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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-02
Affairs at Homestead.

PITTsBURG, Pa, Aug ABOUT 15C
men were working in the upper Union
mills of the Carnegie Co. to-day and the
eight, ten and y inch mills, and the
plate mill are in operation. Tomorrow
Supt. Dillon says the second plate mill
will be started. The best of order pre-
walls in the vicinity of the works. A
large force of police still guard the
plant. The anarchist, Mollick, will
have hearing this afternoon. 1t is
thought he will be released. 1t is
rumored that an information will be
made against II. C. Prick some time
to-day on charge of conspiracy and
that he will be arrested before night.
The Sheridan troop and part Of battery
B was ordered home this morning.
Three regiments still remain.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-02

SUICIDE OF AN EX-JUDGE.-EX-Judge
Thomas C. Parramore, of Accomac,
committed suicide Sunday evening by
drowning in Folly creek, broad and
deep estuary on the seaside of Accomac.
He left home, at Accomac Courthouse,
Sunday afternoon, and rode about two
miles to'the landing on the creek,
htchcd the horse to the fence, walked
down to the wharf and jumped over
board. When night came on and he
failed to return, the members of his
family became alarmed. Persons went
in search of him and found the horse
and buggy tied to the fence and Judge
Parramore's cane lying in boat at the
whaIf. An Intellectual attempt was
made that night to find the body. The
effort was renewed early next morning
and the body was found lying on the
bottom near the wharf.
Judge Parramore was in the 61st
year of his age, and had been promi-
nent as a lawyer and politician. He
represented Accomac county in the
State legislature during ana after the
civil war, and soon after the present
State constitution was adopted he was
elected Judge of Accomac County Court,
which position ne filled till 1888. He
had been in declining health for the
past six or seven years, and at one time
suffered a severe stroke of paralysis
from which he never fully recovered.
Sunday afternoon, before leaving home,
he wrote note, which he left lying on
his table, saying that he was wreck
in body and mind, and that he was
tired of life.
Judge Parramore belonged to one of
the oldest and most honorable families
on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. Be-
fore disease undermined his constitu-
ton he was man Of superior ability.
He had many excellent personal traits
and host of friends, who will hear
with deep regret of his death.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-02
AYouthfuI Murderer.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn, Aug. Near
N1iflin resides Reed Robinson, a
wealthy farmer who employed Mrs.
Hendrix, poor widow, upon his
farm. A few days ago the woman
was found dead in the field.
Robinson's 14-year-old son, who
was working with her, said she had
fallen across pillow and killed herself.
Yesterday the eldest child of Mrs.
Hendrix, girl 9 years old, told the
sheriff that Robinson struck her
mother on the head with hoe. He
then made the girl bring him Ratchet,
and while the children looked on the
boy pounded the woman's head until
she died.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-02

TARIFF BEGETs tariff as love begets
love. The duty on foreign products
imposed by the Mckinley bill has, and
only naturally, induced the government
of Victoria to impose heavy duty on
articles imported from America, and as
most of those articles come from the
Pacific slope, the people of that slope
are the chief sufferers, and are loudest
in their complaint. The logical and
legitimate effect of republican rule will
be the restriction of the sale Of Amcri-
can products to American markets. and
then the American farmer, poor thing,
will put his head under his wing.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-02

At A large republican mass meeting
in Washington last night a letter was
read from Fred Douglass, in which the
writer said that ''in view of the circum-
stances at present surrounding him be
must with regret decline the appoFtu-
mtg Of addressing a republican meet
ing" 1t was supposed that Fred's
grievance, his removal from the place
of Minister to Hayti, was against Nh.
Blaine. who, no matter how opposed to
General Malone in some other mat
tiers, agrees with him that negroes
should not be put in prominent posi-
tons, but the letter referred TO shows
that others besides Mr.. Blaine are IN
volved, in Fred's displeasure, and that
he is waiting for consideration before
he addresses republican meeting"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-02
raised the point ofno quorum. A call
of the House was ordered.
The House has adjourned after re-
yoking all leaves of absence, even those
granted on account of sickness.
Foreign News.

CowEs. Aug. Emperor William
went on board his yacht, the Meteor,
at 10 o'clock, and the yachts entered
for the contest for the Queens cup at
once started ON the race. The wind
is light and it is considered unlikely
that the race will be completed until
late in the day. The Meteor was Tor
merly the well-known Scotch cutter
Thistle which was defeated in 1887 by
the Volunteer in races at New York toi
the America cup.
LONDON, Aug. MIR. Gladstone's
condition was greatly improved this
morning. He will, however, remain IN
doors to-day.
PARIS, Aug. 2.-The republican
journals regard the result of the trien-
NAL elections held in the provinces
for members of the councils general on
Sunday last as crushing defeat OF the
enemies of the republic.
BRUSSELS, Aug. 1.-THE hadepend-
ancc Beige says that the frauds perpe-
trated by Mr.. Henry B. Ryder, the T.
S. consul at Copenhagen, who is now
under arrest there, will amount to two
hundred thousand kroner. The affair
continues to be the sensation of the day
in Copenhagen. Consul Ryder and his
wife, who was taken into custody soon
after the arrest of her husband, remain
:, ;ol
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-02

THE THIRD PARTY made square
fight in Alabama yesterday against the
democrats, and were literally swept
from the political field. They had the
republicans and the dissatisfied demo-
Gratis to help them, but still were lout-
ed horse, foot, and dragons, and sus-
tanned such a Notifying defeat that they
will hardly rally again. The people OF
Alabama have done just exactly as it
was supposed they would do. They
have informed their fellow-citizens of
all the other southern States that this is
no time TO be leaving the only party
that has preserved them from negro
rule in the past, and that is capable,
with their help, of doing so in the flu
ture. They have also demonstrated
the fact that the third party in the
South is only strong in talk, and that
when put to the test its weakness is
shown to be positively ridiculous. As
it has been in Alabama, so will il be in
Virginia, and in all the other southern
States, and the leaders of the third
party in those States will soon be in
Guided among the priyates in the re-
publican party, for they can never be
officers in an effective organization.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-02

GEoEGIA's WATERMELON CROP
The shipment of Georgia watermelons
has about ended. The Savannah Neirs
estimates that the crop has brought
about 500, 600 into the State this sea
son. The crop was not as large as last
years, but the financial results were
far more satisfactory. The yield per
acre was fair, the crop was shipped req
ularly and steadily from the beginning
of the season, and there was no rushing
of the melons, Cutting the markets and
destroying the profits Of both shippers
and carriers. The movement west is
increasing every year. The Ocean
Steamship Company carried nearly
100000 melons to New York and
over 250,0 to Boston.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-02
Collision and Loss orI,ifc.

ST. LOUIS, Aug. BY the collision
last night at Edwardsville Junction
Ills, between the limited passenger and
the "Big Four" freight, engineer Ed
ward Hoffman and fireman VIM. Har.
rett were killed. The debris of the
freight wreck took fire and the flames
licked their way to naphtha tank
Suddenly there was terrific explosion
and one end of the naphtha tank was
carried up and deposited ON a cliff 20(
feet from the scene of the explosion
Another piece was sent flying up the
railroad track. Four men are believed
to be fatally burned.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-02

ONES ANCESTORS remarkable
fact can be discovered with the aid of a
pencil. In the twentieth generation
preceding the present each person now
alive had 100000 of ancestors. The
exact figures are 1,04S,576 Every per-
son had two parents, four grandparents,
eight great-grandparents, etc. Keep on
doubling until the Goth generation and
you will verify the immense aggregate
given above.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-02
VIRGINIA NEWS.

DR.. Hunter MCGUIRE, of Richmond,
will sail for Europe from New York to-
morrow.
Rev. George w. Dame, D. D., of the
Epiphany Episcopal Church, Danville,
celebrated his S0th birthday Wednesday
last.
Exit. Gov. John L. Marye was be-
fore the mayor of Fredericksburg on
Saturday charged with violating the
law in regard to COWS running at large
A member of General Mahone's ex-
ecutive committee says that the Gene
raj positively declines to become can
didatc for Congress in the Petersburg
district.
Henry NJ. Mckay, an electrician and
q married man, from Canada, was be-
fore a Norfolk justice yesterday, charg-
ed with an assault on Il young girl IA
years of age. He was sent on to court
and bail refused.
The democratic mass-meeting in
Lynchburg last night elected % dele
gates favorable to Edmunds to the con-
gressional convention which convenes
in that city on August "a. Resolutions
indorsing Congressman Edmunds's
course were passed.
Alec Green has found what he has
been hunting for for twenty years, VIZ
bed ofakolin 1t is in Stafford county.
and Alec says it is inexhaustable. Mr..
Green has sent some of the deposit to
Boston for analytical examination. II
favorable, this, with Alec's coal mine,
will yet make him multi millionaire.
-Fredericksburg Lance.
After a quarrel yesterday with his
mother, in which he cursed her and
other members of the family, Elijah
GLADDEN.. young white man living
near Hollowell, Accomack county,
rushed out Of the house and threw
himself in front of train on the New
York, Philadelphia and Norfolk Rail-
road and was crushed to death.
1t will be gratifying to the friends of
the movement looking to the erection
of a suitable monument over the grave
of Mary, the mother of Washington,
located in the northwestern section of
this CITY, that the corner stone will be
laid during the coming autumn, and
that the officers of the association al
ready have s20,0O0 in hand, which of
itself is guarantee against failure
Fredericksburg Lance.
The Hon. james L. Gordon opened
the democratic campaign at Charlottes-
vile yesterday in q speech of two
hours. There was large and cnthusi-
astic outpouring of democrats. Mr..
Gordon discussed the iniquities of the
high tariff, and referred also to the sill
yer question, but the greater part Of
his speech was occupied by an exposi-
ton and denunciation of the force bill.
General James G.. Field, the third par
ty candidate for the vice-presdency.
came in during Mr.. Gordon's speech
and was an attentive listener. Mr..
Gordon urged the democrats to stand
firm as rock in the South and save
her people from ''the body of this
death" that is hanging over us. Gen.
Thomas l.. Rosser made short adj
dress and then General Field took the
stand. His speech elected no applause,
there being apparently very few in the
audience who approved of his doctrine.
The Hon. John +. Massey replied TO
General Field, and rubbed it into the
third party candidate in his old-time
style. His speech was greatly APP
plauded and enjoyed.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-02
ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA.
TUESDAY EVENING, AUG. ?, 1892.
THE REPUBLICANS, as a means

The REPUBLICANS, as means 10
gain their end, and some easily scared
democrats, say the persistence OF the
majority of the democrats in the .. 5,
House of Representatives in their Ell
forts to prevent the republicans from
abstracting five million more OF the peo-
ple's money, in addition to the million
and a-half already taken for the same
object, and give it to the republican
managers of what 9 reliable and mfi'l-
cntial newspaper, even in Chicago it
SELF calls partisan and sectional
concern" will do the democratic party
harm at the next Presidential election,
by weakening its forces and strenthen-
ing those of the republicans. There
never was sillier or more groundless
statement. Why refusal to tax the
people of the whole country in order to
give an extra sum Of FIVE million dol
lars to Chicago, to pay the expenses of
fair there, when the plain understand
ing at the time that city was selected
as the site of the fair was that not a
cent would be asked, and when the
whole expense Of the fair had been
guaranteed if held in New York,
should harm the democrats, not even
those who say it will, can tell. The
proposed gift could not possibly benefit
anybody except some Of the officials OF
the fair, nearly ali of whom are repub-
,ilcsns, and the republican party, to help
which Chicago was selectelas the site'
and in whose interest it is openly as
serted and confidently believed large
share of the money would be expended;
and how democratic congressman can
harm their party by opposing the
scheme passes the comprehension OF
common sense people. On the contra
~, all such people are naturally in
duced to believe it will help the party.
But help or harm, the whole thing is
wrong; the Congress has no right to
dispose of the general fund for any
such special purpose, and It's hoped the
opponents of the scheme may succeed.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-02

The ALABAMA ELEcTIoN.-Thc
State election in Alabama yesterday re-
suited in All overwhelming victory for
the regular democratic ticket, headed
by Governor Jones. A conservatives.
innate places Governor Joncss m;iori.
ty at not less than 10000 The ALI
ance candidate for the democratic Nom.
ination for Governor WAS RHcben T.
Kolb. On the claim of having been
cheated in the county primaries he
held 4 separate convention, which put
out full ticket except Supreme Court
judges, with Kolb nj its head. The IN
Gications are that not over 10 out Of 66
counties in the State will give kolb a
majority and not one Of them will eX-
ceed 1000. The legislature will be
Overwhelmingly straight democratic.
The negroes everywhere refused 10 fol-
low the Kolb banner and voted in
great numbers open democratic tickets.
In many cases they were actual work
ers at the polls. They are now making
open boasts that they will vote for
Cleveland, as they fear the results OF
the force bill. They say it will cause q
race war, which is more to he deplored
than the election Of democratic Prcsi-
dent.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-02
A HOUSE BUILT OF HUMAN SKULLS.

A HOUSE BUILT OF HUMAN SKULLS.
All lovers of grewsome, uncanny and
horrible tales well remember the
story of Timor and his famous
Pyramid of Skulls.n The butchery
which resulted in the building of that
horrible edifice is recalled by the recent
discovery near Nisch, Servia, of Il
building wholly constructed of hui
man skulls and bones. 1t is in the
form of square, about sixteen feet
high and is composed Of fifty-six piles
of deatheads and crossbones, there be-
ing seventeen skulls and as many pairs
of crossbones in each pile. When or by
whom it was erected is still mystery.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-02

We have received from Hon. Z. E. Meredith
copies of excellently drawn maps Of Eastern
Virginia and the neighboring counties Of
MARYLAND. The work is issued from the of
fee Of the q. S. Geological Survey.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-02

of the Force bill, and the declaration Ct
the national republican convention in
favor of that bill, meet warm response
in the hearts of the republicans of the
national capital.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-02

To THE GRAVE WITH PoMp-All business
in the vicinity of the Mulberry street Bend"
New York, was suspended yesterday morning
because Of the public ceremonies attending
the funeral Of Angelina Bovc, the 15-year-
old girl who took paris green because her
mother refused to let her marry the man she
loved. Tho girl had requested that her
funeral be as grand as money could make
1t, and as her father, although living in ..
crowded tenement house, is worth 100000,
her request was fully granted.
There were $50 carriages, two brass bands.
three open barouches filled with flowers, and
ATTN and silk decorations W thout end. The
coffin was covered with white satin and silk,
with immense silver handles. The hearse
vas drawn by four white horses covered with
white network which reached almost to the
ground. There were over 500 mourners and
10000 spectators. The father estimates the
cost of the funeral at over $1,000.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-02

Messrs. Wise and Meredith, of yir-
ginia, yesterday testified before the
House committee that Judge Cobb was
not drunk in the House when Mr.. Wat
son said he was.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-02

a baltimore GIRLS PRANK.-ANew
York papers Bar Harbor correspond.
emf sends the following: Among tho
many beautiful specimens of youpo
American womanhood summerinq ri
Bar Harbor Miss Lulu Morris. of Bali.
more, and Miss Jean Struthers, of Phil.
adelphia, stand pre-cminent. Miss
Morris is the cousin of Mrs. Richard
IRWIN, of New York, and is well known
in the metropolis, as well as at New.
port. where she has entered societv
under the chapcronage of Mrs. Willir
Jay. Miss Jean Strutners has had bgt
one season in Philadelphia society and
last winter she spent on the Nile. She
is one or the Quaker City's pretti4>,
bellies and is the centre fadmiial Jon la
the jeunesSe doree there. These tvo
beauties are constantly seen tosetbr,
and form striking contrast. one BEN,
blonde and the other a brunette. i
few days ago, at q picnic given bvthc
Portuguese minister. Miss Norris cbal.
lenged willie" p. Douglass to follow
her into the sea, fully dressed. He ae.
cepted the challenge and they both
continued to go further and further
from the shore until the frantic sb.ieSs
of the rest Of the party made tlem
realize the imprGdence. When iaqv
returned they were indeed solry-loot.
ing objects. dripping from head 10 foo,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-02

Returns from yesterdays election in Ais
bama confirm previous information. No
county in the State will give Kobb exceeding
125 majority. Jones' majority will be %;
900 and Legislature overwhelmingly straight
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-02

DR.. Hunter MCGUIRE, of Richmond,
will sail for Europe from New York to-
rnorroJv
Los Angeles herald., 1892-07-29
UNPROTECTED PRoTKcTIoNIsTs.

i There was a world of philosophy in
the declaration OF the Irish beggar who
said "God help the rich--the poor can
starvel" There are days upon days
/ when that remark comes home to us.
Especially does it do so when we re-
| feet upon the troubles recently arisen
between employers and employees in the
manufacture of iron and steel. Andrew
Carnegie has ceased to be a marvel and
bis wounded manager, being on the
high road to recovery no longer attracts
any great share of public interest. The
newest bidder ior notoriety in this line
is one B. F. Jones, who was at the head
OF the Republican national COM
mittee during the memorable campaign
of 1884, which resulted in Mr.. Blaine's
being elected to stay at home. This
gentleman is at the head OF a large man
ufacturing concern which employs some
$500 men, and he declines to have any
thing more to do with the Amalgamated
Trades union. This means that he is
going to reduce the wages of his en-
ployes, and if they do not like it, all they
have got to do is to put on their coats
and walk out.
Such are the effects of pro-
tective tariffs which make million
aires out of the employers, who then
leave their workmen to perish of hunger
for all they care : to the con-
trary. In the past sixteen years Andrew
Carnegie has made ten million dollars |;
and this new found protectionist
whom fate sought to consign to endless
obscurity by naming him Jones, is re-
ported to have made five millions in the
past eight years. In both cases it is the
old story-men asked to share in all the
losses without ever having shared in the
profits.
If these psotectionists fortified with
the heavy Mckinley duty on steel, can
not afford to pay the same wages that
they paid before the Mckinley bill in
creased their profits, what would they
have been able to pay under mild and
moderately protective tariff, levied
merely for the support Of the govern
ment?
Los Angeles herald., 1892-07-29
LETTER BAG.
The Ushers' strike.

EDITORS HERALD: l sincerely hope
no one will form an opinion regarding
the actions OF the ushers at the Grand
opera house till they know the facts.
When we were engaged by Mr.. Lohman
it was understood we should work from
the time doors opened until the entire
house was seated for so cents per night;
one usher should remain till close of
performance, which are the rules all
over the United States. Some time ago
Mr.. Lohman refused to pay the small
sum of 80 cents tor matinee, saving he
could get boys for nothing. When
Bernhardt was here he tried to get us to
work for nothing, as we would see the
performance. Now he makes this
most unreasonable demand, which
considering the small salary we receive
for services and required to furnish nice
dress suits, while other managers in
town furnish the ushers with dress suits,
pay them the same salary and don't re-
,quire them to hang around the theater
after their work is finished. When Mr..
Lehman states as the excuse that he
keeps us there in case somebody should
faint or fire should occur, the public
knows all the ushers are very young
men and not the persons who would be
of any service in such cases. Most re-
spectfully, A. @. GILKEY, G. U.