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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-07-12
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Emperor William has ordered the plans
for a cathedral at Berlin to be proceeded
with
The London Aquarium has teen sold for
s1.65O,OOO The property will be devoted
to building purposes.
After the meeting of the crown council
Yesterday in Berlin the ministers waited
upon Enpr. IS Victoria at the Friedricksron
palace, and expressed their sympathy with
her in the loss of her husband.
Mr.. Felix Pyat will make proposition to
the French Chamber of Deputies to confis.
cate the property in France belonging to the
Orlesnist princes, and use the proceeds for
the erection of asylums for the aged.
Two generals and number of other Off
GERS in Constautinople have been degraded
and imprisoned as a result of the recent
fight among the soldiers stationed at the
Yildiz palace, the residence of the Sultan.
A ire in Baltimore yesterday did about
S25, 900 damage to thirty two buildings in
tho block bounded by Broadway, Thames,
Bond and Shakespeare streets Some the
houses were occupied by Bohemian families,
VINO had difficulty in getting out in safety.
Advces from along the 6. & o. canal
above Wilismsport indicate that the high
waters have done considerable damage
The waste way at dam No 5 has been swept
away. and some sixty feet of the canal
banks above the cement mile, near Han
cock, have been destroyed. At Williams
port the canal Ia also in danger.
A personal encounter took place yester
day afternoon in Washington. between
Justice of the Peace Samuel G. Mills and
Lawyer John Amber Smith in the formers
Office The trouble grew out of suit against
Mr.. Smith. After Judge Mills had render
ed verdict against Mr.. Smith, the latter
became angry and struck the judge. Both
men then clinched, and came out of the
fight equally hurt. After the affair Judge
Mills swore out q warrant against Mr..
Smith for assault.
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Maxwell, the Murderer.

ST. LOUIS, July 1.-THE Governor this
morning rendered his decision in which be
declines to grant Communication of the
sentence against Hugh NJ. Brooks, alias
Maxwell, but granted respite for four
weeks. The usual death watch was Get
yesterday morning over Maxwell and Henry
Lagdreff, sentenced to be hanged to morrow.
Three guards have the prisoners in special
charge and will not lose sight of them Tor u
moment until the execution takes place or
the Governor interferas with his clemenoy.
Brooks spent most of the forenoon playing
dominoes with the watchers and was in
pretty good spirits but anxiously looking
for dispatches from Jefferson City, where
his attorneys are pleading before the Gov
ernor
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Sunday schoo, Convention.

The Sunday school convention of the Bal
tmore conference of the Methodist Church
South. at Berryville, held its first session
yesterday morning. Rev. Samuel Rodgers,
D. D, spoke on the advancement of the
Sunday school work. Rev. W. G. Eggle-
ston Endorsed the Rev. Mr.. Rodgers's re-.
marks.
The annual report was read By Mr.. T. j..
Magruder, the president. More than fifteen
hundred scholars have been converted, and
several Sunday school institutes have been
held within the conference bounds. There
has been an increase of 16 schools and 1,6l2
scholars. and the Sunday school member
ship is 5000 10 the Baltimore Conference.
While there are 413 more churches than last
year there are SAT more schools. The in
crease in Sunday school mem bership in the
General Conference has been Il ,273, and
there is now an aggregate Sunday school
men bership of 731 800.
Rev. B. w. Bond spoke on "How She'll
We Win Our Young People to Christ p"
Rev. J. Edgar Wilson spoke on mis-
sions" Rev. P. Stump spoke on The re-
laliou between Christ and children.
Among the clerical delegates present are
Rev. Samuel Rodgers, D. D., Alexandra,
and Rev. ]. 8. Gardner, Stanton.
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From Washington
T special Correspondence of the Aie1s. aAzEFIkJ
WASHING ron. d. c., July II, 1888

rso.c,sl Correspondence of the Alexs. GAZETTE
WASHING ron. D. c., July II, 1855
The House yesterday evening agreed to
rec.de from its action and to accept The
amendment of the Senate to the agricultural
bill spp.opriating 500 900 toward the esiab-
iishmet Of sorghum experimental stations.
On the vote, the Virginia members are re-
corded as follows: Ayes, Messrs. Browne,
Hopkins aud Yost; noes, Messrs. Lee,
O'Ferrall and Wise not votiRg, Messrs.
Bowden. Bowen, Brown and Gaines. This
vote doesn't look as ii the request OF Tue
Virginia legislature in respect of the partic
uar matter referred TO, had much effect ur-
on the democratic members OF the House.
The Senate yesterday agreed to Insist up
on its amendment to the postoffice appro'
pra,ion bill sppropriating SSOO0OO tor sup
sidzing certain steamship lines. Inc House
will never agree to 1t.
Ia the House yesterday, during the de-
bate on the tariff bill, Mr.. Grosvenor, repuo.
licap, of Ohio. sent to the Clerks desk and
had read newspaper dispatch from this
CITY concerning q recent speech made in
Baltimore by General Bradley 7. John
son. in which he said the South, in
the war between the States, fought for con-
slitutional liberty, and which speech was
termed 10 the dispatch a "red-hot rebel
speech"
Representative Scott, of Philadelphia,
whose name is frat on the list ofsthe mem.
bers of the executive committee of the ma
tional democratic committee, strange as II
may appear, seems to think that nothwith'
standing Pennsylvania $4,000 republican
don, rio noYt Optn
Der, and Solicitor General jerks from the
same State is of the same opinion. Inc na'
tionsl democratic low tariff, and the State
republican liquor lay. which hos closed
about three fourths Of the beer saloons IN
the State.are said to be the causes OF the re-
ported immense republican detection in
State.
Senator Daniel escorted Mr.. Norman Ran
doph to the White House this morning tc
repeat the Invitation to the President to
visit Richmond during the exposition there
next fall The President repeated his au.
swer, which was to the effect that he didn't
think be could accept, but if be could ne
would.
In the Senate to day Messrs. Hawlcy, Stewart
and other republicans made resolution for the
printing of au extrs number of the Presidents
vetoes the occasion of some severe and groundiess
assaults upon Mr. Cleveland.
Mr.. Randall is much better to-day. Some OF
his friends, however, says he will hardly be able
10 attend TO any more legislative business at this
session Of Congress- and Certainly no party work
next fall.
In the House yesterday Mr.. Lee presented s
petition of certain cit;zeDs of Loudoun county foI
the repeal OF the internal revenue tax OF $50 on
druggists.
postoffice was established to-day at West
Falls Church, and the storekeeper there appoint
ed postmaster.
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VIRGINIA NEWS.

Mr.. John B. Ligbtfoot, prominent citi.
zen of Caroline county, died in Port Roy al
on Tuesday.
Col. W. W. Williamson has purchased
the Scriven property, near Warrenton, for
six thousand dollars.
e g. Elan, former merchant of Peters
burg, was killed by lightning stroke in
Buckingham county Tuesday.
RP. Halstead, we'll known citizen of
Norfolk, veteran of the late war, and
member of Pickett-Buchanan Camp, died
yesterday morning.
COL VIM. P Craighill has submitted bis
estimates for next year as follows: James
river, $400 600; harbor at Norfolk, 500 600;
approaches to Norfolk harbor, 100000 !;
Currituck sound, ETC., $4,000; New river,
$50 900.
Mrs Sarah Brunei, of Norfolk. who died
LIST Friday left $1,000 to the Freemason
Street Baptist Church in that city, $500 to
the Sou bern Baptist Theological Seminary,
81 900 to the home mission board and 81 900
for the Home for Aged and INDECENT Fe.
males.
Argument in the trial of ". H Godsey,
clerk of St. Charles Hotel, 10 Richmond.
fer the murder of Dave Glass, negro wait
err, closed last night, but there was no YER
dict The jury was held over till to-day.
They are said to be 10 for acquitta and two
for conviction.
Henry Smith, the negro who committed
the outrage on Mrs Midhif, in Pulaski
county, few days ago, was lynched near
Wylheeille by mob Tuesday night. He
was taken from the CARS while being re-
moved for greater safety, hanged to a neigh.
boring tree and hs body ridded with bull
let's. The parties to the lynchiug are uu
known, but are supposed to be from Pulaski.
severe thunder storm passed over the
lower end of Middlesex county Monday az
ternoon. and large hall, built by the Good
Templars and Masons about two years ago,
was struck by lightning and burned to the
ground, with al the furniture. The crash
vas SO severe that pieces Of weather board
ing and window fsciDgs were torn of and
scattered around for several hundred feet,
and hogs that were near by were instantly
killed,
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a Terrific Storm.

A terrific storm swep: through narrow belt of
country in lower Fauquier county, near White
Ridge, Tuesday night, causing the destruction Of
much property and two lives. The storm first
struck the farm of Mr.. Joel Oliver, sweeping
away everything before it, The dwelling house
and stable were totally demolished. Heavy tim
bers, furniture, etc, were hurled distance of s
quarter mi o. feather bed, npo0 which an in
mate OF the house was sleeping, was found IN the
top of tree nearly half mile away. Trees
were stripped of their limbs and torn up By the
roots hay stacks were blown down and farming
implements destroyed. Mrs. Oliver and her
daughter wers killed and Joel and Buck Oliver
were seriously but not fatally injured. One Of
the mon upon regaining consciousness found HIM
self lying in the yard some distance from the
house The injured men were cared for and 3
rescuing party Immediately started out to search
for the missing women The bodies were found
terribly mspgled. several hundred yards from
where the house stood. Tho storm passed through
a body of woods, cutting down the trees like
grass before mower snd struck large frame
barn on the farm of Mr.. Noah Grove, completely
tearing it to pieces and scattering timbers, planks
aud Shingles over the fields hundreds of yards
awsy. a buggy, wagon and farming implements
were destroyed.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-07-12

The second number, that for July, Of
Belford's Magazine has been received from
its publishers 10 New York. Col. Dom
Piatt is the editor of this monthly, and if
the first two numbers be an earnest Of
those that are to follow. it is likely ne will
make it one OF the most successful ever
started. An entirely rev feature of this
new candidate for popular favor is that each
number contains complete novel. The
contents of this months number are: A
Farmers View of 1t, To the Queen of q Re
publican Court, To Frances Cleveland, A
Common Case, Baby Wisdom, An After
noon Tea, o. Raven, Domus Pacifca, a
Plea for the Negro, Tariff Reform, Singer
and Song, Senator Iugalls's Record, Ineer-
soil on CcnkIing, Sam Vandalism, Sir
Charles DIX, Reviews, Literary Notes,
The Rock of Ghickamauea, and The Wrong
Mana novel BY Gertrude Harrison.
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Rise in the Potomac.

BALTIMORE, July ia special from Ia.
gerstown, Md. says the Potomac river be-
gan rising at Willamsport Tuesday after
noon and continued to rise until o'clock
yesterday afternoon, when it was about ?
feet above low water mark-the greatest
depth reached since the freshet OF 1877
Considerable damage has been done to the
crops in the low lands. The sudden rise
in the river is due to the heavy rains west OF
Cumberland.
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DEATH OF De. GARNErr.-Dr. A. Y. F

DEATH OF DE-. GARNErT.-Dr. A. Y. P.
Garnett, the we'll known physician of Wash
ington, died at Rehoboth Beach. Del, last
night, shortly after his arrival there of heart
failure. he had been III for several days,
and was believed to be slowly convalescing.
He was born In Essex county, Va, Septem-
Der 18th, 1S20,and was. therefore, in his sixty
eighth year. He graduated in medicine at
the University ofPennsylVania in 1871, en-
tered the United States navy as assistant
surgeon the same year, was promoted sur.
geon in 1S4S, and resigned in 1850 in order
to accept the professorship of clinical med.
icine in the National Medical College of
Washington. He married the eldest daught
or of Henry A. Wise. at the breaking ont
of the war he left Washington and became
a surgeon. general of the Confederate army.
He was the family physician of Jefferson
Davis, and accompanied Mr.. Davis after the
evacuation of Richmond. AT the close of
war be returned to Washington, and was
egsin elected professor in the medical col.
lege. Recently he was elected president Of
the American Medical Association.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-07-12

PAN.PREsBYTERIAN CoUNcIL.-At the
meeting of the Pan. Presbyterian Council in
London yesterday, Rev. ]. Mcclellan
Holmes, of Albany, n Y, presented the re.
port of the committee on DR.. Hooper's offer
of s2S,OO0 to found q college in Canton,
China, with the hope that the Presbyterian
Alliance would increase the endowment to
100000. The committee approved the at
tempt, but, in view of the fact that the Alt
snce was not body which could legally
hold property, they recommended the coun.
Gil to decline the offer. The report was
adopted.
DR.. Elinwood, of New York, read paper
denouncipg the liquor traffic with Africa.
In the debate on the progress of Roman
ian. DIR. Hall said that it was not so strong
on the Continent as in the past. and that it
eeemed stronger in America than it really
wse
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HOUSE.
The Flood.

PITrsBURG, Pa, July 1.-The waters
that have been sweeping the valley of the
Monongahela and the waters Of it's trituta
ries for the last sixty hours are again falling
into their natural channels. They leave in
their track scenes OF dssclation and ruin
that have never had their counterpart In
the same localities. From Pittsburg to the
mountain Businesses of Randolph county,
W. Va, towns have been rayaged, manu-.
factories have been inundated, boats have
bsen sunk, houses and lumber have been
hoated off, Fields with their wheat in
shock aud growing crops have been devas-
tased, families driven to the hills for shelter
aud 10 many instances the accumulations of
years of toll and self denial have been lost in
an hour. The losses entsiled by the flood
will not fall short of So 900 900.
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Letter from Rappahannock.

WooDvILLE, July OBTAINING, known
hereabouts as Commodore Manning, was
found dead in tie road near the Gourd Vine
Church, in this county, on Sunday last. He
was an Englishman by birth and sailor by
occupation, and according to bis account OF
MS life had sailed on nearly every water and
been in many parts of the world. He came
to this neghb)rhood some fifteen years since
and followed clock repairing as trade. He
was a man of much ingenuity, and had been
in his earlier life robust, strong and Of great
endurance. Epilepsy, from which he suffer
ed, was thought to have been the cause of
his death.
Our County Court met and adjourned on
Monday after transacting some routine bus.
iness.
A railroad meeting bad been advertised
and many advocates for one were present.
For some unknown cause no meeting was
held. Books OF subscription for stock, how
ever, are in the hands of different parties,
and il thorough canvass of the county be
made it will be found that our people are
ready and willing to do in a substantial way
what is ia their power towards the building
of one.
There ia a good deal Of complaint about
the raising of the charges for sending mes
sages by telephone, and unless the rates are
low cred there will be a reduction in the
amount of business. Twenty cents is now
charged for message and answer, and fifteen
cents for simple message. More business
and more money will be made, many think,
BY going back to first charges.
Several of the severest storms have OCCUR
red in this county lately. On Sunday night
Flint Hill was visited by what is said to
have been the worst in its history. The
wind was terrific, and much damage was
done. The roofs of buildings we're blown,
of, trees uprooted. wheat stacks scattered
and several GU. buildings bodily lifted from
their foundations aud rolled away. Near
Slate Mills Mr.. T. Thornhill had stack of
hay burned by lightning.
Judge Howard, of Flint Hill, for many
years U. g. gauger, and well known through.
out this, his former district, was attacked by
stroke of paralysis a short time since, and
is now greatly Frustrated.
Toe delegates to the Woodstock conven-
ton have been selected in this county by
primary election, and all are for O'Ferrall.
A ticket for Alexander was run in the
Washington district, but was beaten. This
secures O'Ferral's denomination beyond the
peradventure of doubt B.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-07-12

DIR. w. B. RICHARDSON of England is
one of the many who oppose the New YORK
plan of substituting an electric shock for the
gallows as means of executing the death
sentence. The doctor is wise man. Ii Is
not the fear of simple death that deters low
natures from the commission of murder, but
the dread ofthe physical suffering and mental
horror attending strangulation. 1t would
be better to increase that suffering and hor
ror rather than to Lessen it, if the diminutioo
of murder be the desired object. The same
idea is true of crimes not capital, and if the
Virginia legislature at its next session would
act upon it, and re-establish. the whipping
post, the criminal expense Of the State would
be greatly curtailed, and the public morali-
ty ola large class of her population be great
ly improved
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-07-12

MIR. R. DkvEREux DOYLE, of Norfolk,
has an article on the Old South in The Cri
terion, of Atlanta, of the 6.h inst, in which
he successfully rebuts the groundless
charge that the people of the Old South
were ignorant idlers. Mr.. Doyle doesn't
cay 80, but the people of the old South we're
the best, the most contented, and the happi.
eat that ever existed. and life in the old
South was paradise on earth, the like OF
which will never come again.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-07-12

TIE BALTIMORE american says, drinking
liquor is about the only pleasure the black
man has in the South" OF course the
American knows better. The pleasure OF
drinking is certainly rs great in the North
as in the South, and transportation between
the two sections is cheap; but for all that,
the black man clings TO the South, and
those who go away are never happy until
they return. 1t would not be go if drinking
were the only pleasure they had in the
South. Then, too, such statements are as
Witless as untrue.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-07-12

THE NEW YORK Star says, Virginia will
remain democratic as long as the republi-
cans in the State are governed by such men
as Malone, Wise and Riddleberger." The
Star is correct and the only wonder about
the matter is that the people of the North,
that is if they give Virginians credit for
ordinary understanding, should think it at
all strange that such should be the case.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-07-12

CONGRESSMAN BROWNIES threat in regard
to the refusal of Secretary Villas to grant
Mexican pension to Ger. Page, of Norfolk,
published in the GAZETTE. should be the
means OF inducing other sufferers by the at.
tempt of the Interior Department to set at
defiance the laws of Congress as interpreted
by the U. S. Supreme Court, to call his at.
tention TO their cases, ard to urge him to
put his threat into execution as soon az pos
sible-the threat being to bring the case be-
fore Congress and TO direct Congressional
investigation CT the same.
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Alex
THURSDAY EVENING, JULY -.

AN IMMIGRATION convention is now IN
session at the Natural Bridge. Settlers are
wanted in Virginia, ard wanted badly ou'
lha. want does not imply that indiscrimi.
nate immigration would be beneficial. All
intelligent, reputable and Industrious men
will 6nd welcome and profitable homes IL
npv part OF Virginia, DO matter from whence
they come. But the immigration OF otnef
sort of people is not desirable. In all tue
efforts that are in progress to induce settlers
to come to Virginia special attention should
be directed to the North and West, rather
than to foreign countries, and to people who
have some correct idea of the real spirit and
intent of free institutions rather than to
these who are utterly ignorant of them, and
who, in consequence of their ignorance
mistake license for liberty.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-07-12

TIE FACT that of the executive commit
tee of the rational republican party, APP
pointed yesterday, Only one member Is from
the South, and he from Kentucky, shows
plainly enough that the hopes of the repub-
licans are rot founded upon any help from
the Southern helf Of the country, and that
such assistance as they may receive from
The South will be totally unexpected. Even
in it's central organization the republican
party is seciiensl. How can it hope to
succeed in a nationsl election, except by
keeping the country divided, and dominat-
ing the larger sectior-the North ?
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Death of Thomas III. Salisbury.

WASHINGTON, D. c.. July II Thomas n.
Salisbury, of Dover, Del. nephew of Sena.
tor Salisbury and clerk of the Senate Com
mittee on Engrossed bills, of which the
Senator is chairman, died In this city of
Brigbt's disease, late last night. He had
been 40 officer of the Senate for the last
eight or ten years aud was highly respected.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-07-12

IT'S reported that the President is so
much pleased with the course of Mr.. Oberly,
the republican Chief OF the Civil Service Re-
form Commission, that he will retain him in
tina. position, and not appoint him Superin-
tendept OF Indian Schools, as was hoped by
the democratic party. This is unfortunate.