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The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-07-19
CHARLOTTESVILLE.
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special Correspondence OF the Times
CHARLOTTESVILLE. VA, July lS.-A
county Sunday-school convention will
be Id AZ Priddy 's Creek Church. near
Stony Point. in this county. on Friday
and Saturday. July 10Th and 20th. A
number OF interesting topics will be
under consider alton. The following
are some Of the prominent Sunday
school workers who will be present aud
make addresses: General James G..
Field. Dir. y. NJ. Page and hr. II. N.
Msgruder. Of Albemarle county. Cap
tain G. T. Nawter. Of Miller School;
Rev. John b. Turpin. Of this city. and
Professor +. Ill. Smith. Rev. =. IL.
Gwinn and Mr. John b. Minor, Jr., Of
tue University Of Virginia.
A large number Of delegates. repre-
senting the majority Of the Sunday
schools in the county. are expected u
be present.
The funeral Of Roscoe Kirk Andrews, 5,
infant son Of Mr.. j. b. Andrews. I oOk
place from his parents residence, on
Rid &c street, this afternoon.
The first District Conference Of the
Alexandria district. Washington Con-
ference, VI. f. Church lcolored). met in
this place thus morning and will be in
session for four days.
4 number OF people are visiting
friends or boarding IN this vicinity for
the summer.
The weather has been very cool for
the past few days.
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NAnnNES FIGHT FOR PLACE.
His Plan 10 Keep uis Gsip ON var
Ginia.

WASHINGTON. July H. Messrs. Quay,
C'ark-on. dudley. and Fessenden. of
the executive committee OF the Ma
t0nal Republican Committee. * Sena-
tor Man0Ie and two or three of bis fol
lowers. and -Mahoueists Groner
and Brady have spent q busy
dav in what Is said 10 be an at
tempt Co get the Virginia Republicans
together. The executive committee is
still at work at a late hour tonight.
and General Malone will not retire
until Quay and mis- colleagues adjourn.
s heap Of mystery has been thrown
around the day S doing5 10y all con-
cerncd and some astonishing Liberties
have been taken with hetruth by those
who failed dodge anxious inquiries.
Mah0ne's purpose appears to be to
formally commit the National Commit
tee TO "a recognition of the Mahoneites
as the only genuine Republicans IN NIr-
gInia. and his friends are asserting
with much confidence that victory has
already pCrched upon his banners The
lutte bos, met some of his henchmen
early in the day. and after consulting
with them he sent document to
Messrs. Quay. Clarkson. aud Dudley.
who are said TO have been to-
aether Just then in Dudley 5 Office.
There are two reports as TO the
contentsof this document. One Is that
10 was q call for the Republican State
Convention To be held ia Virginia next
month. and that Malone asked the kN-
ecutive Committee 10 endorse IT, and
thus virtually indOrse the man VINO Is
sues IL. The other report, which finds
more believers than the first. Is that
Malone has proposed TO the leaders
that the National Committee shall issue
the call, supervise the primaries Tor the
elections for the delegates, and then
take charge of the convention. 1t Is
REGARDED as a novel proposition that
national committee shall run State
but If the sympathies OF
the PARTY leaders are with Malone
n is easy 10 see that ii would be
very satisfactory arrangement Tor the
ex senator and wOuld-be Governor.
This rs declared To be the matter now
under consideration. The Mahoneites
have no doubt that the conference Will
result I'M the formal recognition OF Their
boss AS the head of the party IN their
State. carving with It the continued
of The Federal patronage in
Virginia. the control of the State Con-
yeption and the nomination for Cover
nor. A. is understood that Malone. or
the National Committee acting for him.
will call the convention at ls0anoke.
about August ijth.-Ncr York Times.
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Alexandra lien :.



ALEXANDRIA, July 1s.-Captain
Taylor J., dead, aged forty-three. lie
leaves a widow. son and a daughter.
He was for twenty-five years in the
Virginia Midland service, was widely
known and esteemed.
The Baltimore and Ohio United
States Express Company. after getting
well established here. has refused 10
pay The city $50 license tax. holding
that no city or State can tax Inter Stats
Commerce. Mayor DJwnham heard
the case to-day, and says tnat he in
tended iiniug the company daily ill
the tax was due. and then should they
refuse be- would arrest its officers for
doing business without license. They
pay no such tax in Richmond. Norfolk.
Lyuchburg or elsewhere. Ills Honor
also fined .he Midland Company so.
which they declared beyond ms iuris-
dicti0u.
These cases will 20 INTO the courts.
Much interest i manifested in them by
the legal fraternity.
lt is reported here that the Republl
can Executive Committee is divided.
Dut HoD'u1 N'uDt7 iiHii tiDoirtuS -hA
hone unanimously tonight. The Re
pubicans here have ticket already
Mahone. Agnew General Walker-but
no friend Of the second believes he
wants more political honors or nine
hundred dollar place either.
The Democrats choose delegates 10
the State convention tomorrow.
The Mount Vernon Insurance Com
pany declares dividend Of 10 per
cent. and nave reelected the old Offi-
Gers.
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FROM LYNCHBURG.
THE COUNTERFEIT GANG AND THEIR
D0lNGS.
the '.Queei sheppard Evident
" Intends 10 give the Gaug Away
-OIhcr TeIcgraphic Iicks.

LYNCHBURG. Va. July IS.-S. W.
Patterson has been appointed at Wash
ington letter-carrie- in this city to fill
a vacancy. and the superintendent Of
the free delivery stem has notified the
postmaster that only men known to be
IN accord with the administration
would be considered as applicants for
positions.
The Two counterfeiters recently ar
rested in Roanoke were lodged IN Jail
40 Liberty last night. They are DR..
Shepperd and Benjamin 5. Wnitten.
Shepperd is a mau about sixiy-tiye
years, Written about fifty-fve. Shep-
perd SAYS he lives about half
way between Niuton and Stewards
vile that one night last week
Whitten came to his house about 10
O'Clock. and had a llt of dies and other
implements for the manufacture Of
counterfeit coin. including double
handful Of nickels under his porch.
He says be knew nothing about the
gang until Whitten came 90 his house
and tried 10 get him togo IN with them.
which he declined at first. but after
wards consented: that he never had any
II the queer but one dollar.
half dollar and ten Dickels lie
also states that the gang made ten and
iive-doliar goll pieces. one collar and
halt-dOllar silver pieces and nickels.
says six men compose the gang. but he
would not dlyulge their names. but
went so fan as TO say one Of them was Il
merchant. From what the Doctor says.
he evidently intends to give the gang
away. Whitten declares he is inno-
cent as an unborn baby. and is being
psrsecutcd beyond measure.
Tie say s. when the trial takes place he |
wants the entire court composed Of |
stauich Republicans. and half Of the |
jury composed Of negroes. Mr.. j. b. /
Baker. who has a store near Stewart /
vile. was the first gentleman who got /
on the trail Of the showers, and set up /
more than ten nights looking .Or them, /
as considerable amount II the |
queer mad been passed ON him. He /
also says Shepperd was the principal /
one that worked hm. The prisoners |
had a hearing before Justices Dearing /
and Graham yesterday. who sent them
To jail for -afe keeping.
The Justices also retained all the inn
plements and cash on hand. which they
Will produce on Monday. Sloan. the
party who was hailei al Roanoke. il
still at largc. A considerable amount
of the money was traced to Roanoke
before any arrests were made. some
having been circulated here.
Both are natives of Bedford. Shcp-
pard is leading member of the Bap
list Church ON Tyler's Mountain, and
is well educated and a preach
ar oi the Duukard persuasion.
The funeral of Miss Ztida Carroll.
Oldest daughter Of Major John ". Car
roll. took place this morning. and was
the largest ever seen in this city.
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PETERSBURG
ihc Hussings COurt-ihe Late Major
WingGcId.
ISDcclal - the limos.

Special 90 THE Times.
PETERSBURG. July ls.-The Hastings
Court of this city. Judge ID. NJ. Bernard
presiding. conve1ed tins morning.
The docket i- quite a large one, en-
bfacug about twenty misdemeanOr
and about fifteen felony cases. There
are also upon the civil docket several
important cases involving large
amounts. and beset with intricate and
lupicxiug questions of law. The
term is likely 20 be "a long and labOri-
0us one. Inc time of the court up TO
the hour Of adjournment for dinner
was taken up in ihe trial of the case Of
the Commonwealth against Walton. a
white man. charged with horse steal
iug. The accused pleaded guilty. and
the jury aeccfiaiued the term of his inn
prisolmeut at three years in the poni-
teniiarY.
Mir. Edwin Brown Thomson, ma
tive ol Brunswick county. Virginia.
who about loSl accepted a lucrative
position m India, where be remained
abou, eight years returning last year,
ho attended the University of Virginia,
tAe session just ended. where he stood
desryoiiy high in his studies was, a
day or two ago. examined by Judge ID.
a. Hinton. of the Court Of Appeals. and
licensed 90 practice law. Mr.. IhOma-
SON bad been previously examined and
found daily qualified by Judge ID. a.
Gumsley. of thc Sixth Judicial Circuit.
Tie expects tO locate in Richmond about
the irstOi October.
TheIemalns of Major Page Wing
field. of Bernolia. CAL. reached this
ciB ttis afternoon. and were buried IN
Bandford Cemetery. Major Wingfeld
WAS ID SON Of j. II. ID. Wingield, now
bishop of Northern California, and was
about twenty-five years OF age at the
time Of his death. Major Wingfield was
shot and killed a week or tep days ago
in Bpnecll Cali, while undertaking TO
resent a very insulting and slanderous
article published IN newspaper at that
place. Ills sad ending is much regretted
by Dis many friends in this city. where
he was well and lavorably known.
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COuNTERFElTERS CAPTURED.
4 Detective shot IA the Head and the
Prisoner uakcs ss.s Escape.

DAYTON. July ls.-A member of
the United States Secret Service cap
tured - 900 in counterfeit money here
to-day and had pistol duel with James
GuyOn. cOunterfeiter. resulting In
GuyOn's > escape and Detective Denello
receiving wound in the head. Mel
son briggs keeps the United States
Hotel. road house near the Soldiers
Home. About fifteen years ago DR..
briggs and GuyOn were members OF a
gang ~ cOunterfeiters IN Illinois
briggs was arrested and served eleven
years at joliet. Guyon escaped. carry
ing with him counterfeit plates
and $4,000 in bogus green backs.
This money never made its
appearance till last February. Chief
Bell. Of the Secret Service. came here in
March and made Briggs acquaintance,
pretending 10 be an attorney named
McWilliams. OF Hartford, Conn. \
short time ago he broached the subject
Of counterfeit money TO briggs, vino Of
feTed 10 get S4O 600 counterfeit for him.
Bell then summoned Detective DenellO
10 assist him. briggs went to Cincin-
natl % get the stuff, but returned with
only $4,000. saying Guyon would
come last night with the balance.
Guyon clme and briggs delivered
52l 600. all of the bogus money, 10 Bell.
receiving IN turn what purported TO be
- 600 in good money, bat which was
really only 5000. briggs was then
placed under arrest and guarded in his
room. This morning an attempt was
made to capture GuyOn. who was sup
posed TO be concealed on briggs prem
ises. Bell. who had been reinforced by
five more secret service officers posted
his men: three Of them at the edge of
wooded lot adjoining the house, with
instructions 10 close IN at "A signal
GuyOn, 1t proved. was bid in some un-
derbrush. aud when the officers closed IN
he passed unODserved between them.
But be had not gone far when they
saw him and opened fire on him. GuyOn
dodg ged behind tree and returned the
fire. putting bullet through DerellOs
right ear and glancing over his scalp.
GuyOn then took TO his heels and was
soon lost To sight. Tne officers are
securing the couUtry in search Of him.
One OF the Cificsrs claims to have
wounded GuyOn curing the pistol bat
tie
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A Fiie ana a Pesnut Trust.


NORFOLK VA, July lS.-An incen-
diary fire caused the burning Of house
on Bart street, Portsmouth. al an early
hour this morning, and the occupant, a
colored woman named Mary Jasper,
barely escaped with her life. When
she awolse, she was nearly suffocsted
with smoke. There was no insurance
on the building. and the ircendiary has
not been captured.
A peanut trust, comprising all the
large peanut factories in Virginia and
New York. has been formed, and il IS
believed that the entire growing crops
Of Virginia and Tennessee Is controlled
by the syndicate. Norfolk is considered
the peanut market Of the world, and a
member Of the syndicate admitted this
afternoon that many Of The fImers
crops has already been purchased.
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ROCKBRlDGE SPRINGS.
In the Hcar, OF the AIIexhan,c~.

ROCKBRlDGE ALUM SPRINGS. July H.
This place Is filling up rapidly. We
nov number over 400 guests with
daily additions. Messfs. Anderson *
Sons. Of your city are at work ON the
ballroom, aud are making II a thing
OF beauty" indeed. In tie meanwhile
the young and old repair every evening
10 the large hall OF the Grand hotel.
where the younger people "trip the
light fantastic TO the music Of
Noelkers Band of your city. During
the day tennis. whist. euchre. driving,
horseback exercise and donkey riding
amuse many. while The veranda is LlleI
with groups of cOnversatiOnists. DR..
+. Il. Price, of Columbia College. New
York: DR.. and Mrs Warren, Of Mobile:
Mrs. John Nesbit. of Savannah: Mrs.
Il. a. Gordon. Of Georgetown. and
Mrs. Wells. Of Cincinnati. being among
our best takers. Mics Perkins of Gin
cinnati, dislocated her ankle in jump
Jog from runaway horse while out
with a riding party few DAYS ago. \
carriage brought her home. and under
the care of our good physician. DR.. +.
A. Chancellor OF the University Of
Virginia. she is fast recovering.
DR.. j. p Logan. Of Atlanta, Ca, and
W. +. Mccormick, Of Chicago, are
here.
Mrs. Triplett. Mrs. Frank GLASGOW
and family, Nj. and Ms John Potts.
Mrs. DR.. Tompkns and family. Mr. x.
b. Lee and family, Miss judith Caring
ton and Mrs. II. 5. Smith. all of your
city. are here, while Louisville, At
lanta. st. Louis aud many other places
are represented.
Mr.. j. b. Watkins is still very sick.
OLD LADY.
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DR.. WIDOW.
hc Gets Another i,iacA I've.

a b.
4 Nf.D','''-''oN' >. C.. July lS.-T. B.
.,.t.," "'ulueicr and scducer got an.
80 "i"CA eye to-day and has the
/ 1880 oi sllll another in store. The
In '"1 advertisement will appear in
.,,.'.' '. .''l papers tomorrow and sub
F ~ '','i' - in 'ne medical journals Of
'". Country
g '' " srevt'i meeting Of the Medical
80 ol 'ouln carolina. hcld today.
"''"' ing resolutions were adoped
'''is",' ID mas been brought TO the
,,'t o''o' oi '"e society that Dc. 7. Ballard
,.''.'c .'''c"" "'7 Deen proven by his own
e,.'.,.,i'i1 .,'1" tuli'y oil immoral, unpro-
....l ,, a." urgent 'ein"hN conduct.
Nj, '""' ,''' que h'liicatloh said Dr.
~" "'7 l'il'd I'D appear before the
''.e,e'y I'D eA'hetaie himself from the
'"'. 'Ii"i e'>,
'''' mat ne oe expelled from
u'gs
-''e' 4""' lne secretary De directed 20
''''',i, "a copy oi th'se resolutions over
i's oiii'ini signature in three daily
l"f d" ''i'7 CITY ahN lh TWO reputable
'",,, ,,,, .'ii iO ui i'is'
''" mellow graduated with
-1 . 90
some e.snt or ten years ago. he
"fi.'''" loi Ni -iAoti hip To- ine medical
c,,y ana ""' bilchDaii ied' a Ger.
''''.''' i''iNpeirhlp OF the meolcsl
.'''e,l ID con iieied almost as much q
~. ,.ful'ile ior 81 practitioner asa diploma
'Ie 'eIl'hcate oi the medical society
.pe"7 tne door TO the holder to every
.'''tI lh iue oiite. McDow s
ielu u-",I'n was SO shady even at that
e"i ll stage OF lls career lbat me could
h"l stt INTO the society. lils stand
ing lh Lis class. however. See
cured hm 90 position in the city
hospital, aud bis marriage with the
daughter OF ID respectable and wealthy
German merchant soon secured him
practce. Just about month before
ne murdered lditor Dawson. lin self
defence. he hualiy succeeded I'm being
elected member of the Medical /
society. His own testimony on the
s,and. however. while it dIt not con-
vince his peers ON tine jury Of his guilt
or thc crime OF murder. seems 90 have f.
convinced almost everybody else OF the /
Tact that woman was bis weakness
Two DAYS after his triumphal acQuittal /.
Ne cent In DIS letter of resignation 10 /
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mrs ~. y. Ihompson COnte-.cs a col
Oroa san DrOg, Dead

NORFOLK. VA, July lS.-Mrs. X. y.
Thompson. vino has been under sus-
picion for hitting her husband over the
head with a hatchet, inhIcting such
wounds that it is thought he Will die
from the effects Of them. to-day CON
fessed having been her husband 5 as
salient, and was arrested. She said
that her husband threatened to hit her
over the head with = stick of wood. and
to protect herself. she had 10 use the
hatchet. Mrs. Thompson is in a very
nervous state now, and some think she
is insane. Her husband Is at ST. Vim
cent b Hospital resting easily.
An aged coored man named George
Washington dropped dead on McCul-
Tough s wharf of heart disease. and his
body was turned over TO friends for
burial
Work on repairs to Norfolk streets s
somewhat retarded on account Of a
scarcity Of wOrkmen.
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EXECUrIONAL MODES PROPOSED.
Unugin. Favored. Hut Eiecf,icity Ae-
copied by IxPerts

NEW YORK. July iS.-The investiga-
ton TO ascertain how q person u
killed by electricity was continued this
morning. Commodore Gerry, chairman
Of the commission appointed in 1856 to
provide a more humane method of exc
cution than hanging, testified respect
ing the work of the commission. The
commission found that there were over
forty methods Of inilc,ing death. the
guilotiue was proposed. but after dis
cussiOn rejected in consequence OF It's
connection with the French revolution
and its general bloody history. Two
other methods were proposed. but
both were found inferior to
the rope. The garroie. Mr.. Gerry
said. was one method he was greatly IN
favor of. decming II equal IN inten-
sity and painlessness to hanging and
electricity. Poison was another mode
that the cOmmiss ron considered. It
proposed to execute by hyperdermic
injection OF morphia or prussic acid.
This plan was opposed by large mum
Der Of medical men, who claimed
that it required skill TO make a
proper injection and that 1t would be
card To find medical man who would
act as executioner. Besides. the doc
tors thought IL would pre- jIdice the
people, mind against hyperdermic in
iections as a medical relief. the com
mission issued circulars about them 70
the various Judges and doctors through
out the States. asking them which Of
the four methods. the guillOtlne. the ga
rote. poison by pfussic acid orI
electricity, they thought better
method of execution than hang
ing. There were 225 answers 10
which they favored hanging. seven
ty-five wanted electricity aud Ohs hun
dred and nineteen scattered. OF those
VINO voted for electricity was Thomas
Edison. whom Mr.. Gerry said he con
-idered the greatest modern electrician
In the correspondence many electrical
experts stated their doubts as
to the certainty Of death by elec
tricity. The commission carefully |
considered all these doubts, but
selected electricity the |
mode OF execution TO succeed hanging. |
Mr.. Gerry was not crosseNamined. |
Dr.. l.. G.. Gray, a professor OF nervous |
diseases in one Of the medical schools.
testified that he was positive that cur
rent could be generated that would /
cause certain death ia an instant. He |
much OF Expert Browns
testimony, and said 4 German expert
named JENNY, who had made a long
study Of resistance, in a work published
by him in 1854 claimed that .man 3 re-
sietaucp was as high as $50 OOO Ohms. |
and then again Is low as 1900 lie
cited an instance OF man being hung
head downward for an hour without
any other result than uncon-
sciOusuess also of men having received
severe electric shocks without producing
leath.
After recess q number Of peFsons who
Turing their lives have received elec-
.lic shocks.and been made unconscious
.estifed. The evidence went 20 show
hat persons apparently dead from such
shocks may recover.
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tDttAsfO> ~.
H0LLINS INSTITUTE,
VIRGINIA..

Girls md young hdios of this rs ucrati)n
need broad anl varied scholastic dNnntoyes
under the best literary. aesthetic and moral
stnnlquls.
This institute has pursued the Eclectic Sjs-
tenn from It's Origin. 10 now provides ZEN
separate schools or departments. hrsides
many special Studies students are gradu-
atcd I'm each upon merit ln addition to The
Full Course. fhefe are special courses, each
of which requires diplomas nom four schools
Attending "a varied and superior culture
LITERARY COURSE English anguage
and Literature. History cssfHfiof-ihc other
two schools optional.
CLASSICAL tui'nSf.-Intm ard one
Modem Language s~fn'ni-the other TWO
optional
S,IENrIFIC COrRSE.-Nstuui science
and Mathematics rsssufuf-thc othcr TWO OPP
tlOn8l.
Oi{NAAiFNTAf COTR~ F.-Music or Art
and one Modern Language e'stHiW W-lhe
other two optional.
FULL COUR~f.->oyen diplomas are ie-
SPECIAL STUDlEs. .-physoloey. liygi.ne.
Anatomy. htnding. llOcuilon. lenWn' ship.
Bookl eepmg. IyIe-N riilng. sterogriphy
taif>fhcuics.
The Departments OF Music and Art are
nnelv equipped.
The premises and OUTFIT ~ This school las
cost over siOpOOO Iouc hundred tnousanil.
and ~ employs over twenty-five l2Dl officers
and teachers, of whom six are malc ltp-
fossors.
Ihe Fnrty-,oyenih Session viii open SIP
rFMBEN it'll Apply tor Register.
CHARLES n. COOKE.
Business Manager
lvf.f.I "A an 1N-fW finllLDS 4. 3D.. Va.
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LABOR ORGANIZATIONS.
Secretary BcwaTd sntesyiewed in Rs
gard so the PiOeosed Alliance.

FALL RIVER, MASS. July lS.-Secre-
tary Howard. 4 the spinners. was in
teryiewed In regard TO the proposed al
lance Of all the great labor organiza-
tiODs OF the country as suggested by the
recently issued circular OF Mr. Pow
derly and Others. Mr. Howard said
that he had little faith in the feasibility
of the proposed organization. az the in
tere-ts which It was proposed 10 benefit
were OF too wide character 10 reap the
same intelligent aud prompt remedial
measured as might be expected from
less complicated body. Tue textile work
ers OF New England, Mr.. Howard felt
satisfied. would not look tayorably
upon the proposed amalgamatIon, as
they were satisfied that more certain
and profitable method OF settling wage
disputes and obtaining redress for griev-
ances was through the medium Of or
ganlzati0n. representing solely the
branches OF industry in which they
were engaged. The Knights Of Labor
said Mr. Howard, are practically dead
in New England, and | don't believe
their former power can be re-
stored. Their Encouragement. or
worse. Of their recent strike
Of the Worcester shoemakers destroyed
all hope OF their future usefulness.
This latest movement Is a scheme on the
part OF the leaders 10 recover their
fallen fortunes aud recover the prestige
which they held in former days. The
movement may meet with success in
the West and South. and. although !
express simply my own opinion. have
little hesitaucy in saying that the mill
operatives Will not look fasorably upon
the fallen.