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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-09-20

It is now estimated that over thousand
lives were lost in Cuba by the recent cy-
clone.
The Queen of England has sent her con-
dolences to the father of Major Barttelot,
who was murdered in Africa.
The building of the new iceboat for Balli
more is we'll under way. Alb! ltthere could
ONLY be one built for the Potomac.
A report Is current at New Orleans that
the late United States Marshal r R. Pleas
ants was a defau!ter to the amount of $50. 600.
The large new silver vault in the Treasury
Department at Washington ia SO damp that
the canvas bags containing the silver stored
there are actually rotting away.
The Congress of Physicians and Surgeons
continued its sessions in Washington yester.
day. DR.. Kretzchmar read valuable paper
on the treatment of consumption.
Threats are made in Sofia that unless the
Porte relieves Bulgarian5 in Macedonia
from the dominance of the Greek clergy the
Eastern question will soon be reopened'
Congressman Mills, after his address in
the Academy of Music in Brooklyn on Tues
day night, became so i'll that his friends had
to remove him to the Clarendon Hotel.
News has been received by the Navy De-
partment of the succoring Of shpwrecked
whaling crews in the North Pacific by the
Halted States steamers Thetis and Bear.
Oliver H. Dockery, republican candidate
for Governor OF North Carolina, narrowly
escaped death by drowning yesterday Wnlie
attempting to cross swollen stream near
Raleigh.
The report that there was collisinn be-
tween the Hatields and McCoys on Peters
Creek last Friday, in which three OF the
West Virginia party were killed, turns out
TO be untrue.
The German steamship Rhein, which ar
rived at Baltimore yesterday, was struck by
cyclone on September IL, and for eighteen
hours the passengers were in terror and
without food.
The League games for the baseball cham
pionship played yesterday resulted az iol'
lows Pittsburg 4, New York l Detroit 2
Boston 0; Philadelphia 8. Chicago 0. New
York will play at Detroit to-day, Washing
ton ut Chicago, Boston at Pittsburg, Pnlla'
delphia at Indianapolis.
TIE Philadelphia Record says: With the
prospect of a Sauerkraut Trust and the
absorption of all the beer breweries by an
Engish syndicate the outlook for the Ger.
man citizen is indeed dark. The Sauer
kraut Trust is moving east from St. Loui:
at a cyclonic gait, gobbling in all the big
factories.
At the monthly meeting of the directors
of the 3. & o. r. r. yesterday, the following
statement was submitted : Earnings for An
gust. 1885, on all lines east of the OHIO river
81 5G5 obs; expenses, 1858 2S4 net earnings
$7ll, 759. an increase of SIS 1913 as compared
with August, 1887. On the lines west OF the
Ohio the earnings were 1898. $685. expenses
1896, 900; net earnings, S5S,505, a net de
crease from August of last year of 500. 325
On the entire system east and west of the
Ohio the net decrease amounted to $50, 62
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-09-20
A Ruman Tarred.

WINoNA, MINI, Sept. 2Q.-Last night
Herbert Ross, of Wabasha, was taken from
his house and treated to coat Of tar. For
some time Ross has born the reputation Of
being a bully and ruffian, maltreating inof-
fensive people and creating a reign of terror
among the peaceable citizans. The direct
cause of the tarriDg was the fact that a
Wabasha merchant presented bill to Ross
and requested payment. The latter assault
ed the merchant, pounding hiL1 in shame
ful manner. Learning this body of about
$50 men gathered and marched to Ross's
house, took him out, land after administering
a severe drubbing, poured the contents of a
tar barrel over him. Ross has disappeared.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-09-20

uill have the floor During the morning
business in the Senate Mr.. Daniel intro
dnced House bills to pay the Norfolk coun-
to ferry company $40 800 for sevice render
ed the government during the war, and 10
nav the Potomac Steamboat company
IS $50. the amount paid by that company TO
the Baker Salvage Company for injuries TO
the steamer Excelsior, under the decision OF
U. S. Court
II ia understood that Representative
Scott. of Pennsylvani will take Senator
Kepna's place as chairman of the democrat
ic congressional campaign committee.
AS previously intimated in this CORES
nordence, the once contemplated intention
of attempting to provide for the payment o.
the French spoliation claims by SENATE
amendment TO the general deficiency OIL mas
been abandoned, IS it has become certain
that the House would not concur, ana
as an unsuccessful attempt would damage
the chances of payment at the next session.
Dr. Murrill of Lynchburg, who mas oeen
mentioned as possible independent canui'
date for Congress in bis district, Is now III
this city. lie says Mr.. Edmonds the DEM
ocratic candidate there, will be elected py
large majority, that the running OF Hopkins,
if be shall run, which is doubtful, Will BE q
farce, and that the temperance Candidate IL
there be one, will not receive many votes.
The Doctor says he thinks Malone has hnal'
" been killed for keeps, and that, too, oy
biz colored brother.
Among the strangers in the city to-day
was MIR. Agnew of Alexandria, the repuoIi-
CEN candidate for Congress in his district.
He called upon his cousin, the distinguished
DR.. Agnew OF Philadelphia, who is here In
attendance upon the medical congress now
in session here.
sgIt is rumored at the Capitol to-day that
Mr. ]. G Parkburst, Of Michigan, will be
nominated for the position OF U. 5. Minister
to Belgium.
While the personal rivalry of prominent
democrats Of this district may not have pro-
duced as much i'll feeling among the DISTRICT
democracy as has been reported In The
newspapers there is little, If any, doubt that
save among the few who have received OIL
flea. and their immediate personal friends
the enthusiasm of the District OF Colrmbls
democrats is conspicuous only by Its aD-
sence, and indeed some OF the best known
Emen among them say the dissatisfaction Il
so great, owing to the manner In which the
Districts share of the public patronage ha
been distributed, that they DOUBT II any
contributions to The democratic funG Will D'
made except by office holders.
The latest report about the now famous
iSenate tariff bill, is that Mr.. Aidrlch, wh(
is reported to be preparing the report upor
it, says it will be reported to the full hnanc'
committee of the Senate on Tuesday next
sixty-six days after the Mills bill reached
the Senate.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-09-20
OnDosing the French.

San FRANCISCO, Sept. 20.-News receiy-
ed from the South Seas show that there was
savage fighting on the Marqnesas group be-.
fore the natives allowed the French to hoist
their flag and take possession of the group.
Two hundred French marines and several
thousand natives we're killed. The natives
retired into the mountains where it was
difficult to dslodge them. Much indigna-
ton is expressed in Tahiti over the seizure
of Easter Island by Chill, which proposes to
establish penal colony there. This is the
island famous for its grand stone statues
standing on huge pedestals. The seizure
was made by captain Toro, OF the Gillian
cruiser Agamos.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-09-20

THE FREDERICKSBURG FAIR opened auspi-
ciously yesterday, the westher being delightful,
whilst the exhibits in all the departments are be-
yond the expectations of the association. The
races were close aud interesting, the track being
in excellent condition. In the first race, half
mile dash, Stella, owned by Captain Dan. Lee,
won, with Kilkrnnkey, owned by B. C. L. Mon
care, close second There were four to start.
The second race, mile heats trotting, best three
in five, was won By Charlie Gray, owned by ]. E..
Mason, with Kiiranny, owned by w. E. Brooke,
second. Five started. The third race, three
quarters of a-mile heats, best two in three. St.
John, owned by Frank Pattie. won, with Lady
Antoinette, owned by c. B. Maddux close second
There were 1--WE TO start. The fourth and last
race, hurdle race, one mic straight over eight
hurdles, was won By Page Nelson, with Kilkrank-
ey second, both owned by & C. L. Moncure
I here were present on the grounds over four
Thousand people.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-09-20
VIRGINIA NEWS.

DIR. G. ". Gordon,a prominent physician Of
Petersburg, died Monday, after protracted
illness.
A concert given in Stanton Tuesday
evening realized $3.50 for the yellow fever
sufferers.
Mrs. Thomas H. Burwell. of Wildwood
Clarke county, died suddenly Monday night
of neuralgia Of the heart.
The water in the streams in Fauqnier
county were higher on Monday last than
they have been known TO be for years.
a monument to the memory Of the Third
Massachusetts Volunteers buried 10 the Ma
tional Cemetery at Winchester was dedlcat.
ed yesterday with interesting ceremonies.
Hereafter those persons coming to Nor.
folk from and through yellow fever Infected
districts will be required by the health au-
thorities here to show clean health certih-
cate.
Mr.. VIM. NJ. Strother and Miss Mamie D.
And -rson both ofFauquier county, were mar
ried at the Markham NJ. E. church yester-
day, the Rev. Mr. F. A. Strother perform.
ing the ceremony.
George W. Taylor and j. B. White, OF
Norfolk, in two days. shooting on Curriiuck
beech, killed 325 baysnipe. 200 yellow legs,
100 plover and % golden plover and curlew.
Beech birds were never more plentiful than
this season.
At Christ Episcopal Church in Gordons.
Vile yesterday Miss Sadie Lindsay, daught-
er of Colonel John NJ. Patton, was married
to Captain Arthur J. Hutchinson, OF Eng
land. After the ceremony there was an ele
CANT break fast at The Meadows, the resi-
dence of the brides father, in Abemarle
county.
Preparations are being made for the re-
moval OF the seven monitors now in the
James river at City Point, up to within three
miles Of Richmond This is TO be done to
get them nearer to a city where provisions
can be easily obtained, and also TO put them
in more secure place. They are single
turreted and have been at City Point for q
number of years. Their names ore the Ajax,
Cauonicus, Mahopac, Manhattan, Wyan-
dotte, Catskill and Leh;gh.
Two colored children were fatally burn
ed in Norfolk by the explosion of a can of
kerosene The father and mother had left
their home for their daily work. leaving
three children in bed. A short while after
the girl Victoria got up and started TO make
fire in the stove, and 1t not burning quick
ly, she reeorted to the kerosene can. A
terrible explosion followed, scattering the
burning oil over her person and also over
her brother George. two years old, and set
ting the room on fire.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-09-20

THE YELLOW FEvER.-The official bule-
tins from Jacksonville, Fla, show for tie
twenty four hours ending at p. N. yester.
daay $50 new cases of fever, making the to-
tai SO far reported l, $685. The deaths yes
terday numbered IA very large proper
ton of new cases are among the colored
people living in the suburbs.
Reports from Gainesville state that there
ere no new cases there, and confidence is
felt that there will not be an epidemic there.
Rev. Mr.. Snowdan, the rector of the Epls-
copal Church at McClenny, died yesterday.
The others sick there are doing well. NO
new cases are reported.
A telegraph operator named Sweeny was
taken sick with the fever yesterday evening
in the Jacksonville Office, whence he was
carried home. He was from Galveston as
volunteer.
Mr.. R. Bowden, the city editor of the
Times Union, died of fever last night. He
was thought to have passed the crisis. Five
new cases were reported at McClenny yes.
terday.
Moses Newberry, Polish Jew, who ar
rived in Louisville on Tuesday last from
Decatur, Ala, died yesterday afternoon in
tenement house from yellow fever.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-09-20

MYSTERIOUS DIsAPPEARANcE.-W r. LOWS,
of New York, arrived at Norfolk yesterday in
search CT his brother, Alonzo Lewis. who disap-
peared on the Oath of August. The missing man
visited number of hardware houses in Norfolk,
W tn whom he transacted business. The after
roon of that day he paid his bill at the St. James,
STAG ng that he was going down to Virginia Beach
He was registered for dinner at the Princess An
ne Hotel, Virginia Beach August 25. after
which he seems to have entirely dropped out of
sight His valise WIS left in the Office OF the St.
James, and was not disturbed until the missing
mans brother came on. He found tho valise
nicely packed, as if the owner was about to start
off on trip, but there was no clue to his present
whereabouts. The disappearance is mysterious
and foul play is suspected.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-09-20
Horse Thieves Captured.

CHEYENNE, Wyo Sept. 2O.-Jack Rodg.
ere, deputy sheriff of Crook county captured
five horse thieves \and band of stolen ami.
mails near Sun Dance. Monday. The horses
were driven from Texas, Kansas and Ne.
braska to this territory and offered for sale.
There we're nearly 200 animals in the 5unch.
The thieves we're asleep in their blankets
when Rodgers covered them with Win
chester and after arousing them marched
all OF them to jail. They were fully armed
but dared not make fight.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-09-20
The Farn,yiIle Convention.

AS stated in yesterdays GAZETTE the
Malone and Langston delegates met at
Farmville to nominate candidate for Con-
gress from the fourth Congressional district
The district committee, Robert McCandlish
B. F. Jarratt and Ross Hamilton, the last
named Langstonite, met to prepare roll
of delegates. They finally decided by a
vote OF > to |, TO rule out all but thirteen OF
the Langston delegates. This WAS the slg-
al for break and the Langston people
organized heir convention. The stage at
the Opera House was decorated with ban
ners and flowers. A permanent organiza-
ton, with Ross Hamilton as chairman, was
effected and Langston received the unanl-
nous vote of the convention. He made q
speech renewing his devotion to the repub-
lican party, claiming equal rights Tor WHITE
and black alike, aud repeliDg the charge
made by Gen. Malone that he was more OF
democrat than republican, and that
negro ought not to go TO Congress. Reso-
lu,ions were adopted indorsi0g james d.
Brad 9 d appointment on the national com.
mittee and bis services to the party pledg-
ing support to Langston; reproving the
methods and secret meetings Of Gen. Ma
hone, and refusing recognition to Malone
committeeman aud chairmen. Brady al
so addressed the convention and was
cbeered
The Arnold convention met in the court
house with A. w. Harris as chairman. h.
W. Arnold was nominated by acclamation
and made speech of acceptance. He said,
eff you want the white man to withdraw
from your party he will do so damned
quick" He denounced the statement that
the white people were selfish in wanting.
the domination, as "a lie from the tongue OF
a political trickster," and discussed Lang
ston's political record. Resolutions were
adopted pledgipg support to Harrison and
Morton and approving the national plat
form-for protection, against the internal
revenue and for education denounoing
Brady. -,
Gen. Mahoue was received with the wild.
est applause. He returned thanks for the
compliment and expressed gratiti alton of
the work of the body. He discussed repub'
ican prospects and predicted great victo.
~. The General was hoarse and evidently
unwell and made but brief speech.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-09-20
From Washington
Especial Correspondence of the Alexs. dAzE1Tkl
WASHINGTON. D. c.. Sspt. 20. 1883.

Especial Correspondence OF the Alexs. GAZETTE
WASHINGTON, D. c., Sept. 20, 1883.
Diligent enquiries are being made here
and, 1t is said, elsewhere for letter alleged
to have been written by General Malone to
the national republican committee threaten
ipg to turn the State of Virginia over to
Cleveland and Thurman 10 case he should
not be promised the dispensstion OF Vir-
pinia's share of federal patronage II Harrl-
son be elected. The identity of the parties
to whom this alleged letter was written has
not as yet been stated.
The House to day agreed to disagree to
the conference report on the sundry civil
bill. and then took up a land bill which
gave rise to a prolonged debate. ln the
Senate Mr.. Frye had read diipatch from
Bath, Maine, stating that the people OF that
town requested Congress to make liberal
provision for the yellow fever sufferers 10
Florida On motion of MIR. Edmunds his
resolution for withholding the Chinese ex-
ciusion bill was laid on the table, as, he
said. he understood that that bill had al
ready passed beyond the control OF the sen
ate r. is said Mr.. Edmunds was in-
duced to make this motion oy the 1ear
that his resolution would ipluEe MS party
on the Pacific Slope. Mr. Mitchell
read long speech in opposition 10 Inc
Presidents vews on the, tatl6 as eA-
pressed in his last annual message 10
Congress. 1t is understood the bill to raise
the agricultural bureau to the dignity OF
depsrtment will be taken up later In the
dav and passed before adjournment. The
=, biec. of Canadian retaliation has been
ncstponed until Monday when MIR. Morgan
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-09-20
POLITICAL NOTES.

Congressman Bourke Cochran, of New
York, said yesterday that he would not be
candidate for re election TO Congress.
In the Second South Carolina district yes.
terday, George D. Tllman, democrat, was
renominated after several hundred ballots,
during two weeks session.
A dispatch from Petersburg says the split
In the republican party in that district is
cheering and encouraging outlook for the
democrats and they feel much encouraged.
Information received by the democrats of
Richmond from the canvass in the Fifth and
Ninth Congressional districts of this State is
highly satisfactory to the leaders of the
party.
There were 5000 people at the Erlauger,
Ky, barbecue yesterday, to see Speaker
Carlisle and Senator Blackburn and bear
them speak. They were mostly from Car
isles district.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-09-20

COURT OF APPEALS AT STANTON YESTERDAY
Alexander sgainst Byrd. From Frederick Ar
eued by I. w. Harrison and Marshall McCor-
mick for appellees and John J. Williams for ap-
pelant, and submitted
Wscker against Grayson from Page county.
Argued by Y. r. Calvert for appellant, and r. S.
Parks, jr for appellee, and continued for further
hearing
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-09-20
Revolt.

ZANZIBAR, Sept .20.-The Usambara chiefs,
headed by Simboja. have revolted against
the Germans and dispersed Meyers caravan.
Meyers porters have deserted him and he
is returning to the coast. Last evening
some natives of Zanzibar, mlstaking the sec
rotary of the British Admiral for German
official, assaulted him and then made their
escape in the darkness. The secretary's
injuries are not serious.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-09-20
A False Runor.

DENVER, Col, Sept. 2O.-Reports publish.
ed in the eastern press recently stating that
there we're $500 cases oftyphoid fever in
this city at the present time, was brought to
the attention of the board of health yester-
day. They denounced the report az mali.
cous falsehocd
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-09-20
IEXANDRIA.
rHURs,A EVENING, SEPTEMBER 20.

GENERAL MAHoNE said, in a speech al
Fsrmville night before last, that this was
no time for the candidacy of colored man.
and this. too, In district ia which almost
the entire republican vote is coloreo. bu'
tho Gsneral told the truth, not only IN re-
a,.ot If bis own. but of all the other dis
tricts in the State In the present CONDITION
If aff.irs In the South at least, public offices
mnst be filled by white men, the relations
batween tins office holders and the people
being too close to permit exceptions to the
rple. and Injury has always resulted to Doth
races whenever there has been deviation
fror that rule. The trouble with the den-
oral ia that no matter how he may nave
thought on the subject, he has not always
talked on it the same way, as 1t was ohiy
few wears ago that he said he wanted all
raca distinctions obliterated. The negroes OF
yirpinia, after the days of reconstruction
hal become pretty we'll contentec Win
their proper condition, and made little OF
M obiecton to the selection of the ofncers
by the intelligent voters of the State, ana II
il chiefly owing to the teachings OF the zen
eral and his "metbods," and his maiign in-
faence.n that they BOW, as Mr. John Wise
tells them to do, demand that the districts
in which they have majority OF the voters
they shall also have all the Offices Ine
General has sown the wind he is no"
rae,;np the whirlwipd
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-09-20

THE procession ofthe Cleveland andThur.
man Coored League Central Club of New
York night before last was stoned and at
times routed by other negroes in that city.
And thus it seems that the advice of Fred
erick Douglass to the negroes. to make it
hot for those of their race who intend to
vote the democratic ticket. is as effective in
the North rs it is in the South.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-09-20

THE GAZETTE some days ago sad the
Presidents letter Of acceptance recognized
the republican doctrine of protection. That
statement the Richmond Dispatch contro'
yerted. and said "if the doctrine of protec-
ton be advocated in the letter of accept
ance. where shall We find document teach
ing the true democratic doctrine on the
subject ~ Tue GAZETTE then cited several
extracts from The Presidents letter, which
demonstrated the correctness OF its state
ment. and several from magazine article
by Mr.. S. eaker Carlisle, to show where the
true democratic doctrine on the tariff could
he found The Dispatch, in its rtjcinder,
SAYS nothing sbout Mr. Carlisle's letter,and,
strange as it may seem, supplies all the adj
d,tional proof, though none was required, to
substautiate the GAzETTE's original state
meut, by saying that the extracts referred to
from the Presidents message "agree exact
Iy with the Roanoke PLATFORM" which the
author of the Mills bill denominated as re-
publican, not democratic platform.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-09-20
Yellow Fever Sufferers.

NEW YORK. Sept. 20.-Mayor Hewitt to-.
day received dispatch FROM James NJ.
Schumacher, chairman of the finance relief
committee at Jacksonville, stating that the
committee were assisting McClenny and
Hendersonvlle and where watching and
keeping advised about other places that may
need assistance. The committee, he said,
were supplying food to 600 people.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-09-20
Boiler Explosion.

BLAIR. Neb, Sept. 2o.-Ths boiler of
Hanilton's saw mill on the Missouri eyplo-
ded last evening killing Henry Morrell, the
engineer, AID Henry Alexander, the fire.
man. Five others we're severely injured.
The boiler had Teen in use at the mill only
two weeks