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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-12-16
TO-DAY'S TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
Senatorial Investigation.

RICHMOND, Dec. 16.-The committee
appointed to investigate alleged frauds
used in The nomination of Mr.. Martin,
organized last night by electing MIR.
Nicol chairman. Several witnesses
were summoned and this morning at 10
o'clock the committe began its labors.
Editor Joseph Bryan, of the Times,
was the first witness. He knew moth
ing of his own knowledge but produced
letters from G. V. Litchfeld, of Wash
ington county, in which it was alleged
that Mr.. Martin furnished money to
the delegates from that district for use
in this campaign. Delegate Tomney
was put on the stand and denied the
charge. Editor Archer, of the State,
was next called but only knew what ne
heard others say. Editor Royal did
not know anything. c. v. Meredith,
manager of the Lee forces, said he
knew nothing personally but could give
the names of great many people
whose evidence he thought would
prove that fraud had been practiced.
The names of Fitzhugh Lee, ]. T. Ely
son, chairman of the State committee ;
]. Barbour Thompson Miles Martin,
Delegate Diggs, Senator Henry Dick
ham, Delegate ]. B. Moon, Mr.. S. S.
Epps, and others as suitable witnesses
were given. They will be examined in
due course.
Mr.. A. T. Withrow, Delegate from
Bath, Allegheny and Highland. testi,
fed that C. F. Moore and John Della
ney, of Allegheny, told him if he would
pledge himself to vote for Martin they
would get the money to conduct his
campaign. When he asked where they
would get the money they replied from
Mr.. Martin. The standing of the two
men is very high and Mr.. Withrow did
not look upon the matter as bride.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-12-16

THE MERE fact that the cost of the
U. s. deputy marshaIs on duty in New
York city alone at the last election
amounted to the enormous sum of $685.
$50. ought to be sufficient of itself to
secure the passage of the bill to repeal
the law by which the taxpayers are
subjected to such outrageous and I'M
necessary expense.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-12-16

THE LOUISVILLE BRIDGE DISASTER.
Two spans of the temporary structure
of iron and wood used in the construc-
ton of the new bridge over the Ohio
river, between East Louisville, KY, and
Jacksonville, Ind, are in the river.
The first span to fall was the middle
one-500 feet long. 1t went down at
1918 o'clock yesterday morning, falling
10 feet and crushing to death or
drowning between 20 and 80 men and
injuring about twenty more, some of
whom will die. The particulars of this
disaster were published in yesterdays
GAZETTE. The short channel span,
about $50 feet long, fell shortly after S
o'clock last night without injuring any
person, so far as known. The financial
loss by the fall Of the first span was
about 100000 and by the second
ST5 N06
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-12-16

THE LATEST intelligence from Brazil
is TO the effect that the republic there is
on its last legs and that the empire will
eventually be re-established. 1t must
come to that in the end, and if it shall
do so speedily, it will only prove that
the Brazilians are much wiser than
some other people who foolishly assume
to be possessed of greater understand
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-12-16
The Texas Cattle Fever Cases.

EMPoRIA, Kan, Dec. 16.-The jury
in the Texas cattle fever cases have
rendered verdict of $4,000 against
the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Rail-
road for having last May carried 1900
heal of Texas cattle from Midland,
Texas, to Hartford, Kansas, from the
importation of which Texas fever was
communicated to Kansas cattle with
disastrous results.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-12-16
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Laura Ann Higgins, colored, the
convicted pension fraud, was yesterday
sentenced in Norfolk to five years. i'm
prisonment, and to pay fine of $4,000.
Mrs. William Alexander Little, moth
er of State Senator w. A. Little, died
suddenly yesterday morning in Fred
ericksburg of heart failure. She was
Miss Louisa Fitzhugh, of Stafford.
John L. Porter, formerly chief naval
constructor in the Confederate States
Navy, and the protector and builder of
the famous ironclad ram Virginia (Mer-
rimac), died at his home in Portsmouth
Thursday night, aged eighty years.
The Governor has appointed Henry
T. Parrish, of Roanoke; Senator Fair
fax, of Loudoun, and Mr.. White, of
Norfolk, members of the Board of Visi-
tors of the Virginia Military Institute
for the full term. Mr.. Fairfax was a
few days ago appointed to fill the un-
expired term of the late D. S. Pierce.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-12-16

THE CONVENTION of 1861 solelnnly
declared that the Virginians then in
the army and navy ofthe United States,
should be provided for if they resigned
their positions and entered the military
service of their State. What do the
"boys" in the legislature think of that
promise? Do they even know it was
made?
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-12-16
SATURDAY EVENING. DEC. 16, 1893

THE anti-income tax people say
scratch an income tax man and you'll
find man with no income" The pat
retort is, scratch an anti-income man
and you'll find a man with an income "
But where there is one man with q sur
plus income, and who may, therefore,
and naturally, be opposed to an income
tax, there are ninety-nine without it,
and who, therefore, will naturally favor
such a tax; and in this country every
man has the right to vote, and the poor
mans ballot is as effective as that OF his
rich neighbor's. The democrats have
lost great deal of their popularity. II
there be any means by which they can
regain it, unquestionably the surest is
to provide for tax on surplus incomes
the fairest and least burdensome that
the wisdom of man has devised.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-12-16

THE New England manufacturers
concede that the removal of the tax on
coal would rebound to their interests.
OF course it would. But how would it
benefit the coal mine owners of Vir-
ginia if the tax on the articles made by
those manufacturers by means of free
coal be retained or reduced to only a
nominal extent? The tax on coal
should be removed, but simple justice
demands that tho tax on the articles
made by the burning of that coal should
be removed also.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-12-16

AN ODD-FELLows' BooM.-The In.
dependent Order of Odd Fellows are
on quite a boom in Virginia. Ten new
lodges of this order have been organ.
lied in the State since last April. -Four
of them are in a radius of thirty miles
of Norfolk. The ten new lodges ag-
gregate six hundred members. There
are two lodges in this city, and the or
der is strong in numbers.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-12-16
In nfennoriam.
And I said it under breath,
All our life is mixed with death :


And who knoweth which is best?"
To those that knew her what shadow has
been thrown over the approaching Christ
mas brightness by the death of MAMIE
PICKETT, who week ago was snatched
away by dipbtheria in the flush of her "a
diant girlhood Just the other day she was
planning for Christmas as confidently as any.
One who had known her from little child
and, for time, in the close relation of teach
er and publican testify feelingly to her at
tractiyeness and abundant promise. Her mu-
steal gifts were conspicuous; and, in her
home, the silence of "Nannie's music" will
mean more than can be expressed.
In this bereavement, and the continued
and severe illness of another daughter, her
parents are suffering an affection that calls
peculiarly for the sympathies of the commu-
nifty.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-12-16

Eleven depraved men were arrested
near Ashland, Pa, yesterday charged
with assaulting woman and then
attempting to burn her. The woman
was waylayed, taken to shanty where
she was detained and subjected to most
inhuman treatment.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-12-16

IT Is said that the controlling ma
iority of the legislature is composed OF
very young men. There can be no
doubt of it, and their callowness is very
apparent. What business the legisla-
ture has to do with the proceedings OF
caucus, whose only obligation is hon
or is what older men can not tell. If
the caucus had instituted an investiga'
ton it would have been all right, or,
after the election of Senators, the legis-
lature shall do so, no body will have
ground for objection. But it is absurd
for the legislature to be wasting time
and money on the investigation of the
proceedings ola private political meet
ing attended by some OF its members.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-12-16

SOME republican newspapers COM
plain of the little respect that is paid to
Senator Hoar by his colleagues, the
democratic press and the country at
large, and assert that his age and abili-
ty deserve better treatment than that
which is accorded him. Mr.. Hoar has
never in all his long public life exhibit
ed any conclusive evidence of the pos
session of ability, and an old man Is
less entitled to the respect of those who
know him than young one, unless he
merits it. for, in the course of nature
men are made better, as we'll as wiser,
by years, and those who are not, evinee
a delinquency in moral sense that just
ly deprives them of any claim to es-
TEEN. or even consideration.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-12-16

IN THE French Chamber of Deputies
last Wednesday, Minister Jonnart said
"the labor agitators instituted strikes
against the will of the working
meu, who were forced to obedience by
the machinery of the unions" 1t seems
from this that the same condition
of affairs in the matter referred to en-
lists in France as in this country.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-12-16

At Camden, N. j.. this morning Mrs.
Duford, 2S years of age while suffering
from BIRTH. seized pen-knife and
cut her throat. The physicians say she
is dying.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-12-16

In RESPECT Of the McGarrahan clam,
which has already consumed large
portion of two days sessions of the U,
S. House of Representatives, it seems
to reasonable men outside of Congress
that She members of that body, leaving
out of view all other considerations, for
their own sake alone, and TO avoid the
opportunities of the necessitous old
claimant, would do what he wants
them to do-refer it to the court OF
claims. and let that court decide upon
its legality and equity. That would at
least give them a rest, and Ii they
choose to have it up again, they can dc
so when providing for the payment O
the courts award, that's, if that award
be in favor of the claimant.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-12-16
List of UncIaimed Letters.

The following is list of the letters re-
naming in the Alexandria, Va, postofice
December 16.
Persons calling for letters will please say
they are advertised
Advertised letters not called for within two
weeks will be sent to the dead letter Office
Bowling, Chas Lee, Julia A
Dobson, Miss Amelia L Lewis, ] & Co
Espey, Ferdinand esq Massey, Thos
Fitzhugh, Miss F Mason, Virginia
Goodwin, Rupert Monticure. Martha
Hedgemon, Mrs Maria Murphy, James
Horoy, C H President HAMPTON
Haineswood, JE University, Alex Va
jackson, Gertrude Thrall, Fee
PARK AGNEW, Pm.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-12-16

The Windsor Hotel at Atchison, Kan,
was destroyed by fire at 2 o'clock this
morning. The guests all escaped.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-12-16

In the House among the bills intro
troduced were the following: To amend
the code as to the compentency of wit
nesses to amend the code as to goods
on which distress may be levied, to
amend the code relative to the time
when licenses shall expire, and the
abatement of tax thereon; to amend
the act to legalize the adoption of minor
children by adult persons to amend
and re-enact section IA of chapter 2 of
the act entitled, San act to provide for
the assessment of taxes on personal
property and incomes, and imposing
taxes thereon for the support of the
government and public free schools,
and to pay the interest on the public
debt, and to provide for the mode of
applying for licenses to transact any
business in this State, and prescribing
the amount to be paid as condition
precedent to the right to transact such
business ;" authorizing boards of super
visors to contract loans for the erection
of court houses, clerks offices, and jails.
The bill to enlarge the Governors
staff was the subject of much discus
sion. 1t was opposed by Messrs. Glib
son and Gregory, and advocated by
Messrs. Edmondson, Pitcher, HARDWOOD,
Hathaway and Harris. The measure
was defeated-ayes 40; noes so.
Mr.. Willard offered the following,
which was referred to the finance COM
mittee: Resolved, That the committee
on finance be requested to report bill
equalizing the compensation of county
and city treasurers.
The House bill to amend and re-enact
section 1888 of the code of Virginia,
1887, entitled show attempts to COM
NIT offences shall be punished" was
passed.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-12-16
LEGISLATIVE.

In the Senate yesterday bill was
introduced by Mr.. Flood to regulate
the effect of assignments creating pre-
ferences to prevent fraud being perpe-
trated, etc.
By Mr.. Lovenstein, to authorize the
issue ofcirculating notes Of State banks.
The bill to remove the political dis
abilities of James H. Gilmor, H. F.
Parrish, Oliver Cutchings, John Lipop,
Mallory X. Cannon, and Adam c. Car
son, who were disqualified under the
duelling law was passed.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-12-16

The worst blizzard of the season is
raging over northern Wisconsin. There
is three feet of SNOW on the level.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-12-16
DIED,

On Saturday, December 10th, at 6:15 a. M,
ELIZA C., beloved wife of Andrew ]. Roles,
in the 9th year of her age.
precious one from us has gone,
voice We loved is stilled
place is vacant in our home,
Which never can be filled.
BY HER HUSBAND.
The funeral will take place from her late
residence, No. 305 north Patrick street. on
Monday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Relatives
and friends are respectfully invited to attend.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-07-02

Alarming Conclusions Reached After Much
study by statiscian.

Alarming Conclusions Reached Auqr - een
study by statiscisn.
AFrench statiscian has been Studying
the average heights OF men al different
periods of the worlds history. and has
reached some alarming conclusions.
The recorded facts extend over near
ly three centuries. It is found that
in 1910 the average height OF
men in Europe was nearly 5 feet
6 inches. In 1890 1t was feet 6 inches
In 1920 it was feet inches and lrac-
ton. At the present time It'll . Feet
az inches. 1t is easy to deduct from
these figures rate OF regular and grad
ualsdecline in human stature, and they
apply this, working backward and for
ward, to the past and to the future. !.
BY this calculation II is determined
that the stature of the first men at
tanned the surprising average OF 10 feet
9 inches. The race had already deterl-
oratee in the days OF Og, and Goliath
was quite degenerate offspring OF the
giants. :,
Coming down to later time, we IND
that at the beginning OF our era the av'
erage helgnt OF man was y leet, auu ~
the time Of Charlemagne 1t was feet
inches. :,
But the most astonishing result OF
this mans study comes from the appli-
cation of the same law OF diminution.
II is conclusively shown that in 1000 A.
D. the height Of the average man Will
be but fifteen inches, and in a few thou.
sand years more the end OF the world
will come, for men will get so short that
there will be nothing left OF them.
This IS altogether the most eomferts-
BILE solution OF the end-of-the-world prob
lem that has been presented. 1t will be
so much more pleasant for the coming
man to diminish out OF existence than
to be burned off the earth.-Bufato En-
press.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-07-02
How Many stars in the riaS'

It is remarked as singular, and posi-
bly, an indication Of lack Of patriotism,
that the average American, always ex-
cepting school schildren, cannot tell
off-hand how many stars there now
are in his country's flag. II any read
er OF this desires TO try the question on
ten Of his friends he will probably find
that only three or four can give the
correct number, even after minute Of
hard thought. The ordinary reply Will
range from forty to forty-two stars, In
stead O! the correct forty-four. The
admission within four years OF North
Dakota, South Dakato, Montana, Wash
ington, Idaho and Wyoming has brought
the list up to the last mentioned num-
Der. The shape Of the union has been
changed from square to rectangle,
and the stars are arranged In SIX
straight lines, the upper and lower
ones containing eight stars and there
naming four having seven stars.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-07-02
A Gentleman.

In the current number OF IVdshtn0ton
over her signature, Kate Field offers a
beautiful tribute to the memory OF the
late Edwin Booth, in which she says:
edwin Booth was q gentleman.
Modest, ever ready TO help others, with
out envy, with charity toward all ana
malace toward none, with catholic
tolerance Of spirit it were we'll that the
clergy initiated, the great player leaves
a fragrant memory. A devoted father,
loyal friend, generous foe, a
kind master, Edwin Booth adorned
humanity no less than the stage. We're
all men like unto him there would be
peace on earth. The Little Church
Around the Corner has never prayed
for more humble spirit; Mount Au-
burn has never taken TO It's heart an
honester man. 1t is right that no How
ers should obscure the grave OF this
poor player The laurel wreath
placed upon IL by loving daughter
tells OF a victory over the public and
over self. Edwin Booths soul is march
ing on"
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-07-02
A Woman Inventor

Lieut.. M. Els worth Hall. OF torpedo
fame, has sister OF like inventive ge-
MUS. Miss Fannie +. Hall, now resi-
dent Of New York City, became inter
ested In the firing Of china through
china painting in which she was en-
gagged. From this, after various aoor-
tive and amusing attempts, she evolved
the now celebrated Hill kiln, whereby
china may be fired at home, and by the
amateur. In the course Of this work
Miss Hall has hit upon several other In
ventions which are pronounced by all
who are interested in the subject 10 be
most ingenious and successful.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-07-02


AgrIculturist, Peculiar, No., writes
to know: /. How long should call be
permitted to associate with It's mother
before vealing? 2. What do you know
obout farming lands In Dakota? 3. how
do they compare with those or North
Carolina, especially In Henderson and
Buncombe counties? 4. What do you
do with your asparagus beds In sum-
mer?
First-For market calves are gener-
ally vealed before they are fully aware
that by sin death came into the world.
Here, however, on my place, we allow
the calf to nurse from six TO seven
weeks. The last two weeks we add
another cow so that he will not be rest
less OF nights. Once / kept cali six
years as an experiment to see how much
milk he would require as he grew older.
My report to the farmers convention or
Erin Prairie, from which Iquote, shows
that at the end of the sixth year he had
closed up the cheese factory at Hudson
and had diverted the output OF the Still
water dairy entirely in his direction.
But he was 8 big, hearty fellow with
a Joyous, curly face and voice that
shook our apples of the trees prema-
turely.
/ never knew a cali that could neigh
so freely as he could. When he had
slipped couple Of washboilers OF fresh
milk and cleared his voice, you should
have heard him sound "a"
We had him for tea at the close OF the
sixth year. just as he began to get cum
ming. We had veal symposium with
green peas raised on the place. They
grew in rows along by the mortgage. l
tried to raise them together, the peas
and the mortgage, allowing the peas to
Chamber up the side OF the mortgage,
but could not raise them both together.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-07-02
Yn..ar Girls in the Swim.

An elective course In swimming has
recently been opened to the juniors at
Vassar. Miss Harriet /, Ballintine, d.
rector OF the gymnasium, will be the
instructor. The gymnasium swimming
tank, in which the lessons will be
given, is lined with marble, and sup
piled with water pumped in at a tenn
perature OF from seventy TO eighty de-
grees from an artesian well $50 feet
deep.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-07-02
Is it safe

To neglect yourself II troubled with any
disease Of the kidneys! No, it is danger
GUS; and il you are so afflicted, attend 10
yourself now. Do not wait, but use sulphur
Bitters at once. They cured me when l
was given up to die by several physicians.
JONATHAN HAs, Boston.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-07-02

= Snd ON inquiry, to all others.
IS simply knew, as l did, that
ealthy and powerful. Natives
Questioning. The most l could
as q whisper accompanied by
at Eli Effendi was one Of the
When we became better &C
even made bold to show my
to him. He did not repulse
reason which he doubtless
bnded, and talked as volubly
Rnhatma as a young girl about
\. B.-The foregoing Is joke
BIT, ma. See?) But from the
unintelligible jargon could
thing more difnite than chaos.
pearance, also, was Ell Efendi
ns. He wore the garb OF a
high rank, but whether he
Moslem, Jew, or Hindu, no
"a ed to know. He spoke all the
ges with a like perfection. He
a man OF fifty, and, Of course,
ale and somore of face, with a
curly beard and Rnfathomable
in which glowed sparks Of green