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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-10-24
For this section fair weather, stationary tenn
perature variable winds.

The FAIR last night vas we'll attended,
but owing to the inclemency of the wesg:.@r
Columbia Ledge, Of Washington, did not
attend it. An enjoyable evening was spent
by all who Visited the fair.
The following is the vote for the various
articles at the fair:
Gold headed Cane-James 7. Crump 13
Ashby Bladen 2. R. T. Cook 1, Geo. W.
Lyles TO-
Gold headed Umbrella Geo. n. Hayden
3, Geo. L. Robinson 2, VIM. Il. Smith /,
Granville Kelly -
U.RK. of P Cbarm-Chas Steele l6; An
drew Deetop 9, Geo. Bontz l. Chas. Her
bert 8, Richard Roland 8. ,,-
Ladies' Gold Ring-Mrs. ketcham o. Mles
Salle Penn 1. Miss hay TraVers q Mfs'
Jennie PoweI2
10 G T. Pin-Geo. A Young &, 3. u.
Davauch n u, Henry Hunter
Fireman's Medel-Geo. w. Petty 3. K.
M Latham 4. Capt James Webster 6, ]. l..
Dnffey 8, Edward e;arnell u, Edward
Meade l.
Jonadab Pin-EdEar Thompson 4, James
Hughes II, Chas. Grffia 8
Sporting R'fe-Lieut. Smith l, Frank
Belts 2, Louis Kraft 3 Frank Creighton 2,
]. F. Birrel 4, Willie Carroll S, James Il.
Pndgett S
Tonight it is expected that Columbia
Lodge, in conjunction with Friendship
Ledge, of Washington, will attend the fair,
and tomorrow night Independent Lodge of
Georgetown; Perseverance Lodge, of Wash
ington, and Potomac Lodge, |. o. 0. F., of
this city, will also be present at the hall.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-10-24

CORPORATION CoURr-Judge j. K. AZ,
Norton, presiding Rose Jackson, colored,
,ys. Inland and Seaboard Coasting Company,
suit for $40 900 damages resulting from the
drowning of r B. Jackson who fell over
board trom the steamer John w thompson
as che approached her wharf, in this city,
last wear: Jury unable to agree and were
discharged. Ii j. understood the jury stood
10 for the defendant to for the plaintiff,
Administration upon the estate of Wash
ington Fisher, deceased, was granted to
John Doherty vs Washington Steamboat
Company suit for damages resulting from
injuries sustained from gang plank failing
on his hand; Jury and verdict for defend.
Crunp Vs. Rudd referred to commission
or for report.
morning.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-10-24

,pERsoNAL.-In recent ST. Louis papers,
the marriage of Mr.. Arthur W. Lambert and
Miss Virginia Q. B. Webb. daughter OF Dr..
VIM. Webb, of S.. Louis. is announced to
take place ic that city on the 10Th of No
vember. NJ. Lsmbert s native OF Alex
andrie, now residing III st. LOUIS, ana Is a
son of Mr. Wm a. Lambert.
Mrs. NJ. Rooney, accompanied by her
niece, Viah w. Baggeyt, and nephew, Chas.
F. Baggett, left for New York yesterday to
spend part of tho wiDter.
Mr.. W. B. Zumstein ard Miss sallie L
Allender were married in Baltimore last
evening, at st. Peups Reformed Church
They will spend few days in Washington
and with their uncle, Mr.. Henry Brengle,
lin this city, Wills on their southern tour.
Mr.. w. b Corse, who has been with Y.
S. geological surveying party in Colorado
iox the past year. has returned to his home
in this ntV
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-02-07
Woman As a Citizen.

"Woman as citizen will compel the
State to higher function thar that at-t,s t,ss,
merely policing property. She will
police manhood and womanhood. She
will make rulers what Plato dreamed
of their being the guardians of So
cietyr The preservation of morals will
be as much to the State as the protee-
tion of vested rights now is. Woman's
voice will be lifted resolutely against
that crowning barbarism of civilization
war She who suffers most from its
horrors; whose whole nature revolts
against such crime-whose every
physical feebleness indisposes her to
the brutal arbitration of the sword, will
use her new-found power to end this
wickedness and folly under which
Europe groans to-day. Woman will
carry her religious nature into the
State, not to establish a State religion
the last new religio-political 'fad"-
but to keep alive within the body of its
laws and institutions the spirit of essen
tial religion, which will make the State
the conscience of the people. Man has
fashioned the true form of the State in
our own free, self-governing democ-
racy. Let woman breathe within it the
true spirit, and we shall see city OF
God coming down out of Heaven upon
earth. ."-ReU. Heber Newton.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-02-07
WORDS FOR WOMEN.

SENIOR CASTELAR, thinks the estab-
lishment of universal suffrage the most
needed reform in Spain.
l DO not expect to live to see it, but
| have no doubt whatever that the time
is coming when the Republic will rest
on the suffrages of all its citizens, and
that, thus resting, it will be safer, and
better governed, than if supported by
the votes of one-half only, as it now is.
Judge Taft.
/ HAVE been trying to induce the
young women to turn their attention in
the direction OF domestic economy fer
good many years, to study the house.
held arts, the science that underlies
the household arts, and all these years
since women have wanted to vote l
have wanted to vote.-Mrs. Emma p
Ewing.
LEwIsTOwN ladies on both sides
have taken deeper interest in the
campaign than the voters. The fact
detracts not one atom from the respect
felt for them by any manly man. 1t is
all confession that women might be
admitted to the sallot-box without harm
to them or the country. y.-Lewistoton
(W Democrat.
The greatest heroism / have ever
found in human nature has been in the
lives of women. The man who rushes
into the thick of battle and waves
flag in the face of the enemy and falls
pierced by a score of bullets does not
display half the heroism that every
patient and accomplishing mother Of
an increasing family exhibits daily
Ella Wheeler HIlcor.
II THANK GoD." said Mr., Horace
Davis, in his inaugural address as pres
ident of the California State University,
that the time has come when the
treasures of the highest education are
laid open to women equally with men,
and | believe that this leaven will si-
lently work through the whole COM
munity. giving higher tone to society
and exercising benign influence even
upon public affairs"
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-02-07
FRAIL FABRlCATIONS.
Hollow Objections of Some Anti-Suffragists
Against the Acknowledgement of Women.

Hollow Injections of Some AntiSuffragist
Against the Enfranchisement of Women.
'They say that weighty arguments
are brought against us when we ask for
the perfect freedom of women, but,
when you come to the objections, they
are like pumpkin devils with candles
inside-hollow, and can't bite.
''They say that women do not wish
for the sphere and fleedom we ask for
them, and would not use it. If the bird
does like its cage, and does like its
sugar, and will not leave it, why keep
the door so very carefully shutP Why
not open it, only little? Do they
know, there is many a bird will not
break its wings against the bars, but
would fly If the doors were openP
Then they say, If the women have
the liberty you ask for, they will be
found in positions for which they are
not fittedr II two men climbed one lad
der, did you ever see the weakest any,
where but at the footp The surest sign
of fitness is success. The weakest
never wins but where there is handi-
Gaping. Nature left to herself will as
beautifully apportion a mans work to
his capacities as, long ages ago, she
graduated the colors on the bird S
breast. If we are not fit, you give us
to no purpose the right to labor; the
work will fall out of our hands into
those that are wiser.
''They say women have one great
and noble work left them, and they do
it i'll; That is true; they do it execra-
bly,. 1t is the work that demands the
broadest culture, and they have not
even the narrowest. The lawyer may
see no deeper than his law-books, and
| the chemist see no further than the
windows of his laboratory, and they
mag do their work we'll; but the woman
who does woman's work needs many
sided, multiform culture; the heights
and depths of human life must not be
beyond the reach of her vision; she
must have knowledge of men and
things in many states, a wide catholicity
of sympathy, the strength that springs
from knowledge, and the magnanimity
which springs from strength. We bear
the world, and zoe make it. The souls
of little children are marvelously deli.
cate and tender things, and keep for.
ever the shadow that first falls on them
and that is the mothers, or at least 9
woman's. There was never a great
man who had not great mother-it /,
hardly an exaggeration. The first 81,
years of our life make us; all that il
added later is veneer; and yet som,
say, if woman can cook dinner OF
dress herself well. she has cultur,
enough. ."-Olire Schreiner, in Woman'
journal.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-02-07
AMUSING ENCOUNTER.
Muskrats and Woodchucks Engage in o
Series of Fatal Duels.

MuSkrats ana WOouchucks Engage III u
Series of Fatal Duels.
An amusing encounter between
muskrats and woodchucks was wit
messed along the Rondout creek in the
town of Rochester day or two ago.
These little animals are bitterly antag-
onistic to each other, but it is not often
that fifty of the woodchucks array
themselves in battle against an even
number of the rats. The enemies met
on narrow neck Of land, the musk
rats occupying the position nearest the
water, while the woodchucks formed
in half-circle some eighteen or twen-
ty feet away.
The attack was begun by an unusual
ly large woodchuck, who darted out
from its fellows and ran in front of the
solid mass of rats as though inviting
en- encounter. The challenge was
finally accepted by big muskrat, the
battle between them lasting several
minutes. The strangest feature of the
fight was that the rest Of the animals
were mere spectators of the fight
Neither the rats nor woodchucks
changed their position till the first
battle was ended and the woodchuck
lay dead. Then two more sailed forth
from each side and engaged in battle,
these being followed by others until
the ground was strewn with the dead
bodies of chucks and rats. At no time
did the fight become general, nor was
there a cessation of hostilities till at
least three-fourths of the entire num-
Der originally engaged on both sides
lay dead or dying.
Perhaps the oldest part of this
unique spectacle was the burying OF
the dead. The chucks carefully gath
cred their dead comrades and con-
signed them. one by one. to the waters
of the Rondout creek. The muskrats
did the same thing, though in a slower
and more dignifed manner. The rats
stood on the bank and watched the
scene. while the woodehucks retired
in confusion to their liberally-provided
winter nests.-M 4 Times.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-02-07
HUMOROUS.

1t is said that rats Immediately
disappear from the house as soon as
young lady begins taking lessons on
the piano.
"A wealthy old farmer, who had
seven good-for-nothing sons, says he
is satisfied that there is no money in
raising beats. .-1erds SVtingS.
-" Well, Uncle Cicero, what makes
you look so glum?" "Yes, sab; to tell
you the trufe, my ole woman has be-
gun to make buckwheat cakes and she
hasn't got into the swing of it yet,
sab. IN T. World.
--Bunco Canvasser - II can't be
mistaken! Arn't you son of the
Widners, of Richmond" His Prey
mo; I'm son of a Cannon, Of Salt
Lake City, and you don't want to fool
round tn muzzle, young fellow. -
Time.
Mrs. Brown" Tell me, Nellie,
was your husband much embarrassed
when he proposed to you?" Mrs.
Younghusband- Not nearly so much
as he was after the bills for our we'd
ding reception came in."-Boston
Transcript.
Major McTavish-"M Mr.. Fitch, i
want you to know the Rajah of Gavin
pohr, one of our most eminent dis
ciples of Brahma." Mr.. Fitch (of
Illinois) Proud to meet you, sir
It's tn best breed that ever laid an
egg. Judge.
Cashier (stopping Mr.. Dumley)-
"By the way, Dumley, l see that your
bank account is overdrawn to the
tune of a hundred and fifty dollars "
Dumley-" All right, old man; If you
send boy down to my Office with a
statement of the whole business, I'll
give you a check for the amount
Philadelphia aunt Severely )-"As
/ glanced into the parlor last evening
/ saw you with a young mans arm
around YOU" Chicago niece (calm)
-" les, aunty, was waiting Tor you
to pass the door to see us. Young
men are very slippery nowadays, and
one can't have too many witnesses. y
Philadelphia Record.
Mrs. DuqSesne-"I suppose you
sing or play?" Miss Newcomer-"Oh
no, I'm not at all musical" Mrs
Duquesne-" You recite, probably?
Miss Newcomer" Oh, no. indeedr
Mrs. Duquesne-" Well, then, l sup
pose you paint plaques?" Miss New
comer-"Me paint l could not pain
a fence" Mrs. Duquesne eagerly
"Oh. you dear girl, how lovelyl Yol
must promise to come to every one o
my receptions. You will be such |
sensation. "-PittsbAarah Ballstig,
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-02-07
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Mr.. Van Alstyne, better known as
Miss Fanny Crosby, the popular hymn
writer, was born in 1928. and has been
blind from infancy.
Mrs. Lee c. Hardy, of Houston,
Tex, is Southern writer, whose tall
ent has lately became known to the
North through her graceful verses in
Eastern magazines.
Mrs. Elizabeth j. Hereford. Texas
poetess who has recently issued vol
ume poems entitled "Rebel Rhymes" "
is said to be lineal descendant of Sir
Walter Scott. Some of Mrs. Hereford's
verse has been considered beautiful.
Bret Harte, the author, is in his
fiftieth year. He has been writing
since early in the sixties, when he
printed q number of poems and war
lyrics in the San Francisco papers.
Previous to this time he had been
compositor.
Whittier is eighty-one years old
and is two years older than Oliver
Wendell Holmes. Whittier was visit
ing friends in Boston recently, but it
was observed that even in company he
was often absorbed in thought. The
same is true of Tennyson, who lacks
much of being an interesting member
of large company.
The handwriting of English liter
ary men being under consideration, it
is said that Andrew Lang writes pc
culiar, but not illegible hand; SWIM
burne's was curiously school-boyish,
but perfectly legible; Matthew Arnold's
was lucidity itself; Mr.. Ruskin's is
pretty and plain; Sir Edward Arnold's $
is also very plain; John Morley's is
difficult at first, but easily got ac-
quainted with; Laboucheres is pretty
bad; T. p. OConnor's is rather rough,
but easy to read; Frederick Green
woods is called agreeable, and the ed
itor of the Times, it is said, writes a
particularly good and legible hand.
Elijah Halford, President-elect
Harrison's private secretary, is almost
as artistic whistler as Mrs. Shaw.
He has no other musical accomplish
ments, but he can whistle the most
difficult music in manner which as
tonishes his hearers. He is very apt
to employ this gift when engaged upon
an important piece of work. At such
times an observer would think that
Mr.. Halford had nothing on his mind,
but the fact is that when he whistles
his prettiest he is absorbed in the most
weighty mental problems. "Whist-
ling Lie" is his nickname in Indian
apolis.
Mrs. Oliphant lives for the greater
part of the year at the much-favored
town of Windsor, though she braces
herself up by occasional visits to "dear
old Scotland" Margaret Wilson Oil
phant was, as most people know, born
some sixty years back in the county
which has the honor of being repre-
sented in Parliament by the hero oi
Bingley Hall. Mrs. Oliphant's resi-
dence in Windsor has favored the
formation of friendly relations with
the Queen, of whom she is a great
favorite. Her Majesty, indeed, has
every one of Mrs. Oliphant's books
read aloud to her.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-02-07
MY MARY.
az" VIII 1t be in hundred years,
Nv tTorx,

~
1ao" Will IT be In hundred years,
W. My Mary.
po,, snan have passed through the vale of tears
oiieu its hopes and conquered its fears,
My Mary.
'nai love be colder in that fair landi
cn Ny Mary.
onah stand apart In some bright band.
h'u ieei no more the touch OF your handf
My Mary.
''naii we have forgot the kisses sweeti
My Mary.
neeping time with each fond bosom's beat,
'iaking an Eden OF our retreatl
My Mary.
see your dear ps parting TO speak,
My Mary.
loving words are the solace seek
Day thcm again, lest my faith grows veal,
My Mary.
Love knoweth no ending" is that true!
My Mary.
Joy 10 know 1t is ever new
bliss would hardly be bliss without you.
My Mary.
Loves fountain is there hear you say,
My Mary
And Nearer the fountain, nearer the day.
1iorious words to cheer by the way,
My Mary.
isee 1t all now, for ever moro,
My Mary,
we snail be one and Cur love shall soar
hlgn as the throne on that nightless shore,
My Mary.
-IVilliam Lyle, in Detroit Free Press
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-02-07
EADE HIM INDIGNANT.
Why an Arkansas Farmer Disowns His
Pretty Daughter.

why an Arkansas FARMER Dls0wns HIS
Pretty Daughter.
An old fellow stood leaning on q
gate. A young woman cautiously ap-
preached.
"May l come inpn she asked.
"No, you kain'tr' he exclaimed.
"Ain't you never goin' ter let me
Gomez"
Never"
please"
"Go on away now. Clear out"
The woman went away, and the
man who overheard the conversation
went up to the old fellow and asked him
why he had driven the woman away.
"'Cause she's my daughter an
didn't marry ter suit me, " he answered.
Didn't she do well?"
"No; she flung herself away. when
she mout er hit the nail squar' on the
head"
Don't you think that her husband
will make a livingP"
"He mout do that, but livin' amt
the thing. The feller has got land an
hogs an hosses, but the feller that l
wanted her to marry has got three O.
the best fox-hounds in the country"
"Yes, but has he got any thing
else?"
"Any thing else! Why, blast yo'
ignunt hide, what do you mean? Look
here, you'd better go on, now, fur l
don't believe it's good idee to have
you loafin' erbout the neighborhood.
Any thing else! Go on erway, now,
or I'll set the dogs on you!"-Arkan-
sdU Trdreler.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-02-07
Business Is Business.

Railroad President-Did you get the
injured passengers in that accident
satisfied so they won't sue for dam
agesP
Under Secretary-Yes, sir. The
worst injured were drummers, who are
used to that sort of thing. and three
dollars worth of cigars fixed them all
right The only other one was man
who had his nose broken.
"Eh? What did you do with him?'
"As the accident changed his pug
nose to a very handsome Roman /
charged him one hundred dollars for
the operation. So, you see, we are
ninety-seven dollars ahead. .n-Phild-
delphia Record.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-02-07
One Dollar Per Year.
"AUNT I" FANNY"
A Loving Tribute to q Departed Leader
In the Cause of Woman Suffrage.

A Loving Tribute to q Departed Leader
In the Cause of Woman Suffrage.
In letter lately written to Mrs. Lucy
Stone, Clara Barton says:
at gives me pain to be compelled to
decline your generous invitation to at
tend your annual meeting of the Wo-
man Suffrage Association at Cincin-
natl; but there is deep pleasure in
the thought that you remembered and
desired me to be with you. Nowhere
would so gladly speak my little word
for woman, her rights, her needs, her
privileges delayed and debarred-to-
gether with the grand advance OF the
last thirty years, the budding and bios
soming of the seed sown in darkness,
doubt and humiliation, scattered by the
winds of conscious superiority and
power, and the whirlwinds of opposing
wrath-as on the green, native soil, the
home of the early labors of its sainted
citizen, Frances ID. Gage.
"Dear, noble, precious Aunt Fanny,
with the soul SO pure and white, the
heart so warm, the sympathies so quick
and ready, the sensitive, shrinking
modesty of self, the courage that scoffed
at fear when the needs of others were
pied; the friend of the bondman and
oppressed, who knew no sect, sex, race
or color, but toiled on for freedom and
humanity till the glorious summons
came!
''If only five minutes of her clarion
voice could ring out in that meeting
McGregor on his native heath-''Twere
worth thousand men.
Il pray you. dear friend, whose voice
will reach and be heard, try to point
out to the younger and later workers OF
the grand old State, the broad stubble
swarth of the scythe, and the deep
blazing of the sturdy axe of this glorious
pioneer of theirs the grandest Of them
all-whose sleeping dust is an honor to
Ohio.
at is nothing that am not there;
but you, who carry back the memories
of your girlhood, your school life, your
earliest labors, to lay them on this
freely protfered altar, where then there
was no room for the tired foot, nor
scarce safety for the head, it is much;
and it points with unerring finger to
the hands on the dial of thirty years in
the future. We need not see 1t then,
for it is given us to forcsee it now.
Gods Blessing on this work and on
the meeting, and on all who may COM
pose it.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-02-07

1t was no longer equal to the concen-
tration of definite idea. was now
beyond all active emotions. Once /
fancied | heard the Cry of some ami
NAL or human being near by, but l
was too far gone to pay any attention.
At last all seemed to be over with
me. 1t was as though the darkness
of night had gradually closed over me
again; a roaring noise in my ears con-
tinued for awhile in the darkness, and
then all was silent. | had sank into
the Inconsistencies of complete ex-
haustion.
| remember nothing more until |
came to my senses again in our camp
on the river bank. A couple of days
nursing by Murilla brought me round
so that could sit up and listen to his
account of my rescue. The cry /
fancied | heard just before sinking in
to unconsciousness was from Murilla.
The effects of the berries had kept him
stupefied until the dawn OF the second
day, the close of the night so full of
horrible experiences to me. He had
awakened, weak and burning with
thirst. Rising up, he beheld not a
dozen yards away my head and
shoulders protruding from the mouth
of a monster boa, whose scaly body
lay in serpentine lengths among the
debris of decaying forest fungus.
Taking it for granted that was
dead, and chilled with terror, he ut
tered the Mortified cry which | had
dimly heard, and rushed away to camp.
Being an expert woodman, he had no
difficulty in finding his way. The In
dians had about given us up for lost.
They had searched for us, but had
never happened to visit the right place.
Two were searching when he reached
the camp. Trembling with weakness
and terror, he told the Indians the
fate that had befallen us.
Returning with axes and crocodile
spears the party attacked the boa,
chopping him completely in two just
below the bulge in his body caused by
my feet and legs, before he could es-
cape. At the first blow of the axe the
monster made spasmodic efforts to dis
gorge in order to attack his assailants.
He tried hard to escape, but the axes
were skillfully applied, and he was
rendered powerless.
The severed head and neck had to
be slit open before l could be released.
At first they thought l was dead, but
were soon rejoiced at discovering a
lingering spark of life. Carrying me
to the camp, resuscitative remedies
were applied, and l was, as you have
seen, finally brought around.
In few days my health was re-
stored sufficiently to start on our re
turn journey down the river, but my
own mother would have failed to rec
ognize me. My hair, which was a
dark brown when Murilla and | sa
down to eat our lunch Of hardtacl
aud venison, was now as white as the
scant locks of an old man of ninety
as white as you see it now. My
nervous system had received a shocl
that left me victim of nightmare
and nervous fears and tremors fol
years afterward. But naturally iror
constitution finally over-rode the ef
fects of my terrible experience anC
left me in possession of my usual ex
cellent health. - Boston Commercial
| D,,Hof,.,
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-02-07

Resolutions Adopted by the American Wo-
man Suffrage Association at Its Twen-
tieth Annual Meeting, Held Recently in
Cincinnati.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-02-07

All the speeches and addresses de-
livered during the past twenty years
or so by Albert Edward are TO be pub
lished. They will be known as the
prints of Wales.-PhladelDhia Ledger,