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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-12-08
ALEXANDRIA,, Va
THURSDAY EVENING, DEC. s, 1892.
The SOUTHERN democratic congress

The SOUTHERN democratic congress
man, Senator or Representative, who
assigns as his reason for opposing an
extra session ofthe new Congress, The
injury such session would do to the
.business interests of the country,
necessarily subjects himself to severe
criticism. FREQ. Douglass says the con
dition OF the southern negro cannot pos
siblv be worse under the incoming, than
il has been under the outgoing admins
tration," and surely every we'll inform
ed southern congressman knows That
the "busiuess interests" of the South
could not possibly be in worse condition
with an extra session of the new Con
eress than they would be without one.
He also knows that if at such session
the tax on the necessaries of life were
removed, the people ofhis section would
always hold the members OF the 35rd
Congress in grateful remembrance
No. if southern congressman oppose
the redemption of the pledges they
made last fall, let them, for the sake OF
their own regulations, assign some other
reason for doing so than the injury such
session would do to the business inter
est of the country
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-12-08
TEIEGRAPIIIC BREVITlES.

Dr. P. 4. Hoy, naturalist, died sud
denly at Racine, Wis, to-day.
Prof. John Strong Newberry, the
eminent geologist, died at New Haven,
Conn.,, last night.
The Jefferson Wooden Mills at Je!Ier
sonville, Mass, got on fire to-day and
are likely to be total loss. Aid was
sent from Worcester.
Henry P. White, of Kansas City,
Kans., has bought 1000 acres of land
near that city, on which he proposes to
COLOMBO all of the negroes of the town
into selfsupporting village.
Fire at Lake City, Fla, this morning.
destroyed Davidson's drug store. in The
Hunter building, Edwards restaurant
and the stock of Porter K Glover in
Davidson's building. The losses AZ
gregate s. 1000.
In the Chambeliss lynchins case
which was begun at st. Stephens, Ala.
yesterday the evidence showed that all
of the accused except those who claim
ed to be acting as guards were at other
places when the lynchins occurred.
\ number of representative Bali
moreans went to Washington to-day 10
endeavor to have the L. 5. authorities
abolish the Cape Henry quarantine
station as far as Baltimore is concern
ed, the local quarantine there being
sufficient.
During the election in Augusta Ga
yesterday, the retail liquor dealers
closed their places of business in obedi-
ence to law, bnt the wholesale dealers
kept open and did business. The re-
tailers subsequently reported the whole
salers and eleven of the latter were ar
rested and fined from 500 to 500 each.
4 movement IS being worked in augusta.
Ga, to break the lease of the Port Royal and
Augusta railroad to the Central Railroad OF
Georgia. Ii this effort be successful the Port
Royal and August, will likely be thrown into
the hands of receiver
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-12-08
lmnortnnt Bills Introduced.

Among the bills and resolutions in
the House yesterday, were the follow
ing: 'By Mr. Carruth, democrat. Of
Kentucky, supplementary to the sever
al acts relating TO pensions. Ii pro-
vides that no pensioner, now or here
after in the service of the United States
shall be entitled to draw Il pension for
any period oftime during which he is
or shall be entitled TO the full pay or
salary which an abe-bodied person,
discharging the same duties to the gov
ernment, is allowed by law.
BY Mr.. Cox. Tennessee. q bill to re-
peal the revised statutes relating to the
appointment, qualification, power, du-
ties and compensation of commissioners
of elections and special deputies and
also of Title crimes.
BY Mr. Harter, of Ohio, bill proyid-
ing that on and after February |, 1893.
a uniform tariff tax, or custom duties
of one half of one per cent. per pound
be levied and collected on all grades OF
sugar imported into the United States
from any part of the world; also that
the payment of all bountes to produc-
crs of sugar in the United States shall
cease finally and absolutely on Feb. |
1893.
BY Mr.. Miller, of Wisconsin. joint
resolution directing the President of
the Senate and the Speaker OF the
House to appoint committee TO con-
sist of three Senators and five Repre-
sentntives, whose duty it shall be to in
vcstigate as to the propriety of making
changes in the revenue laws and re-
port the result Of their inquiry to the
next Congress.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-12-08

Mr.. GoULD's WILL.-Jay Gould's
will bequeaths S25, 200 and an annuity
for life of 81, 900 to each of his sisters
and brothers; house to his daughter
Helen; house to his son Edwin;
100000 to his grandson, Jay Gould,
and 100000 to his son. Geo. j. Gould.
for services rendered. The residue is
left in trust to George Edwin, Howard
and Helen to divide into six equal parts
and to hold and invest one of such
parts for each child and apply the in
come to each child for life. In case the
trustees do not concur as to the voting
of the stock held by the trust, the juds-
ment of George is to control the others.
There are the usual provisions in the
will that the property of his daughters
is for their sole and separate use, free
from any estate or control of their hus-
bands, and prohibiting all dispositions
for charges by any of the legatees by
way Of anticipation or otherwise.
There is provision that if any of his
children shall marry without the con-
sent of majority of the executors and
trustees, then the share allotted to such
child shall DE reduced one-half, and the
other half of such share shall be trans
ferred to such persons as. under the
laws of the State Of New York, would
take the same as ifthe testator had died
intestate.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-12-08

MAsoNIc.-The Grand Lodge of Ma
sons held the second meeting of lis
ll5th annual communication last night
in Richmond. The grand officers were
elected as follows:
Most Worshipful Grand Master William II
Peasants; Most Worshipful Deputy Grand
Master, Mann Page Most Worshipful Grand
Senior Warden, j. P. Fitzgerald Most Wor-
shipfu Grand Junior Warden, A. H. Courtney;
Most Worshipful Grand Senior Deacon, f. :.
Reed; Most Worshipful Grand Junior Dca-
con- r. T. w. Duke Most Worslipful Treas
urer, Joseph V. Bidgood; Most Worshiriul
Grand Secretary, William d. ISaacs; Grand
Pursnivant Junius a. Cosby; Grand Tile
w. C. Wilkinson
The only contest was for the office of grand
treasurer, for which Messrs. John i. Mayer
and ]. V. Bidgood were aspirants All the
other officers elected Were former iucumbents
AT 1880 o'clock the Grand Lodge took re-
cess for supper. and splendid feast was serv-
I'd in the banquet-hal by Grnd-Stcwarl
krauSc.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-12-08
ALMOST 100 MILES AN HoUR.-What


ALMOST 100 MILES AN HoUR.-What
is believed to be the fastest time on
record was made by compound loco
motive of the Vauclain type on the
Bound Brook route between Philadel-
phia and New York on Friday evening,
November is. The locomotive, No.
$50, was attached to the regular 5:l5 p.
IN. express from Philadelphia, which
consisted of four cars. A number of
very rapid runs of several miles were
made. Between Jenkintown and Yard
ley five successive miles were run in
205 seconds, or at the rate of eighty
eight miles per hour, and near Nesham-
inv IL mile was made in thirty-nine sec
onds. The record was broken, how
ever. between Plainfeld and Elizabeth
on the line line of the Central Railroad
of New Jersey, where one mile was run
in thirty-seven seconds, and two sue
cessive miles in seventy-tve seconds,
or at the rate OF ninety-seven miles per
hour. The engine which made this e1-
traordinary record weighs 123,S00
pounds without tender, and carries
IS, 400 pounds of it on the drivers, the
latter being seventyeight inches in di-
ameter.-Engineering Record.
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any commission 10 do.

FOLLOWING the advice of the outgo-
ing President, Mr.. Frye, republican, of
Maine, yesterday introduced in the l..
5. Senate bill to still further restrict
the export trade of this country, by inn
posing additional restrictions upon the
commerce between the United States
and Canada. The surplus products of
this country are so great that unless
they be afforded a foreign market they
must necessarily decrease the price OF
the home supply And that seems to
be the object for which the republican
party is now striving.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-12-08

An ELECTRIC IScUBAToR-A novelty in
the Matching of eggs has appeared in the
shape of an electric incubator. The special
feature of this machine is that the heat of the
egg drawer is automatically regulated to the
18th part of degree Fahrenheit. 1t consists
of tank incubator, heated by radiation from
the bottom of a water tank, which IS con-
structed on the multitubular system. When
the egg drawer reaches the temperature of
lo4 degrees. an electric therilostat con-
meets up dry battery with an electro-mag-
net, which ac.uates . damper, allowing the
heat TO escape through the open air instead
OF passing through ti,e faes cf lie water
tank. This entirely automatic device IS s sais
to effect a saving OF 80 per cent. in the incl
used for heating .-Patsbmy Dispatch.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-12-08

CONGRESSMAN O'FERRALL is decided
IL in favor of an extra session OF the
next Congress, and says congressman
were not elected last fall TO consult
their own personal convenience, but to
fulfill the promises they then made to
the people. The people. he says, have
spoken for tariff reform, and if What we
have been telling them be true, We
should make our promises good rs soon
as possible" Otherwise. he says, I'VE
90 before the country again without
having accomplished anything, and the
people will have their confidence III our
promises shaken. There is everything
to gain, but nothing to lose, by getting
at this high protective republican tariff.
as early as possible" This is good, COM
mon sense, and why every other demo
cratic congressman, especially every
one from the South, shouldn't talk rs
Mr.OFerrall does on the subject, passes.
at least ordinary, comprehension.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-12-08

THE PRINCE OF WALEs.-Rumor
is busy with the conduct of the Prince
of Wales. 1t is whispered, and some
times talked loudly enough in the
clubs, that his Royal Highness has a
new favorte. the young widow of a
nobeman who died not long ago.
The lady is certainly beautiful and the
Prince used TO be somewhat attentive
to her before her husbands death, but
not more than 10 Il number of other
ladies. Since the husbands decease
the prince has been Il frequent visitor
nj the house of mourning, and has, no
doubt, if report is correct. assisted the
widow to throw of some of the burden
OF her SORROW. The prince appears to
he incorrigible in these matters. and it
is even asserted by some who ought TO
know him intimately that he is just as
readily captivated by apretty face now
rs thirty years ago. The princess of
Wales shows extreme discretion, and
whatever her feelings may be, she man
ages very well to conceal them. She
ignores her husbands faults. 50 far IS
the world can perceive, and devotes
herself 10 her children.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-12-08

To REDUCE His WEIGHT.-A dis
patch from New York says Again it is
reported here that Mr.. Cleveland is 60
ing to trv to reduce his weight by tax
ing athletic exercises under the direc-
ton of professional trainer. VIM.
Muldoon is the trainer named. Ac-
cording to the current story Mr.. Cleve-
land hopes to lose 40 pounds before he
enters the White House. Gov. Flower,
it will be remembered, took boxing les
sons last spring and succeeded in reduc-
ing his weight considerably, with cor
responding Improvement in his health.
Mr.. Cleveland is anxious to lose flesh,
and his duck-shooting expedition to
Virginia was taken partly for the pur-
pose of accomplishing that. He lost a
number of pounds through the out-of-
door exercise incident to shooting ducks
and snipe; but the exercise also in
creased his appetite, and the result has
been that he has gained more flesh than
be lost while away.
Mr.. Cleveland was in town yesterday, and
seemed strong and healthy. He walked with
a light step for man of his weight, but be
was evidently burdcned with more flesh than
was necessary. 1t was reported that he came
to town to make arrangements for the train
ing he will undergo, but it is more probable
that he came to talk over politics with some
of the leaders from the West, who are now
in town Before taking his seat, Alr. Cleve-
land will visit Mr. Joseph Jefferson's island,
in Louisiana, and do some hunting in south
ern forests and streams. Mr.. Jefferson will
accompany the President-elect South.
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rauouier Notes.

Mr.. Peyton Burgess, of The Plains,
aged 81 wears. has had stroke Of pa
ralysis from which it is feared he IS dy-
Ing.
Mrs. James H. Hathaway, a we'll
known and greatly beloved lady on ac-
count of her lovely christian character,
died at her home near The Plains on
Tuesday.
Mr.. Albert Fletcher, of Upperville, is
very i'll with typhoid fever. There are
four cases of the same disease IN the
Rodes family, and several other cases
are reported in the neighborhood.
The farmers about Hume have got
ten through shipping their fat cattle,
and some of them have bought their
stock cattle. Nearly all the farmers
in that vicinity killed their hogs last
week. Mr.. Utterback had one hog
that weighed four hundred pounds.
N:r. James f. Yates, of Rappahan-
mock county, was in Rectortown on
Monday for the purpose of purchasing
the lot of cattle belonging to ID. d.;
Sutherland, but when he encountered
Dave it was "black gum against thun-
der" After spending the larger por-
ton of the day he returned home with
out making 4 purchase.
1t was reported that Mr.. Charles X.
Harrison had sold his farm, Boiling
Brook, )" to gentleman from Baltimore.
This estate lies two miles south OF Up
perville; it contains fifteen hundred
acres of fine land has on it Il spacious
brick mansion, and large number OF
convenient outbuildings, among which
is large canning factory which has
been in operation for about five years.
Mr.. Edwin Hunton died Mt his home
in this county December 4th. in the
S3rd year of his age. Mr.. Hunton was
an old line democrat. He cast his
first vote for Gen. jackson for Presi-
dent in 1882 and he voted in every cleo
ton held in the county thereafter. and
always for the regular democratic
nominee. In his enfeebled health he
walked to the polls, at New Baltimore.
two miles from his home, the day OF
election and voted for Cleveland.
Stevenson and Meredith. He returned
home greatly exhausted and never
arose from his BED STANDARDIZATION
Jir0inidn.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-12-08

THE DECLARED opposition of Mr..
Platt to the admission of the Territories
of Arizona and New Mexico, which are
democratic, into the Union as States,
indicates that in making it, he only eX-
pressed the present feeling of his party
colleagues in the U. S. Senate on the
subecs This is another and q strong
reason for an extra session of the new
Congress, so that justice may be done
to the majority of the people in the
Territories referred to; and also that
there may be four more democratic Sen
ators.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-12-08

a ELL has been introduced in Com
gress to create quarantine commission
If there be one thing more than amy
other of which the people of this coun-
try are sick and tired, it is commissions.
They increase enormously the expenses
of the government, and never do amy
good, but nearly always much harm, rs
has been demonstrated by the infamous
electoral commission, by the numerous
tariff commissions, by che Interstate
commerce commission, the civil service
commission, and numerous others. If
any quarantine be necessary, the Sec
rctary of the Treasury and the Marine
Hospital Service have all the powerand
means requisite TO enforce it just as
eflectually rs it would be possible for
any commission 10 do.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-12-08
Only one person in 10000 lives to be
centeparian.

GOOD TEMrLARs.-In Richmond yes
terday morning Mr.. jos. H. Shepherd
and Mayor Ellyson formally welcomed
the grand lodge of Good Templars to
that city and Col. J. r. Miller, of Pu-
lask, responded. The morning session
was brief and was occupied chiefly in
the consideration of routine matters.
Reports of the auditing and finance
committees were read and adopted.
The question OF reducing the capita
ton tax was discussed at great length
and finally referred to the committee on
state of the order, A motion to in
crease TIE salary of the Superintendent
of Juvenile Tempjars 70 800 was dis
cussed and tabled.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-12-08

TOBACCO AND BRANDY.-Details fur
nished by the commissioner of internal
revenue show that during the last fiscal
wear there were 153 tobacco factories In
Virginia, which consumed 1854 ,639
pounds of leaf tobacco, 743, So pounds
of scraps, 1921 pounds of stems, $685.
Col pounds of licorice, 2,449, 1862 pounds
of sugar and 2,067, 1877 of other mate
rial. In Virginia there were ~ cigar
and cigarette factories operated, which
consumed for cigars ,56S, 900 pounds OF
tobacco and for cigarettes l,653. GAG
pounds of tobacco. The total number
of cigars manufactured in Virginia was
l04, ,522 and 547, 07S, $50 cigarettes.
In North Carolina there were 81 facto-
ries, which consumed Ia, AGA pounds OF
tobacco in the manufacture Of cigars !;
2,S47, $50 pounds of tobacco for cigar
cites. The totalnumber of cigars man
ufactured was 6.4S5, AS, and of cigar
cites, 76S,S75,O00. In the production
of cigarettes North Carolina is second
only to New Work.
Eighty-two Illicit stills were seized
and destroyed in Virginia and Al per-
sons arrested.
Virginia produced during the year
13S, l3S gallons of apple brandy, $50 gal
Ions of peach brandy, and $40 gallons
Virginia produced ,9l2 pounds
of plug tobacco (thcre is no record Civ
ell of fine cut, 2,9l0,0l9 pounds OF
smoking tobacco, and 6,397 pounds OF
snuff.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-12-08

THE SAvILLE INvEsTIGATIoN.-The
commission investigating the charges
against Mr.. William 0. Saville, one of
the local inspectors of steam vessels. in
connection with the explosion of the
boiler of the steamer Wakefield last
October, met again in Baltimore yester-
day. The entire session was taken up
with evidence in behalf of Mr.. Saville.
The witnesses were Messrs. James +.
Byrd, seer otary and treasurer of the
Maryland Steamboat Company; Henry
Williams, agent OF the Weems Line
steamers; William C. Eliason, presi-
dent of the COLCHESTER and Chesapeake
Steamboat Company; Charles NJ. Reed
er, of Charles Reeder & Sons, engineers
and machinists, and E. L. Petit, mana
ger of the Peoples Marine Railway.
They testified rs to the general charac-
ter of Mr. Saville as on Inspector of
boilers and machinery and the manner
in which he has conducted the work
since he has been in Office. The hear
ing will be continued to-day at the
same place.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-12-08

The New YORK Press says during
the niue months ending with Septem-
Der. 1892, We exported agricultural i'm
paements to the galue of sS,55S, $50"
Yes. and, what's more, the manufactur-
ers sold them abroad at cheaper rates
than they do at home.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-12-08

III New York today rouadsman Matthew
F. Daley was sentenced 10 one years i'm
prisonment in the pepitenti;ia Tor an assault
in the third degree for strikiag Mrs. Hannah,
who accused him of rilining hgr 16-year-old
daughter Mamie.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-12-08

RELICS OF WAsHINGToN.-The sale
of Washingtoniana was continued in
Philadelphia yesterday. Washington's
fowling-piece, fintlock of unusual
length, brought $3.50. Six purple-col.
ored hazel, glasses, once the property Of
Nellie Gusts, Washington's adopted
daughter, brought only $3.50. Two
silver. plated chalices sold for 1920.
These were advertised as having been
distracted from Christ Church, this
city. A pair of Washington's knee
breeches, each encircled with brilliants,
mounted in silver, were Knocked down
for $340. A Number fbooks from Wash
ington's library were sold, among them
Shines Military Course" with his au-
tograph, $40; an autograph copy OF
Lord North's Administration" 1920 :
volume Of poems by Dir. j. Akin,
containing sonnet to Washington,
$3.50. A French china fruit stand,
presented by the officers of the French
navy to Martha Washington, brought
1920. The royal Dresden china cup,
embossed with the bust of Washington
on one side and that Of Franklin on the
other. brought $l2O A notable series
of Washington's portraits were dis
posed of. A life-size oil portrait, by
Charles Wilson Peale, was sold for
1920 and another by Gilbert Stuart, for
$3.50. The total proceeds of tho sale,
which has been the most memorable
one of Washington autographs and
relics ever disposed OF, amounts TO Il
total of about $4,000.
In its account of the sale the Phila-
delphi, Record says Two silver-platcd
chalices, used at the communion ser
vices in Christ Church, Alexandria,
while our first President attended SER
vices there, were not disposed of for
1920 until almost every one present
had tried his luck in biding for them,
but the collector whom Lanthicr was
representing evidently had the longest
purse, and he bid all others to stand
Still and secured the coveted prize.
Washington's urn-shaped silver lamp
of Pompeiian design, one of the choicest
designs put up during the entire sale,
was also secured by Lanthier, who was
now having things all his own way.
He next purchased pair of Washing
tons knee-buckles, each encircled with
iifty-two brilliants, mounted i'll silver.
As heretofore stated the rector and
officers of Christ Church know nothing
of the chalices sold in Philadelphia and
don't believe they ever belonged to that
ch,,rch
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-12-08

When both reports had been read the sub
committee realizing that they could notagree
upon either one of them, concluded TO lay
both reports before the whole committee
when it meets to-day.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-12-08

AND so, after all, the electoral vote
of California will be cast for the demo-
cratic candidate for President. Des-
perate attempts were made to have it
otherwise, but the returns were too
plain to be changed, aud so the figures
had to stand. The West aud the South
are national But New England, with
the exception of Connecticut, still re-
mains sectional.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-12-08

JUDGE GRESHAM, of the L. s. court.
at Chicago yesterday, decided, and very
properly, that the interstate commerce
law is unconstitutional, as it makes the
Judiciary subordinate to a non judicial
and administrative body, the interstate
commerce commission. Judge Ores
ham has level head, and it was lucky
for the democrats that he refused the
third party's Presidential nomination.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-12-08

Do not class the Crawford shoe with
other extensively advertised shoes.
Every pair sold direct to the consumer.
9O3 Pennsylvania ave, Washington.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-12-08
COMMUNICATED.

LOMMUNICATED.
I see that it is suggested that the jail
wall be raised. What is the matter
with ''razing' jailer (? QUERY.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-12-08

A dispatch from Boston says that the presi-
dent of the Dedham National Bank, was run
over and seriously injured ON State street to-
day