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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-12-19
DRY GOODS.

HOLIDAY ATTRACTIONS
We most respectfully invite your early inspec-
ton OF very elaborate assortment of goods suit
able to the approaching holidays
LOW PRICES.
We would advise you to mako your selections
early, and, if desired, We will hold goods until
wsnt.d. Below we offer you few suggestions:
ALBUMS, Plush and Leather covers
TOILET SETS.
WORK BOXES.
OIL PAINTINGS in Plush FIsmca; osn bs rsed
az eascls or to hang.
CLOCKS, handsomely mounted.
BIsQUE FIGURES.
LOOKING GLASSES.
GLOVE and HANDKERCHIEF BOXES.
TOWELS, sn exceptional value, at 29c.
NAPKINS.
TABLE CLOTHS and NAPKINS to match.
LADIES' HANDKERCHIEFs, plain, initial
and embro;d rad.
GENT do
SILK do.
SILK MUFFLERS.
GENTs' sCARF5.
GLOVES.
MUFFs, Seal, Astrakhan, Monkey, etc.
LACE CURTAINS.
LACE BED SPREADS and sHAMs.
BUREAU sCARF5.
A GOLD MEDAL PATENT CARPET SWEEP
ER, very useful and appropriate present.
A Abduction Of ten per cent. on former pr!ces OF
our Dress Goods.
ISAAC BICHBBRG.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-12-19
MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL

szw yosx. Dec. 19-The stock market opsn.
ed active and higher this morning, but the de-
mand was not fully maintained and continued
realizations showed in the fractional concessions
maae in tbs carly dealings. As usual of la.e the
business done was very widely distributed, but
no special animation was developed in any por.
ton Of the list, and the market gradually settled
dogn in comparative quietude aad the ea:ly
Losses, which scarcely neutralized the opening
gaius were generally recovered, while no ma.
terisl movement occurred. Late in the hour,
however, thu buying was resumed with vigor and
prices mo7ed up sll along the line With the great.
es. uniformity. The market at IL o'clock was
active and strong at the prices reached, but gen.
orally only small fractions better than at the
opening.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-12-19

CORPORATION CoURT.-Judge j K. M
Norton presiding -Wbeat;ey vs.. CFisler'f
admr.; decree for esle.
warder & S2a Us T. Il Fai,is1 faal lie.
cree.
Wheatley W.. Turner; decree FOR pale.
Dearborn W. Dearborn; deo:as foy Haie
and reinv4s!men; CT proceeds.
The estate OF L. 3 Taylor. dsoasaed. was
committed to tbs Sergeant far admiaistrs.
tion.
Court adjourned fer tbs term.
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TE'oY5.

Nothing in Wooden, Tin. Iron, or
Mechanical Toy but what can be found
on our fourth and fifth floors, together
with Musical Instruments, Drums, Vio-
lbs, Bicycles, Tricycles, wagons. Pool
Tables, skin-covered Animals, Books,
G.mcs, and myIiads of other entertaining
novelties
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BALTIMORE, Dec 19.-virginis Sconso!s -; dc
10-zG. SO bid; &c Sc 7lA asked.
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December

For this section fair, slightly warmer wcathe
rroba5;y warmer sni fir sunday.
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DRY GOODS.
DRY GOODS.
Woodward & L-othrOp,
10th, 18th, and F Streets, NV.
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Open evenings until 8 o'clock.

@> Come out before II In the MORE
ings aud after in the evenings IS far as
,r.ctics ble-the crowds are less. -G&
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-12-19

15c each, to 25c.
Infant Dolls, % to SOC.
Kid Body Dolls, 25 to 90c.
Dressed Dolls with bisque heals,
15 to SOC.
See our 81 Dressed Dolls. We have nu-
merous styles, and they are the best value
ever offefcd.
DOLLS FURNISHINGS.
Everything complete in this line;
Shoes, stockinge, Fans, Psrssols, Puff
Bcxes Toilet Sets, Jswelry, Soap, Hats.
Wraps, Furs, &c sc.
Fourth floor, 10th.st building.)
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THE GENUINE GERMAN DOLLS
Can ONLY bs had of Us in Washington.
Prices range from
SI95 to Su.5O.
s pretty Picture Book given away
with each Doll. Try
Fourth floor, 1Oth-st. buildug)
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T0Ys.
Nothing in Wooden, Tin. Iron, or
Mechanical Toy but what can be found
on our fourth and fifth floors, together
with Musical Instruments, Drums, Vio-
los, Bicycles, Tricycles Wsgons. Pool
Tables, skin-covered Animals Books,
G.mcs and myliads of other entertaining
novelties.
TOY FUaNITURN.
Parlor set'............ ..........."15 to 75c
Bedroom Sets....... .............3o to QUO.
Larger Gets for bedroom and parlor.
81, 50, and So so.
OTHER TOYS.
Complete Butchers shop...............$1
Large StSbles, with four horses and
wagons
Wooden Wash Sete, with large tubs-al
complete. ....... ........45, rs, and 95c.
Dolls Trunks, 39c to $1.25.
(Fifth floor, 10th st. b1iliing.)
bridal SETS FOB CHRISTMAS GIFTS.
Ladies' here are some pretty BRIDAL sets
that you can make answer the purpose of
both 8 wedding and Christmas present.
They represent the fullest value possible
to get st the price.
THREE PIEOEs-GoWN, DRAWERS,
AND CHEMIsE-FOR
So 70.
Second floor, 10th st. building.)
w.
~ GOODS DELIVERED IN ALEX
ANDRIA.
WOODWARD g. LoTHR0P
CoRNEg 18th AND STREETS h. ".
WAaHINsTor. D. g.
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TOY FURNITURN.

OTHER TOYS.
Complete Butchers shop................S1
Large Stsbles, with four horses and
wagons Observation-Disclosures.
Wooden Wash Sete, with large tubs-s
complete. .................45, rs, and 95c.
The Lamar register., 1891-03-28
Western Conl Outnut.

The census Office has issued bulle-
tin giving history Of the coal product in
the States west of the Mississippi River.
The product in 1850 is shown to have beoa
4 ,5s4, ,s24 short tons, while in 1859, it had
increased to lG, ,o6I, 500 short tons. While
the quantity produced in 1889 has increased
more than three-fold during the decade,
the value Is shown to have decreased from
a.. 90 per ton at the mines in 1850 TO sl.53
in 1889, making the total value of the out
put in 1889 S24, AZ, ,262.
Four states and territories arc now
given as producers of coal, for which no
product was reported in lSsO. namely New
Mexico, North Dakota, Texas and Indian
Territory.
The bulletin further shows that in 1859
there were 500 regular mining establish
ments west of the Mississippi River and
1926 country banks and local mines. The
aggregate OF wages paid was Sl7,l56, 1876.
and the number Of persons employed is
given as 35, lG5. OF the whole product,
1O,O5l, 229 tons were mined in the trans
Mississippi valley, 4,s36, 1858 in the Rocky
Mountain region, aud l, l59, ,9O3 on the Pa
cifc coast The value per ten of the
trans Mississippi product was 81 i2, the
Rocky Mountain region Sl.55, and the Pa
cific coast region 81 25
The Lamar register., 1891-03-28
College Students Want a Change.

A special dispatch from Vermillion,
South Dakota, says: The trouble which
has been brewing between the students
and the faculty OF the University Of South
Dakota for several months past has finally
come TO head in q request presented to
President Grose by o member Of the
senior class and an alumnus, asking him
that he tender his resignation at once
The request was signed by every member
Of the senior class and by every junior
with but one exception. President Grose
declined TO consider the petition.
Mr.. Grose came to Vermillion from
Pittsburg, Penn. 10 assume charge OF the
university shortly after President Olsen
was killed at the Minneapolis Tribune
FIRE November 80, 1889.
The Lamar register., 1891-03-28
Texas is independent.

The State of Texas owns and runs
q sugar farm worked by couyicts. Re-
Gently bill was passed by the legislature
TO accept the two cents bounty under the
Mckinley bill Governor HogE vetoed it.
The veto in part is as follows:
'The State is sovereign Of her own affairs
and cannot be disturbed in the legitimate
exercise OF her perogatlves II she desires
to raise sugar by convict labor under no
circumstances could she with prop-iety
ask or accept from any government 4
license To do so. Nor could she yield to a
supervision OF her affairs by any oficer
not subordinate TO her own laws. To do
so in one instance would lead to another,
and finally to supervision by the federal
government over the cotton patches, wheat
fields, stock ranches and factories within
her limits.
''Precedents, by government usurpaiion
become stronger than law and the more
difficult to overthrow. When they are
erected on the destruction OF the constitu-
tion like this bounty act the wrong which
produce! them strengthens, as the fruits
of the crime spreads, until they become
fastened forever on the people. r'or my
part, / shall protest and begin to strike
now while the precedent is new For no
sum can the State afford to sacrifice prin-
ciple, nor to imperil her sovereign rights
1t is hardly decent TO suppose that no
measure is too mOastrous for public cred
ulity when it embraces a proposition to
dispense money under the name Of bounty
among the citizens. lnsidious and decep-
tive as such methods usually are, no one
can deny that at the heart ofthem there is
corruption. 1t consists of the government
committing money % the impoverishmen.
Of the masses by which to crafty the
greed OF favored classes. The liberation
of it by a free people finds support only in
their ignorance.
The Lamar register., 1891-03-28
a Savage Receives His Reward.

Prompt vengeance has fallen upon
Ramiasatra, governor of the province of
Belanona, Madagascar, who, on March 4.
massacred 2Ts persons, including men
women and children, belon ying to the
leading families. Dispatches Just received
state Ramiasatra, together with his
brother, who is supposed TO have instigated
the massacre, have been executed on the
spot where the wholesale killing took place
under the cruel governors directions.
The cause of Ramiasatra's sanguinary
conductI originated in the fact that he
fercely resented petition from the popu-
lace addressed to the government asking
protection from his repeated acts OF cruel
ty. This SO enraged the governor that he
commenced to slaughter men, women and
children, and continued so doing for seve-
raj days.
In many cases the agonies of the victims
were protracted by the governors causing
their limbs to be gradually dismembered
their heads to be slowly sawed of, and by
subiecting them to other acts Of torture.
During the course OF the massacre many
of the women who were put to death were
first outraged. In the case of all the
victims their bodies were thrown to the
dogs.
The fury of the populace was aroused to
such an extent by Ramiasatra's inhuman
conduct that the government of Madagas-
car was compelled to take notice of the
governors bloodthirstiness, and promised
to investigate the whole matter and to
severely punish him if he was was found
TO be guilty. This, thanks to the moral
pressure brought to bear on the govern
ment by foreign residents, has actually
been done, and Governor Ramiasatra and
his equally ferocious brother have met the
fate which they so richly deserved.
The Lamar register., 1891-03-28
a Novel Race.

The world will experience new
sensation when it learns that Captain j.
Il. Speer a native of Jacksonville, F'lori-
da, and a queer character, has start ed on
the back of trained alligator to swim
from Jacksonville down the east coast and
around the Everglades into the gulf and
up the west coast to Apalachicola The
captain is u friend Of Captain Paul Boyn-
ton and wears one OF his rubber suits on
his "trip. The alligator is known as Jack
sonville, Jr. He is fourteen feet long and
very healthy. He was raised by the cap
tain and obeys his every word.
Even in this country where alligators
are no rarity and many have been domes-
ticated, Jacksonville, Jr., is a prodigy of
intelligence. Many believe that he will
accomplish the feat the captain has map
ped out. The distance around the coast is
not far from 900 miles, but there will be
frequent stops for feeding and rest.
Captain Speer has made a bet of 5000
that he can make the trip in ninety days
That allows for only ten miles day and
Jacksonville, Jr., is good for three times
that distance
The big gator was fed Tuesday morn
ing, and took short siesta. 1t was 10
O'Clock when, with docks crowded and the
Jacksonville band playing Hail to the
Chief" Captain Speer. iu his rubber suit,
mounted Jack sonville, Jr.'s back aud put
out TO sea. a small steam launch, with
provisions medicines, the Judges and
time-keeper ON board, followed. At II 80
they passed Mayport light and were los.
TO view behind Amelia island.
The Lamar register., 1891-03-28
Battle With Rufians.

John Wilson and Henry Matthews,
two respectable citizens of La Porte, Ind.
were seized by three burly rufiians while
they were walking to their homes, few
miles outside OF the city, about dusk Mon
day evening, and thrown into an empty
cattle car which was on its way to Chicago
attached to the regular cattle train.
The train had stopped, but started as
soon as the daring deed was committed.
The ruffians threw the men TO the floor OF
the car and robbed them Of their valu-
ables, which they only succeeded in taking
after desperate struggle. The robbers
sprang upon their victims and over and
over they rolled, each man fighting for
supremacy. The noise of tie rapidly
moving train and the cries of the huddled
up cattle drowned the shouts Of the men
for help.
The men, who were big and strong, Tough,
desperately for their lives, but tbs three
robbers were too much for them. After a
battle of nearly half an hour tine nearly
exhausted men were hurled from the
rapidly moving train and left lying
bruised, bleeding and unconscious by the
roadside
Two hours afterward they were found
and conveyed TO ueigEboring house
where they were revived. As soon as
their story was learned the Chicago DO.
lice were notified. but so far no ARE SITS
have yet been made. 1ne wounded men
both seriously injured, but not necessarily
fatally.
The Lamar register., 1891-03-28
a Nice little Scheme.

GOSHEN, Ind. March 23.-The
Hendryx murder trial made rapid progress
to-day. Mrs. Calkins, who is included in
the indictment charging Hendryx with
being the murderer of her husband, was
released from custody and testified against
her partner in crime.
She said that she and Hendryx planned
and succeeded in getting Callsins to marry
her. Then they induced him to take out
an accident insurance policy Of 5000,
making his wife the beneficiary, to will
his property to his wife and then give
Hendryx the power of attorney to coIlec;
for Mrs. Calkins the insurance should he
die by accident.
About a week after her marriage to
Calkins she, with her husband and Hem
dryx went fishing, and while attempting
to change seats Calkins was thrown over
board by Hendryx and drowned. She
and Hendryx then rowed to shore and wet
their clothing TO Indicate that the boat
had capsized, and gave the alarm.
The Lamar register., 1891-03-28
The Chicago Democracy Splits.

From 100 to $50 OF the delegates,
the supporters of the candidacy Of ex-
Mayor Harrison, withdrew from the
Democratic city convention Saturday
afternoon, and organized an independent
convention in Ulrich hall The split was
due to the dissatisfaction of the Harrison
following with the seating of the contest
ing delegates.
After the usual preliminaries Mayor
Cregier was declared the nominee OF his
branch of the convention
George Weiss, a wealthy German brewer
was nominated by the Cregierites for
city treasurer, Jacob Kern for city attor-
ney, and James c. Strain for city clerk.
Kern is a quite-well-known German
American, and Strain has been prominent
in Irish affairs. He was clerk OF the
county board during the doodle" invest-
cation, and won high reputation for
uprightness and efficiency.
After withdrawing from the regular
convention the Harrison delegates marched
to Ulrich hall, where the Harrison con-
testing delegates who were refused ad-
mission TO the other hall had already
assembled, and proceeded to organize an
independent convention. Adolph Kraus
was chosen chairman, and proceeded tc
state the grounds Of the bolt. He declared
that Mayor Cregier and the police force
had counted out the Harrison delegates
who were honestly elected at the primary
election. He concluded with this state
ment:
ave are tired OF this gag law, and
refuse to support any ticket nominated by
the tough and disreputable element Of the
CITY,"
Ex-Mayor Harrison was then nominated
for mayor by acclamation, and the con-
vention adjourned to await the action OF
the Cregier wing before making nomina-
tions for the other offices.
The Lamar register., 1891-03-28
COLORADO NOTES

W. H. MiIburn has been nominal
By the Denver Republicans for mayer
A Young man who drives a 5aie
er's WAGON in Pueblo has Inherited :
tune.
Some good people at Orc who
tertalued tramp were rewarded b.
stealing everything he could earry aWA'
At the Republican primary elect
in Denver an attempt was made IS IS
to steal a ballot box, but the effort was
successful
April Il has been designhiea
the governor as Arbor Day. State Sup
iutendeut Coy recommends hat SCI.
children take vote FOR the favor
flower.
AT Boulder on the goth Marion La
Of tho Dcnver University won the A''
place in the oratorical contest oet"e'
the representatives Of the eiucaiionS! !
stitutlons OF the state. He will now rel
resent the State in the interstate eon'e
at Des Moines in May.
The governor has sent to the sena'
the nominations Of Rev. Myron Zee
Denver Rev. John c. Hay, Pueblo PF'
VIM. +. Slocum, Colorado Springs BTU
| F.. johnson, Greeley, and ]. 5. Appe. Al
Dennis Sheedy Of Denver, for the posliiol
Of members Of the State Board OF CAAn
ties.
An man named John u. jorge
sen went insane at Leadyille the o'A'
day. He was detained in the sheriff !
dee for a while. He suddenly wheep
ike lightning, darted TO partly open WI
/ low looking out on Harrison aVehD
stood perched on the sill for lnoinen
and then sprang into the street peio"'
distance Of forty feet His iau "1s
fearful one. He made complete reS0.
lion in his descent, striking the two-is, /,
olankinc in front OF the court house on =
feet with such force that his risn. - :
broke short OF below the knee the ". :,
Done penetrating the oalIen plank 70 :.
| depth OF two inches. The unior'uAs
man remained in that terrible posiHs
| until the Mortified spectators oil the -
released him. lie was taken to ms -, !,
ience and the doctors amputated ms > |,
at the knee. His left leg was also o--, pa,
| shattered. but the physicians thlnh az
.ation will be UNNECESSARY. 1t is uncel'~ 90,
whether Jorgensen viii surviee ms i"'-
les or not
The Lamar register., 1891-03-28

IF advice could have any effect on the
men who point guns and pistols at each
other that sort of homicide would have
gone out of fashion long ago. There
always will be, as there always has
been, certain class of people who
think that gun or pistol is play
thing. OF course, the man who doesn't
know it is loaded always curses his
foolishness after he has killed some
body, but that doesn't help his victim
any. He is a regularly established
agent of death, and we must all accept
his existence and take our chances
with him.
The Lamar register., 1891-03-28

Or all the unhappy creatures on the
face of the earth the one most to be
pitied is the vain, sensitive, egotisticai
bundle of humanity who always
imagines everything is intended for
him. The preacher breaches at him,
the editor writes at him, the gossip
gossips about him, and, taking it ''by
and large the whole world, while
seemingly engaged in other matters, is
really occupied in observing his mighti-
ness, smiling when he smiles and
trembling when he frowns. Such per-
sons ought to stick finger in pail Of
water and drawing it out learn from
the hole left how much real importance
they are to the world.
The Lamar register., 1891-03-28

The liquor traffic itself is refusing
openings to men who are victims of the
liquor habit. A prosperous Chicago
firm, which have multiplied attractive
places of sale and gives employment in
the aggregate to a large number of per
sons, will continue no mar on its pay
roll, bartender or porter, who is not
absolutely a teetotaler. The members
OF the firm do not themselves drink and
they will have nobody about them on
their side of the bar who does. This
is significant testimony to the value OF
teetotalism from merely practical
standpoint 1t is u dram-seller's tenn
perance lecture, which ought to have
its influence on the other side of the
counter.
The Lamar register., 1891-03-28

The best half of life is in front of
the maa of forty, if he be anything of
a man. The work he will DO will be
done with the hand of master and
not of raw apprentice. The trained
intellect does not see -.nen as trees
walking but sees everything clearly
and in Just measure. The trained
temper does not rush at work like a
blind bull at haystack. but advances
with the calm and ordered pace OF
conscious power and deliberate de-
termination. To no man is the world
so new and the future so fresh as to
him who has spent the early years of
his manhood in striving to understand
the deepest problems of science and
life, and who has made some headway
toward comprehending them.
The Lamar register., 1891-03-28

ALL who have paid attention to penal
statistics know that considerable pro-
portion of convicts are led into crime
through hereditary taint, poverty,
drunkenness or emotional weakness,
before old enough to exercise self-con-
trol. Under the prevailing method Of
sentencing convicted persons no account
whatever is taken of different forces
driving the convicted to aw-breaking.
The Lamar register., 1891-03-28

ANYBODY who undertakes to pay
$50 in six months in return for the
payment of one dollar week, or any
similar excess Of usury, intends either
10 cheat you or TO rob somebody else.
There is no possible way in which the
various so-called beneficial orders now
so popular can perform anything like
what they promise except At the ex-
pense of the majority Of their members
The larger the payments they make to
few the greater must be the loss OF
the many. They do not pretend that
they can earn these great sums. What
they really propose is that those who
go in first shall persuade others to
come in and then divide their money.
1t may be all right for those on the
ground floor; the others get nothing
but the experience.
The Lamar register., 1891-03-28

NEW YORK sent to the heathen OF
India last year 1000 pairs OF corsets,
zoo rubber garters, and $500 dresses
ribbed with whalebone and steel. Tho
heathen refused to wear them, but
New York's conscience is clear. Hav-
ing laid up these secondhand treasures
in heaven. if the heather will not
touch them they will be there for the
use Of the New Workers in the sweet
by and bv.
The Lamar register., 1891-03-28

THERE'S great difference between
winning money and making it; a
great difference between getting it out
of another mans pocket into ours. or
fillings sboth. Collecting money is by
no means the same thing as making
it; the taxgatherer's house is not the
Mint; and much of the apparent gain
ESQ called), in commerce, is only a
fdSm of taxation on carriage or ex-
change.
The Lamar register., 1891-03-28

: NATURALLY enough, the Indian him.
self is not anxious to become ward Of
the army. but his opinion in this
matter ought not TO be the controlling
one. 1t is known that the present
system is corrupt and inefficient 1t is
known that the bureau fails miserably
to perform the duties expected of it,
The Lamar register., 1891-03-28
Robbed of Eight Thousand Dollars.
A wealthy Kentuckian named Col

A wealthy Kentuckian named Cole
was robbed in the Cherokee Strip of
s. 800 in cash. Two men held him up
ne ar -tbe canadian river, where he was
camped. Mr.. Cole was alone at the time
his companions having been hunting. The
stolen money was 10 have been used in
buying cattle The robbers escaped anu
have not been captured.
The Lamar register., 1891-03-28
COLORADO.

VHE temptafions thrown IN the way
Of youths by sweets are terrible. 1t is
nov claimed that prize packages of
confectionery initiate children early in
the oaarms of lottery, ana it has been
long known that no boy ever sees a
stick of candy that he doesn't want TO
lick il