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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-10-14
LETTER from Norfolk.

Correspondence of the ALEXANDRIA GAZErTEl
NORFOLK, Va, Oct. $50 great ia the
interest of mary Of our people 10 land buy
ing chat can't see, just now how much et-
,husiasm can be awakened In politics.
have 20 doubt that large number OF per-
sors who have heretofore voted the demo
cIatic ticket, viii, on account OF their poet
lions 10 the navy yard, be silent, or vote the
abolition ticket. This Ia mere conjecture,
because nothing is more uncertain tnan Du-
man nature. Ga the other hand, despite
be general laws controlling human nature,
am al ,luiely certain that there are thtu
sands Of negro abolitiouists who would
gladly dispose OF their votes for pecuniary
consideration to any other party. either sin-
DIV or 10 "b!otks of 6ye" II is sad rs
Il .ctiou that tbe elections in this country are
now controlled By money. Public schools,
which are supposed to supply Intelligence
and patriotism TO the people, are absolutely
imnotent 10 prevent this evil. Indeed, if
we are TO ldee from tie effects Of money on
the result. Of elections in the land OF moral
ideasn and public schools" we would con-
clude that the more the masses are scot 10
oub!ic schools the more readily are they
bought. Inste4d, therefore, of public schools
being The salvation Of the country, they
seem 10 be potent factor In lis dis!n egrs-
ton and dowpfall-'A little learning Is 9
dangerous thing"
While everybody seems to be Investing iD
rea! estate almost everywhere in Virginia,
it seems strange that one of the most beaut1
fully situated and aalubrious towns in the
State has been, partially at Least, overlooked;
viz Alsxandris. Had your correspondent
money to invest now he would put some OF
il in YOUR CITY. nm sure that the substan-
tial attractions OF that old Virginia town
will ere long attract manufacturers and mer-
chants, and without &C called boom 1t Will
begin to fl :urish and grow, to the amaze
ment Of i;s people really would ike TO
own properly there, believing it would prove
a much batter investment than IN many
other places.
Mr.. Editor. you seem to DE good ndge
of human nature. l would be glad II you
would tel me why q gentleman " VINO con
sorts with the abolition party in this state
ioses the power TO lock another gentleman
in the fac Z? Why do thew look as If they
felt mean end degraded? They certainly
look, to me, rs though they felt 40, whiie
those who run rs Independent candidates
against the regular democratic nominees,
locking TO the abolition party for support,
really appear wesner, or at least appear TO
feel. % they certainly lock, mesner than
anybody else. Why IL il ?
While the sun Is shiuihg beautifully ana
tie air is soft aud haimy. land sharks are
boomiug on the wate,e Of uncertain specr-
lstion. Wharton il preaching to thousands,
get povarty, wratchedcess, runkenuess and
suualid disease are rs rife hers as in any city
l nave ever visited. HANOVER.
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Floods.

WHEELING, W. Va. O,!. l4-Dispatches
from Weston, Grafton. Phiiippi. and other
points on the west fork of the Moopgahels'
the Tygart valley, Little Kenawha ano
other tributaries OF the Ohio say that the
storm reported Sunday night extended over
a wide area OF country. E7erywhers the
heaviest fall OF rain ever known, occurred,
amounting to a water spout. All streams
are swollen ard lraffi lis entirely suspended
Great damage mas been done to property
Weston was flooded and the loss will run
iuto the thousands.
a Bslaire, Ohio, dispatch says: "One OF
the worst rain storms Of the season passed
ever tbs city at O'Clock Sunday night, &C
oompaniat by thunder and lightning
Greeks and rivers roas almost instantly
Houses were fl 3oded, people f.eing to the
hills for safety. Cove, horses and sheep
wars carried down 10 the rapidly rising
csesks. Glencoe, and Warwick, Ohio, two
small villages, we're flooded"
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surfaces were dressed with en iodoform mix
ture and bandaged with soft strtfs.
Meanwhile the sGamps OF South Bend
we're being secured for twt pound frogs
a bushel basket of these were cleaned with
q germicde mixture and fed on pure food.
The raw surfaces of Kelsr's body were
tenderly washed with clean warm water.
then with peroxide Of hydrogen, which de
stroys pus. Just before applying the frog
skin the raw surface was washed with a
weak solution of corrosive sublmate Every
thing ready, the first freq wss brought CUT
With a quick spipe OF the scissors It's spinal
cord was severed at the back of the necs
Then the loose pearly white skin from over
the abdomen was quickly taken out aud
thrust into dish OF water which had been
boiled, but which was now merely warm.
10 the water had been dropped little Of
the corrosive subiimate solution. Beiag
clearsed, the skin was cut up into bits a5oce
q tenth of al inch square and applied 10
KelIer's body-iDs;de In. outside out. Pow
dered iodofarm was busted over the crsft,
which was sealed tightly from impurities.
DR.. Perry made Crafts on ioriy-swo Gees
sione. Thirty NO operations were unsa.is-
factory ten were satisfactory. From each
OF the ten centres healthy SKIN radiated, "
til now Kellsr is "as good as new"
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VIRGINIA NEWS.

Gov. Mckinney will not be present at the
coming emancipation celebration in Rict-
mond
One of the street rumors In New York
Yesterday was that the Louisville and Nash
vii e people ara negotiating for control OF
the Richmond Terminal.
Mp. LAWS Bumgardner, father of Captain
James Bumgardner, jr, died at thu resi-
deuce of the latter in stanton, Saturday
plight, in his eightyfourth year.
The Count Of Paris and his party visited
the old battle fields at Charlottesville AND
the Wilderness near Fredericksburg yester-
dsy and then returned to Richmond.
Francis B Mickle, OF Baltimore. commit
ted suicide at the hospital of ST. Vincent de
Pau. In Norfolk, on Sunday night by hang
ing himself. Dr. Mckls had been patient
at the hospital for some time and was wildly
ipsane.
The suit of Brooks. administrative, vs. the
Richmond, fredericksburg and Potomac
railroad for $40 900 damages was concluded
at Fredericksburg yesterday by the J1rv rem
de,iog verdict in favor of the plaintiff for
81 800 Counsel for the defendants moved
the court to set the verdict aside, which mo-
ton the court sustained.
Primaries were held in ali the precincts in
Loudoun county Cd Saturday. A n irity
of the delegates chosen will vote for the
nomination of Mr.. Henry Fairfax for State
Senator. AZ Fauquier corcsdes The naming
of the candidate TO Loudoun, Mr.. Fairfax
will ba nominated al the convention to DE-
held at Middeburg on Saturday next.
Pedestrians on Franklin, near Governor
street. Richmond, were surprised early yes
terdsy morniog 10 see nude woman walk
ing on the cornice of Pntnam's four-story
boarding house, in that neighbothood, ln
yestieation proved that the girl was mem
Dor of Putnam's Theatre Comiqle, and that
she was walking in her sleep. Captain Pu'-
nam was notified OF the girls peril and
promptly rescued her.
Two of the young dukes accompany lng
The party OF the Count Of Pari', without the
Knowledge OF the Count, dined out with two
ycung ladies during their stay al Richmo nd.
On Saturday night and last night the Duke
of Orleans aud the Duo dues dined at q
restaurant with the two young ladies in
question. While coming to the CITY, IhuFs'
aay. on the steamer ATiel, frcm Ga Point,
the Misses Bal lug GA were among the pass
epgers. The dukes were impressed with
their beauty and winsome ways.
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TIE WASHINGTON BURGLARY.-The rob-
berry of Frank Hcfs's jswelry store 10
Washington early Sunday morning by
burglars, which was at 6'st thought to In
yolye loss of few thousand dollars. has
developed Into more extensive case OF safe
breaking. the vsluabies taken being esi-
mated oil SO co., The large plate glass In
front of his store was smashed, the
contents of the window stolen, and the
safe was broken into aud tho entire contents
rifed. This amount was reduced yesterday
evening By the discovery of quantity OF
diamonds lying in an ob'cure corner OF the
cellar. A gas jst is placed just over this
spot. and an examination showed that the
orack smen had carried all their plumber to
this place and torn off all the tickets snd
erased such marks as lead to their identif-
caiion. The bag OF diamonds was evidently
forgotten By them when they took their de-
psrlure. Tie robbery is the most extensive
that has occurred In Washington for some
time. and vas evidently the WORK OF profes-
sional craoksmen. No clue to the perpe-
traitors has been yet discovered.
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FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence of The Alexandria Gasette'
WAsayNe TON, d. O., Oct II, 1890.

Special Correspondence OF the Aterdnar'd Ga1eue'I
WASHING TON. d. O., Oct. IA. 1890.
Persona! friends of Senator Pettigrew OF
South Dakota say it is fact that he was
disgus teG with the action of some Of bis re-
publican colleagues at the recent session OF
Congress on the tariff bill, as eight OF
them did agree with him TO vote against
that bill and kill it, but nearly all broke that
agreement when the roll WAS called, and
that be now puts very little faith in the
words of republican Senator'S.
General Malone, who has been here for
the last week or two, has returned to bis
home In Peters burg. he has lest considera-
Bile interest in politics, but his friends say he
would be highly grattisd at the defeat OF
both Bowden and Lsngston. and not be par
ticusry pleased at the success of any OF the
other republican or Independent congress
SIGNAL candidates in Virginie.
Maryland democratic politicians here 10.
day say that Mudd 10 the Marlboro and
McComss ia the Cumberland district of that
State, republicans. are bound to be defeated,
as their support of lbe Force bill has driven
away from them all the white men in their
districts.
AS soon as the U. s. Supreme Court met
to-day the Chief Justice announced the death
of the senior associate justice, Judge Miller.
Immediately adjourned the court until
Monday next. President Harrison, soon
after his arrival this morning., called upon
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Mrs. Miller and expressed to her his regret
for the loss she has sustained. Mrs. Miller
this morning, among other dispatches, re-
ceiyed the following from ex-President
Cleveland: Accept my sincere expression
ofsympalhy and coincidence in this SORROW
full hour. May you receive consolation and
pity from Gods uofsiliDg store, and may
you fad q rey Of comfort In the remem'
hrapce OF youe husbands noble devotion to
du,y ard bis priceless services to his country.
The prevailing impression atthe court room'
on the suhlsct today, WAS that Secretary
Noble. of the Io.erior Department, would be
appointed tc fiji the vacancy caused by
Justice MiIlet's desth. He is an old person
al friend of the Presidents, also of the A.
torney Generals, is q 6. a. R man, and has
lie support and is pronounced republican
OF the Harrison school. II Is understood
that he was successful lawyer 10 81. Louie.
That ne ia an extreme party man has Deeb
demonstrated BY his acts since be came 10
Washington. IL ia seid the Attorney Ger
eraI would he appointed but for the Pfesi-
dents fear that mis- nomination would not
be confirmed.
Corg esamsn B owne OF the 1st Virginia
aistric, is hare To-Day. He expresses nim-
self ga confident Of reelection by an is-
creased msj ,vlty. as his prospects in the
close counties OF his district are better than
ever before. Capt. d. K. Reader OF Acco-
mack. one Of he counties referred to, Is $3.50
here. He saws Mr.. Browne will be defeated
by large msiority. Mr.. Stewart, U. 5.
| Consul at Porto Rico, is also here. he says
hs cama all the way back to vote Tor Browne.
The third boat ordered By tho Washington
Norfolk and Old Point Steamboat Company, will
run as day boat on the line, and will stop st all
| the principal landings on the Potomac river
The Comte do Paris left here this morning be-
for, tho President arrived, SO that no intercourse
of direct personal character between them, OIL
| tia or otherwise, WAS possible.
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A Man With a New Skin.

Westly Keller. 1.-The man who was skinned
alive" returned 10 work at Indianapolis,
Iud., yesterday. His case is curious.
% Wednesday, July 80, Keller fell into
steam vat at me Indianapolis Veneer
Works. He was taken out as quickly as
possible, bat be bod been scalded from the
soles OF bis feet to the middle of bis chest.
Oae arm was al right, but the other arm
was biistered to the shoulder. Hugh bls-
ters nnff ID up all over tbe mans otdy, and
the fl aid which had exuded from the flash
TO Fl them had been cooked to q jelly. In
removing his clothes great strips Of the out
aide or scarf skin cana eff, leaving exposed
the true skin uGdernea'h, cooked until II
loo ked ike psrboied lobster. His toes
eud ankles were 30 blistered and swollen as
10 ose nearly all res:m blance to human
members
As soon aa his fellow Workmen got Keller
out of the vat They e'ephoned for the CON-
pany's surgeon, d.. Ralph Perry. There is,
perhaps, one chance in thousand of saving
this man." said the surgeon when be bad
looked at the burns. He sat to work, how.
ever. aud CREASED Kslar from top to tle
with mixture of linssed oil and lime water
Then he swathed the body In cotton wad
ding, from which all possible impurities ADD
disease germs had been removed by chsmi-
Gals.
For two days aud nights the case hung
without loss or gain. teaspoonIui OF
brandy wes given every fe~ hou:s. linen
change came. Kele. seemed to Do cnoHing
The throat became swoiler, but this swell
i,p was checked. The MACS temperature
roze q little. Fever set in. This gave hope.
The next morning KeIlsr asked for some
thing 10 eat, and actually ate piece of pie
and drank s2me ctii;e.
Wien suppuration began great care was
ken 10 let out the pus at every point.
Five days were consumed 10 taking eff be
bite of oli ssir, four hours each day being
soept With the forcepa, scissors snd scalpel
removing the skin layer By layer. The raS
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NEWS OF TEE Day.

Iudian Commissioner Morgao has re-
signed.
Col. Fellows and D.lancg Nicoll are both
Tammany candidates for Congress in New
York.
Mr.. Charles F. Mayer was re elected
president of the Cumberland and Penneyl-
vanis Railroad at the annual meeting IN
Cumberland.
James Edwin Thorold Rogers, the well
known political economist, died in OSforc,
England, yesterday. He was il his sixty
eighth year.
A private Telegram received from Havre
states that Messrs. Dillon and o Brien have
andad on the coast of Brittany and are
journeying to Paris.
Memorial services for the late Mrs. Booth,
wife Of General Booth, of the Salvation
Army, were held yesterday at Olympia,
London. Ills estimated that % 600 persons
we're present.
1t is reported that collision between
Portuguese aod British war vessels occurred
il the u .mbes river, and that several PoFtu-
puese vessels were sunk, hut the report
lacks confirmation.
The British bark Melmetbv, which wse
on her way f:cm Q iebec to Gasgow with
cargo of timber, was wrecked yesterday
at Little Harbor, Nova Scotia, and Capt.
Olsen and niue seamen were drowned.
The Spanish warships sheled the village
of Mutlaps. Manila, and landed soldiers,
who siormsd the native positions, carrying
everything before them. The Spaniards'
loss was seven killed AID nineteen wnuad-
ed. The native loss is estimated ai15O
The American ship Magellan, which
sailed from Boston for Valparaiso on May
! 10 with full cargo of oils and petroleum,
under command of Captain Marshall, with
crew of twenty-five men, has bean Lost al
sea with oil on board.
Five youths Of EIlicott City, Maryland.
we're arrested yesterday. charged with
numerous Assaults and thefts which have re-
Gently been committed. They are believed
to belong to geng which have committed
several desperate acts on freight trains 90
| the. Baltimore and OHIO railroad.
Mrs. O'Coonor, wife of Arthur O'Connor,
member of the British House of Commons
| for East Donegal, who was found yesterday
unconscious, with one of her thighs broken,
spd who. IL was believed, had fallen from
the platform oftbe WelworthLopdon station,
/ to the street below, received her lrJdries In
| an attempt to commit suicide. Sheis insane,
and is now 10 al asylum.
A report is published in the South Ger
man papers that a silver wreath. which had
been purchased with money subscribed in
the United States, and which was COZ
signed to Mr.. Caarles Gibson, an American,
now in Germany, mysteronsly disappeared
while on Its way to Mr.. G bson. Il wac
the intention of the donor Of the wreath to
have 1t placed upon the tomb OF the late
Emperor Frederick.
D spatches received at Co.'s antinople say
that party of Armenians and Dfuses at
tackled the barracks at Siensis, Syria. aud
b w up portion of the buildings. Forty
Turkish soldiers we're killed. The Arrnen-
laps then invaded the government bnildiog,
killed the Governor and robbed the treasury
of Its contents. From there they proceeded
to the prison, which they carried by storm,
iberatipg all the prisoners.
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American Christian Convention

MARION, Ind, Oct. 1.-THE American
Christian Convention have adopted the re.
port OF the committee on organic alton re-
commencing the division of lite territory
into seven districts as follows: First, New
England; second, the South third, New
York with New Jersey, Pennsylvania and
Ontario fourth, Ohio, with Kentucky fifth,
Indiana, Illinois, aud Peninsuls of Michi-
gan; sixth, Iowa. Wisconsin, Nebraska and
North west seventh, Kansas, Missouri and
the Southwest The convention elected
Dr.. D. a. Long, President, and tho usra
other uffice1a
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Socialist Congress.

HALLE, Oct. 14.--At to.day's session OF
the Socialist Congress Herr Singer made a
speech in which he condemned the attitude
of three members of the party who sought
to gain their ends outside the regular chan
mel Of parliamentary agitation. number
OF other speakers supported the position OF
Herr Singer, and the congress- fnalIy adopt
ed resolution declaring that the Socialists
should sack TO obtain their objects Gully
through the enactment Of law by Paris-
ment. Il Is probable that Herr Werner.
who has been accused of being disoyal to
the party, will be excluded from the sessions
of the Congress-
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Shaken Ry EARTHQUAKES.

PANAMA, Oct.4 -Advices from Granada
Nicaragua, reported number of severe
ear thquake shock. E,rlY on the morning
of September L, tbs shocks bsgan aud con-
tinued With greater or less severity and fire.
gu emily for two days. The losses reached
5000 900. The people forsook their houses
aad while the shocks lasted the whole city
was in panic The Streets were crowded
with people crying and praying. a slight
earthquake shock was felt in Gauyaquil OF
September IA. and smars shocks were also
OK periencsd at eegeral other cities In the
vicinity.
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A Judges Fiat

LEXINGTON. Mo-. o,t. IA Judge Ryland
yesterday ordered the grand jury to inVes-
tgats the report that games OF cards for
money, known az progressive euchre aod
bigh-fi9e, were INDUCED In at private resi-
dances. He ordered the grand jury to re-
turn indictments against sil card players,
no matter how high in social position they
might b. He also told them not to die
criniuate 10 regard to sex, and declared he
wantad the breaking of tina law stopped.
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Fire.

PATERSON, N. j., Oct. ii "A fire broke
out in J. b. Whites livery stables at ..
M, today and bsfore the firemen arrived
several horses were burned. The flames
sprsad to the Exchange Hote! which was q :
most destroyed, aud the dwelling house OF
Mr.. Rutan was badly damaged. Mrs
Rattan and her baby were taken from the
b!ezng structure almost suffocated. This
ancient Passaic Hotel, once the headquarters
of Washington and lafayette, caught fire,
bat was only partly burned. The occu-
pants escaped uninj lred. Mr.. Whites lo5s
is the most severe and the total will aggre-
gate about $40 900.
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The democratic, stumpsrs in Virginia
should not fail to harp upon the facts that
the force biz, for which two of the three
Virginia republican congressman voted, and
the other oae practically did the same, by
voting 10 make gu orum. provides for the
use of soldiers at The polle. end that Should
that bill, which has passed the U. S. House
of representatives., and which the repuoii-
can members of the Senate Will pase. II they
can, and witch President Harrison s anz-
ioss to sign, become law, elections there
after In Virginia would be held under blue
coat and baYopet rule.
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PRESBYTERIAN Revision Committee

F1rTsBURG Oct. 1.-THE revision cem-
nlittas OF the Presbyterian church will ad-
joucn finally Tonight to meet at Washing
ton In February. Tho revision CT Chapter
III on Generalization vas 6aslly flushed
Yesterday, and though it is not ready fot
public inspection, Chairman r ,beris youcs-
safes .he information that there were some
vary radical changes made. The tenth
chapter referring to the fiual disposition of
Infants and idiots Is undar consideration to.
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ZINE AND space have not yet been com
piately eliminated from the tricks upon
travellers but that they have almost bean,
j. a fact etteated by the writer of this para
graob, for, on Saturday las', he took what Is
called tn, Royal B ue L'ue train at the B. q
O. depot in Washington, and four hours and
f. lty-four minutes thereafter was at the
Jersey City wharf, opposite New Yo'k'
And besides, the train moved go smoothly,
ana there was such sn entire absence OF
dast and ciu6ers, and the walters served
luach with such precision and order, that
none of the passengers seemed to be aware
of the as yet urequaled speed at which they
were moving Early railrosders would be as
much surprised at this performance as their
predecessors, the stage coachers, were at
heirs
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DIED.

In this city, this evening, October 4:h, ct the
residences of her brother-in.lsw, Mr.. H. hlrk,
MAY OLIVER, wife of J. Frank Oliver; Of Bal
timore. and daughter of Rudolph and Ursula
Massey, Of this city. Notice of funeral hereafter.
On Monday, October IS 1880, at p. M, after
al illness of II days, at the residence OF his pa
rents No. 3i3 south Onion street, JAM Is b.
SRIsFiN beloved son of Cornelius and Jane
Grjflu. aged Is months and days
Our little Bernard mas gone;
His tiny spirit g fl ID
Our little boy We loved so vel
Lies sleeping with the dead.
A tear within fathers eye
A mothers breaking heart,
Can only tell the agony
How hard it is to part.
Funeral to morrow evening st O'clock
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Villainous Chinaman

Port TOWNSEND. Wash, O;s ID On
the arrival of the steamer Mexico, from
Alaska yesterday, Chinsmao named All
Mon WAS arrested charge with the hid
mapping of an Iadian woman az Fort Wian-
gle. The evidence proved that All Mon
had allowed the woman to b. sutj ,cted to
the sroseest indignites frcm the hundred
Chinese on beard, from whom he collected
money. An Mon was dischargel as there
was no lew covering the casa