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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-02-27

and publication of reports of insurance COM
Danies /; to. incorporate the town of Falls
Church, In the county of Fairfax; to amend
the act for the protection of sheep 10 the
county Of Fauquier to incorporate the Pc.
tomac and Ohio Railway Company to
authorize the town of Warrenton to erect
water&orks and to borrow money therefor /;
for the protection of game in Loudoun coun.
ty to amend the act incorporating the
town of Brentsville in Prince William coun.
ty to incorporate the town of Vienna, 10
Fairfax county.
In the House a resolution was introduced and
referred directing the Governor to appoint a COM
mittee to report at the next session as to the con-
dition of the oyster beds.
Mr.. Ryan introduced a bill to incorporate the
Piedmont Construction and Development Com
pany. The corporators are George 0. Moore, Jas.
NJ. Moore, B. F. Hill, Thomas g. Martin, C. C.
son, 7. Q. Troy, b. Hiden, L.. d.. Scott, and Q. NJ.
Borum. The object of the company is to construct,
equip, and improve railroads, etc. The capital
stock is not to bs less than $4,000 nor more than
So 100000.
Mr.. Hume presented a bill to provide for the
removal of the county-seat of Alexandria county.
1t was placed on the calendar.
The tax bill came up as the special order for 1
o'clock ard was debated til the hour of adjourn
ment. A tax of So on each telephone was imposed.
The bill to require railroad companies to
promptly transport or safely care for all farm pro-
duce delivered at their depot, was pissei.
Mr.. Mason introduced q bill to repeal the fresh
meat law.
The special order for the evening session was
the tax bill. The feature of tho measure, which
had caused the greatest opposition, was the provi-
sion for taxing building and loan associations.
Mr.. Dabney offered a substitute for this section,
which was adopted.
The amendment read as follows: No tax shall
BIO asse: sed upon the cs pital stock of any building
and loan association, but the stockholders in such
| associations shall be assessed and taxed on the
| market value of their shares OF stock therein at
| the same rate az is assessed upon other moneyed
capital in the hands of individu lis residing in the
State, provided that where q shareholder is also a
borrower from the association the amount bor-
| rowed shall be deducted from the face of his
/ shares and the market value Of the remaining
shares only shall be taxed. , . The real es-
tate of all such associations shall be assessed on
| the Ii li.books of the Commissioner of Revenue
| with the same taxes with which other real estate
is asses sed.
THE original bill required 8 license tax of $500
for each ISOLATION to do business for each year
in addition to a tax Of 5000 on the chsrter. The
amendment was opposed by the attorneys repre-
senting the associations in Pulaski and Roanoke
aud this city, but agreed to by those from Rich.
mond and Norfolk.
The tax bill was further amended and passed.
The House took up and discussed the bill re-
ported by the committee on roads to create a rail-
road commission.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-02-27

SERIOUS DIFFIcULTY.-A very serious dinicul-
ty occurred on the road within a mile Of Danville
late yesterday afternoon between young farmers.
Lee Fans attempted to drive by Joseph F. snd
David A.. Still, and a collision of wagons occurred.
Fans attacked Joe Still with a knife and Sill,
drawing d pistol, warned rim not to advance. The
mon then put up their weapons, and Fans Sgsin
approached Still, when the latter struck him over
the head with q stick. David Still then got be-.
tween the mon, and while endeavoring to msko
peace was seriously, if not fatally, cut 10 the siie
by Fans. Moses Miner, a negro, who took Fans
part and attacked the Stills, was struck over tho
head with a stick and seriously hurt. When Da-
vid Still sank to the ground after being attacked
by Fans, Joe Still fired upon Eans, striking him
in the leg, and inficting a flesh wound. All tie
parties were taken to Danville.
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Telegraphic Breyities

Thos. O'Brien the murderer of Bettis
Shea, was hanged at Lexington. Ky, to-day,
Heege & Cos planning and saw mill at
Columbus, Ind, was burned last night.
Loss $780, 600 insurance light.
The rubber goods manufacturers have Dc.
cided to advance the price Of Rubber boots.
shoes and other goods 10 per cent.
Commodore George B. White, ctief OF tho
bureau OF yards and docks, Navy Depart.
ment, died Of paralysis in Washington to.
day.
The Unlted States steamer Enterprise.
having on board the body of Mr.. Psnlleton,
late minister at Berlin, arrived al New York
to-day.
The Ohio river at Cincinnati has reached
81 feet, and is still rising, and there are IN
dications OF more rain. A terrible food is
imminent.
Col. ]. Fenner Lee, the newly appointed
secretary Of legation at Rio de Joneiro, will
sail on Saturday next for his new post By
steamer from Newport News, Va.
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NEWS OF TEE Day.
rha nholara has ahated in PeIsia.

Inc cnolera mas aoalou
The late John Jacob Astor PAID s4oo'ooo
annually for taxes in New YORK.
The river and harbor bill, now before sne
Honse. it is said will aggregate S2O 0oo'ooo.
Mr.. Bslfour is engaged In preparing a
hill nro1idinp q system of local self govern
ment for Ireland.
In the Senate yesterday Senator'S WlsIn,
Of MARYLAND. and Reagan, OF Texas, spoAo
against the Blair educational Dill.
The House Committee on territories yes
tordav decided to report favorably to the
House the bill for the admission VI
tory of Idaho as a State.
A verdict for $4,000 against bsitlmoss
yas given Yesterday in the suit OF Cipriana
F~errandini for the loss OF MS sons ile ny
being swept into q sewer
George LaBlanche, who defeated JACK
DEMPSEY at the California Athletic CLUB
several months ago, ofers to give Dempsey
a return battle on certain conditions.
The House of Representatives ELECTORS
Committee has prepared its report awarding
Mr.. Compton's seat to MI. Mudd, the re.
publican of Prince Georges county, Md.
John F. James, of Brooklyn, has been
commissioned to visit prominent cigarette
factories In Virginia and North Carolina,
and appraise them for the Cigarette Trust.
The Rev. VIM. T. Quinn, OF ollipgstown,
Va. died at the Maryland University hos
pital in Baltimore yesterday. de was a
member of the Baltimore Conference of the
Southern Methodist Church.
Regarding the many icebergs now fl 1atlng
In the Atlantic the records OF the hydro
graphic office show that this s the most re-
markable year of which anything is Known.
As a rule the frat ice is reported about the
first of February. and then only q few de-
tached bergs, and it is generally as late as
Nav or June before much field Ice is en-
coIntered.
The entire property of the Ursuline Con-
| vent of Pittsburg with it's magnificent build
iups will be offered at public sale In spite OF
| the interference of the Pope. The sale is
| the ontcome of a quarrel between the Mother
| Superior Alphonse snd Ave French sisters,
! and Bishop Phelan, who deposed Mother
| Superior Alphonse and placed another sister
in charge of the institution.
a fire broke out In the west side slope at
ihs Camaron Colliery, at Shamokin, Pa. last
NIGHT. The staSia containing over forty
mules. was consumed, eleven Of the
animals being brought TO the surface In safe
ty. 1t is thought that the remaining ones
are all smother ed. Two miners though,
to be smothered in a slope on the secohu
lift made their escape. The iifei still putn-
ing.
Vice President King, Of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad Company, wants Cumberland
! to loan the Baltimore and Ohio $l5O,0JO for
fifteen years, without interest, to take up
their System of yard tracks NOW in the cen
| tire and best part Of Cumberland) and essao
| lish an extensive yard about half a mile east
! of the town limits. The railroad company
| proposes also to remove their machine shops
10 Cumberland to q new site and to greatly
| enlarge them. 1t will also make Cumber-
land a terminus for three divisions OF the
road,
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LEGISLATIVE.

10 the Senate yesterday Mr.. Blackstone
offered the following: Resolved, That a
committee of five be appointed to ascertain
and report to the General Assembly at Its
next session what legislation should be
adopted to effect q reduction of the criminal
charges paid out OF the Treasury. The resO-
luton Yves adopted, and the chair appointed
Messrs. Blackstone, Jones, Moore, johnson
and Little.
Mr.. Heaton introduced q resolution, look.
Ing to a change of government of the pub
lie institutions of the State by boards of
visitors and directors, and placing them all
under the control of one board of governors.
Mr.. Lovenstein offered as q substitute a
resolution providing for the appointment of
a committee to inquire into and report as to
the management of the institutions. This
was agreed to.
The bill for the regulation of the fees to
be allowed Commonwealth attorneys was
passed by.
The following bills ware passed TIE
Senate bill to amend the Code in regard to
the publication of certain reports by insnr.
auoe companies and associations and the
House bills to amend the Code relative to
obstructing streets and roads by railroad
trains, and to amend the Code fer the gov.
rnmen of persons consigned to ~chalngaugs
established by order Of the council OF any
city or town, or by the board of supervisors
of a county or corporation COURT of any
county.
At the evening session Mr.. Moore, from
the joint committee appointed to consider
the disagreeing votes of the two houses On
Senate bill amending the law in relation TO
the hire of convicts for works of internal
improvement, made g report, which was
adopted. Under this plan the Governor,
instead of the superintendent of the Peni
tisry, will make the contracts for the con-
victs' hire. 70 making contracts preference
ahall be given to railroads building through
counties having the fewest miles of road.
The companies are to bear all expenses OF
transportation and maintenance and pay g
per diem for every day OF actual work.
The following House bills we're passed
To amend the Code touching the verificatioE
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VIRGINIA NEWS.

Mr.. ]. T. Basye, a prominent citizen OF
Fauquier county, will soon remove to Cali
~fornia.
Mrs. Sarah a. Hogan, aged ftty-eight
years, Of Roanoke. Va, was struck by q
railroad train and killed yesterday.
Mr.. Albaugh, the agent Of Dun's Mercan.
! tile Agency in Richmond, was arrested in
that city yesterday charged with embezz!ing
1854.
Capt. Fl. r. Garden, formerly OF Warren
ton, is expected to succeed John Z. Calhoun
as president of the New York Southern 3D..
ciety.
Mr.. R. G. Vaes, OF Culpeper G. H., and
Miss AIDA B., daughter of Mr.. Robert Har.
per, of Loudoun, we're married at Leesburg
yesterday.
B A. Baxter, late manager OF the Purcell
| House, Norfolk, ls 10 custody for having en-
b. ~ ed 500, the property Of W. E. Kicker,
a boarder.
Sixty-two very fine cattle were unloaded
| at Marshall from Chicago for Mr.. J. 8. Ma
son a few days ago. They are said ID be the
finest seen this season.
One bali interest in the hotel property at
Calverton. Fauquier county, sold the other
day for fifteen hundred dollars. The entire
property sold a year ago for thirteen hun
dred.
NJ or R. G. Banks will resign his posi-.
ton as mayor of Norfolk as soon as he re-
ceives his commission as collector ofthe port.
The councils will fill the vacancy, and there
are several applicants.
Valentines heroic statue of Stonewall
Jackson is nearly finished in clay. DR.. Nc
CURE and other personal fiiends of the great
soldier pronounce 1t the best likeness of him
ever made. The statue will be ready for
the bronze foundry in two or three weeks:
A barn belonging to Mrs. E. e.. Nicols
was burned In Loudoun county Monday
night. There were a hundred and fifty bar.
rels of corn in the barn, q nearly new drill,
buggy and other things. The horses were
saved. There was an insurance OF $500 in
the Loudoun Mutual. The cause Of the fire
Is unknown.
By the breaking of a truck of a passenger
coach on an easlbound passenger train Oh
the Norfolk and Western Railroad at Roam
oke, q number of passenger were Injured
Yesterday. The low rate of speed at which
trains are required to run within the corpo-
rate limits saved many in the crowded car
from instant death. Among the Injured was
Mr.. J. J. Darlington, of Richmond.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-02-27

The Virginia House of Delegates will to-dsy
consider the bill reported by the special commit
tee to allo G. r. Lewis 5000 acres of land on
Pocomoke So7nd in lieu Of those of which he was
deprived in Hog Island. Dir. Lewis will submits
paper setting forth his claims. In this he sums up
that he will have paid for these 3 200 acres Of
land in 20 years $144, 500. He adds. ut will
be seen from the above statement that instead Of
my taking out of the treasury of virginia my
minimum damages 100000, l will put into tho
treasury Of Virginia the sum of $144 300, thus
causing g total saving of almost a quarter OF a mill
ion dollars to the State within 90 years should my
offer OF compromise be accepted"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-02-27
The Hatfeld-McCoy Vendetta

CINCINNATI, Feb. 27.-Advlces from
Pikeville, KY, tell of another murder among
the Mccoy. Hatfield adherents. The victim
is uncle Joe Johnson, who on Sunday night
last was called to the road in front of his
house by a man whose voice he thought he
recognized. Still he took hls gun with him.
His wife saw a man on horseback 10 the
road fire and saw her husband fall.
The ASA sin galloped away. Johnson had in
Cured the enmity of the Hatields by disclosing
8 plan OF escape by Mounts and another Of their
set, and his life had been threatened.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-02-27

TIE RICHMOND TERMINAL "A gentleman
In q position to know the fact5 says: When the
Richmond Terminal began to e1terd its branch
lines over to the Mississippi river and threstsned
to 20 beyond, Nj. Gould began to wonder what it
meant. He was anxious to know whether this
xss for or ssainst him OF the other side of the
river. To ascertain this he proceeded in q SIX illful
Wall street way to bay q little of the Richmond
Terminal stock and borrow a good deal more,
zsheu election time came he forced his son Georse
INTO the directory. He was then in q position to
ind out what the policy Of the company would be,
and when thoroughly salts fed that it wss one of
pesce and good will and that he need not fear sn
extension Of the system, bis son George stepped
down.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-02-27

AREMARKABLE CATca.-Mr. Festus Hill,
an old trapper, living near Hill's Mill, on
the Hszard river, caught In a steel trap one
night last week one OF Mr.. B. F. Bywater's
hound dogs and a red fox. he says the
only way he can account for the most re-
markable catch is that the dog captured the
fox near the trap, and in the scutiie for life
or death, threw the trap. catching the dog
by the hind foot and the fox by the fore foot,
They were both alive when Mr.. Hill reached
the trap, and seemingly, on the best Of
terms. but "a mad as the devil wi b the trap.
- Culpeper Va Times.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-02-27

THE COAST LINE.-The bill for the cons1lida-
ton Of the roads constituting the Coast Line has
been reported to the Virginia Legislature in
amended form, intended to protect the States in-
terest in the Richmond, fredericksburg and Pc
tomac Railroad. 1t is given out that the %ohjectof
this scheue is to unity the roads of this system
and reduce the expenses necessary to conduct them
The bill, as amended and submitted
to the Senate, allows the Richmond and Peters.
burg Road to consolidate or merge into any of the
roads connecting with it, north or south. These
roads are not mentioned by name, but the amend
ed bill, it is understood, will give all tho author
ity needed for onstlidstion ofthe companies COM
poaing the coest line.
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2aSl@S55z@z5G
ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES.
Proceedings of Congress.
WASHINGTON, d. g.. Feb. 81.
SENATE


The Vice President presented resolutions
(receiyed by telegraph from the convention
of granite dealers of the New England
States, held at Boston, declaring 1t to be
the aense Of the convention that the city OF
New York affords advantages and facilities
for the fair of 1892 pofsassed by no other
city in the Uuion, aud extending the
thanks of-the convention to the New Eng
land members who had voted for locating 1t
there.
A bill was passed for the erection Of q
bronze statue of Christopher Columbus on
the site of the naval monument at the foot
of the Capitol. aud for the removal of the
latter to the triangle boun ded by Connect
cut avenue and Twentieth s'rsst.
The following bills were passed: Making
appropriations for public buildings as fol.
lows: Roanoke, Va, 100000; Norfolk,
Va, $4,000; Newport, News, Va, $780,
600 Lynchburg. Va, (s1tenslon) $50. 900
Petersburg, Va, enlargement and improve.
ment) $50. 900; appropriating $11 900 for Q
macadam'zsd road from Staunton, Va, to
the National Cemetery, near that place.
HOUSE.
Immediately after the reading and ap.
proval OF the journal Mr.. Rowell, OF Illinois,
called up the contested election case of At.
kinson va. Pendleton and the floor was &C.
corded to the contestee. Peudleton. He
said that he felt it his duty to speak In bis
own behalf, although he knew that he was
addressing a jury which was prejudged
against him. Ia believed that he had car
ried the frat district of West Virginia By
means as fair, as honorable, as upright as
had ever been used in any election In the
history of the country.
Mr.. Cooper, of Ohio, closed the debate
with an argument In support of the claim OF
the contestant.
The vote was then taken on the minority
resolution, declaring Pendleton entitled to
the seat.
1t was defsated-yeas. 142; nays, 159 a
strict party vote.
The vote then required on the majority
resolution seating Atkinson. The demo
Gratis refrained from voting, their object be.
ing to have the contestant seated by less
than a quorum, 30 that the question of the
right of the Speaker to count a quorum
may be taken before the courts. The vote
resulted Yeas, 162 nays, 0 (the Speaker
counting a quorum).
Mr.. O'Ferrall, of Virginia, raised the
point of no quorum, but the Speaker ignored
him, and the newly elected member appear
ed at the bar of tie House and took the
oath OF office amid applause on the republi-
can side.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-02-27

REPUBLICAN newspapers, outside of New
York, say that only democrats growl at the
selection of far of Chicago as the site of the
proposed Worlds Fair. Well, certainly the
republicans shouldn't groWl, for Chicago
was recommended by Chairman Quay, of
the national republican committee, and by
Mr.. Plat, the republican manager of New
York, and was selected by the republican
members of the U. 8. House of Representa-
tives, aver including those of Pennsylvania,
which adj oins New York on one side, and
those of New England. which adjoins 1t on
the other. The republican voters of New
York will prove themselves to be the most
forgiying of men if at next falls election
If they don't resent the treatment they have
received from their allies In the other
States.
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Unfriendly Kapsans.

WICHITA, Kss., Feb. 27.-The town of
Ingalls, and Cimarron, late rivals in a county
seat war, are again fighting. A suit was
recently entered at Cimmarron, by Chas.
Gregory. Monday Gregory was in Ingalls
and was forced by threats against his life to
withdraw the suit. Yesterday a party Of
Cimarron men attacked some Of the leaders
of the mob that bulldczsd Gregory and were
hunted out of town. two OF the number be.
ing wounded. Both sides are armed and
an outbreak is expected at any time.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-02-27
THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY %.
SENATOR SHERMAN, posing as the viriu.
ons defender of Senatorial honor and dlgni'

SENATOR SHERMAN, posing as the Virlu.
ms defender of Senatorial honor and digni'
ty, says: ,oa stotes
has come to such a condition thai the wora
..ooward.n etc, is applied to a senator
Chen q Senator shall be charged with stat
ING a thing falsely, knowing i. to De !aise,
il seems to me the Senate OF the oniteo
states Is receding from the dignity Wnlcn
has distinguished 1t from the foundation OF
our government" !,
And vet Mr.. Sherman Is the man who put
his hand on the Bible and swore that ne did
not recollect whether he had written the
most important letter of his life-the weber
,et.er-the letter that effected the theft OF
the Louisiana vote, by which Hayes was
made President, and he. Sherman, made
secretaty of the Treasury, which position
he used az the means OF making himself 8
millionaire. MIR. Sherman is also the man
who bought all the negro delegates to the
national republican convention, and then
was made ridiculous by the fact that those
delegates sold themselves over again to Mr.
Alger. Mr.. Sherman reaches the summit
of grotesque absurdity by talking about
dignity"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-02-27

TIE REPUBLICAN LEAGUE The Virginia
State Republican League met at Henrico
courthouse Tuesday. The resignation of
Col. ". C. Elan, president of the league,
was received aud accepted. Sheriff J. w.
southwark, of Henrioo, was elected presi
dent. The date of the nezt meeting of the
State League was fixed for July % next in
Richmond. Among those elected as dele
gates to the national convention of the Re
publican League of the United States, to be
held at Nashville, Tenn. March 4.h, was
Hon. R r. Farr, Fairfax, and Ralph Sin-
gleton, Alexandria, fcr this district.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-02-27

THE REPUBLICAN Senators are now max.
Ing q great ado about the fact that a demo
cratic Senator, In revising his speech for
publication, made some slight changes in
the phraseo!ogy thereof. And yet there
isn't a man among them who hasn't done
the same Identical thing over and over
again. The difference in congressional
speeches as delivered, and as printed in the
Record, has become proverblal. No matter
how great may be the difference between a
republican Senator's speech as delivered. and
as printed, the democratic Senators never
allude to 1t, for two reasons; one, because
they never read such speeches to find out
the difference, and the other, if they were
aware of the change. they would think that
in making 1t their republican colleagues had
only followed q long observed custom, and
naturally desired to be judged by whas they
said deliberately thar in the heat OF debate.
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LEFT TO THEIR FATE.-The North Ger.

LEFT TO THEIR FATE.-The North Ger.
man Lloyd steamship Ems, which arrived at
Now York yesterday, encountered fierce
gales and heavy yeas on Friday and Satur-
day last. On Saturday a wrecked sailing
vessel was passed, all OF the masts OF which
we're broken off and she was 6oundering
around as though she could not obey the
rudls A flag of distress was flying from
a temporary rigging. Nine men we're seen
upon the wreck. Despite the terrible seas,
captain Juugst, Of the Eos, had a boat low
cred and an officer aud Ave men entered it
TO attempt q rescue. The boat was imme
aiately caps;zsd aud one of the crew lost.
Captain Jungst thought it madness to make
another attempt and proceeded on his Wy
ege.