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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-10-08
Floods. Cholera and storm.

SAN Francisco, Oct. 8-From advices
received by the steamer BAgc it is learned
that the whole of the new embankment Of
the Yellow River al Chang Chou begun last
autumn and carried on at cost equal to
over nine millions of dollars has been com
petely swept away by the recent food. OF
the 5000 ineal feet of river wall recently
completed not one inch remains and the
waters are pouring through the immense
gap into Honau, unchecked. From 500 to
1000 laborers who were on the bank were
swept away and drowned.
A disastrous flood in the province Of
Moukden, about $50 miles northeast of Pc
kin, caused the death of hundreds of the
natives, the utter humiliation of very many
homes, destruction to crops and prospects OF
a general famine for the coming winter.
The cholera is stll raging at Hong Kong.
The daily average Of new patients ranges
from forty to fifty, most of whom die.
The storm on the Both at Nokajorie,
Japan, caused the following damage Mum
Der of houses demolished or half destroyed
5000; vessels totally lost, S5; vessels
wrecked, 500; number of persons wounded,
injured and receiving public assistance,
81 600
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-10-08
Another Fatal Accident.

Another fatal collision occurred Saturday
night on the Metropolitan Branch of the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad. near Dicker-
sou station, about 81 miles from Washing
ton, by which three persons were killed out.
right and Sc zen injured. The collision took
express, which left Washington at l0:45
o'clock, and an east-bound freight train
from MartiDsburg. The express left Wash
ington on time but lost time, owing to trou-
BILE with the engine, and then ran 1T a speed
of forty miles sn hour 10 catch up. A mile
west of DickersoD station the road makes q
grade in p deep cut, the banks being over 20
feet or more above tho level Of the tracks
Around the curve the train dashed just be-
fore midnight, gathering momentum each
second The freight train, which had or
ders TO remain on switch one mile beyond
until the express passed, had few minutes
before left the switch, and was slowly run
ming up grade. Suddenly the two engines
were almost upon each other. Engineer
Welch, of the freight train, sprang from his
cab, but his fireman, J. B. Virts, had no
time to get from his place at the furnace
and John Ridenbaugb, 81 brakeman, who
was also on the engine, was 80 paralyzad
with fear that he was unable to follow
the engineer ] w. G. Hand, fireman
of the passenger train, jumped and
was badly injured. 10 an Instant the
TWO engines came together with such fearful
velocity that they stood locked together on
the track, and formed base upon which
WIS piled in confusion pyramid twenty
feet high. The passengers were violently
thrown forward, but all escaped uninjnred.
They Immediately set to work to extricate
the tranmen, and wrecklng train arriving
few hours later assisted in the work.
The accident was due to q mistake on the
part of the freight lrainmen. They say they
had orders to lay off on the switch and wait
70. two sections of the Pittsburg express,
and the express train which caused the COL
ison, to pass. They had been on duty cou-
tinuouslv for thirty six hours, and after sea-
ng the first section Of the Pittsburg express
pass had gene to sleep at their posts to SO
cure little rest They aWoke as the se-
cond section Numbered by, and as it was
running on the schedule time of The Ciucin
natl and ST. Louis express, they thought il
was the train which had just passed, and,
therefore, pulled out snd came down the
single track
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-10-08
ChiefJustice Fuller Installed.

WASHINGTON, Oct. Chief Justice Full.
Ter took his oath of Office and assumed the
active duties of his position to day. Among
those who found places in the room were
Judge Allen G.. Thurman and Mrs. Fuller,
wife of the Chief Justice, with six daughters
and one son, for whom seats were reserved.
The Chief Justice arrived at the Capitol at
half past eleven and proceeded to the pri
yate Office of the court, where be took the
oath of allegiance in the presence of the As
sociaied Justices, the oath being administer
ed by the senior member of the court, As
eociate Justice Miller The court then sd.
turned till tomorrow
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-10-08
VIRGINIA NEWS.

The Virginia oyster gnnboat Chesapeake
reports a number of captures Of small boats
for roughing oysters in the James and Rap
pahannock rivers.
James Galigan. 81 Surry county, engaged
In the lumber business at BurwelPs Bay
James River, was found dead in bed at the
hotel in Smithfeld. on Friday, having com.
mitted suicide by shooting himself in the
head with pistol while under the Influence
of liquor.
In Madison, on the Amherst eide of the
James river, opposite Lynchburg, Saturday
night last, three young white men, Pat
Byrne, Joseph Spencer and Charles Floyd,
were shot by coored desperate ard e1
convict named Jim Scott. The shooting,
which was done with revolver, is said TO
have been entirely unproyoked. 1t is
thought Byrne and Spencer cannot recover.
The New York Herald says: Miss Nena
Briton Barbee, the daughter of the Virgin.
ian sculptor William Bsrbee, and MIR. Albert
Waterbury Lane, of this State, are to be
married on Wednesday. The ceremony will
take place at the home of Mrs. Charles z
Sprague, relative of the bride. at her apart
meDts in the Rensselaer,, and the ceremony
is to be performed by the Rev. Dr. Biting,
of Virginia.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-10-08
Major SCOTS Grafton.

The following is portion of Nj jor SCOTS ora
ton at the unwilling of the Pickett monument in
Richmond on Friday
This monument will tell of General Montgom
cry D. Coise and of the Fifteenth, Seventeenth
Twenty ninth, Tbrtieth and Thirty second Vir-
ginia regiments of volunteers of Manassas Beth
ell and Drewry's Buff; of fredericksburg Sharpe.
burg, Five Forks, and Sailors Creek of Captain
John Quincy Mars-thc first blood of the war
how he met the invaders nj Fairfax Court House,
aud fell id defence of his native State; of Thomss
p. August, John Stuart Walker and Robert 8.
Chews of William Dulany and his Fairfax men
of Jack Humphrey and Winston Carter and the
men of the Seventeenth Virginia who fell at Will
liamsbnrg; of Morton Maryc, Arthur Herbert,
Herbert. Herbert Bryant, Charles q. Williams and
Philip B Hooe OF David Funscn and George w
Brent; of tho patient service and sturdy manhood
of Virginia's SONS her iewes-whose blood made
red every battle field Of the war
Virginia, great alike in veal aud woc
What splendors like halo round thee CLEAN,
Whist grandeur dwels within thy very name
1t will tell of General Lewis Addison Armistead,
Fauquer's noble and gallant son of the Nine
teen1h, Fourteenth. Thirty eighth, Fifty third
aud Ffty-sevcnth Virginia regiments Of Hodges,
Owens, Edmunds, Msgruder, Cabel, Phillips.
Martin. White and Aylett; of Generals Barton
and Stewart-wil tell how Armistead led his bri-
gaae in the final charge at Gettysburg and fell
mortaly wounded among the federal guns upon
tho hilltop; of his CHEEKY words to his men, how
he bid them, Remember you are fighting for
your liberties; strike for your homes your wives
and your sweethearts. Follow ne" How this
brigade was always found where honor where
honor called and duty led, WAS first in the ad-
vance and last in retreat
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-10-08
Shot DyuC oIored policemnn.

GALVESTON, Texas Oct. S.-A colored
policeman named Shaw shot and seriously
wounded two white men named Jackson
and Olsen during difficulty on East Strand
last night. The policeman undertook 10 er
rest the two men, when the latter wrenched
his club from him and beat him over the
head. It was at this juucture that Shaw
drew his pistol and fired on his assailants
The policeman was subsequently taken to
jail for protection, as threats of lynchlng
were made.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-10-08
POLITICAL NOTES.

The local differences among the New York
city democrats, il is thought at Washington,
will not have any serious effect on the presl-
Dental ticket.
In Lynchburg on Saturday Congressman
Hopkins issued circular letter to the voters
of the Sixth congressional district stating bis
determination to stay in the field as an in.
dependent candidate for reelection aud de-
fining his position on the issues ofthe cam
paign.
Judge Thurman will make four speeches
in Indiana before the end Of the month, and
this, With hia court business in Washington,
will use up so much of his time that his in
tended trip to New York and Brooklyn has
been abandoned. Judge Thurman has con-
sented to make speech at Wheeling, Octo-
bsr go
In NewYork city on Saturday evening the
County Democracy he'd q convention and
nominated AS Hewitt for Mayor. The con-
ventiou ad burned without making further
nominations for county Offices, but adopted
resolution denounciug as unqualifedly
false the statements set forth in preamble
to resolution adopted by the Tammapy
convention the previous evening, to the eff
feet that the County Democracy had refused
several overtu' es from TammanY looking to
the placing ola union county ticket in the
field. IL is said that the republicans will
probably nominate John H. Starin, the
steamboat and transportation millionaire,
for Mayor Mr.. Starin says he will accept
the nomination if made unanimously.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-10-08
PLATFORM FALLS Over one hundred

A PLATFORM FALLS Over one hundred
persons were injured at an accident which
occurred at the laying of the cornerstone Of
the new St. Mays Polish Catholic Church
at Reading, Pa. yesterday. Seven Thousand
people were present, OF whom one thousand
were on temporary floor. Archbishop
Ryan, of Philadelphia, conducted the cere
mouy. After the stone had been laid, the
newly constructed walls gave way and
fourth of the floor fell. Two hundred PEG.
pie fell to the ground, some Is or Is feet
Men, women and children were thrown
into confused mass, with joists, brick.
stone aud mortar on top of them. Up TO
midnight no deaths had occurred. Arch
bishop Ryan and the priests assisting him
escaped injury.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-10-08

EXPLOSION. Shortly before eight o'clock
Saturday evening Browns Powder Maya
zine blew up, giving the city Of Roanoke
terrible SHOCK, breaking great number OF
plate glass store fronts and hundreds OF
psnes of glass in private residences. The
fhasszine was situated about mile from the
city, and contained four hundred kegs OF
powder and twenty-6 five hundred pounds OF
dynamite. The entire population was terri,
b!y scared, and much exciteme4&prevsied
until the extent and nature or the shock
were known. Portions of human body,
some clothing, watch case, pistol con:
tanning three unexploded cartridges, and
81 II in coin were found yesterday morning
scattered over the hillside several hundred
Yards distant. The man is supposed TO have
been William Brown, native of Tennessee,
who was so route for MS home, mile be-
You'd the magaz ne. Two young men left
the city with him. and az lhey have not
been heard If since, it is AIRED they too,
were killed There is much speculation
about the causs of tbs explosion, ~sus os
lieying it was caused by Brown fling pis-
Of. ball through corrugated iron casing.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-10-08
Coupon Cases.

HARRIsoNBURe, Got. 8-In April last OK
ecutions were issued upon judgment against
about eighty persons in this county who of
fered Virginia coupons in payment OF State
taxes. These coupons were purchased OF
JAS P. Cooper. agent for the foreign bond
holders of London, who was to be responsi
BILE for all damages. Cooper rendered the
coupons in June last in paym Of these
executions and cosls The sheriff refused
the tender and the State has again instituted
suit against the same parties 10 our Circuit
Court here The same tender will again be
made By Cooper should judgments be rev.
dared against these parties
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-10-08

MANY OF the northern republican news
papers are making great ado over the re-
cent flag business in Richmond Why the
yiotors, the men who gained such CONF
plete and entire victory over the vanquish-
cd. should have made any objection to
marching in procession in which few OF
their old prisoners carried the worn and tat
tered emblem of the ''lost cause" is passing
strange. But as such objection is almost in
variable upon all similar occasions, why the
30 called ".eunions" of the survivors Of the
two armies should be persisted in ID even
more strange.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-10-08

The LETTERS, speeches and interviews to
the effect that there will be large negro
democratic vote next November, all amount
to nothing more than hosh. An insignf
cant few negroes who hold offices, or for
other profitable considerations. may vote
with the democrats. and some may be In
duced to stay away from the polls. but the
negro vote will practically be cast solidly Tor
the republican nominees; and the democrats
who, in their estimates of the result of the
election make factor of the negro demo-
cratic vote, will be egregiously mistaken.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-10-08
MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL

New YORK. Oct. 8 The stock m.rket oper.1
the new week with some appearance of strengtb
first prices being from Is to 8 per cent. bettar
than Saturdays f0sl figures and with moder,,a
degree of activity. Further advances of small
fractions generally from !, to 3 per cent. we,.
made in the first few minutes, but the list soon
weakened AID decline began which carried most
of the list below tho opening figures, Richmon,
and West Point losing q. After this result W..
accomplished the market became quite dull
though slight recovcries were made all along tn,
line. At II o'clock the market was quiet and
steady to finn, generally at Insignificant eh IN ge
from the opening prices. Money easy st 2f:s
BALTIMORE, Oct s.-yirginias consolids!,t
=; past.due coupons -; do 10.4Os IS H.
new IS Is laos bid to-day
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-10-08

A COMPARISON of the new with the old
registration books of this city shows that
while the number of negro names on the
former is only All less than on the lattor,
the number of white names is l ,234 less.
From this it would seem that the democrats
should between now snd the one remaining
day on which the registration books will be
open before the election, bunt up every sin
gle one of their Gelipquents, and be sure to
have him registered, if they would have the
city 90 democratic next November.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-10-08

THE PROTECTED manufacturers of Phila-
delphia have just handed in their special
contributions to The republican campaign
fund. They amount to the sum of two hun
dred thousand dollars, and that in one city
alone. Does any mortal man really believe
that the manufacturers who gave this money
did so for the purpose OF benehting tbs
hands in their employ? The reason they
did 80 vas the natural one that the tariff
system, by which they are enabled to don
bic their own profits, may be maintained
and continued, and but for that reason they
would have kept their money in their peck
cts. They can we'll afford to give it if their
object BIO attained.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-10-08

SOME OF the negro Officers" of the negro
military companies in Washington are said
to be in high state of Indignation because
Gen. Ordway did not invite them TO an en-
tertainment given by himself to the officers
OF the whi!s military and some army and
navy officers. That Gen. Ordway did per-
fectly right goes without saying, and the
indignation of the negroes only goes further
to show that the sooner their impudent at
tempts at social equality are put down at the
capital the better it will be for that city and
the negro
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-10-08

NOBODY EVER accused Mayor Hewitt, Of
New York, of duplIcity. When asked the
other day about his alleged opposition to the
democratic national ticket. he said II am
not opposed to the ticket, l am in favor Of
it. | want TO see it elected and think it will
be. 1t is matter of principle with me- l
am a democrat / believe | have bad as
much to do with the present economic poll
cy Of the democratic party as any other
man in public life. But If they want nae to
say like Mr. Cleveland, I.wont say it, |
don't like him. l never did like him.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-10-08
Alex ANDRLA.
MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 8.
IN THIS mouths number of the North
.;,,, Ps,.;e, G.nersl Sherman says:

IN THIS mouths number OF the NORM
american Rerie,v General Sherman says:
"The Northern people will not long per,
NIT the negro vote to be suppressed aaS,
: at he coup,ed in the political game aRains 3,
;hSu, AK the abrogalion of Article AlF
- ,ha Amendments to the Constitution, or
,,,,n,v The NEGRO to vote and count his vote.
Otherwi-e. so sure as there 10 Goo 10
Heaven, you will have another war, more
cruel .han the last, when the sorcn ana
d.ooer will take the place of muskets OF
veil ordered battalions. The negro is gain
mo in experience and intelligence every
dav. and he has read Byron: Hereditary
bond.men, know ye not, who would be Tree,
Themselves must strike the blow? Shouio
Inc negro strike that blow, there Will OF
,nillions TO assist them Were l to day .
c;,izan of Louisiana, as | was 10 1901,
yyould far prefer Old Shady Ia freedman
as voter to any of the Bohemians VINO
reach Castle Garden by thousands every
day Of the year"
So speaks a man now, who before tue Wal
lived in the South, and who then knew SC
much about the real condition OF the twe
races living in this section, that, thougf
az no thern birth, it was for sometime ques
;ionable with him which side he should es
mouse. But, since General Sherman's DEM
al Of he burning OF Columbia by his army
and mis- statement that he had seen privat
etters convicting ex President Davis o
conspiracy, what he says, or even does, ha
ceased to he matter Of any consequence t.
the people whom in his senile garru!ity b
now threatens with the fate which Johi
Brown would have meted ont to them.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-10-08

THERE COMES from over the see sad
story-horribe if true-of the murder IN
The sultans barren, at Constantinopie, OF
fourteen women, by poison. Among the
victims thus ported ia an American opera
singer, named Laura Schirmer, who went
from Boston. According to report the sui
tan ia believed to have been incensed at the
attempts OF the American Minister to Iur
kew to get this woman out of her glideo
captivity, aud so one night poison was
placed in the ice-cresm furnished to the
occupants of the Imperial Seraglio, and tour
teen poor women, including the American
oirl. were found dead in the morning. Vi
course there was no inquest, no coroner 9
, inquiry, no verdict. The bodies OF the VIC
tins were hurried away 10 nameless graves
and the curtain dropped. The matter mas
been kept secret, but the friends OF the I'M
happy cautatrice in Milan claim to have un
doubted evidence of the crime, and Milan
csc paper mas boldly stated it as fact.
Laura Schirmer, SO goes the story, had al
ready won proud place among concert
singers, and bright future seemed to await
her. She was known as the "beautliui
Laura Schirmer" She had handsome
face and fascinating manner. Before her
twentieth year Laura had made go marked
success on the concert-stage that her
friends all urged her to study for the operate
stage. and later on she travelled through the
United States under Strskosch. 1t was
then she met the English tenor, Byron, with
whom she fell in love and went 10 Europe
with him. Her friends say he married her.
| At any rate. they went to Milan to sing and
study, and she made her Italian debut there
| But it was not long before her husband :
greatest JOY, it was said, appeared to bs to
degrade the lovely woman. He made her
black bis boots, cook his food and do other
things far worse. She soon grew coarse and
reckless in speech and action, her voice lost
Tits hexibiity, and her face and form showed
the effects Of her degraded life. She and
Byron took theatre and tried manage
| meat, but made failure of it. Then they
went to CoDstantinople aud tried it again
and under the favorng smiles of the Sultan
| they succeeded better. Last winter tbt
American colony at Milan heard that Laurf
had become animate ofthe Sultan harem
Some said she had been abducted thither
but others believe that she had gone vii
lingly into this captivity. And now comes
this latest story, sill of which is sad in
Deed, if true but smacks very much of The
sensational for which the New York Worlc
is notorious.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-10-08

Towns AND cities are frequently bene-
fitted by shaking ur-ndeed, sometimes it
becomes a necessity to prevent stagnation,
but the explosion of four hundred kegs OF
gunpowder and couple OF thousand pounds
of dynamite is rather too startling, and well
calculated to scare bigger place than Roa-
noke, where this little episode occurred last
Saturday evening.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-10-08

THE RECEPTION of Emperor William at
Vienna, the capital of Austria, Is reported
to have sent "a thrill of qualification through
the empire" and instead of his majesty be-
ing q cold. unsympathetic individual. as has
heretofore bsen reported he has suddenly,
since his accession to power, boomed into
the most genial, social fellow hat ever wore
crown--a modified Prince Hal. de has
the happy faculty of saying good word to
all, tickling the ears of the nobility. and OF
initiating our American politicians in giving
to each high born parsonage the pleasing
conviction of having received ample recog
nition." But to cap the laudations hesped
upon this whilom "tssty. uncouth youth,
one of his eduave sycophants declares that
he has showed himself "a begeisterter und
schneidiger soidat" Further, the public
will be interested to know that his eminence
is SOC to sensual Indulgence and sternly
opposed to gambling" SO that Gen. Schenck
would be at discount at the Court at Der
lin. 1t is said that all the high-nown things
said of the Emp 'ror BY his eulogist Ia with
his sanction and with the svowed object Of
impressing upon his suhjects the belief that
he Is sovereign able to get along without
the assistance of Bismarck and to lead arm
les to victory relying upon his own strategy
Upon the whole this man, who was Set down
as tho most unpromising Of his house, ia to
he superior to them all. Well, as old Mr..
Richie used 10 CAV. nous rerOnS.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-10-08
Eaial Quarrel.

MORRIS, H., Oct. Sim Kelly shot and
fatally wounded Tom Reynolds during
quarrel last night. The two men had been
partners 10 business Kelly claims Rey-
nolds was short in his accounts, that the
latter had threatened to shoot him aad that
he shot bis friend in self defence.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-10-08
Death ofaVenerabIe Lady

ST. PAUL, Mimi, Oct. S-Mrs. Charles
Langford, mother. in law OF ex Governor
Marshall, died here last night aged 95 She
was born in New York and we'll remember.
ed when the nation was in moursiug for
General WASH ngton.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-10-08

TIE NEW Persian Ambassador at Wash
inston expresses himself as much pleased
with this country, and says that the women
sra the most beautiful in the world. He
left Mrs. Hadji Hsssein Ghooly Khan Mo
tanned ell Vassari at homs.