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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-06-28
The River Again Rising.

Rock ISLAND, Ills, June 2S.-The
flood of the last few days is the greatest
ever known, a large portion of the city
adjacent to the river having been inun-
dated. 1t is estimated that fully 20C
families have been driven from their
homes by the rising waters.
WARSAW, Ills, June 2S.-The Mis-
sissippi is now four inches higher than
during the rise of May.
KEoKUK, Ia, June 2S.-The Missis-
sippi river at this place registered 1S.4
feet above low water mark, the highest
point of the season. The water is still
rising Many dwellers in the low lands
are permanently deserving their homes.
BURLINGTON, Ia, June 2S.-The Mis-
sissippi is coming up steadily. Mills
have been compelled to close and piles
oflumber as well as buildings have had
to be anchored. The river above the
city is 20 miles wide, having spread out
over the low lands of Iowa and Illinois.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-06-28
Eoreign News.

LONDON. June 2S.-The Queen is
holding a council at Windsor Castle to-
day. Her Majesty has signed the de-
cree dissolving Parliament. The wrlts
for the election of new members OF the
House of Commons will be distributed
tonight. The Queens speech pro-
rouging Parliament says: 1.-THE time
has arrived when it is expedient that
the electoral body of the country be
consulted by the assemblage of a new
Parliament. I have, therefore, sum-
moned you for propagation at an earlier
period than usual. L am glad to record
that my friendly relations with foreign
powers remain unaltcred. Treaties
have been duly ratified referring the
differences with the United States with
respect to the Behring Sea to arbitra-
ton Referring to the bills passed at
the session just ended, the speech says
that the purchase agricultural holdings
will increase the class Of cultivating
owners, which is of great importance
to the State The application to Ire
land of the educational measures re-
Gently adopted in Great Britain will
confer great benefits upon the people of
that country. The speech concludes ::
SIN closing this Parliament, which has
been unusually laborious and also
highly fruitful in benefcent legis-
lation, I thank you for the
assiduous performance of your mo-
mentous duties during the past six
years and heartily commend you to the
favor of Almighty Cod
Thus terminated the sixth session of
Queen Victoria's 18th Parliament.
PARIS, June 2S.-Three houses in
Bercy, Partisan suburb, were destroy
ed by fire this morning. The houses
were tenements and a number of occu-
pants were burned to death. Many
others were injured while trying to es-
cape. The damage amounts to l 100000
francs.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-06-28
The Cholera,

ST. PETERSBURG, June S.-Consternaton
prevails in some parts of tho empire owing to
the rapid spread of cholera. AT Baku, on the
west coast of the Caspian sea, 80 new cases of
the disease were reported yesterday. The
military physician at Dushaize has telegrlphcl
that the disease there has got beyond his con-
troll and asks that medical assistance and
nurfes be sent to him. 4 feature Of the cpl.
dcmic is the rapidity with which the persons
stricken with it collapse. One of the guards
on the trans Caspian railway was seized with
cholera and died on his train before any mcdi-
cal assistance could be obtained for him.
VIENNA, June 2S.-The governments of
Germany and Austria are acting in concert
in the adoption of measures to prevent cholcr,
from entering their respective countries. Prot.
Drasche, of the Vienna sanitary board, who
has been studying cholera for thirty years.
thinks it improbable that the disease will
spread beyond Russia even if it gets a foot
hold there He says in other countries bad
sanitation ike that which obtains in Russia,
has become thing OF the past.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-06-28

THE NEW YORK Times, the recog-
nized organ of the New York mug
wumps, stigmatizes the New York del
egation as "cvil spirits, and calls upon
them to make way for the Cleveland
democracy, which is hereafter to con-
troll the party in the State. The great
and imminent danger of the Force bill
will not permit such talk as this to IN
duce any intelligent southern democrat
to lessen his efforts to elect Mr.. Cleve-
land, but it would not be out of accord
with human nature if it should have a
contrary effect upon the regular demo-
cratic organization in New York.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-06-28

A PRETTY WOMAN SETTLED TIT
is related of Hon. Adlai f. Stevenson,
the democratic nominee for Yice-Pres-
idcnt, that when he was Third AsSs-
tant Postmaster General under Cleyc-
land lively effort was made to remove
one of the lady postmasters of Spotsyl-
vania county.
Several delegations interviewed the
Assistant Postmaster General with
out efecting anything as to the remoy-
al of the incumbent, but it looked IS
though the lady would have to 90, as
she had held the position under y re-
publican administration. She WAS de-
termined not to surrender, however,
without an effort. She called on her
friends of both parties-and she had
many-to intercede for her with Mr..
Stevenson, who had the appointing
power. A delegation, headed by the
late John S. Barbour, and including
several prominent members of both
parties from his section, called on Mr..
Stevenson in behalf of the lady. and
urged her retention The only assur-
ance the delegation received was that
the matter would be looked into. As
last resort the lady determined to call
at the Postofiice Department in hero
behalf. Being ushered into the pres
ence of the Third Assistant the lady
plead her cause most eloquently. After
She had gotten through, Mr.. Stevenson
arose, and with a profound bow, said
Madam, the case is settled you will
retain your position as postmaster
Such distinguished delegation as have
asked for your retention, backed by 4
pretty woman, can accomplish any
thing in this department"
1t is said the lady became a great adj
mirer of Mr.. Stevenson from that date,
and said if he was ever candidate for
President she would make her hus-
band, who is an ardent and active re-
publican, vote for him.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-06-28
The Texas Launched.

PORTSMOUTH, Va, June 2S.-The
battleship Texas was successfully
launched at the navy yard here to-day.
About fifteen thousand spectators were
in the yard and as many more were on
steamers, tugs, yachts and the oppo-
site shore of the river. The vessel was
christencd by Miss Madge Houston
Williams, of Texas.
The Texas is steel armored twin
screw battle-ship of 6,335 tons normal
displacement. Her principal dimen-
sions are, length between perpendicu-
lars 800 feet; extreme breadth Ga feet
one inch; moulded depth 80 feet 8
inches. Designed draught of water for
ward % feet. Designed draught of
water aft % feet. Her mean draught
will be % feet six inches when carrying
about 500 tons of coal. She can steam
lilo miles at her estimated highest
speed of II knots or $500 miles at 10
knots. There were many notable per-
sons present.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-06-28

MITNEwIcz IS 500 OUT.-Eugene
NIitkiewicz of Chinese concessions fame.
who is now boarding in this city, when
at Sheepshead Bay track on Wedncs-
day last got straight tip, possibly
from his friend Col. Shepard's tipster,
that a certain horse, against which the
odds were 6 to /, was a sure winner
Mitlliewicz is always willing to so hun
dred on sure thing, and when he an
nounced that this was to be no exception
to his rule, Edward G.. White, young
southerner who was his companion for
the moment, offered, Mitkiewicz says,
to place the money for him. 0Iitkie-
Yicz accepted his offer, and White, 60
ing away with the 800, returned pres
emily with ticket setting forth that
500 would be paid the holder if the
horse NIitkiewicz had named Won. The
horse in question did win, and when
the race was over Mr. White volunteer
ed to cash the ticket, now worth 500.
Mitkiewics handed him the ticket. Mr..
White disappeared in the crowd around
the bookmakers stand, and presently
reappeared looking the picture of de-
spair. He had lost the ticket, he said.
He added that he didn't remember the
name of the bookmaker from whom he
had bought the ticket.
8Iitkiewicz hired detective, but
with no results. A Sun reporter could
not find Mr.. White Saturday. He has
left his boarding house at so West
Nineteenth street, and left no address
behind him.-N. 7. Sun,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-06-28
CRUDE PETRoLEUM.-Very few house

CRUDE PETRoLEUM.-Very few house
keepers understand the full value of
crude petroleum in the household. 1t
is not always easy to get the crude oil,
and when obtained it is much more
expensive than kerosene, pint bottle
costing from Is to 25c in the drug sto res
where it is sold. 1t is one of the best
oils that comes for oiling hard wood
floors. 1t not only cleans out the dust,
but it gives a soft, new polish to old
furniture, when it is dressed with, ii and,
unlike other oils, it does not stay on
the surface, but evaporates rapidly with
slight rubbing. The hard wood finish
on the interior of houses, which has be
come scratched, may be more success
fully treated with crude oil than with
anything else that we know of. 1t
should be applied with q soft flannel
cloth, and rubbed in with 4 hard cotton
cloth or pad made of cotton cloth:
The use of crude petroleum in cases OF
rheumatism and some skin diseases IS
well known, and, strange as it may
seem, is of very ancient date. For
many centuries the Balm well, of It.
Catharine's, has existed, near Edm-
burg, oyer the coal mines, and has been
famous for its cures, 1t is now known
to be nothing else than a petroleum
well. The we'll is said to have come
into existence from portion OF holy
oil accidently dropped on that spot by
Saint Catharine, and as result of her
prayers. 1t was for centuries a resort
of pilgrims, and its miraculous cures
were famous.-N Y. Tribune.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-06-28
A Threatened Cave-in.

MINERsv1LLE, Pa, June 2s.-A broad
crack in the earth has taken place at
Taylorsville, extending for three
fourths of mile, and residents are NOV
ing their household effects to place of
safety, expecting each minute to see the
earth fall in. The crack follows large
vein of coal which has been worked out.
The pillars of coal, which were left
standing as support to the surface,
have now been robbed orr taken out,
and the entire top is. about to give way.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-06-28

have nominated the weakest man in
their party for President, and have
formally incorporated the Force bill
into their platform, and yesterday they
made their old and experienced mana
gers mad by contemptuously turning
them down and putting new and IN
experienced men in their places. Human
nature is as sure to manifest Itself IN
politics as in any other worldly affairs,
and should always be taken into &C
count.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-06-28

WRAPPED WITH SNAKES
der Krolsky, farmer near Derby Hill,
Conn.,, recently had an experience with
snakes that has rendered him tempo
rarily insane, and the physicians are
not sure that he will ever regain his
reason. Krolsky went down into a
well on his fam for the purpose of
cleaning it out. He had been down
but a few minutes when he shouted to
his cousin, who had lowered him, to
draw him up. The man began pulling
up the rope. When he had helped
Krolsky nearly to the top he looked
down and saw several black and brown
water snakes were around Krolsky's
arm and body. The sight of the SER
penis scared the man, and, dropping
the rope, he ran bowling away. Krols-
kyis shrieks were heard by laborers a
short distance away, and they ran to
the well. Krolsky was battling des-
perately with the snakes. de was
quickly helped out. From his body
Ave ,tnmense snakes were torn and
killed. His mind is now deranged.
The old we'll in which he encountered
the reptiles is apparently full of them.
A lantern lowered into it revealed a
countless number of serpent heads pro
truding from the wall ss5F ilas aGs
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-06-28

The Louisiana legislature has passed
a resolution asking the Louisiana sena-
tors and representatives, in congress to
urge an amendment to the constitution
providing for the election of Y. S. sen
ators by direct vote of the people.
The democratic cauaps last night de
eiiped to postpone the election Of o. S.
Senator to the session of 1894, but viii
ballot daily to the close of the present
session. atp - sgsg slas
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-06-28
TowED INTO PoRT.-The tug yolun

TowED INTO PoRT.-The tug yolun-
teer, Captain ]. Cotrell, of Baltimore.
bound for the capes, took up yesterday
afternoon, at three o'clock, off Bloody
Point, Kent Island, the schooner Clara,
Captain John T. Merriman, from
Colonial Beach, Va, bound to Balti-
more with gravel. The Clara's masts
were carried away by the storm when
the Volunteer was mile and a-halfoff.
She steamed up to the schooner, and
found her crew getting ready to desert
he's. a heavy southerly wind was
blowing, and the waves were running
fifteen feet high. The Clara was taken
into Annapolis.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-06-28
Defiant SeaIcrs.

SAN FRANCISCO, June 2S.-Adyices
fom Ounalaska say things are going
to be lively in the Behring Sea this
season. Already there is report that
the warship Mohican has fired upon a
runaway sealer. The indications are
that a number of poachers will defy the
feet and enter the Behring Sea at the
risk of seizure and imprisonment.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-06-28
Surly Indians.

Ell RENO, I. T., June 2S.-Thc chiefs
of the Araphoes and Cheyenne Indians
refuse to accept the beef issue from the
government which commenced yester-
day and there is no little concern
among the settlers as TO the outcome of
this surliness among the reds They
are sulking over the allotment Of their
lands.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-06-28
Y1ReIN1A PoLIr1cs.-Mr. Basil ]

VIRGINIA PoLITICs.-Mr. Basil i.
Gordon, chairman of the democratic
State committee, says he has selected
the most of the members of his eXec.
tive committee. He will not be ready
to announce the names of those chosen
for week or ten days, The execp-
tive committee is composed ofone from
each Of the ten congressional district
BIr. Gordon says he has no doubt that
the democrats will carry Virginia for
Cleveland. This confidence in the sue
cess of his party, will not, however
prevent him from making the most az
gressive and methodical canvass. Hon.
j. T. Ellyson, Mr.. Gordon's predecessor
as the head of the democratic comittee,
predicts that Cleveland and Stevenson
will carry the State by a majority any
where from ten TO forty thousand
The third party movement, Mr.. Ellyso+H
thinks, will not cut any figure in the
fight down here. He predicts also thai
every State in the South will east lis
electoral vote for the democratic nom
inees. Mr., Wexford Corbip, of King
George, delegate-at-large to Chicago
from this State and one of the best III
formed alliance men in Virginia, is IN
clined to believe that the force bill Is
sue will overshadow all other con-
siderations with southern alliance men,
The tariff plank in the democratic plat
form will, he thinks, prove popular
with agriculturists northwest ana
south.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-06-28
Mr.. Stevenson on the Force Bill.

Adlai L. Stevenson, democratic nom
inee for President, sat in his recep-
ton room at his home in Bloomington,
ILL.,, on Sunday afternoon with dozen
or more friends and neighbors who had
called. Something was said about the
issues on which the coming campaign is
to be fought. and the Sun reporter ask
ed Mr.. Stevenson what he thought was
the main issue.
''More important" said Mr.. Steven
son, rs the tariff issue than the silver
issue, but more important, it seems to
NE, than any other issue, is the issue
raised by the republicans themselves.
l mean the despicable and dangerous
Force bill-the bill that threatens the
liberty and the peace of the nation, the
bill which came so near being put upon
the people of this country, and which,
should it happen by any chance that
the republican campaign in Congress
sional districts should be successful
they will undoubtedly inilict on us.
This is the main issue. 1t is so far
reaching in its consequences thatit i'm
portance cannot be over estimated to
the people of the southern States and to
the people of the country" Mr.. Stev-
enson said he was Il southerner by
birth, and he knew well the condition
of affairs North and South. Il cannot
conceive" said he, of any legislation so
threateningto the peace and prosperity
and the happiness of the people of the
whole country, and especially the peo-
pie of the South, as the enactment of q
Force bill. A Force bill was simply
turning over all the southern States 10
the power of the negroes and the re-
publican federal otfice-holders, and it
meant, further, the absolute destruc-
ton of the peace and the prosperity Of
all of the country south Of the Mason
and Dixon line. The enactment of the
Force bill meant placing the whole
machinery of elections in the South in
the hands of republicans who were I'M
principled aud INSCRIPTIONS, and who
would on election day contrive to pre-
vent democrats from voting. The
force bill was nothing more or less than
Il theft of the liberties and franchises Of
the white people of the South. I know
well what the republican plans are.
provided they can get this wicked bill
through. know that they intend sim
ply to take out of the hands of the white
people of the South the reins of the
government, and they mean, by fraud
and violence, to turn over that pros
porous country to negro rule and cor
ruptionists." There were republicans
in the room at the time, and they
agreed with what he said.-N y Sun.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-06-28

Truly THE blind lead the blind in
this country. il was stated in the GA
zErrG's Washington correspondence of
Yesterdays date that the anti-option
bill, which has already passed the Us.
House of Representatives, would in all
probability, pass the Senate also, The
nominal intention Of this bill is to ben
eft the farmers; it is endorsed by the
Alliance: but, though there isn't Z sim
gle intelligent member Of Congress who
doesn't know that 1t will hart, rather
than help farmers, so demagogic, or so
much afraid Of losing a reelection, are
the majority OF the members of both
branches Of that body, that they advo-
cate measure against their own con-
viction Of right and duty, and though
they are perfectly aware that It's effect
must be injurious to the ill-informed
people whose self-inJercs!ed leaders are
clanoring for its passage. a farmer in
urgent need Of money can now sell his
crop before it is harvested, but. under
the law referred to, he must wait until
it is gathered, and then sell it when the
market is glutted When the blind
lead The blind both fall into the ditch.
There is little honor attached to the po-
sition Of Congressman nowadays, but
the salary thereofis attractive, and the
desire to retain the latter is provocative
of great deal of bad legislation.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-06-28

II Mr.. CLEVELAND can only be saved
from his friends, he stands an excellent
chance of election, for his enemies GER
tainly have done, and are doing, all
they can to further that object. They
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-06-28

R. & d. R. R. AFFAIRs.-A dispatch
from New York says Col. w. f. Strong,
the chairman of the Richmond Termi-
nal secuity-holders' committee, is OK
pccted at his Office to-day, and an i'm
preston prevailed yesterday on the
street that he will at once be notified
by Drexcl, Morgan & Co. of their decis-
ion in regard to undertaking the reor-
ganization ofthc Terminal system. Re
ceiver Huidckoper, Of the Richmond
and Danville Company, said that by
consent of counsel the request for per-
mission to pay the interest on the Dan
vile bonds, amounting to about
S750,000, would probably be acted upon
by Judge Bond in Washington to-day.
The East Tennessee receivers have also
requested instructions from the courtin
regard to the payment of the interest
on East Tennessee bonds due July L.
The following is published in New
York: "There have been frequent con-
ferences within the last few days be-
tween Drexel, Morgan & Co., repre-
senting Richmond Terminal, Baltimore
and Ohio and Reading Railroads look
ing to close union Of these interests
in connection with the Richmond Ter
minal reorganization. Matters have so
far advanced that the Pennsylvania
Railroad interest, which now controls
the Richmond Terminal traffic, has
been seeking to prevent the proposed
agreement"
1t was learned yesterday that there
is movement on foot to let Mr.. Olcott,
of the Central Trust Company, have
another try at recognizing the Termi-
nal Company in case Drexel. Morgan &
Co. fail to undertake the work, or if
their terms should be unsatisfactory
General Sam Thomas said yesterday
that he thought there was no doubt but
that all of the obligations of the East
Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Rail
road Company would be paid when
due, on July l. The fact that the road
was in the hands of receivers, he said,
would not prevent the payment, as the
court would, he thought, undoubtedly
allow it. The total July payments for
the East Tennessee and its controlled
roads aggregate about S650,000.
Receiver Conner, of the Georgia Cen
trail, is in New York, and is in confer
ence with Receiver Oakman, of the
Richmond Terminal.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-06-28
Tbis LOTTERY can 90 On.

NEW ORLEANS. June 2S.-The pres
ent legislature of Louisiana, which is
anti-lottery in sentiment, passed bill
some days ago prohibiting all lotteries
after 1894, when the charter of the
Louisiana State Lottery is said to
expire. In doing so it overlooked the
fact that the premium bonds, which
constitute the bulk of the debt of New
Orleans, are lottery pure and simple.
The bonds to be paid each year are not
only chosen by lot, but premiums or
prizes ranging from $50 to $1,000 are
given to the holders of these bonds.
These numbers are drawn from q wheel.
When these facts were called to its at
tention the legislature recalled the bill,
and it was amended and repassed. AS
it now stands, the anti-lottery law of
Louisiana will prohibit lotteries after
1894, except that run by the city of
New Orleans for the benefit of the
bonded debt.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-06-28

THE THIRD party, which will meet in
national convention in Omaha next
week, in its platform recently framed
nj st. Louis, among other things, de-
clared for the issue of legal tender
notes to pay to all Union soldiers and
their heirs the difference between the
gold value of the deprecated currency
in which those soldiers were paid dur
inc the war, and its full face value in
gold. Now, in view OF the billions that
have been paid to the soldiers referred
to. and that viii continue to be paid to
them, few reasonable men can see why
even northern people should favor such
an enormous expense as the measure re-
ferred TO would entail; but how any
southern man, with sense enough to
look after his own interest, can do so, is
one of the many strange things Of this
eyentful age.