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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-07-16

THE CONFEDERATE flags, which MI.
in a moment Of gushing kindness
for the South, grstutous!y ordered to be sent
hack to the respective southern States from
which they came, but which order he count,
e,mauded at the demand of sectional ana
partisan organization. are now to DO trans
fsrrsd from the War Department at "asn-
iueton to the National Museum IN Ina1 city,
TIE southern people do not care how con-
spicuous the Aags referred to be made, Tor
they are emblems of brave and conscienti'
Gus struggle for constitutional rights, aud will
forever shed luster on the memory OF the
gallant and eelfsacri6cing men over whom
they waved on many victorious battle
fiaId
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Political.

Assisted yesterday, Hon. James E. Camp
bell was renominated for Governor of Ohio
By the democratic State convention, at CIeve-
land. This convention was not az turbulent
az the previous days. reports seemed to fore
cast, which was 10 large degree owing to the
good management OF the majority. The
Cincinnati delegates, who favored the noml
nation of Mr.. Lawrence T. Neal, voted
against resolution offered by the friends of
Mr.. Virgil P. Kline to mako the nomination
unanimous. The Neal men also Kissed the
nomination. For Lieutenant Governor W.
" Marquis, the present incumbent, was re.
nominaied by exclamation. T. E Peckln.
haugb WAS nominated for Auditor; ]. P. Bal
ley for Attorney General, and Q. F. Acker-
mac for Treasurer.
Gan. john 3. Weaver, of Iowa, and Col.
L. l.. Polk, president OF the National Farm
ers' Alliance, spoke yesterday at Atlantis,
Ca, ii support Of the peoples party move
rnent, General Weaver declared tba. the
people must meet the capitalists of The coun.
Try and ocrquer them Colonel Polk said
John Sherman had caused more suffering
than General Sherman 10 the South. Colo.
mel PoIk attacked Mr.. Cleveland for surren.
dering or trying to surrender to Wall street
and the money power,
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His Grave in a Rock

SAN FRANCISCO, July 16-A few days
ago the Fresno county sheriff. while search
Ing for two murderers, discovered the body
of q man embedded In ice. The sherla's par
ty found the miners tools In an almos. 1t
accessible osnop, and searching about sud-
dedly came upon the dead man lying at the
bottom OF rude grave, with Elk feat OF Ice
over him. He had evidently cut the grave
In the rock. It was soft, and be had been able
to make quite an excavation with pick.
This done, he lay down in the grave, placed q
large rock across his thighs, and drowned himself,
as tho grave slowly filled with water from the lit
tie streams that the melting snow sent into it.
Although II dsummer, the leo had not yet melted.
The ice was transparent, 81 d the dead body IN
thu bottom of the grave WAS painly visible, and
WAS in ss good state OF preservation IS il he had
died yesterday, though there can be little doubt
that he committed suicide last fall. Near by they
found this note, written with lead pencil:
my nsme is Dave Menear. have lived like a
devil I will die like man, and bs damned like
devil"
"NovEMBER co.
The theory Is that he had been driven crazy by
disappointment, as the mine whore he had work
ell was worthless.
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A Series of Accidents

PlTTsBURG, July 16.-A series OF accidents
happened ct Rankin Station. near BrsddocE,
Pa yesterday and last night, whereby five
parsons living in the same house were eth
@; killed or fatally Injured. Yesterday morn
log David Bell, aged 30 years, employed at
the Carrie Furnace, and boa,der at the
house OF Chss McGrattlp, left for his work.
He did not return for supper, ard at z O'Clock
last evsniDg his naked body was found foat-
Ing in the Monongshela river. He had been
drinking hard of late, and it Ia not known
whether he Was accidentally drowned while
swimming or committed suicide. Two hours
later lamp exploded ia McGrsttln's dwell
ing ard two Of his children. Robert and
Charles, aged and 10 gears respectively.
who we're sleeping at the time we're burned
up With the house. This morning abou.
day light Harry Rowe and Peter Knee, who
boarded With McGrattin. went 10 the ruins
to look for some OF the effects While search
ing In the debris brick chimney fell on
them, almost instantly killing Rowe and
fatally pjuring Knee. The men we're about
80 years Of aga and single.
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The Bender Family

E. Randolph, en- attorney OF St. Joseph,
No., who hee just returned bome from Niok-
er8cn, Kansas, saya that he there made the
acquaintance Of Tom Doolittle, an old-sime
freighter, Who told him story OF the 10
nous Bender family, which, II true, settles
all question az to the whereabouts Of that
family o! murdarers Doolittle ssys that af-
ter the murder of York. q band OF searchers,
headed by the m1rdered NAME brother,
went 20 tie Bender house snd extorted f
confession from The old woman. They then
quietly proceeded to hang old man Bender,
bts wife and son to the rsfters of the house.
During .lis proceeding Kate Bender utter
ed some protsst, end was shot to death. AZ
ter the family had been dispatched, York's
svergers took the bodies to the creek bed
soue yards distant from the house and
buried them. The attention Of a family liv-
ing 90 40 adjoining ranch was attracted to
tho Bender place some days aiier by s
starving calf, ard then the absence OF the
family was fret made kuovn to the public.
This gave rise to the report that the MUIR
derous family had fed to avoid punishment,
and caused the prolonged search a!!er them
by the officers Of the lsw.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES.
Foreign News.

LONDON, July 16-The grand jury which
has been Investigating the charge OF indie
cent assault upon lad brought against Mr..
@. 4. Fyffs. the historian, has declared that
no bill should be found against him.
DUBLIN. July 16.-Mr. Psrnell he's paid
the costs 10 the O'Shea divorce case THY
amounted to $1,000
STOCKHOLM, July 16-The visiting
French feet has received an enthusiastic
reception here. A banquet was given this
evening prior to the departure Of the q eli
by Inc Swedish naval officers. President
Csrnot of France end King Oscar ofSSeder
we're toasted.
LONDON, JAY 16-There Is every pros
poet of splendid hop crop, snd the grow.
e-s expect good prices in view Of the upfsS-
orable reports received In regard to the hop
prospects In the United States and ae 60 the
appearance OF the blight in America.
Prince George OF Greece reached thia city
to-day from Liverpool, having arrived there
from New York by the steamer City Of New
OK, luo fluCo VI w nioo aao PieSe~ =
suite o. apartments In Marlborough Houat
at bis disposal. The Prince OF Wales has
alao detailed one of his aides de-camp to at
tend Prince George during the latter's stay
in England.
Intelligence has bsen received here thai
the Br ish steamsr Uouingsby. from Mar
settles, has been wrecked near the Island Of
Cheduba 10 the Bay Of Bengal. The acci-
dsnt vas attended by no loss OF life.
PARIS, Jaly 16.--Saven hundred men en-
played on the Northern Railroad struck TO.
day. The other lines are short-handed
and the strike is extending.
BERLIN Jaiy. 16.-Princo and PrinccssBiamarck
have left charlottesville for schonhsusen.
PATS, Jaly 16.-An express train was derail-
! cd to day near Nsjac, small town nine miles
from Vilefrsnche, in the department. of Aveyron.
Tw ,lve carriages were overturned and msny per.
SONS were injured,
DUBLIN, July 16.-Tho blight has played great
| havoc with the potato crops in the skibberecn
district
LISBON, July 16.-A decree was promulgated
today reducing the import duty on wheat to :
rcis DOR kogramme.
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EgWg OF TIE DAY.

Plnkeye has made Its appearance among
the horses In Baltimore.
slr William Gordon Cum ming denies the
renort that he Ia to essnd for Parliament In
Inverness.
salton Lake, on the Colorado desert. con-
tinues rising, until now the overflow reaches
1000 square miles.
The Russian Bacon Company Is going to
make an effort to drive American bacon on!
of the European market.
On account OF the destruction OF the big
caiesop the future of tho proposed light
house On Diamond Shoa Is In doubt.
a story from Texas is printed In New
York to the effect that Gov. Hill has decided
to support Mr.. Cleveland for the Prestden-
taI nomination.
Frank stang's brewery ct Sandnaky, o.,
McKelvey's ioe-house and Fred. Banner
house were burned yesterday total ioes
sl7O 900. The pulp mill CT the shaWmut
Fibre Company at Shawmut, Me, Was sIso
burned loss $3.50 GOO.
The municipal authorities OF Amsterdam
have decided TO lease the necessary ground
to the Standard Oil Company for the erec-
ton of oil tanks, but refused the company
the right to renew the agreement alter the
ten years have elapsed.
Warden Brown, of Sing Sing prison, New
York, yesterday filed biH certificate OF death
OF the four men executed by electricity. APP
pended to the certificate was statement hy
DIS. Carlos F. Macdonald and Samuel D.
Ward, the physicians at the execution, that
the men submitted quietly that uncon-
scionsness was produced instantsneously
and death was maniiestly painless, and that
electricity was the beet agent for killing
criminals.
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!, lex ANDRIA. " a
THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 16.
TIE DEMOCRATS Of Ohio are wise men Il

THE DEMOCRATS of Ohio are wise men 10
their generation. They have declared 10
favor OF a national income tag: They EMO"
that the chief otjsct of government is the
protection Of life aud property. They also
krow that they can protect their own nV's'
and that most of them have little or no prop
erty to protect. They, likewise, know tnao
texes are laid upon the necessaries Of l!fe,
ard that az there are ninety.nine poor, to
every one rich man, and SO rich man can
MT consume more of such necesaaries than
q Door one, the government Is practically
suppo-ted By taxes e1acted OF those who
have no property to protect. They DONE
see hoT. under fair and equal govern
.nent. o msn With million dollars In stocks
and bonds, the value OF which depends on
the preservation OF law end order, should
pay no more toward the support OF the gov
ernmeDt than che whose possessions H.
eiu6e no moe than thu clothes upon his
b. ok; and So no body can give them sat-
isfsosory reason for such gross injustice, they
denand that It be stopped, and that taxes
be laid with come regard to equity and to
the condition Of those OF whom they are e1.
acted. The demand of the Ohio democrats
saould be endorsed by tho national demo-
cratic convention.
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FRUIT PRosPGcrs IN PIEDMONT VIRGIN.
IA.-Ihe crop of apples. peaches and grapes
promises TO be one Of the largest ever grown
IN this Sec vn. Tha estimated value Ia over
100000 The 'rui: growers have orgsniz-
ed themselves into en- association, ard are
openiog an exchange to handle the crop In
the mcsi judicious manner. The most
pressing difficulty Is the question Of right
and chipping. Mr.. Lyman and Colonel
Smith, the fruit CON mittee the S ste bard
OF Agriculture, have had interviews With the
representatives of the d fcrent railway COM
Fanes OF theee questions. and aeut-commit-
tee, consisting of Mr.. Lyman end repre-
sentative ofthe railroads, is now endeavor-
ing to arrange terms and facilities for hand
ling the crope satisfactory to the Fruit Asso-
ciatiou.-Southern Planter.
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FIGHT WITH BLAcKsSAKr.-whilo pickir,

FIGHT WITH BLAcKsNAKE.-Whilo pickiro
blsckberries in dense growth of bushes on Tues
day, Miss Lsurs Leininger, of Penn township. p.
suddenly felt her left arm encrcled tightly in II
coils Of huge blscksnake Before she resliz,d bo.
danger the snake had thrown ita tail around bo.
wrist, rendering her almost helpless in its terrih'a
folds. Miss Leininger, screamed for help. bpt -
she did 20 the snake thrust out / fery fang. sns
made strike at her lips. Quick as thought tha
girl grasped the monster by the neck with bss
left hand and tore it from her arms Before aba
released herself, however, the snake had b;ttar
her hand several times. The heroine dispatched
his snakesbip and went to her homo, where tba
wounds were dressed. Laura is the daugbtar n5
Martin Leninger, and, excepting great neryon.
shock and swollen hand, she does lot suffer snv
Inconvenience.
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Militia Called Out.

NA3BvnLE, Tenn, July 16.-GoV. Buch-
suan and Col. Granville Sewer left the city
last night for BrIervile where yesterday
morning three hundred armed free laboIars
drove the congicis end guard from the Ten
uessee Coal & Mining Co.'s mine. During
laat evening Adjutant General Norman tel
egraphe1 the Lookout Mountain guards and
Mooreien u ,u.ves Of Chattanooga and TIE
Rockville R fss tn be Ia readiness. The
Stones River Guard and the Washington
ARTILLERY have besn ordered to be In readi-
meas. Two thousand pounds OF ammunition
went DOVE on the train with the governor
last night.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-07-16

DOG CAT0HERs MoBBED. George Lessen
ger, q dog catcher, lost his right sye last
night ct the hands of an angry crowd OF
people In Brooklyn, from one Of whom he
bad "acooped" akg terrier. IA lsenploy-
ed by Michael Mcfarland the city's Cog
catcher. The two men were se'z!ng dogs
in the section of Brooklyn known az
"Pioklevllle." which is Inhabited By a
rough class OF people. Lesssnger,i it is alleged.
s,ole the terrisr frorI hallway, and when
the owner demanded toe return of the dog
he refused to surrender It, The owner
gsthersd ne friends and In few minutes
more than 100 people surrounded the dog
ca!chers, and they liberated ell the impris-
oued dogs in the cage in the wagon and be-
gan to pet :be dog catchers with etones.
Lessenger was struck AID his right eye com
pletely destroyed The police arrived ST ef
the row, scattered the mob and arrested
John Smith. as the alleged asssi ast. Les
seuger was taken 10 the hospital.
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TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

E igar Marvin, o. 8. vioe.con ct Vic
to.is, B. O., died there last evening, aged g..
The leading pork packers In Chicago
soont the idea that companies In Russia will
be able to oust the American hog from
foreign markets.
After long and animated discussion, the
glass blowers convention, In session at st..
,uis, has decided tc withdrawn from the
knights of labor.
Two brakemen we're riding on the pilot
u locomotive. near Rockbrldge, ILL.,, yes
.eFday, when the engine ran into number
of hosses. and both men were killed.
court martial convened at Walla Walls,
Wash, yesterday to try Col. Compton on a
charee of negligence In allowing men to
ls6ve the reservation on the night when a.
J. Hnnt wss Iynched.
An immense body Of water ia reported
running into toe Colorado desert. 1t Ia said
that II the channel be cut little deeper,
the wafer from the Gulf OF California will
ind an entry into the desert.
Robert Pilksy, seventy years of age, was
arrested at sG1 Francisco yesterday, and
Alexander Van Feet at MARSHALL, ILL.,, on
he charge of oounterieting. Bogus coin
vas found on both ner.
The executive committee Of the republi-
Can league of clubs Of Pennsylvania to day
decided upon September 23td as the date
for the convention at Scranton, which place
bad previously been selected.
The party which had been surrounded by
Navajo Indians escaped under cover of the
night. A band OF Indians ia expected at
Flagstaff, Ariz.. tomorrow but will be die
armed before being permitted 10 enter town.
At Tullahoma. Tenn, last night, masked
man selz,d Mr.. Ed O'Connor and took him
to grove in the suburbs of the town, where
they whipped him severely with swltchea.
The alleged cause for the whipping Ia that
be mietreated bis wife.
Two sisters, Kate and Mary MCGOWAN,
eyed is and 20 years, respectively. were
drowned In the Susquebauna river at Pitts.
ton, Pa. lset night. They were ont boat
ing with James Lane. sged II years. when
suddenly ths beat began to ELL with water
and before they could return to shore 1t
sank Young Lane managed to save bis own
life by swimming.
John Reilly, nlnsteeu-year-old youth,
yesterday committed an assault on Irene
sisaerson, aged II yeara, OF New York, who
/, on visit to West Philadelphia, and who
had gone to the outskirts Of the city with
three little companions to gather berrlee.
Reilly was captured by man who heard
toe girls cries, and to-day pleaded guilty
before Judge R=,d, who imposed the full
penalty OF ihs law, fifteen years In the pen.
itentiarg and 81 900 fine.
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was overruled. The court then Adjourned
until three o'clock. Judge Nelson of Indi-
sna has arrived and will take part in the
nrosecDtion
Killed by a Woman's Bite.
prosecution.

New YORK, July 16.-A dentist killed by 6
uoman's bite has presented case unique here.
Francis II. B.ab WAS tho man, aud he died at his
homo on Tuesday. He was 81 years old, and on
April 10, in his fathers absence, he set out to re-
lieve from pain s lady who came into the office
with her face swollen and inhamed from an ach-
ing tooth. To locate the tooth he asked her to open
he mouth wide. She did so. he touched it with
his finger. In the agony OF the touch the woman
shrieked and snapped her jaws toget her, biting
Bsab's finger. He went on and pulled out the
tooth, and thought little Of the accident until the
blood poisoning set in, Of which he died.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-07-16
eEoRe1A's Melon GRIP The Savannah

GEoReIA's MELON GRIP The Savannah
News snys this seasons watermelon crop lie
thu greatest ever reieed In Georgia. 60 far
between 1000 and 5000 carloads of melons
have been shipped cut OF the State, and
there are several thousand more carloads
yet TO 60 Last week about $50 COO melons
were shipped out of Savannah, principally
to New York and Boston. Two crates OF
Georgia wetsrmslous Of the Kolb variety
and raised near Macon were shipped from
New York for LonGon fe1 days ago. The
average weight of the melons sent was forty
pouDde.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-07-16

sAvSD BY A MULE The instinct Of 3
mule saved the lives of Robert Montgomery
and two other prospeotors who hsye Just re-
turned from the Death VsIley, Cal, They
had wandered Geo miles, and we're dying
with thiret, when a mule broke away and
started 90 dead run for the foot hills. The
party followed and found aD abundance OF
good water on the vest sids Of the valley.
Montgomery reports having come across the
bones OF that frst large bsud of emIgrsnts
who perished 40 years ego.
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THE FsIBNDs OF the Chicago fair In Vir-
gsnis have held meeting and resolved to
organize fair association, and among other
thinge TO recommend the active cooperation
Of thu Legislature In support OF the fair
Now nobody can complain of the rect M
msndAticn referred to, bus thousands Of Vir.
Riniars will not only complain, but will
lave more than sufficient ground for doing
go, If the recommendation be adopted. No
State would be justified In supporting g eco
tiopal ard partisan fair, enc which from it's
vary commencement has been used es q
part of the republican machine. but for Vir-
eiuia, southern democratic State, and one
which refuses to settle with her creditors
upon the plea that she is too poor to pay
Ter honest debts, to appropriate money for
such a fair. would be to render herself gro
tesqueIy ridiculous.
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THE SToNEwALL JACKSON CAST BRoNzED
Valentine, the sculptor, has brorzed the
plaster cast Of his stonewsll Jackson sa'ue
aud has placed 1t On high pedestal in his
studio, in Richmond, with the proper drspe-
~ in the background, 80 as to exhibit the
figure TO the beat advantage The figure Ia
eight feet high without the piiuth and is
pronounced SPLENDID work of art. The
unveillng of tbs bropze work will take place
at Le1rgtor On tho q 1t iastapt
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FEED DOUGLASS, the negro o. 8. Minister
to Hayti, 1t is reported, once catching his son
at one OF the tricks of his race. caught him
by the ear, and said, lyon always will be 8
Niger" He told the truth, and he might
Just as irrthfuly have said the came thing
about himself, for the Ethiopian can no more
change his character than his skin. He now
SAYS: "a man to rule successfully must be
either loved or feared and since the people
OF Hayti did not love Hypclite, he wac de-
termined to make them fear him." Now
this remark, made about oountry with 3
republican form of government, Is just as
Indicative of Fred's race as the kinks In his
hair. II Ia By acting upon the idea referred
to that the people of Hayti are In sn almost
constant state of revolution.
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PRESIDENT HARRIsoN's friend, MIR. Shop
ard, save: "Whst the DEVILS monument
would be to morale, Davis monument
would be to patriotism and loyalty" An
other of President Hsrrison's friende, ex-
Congressman Vsndevev, said 1t would be jnst
"a proper to fg the flag ct the War Depart
msns ct half-Dast for the Death of President
Davis, who was ex-Secte.sry OF War, "as Ii
would be to e. Ii at hslf-msst for the ex-
puIsion OF the devil from heaven" Aud
vet If the persons referred to only knew
what they wers talking Lbont, they would
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Threatened Strike.

PIrTsBURG Ps., July 16.-The proposed reduc-
ton in the pay Of the Monongahels river miners
from 31h to cents per huabol ia the topic Of the
Day among the valley coal diggers. Meetings have
been held by the mon in several places and 1880
lutions adopted to oppose tho threatened move Of
the operators. The outlook is that the latter will
preciptate shutdown between August and
10 unless the men agree to work st the reduced
ratio. This will likely be refused by the workers
aud another strike Of the 5000 miners is likely
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-07-16

LAND sALEs.-On Monday Messrs. Alexander
Nichols, McCabe, Garrett, Foster and Tebbs, Com.
,nissioners ia Hougb, Gisy Co, vs. Carter sold
$40 acres of LAND belonging tn E. &. Carter, sit
uated near Upperville, for SIS per acre.-Rober.
Neville, puIc iaseT.
c. P Jenney, Commits. Toner IN Conntr rs. Bell,
also sold tract Of 1U7 p acres belonging TO the
ests te of the late Geo. Nixon, deceased, situated
near Woodbu1n, for s25 per sere,-Washington
Nixon, purchaser.-Nirror.
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Train Rohhed

TExAFKANA. Ark, July l6.-The car of
the Pacific Express Company attached to
the Texas Pacific train was boarded last
night as 1t was leaving the local yasds and
robbed, Messenger Ryan being held up at
the point CT revolver. Ooly oua man
seems TO have been engaged IN The robbery,
and but small amount Of money aud val
oables wss secured.
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Hams Trial

FoRT MONROE, July 16 The court chalg-
ed with the trial CT ycusg Hains for the
mu.der OF bic comp; nltn Hsnnegso called
the case at II O'Clock to-day. A motion for
postponement was argued Two hours and
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-07-16

IF Your SHoEs ARE WET.-When you
come home with wet feet, Gays The Ladies'
Home Journal, don't throw aside your boots
to get hard and moldy. Stand them up,
put them in shape, and then fill them With
oats, such as they feed to horses. This will,
In few hours, draw all the moisture out OF
the leather keeping the boot 10 shape mean
while, and leaving It soft and pliab'e.