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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-11-19
Manassas Notes.

Mr.. John Jones is having a planning
mill erected on his lumber yard i'll this
place.
DIR. H. NJ. Clarkson, OF Haymarket,
has recently been appointed county
Superintendent of schools for this coun-
ty in place of Mr.. J. B. T. Thornton,
resigned.
Miss E. J. Brown died at the resi-
dence of her brother-in-law, Mr.. c. +.
Fisher. in this place, Monday, in the
fifteenth year of her age. Miss Brown
formerly resided at Somerset, Orange
county.
Mr.. R. D. Johnston, the r. & D. de-
pot agent at this place, left here sud
denly Thursday morning for parts I'M
known, under rather sensational cir
cumstances. His position rs agent
here is now being filled by Mr.. l.. b.
Thomas.
Mr.. O. z. Newman, who has won for
himself a reputation as a first-ciass
painter in this place, has recently secur-
ed position as head painter of the '.
NJ. Division of the r. & d. r. r. He
will have charge of q car and a force OF
nine men.
A series of meetings is now being
held in the Baptist church, this place.
The pastor will be assisted by Rev: }.
H. Butler, pastor of the Alexandria
Baptist church, an earnest and impress
sive speaker, who will preach every
night during the coming week, at Z
o'clock.
An avenue is being opened on the
Windemere farm, the place recently
purchased by Mr.. r. Portner. The
avenue will, when completed, virtually
be an extension of one of the principal
streets in this place. We understand
that Mr.. Portner will erect a number OF
fine residences along the route of the
avenue next spring.-Manassas Gazette.
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ALEXANDRIA,, VA
SATURDAY EVENING. NOV. 10. 1892.
THE REpuRLIcANs SAY that Tamma

THE REPUBLICANS say that Tamma-
ny is an adjunct ofthe South. Well II
it be, the South couldn't possibly have
a better one. There is no doubt OF the
fact that on many subjects Tammany
and the South think alike. One OF
them is the woman question. The peo-
ple of the South think the less women
have to do with politics and politicians
the better for them and for ali the other
people of the country. Active poll
tics are. and, nowadays, must of
necessity be degrading. and ii is upon
the purity Of - women that the well
fare of any country chiefly depends.
Tammany agrees with the South in re-
spectss OF this subject, and thinks the
proper place for woman is in her own
house and her proper duties those OF
her own household. When such was
the invarable custom, the women OF
this country, and the men too, were bet
ter and happier than they are now. For
this reason Tammany has just refused
to appoint any woman to membership
of the board of school commissioners of
New York city.
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Imprisoned NIiners.

louisville, Pa, Nov. ia cave
in occurred this morning at the Hazel
Dell Colliery at Centralia, whereby Z OF
s men are now imprisoned. Two 9th
ers have just been taken out very bad
ly injured. The cave-in was caused by
the running of pillar or column OF
coal that is left standing to support the
roof. The imprisoned men are three
hundred feet from the surface and the
cave-in is so extensive that yawning
abyss now shows on the surface where
before had been a culm bank.
The colliery officials as we'll as the
owners, who live near by, are doing all
they can to rescue the imprisoned men,
but the fall is large one and the
ground is still settling so that the work
of rescue cannot be Immediately prose.
cuted with the vigor usual after such
disasters. 1t is impossible to tell wheth.
er the imprisoned men have beer
crushed to death instantly, or are i'm
prisoned in some enclosed chamber.
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Viii Not Give ND his Office

NEW YORK, Nov. 19,-Long Island
City is in fever of excitement to-day
through the bombshell which Mayor
Gleason threw into the political camp
this morning. The city, which had
accepted tho recent election returns as
final, Gleason's defeat for reelection as
Mayor settled, and Sanford's triumph
over him complete, now finds its calcu-
lations overthrown. City Clerk Burke,
who is a Gleason appointee, sent in the
official returns to the county clerk this
morning, showing that Mayor Gleason
has been reelected.
The majority, according to these
figures, is 1872 for Gleason. City Clerk
Burke issued a certificate of election to
Gleason, and the fighting Mayor started
to the county clerks office in Jamaica
to be sworn in. The supreme court
would, it was said, be appealed to to pre-
vent Mayor Gleason from again taking
office. 1t is understood that Gleason
claims the Office on the ground that
nearly o thousand defective votes
were cast for his opponent, Sanford.
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Row in the Alliance.

The reelection of President II. l.
Ioucks by the national farmers alli-
ancc and industrial union, now in scs-
sion in Memphis, has caused dissen-
sions in the alliance. The peoples
party men, whose vote elected Mr.
Loucl;s, are iubilant, but the members
who favor the separation Of the ALI
ancc from politics say they are greatly
disappointed.
llann Page, of Virginia, was elected
Il member Of the executive committee.
Tie alliance has decided upon the
following statement of demands:
"A national currency, safe, sound
and flexible, issued by the government
only. IL full legal tender for all debts,
public or private, and that without the
use OF banking corporations.
The free ANA unlimited coinage OF
silver and gold at the legal ratio Of l6
10 |.
That the amount of the circulating
medium be increased 10 at least $50
per capita exclusive Of legal reserves.
"a graduated income tax.
That national legislation shall be
so framed in the future as not to build
un one industry at the expense of an
other.
The money OF the country should
be kept as much as possible i'll the
hands of the people, aud hence we de-
mand that all national and State reve-
nucs shall be limited to the necessary
expenses of the government economi-
calIy and honestly administered.
'Postal savings banks established by
the government for the safe deposit OF
the earning; of the people and to facili-
tate exchanges.
The land, including all the natural
resources of wealth, is the heritage OF
all the people, and shouldn not be mono
polizcd for speculative purposes. and
alien ownership Of land should be pro-
hibitcd.
"All lands now held by railroads and
other corporations in excess of their
actual needs, and lands now owned by
aliens, should be reclaimed by the gov
ernment and sold for actual settlers
only.
Transportation being a means eli ex-
change and public necessity, the gov
crnmcnt should own and operate the
railroads in the interest Of the people.
The telegraph and telephone, like
the postoilicc system, being necessity
for the transmission of intelligence,
should be owned and operated by the
government in the Interest of the peo-
pie
Another disnatch from Memphis
says The Trouble in the farmers al
lance eliminated in bolt, and those
opposed to the peoples party captured
the body, held II caucus, and concluded
to form new association, embodying
the doctrine of the alliance, but hold
ing aloor from politics. Additional de-
tails of Thursday nights secret session
are leaking out Tillman called Scott a
liar and coward. Scott started to-
ward him, and half a dozen hands
reached for hip pockets. Scott was
pulled away Gov. Buchanan made a
remark that was not pleasing to del
egatc, and the latter rushed ut the gov
ernor with baseball bat used by the
sergeant-at-arms to keep the peace. He
was pulled away.
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As TO Parochial Schools.

The conference of Roman Catholic
Archbishops of the United States was
concluded in New York last night. The
question that engaged the attention of
the archbishops to the largest extent
was the matter relating to parochial
schools. Not until yesterday was any
real progress made, and the following
report indicates compromise upon
the question. Certain it is that the
measures outlined are by no means so
liberal as those championed by Arch
bishop Ireland, of ST. Paul. The mat
ter, as given out by the private sccre-
tary of Archbishop Corrigan, Father
Connolly, is entitled, Report on Pa
rochial Schools and is as follows:
SAT meeting of the archbishops OF
the United ttates, held ut the residence
of the Most Rev. Archbishop of New
York, on the 10th of November, 1892,
to consider the best means to provide
for the religious education of such
children as do not at present attend
the parochial schools, or Catholic
schools of any kind, the assembled pre-
lates unanimously agreed on the fol-
lowing resolutions:
Il. Resolred, TO promote the cree
ton of Catholic schools, so that there
NAV be accommodations in them for
more, and, if possible, for all our Catho-
lie children, according to the DEGREES of
the Third Plenary Council Of Baltimore
and the decisions of the holy see.
"2. Resoired That as to children who
at present do not attend Catholic
schools, we direct in addition that pro-
vision be made for them by Sunday
schools, and also by instructions on
some other day or days of the week,
and By urging parents to teach their
children the Christian doctrines in their
homes. These Sunday and week day
schools should be under the direct SUI
pcryi:ion of the clergy, aided by intel
iigent lay teachers, and, when posi-
bic, by members Of religious teaching
orders"
No other decisions upon matters dis
cusscd by the conference will at present
be communicated to the press by the
prclates.
1t is stated that the debates were not
carried on altogether tremendously.
Yesterdays discussions were largely
spent in considering the condition of
the Catholic University ut Washington.
1t is generally acknowledged that the
University is by no means the success
it promised to be when 1t was estab-
lished two years ago.
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PREsIDrN r-ELECT CLEVELAND, in his
speech at Mr.. Henry Wizards dinner
in New York, night before last, as
stated in yesterdays GAZETTE, asked
the following question 'Who, in our
party, charged with any responsibility
to the people, has not pledged his devo-
ton to the principles of true democra-
CIV. and who among us has made pledges
with intent to deceive?n No body, so
far as is yet known, or even believed !;
but unless the recently elected Con-
gress be convened as soon as possible,
and the tariff tax on the necessaries OF
life be removed, and the resultant deli
cit i'll the revenue be made ny hy IN
creasing that on luXuries, the fact will
become patent that somebody has made
pledges with intent to deceive, and his
identity will be speedily revealed.
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Richmond & DanviIIc Guaranteed
Bonds.

BALTIMORE, Nov. 19.-The weekly
letter of the banking house of HANDLE
ton & Co. has this paragraph 1--WE
placed the bonds of the Oxford and
GAINESVILLE and the GAINESVILLE and
North Carolina Railroads in this mar
ket. We sold them upon the faith OF
the endorsement and guarantee of the
Richmond Sc Danville +. r. Co., which
company contracted to pay the interest
on said bonds and the principal at ma
turity. We do not propose to calmly
sit down and be told that the Clyde re-
organizers propose to throw off the
bonds of such holders as will not con-
sent to readjustment, based upon the
earning capacity, etc. We negotiated
these bonds and we shall use our best en-
deavors to compel the performance of
this contract If the Richmond & Dan
vile Company is solvent it can be
forced to perform its contracts and pay
its debts. fit is not solvent, then the
Terminal system will be disrupted. In
the latter event Richmond & Danville
stock will be entirely worthless and the
bonds of the Terminal Company will
have nominal value only"
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VIRGINIA NEWS.
The new Cape Charles light will be
visible about 10 miles out ut sea.

The new Cape Charles light will be
visible about 10 miles out ut sea.
In the Loudoun County Court on
Tuesday d. w. Ooc.) Benton was found
guilty of house breaking and robbery
and was sentenced to serve two years
in the penitentiary. This was his sec
ond trial, rehearing having been
granted by the Circuit Court.
Mr.. Vim. Woodward, of Baltimore,
aged more than 80 years, is now on q
visit to his daughter, Mrs. Giles Cook,
ir.. of Front Royal, and is in vigorous
health. physically and mentally, for q
gentleman so advanced in years. Sum
day morning he delivered brief but
excellent address to the Sunday school
of the Calvary p. L. Church.
w. W. Evans, editor of the Virginia
Lancet, a paper published at Petersburg
in the interest of the colored people,
died Thursday aftera protracted illness;
The deceased at one time represented
Petersburg in the Legislature. For
some time past he had held clcrkshlp
in the office Of the commodore at Ports
mouth. He was one of the bcst-known
colored men in the State and an active
politician.
At a meeting in Richmond Yesterday
of the State sinking fund commissioners
its president was instructed to adver-
tise that the State is ready to receive
on deposit for veriiication, classification
and exchange under the terms OF the
act of the Legislature, approved Feb.
ruary 20, 1892, such old obligations OF
the State rs may be presented to them.
The announcement that the settlement
of Virginia's debt has been fully coli
summated is received with great salts
faction by the business community.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-11-19

ATTEMPTED TO CRUCEFY HIMSELF
An extraordinary attempt at suicide
WIS that related by the Medical Stand
ard of an Italian paranoiac who deter
mined to cruelty himself for the sins of
the world. He deliberately set about
the manufacture Of Il cross, and all the
adjuncts necessary for cruciliXion. Per-
ceiving that it would be difficult to nail
himself firmly to the cross, he made q
net. which he fastened TO it, securing it
at the bottom of the upright beam, q
little below the bracket he had placed
for his feet, and at the ends of the two
arms. The whole apparatus was tied
by two ropes, one from the net and the
other from the place where the beams
intersected each other. These ropes, fas-
tened to the bar above the window,were
Just long enough to permit the cross to
lie horizontally on the floor of the room.
These preparations finished, he put on
his crown of thorns, some of which en-
tered his forehead. Stripping himself
naked he girded his loins with white
handkerchief. Then he introduced
himself into the net, and, seating him
self on the cross, drove a nail into his
right palm by striking its head on the
floor until the points appeared on the
other side. He placed his feet on the
bracket and with a mallet drove nail
through them both, entering hole he
had previously made to receive it,
and thus fastened them to the wood.
He then tied himself to the cross by
piece of cord around his waist, after
which he wounded himself with his
shoemaker's knife in the left side, but
failed to injure any important organ.
He had made several scratches on his
breast to determine the place of least
resistance. The knife represented the
spear of the crucifxion. This was done
in his room. In order to show himself
to the people he placed the foot of the
cross upon the window sill, which was
very low, and by pressing his fingers
against the floor he gradually drew
himself forward until the foot of the
cross overbalanced the head, the whole
machine tilted out of the window and
hung by the two ropes fastened to the
beam. He then nailed his right hand
to the arm Of the cross, but could not
succeed in fixing the left, although the
nail by which it was to be fixed was
driven through until half of it came on
the other side. After hanging thus an
hour he was noticed detached from the
cross and put to bed. He recovered
from his wounds
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TAKEN FROM A TRAIN AND LYNCH
ED.-Last Tuesday Deputy Sheriff Liy-
ingston, Of Richmond county, n. C.,
attempted TO arrest negro named
Duncan McPhatter for disturbance at
the polls on election day As Living
ston was reading the warrant NIcphat-
ter shot him dead and fled. He was
pursued and Thursday night was cap
tured near Lauringburg. He was put
on a Carolina Central train for Rock
ingham, where it was intended TO jail
him. AT Laurel Hill Station mob in
vaded the train, carried the murderer
out and hanged him. Before being
swung up NcPhatter admitted the
crime, but said he was melted to it by
third party leaders.
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learned none were refused.

Is YOUR HOME Coy There are So
called homes that do not deserve
the name at all. Home means COM
fort. but when we have it fixed up so
deliberately that we must either SIT III
the garrett or the back yard to genuine
" enjoy ourselves then it is high time
we made change and turned out the
too-good-to-use articles and substitute
for them real homely things that we
could enjoy every day Of the year and
moment of the day. Men like pretty
home-maker; no mistake there. They
can appreciate beauty as well as the
next one, but they want that beauty 10
be of an order that appeals to their
sense of home comfort. OF what good
are cushions so deliberately cmbroider
ed that no head can repose on them?
What sense is there in easy chairs Of
such rich material that they are quite
the reverse of the name given them
Is there any satisfaction in a room.
the furnishings of which costs hun
dreds of dollars, when it is only
open at rare intervals, while the
owner, perhaps, sits by the kitchen
fire or in some dingy sitting room,
where he can smoke if he wants to, put
his feet on the fender, and as great
indulgence tilt back in his chair
Let the sunshine into the gloomy rooms.
have a couch to lie on, piano TO play
on in fact, home to live in one where
in sense of hospitality and good
cheer exudos from the tables and chat
instead of mausoleum of gloomy Gle
gance, wherein everything is for show
and nothing to be used.
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For Over Fifty Years.

Az OLD AND WELL-TRIED REMEDy.-Mrs.
Winslow's Soothing Syrup has been used for
over FIFTY YEARS by MILLIONS of MOTHERS
for their CHILDREN WHILE TEETHISG, with
PERFECT SUCCESS. IT SooTHEs the CHILD,
SoFTENs THE GUM, ALIAYs all PAIN CURES
WIND Collie and is the best remedy for d.
ARRHGA. Sold By Druggists in every part Of
the world. It's value is incalculable. Be sure
and ask for Mrs. WINsLoW's SOOTHING SY-
RUP, and take no other.
twenty-five cents per bottle.
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TELEGRAPIIIC BREYITIES

The first of the new worlds fair half
dollar souveniers was turned ont at
the U. s. mint at Philadelphia. to-day.
A bid of $4,000 has been made for the
valuable souvenirs.
A cyclone struck Harrison, Ark, last
night, killing persons and wounding
many others. A large number of
houses were blown down and consider
able stock was killed.
Within the last "a hours over three
inches of rain has fallen in the Puge,
Sound section, being the heaviest rain
fall ever known there. Streams are
swollen, and bridges have been swept
away.
A passenger train on the South Park
r. R. last night, near Kenosha, Col.
was blown from the track by wind
storm and toppled over an embank-
ment. Eleven people were hurt. bu.
it is thought none fatally.
Wilkesbarre, Pa, is excited over
some wonderful faith cures alleged 10
have been performed by a man calling
himself The Healing Evangelist. who
has now for two days been healing per-
sons who for years have been sick
An unknown man was found Just
outside of Allegheny, Pa, last night
with bullet hole in his head and an
other in his right groin.
A terrific wind storm passed over
Chesterfield county, Va, yesterday
blowing down barns and other out
houses, dwelling fences, uprooting
trees and doing other damage. The
force of the wind was so great that
family dwellings shook as if they tum-
Bile down and their occupants were
badly frightened.
Among the inmates Of the insane pa
vilion at Bellevue Hospital, New York,
this morning were two southern ladies
concerning whose identy there is some
what of a mystery They are said to
have come there from Virginia, but
prefer to return TO Savannah.
Beyond their names little of their his
tory could be learned. The two are
sisters, their names being Anna and
Louisa Harmon. The former is thirty
five and Louisa is two years younger.
Both are said to be religious fanatics.
The decision of the mechanical men aud
day laborers to return to work has put tie
people of Homestead, Pa, in happier frame
of mind than at any time during the lockout.
There was six hundred applications for work
yesterday at the steel works. Several ANAL
gamated men are known to have applied for
their old positions and so far as could be
learned none were refused.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-11-19

The STRIKE at Homestead has been
practically over for months, but yester-
day, so far as laborers and mechanics are
concerned, was declared Off, and mum
dreds of the strikers went back and
asked to be re-employed on the same
terms as those existing when the strike
commenced. The Amalgamated men
still hold out, upon she vain promise of
their leaders that the union will sup
port them, and the vainer one that the
employers will finally accede to their
demands The leaders, il must not be
forgotten, have control ofall the funds
that come to the union.
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GOVERNOR FLOWER of New York has
demanded the resignation of the civil
service commissioners of that State,
who are charged with treachery to their
partv There could not be a better
reason, fora traitor to his party would
not hesitate to be traitor to his friend
or to his country, and could not be re-
lied upon in any relation of life.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-11-19

As SENATOR PErrIGREw says he
hopes the recent election has killed the
Mckinley bill, and as there are several
other republican Senator'S who are by
no means enamored of that bill, and
whose States have recently declared
against it, there seems to be no good
reason why some at least of the individ-
ual tariff bills passed at the last session
of the House should not be taken from
the pigeon-holes in the room ofthe Sen
ate's committee on finance, in which
they are now resting, and be passed by
that body at its coming session. BY do
ing so the Senate would show that ii
respects the will of the people, as EN-
phatically expressed on two separate
and distinct recent occasions.
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% feet deep around the sunken Ger
man bark Felix at Point Breeze, thus
opening up sufficient space to admit
OF the passage up and down of all size
vessels. This work will be completed
hy "Wednesday.
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MARRIED..

At St. Paurs Church, this city, October
9th, 1892. by Rev. G. II. Norton, DR..
HARRY G. HARRYMAN, of Baltimore, and
MARY THERESA KLIPSTEIN, daughter Of
Mrs. Mary A. Klipstein Of this city.