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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-04-16
The Lee Monument

ct meeting in Richmond LIST night of the cx-
ecutive committee in charge tf the general ar
rangements for the unwilling OF the Lee monu'
ment a distribution Of the funds was made 10 the
various committees rs follows Military COM
mittes, 5000; veterans, $1,000; invitations,
$500; Contingent expenses, $1,000; fire works,
$1,000 The committee de crnined that not less
Than ten thousand bsdges shall be printed, one of
which is to be presented to oh veteran in attend
auce The Old Stonewsll Brass Band, of stsun-
ton, hiss offered their services at the unvti;ing,
and the offer has been accepted The ndicstions
are that the attendance OF visitors at the nuvei-
ing will be the largest ever witnessed on any sim
liar &C ,asion in the South. Major n. V. Randolph
member of the committee, said last night ::
This will probably be tho last reunion of con-
federate veterans that viii ever occur on a large
scale You know these cid fellows rapidly
dying ont, and in 5 short lime but few Of item
will be left
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-04-16
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Finday, Ohio, and the surrounding
country, has gone ci! mad.
Rev. Alexander Nackay, the famous mis-
sionary 10 the Uganda country, Is dead.
Thus far eighty-.wo Preeby teTies In The
United S ates have voted for revision and
forty against it.
Two revolver shots were yesterday fred
into the residence of Rev. ]. w. Southweil,
who has been prosecuting saoon-9eepers ct
Sioux City, la.
In speech at dinper given to hin 10
Washington last night Gen. Schoield spoke
strongly of the urgent need OF provision tor
adequate coast defenses.
The New York Southern Society is rapid
~ getting it's library in condition, and 10
cal society of alumni of the University Of
Virginia is talked of in that city.
Secretary Tracy has ordered that Com
mander McCalla, of the U. S. S. Enterprise,
be tried by court-martial next Tuesday at
New York on the charge of cruelty to his
men.
Ben. Elsey, negro, who is to be hanged
at Birmingham, Ala, Friday, for murder
has confessed to having been engaged IN
the business of numbering for number Of
years.
Senator Inealls has gone out to Kansas to
look after his senatorial fences. Not only
have the farmers of that State been afser
him, but many other Influences are at work
to defeat his reelection 10 the Senate.
At the Panama Canal lottery drawing IN
Paris yesterday NJ Monchcourt, the liquid
ato., announced that the fnancial support
already obtained would powerfully assist the
work of forming q new company 10 CON
plete the canal.
Ia the United States Senate, yesterday
Mr.. Cameron introduced service pension
bill The House passed the bill to define
end regulate the jurisdiction of the courts
of the United States, the Speaker counting
quorum es voting,
Henry Borck. an Old engineer, and @
member of the Knights OF Honor, who hac
been out of work for come months, yester-
day committed suicide bg hanging in st
Louis, in order that his children might re
ceive the So. 600 insurance on his lie.
Hiss Alice Elliott, OF Ottawa, Ontario
aged twenty three years, while suffering
from dementia, swallowed q small penkniit
with the blades open. So far she has ex
perienced no unpleasant results, but he
physician is watching the case with grea
anxiety.
Colonel Appleton, OF the Seventh Ntv
York Ragim emf says it will be impossible fc
the regiment to accent the invitation to a
tend the unwilling of Lees statue al Rich
mopd, May 90 es arrangements had prev!
ously been made for participating in th'
parade in New York on the following cay
which is Memorial Day.
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VIRGINIA NEWS.

| Mrs. Meade, the wife OF the Rev. r. K
Meade, died at Charlottesville yesterday.
W. Hays Otey, OF the Fl m OF Peter ] Otey
& Co., of Lynchburg was stricken with par
aIysis yesterday.
Rev. Robert ". Forsythe. assistant al
Christ Episcopal Church, Baltimore, ha;
accepted call to Portsmouth.
Miss Nora Woolton, the young lady who
recently attempted 10 murder Dr.. II. a.
Sims, was yesterday Indicted by the grand
Jury at Roanoke.
In the Stafford county court on Monday
10 the case Of Wagner vs. Adams Express
Company, defendants recovered of the
plaintiff, s. as damages, the plaintiff to
pay all costs.
I've Varallio, the Italian, arrested at Re
sHoke for setting fire to the franklin county
Jail, where ne was coDfUed for petit larceny
and escaped, was taken back 10 Rocky
Mount yesterday.
The stockholders and life members OF the
Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical Soc'-
ely met in Richmond to day tor the purpose
Of trying to como to some understanding
whereby the creditors of the Association
can be secured in their rights.
the Youngest member OF theVlrginia Senate,
and Miss Marie O. Anti:otti, daughter of the
late d. Autilotti. of Richmond, were mar
ried at ST. Peters Cathedral yesterday ty
RI. Rev. Bishop Van de Vivev.
It is claimed that the gray uniform OF the
Confederate army was Indirectly due to the
visit OF the Seventh New York to Richmond
10 1859 This is urged by some of the mill
= -
that famous regiment should take part IN
the unwilling ceremonies CT Mag 80.
The body of Owen H. Hughes, middle
aged employe Of the West End Furnace, at
Roanoke, and q native ofPlttaburg, Pa, was
fcuad on the Norfolk and Western railroad
track at Skaters Crossing yesterday, horri.
bly, mutilsted, having been run over by
freight train. The coroner's jury rendered
verdict that the deceased was probably
murdered end the body placed on the track
afterwards. Suspicion points go strongly to
certain parties in the ueighborhood that they
will be arrested.
Capt Robert C.Overbey,a prominent farm
er and cav mill proprietor, living one mile
from Buffalo Springs, ia Mecklsnburg cour-
", Va, was waylaid by negroes Monday
night and robbed He died Yesterday from
the effects of the assault. He was engaged
in getting supplies for the Atlantic and Dan
Vile Road. and the snpposition is that be
was murdered for the purpose OF robbery, IS
he was supposed to have considerable sum
of money 10 his possession. Capt. Oaerbey
was knocked down and beaten until uncou-
scious ny negro whose name, it is said, is
John Phillips, who hsiis from Caroline. He,
with two Others who we're present. were az
rested aud sent to tbs county all at Boyd
ton.
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Mysterious Disappearance.

CHICAGO, H., Apt. 16 The disappea :
ance of Vernon L. Everett, youog med-
ca student, promises to make ser =
sator. He is the son Of the lead
ing physician at Giinnell, Io@a, and
attended the Chicago Medical College. On
April 3 he vas sent for by some one on south Hal
sted stree, and as it was very tough neighbor
hood the young man said to the daughter of kis
landlady that he didn't Ike the idea of going at
all. However, he went and h s MOI been s,en
since. Everett had quite cum of money and
some valuable jswelry on his person when he dis
aopesrei
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-04-16

ROYAL BoNAPARTEs.-If Prince Napoleon OF
even his defendants, should ever attain power
Bonspsrtism wou appear in an entirely new
guise for through his mother he belongs to the
royal caste, distinction which neither the first
Napoleon nor Napoleon III. could ella IN. He is as
well born" any sovereig IN in Europe, and there
is probably no reiguing family to which he is not
related As his great grandmother was sister
of George I'LL, he IS second cousin once removed
to Queen Victoria, and shares al her ancestry
save that through Qleen Charlotte snd the
Duchess of Kent He has as much OF the blood OF
PIante Comet, Tudor, and Stewart in his vel s az
the Qleen has in hers, and in respect OF the
last h, is excelled by his children, who, through
their mother, are descended from Charles l.,
through his daughter Henrietta, Duchess of Or
leans. while our reigning hou.e csn claim descent
only through daughter OF James |. Prince Ma.
poleon is descended from George I. in three dis.
tinct lines, one OF them being through George II.
and Frederic, Prince OF Wal s. Westminster Re-
~,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-04-16

AT TIE State negro convention which
met at Richmond yesterday, resolution
was adopted to commit all the negro voters
in the Petersburg and Norfolk districts to
the support OF negro candidates for Congress
in those districts at next falls election. Il
the resolution of q negro convention could
be relied upon, this would look better for
Laugstou in the former than for Bowden in
the latter CT The Two districts referred TO.
Laneston will certainly be candidate, and
if he be seated by the elections committee
of the present U. S. House of Represents
tives, it is just SIS certain thatth there will be
negro csndidate fer Congress in the Norfolk
district also.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-04-16

Mr.. CLEvELAND-It . reported that e1
President Cleveland +as consented to
consult specials. in relation to the ab-
normal and CONSTANT; INCREASING develop
ment of fat with which be has been sffic
ed for many yearP, but especially since he
iet5 Washington, and that he has learned
that mis- fa,neaa is nott..as less than dis
esss and one that must result fatally In o
comparatively short time uaess it s cured
or, at least, checked He has lately been
gaining weight at the rate of % pounds a
month, and this fresh fat added to his al
ready enormous proportions has been
smothering every vital organ in his body.
Schw eninger treadmill, it ia said, is one Of
the features of his treatment.
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Foreign News.

MEssINA, Apl. 16.-The project gave
fete last night in honor of the officers of the
war vessels Boston and Atlanta, of the
American Squadron of Evolution.
BERLIN, Apl. 16-The question ola general
European disarmament will probably be
brought before the Reichstag at the coming
session.
BERLIN, Apl 16.-The VosSische Zeitung
sass that the elimination Of party strife from
the inheritance upon which Chancellor Ven
Caprivi has entered appears to be the begin
ing o! a new era. No party, the paper says,
will oppose the government on matters OF
principle.
PARIS, Apl. 16 -Preaident Carrot, who is
making tour in the south of France, al
rived at AK lee Bains tc1ay. he was re-
ceived by enthusiasm by large crowd OF
people, including many persons of diatiuc-
ton. A salute of 100 guns was fred in
honor of the President.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-04-16

Women R1orERs.-1talian street cleaners in
Philadelphia have been in state of excitement
for several days caused by the ,tflrts OF some OF
their number to Tganiz strike for hi cher wages
There we're great many men, however, who went
to work for Sis per day, instead OF $50.
Yesterday these men were attacked in tho street
by mob Of fifty women, the wives and sweet
hearts of the strikers. The women seized the
brooms and scrapers of the men and hea the lstter
with these tools until squad OF police arrived
and took fifteen women 70 the jail second riot
inaugurated by women, wss qualicd in the same
way, q score of women beiSg held 10 keep the
peace or else sent to Jail.
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An IneXcusable Iudignity

ATHENS, Ga, April 16.-An incident &C
Cured in the postofice here which has e1-
oitei considerable Indignation A modest
young white lady called at the delivery
window for mail. While standing in front
of the window negro walked Up behind
her, aud placing his arms around the young
lady, leaned against the window. locking
her in his embrace. He asked several times
il there Was any mail for him. and made
several useless inquiries as an excuse to
hold The young lady imprisoned iu his en-
brace. When released she fed from the
postoffice in tears, and he negro moved eff
chuckling to himself.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-04-16
LEX A N IA,
WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 16,
ppor B1oourrE1D, of Johns Hopkins

ppop BLOOMFIELD, of Johns Hopkins
Troivarsitv who is now publishing series
n, Particles on the negro, 10 the Baltimore S"n'
evissntlv has not prepared himself Tor
TIA. nurpose with the thoroughness which
those who know him expected, or which is
aue the institution to which ne belongs. 10
show that such is the case, 1t Is only necee-
gary to saw that ip his latest paper ne states
In effect. that uu'attoes are capable OF per
petual propagation also, that in hot Gil
mate the negro's power of endurance ex-
caeds that of The Y bite man. But physiolc-
gy aud experience both teach that tire pro
creative faculty of the mixed breed ceases
after the third or fourth generation anc
experience in the cottor-felds of this couh
try, s.rcs the wer, and Of modern exploring
parties in equatorial Africa, has diss'
pated the old idea that negro couc
withstand the debiiitatiug influences
of hot climate better than man Will
white ska and straight hair. Int
white and black man belong TO differ
ens speoiss of animal organization, and the
former is the superior physicslT, as we'll o.
morally anG Intellectually, aud man canno
make similar what Datu-e has made dissim
liar, and stamped the difference with he
irdelihle mark.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-04-16
Colored Convention.

q State convention of ccored man met in
Richmond yesterday. J. T. Wilson, OF
Richmond, was made chairman. The cor
vention was composed OF about 100 colcred
men from various parts Of the Siste. Among
the number were maoy Old politicians who
were identified at different times wiki the
Malone and anti-Mahoue wings of the RI
publican party in this State.
Chairman Wilson read lengthy address.
He gave history of the trials and strue-
giles of the coiored f)ks, and said they had
stood by the republican party because in
their platforms they guaranteed civil and
political equality to all men. He assert
ed that the republican, are cow becoming
tired of the negroes, end the democrats
have no use for them. and they will now have to
drift with the lido. He urged that not so much
money be spent for church building and gorgeous
funeral parsdes, and moro be invested in homes
snd school houses. He referTel to John Wise
as wouid-be Moses who had betrayed the ne.
groes, and his illusions TO Gen. Mshone and his
political followers was not complimentary to the
General. Wilson, in closing his remarks, said IS
tho republican party hid fiji to make the cap
italists o: the North the especial object of their
care, the negroes could no longer support the par
ty of high tariff unless tho black flag raised against
them at the Northern workshops is taken down.
As the oloi ed people consumers and not pro-
ducers, they want low tariff.
Two resolutions offered by John Mitchell OF
Richmond, and which were sent 10 a committee,
will attract attention. The first pledges the
colored people OF the State not to support any one
for ofhce who will not promise to use his best
Efforts to secure The repeal of laws discriminating
sgsiust The negroes. Tho other is to commit the
voters OF tho race in the second Norfolk and
fourth (petersbure districts to support only
cOlored candidates. Tor Congress in those districts
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a Red Prophet

DENVER, April l6-Meat Axe, the big
Sncsaone medicine msn, has predicted q
food, to occnr in July. an1 wipe out the
heartless pale faces. He says the visitation
ia rstribution for the upj1st conduc: of the
whites in confaiog 1000 Indians OF little
reservation OF 100000 acraa. Runners
have beel sent all over the res ,r7a.ion, and
to the Crows, Cheyennes, and Sioux, to her.
aid the calamity, and rush OF Indians to
the Wind River Noun tain7, the scheduled
haven, is anticipated.
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Telegraphic RreYities.

Municipal elections were held in Illinois
yesterday. Reports from fifty towns show
IS against license.
The italian consul. Mr.. Carlo Philippe
Sierra, and Adelaide c. Long were married
in Baltimore to-day.
Officers are preparing to raid persons
selling liquor in the Cherokee nation, and
as they are desperate men bloodahed Is
feared.
Emperor William has conferred the frat
claes decoration of the Royal Order OF the
Grown upon Sir. Charles Gibson, an attoI
neg of St. Louis.
The steamer City OF New York, which
was re- ported to have frundered off Main
toac is safe. She has passed through the
straits of Mackinaw and headed for Buffalo
uninjured.
The large excursion hotel, the Warner
House, at S,s Btstzs, n. j., was entirely
destroyed by fire this morning. Fourteen
persons who were ia the building barely es.
capped with their lives, saving no property
The corner stone of the new federal build
ing in Nsgras, Tex was last night dislodged
from its bed and ts contents. consisting o.
coins, nans and reics of many kinds were
stolen. The outrage was the work of Mexi
cans.
q Chippewa Falls, Wis, special says
Prairie fires have started in this vicinity and
uuleas there ia rain soon much damage vii
be done. at Morrey, eight miles distant
the farmers are fighting the fire to save
fences and houses. Il ia learned that d.
structive fires are raging at other points IL
Wisconsin.
Tho explosion of vulcanizng apparatus in {
New York dentists laboratory yesterday badly
heightened the jewellers in that section of the
city, considerably damaged tho building and came
near killing the dentist and his assistant.
The indic,tio are that May 1st most o.
the soft coal miners of Illinois, Indiana and Penn
sylvania will go out on a strike, and that after
that date the supply of soft cosl will be limited
In the Ottawa Ont, Senate yesterday Mr.. Fen
ton said there would be no relaxation of the reg
ulations respecting the importation of American
cattle into Canada for export to England.
1t is reported at Chamberlain, S. D., that troops
will remove the boomers from Sherman, q new
town on the reservation opposite there The
land is claimed by the Indians
Mr.. and Mrs. D. c. Boomer, the latter the orig
nator of the Bloomer costume, celebrated the
| iftieth anniversary of their marriage at Council
Bluffs, Iowa. yesterday.
Mr.. C. H. Miller, wealthy resident of Salem
Mass was found dead in his bath room at the
Hotel Normandie in Washington this morning
John K. Owens, cashier for the irm of Gibbs &
Co., of San Francisco, has disappeared. His
accounts arc $4,000 shot.
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s&a9(gzS55 s MszE5
AsS0CTATED PRESS DISPATCHES.
Proceedings Of Congress.
WARRINGTON. D. o., April IL.

SENATE.
Mr.. Mitchell gave notice that be would
address the Senate next Tuesday on his
proposed constitutional amendment for the
election of Senators by the people.
The Montana election case was again
taken up, and les Mr.. Daniel did not claim
the floor to continue his speech ofyesterday)
Mr.. Gibson addressed the Senate in favor OF
the democratic side of the question.
The resolution admitting tbs republican
contestants was adopted by strict party
vote.
HOUSE.
The Committee on Commerce reported
back adversely the resolution directing that
committee to Investigate the life saving
system. Laid on the table.
A bill was called up amending the alien
land law, so as to permit foreign capital to
be invested in mines of gold, silver, lead,
tin, cinnabar and copper. 1t gave rise to
long debate.
The tariff bill has been reported to the
House and referred to the committee Of the
whole.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-04-16
MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL

NEW YoEg. April 16.-The remains Of yeste,
day afternoons realizing movement we're fet
the stock market this morning, and sbilo -.
business dore was confined to comparative.
small number OF stocks, first prices in them w..
generally from Is to Is lower than las! cyeDiD.,,
figures. Further slight losses were sustained 59,
ing the early trading in few instances, bu. tbo
market quickly developed q firm ton sni ,.,
nights prices were soon sTproximated The mar.
ket toward the end of the hour reacted slisb,-
and at II o'clock it was dull and steady, bu. gcr.
orally at something better than the opening priss.
BALTIMORE, april 16.-Virgina IS cop.oi.
dated 4Oa past-due coupon = 1o.4Os ~: %
IS
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BUNGL1Ne Work OF AN UNDERrAKsR.

BUNGLING WORK OF AN UNDERTAKeR.-
A sad and horrifying accident occurred yes
terday at the funeral OF Mrs. Mary Jensen,
near Laporte, Indiana. A laundering un-
dertaker allowed the coffin to fall into the
open grave during the interment, breaking
the glass front Of the cssket and letting the
corpse fall out into the bottom of the grave
Several of the mourners tainted, but the
undertaken jumped into the excavation,
pushed the body back into the receptacle
and ootlly ordered the grave digger to fill
in the dirt. There is great indignation
among those who saw the affair.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-04-16

as 1T Is impossible to conceive the idea
that there could be public celebration OF
the unyeiiiug of statue of General Lee
without the exhibition of the flag under
which he gained the victories that have
made his name immortal! and IS that flag is
still looked upon In the North SIS the ZEN
blem of treason" the invitation to the 9Th
regiment of New York volunteers to attend
the celebration referred to had better be
withdrawn, and the members Of that reg
ment had better stay at home.
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Murderers Arrested.

MARsHALLTowN. a.. April 16.-Chsres
Mara and James Rice, the alleged murder
ers of Henry Johns, have been brought here
from Visalia, Cal, where they were arrested
by detective Burke, WHO Dad been on their
track ever since the murdar, six years ego.
The murder of Johns was the sequel to q
series of Infamous crimea committed by the
notorious Rainsbnrger gang, nephews Of
Johns,
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a Card
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA, VA
Anrii Ia 1870

AprlI 19, 1850.
To he EDITOR of lie Alexandria Gazette:
The writer's attsntion hiss been csled to an ed
iorisl which appeared IN the GAZETTE OF last
Monday in which an ir.usaico vas done the Uni
versity. its professors and students.
The GAZETTE was mi.ipformed when it stated
that msjority OF our professors are republicans.
The University G!eo and Banjo Clubs, instead
of bsing infatuated with Northern customs aud
fashions as you will have it, were actusted by
the noble Impulse o! siding the ladies of the Uni
ve:sty and of Charlottesville in their lsudsb,e
effort 20 raise funds for the erection OF a monu-
ment to the memory of our confederate dead
Their success at the University emboldened
them to give concert in Lvnchburg, ana they
will give one in Stanton and probably in Rich
mond-all for the same prsisewor.hy object
The GAZETTE need not fesr but that the Uni.
versity Will, in the psst, furnish men esteemed
for thei. services not in the kitchen or in the
dining room, but at the bar and the bedside, in
the field, the study and the sanctum.
A STUDENT
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Accident TO an Aeronaut

TOPEKA, KAN, April 16-Prof. Z. T..
Craig attempted to make balloon ascen-
sion here yesterday, when the balloon came
in contact with telegraph wire. throwing
him out. He fell 40 feet, striking head fore
most against buggy, receiving severe in
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-04-16

SOME PEOPLE are now doubling the 10y
atty Of the late Mr.. Randall TO the csndi.
date of his psrty at the last Presidential
election. Toere is no ground for such doubt.
Mr.. Randall. like many other wise democrats,
was opposed to the denomination of Mr..
cleveland, but after Mr.. Cleveland had re
sceived the denomination, he was IS true
and loyal to him as any of those who, not
so wise, had forced the denomination.