davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-05-26
VIRGINIA NEWS.

George w. Sheriff, a prominent Nir-
ginia educator, died in Norfolk yester-
day. He was seventy years old.
Mr.. Joseph H. Johnson, of BERRY
HILL" Orange courthouse, died at his
residence on Monday, in the 9th year
of his age.
Rev. Robert II. Mason, of the Episco-
pal Church, and for some years past q
resident of Staunton, died yesterday at
the Warm Springs, whittier he went in
hopes of mending his health.
The Circuit Court of the City of Rich
mond yesterday granted charter to
the Jefferson Hotel Company, the cap
ital stock of which is to be not less than
500, 900 nor more than 100000.
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee will be chief mar
shall, with Gen. Thomas L. Rosser,
chief of staff, and Col. G. c. Werten-
baker and Capt. Micajah Woods aides
on the occasion of the unwilling of the
Confederate monument at the Univer-
sity of Virginia on June 7.
During a severe storm n few nights
ago lightning struck large barn be-
longing to Mr.. Charles G. Taliaferro,
who lives near Mason Station, in Orange
county. The barn took fire and the
flames spread rapidly to silo house
and some cattle sheds close. by, all of
which were destroyed. The buildings
were valued at $4,000, and were fully
! insured.
Phil Kearney Post, G. A. r., will dec
crate the graves Of the Union dead at
Fredericksburg on the 30th inst, when
Col. J. C. Burger, of Washington, will
deliver the address, the whole cere-
mony being under the supervision of
General Edgar Allen, commander ofthe
post referred to. Among the decora-
tions to be used are one thousand min
iature U. S. flags, q present from that
many of the public and parochial
school children of Nenia, Ohio.
Governor Mckinney has declined to
pardon Charles E. Pendleton, who was
convicted in December, 1889, in the
County Court of Spotsylvania for the
murder of Col. w. NJ. B. Goodwin and
sentenced to twelve years in the peni-
Tertiary. Pcndleton is serving his sec
ond term in the penltentlary for muir
der, having killed colored man in
Fredericksburg about twenty years ago,
for which he received a sentence of
FIVE years. The prisoner is said to be
in very poor health, from consumption.
The division of the receipts of the
memorial bazar, at Richmond, has been
made, whereby the Confederate Me-
memorial Literary Society, who have
in charge the prospective museum for
Confederate relics, and the Private Sold
iers and Sailors Monument Association
each come into the possession of some
thing over S14 1000. The ladies of the
association expect to get possession of
the Davis mansion early in October,
and as nearly as possible reinstate it in
the condition in which the structure
was left by the President of the Con-
federacV.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-05-26
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The fund for the Methodist universe
thy which tits proposed to erect III Wash
ington or its vicinity amounts TO
$2S5 ZOO.
Attorney General Olney has in
structed the Chicago district attorney
to apply for an injunction to prevent
Sunday opening of the Fair.
The Spanish Princess Eulalie, who
left Washington yesterday morning, ar
rived safely at New York yesterday
evening and vas given hearty recep-
ton.
President Sacaza, of Nicaragua, will
probably resign as the result of an
agreement made by a peace commission
headed by United States Minister
Baker.
A small black bug never before seen
by the farmers is destroying the corn
crop in southern Chester county, Pa.
and in Cecil county, Nd. The bug eats
the stalk clean to the roots.
The police at Warsaw have discover
ed great Nihilist plot, in which a
number of persons are involved.
Forty eight students, sixty laborerss
and eight women have been arrested
on the charge Of connection with the
conspiracy.
Arrangements are being made to
open the gates of the Chicago fair next
Sunday and only the intervention OF
the courts in the form of temporary
restraining order can prevent the de-
cision of the directory from being put
into effect for the first time.
The Prince of Wales cutter Bri-
tspaia yesterday won the race of the
Royal Thames club regatta, beating
Lord Dunraven's new yacht Valkyrie,
which is to compete for the America
cup. The Valkyrie was on the heels OF
the Britannia when her bowsprit broke.
William Pinkney, one of the convict
ed murderers of Mr.. Francis NJ. Bowie,
who escaped from Upper Marlboro,
Nd, Jail yesterday, has not been re-
captured. He sawed the iron chain
from his leg with piece of window
glass and walked out of the jail, the
doors of which were all open.
Paulus Meyer, a converted Hebrew
and ex-Russian Talmudist, who assert
ed that he was an eyewitness to a
terrible massacre of Jews in Russia.
has been arrested in Vienna, at the re-
quest of the German Supreme Tribunal
at Leipsig, with view to his extradi-
ton to Germany, on charge as yet
not made known.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-05-26
State Elections.

Elections were held throughout the
State yesterday for municipal and coun-
ty Offices.
J.P. H. Crismond, in Spotsylvania
county, and c. A. Bryan, in Stafford
county, were elected clerks of courts
for their respective counties without
opposition. Mr.. Brown, democrat, has
probably defeated Edward Hunter for
the clerkship in King George county.
InAlbemarle the democratic nominees
were unopposed. Richard w. Duke,
circuit clerk, was reelected, and W. l..
NIaupin was elected county clerk. In
Charlottesville board of aldermen
was elected, the entire board being
democrats.
The election for county officers in
Augusta was marked by an animated
contest for the clerk of the Circuit
Court between C. S. w. Barnes, pres
emit incumbent, running as an indie
pendent candidate, and Joseph B..
Woodward, the democratic nominee.
Woodward carried Staunton by 354
majority, which, with the county re-
turns now in, give him net majority
of AL. Woodward is undoubtedly
elected by at least 500.
Reports from Page indicate the cleo
ton of Broadus for county clerk over
Petty, democrat, by good majority.
In Luray there was no opposition to
the "dry's" ticket and all their candi-
dates were elected.
In Culpeper W. G. Coons was elect
ed clerk over c. B. Payne. Both were
democrats.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-05-26
MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL.


Business has been quiet during the week
and there has been decline in prices Of
grain Monetary affairs are quiet and there
is some complaint of tightness in the money
market There is no change in rates here
In New York yesterday money on call was
easy, ranging from = to g. LAST loan and clos,
ing offered at .. Prime mercantile paper ga
per cent. In Baltimore money was steady
at per cent The reorganization scheme OF
Messrs. Dre1el, Morgan Sc Co. for tho Rich
mond Terminal Company was the principal
event of the week in financial circles.
NEW YORK, May 26-Thero was sharp
change for the better in the temper of specu-
lation after the opening Of the stock market
this morning, and prices advanced through
the entire list subsequently there was re-
action and Richmond Terminal sold at 2aip
the lowest price yet touched. AT IL a. M
tho market was rather weak in tone.
BALTIMORE. May 26.-virginia consols-
do 1O-40s =; do 3s SO.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-05-26
The Southern Assembly.

At yesterdays session of the General
Assembly at Macon, Georgia, report
on the young peoples societies was
read. 1t says that "inasmuch as indi-
vidual strength is most effective by
combination, it is well for young peo-
pie in our churches to form societies in
order to develop their energies to the
best advantage and such societies, prop
erly organized and controlled, will have
the approval and encouragement of the
assembly. We do not deem it wise to
prescribe any particular form of organ
ization." Continuing, the report says /:
"The session must absolutely enforce
the Injunction of Scripture forbiding
women to speak in churches Il Cor,
XIV or in any way failing to observe
that relative subordination to men that
is taught in l Cor, II, Kill, and other
places"
The report from the bills and over
lures committee was interesting. 1t is
on request from the Presbytery of
Columbia for deliverance as to
whether it lies within the power of the
church session to communicate a
member for dancing. The committee
recommends that censures which may
be inflicted by church session are adj
monition, suspension and excommuni-
cation. This last is the extreme pen
atty of the law and is ordinarily to
be inflicted only after censures have
been employed and failed, and not un-
less the offender has been proven gull
ty of gross crime and heresy, and is in
corrigible and contumacious. Nothing
is to be considered as an offense which
cannot be proved such from the Scrip
lures as interpreted in our standards
These standards INTERPRET Scripture
as condemning lascivious dances, and
when, in the judgment of the session,
an accused person is proven guilty
of participating in such dances, and
when all other means have failed to
reclaim the offender, it is clearly with
in the power of the session to e1com-
municate the offending member.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-05-26
Another Plague.

LANCASTER, Pa, May 26.-Dr. S,
z. Weber has discovered that the
lice which have been plague
for the past eight months in the
eastern end of this county are
wood lice belonging to equatorial coun-
tries, and how they got here is mys-
terry. The doctor says the lice are un,
doubtedly the forerunner of a plague,
which he fears will be cholera. They
are not affected by the cold, as is shown
by the fact that they survived the in
tense cold of last winter, the thermom-
cter going down to "a below zero in
the vicinity of the infested places.
With the coming of the warm weather
the lice will multiply with alarming
rapidity, and the result must be disas-
trous if no means are found to eXter-
inmate them.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-05-26

QUEEN VICTORIA has just passed her
seventv-fourth birthday. Her subjects
hope, and may well do so, that she may
live to pass her eighty-fourth, and more,
for she is not only a good queen, but a
good woman, and the latter is the best
thing on earth. She is held in the
highest respect not only by her own.
but by the right thinking people of all
other nations, and all such, everywhere,
sincerely wish that she may live long
in the land whose fortunate lot has
been to have so wise and virtuous a
rnler.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-05-26
FRIDAY EVENING, MAY %, 1898
A DISPATCH from corunia, Michigan,

A DISPATCH from Corunia, Michigan,
describing the lynching of white
man for murder, near that place,
says:
IA terrible scene followed. The
body was pushed from hand to hand
and several drew their pocket knives
and lunged at the swinging corpse, 9th
ers began to tear the clothing and only
shreds of his shirt remained hanging to
the shoulders. When the body was
lowered to the ground portions OF the
mob which had been unable to get close
enough to take hand in the actual
hanging seized upon the rope and
dragged the lifeless body through, the
mire. After a crowd dragged MIN
about the streets and around the court
house square"
This was in the loyal republican
State of Michigan, where the people,
according to northern republican pa
pers. are law-abiding and not barbar-
GUS And yet, when a negro, who had
outraged a poor little white girl eight
wears old, and then killed her, was
burnt at the stake in Texas, these same
napers said it was only evidence OF the
emi-barbarous condition of the people
of that State.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-05-26
From Nicaragu

New YORK, May pa special from
the City of Mexico via Galveston, says
Photographic communication with Ma
nagua, the capital of Nicaragua, is in
terrupted, but San Salvador advices
bring the latest intelligence. The rev.
olutionists are triumphant, and it has
been agreed by their chiefs that their
party shall proclaim Morales as presi-
dent ad interim until legal elections
can take place. Then, it is generally
believed in Nicaragua, ex-President
Joaquin Zavala will be elected. Presi-
dent Sacasa is preparing to leave for
the United States. Since Jos. +. Rod
riquez, his emissary, has returned from
the camp of the revolutionists with his
peace propositions rejected, the revolu-
tionists refusing any compromise, Sa-
casa has addressed President Barrios, OF
Guatamela, and President Ezeta, of Sal
vador, asking them to employ their
good offices in behalf of restoration OF
peace.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-05-26
Advance in Freight Rates.

The advance in freight on southern
pig iron by the Pennsylvania, the Bal
timore and Ohio and the Reading rail-
roads has created much dissatisfaction
among southern iron manufacturers
and the association of the railways Of
Virginia and the Carolinas. The ad-
vance, which is from thirty-fiv to
eighty cents per ton from Alexandria
and Hagerstown, known as the gate
ways" of the southern roads, will take
effect on June l. There will be an in
crease from the two points mentioned to
Baltimore of thirty-tive cent ton, and
to Jersey City of eighty cents, making
the freight from the gateways to the
latter point $3.50, or from Birmingham,
Ala, 1915 per ton, which is almost
equal to the value of the iron.
Mr.. William H. Fitzgerald, general
agent of the Atlantic Coast, Richmond
and Danville and Seaboard Dispatch
lines, said yesterday the new rates
would practically shut southern iron
out of northern markets, and that his
companies had given the legal ten days
notice to the Interstate Commerce
Commission of withdrawal of rates
until new schedule could be agreed
upon. Mr.. Fitzgerald thinks the ad-
vance is a discrimination against south
ern pig iron, and that as southern roads
are willing to haul it $50 miles at the
rate of four mills a mile per ton, he
cannot see the justice in the northern
lines charging one cent ton per mile.
Parties on the other side claim that the
advance is justifable from business
standpoint, and that, considering the
low cost of manufacturing iron in the
South, the additional freight traffic will
not prevent its having fair competition
in northern markets.-Baltimore Amer
icnn.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-05-26

THE PHILADELPHIA Ledger, one OF
President Cleveland's republican sup
porters, says the President has never
endorsed the low tariff plank Of the
Chicago platform" Different people
NAV interpret differently the definition
of the word endorse, but it can not be
correctly denied that Mr.. Cleveland
confined a whole message to Congress
to a recommendation Of low tariff, that
he was elected on low tariff platform,
and that in his late inaugural address
he declared that the necessity for reve-
nue. to support the government fur
nishes the only justification for taxa
ton. If all this be not an endorsement
of the low tariff plank OF the Chicago
platform, all English dictionaries will
have to be revised.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-05-26

Mr.. BARRE, U. S. consul at Valpa-
raise, is republican, and should there
fore. according to democracy and com
mon sense, be removed, for if he be
true to his convictions he must conduct
his Office so as to promote republican
principles, and if he be not true to
them. he is unfit for any responsible
position. But leaving that matter out
of view, if any thing could recommend
his retention ii would be his refusal to
comply with Minister Egan's request to
petition the Gillian government for the
pardon of conspirator against that
government, for the good and
sufficient reason that the Chilians are
capable of managing their own affairs
without foreign interference.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-05-26


Mr.. RYAN, republican, late U. S.
Minister to Mexico, says "the McKin-
lev bill so narrows the basis for a recip-
rocal treaty with Mexico as to
make it impracticable." Mr.. Ryan
when in Congress was a protectionist,
but his remark referred to evidently
shows that, at least, some scales have
fallen from his eyes. No matter what
the administration may think on the
subject, the democratic Congress- when
it meets. should make the repeal OF the
Mckinley bill the chief, and not a
minor matter of consideration, as report
says it will do.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-05-26

WELL INFORMED Chinese know that
there are no less than one hundred and
forty-three different sects OF Christians,
and as reason teaches them there can
be but one true God, it is no wonder
that they adhere to their belief in Con,
fucius, and, in their own country, ridi-
Guile the good, and scorn the bad mis-
sionaries.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-05-26

Miss Blanche w. Culbertson, of Chi,
cago, heiress to 100000, and accepted
among her friends as the intended wife
of Capt. Donald Mckay, of the British
army, left her home last night in
company with another lover, leaving
behind her the almost distracted
mother of the British officer who had
come to Chicago to be present at the
marriage of her son to the American
heiress.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-05-26

THE SEMINARy.-The trustees of the
Theological Seminary of Virginia, had
Their meeting in Winchester. Their
receipts are not sufficient to meet their
heavy expenses; so arrangements were
made by which the wants of the Semi
nary may be brought before the church,
results thereof after awhile.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-05-26

n. w. Godfrey, who recently regis
tered in Lexington from New York,
deposited 81 900 in checks on a New
York bank in the Bank of Lexington,
and drew out $500 in cash. He hired q
buggy, was suspected, pursued, cap
f,red and made to disgorge the money.
He said he had railway contract, and
would employ several hundred men.
The New York checks are bogus.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-05-26

AS THERE was no opposition to the
democratic general ticket at yesterday S
municipal election in this city, it evoked
little or no feeling, and the vote cast
was exceeding small. In one OF the
wards very worthy republican was
elected as an independent to the lower
branch of the City Council, because the
democrats therein thought the success
of all their nominees so secure that
many of them did not even take the
trouble to go the polls to vote, etalone
to work for them. There must be q
contest to make an election exciting,
and when there is none, the privilege OF
suffrage is not highly valued.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-05-26

AT meeting in Seattle, Washington,
last night, for public expression of
opinion as to the enforcement of the
Geary act, President Cleveland was
condemned for interfering with the car
rving out of the act. Among other
things he was described as the greatest
anarchist in this country.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-05-26

The story of the rich gold strike in
Summit mine on Palmer mountain,
Wash, proves upon investigation to be
true in every particular.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-05-26

CHICAGO CATTLE MARKET. Nay 25.-Cat-
de-market WAS higher; top prices S5.5lS
medium S5.25a5.60, Others S4.25ai.9o'
Texans $390a4. nstive COWS $2.55ai.65 per
100 lbs Hogs-market active aud closed
lower; packers and mixed S7aIlO. prime
heavy and butchers weights 81 15a1 % light
s.. 10a725. skips and pigs $5.5Oao6o per
100 lbs Sheep-market steady; natives , 10
$50, Texans S3.25a3.75 per 100 lbs Lambs
S5.50aT per 100 lbs.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-05-26

NEW YORK CATTLE MARKET. May %
Beeyes-no trading. Calves-market steady
vesls $5a7 per 100 lbs. Sheep and Lambs
Sheep S425a5.45, spring lambs $sa9 pei
100 lbs. Hogs-market lower at SI.ioa7
per 100 lbs.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-05-26
whoJesa,e Prices In Ale1audria

BALTIMORE. May 26.-yirginia consols-
do 10-4Os =; do 30 SO.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-05-26

RICHMOND MARKET. May 25.-The mar.
ket is dull and prices are lower while the Of.
ferngs of grain continue light We quote
Flour 81 5Oa4 rs for fine to patent family
brands: Wheat 7Oa75 Corn 5Oa53 Rye Goa
63: Oats 35a3T.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-05-26

FREDERICKSBURG MARKET. May %
There i, but little grain being offered and
prices are lower while the market is heavy.
I'VE quote Flour - 50a4 30 for fine to
patent roller: Wheat 70a72; Corn iSI5O:
Rye 55a5S; Oats 36a3S Butter 15o2O Eyg.
12a13.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-05-26
HENRY WILDT,
DEALER IN

WATCHES, JEwELY, SILVERWARE'
CLOCKS, SPECTACLES & FANCY GOODS.
Fair play., 1893-11-04

recently spent day in country
neiglihorhonh of one of the best
counties in Missouri. with rrlaiiN e.
and friends at my boy hood in Firgi
| MIA. The families visited by me rep
resented Two country school districts
| By inquiry | found that neither dis
trict had library of amy kind This
| is true of most of the country dis
tric.s of this county and of other
counties of the Slate. Uni, crsities
/ and colleges have costly libraries. \
| large per cent of the towns OF the
! State have school libraries but ol
/ the nearly ten thousand country
school districts. but few of them
have libraries Of any kind. However,
| the libraries IN many of the towns con-
>isl of books 700 difficult for children.
\ school library should contain books
suited To each grade. and placed in
the respective sCho"ir"oms.
Ro, WAS stud, ing the third reader
Arthur. the fourth Maud, "a United
States history. These books and
these alone they were expected +"
resd the entire year. Nothing could
be more deaicnimg to intellectual
growth than to continc bright boy
e.r girl an entire ear to one reader.
While Roy could not pass hastily {"
the fourth reader becau-e Of the
great number of new words, he
could read tlnriug The year st least a
half dozen chnice hooks (,.f the same
grad.) i'll connection with the third
reader: rh"ic-. and inspiring books "i
travel, elementary nstura! science,
and Juvenile literature. The >ans i
true ~ Arthur aui Maud.
One "f the main objects of the
>cEyo! IS to ,eac! boys and girl. to
Fair play., 1893-11-04
Triumph at Last.

An infallihle remedy for the cnre OF
ruIarrh and deafness in nil lis stages.
IN one who mas been great sufferer
from c.itarrh aad almost total deaf
ness.
y" cttarrii or s!imy green and vel
low sticky matter dl>chargiug from
the nose. NJ deafness. No ringing
crackliug sounds III The head. No
mucous matter lodging in the throat
Nn occasional hacking cough with
throwing mp >liny green and yellow
-lic,N matter. II i blessing i!.at
word. cannot describe.
f." further information write for
-ircrlnrs Address, Frank W"rtz II
10, Ma ,ssu, Ms. D.&wcr 1923.