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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-08-01
RRWa nR TIE DAY.

II Ia reported that M. Robert P. Porter
will resign the position OF superintendent OF
the cenaus this fall.
Henry T. Houck, painter from Wash.
inetop. Yesterday attempted to kill his wife
Anus, By shooting a. her 10 Baltimore.
Seustor Butler has returned to Washing
ton. While at hcma he encountered sno
yanou ished several sub.tressury champions
In public debate.
The will OF Mrs. Mary Eopkins-Searles.
who at the time Of her death was worth
$50 coo, is to be contested By her adept
ed son, Timothy hopkins.
The re8 Balmacedan var vessel Presi
depte ErEsznrjz sailed from Lisbon ior
Chill to-day, having, apparently found her
complement Of men by some secret mesns.
The photographic Office predicts fair
weather for August, and osils attention to
The prevalence of hurricanes 10 the tropics
during this month. The use CT oil duEipg q
storm is recommended.
Rev, Professor Tredinniok, pastor CT the
Methodist Episcopal church at BluffSon,
Ala, deen O. the University OF the Sou;h
and member of the Alabama conference,
died yesterday Eofnipg.
InS Nl!e5ISSipll
the provision in .he new constitution Of that
State in regard TO the prepayment OF poll
t, axes has had Toe effect expected; namely,
the dimunition OF the negro vote.
a private conference is said to have been
held between Governor Hill, Mayor Ohepin
and Hugh mclaughlin, and 1t is sgsin report
ed that Governor Hill will be asked to accept
the gubArnstorial nomination in the inter-
eet OF harmony.
Il is suggested IN Phllndelpha ,hat Sem
tor Quay's resignation mag Do Simply IL.
'eadod to secure full recognition from PTesi'
deut HerrisoD, snd Il he gatg what he wants
ne will resume the ohsirmaDeblp CT the NC
;ionsl republican committee.
a story Of domestic infeictty was aired In
the Divorce Court Ct Providence, r. l., yea
terdey. The evidence showed that one Of
tbs merchant princes, Forest T. Tibbets, hsd
been running two establishments, with q
wife in oae and mattress In the other. The
77ifs did not know Of her husbaCd'a dual lie
until o short time ago. Now she sues for an
absolute divorce. end the whole story ia
made public,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-08-01
a Sensational Murder

PETo;KEY, Wis, Aug. Twenty years
ago Albert Mollter, of Detroit, settled In
Rogers City and engaged In heavy business
undertakings. On the Dight of August %,
1876. he was murdered while sitting at lis
desk, being riddled with buokshot. His
clerk, q young man named Sullivan, who
sprang to his assistance, received similar
charge aud died within few days. The
killing created widespread excitement and
efforts to discover the assasslns we're made
but without success. After the lapse Of elk.
taon years, William Kepke. farmer, mas
made confession that seve al cilizeus
including himself entered into an oath
bound compact to sassInate Mollter, and
that the shot Sullivan received was intend
cd SO second one for Moiter. The list
contains many prominent men OF the
county, and Ii Ia expected that all will be
arrested before noon to-day.
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Found. But a Mormon.

ST. LOUIS, Aug. 1.-Maude Estertrook,
at one time ribbon clerk OF large retail
dry goods estat shment In this city. tus
Who is en- heiress to fortune In Lseds,
England, has been found In Salt Lake City
by Scotland Yard officer who has been fol-
lowing her all around the world. She Ia
now the thirteenth aled wife Of Norm n
E der Jenkins Of tba. city, and Is 80 satisfied
With Mormonism, that che refused to accom-
pauy the Inspector back to Leeds to clsira
her inheritance She eloped from Vienna
With an attsohe OF the English Legation
who committed suicide on the way over
here By jamping overheard. The girl drift
ed west with trav Her, became a dry
goods clerk here, went to st. Paul as COVER
ness for Rhode Island family and then
went to Sslt Lake City.
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VsRaINIA NEWS.

Francis O. Rswls has been appointed as
siatant lighthouse keeper at the Nansemond
light house.
At Hampton yesterday, Robert Gordon
oolored, wss convicted of al assAo's on E
white lady and sentenced to he hung.
Mr. n. J. Smith, late commander OF De-
psrtment OF Virginia, G. q. Il has been ep-
pointed By collector Brady 70 fill the plsoe
lately vacated by Marshal Tom Atkins &c
deputy collector CT internal revenue FOX
Richmond city sud district.
At Balcony Falls on the Chesapeake end
Ohio Railway yesterday evening, G E.Doil-
man, brake man Of q heavy freight train,
fell from csr making lying switch ard
was Instantly killed. His body WAS cnt in
two. rs vas native of Jackson, Botetoprt
county, YVES single and leaves widowed
mother.
Pierce Blair, son OF Capt Frank &. Blair,
of Wytheville, while attempting to board a
freight train at MaxmeBGows yesterday
morning, was caught uader the CARS aud
horribly msnelsd. Bob legs were crushed
almost to july. The young man fingered
till t7so O'clock. when he died. The remains
were taken to Wythevi!ie.
The impression which got abroad thot the
Virginia debt commission would shortly
hold at the White Sulphur Springs. W. Va,
another meeting. was incorrect No meet.
irg is likely to be called until the O.coit
committee express the desire TO present
some pev proposition. WhaneVe. the COM
mission NESTS In will be IN Richmond, Get
tainly within the limits Of Virginia.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-08-01

IT is annouuced that MIR. Morgan, com-
missioner of The Iodan Bureau, has gone to
Europe on pleasure TIP and will be absent
from his deck in that husesu for at least six
weeks. Well, Commissioner Morgan haa
the same right to abardon his public ctiico
for private Susiaess that Commissioners Por-
ter, OF tbs census, end Rsum. ofthe pension,
bureaus have &c abandon theirs. In tie
earlier ard batter dsys Of the republic the
ides prevailed that the least man could DO
who accepted s public Office and drew the
salary thereof, was TO stay In it and attend
to Its dotles. But times change, and th'ngs
are not ss they ussd to be.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES.
Foreign News.

LISBON, Aug. 1.-senhor CarVa|ho, the
minister Of finance, has Issued q decree CIV
Ing legal currency to francs imported into
the state and prohibiting the expectation OF
all silver coin.
CoRUNNA. Aug. IAN explosion took
place here to-day In a fireworks factory.
Six people were killed and many were in-
/ jnred by the explosion, the cause of which
is unknown.
DUBLIN, Aug. THE Freeman's Journal
to-day renews Its appeal to the warning fac
Slons Of the Irish parlamsnty party to find
some means Of promptly effeoting recon.
ciIatlon. without ruthlessly throwing to
the wolves man whose leadership brought
the cause to the threshold Of SUGGEST"
LONDON, Aug. 1.-Dlspatches received
here from Foo Choo. China. state that riot
Ing is imminent at that place and the town is
totally unprotected. Plaoards upon which
are notices threatening foreigners have
been posted In the public thoroughfares. L
ia reported that the mission buildings ct
Yen Ping, province OF Fo-Kien, on the Min
river, ninety miles northwest OF Foo Choo,
and at Foe Ming, In the same province.
| ssventy miles northeast of Foo Ohoo, have
been attacked by Chinese mob. 1t is also
said that some of the inmates of the mission
buildings have been killed.
LONDON, August 1.-DIspatohes received
! here from ,nz' bar state that the tribe So.
malls, which recently made treacherous
! attack upon Athale, an Italian coast station
! In southeast Africa, WAS repulsed after a
| sharp struggle, during which 80 men were
killed on either side.
1 MADRID. Aug. 1.-The Official Gazette to-
Ebay publishes degree promulgating the
| new treaty between the United States and
Spain in regard to the trade between the
United States and Cuba and Porto Rico.
LONDON, Aug. 1 The Brtiah steamer
Angelica, from Cardiff for the Mediterranean,
has returned to the port from whence she
sailed on fire. Three Of her crew we're burn
ed to death during the progress fthe fire.
NEW YORK, Aug. "A London special
Gays: "Thers Is considerable alarm In Rome
over rumors OF the impending closing Of the
Bank OF Rome. The bank Ia an old Catho.
lie institution and lt Ia sald that Pope Leo
has advanced two million francs and thus
eVerted the threatened disaster"
LISBON, Aug 1.-The Journal del Concrete to.
day states that 1t is reported that Congressional
cruiser, with torpedoes, Is cruising fl the coast Of
Portugal, awaiting an opportunity to attack the
Presidente Errszuriz.
LIVERPOOL, Aug, John Conway, the steam
ship fireman, who has been found guilty OF muir
dering the 15.year old boy whose body was found
| floating in sailors bag in Harsdon dock May 10
last, was to-day sentenced to death.
GENEVA, Aug, 1.-The Hotel 4 Alpes, at Cha.
mount, has been destroyed by fire.
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FROM WASHINGTON.
rspec,a Correspondence Of the Alexandria Gazette
WASHINGTON, d. o., Aug. l, 1891.


WASHINGTON. D. O., Aug. l, 1891.
Sheriff Veitch OF Alexandria county wss
here to-day. BE says mass meeting VII!
be held at Ballston, In his county. Monday
night, for the purpose OF taking the sense OF
the people OF that county on the subject q
tire system by which TIE proposed improve
mens of the roeds therein shall be conduct
sd. lie says that under the system now In
vogue the roads are DO better OF the END Of
the wear than they are ct the commence
meat thereof.
A telegram ges received OF The Navy De-
Cincinnati Oh;o, of Commander 0hes. Die
Gregor, Insaeclor OF the 14th Light Houoe
district. The deceased bad been In the 90 p
ice for 81 years
The streets to. day are full OF discharged
cepsus cleric, about nina hundred of whom
vsre turned loo5e st the close of Office hours
Yesterday. Some OF the males smopg iban'
marched ehout the streets les. night In hilc-
rious humnr, but gentlemsn who rert9
,oon ed bring that occupied By one CT the
females, tolc the GkzETTE's correspondent
that ne head hsr crying ell night long. So
egain. snme will play while others wasp
Among the discharged are many Virglnians
CJMIuCH tdih sG GoC copJcCS hOiC 10 W oHS
effect that Notwithstanding all OF Mr.. Hsr'
rison's professions of nationalism end o.
kindness for the South during he late ewing
aronnd the circle, he is so Impressed With
the belief that the Force bill Is popular il
the North, that iirenominated be will insist
uacn the insertion of q plank fs9crlng thu
| bill in chs platform tc be adopted by the
| national republican convention.
| ~ 7inu fha fact that fha hid n
the Bath Iron Works OF Maine, for the con
sti uc,ion Of the new cruiser Was the lowest
| BIZ $50, 900, the Secretary OF the Navy hal
awarded the contract to Cramp q Son, o
Philadelphia.
A northern republican congressman TOLD
the GAzETTE's correspondent this morning
that be Gas as much In the dark concerning
the resi- condition OF Mr.. BlaIne's health as
any body elsa not ia familiar intercourse
with the Secretary's family, but he was COZ
| ident that If Mr.. Blaine be we'll man nexi
June the national republican convention
will nominate him for President
If no be dead or still tick at that time, Mr.. htc
Kinley, he said, if successful in Ohio, will be
| the nominee. He said OF the forty -four members
of the national republican committee no less than
twenty seven have already expressed themselves
| as opposed to President Hsr1ison's denomination
Notwithstanding Mr. Hslford's positive denial
il is still asserted here that Secretary Mobiles
ignation hiss been on President Harrisons desk
for eeyers weeks. The rumor that Mr.. Clarkson
will gil the vacancy Is not credited, by reason Of
the fact thst Mr. ClaIkson does not train with
Mr. Harrison now, and that that ftct is IS well
known to Mr.. Harrison IS to every body else
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MYsterious Deaths.

BARRE, VT, Aug. 1-Taere is muon er
element In town over the unexplained
deaths Of two young daughters of Jeremiah
MCCARTHY. Oae was taken Ill Tuesday and
died 10 few hours and was followed Wed.
nesday by her slster. The mother and ar
other sister are very i'll. having the sams
symptoms as In the cases OF the dead child.
rem, and six ooal physicians who have been
called In confess themselves bs eli I'd. An.
other family living in the same house Sra
ms ffscted
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-08-01
TELEGRAPHIG BREVITIEs.

NJ. J. Woodland, an oil refner, OF Petrolia,
Ont. has made an assignment. His llabili-
ties are placed at $1,000
A kidding wood trust has been formed iD
Boston, and. beginning to day, the product
of all the factories In that city and vicinity
will be handled by one firm. The price per
hundred tundlea yesterday YES 81 40 the
price to-day par hundred ia 81 so.
THIS morning the neW collector OF the
port OF New York, J. S. Fssssts, arrived at
the custom house in that city and net
ez-Oo!leotor Erhardt, and she Two adjourn
ed to Q private room. Il is said that Mr.
Fassetb will not take up the reins for e
week and that MI Erhards has consented
| to remain that length OF time.
MEior-Gepersl soofeld. who arrived Iss'
evening In New York. was present TO-DAY y
q meeting of the ordnance and fertilization
hoard. Plans 'or Improvements In the ioriif-
cations of theAtlantic apdPacifo coasts were
submitted as wss also the plans for new
type of big gun. The bids for the construc-
ton of 100 new guns were taken into con-
alteration.
st Atlantic Highlands, n. j., last night,
a cottage occupied by Henry Hoop was tc-
tally destroyed by fire, caused by the ez-
plosion OF lamp. Mrs. Hoop aud her three
children we're nearly sutfocated before they
we're rescued by the neighbors, and were
carried out of the building In an inaensible
condition. They were ell asleep at ths tim
the Ere bToke out.
A soIemn and Impressive ceremony took
! place at ST. Boniface Cathedral at Wlnr!-
pig, AieD,, to-day, being the episcopal coz
seeration IF Rev. Emil E. Grouald as sue
cessor TO The late Bishop Farsud. Vicar
Apostolic of the AthabaEoa Mckenzie do
csae. Archbishop Tache oficia.ed. aselsted
by Bishop GrandiD. of s.. Albert, N. W. T.,
end Bishop Sheniey, Of jamestown, n. D.
A yeuturesome miner, Glad In a complete
suit of Divers armor, vent into the burning
Republic mine, 81 Republic, Mich, yeatsr-
day. He fought the flames with a small
hoss sufficiently to make his way into the
mine for some distance. he found that the
FIRE was burning down to the sixth level.
The damage 80 far done will reach nearly
$3.50 600, and no liEt can be set to wha'
! may yat be done.
april Fool, sn Oregon horse, broke the rcco;d
for half milo run on circular track at Bnttc,
Mont, yesterday. The half mile WAS made in Al
seconds the best previous time being 47at sec
onds for circular track and as seconds on a
| straight course
The Iowa State veterinary surgeon. who has
been investigating the cattlo disease which has
boon alarming tho stock men in that Stste, does
rot believe tho diSesse to be contagious.
At Capo May this morning, the President with
Mrs. Harrison, Mrs. Dimmick, and several others
went out Grabbing.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-08-01
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Il is said that the wheat crop 10 Mime
sofa and Dakota will amount TO nearly
115,0c0 900 bushels.
Vesuvius has again burst forth in STATE
of eruption. The lava has now reached the
village of Rio del CavRllo.
The fourth centennial of the discovery Of
America Is to be celebrated with many ies.
tiVitlve5 a. GeEoi, the birthplace Of &C.
lumhus.
Robert Tankerly, aged - years. who died
yesterday Of hydsophobia at Wichite, Kan.
was bitten months ago, bat the wounds
soon bealtd. For hours before his death be
howtd, snarIed and Ssrked, apparently In
awful agony.
Mas Adelaide Brown yesterday horse
whipped Rev. William @. Jesop, pastor oil
st. Johns Methodist Episcopal Church, Or
RDga, N. j., because be wrote her letter FAY
ing he va, not 10 love with her. She was
10 love with him.
Tie yellow jackets In Carroll county,
lid, are building their peate in trees and on
the fences, and fsrmers say this indicates a
wet season. The farmers il this section
koew The season was vet teiore the yellow
jackets 80 predicted.
Inc Farmers RtDaoco slcEe 2G EIIaFtdu-
burg. s. O., Fal failed. and Mesars. AllOut,
Nixon az Godeboroush, Of Baltimore,
wholesale shoe dealers, have entered suit In
the U0ised Sta.e5 District Uourt Tor 81 925
against the directors OF the alliance In Spar
tspburg county.
Myra Fsncher, beautiful girl, sixteen
yeays old, Thursday night ehot ar d instant-
killed a. G Jones on the street at Zelwood,
Fla. Jones', who was section foreman Oh
The Florida Central Railroad, oourted the
girl yesr end discarded her. Miss Fsnoh-
CT was arrested and taken to Orlando for
trial.
While Mrs. Barbara Hatcher and her hua-
band, George, were partsking of the noon
day meal at their bcma, 10 South Boston
yesterday. George made 8 remark to his
wifs that the latter did not like, when she
seizsd the carving knife and stabbed him in
the back. The knife penetrated lung,
and he will probably die. The womsn. who
Ia Ry-ore gears old, Ia under arrest.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-08-01
DECEMBER AND MAY.-Jepbemiah

DECEMBER AND MAY.-Jephemish I.
White, of Shelby. N. Y, eyed seventy 1--WE,
and little Lulu Bissel', who is now in Der
fourteen tn Summer, are now man ana wife.
The girls parents claim that the qged
White persuaded the little maiden to elope
With him. and driving to neighhor'ng ls.
tice of the peace persuaded the latter to per.
form the ceremony by claiming that the girl
was over seventeen years OF sge. White
was promptly arrested on the charge OF sb.
duotion, but being released on his owe re-
cogDzsnce during an adjournment OF The
proceedings made good bis escape and no
trace OF him can be fouad. Hls youug vie
Ia at her fathers home.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-08-01
Treaties

The much vauntad reciprocity agreement
between the Ualted States aud Spsin was o.
fcisliy promulgated yesterday by the De-
pertinent OF State. In lis essential braDchss
the compact ia g counterpart of the agree.
ment sabmi9ted to Congress for action du,-
Ing the administration of President Cle7e.
lana. Thls agreement doss not require sat-
iHcsLioo by Congress, but is made between
reprsser tstivee of the two countries inter
ested, and will 60 Ia etso. Septt N be, /. 1891
Tbs President iseued yesterday the proc
lamstion announcing reciprocity with the
Spanish islands OF Cuba ard Porto Rico
under The tariff act of last October, which
with q view TO securing reciprocal trade, ex-
emp.ed from duty sugar, molasses, coffee and
hides upon their importation into the Ualted
States
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Shot by a Robber

srAUNroN, Va. Aug. Last night VII n
the east bound O. s. o. train wss betgeep
Wsyncsboro and Basic City. man entered
a sleeper and going to the berth occupied
by Mr.. Cornell, of Portsmouth, O5io, o..
manded hls money. M.. Cornell refused to
give it to him and started to make defence.
when the robber shot him, irhlcting Gsn.
gerous wound. The assailent escaped. Mr..
ConnelI is now at Charlottesville in ctir.
nai nnnditinn
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-08-01

Two HUNDRED and ninety million doIlsrs
worth of cotton was exported from this coDo,
try to Earope during the last fsoal year
That maintained the favorable balance OF
trade snd kept down the rate of foreign OK
change. The quantity of northern manu-
features exported was Insignificant. IL
thus appears that nov. as ever, it Is the
South upon which this country depends for
IFS fnsncia, prosperity. And yet, President
Harrison and the republican party tried
their beet to ruin this section ard destroy
all Its industrial interests by the infamous
Force bill which they s,rove to psss.
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Death of a Carmelite.

ST. LOUIS. Aug, SISTER Clara, who wa
known to the world az Miss May Rice, of the Car
melite, was buried yesterday evening from tn,
convent. She belonged to wealthy Protcstsn
family Of Litchfeld, Ills., but embraced the Cstl
Ollie religion and entered on the life of Carm9iitc
a. the age Of Is. The dead nun was laid out Sc
cording to the custom of the order, in bare PINE
coffin, with copy OF her vows and the rosary 10
her hands. The interment was st Calvary Gene
terry, though it is the custom OF the order to bury
thor dead within the oonyent walls.
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= LEX A N DIR "A. V
SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 1.
TIE SUBJECT of the deportation OF I'M

TIE sugIEcr of the deports.ion OF the
nevro,s Of this country to Africa Is again
revIved AS close and constant association
ev,tn zhite people Ia the only thing tns'
nreuents the negroes from reiapsing in'o
tbs,- na.ursl barbsrism, of course their re-
.n,o n Africa would be the worst fate that
oorld nefall them. Whether it would bene-
6t the south, their adopted home, ia at least
questionable. When let alone by their
n,eaoners and republican emissaries from
tha North. they are the best sort OF farm IA
horsrs and house servants, and get along
wary we'll With their southern employers
who ere familiar with their race ce'in-
ooenc;as and make allowance fer them, so
tina. It is doubtful If their place could De
supo!!e1 .tisfac.oriiy. But, talk about inc
mn Ter now is no less useess than IL oas
bee,. for the negroes OF The South, yeV
awhile at lesst, sre too well satisfied Wild
the ease with which they can make e COM
Portable living IN this section, to think Of
leaving it for the uncertainties OF life IN the
home q! their ancestors. a few OF them
MAJ go, bot the vast body will remain IN
the sunny South, among the children OF
their old masters, upon whose kindness ;hey
still ;7eoeua in their tine of trouble.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-08-01

RAILROAD accident IN ouIo.-At about 10
o'clock yesterday morning pass enger train on
the Bellaire GAINESVILLE and Cincnnsti Marcos
Gauge 3.rosd left tho track three miles south
of BoIare, Ohio Two cars were overturned and
dragged by the engine. There were seventy pss-
sengers on the tysin, going to circus at BeIaire
and the two cars that lurno1 over into the ditch
zero crowded with well known people OF Pitts
burg Fourteen psopie were I'M ured, four of them
seriously and one fatally. When the cars turned
over many OF the passengers had reached the plat
forrn These we're buried into the ditch in an in
discriminate mass of mon, women and children
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-08-01

THE decrease in the exports of American
treadstuf5' during the last fiscal year
amounted to no less than twenty-seven mill
lion dollars. That was seeing Secretary
Blaine aud going him considerably better.
He. 1t will be- remembered, smashed his new
hat on the table In congressional commit
tee room. before the Mckinley bill was pass
cd, aud aid that bill wonid not increase the
export OF whsat to the ex.sot of one buahel.
Thsre ia vast difference between an In
crease Of one bushel and decrease of bush
OILS to the value OF $27 600 900, and though it
may not be felt by the rich protected manu-
sacturers, 1t Is ssd burden to tho poor,
oyer.taxed farmers