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Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1892-01-12

At regular meeting of Indepen-
dent Steam Fire Company No. l, held
Tuesday, January 9Th, 1891, the fol-
lowing officers were elected for the
ensuing year: j. c. Holmes, Captain :;
Abram Stump, 1st Lieut.. 3. +.
DooIey, 2nd Lieut.. L. V. Cockrill,
3rd Lieut.. Cleon Moore, Treas. W.
G. Earnshaw, Rec. and Financial
Sec'y; Vim. II. Anderson, j. w.
Carney, and c. II. Grim, Inst. Com
mittee; III. S. Weller, Chief En-
gincer; c. w. Cowley, Mike Kain
Font. jenkins and C. f. Long, ASS
Engineers; Henry O'Bannon, Theo.
Nicewarner and VIM. Hedges, Fire
men; A. r. Robinson, Chief Pipe
man; VIM. Anderson, Henry Hooe,
Geo. Hunt, NJ. j. Kahn, VIM. Drish
John Barritt and j. W. Carney, Asst
Pipemcn; G. II. Grim, Chief Hose
man: Asst Hosemen to be appointed
by chief hoseman; A. ID. Barr, B. f..
Dooly and w. G. Earnshaw, Stand
ing Committee; G. II. Grim, Hall
Keeper.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1892-01-12
Advertised Letters.

December s. 1891.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-10
Many Drowned.

ST. PETERSBURG, Aug. 10.-The
pleasure steamer reported on Monday
as having been run down outside of
Helsingfors was named the Ajax. She
was coaster and left Helsingfors on
Sunday with 100 excursionists on
board. Her return was delayed and
she arrived off Helsingfors after mid
night. When the narrowest part OF
the channel was reached the steamer
Runeburg was met going out. The
captain of the Ajax attempted to cross
the bow of the Runeberg and the latter
struck the Ajax. The excursionists,
after the collision, ran hither and
thither wildly shrieking for help.
All discipline was lost and the crew
made rush for the boats.
But there was no time to cast them
loose, for in minute after she struck
the Ajax sunk, and the Runeburg went
aground. Those on board the Rune
burg threw overheard life bouys, boxes,
chairs, tables, and in fact anything that
would float and help support the peo-
pie struggling in the water. AT the
same time her boats were towed away
and pulled in the dark, guided by the
cries of the drowning, to the scene Of
the accident and succeeding in saving a
number Of the passengers and crew of
the Ajax. The first report of the ac-
cident states that forty-fve persons
were lost, but later details show that
the number was much greater. Nine
ty persons are reported 70 be missing
and of this number the bodies of thirty
five have been recovered.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-10
VIRGINIA NEWS.

The house of Mr.. Thomas Francis
Brown, of Culpeper was burned re-
Gently.
Robert E. Earle. of Jefferson county,
was nominated for State Senator yester-
day by the democratic convention of
the Thirteenth senatorial district of
West Virginia.
Mr.. Basil B. Gordon, chairman Of the
State democratic committee, has called
joint meeting of the democratic State
central committee and of the executive
committee in the parlor Of the Ex-
change Hotel on the 18th instant at S
o'clock p. IN. when the general outline
of the campaign will be discussed.
The last weather crop bulletin has the
following to say for Virginia-Tcmper-
ature slightly, and sunshine generally,
above normal; rainfall generally sutli-
cient in eastern section, with scattering
light to heavy showers in central sec
ton, and good rains in the Shenandoah
Valley. Tobacco injured by drouth.
A delegation from the Powhatan
Club, of Richmond, has gone to Gray
Gables to invite Mr.. Cleveland to come
to Richmond some time next month to
be present at grand ratification meet
ing, to be held under the auspices of
the Powhatan Club. In case Mr..
Cleveland should decline the invitation
the committee will communicate with
Mr.. Stevenson or Senator Hill to in
duce them to deliver public address.
The committee to look into the
charges of incompetency on the part OF
Gen. Terry, superintendent of the Lee
Camp Soldiers Home in Richmond,
made their report to the board of visit
ors of the home last night. They re-
ported the charges not sustained, aud
denied the petition for General Terry's
removal. The report was adopted.
One of the subjects that will proba-
bly, be considered at the meeting of the
republican State committee in Rich
mond on the 18th instant will be the
question of making congressional NOM
nations, and members of General Ma
homes present executive committee
profess not to know his views on this
point, Some of the leaders, who are
not SO close to the chairman of the
State committee, believe that be is rath-
er opposed to making nominations IN
the various districts. They think that
he inclines to the policy of giving tho
third party free field for congressman
this year. Judge Waddill believes that
the republicans can carry the State.
He claims that his party can always
count on securing eight OF ten thou
sand more votes in presidential than
in q State election, The republicans
have done little or nothing in the way
of organizing for the November cleo
tions.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-10

THE ALLEGED strength of the third
party in Alabama and the charges ofal-
legged fraud made by the leaders of that
party in that State, have revived the
previously half-abandoned republican
idea of making the passage of the Force
bill one of the chief objects of Mr.. Har-
rison's reelection. Were there as few
negroes in the South as there are in the
North, the Force bill would not be by
any means as Objectionable as it is in
this section, for well-behaved people, in
white communities, would have moth
ing to fear, nowadays, from any law
really intended to preserve the purity
of the ballot box. But as the necessary
effect of the bill referred to would be to
put whole counties, districts, and even
States, in the South, under negro, and
therefore ignorant, vicious and ruinous
rule, all the right-thinking white men
of the South, who have any Interest in
the welfare of this section, will oppose
it by every means in their power, and
as harm to the South would necessarily
react injuriously upon the North also
they should, and doubtless will, be sup
ported in their opposition by the more
intelligent of their northern fellow citi-
Zens.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-10
ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA.
WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUG. 10, 1892.

A NEGRO was shot and killed at
Greenville, Alabama, yesterday Tor
cheering for the election Of Jones, the
democratic candidate for Governor, but
as his murderer was a third party man,
the republican allies of that party IN
the North have little or nothing TO say
about the matter. The southern men
who first joined the republican party
after the war had been the most ultra
secessionists, those who followed Ala-
hone in Virginia had been the most
proscriptive democrats, the Tiilmanites
in South Carolina were recruited chiefly
from the red-shirters and kukluX, and
the same sort of men vainly tried TO
defeat the democrats of Alabama last
week. When the northern people be-
come better acquainted with the real
condition of affairs in the southern
States, if that shall ever be, they will
know that the regular democratic party
of the South is composed of the wise,
conservative, industrious and well be-
baved people of this section, who have
not only their own and the South's in
terests at heart, but those of the whole
countrys also, though the latter idea,ar-
parently at least, has never yet enter
ed the heads of most of their northern
fellow citizens.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-10
From Homestead.

PrrrsBURG, Pa, Aug. 10.-The flag raised
at Carnegie's upper Union Mills yester-
day Superintendent Dillon says was foated
as an emblem of victory. Every train of rolls
in that plant is now in operation on single
turn and before the end of the week Super
hltcndent Dillon claims tho mill will be OIL
double turn. A flag will be raised at Du-
quesne to-day and Superintendent Potter says
he will also float one over the Homestead
mills. About roo men arc at work at the
Union Mills and nearly 400 at Homestead.
Duqucsnc is in need Of only few more men
to put the mill on double tGrn.
John Rcams, non-union workman, EN-
ploycd at the upper Union mill WAS assaulted
by two men while Oh his way to work this
morning and badly beaten. His ASSISTANTS
were arrested This is the first trouble since
the beginning of the strike at the Union Mills
and the assault caused considerable excite
mcnt.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-10
a Timely Rescue,

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Aug. 1O.-Ad-
vices from Ounalaska tell Of the rescue
by the revenue cutter Bear after two
months absolute solitude, of the only
survivor of the three men abandoned
on st. Matthew's Island year ago by
the sealing schooner Matte T. Dyer.
The hunters, Peter Yerina, Joseph
Burns and John Pulsifcr, spent the
summer and fall of 1891 building hut.
They saw many polar bears on the ISL
and. On May this year, after the ice
began to move, Burns and Pulsifer
started for the other side of the island
in small boat. They never returned.
Probably they were jammed in the ice
or went adrift on foe Vcrina was in
pitiable condition when rescued in
June
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-10
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

Rev. A. Mandine, c. NJ, director OF
the SIS els Of Charity in the province OF
the United States, died at Emmitts-
burg, Md, at two o'clock this morn
ing.
The extensive works of the Lancas-
ter, Pa, Chemical Co. were completely
destroyed by fire to-day with a very
large stock of goods. The loss is from
$50, 900 to $4,000.
Bob Jordan, negro prisoner, while
being taken to Camden, Ark, last
night was taken from the officers by a
party of masked men and shot to death.
He had insulted white woman.
The Catholics of Winnipeg, Man., at
mass meeting held last night. unani-
mously decided to maintain separate
schools for their children, despite the
decision of the privy council in Eng
bnd, compelling them TO pay taxes fol
Manitoba public schools.
a train on the way from the Yedras
mines to Culiacan, Mex, loaded with
$50, goo worth of silver, and guarded
by 20 men, was attacked four nights
ago by bandits. Three of the guards
were killed and the others were over
powered and bound hand and foot by
the robbers who escaped with the
plumber.
The steamer Columbia, which arrived
at New York last night from Colon,
brought the heavy wooden box contain
ing the metallic casket in which lay the
body of Boatswain's Mate CIV. Riggin,
of the U. S. steamer Baltimore, who
was killed by CHILEAN mob in the
streets of Valparaiso. The body will be
sent to Philadelphia.
Intelligence has been received at Dceming
n. NJ. of the murder of Lee Hodgdon and 4
Mexican named Escantaa. whose bodies were
found near Hatchita yesterday. It's believed
that band of renegade Indians from the San
Carlos reservation committed the crime
A novelty in the way of q wagon propelled
by electricity and containing tivo passengers
was seen on the streets OF Chicago yesterday.
1t is calculated that the wagon can make ten
miles an hour easily and can climb any hill
in Chicago.
The arrest AT Toledo, o., o few days ago of
Charles T. Taylor, u train boy, for passing
$40 counterfeit bill On q passenger, has led TO
the unearthing of gang Of counterfeiters.
The quarantine regulations against British
Columbia ports were raised at Port Townsend,
Wash, to-day, the smallpox having almost
entirely disappeared.
Martin Foy. jr., confined in tho Saratoga
county, n. T., Jail for the murder of Henrietta
Wilson in Saratoga last May, escaped this
morning.
The cattlemen in the Cherokee strip arc re-
sisting eviction and two additional troops Of
cavalry have been sent to the scene of trouble.
Tho wreck yesterday on tho Santa Fe road
at Petersburg, Col, injured IS persons two of
whom may die.
A few OF tho Communicates of Knights
Tcmplar gave exhibition drills in Denver to-
day.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-10
Georcia Convention.

ATLANTA, Ga, Aug. 10.-The Geor-
gia State democratic convention as
sembled here to-day. Pleasant A.
Stovall, of Savannah, was elected tenn
porary chairman. w. Y. Atkinson
was reelected permanent chairman by
virtue of which he continues ex-officio
as chairman of the State committee for
the next two years. There is no oppo-
sition to Gov. Northern for renomina-
ton. The contest is for Attorney Gen
eral, between ]. NJ. Terrell and w. C.
Glenn.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-10

AN IMpUDENT NEGRo.-William
Ross, a mulatto waiter at the Windsor
Hotel, Atlantic City, was arrested yes
terday and brought before Justice Til
ton on a charge of attempting to fiirt
with the wife OF Mr.. John Worthing-
ton, prominent merchant of Philadel-
phia, on the beach yesterday morning.
Mrs. Worthington was sitting in the
sand with her little girl, when Ross APP
preached and made advances. Her
husband was near by and saw the of
Tense, and Immediately resented the
negro's impudence. The colored man
used abusive language, whereupon an
officer was called and he was promptly
taken to the City Hall.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-10
HE SEwED Up HIS FEEl,-A

He SEwED UP His FEEr.-A remark.
able story of somnambulstic adyep-
lures comes from Ridgewood, SAM.
tarium three miles below Reading P,
Joseph r. Tomlinson, drummer for
grocery house in Milwaukee. took IN
his quarter there last Wednesday He
told DR.. Stewart, the proprietor. that h.
was somnambulist. The doctor nrc.
scribed for him and he slept well an
Wednesday night.
On Thursday, however. Tomlinson de-
clined to take any medicine. Thatni
his peculiar afIliction began TO manifest
itself, and shortly after o'clock he
arose and ran toward a clin. few hun.
dred yards away. Or. Stewart follow.
ed and caught him just as he was in
the act of throwing himself into the
Schuylkill, 300 feet below.
Shortly after midnight Friday pierre.
ing cries were heard coming from Tom
linsons room. The doctor found that
while under the influence of medicine
Tomlinson imagined that his great toes
had been severed. He had secured a
rusty needle and with this he began to
sew his toes together. He had already
sewed his right foot full of stitches, and
was beginning on the left when the
pain became SO great that he was awak-
ened.
DR.. Stewart removed the stitches. but
the wounds were so severe that blood
poisoning set in. Tomlinson has been
removed to a Philadelphia hospital.
where he has been informed that he
cannot recover.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-10
TO-DAY'S TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES.
Foreign News.

COPENHAGEN. Aug. 10.-IIcnry B.
Ryder, the U. S. Consul here, who is
under arrest charged with having mis-
appropriated the sum of 100000 kron-
els, has confessed that he is guilty of
embezzlement and forgery.
LONDON, Aug. 1O.-The Standard in
an editorial says at is clear that Mr..
Gladstone cannot long count on the
support of either of the Irish parties.
1t is doubtful whether the assurances
he has given to Mr.. Mccarthy will be
satisfying to the nationalist either in
Ireland or America"
ST. PETERSBURG, Aug. 10.-Advices
from Teheran, Persia, shows that the
cholera is increasing there. The deaths
in the city now average sixty daily.
An official report just issued shows
that on Sunday there were reported
from all the cholera infected districts
of Russia 1861 new cases Of the disease.
On the same day 2177 persons died of
cholera.
BERLIN, Aug. 1O.-At $50 o'clock
this morning an earthquake was felt ut
Ems, Coblcnz, Nalender, Nassau, Mixer
and Lahnstein. The movement lasted
for ten seconds. In some places CHM
neys were thrown down and the peo-
pie were in great fear Of their lives. A
large number of the houses at Ems
were badly shaken. Many of the peo-
pie who are visiting Coblcnz for their
health were taking their early morning
bath at the time Of the shock. They
hastily threw on scant coverings and
left the bathing houses az quickly as
possible. So far no reports of any Sc
rious damage has been received.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-10
SOUTHERN SOCIETY RE1GNs.-Mrs

SOUTHERN SOCIETY REIGNs.-Mrs.
Jefferson Davis has arrived at Nara
gansett Pier. Her daughter Winnie,
who was regarded as one of the finest
looking young ladies last season, is to be
with her cousin, Worthington w.
Davis, later in the season. Mr.. Davis
has taken the st. Elmo cottage for the
season. This gentleman was private
secretary to Mr.. Jefferson Davis during
the civil war. The Philadelphia Times
SAYS: Call in all, Narragansett is very
much of a southern colony, and south
ern society reigns."
ssNiiss Winnie Davis wore one of the
prettiest costumes-a white wool dot
ted with blue bells, and g zouaye jacket
of blue silk, embroidered. Miss DAVIS
is not beauty, but she is disting4e,
like all well-born southern women,
and has their cordial manners and
ready smile. Although, unhapily, too
famous to have the date of her birth
forgotten, she looks not more than
twenty-five. Mrs. Davis is very stout
and Understanding. She goes
everywhere and seems to enjoy the
gayety and the attention paid her, ~
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-10

An N. P. As A REvIyALisT-Ed-
ward Samuel Wesley de Cobain, who
was expelled from parliament in Feb
ruary last under charges Of gross i'm
morality, has turned up in Brooklyn as
a leader of religious reyivals in that
city. Those interested in the church
work in that city say that the ex-M. ?.
has caused many persons to turn from
the error of their ways since he began
his missionary work. The story Of DE
Cobian's expulsion and flight and his
refusal to defend himself when the
most serious charges were brought
against him are still remembered. He
was member from Belfast when the
scandal arose that ended in his flight
from the country. De Cobian offered
no defense, but left the country. He
went to France, then to Spain, and fl
nally landed in Brooklyn. He is known
there by his real name of Coban.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-10

THE SAFE transportation of twenty
million in gold from San Francisco to
New York, in Il well-guarded train Of
cars, is spoken of by some of the repub-
can press as conclusive and crafty
ing evidence that the government can
protect itself from highwaymen when it
chooses to do so. But thousand years
ago, during Alfred's reign in England,
law and order were so we'll observed in
that country, that it was said, at the
time, young woman could walk
scathless from sea to sea. Neither peo-
pie nor governments are better now
than they used to be.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-10

IT IS printed in the newspapers that
''Nlr. Clarkson is rapidly becoming
known as the official costumer OF the
republican campaign, by reason of the
part he takes in uniforming the cam
paign clubs" And Mr.. Clarkson is the
man who resigned the place of Assist
ant Postmaster-General because he
thought it was not big enough for him.
"What fall was there, my country
men ~
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-10

THEY SAW MARS Moons Good
sells observatory, at Mortified, Mimi,
claims the distinction of being the first
during this opposition to see Mars two
moons. Profs. Payne and Williams, of
GoodselPs, and Prof Crusenbury, Of
Des Moines, made some observations
Monday night, and after they finished
their search Prof. Payne said Il think
we are the only ones who are able to see
the moons this trip, and this is as finea
sight as 1 have seen since 1877. Though
not quite so long, Phebus looks redder,
while Delmus looks less red We can
hardly tell, it is SO far, just how far
these moons circuit around Mars IS
since the only way of measuring these
distances is by focusing the, light
Prof, Payne also says there Is ~
doubt that Mars is inhabited.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-10

INDIAN Observation-Disclosures, In
dia, is graced with seven ofthe most re-
markable temples in the world, each of
these unique places of worship having
been fashioned from solid granite bowl
ders. Some idea of their size may be
cleaned from the fact that the smallest
of the seven is "a feet high, II feet long
and - feet wide, and is divided into
upper and lower stories. The "Eevasa-
Goda-Cla," the largest Of the seven, is
three and half stories high, lis out
lines resembling those of an Atlantic
steamship. The inside Of the bowlder
has been chiseled away until the walls
DO not exceed eight inches in thickness.
The two floors above that Of the ioun-
dation are each about foot in thick
ness and seem as solid as the rock Of
ages. The upper stories are reached by
u spiral stairway carved from the same
piece of granite. The second largest Of
these single-stone temples has portico
II feet wide and II feet long, ornament
ed with four crouching lions and two
elephants, all carved from the same
bowlder which goes to make up the
main building.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-10
Anonymous Threatening.

PITTsBURG, Aug. 10.-In Alderman
McMastcr's mail yesterday was an
anonymous letter which had been post
ed in New York city on Monday. The
letter was written in probably dis
guised hand. 1t read: dear sir
Some time this week party of men
will leave here and will try to kill you
and superintendent Prick again" All
the attorneys engaged in prosecuting
the Homestead riot cases have, within
q week, received letters ola threaten
ing character.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-10

AT LOUISA Court House Mr.. Turner,
the third party's candidate for Congress
in this district, was forced to admit that
he would prefer the election of Cleve-
land to that of Harrison. He nor any
other southern man with any regard for
or interest in the welfare of the section
in which he lives, could do otherwise.
But, entertaining this preference, why
Mr.. Turner should be doing all he can
to defeat Mr.. Cleveland and elect Mr..
Harrison, is what his friends don't ex-
actly understand.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-10

One of the worst stories of extreme
parsimony on record comes from Union
town, Pa. A young man from that
place says that some time ago he wrote
to wealthy citizen of Green county
who owned land in Uniontown, asking
him for his price on a lot. In a few
days he received reply in a curious
looking envelope. He examined it
carefully end found that the envelope
was turned inside out. Making a
closer inspection he discovered that it
was the one he had sent the Green
county man. Since then he has had
several of his envelopes returned in the
same way. The Green county citizen
was too stingy to buy envelopes,
though worth not less than fifteen thou
sand dollars.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-10

SECRETARY McCoMAs, ofthe national
republican committee, says he has
strong hopes that the republicans will
carry Virginia next fall as Malone,
Bowdcn and the other leaders of the
party have settled their differences and
the party is harmonious for the first
time in years, and as the third party
will carry off Il large number of demo-
cratic voters This statement Of Mr..
McComas should be sufficient to set the
intelligent members of the third party
in Virginia TO thinking. Their most
sanguine leaders don't pretend to be-
lieve that they can carry the State.
The only possible effect they can there
fore produce may be to give the State
to the republicans, who are, if any
thing, more opposed to third party
principles than the democrats are.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-10

Mr.. DAVIS, director general of the
Chicago fair, says that instead of
So 100000, the recent session of Con-
gress gave that fair S3,2S3, 900. This,
added TO the million and half given
to the fair by the preceding Congress,
makes 81, $4,000, which sum has been
exacted of the people of the country by
faxes on their necessaries Of life. The
only Virginians who can tell Why all
this money should be given to the Chi
cago fair, and not cent to the Rich
mond fair, are those members Of the
Virginia legislature who voted to give
Nirginia's money to the same fair.