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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-05-08
A startling state OF Affairs.

UNA, Ariz., May Superintendent
of the prison w. K. Meade and Attor-
ney General Henry who had caused the
persons and cells of convicts in the jail
TO be searched, have found thirty-two
daggers, butcher knives, saws, files and
slung shots, besides morphine and
drugs. Several boxes Of goods which
were about to be shipped out By d.
McInerney, the former superintendent,
were seized at the railroad depot and
found to contain several hundred dol
lars worth of prison property.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-05-08
Appointments &c.

After the GAZETTE's Washington
correspondence closed on Saturday the
President made the following additional
appointments: William C.Renfsow, OF
Oklahoma, to be governor of the ter
ritory of Oklahoma, Charles {.
Richards, of Utah, to be secrt :
tary of Utah; Charles II. Bruce
of Arizona; 10 be secretary OF
Arizona Robert w. Banks, of Mlssls-
sippi, to be receiver of public moneys
at Jackson, Wiss.; Walter G. Wescott,
of Colorado, to be receiver of publ
moneys at Del Horte; Col. David n.
Hall. of Havana, to be register of the
land office at Eureka, Nevada: Darwin
c. Cortiss. of Michigan, TO be register
of the land office at Marquette, Mich;
James F. Duncan, of Indian Territory
to be q special agent to make allot-
ments of lands in seyeralty in the
Cherokee outlet, to seventy-one Chero-
kee citizens as provided by act of Con-
gress, approved March 3, 1898. John
Goode, of Virginia, to be commissioner
on the part of the United States under
the treaty for a claims commission con,
cluded between the United States and
Chill August I, 1892. Robert B. Fow'
Ter, of Ohio, to be first comptroller o.
the Treasury. Mr.. Goode has gotten
the place to which J. V. l.. Findlay, o.
Maryland, was nominated by President
Harrison, but for which he was not con
frmed, Senator German and the anti
Harrison republicans opposing him.
Eight years ago Mr.. Goode was nomi
mated for Solicitor-General, but was re
jected by republican Senate through
Gen. Mahone's influence. He was thel
made special counsel in the government
cases againstthe Bell Telephone Com
pany to break the Bell patent. 1t il
understood his salary for this service
was SIS 900 year.
Mr.. ]. C. Featherstoue, of Bedford
county, was on Saturday appointed
by Secretary Morton to the position 0
statistician for Virginia in the Agricul
tural Department.
A number of additional changes hav
been announced in the clerical force O
the State Department. Mr.. Georg
Bartlett, of Virginia, who entered tn
department under Daniel Webster, ant
has seen over 40 years continuous ser
vice, during the greater part of whic
period he has been the keeper of tn
great seal of State and Officiated as PAL
don clerk, has been reduced from a
81, 500 to q 81 200 position. Other re
auctions have been made, and mum
Der of female clerks dismissed.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-05-08

TYLERITEs BECOMING ACTIvE.-The
Richmond correspondent of the Peters
burg appeal says: "Those Richmond
democrats who advocate the nomina-
ton of Major J. Hoge Tyler for the
governorship to propose contest with
the O'Ferrallites every inch of ground
in Richmond. Tyler is developing
more strength in Richmond than was
expected. Col. John 3. Purcell, ex-
president of the chamber of commerce,
will lead the movement here in the in
terest of the lieutenant governor and
already he has several influential lieu
tenants. 1t is announced that an or
SANITATION in behalf of Tyler will be
Effected shortly. No one would be
surprised to see the contest in Rich
mond become as interesting as the
one last year between the Cleveland
and Hill men.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-05-08
Rev. James McGeyeran. of St. Ber-

Rev. James McGeyeran, of st. Ber-
nard's Catholic church, Easton, Pa,
created a sensation in his congregation
by administering at the services, Sun,
day, severe 'rebukes to some of the
young girls of the church who were re-
ceiving attentions from young men be-
yond the pale of the denomination and
who, in some instances, scofed at the
Catholic religion. He warned these
girls to refuse attentions from these
young men or suffer accommodation.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-05-08

FAST TRAINS on SOUTHERN RoADs.-The
Richmond and Danville railroad put on an
additional fast mail train yesterday. 1t left
Washington at lilo a. M. and arrived at
Atlanta at 600 :. n. to-day, making close
connection for Columbus, Ga, and Montgom-
cry, Ala, and all other principal points south
and southwest. This arrangement delivers
Eastern mail and papers for early distribution
IN Atlanta, and covers the South with the
quickest mail delivery ever made by the
United States government.
Commencing tomorrow the Seab9ard Air
Line will put in operation : new fast train
between Washington and Atlanta, leaving
Washington at 1857 a. m. going via Rich
mond, Weldon, Raleigh, Hamlet, Chester,
Abbeyille and Athens, arriving at Atlanta
the next morning at 7;30 without change of
cars.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-05-08

GENERAL RosECRANs REsIGNs.-Sec-
rotary Carlisle on Saturday received
the resignation of General WIS Rose
Grams of California, as Register of the
Treasury, to take effect May 81. In
rendering his resignation General Rose.
Grams in pathetic letter refers to his
impaired physical condition, and in
closes a certificate from his physician
which states that General Rosecrans is
unable to undertake the long journey
to Washington and does not hold out
any hope that he will be able to do SO
in the near future. Secretary Carlisle
has accepted the resignation in letter
in which he expresses his regret at the
Generals continued illness, and hopes
he may soon recover.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-05-08

AND now Senator Stanford, of Cali
fornia, whose advice, republican as he
is, President Cleveland says he values
as highly as that of anybody else, has
come out openly against the anti-Chi-
nese laws, says they should be repealed,
that there is no danger of Chire domi-
nation in the Pacific, or in any of the 9th
er States, that Chinese labor is needed in
this country, and that it is mistake to
suppose that any thing like a majority
of the people of the Pacific slope are
opposed to Chinese immigration. The
Chinese are human beings, and why
they, of all the other people in the
world, should alone be excluded from
the "home of the oppressed of all ma
tions'', is what only the most reckless
demagogues can tell-and they can't
do so satisfactory to any but the most
ignorant and prejudiced listeners.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-05-08
of Il alleged Chinese merchant

OF Il alleged Chinese merchants
aboard the steamer Victoria at Taco
ma, Wash, waiting for their certii-
Gates claimed to have been forwarded
by mail, forty were ordered deported
Yesterday on the arrival and examina-
ton of documents. The certificates
were all forged in Hong Kong, accord
iug to confession by the Chinese,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-05-08

THE appointment of Mr.. Featherstone and
Mr.. Mcdonald, of Virginia, the former to the
place of statistician of the Agricultural Depart
ment for Virginia and the latter to the Per
sian mission, shows that the order prohibiting
the appointment of editors and eS-otfice hold
crs is one that can be very easily disregarded
if it be agreeable to the appointing power to
do so, as the latter is an editor and the former
held the same place during Mr.. Cleveland's
first administration.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-05-08

THE LAST annual report of the Mt.
Vernon Ladies' Association shows that
association to be in highly prosperous
condition, and that its polite and eff
Gent Superintendent, Mr.. Dodge, is
evidently the right man in the right
place. The receipts from the steamboat
company alone last year amounted to
S11 1876 and from Mr.. Dodge, $4,000.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-05-08

All the West Virginia coal AMI coke
companies in which Henry Ct. Davis,
Stephen B. Elkins and their associates
are interested have been consolidated.
The new organization have capital Q.
100000. It's mines have an output
of one million tons year.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-05-08
Rnet Laureate.

LONDON, May s.-Prime Minister
Gladstone has offered the place of poet
laureate, made vacant by the death
of Lord Tennyson, to the distinguished
art critic, John Ruskin.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-05-08

YTNHE UNDERSIGNED, SPECIAL CON
j. MITE OF THE CITY COUNCIL
George A. Mushbach, chairman. in conjunc.
ton with the Committee on Finance, l.. Z.
Uhler, chairman, Of the same body herby call
for bids for the purpose of putting into the
Clerks Office Of the Corporation and CirculI
Courts of said city some modern system oil
ROLLER SHELVING, which allows the
record books to lie upon their sides and to be
put in and pulled out on rollers. Bids VII!
be received until June LIST 1893.
Dated Alexandria, Va, April 18th, 1893.
The right to reject any and all bids is re-
served by the city.
GEO. A. MUSHBACH, Chairman
L. E. UHLER, Chairman.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-05-08

CHICAGO CATTLE MARKET. May Cat
tlc-market unchanged; top prices S5.5Oa
$50 medium $5a5.25 Others S4.23al9O
Texans $3.75a4.50 per 100 lbs. Hogs-mar-
ket closed 10 cents higher; common and mix.
cd hogs S7.25a7.50, packers and mixed
$7.25a7 80, prime heavy and butchers
weights $740a7.7O, light S7.40a7 80 per
100 lbs. Sheep-market slow; natives S4.40
a5.25, Westerns S5.45a6.10 per 100 lbs
Lambs $5.75a7. % per 100 lbs.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-05-08

POSTMASTER GENERAL BlSsELL says
the postmaster at Fayetteville, North
Carolina, an offensive negro republican
who has three negro female relatives,
equally offensive, as his clerks, will be
retained in Office until the expiration OF
his term. about three years longer. And
vet there are people in the North who
say the South is ''rebellious." There
isn't city in the whole North, of the
population of Fayetteville, that would
patiently submit to the reception and
distribution of its mail by an offensive
negro postmaster and three Of his equal
" offensive female relatives. If Mr..
Bissell shall think otherwise, let him
test his opinion by appointing ne
gro postmaster for any such city in any
northern State, and instructing him to
employ as his clerks three of his female
relatives. He dare not do so.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-05-08

publication:
EXECUTIVE MANSION, May s.
at has become apparent, after two months
experience, that the rules heretofore promul-
gated regulating interviews with the Presi-
dent have wholly failed in their operation.
The time which under those rules was set
apart for the reception of Senator's and Repre-
septatives has been almost entirely spent in
listening to applications for office, which have
been bewildering in volume, perplexing and
exhausting in their iteration, and impossible
Of remembrance.
"a due regard tor public duty, which must
be neglected if present conditions continue
and an observance of the limitations placed
upon human endurance, oblige me to dec ire
from and after this date all personal inter
views with those seeking appointments to of
flee. except as /, on my own motion, may es-
pecially invite them. The same Gonsider.-
tions make it impossible for me to receive
those who merely desire to pay their respects
except on the days and during the hours es-
pecially designated for that purpose.
II earnestly request Senators and Represen-
tatives to aid me in securing for them unin-
terrupted interviews by declining to intro
duce their constituents and friends when Wis.,
iting the Executive Mansion during the hours
designated for their reception. Applicants
for office will only prejudice their prospects
by repeated importantly and by remaining in
Washington to await results
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-05-08
MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL.

NEW YORK. May S.-The stock MAJ kct has
been comparatively quiet. Since II a. m.
the fluctuations in prices except in few in.
stances were small. AT noon the market Was
steady in tone.
BALTIMORE. May o.-virginia consols -,
do 1O-40s =; do IS estate
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-05-08
Mt. Vernon Dairy Co.,

1872 SOUTH FAIRFAX STREET
Keeps on hand daily the finest Of CREAM,
MILK, CHEESE, EGGS, CREAMERY BUT
TER, BUTTERMILK, &c.
Milk and Cream DELIVERED TO AM
BART OF THE CITY in patent jars
Special attention given to orders by teie'
phone.
hifk served on shortest notice.
Telephone call--65. my5 II
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-05-08
MONDAY EVENING. MAY s, 1893.

THE PRESIDENT, by issuing his
order excluding Office seekers from
the White House, has only done what
he should have done on the fourth OF
last March. that is if their calls be dis
agreeable to him, and he must have
known then whether they would be or
not from the experience of his former
term. It is absurd that the President
of sixty-fve millionpeople should have
his whole time consumed in listening TO
the supplications ofindividuals for Office
for themselves or for their friends. Still,
as it is his duty to appoint the officers
of the government, and as he will have
nothing else to do until Envoy Blount
shall report, or Congress shall assemble
why it should be disagreeable for him
to spend an hour of two a day, when
not otherwise engaged, in receiving
callers from residents of different parts
of the country, and hearing what they
NAV have to say about applicants for
office, he can tell better than any
body else. He says that hereafter when
he desires information in respect OF
office seekers he will send for the per-
sons from whom he can get it. In do
ing that he should recollect that the
information he shall receive from Con-
rressmcn on the subject referred to will
be naturally biased by the effect his ac'
tiou will have upon their own objects.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-05-08

PHILADELPHIA CATTLE MARKET. May 6.
Beef Cattle-The demand for stock WAS
only moderate, with a full supply prices closed
weak, although stock cost more West The
quotations were as follows Extra SIC, Good
5ta5Ic, medium 4ia5c, common 4ta4!c, culls
3!a4c, fat cows Sadie per ID. The demand
for Sheep was firm and prices closed firm.
The quotations were as follows: Wool sheep
5a6sc, clipped do 3a55c per lb. Wool Lambs
6a7Sc, clipped do 4ia63c per Id. Hogs were
weak and lower in sympathy with the West
The quotations were as follows: Extra Chi.
Cages 10la103c and other Westerns 10;a
10Ic per h. Thin cows sold well at $40 to
$25. Mich Cows in fair request at $25aS5O
per head Mich calves were firm at 4!a'c
pcr h.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-05-08
nj A. HASRAHAN,
Removed TO
626 King street, near washington,


626 King street. near Washington
Dealer in STOVES AND TINwARE, ROOF.
ING, GUTTERING and SCOUTING. Special
attention to all kinds of jobbing. Stoves ana
Heaters repaired. Has enlarged his ''0' /,
and inspection is desired. Old stores ooag"E
sold and exchanged. my6 I'm
NYOTICE--There will be a called comm ,I,,
~ nication ofANDREW JACKSON LoDuh
No. 12O, A. F. & A. NJ, held in the MsIon.S
Temple next MONDAY NIGHT, May oth, =.
8 o'clock. All Master Masons in GOOD s'an'.
ing are cordially invited to attend. Mof'
Master Mason's degree. b. order OF W: e.-
j my6 2t. JAS e. ALE3ANDlEh, 2eet!--
r MEADE from from fresh lines at ,,,,s
SLUNT s. ALIENS
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-05-08

The wholesale markets are firm and more
active to-day. Flour is in fair demand sales
as usual at this season being principally con-
fined to family brands. Wheat is steady at
70 10 rs, latter for lancaster choice milling
samples. Corn is higher at 53 to 30. Rye
90 to 81. Oats 81 to II, latter for white
Eggs 49, to II. Butter, Potatoes, Dried
Fruits and other produce are without quota
bic change. Millteed is easy. Hay is scarce.
Straw dull Cotton Seed products weak.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-05-08

President CLEVELAND TIRED.-The fol
lowing has been issued by the President for
publication:
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-05-08
PORT OF ALEXANDRIA, MAY 6, 1898

SAILED.
schr Hummins Bird, lower river, lumber
by J Ii ID Smoot & Son.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-05-08

BALTIMORE, May S.-Flour frmer. Wheat
unsettled; No . red spot and May 7Sia7s; ;
June 79ia79i July SO!aSOi; steamer No :
red 74a74l milling wheat by sample 75a19.
Corn easy: mixed spot and May 49sa49!
July 5la51s steamer mixed 4S!a4Si white
corn by sample 54a55 yellow do SD. Oats
stronger; No 2 white Western 41a42; No =
mixed do 36ia37. Rye slow; No 62a62..
Hay steady good to choice timothy $50 %
to SIG 90. Provisions steady.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1893-02-17

The sentence of Ferdinand de Lesseps
and his son Charles to five years in prison,
and to pay fine of 5000 francs each, for
their connection with the Panama canal
swindle, has caused a profound sensation
in Paris, and the almost universal senti-
ment of the people appears to be that, in
the case of the elder de Lesseps, at least,
now an old man of IS, aud broken in
health and mind, he should not suffer the
humiliation of going to prison, but should
be mercifully pardoned. The old mans
guilt probably consisted more than other
wise in attempting the Panama canal prof.
ect with no adequate idea of what the
work involved, or-to speak more exactly
of the utter impossiblity of its accom-
plishment. Having once given his name
and fame to it, with an implicit belief in
himself and his own destiny which seems
incredible, he speedily became the victim
of thieves and schemers, and from this the
descent was not only easy-it could not be
checked. 1t is terrible downfall for the
man who dug the Suez canal and became
by this achievement the idol of France
lie Grand Francais, admired of the whole
civilized world. His punishment is deep
enough without the crowning humiliation
of his life ended in prison.
But while it is easy to understand the
feeling of the French in regard to the ven
erable Count, it passes comprehension that
there should be sympathy, as the de-
spatches tell us there is, with the three or
four other principals in the great fraud
who were convicted and sentenced at the
same time. Their crime was a crime
against the French people. 1t was not the
money of group of capitalists and specu-
lators which they stole or squandered.
| The tens of millions of francs, which new
er even saw the great ditch, represented
the painstaking savings of multitude of
small farmers and artisans, who brought
out their little boards at the bidding OF
these men and poured it into the Unsuitable
hopper, with implicit faith that it was an
investment from which they should REAP
| a rich return. So gigantic scheme OF
public robbery has not been seen in recent
times, and no punishment is too severe fol
the men who thus led their simple-minded
country folk on only to rob and ruin them
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1893-02-17

Damaging and alarming as are the reve-
lations connected with the affairs of tn e
Panama Canal company in France, a
worse state of financial affairs exists in
Italy, where a series of scandals, dating
back to 1889, involves the leading banks
of the country, and compromises large
number of members of the parliament,
both senators and deputies, as well as sew
eral cabinet ministers, past and present.
Numerous arrests of leading men thus in
criminated have been made, the principal
government supervisor of banks being in
cluded in the list. 1t is alleged that bank
and government funds, aggregating many
millions of dollars, have been corruptly
converted to private use through official
connivance. As the inevitable result of
such disclosures the business of the coun-
try suffers, some of the oldest banking
houses have closed their doors, there is no
metallic money in circulation, and despite
the best efforts of the central government
the way out of these accumulating difficult
ties does not appear as yet.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1893-02-17

Mr.. GIadstone's New Plan for Home
Rule.

Mr.. GladstOne's New Plan for Home
Rule.
There was an historic scene in the Eng
lish House of Commons Monday, when
Mr.. Gladstone presented his amended
Irish Home Rule bill, and supported it in
a speech more than two hours long There
was tremendous rush for admission, and
the audience was one of the most notable
ever gathered on such an occasion. Mr..
and Mrs. Gladstone were cheered to the
echo by the crowds which thronged the
streets through which they drove on their
way to parliament, and both when the ven
erable Premier entered the House and
when he rose to speak he was given a
demonstration which lasted several min
utes. The essential object of the new
government through a legislature at Dub
lin for the administration of its own af-
fairs, as distinct from imperial affairs,
maintaining at the same time the right of
imperial veto, and suitable Irish representa-
ton in parliament. Mr.. Gladstones plea,
in his peroration, for this act of simple
right and justice toward Ireland was a
masterpiece of pathos and eloquence: :
''She Qreland) has asked you to save for
yourselves every imperial power She has
consented to accept the House of Commons
and the universal supremacy of the EN-
plre. In return, she has asked you only
that she may have the management of her
own affairs, which reason and justice, com
bined with the voice of her people, hope,
will soon move this nation to say soon
shall be awarded her. Let me en-
treat you-if it were my latest breath l
would so entreat you-let the dead bury
their dead, and cast behind you foreve er
recollections of bygone evils cherish, love
and sustain one another through all vicis-
situdes of human affairs in times that are
to come"
On Tuesday Mr.. BalfOur, the conserva-
tive leader, replied to Mr.. Gladstone, de-
claring his home rule scheme not justified
by the circumstances, and impossible of
execution.