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Telegram-herald., 1889-05-19

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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-06-03
NEWS OF The Day.

Mr.. Jefferson Davis is 81 years old day
Jake Kiran is at home again, and is pre-.
pairing for ;he coming fight with Sullivan.
The President has appointed George z.
Fisher, of ID liware, to he first auditor OF
the treasury, and Joab n. Patterson, ofNew
Hampshire, to be second auditor of the
treasury.
Certificates of election have been isaued in
every district to the members of the House
of Representatives in the Fifty first Con.
gress. The body now stands: Republicans,
164 democrats. 1Gl.
The reduction 10 the public debt during
the month of May amounted to IS 7O2. ST.,
and for the eleven months of the current ifs.
cal year So, 6S2 los. The total debt now,
leas cash in the Treasury, amounts to
81 ,092 ,902 SOL.
The sale of white ash coal of the best mar
ketable quality at $3.50 per ton was begun
on Saturday at the Philadelphia Record Of
fee. The price is the lowest that coal has
reached in Philadelphia since 1860, and is q
reduction of 20 cents from prices preva ling
during Nav
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-06-03
The Flood in Virginia.

The food extended over the greater part
OF the State. The water in the Appomattox
river rose several feet, and partially flooded
Petersburg. Two men were drowned by
the capsizing of a boat in the streets The
canal broke abote the city, as did also the
reservoir dam, and the city will soon be
without water. Besides the damage in the
city the loss o the crops in the vicinity is
estimated at 81 900 900
Norfolk has escaped the effects OF the
storm.
At Fredericksburg Bridgewater mills, ele.
vators, roller, burrs, office, and cooper shops
have been swept away. Knox Brothers
bone aud fertilzDg mills are damaged. The
electric light plant power vii! have to be
replaced The Germania -four mills motive
power has also heen destroyed. Taylor's
Cliffs fell in aud Fl led the canal at that point.
Banks of the canal at the dam have been
swept away. Tne great iron bridge OF the
Atlantic Coast Line across Hazel river fell
with terrific crash yesterday evening. No
services could be held in the churches last
night, as there was no light in the city. AT
Hunters Island the scene is desolate one.
Never in the history of this city has destruc-
ton been so great by water. No correct
estimate can be given oflosses.
Dispatches from Chariot esville say the
streams have overhcwed and the railroads
leading into the city are greatly damaged.
The bridges are gone.
The flood in the James river continued 10
rise at Richmond until 2 p. IN. yesterday,
when it showed height Of little over 26
feet at Rockets whsrves, which was within
two and half feet of the unprecedented
flood of 1877. A portion of Franklin, Main
and Carey streets and ali intervening streets
to the river we're covered with water. All
the wharves and goo5ly portion of Rock.
etts were submerged. AT least 100 families
were forced to remove their household ef
fecta. The gas works were partially sub.
merged, and last night the city was in total
darkness except on Broad aud Main sire ets,
which were lighted by electric lights.
The middle and south branches of the
Shenandoah river were swollen nearly to the
high water mark Of 1870. Whole districts
of grass and wheat along the stream near
Stauntou were flooded, fences swept away,
and several bridges destroyed.
Dispatches from Lynchburg say the DAM
age by Fridays food in the James was very
great, the Richmond Il Allegheny Railroad
being the chief sufferer. Many miles of the
track were inundated, and several serious
washouts occurred Farming lands and
growing crops along the river were over
lowed and greatly damaged.
Reports from ell sections OF the State rep
resent that the loss of property by the fresh
ct has been unprecedented
Reports received from King George, Els
sex, Richmond, Westmoreland and other
lower counties tell of great damage to
houses, bridges, cattle and crops.
At Bridgewater, North river, q branch OF
the Shenandoah. ovei!owed its banks, ard
the lower parts of the town were under wa
ter. Several houses are reported washed
aWaV
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-06-03
ALEX ANDRIA-.
MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 8.

REPRESENTATIVE MCKINLEY OF ONO,
candidate for Speaker of the next U S. House
Of Representatives, made speech IN New
York. on Decoration Day, in which ne SAID
the men who composed the rank and hle OF
the Union army 'entered it, moved by the
highest and purest motives of patriotism.
And vet Mr.. Mckinley is old enough 10
remember the conscripting officers, the
bounty jumpers and the paid substitutes,
and knows that even now, quarter OF
century after the war, an immense sum Of
money for tensions Is sent to foreign coun
tries, and that nearly all the names on the
pension rolls of men who are really entitled
70 pensions are those of foreigners. Mr..
Mckinley also said ''our black allies must
never be deserted or forsaken." AND yet
Mr.. Mckinley knows that though his party
NAV in rare instances nominate negro lot
office. they always scratch him at elections
and that Mr.. Harrison has already declared
against giving them Offices in the South, ana
that in mis- McKinly s,own State, and contrary
to the laws thereof white republicans prefer
no free schools 10 mixed ones. Mr.. Mckinley
also said: "In July. 1861, Congress passed
q resolution in which it was said that the
war was to defend the Constitution OF the
United States and all the rights OF the
States, including slavery" And yet there
is no constitutional lawyer who does not
know that the South fought in defence oil
her constitutional rights, and Mr.. Mchln-
lev. from his remarks about his "black al
i:es.n must know that the rights of the
States, including slavery were trampled
upon. Indeed when he stands in his own
State and looks across the Ohio river he sees
territory that by the Constitution belongs to
Virginia, and that only by fragrant viola
tion of the Constitution was formed into an
CtEar State
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-06-03
VIRGINIA NEWS

The distllery and flour mills at Falmouth,
were swept away on Saturday, and a num-
Der of stores Quilted Of their contents by
water.
President Harrison's secretary has notified
Gen. Groner that the President would re
ceiye the committee of anti Malone republi
cans. appointed at the conference held in
Washington recently, on Tuesday, June
eleventh.
Ga Saturday morning Scotts' large wood
en- bridge, spanning the Rappahannock at
Fredericksburg, was washed away. The
river was higher than ever known, and
great damage vas done to the city. Many
houses were Goated away. The boat house
of the Rappahannock club was torn from its
mooring Friday night.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-06-03
The C. & O. Canal Ruined.

As is usual In the case of freshets, the
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal has suffered ter
ribly. Owing to the destruction of the tele,
graph and telephone wires but little news
has been obtained OF the damage all along
the line from Georgetown to Cumberland,
but if the condition of affairs between
Georgetown and the Great Falls is any indi'
cation, it will take at least 1900, 600 to put
the canal in thorough repair. From all that
can be learned the entire trunk OF the canal
has been damaged.
Senator a. p. German, in answer to re-
porter's inquiry. said yesterday 1.-The Hood
no doubt means the abandonment of the
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. don't think
it is possible for the directors OF the canal
company to raise one hundredth part Of the
money that would be required TO restore the
works. Owing to the manner in which the
Maryland constitution is framed their hands
are practically tied, and it will necessarily
be some sine before its future can be settled.
As to the extent of the damage, 1t will be
impossible to state for several days. But
from present indications it is safe to say that
it will be much greater than in 1877. Tho
loss of the canal traffic will be seriously felt
BY Georgetown, and, in fact. the whole Dis
trict II was great highway for the pro-
ducts of western Maryland. and lis abandon
ment will throw large number OF men out
of employment.
It is the opinion of nearly every one living
along the river that the canal has been ire.
parably ruined twas completely covered,
and Mt no point could its lines be Mt all de-
fined. 1t is likely washed out. the towpath
being ali covered to q great depth.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-06-03
The LohnstnWn Disaster.

JoHNsTowN, June 8 This morning the
peculiar stencil Of decaying human flesh is
plainly perceptible to the senses as one as.
cends the bank of Stony creek, and search
ers are wandering YEARLY over the smoking
mass, looking for the remains of relatives
and friends From the banks many charred
remains Of victims oil flames and flood are
plainly visible to The naked eye, as the re
ceding waters reluctantly give up their dead.
Beneath almost every log or blackened beam
glistenng skull or blaBched remnants Of
ribs or limbs mark all that remains OF ife's
hopes and dreams. Days will elapse before
the rubbish can be sufficiently removed to
permit the recovery of all the bodies, and
long ere that every corpse will be q putrid
mass, yielding forth those frightful emana
tions of decaying human flesh that in
crowded community like this can give but
one result-the dreadful typhus. All ply
sicians in the place are in favor Of allowing
the fire to consume the bodies and thus es.
cape an epidemic. An area OF eight or ten
acres above the dam is covered to depth of
forty feet with shattered houses, borne from
the resident centre of Jamestown. In each
of these houaes it is estimated there were
from one to twenty or twenty five people.
This is accepted az data upon which to esti.
mate the number that pershed on this spot,
and if the data be correct the bodies that lie
hap inc RIM int
the hundreds if not the thousands. As yet
there is no telling how many lives have been
lost. Adjutant General Hastings, who has
charge of everything, slated this morning
that he supposed there were between four
and five thousand people under the burning
debris. The work of placing the bodies in
collins is being prosecuted as speedily as
possible. The water has subsidized to great
extent and the streets in the main part Of
the town are free from water. The falling
water has laid bare the terrible work OF the
flood, and the full extent OF the disaster is
only being ascertained now. The streets
are one sickening, fou.smellipg mass Of
wood and debris. The latest estimates put
the loss of life at from 10, 600 to Il. 900. Sew
enty-tw persons persisted in the wreck Of
the Hotel Holbert. Frank Mcdonald, q
conductor on the Somerset branch Of the
Baltimore and Ohio road, was at the Penn
sylvania railroad depot when the food came
He says be saw l 900 bodies go over the
bridge and believes he saw 900 bodies burn.
1t reminded him of lot of flies on fly paper,
struggling to get away, with no hope and no
chance to save them. To add to the exist
listing horror small, frigid cold wave has
struck the town and the people sre badly in
need of clothing. 1t is almost an mpossi
bility to get anything TO eat. 10 some cases
women are wearing mems clothes. Hun
garian who was caught attempting to blow
open bank safe was lynched on tho spot.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-06-03

THE WATERS have receded. The loss by
their rise, both In life and property, has
been immense, and the consequent misery
untold; but while the fate OF the victims stlrs
the deepest emotions OF human sympathy,
their misfortune, though deplored, must be
accepted IS dispensation of providence
against which no human provision could
have successfully provided. Destruction
has marked the course of the flood in other
sections and in all the region round about
Alexandria, but within the city's limits the
damage has been comparatively slight,
which fact, though it may not evoke the
thankfulness of those dissatisfied with the
city's slow, but sure, growth, should at least
stop their croaking for time.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-06-03

The Century Naga-inc FOR June has boen received
from its publishers the Century Company, New
York. Its contents are: The Convict Mines of
Kara The Last Assembly Ball The Bloodhound,
Early Heroes of Ireland The Woman in the Case,
Certsju Forms of Womaus Work for Women,
Italian Old Masters. Bird Music, Decoration Day,
The Relations OF the United States and Cansde,
King Solomon of Kentucky, Corot the Artist,
General Lee Aftor the War, Can the Emperor For
get? Abraham Lincoln, The Water Seeker, The
Irrigating Ditch, The American Amateur Astron-
omer. Memoranda of the Civil War, Topics OF the
Time. aud Bric-A-Drac.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-06-03
The New Discovery.

You have heard your friends and ncighbors
talking about it. You may youraefbe one of the
many who know from personal experience just
how good a thing it is. If You have ever tried it,
you are one of its staunch friends because the
wonderful thing about it is, that when once given
a trial, Dr. Kings New Discovery ever after holds
a place in the house. If you have never used it
and should be afflicted with cough, cold or any
throat, lung or chest trouble, secure bottle at
once and give it fair trial. 1t is guaranteed CIV.
cry time, or money refunded.
Trial bottles free 1T Z. S. Lcadbeater & Bros.
drug store.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-06-03
MONETARY AND COMMrpc1

New YORK. June 3-Busine.s w,.
pl'te standstill this morning in conse.5a...
the abolition of the iickor system. J.;. 'e'.',
stood that arrangements have bsen CO., --'''s
the Stock Exchange for reorganiz,,iar No., =,
service at once; but nothing vii! bs A. '-
the axe brigaie, which is at work on Broad .-
to-day has severed the wires from all on. .''.'
were suspected of being leak y, and then NV. '''
municatiOn with tho exchange vii, /. 'a
Money easy at ..
BALTIMORE, June 3.-yirginis. ,o,..,..
:; Fsst.due coupons =; do lG-4os g.. -.
Cos.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-06-03

WAS troubled with chronic catarrh and gath
eTing in my head, WAS vcry deaf at times, had
discharges from my esrs, and was unable 10
breathe through my nose Before the second bot
tie of Elys Cream. Balm was exhausted l was
cured, and to-day enjoy solnd health CT Cor
bin, Fled Manager, Philadelphia Publishing
House, Pa.
am on my second bottle of Ely's Cream Balm
being sufferer from cstarrh since was child,
but with this medicine I'm being cured.-Wm.
L. Dayton, Brooklyn.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-06-03

UNLrss CONGRESS shall now come to the
aid OF the Chesapeake and Ohio canal 1t Is
feared that that canal has become thing
of the past, as it is hardly possible the com
pany owning it can raise the money neces'
eary TO repair the extensive damages to it
caused by the recent food That Congress
would be justified in making an appropria-
ton, not for the repair of the canal, but for
widening it, lengthening its locks, and ex-
tending it to the Ohio river, thereby car
rying out the idea OF General Washington,
is apparent from the fact that to do so
would be to strengthen the military defen'
ses of the nations capital, and provide an
additional feeder thereof, and one, too, ex-
empt from the exactions of railroad monop-
DIV
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-06-03
2@Slsg's z=o
ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES.
The Loss at Fredericksburg.

Especial Dispatch to the Alexandria Gazette.
FREDERICKSBURG, June 3.-Hunter's ISL
and bridge, Free bridge, Hszel Run bridge
and S,ott's bridge have been carried away.
The Railroad bridge is safe. The -four
mills and the other water power seriously
damaged. Lost estimated at 100000.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-06-03
Stricken with Paralysis.

BALTIMORE. June 3 Louis NJ. Cole, aged
IS. general ticket agent of the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad, was stricken with paraly
sis while at his desk this morning, and is
critically Ill. He is the oldest genera ticket
agent in the United States and perhaps in
world
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-06-03
The Samoan Conference.

BERLIN, June 3 1t is expected that the
protocol drawn up by the Samoan conference
will be signed on the Sth inst. The Ameri-
can commissioners are making preparations
10 leave fJr home.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-06-03
Link Out for Them

The great reputation my spectaclea and
eye classes have attained throughout the U.
S. has led interruptions persons to counter.
felt them. There are none genuine unless
the name of Hawkes. is stamped on the
frame, and 1 would respectfully announce
that positively employ no peddlers.
All eyes fitted and fit guaranteed by l..
Staber & Co, Alexandria. Va.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-06-03

No BODY worth talking about denies that
Washington and Madison were better, and
purer. and ADLER, and wiser Presidents than
Cleveland. Yet Washington said it would
be suicidal for him, as President. to appoint
men to office who did not support his polti'
cal principles and policies, and Madison said
that to secure effective civil service and
hearty cooperation it was essential that
men 10 political accord with his administra
ton should be entrusted With the official
confidence thereof. They were both re-
elected. MIR. Cleveland adopted an entirely
different policy. He was not re elected.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-06-03
THE RICHMOND Dispatch says

Put what is to be done with such papers
as ihe Alexandria GAZETTE in case the
Democratic State Convention shall under
take 10 lay down this year platform nav
ing new tariff plank or plank 10 favor Of
the Riddleberge. bill 2"
The Dispatch entirely misapprehends the
situation. The question, in reference to the
case referred to, is, not what the democratic
partv would do with the GAZETTE, but
what the GAZETTE would do with the demo-
cratic party However, to satisfy the sin-
cere!y solicitous, the GAZETTE will sag that
such is its dread of the i'll effects OF negro
supremacy, in any part of Virginia, that even
if the State democratic convention shall be so
unwise as to re endorse the repudiatng Rid
d eberger bill, aud declare for protective
tariff. it will 90 its best for the success OF
abe ticket that convention shall nominate.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-06-03

MANY LAWYERS think their lot is excep-
tionally hard at present because providence
has no bank account which they can reach,
and is not liable to suits for flood damages.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-06-03

or three thousand, mostly women and child
rem The fact that 30 large 8 number OF hu-
man beings were swept into eternity with
hardly a moments warning is more than
sufficient to shock the feelings of an entire
country, and more than that one touch OF
nature which makes the whole world kin.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-06-03
Heavy Storms in England.

LONDON, June 3 Heavy storms of rain
and lightning have occurred in the Midlands
of England. The lower part of Liverpool is
under water A bank building at Preston
has been struck by lightning. Numerous
accidents are reported from other places.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-06-03

WILL You SUFFER with Dyspepsia and
Liver Complaint? Shiloh's Vtalzer is guar
anteed to cure you. Sold by E. S. Leadbeat-
err & Bro.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-06-03

WHY WILL You cough when Shiloh's
Cure will give immediate relief. Price 10 cts.
so cts, and 81. Sold by E. S. Leadbeater &
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-06-03
DIED.

At his late residence in Washington, on Sum
day, Juno . st 3:45 a. III JAMES ErHELBERT
MORGAN NJ. d, in the sixty seventh year OF his
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-06-03

SENATOR VOORHEES,, few years ago, was
little ishy on the tariff question, but that
has got all right on it again is proved by
:. recent after of his, containing a subscriI
sion for the relief of some locked-out coal
miners In his State. in which he says:
This condition of things, occurring I'M
der the highest protective tariff ever known
in American history, and repeated more
than hundred times over in every State in
the Uuion, makes its own conclusive argu
ment to every intelligent working man and
working woman.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-06-03

THE REV. GEO. III. THAYER, of Bourbon
Ind, says both myself and wife owe our
lives to SHILoH's CONSUMPTION CURE"
Sold by E. s. Leadheater & Bro.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-06-03
The Flood at Lynchburg

1IIO 7 1OONt St0 ~ 1EN1tOt1I
LYNcHBURG. Va, June 3.-The damage By the
ilDcd at this point is very light 1t will probably
not reach $40, 900. The river rose to a height of
20 feet inches, the highest since 1877. The
flood has now subsidized.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-06-03

1t is absurd to suffer from Dyspepsia when Sim
mons Liver Regulator will cure you.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-06-03

THE LOSS of life by the Johnstown horror
is appalling. 1t probably amounts to two
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-06-03

Loss of Life in Maryland.
BALTIMORE, June 3 Nine lives were
lost by the recent floods SO far as renorted
In Mary land.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-06-03
WANTS.

WANTED CARRIAGE DRIVER IN 4
PRIVATE FAMILY. Must be well recommend
cd. Apply at this Office. iei 81
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-06-03

The market is quiet. with hut l5ttle doing in
consequence of the suspension OF railroad travel
Country produce is higher on account OF tle
scarcity.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-06-03

BALTIMORE, june 3.-Cotton firm; m.dd irg
11ass1l2s. Flour firm and unchanged. Nba,
Southern nominally firm; Fnitz Sass long.
berry S5s9o; Western easy No winter f0!
srot SLASH. June S05saS0a July 79t. Aac
794. Corn-Southern steady; white ilaii
yellow 40s4l; Western easy mixed spot zolq.
June i0t41ia July 4la4ll.; Aus 4ti2til
Sept 42t. s42a. steamer 39l2 Oats steadT aud
unchanged. Rye dull aud unsettled AT ia33.
Hsy easy prime to choice timothy cifsii ~
Provisions quiet. Butter steady creamery %
17ls. Eggs firm at 14iRs15. Other articles au-
changed.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-06-03

THAT HACKING COUGH car be so quickly
cured by Shloh's Cure. We guarantee it.
SO d by f. 5. Lssdbester & Bro.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-06-03
OoMMIss IoNER's NOTICE.

All city licenses having expired, Liquor Deal
ers Merchants, Commission Merchants, CONNER
csl Brokers, Peddlers, Auctioneers. Common
Crers. Book Agents, Real Estate Brokers, Junk
Dealers Insurance Agents, Ordinary Keepers
Houses of Private Fnt ertainment, Billiard Tables,
Baeatelle and similar tables. Merchant Tailors,
Green GroceIs, Butchers, Dealers in Ice Coal and
Wood, Owners of Vehicles. Keepers of Livery
Stables aud all others requiring license, will
make application for the same at room No Mar
kct Building, Cameron street side, at once.
GEORGE DUFFEY,
30 &c commissioner of the RI venne