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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-09-30
OYSfcrSin Alaska.

For some time past it has been ru-
mored in California that large beds OF
oysters had some months since been
discovered in certain waters in Alaska.
The location has not been stated, but it
has been understood that the oysters
| were entirely different from any found
hitherto on this coast, being much larg-
er and as fine, or almost as fine, as the
best eastern oysters.
News is now received from Washing
ton that these oysters are in the vicini-
ty of Killisnoo. This special informa-
ton under Washington date was re-
ceived Thursday, and is as follows:
~. S. Fish Commissioner Mcdonald
has obtained the consent of the Treas
ury Department to avail himself of the
services of Special Agent Max Pracht,
having in view the investigation of GER
tain oyster beds said to exist in the Vi
cinity of killisnoo, Alaska. Specimen
shells from this locality, obtained from
natives in the employ of the ALASKA
Oil and Guano Company, were sub
mitted to the ichthyologist of the
commission during the recent Wis
it of the special agent to this
city, and were pronounced by the ichthyol-
ogst to be of 4 superior variety. Proper a1-
planes have been forwarded to Special
Agent Pracht at Sitka, with instructions to
secure and pack some oysters for tranship-
ment to the commissioner If the report of
the ichthyologist is favorable, steps will be
taken TO secure spat and young oysters for
the purpose of transplanting to the waters Of
the Chesapeake Bay"
Hitherto it has been supposed that the wat
ers of Alaska we're too cold for oysters, but
old residents of Alaska now here point out
that this is an error. They say that the Japan
current strikes and influences greatly por
ton of the waters of that great country, and
that oysters can live and thrive there the
same as anywhere else in the country.
The California and Shoalwater Bay oysters,
as everyone here knows, are small and sweet.
By many Calfornians they are preferred to
tlie Eastern product. The newly discovered
oysters of Alaska, while as large as those of
the East, are said to have much the same
flavor as the California oysters.-SdH Francisco
Examiner
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-09-30

There was no result from the call OF
committees, and the House resum-
ed the consideration of the federal cleo
ton repeal bill, the passage of which
was advocated by Mr. Patterson. He
deprecated sectionalism in the discus
sion, and he criticised the men who
would endeavor to stir up fraterral
strife by bringing up memories of the
war. He had nothing to say against
the republican party. 1t was party of
great achievements it was party
which had produced great statesmen ;
but that the country was peaceful and
harmonious now was the glory of the
national democracy.
Mr.. Patterson closed by saying that
the condition at the close of the war
left the South with two races-one the
sons ofthe grandest race the earth had
ever seen; the other the most helpless
and most forbearing and the most ig-
norant. The superior race should take
charge of this helpless race. He admit
ted that there had been fraud and VIC
lence. No such revolution could be
accomplished without fraud and vio-
lence. The debate was continued.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-09-30
TELEGRAPHIC BREVlTIES

Fourteen new cases of yellow fever
are reported at Brunswick, Ca, to-day.
Forest fires are raging to an alarming
extent near Winchester, o., and there
is no water to fight the flames.
Sugar is scarce in Chicago, so sea-. e,
in fact; that famine confronts the
housewives ofthat city.
In Indianapolis yesterday, Robert I.
Hunt, q sign painter, shot his wife
in the head and then sent a bullet
through his own skull. Both are dead.
Near Hopkinsville, KY, yesterday,
James Southers almost cut John Chap
mans head of and then disemboweled
him. The men had quarrelled over
the ownership Of a pair of check lines.
There seems to be little doubt about
the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern
railroad obtaining control of the Ken
lucky aud Indiana bridge within the
near future.
Rev. H. d. Webster, who is charged
with gross immortality and who has
been on trial before board of Baptist
ministers at Hart, Mich, has been
found guilty and suspended from the
ministry.
1t became known to-day for the first
time. outside of the immediate family,
that son had been born to Mr.. Edwin
Gould. The event took place at II
o'clock on Wednesday morning in New
York.
DR.. NJ. P. Fogelson, who has been on
trial for the past two weeks at Hills
dale, Mich, for the murder OF his wife
by poison, was yesterday found guilty
as charged by the jury. Sentence was
deferred
4 freight wreck is reported at Hayre de
GAGE, Md. OF the Philadelphia, Wilmington
and Baltimore railroad. Travel from the
North has been delayed some hours. The e-
port says that no lives were lost.
Critics who watched the Vaikyric in hrr
trial spin outside Of Sandy Hook Yesterday
regard her as a very speedy yacht AMI dan
gerous rival of the yiglant.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-09-30
Looking to a COMPROMISE.

Renewed talk of compromise be-
tween the friends of silver and the adj
vocates of unconditional repeal filled
the air in the Senate yesterday. This
was in part caused by the letter signed
by Wharton Barker, Of Philadelphia,
and many business firms of that city,
advocating compromise which would
involve recognition ofsilver as money
and also the rescue of the protective
tariff from the assault of free-trade
members of the ways and means COM
mittee of the House. This letter was
presented by Mr.. Cameron, of Penn
svlvania, and at his request it was Or
Iered printed as public document.
It's immediate effect is TO strengthen
the friends of silver in their efforts TO
secure compromise. This movement
was given further impetus by the
knowledge that conferences were being
were being held between Senators
German, Voorhees,, Faulkner, Cockrell
and Teller, with view to framing a
measure which should command the
support of all factions. In these con-
ferences Mr.. Teller represented the sill
yer republicans, Mr.. Cockrell the sill
yer democrats, and Mr.. VOORHEES, and
Mr.. German the administration, while
Mr.. Faulkner was broug hit in as the
author of the most promising substitute
proposition yet introduced In the
Senate.
The result of this conference will
probably become public through the
introduction of an entirely new bill in
the Senate some time next week. rms
compromise measure, it is thought, will
be based upon the Faulkner amend
ment, but will be modification of that
compromise. 1t will provide for the con-
tinued purchase of silver, but, like the
Faulkner amendment will place an ultl-
mate limit to the total amount OF bull
lion to be bought. 1t will also provide
for gold reserve of at least $500, OOO,-
600. This is condition which the
friends of unconditional repeal sbso-
lutely insist upon. To double the pre-
sent gold reserve would, of course, in
volve the issuing of bonds by the gov
eminent, that being the only available
method of purchasing gold. This fea-
ture of the projected compromise is the
one which is most vigorously opposed
by representatives of the administra-
ton, which has always declared itself
against an increase of interest-bearing
public debt.
Yesterday evening it was stated that
the democratic Senators i'll charge of
the Faulkner compromise, with the
5000, 900, 0G0 gold reserve addition, had
a conference with Secretary Carlisle at
his residence, at which they discussed
with him in detail the ACCESSIBILITY OF
adopting q compromise. Mr.. Carlisle
could only listen. He could not COM
nit himself, and promised only to lay
the proposition before the President
Baltic. american.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-09-30
SATURDAY EVENING. SEPT. 80, 1898.

No WONDER the President has sus
pended his public receptions When
cranks, who say they want the Presl-
dental chair, find their way into his
kitchen. If the particular one referred
to were negro, his going to the kitch-
en- of the White House to fad MI
Cleveland would not have been at all
strange, for it is we'll remembered that
Mr.. John S. Wise, now distinguished
republican, once said he received !. his
negro callers in his kitchen. But the
poor man may have heard that none
but congressman are received at the
White House except on public occa-
sions. and, therefore, thought the best
way to obtain an interview was through
the medium of the cook, and interviews
with kings have often been obtained
bv way of the kitchen.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-09-30
Suicide.

New YORK, Sept. 30,-A young wo'
man named Gladys stockbridge swal,
lowed some carbolic acid early to.
day while in q saloon on Eighth ave.
nue.. She died a few hours later at
Bellevue Hospital. The suicide was
born at Richmond, Va, and came of a
good family. While in her teens she
married man named Stockbridge 10
Baltimore, who was many years her
senior. The latter died three years
since as did also their four children
Six months ago she came to this city
from Boston where she had been liv
in G with friends. Recently she fell in
love with young man named BILLY"
Conover and he abandoned her a
short time ago.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-09-30

extraordinary skill as a draughtsman,
anpointed apprentice in the navy. Mr.
Maredith also called at the Treasury
Department in behalfof George Rams
deli. originally of Fairfax, but who now
halls from Colorado, who is an appL-
can't for a minor place therein. MT
Meredith also made inquiries about W.
B Dodge, a northern republican no"
bniling from Fairfax, who still holds
Mace in the Treasury Department:
At Bluff City, Giles county, Va, ).
w Charlton was appointed postmaster
today. vice E.W. Charlton, removed; al
Mappsburg, Accomac county, U. W.
fillmore. ir., vice R. L. Ames, resigned;
and at Miller's Tavern, Essex county,
c. NJ. Smoot, vice j. G. Cannon, re-
signed. 81. o,-,as
pondence of Yesterdays date, that the
President is about to change his pohcy
in respect of retaining republicans IN Of
fce is said to be based on good founda-
ton. and that it originated from an intl-
nation to that effect made by the Pres
dent to member of Congress from Nlr-
ginia, and the fact that a successor 10
Marshal Watts, Of the western district
of Virginia, was appointed before the
expiration of the latter's full term, TENDS
to substantiate it. :.
Every body at the Capitol to-day Is
talking about compromise on the sii,
yer bill by which vote may be reacneu
upou that bill week after next. But
what the terms of the reported compro,,
mise are, no body seems to know. ana
wise aud conservative members OF Dolh
houses say that to them settlement
seems as remote as ever, and that any
terms that would satisfy the silverites
would receive the Presidents veto.
Some Loudoun county people mere
to-day seem to be very much concerned
about the revocation of the appointment
of Mr.. Brooks of Leesburg to place IN
the Internal Revenue service, and the
appointment of Mr.. Donald Mclean OF
Fairfax county in his stead.
Representative Cooper, DEM, OF lex
as. today introduced in the House a
resolution providing for the submission
of the question Of free silver coinage TO
popular vote. ~
In the Senate to-day Mr.. Chandler
denounced the President, whom he
spoke of as His Majesty, for appoint
ing the Fairchild commission, com
mission to negotiate treaty, and for
appointing Mr. Blount a special COM
missioner 10 Hawaii, without the con-
sent of the Senate. Senator Stewart
had previously termed the President
Grover |.
Quite break was made in the repub-
lican federal Office holders in New
York to day, when the President nom
mated democrats for = number OF their
places, and Secretary Carlisle called for
the resignation of several others.
Mr.. Daniel NJ Ransdell Of Indiana, who
was appointed Ay President Harrison marshal
of this District, has boughta part interest Ia
the management of the Ebbitt House Hotel.
Mr. Ransdeil still remains marshal OF the Dis
trict. though he is pronounced republican;
Representative Springer. chairman OF the
House banking and currency committee, says
he does not believe the bill to repeal the tax
on State banks will be reported favorabiy, nu'
that the one to increase the national bank CIR,
culation TO the par value Of their deposited
bonds, will be.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-09-30
VIRGINIA NEWS.

A heavy frost fell at Woodstock
Thursday night, it being the first of the
season. No damage is reported.
Thirteen prisoners were hired out 10
dredgers in Norfolk yesterday by 20,
lice Justice East aud sent down the
river to the oyster rocks for the winter
Jno Minor Porter, who during the
war was member of the Black Horse
Cavalry, died at his home near the
Fauquier Springs on the odd inst.
HMrs. Jane A. Fox, wife of Manley
Fox. died at the residence of her broth
er-in-law, VIM. Everhart, in Hamilton
recently, of cancer of the stomach. She
was in her 49th year.
Judge Moffett, of the Roanoke coun-
ty court, yesterday ordered all the
able-bodied prisoners in the county
Jail, with ball and chain accompanii-
ment, to be taken out aud put to work
on the county roads.
Fire broke out last night in the roof
of the branch factory of the Petersburg
Peanut Company in Petersburg. That
palt VI VIC hulIuluS OSSuPieN ~ ~
company was burned to the ground,
and the other portion of the building
was badly damaged ]. h. Meade, Of
Dinwiddie county, aged fifty-fve years,
was run over by the truck OF the fire
department, which weighs 1000
pounds, and was fatally injured. He
has wife and four children.
The Roanoke special grand jurymen
were yesterday instructed to appear for
duty in the Hastings Court Monday
morning. 1t will investigate thorough
ly all occurrences in connection with
the late riot, and it is thought this will
require session Of nearly two weeks
The authorities have been quietly at
work, and it is said have obtained sufli.
cient evidence to indict number Of
the rioters. Hon. II. S. Trout was al
his office in the bank all day yesterday
but has not yet resumed his duties as
niayGr
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-09-30

THE LATE Mr.. Blaine, while Score
tary of State under the last administra'
ton. said the negroes Of this country
were not far enough advanced yet fol
the government to select them as its
representatives TO foreign countries
What he said was true, aud was the
more patiently so because the govern
ment did not think the negroes were tai
enough advanced to select them for It's
representatives even in the northern
half of the country. But during the
last few weeks the present admlnistra
ton has selected one negro for the place
of envoy extraordinary and minister
plenipotentiary, and two others for i'm
portant consulates, and all three tt
white countries. Mr. Blaine evidently
knew more about the African race thai
Mr.. Gresham does.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-09-30
Manassas Notes.

The new courthouse building at this place
is nearing completion. When entirely com
pleted it will be an unusally handsome struct-
ure.
Under the skillful manipulation OF large
number of workmen the interior of Mr.. Z.
Portners palatial residence on the northern
suburbs of the town is taking on most pleas
ing and artistic appearance.
An artesian we'll is being bored on Main
street near the the Midland freight depot by
the Messrs. Whitmer This well when COM
plcted will be one hundred and fifteen feet
deep. We understand that it is a gift TO the
corporation of Manassas from Mr.. Roht. Port
ner. If it is by such an act of kindness Mr:
Portner demonstrates that he has heart OF
the proper dimensions and that he is a phil
anthropist OF the right sort. In making this
gift he could have done nothing that could
add more to the public convenience and COM
fort.-Gd-ette.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-09-30
Tho Argentine Revolt Ended.

BUENos AYREs, Sept. 30,-The SEN
tence of death passed upon Colonel
Espina, who was convicted by court
martial of having melted two torpedo
boats to attack some of the government
vessels, has been committed to 20
years. Imprisonment. Col. Espina was
to have been shot to-day.
The national guards who were mobi-
lized at Rosario have been disbanded.
The rebellion of the radicals is regard
ed as crushed and confidence is return
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-09-30

MR.. PORTER, ex-Superintendent oi
the Census, says "republicanism stands
for nationalism." No wonder Mr.. Por-
ter failed to count two hundred thou
sand of the people of New York city,
and that his enumeration was therefore
incorrect, when he makes statement
so erroneous as the one referred to.
WHY. Congressman Dolliver, ofhis own
party, says republicanism has no stand
ing at all in the southern half Of the
country, and has no existence there.
IfMr. Porter will only step around the
corner and see his political ally, Mr..
John Wise, he will be told that southern
white republicans are "apostates for the
price of their apostacy.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-09-30
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The new iron bridge over the Poto-
mac river at Brunswick, Md, Is rapidly
approaching completion.
Admiral Mello has captured Desterro
a Brazilian coast city which contains
an arsenal we'll supplied with ammunl'
ton.
a woman in Carroll county, Md, de-
tected three men robbing her hen house
Thursday night and captured them all
with pistol in her hand.
Ex-United States Senator Willis D.
Macken died in the Western Asylum,
at Hopkinsville, KY, yesterday, OF ex'
haustion incident TO extreme old age.
Twenty-eight of the forty men who
were entombed by the caving in of the
mine near Crystal Falls, Mich, yester,
day, were drowned before they could
be got out.
The test Yesterday of the 17-inch
nickel steel plate, representing 400 tons
ofarmor for the barbettes ofthe battle,
ship Indiana, was not as successful as
former tests of the same thickness fol
the side armor.
A dispatch from Rome says that the
Vatican has instructed Archbishop Sa'
TOLL to influence Catholic members o.
Congress in favor of America sending a
diplomatic representative to the Vati
can.
1t is said that not a sufficient nun
Der of Senators will agree to pledge
themselves to maintain quorum at al
times. so night sessions of the Senate
will pot be held Immediately to force
the passage of the silver repeal bill.
An officer of the United States steam
er Bear, now in Alaskan waters, writes
to the Treasury Department that the
importation of Siberian reindeer into
Alaska has been decided success. The
animals thrive in that climate more SC
than in Siberia, where last winter they
died by the hundreds, while in AlasK;
none Of the imported reindeer died o
the cold
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-09-30
Raid on Moonshiners.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. Sep. 30.-Reve,
nue. Collector c. 81. Taylor returned
here yesterday from a successful raid
on moonshiners. Two stills of sixty
gallons each were destroyed in Monroe
county. Near Rural Vale, an eighty
gallon still was destroyed. This was
the largest contraband still in the State
and its product was disposed of at
wholesale by agents in all parts of the
countrv
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-09-30

AT A negro Methodist Conference in
indianapolis last Thursday, one OF the
speakers said ''The righting of the
wrongs of the negro could only come
through the shedding of blood, as the
negro had been freed only by blood
shed. The negroes ought to do some
thing for themselves. Praying without
doing anything was an otlense to God.
He denounced the "Jim Crow" cars the
negroes are compelled to ride in in the
South, and favored burning the roads
using such cars. His speech was re-
ceived with unanimous applause
Well, the sooner the Shedding OF
blood" commences, the worse it will be
for the negroes, and the harder it will
be to find the particular one who made
the speech referred 10.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-09-30
Artcr Ninety DAYS in a Grave.

4 man with a prominent nose, snali,
dark eyes, and soft voice, in keeping
with his quiet manner, dropped into an
easy chair in the parlor of the Hoffman
House at S O'Clock Thursday night and
stroked his moustache for moment.
Then he said in calm matter-offact
tone:
Il propose to be placed alive in a
coffin, buried in grave in Rockford,
H., stay there for ninety days, and then
be dug up and prove that ! am still
alive. / am going to do this for the
benefit OF science
The man who said this is Andrew j.
Seymour. of Rockford, and he proposes
to accomplish the feat by means of
what he terms suspended animation.
The experiment is to be under the SUI
pervision of DR.. Z. c. Dunn, Of Rock
ford.
II have no doubt of my ability to ac-
complish this feat" Dir. Seymour said.
'.for / have already remained in a state
of suspended animation for twenty-one
DAYS without food. | will be able to
prove that air is not absolutely essen
tial TO human existence, and that with
out food also the vital spark may be
aThe method of preparing for the
test will be practically the same as that
adopted by the East Indian fakirs, who,
as writers have recorded, make the
feat of being buried alive their most
surprising bit of so-called magic. My
ewes and ears will be covered with cot
ton and sealed with wax, my face will
be covered with solution of psrafline,
nv tongue will be folded back in my
mouth aud my lips sealed, and my
body will then be wrapped in blanket
saturated with alum, and will then be
enclosed in q coffin and put under
ground.
Animation will have been suspend
ed, of course, before the burial. Ny
condition will be the same as that
which certain persons have insisted
that Washington Irving Bishop was in
when the physicians pronounced him
dead. / would have tried the expert
ment in Chicago last June, but for the
fact that burial certificate was neces-
sary to make the interment, and the
authorities would not issue such a GER
tifcate for living man.
"There will, of course, be waste OF
tissue, but it will not be as great as
physicians imagine. The casket lid
will be perforated to permit the escape
of any gases generated by such waste,
but the casket will be underground,
and covered with certain kind Of
loam."
Mr.. Seymour is A years old, and is a
native of Somervile, Butler county,
Ohio. He has been mind reader for
twenty-three years, and he says that he
is able to go into state similar to hyp-
motto coma with ease. lie is in town
on private business.-N. Y. Sun.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-09-30

THE VERY men who are making such
a fuss about Mr.. Van Aliens alleged
purchase of the Italian mission with a
fifty thousand dollar subscription to the
Cleveland election fund, are now open
" attempting to bride the Senators
from the silver States with promises OF
support if they will agree TO oppose
tariff reform. But such men act upon
the idea that circumstances alter cases,
and that though bribery may be highly
censnrable when committed by demo
Gratis, it is highly commendable when
committed by republicans.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-09-30

STATE SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION.
In the State Sunday School Conven-
ton at Charlottesville yesterday reports
from the president, executive commit
tee and treasurer were read. Mr.. Geo.
Perkins, of Charlottesville, delivered an
address on the Power and Duties of
Conventions" and was followed by DR..
]. NJ. Pitcher, of Petersburg, who spoke
on "The Bible the Need of the Age
Mr.. ]. D. K. Sleight discussed lesson
helps. Last night DIR. Noah X. Davis
spoke TO a very large audience on the
study of the Bible.