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Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-08-29
Would Won Relieve

The proprietor of Kemp's Balsam gives
thousands of bottles away yearly This mode
of advertising would prove ruinous if the
Balsam was not a perfect cure for coughs
and all throat and lung troubles. You will
see the excefient effect after the first dose.
Don't hesitate Secure bottle to-day to
keep in your house or room for immediate
or future use. Trial bottles free at all
druggists Large size zoe and 81.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-08-29
Grand Harvest Excursions

Will run via the Wabash line TO points in
Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Dakota,
Colorado. and all parts Of the west, on
August CO. September 10 and - and DC
tober s. 1889 Rate one fare for round
trip. For particulars apply to nearest
Wabash ticket agent.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-08-29

AZ school.-"Now, my little dears,
can you tell me the plural Of childp
Youngster (frantically raising his arm)-
Eyes, sir; can. Twins p'-Paris Figaro.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-08-29

f. b. walthall & Co., Druggists, Horse
Cave, Ky, says: Halls Catarrh Cure
cures every one that takes it." Sold by
Druggists, 75c.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-08-29

1t is meet that the Sandwich islands
should be populated by the descendants of
IJoun
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-08-29

Mrs. Harrison would like a little more
of "Home, Sweet Home in the White
p@use
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-08-29
Good for Ohio.

It's thousands of cures is the best adver-
tisement for DR.. Sages's Catarrh Remedy.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-08-29

Few men are ever so tired in these hot
days that they cannot lift a schooner.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-08-29

These be the days when even sober men
nav be seen clutching at straws.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-12-18
NEWS OF THE DAY.

DIR. G. b. Nichols, superintendent OF the
Bloomingdale Insane Asylum, Ne9 York, is
dead.
Mr.. Franklin B. Cover, who committed
suicide in Washington last Saturday, had
$500. 900 Insurance on his life.
E sneIlenb erg & Co., dealers in dry goods,
of Baltimore, have made an assignment Ior
the benefit OF creditors, the bond being S6U-
900.
Two of the biggest beef and cattle firms
in the countrs-the Munroe. of Boston: and
the Hammond Company, OF hammond, Ind.,
have united.
The BUSINESS Mems Democratic Associa'
ton OF New York will celebrate the ami
versary of the battle of New Orleans 90 jan
uary s by banquet, at which the guests
will be the newly elected democratic gov
errors of Ohio, Iowa, Virginia, New Jersey
and Montana.
A London postmen, while delivering mail
in Hatten Garden, yesterday, was seized by
three men, who, after wounding him, carried
MIN to q room, where they took his bag from
him and locked him in. The men escaped
With the mail. which, it is said, contained
packages OF diamonds from the Cape OF
Good Hope.
Wilson WeddiDgham, one OF Tue Weaitu
tst men ir the west, has been legally separ-
ated from his wife on complaint of the lat
ter, in the circuit court of Chicago. Mr.
Waddingham is reputed to be worth S. GOO
900 His rapid accumulation of this wealth
and the disposition he showed to spend it
royalty was the cause OF the trouble between
him and his wife.
The irst cases cf the threatened epidemic
from across the water have been reported
10 New York The first symptom is verti-
90, speedily followed by headache and
chills; then the desthly sickness with pains
in limbs and muscles. This is succeeded by
bronchial catarrh, soreness of the throat and
coughing, followed by high fever and On
exceedingly rapid pulse, which at times
reaches 120 to the minute.
New York buyers are taking all the
ducks that can be supplied at Havre de
Grace and not half the orders from other
places can be filed. The season has been
he worst ever known. The canvas backs
are uuprecedentedly scarce and tt g red heads
are bringing canvas back prices. The ap.
prosch Of Christmas always doubles the de.
lpsnd, and this year it is heavier than
ever. Canvas backs are retailing in Wash.
ipgtou at s. pair,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-12-18
The Cronin Verdict.

States Attorney Lorgenecker after con.
ference with one of the Cronin jury. told
how The verdict was reached. Juror John
Culver, who spent much of his spare time
during the long evenings reading the Bible,
was the Influential factor. The first Incl
dent in this connection occurred while the
trial was in progress-the time when Mrs.
Conklin testified. That evening Mr.. Culver
notified his fellow jurors that he soiemny
believed she had committed perjury. Later
he thought Mrs. Hoertel was liar and was
of the opinion that Marlinsen, the express
man, did not really know Burke, while the
Carsons were plainly telling falsehoods.
Mr. Culver, as the trial nesred the end i,
seemed to see In nearly every witness for
the State vindctive or purchased per
jurer. When the time for balloting arrived
Mr.. Culver voted for the acquttal of ali
the defendants. The result was a long
struggle and repeated ballots, IN ending the
compromise verdict announced. Not salts
fed with saving their necks the prisoners
will take an appeal by which years delay
is assured.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-12-18

IT MUST be gratifying to every we'll wish
er of Virginia to know that Mr.. Hume, the
delegate to the Legislature from this city
and county, as stated in the GAZETTE some
days ago, says the feeling in favor OF settle
mens of the State debt is growing In the
body of which he Ia member That the
same feeling ia growing outside of the Leg
islature is apparent from expressions Oh the
subject by several newspapers in different
sections of the State, which must represent
the views at least of some Of their readers
Ii the members of the Legislature would
confer an oestimsble boon upon Virginia,
snd put the State under obligations to them
during theIr lives, they will inform the
creditors that the terms once offered by SIT
Edward Thornton will now be accepted, and
will paes high license law that will make
a settlement on those terms mere baga
felle
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-12-18

master at that place, as anticipated in this
correspopdepce OF yesterday, and thereby
s'dovnn Mr.. Parshall q northern republican,
and Mr.. Beamer, another applicant, It Will
create racket among the faithful there, as
MIR. Lee is new convert.
MIR. John Chamberlain OF this city has
completed ali the necessary pecuniary ar.
raueemenss for building bis new hotel at
Old Point Comfort. The work will be com
menced at once, and, 1t is expected, will be
6nshed in less than year.
Among the recess appointments wa5 that
OF W. B. Sorsly, to be consul at Guayequil.
He was appointed, it is stated, because he
stole from the newspaper Office in which be
was employed papers relating to contest
ed election case in one of the Gulf States,
and sent them to Chairman Quay. As bis
name has not yet been cent to the Senate, II
is supposed there may be hitch in his ap-
pointment.
Mr.. Park Agnew. the republican candidate
for Congress in the Alexandria district, was
here to dag. In respect OF the reviVen
effort on the part of some OF the republicans
10 his district to have the lady postmasters
at The Plains, Fauquier county midole-
burg, Loudoun county; and Occcquap, Prince
William county removed, be says be is oppos
ed to it, aud will be no party to the removal
of efficient and reputable women, and does
not think it right to make war on women.
General Malone, be understands, mas en-
dorsed the applications of other people for
the offices referred to, and if the chair
men of the republican committees OF the
respective counties in which the Offices are
located also endorse them, he suppose5 the
ladies will have to GO, but they never will
by his consent Mr.. Agnew says what
strikes him as strange about this matter Is
the fact that those most clamorous for the
removal of the ladies are not Old time re-
publcaus, but ex-Confederates, VINO nave
recently become members Of bis party.
Mr.. Van Auken, sn original Virginia repnbli,
can, and one Of the few such who remain faithful
70 General Malone, is here. looking for U 8.
surveyorship in the West. He says he is waiting
and hoping, bat doesn't know whether the az
ministrstion's affection for General Malone has
cooled or not.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-12-18
FROM WASHINGTON.
/ soscial Correspondence Of the Alo1s. GAzErT1l
WASHING TON, d. c., Dec 49, 1889.

The failure of the House Committee on
Rules to report is the cause of no little anx
iety. il not real alarm, to the democratic
Congressman, as they look upon it as indlc'
alive of au intention on the part OF the re
publican majority to report no rules, there
by leaving the control of the House IN the
arbitrary power of the Speaker, go that all
the republican contestants may be seated at
one sgoop at Mr.. Reeds own sweet will.
The Committee on Rules i5 composed OF
three republicans and two democrats,
Messrs. Randall and Carlisle. Some OF the
democratic members of the house we're
censuring the latter this morning for not
smoking a report out of the Committee on
Rules, one of them Virginian, going 80 far
as to say that Carlisle's leadership. he fear
ed. would result in the ousting OF seventeen
democratic members. Mr.. Randall, not
withstandng reports to the contrary, will,
it is feared, never be In the House egsin.
MIR. John L. Davenport, supervisor of
elections in New York, spent last Sunday
in this city with Senator Chandler. 1t IL sup
posed In consultation on the subject of the
latter's bill to put State elections under the
control of federal officers.
Should the bill for bridge from the Arse.
nal grounds across the Eastern Branch to
Geisooro, introduced In the Senate by Mr..
Barbour yesterday, become law, o Ioeo
will be constructed along the western sope
of the Maryland heights, opposite Alexan-
dria to Fort Washington.
Among the Presidential nominations sent
20 the Senate to-day were one hundred and
tweDty.eignt postmasters. none OF whom,
however, were from Virginia.
Pension claimants already have two
chances, the Pension Office and Congress.
Mr.. Hoar wants to give them third. In
she Senate to-day he introduced bill al
lowing them to establish their claims In the
courts.
Representative Edmunds of Virginia says
shat among the bills he has been requested
TO introduce are eight from people in his
district who were Union soldiers In the war
between the States. They sre northern men
who have settled In that district since the
war.
The States and Territ cries were called 10
che House to-day for bills, the result being an
avalanche. each State aud Territory having
q food. Among the bills introduced under
Alabama's Call was one by Gen. Wheeler for
refundipg the cotton tax. Among the e1-
eeutiye communications sent to the Honse
today was one from the Secretary of War
in reference to the Improvement of Roanoke
river. in Virginia. The House resolved to.
aay to adjourn on Saturday to Monday, the
9Th of January.
People from Berryville, Va, here to-day,
say If Mr.. Charles Lee be appointed post.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-12-18
WASHINGTON Items.

Mips Virginia Stuart Mosbv and her sister,
Mrs. Robert Campbell of Wsrrenton, are
here for the winter.
The project of removing the Supreme
Court room from the Capitol to separate
building is mooted.
Senator Hearst was robbed by ayoung
negro man at Welker's, on Monday Of
s2l0, which was recovered by the detec'
tiyes
Peter Lewis, negro Baptist preacher,
was before the police court yesterday
charged With choking his wife, but was dis
missed.
The will of the late Thomas Parker, exc.
cuted May 9, 1877, has been filed. He lief;
his estate to his three children, all OF whom
be survived.
The collector of taxes reports during the
mouth of November the receipt OF 81 o4O,-
SCI As from taxes of sill sorts, against $500
1876 43 for the same month last year.
President Harrison and his son Russell
had to summariiy leave the buggy In which
they we're riding yesterday, as the horse tell
and kicked the shafts into splinter5
Mr.. Hoar he's offered a resolution in the
Senate to inquire whether adequate provis-
ions are made in the District for co'ored
fouudlngs and other coored infants.
Sergeant at arms Holmes OF the House OF
Representatives has appointed 4. J. Harts'
horn, of Iowa, to be cashier of bis office. and
Mr.. Hartshorn has given bond OF S3O,ooO.
Rev. A. ". Pitzsr, pastor of the Central
Presbyterian church, has prepared Dill
for tho enforcement of Sunday rest In the
District ii Columbia. which isto be present
ed in the Senate shortly.
The bill Introduced in the Senate to make
the office of recorder of deeds salarled one
at Sc, 900 year aud sbolishing the present
svstem by which the recorder ia paid by
tees, meeis with much favor with business
men.
Two negro men were yesterday sent to
the penitentiary for five years for highway
robbery. They made their victim throw up
his hands, and while one held pistol at bis
head the other relieved him of his watch
and monty.
Marriage licenses have been issued to
Thomas n. Nuchois and Rosa Lee Hart,
both of Richmond to &. Patterson, OF Tam
p., Fla, and Bell SwiiZer, of Stanton; to
George White and Lavioia Brown, of Alex
endrie, and to Nolan Fl Roberts, ofCupep.
or. Va, and Mary E. Thompson, OF Will
mineton, Del.
A Christmas entertainment was given at
the Metropolitan church Monday night by
the Chinese Sunday school attached to that
church, The entertainment was held 10
bower cf real Chinese lanterns. made es
pecially for the occasion by the pupils, and
the scene looked decidedly celestial.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-12-18
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Eli Fleming, charged with assault OF
Sarah Bowman, in Norfolk county, has beer
sentenced to the penitentiary for ten years
A company of Roanoke capitalists ha:
purchased 40 acres. on the western border
of that city, for $50 .0O0 being 800 an acre
a Roanoke real estate operator last weak
closed contract with Baltimore capital
ist for 900 acres of timber and mineral
! land in Bedford county.
A bill mas been introduced 10 the State
Senate Incorporating a connecting liue pro
posing to connect the Petersburg and the
Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac
Railroads at point between Manchester
and Ashland.
The Legislature has appointed commit.
fee to request Governor. elect Mckinney and
Lieutenant Governor elect Tyler to forma'-
~ take the oath of Office in the hall Of the
House on January n the presence OF lbe
TWO branches of the Legislature.
The bill repeating the Hog Island fiata
lease has passed the House OF Delegates snd
will be approved by the Governor A bill
allowing MIR. Lewis compensation for the
expenditure he has made in the way OF i'm
proving the fats was voted down In the
Houae.
Robert Stacy, citizsn Of Ratio, yester-
day fell from the top OF boz Car, on the
Richmond and DAnville Railroad, while the
train was in motion, and one OF bis legs was
entirely severed from the body by the
wheels which passed over him. The other
leg was badly bruised.
The bill requiring that hereafter the State
commissioners of agriculture shall be elected
by the Legislature instead OF being appoint
ed by the Governor, passed by the House OF
Delegates has been amended in the Ser
ate 30 as to provide that the commissioner
shall be 50 practical farmer"
The City Council of Danville has passed a
resolution relieving new manufacturing en-
terprses from city taxation for period OF
ten years. The resolution provides, bow
ever. that such enterprise must be new and
not OF the character OF any mandatory a.
ready established and paying taxes.
A meeting is to be held In Richmond at an
early day to take measures to have that city
selected as the final burial place of e1 Pres
ideut Davis, also to start subscription fund
for Davis monument. Justice l. Q Q.
Lamar Ia to be invited to address the meet.
ing. A resolution has been adopted by the
House of Delegates directing the clerk TO
luIoTu MIe. OhSio tont ~ 10 'bo CO. HSoo W
sire of the Legislature that the remains OF
her husband be allowed to find a resting
place In the city of Richmond
A meeting of colored men was held in
Richmond last night to nemorisze Con
gress to pass national election law, and
to make an appropriation for locating the
colored people on lands in the west. The
resolutions adopted say of the presidential
election of 1883 and the last State election,
that they "they were characterize by fraud,
reinforced by wholesale disffsnchisemeDt of
colored men, and denial to them of the right
of outrage guaranteed them by the United
States constitution"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-12-18
Ex President Qayis's Will.

NEW ORLEANS, La. Dec. l8.-Ths will
of J, ferson Davis has been filed for probate
at Mississippi City. He gives to his wife
the Briat6eld plantation with all its ap
purteraBces to Mary R. Ellis, of Phiadel
phia, the EIliston plantation to Mary R
Dorsey. Of Howard county. Nd, 1.-The Liner
i:k plantation; to his daughter. Varina
Anne Davis.ths Besuvoir plantation to his
wife and two daughters all the property
real, personal and mixed not otherwise dis
posed OF. Jacob o. Payne and Mr., Davis's
aon-in-law G. a. Hayes. are named as e1ecu-
TORS The property above described Ia
,uorteaged to the'amouut of S45 900
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-12-18
Letter from Richmond.

Correspondence of the ALEXANDRIA GAZETTE
RICHMOND, Vs., Dec 17.-When the
House bill providing for the election OF
Commissioner of Agriculture by the General
Assembly instead of that officer being ap
pointed By the Governor came up IN the
Senate to-day, Mr. Harrison, of Winchester,
moved to insert at the proper place the
words "that said officer TO be practical
farmer.n In advocacy of HE amendment,
Mr.. Harrison made an earnest speech In DE
half of the farmers, and contended that they
certainly ought to have say In the appoint
meut of this officer in so far as that the
commissioner be practical farmer MI.
Hsaton, of Loudoun, did not know what "a
practical farmer" meant. He humorously held
that man up in his section OF the country
where beef, corn and wheat are the prlncl
pal crope might be called a practical farmer,
when at the same time put that same Lou
doun man in the peanut hills OF frlnce
George or the 'tatsr hills OF Accomao De
would not know what to do. Mr.. dsstoh
begged pteousIy for a definition OF the
cords "nractical farmer" but the answer
was not forthcoming.
Senator Hubbard, of Buckingham, was In
his seat to-day, the first time since the Cen
eral Assembly met. Mr.. Hubbard is repub-
lican and has been legislator for the past
four years.
The General Assembly will not adjourn
for the Christmas holidays until Friday, but
most of the members will go home before
that day. Eight or ten have already left
and there is not much prospects OF many
committee meetings 90 Thursday
we'll known assistant enpineer OF this state
has submitted in an informal manner to some
leading members of the Legislature plan Iol "
general improvement of the roads In Virginia.
The plan has not been reduced to writing, but II
may be in q few days legislator who has gwen
the sube considerable thoaght and who has
talked with the engineer, who is none other than
Major Charming Bolton, of Richmond, says that
the plan is one that will secure permanent road
improvements, but that the cost is too much Tor
the Commonwealth to stand just now.
The Pilot Association of Norfolk have an eagle
eva on the General Assembly this session. An
effort will be made to repeal the present piiot is"'
which. it is claimed. is detrimental to the ship
ming interests of Richmond and Petersburg Par
ticuiarly and there is alwsys at the Capitol some.
body keeping Waterfront for any move that the
opponents of the present law may make. B. r. u
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-12-18
Boulangists Meeting.

PARIS, Dec. 1S.-The Boulapgis:s have
convened q monster meeting to protest
against the ac,ioa of the Chamber of Dspu-
ties in seating NJ Jofreiu. who ran against
General Boulanger in the Montmartre dis.
trct in the recent election.
NJ. Nsqcet, whose election was declared
invalid By the Chamber on Monday, has
gone to the Island OF Jersey to confers With
General Bouauger concerulog the course to
be followed By the Boulangists.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-12-18
Injunction.

CHICAGO Dec. lS.-A dispatch from To.
peka, Kansas, says Judge Brewer 10 the
United States circuit Court has granted q
restraining order preventing the county
treasurer of about IS counties 10 this State
from collecting the taxes levied on the Pull
man palace, drawing room and parlor cara
operated on the railways In this State, BIZ
the board of assessors for the year 1889.
The company refuses to pay on the ground
that the State has no right to tax prop erty
used In interstate commerce.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-12-18

Two HUNDRED AND FIFTY white long
shoremen struck In New York last Mon
day because their employers had put
few negroes to work with them. The same
old isrepressible couh ct-ifrepressible be
cause natural. Blood ia thicker than water,
and what nature has divided, man cannot
unite. The only strange thing about this
strike ia that no republican Congressman
from New York, or anywhere else, will con-
ceive the idea that his official duty compels
him to bring 1t to the attention OF the ma
tonal legislature, and point to 1t as patent
illustration of the infringement OF that por-
tlon of the Constitution which prohibits dis
functions on account of color.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-12-18
Telegraphic Brevities.

Charles F. Mayer was reelected Presi-
dent of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad to.
day.
VIM. Sheets Harrison, nephew OF Pres.
;deut Harrison, died st his home ia River
Forest. His. yesterday after brief illness.
The New York Weekly Mail and Express
announces to day that A1rs. Grant says that
the Generals tomb is fually located at
Riverside Park.
a glove fight between Mike Cushing and
Austin Gibbons took place near Stanford,
Conn this morning aud vas won by Glib
bona in 81 rounds.
x.Congressman Joseph Lyman was
stricken with spoplexy yesterday, at his
home at Courcil Bluffs, lowe, and there are
no hopes OF bis recovery.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-12-18
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AscnrrATEn ppRss nIspATcHRs
ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES.
Proceedings of Congress.
WASHINGTON, D. g.. Dec. is.
SENATE

a joint resolution extending to the first OF
March, 1890, the time TO holding the in'
ternational Marine Conference was passed.
Mr.. Morgan offered the following joint
resolution which was read 10 full and laid
over till tomorrow. Resolved that the
United States of America congratulates the
people of Brazil on their adoption of re.
publican form of government, and that the
United States OF Brazil is, by that act, rec
ognzed as a lawful and rightful govern
ment.
Mr.. Hoar also introduced bill changing
the time for the ending of the official terms
Of the President and members of Congress.
HOUSE.
a resolution Was adopted authorizing the
Sergeant-at arms to offersreward of S., 0O0for
the arrest and delivery to the marshal of the
District of Columbia, OF C. E Slcott the al
>condipg cashier.
The following bills we're introduced and
referred By Mr.. Wheeler, of Alabama, to
reduce the tobacco tax alec to refund the
cotton tax also amending The civil service
act.
By Mr.. Oates, of Alabama, to prohibit
aliens from acquiring title to lands in the
United States.
By Mr.. Williams, of Ilinos, for the cleo
ton of U. S. Senators by popular vote.
By Mr.. O'Donneil, Of Michigan, to repeal
the duty on sugar