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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-08-19
From Central America.

A dispatch from Managua says that Costa
Rlca and Nicarsgua have confirmed the
compact with Salvador. 1t lie reported in
Chiopas that the Guatemalan troops on the
frontier of Salvador have mutinied, wanting
their psy. Senior Diegnez, the Guatemalan
minister, at Mexico, says that war is now
inevitable. and that this will be week OF
battles. The Guatemalan forces number
80 COO, all in good condition, and they count
on the support of Honduras. senor Pou, the
SaIvhdofiau representative at Mexico, says
that this week will be an exciting one, and
that the fighting will be ferocous. The
Sslvadorian army. he says, numbers over
90 600 men. who are eiated over their recent
victory, and who will surely enter the capi-
tai OF Guatemala. Nicaragua. Costa Res,
and Salvador do not fear Honduras snd
Guatemala united, heir army being On short
pay and provisions, while Salvador has an
abundance for al.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-08-19
The Mississippi Convention.

NEW ORLEANS. August ia jackson,
Miss. special says 1.-The constitutional COT
vention yesterday introduced great many
amendments to the constitution, all OF which
we're referred to committees Where it is to
be hoped some of them will be buried. The
plan to give the white counties control by
cutting off the representation ofthe popuon1
counties. wherein the negro element pre-
ponderates, will meet with strenuous oppc-
sition. Il is commended that such plan
will ruin the State, because it puts in he
power OF white minority with the solid
negro vote TO rule the State for oil time.
LegislatiAn ought to be based on human ma
ture as 1t is, and human nature as it is will
not stay beaten, II it can win with the ne
groes. II will not, therefore, be safe for the
advocates of the plan to base their action on
the supposed unity of the whites, for unity
is only preserved by eelf INTEREST,", and when
that is iuteTferved with disin tesrscion net~
nrall0 folloRs."
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-08-19
RRWS OF The DAY.

The democratic majority 10 Alabama az at
the recent election will reach almost 1oo.ooo'
The crops in the counties below Quoec are
a failure, and Thousands of families are pre-
pairing to leave the country.
The Jefferson Icon Works at S;eubeuVllie'
O. were destroyed by fire yesterday. Inc
loss is $4,000
The largest cargo OF iron ore ever receiver
at Baltimore arrived at Lower canton iiou
Pormsn, Spain, yesterday. -
Present Indications point strongly to the
Massage of the Senate bill to refund the Oh
rect tax at this session OF Congress-
Henry @. burlington committed suicide
vesferdav at Nav York by jumping from
the Washington bridge into the Harlem
river.
Besanoon. the French aeronaut, and Her
mite. the astronomer, propose TO MAKE
balloon expedition to the North role, slat'-
ing from Spitzbergen. -
In 1890 the centre of population was 70
miles east of Baltimore-somewhere In the
Chesapeake bay. Now 1t ia not very isr
from the Mississippi river.
The largest cargo vessel afoat, the
Georgian. was launched at Belfast, Ireland,
nm Saturday. The new craft will carry Il
ono tons and Ia intended for the American
cattle trade.
Queen Victoria In her speech to the Ene-
lish Parliament proroguing it states that she
has oflsred the President of the United
States to submit 10 arbitration the d'1l3r-
ences over the Bebripg Sea fisheries.
Henry Rerschy, valet of Howell Osborne,
was arrested as be stepped Oft the steamship
Normandle in New York, charged with
stealing $50 600 worth of diamonds from bis
master, Intended as gift to Fay Temple
ton. the actress.
Mrs. francesca NJ. Bacon. of Republic,
Mo-, who became acquainted with w. y.
Bacon through matrimonial bureau and
married him last spring, now seeks q d.
vorce, charging that be tried to get posses
sion OF her property.
B. Shepard White, who has been In the
Washington Jail for month past, pending
trial on charges of forgery and embezzle'
ment, was yesterday re- eased on 81, 600 bail
bond being furnished by David WellgaD, Of
that city, who 1t is said was backed by one
OF Whites lady friends.
| Edward Hake, the young man who, nboul
three weeks ago, took 81 600 out of bis
| ia hers safe and left st. Louis with 1t. shoi
/ bis wife at his boarding house. 10 that city
early yesterday morning while che lay
sleeping in bed, and then fired bullet into
his own breast near the heart, inticting
mortal wound.
Congressman Qniun. OF New York, hal
received reply TO his letter to Mrs. Grant
r, Nesting her to state her wishes in regard
to the proposition to remove the remains O
General Grant from Riverside Park tt
Washington. Mrs. Grant replies through
her son. U. S. Grant. jr., that she will be
governed by the wishes of che people as ex'
] nressed through Congress.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-08-19

Gov. GORDON ON THE FORCE BILL
Governor Gordon, OF Georgia, has written q
letter explaining his utterances concerning
the force bill, which have been criticized as
tending to ipasme opinion at the South and
to intensity sectional bitterness. Gov. Ger
don expressed the opinion that some such
measure as the proposed boycott OF northern
business interests by the southern people
might prove to be necessary as means OF
defense ard retaliation if the South was sut-
jscted to the operation of the force bill
Gov. Gordon denies that he had any thought
of exciting "Southern passion and preJn-
dice" but says he felt THAT the gravity OF
the situation and justice to our northern
countrymen demanded that l should
frankly tell them that The tendency'of such
needless, one-sided and hostile legislation
would be to disturb the growing and essen
tial cordiality between the ctio1s and to
rsise unnatural barriers 10 friendly and
nee dfo commercial intercourse. II /
should denounoe the force bill and yet deny
that its passage would tend to disturb COM
mercial relations and impel the South In
the direction of commercial independence. /
should have denied proposition wb CO
every thoughtful and candid man In this
Union must admit to be true"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-08-19
Telegraphic Brevities.

A very light snow, the fret of the season,
fell at Denver, COL, last night.
a strike of journeymen plumbers Is
threatened on Wednesday next at Mil
waukee.
Margaret Solomon, the last of the tribe OF
Wyandotte Indiana, died yesterday ct her
home near sandusky, Ohio.
The lighthouse on Point Richie, on the
West Coast OF New Foundlsnd, was totally
destroyed by fse on Flday last.
The Grand Lodge Knights OF PJthias OF
Pennsylvania met in annual session st
Reading to-day. There are 2,7l3 knights
of Psthiss in Pennsylvania.
Arthur Day, who Ia In Jail at WeIlard'
Ont., on the charge of having murdered bis
wife by pushing her over the Niagara Falls
embsnkment, says she fell over 60 she was
picking gooseberrIes.
The democratic convention in the fourth
congressional district of Louisiana, yestei-
day nominated Hon. N G. Blanchard. The
republicans of the Is Pennsylvania COL
gresaoual district yesterday nominated
John F. Schooner for Congress.
The wife of DR.. D. Miller Barr, proprietor
OF the Hygienic destitute at Ocean Grove,
N. Y, was terribly burned last night By her
dress catching fire from gas jet. Mrs.
Turner, the cook at the institute, attempted
to extinguish the flames and was also severe
ly burned.
A grand requiem mass was celebrated in the
Oratory at Birmingham, England to-day whe'
the body of Cardinal Newman was laid in state.
The Bishop of Birmingham celebrated mass.
Some anxiety is felt at Dover, England for the
safety of the Ostend steamer Princess Josephrc
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-08-19
The Force Bill

A letter from Washington to the Phils-
delphia Record says:
The President spent most OF yesterday IN
the earnest effort he is making to check
Quay. Speaker Reed, In u similar under
taking, worked hard at the Senate efora the
House met aud after 1t had adjourned.
All the fesing against Blaine is as nothing
compared with the fesling against Q1ay.
Both Harris IN and Reed think more Of the
Force bill than of the Tariff bill, and more
of Oaay's resoiu ion than of Baine's reel
procity letter. The pressure they are bring
ing on Q1av'a allies 10 the Senate is UMPIRE.
cedented. L. has already effected marked
results. All the Senators from the new
States have been brought into line against
Quay. They are still! hungry tor patronage.
aud did not like the prospect OF sharing
Qlay's fate. and needing letters OF introduc-
tlon It the White Rcuse. Pettigrew was
the last 10 suoGumh, but it is understood
that r sed captured him yesterday afternoon.
Pressure was applied to them as 1t is being
applied to the other anti-Force bill Senators
from home Harrison, Reed. Hoar and
Spooner are te!egraphing to Influential re-
pubicans all over the country to telegraph
to their Senators" Every Senator whose
game was published In the list OF is who
voted With Qnay 10 caucus has been getting
kilograms and letters from the politicians In
his State, urging him to stand by the Ad-
ministrstion against Qlay.
Quay romans apparently unshskon by the as
ssuits of his enemies the assertions of his
frieuds But he is too shrewd to try conclusions
with tho Force bill even while the foeling is as
intense as it is now. he very willingly yielded
to a request from Hosr that he should not call up
his resolution to-day. bee use no (HoaD had not
oeen able yet to prepare his remarks upon it,
Quay says now that lie will call it up on Wednes
day, but when Wednesday comes he will proba-
oily allow it TO go over il anybody asks it, At all
events ne will not press it to vote, but will let
Hoar, Spooner and anybody else get of their
speeches de ending the Fo cs bill and denounoing
him. His policy is to wait until the attack on
him has spent its force. He may hivo to wait till
his proposed tie OF closing the tariff debate, and
nav have to change that hom August 30 to Sep
tember 10 or is. He may even postpone and
postpone until finally he sbandons it. But il it
should be pressed to q vote he will probably mus
ter republicans ell ough to pass it, provided.tne
democrats vote for it.
This ia by no means certain The democrats
are opportunists They are Just waiting and look
ing on st the republican fight, and the republicans
are fighting rs though they had forgotten all
about the democrats But German does not for
one hour relax his vigilance. No one has heard
him say that nc thinks the Force bill dead lie
thinks the republicans capable of digging 1t up,
it into life and passing it yet.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-08-19
Political Poisoning

BELGRADE, Aug. 19.-The committee q
the Servian progreasist party attended A
banquet at Topo,a. Subsequently Nil tn
members of the committee were taken Ill
and their symptoms ehowed that they weio
suffering from ersenical poisoning. Nis SUI
peoted that the arsenic vas placed in tLa
food intentionally with the ofjec Of killing
those who partook OF it, and that the crime
was committed by political opponents Of 'ho
progressists.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-08-19
ALEXANDRIA, VA.
TUESDAY EVENING. AUGUST 10.

FEW weeks ago, when the republican
e,ections committee of the republican House
of Representatives reported adversely to the
contestant, In the contested election case OF
Chalmers against Morgan, General Cnai-
mers in.imated that If allowed to speak IN
hisown behalf he would score the repuoi'-
cans in the House for supporting the Force
hill and at the same time deciding In favor
Of all three of the democratic contes'ees
from Mississippi, the southern STATE ABOVE
all others In which alleged outrages upop
the ballot were greatest. 10 the meantime,
however, change came over the spirit o.
the Generals dreams, and yesterday, ~nen
permitted to speak, either hopes OF favofs
to come. or else hate for the people ne mas
attempted to iojure, induced him either 10
forget or forgive the coutemptuous treat
ment he has received from his new pohticai
allies. and to maligp and abuse the people
of his own State, and his own KIN anu
Kin. The effect OF his speech was that OUT
OF the whole House, he received just 81
votes. Professional southern repuoilcans
ara held in no more estimation by inteiii-
g,nt northern people than by the Same sort
of people at home.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-08-19
Peace Restored

SAN SALVADOR. via La L'bertsd, Aug 10
General Carlos Este Provisional Pes
dent OF Salvador. has received telegram
from DR. Galindo, the Confidential ssant OF
Salvador now in Guatemala, saying that
the terms OF treaty of peace have besn err
ranged. DR.. Galindo says in bis dispatch
that the treaty is most favorable to Sara
dor. All the poins demanded by Ez-ta
nave been conceded Oy the GGatemaan
government. Owing TO the receip. of this
news President Ezeta has revoked his or
ders to his army to advance toRar: the
CITY of Guatemala. and c3useqleally
there has been an entire cessation of
hostilitiss. Il was said that Salvador, Nice
ragua aud Costa r % we're preparing to
form a union on the basis set forth in the
pian OF ratification adopted ia tho Congress
Of the Representatives Of the fi7e Central
American republics Iii thought here that
tue knowledge of these facts influenced
President Barrilas TO seree to the treaty @:
pace and to listen to the demands of Ezeis.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-08-19
The Panama Canal.

BoGATA, Aug l9-Tne Government has
passed to the Senate the petition OF Lieut.
Wyse, the Panama Canal Company COM
missioner, who recently sFrlysd from Paris
Lieut.. Wyse asks for six years proioneatio.
of the canal company'J concession wilbcl
recompeDse, and that tho Government cor
cede to The company 10 600 hectares Of
land for the lake which will be formed by
the Chagres river. the Government receiyiDg
10000 COO francs, which sum the company
will pay in instsllmepts. Nothing more ~
offered.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-08-19

CONGRESS- In the U. 8. Senate yesterday
the tariff bill was further discussed by Sen
tors Plumb, Aldrich, Carlisle and others.
In the House the contested election case OF
Chalmers agsnst Morgar, from the second
district of Mississippi, was decided in favor
of Morgan, democrat, the sitting member.
Mr.. Maish presented to the House the re-
port of the democratic minority OF the COM
mittee on elections In the case of Clayton va.
Breckenridge, of the second Arkansas dis
trict. The report says that with one excep-
ton the district has always gone democratic
and the presnmptiops should be In favor OF
democratic against republican contestants.
The thu ft of the ballot box 10 the case Is ad-
mitted, but it is held that it did not change
the result OF the election, as the democrats
carried the district by majority of l49.
even allowing the republicans the disputed
votes In every township.
Senator Quay will not call up his force bill
resolution until tomorrow. A last deter
mined fight will be made by the friends of
the election bill for its consideration before
adjournment but 1t looks now as though 1t
would 90 over till the next session. Ii the
Quay resolution is adopted 1t is believed ad-
journment will be had during the last ten
days of September Major Mckinley does
not believe that Congress cen adjourn before
the frat of October, even if the Quay resc-
luton Is adopted In the Senate on Wednes-
day. The tariff bill, he thinks, will be in
conference at least two weeks. There is q
decided Impotence in the House, which may
compel an earlier adj 1urnmen The repub-
licans are said to be cha6ug under Speaker
Reeds autooratic rule.
Senator ElmuDds Is eupposed to represent
the administration in Offering mis- reciprocity
and retaliation amendments to the tariff bill.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-08-19
men still.

THE REPUBLICAN, and democratic news
papers of Pennsylvania alike are now urg-
ing the men of that State to pay their poll
tax 30 as to be enabled to vote at the COM
Ing election. Pennsylvania is northern
State and goes republican by eighty thou
sand majority. Virginia is southern State,
and at the last election went democratic by
forty thousand mel GRITTY. But none of her
voters has to pay pollt Rich and poor,
white snd black, sill alike, vote at her cleo
lions without the payment of any poll tax,
and without being required to know the diff
ference between and bullsfoot And yet
the republican newspapers Of Pennsylvania
cry sloud for free vote 10 Virginia.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-08-19

Cabe felled Mrs. Stein to the earth with a
blow on the temple with the barrel OF the
piatol. The chief of police rushed up to ar
rest the murderess, when chs Knocked him
down also and then brought her ready pis
toll down on the policemen WHO came up,
and defed them to arrest her. TIE affair
grew out of the election trouble 10 Hda!go
county some time siace. McCabe, at the
head of party of maraudsrs, tried to fore
ply capture the court hou and falling fed
to Renoss, Mexico. where de has since beer
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-08-19
One of the Virginia Lady Managers Of the
Worlds Fair.
sTAuNToN, Aug. 16.

sTAUNToN, Aug. 16.
Perhars the following may be of interest
to your readers:
Mrs. Judge Paul, of Harrlsonburg, has
been appointed a member of the board OF
LADY managers for the worlds fair in 1898
Perhaps your readers would like to know
what manner of woman it is who will rep
resent this great Commonwealth in that i'm
portant body. Each Stnteis entitled to two
lady representatives, but the other one from
Virginia has not yet been appointed. Mrs.
Psul is the wife of Judge john Pau, Of
Harrlsonburg, we'll known republican,
aud Judge of the Westesn District of Vir
ginia. She resides with her husband
in their beautiful home in the
subutbs oil the booming valley town.
Mrs. Paul ia cesr-headed, accomp' isaed
woman, well known and very popular. She
is of literary turn ard writes forcbly and
we'll on subjects which interest her. She is
also known to have decided views of her
own on all the topics of the day, political,
phlaDthropic, social, educational, etc. The
appointment was made at the recommends
ton of Hon. John T. Harris. who seems to
have ignored politics for The sake OF secur..
ing so suitable and dignifed a Representative
for the Old Dominion. b.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-08-19

THE DEMOCRATIC majority in Alabama at
the recent election In that State was one
hundred thousand. Some moro Force bills
good Msssrs. Harrison, Hoar and Daven-
port and the South will be as solid as the
reconstruction acts made her twenty years
ago. II, as is supposed, the object of the
South-haters be to cement the S,uth's So
lidity. they have certainly adopted the very
best means to attain 1t. Whether those
means will be equally as efec i've in accom-.
plishlpg their other object, solid North,
which. being the more powerful, could
crush the South. is not 60 certain,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-08-19

THE GOVERNMENT is now buying one hun
dred and forty tons of silver month. the
total product of all the silver mines In the
country. Why 1t should not for like pur-
nose buy all the cotton, tobacco. wheat and
corn crops OF the country, nobody but the
congressional Soons who passed the silver
bill aud Mr.. Harrison, who signed 1t, can tell
and If they can do 80 satisfactorily, 1t is
more than they yet have done. No wonder
the farmers are asking for the establishment
of pawn shops in which they can put some
OF their products in soak"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-08-19

MR. G. @. Brown. lecturer OF the state
Grange and Patrons of Husbandry OF Penn
sylvsnia, says;
The very best evidence of It's real attitude TO-
.rds the farmer is the fact that the republican
party has been in power in Pennsylvanis all these
wears, and such has bcou the relief the farmer has
had at ts hands, that he would show his wisdom
and political sagacty, not by voting for any man
simply because he is tho candidate of that party
hut because he is the candidate who is most like
" to honestly aid in rescuing him from injustice
aud oppression and securing to him his equAs
rights be fore tho law; and any farmer TINT has
not the sense to do this deserves to suffer-"
Mr. Brown in saying this only uttered
words of truth and soberness. 1.-THE expert
ence of twenty-nine years of high tariff
hasn't taught farmers the Ill effects Of such
system of revenue, they are beyond teach
ing, and may as we'll be let alone. Ii
prayed in mortars>they would be high tariff
men still.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-08-19
The Car and the Emperor.

ST. PETERSBURG, Aug. 10 "A grand cou't
dinner was given by the Gar al Nara last
evening. Yesterday was the anniversary Ct
the birth of the Emperor Of Austria eni
the members OF the Austrian embassy al :
Petersburg in honor of the occasion Eere H.
vited to and were present at the banquet.
This mornining the Gar and EmprrG
William drove from Narva to Hamhur:,'
where they they witnessed the army raai-
n1yres
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-08-19

THE NEW YORK Herald says: I'VE can-
nos change Southern conditions and must
ACCEPT them. The first condition is that no
community OF white men will ever consent
20 be governed by an alien race-by the ln-
dian, the Chuamsn or the African. MI
Harrison himself would be the first to resent
II we're the alternative before him." why
Mr. Harrison, 30 far from consenting TO DC
governed by an alien race, said, soon alst 4
his inauguration, that he would not IKE
even to receive his mail from negro post
master. But Mr.. Harrison has such poor
opinon of southern people that ne even
thanks God he was not born among them
He thinks that having once been whipped
thew will and must stand every thing, and
to show his contempt for thsm, ne appoints
negroes as their postmasters and customs
collectors. The Herald ia right. Neither
Harrison, Chandler, Davenport. Hoar. nor
their Foros bill, all combined. can compel
tie white men OF the South to be domluaIen
by at inferior race.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-08-19
Railroad Accident

BosToN. Mas. Aug. 10. "A seIions &c
dent happened to the Cape Cod and Woo
sholl train on tho Old Colony at QGiuey d
o'clock this afternoon. II is known thu
three parsons are killed, two women and =
man. and it is believed 20 or so are irjnre'. 4.
Tne nature OF The accident is not kDo" :
one report being that the ain jumped 'h'
track,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-08-19

BOLD TnIEvEs The residents Of Bl0oky"
who h.d lecome alarmed at the series OF thei
committed, ~ was believed, By an organ I'd sa' :
OF burglars, became panic stricken yesie'n
when it became known that the III u daring 10 y.
bory Of all hal been successfully carried OUT o".
on Sunday morning. AS ususi, the outfste
committed in one OF the ortlgibg wNrhs, WIZ '. i,
policemen are scarce. In this instance uy',1
WAS broken into, three men were choroioEmta'
and The money OF one WIS taken from undefIea.
his pillow The store WIS looted, then the 'el "
coolly took their DEF arturo and proceeded 70 -
a church