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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-07-29
AUCTION SALES.
FOR SALE,-
VALUABLE PROPERTY, REAL AND


IElLSONAl.
On WEDNESDAY, September 9th. lS93,
on the premises, we will sell to the highest
bidder the farm called GREENLAND" or
better known rs the MARSH ALL ASHBl
TRACT, in upper Fauvuier. between Della
plane and Markham stations, on the Manassas
Division of the r. 4 ID. T. f., the same being
a part of the estate of the late T. b. Robertson,
This tract of $50 acres of land is one of the
most productive in the Piedmont Valley Of
Virginia. 1t is well watercd, well fenced
with stone and in high condition Of in.
provement.
On it there is COMFORTABLE Dwell.
ING of six rooms above the basement n stone
kitchen, stone barn, cattle shed with SO stalls,
stable, hay barracks for 90 tons of hay and
three stone and one frame tenement houses.
This farm, properly managed, will pay legal
interest on more than $50 per acre.
Terms: One-third cash balance in one, two
and three years with interest bearing bonds
for deferred payments.
On the same day we will sell the personally
on the farm, consisting of Horses. Cows. OK
Ell, Hogs, Corn and Fodder in field Hay
Straw, Wagons, Corn Crusher, Corn Planters
Binder, Wheat Drills, Fans and implements
of all kinds, such as arc usually found on
well-cquipped farm.
The personality will be sold on a credit OF
nine months for all amounts over $50; under
that sum cash, negotiable note, bearing siH
per cent. interest and acceptably endorsed,
being required for all credits.
Z. B. & Ii. f. ROBERTSON.
jy1 tw&GS Agents.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-07-29

A REPUBLICAN newspaper, alluding
to the report that the President will re-
fer to the Sandwich Islands affair in his
message to Congress, says: ''What the
people of this country wants to see the
American flag hauled up again, not to
be pulled down." If that be so, OF
which, however, there is great doubt,
they ought, for the sake of their own
reputation for ordinary courage, want
to see the flag hauled up on the terri
tory of some country able to defend it
self, not on that of such poor, weak
and defenseless country as Hawaii.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-07-29
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The English coal miners went on
strike yesterday and $4,000 men are
affected.
The President is not expected back
to Washington before the middle OF
next week.
Peaches are being largely shipped to
market from the Delaware and Mary
land peninsula.
The President has issued proclama-
ton including Portugal within the
benefits of the international copy
right act.
The free fight in the House of Com
mons attending the close of the debate
on the home rule bill in committee
caused Indignation and regret through
oat England.
Williams Washington, colored bar,
Der, formerly of Philadelphia, aged
about thirty two years, yesterday fell
over dead in q fit of excitement after
beating his wife.
Naval experts who are testing the
value of American bituminous coal for
use of the warships Of the nation have
tried some samples from Virginia, which
have given satisfaction.
Ada Heirs, a colored woman, was
hanged at WATERFORD, S. c., yesterday
for the murder of her half brother last
June. She confessed on the scatfold
that her aged father, who was also con-
victed, but respited by Governor Till
man, had nothing to do with the
crime.
A little boy, who has been only two
months in the world. fell from the
arms OF his mother into the East River
from the Greenpoint terryboat South
side in New York yesterday afternoon.
Frantic with grief the mother jumped
overheard to rescue her babe. Both
were recovered after much excitement.
A young woman, whose maiden
name is Louisa Meyer, who claims
that she is the wife of DR.. George
Kriehn, assistant instructor in history
at the Johns Hopkins University,
arrived in Baltimore yesterday on the
steamship Stuttgart in search Of
her husband. She had with her her
marriage certificate and other docu-
ments 10 prove her claims. she says
DR.. Kriehn married her in Zurich,
Switzerland, in March, 1892, but when
he returned to America wrote that she
was not to come to seek him.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-07-29

THE SUPPORTERS OF the pension
swindle ridiculously offer as an excuse
for the fact that republican federal
Judge drawing a life salary of $1,000 a
year should still be receiving a pension
OF S72 month, the vain assertion that
some democratic pensioners are also
drawing salaries from the federal gov
eminent. If what they say be true,
and no body says it is not, it only
makes the more urgent the necessity OF
purging the pension roll so as to ex-
clude from it the names of all who are
not in need of pensions, whether they
be democrats or republicans. No sane
man pretends to believe that there are
not democratic as well as republican
rascals.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-07-29

PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has appoint
ed "auti-suappers" to the important
and lucrative positions of collector and
appraiser at the port of New York
There is no doubt that save only and
except for the ''anti-snappers," MIR
Cleveland would not have been nomi'
mated for President last June. But
while the policy of rewarding political
friends is in accordance with the die
tates of natural feeling, it is doubt,
full if it be the wisest than can be pur
sued in all cases. History and person
al experience prove that no enemy il
Insignificant.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-07-29
OFFICIAL.

An ORDINANcE to prohibit the riding Of
bicycles on the sidewalks of the city, and
10 require lanterns upon bicycles after dark.
BE it ordained by the City Council Of Alex
andria, That no bicycle or bicycles shall be
ridden upon any Of the sidewalks of the city
mt any time. or shall be ridden in the streets
of this city after dark unless the said bicycle
carries upon it lighted lantern or light aud
bell. Any person or persons violating this
ordinance shall be fined by the Mayor not
less than 81 nor than 50.
This ordinance shall lie enforced from its
passage.
Passed Common Council July II, 1893.
HUBERT SNOWDEN, President
Passed Board OF Aldermen July II, ls9%.
W. II. MARBURY, President.
Approved July %, 1893.
HENRY STRAUSS Mayor
Teste: JNo. T. JOHNSON. Clerk
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-07-29

NEW YORK APPoINTMENTs.-Presi
dent Cleveiand's private Secretary, Dir
Thurber, at six o'clock yesterday even
ing announced the following appoint
ments as made by the President
James T. Kilbreth, of New York
city, collector of customs for the dis,
trict of New York, vice Hendricks
resigned.
Walter II. Bnnn, of Cooperstown, n
Y, appraiser of merchandise for the
district of New York, vice Cooper,
resigned.
Mr.. Kilbreth is an anti-Tammany
man, and his appointment is purely
personal one of President Cleveland
Secretary Carlisle knew absolutely
nothing about it. Mr.. Bum is also
said to be an anti-Hill democrat.
The Tammany people assert that in
making these appointments President
Cleveland has ignored their services,
though they claim not to be disap-
pointed.
When interviewed in Saratoga this
morning concerning the appointments
of James A. Kilbreth to be collector
aud Walter H. Bum to be appraiser Of
the port of New York, Gov. Flower,
Senator Murphy and ex-Mayor H. ],
Grant were non-committal.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-07-29
The Siamcse Troubles.

The Siamese government continues
making.every effort to maintain peace
with France, and is encouraged by the
events of the last twenty-four hours to
believe that an understanding will be
reached shortly. The French flag has
been hoisted at -si-Shang.
1t is rumored in London that there
are dissensions in the French cabinet,
growing out of the troubles in Siam.
The British government is also said to
bee anxious over the blockade, and
Mr.. Gladstone has Cancelled an engage
ment to 90 into the country.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-07-29
ACCORDING TO the law of New York

ACCORDING TO the law Of New York,
the death penalty in that State must
he inflicted by means of electricity.
Last Thursday, however, that means
having failed, morphine and chloroform
were substituted. The question this
naturally suggests is, whether or not
those who resorted to the use Of the
substitutes are not responsible for the
murderer's death? 1t also suggests
another question, and that is, wheth-
er or not the old and cheap and certain
means of the gallows is not the best?
1t is Just as speedy and no more painful.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-07-29

IT is rumored that the report of Mr..
Blount, envoy to Honolulu, will be to
the effect that the United States with
draw all interference with the affairs of
Hawaii, and let the people of that coun-
try attend to their own matters. If this
be so, the report is just what it should
be, and the government at Washington
should adopt it at once. This country
has no more to do with the affairs of
the Sandwich Islands than with those
of any other foreign country.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-07-29

FROM NIcARAGUA.-A dispatch from
San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua, says that
it is expected that Granada, now held
by the government troops, will capitu-
late before many hours. The situation
of the government troops at Granada is
said to be serious. General Zelaya,
leader of the revolutionary forces, has
occupied Masaya in addition to Mana
qua, having taken each town after hard
and desperate fighting and the loss of
many lives. He is besieging Granada
with so much determination that news
of its capitu!ation may be expected at
any moment. According to the latest
news from Nicaragua the outlook for
the country could not be worse.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-07-29

v1RGIS1A's CozY BUILDrNG.-A letter from
Chicago says: "The State of Virginia has a
coy building modelled after Mount Vernon at
the time of the death of Washington. On the
first door is the banquet hall and the music
room of Nellie Custis, then Washngton's din
ing room. On the second floor is the room IN
which Washington died, and the furniture in
his room. The next room is Lafayette's
room. The pictures and furniture are the
originals from Mount Vernon. Each room,
as one may suppose, is at all times thronged
with sightseers, who approach with feeling
akin to awe when examining the precious
memorials of the Father of His Country: 1t
is directly oppo.ite the Maryland Building
and cost $50, 600"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-07-29

THE INDUSTRIAL depression in this
country is increasing, and has now ex-
tended to the cotton manufacturing
districts of Massachusetts,, where cot
ton mills are shutting down or working
on half time. The South must feel the
effects of this also, for with decreased
demand, the price of raw cotton will
be still further reduced. The South,
now as always, shares all the losses, but
reaps few of the gains ofthe Union.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-07-29
Shocking Murder.

ALBUQUERQUE, N. NJ, July 90
Word was brought in last night Of the
murder of a wealthy Italian sheep
raiser, Maurice Gomez, and wife on a
ranch east of here. An iron bolt was
driven through the woman's body,
pinning it to the floor. Robbery was
the motive. The two children of the
murdered parents cannot be found and
their fate is unknown.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-07-29
Fauuuier Notes,

Mrs. Geo. B. Cochran, of Alexandria,
is guest at the Warm Springs.
Misses Lucie Handy, Nellie Hudson
and Mr.. Geo. Warlield, of Alexandria,
are guests Of Mrs. T. NJ. Houchens.
In the County Court this week Jas.
Glascock, charged with the malicious
cutting of Fishback on the 18th of May,
was convicted and sentenced to is
months in the penitentiary.
Mrs. Jas. R. Cation and son, of Alex
andria; Miss George Arnold, of Balti,
more; Miss Jennette Brush, of Wash,
ington; Mrs. Jos. Houchens and daugh-
ter, of Louisiana, and Mr.. H. C. and
Miss Rosa Snyder, of Washington, are
guests of Mrs. L. r. 1Iouchens.
Eppa Hunton, jr., commissioner, sold
last week at public auction the late
Peter Hartman's farm of 1893 acres, in
Guiding buildings valued at $4,000, to
Lewis Strother, of Paris, for SIT pei
acre. This property a few years since
would have been considered bargain
at S25 to $50 an acre.
The hail and wind storm Wednesday
afternoon extended from the farm OF
Ishan Keith, down Great Run Valley
nearly to Calverton. A. Rindsburg's
house was unroofed, small school
house overturned, trees here and there
uprooted, and the fodder stripped from
sundry fields of growing corn. The
loss to the owners Of corn was very
considerable.
Mr.. J. S. Mason publishes the follow
ing: Recognizing the inevitable, and
not wishing further to continue a con-
test which would result in greater bit
terness or estrangement amongst mem
bcrs of my party, l accept the verdict
as against me, however just or unjust it
is not necessary here to argue. | sim
ply withdraw from the field as candi-
date for the Observation-Disclosures IN
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-07-29

THE GRAND COMMANDER DEAD.-Dr.
James Cunningham Bachelor, Grand Com
mander of the Supreme Council of the Scot
fish Rite, died yesterday morning, at the
House of the Temple in Washington, after an
illness of several months. The body will BE-
carried to New Orleans, the former home of
the deceased DR.. Bachelor will be succeed
ed as grand commander by lieutenant COM
mander Philip Crosby Tucker, of Galveston,
Tex, until the meeting of the supreme coun-
Gil at St. Louis, Mo-, next October when the
grand commander will be formally elected.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-07-29

DELEGATES ELECTED.-The demo
Gratis of Nottoway county held a con
vention yesterday at the county court
house and elected delegates to the State
democratic gubernatorial convention to
be held at Richmond. While no in
structions were given, the sense of the
meeting declared for O'Ferrall, Taylor,
Berry and VIM. r. McKenney.
Elizabeth City elected two more
O'Ferrall men, completing her quota.
The remaining three precincts in Hen
rico have not been heard from, but are
believed to have elected for Tyler.
The Tyler Association of Rich
mond has published card saying that
the statements made by Col. OFFER
rails friends are misleading, boastful
and unfair, and that of the delegates so
far elected O'Ferrall has secured but
1913, instead of 334, which he claims.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-07-29

THE FACT that wheat sold for fifty
eight cents bushel to-day is not cal
culated to weaken the third party
movement in Virginia, and should not
be lost sight of by those who are to nom-
mate the democratic candidate for
Governor.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-07-29

CATHOLICS IN A BAPTIST CHURCH.
Rev. Father Mcclure, pastor of st.
Mary's Roman Catholic Church at Long
Island City, n. Y. which was recently
destroyed by fire, has been offered the
privilege of saying mass in the Baptist
Church on Eighth street. Father Nc
CURE, who has accepted the offer, will
celebrate mass there next Sunday. John
H. Woodruff, who is one of the trustees
of the Baptist Church, has also offered
to Father Mcclure one of the houses at
No. 76 Third street to use as parish
house until another house is provided
for the priest. Father Mcclure has
also decided to accept this offer. His
successful efforts in bringing the parish
and its property to an excellent condi-
ton were known to everybody. The
priests goodness, too, and his public
spirit, broad beyond denominational
lines, has epdeared him to his fellow
citizens, irrespective of all religious
preiudices.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-07-29
A WARREN Co. DEMOCRAT.

DEFIEs CONSUMPTION GERMs.-In
order to prove his theory that the ba-
cillus of consumption is not the cause
Of the disease, and that in persons from
whose blood a peculiar condition is alb
sent, the consumption bacillus is abso-
lutely innocuous, DIR. Robert Lincoln
Watkins, of New York city, on We'd
nesday caused himself to be inoccu-
lated with the bacillus of consumption
produced by the culture of germs de-
rived from the human sputum Of eypec-
toration. DR.. Watkins also caused q
similar quantity Of the fluid to be in
jected into guinea pig in order that
the conclusions at which he has arrived
in reference to the phenomena of
phthisis might be demonstrated the
more clearly. He is graduate of the
Medical College of the University of
New York, and has devoted himself for
some years to the study of diseases of
the blood.
DR.. Watkins even goes so far as to
insist that consumption is not contag-
ious, and that it cannot be communi-
Gated by association with an infected
subject, even if the healthy person is
constantly kept in an atmosphere where
the invasion of the germs is persistent,
unless, indeed, there exists in the blood
a granular, irregular mass, to which
he has given the name "tubercular cor
puscle." 1t is upon the absence of the
"tubercular corpuscle" in his own
blood that he relies for his own immu-
nifty.
He is positive that he is in no more
danger than if he had taken pure beef
tea into his system. To make assurance
doubly sure, DR.. Watkins also devoured
number of fully developed consump-
ton germs.
According to DR.. Watkins this is the
first time the experiment of inoculating
a perfectly healthy subject with the
germs of consumption has ever been
attempted, because it has always hith-
erto been taken for granted that such
process might prove fatal.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-07-29

Sister Sarah Bowman. aged SO years, the
oldest surviving inmate of the famous CLOSER
of the seventh day Baptists at Ephrata, Pa,
died to-day.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-07-29

The cotton crop throughout west
Tennessee is better than it has been for
twenty years.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-07-29
jy1 tw&dS
A VALUABLE FARM FOR SALE.

The undersigned by virtue of the power re-
posed in them by George A. Fowle and VIE
and William Campbell and wife, offer for sale
A FARM situate in the county of Fairfax,
State of Virginia, at Franconia station, on the
Washington Southern Railway, containing
about ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-FOUR
$40 ACRES. 1t is in thickly settled neigh
borhOod with churches, schools, stores and
postoffice within short distance the land
rolling and well adapted for gardening, farm
ing or grass, watered by running stream,
springs and well. A GOOD FIVE-ROOM
DWELLING with basement diningroom.
beautiful lawns, TWO-ROOM TENANT
HOUSE, good barn, corn house, wagon shed
and all necessary outbuildings. Has about
thirty acres in grass, two good orchards. one
six acres the other eight acres of two-year-oIG
trees. Trains run at convenient hours to aud
from Alexandria and Washington.
We will offer this PROPERTY at private
sale. and if not sold at private sale it Will DC
sold at public auction on the premises Oh
SATURDAY, the Goth day of August, 1eS''
Terms Of sale: One-third 81 cash and 'ne
residue in one and two years, deferred pay.
ments to bear interest at six per cent. Y!
annum, and to be secured by q deed OF tfl''
upon the property.
J. T. BECKHAM. Attorneys
s43IL. G. BRENT, in fact
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-07-29

WHEAT DROPS A PoINT.-The Balti-
more wheat market yesterday was &C
tive as far as sales were concerned, but
there was a decline in prices. South
ern declined from J to I of a cent per
bushel Sales in cargoes and bag lots
were at IS, 81, 67!, 6Sand 6S4. West
ern opened weak, and less than the
previous day at the first call, and later
there was further drop of t. The set
Ting price was 66!.
The morning call., 1893-06-12
FOR OPEN GATES.
Cardinal Gibbons Favors Sunday
Opening of the Fair.

NEW YORK, June 1.-THE World will
tomorrow publish an authorized interview
with Cardinal Gibbons in regard to the
proposed closing Of the Worlds Fair on
Sunday. Cardinal Gibbons is quoted as
saying:
I'VE believe the Lords day to be not
only day Of rest and religious observ-
ance, but day on which innocent recrea-
ton is allowable. II a visit to the fair
comes within that limit, the opening of the
fair to provide innocent recreation on
Sunday afternoons cannot be considered a
desecration of the day. Having performed
the religious duties required of them in
the morning our Catholic people are free
then to spend the day in such recreation
as becomes Sunday. These and other rea-
sons lead me to believe that the fair
should be open on Sunday afternoon, and
that more evil viii result from Sunday
closing than from Sunday opening."
The morning call., 1893-06-12
AN ENGINEERS SUICIDE.
An Inmate of the Stockton Asylum
Shoots Himself in the Head.

STOCKTON, June 11.-James Sullivan,
employed as an engineer at the pumpng 9
station at the State insane asylum, COM
mitted suicide last night by shooting him
self in the head with 32-caliber pistol.
When missed at breakfast this morning,
a search was made. and the door to his
room was found locked and barricaded
An attendant broke it In aud Sullivan
was found seated in chair dressed, and
before him was a table on which was a
small mirror which he had used in pre-
pairing for his death. In his hand was the
pistol. The ball entered the right ear and
passed out near the left temple. Sullivan
was admitted to the asylum as patient
on November is, 1891. from Merced
County where he had killed the foreman
of the Huffman ranch. 1t was shown after
his arrest that when the killing was done
he was insane. ana he was therefore COM
mitted to the asylum. On May II, 1898
he was discharged as cured. but he still
retained the position as engineer, having
acted as such for many months past
Yesterday be was paid his monthly
salary. and in the evening he left the
place. Before midnight he returned under
the influence of liquor. a a-condition he was
not known to have been in since his stay
in the institution. He was 10 years af age
and a native of Rhode Island.
The morning call., 1893-06-12
LABOR TROUBLES.
Striking Men Attacking Ne
grOeS.
A Mob Pursues Colored Laborers.
Who Narrowly Escape Serious
Injury.
Special to THE MORNING CALL

LEMoNT, H., June 1l.-This aftern oon
six of the cOlored workmen employed on
the drainage canal came into town. The
streets were filed with strikers who had
been quietly and orderly. but when the
negroes were seen, the mob made rush
for them and the negroes ran. The howl.
ing bloodthirsty mob. several hundred
strong, started iu pursuit Three negroes
managed to escape TO the militia camp.
but the others were caught. The mob
surrounded them and cries of Kill them"
and Throw them into the canal" met
with decided approval.
Mayor Mccarthy. with squad of police.
after desperate effort. managed to rescue
the blacks. but not btgofe they were badly
beaten aud almost denuded of their cloth
ing. Governor Altgeld to-day heard the
contractors story of the case, and after
ward wrote out an order directing the
troops to return home.
Adjutant-General Orendorf was in-
structed, however, before carrying it into
effect to arrange an agreement between
the contractors and strikers. He met
both sides this afternoon. but the result
was not successful. The contractors
claim that they would be able to resume
work if their men were protected. and it
was agreed that they should make the t.
tempt tomorrow, and the order to the
troops was OF published.