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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-08-31
MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL

There has been no vsrisbleness or change of
Importance financially or commercially during
the week, except the improvement in the grain
market, prices for which having advanced to 6g-
ures very much to the satisfaction Of farmers.
The prospect of splendid corn crop through sll
this section was never better Money matters are
quiet. U. s. bonds are steady. Offerings of vir.
GINA securities sre very small and the market il
firm. Railroad securities are very quiet.
NEW YORK. August 31.-There was a moder-
ate business in the stock market at the opening
this morning. while first prices were somewhat
irregular but generally strong as compared with
last evenings closing figures. There was an &C.
tive and very evenly distributed business in
few stocks, while the remainder OF the list was
comparatively dull. The market was quite r-
regular and unsettled, while its movements were
for small fractions only. There was less ANNA.
ton later in tho hour, but no further feature
marked the trading, and ut II o'clock the market
was fairly active and steady to firm at close to the
opening prices. Money easy at 1as2
BALTIMORE, August 31.-Virginias consoli atsd
49, past-due coupons "a: d, 1O.4Os S5as; do
new Sc 65 u bid to-day.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-08-31
Murder and Attempted Suicide.

NEW YORK. Aug. 31-Ellis Kahn, Ger
man cigar maker, 81 years old, of TIT East
9Th street, killed his wife this morning and
then inflicted wounds on himself that will
cause his death. He hacked himself In the
abdomen, then drew the knife across his
left wrist and then cut his throat. He was
removed to Bellevue Hospital, where the
operation of laparatomy was performed
On him.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-08-31

THE FACT that the owners of those Cana.
dian railroads that will be inluriously affect
ed by the retaliatory measures proposed to
be adopted By Mr.. Cleveland, are talking
about influencing congressional action by
the use of money, while exceedingly hu.
initiating to this country, is not at all sur
prising in view of the well known fact that
the action of the American Congress has in
recent times been frequently subject to pc
cunisrg Influences
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-08-31
Prairie Fire.

HELENA, Mont, Aug. 31.-A disastrous
prairie fire is raging In the ranges in north.
ern Montana, extending from Marias river
to Sweet Grass Hills, distance of fifty
miles. The winter range of the Benton aud
st. Louis Cattle Company has been destroy
ed, with large amount ofhay. Unless rain
comes the FIRE will cover immense tracts of
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-08-31

The FACT that President Cleveland has
subscribed ten thousand dollars to the ma
tional democratic campaign fund will nat
urally inspire every one of the ninety per
cent. of republicans who have been retained
in, or appointed TO, Office in the government
departments at Washington by democrat
ic administration to make contribution to
the national republican campaign fund.
And so the civil service reform humbug goes
up in smoke, amid the jeers and ridicule Of
a vast majority of the voters of the country.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-08-31

Bishop Randolph will administer the rite
of confirmation at Christ Church; Goresville,
Loudoun county to. morrow. He will also of.
6ciate at st. Pau'sIChurch, Hamilton, on Sun,
day morning, and In ST. James Church, Lees
burg, in the afternoon. On Monday morn
ing the Bishop will be at the Chapel at Dat.
land Mills in the same county, and on Tues
day morning at IL O'Clock he will conse.
crate Ewell's Chapel in Prince William
county
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-08-31
Railroad Aceident.

SHAMoKIN, Pa, Aug. Yesterday while
an engine was standing near Market street
crossing on the Philadelphia and Reading
road, it was run into by another engine
which was pulling freight train. Both en-.
gines were thrown over an embankment in
to the creek and completely demolished.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-08-31
A Farmer Killed.

OwENsBoRo, KY, Aug 31.-Willlam Muir.
ply, one of the best known farmers of the
county, was shot and killed in cold blood by
James Hardesty, principal merchant of
West Louisville, ten miles from here, yester-
day afternoon. When questioned about the
affair, Hardesty quietly admitted the killing
but steadily refused to give any reason for
it Hhateyer
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-08-31
StrtkeImminent.

PIrrsBURa, Aug Sl.-A general strike of
the flint glass workers of the country is ex
pected to morrow, when the new scale of
The engravers is supposed to 90 into eff.
fect A suspension of work n nearly all the
factories in the country Is probable. About
1000 hands will be affected.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-08-31
Grain Destroyed by Ere.

RACINE. Wis, Aug. 31.-At the town of
Frsnksville, yesterday, a son of Rev. Evans
accidentally act FIRE to fourteen stacks of
grain, and ten thousand bushels were de-
stroyed. Two hundred and fifty farmers
turned out, and after working seven hours
hauling water with teams subdued the
flames, saving the village from being wiped
out of existence.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-08-31
MutinY QueIIed.

LONDON, Aug. 3l.-A dispatch from Lor-
EMO Marquee, Portuguese Africa, says the
mutlny in the garrison is quelled and every
thing Ia quiet.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-08-31
Nomination..

SELMA. Ala, Aug. 31.-The democratic
congressional convention ofthe ourth district
assembled in this city to day and ntmina-
ted Lewis w. Turpin, Of Hale county, for
Congress on the 599th ballot.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-08-31
Suicide.

WATERFOWL, n. Y, Aug. 31.-John Fill
hart, aged SO, hanged himself in his sons
barn at DepsuvilIe, this county, last night.
His wife has been dead for some time, but
he bad a happy home with his son. No
cause ia assigned for the act.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-08-31

Col. RoBT. INGERsoLL. the blatant iuh'
del. who is now campaigning for Gen. Har'
rison, is 10 favor OF the retention of the tax
on the neoessaries of life aud for the remov
al of that on whisky. la all his speeches he
declares for free whisky. and Gays iii the
Mississippi ran rum between banks OF loaf
sugar, over mint bottom, and tumblers
grew on bushes, no more drunkenness would
exist than exists now" There is nothing
too inconsistent for the human mind, but it
is hardly possible that such talk can gain
the votes of reasonable people.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-08-31

Flour is fairly active and firm, with disn,.i
ton on the part of millers to advance price, ~,
ing to the scarcity of choice grades of hard Wbe,
The Wheat markets are weak and irregular n.
lures have been showing fractional losses ,or III.
last two or three days. and fair 10 good ssn,'.,
are in full sympathy with this decline, Lpt N
prime lots still command the attention OF buys,
and are readily sold; sales were made TO-DAY i.
from 80 to &c per busheI. Corn is wb,,,
change at So to So. Rye is higher at so to5-
Oats % to 80 for stained 80 to SO for hes, To-.
are lower. Butter is scarce and wanted Pots,,..
and other produce are in good supply ami dull.
BALTIMORE, Aug. S1.-Cotton quiet and firm
middling 1Oa.. Flour quiet and steaty. WIS
Southern active and easier; Fultz 95sl0l
longberry 97a102; Western quiet and essier,y
2 winter red spot 96a964. Sept 96Ls96Io o.
quiet and easy white 55a57 yellow 54.;S
Western dull and easy mixed spot spa s5S Sem
52laa53; year 46a46A Oats steady Soutbef.
and Penna 32a34; Western white 32s34 IA
mixed 29a3l. Rye frmer at 57a59 Hay dgi
and easy prime to choice Western SIC 50sl-
Provisions fairly active and steady Butter efp
Western packed 12a15; creamery 17a19. Epn
quiet at 17a171a. Coffee quiet; Rio csrgoe. nj,
14A. Sugar firme'; a soft 79s Whisky arun
81 goal %.
NEW YORK August 3l-Cotton quiet u,
lands IL Liz: Orleans IL 3-16 futures ste,ir
Flour quiet and firm. Wheat quiet and evy.
Corn weak and lower. Pork quiet and steadys,
S15 25al5 70. Lard quiet and easy at 50 10
CHICAGO. Aug. 81 IL a. M Quotations
this hour are as follows for September optN.
Wheat 92a. Corn 447s Oats 24la Pork sli
Lard 80 30; short ribs S. 171a.
RICHMOND MARKET. Aug. 3O-Flour 81 5A
2 10 for fine TO 81 75s5 20 for patent fsmly
5000 bushels of Wheat sold at 92s102 for fair 10
choice; HOO bushels of Corn at 55s56iq; 7C0
bushels of Oats at 33s40, aud small lots Of BE
at 90.
LYNcHBURG MARKET, Aug 30-The uarke
for Tobacco is very quiet and receipts unusually
light. Flour quiet with good supply Recep1
of Wheat tolersbly fair and prices frmer The
quiet.
FREDERICKSBURG MARKET, August 30-Tta
market 10 fairy active, though the rcceipio
grin are light. Flour is in good supply and
firm. Wheat is coming in slowly and qloiei
at from SS to SO. Corn 52s56
SUGAR AND COFFEE MARKET. Aug 30.-Sanr
he market for raw Sugars retains its Strength
We quote fair to good refining at 5l.a5 j16c
molasses Sugars at 4ass5c. and centrifugal SO
test, at 3 16s6t4c. Tho market for rcdtd
Sugsrs1is strong, active and advancing, say FORGET
loaf $50; cubes Size powdered SIC grannlsiS
Sc; moulds A SIS; Dicks confectoners' A -
confectioners A, 75s {; Columbis A 7l.c Stand
ard glucose Syrups 34c.
Cotfee-Tne demand for invoices is confined 70
small lots, and the market is firm and quiet Tie
stock is gradually moving into distubutid
through the roasting and other channels. ss
of 500 bags was reported in Baltimore on Thus
day at 12c The quotation for spot is l4ac for
fair Bio.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-08-31
Arrest ola Socialist.

PARIS, Aug. 31.-M veobard, socialist
leader, and Eve of bis colleagues, have been
arrested at Amiens for iocitipg workmen to
strike. /
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-08-31

CHICAGO CATTLE MARKET, Aug 30-lstus,oo
market easy Beeves S6a6 20 steers - l0a6 ~.
stockers and feeders S2a3 40 mixed 81 2os1 n: ~
Texas Cattle $2a3 To- Western rangers - o. D.
8 40. Hogs-market strong mixed 500 ~
heavy $6a6 so; light IS 95a6 90 and skip: - g.
Sheep-market 16a25c lover natives - o.
Lambs So 25a5 55 per 100 lbs.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-08-31

New YORK CATTLE MARKET. Aug. 30.-Beeyt
No market for Beeves; dress,d Beef was IN ~.
demand common to prime native sides sofa ..
Ilea9lac, and Texas and Colorado DO at BIC ",
ID. Sheep and Lambs-the market was QUIZ spa
1Os2Oc lower for both Sheep and Lambs aDssr
sold at s3.4 65 per 100 lbs and Lambs Al - ..
6 rs per 100 lbs. Hogs about steady for l!Te :.
Sc 5Oa6 70, with rough Hogs at - 5Oa5 ~ Ps'
100 lha
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-08-31

The House pint resolution to extend till
18th of September next the joint resolution
of 31st of July to provide temporarily for the
expenses of the government was reported
and passed.
The Senate subsequently, resumed the consider
alton of the fertilization bill.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-08-31
CATTLE MARKETS.

BALTIMORE CATTLE MARKET. Aug. 30.-Pfc=
Of Beef Cattle this week ranged as follows:
Dest....:. oO ~
Generally rated first quality 800. % ALSO
Medium or good fair quality. 90 A42'
Ordinary thin Steers, Oxen and
Co"s........ = - n " -
Extreme range of prices ............ , 20 az
Most Of the sales were from..... 1925 "A 5V
Total receipts this week 2640 Total sales l2o'
OF the receipts 1927 came from Virginia
There was fair offering on the market tbs
week. both as to numbers and quality, the Bet's'
being lully equal in grade to those of last wees
Trade was rather more active than last week. e.
pecially for good butcher Cattle aud stocsef'
though butchers bought only about the same nun
Der, but country dealers took about l5Omore tl'l
they did last Thursday.
Sheep and Lambs-There is considerable il
crease in the rec pts over last week. more ina.
1000 head. The quality OF the offerings does lo
average up to that of the stock in tho pens ~
Thursday. There is fairly good demand 'gl
good shOep and Lambs, as well as good socA
Sheep. Common stock has been dull We ql9S
butcher Sheep at 3a4 &c per lb gross, slight 's
cline, and Lambs at 4l2a6c per ID g-oss SC,,
Sheep 81 50s3 so per head, an improvement. Owe.
last weeks flaures. Receipts this week ci esesE
and Lambs 6932 head.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-08-31
HOUSE.

The House at an early hour proceeded to
the consideration of the conference report
on the sundrY civil appropriation bill.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-08-31
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ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES.
Proceedings OF Congress.
SENATE

WASHINGTON, D. G.. Aug. 81.
crNA,rr
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-08-31
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Bandits at gatanzas, Cuba, have kid
mapped Senior Silvestre Garcia from his es-
tate of Vaiente.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-08-31

country.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-08-31

FREDERICKSBURG MARKET, Angus. 3O-Tta
market is fairy active though the receipts Of
grin are light. Flour is in good supply and
firm. Wheat is coming in slowly and is qloiei
at from SS to 60 Corn o2a56.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-08-31

LYNcHBURG MARKET, Aug. Bottle marke
for Tobacco is very quiet and receipts unusually
light. Flour quiet. with good supply. Recegp
of Wheat tolerably fair and prices frmer, The
quotations being from so to 100. Corn aud Osu
quiet.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-08-31

NEW YORK. August 3l-Cotton quiet u>
lands IL Lie; Orleans II 3-16 futures s!e,ly
Flour quiet and firm. Wheat quiet and epy
Corn weak and lower. Pork quiet and STEADY si
S15 25al5 rs. Lard quiet and easy at 50 70.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-03-31
A California Rabbit Drive, Pacific Statea WeekIv


 Much interest has been awakened by the rabbit drives which have been conducted so successfully in various localities. On such occasions, every- body that can possibly get away, turns out from neighboring towns and ranches. Vehicles of all sorts, horseback riders, and persons on foot, flock to the general rendezvous. Min isters, teachers, lawyers, doctors, news paper men and persons of all callings are on hand. A line is formed, stretched out as far as the numbers present will permit, and then sll hands move slowly toward the distant V-shaped inclosure.
 When the first rabbit bounds to his feet, speculation begins at once as to how many rabbits will be rounded up. But as the rodents soon begin to bound forward in all directions, the success of the drive is assured. Most of the animals dart away from the ap- preaching line, but few, crazed with fear, run straight toward their ene- mics, and generally escape unharmed through the shower of sticks and clods hurled at them.
 A witness of these scenes says: "The sport to be gotten out of rabbit drive can never be understood by those who have never participated in one. The hopping, lodging, flying rabbits i; the whirlwind of swinging clubs the shouting of men and boys; the shriek- ing of the ladies when a jack, fleeing for his life, scoots between their feet :; the 'shooing' of other ladies, who are the sole occupants of the buggies; the sound Of trampling horses and rat tling vehicles; all these make scene to be witnessed, not described. x Old men, whose limbs have long since lost their vigor, tottered along with the fires of youth rekindled in their eyes, straining every nerve to keep up with the procession, while the nimble 'kid' plunged into the weeds and bearded tie jack in his lair. Every thing and everybody was on the run and also on the yell"
 But when the doomed animals are penned, all real sport is over and cruel slaughter commences. Twenty five hundred were killed in the Dry Creek drive, and another has taken place where the number destroyed was 1000. Such inroads upon the rabbits must, it would seem, more than counteract their tendency to multiply rapidly, and as long as popular enthusiasm lasts, the drive will probably be the most effective means of killing them.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-03-31
The Competent Juryman.
 Texas Siftinga


 Competent jurymen arc becoming scarcer and scarcer every year. By "competent jurymen" we mean, of course, jurymen who are absolutely incompetent.
 Thanks to the press, the number of men who have absolutely no ideas is becoming less and less every year, and it is only such that are desired in the jury box. Possibly, in order to save the jury system, the jury commits sioner of the future will be allowed to select talesmen from the lunatic asylums and the homes for the feeble minded.
 What an easy time the lawyers must have had finding sufficiently stupid jury during the middle ages, when there were no newspapers, and even kings did not know how to write their names without an assistant.
 The difficulty that seems to prevail in New York in unearthing jurymen sufficiently obtuse for judicial pur- poses may be obviated by change of venue. For instance, we read the other day that there is mountain village in Arkansaw where not one of the inhabitants can read or write. If a change of venue to Arkansaw is incon- venient, why not import those model jurymen? For that matter, why not utilize the green Italian immigrants that arrive continually at Castle Gar den, who, ill addition to being pro- foundly stupid, are utterly ignorant of the English language, and could not tell the difference between a verdict and porous plaster?
 The selection of jury in New York abounds in comic features. As a gen. eral thing, when poodle aldermen are tried, nobody is locked up except the jury.
 Occasionally a man is summoned to appear as 6 juror six months after his death. On one occasion man seventy six years old was excused, not only on account of his age, but because he had the whooping- cough. If you are searching for more phenomenal igno- rance than you can find in an intelli- gence office, go and examine a batch of New York jurymen. The proprie- tors of dime museums who desire to replenish their stock of freaks should not overlook the jury box. Unex- pected monstrosities swarm in the court rooms.
 There is legend 10 the effect that one of the physicians at Bellevue hos pital, being desirous of ascertaining the effect of electricity on the brain pulp, ran needle nine inches long seventeen times into the head of pro- fessional New York juror with such discouraging results that he gave up the job, saying that he could continue the experiment with more show of success on his wife's emery bag.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-03-31
The Author of Dr. Jekyll.
The Book. k.Ruyer.

MT. Stevenson's talk is very like his writing ; it is fresh, racy, redolent of the soil out of which he has grown. His phrases have not been worn smooth by use; they are full of sharp outlines to recall his own character istic description of talker of his &C., quaintance, Che must have worn the words next to his skin and slept with them." He sees everything from his own point of view, and puts his case, not dogmatically, but pictorially, graphically, with pith and force of a perfectly direct and sincere nature. AS he talks, one of those quaint and racy essays in "Memories and Por- traits" seems to be precipitating itself ; observation, comment, criticism, keen perception of character and fact long held in the solution of thought, swiftly crystalline into memorable phrase. Mir. Stevenson does not indulge in monologue; he can supply his own cues, but he is quite ready to take them from others, and he touches sub- ject after subject lightly, effectively, with brilliant distinctness, both of perception and impression. So active is his mind, so alert his imagination, that he needs but hint, and your tentative inquiry draws forth series of observations full of pith and graphic force. There is nothing com- monplace in MT. Stevenson; he uses none of the well-worn conventions, fences himself with none of the cus- tomary reserves. He gives himself as readily in his speech as in his books ; he scorns to do less, and he could not do more.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-03-31
THE ARkANsAW TRAVELLER

dressing, the preacher remarked: T hope that negro slept we'll after his agonized repentance. have done so much work at the mourner's bench that-merciful heavens, l have been robbed my money is gonew
 We hurried down stairs and in- formed the landlord. The old negro was gone. A party of men volun- teered their services, and late that evening the old rascal was captured. He showed us the place where he had hidden the money. My friend did not again refer to the "derisive snort of Satan."-Neao York Mercury.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-03-31
Both Married Again.
 Brainerd (Minn.) News

A quiet marriage of Mrs. Mazda lena Schwartz to Andrew Robinson, a young man, is the sequel to most romantic experience. When Brainerd bid fair in the early days to be some- thing of town, William Schwartz arrived direct from the old country, and, after prospecting little, made a rich discovery of fine clay tor brick, just above the city, in the river bank. He secured large tract of land-sev- eral hundred acres-which adjoined the original town site, and also the town-plat around about the Northern Pacific shops, East Brainerd. He built fine buildings, opened large brick works with steam plant, and got rich | in short order.
 But his domestic matters were in serious shape. His wife was childless, and Schwartz became exceedingly jealous of his buxom wife and the common hands about the works. Fi- nally, after period of trouble, which made their quarrels notorious, Schwartz and she agreed to separate. He generously gave to her all the property, then worth handsome sum, and then pulled out to Germany and married a young girl there and brought her at once to this country. He did not stop here, but went at once to Oregon to build new home, settling at Corvallis, whence in year he wrote that Che was getting on first rate. Have got bouncing baby"
 Meanwhile Mrs. Schwartz the first conducted the old business here, mak- ing one million brick every year. Schwartz had laid out a large addition in lots, which were sold off, and the dam of the Mississippi Water Power and Boom Company having been To- cated on her property largely in- creased it's value, until $100,0O0 would not buy all her interests here. Last winter among impecunious arrivals from Dakota was Andrew Robinson, man about twenty five years old. He was l-clothed, without shoes, h1s feet wrapped up in gunny- sacks, but, borrowing an ax, he walked eight miles through the deep snow to job of cutting cord-wood he had secured. He so spent the winter, and not being "pusher," when the spring came he had netted for the winters work, be- sides some better clothes, less than twenty dollars.
 He worked awhile in the spring in a boarding camp at the dam for little more than his board until Mrs. Schwartz, the owner of the one hun dred thousand, hired him to chore about the place. Not to probe the processes of Cupid, there have been signs that young Robinson was pros- pering. He dressed up, grew a tull beard and drove his employer daily into town in the family buggy. Two