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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-01-19
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rl,HE ANNUAL MEET ING Of tho STOCK holders
l. of the CHASE AND SLATER LAW AND
CLAIMS COMPk Y, for the elact;oa of Board
of Trustees will bo held at Fleischmann's Hotel,
Alexandria Va, on SATURDAY, January 30,
1892. Polls open from j TO 2 p. M.
JHO. G. SLATER, President.
JNO. II. ROTHERT, Treasurer, janis I'd
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-01-19
y no more questions we're asked Of him.

eRrASGE DEATH IRAP-Dr. Graves will be
hanged by machine which has no cupllcsto
IN the world. 1t is so fixed that he will hang
bimsa,f The czecu ion chamber is small room
-yith ten.{oo1 ceiling. 4 n csc is suspended
OYER pulley in the center. The other end Of the
rome Passes along other pulleys to roar chamber
and Is there aitschtd to 50opound on Weight
This weight is or shelf thst is hold in place %
a lever. on thu end O which il O receptacle hold
ioo fifty.six pounds o; vnter. In the Bottom OF
tbis water vet sol ia stopper attached to chain,
which il in turn attached to the ~ dor side OF
door that rests on springs under the nooso. When
tho criminal steps on the door. tho ro'so iG 81 ad-
justed the CHAIN is pulled By ire splng aoor, ina
tho SEQ pound weight, and tho doomed man is
yanked to the ceiling n jiH5, his neck being
hroken en route.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-05-30
DIRGE FOR A SOLDIER.

Room for a soldier: lay him in the clover;
He loved the fields and they shall be his cover:
Make his mound with hers W no called him once
Where the rain may rain upon it,
Where the sun may shine upon 1t,
Where the lamb hath lain upon it,
And the bee will dine upon it
Bear him to no dismal tomb under city
churches;
Take him to the fragrant fields by the silver
birches,
Where the whippoorwill shall mourn, where the
oriole perches.
Make his mound with sunshine on 1t,
Where the bee will dine upon it,
Where the lamb hath lain upon 1t,
And the rain will rain upon it.
Busy as the busy bee, his rest should be the
Gentle lamb was he, and the fern should be
his clover;
Fern and rosemary shall grow my soldiers pill
low over.
Where the rain may rain upon it,
Where the sun may shine upon Ii,
Where the lamb hath lain upon it,
And the bee will dine upon 1t.
Sunshine in his heart the rain would come full
Out of those tender eyes which ever more did
He never could look cold till we saw him in his
coffin.
Make his mound with sunshine on 1t,
Where the wind may sigh upon it,
Where the morn may stream upon 1t,
And memory shall dream upon it
"Captain or Colonel" whatever invocation
Suit our hymn best; no matter for thy station:
On thy grave the rain shall fail from the eyes of
mighty nation.
Long as the sun doth shine upon It,
Shall grow the goOdly pine upon it,
Long as the stars do CLEAN upon it,
Shall memory come to dream upon it.
DR.. r. w pdrSOnS
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-05-30
ING ERSOLL.

Colonel Robert q. Ingersoll seems to be
certain clerics of New York city. Inger-
soil was the son of an orthodox clergy
man: gloomy, bigoted, austere man,
who made life hell to his gifted boys,
and as a natural consequence when they
escaped from the fathers control and be-
came old enough to think they both
became agnostics. The trouble with In
gersoll is that he does not always
distinguish between Christianity and
the ecclesiasticism that has been
imposed upon it. The church has
largely burst the cerements of ecclesi-
asticism, and Christianity, as living
body full of light and heat of humanity has
come forth. and the hands who have torn
it from the grasp of those who have tried
to make mummy of it through ecclesi-
asticsm and theological metaphysics
have not been iconoclasts or agnostics.
like Ingersoll, but reputable sons of the
Christian church on both sides of the
water. Dean Stanley, in his christian
Institutes" handled ecclesIasticism and
superstition as bravely, although more
reverently than Ingersoll.
Luther called the Epistle to James a
strawy epistle, and the great preacher,
DR.. South, said lit either found a man
cracked or left him So" Archdeacon
Farrar does not think Matthew's Gospel
all genuine, rejects the Epistle to the
Hebrews as not written by Paul or any
other apostle. but this Biblical criticism is
quite as radical as that for which the
Presbyterian church is ready to call DR..
Briggs hereto. Rev. DR.. Heber Newton.
Rev. Or. Rylance, Rev. Dr.. Patton. Rev.
DR.. Curry, Rev. DR.. James Bush hold the
same liberal views respecting the nom
literal Interpretation of Genesis and other
parts of the Scripture that DR.. Briggs has
expressed.
Many orthodox divines believe that
there may be probation in another life:
that persistency of evil character alone
renders punishment endless; that there is
hope beyond the grave for the weak
minded, the ignorant and the heather.
The thought Of hell is quite rs logical rs
the thought of heaven that is the doctrine
that punishment for those inadeQuatelv
punished in this world is as reasonable as
the thought OF reward for those imperfeetly
rewarded in this world; nevertheless the
mass of intelligent orthodox ministers are
not disposed TO preach endless punishment
from the pulpit in an its memorable Sc
verify 70 the pews, because the pews don't
believe ii, and very many pulpiis preach
| frankly against II.
Good mothers with hayward children
| don't believe il. for if they did the good
| mothers would never smile again. The
| mysteries Of the Infinite can not be
sounded by logic, and the instinct Of hu-
| man intelligence is quite as likely TO be
| right IS TO what God wills for us as the
closest logic of the most profound theo-
! logan OF the tawdry. sensational FalmaSe
/ school. But the difference between Inger-
soil and these liberal Christians within
! the churches praying for light and well
| coming II = very wide. The reformers
within the church say To renew itself
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-05-30
The Squirrel Scalp Industry.

AnacOrtes FARMER.
The business of taking squirrel scalps on the
prairie lands of Eastern Washington, Eastern
Oregon and Western Idaho, is very considerable
The other week a representative of the Washing
ton Farmer was in the store of the Wilbur Mer-
camille Company, situated in Wilbur, a town of
500 people, in Lincoln county, and found several
thousand scalps on hand, each lot strung to.
gether and wrapped with the affidavit of the
party that brought them in. Each scalp must
contain both ears 1t is reckoned that the firm
named has paid out this year 5000 for squirrel
scaps. They furnish the affidavit and ship the
scalps to the county auditor free of expense to
the farmer. They advance the farmer cash for
the scalps. The price varies according to the
season, the little rodents being more trouble
some in the early part of the season than in the
latter part. In February the bounty paid is 5
cents. in March cents, in. April cents, in May
cents. In June the squirrels hole up and
hibernate until spring To kill one in Febru-
airy or March is equivalent to killing ten or
twelve later, for after they commence to breed
they have litters Of ten or twelve. The only
way to entirely dispose of the squirrels is TO
plow up all of the prairie lands. When the
squirrels find the land Is all being cultivated
they emigrate.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-05-30
THE STATE PRESS.

Sidney Iadependsat: "The coming Campaign
will be one OF brass bands, torch light proc
sous and tangle foot"
Waterville Democrat (Dem }: sit is a fair con-
clusion that if Horace Boes is nominated for
president he will receive the electoral vote OF
Iowa"
Spangle Record: "From the decision given by
Judge Lichtenb berg it would at first ssem to be a
hard matter to get road through where some
party interested made trouble. But the Record
has studied the matter up and finds that after
the petition has been properly published and
presented to the county commissioners, the
commissioners can then commence condemna-
ton proeeedi'g in the superior court. After the
court has ascertained the amount of damage,
the damage money has to be paid into the
court after which the court will order the road
to be opened"
Davenport Times: "The sacrilegious George
Hazard, secretary of the Democratic state COM
mittee, has been thanking God again, but the
Lords seems to have manifested his disapprova.
of Georges professions by subjecting him to
the wrath OF fellow Democrats, who came near
mobbing him. Hazard is Hill mas ard
wanted to send Hill delegation to Chicago.
but the rest of the Democrats couldn't see II
that way, and indirectly Endorsed Cleveland.
Hazard, however, telegraphed Hill and others
that the Buffalo gentleman was not in it. The
fact became known just before the convention
adjourned, and the willy George came near get
ting a sound drubbing for his assumption"
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-05-30
THE BRITISH GENERAL ELECTION.

The British parliament will be dissolved
on June 20. The new elections must, &C
cording to the statute, be all completed
within thirty-five days after the date fixed
for dissolution, SO that the English gen.
erai election will be over before the heat
of our presidential campaign has fairly be-
gun, Under the British Septennial act no
parliament can sit longer than seven
years. Lord Salisbury formed his present
parliament was elected in July of the same
year, so that it might under the Septennial
act go on to July. 1885,
The reign of Queen Victoria began in
1887 under the administration OF Lord
Melbourne, who was succeeded by Sir
Robert Peel. who held office not quite five
years Peel was succeeded by Lord John
Russell, who held office five years and a
half. Then followed four short-lived min
istries covering a period of but six years.
Lord Palmerston succeeded to the govern
ment in 1859; his administration endured
six years and four months. Between 1sb5
and 1868 three ministries rose and fell.
ton, which lasted a little over five years.
This was the first administration
to be elected under the Reform
act of 1867, and the Liberal
majority was lis, the largest majority
known since 1882, when the first reform
bill was passed. Mr.. Gladstone in 1873 was
beaten on the Irish University bill, and dis
solved parliament January "A, 1874, having
held office about five years and half.
Gladstone was succeeded by Disraeli, who
was soon transferred to the House of
Lords as Lord Beaconstield This parlia-
ment was dissolved March 8, 1880. and
Beaconsfeld was beaten by Gladstone.
Gladstones second administration lasted
until 1885, when he was beaten by coali-
ton of Conservatives and Parnellites, and
he thereupon gave way to Lord Salisbury.
Salisbury's first administration lasted but
227 days.
In the house of commons chosen In De-
cember, 1885, the Liberals and Parne.lites
had ostensibly very large majority over
the Conservatives, but when Mr.. Glad
stone brought in his bill for the better
government of Ireland it was defeated.
owing TO the secession of large body of
| his followers.
Parliament was Immediately dissolved.
Then came the memorable general election
of 1856 at which, with home rule as the
chief issue, Gladstone was overborne, not
by the strength of the Tories. but by what
was known rs the Union detection from
the Liberal party.
Tie house of commons then chosen
might have Taste legally until July, 1893.
! The day designated for dissolution. June
| ~. Is almost exactly SIX years after the
breakup of the parliament which wit
messed the Introduction of the home rule
| bill.
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kODAkS.

Rev. Thomas Dixon, ir, who Is q southerner.
and popular preacher of New York city, re-
Gently prefaced his Sunday sermon with brief
memorial discourse on General Grant, and made
an eloquent APPEAL to the $50, 900 Southern born
citizens of the city to contribute agenerous sum
10 the building OF Grants monument, as one OF
the truest friends OF the South, citizen of the
whole nation, who deserved and largely re.
ceived the gratitude of the younger genera.
ton in the South for ending the war and
bringing peace to q restored Union, and who
from his last days OF agony at Mount Macgreyor
sent message OF love to the people of the
south ''Let u.s. he said, '.bsar generous
par. in. building the tomb that shall fifty syrn.
bolize the greatness OF such a man, and spesg
its message of quiet courage, generosity truth,
manhood and fraternity TO the children of this
the giant nation OF the twentieth century"
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-05-30
THE PATRIOT DEAD.

The lands brave heroes, one by one,
Drop from their post at noon OF day,
Ere calls the lonely sunset gun
Altar throughout the twilight gray;
With hopes fair dreams ali set at naught.
Ere their brave souls their task had wrought,
And life her guerdons to them brought
With the great eagles at the morn
They sought the clouds, they cleft the sk
They climbed the mountains crest at dawn;
But here at cen alas they lie
No morrow's boom, or sunset gun,
Or tramp of legions hurryng on,
Shall wake the land where they have gonel
The noble dead, whose footsteps down
The highways of the century
Ring on aud ever through the past
And through the future dim and vast
With clouds portentous overcast
Drift over them, o SHOWS of time!
With kingly ermine wrap them around;
The nation watches at their shrine,
Their graves are consecrated ground.
When libertys revelles wake,
Wherever freedoms tide waves break,
Their land shall bless them for their sakeI
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Besiesed by a Mamma Bear.


One of Mr.. Lampson's boys came near having
8 serious encounter with bear the other day.
While going to work he met large bear and
two cubs. The mother and one of the cubs
took to the woods, while the other cub climbed
small tree. The boy thought to capture the
cub, and climbed up after it, whereupon the cub
Set up such wall that the mother soon re-
turned and started up after the boy. 1t was
now his turn to wall, which he did quite
Justify. Owing to the smallness of the tree thu,
bear could not reach the boy, but fancy the sit.
uation was anything but pleasant during the
interval that elapsed before the arrival OF the
boys father. The old bear took to the woods,
but they succeed in capturing the cub by means
OF ropes and gunny sacks. aud took il home
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being 1861. Wages were lowest in 1879. when
the average was $l6c5. Since then they have
slowly increased year by year, until at pres
emit they are: In Eastern states, &26. 40; Middle
states, 1888; Southern states, $l4s6;
Western, 81 81; Mountain, $32 l6; Pacific, s36 ID
The average per month for the whole year being
$780, The report says that, "a careful analysis
of all the data collected concerning farm wages
from 1910 to 1865, in comparison with results OF
the more recent Investigations, will show that
in fifty years the compensation of farm laborsrs
has very nearly doubled"
For some time trade has been going down with
respect to nearly every article of British manu-
featured export, but most of all with regard to
iron and steel, hardware and cutlery. For the
first four months of this year hardware and
cutlery show drop of El59,363 on 1850. The
United States has taken f45.OOo less, Germany
and France each 5000 less, and the Argentine
Republic $50 900 less In iron and steel there is
crop of 100000 sterling. Manufactures of
steel have dropped $4,000 and railroad iron &l,-
10000. Exports are just the same as they were
in 1888, though the imports of foreign goods are
much higher, and there are 100000 more pairs
OF hands seeking work.
Murat Halstead, in Frank Lsslie's, points ont
that Governor Boies, of Iowa, was a vigorous
Blaine man within ten years; that Senator
Palmer, of Illinois. was ap ardent anti-slavery
man and Republican up to the time when
Chicago was burned and United States troops
were sent to protect the ruins from piiage: that
Ex-Governor Campbell, OF Ohio, was staunch
Republican up to the Greeley campaign, and
that Ex-Governor Gray, of Indiana, was pas-
tisan Republican up to 1877.
Colonel Eliot F. Sheppard has provoked criti-
cism, first, by asserting that nearly 100000 per-
sons in Rhode Island have signed protests
against the opening OF the Worlds fair on Sun
days, while according to the last census there
are but 345, SOC people in the state. In the Sec
ond place, while he was making strong speesn
in Omaha on Sunday against all kinds of Sun
day dissertation, there was a gang of men hard
at work on his newspaper block in New York
city.
The late Senator Barbour belonged to a type
of old-school statesmen of whom there are few
survivors in congress. Handsome in person, he
was dignified and scholarly and most genial to
his intimates. His manners were courteous,
and he had pronounced fondness for society.
Justice Iamar's favorite novel il "The Three
Guardsmen," and he occasionally re-reads it
with keen interest This was also one of the
novels Conkling liked to read. and he was also
fond of Ouida. Ex-Speaker Reed and some of
the supreme court justices read modern French
novels with considerable avidity.
The late historian Freeman had great liking
for architectural sketches, and at his death had
accumulated a large collection of drawings
made by himself of notable buildings in Eng
land and on the Continent. But he cared
nothing for paintings, and never on his Jour
neys through Europe went into picture gal
lery.
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hcan and an equally ardent Blaine man. and
his vote in the national convention will be cast
for the Maine statesman. Although Mr.. Davis
Is sixty years old, he has never had an opportun-
fty to vote at presidential election.
The denomination of Hon. !. J. Lichtenberg
for one of the three superior iudgeships this fall
is generally conceded by Democrats.
The state Prohibition convention will be
held in this city on Wednesday to elect eight
delegates to the national convention to be held
at Cincinnati on June 81 1t is possible that
some OF the delegates may be women state
central committee will also be chosen The
differences between Agent sutton, OF the ALI
ance and Editor Cotterill, of the Temperance
Magazine, are said to have been settled and will
probably cut no figure in the convention.
l. B. Andrews, president OF the Harrison Le-
gion. will issue a call Immediately after nomi-
nation of the Republican candidate for presi-
dent 1t will then be determined whether the
organization shall be continued il Harrison is
nominated, or changed it to a Blaine Legion if
the Plumed knight is selected. Many Repub-
licans are in favor of leaving the King county
incite them to greater endeavor, and of having
an organization of older men merely for the
sake of keeping all in line. Others think one
organization sufficient Mr.. Andrews is almost
entirely recovered from his illness, and looks
more hale aud hearty than ever.
NJ. J. Maloney, one of the Washington dele
gates to the Democratic national convention,
has placed himself on record in an interview in
the Fairhaven Herald after the following some
what ambiguous fashion: II see that W. II.
White, of Seattle, is quoted as saying that have
never been Cleveland enthusiast This is not so.
I have always been for Cleveland. but at the
same time am for the candidate OF the Demo
cratic party, whoever he may be. believe that
In order to insure success the party must carry
New York. Without this state the result will be
extremely doubtful, but with its vote assured
victory OF no uncertain kind will ride pretty
high on the Democratic banners That's the
kind OF an enthusiast am"
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NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC.

The public is hereby warned not to pay
any money to parties representing to be
agents of the Seattle Posr-IsTELLIoENcER,
except the following. who are the only
authorized travelling agents of the Posr-
ISrELLIeEScER, viz: ]. A. Mcclellan and
7. A. Davies. This does not apply to resi-
dent agents of this paper, who are located
in various cities and towns of the North
west nor to postmasters, who are in all
cases authorized to take subscriptions for
the Daily, Sunday and Weekly Posr-IN-
TELLIGENcER
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with some means for making start. The col
ony would include farmers lumbermen and
stock raisers. They would clear the land and
sell the timber, and as the farms were cleared
would raise fruit and other produce" MI
Howe goes to Snohomish county in day or
two to see If he can find what he is looking for
"One of the cleverest devices for catching
salmon is operated by I. +. Taft. at Celio on
the Columbia river" said George s. Shank yes
terday. "The fish run up the river through
number OF small bayous into basin, from
which they make q jump into a small stream
branching off from the river. In this basin Mr..
Taft sunk box, and the side towards the stream
has net stretched across to the falls. The fish
are driven back from the stream, across the net
into the box and a man jumps into the box and
hooks them out. The fish are thick at that
point that out of space not more than twenty
feet square they often drive enough 10 fill q
twenty.bushel box. Mr.. Taft often gets q car
load of fish from there in a single day, nd
makes $500 to 81 800 q day on it He calls the
place his alfalfa patch
Charles p. Noble of the firm of Foss g. Noble,
of Chicago, dealers in machinery, il at the
Rainier hotel with his wife. They are ma ing
trip OF the Coast in which business aud pleas
ure are combined. eve put good many goods
into the Pacific Northwest" said Mr.. Noble last
night, "and we find it easier to do good bust
ness here than in California. Agents in San
Francisco have been used to enormous commits
sions and want them still, while in these newer
communities more of the Eastern ways of doing
business prevail"
Among the notable visitors to Seattle yester-
day was DR.. w. C. Cattell. who supplied the
pulpit of Rev. Elliott W. Brown at both the
morning and evening service. DR.. Cattall was
for twenty years president of Lafayette college,
and his success the head of that in
stitution was such as to give him place among
the leading college presidents of the country.
Although DR.. Catteu retired from college work
eight years ago he still takes a deep interest in
Lafayette college and her sons.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. L. Stack, of ST. Paul; Mr. and
Mrs Elmer II. Dearth, of St Paul. Mr.. and Mrs.
R. c. Thomson, of Delaware. o., and Mr.. and
Mrs. C. E. Hooker OF Wampum, Wis arrived in
the city on sp cial car yesterday morlng end
after lunching at the Rainier went to Tacoma
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THE UNROPED ARENA.

Ms.or P. :. Doruey is improving In health.
and hopes 10 be able to do yeouan service dur.
ing the fail campaign.
IL 4 Davis, Of Lewis county, the pioneer del.
egate 70 the Republican national convention.
expects 70 leave for Minneapolis today Mr.
Davis IS one OF the oldest and most popular resi-
dents ei Lewis eoUasy. He is So ardent Rspuo.
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How sleep the brave who sink to rest,

How sleep the brave who sink to rest,
BY ell their country's wishes blestl
When spring, with dewy fingers cold,
Returns to deck their hallowed mould.
She there shall dress a sweeter sod
Than Fancy's feet have ever trod.
By fairy hands their knell is rung,
BY forms unseen their dirge il sung;
There Honor comes, a pilgrim gray,
To bless the turf that wraps their clay;
And Freedom shall awhile repair,
To dwell a weeping hermit there!
William Collins