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Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1889-05-30
strawberry shipments.

seventy-nins car loads of strawberries
were shipped over the Delaware railroad
Yesterday distributed as follows:
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1889-05-30
MARKET QUOTATIONS.
Philadelphia uarRsss.

Associated Press Dispatch by Special wfreA
PHILADELPHIA. May 2s.-Flour. duh.
Wheat, steady, dull; No. Pennsylvania reds,
95c.
Corn, steady, quiet.
Oats, dun; No. 2 white, aac.; No. mlxedS
Sf&c.
Bran, steady.
Baled hay, steady.
Butter, steady; Pennsylvania creamery exsi
ira, 11al7i4c. ~
Eggs, steady,
Cheese, steady.
Petroleum, duh: refined, CSC.
Potatoes, steady; $2.5Oa5
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1889-05-30

streets, South Wilmington, was soon dis
posed Of. MIR. Priehett said he had been
previously refused aud the court declined
70 hear any testimony.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1889-05-30

NEW CASTLE, May G9.--The second
election or two members Of the trustees
of the New Castle commons to fill the
vacancies caused by the deaths Of Elmer
W, CLARK and William +. Lane, took
place yesterday and resulted In choice,
as each of the successful candidates re-
ceIyed majority Of the votes cast. The
poll was as follows: Hiram r. Borie,
4l3 Michael King, 274; James B. Toman,
214; Robert w. Wright, AZ; scattering, 8.
Messrs. Bofie and King were declared
elected. Mr.. Borie is general superin-
tendent of the Delaware Iron Works, and
Mr.. King Ia retired merchant. They
hold the office for life.
The Board Of Education held its regu-
lar monthly session last night. Members
present. President Eiiason, Herbert,
Wilson, Stewart, Jsnvier, Ecklss and
Worthington. There were no reports
from the several committees. The bill
of A. Spear for repairs TO schools was
read and ordered paid. Orders were di-
rected to he drawn in favor of the teach-
era and jsnitors for salaries for the quar-
ter ending May Slst. On motion of Mr..
Herbert Il was ordered that the treasurer's
individual bond be accepted as sufficient
security for the position as treasurer Of
the board. The committee on new school
building WAS authorised NJ wait upon the
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-08-31
Forest Fires.

CHICAGO, Aug. 31.-A special dispatch
from Helena, Mont, says: Those who
have never travelled over the section OF
this country known as the northwest, can
have no idea OF the vast area which the
prairie and timber fires have covered.
Starting away up in British Columbia, 10 the
Koutenal country, four weeks ago, owing to
the parched condition of the country the
fire travelled with great rapidity, passing
through Montana into Idaho, extending into
Washington and Oregon on the west, then
south again into Wyoming and Colorado.
Montana perhaps has suffered the most, as
the fire ran along through the prairie
country to the Dakota line, crossed the
main divide of the Rockies, set the bitter
roots afame, worked into the mountains
near Phillips, destroyed the timber and did
great damage 10 the National Park. But if
the prairie fres are disastrous the forest
fires are doubly so. Some estimate the 10
by these fires in Montana at 500 900 day
Thousands of acres of virgin timber land
have been denuded and thousands of cords
OF cut wood destroyed
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-08-31

einis it has counter marched, inverted the
pyramid and for the broad foundation of in.
telligence has substituted the sharp point OF
ignorance, and with "mud-silen for The roof
tree would fence in the State nth the "bot-
tom rail Oh top"
All the money which Quay can give to
Malone will not be enough to purchase
from the people of Virginia the right of ne
groes to govern the State. There are some
things above price and beyond purchase and
among them is negro success in Virginia.
The premises have assumed are incontIovert-
ibe and the conclusions have drawn are incon-
testsble. The reasoning addresses itself to re-
publicans holding property as well as to demo-
Gratis. Its warnin IS are above and beyond ordi-
nary politics. The existence of society, the well
fare of the State the safety of property, the pro-
lection of person, the virtue Of women-all that
men esteem valuable and desirable in life-is at
stake in this campaign You saw the insolence of
the negroes become almost nsufierable when Har
rison was elected President-it follows that with
Malone as Governor bloodshed or anarchy will
come wit his Inauguration.
/ am so little of partisan that | have often
blushed at the cowardice of the democratic party
ia federal politics; and if this issue
between men and not between parties, am free
to say that l do not know whether Mckinney
would be q better Governor than Malone. But
as party line, are to-day drawn in Virginia. with
the whole of the negroes arrayed against the
whites with ignorance opposing intelligence, with
poverty seeking to manage property, with licen-
tiousness ss;suting virtue, with the blacks as the
left wing of the Grand Army of the Republic-the
very existence Of society in the State reposes only
in the election of Mckinney.
Hence SIS you value the sanctity of your homes,
the safety of your families, the worth of your
property, the existence of society-turn eaf ear
to all talk about protecting American labor and
capital and the subterfuge of lettering the COM
mon schools, and consider only the prospect of the
future with negro Legislature and republican
executives in Richmond and Washington. Calcu-
late your taxes when imposed by negroes and in
creased by & republican Congress. These are Vi
tai subjects in your personal affairs. These take
money out of your pockets; they put unrest and
Insecurity in your domestic matters; they come
home to your hesrthstones. Three coHiederates"
will be no barrier between your property and
10000 negro voters If you would enjoy your
own-increase your substance and live in peace
don't be nv,igei into support of "three Confed-
crates" behind whom are massed the whole cops
ddrme of negro voters. Let your motto be, The
union of the whites for the safety of the whites
AID the negroes, too.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-08-31

LONDON, Aug. 31-Conferences are still
in progress between the strikers and the
employers.
John Burns, in an address to the men this
morning. said victory was nearer than had
been deemed possible few hours ago. The
men along the lower reaches of the Thames
were coming out and the belief was becom-
ing general that the end was near.
No settlement of the strike is possible to-
day. The dock companies express their
willingness to consider further authorized
proposals from the men.
Mr.. Burns, in terms suggestive of the pos
sbility of some compromise. has asked and
obtained the consent of the strikers to au
thorize their leaders to agree upon terms
which the leaders might think it desirable
to accept.
Burns held conference with the dock
companies to day and submitted the COM
promise proposition agreed upon last night.
The dock companies and the whar6ugers
after carefully considering the proposal say
they are unable to accept it.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-08-31
Telegraphic Brevities.

Eight persons lost their lives by the 70.
cent foods at Zimi pan, 10 the State of III
dalgo, Mexico.
Durango F., q racehorse valued at s. COO
persisted by an accidental fire in his stall ~
Oskaloosa, lowe, yesterday.
William Emery who was the democrat
candidate for Congress against Thomas
Reed, in the first Maine district last YEA,
died this morning a. Alfred.
Ths entire sporting goods businets of tho
A. ]. Reach company, of Phi'adephia Ia,
been purchased by A G Spaldng & Bro,
of Chicago. The deal practically gives Tia
Spalding Arm control of the world in the
sporting goods line.
Col. r. N. Hudson died yesterday at
Terre Haute. lad aged 20. III bad been
prominent in public aod political uhairs in
Indiana for 40 years. He wa tie STATE.
financial agent 10 New York wuva The VA.
broke out.
Robert p Porter. Supsriatao len ol Ca.
sus. has appointed Dr. Charles A. Ashburner
and John Il. Jones' special agents to collect
the statistics of coal for the eleventh osnsu.
Jas. M. Swank. of PATS ielphia. TO coIses
the statistics of iron and steel and ]. H.
Biodgett, of Rockford. H.. 20 col eel the
statistics OF education
A. Aronham and W. W. silester HAYS becu sp.
pointed U. S CANCERS in the Second district Of
Virginia.
The selection of jury in the cronin case will
it ia thought, involve weeks
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-08-31
FROM WASHINGTON.
[spsoial Correspondence Of the Alexs. GAZETTE
Of 1000

Especial Correspondence OF the Alexs. GAZETTE
WASHINGTON. D. O.. Aug. 81. 1889.
Elk. Postmaster Windsor, of Alexandria,
being seen on F street here to-day, was asked
If the newspaper report of his being the
probable republican candidate f,r the legls
iature in the city and county of Alexandria,
replied that no body was authorized to use
bis name for any such purpose, and that he
was an applicant for the Alexandria post
Office now, and for no other office.
Since Mr. Mckinley has been to see the
President and advised him against calling
an extra session of Congress. the impression
that there would be such session has
changed. Sergeant-at-arms Canaday, of the
Senate, says be is now confident there will
be NO extra session.
It is reported chat Prof Langston is wait.
ing here to see Chairman Quay, of the ma
tional republican committee, and that
though reticent now concerning his inten-
tionB respecting the campaign just opening
In his State, he will be likely to intimate
what those intentions are after his interview
with the Pennsylvania boss.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-08-31
A. W. Harris, colored, whose appointment

A. W. Harris, colored, whose appointment
to federal Office In Virginia was first men.
toned in this correspondence of yesterday,
says there ia nothing In the talk about re-
publican detection In Virginia, that the re-
publican party lie just as united there now as
it ever was, and that all the members OF
the party will, on election day, walk up to
the polls and vote the republican ticket.
Mr.. Grandstaff OF Shenandoah county, the
author of the Grandstaff educational bill
passed by the Virginia legislature, stopped
here on his return from the recent State re-
publican convention at Norfolk and is here
vet. He was once, and for good reason,
rather unfavorably disposed toward General
Malone, but is now one OF his most earnest
supporters. He says there are not ten repub.
licaus in his county who will not vote the
Generals ticket next November, whether
Senator Riddleberger supports it or not.
1t is understood here that General Ma.
hone is go crippled for speakers by the de-
lection prevailing and that is said to be
spreading among the white men of his party,
that he has been forced to the embarrassing
resort of seeking aid from some ofthe men be
has heretofore ignored, disregarded or treat
ed with disrepect, and that he has invited
several of such men to attend the meeting
of his lieutenants to be held at Petersburg
next Tuesday night 1t lis said that few Of
such invitations will be accepted.
Among the Congressman in the city to-
day was General Lee. The General says he
heard Senator Dauiei's speech at the dedi-
catory celebration at Manassas yesterday,
and that 1t was one of the most oratorical and
effective addresses he ever listened to. He
thinks Senator Daniel is probably the
strongest speaker the democrats have IL
the State.
Senator Barbour and party of friends
are at the Natural Bridge, Virginia. They
are expected back to day or tomorrow.
Owing to the way in which Mr.. Tanner,
of the Pensions Bureau, conducts affairs
there, utterly irrespective of law and prece
dent, the public debt for August instead of
| being reduced, has been enlarged.
Postmaster General Wanamaker and Sec
rotary Noble are both protested civil service
reformer5, but they both cut down the pay
of their democratic employees and increase
that of those who are republicans.
Elk Representative Dzsndorf, of Vir-
GINA, who is here to-day, when asked why
it was that he had now joined Malone,
though he had always heretofore been OPP.
posed to him, replied that the General had
come to his opinion on the debt question,
and that it was for that reason, and that
alone, that he had pledged the General his
support. He seemed to have forgotten that
had it not been for the General the at
tempt to repudiate the State debt would
never have succeeded
The lady clerks In the census bureau have
been thrown into futtering condition by
the discovery that Miss Josie Holmes, the
once confidential clerk OF Harper, the de
| faulting president of the Fidelity Bank Of
Cincinnati, is one of them
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-08-31
VIRGINIA NEWS.

4
sion is completed from Martinsburg to Win
| chester. twenty-five miles.
The remains of Mrs. W. E. Christian,
who died at Charlotte, N. c., yesterday
morning, were buried at Lexington, beside
her father, Gen. Thomas ]. Jackson (Stone
wall) to-day.
Maj Geo. W. holland, of Loudoun, visited
| his children and relatives in the West this
summer, and while at Delphia, Indians,
was paralpzsd In his lower extremiIies, rem
dering him entirely helpless He has been
brought to his home.
The Ice factory ia Norfolk proved fail
ure for some reason, probably the compe
ttion of the numerous dealers in northern
ice, and all the machinery and other prop
erty is advertised for sale. The company
lost about $50 600 making the experiment.
DR.. Milholien was arranged before Jus
tees Taylor and ThroCkmorton, of Round
Hill, Loudoun county, one day last week
charged with assault with intent to bill DIR.
Nichols, but the evidence not being sutii cent
to sustain the warrant, the case was dismiss
ed.
The oolored desperate, Ben Foreman,
who cut the throat of Julia Wrenn and
slashed her body with rsz)r, was captured
BY the police of Portsmouth in the Dismal
Swamp near Wallaceton Thursday night,
and lodged 10 Jail. His victim is still liv-
ing.
J,ffsrson Mears, a respectable young farm
or of Accomac, was arrested several days
ago on complaint of Mrs. William Marshall,
an attractive young married woman, who
charges him with an attempted criminal as
sault Mears was put under bond of S5OO
to appear before the next grand jury.
As Mr.. John Axline was driving his team
on the highway, near Mt. Oiivet church,
Loudoun county, last Tuesday, he suddenly
came upon an engine, which frightened his
horses. Only few minutes after passing
the engine one of the wheel horses fell dead
in the harness. The animal was % years
old.
At picnic at Louisville. Loudoun county
last Saturday, child of I-aac Jackson was
killed. A horse attached to the cart 10
which Jackson's wife and child and sister
ip law were riding, became frightened and
ran through the wood, when one of the
wheels struck a stump and upset the cart,
killing the child instantly, and iDjuring the
others severely.
The sudden death of Mrs. ]. W. Harrel
startled the community in the neighborhood
of Rsctortown. on the 24;h inst. Justice r.
NJ. Seaton, of Uppervile. summoned jury
of iruuest, whose verdict. after hearing tes-
timony, was, that Mrs. HarrelPs death was
caused by apoplexy. superinduced by
fright, occasioned by the violently threaten
ing coduct of Gustsvus Fugit. Mr.. Fngit
was committed to jail for the action of the
jury.
A shooting ARRAY took place yesterday at
Guilford, Accomac county, where Joseph
TAYLOR shot and dangerously wounded
Capt. Robert Ewell. 1t is said that Taylor
had been paying attention to niece of
Capt. Ewel, to which the latter was op
posed. When the two men met at Guilford
hot words passed and the men came to
blows. Capt. Ewell struck Taylor, where
upon the latter drew his pistol and shot
E@ell in the abdomen.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-08-31
State Political Notes.

A movement is about to be started among
democrats in Richmond to organizs citi
zsns' financial committee for the purpose of
raising a large campaign fund for uae
in that city and 10 the State. An effort
will be made to collect at least $4,000 in
Richmond.
Hon. George D. Wise, of Richmond, who
was in Washington yesterday, said that
every indication pointed to the success of
the democracy In Virginia by not less than
twenty thousand majority.
Judge James T. Mcreer, ex judge of
Wythe county, and ex-chaiim AZ of the re-
publican party of Wythe county and a
trusted lieutenant of Malone. has accepted
the nomination for attorney general on the
prohibition ticket, vice Judge Qaarles, re.
signed
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-08-31

WATERMELON EATING MATcH.-Frank
Love and Charley Howard, two colored
men of Thompson street. New York, eater.
ed Into watermelon eating match last
last night in a Bowery saloon, kept by
Steve Brodie, the bridge jumper. The
nurse was Sc so, all of which was to be given
to the man who ate the largest quantity of
melon and incidentally drank the greatest
quantity of whisky, for each of the six mel
ops was filled with lot of Bowery tangle
leg. The men set to work on the melons,
and the more melon they got into their
stomachs the more whisky there was In
their heads. By the time the blacks had
consumed the four melons they were both
In condition that suggested draw. The
referee go decided the contest, and the msn,
loaded with melon and whisky, divided the
purse and staggered home. Both men have
stoned articles to met again at the same
place and eat pie for more attractive
purse.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-08-31
Train Wrecked,

MIDDLHBURY, W.T.. Aug. 3l.-An excur-
sion train to Burlington from the horse
breeders meeting at Rutland and stock
train bound south collided at $3.50 last night
four miles north OF here near Brooksville.
Both engines, one car and part of another
car OF the excursion train and ten or twelve
stock cars loaded with hogs were wrecked
and piled In heap. Three persons we're
killed and several injured.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-08-31
Hot Weather .

DEsMoINEs. Aug. 3l.-The last days Of
August have been notable for their excess.
i've heat. Thursday the thermometer reach
ed 102 degrees.
Topeka. Aug. 81 "A hot wave struck this
State Thursday. There has bean very little
rain for the past weeks, and the scorohing
heat following weeks of exceptionally cool
weather is drying up vegetation very quick.
".
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-08-31

1t is said that Robert Ray Hamilton has
decided to make detailed statement of all
the facts concerning his relationship with
Eva Brill, now known as MIRA. Hamilton.
Another story is TO the effect that Psosocu
tor Thompson means to make leading
point as to whether Hamilton and the
woman are legally married, and it is said
that Hamilton means to visit the MAYS
Landing jail to-day, and be married to her
according to the civil form in order to
avoid testifying against her.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-08-31
Fire and Loss of Life.

BEADING, Pa, Aug. 31.-A fire in the rotary
room of the American Wood Paper Co.'s works
at Spring City this morning destroyed the build.
ing and contents. During the fire the wall on
the northeast side bulged ont and about thirty
feet Of it fell, instantly killing two men and So
verely iniuring several others. The loss will
reach 800, 900; covered By insurance.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-08-31

GENERAL WARNER. the retiring COM
nander in chief of the G. A. R., says 4OO, oOc
federal soldiers were killed during the war
between the States, and that now, quarter
of century after the close of that war, the
G. A. r an organization composed entirely
OF the surviving soldiers of the war, has
4lO CSC members. As only small per-
centags of soldiers engaged In battle are
killed, and as a large percentage OF men die
the course of twenty four years, the guam
.ity of human flesh and blood, to say moth.
ing about other things, the few half starved
and half armed Confederates held In cheek
for four long years, must have exceeded tost
of all other armies of which history makes
mention.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-08-31
Public Debt.

WASHINGTON, D. C, Aug. Sit is es-
tmated at The Treasury Department that
owing to large pension payments, nearly
eighteen millions coming out of other pay
ments In July, the debt statement will show
that the public debt has increased about
million and half during the month of Au-
cuat
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-08-31
MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL

NEW YORK, August 31.-The opening of the
stock market was fairly active and firm to strong
this morning, first prices being generally from u
to Is per cent better than last evenings closing
figures. At IL o'clock the market was fairly ac-
tive and st ong at the best prices reached, the ad
vances extending to y per cent. Money 3.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-08-31
mention.

To SHOW the character of the ruling ma
iority of the G. A. R.. it Is only necessary to
mention the fact that resolution intro
duced by General Mcmahon, Of New York,
at the late annual meeting of that organiza'
ton, declaring against the recent decision
that dishonorabIe discharge from the ar
nv is no bar to the securing of pension,
was defeated the majority referred to
thereby evinoiug their utter lack of self re-
spect, or else, naturally suggesting the ldea
that they themselves were mainSerers'
bounty jumpers or deserters.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-08-31
"Rlank Rartu Arrestei

MILWAUKEE, Aug. 81 "A special to the
Evening Wisconsin, from Republic, states
that Holzey BLACK Bart the stage robber.
was captured there this morning and has
made full confession and that the stolen
jewelry, etc., has been found in his posses
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-08-31

Mr.. W. W. WALLACE, of New Orleans,
says: Zone thing the republicans OF the
North have not yet learned, and that Is
that it is becoming respectable for colored
man to vote the democratic ticket in Louisi-
ana" 1t would be better for the colored. as
we'll as for the white people of this State, II 1t
could be truly said that colored man who
votes the democratic ticket in Virginia is
respected by the people of his own race.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-08-31
Arrested

New YoRK, Aug 3l'--M,s Annie White
more. or Whtmore, Willing or Walling.
ford one of the most notorious women In
the country, who has figured In half the
courts between the Atlantic and Pacific
coasts, was arrested last night upon the
charge Of stealing gold watch from ]. J..
RYAN.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-08-31
Mrs. MAVERICK

LONDON, Aug. S1.-Mrs. Mayb is per-
mitted by the prison authorities to take
exercise in the prison yard. Her health Is
improving. She still maintains her cool de-
meanor and seems to be settling into the
routine of convict life.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-08-31

Mr. James T. Starke, of Stafford county.
died at his home, near Befair Mills, that
county. last Tuesday from dropsy, in the
Oath year of his age
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-08-31
DIED.

August 31st, 1889, of consumption. GEoRGE
N. DUFFEY, in his 10th year. Gs-The funeral
will take place from his late residence, No. Alt
Wilkes street., at 4:30 o'clock p. IN. Monday
Friends of the family are respectfully invited to
attend.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-08-31

THE ELECTRIC LroHr.-rnstead of turning the
Electric Light Company loose in the city treasury,
as suggested by a." 10 yesterdays GAZETTE,
would it not be better for the city to pay them
what they ask now and let them light out? T.