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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-11
Richmond Terminal.

A meeting of the board of directors
of the Richmond Terminal Company
was held in New York yesterday after
noon. President w. G. Oakman pre-
sided. A report of its various proper
ties was read and the condition Of the
committee. A resolution was passed
directing that a meeting be called &c
cording to statute, to be held on SEP
TENDER IS at Richmond, to take into
consideration the affairs ofthe company,
and for the purpose of electing new
BOARD of directors, and to transact such
other business as may be determined
upon by the meeting.
The officers and council of the COM
pany were requested to preserve, as far
us possible, the existing status, until
the stockholders meeting on Septem-
Der 10, so that no change should alter
present existing conditions.
Directly after the Richmond Terml-
nal had adjourned, meeting of the
Richmond and Danville Company was
held. A report was made of the condi-
ton of the road and its properties. The
report was decidedly encouraging.
Mr.. r. Dean, chairman, sent this let
ter to Mr.. w. G. Oakman, president Of
the Richmond and West Point Railway
and Warehouse Company, which was
submitted to the directors:
Dear Sir-.icting upon the recommends
! ton made in the report dated August 4th OF
the committee Of stockholders of the Terminal
Company. of which the undersigned is chair
man. the enclosed petition was drafted and
signed yesterday requesting the board of di
rect0rs at It's meeting to-day to call Il general
meeting of stockholders at Richmond rs soon
as possible to elect q new board Of directors
and take such other steps as may seem best
TO protect the Terminal Company's property.
This course seems TO meet with general ap-
proval.
respectfully request that you present
this petition TO the board at its meeting to-
day
also beg that the board will do all that it
properly can do to postpone the determination
of all important legal questions affecting the
company's property, and the permanent con-
troll and management thereof until Il new
board of directors shall have been elected, to
the end that before the court is asked To de-
terminc any question which vitality affects the
holders of the securities of the Terminal Com
pany it may be advised of their views and
wishes, and that no unnecessary obstacle may
be interposcd to proper readjustmcnt of the
/ Terminal Company's affairs upon lines APP
proved by the stockholders, represented by
the new board to be elected by them.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-11
VIRGINIA NEWS.

A letter from Clifton Springs, yester-
day, says Bishop Whittle gets on right
well, though feeble.
r. S. Taliaferro, of James City, one
of the Oldest citizens of the county, died
Tuesday, aged eighty-fye years.
The voters of Haymarket, under act
of the Legislature on Saturday last
voted to change the present road law
to that of Loudoun county.
F. Goodridge, Thomas GALLAGHER, R.
P. Cook and Il. G. billiard viii enter
the September examinations at the
naval academy at Annapolis.
This morning a fire broke out at the
saw mill and dry kiln plant of the lay
Tor Lumber Company, of Suffolk, de-
stroying all of the buildings, dry kilns
and machinery, together with about
half million feet OF lumber. The plant
was valued at $50 900, on which was al
insurance of SIS, 900. There was no in
surance on the lumber Four cars on
the Atlanta and Danville Railroad load
ed with lumber were also burned.
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ment has telegrapbed Minister Carr. at

ment has telegraphed Minister Carr, at
his home in illinois, to proceed to Den
mark. Nothing will be done by the de-
partment in the matter until the case is
settled by the Danish judicial authors
ties.
The War Department has received a
telegram from the commanding officer
of the Department of Texas announcing
that party had searched the country
in the vicinity of Reno, Texas, for the
revolutionists said 10 be near there, but
had found none.
y green gripman failed to remove the
grip in time at the power-house turn on
Pennsylvania avenue this morning.
The result was that the grip and cable
were both broken, and travel suspended
until the cable cars could be dragged
off the road, and allow horse cars to
pass.
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Fauouicr Notes.

All over Fauquier county there is q
clamor for graded schools.
Mr.. ]. w. Yates, of Hume, shipped
500 lambs and three car loads of cattle
this week.
Mr.. r. B. Robertson, OF Broad Run,
has made sale of Il fine horse which was
shipped to New York.
Lightning struck the barn of Mr..
William Beverley, of Broad Run, on
Thursday last and passed down through
the loft of hay without setting it on
fire.
Mr.. Joseph Putnam, of Hume, had
three ribs broken few days ago: He
was cutting tree out Of the road that
had blown down and when cut off the
end he stood on sprang up and threw
him into the air some distance, knock
ing him senseless. He is doing as well
as could be expected.
A dog belonging to Mr.. Galley Chad
well, of Hume, went mad u few days
ago, and bit three cats which went mad
also and were killed as well as the dog,
but before the dog was killed he bit
three other dogs belonging to Mr.. ]. w.
Caldwell, who has them tied up.
Mr.. Thomas Andcrson's team while
crossing the railroad track below
Markham with load of oats, upset the
wagon on the track and before the wa
goner could get the wagon up it was
run into by a freight train, which broke
the wagon up, CARRYING one of the
wheels up the track several hundred
yards. The driver and horses were not
hurt.-Iirlinian.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-11

ScHwEINFURTH WANTS New HEAy-
EN.-Schweinfurth, the Messiah is
about to leave Rockford, III. 1t is I'M
derstood he has entered into negotia-
tions with some property-owners few
miles south of Keokuk, for the pur-
chase of large tract of land lying
along the Missouri boundary. He also
proposes to buy like tract of land on
the other side of the line. If he sue
ceeds in the purchase of Heaven"
it will be erected much after the style
of the one at Rockford.
AS soon as it is completed, q twin
structure will be built on the Missouri
side. The steps so far taken point to
one conclusion-the false "NIessiahn in
tends to go in business in earnest. II
the people ofIowa object to the man
ner in which he gains following, and
offer legal resistance, he will move
over the line into Missouri. Should
the people of Missouri resists his meth
DDS, he can move back into Iowa.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-11
Cholera Scare.

New BRUNSWICK, n. j., Aug. H.
The alarming report received here last
night from Helmitta, small manutac-
turing village about Is miles from New
Brunswick, has caused much excite
ment in this section of New Jersey.
The report was that disease believed
to be cholera had made its appearance
at Helmitta and that already there had
been over fifty cases and upwards of 20
deaths. Investigation show that while
in some cases there were symptoms of
the dread disease, the cases thus far
have been nothing more than violent
dysentery. There are many Russians
and Poles employed in the factories at
Helmitta. The disease has been more
prevalent among those persons than
with the natives of the surrounding
villages. Most of the persons who have
been stricken down with the dysentery
were women and children. The deaths
were principally among small children.
The same disease has made its appear
ance in Spottswood, another small vii
lage about five miles from Helmitta.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-11
Political Troubles in Alabama

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Aug. 1l.-Rock.
ford coun,s which Went for Kolb at
the recent election, is in 4 panic. The
Kolb men assert they caught the .Iopc,
probate judge and sheriff tamperinp
with the boxes, after they had been re.
turned to the court house, by which
their majority was reduced. Yes!cr.
day 100 armed Kolb men marched into
the town and announced their intention
of killing the judge, sheriff and circuit
clerk who constituted the returning
board and declared vengeance on all
Jones men. The sheriff summoned a
posse and riot was prevented. The
mob declared their purpose OF return.
ing Monday next prepared 10 execute
their will.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-11
Foreign News.

CoNsTANTINoPLE Aug. IA seri-
Gus disturbance occurred last Friday at
Platana over the enforcement of the
regulations to prevent the spread oil
cholera. Nearly fifteen hundred per-
sons who were detained at the lazarettO
attempted to break through the Gordon.
A battalion of troops was hastily sum-
moned to qucll the disturbance, but the
crowd refused to dispense and the COM
mander ordered his men to fire. AT
the first volley seven persons were
killed and large number wound
ed. The people were terror stricken
and fed'back to the lazaretto.
New YORK, Aug. IA dispatch
from Paris says: Edward Parker Dea-
con, serving sentence for shooting NJ.
Abeille, his wife's lover, had an offer of
release from the government on condi-
ton that he would leave France forth
with never to return. Mr.. Deacon
wrote to the Project of Nice refusing to
accept the offer. The French authori-
ties are much disappointed at the re-
filsal as their object was to prevent, if
possible, the trial of Deacon's suit
against his wife for divorce and the ex-
posure to the world of the additional
evidence going to show her guilty of
misconduct with M. Abeille.
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TO-DAY'S TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES.
10, K;no Conveyed to State Prison.

H.,
MEMPHIS, Tenn, Aug. ll.-Tele-
grams from Mckenzie, Tenn, state that
Sheriff McLenden is not on the tram
with his prisoner, H. Clay King, and
that he is evidently hiding in Kentucky
to avoid the reported mob OF 40 armed
men who are said to be looking for
him. The suspense and anxiety is in
tense.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, Aug. 11.-H.
Clay King, the Memphis murderer, ar
rived in this city at an early hour this
morning and was at once conveyed to
the State prison by Sheriff NIcLenden.
The sheriff brought the prisoner via
Nortonville, Ky. Their journey was a
quiet one.
Governor Buchanan gives his rea-
sons for the Communication of Col. II.
Clay King as follows: First 1 thought
that King should have had change OF
venue. Ailidavits to the effect that
Juror Smith had communicated without
side parties and had expressed an opin-
ion about the case were filed with me.
These afiidavits could not be intro
dnced in the Court Of Records because
it was too late. The action of juror
Muslin and of the jury in going to Ar
kansas to deliberate upon the case also
had their weight; the dissention of one
of the supreme judges in the defense of
partial insanity; the pleadings of his
wife and children and the most promi-
nent men of the country, besides
the hundred of letters and petit
tions. They were my reasons for COM
muting the sentence. II am respon-
sible for my action" added the Gov
crnor. II thought was doing right
and 1 acted according to my belief"
He then handed the reporter petit
ton signed by twenty-six Senators and
Congressman.
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Inhuman TREATMENT.

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Aug. 1l.-Last night
at the repair FORCES of the st. Louis
electric road, Scott Morris, an cx-con-
vict, and Fred. Dubois, fellow work
man, became involved in a dispute. A
crowd of over dozen of Dubois friends
finally rushed at Morris, throwing CHS
els, hammers, etc., and crying alynch
him." Selling the now thoroughly
frightened ex-convict, they threw him
on an open forge which was heated to
white heat. Just at this time squad
of policemen arrived and rescued the
victim, but not before he was fatally
burned.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-11
Smallpox in New York.

New YORK, Aug 1.-THE health
officers have been thoroughly aroused to
the present smallpox emergency. They
have ceased to hold conferences about
it, and have set to work to stopit. That
step having been reached, the emergen-
cy will shortly have ceased to exist. So
says President Wilson to-day. The
plan of the health officers which is be-
ing carried out to-day is to make the
most of the agencies they have. Every
infected house, every tenement in which
case of smallpox has occurred, every
one to which the contagion has had a
chance to spread by contact of the ten
ants with those ofinfected houses, is to be
kept under the closest surveillance, not
only by the doctors, but also by police
men in uniform, as was done during
the typhus plague. The whole santa
ry police force will be pressed into that
duty, if need be.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-11

Col. KINGS COMMUNICATIONS
phis was thrown into state of excite
ment when the announcementap appeared
in the papers that Governor Buchanan
had committed the sentence of Col. II.
Clay King who was to have been hang
ed on Friday for the murder of David
H. Poston, a prominent lawyer, by
shooting him on the street in that city
March Is, 1891. Sheriff McLendenen
took Col. King from the Jail in Mem
phis yesterday evening and out of the
city on the Chesapeake and Ohio Rail
road en- route to Nashville. The sheriff
is one-legged and unaccompanied.
Kings son is with the party, and there
are some fears of an attempted escape.
1t is rulmored that friends of Poston
will take Il train, and overtake the pri
soner, and if they do, there will doubt
less. be another tragedy.
A crowd of people assembled at the
corner of Main and Madison streets,
the most central point in the city, last
night, and after hanging in efligy Gov.
Buchanan to a telegraph pole, set the
dummy on fire and watched it burn.
No speaking was INDUCED in.
Gov. Buchanan is being roundly de-
nounced, and there is some unfavorable
comment on the part taken by Senator
Harris. Mr.. Cleveland is also mixed
up in the business. The widow of ex-
Lieutenant King, of Kentucky, and
CLAW Kinp's sister. who married her
cousin, wrote to Mr.. Clevelandin re-
gard to the matter Mr.. Cleveland said
he had only superficial knowledge of
the case, but from what he knew, he
hoped that the death sentence would
not be executed although he thought
he ought not to interfere by applying
to the Governor for the mitigation Of
the sentence. Mr.. Cleveland's letter
was at once forwarded to Gov. Buch
anan and yesterday afternoon when Mr..
Cleveland's action became known he
also was roundly denounced.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-11

BACK YARDS AND DIsEAsE.-The
neglected back yard is the most sue
cessful incubator of zymotic diseases in
existence. Their germs may burst into
unhealthy vigor in untrapped sewers
and dirty sink pipes, but the filthy
back yard is where they grow to great
est power to wage devastating warfare
upon humanity it is there that the ty-
phoid wakes strong and spreads itself
in ITS pride.
There are few back yards that would
pass an examination for cleanliness and
purity at this time Of year. All during
the cold days of winter it is very conve-
nient for the cook, or even the mistress
herself, to open the kitchen door and
quickly throw the greasy dishwater or
similar liquid refuse out on the snow.
1t saved them time and trouble and Il
considerable amount of chilling. OF
course they didn't knew they were
planting the seeds of disease, but they
were to Il verify.
The warm sun awakens life in them
and that life is seen at work on the lives
of the children of the house. 1t is the
duty of every householder to see that
his back yard is given Il thorough clean
ing, its refuse moved to place where
it can do the least harm to human
health, and a powerful disinfectant
scattered where it formerly lay.
Stacked lime is good; carbolic acid is
better, but the cleaning must be done
in any event. The outlay will be mex
pensive; the income will be enormous
in the saving of good health and good
lives as well.
Clean your back yards and disinfect
them. You owe it to your children and
your neighbor, and he owes the same to
his and to you.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-11

In THE AZoREs.-In 1880 the Azores
came under the power of Spain, and in
the history of the next 20 years their
name is frequent as the favorite battle
ground of the English and Spanish
fleets. The partially was, indeed, ac-
cording to 1Iacmillan's Magazine, main
" on the side of the former, and for a
good reason. These islands lay right
in the track of all vessels sailing to and
from that enchanted region known
then to all men as the Spanish Main.
On the highest peak of Terceira, whence
in clear weather the sea could be scan
ned for leagues around, were raised two
columns, and by them man watched
night and day. When he saw any sails
approaching from the west he set flag
upon the western column, one for each
sail if they came from the east SINH
lar sign was set up on the eastern col
umn. Hither in those days came up
out of the mysterious western seas the
great argosies laden with gold and sill
yer and jewels, with silks and spices
and rare woods, wrung at the cost of
thousands of harmless lives and cruel
ties unspeakable from the fair lands
which lie between the waters of the
Caribbean sea and the giant wall of the
Andes. And hither, when England,
too, began to turn her eyes to Ell Dora
do, came the great war galleons of
Spain and Portugal to meet these pre-
cious cargoes and convey them safe into
Lisbon or Cadiz before those terrible
English sea wolves could get scent of
the prize.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-11

YOUNG MEN IN DANGER.-A Rich
mond letter to the Farmville Journal
says: There is too much ambition on the
part of our young men of to-day to be
champions in everything save intellec-
tual manhood. Champions at base
ball, but weaklings in education, cham
pion pqgilists, but infants in irntellee1tt::
Graceful girls on the floor of the ball.
room, but can't help mother to get a
dinner. Unless these ideas of absurd
ity are eliminated from the minds OF
the young then we are degenerating
into a nation of pigmies. 1t is this
frowning down of honest labor that
tends to degradation, and the sooner
orr people are aroused to the sense OF
the danger, the better.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-11

A WONDERFUL BIRD.-There is q
bird in New Guinea, says the Pittsburg
Dispatch, called the megapodius, which
in the size of its eggs and its manner OF
Matching them, must be reclloned with
things outside the bounds of the ordi-
nary. This rara avis is about the size
of the common Plymouth Rock hen,
yet it's eggs are four inches long by
nearly three inches in diameter These
birds do not attempt to sit upon their
eggs in the ordinary way. A colony OF
them will nest together in large
mound, which is built by the birds
themselves of sticks, sand, leaves,
stones, grass, etc. When the vegetable
matter of this curious nest mound de-
Gays the heat it generates, together with
the suns rays, matches the eggs. Then
again, these nest mounds are Of gigan-
tic proportions compared with the size
of the birds which construct them, be-
ing frequently as much as II feet in
height and 60 feet in diameter ut the
base. When the young birds are
Matched they come out at circular
hole left in the apex of the nest for
that purpose. The mother birds wait
around until their broods are Matched.
then each leads off with her own fami-
". Naturalists are unable to decide
the perplexing question as to how each
instinctively selects her own brood.
While exploring one of these mammoth
nests in search of eggs Il native of Cape
York was buried alive, literally killed
by birds nest falling upon him.
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wedding i'll Fairfax.

The Episcopal Church at Fairfax
Court House last evening was the scene
of beautiful marriage between Miss
Fannie Cooper and Mr.. Edward For
syth.
The church was prettily decorated
by the young ladies of the village and
its beauty was only enhanced as the
bridal party entered. The ushers
came first, followed by the bridesmaids,
Miss Malkely, of Alexandria, in Il gown
of heliotrope silk, Miss Milliman, of
Philadelphia, in ivory-white, trimmed
with violets, Miss Chichester, in pale
green, and Miss Jennie Cooper in pink.
After them came the bride, in beauti-
full gown of white silk and crepe, ac-
companied by the groom. Miss Het-
eel played the wedding march, continu-
ing the music softly throughout the
ceremony, which was performed by
Rev. II. Z. Sharp.
The guests then assembled at the
hospitable home of the brides father,
where Il bountiful collation. and merry
time awaitded them, as we'll as the
sight of the numerous and handsome
wedding presents.
The bride and groom took the $50
train for Washington, their future
home, from where they leave to-mor-
row for Fortress Monroe.
FAIRFAX. Aug. II.
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A VIRGINIAN's PATRIoTIsM.-Col-
lector of Customs Marine, of Baltimore,
received q letter of inquiry yesterday
from correspondent desiring informa-
ton from the records as to the action
of John Sinclair, of Virginia, who, in
the latter part of the summer of 17Sl
went to Havana, Cuba, and procured a
cargo of powder to enable Comte de
Grasse to cooperate with General
George Washington at Yorktown. The
letter stated that he obtained it, and
sailed through the British feet at night.
The French could not have assisted
without that powder. AS the informa-
ton must be procured from the Havana
records, application will have to be
made there, This patriotic circum-
stance is worthy of note from histori-
cal standpoint.
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a Campaign Spccch.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Aug. ll.-Gcne.
raj Field, peoples party nominee for
Vice President, spoke at Erswcll's Hall
last night to q large and enthusiastic
audience. He has been shown many
courtesies during his stay in this city.
He addresses a public meeting at Gull
man tomorrow where the State ALI.
ance is in session.
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WAS IT NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. time ago q
colored local character in Washington, Kappa
hammock county, was taken with mysterious
pains in his limbs and back and complained
that Lizards ran all over his body during the
night and made his life burden to him. He
could not BIO persuaded from the idea that the
Rev. Ely Robertson, colorcd, had bewtched
him by making cross in his path and invest
ing it with the mysterious power of imparting
to him the fury Of witches.
He sought every known means to break the
spell and finally wag told him that if he
would draw blood from the divinc's head
above the ears he would be relieved from the
evil. The afflicted individual watched his
opportunity and when Rev. Mr.. Robertson
was engaged in his pastoral duties ut u church
fair, he came limpins up on crutches to which
his Affections had reduced him and raising one
Of them in the air he came down with what
the noyelists would call "a dull thud" on Mr..
RObertson's head, from which the blood squirt
ed and strange to say he has had no further
Use for his clutches, as he was almost instant
ly relieved.
Matters took serious turn few days af-
terward. When Rev. Ely Robertson was
able to get about again he got warrant from
Squire Booten and when the trial came of the
facts as we have above give them were de-
yeloped under oath.
The Squire examined the wounded head
and thought it was damaged to the amount OF
two dollars which the defendant finally sue
ceeded in begging from the wag in the case
and went on his way acknowledgements
Virginiaa.