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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-25
LoUDoUN NOTES.

Last Thursday night Mr.. Howard
Welsh died at the home of his mother,
Mrs. Margaret Welsh, near Lincoln, in
the 10th year of his age.
Thomas Brooks, son of the late Philip
Brooks, died at his mothers residence
in Leesburg, about noon on Tuesday.
August e3, in the 18th year Of his age.
Mr. Harriet n. Pursell, wife of E. R..
Pursell, and sister Of the late Senator
Henry Heaton, Of Loudoun, died at
her home in Purcellville on Wednesday
morning August "a.
Last Friday morning, August 18th,
Mrs. Delilah Donohoe, widow of the
late Lewis J, Donohoe, died at her
home, few miles south of Leesburg,
She was q kind hearted old lady, in
about the Saith year of her age.
The Loudoun fair was well attended
Yesterday, about $500 persons being
present. The county trot, on Tuesday
for 4-year-olds, owned in Loudoun, was
won by Jas. a, Cpmmin's, colt by Capt.
Goodwin, in straight heats frqm G. w.
Johnson's entry. The race was mile
heats 8 in 5-purse $50. The sports
began Yesterday with the contest for
Huniter's prize. Roht: Neyille's Transit,
L, G, Aarshallfs Bettina, and e. M
Chichester's Musket, contested, and
Transit won.-MirrOr.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-25
FAUoUIER NOTES.

Mr.. ]. J. Hall died at his home near
Hume on the 18th in the 65th year OF
his age.
Some one entered the Episcopal
church at The Plains recently and stole
the lamps.
Democratic campaign clubs are to be
organized in few days at Catlett'5 and
The Plains.
Upwards of eighty summer boarders
are in and around Rectortown from
Washington aud Baltimore.
The Methodist at Linden are build
ing handsome church which will be
dedicated the 18th of September.
Mr.. s. C. Milburn, of Catletts, has de-
cied to close out his stock Of goods and
remove with his family to Washington.
A gray marc, formerly owned by
Messrs. Hale & CARRIER, of this county,
won trotting race at Salem, n. j., q
few days ago in 2:3O.
Up to this writing 124 loads of fat
cattle have been shipped from Rector
town station since May LIST, and many
more are to be shipped yet.
Mr.. John hurry Bartles, who left
this county when quite child and has
residing in Germany ever since, is now
visiting his relatives here.
Ecarte, formerly owned by hIr. ]. X.
Maddux, of this place, won steeple
chase at Saratoga few days ago. The
old horses Boutwell,, st. Luke and st.
John, raised by Owens, of this county,
are continually winning races.
A young lady of Rappahannock pass.
ed through Orlean en- route to the mad
stone near Rectortown. A rabid dog
tried TO bite her and while he did not
succeed i'll inflicting wound, some of
the saliva touched fresh cut surface
on her hand.
The case of the Commonwealth VS..
Benton Carter for unlawfully shooting
l.. ?. Brown during the recent colt
show at Upperville commenced in the
County Court Monday and was con-
cluded Wednesday morning, when the
jury brought in verdict of thirty days
confinement in tho county Jail and
fine of two hundred dollars.-Warren-
ton Eirginian.
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The Cholera in Eurone.

ST.. PETERSBURG, Aug. 25.-The of
fetal cholera report yesterday shows
ia new cases in excess of those re-
ported on Tuesday while the deaths
were 81 in excess. The disease is
spreading in this city, but the people
now show little concern about it. The
deaths have, of course, been far more
numerous than usual, but with the dis
ease ever present in the short but hot
summer that prevails here the people
have in a measure lost fear of it.
Advices received from Astrakhan
show that the cholera, which has been
ravaging that city, has lost its epidemic
character.
PARIS, Aug. 25.-The condition of
many of the Jewish emigrants who
pass through this city is such that
should cholera break out among them
it would find fertile field for its
spread. Within month one thousand
Jews, refugees from Russia, have pass
ed through here, most of whom were
on their way to the United States.
Those who have recently arrived here
have been in most filthy condition.
ANTWERP, Aug 25.-The excitement
caused by the acknowledgment Of the
physicians that Asiatic cholera is in the
city has not subsidized and those who
can afford to do 80 are making ready 10
fee to various places to escape the dis
ease. There is no appreciable change
in the situation. 1t is decidedly be-
lieved that tho disease reached here
from some vessel from an infected port,
and there is considerable indignation
that the authorities did not enforce the
quarantine regulations until after the
disease had got firm foothold in the
city. 1t has transpired that the first
persons to fall victims to the disease
were dock laborers. They were taken
to the hospitals, where the doctors,
though they were probably fully aware
that the disease was Asiatic cholera,
stated to newspaper representatives
and others that it Was common cholera
and that nothing was to be feared from
it. A total of one-fourth of all the pa
tients which have been removed to the
hospitals have died. The quarantine
regulations are now being enforced
with great severity.
BERLIN, Aug. 25.-There are serious fears
that the cholera has broken ont in this city.
The wife of merchant died at midnight last
night with symptoms of Asiatic cholera,
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Racc Troubles in Florida.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Aug. 25.-At
New Smyrna last Saturday, Charles
Thomas, colored, was arrested for
shooting another negro. He was lock-
ed up and atabout 9 p. m. the Jail was
surrounded by his friends, armed with
revolvcrs or winchesters, and an at
tempt made to break the door down,
but a few determined white men Sue
ceeding in dispensing the mob. On
Sunday night the negroes again came
in from the camp, but found that the
Jail was strongly guarded and decided
to leave. Since then the town has
been in constant terror of the mob's re-
turn and armed men have patrolled the
streets night and day.
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NEWS 0F THE DAY.

There is said to be corner in Au-
gust oats.
Judge Levin T. Irving, of the First
Judicial Circuit of Maryland, died at
Princess Anne yesterday.
Nightingale won the 10000 Charter
Oak stake race at Hartford, Conn, yes
terday. Harry McNair Won the 2.27
trotting race.
An exemplifcation of the new ritual
of the knights OF Pythias was made be-
fore the officers of the Supreme Lodge
in Kansas City yesterday.
A survey of the political field leads to
the conclusion that the democrats will
secure a large majority in the next
House of Representatives.
At Chenoa, ILL.,, fire broke out in the
business portion of the town yesterday
evening, and by midnight had consum-
ed dozen stores and residences; $40
600 damage was done.
Notwithstanding his declination to
be candidate, Mr.. Barnes Compton
was renominated for Congress by the
democrats of the Fifth Maryland dis
trict, at Laurel, yesterday.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-25

THE PHILADELPHIA Record is one OF
the few northern newspapers that un-
derstand the real condition of affairs in
the South and tho true feeling of the
people of this section. 1t says:
"Any man in any southern State who
should knowingly lena his support, di-
rectly or indirectly, to the Lodge Force
bill would not dare to look an honest
woman in the face, and honest men
would regard him with scorn. 1t is in
the very nature Of things that such
should be the case. From an expert
ence in some of the States more terrible
than that of the war, and from tradi-
tions which curdle the blood of rising
generations, nothing imaginable could
be so dreadful to the white men and
women of the South as negro domina-
ton"
And yet republican candidate fer
Congress in this very State of Virginia,
Mr.. Bowden, of Norfolk, has openly
declared himself in favor of the Force
bill. He will, of course, receive the
vote of every negro in his district, but
tho white men who may vote for him
will BIO sorry lot.
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ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA.
THURSDAY EVENING, AUG. %, 1892.
To SHOW that the republican, is the

To SHOW. that the republican, IS the
sectional party Of the country and that
it has no practical existence IN one en-
tire half Of the Union, it is only neceS-
sarv to notice the fact that the demo"
Gratis in none of the southern States
deem it worth their while opay any at
tention TO the few republican congress
sional candidates among them, but con-
fine their efforts to the work of dis
abusing the minds of their neighbors OF
the wild and reckless ideas promul-
gated by the third party's newspapers,
stumpers and lecturers Indeed so ut
terly ineffective is the republican party
in the South thatt is willing to become
only contingent Of the third party, in
order to defeat the democrats, and
that, too, though the principles of that
party are more abhorrent to its own
than those of the democrats. That the
democratic, is the only real national par
ty of the country is proved by the fact
that it is engaged in square toed fight
in every district of every State of the
entire Union, and is contending as Wig
orously for home rule and low taxes III
Maine as in Texas, in Oregon as in
Florida.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-25

The infant son of Capt. Herbert OF
Delaplane, died Thursday, the 18th, at
Saluda, n. c.
Several children, white and colored,
were bitten by o mad dog, in Ports
mouth yesterday.
Miss Maggie Yates, daughter of Mrs.
Mitkiewicz, nee Miss Mary MARSHALL,
died at Orange on Saturday, aged IL
years.
Chas. E. Blankenship, well known
citizen of Manchester, was run over
and killed by R. & D. train in that
city yesterday evening.
The democratic canvass in Virginia
is in good shape, and the leaders are
well pleased with reports coming from
various parts Of the State.
Rev. Peyton II. Hoge has declined
the professorship in the Union Theo-
logical Seminary, near Farmyille, and
will remain rs pastor of the First Pres
byterian church, Wilmington, n. c.
William B. Cochrane, secretary ofthe
Bushwhacker Manufacturing Company,
of Aspen, Colo, and manager of the
opera house there, who left two months
ago, taking $1,000 shares Of the manu-
featuring company's stock, was arrest
ed in San Francisco on Tuesday night.
AS anticipated the democratic con-
vention of the Seventh district held at
Front Royal yesterday renominated Col.
c. T. O'Ferrall for Congress by accla-
nation. The Sixth district democratic
convention held in Lynchbnrg yester-
day renominated Hon. Paul c. Ed
munds for Congress by reclamation.
A citizen ofSalem has been placed in
curious predicament by the action of
bis son-in-law. The latter, who lives
with his flther-in-law and works at the
mines of the Salem Furnace Company,
returned home few nights ago and
eloped with his mother-in-law. The
father-in-law has instituted suit for
divorce on the ground of desertion.
Miss Woodward, of Richmond, with
Miss Katie Goldsborough, of Frederick,
Md, were rowing with Mr.. Robert Glib
son, of Shepherdstown, on the Potomac
at Tarlight on Tuesday. Miss Wood.
ward was in the act of stepping forward
when the boat capsized, throwing her
headforemost into twenty feet Of water,
twenty-five yards from shore. Dir.
Gibson rescued her.
Minor Bolts Lewis, son of d. Shelley
Lewis and grandson of ex-senator John
f. Lewis and of John Minor Bolts, has
been appointed to succeed L. T.
Broyles, deputy collector for the sixth
Virginia district, removed. Broyles, it
will be remembered, recently shot D.
b. Snyder, in Luray. MIR. Lewis will
qualify at once and remove the office
from Luray to Harrisonburg.
Senator David B. Hill has written a
letter to friend in Richmond in which
he says he is anxious to come to Vir-
ginia and make some speeches during
the canvass, and will do SO if he can.
He said he could not state positively
whether or not he will be able to visit
this State, as his plans for speech-mak-
ing are not as yet mapped out. He in
CURED as to the situation in Virginia,
and said he hoped the democrats would
carry it by the old-time majority.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-25

THERE IS nothing better calculated
to make man realize the rapid changes
effected by time than look over his
receipted bills-and he has to look at
them sometimes in order to avoid the
necessity of paying them twice. A
look at such bills, though the accumu-
lation of only few years, will startle
him, by reminding him of the insanity,
death, failure, and other misfortunes OF
so many people with whom he has
had business transactions. Sir Walter
Scott says:
Years rush by us like the wind. We see
not whence the eddy comes, nor whtherward
it is tending, and We seem ourselves to wit
ness their flight without sense that we are
changed; and yet time is bcguiling man OF
his strength as the winds rob the woods OF
their foliage"
Nothing can so bring home the truth
of the above paragraph as glance
at the bills a man has paid. Of course,
in this progressive age, no man who
doesn't want to be laughed at will ac-
knowledge that he ever looks at those
he has not paid
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-25

Terrible Death from Hydrophobia
Chained to his bed John Davis died q
horrible death Saturday afternoon at
his home, six miles south of the city.
He died of hydrophobia, an awful di-
sease which no human aid can relieve.
Nearly ten days ago he was taken
with the first symptoms Of hydropho-
bia. Each day he grew worse, and his
sufferings were terrible 10 see.
John Davis was well-to-do-firmer,
residing in the lower part of Fulton
county, near South river, and six miles
from the city. He lived on the planta-
ton known as the McWilliams place,
and worked hard and lived in the COM
Portable circumstances of a prosperous
farmer. He was about 40 years old,
and had wife and three children.
About month ago he was walking
along the road near his home with a
friend. Suddenly cat dragging long
string after it darted across the road
Just in front of them. Davis grabbed
the string and drew the cat to him.
The cat was frightened and as soon as
it came in reach of Davis it seized his
thumb viciously, and buried its teeth
deep in the flesh. 1t held the thumb
in vise-like grip, and try as he would
Davis could not extricate it. His friend
put stick in tina cats mouth and tried
to force it open, but quick as lightning
the cat seized hold of Dir. Davis's re-
naming thumb and held both of them
between the teeth.
After much hard work Mr.. Davis
finally got his fingers out of the cats
mouth. The bite left a bad flesh
wound on each of Mr.. Davis's thumbs,
but they were quickly healed up and
he anticipated no tronble from them.
He went along all right until last
Monday. He went to the well to draw
a bucket Of water and when he started
to take a drink of it it choked him. He
fell to the ground in fit, frothing at
the mouth.
1t was day or so before the doctors
could make out what the trouble was.
The symptoms wereIstrange and I'M
like those in any ordinary disease.
Finally they decided that it was case
of genuine hydrophobia.
Davis's suferings were something
terrible: He was violent, and when
suffering from commissions frothed at
the mouth. He had to be chained to
his bed and continually suffered for
water. The case was one Of great IN
terest to the physicians and many of
them visited Davis. ALI through the
week his suferings continued: Moth
ing would give him relief and last Sat
urday afternoon he died.-Atlaata Con-
stithtioa.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-25

4 Boy KILLED BY EXPLOSION OF
Reese Kase, a son of
Mr.. Alva Kase, of Stony Point, about
ten miles from Charlottesville, met his
death in most distressing manner a
few days since. The child, who was
only about seven years old, went to an
upstairs room TO play, and while thus
engage, his curiosity led him to l0ok
into his brothers trunk, containing a
large bag of powder. In some unac-
cointable manner the powder exploded,
hurting the boy into closet, where he
was afterwards found in an unconscious
condition. The trunk was blown to
atoms, the roof of the house lifted up,
and the walls moved out of plumb.
The plastering was knocked from the
walls, o large hole in the floor torn
open, besides demolishing all the glass
in the windows. A door in the room
below was burst open by the explosion.
The child could not give any account
of how the accident happened, and said
that he did not have any matches. He
fingered until the next morning, when
death relieved him of his suffering.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-25

The swITCHMEN's strike at Buffalo
was practically broken the very day it
commenced, but last night, twelve days
after it was declared on" it was ode
clared off" In the meantime the places
of the strikers have been filled with
efficient non-union men, whose services
will, of course, be retained. The strikers
will also, of course, have to seek other
employment at Buffalo or similar en-
ployment in some other city. They
may have proiited by their strike, but
if so they have not yet impaired the
knowledge of their good fortune to
those dependent upon them for support,
but whose welfare they never thought
of when engaged in destroying the
property of the railroads.
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A Bulky Corpse.

New BRUNSWICK, n. j., Aug. 25.
Many curiosity-seekers to-day visited
modest looking dwelling on Comstock
street this morning with hope of get
ting a view of the body of Furmap
Schenck, who was known as Barnum's
colored fat boy. Schenck died yester.
day of fatty degeneration of the liver.
He weighed $50 pounds at the time of
his death. Undertaken James l.. Roc.
ers, who has been engaged to bury the
body of Schenck, has had Il coffin made
six feet long, four feet two inches wide
and three feet ten inches deep. The
undertaken has been puzzled in plan.
ming for the removal of the immense
coffin from the house The door is NOT
wide enough to permit the coffin being
carried out Of the front entrance, and il
will be carried by dozen men through
the back door and through an opening
made in the fence. There is not a
hearse in New Brunswick or any ada.
cent town large enough for this extra.
ordinary corpse, and the coffin will have
to 5e conveyed to the cemetery in
wager. The relatives of the deceased
were also perplexed in making arrange
ments for the funeral. They wanted 4
public service at the MI. Zion colored
church, but this was impossible on ac-
count ofthe aisles ofthe church beingtoo
narrow to permit the coffin being carried
to the altar. The services will be held
at the late home of the deceased
Schenck was Il years of age, and when
he left school at Whitehouse. Somerset
county, he weighed SO pounds. At the
age of % he weighed 425 pounds and
passed the 500 mark a few years later.
lie was then exhibited by Barnum and
subsequently became dime museum
freak. He continued in the show bust
ness until few years AGO, when he
went to live with his brother in the
house OH Comstock street where he
died
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-25

A GALLANT CHARGE.-As the years
roll by there is danger that really he
roic actions of modest men will be for
gotten while trivial circumstance coz
nected with egotistical persons are ex-
aggerated into deeds of valor. Thus
spoke Mr.. w. III. Lewis, when he add
ed. ~ want to tell YOU of a charge dur
ing the war of which there is no record
and concerning which little was thought
at the time by the participants and no.
thing said about it since.
"On hill near Aide, in Loudoun
county, Col. Munford had an unpro-
tected battery. The enemy was seen
approaching and Col. Munford sent me
to Capt. A. d. Payne with an order for
him to charge the enemy which de-
livered, and Capt. Payne replied that
there was certainly regiment and per-
haps brigade of federal cavalry which
were too many for him to charge, as
he had only sixteen men. Col. Mum
ford sent word back to him to charge
the enemy if he sacrificed every man he
had. IneV were NOW poSSloiJ "iliii
three hundred yards of the battery
when Capt. Payne put himself at the
head of his men and gave the order to
charge. The charge was rapid, and ut
the first fire four or five of the enemy
were killed, and before they had time
to recover themselves the battery had
been moved to a place of safety and
Capt. Payne and his little band retired
in GOOD order without losing q man.
This was the day that some of our men
captured Gen. Window. On the same
day or the next Munford rode out from
among his field officers, took Oft his
hat and complimented Capt. Payne and
thanked him for his gallant charge
which had resulted in so much good. y
WarrentOn Virginian.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-25

THB RArrLEsNAKE's ALARN,-The
rattlesnake's rattle is like the sound
which would be produced by the rat
Ting of a number of peas in paper
bag. This represents the slightness OF
the sound. We are accustomed to pic
torial representations in which the rep
tile is made to look very angry and on
ergetic, the tail erect in manner to
suggest n loud alarm. Accordingly,
when one hears it for the first time one
is surprised to find the noise so slight.
The sound, instead of being rattle, IS
rather q tinkle, and perhaps it has a
rather more metallic character than
the notion of the shaking of peas in a
paper bag would represent. But slight
as the sound is, the person who has
never met one of these reptiles before
and who, without seeing the snake,
hears for the first time among mount
ain rocks OF prairie graass IT'S s aisellll!gaiFe
yet wonderfully distinct warning,
knows instantly who and what his
neighbor is.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-25
A Threatened Invasion.

ATLANTA, Aug. pa rumor has
reached the city that the Tennessee
miners were contemplating an attack
on the coal mines in Dade county in
order to liberate the Georgia convicts
confined there. Atlanta's military COM
panies are sleeping under arms and a
special train stands ready to rush them
through to Cole City. The miners will
find warm reception awaiting them if
they should attack the camps.
The latest information received IS
that all is quiet and there is no danger
of call to arms.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-25

THE PRESIDENT, Senators Hoar and
Chandler, Representative Lodge, and
all the other more intense South-haters
cling to Mr.. Davenport, the real author
ofthe Force bill and the famous election
supervisor and ballot manipulation Of
New York, but the leading republicans
of that city have become tired of him.
and say he hurts, rather than helps their
party. Mr.. Davenport must be pretty
rank, as he gags the New York repub-
licans. but there is no doubt of the fact
that many non-partisans would think
better of the republicans if they would
cut loose from Davenport, Dudley,
Clarkson and their pals.