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Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-07-07

WE'RE ALSO WELL AIMED,
as four Pinkerton men are reported
dangerously wounded. The Pinkerton
men did not land and another encounter
may result any moment.
EXCITEMENT is AT FEVER HEAT
at Homestead. 1t was exactly o'clock
when the steamer and barges We're
sighted by the watchers gathered on the
river bank mile below the town. Di-
rectly the fleet was sighted three mes
sengers mounted fresh horses and
started for Homestead, shouting as they
went in advance of the decorated
barges. Some one notified the engineer
ut the electric light works, and for a
second time the harsh-yoiced whistle
sounded the general alarm. Tho
people responded with wonderful
alacrity. There were old men
and young men, elderly women,
mothers with their babes in arm, and
any number of children. The throng
headed towards the river. The day was
lust dawning. Suddenly from out the
Shadows were seen the lights of the
steamer, and on either side Of her were
the barges. The moment the people on
the banks caught glance of the tlotilla
they made break down the road
toward the works. When the head of
the line reached the city farm fence,
which has been built out several feet
into the water, 50 men or more used
their shoulders as battering rams and
almostin a twinkling had battered down
the barriers. Once through the fence
the crowd poured along the steep EN-.
bankmcnt, skirting the river fence of
! the Carnegie Company, and despite the
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-11-21
Mr.. Cleye]and's Policy.

The Manhattan Club, the foremost
democratic social organization in the
country, gave a brilliant reception to
President. elect Cleveland at its club
house in New York Saturday night
The affair was planned as a reception
10 both Messrs. Cleveland and Steven
son, but the -president-elect was
detained in Illinois by business.
AS the President-elect reached the
door of the clubhouse, Frederick K.
Coudert, president of the club, stepped
out and welcomed him. An enthusi-
astic cheer greeted the President,
and this was kept up until he had
reached the main reception room, where
Mr.. Coudert introduced Mr.. Cleveland,
"who has recently achieved q triumph
such rs no man has achieved since the
time of Washington"
Mr.. Cleveland was greeted with an
outburst of applause as he arose to re-
spond. He said, in part, after thank
ing the club: "Since was entertained
here ten years ago as governor-elect OF
New York, political events have great
ly changed. The American people
have become more political. more
thoughtful and more watchful than
they were then. They are considering
now vastly greater question than they
were then. They are giving i'm
portance to party policy rather than
party spoils. The situation must be in
lelligently met by those in charge OF
our party organization. No party can
get the support of the masses of the
voters by merely promising offices, ii
nancial rewards or other attributes of
the spoils system. The whole people
will be satisfied with nothing less than
the redemption o: the pledges made to
them collectively, the demonstration OF
wise policies and the giving of an hon
est government. would not have it
otherwise. am willing that the DEM
ocratic party should only hope to sue
coed by meeting the situation fairly and
squarely, by being absolutely and pa
triotically true to its principles and its
professions. This is the assured guar
antce of success, and l know Of no
other"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-11-21
Destructive Fires.

ST. LOUIS, Nov. 2l.-Tho huge brick
car house Of the Lindell electric line
with its contents was destroyed by fire
this morning. An attempt was made
to roll some of the motors out in the
street, but their enormous weight pre-
vented and they together with num-
Der of cars were destroyed. The loss
will reach $4,000.
CHICAGO, Nov. 2l.-Thirty sheds con-
tanning 100000 barrels of salt belonging
to the Michigan Salt Co., were almost
totally destroyed by fire in Cummings
last night. The loss is estimated at
S25O.OOO.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-11-21

MADE LOVE FROM a TREE.-Rev.
Reeve Hobbie, of St. Phillips P. E.
Church, Newark, \. j., has pretty
eighteen-year-old daughter, with whom
Robert NJ. Toppin fell in love. Top
pin is nineteen years old, and the son
of a real estate agent. Their love at
fair has been brought into Judge Con
Inns police court. Young Toppin has
been paying his attentions to Miss Hob
bic, but they were not as acceptable to
the rector as to the daughter, and he
directed that the acquaintance be dis
continued. The young couple appar-
emily complied, but they could not be
prevented from having opportunities to
meet at sociables and church fairs. AS
long as the intimacy became no closer
than that the anxious father ofthe young
lady congratulated himself that there
was no danger of its becoming serious.
He never once thought of the tree
whose spreading boughs swept the win
dows of his daughters sleeping apart
ment. But Toppin had, and so had
the smitten miss, and every night after
the elder folks had gone to bed the
Young people held a sort of Romeo-and-
Juliet meeting-he on the tree branch,
and she ut her window casing.
The Rev. Hobbie was out unexpect-
edly late one night, and he heard the
whispers from the leafy shelter of the
tree. He guessed that it was Toppin,
and determined to put q peremptory
end to the love scenes, complained to
Justice Conlin. The charge was OF
trespassing and lettering. Toppin was
asked to step into the court and ex'
Justice Conlin could not see that
there was any special wickedness in the
transaction when it had all been e1-
planned to him, and he dismissed the
complaint.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-11-21

EVEN THE Amalgamated Association
has now declared the Homestead strike
oil, and its members, like the mechan-
ics'and laborers, who with them quit
work last June, are now begging the
very men whose lives and property
they tried to destroy, 20 re-employ
them, and that, too, on less favorable
terms than they were receiving when
they struck. 0fcourse the employers
will not discharge the men who have
taken the strikers places, and so, more
than two-thirds of the latter, having
spent all their savings during their pro-
onged idleness, are now, at the COM
mencement of winter, left to "hustle"
for living for themselves and those
dependent upon them. Their fate is
truely pitiable, but they have only
themselves to blame for it. But some
legal punishment should be devised fol
their leaders, in order to prevent SINH
lar suffering in the future.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-11-21
The Archhishons, Meeting.

The conference of the Catholic Arch
bishops, which had been in session in
New York since Wednesday, was con-
Guided on Saturday. One report says
that days session was purely formal
affair, and that no business Of any i'm
portance was transacted.
Another report says the day was
chiefly disposition of routine business
connected with diocesan regulations.
One important decision, however, was
arrived at. Itrelated to the organiza-
ton of the faculty at Washington, but
to what extent or in which diocese the
faculty will be reorganized cannot be
ascertained until the fuller report OF
the proceedings have been transmitted
to the Holy see.
1t is not known whether the question
of secret societies was taken up, as the
Archbishops, with one accord, refused
to speak on the subject. 1t is said,
however, that a report was prepared
for submission to the Pope on the ques-
ton as to whether secret societies not
Masonic should be condemned, and the
ACCESSIBILITY of establishing consistory
court.
Exactly what was accomplished by
the conference will not he made public
until the various archbishops have is
sued their instructions to the bishops
under their control. Whether or not
Archbishop ireland scored a victory in
the conference will then be made plain.
Archbishop Corrigan has always been
one of the warmest opponents of the
Failbault system, and it is limited that
during the conference he and Archbish-
OPP Ireland took opposite views and ex-
pressed them vigorously. There is no
reason to believe, however, that there
wassany serious disagreement in the
conference, and if the result was vic
tory for Archbishop Ireland there is
nothing in the resolutions adopted to
show it.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-11-21
VIRGINIA NEWS.

A great deal of detail must be at
tended to and there will be considerable
delay in the Virginia creditors getting
their new State bonds.
At the Virginia Methodist Confer
ence in session in Norfolk on Saturday
the Bishop appointed Professor Francis
II. Smith and Rev. r. w. Peatross, OF
Danville. delegates to the Peace Con-
gress at Chicago in 1898. The commit
tee appointed in the case of Rev. Dr..
Johnson reported tavorably and he was
admitted.
The first deer of the season was
brought to Fredericksburg on Friday.
1t was killed near the Wilderness, in
Spotsylvania county, where they are
said TO abound. The hunting season
has fairly opened, and wild turkeys,
cartridges, woodcock, rabbits, and
squirrels are. brought to Fredericksburg
in large numbers.
The French government has in con-
temptation the sending to the United
States next April of one of the most
powerful cruising fleets ever dispatched
from France. The occasion will be the
naval rendezvous in Hampton Roads,
of representative warships from nearly
every country in honor of the Column
bian celebration. Among the French
ships mentioned as likely to be sent
out, says the New York Times, are the
Admiral Baudin, Breunus, Devastation,
Formidable, Hoche, Magenta, Marceau,
Neptune. Lalande. and Tage.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-11-21
TO-DAY'S TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES
Enrainn News.

LONDON. Nov. Pit is said that
the English government has informed
the Portuguese minister in London
that on account of the unfriendly at
titude of the Portuguese, a British fleet
will not be allowed to visit the Tagus.
PARIS, Nov. Pit is reported that
that NJ. Arton, formerly trusted
agent of the Panama Canal Co., who
absconded a few months ago, has re-
turned to France and is now in hiding.
He has in his possession numerous COM
promising documents said to relate to
the Panama Canal Co.'S, Substituting OF
the press.
The death of Baron de Reinich, who
was one of the men compromised in
the Panama scandal, is said to have
been caused by cerebral excitement
brought on by the discovery that pa
pers showing that he was compromis-
ed in the canal scandal had been stolen
from him. Baron de Reinich leaves a
fortune of s15, 100000.
PARIS: Nov. 21.-By unanimous vote
the chamber of deputies to-day agreed
that a parliamentary inquiry should
be instituted into the affairs of the
Panama Canal Company.
ROME, Nov. 21.-Intense excitement
has been caused here by a mysterious
tragedy at San Pancrazio, suburb OF
of this city. Father Blondel, a respect
ed priest, lived with his sister in small
country house at San Pancrazio. Yes
terday the priests sister was found
dead in the house and the priest NOR
tally wounded, after laborer had run
from the house and said the priest had
shot at him.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-11-21

INHIs speech at New York last Sat
urday night President-elect Cleveland
said: "The people will he satisfied with
nothing less than the redemption ofthe
sacred pledges made to them colicc-
lively, by the administration of wise
policies, and the carrying on Of an hon
est government" This is well, and
every word of it is rs true as gospel.
The democrats during their recent sue
cessful campaign pledged themselves TO
the repeal of Il tariff bill which taxes
the many for the profit of a few, and
which increases the price OF the
necessaries of life, but not that of the
luxuries and the people will be salts
fled with nothing less than the rcdemp-
ton ofthat pledge, and that, too. as soon
as possible, and not two years hence.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-11-21
Shot by Trespasscrs.

READING, Pa, Nov. 21.-John Full
ton, aged 81, was yesterday shot, it is
believed fatally, by hunters five miles
below this city, receiving 1Sshots in the
vicinity of his heart. Fulton was visit
ing his father-in-law, VIM. Merkel.
The latter ordered the hunters to leave
his grounds, when wordy alteration
ensued and one ofthem suddenly raised
his pistol to shoot Merkel, who lodged
in some way, and the shot penetrated
the breast of Fulton. The trespassers
then escaped.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-11-21
VA
MONDAY EVENING. NOV. o1, 1892.
CONGRESSMAN HARrER of Ohio is :

CONGRESSMAN HARTER of Ohio is a
wise man and reaps the reward of his
wisdom. Although q large protected
manufacturer, he is pronounced rev
enue reformer, and though majority
OF his own party opposed him in Con-
rress. he took strong ground against
free silver. The result was that though
his district was gerrymandered so as to
give a republican majority of five thou
sand against him, he was reelected by
two thousand. The first thing he did
after being reelected was to select at
once, by his own knowledge, and with
out recommendation. those whom he
will nominate for federal Office in his
district, and to publish the list in the
newspapers. BY so doing he has not
only shown his independence, but
saved himself great annoyance and
trouble, and has saved the office seekers
much anxiety, ill-feeling and expense,
and has increased his popularity i'm
Intensely with all the right thinking
people in the district, even including
those among them who would have
sought office; for of all things, office
seeking is the most disagreeable, and
the man who deters another from it
deserves his gratitude, and, in nine
cases out of ten, receives it sooner or
l,,or
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-11-21

THE REPUBLICANS never were con-
sistent, but are even less so now than
ever. Now that they are going out of
power they want to exclude all foreign
ers; but when they were striving to
retain control of the government they
selected an Irishman to represent the
country in Chill, an Englishman to take
the census, and Russian to prepare
the papers for the proposed Behring
sea treaty. But experience has proved
that they would hesitate at nothing to
gain their ends.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-11-21
Train Wrecked.

ATLANTA, Ga, Nov. 21.-Train
wreckers placed distractions on the
track Of the Western and Atlantic Rail
road last night two miles from this
city. The engine and four cars left the
track. Engineer Squires and his fire.
man were seriously, perhaps fatally in
jured. A train was wrecked at the
same spot year ago in the same way
by fastening an iron band across the
rails. The purpose of the wreckers is
supposed to have been robbery.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-11-21

THE NEvILLE-HoWLAND AFFAIR
Mr.. Robert Neville, who on Thursday
last struck Mr.. S. 5. Rowland at the
Horse Show, in New York, and was
struck in return by that gentleman,
issued Il statement yesterday explaining
the cause OF the quarrel. and publishing
the correspondence concerning Il debt
honor which resulted in the attack. Mr..
Neville says that the quarrel was y fool
ish affair at best, but, he added, Il was
compelled to strike Rowland. lie
called me liar, and | was forced to re-
sent it or forfeit my acquaintance and
association with gentlemen. l regret
exceedingly that the affair happened
at the Horse Show, ana have apologized
for that to the governors OF the assocla-
ton. | do not think that the police
court is the proper place to settle a
eentlcman's quarrel, but it has been
forced there against my will. In adj
iusting such difficulties favor a commits
sion of gentlemen. I issue the state
ment, not in justification of my own
acts, but that my friends and the public
may be in full possession OF the exact
facts in the case
AIR. Rowland to-day absolutely refused 10
talk to Il reporter about the explanation
made bs Mr.. Robert Neville regarding the
affair. The statement given out by Neville is
a lengthy one Included in it are copies OF
number of papers which passed between
Messrs. Neville and Rowland regarding
some bettins Transactions between the former
and the late Perciyal Drsyt0n. According to
Mr.. Neville $50 was lost To him by Drayton
IL. bets on several games OF pool * the late
METROPOLITAN Club in Washington, but the
Loser left without remembering to pay. He
S.;vs he did not see Drlyton again for more
thu, \ year. when lie met him at the Dunn
blanc hunt Club races and made bet with
him OF $50 u 500 on n future match race.
R.fore the race was run Mr.. Drlyton was
takc,r i'll and died within . short time Mr..
Neville says that as i;e understood Drayton to
be unconscious at the tine the race was run,
he suggested that the bet s-Sould be called Oil,
but after the death Mr.. HoSi9nd, as Dray-
toms executor. wrote to him claiming that ne
had lost the bet and owed the estate $50.
After considerable correspondence Mr. Ne
VILE enclosed Il check for $50, which. With
the $50 he claimed Drayton owed him..
would make up the $50 Mr.. Rowland re-
turned this cheek, and accompanied it with a
letter casting doubt upon the truth of Mr..
Neviile's statement resslrding the $50 bet.
This. the latter claimed. justified him in pub
licly slapping Mr.. Howland's face the next
time he met him. He says his cI,,b friends
would have refused to associate with him had
he not done s..
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-11-21

Mr.. WHTTELAw REID has wiped his
glasses and now sees that the result OF
the recent overwhelming republican
defeat, lis due to the growth of social
ism in this;country." There is no doubt
that the pillaging tariff, the corruption,
and the personal government ofrepuhli-
can administrations in this country
have increased the number of Ameri-
can socialists, but the fact that most OF
the leading socialists opposed Mr..
Cleveland, shows that socialism had
nothing to do with his election. The
people were tired of republicanism and
determined to root it out.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-11-21

MR.. c. DEGRnlM, the artist whose
cartoons appeared in the GAZETTE dur
ing the recent campaign, has just been
awarded the s., 900 prize offered by the
New York Herald for the best work of
that sort. The Bureau of Electric Cor
respondence, through which the GA
zErrE received its cartoon service, is
deserving of considerable praise for the
high character of the pictures and the
promptness with which it furnished
them.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-11-21
Accident ut a Funeral.

BROWN CITY, Mich, Nov. 21.-An
unfortunate accident at the funeral OF
Joshua Summers, an aged pioneer, yes
terday afternoon, resulted in the mutt
lation of the dead mans remains and
serious injury to two of the mourners
The funeral was about to enter the Gem
etery when the horses attached to the
hearse suddenly became frightened and
ran away, overturning the hearse in a
ditch. The casket crashed through the
glass window and the corpse fell out OF
the coffin, being cut and mutilated al
most beyond recognition. The run
away startled the horses attached to
the first carriage and they, too, plunged
into fence. A son and daughter of
the dead man were thrown out and
badly cut and bruised.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-11-21
Political Personals

The Richmond correspondent of the
Petersburg AppeaI says: sit is said by
persons who are supposed to know
something of the political aspirations
of Mr.. Gordon that he will be candi-
date for the nomination of governor
only in the event Congressman O'Fer-
rail- does not enter the contest Col.
O'Farrell if he goes into the fight will
do so after careful consideration of the
matter and with the assurance that he
will win. Should he secure the nomina-
ton he would at once resign his seat
in Congress, and Mr.. Gordon would be
a candidate TO succeed him, according
to my informant Three weeks ago
O'Farrell intimatcd to friend that he
would very likely run for governor,
but some persons think he may see
greater possibilities opening up for him
in Washington and change his mind.
1t is stated in political circles here that
Capt f. r. Lassiter, of Petersburg, will
be a candidate for district attorney.
Col. Meade Haskins and Mr.. S. 5. Pat
teson, Of this city, are the only other
persons who are known to be aspirants
for that office. For the marshalship
there are already two candidates.
State Senator Thomas w. Scott, Of
Charlotte county, who held the posi-
ton under Mr. Cleveland's former adj
ministration, thinks he is the man for
the place, and Mr.. Joseph I. Duke, of
Portsmouth, chairman ofthc democrat
ic committee of the second district,
hopes the honour may come his way.
Duke is going to have powerful
backing. In the western district four
candidates for the attorneyship are al
ready in the field They are Hon. II.
H. Downing, ofWarren Mr.. A. J.
Montague, of Danville; Colonel w. NJ.
McAllistcr, of Bath, and NJ. A. G.
Gordon, ofStaunton. There will be sew
eral candidates for collector of internal
revenue in the western district in adj
dition to Captain Ham Sheppard. Cap
tain Sheppard and Major Baker P. Lee
were probably the ouly persons APP
pointed to office in Virginia by Mr..
Cleveland who opposed his renomina-
tion."
A letter from Lexington to the Rich
mond Times says: Lexington is the
happy possessor Of two men who have
been mentioned for Cleveland's Cabi-
net, John Randolph Tucker and Fitz
Lee. An effort will be made here next
week by which Mr.. Cleveland will be
informed of the desire of Virginia and
her sister States to have Mr.. John Ran
dolph Tucker appointed Attorney
General. 1t is already assuming good
shape"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-11-21
them

JUDGE MILLER of Washington on
Saturday last decided that school teach
ers have the right to whip pupils when
their conduct requires it, and said. ''it
will be bad day when that right is
taken away from them" The Judge
has both common sense and the Bible
to sustain him, and if the right referred
to were exercised more frequently than
it is, it would be better for parents as
well as children.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-11-21

How TIE PRESIDENT is ELEcTED.-Thi:
is the way the President and Vice President
of the United States are chosen
In the first place each State is entitled to as
many presidential electors as it has represen-
tativcs in Congress including the two federal
Senators That is to say. one elector for each
Congressional district and two olectors-at-
large. When the electors have been chosen,
rs they were nj the late election, they meet
in their representatives States and vote by
ballot for President and Vice President of the
United States. After casting their ballots
they count the vote, certify the result and
transmit il to the president of the United
States Senate. 1t is customary, to make two
certificates of the election, one of which is
sent by mail and the other by special messen-
ger to the president of the Senate. During
the session of Congress and after these certiti-
Gates have been sent in. the president of the
Senate, in the presence OF the Senate and
House of Representatives, opens the certif-
Gates and counts the vote.
The Presidential election is not, legally
speaking. a national election. Virginia cleo
tors are simply the chosen agents of the State
to cast the States vote for President and Vice
President of the United States, and these
electors are chosen in Il State election. Such
electors were chosen at \ State election held
on November Sth, and they will meet in
Richmond in the carly future to cast their
vote in the manner above described. As these
electors were the candidates Oft the democratic
party. they will of course, cast their votes for
Cleveland and Stevenson, though they are
not legally bound to do So They could cast
Virginia's vote for Harrison and Reid or for
any other eligible citizen of the United States,
if they were SO minded.