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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-01-12
VIRGINIA NEWS.


Mr. Catlett Lawson died suddenly at
Fredericksburg yesterday, aged 40
years. er-
died Yesterday at the age ofeighty-nine
years.
Photographs of the mansions and
plantations on the lower James river
will be exhibited at the Chicago Fair.
The cold weather of Tuesday night
extended all over the State, and the
mercury at several points dropped 100
below zero.
Mr.. Edwin Barbour, formerly of Gull
neper. but more recently of Big Stone
Gap. has gone to New York to accept
position on the city staff of the San.
Jas. P. Brent, young man from Ar,
r.ngton, Amherst county, was arrested
in stanton yesterday morning charged
with passing forged check and at
tempting to obtain money under false
pretense.
DufIield Savage, a cattle dealer OF
Accomack county on his way to Viii
mington, Del, was yesterday, beaten
nearly to death by thieves and robbed
of $500. Two were arrested thlrd
went 10 New York with the money
Plans for erecting the Jackson Me
mortal Hall at Lexington are now beng
received, and as soon as the contract Is
let work will begin. The building is to
be an extension of the west wing of the
barracks at the Virginia Military lnsti-
tute and will look toward the south
over the parade ground. The style OF
the architecture will be Tudor Gothic.
The temperance of the lone light
near the TOD of the Massanutton noun
tain on the eastern side in Page county
occasioned considerable talk in Luray
last week. Many persons heretofore
supposed that it was made by hunters
camp fires, but it is very evident that
no hunters were in the mountain dur
ing the very bitter cold weather pre-
vailing last week.
Mrs. Fannie Mitchell Levy, the
charming hostess of Monticello, Jefier-
sons Virginia home, now the property
of her son, Mr.. Jefferson NJ. Levy; dieu
suddenly at her home in New York,
Tuesday morning, from pneumonia.
She was the widow of Capt. Jonas +.
Levy, who commanded the U. 5, ship
America during the Mexican war, and
Who was afterward appointed COM
mander of the port of Vera Cruz.
Near Bowling Green on last Saturday
Mr.. Jacob Seymour and his two sons
went out for hunt. The boys took
one gun and went in one direction and
the father went in another. After the
BOYS had been gone some time two
youths, Beazle and Pugh, came to Mr..
Seymours and inquired for them. The
mother told them in which direction
they had gone. The four boys came
together about noon, and had not been
together more than ten minutes before
the rifle Beazlie had went of, the ball
entering the temple of the younger Sey-
mour boy and killing him instantly.
He fell forward on his face, expiring in
few moments. The mother and faith
err are Frustrated by the sudden and
terrible affection.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-01-12
TIE BALTIMORE OYSTER MARKET

The BALTIMORE OYSTER MARKET
The Baltimore oyster market at present
is in a condition that is likely to in
crease the price of oysters within the
next few days. What oysters were
sold yesterday brought from 80 cents to
sl0O per bushcl The receipts were
very light, only six pungies having ar
rived in the past few days. while the
demand is quite heavy. The ice OIL the
Magothy river is quite heavy, and oys
termen are almost afraid to attempt the
trip. The oysters in port are of limit
ed quantity, and unless the weather
moderates a scarcity may follow.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-01-12
TEIEtiRAPHlC BREYiTlES.

The grain blockade continues as bad
n ever at st. Louis. The elevators are
full to the roof and it is estimated that
1.5OO carloads of grain are blockaded in
the railroad yards.
Dick Burge and Jack SlcAuliile yes
terday discussed the chances for for
NAL contest but would not agree on
terms. Burge is expected to spar a
'frleudly go" with McAulifIe on Friday
night.
The Topeka, Kan, conference com
mittec appointed for the purpose Of un-
travelling the tangle in the House adj
iourned at midnight without having
formulated any plan to present 10 the
two houses this morning.
There is considerable excitement
over reports of outrages committed
against wealthy Jews in southern Mis-
sissippi at the hands of the white caps
The negroes are being driven from all
plantations owned by Jews and labor is
demoralized.
With the thermometer hugging zero
and the natural gas pressure down to
nothing, came the startling report that
the main which leads into st. Marys,
Ohio. burst from the intense cold yes
terday afternoon and shut of the sup
ply altogether, thus leaving The inhab
itants of the city at the mercy OF this
frigid weather. The suffering caused
by this unexpected emergency is in-
describable, as there is neither wood
nor coal in sufficient quantities to be
had in that city.
Considerable excitement among miners and
prospcctors has been caused over the gold
camp at ophir, about 10 miles from Pueblo,
Col, in the Greenhorn mountains. An assay
frem tina. camp developed as high as 2$7
ounces of gold to the ton and that only twelve
feet from the surface Tie discovery WIS
made in August, but it has been kept quiet.
Over 200 claims have already been stakcl.
Mr.. Richard Croker is reported to have
quarrelled with Senator Hill because Of the
lattcr's presence at the meeting Of the New
York electoral college.
Cushing Academy at Ashburnham, Mas.
was burned early this morning. Loss on
building $4,000 The 225 students Is
olped without injury.
St. Lukc's Methodist Church, one Of the
handsomest in Long Branch, WAS destroyed
by fire early this morning. Loss 100000
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-01-12
To Preserve Historic Houses, &c.

A dispatch from Washington to the
Baltimore Sun says:
The work of the Memorial Associa-
ton of the District of Columbia has re-
ceived as much of the sanction of Con
gress as can be given by the charter
and by the selection of six Senators and
six Representatives as associate men,
bcrs. 1t is the object of the association
to secure the preservation and appro-
pirate use of such historic houses and
relics in the District of Columbia as
Congress may provide funds TO pur-
chase or as may come into the hands OF
the association through gifts or other
wise. and to mark with suitable tablets
or monuments historic houses, pieces
of ground or natural objects. Chief
Justice Fuller is the president of the
association and Rev. T. S. Hamlin is
the secretary.
Many houses with patriotic associa-
tions have been destroyed which the
association would probably have saved
had it been established sooner The
most notable destruction of this kind
was the tearing down of General Wash
ington's town house in Alexandria.
This was frame building, which stood
on Cameron street, aud was built by
Washington about 1865, before the
street was graded. 1t stood on the
brow of a hill which sloped into
small stream. When the lots were
graded after the revolution,
the earth around the Washington
house was cut away, but the
grade of the house was not disturbed and 1t
stood there until 1857. 1t was one-and-a
half story frame building, and next to the
mansion ct Mount Vernon it was more mt
matelv connected with Washington'S daily
life than any other building. 1t became
second homestead to him. Thither he came
to Alexandria, sometimes alone and some
times with Mrs Washington, once week at
least. Il was at the town house ne transact
ed much of his business and often met his
friends. Once while he was away with the
army and it was thought that Lord Dunmore
might make an excursion up the riyeEs and
seize Mount Vernon, it was proposed to build
a kitchen to the Alexandria house and re-
move Mrs. Washington from danger. When
the Father of his Country died he bequeathed
the Alexandria house'to his wife. She gave
the house at her death to her nephew, Bar
tholomew cambridge, and it passed through
Several hands until it was torn down, and the
foundation was RACED 70 make garden for an
adjoining house.
Fhe Memorial Association will save from
destruction other houses linked to hissory.
In foreign CITIES especially in London, tab
lets are put on the outer walls of historic
houses, but except the tablet in the dwelling
opposite the Confederate records Office, which
announces that Abraham Lincoln died there,
nothing of the kind appears in Washington.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-01-12
vokinr DesDcrate Chances


Why don't more people die of pneu-
monia, quick consumption and other
lung troubles?
That is what | think every night in
upper Broadway. New York. There
You'll see . score or two of men coming
out of superheated theatres between the
acts to stand in unprotected full dress
around the cold and drafly lobbies or
out on the sidewalk for y chat or a
smoke. You'll see them at the Madi-
son Square Garden-square acres OF
white shirt front-sittiGg for hours in
an atmosphere Suggestive of overcoats.
They pour <Stit of clubhouses and hot
restaurants at all times OF the night, Of
ten in a dripping perspiration from ex-
ercise and with careless or no provision
against the evils OF sudden change OF
temperature. You can meet them on
Broadway with topcoats thrown wide
open and the chest exposed from neck
tie to waistband.
Yet it is only now and then that we
know of man who was out around
town in apparently good health the
day before yesterday who is corpse
to-day
There are more than a thousand men
taking such desperate risks every night
during the fashionable season in New
York.
If you were to tell one of these that
he was running a greater risk of sudden
death than if he were going into the
heat of an ordinary battle, he would
probably laugh at you. Yet it would
be the solemn truth.
If he were soldier going into action
il would be with blanched face and
trembling knees and silent prayer,
whereas it is now with careless mien
and flippant tongue and spirited devil
try that he dares the awful specter OF
death.
Ifhe were confined to his room with
mortal disease he would be surround
ed by his sorrowing family and anxious
friends, and his will would have been
made and duly witnessed. But being
blessed with reasonable health and
manly strength and the sublime conf
ucllce vi lSuoIuuCe, iiC lIuHSSS nv VIZ
danger without thought on his part
or a qualm of conscience on their part.
Lungs are not made of chilled steel.
Yet it is wonderful what they are
daily and nightly subjected to, and how
much they will stand-sometimes. You
must often feel that they really are
practically indestructible, they are put
to such severe tests and with so little
concern. Pondering upon this, the
faces of scores of personal friends and
acquaintance who fell in the prime of
manhood-men Of stalwart frame and
superb muscular energy-rise before
us in memory, while the way is strewn
with physical wrecks of the MORALLY
wounded victims of fashion.-N. Y.
Herald.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-01-12

CHAIRMAN MURPHY will be an eff
fective reinforcement to the true-blue,
square-toed phalanx on the democratic
side of the U. S. Senate. He, like Sen
ator Hill, from his own State, Elsa dem
ocrat," and in him there will be no
shadow of dereliction in either demo
cratic principles policies. a few more
democrats of the Hill and Murphy
stamp in the Senate would dc The dem
ocratic side of that body no harm
though it must b9e-said that even with
its large Democratic majority, the House
il in equal, if not more, need of men
who can place their hands on their
hearts and also say they, too, ARE dem
ocrats.''
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-01-12
REsp1rED.-As stated in Yesterdays

REsPITED.-As stated in yesterdays
GAZETTE four of the eight convicted
murderers of DR.. j. II. Hill, of Kent
county, Nd, are saved from the gal
lows by the exercise of executive Glenn
ency. Their sentences have been
changed to life-imprisonment. They
are Henry HURT, Joshua Baynard,
Louis Benson and Charles S. Emory.
They were taken to Baltimore yester-
day on the iceboat Latrobe, leaving
Chestertown at four o'clock in the
morning, under cover of darkness, es-
corted by squad of policeman from
Baltimore. The officers entered the
town and left it without disturbing the
slumberirg, and nobody was aware Of
what had occurred until hours after
their departure, when the excitement
became intense. The men to be hang
ed tomorrow are Fletcher Williams,
Frisby Comegys, Moses Brown and
Charles Brooks. The action of the gov
ernor is severely censured in Kent
county, and last night he was hanged
in etEgy.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-01-12

WHEN COMMISSIONER RAUM was be-
fore the pensions committee of the Z. 5.
House of Representatives yesterday,
urging an increased pension appropria-
ton. he was asked why it was that the
amount ne now says is necessary, is so
many millions greater than that which
he stated to President Harrison last
November would be required? OF
course he declined to reply, as he in
yariably does when questions are pro-
rounded to him, a truthful answer to
which would expose his own rascality.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-01-12

WHEN THE pension list was hardly
more than one-flth as long asst now is,
a republican who held the Office now
occupied by Commissioner Raum, said
that at least one-tenth of the pensions
appropriation was then paid upon
fraudulent and illegal claims. That
was when the pension swindle was in
the bud. 1t has now bIossomed into
so large and noxious a flower that it
threatens to absorb the entire revenue
of the country. Bat Mr.. Raum retains
his office, all the same. Taxes must be
paid, friends must part, death must
come but perish the thought that Pres
ident Harrison will ever $50 back on
the man who hurried up pensions by
the thousand, in all the close States
during the last national political cam
paign, in order to secure him the votes
of those who received them.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-01-12
WAY They Fought.

In the ante-bellum days duels nj
Yale were not infrequent. There were
many southerners in the university and
affairs of honor happened about Us
often as football games. OF late years
they have lapsed into tradition, recall
ed only by an impromptu fight now
and then.
A scion of one of the aristocratic fam
lilies Of the Old Dominion has just tig-
ured in an encounter which in fierce
ness and effectiveness at least had few
peers in its predecessors Of thirty years
He had just entered the Junior class
and he went TO town three OF
four days before the winter term opened
to get his bearings. He got them.
1t is considered very bad etiquette at
Yale to haze Juniors and none attempt
ed it in the new arrivals case, though,
had such an experience fallen to his
lot his hands would been kept out Of
mischief
Time hung heavy, and to drive off
ennui till college opened he formed the
acquaintance Of several local sporting
men inclined to conviviality. In re-
turning to his college apartments one
night recently his spirit manifested it
self under the impulse of generous
amount of champagne imbibed earlier
in the evening and he cleared his path
homeward with such remarks as Stand
aside !" and similar ejaculation, accom-
panied by opposing spirits.
He bumped rather violently into an,
other Junior, westerner, who had
never before seen him and who retail
ated by smashing his hat down over his
eyes and moving along. Somehow, the
southerner found out the identity o.
his assailant and the next day present
ed himself at the western mans room
dignifed and defiant.
"My honor has been insulted, my
reputation is tarnished,' said he, ''and
l demand reparation."
'How will four o'clock this afternoon
do?" said the westerner.
Perfectly answered the man from
the South.
every well fists will be my weap-
ons," said the western man.
Promptly on scheduled time both
principals appeared, accompanied by
seconds. They stripped in good mid
dle-weight form, shook hands and the
fight began. Before the first round hat
been finished the southern man found
that revenge was out of the question
Upper cuts and cross counters in quick
succession landed on his nose, and by
the end of The fourth round his face
had lost its identity.
The seconds then declared the honor
of both participants satisfied and all
parties left the field of honor. The
western man says that ii he had know
that he was banging away at class
mate he would have let him down more
easily, but the southcner has forgiven
him and says he did just right and they
are now fast friends.
The western man makes daily call:
Mt his late opponents room.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-01-12

THAT Miss Susan B. Anthony, who
has recently been appointed by Gov
Flower, superintendent of the State in
dustrial school at Rochester, New York,
is not civil service reformer, is proved
bv the fact that she is to abandon the
duties of her office for while, and go
to Washington to attend, and take an
active part in, the woman suffrage con-
yention to be held there.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-01-12

THE TRAMP who stole a ride in cattle c:r
from Omaha to Atchison has concluded that
If is easier even to work for the money to pay
for his next trip Immediately after he got
into the car the steers began TO step on him.
Il was their way of sitting down on him for
deadbeatism. He had at last to climb upon
tbe bacI, of one of the steers, who objected
with ali his might TO the proceeding. There
was then free steer fight. The only way
the fellow saved his life was by clingins in a
most loving aud desperate embrace around
The ,e1 neck of the animal whose back he had
shouted. Now he bounced against the top
of the car and scraped his back, now he bump
cd h;s head, and it was only less than nsir4-
Gle thar he at length reached the end OF this
fearful Journey alive. BE had had two tree
rides in one with the bruises thrown III.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-01-12
ThcGazettc.

The ALExAspRIA GAZETTE has en-
tered upon the ninety-fourth year of its
existence. We hope it may live ninety
four more and even longer.-3lanches-
ter Leader.
The ALEXANDRIA GAZETTE has en-
tered on its 9th year. 1t differs from
century plant in this that 1t Is a
perennial bloomer. 1t is not only a
part Of the old city but part of the Sth
district. We have respect for its utter
ances even when we differ from them.
-W'arrenton Inder.
The ALEXANDRIA GAZETTE, with its
issue of last Monday, enters upon its
ninety-fourth year. The Virginidn ex-
tends its congratulations, and wishes
many happy returns of the occasion.
The GAZETTE is a Virginia institution
that the State is proud of and the press
of the country take deep interest in
Norfolk TirginiGn.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-01-12
ALExANDRIA,v VA
THURSDAY EVENING, JAN. -, 1898

If WHAT the New York Uiorid says
about the reception DR.. McGlynn gave
to the Protestant clergymen of New
York last Monday night be true, the
Doctor ought to be communicated
again, whether he shall be or not. The
proverb that an apostate is worse than
seven Turks, certainly proves correct,
if the Uiorld's report be true. AT the
reception referred TO, according to that
report, the Doctor said if he were Pope
he would kick the mouth of the man
who might stoop to kiss his foot, and
would order the men who approached
him with the sedan chair, in which to
carry him to the Papal throne, TO break
it up and burn it, as those fit to be Pope
should be able to walk to the throne.
IF Mgr. Satolli reads American newspa-
pers, the fact that he made grave mis-
take in restoring DR.. McGlynn to the
priesthood must be as patent 10 hun
now as it has been, ever since he made
it, to most right-thinking Americans,
whether they be protestants or Catho-
lies. All the churches in this country
are free, and ifa member of any one OF
them ceases to like it, and is not will
ing to obey its rules, he is at liberty to
leave it and join another, or not, as he
may choose. But few self.respecting
people, preachers or laymen, will re-
tain their membership of church
whose doctrines they repndiate and
whose highest officials they ridicule.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-01-12

A MAsT1FF IS FIGHT FOR A BoY.-A
dispatch from Guthrie, Okla, says: IA
butcher named MAJ, in the western part
of the country, has two large mastiffs,
a male and a female, both fierce, though
the female has always evinced liking
for Maz's seven-year-old son. While
the boy was alone in the yard Monday
the male dog suddenly attacked him,
biting him in the arm and side. The
boy screamed, but nobody was near,
and he would have been killed had not
the female dog attacked her companion
and pulled him away. The boy ran for
the house, but the savage dog again
caught him and threw him down. The
friendly canine once more went to the
rescue, and, grabbing the male dog by
the throat with her teeth, threw him
down and held him until the boy got
safely into the house. The boys inju-
ries are not serious, but he had mar
row escape from horrible death.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-01-12

RECENT experience has entirely dis
sipated the idea, that had become some
what prevalent, that the temperature of
the world had moderated, and was
warmer in winter than formerly. 1t is
hoped that the idea that summers are
not SO hot as they used to be may not
be as summarily and ruthlessly abol-
ished.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-01-12

THE DOUBTFUL SUPREMACY OF MAN.
There are grounds for believing that
mans present so-called supremacy,
writes Charles Dudley Warner in Har-
per's. is-on!y phase Of evolution for
which he is not wholly responsible. In
barbarous times and races his position
was not by any means uniformly that OF
headship. If the truth could be arrived
at it might appear that the opinion OF
the woman of man then was about
what it is to-day Man, because he was
physically strong, land that was not
primarily his fault, was put forward to
do the fighting, but the women often
went along to finish up the wounded
and to help torture the captives and
sometimes, bless their feminine hearts,
to shield them. In the process of the
evolution of society the position of the
sexes changed somewhat. More man
ual labor was put upon man, though
there is no evidence that he ruthlessly
usurped tie right to work.
The proportion Of agriculture labor,
mining, carrying heavy burdens and
rough work generally taken on by man
gradually began to be the test of the
civilization of Il community, and it is
so to-day.
With the growth of commerce and
the necessity off seafaring life, women,
by circumstances, were shut out OF
another occupation-there seemed to
be good reasons why women would not
be dependable sailors, ready to climb
the mast in q gale OF wind, or make
the crew for q three-years' whaling
voyage. Probably she never wanted
to 90 into the army. The army and
the navy, we trust, are only incidents
in the progress of the race, but so long
as they exist, man has prominence
in the affairs Of life. He is the execu-
tive arm in war, as, figuring as police
man, he is in civil processes. And per-
haps it was inevitable that, having
this responsibility he should make
the laws regulating national life, and
gradually all sorts Of laws. II we
could get rid of the tremendous war
and governmental machinery, life would
be sort of a picnic, and then women
would come to the front again, for
they manage q picnic much better than
men can. This is the highest sort OF
compliment, for woman has head for
organization and details and economy,
as is sufficiently evident in the most
highly civilized nation, France, where
she is pre-eminent in business matters.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-01-12
COMMUNICATED.

REFERRED TO THE PosroFFrcE OF
FIcIALs.-Why isit that we DO not get
the daily GAZETTE here until the night
of the next day after publication II
would seem that messenger on horse,
back ought to get it over the 40 miles
between US in less than the 81 or IS
hours that it takes our Wanamaker
mail system to bring it by rail. F.
Marshall, Va, Jan. 10,