference and its
objects, that the question of social equality
is not one of the objects of the bureau. Its
object Is to stimulate the colored people to
work for their own elevation. Thomas b.
Barry, John w. Hayes and w. H. Bailey
We're elected men. bers of the general execu.
live hoard.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-10-14

A DISPATCH from Richmond, of yester-
days date, says There is much talk to.
night about the secession Of the southern
knights of labor from the order on account
of Mr.. Powderly's position on the race issue,
and it is said the southern delegates have
been to see Mr.. Powderly on the subject
Such talk is not at al surprising. Northern
people, who see negro about as often as
Southern people see Chinaman, can't un-
derstand why their white fellow citizens of
the South object to the social equality of the
white and black RACES; but the reasons for
that objection are just as apparent to the
Southern white knights Of labor as to the
Southern white knights of pleasure-if there
be any Of the latter class in the South.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-10-14

A SUIT FOR damages in coupon case be-
fore the u. :. circuit court at Richmond yes
ierday WAS decided, rs most every body con.
versant with the law on the subject knew it
would be, III favor OF the plaintiff, the court,
under the decision of the l'uited States
Supreme Court. taking tho ground that
the question Of the gtnuineness Of
coupons could not arise as the obiec-
ton was not made by the treasurer ut the
time on this ground, and it WA immateria
whether the coupons were now held by the
plaintiff or not, a. he was not compelled TO
keep them after they he'd been refused. :"
In other words, the court decided that the
mere tender Of coupons in payment Of
tax bill is in the eye Of the law, legal
payment of that bill Aud yet the Rich.
moud Dispatch says the State officers at
Richmond are right in demanding that Mr.
Dulany shall surrender the coupons he Of
fered in payment of his taxes The way for
the State 10 enforce that demand, if it have
any right to make it, is to levy, but it is OBJ.
served that it has not yet resarted to that
process. Yes, an extra session Of the legis-
lature should be called, and that as speed-
" as practicable, and the pernicious bills
making such suits as the one referred to pos.
sible be repealed at once.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-10-14
Narrow EscaDc.

CHICAGO, Oct. 14-Passengers on open
car No. 81, of the Adams & Harrison street
llne' mad narrow escape last night from
drowning in the filthy water of the river.
AS Inc Car was nearing the Adams street
bridge, the driver stopped it apparently cat
lshed ne could not get over before the BRIDGE
would turn. Some one on the bridge shont.
ed something to the driver which the mas.
sengers understood to be come onu The
driver then started the car aud lust az tbs
car reached the bridge the structure turned
the end striking the north side Of The "a ,
and tearing out the front. Glass was thrown
over the badly frightened passengers and
The bridge tender hearing the crash stoned
Tue bridge IN time 10 avert calamity. Then
the car, which was heavily loaded backed
oil tho bridge. Had The bridge started
moment earlier or later, the car load of ras.
sengers would have been precipitated into
the river.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-10-14
VIRGINIA NEWS

DR.. Geo. a. Sprenkel, OF Culpeper, has
been appointed OH the State board OF dental
examiners.
The Fall term of the Circuit Court for
Loudoun county, Judge Keith, will com
mence next Monday.
Mrs. Lippitt, wife OF Dir. C. f. I.ippitt, of
Clarke county, died last Saturday after q
lingering illness, oftyphoid fovsr.
Four or five handsome stores arc now in
the course of erection at Culpcper snd all
evidences Of the lato fire will soon be ohlit.
Grated.
MIR. David Steadman, O former we'll
known citizen CT Leesburg, died on Sunday
evening, near Waterford, in The 18th wear
Of his age.
John ID. Spencer, arragaed at Martins
vile, charged with malicious shooting of L.
X. Terry, was acquitted yesterday. He
WAS acquitted some time ago Of the murder
of J. X. Terry.
Jesse Harris, one of the neeroe. ENGAGED
in recent fight between negroes and stu
dents of Chapel Hill n. c., was captured in
Danville last night and will be turned oypl
to the North Carolina authorities.
Four thousand persons attended tho fair
of the Shenandoah Valley Agricultural So.
clety at Winchester yesterday. Madam
Carlotta made successful balloon ascension
and land six miles from the town.
| John Il. Donayin, Of Clark county. aged
70: was struck by train on the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad, near Baltimore Yesterday
His right arm was broken. and he wa:
bruised all over the body. He was taken ia
the Maryland University Hospital for med.
ica treatment.
The ANIMAL target practice OF the C,ipep
er minute men took place last Friday. The
prize Was won by private Frank Bowman,
With score OF IS out of a possible % He
was tied by private David Mills. The tie
was decided by one shot each, Mills scoring
four, Bowman bulls eye.
The Richmond tobacco mark is repor;
Ell az very firm and the tendency is to up,
ward prices. There is good deal OF trad
ing this week, much more than appears to
the casual observer, as many of the largest
| transactions take place nowadays in the
office instead of on Change
II. Y. Powderly was yesterday elected hy
the knights OF Labor" convention in Rich.
mond Grand Master Workman" of the or.
gani2atlon for two years, after which, HE
| account says, he took but little Interest in
the subsequent proceedings" Such Il
scramble for offices was never seen, says one
of the members.
AT the l4yncnburg centennial celebrations
yesterday it is estimated that there were
fully 10000 strangers in the city, and quite
| 10000 on the fair grounds. The feature OF
the day was the trades parade. IL was :,
| mile and half long, and in it various in.
dustries were represented. At the iair
grounds the exercises were OF an exceed
| insly interesting character Capt james
| Barron Hope read an admirable centennial
| poem, which was followed By au address
from Rev. DR.. Fitzge raid, editor OF The
Nashville Christian .4drocate. Miss Won
| Blumen, lady bicyciist cd two halt
mile heats with Il trottng horse, she having
800 yards advance. The bicyclist won one
heat and tie horse the other
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-10-14
Terrible Loss of'U.iT,

NEW ORLEANS, Oct. Il.-Chief Operator
West,of the Western Union telegraph office,
'hIs city, Tonight received the following
from the operator at Orange, Texas: The
town OF S:ih'ne Pass waa totally DESTROYED
by the Overlooking OF the Sabine river las,
night. 1t is known that G5 lives were lost
Last night during the overflow, hotel con-
tanning 10 or 20 persons was swept out into
tho bay and al the occupants were drowned
Ihe captain Of 3 schooner from there to dsv
says that not house ia left in the whole
country, and that every living thing there
was drowned. A party of men came from
Beaumont this evening on train, with the
intention Of joining the people of Orange, and
going down to Sabine Pass, with relief
boat. The wires have been down all day on
both sides of Orange. Sabine Pass is twelve
miles below Orange on the Sabine river
NEW YORK, Oct. H.-Western Union
OFFICIALS report that the storm which pre-
vailed in Texas and Louisiana Yesterday
and the day before, is now TRAVELLING in
hor'neas'oriy direction, and is cutting of
telegraphc communication as it progresses
New Orleans reports that it has no wires
west, aud that the whole coast territory
from Now Orleans to Galveston is cut off
As tho storm is still raging in the southwest
it vii. be some considerable time before anv
details OF the disaster at Sabine Pass can be-
obtained.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-10-14
Disastrous Rr;

CHICAGO, Oct, 1.-THE Times, -.
from "h''a Ha!ln, Washington ~ FsSs.
say ~ cattle man just returoe, WY
Nor'n montana states ihat The No:a,; "O%
o'''e OF cattle from this country 10 p s"&t'
uo'"a''lS MS proven = disastrous ai,n. ,',N
'ne o.. LOUIS c"''ie syndicate Of VIII, :"
Ne''rihshSHs 'a " prominent mymh.r ~ vi
VIZ. VIC "'''s, consisting of forty ;br..
'"i' ne"' q eau 'r' ''"!r"rri finely ~,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-10-14
ALEX ANDRIA..
THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER ii.

THE RICHMOND Dispatch persists in its
assertion that the GAZETTE's statement that
the business men Of Richmond had endorsed
a boycott is an "unfounded charge" and,
also, that it is a debated charge" The GA
ZErTE's first allusion to the statement refer
red to was early in March, and from that time
to the present it has often repeated it at in
tervsls of variable duration. So much for
the debated charge" Now for the sun.
founded one At meeting of the business
men of Richmond held on the lltn COY OF
February, at which the boycott of the Baugh-
man Bros. was considered, as published in
the Dispatch,
IAN Informal but lengthy discussion followed,
in which the sentiment was crystallZed against
any action any uttelanCc3, at this time. hostile to
the Typographical union or TO the knights OF Ia
Dor
The union had ordered the boycott, aud
the Knights supported it. AT q conference
Of the business committee, appointed at
meeting of the business men Of Richmond,
with committees of the knights Of labor and
Typographical union No. 90, held February
patch. adopted a resolution concluding with
the following words:
"Bnt the boycott as against tho Baughman Bros
shall remain in full force
At q pubic meeting Of the business men
Of Richmond held February 20, TO consider
certain acts recently done under the sane
lion Of the organization known as the
knights of labor" among the resolutions
adopted was one il reference TO the action
OF the conference above referred to, which,
as published in tho Dispatch, commenced
with the following words
That wo endorse most heartily the action of
tie business committee of this meeting in having
II conference with ;hc representatives, of the labor
uaons.
Among the actions of the committee thus
endorsed MAS the resolution that the Baugh.
man hcycott should stand. At this same
meeting Mir. John Howard offered set of
resolutions c"ndeut.ing the boycott, which,
as published in the Dispatch, were rejected
In the Richmond State OF March O. in 9
communication signed Excel. or," the fol.
lowing words occur:
"A committee was appointed aad this commit.
ice I'D conference with the knights of labor
and Typographical union. After hearing the
statements of the labor committees. the bushes,
meu5 committee endorsed unanimously the
h"ycott against the printing Office, with the dis
ti"@' understanding That he FIRMS customers shogM BE-
hoFpttrd"
If in the face of all this, the GAZETTE's
statement that the business men Of Rich
mona endorsed q boycott be an "unfounded
ctarge,' what conceivable additional proof
must that statement require in order to give
II E'undation? Tie Dispatch is "a unfor:u-
natein the boycott rs it is in the reputation
business.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-10-14
seSsipriy' Social s;aIYasi.y

In letter critcising Powlerlys letter on so.
Ella! equality, Col. Randolph Harrison. State
commissioner Of Agriculture, says
l have very extensive acquaintance with the
farmers ot this State, not ou!y in general and
"ii2!al Way, bat Personally. know 81 GOOD ID II
concerning the circumstances Of many of them
anu the profits o.! Farming and boldly attest that
r"i":e'! and other lahorcrS arc paid fully rs nurh
"5 the profits OF their labor will Justify in many
cases tiorc aud further affirm that 50 far from
hcing starved, our colorcd laborrrs are rs we'll
led strong and lusty talthou"h not a. intlns rnii
and efficient As some others as auy laborng class
IN any country, and they would ho as contcrted if
tho asi;ators, the MAhones, Powderys, Fl ID oma,
grha<, would cease stu'iing their brains with IDEAS
OF social equality, political rights and privileges
ana destinations that they are SystcmatiralIy on
pressed hy their employers. | have had 4 CORES
pondencc with lion. Edward Atkinson of Boston
ON this s@hIcct-tho wages OF cclorcd lahorrr,
the ra;i0ns furnished them, Sc The contras, hr
tween this gentleman aud Mr.. powtlcrly is very
STRIKING. The former approached the subject i'm
a phlloSophcal spirit, seeking to learn the truth
and The whole truth, rs Influenced hy the circum.
stances bearing upon it. Mr. ;owdcrly comes in
inc SPIRIT Of the French Il gmatist, who fnll of
crude theories, was spawning them lsvishiuqIy
to be Matched for the enlightenment of bcnipM
cu world, when he was met hy the proof that said
theories did rot correspond with Inc facts i'm X,
sue, hnt. not at all discnmfied answered COM
so mich tho worse for the iiscts"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-10-14
Weather ssIt.Irf;,

WASHINGTON, Oct. ll.-The storm ,r,
trail yesterday morning. in the cy.r.n.
northwest has moyci to t;,e s,u,hca., .,.,
has united with the s,orm lately ceprr,, i,
the Gulf of Mexico. 1t is nos central j.
northern Illinois and is developing or.,.
energy. 1t will move to the nor,hca,, ~,
companied by high southeast wind. .b,r
ing to northwest over the lower lakes a.,
The coasts of New England and tina MLlr.
Atlantic States. High northwest winds 80.
also Indicated for Lakes Superior and Mich.
gan. For Friday clearing, cooler wrahs,
is indicated for the Middle Atlanta S,st.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-10-14

RESULT OF THE BULGARIAN ELECTIONS.
The elections in Bulgaria for members OF
the Great Sobranje have resulted in the re-.
turn of $50 government candidates, of 90
members of the Zankotf party. and of Is
adherents of LaraveloH. The Sobranie will
meet in fortnight. The Bulgarian govern
ment, in reply TO the Russian notes, denies
the right of any authority other than the
National Assembly to coudemn the acts of
the government. The Russians themselves.
the government adds, were responsible for
Sundays riots. Gen. kaulbsrs, under the
circumstances, has telegraped to St. Peters.
burg, asking whether he shall proceed on
his Journey or not.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-10-14
Tower lSiHWn Owes

kANKAKGE, H., oct. 1.-THE W.,.-
Works tower at this place, which Wa ram.
pleted last week, was blown over 10 hv
crushing the bara Of II. II. JohHson and =,
portion Of the residence of Joshua AIlri,,
Aldrich and his vii, were in another nor.
ton of the house at the time aud were mr.
injured. The tower was l25 feat hich -
feet across, Was Of boiler iron and cast
$1,000. The wind blew down trees md
chimneys, and tore oil roots. No lives wc-p
lost.