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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-06-05

COLONEL" CocKEREL, who beat the
drum in the band of an Ohio regiment
during the war, now evinces his love
for the South by saying "no one ever
had more narrow escape from soaring
on high from a lamppost than JEFF.
Davis" Colonel" Cockerel was once
such an ultrademocrat, and so enam-
orcd of President Cleveland, that he
discharged a reporter who refused to
deny the truth of an interview that was
disagreeable to that gentleman. be IS
now, however, the most radical Of re-
publican bloody shirters, and speaks Of
the President in the most malicious
terms. But what the Colonel says
is of little consequence even to him
SELF and of none whatever to any body
nlsn
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-06-05

AND NOW the republican courts have
decided that a man once in office under
the civil service rules, shall not be re-
moved tnerefrom except on proved
charges. Under Mr.. Cleveland's first
administration member of his Cabinet
said no ex-Confederate holding minor
position in his department should be
promoted. Under his second, another
one says none but ex-Union soldiers
shall be watchmen in his. Why not at
once issue an order that all the
minor offices of the government shall
be filed by republicans and ex-federal
soldiers? Then the democratic voters
would know whether or not to turn out
at the next election.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-06-05

The Rerierr Of Reriers for June has been re-
ceived from its publishers in New York.
Among its contents are: The Disasters in
the Business World, The Silver Politicians
Chiefly to Blame, How to Secure Bi-Metal-
ism, The Forthcoming Tariff Bill, The Open
ing Month at Chicago, The Hawaiian Cues
ton. Record of Current Events Transit Facili-
ties in Chicago and on the Fair Grounds, Art
at the Columbian Exposition, A New Career
for College Men, Leading Articles of the
Month, The Forthcoming Conventions Of
1898, and portraits of numerous prominent
people.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-06-05
James Kirk.a prominent and wealthy

James Kirk, "a prominent and wealthy
resident of Pine Grove, Wetzel county,
w. Va, on Friday night left his house.
In a few minutes his wife heard him
calling. She went out and Kirk ex-
claimed. "Watch me jump" He
Jumped from the branch Of a tree with
a rope tried around his neck: Kirk
died almost without a struggle. Oil
has been discovered on his farm, and it
is believed his good fortune unsettled
his mind.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-06-05

Mr.. MURAT HALsTEAD speaks of
Louisiana and South Carolina as sac
tual republican States" But he hasn't
a word to say about what took place
last Saturday just across the border of
his own State, when, though large plu-
rality of the voters of Rhode Island had
cast their ballots for democratic Gov
ernor, republican Governor adjourn
ed the Legislature and retained posses
sion of the Office.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-06-05

DIR. PAGE was entitled by seniority to
the office of Surgeon-General OF the U.
s. army, but younger man has been
nut over him. The southern men IN
the federal army who didn't so with
their States during the war, haven't
been treated with marked considera-
ton by the people for whom they cast
off their kith and kin, and it isn't at all
unnatural that the latter should not
grieye over the formers disappoint-
mentS.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-06-05

THE CoLLECToRsHIP.-The Wash
ington correspondent of the Richmond
Times says:
considerable comment was created
here by the publication in Richmond
newspaper Of a statement to the effect
that Capt. Ham Shepperd would prob
ably be sidetracked for DIR. ]. w. Eos
ter. of Loudoun county. A good many
people here have thought that MIR. Eos
ter would probably prove the Diablo in
this handicap for the collectorship. MIR.
Foster lives at Leesburg, and was for
many wears the commemorative At
torney. He was some years ago ire
auently mentioned for Congress, and in
the wonderful convention at Alexan-
dria in 1856 was, with Messrs. Elisha
Meredith and Frank Hume, the influ-
ence that prevented the nomination of
General Rooney Lee after three days of
balloting, and compelled dissolution
of the convention, which, after a new
selection of delegates, met month
later at Culpeper and nominated Gen.
Lee, practically without opposition.
He Is son OF MAJOR roster, WIN, 40 d
uuartermaster in General Lees army,
was well-known in Richmond, and he
is also brother-in-law of one of the
most popular men in Richmond, Judge
Samuel B. Witt, of the Hastings Court.
His influence is derived, in addition to
his own in Virginia, from his marriage
connection, which includes the support
of Hon. Allan G. Thurman, of Ohio.
It is not positively known what Mr.;
Cleveland will do in this matter, and
Capt. Ham Shepperd, who came at
once to Washington upon the announce
ment, said that the report of any other
anticipated appointment than his own
was false, even though the source ofthe
rumor he had heretofore considered
favorable to him."
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-06-05
sioner's heart "beat warm for his coun-
try's cause"

REPUBLICAN newspaper asks, "why
is it. in the Worlds fair year, that more
people are going to Europe than are
coming to this country?' The answer
is easy. Because Europe is not a hum
bug, but the fair is.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-06-05

The June number, the first, of McClres
Magazine has been received from its publisha
ers in New York. Its contents are Professor
Henry Drlmmond, A Dialogue between Will
liam Dean Howells and Hjalmar Hiorth Boye-
sen, The Nymph of the Eddy, Portraits of
Distinguished People at Different Periods of
their Lives-Gcneral Lew Wallace, ". D.
Howells, II. II. Boycsen and Alphonse Daudet;
Wild Animals, Under Sentence of the Law,
Seeing and Hearing by Electricity, A Day
with Gladstone, Whore Man Got His Ears,
James Partons Rules of Biography, Europe
at the Present Moment, The Comedy of Wal,
"The Rose is Such Lady" and Count De
Lesseps To-day.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-06-05

Mr.. New, who was consul general
to London during the late administra-
ton, says Mr.. Gladstone is vain and
selfish" What he says is not at
all strange, but it is strange
that Mr.. New should say so.
A well known and observant Vir-
ginian, who returned from Europe a
year or two ago, said Mr.. Gladstone
was the Malone of Virginia and what
he said is also true.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-06-05

The wholesale markets are somewhat stead
Ter in tone, but there are no change. to re-
port in prices to-day. Flour receipts con-
tinue liberal sales are still confined to high
grades. Wheat is easy range GO to u, latter
for strictly choice milling longbcTry samples
Corn is quiet at so to % in bulk. Rye % to
5S. Dat. 36 to 40. Butter is very dull.
Eggs are wanted. Other produce is in fair
demand Millfecd is firmer. Hay and STRAW
are declining.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-06-05

THE INVESTIGATION of the pension
frauds now in progress, among other
equally as grotesque revelations, has
developed the fact that a man is
drawing a pension whose disability
consists in the fact that he has corn
on each of two toes. A bullet never was
known TO produce a corn; but the pen
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-06-05
MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL.

New YORK. June 5.-The improved feel.
Jig in the stock market noted at the opening
this morning, and which was due mainly to
the receipt Of higher cables from London, was
lost a ter 1920 Richmond Terminal touch.
ed 2, the lowest price it has ever sold at.
Speculation has been tame and the market
devoid of special feature. At II a. IN. the
tone was steady at a recovery of * to y per
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-06-05

HAD A MOUSE IN HER BODICE.-This
is mouse story. The victims name is
Adeline Maggie of go east Twentieth
street. The other day Miss Nagle start
ed out to pay round of calls. By 8
o'clock Miss Nagle's last call was paid,
and she boarded down town Third
avenue train.
II took a seat close by an open win
dow said Miss Nagle subsequently to
a reporter, "and the train had hardly
started, when all Of a sudden | felt 8
most peculiar sensation in my back. [
stretched my arm behind my head to
feel if there was anything there. AT
last. lust where the queer sensation
seemed to start, I did feel something.
1t was round little lump. 1t felt quite
hard. 1 got out at Eighteenth street
and went to a doctors office. / told
him something awful was the matter
with me. I showed him the little lump.
He looked at me and began to laugh.
ooh, I guess you're all right he ex-
claimed. Suddenly out jumped the
tiniest little mouse you ever saw. 1
never got such a fright in my life"
Miss Nagle is unable to explain how
the mouse broke into her bodice. The
most probable solution of the mystery
is that the mouse was the inhabitant of
the closet where Miss Nagle hangs her
dresses, and finding the leg-of-mutton
sleeves made an admirable resting place
he INDUCED in siesta in one of them
and didn't wake up until Miss Nagle
had put the bodice on.-N. Y. Sun.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-06-05
Worlds Fair Rates via Pennsylvania
acknowledgements hours to Chi

KalIrO.lu- :" cIIt5 FIX IIUurS 10 Cnl-
caSo.
The Pennsylvania railroad announces re-
duction in the rate TO Chicago on account of
the Worlds Fair, and have placed on gale a
round ticket at $26, good for continuous pas
sage in each direction, via direct route, on
their train leaving Washington at 7:40 p H.,
arriving in Chicago the following evening at
$50. This train is composed of vestibuled
sleeping cars which are run through without
change and carries dining cars from Pitts
burg TO Chicago. For further information
and Pullman reservations, call on or address
Robert A. Parke, Passenger Agent, Baltimore
and Potomac Depot, Washington. je3 st
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-06-05

BALTIMORE, June 5.-Flour dull Whea!
weak No 2 red spot and June 7Oi4a7Oss
July II 7.aT21s; Aug 73a73k.; steamer We
, red G54a65i2 milling wheat by sample ~
az Corn dull and lower; mixed spot and
June 47la asked; July 467s47ls; Aug II I
adj IL white corn By sample 5Ca5Ola yellow
do 40. Oats firm No q white Western +4i1
ai3 No > mixed do 3Ga36ih. Rye dull; No
= 6Oa63 Hay firm good TO choice timothy
$40 90 to SIT 90. Provisions unchanged.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-06-05

Fire destroyed about thirty stables at
Riverside Park, Rushville, Indiana
Yesterday. Nellie S., horse valued
at $500 was burned to death.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-06-05

The Confederate Har Journal for
June, illustrated, has been received
from its publishers in New York. Its
first article is short biographical
sketch of General Samuel Cooper, with
the Generals portrait.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-06-05


PROBABLE SUIcrDE.-A death that
is vet involved in considerable mystery
occurred yesterday morning shortly af-
ter two o'clock in small frame build
ing on North Capitol street just out
side tho city limits of Washington.
Edwin Miller, o florist, lived there, his
home being among o number of hot
houses aud plant and tree nurseries.
He had been in the city quite late Sat-
urday night and returned home some
time after midnight. His wife, who
was sleeping in an upper room OF the
house, heard him when he came in ana
went down stairs on hearing him call her
She set him out lunch and brought
out two bottles of beer. She was un-
der the influence of liquor at the time,
and her husband it is stated, upbraid-
ed her for lax conduct and became
very respondent. She returned to her
room upstairs, leaving him lying on
sofa in the small sitting-room below.
About two o'clock she came down
stairs, but tells conflicting stories as to
the impelling causes that attracted her
to the room where her husband lying.
She stated first that she heard no noise
but was awakened by the smell ofburn-
ing powder. On going in the sitting
room, she found her husband lying on
= sofa with bullet hole in his right
side and another in his right temple.
He was cold and still in death.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-06-05

PHILADELPHIA CATTLE MARKET June 3.
Beef Cattle were in good demand and firm
The quotations were as follows Extra oc'
good 5l2a5a.c, medium 5a5h.c, common i4s
4L.c. fat cows 3a4lac per ID. The demand
for Sheep WIS fair and prices lower. The
quotations were as follows: Good 5i2a5'1c,
medium 4laa42.c, common 4ai R,c, cu!s 2i2s
3a.c per lb. Lambs 5a7c per lb sprin. lamis
$2.50a65O per LOO lbs. Hogs were IN far
demand and steady The quotations were a.
follows: Extra Chicagos 10tialOi2c and
other Westerns 10a1O4c per ID. Thin COWS
Were in fair request at $40 to sd per head
Mich Cows were active at S25a$5O per head
Mich calves were higher at 5a1 &c per ID.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-06-05

New YORK, June 5.-Flour dull and eay.
Wheat weak and fairly active. Corn dull and
steady Pork dull and easy mess S2l 90 to
$22 so Lard quiet and steady; steam
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-06-05
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The attendance at the Chicago Fair
yesterday was not large.
Four persons were burned to death
in fire in New York tenement early
yesterday morning.
The trial of Miss Lizzie Borden for
the murder of her father and step
mother began to-day at New Bedford,
Mass.
1t is said that Senator Brice, of Ohio,
has spent his salary three or four times
over in dinner and ball-giving in Wash
ington.
The Catholics of Alsace-Lorrainc, op.
pose the German army bill, and several
priests will stand as candidates for the
Reichstag.
President Cleveland returned ycster-
day from his fishing trip at Hog Island,
and spent the day at his summer home,
near Washington.
Seven liremcn were buried under the
walls of a burning building in Omaha
on Saturday evening. Five OF them
were Instantly killed.
Mrs. Cotton, widow, was found dead
in the office of DR.. Elderking, at Chau-
tauqau, N. V, yesterday, and the doc
tor dying from morphine.
The Spanish revolutionists who made
demonstration against the govern
ment last week have been dispersed
and two of their number killed.
Augustus Victorson, Chicago spec
ulator, committed suicide yesterday by
strangling himself with the silk cord of
his smoking jacket, in his room in the
Metropole hotel,
Seven distilleries in Louisville have
closed owing to overproduction, The
production of whiskey for the year in
the fifth district will be %, 549, 900 gal
Ions, on which the tax amounts to
$40, 294 900.
Capt. Alexander r. Skinner, a mari
ner and tugboat owner, committed sui
eide in Baltimore yesterday by shoot
ing himself. Capt SINNERS relatives
state that he ha been in respondent
mood since March. He was q native OF
Richmond.
The gold reserve on Saturday reach
ed the lowest point The shipments of
gold from New York that day were
81 ,5OO,00O which, deducted from the
gold reserve as given that morning on
the Treasurer's books, leaves the bal
ance at SIS, 1881, 217.
Eight tons of dynamite and giant
powder exploded at Virginia, Mimi,
Friday. The magazine was mile
and half from the town on hillside
facing away from the village, but the
front of every building was blown in
and hardly window escaped de-
struction.
Great distress and suffering exist
among the people of Hope, Ark, and
vicinity. The cyclone of May 80 has
left 5000 people homeless and in des.
stitute circumstances. Mayor Black, of
Hope, arrived at Little Rock on Satur-
dav on relief mission. He issued an
address to the business men of st. Louis,
Chicago, Little Rock, and Memphis
asking for aid.
Rev. James Ecob, of the Second Pres
byterian Church of Albany. n. Y, in
his morning sermon yesterday renounc-
ed his allegiance to the Presbyterian
denomination because of the decision
of the General Assembly in the Briggs
case. He declared that the Presbyte-
rian general assembly was the most
"bigoted, intolerant, and reactionary
bodyn ever seen in any denomination.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-06-05
Tho Rordcu Trial,

NEW BEDFORD, Mass, June 5.-The
long anticipated Borden murder trial
has begun. AT an early hour this
morning every available shady spot on
County street near tho court house
was preempted and patiently the sit
tiers and ISLANDERS waited until the bell
on the court house was tolled, signify
ing the opening of court. AT precisely
1858 Miss Lizzie A. Borden, the prison.
er, came slowly into the court room
and was shown to her seat in the dock.
She was attired in very becoming
costume of black brocaded stuff and
wore pretty shade hat relieved by a
touch here and there of blue. Every
seat in the room was occupied by tales
men and newspaper men, no outsiders
being admitted up to that time and
within the box enclosure were few of
the prominent men of the county who
had been accorded seats by courtesy.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-06-05

When Baby was ack, We gave her CasrH-
When she vas Child. she criOd for castoo-.
When she became Mss. she chung % Cas'osi=-
When she had Children, she gaYeshoa CaSi0sA-
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-06-05

CHICAGO. June .-Whcat-June CAY
July G6i2; Sept T0ia. Corn-June 81 4
Jul 377-a39; Sept 4O5s Oats-June p;
July 27ft Sept 255s. Pork-JuIy $40 20;
Sept $50 20. Lard-June 80 70; July
80 %; Sept $40 30. Ribs-July 50 20; Sept
go 40
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-06-05

CHICAGO CATTLE MARKET. June 3.-Cat'
tlc-market was lower; top prices 30, %
g. medium $5a5.50, others 81 .25ai ~ Lex.
ans $3.SQ.4.iO, native cows $3. l5a3.9o Per
100 lbs Hogs-markct closed cents lower :
packers and mixed STOOL 20. prime heavy
and butchers weights 81. 15a7.25, light = ~
az %, skips and pigs S5.5Oa5.6O per iVO W.
Shcep-markct steady; natives : iI 90
Westerns S5.15a5.4 Texans - oos24"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-06-05
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

Meadowcraft Brothers, private BANK
ers, in Chicago, closed their doors this
morning.
Runs are being made to-day on sew
eral of the banks in Milwaukee, CHI
cago and other western cities.
The Kansas Grain Company, Big
commission house in Kansas City, with
branch Offices all over Kansas, has fail
81.
Morris Franklin, one of the best
known insurance men in this country,
died at the Palmer House, Chicago,
yesterday.
The Norfolk and Western Il. r. &c.
has settled its Indebtedness in West
Virginia, and the receiver appointed in
that State, has been set aside.
The British steamer Queensmore is
on fire at Newport News. The fire is
in the alleyway and has been gotten
under control by the fire steamer Hun
ton.
The miners in Rich Hill, Mo-, num-
bering over l 900 will, it is said, refuse
to 90 out when they receive the an
ticipated order from Grand Master
Walters to join the Pittsburg and Weir
City men.
The announcement in New York
that Chas. w. Dayton had been aF-
pointed postmaster for that city caused
considerable surprise among the poll
ticians. The members of Tammany
Hall are jubilant as Mr.. Dayton is now
one of the "Tigers."
Last about II o'clock dynamite was
placed under the door of the building
of the Hustler, weekly paper publish
ed in Breathitt county, KY, and wreck
cd the entire structure. The paper
was the cause of the local option law
which was recently passed in that
county.
The bulletin issued III New York at noon
by DIR. Smith concerning the condition Of Ed
win Booth states that there is no pcrccptible
change but that his condition is considered so
critical that his daughter and her husband
remained constantly beside Mr.. Booths bed
side prepared for sudden change for the
worse. A later dispatch says he will hardly
live till night.
The train hearing the Infanta Eulalle and
her party left jersey City for Chicagoat LID
o'clock today The party crossed the river
on the steamer Mohawk, escorted by the Dol
phn and the Spanish man-of-war Christina,
both of which vessels fired salutes as the royal
party landed.
The nolle pressing of the cases against II.
C. Fricb and other officials of the Carnegie
Steel Company, will not carry with II the
gushing OF the charges against the strikers.
The cases against them will be pressed.
The morning call., 1893-02-05
AN OLD-TIME TREATY.
Information Wanted i'm the Sem
ate About Hawaiian Matters.
There Was an Annexation Scheme in
1854 Which Never Came
to a Head.
Special to THE MORNING CALL

WASHINGTON, Feb. An the Senate,
on motion of Sherman, the Presidents mes
sage OF Thursday last, concerning the
transportation Of merchandise over Can
adian roads, was referred to the Commit
tee on Foreign Relations and Interstate
Commerce
The Senate then took up the House bills
on the calendar. Without action, however,
this order of business was interrupted 10
permit the Judiciary Committee to report
new bill to submit the McGarrahan claim to
the Court Of Private Land Claims.
The Senate then resumed consideration OF
the House bills on the calendar and passed
a number of them. The order closed just as
the quarantine bill was reached.
Harris asked unanimous consent to take
1t up Monday morning.
This would interfere with Hills notice
that he would move to take up the bill 10
repeal the Sherman act at that time, and
Teller gave notice that If HIPS motion pre-
vailed there would be no further business
at this session except the passage Of the
appropriation bill.
The House bill to ratify the agreement
with the Cherokees for the cession OF their
interest in the outlet lands and appropri-
atBg $500 0o0 to carry it out was passed in
the shape of substitute.
Morgan introduced a resolution. which
was agreed to. requesting the President TO
send 10 the Senate the draft of the annex
alton treaty negotiated in 1854, but not CON-
pleted. between the Observation-Disclosures of the
United States and the Kingdom of Hawaii,
with the correspondence between the two
governments relating to the negotiations.
Memorial proceedings in memory of
Gamble of Sonth Dakota. Ford CT Michigan
and Stackhouse OF South Carolina, late
members OF the House, were then held and
the Senate adjourned.
The morning call., 1893-02-05
confidence ia his ability 10 defeat If. Ma
honey has endeavored to induce him to
stand in with Rainey, but has failed.
THE SENATE.
Protest Against the Formation of
BidweIl County.

BidweIl County.
SACRAMENTO, Feb. AIN the Senate this
morning Shippee presented petition from
over 500 constituents in Butte County pro-
testing against the division of that county
and the formation of Bidwell County.
Arms introduced bill to amend an act
authorizing the mourning indebtedness
by cities and towns for the construction of
waterworks.
A bill was introduced by Hart providing
for the purchase and furnishing of resi-
dence for the Governor.
Biggy, by request. introduced bill to
create the county of Santa Rita oct of parts
OF Stanislaus MERGED and Fresno counties.
Other bills introduced were as follows:
BY Ostrom-To prevent the spread Of
contagious OF infectious diseases among do
nestle cattle.
By Langford-To provide for the con-
pensatiOn of policemen in cities OF less than
10000 inhabitants; also 10 appropriate
Sl012 to pay the claim of Charlotte NJ. Hol-
man.
BY notwithstanding for the adjust
ment and payment of any Indebtedness ex-
sting against any city or town at the time
OF the exclusion Of territory theEefrom and
division OF property thereof.
In pursuance of notice given yesterday.
Gesford made a motion to reconsider the
vote by which the resolution was adopted
providing for the appointment of commit
tee OF seven to investigate the Railroad
Commission. Owing to the fact that there
were so many a0sentees the matter went
over to Monday on motion of Ostrom.