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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-02-11
Letter from Richmond.

Correspondence Of the ALEXANDRIA GAZETTE
RICHMOND, Va, Feb. 10.-The Senate
Committee on General Laws expect to have
a very interesting meeting tomorrow morn
ior when Professor Edison, the celebrated
electrician, appears before them In advocacy
of the bill introduced by Senator Lovenstein
of Richmond, to prevent danger from cleo
trio currents There ia not member Of
the committee who is at all familiar with OF
has any knowledge of electricity save
very general knowledge, and 30 the commit
| teemen are anticipating the reaping of con
siderable knowledge from Prof Edison. The
chairman of the Committee on General
Laws ia Seoator Stubs, of Gloucester
Senator Stubs is also greatly Interested In
the oyster question, and this. OF Itself. ls
enough to puzz the brains of the average
legislator. Iu fact, it is such puzzlipe
cues ion to him that he Ia thinking about
divertipg the mind Of the great Inventor and
electrician when be appears before the com
mittee to. morrow by requesting him ic give
his views as to what power of currentit WILL
take to give fatal electric shock to those
,idewater oyster lawyers who are urging
the passage of laws that will not accomplish
what moi oiity of Senator Stuobs' constitu'
ents would like to see accomplished.
The attention of the General Assembly
having been called to the dangerous condi.
ZION of the capitol building 10 consequence
of the many thousand pounds OF books and
old records on ths library floors, 1t ls very
probable that the committee to which tnis
matter was referred will make report this
week. Por the past elk years the General
Assembly has been regularly informed as TO
the tremendous weight on the library floors
of the capitol. but no steps have been taken
to decrease that weight. Some OF these
bright mornings ten thousand pounds of old
law books will tumble upon the heads OF
Virpipia's law makers unless the books are
removed.
Members of the House Committee on
Schools and Colleges have been informed by
well.known colored men that the work.
ings" ofthe Petersburg Normal and Collegi-
ate Institute are not what they should be-.
1t looks like this is o case of the ins fighting
the outs. There are some good offices at
this institution and there are always plenty
of colored applicants for these positions,
The House will coon take up the appro.
priation bill. 1t will take some time to dis
pose of this matter, as efforts will be made
by the especial friends of The various public
institutions to get all they can. There is
generally squabble over the appropriation
bill, and the one this session will be no less
internecine than on former occasions.
The General Assembly has done an I'm.
mense amount of work, and the business Of
the two houses has been conducted with &C.
lerity. Delegate Arnold, of Bedford. at
tributes this to the absence from the House
of ex-Judge Waddil, of Richmond, and COL
VIM. Elan, of Louisa. These two gentle
men were members of the House two years
ago and always took the lead for the repab
lican faction In all partisan measures.
B P. o.
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FROM WASHINGTON.
Special Correspondence of the Als1s. eAsrr1

Special Correspondence OF the AlexS. GAZETTSl
WASHING TON. d. c.. Feb. II, 1890.
The first bill introduced in Congress by
Representative Edmunds of Virginia wsi
one for a public building at Roanoke, to
cost $780, 900. To-day Mr.. Edmunds re-
ceived letter from the supervising archi
teot of the Treasury advising him to amend
his bill so as to provide for an appropriation
of $I55 600, as the estimates for the proposed
building put its cost ss that sum. Mr.. Ed.
munds says he finds cut that Virginia
farmer in Congress is entirely too modest
and moderate during his fret term, but that
he hopes to mend his hold in his second.
Postmaster General Wanamaker was be-
fore the House Postofice Committee to-day
and advocated his recommendation for a
postal telegraph. His plan provides for a
lease for ten years of wires for carrying on
the business. He proposes to make the
System applicable to the 446 free delivery
postofices 10 the country.
Senator Barbour was before the House
committee on fisheries this morning at the
instance of certain citizens of Alexandria
county, who are opposed to the proposed ex.
1ention of the law prohibiting fishing within
ahe waters of the District of Columbia be-
yond the present year. But the committee
indicated that the law referred to would be
extended.
Among the bills introduced in the Senate yes
tsrdsy was one by Mr.. Barbour TO pay So, 575 to
Samuel Marsh, of Norfolk, Virgins, for timber
and bricks taken by the quartermsster's depart.
ment during the civil war.
Rev. Samuel Small was here yesterday. During
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-02-11

MORE CANAL LEeIsLATIoN.-Ths Ways
and Means Committee oftbe Maryland Leg
islature who have charge of the bill provid-
ing for the lease of the Chesapeake
and Ohio Canal to the Washington and
Cumberland Railroad Company, as recon-
mended by Governor Jackson in his message,
was granted leave yesterday through DR..
Shaw to introduce bill to carry out the
Governors recommendation. The bill will
authorzs the Chesapeake and OHIO Canal
Company to lease its canal and all its works
to the Washington and Cumberland Rail.
road Company, and to lease and release all
the liens of the State upon the GENIAL and all
its property in favor of the lessee. Mr.. Col
ton will offer his amendment to-day for
which he has already been given leave, to
amend the charter of the Washington and
Cumberland Railroad Company. 90 as to en-.
large its powers and enableit to build con-
Meeting line from Point of Rocks to Balti-
more.
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NEWS OF TIE Day.
Jacobin is dangerously Ill.

Cardinal Jacobin 10 dangerously III.
Rev. DIR. Taluage yesterday laid the
cornerstone of his new temple in Brooklyn.
Naval officers fear there is little prospect
of liberal appropriations by Congress this
session for building ships.
The United States Senate yesterday passed
bill appropriating $500 600 for site for
public building at New Orleans.
at lest nights meeting of the Society of
Medical Jurisprudence of New York an un-
successful attempt wss made TO defeat the
| election of Grover Cleveland to honorary
membership.
Two boats containing eight boys were
upset in the river at New Orleans on sun.
day by being drawn by the current against
empty coal barges, and seven of the boys
were drowned.
The Philadelphia Journey men Bricklay.
ers' Protective Association, one OF the
strongest labor unions in that city, met last
night and defeated by vote of 1872 to 81, q
proposition making eight hours days
| work.
In the Queens speech to the British Par
lament. read at the ministerial dinners,
last night, there is promise of introducing
land-purchase bill, local government Dill
and other measures for improving the mate
rial interests OF Ireland.
In the House of Representatives yester-
day Mr.. Wickham, Of Ohio, introduced for
reference bill, the purpose of which 10 to
prevent gerrymaDdering in the States. IL
provides that the Representatives elected to
the Fifty. second Congress shall be returned
from the same districts as similar Repre-
sentatiyes elected to the Flfty-hrst Con
gress.
By the sinking of the tug Port Eads, near
Memphis yesterday, six men were drowned
instead of one as at first telegrspbed. The
tug was en- route from Cairo to New Orleans
with seven barges of grain and struck the
east pier of the bridge that spans the river
at Memphis. She carried crew OF forty
The Port Eads was valued at $50 ,O00. Ihe
barges and contents were uninlured.
It Ia reported that the French government
has decided that the Duke of Orleans shall
be sentenced on Wednesday to two years
Imprisonment, whereupon President Carnot
will Immediately pardon him and he will oe
escorted to the frontier and shown out OF the
country. The Duke d'Aumale has obtained
permission to visit, in prison, his nephew
the Duke d'OrleanE.
The Presidents proclamation opening th'
Sioux reservation In South Dakota, whict
was Issued yesterday, opens about II, 600 .0O(
acres of very fertile land. which will affort
farms for not less than 10000 families II
addition to residing upon the land for fiv'
years the settler is required to pay slips PEI
acre for it, Each entry is limited TO hal
} mile square, or 100 acres.
Mr.. Platt, of Connecticut yesterday in
troduced bill in the q. 8. Senate prohibit
ing the manufacture and sale of spiritou
and intoxicating liquors In the District o
Columbia. IL absolutely prohibits the man
ufacture, sale, or importation into the Dis
trict OF any kind of intoxicating liquor, In
Guiding wine, beer, ale and porter, and eide
when it Is to be drunk on the premises wher'
sold
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-02-11

Mr. MCCULLoCH, ex-Secretsry of the
Treasury, and Mr.. New. present Consul at
London, differ on the tject OF British sub
sides. The former says the English gov.
eminent does grant subsidies to steamship
lines between Eogand and the United
States The latter, who is REPUBLICAN pro
tectionist. says England grants subsidies to
no steamship or any other sort of line. The
latter, who is on the epot, and whose bust.
ness it is to know all about the subject re.
ferred to, should certainly be the most reli
able witness in this particular case.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-02-11

A CURE FOR DIpHTHERrA.-The following
remedy is said to be the best known at least it is
worth trying, for physicians seem powerless to
cope with the disease successfully. At The irst
indication of diphthe1ia in a child make the room
close; then take tin cup and pour into it q
quantity OF tar and turpentine, equal parts Then
hold the cup over fire SO as to fill the room with
fumes. The little patient, on inhaling the fumes
will cough up and spit out all the membraneoua
matter, and the diphtheria will pass off. The
fumes of the tar and turpcntine loosen the matter
in the throat, ard thus afford the relief that has
bs fled the skill of physicians -Seientiti; Amer.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-02-11
Telegraphic BreVities.

| The Russian bishop of San Fraucisco will
| be recalled. He will be succeeded by the
archimandrite Of st. Petersburg. The Rus
sian government has sent an official TO the
City of Mexico for the purpose of establish
Ing Russian legation there.
Ellis F. Bard, the deiaultipg cashier Of
| the Lincoln, Pa, National Bank, and i. ".
Hull, his accomplish, were arrested early
this morning by deputy United States
marshal and taken to Lancaster.
The 145h annual New York beyh show
of dogs. given under the auspices of the
Westminster Kennel Club, opened to day
| The entries number over 400.
The motion for the appointment of committee
to inquire into the exodus of Canadians 10 the
United States came up yesterday in the Canadian
House of Commons and was defeated by MAORI
ty of 81 votes. Over $500, 600 Canadians now
reside in the United States, and last year IS 0Oo
people left Canada to settle in the States.
Last Fridsy Jim Seals and his family attempted
to eros, Yellow creek, near Burnssillc, Mics in
wagon, when tho vehicle was capsized and the
four children, aged from to 10 years were
drowned. The parents are left penniless and are
Frustrated with their grief.
A proc amstion has been issuod by tho POr
tugese government forbidding the holding Of
patriotic meeting which WAS to have taken place
in the Lisbon coliseum. The proclamation also
prohibits contemplated patriotic procession
through the streets of Lisbon.
The ceremonies OF opening the free library Civ
en- to the city of Allegheny, Pa, by MIR. Carnage,
which were to have taken place tomorrow, have
been postponed till the following Wednesday in
order that the President may be present
Between 800 and 900 Indians at Devils Lake
agsncy, N. d. are wholly destitute of clothing,
and in the last stages of starvation. Unless fur
nished with food clothing and medicine at once
the Indians will die like dogs.
The Philadelphia and Reading ccmpany's North
Ashland colliery ct Ashland, Ps., shut down in
definitely to-day throwing 500 men and boys out
Of employment.
The manufacturers of flint glass table ware Of
the country considering the advisability OF
consolidating their interest.
Fire this morning destroyed the works OF the
Psrlor Furniture Company at Grand Rapids Mich.
Loss $50, COO
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-02-11
Killed His Father.

IRoNToN, o, Feb. 11.-News has cone
from Greasy Ridge in this county. that VIM
Terrell, farmer, was killed en- Sunday
morning by his son, less than twenty years
old. The story is that young Feirel inter
iered to protect his mother in dispute b,
tween her and mis- father, whe.eupon his
father attacked him with poker. The boy
saiz,d chair and delivered blow which
broke his fathers neck aud instantly killed
him. The boy was arrested.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-02-11
LEGISLATIVE.

The Senate, by very decided vote, re-
jected Mr.. Peters bill proposing to amend
the law 80 as to allow women to vote.
Mr.. Cements's bill proposing to create
non .partsa1 FIRE and police boards ia all of
the cities of the State was dismissed. This
plan contemplated modelling these boards
after the police board Of Richmond, with
the exception that in selecting the men par
tisan politics was not allowed TO have any
influence.
Among the bills presented in the Senate were
those to require the Auditor Of Public Accounts
to prescribe form on which seIgeants of cities
and sheriifs Of counties shall make off their &C.
counts for fees allowed to them as iaileIs, and to
amend the Code in relation to jailers. The
amendment provides that there shall be allowed
to the ailer out of the city county treasury the
actual cost of all necessary and proper whitewash.
ing OF the Jail, all beds and bedding and fuel
whenever the Same is necessary and proper to be
had.
In the House to day Mr.. Houston intro
duced bill amending the present compul
sorry pilot laws. The bill proposes to change
the law so as to increase the members of the
board of examining commissioners from
four to seven. These appointments are
taken out of the hands of the judges OF Nor
folk and Elizabeth City counties and lodged
with the Governor. The bill proposes to
allow any one to serve as pilot who shall
have passed o successful examination before
this board.
Mr.. Mason introduced resolution which
was adopted directing the special committee
of that body raised few days ago to inquire
into the expediency of reducing the crimi
nal expenses and other expenditures of pub
lie moneys. To this end the committee are
directed to examine into the expenses oil
ever department of the State government
and report by bi or otherwise.
TheHouse Committee on Finance to whom
was referred a!resolution directing them to
inquire into the feasibility of releasing the
tax on real estate to the extent of the mort
gage upon the same, reported that 1t wa:
not feasible to release such,
Among the bills introduced in the House were
those toSpunish with death, in the discretion O
the Jury confinement in the penitentiary, al
crimes now only punishable with death, and t.
authorize the Board Of Supervisors of any county
in this State to increase the salary of the county
Judge thereof.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-02-11

RABID IN his hate for the South a. Sera'
tor Ingalls, H. he is fairer in his treatment o.
this section than some of his party who pro
fess to have milder manners Mr.. Ingalls,
for Instance, says the North az we'll as the
South is responsible for the negro's pres
snoe In this country and for his present
condition. But the Philadelphia american
says: "And then the South is responsible
for the negroes being where they are. Ii
fostered the foreign and domestic slave
trade, which brought them. just as the
North fostered the immigration OF free
white men," Either malice or ignorance
must have prompted this assertion.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-02-11
Last SUNDAY night six dodgers at police

Last SUNDAY night six dodgers at police
station in Brooklyn seized an unofsndlng
negro, who also had sought shelter there,
and flung him through the window to the
pavement below, the sash going with
him, for the assigned reason that they would
not sleep with a negro. So it seems that
even northern tramps, in the North, revolt
against the equality ofthe races even before
the law. Now here is fine opportuni
~ for Senators Ingalls, and Spooner. but it
wont be availed OF. 1t Is only the denial OF
race equality in the South that strs the
hearts of the northern South haters to their
nrofoundest depths.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-02-11

THERE Is a shrewd suspicion that the
Presidents profesaed faith In generalization
ia not ss sincere as it might be, and that he
really believes men had something to do
with his election, and, worse than all, that
tina men referred to were not as proper as
they might have been. 1t is now openly
asserted by members of his own party, famil-
lar with the facts of the case, that the Lou
islana lottery company subscribed forty
thousand dollars to the fund that was raised
for buying his election, in consideration OF
the extension OF its charter by one of the
new States to be admitted into the Union,
and of the appointment of Warmotb, who
made the agreement, as collector of the port
of New Orleans. The latter part of the
contract has already been fulfilled, and an
attempt to fulfill the former is now in prog
reas In North Dakota. 1t seems, therefore,
that the Presidents creed, instead OF con-
tanning, as Colonel Mosby says 1t does, three
articles of faith, really contains only one,
and that, the frat one the Colonel enumera-
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-02-11
From Richmond

Especial dispatch to the Alezandria Gazette.]
RICHMOND, Va, Feb. 1.-THE joint leg
islative committee to investigate the agri.
cultural department reported to the Gen
eral Assembly to-day. Il strongly censures
the department. and the commissioner.
W. l.. Cowardin, prominent insurance
man and brother of the late James Cowar,
din, founder of the Dispatch, died to-day
from la grippe. B. Z. y.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-02-11

Fuller says her ghost torments him every
night When he retres he can hear all sorts
of noises in his room. Fuller cannot longer
sleep alone, but has some one to remain IN
the room with him. The mysterious ghost
gives him great deal of trouble and hts
rendered him wholly un6t for business or
work of any sort.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-02-11

"show us how divine thing woman
may be made" by smoothing out the
wrinkles caused by neuralgia or toothache.
This can be done only 10 ono way. Invest
twenty five cents 10 bottle OF Salvation Oil,
the greatest pain remedy.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-02-11
Court of Appeals Yesterday.

Garland's administrator against Garland's ad.
ministrator. Further argued and submitted.
Berkeley and Harrison against 1insley and
others. Writ of error awarded to augment rem
dered by the Corporation Court of Danviile GU
the 9th Of October, 1889.
Western Union Telegraph Company against
Virgin. Paper Company. Writ of error and gu
persedeas swardsd to q judgment rendered by the
Circuit Court of the city of Richmond on the 10th
of December, 1889.
Western Union Telegraph Company against
Willsms. Argued and continued until to-day.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-02-11
Emperor Williams Portraits.

BERLIN, Feb. 1l.-Emperor William has
caused Al order to be issued prohibiting the
exhibition of portraits of himself, his an
cestors or any of his family without bis sane
ton first being obtained.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-02-11
Very MYSTERIOUS.

CHARLOTTE, N. c., Feb. 1.-THE stir in
Montgomery county over the ghoat scare
continues and the mystery deepens. About
three mouths ago the wife of Thomas Fuller
died. II is reported that her married life
was not happy, and. now, since her death.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-02-11
DIED.

In this city, this morning, after lingering i'll
ness. SARAH, daughter of David and Fannie
Bendheim. GS- Funeral from her parents resi-.
dence, corner Prince and Lee Streets Thursday
afternoon st 3 o'clock Baltimore papers plesae
CODY.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-02-11
The Navassa Murderers

BALTIMORE, Fab. 1.-THE third trial Of
the Navassa murderers came TO an end to
day insofar as testimony and argument of
council are concerned. The case was hen
given to the jury.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-02-11
TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY II.

THE Pap.American Congress having been
in session for more than FIVE months, Is now
considering Il resolution fixing day for its
final adjournment. The delegates from
Mexico. Central and South America have
been taken to all the principal cities OF the
North and West, the goods in the markets
of which were displayed to them in the most
attractive manner. and the advantages OF
trade with those cities made as apparent as
possible. But they have not been permit
ted, except at their own expense, to Emo"
ANYTHING about the advantages their coun'
tries would receive from commercial reia'
tions with the cities of the South. The fed
eral administration looks upon the South as
a semi-bar bsrous land, Inhabited by poor
suffering negroes, bulldozed and tyrannized
by the Gigantic frauds" and murderon'
outraees of an iliterate white bandtti, anc
therefore as part of the country the Sigh
of which should be concealed from strangers
1t need not be forgotten that the South, oy
means of her exports, supplies the greater
part of the money the federal treasury bal
expended In showing the delegates referred
to the markets of the North.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-02-11
Strike Ended.

LONDON, Feb. 1.-THE strike of dock Ia
boters at Dundee has bsen settled the mas
ters granting the advance in wages demand
ed BY the men.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-02-11
LEMON ELIXIR.

It's Wonderful Effect on the Liver, Stom-
ach, Bowels, Kidneys and Blood
DR.. Mozley's Lemon Elixir is pleasant lemon
drink that positively cures all Biliousness, Con-
stipation, Indigestion, Headache, Malaria, Kidney
Disease, Dizziness, Colds, Loss of Appetite, Fc-
vers, Chils, Blotches, Pimpes, Pain in Back, Pal
pitation Of Heart and sll other diseases caused by
disordered liver, stomach and kidneys, the first
great cause Of all fatal diseases. Fifty cents aud
one dollar per bottle. Sold by druggists. Prepared
only by II. Motley, II D.. Atlanta. Ga.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-02-11

When man takes to bulipg the money
market expecting to profit thereby be gets
left, but when he takes to Bulls Cough Sy.
rup be gets new lease on life.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-02-11

A large part of the business portion of Fort
Collins, Col, was burned last night. Loss $45 O0O
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-02-11
Lemon Hot Drops.

An elegant and reliable preparation.
Sold by druggists 20 cents per bottle. Pre-
pared by Fl. Motley, Md Atlanta, Ga.