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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-11-27
THE CANYAss1NG BOARD.

The Governor, Auditor of Public Ac-
counts Marye, Treasurer Harmon and
Secretary of the Commonwealth Law
less. members of the State canvassing
board, met at the capitol in Richmond
yesterday, and canvassed the returns OF
the congressional election of November
6. All of the members ofthe board were
present except the encouragement.
The board awarded certificates to all
of the congressman elect. Besides the
members of the board there were pre-
sent Col. William Lamb, State Senator
Flood, Congressman-elect McKenney,
Judge Edmund Waddill and ]. w.
Southwark, the defeated republican
candidate from the third district. ln
the first district there were clerical
errors and commissions in the certificates
of election from the counties of Ac'
comac, Lancaster, Caroline, Middlesex
and Matthews. Judge Edmund Wad-
dill, as counsel for Mr.. Mcdonald, sub
mitted motion to have all of the GER
tificates from the first district returned
that record might be made of the
votes rejected because illegally prepar-
ed, which the Judge claimed number
1872. His motion was voted down,
the board taking the stand that it was
not within its province to consider any
thing that was not shown upon the
certificates. He then made motion
that the vote from the five counties
where there were errors in the certifi.
Gates be thrown out. This the board
also voted down.
When the returns had been can
vassed from the second district Col.
William Lamb said that in the interest
of Mr.. Borland he wished to submit q
protest. 81 persuaded Mr.. Borland, !"
said Colonel Lamb, ''to run for Con-
gress. Just before the election l heard
stateme nts made that certain things
were to be done and it made me send
to every precinct where it was practi-
cable to do so an intelligent party to
watch the vote. / have gotten returns
from probably seven.eights of the pre-
cincts and it reveals state of fraud
and corruption in my district that is
very sad to me. Some of the reports I
udIOlN UOllCfO anu SOAu NCtOS-
tives to verify them and they have been
verified, while have not had reports
from others. In other places I sent in
telligent gentlemen and in al! the pre-
cincts so far only two of the reports
have proven incorrect. Of course /
cannot connect the distinguished gen
tleman who ran for Congress on the
democratic ticket with these frauds,
but they are of such a serious character
that have come here to-day to make
a protest, to which protest am willing
to take my oath to the best of my
knowledge and belief, and would ask
for time that may get witnesses to 60
before justice of the peace or notary
public, not to give ex parte statements,
but to have the witnesses cross-exam-
med by the distinguished gentlemen or
his friends to prove these frauds" The
board informed Colonel Lamb that they
had not authority to admit his protest.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-11-27
TO HoRsE OWNERS.

For putting a horse in fine healthy CON.
dition try DR.. Cady's Condition Powders.
They tone up the system, aid digestion, cure
loss of appetite, relieve constipation, correc,
kidney disorders and destroy worms, giving
new Life to an old or over worked horse. Is
cents per package. For sale BY
L. STABLER & Co., Druggists.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-11-27

Miss Mary D. Johnston, daughter of
Col. VIM. Preston Johnston, and grand
daughter of Gen. Albert Sidney John
ston, died in Louisville, KY, on Sun
day.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-11-27
LOST.

T OST.-On Friday evening last in the
~ western part of the city or in West End,
q SMALL PASS BOOK. containing a list of
names. The finder will be suitably rewarded
by returning it to this Office nov21 st
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-11-27

onamberlain's Eye and Skin Ointment
Is a certain cure for Chronic Sore Eyes,
Granulated Eye Lids, Sore Nipples Piles
Eczema, letter, Salt Rheum and Scald Head,
% cents DER box. For sale by druggists.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-11-27
DIED.

In Washington, November oGta, 1894.
Mrs. JENNErTE GELS, aged 3S years. Flu
neral from st. Mary's Church, morrow,
are invited.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-11-27

MADE MANY SUBJECTS HAPPY
The Cars manifesto was issued last
night. The Car, in honor of his mar
riage, RENTS various debts to the
crown, including the repayment of the
grants made to peasants on account Of
the famines. He also wholly RENTS
all arrears of taxes and fines, and miti
gates or shortens sentences of imprison-
ment. police supervision and deporta-
ton at hard labor. The prosecution
for treason of offenders who have re-
NAMED undiscovered for fifteen years
will be abandoned. The indulgences
to political prisoners will be decided
upon after report has been submitted
to the Car by the minister of the in
terror. Amnesty is granted to the par
Elephants in the Polish rebellion of 1S63.
and they will be permitted to reside
anywhere in Russia. Their civil rights,
but not their property, will be restored
to them.
In honor of the Cars wedding 49,
600 poor people of st. Petersburg were
dined yesterday at the expense of toe
Car. All the schools have been closed
for three days in order to give the
children q holiday, and enable them to
celebrate the imperial marriage.
According to current reports, the
Car has caused CONSERVATION among
the officers of his household by leaving
the palace unattended, and walking
through the streets in military man
tie, or walking arm in arm with the
first officer he meets.
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CITIZENS NATIoNAL, RANK

TITIZENS NATIONAL BANK.
" ALEXANDRIA, Va, Nov. 81, 1894.
This BANK will be closed on THURSDAY,
the Both, (Ths nksgiving Day.. All NOTES
maturing on that day are required to be paid
on Wednesday, the 18th instant.
VIM. q. LAMBERT,
noY27 vt Cashier.
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MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL.

New YORK, Nov. Pill a. m.-The
market this morning has been waiting one,
operators preferring 10 keep near shore until
something definite is known about the North
west dividend At 1 1 o'clock the market was
quiet aud still waiting for the Northwest
dividend.
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BALTIMORE, Nov. 27.-virginia century
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-11-27
LETTER FROM FAUQUIER.

Correspondence of Alexandria Gazette.l
MARSHALL, Va, Nov. "a, 1894. =
Lately we were favored to have Mr..
Lawrence Washington, now a resident
of Alexandria, to call. In our humble
opinion President Cleveland would be
honored himself to appoint Mr.. Wash
ington to the office for which the latter
is an applicant.
The friends of another distinguished
citizen of Alexandria, but who lived for
some years in Fauquier, DR.. Bedford
Brown, rejoice to notice by the late pa
pers that DR.. Brown continues to add
fresh laurels to his fairly won chaplet
in medical circles, and by his late con-
tribution the use of chloroform in med
ical and surgical practice, contained in
paper read before the Southern Sur
gical Association, has won world wide
medical reputation. No living surgeon
or physician ever had the chance which
DR.. Brown had of observing the cere-
Bsal circulation under the use of cholo-
reform in the person of a patient who
had lost his scalp by the kick of q horse,
thereby exposing the brain to observa-
ton, and allowing the experimenter to
note the influence of chloroform on the
circulation.
As usual in the country the prospects
for the observance of Thanksgiving
Day next week are very poor. Other
denominations save the Episcopal seem
not to regard any notice of it. Our
small boy is delighted to have his
school suspended on the occasion, and
once more to enjoy a days holiday.
The teachers and pupils of the public
schools also suspend their exercises
usually.
A new industry has been started in
Marshall by Messrs. Kloman and Kip
stein viz, sthe manufacture of certain
chemicals for common household pur-
poses. DR.. Kloman, now resident of
Warrenton, who has share in this un-
dertakipg, is sanguine of success. 1t is
certain that Marshall needs drug
store.
R. Horner Wyeth, esq, now jour-
nalist in Paris, France, and others in
that city have lately organized the
Paris Chapter of the Sonssof the Amer
lean Revolution. On the day of the
first meeting nearly three hundred
American and French gentlemen and
ladies, Mr.. Horner writes, assembled
to do honor to Lafayette, by placing an
emblem of the Sons of the American
Revolution on the distinguished French
mans tomb. America was represented
at the function held at Picpus Gene
terry by Captain Nathan Appleton, of
Boston, and NJ. de Saheme Lafayette
represented the Lafayette family"
The disgust felt for the mushroom
distilleries, so common now in Eau
quier, stiles somewhat ones patriotism
and inspires dread that such noxious
concerns will make revolutions sure
enough.
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CHICAGO, Nov Wheat-Dec 54at.
May 6O1sq597s Corn-D.c 49,; My
4S5sa4Ss. Cats-May 32li Pork-Jan
$40 1915 May S12 4212. Lar1-JAn$7 90;
May 81 17la. Ribs-Jan So 10; May
Sc 221b.
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DUBLIC SALE.

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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-01-14
A natural bridge of Agate.

A mining expert sent to investigate
some Arizona properties for Denver
capitalists recently returned and re-
ports the finding of a most remarkable
natural bridge formed by a tree of ag-
atized wood, spanning a canyon forty
five feet in width.
The tree had at some remote time
fallen and become Embedded in the silt
of some great inland sea or mighty
water flow. The silt became in time
sandstone, and the wood gradually
passed through the stages of mineral
izing until it is now a wonderful tree of
solid agate. In after years the water
washed and ate away the sandstone
until canyon forty-five feet in width
has been formed, the f1inty-like sub
stance of the agatized wood having re-
sisted the erosion of the waterfowl
Fully fifty feet of the tree rests on one
side and can be traced, but now far its
other end lies buried in the sandstone
cannot be determined without blasting
away the rock.
The trunk visible above the canyon
varies in size from four feet to three
feet in diameter. Where the bark has
been broken and torn away, the char
acteristic colors of jasper and agate
are seen. To the naked eye the wood
is beautiful. Under microscope or
miners magnifying glass the brilliant
colorings are clearly brought out in all
their wondrous beauty.-Oregon States
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-01-14

to have fortified his generosity, and
here we behold the fruit.
'sWhen the stranger comes mere ana
asks us for the monument OF EDWIN
Booth. we can say, Look around you.
For some time past ne had looked
forward calmly to. his dissolution one
year ago tonight, in this room ana at
this very hour, he said to me these
memorable words: They drink tonight
to my health When they meet again
it will be to my memory Two years
ago last autumn we walked on the
sea beach together, and with strange
and prophetic kind of poetry he
lkened the scene to his failing health
the falling leaves, the withered sea-
weed, the dying grass upon the shore
and the ebbing tide that was last re
ceding from us. He told me that he
felt prepared to go, for he had Tor
given his enemies and could even re-
joice in their happiness. Surely this
was a grand condition to step from
this world across the threshold OIL the
next"
Just before midnight Mr.. Jefferson
closed his speech. But it is now.
he said, upon the stroke of midnight,
and. taking the loving cup handed MN
by A NJ. Palmer. he concluded: Let
us fulfill the prophecy made by our
founder a year ago and drink to the
memory of Edwin Booth. New York
rT1i,,,ac
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-01-14
WHY WE ARE NOT MILL1oNA1REs.
The Condition of the Masses Due to
Extravagance.

George K. Holmes, special census agent
on .nortage statistics, approaches the con-
sentration of wealth question from the
other side He writes in the current num-
Der of the Political Science Quarterly
Instead of attempting TO compute the
property holding OF the rich. he strives
to ascertain how much of the rational
wealth the masses of the people possess.
The census bureau took from every family
in twenty-five states and territories an
swers to the questions whether it owned
or hired the farm or home occupied, and
the extent of the inculnbrance on owned
farms and homes, if any, with the value
of the property. The results are believed
to be fairly representative of the whole
country. Assuming this to be so, 80 per
cent of the farm families and 60 per cent.
of the home families in the country are
tenants Among farm-ow ming families 80
per cent. carry mortgage debts avera g
ing 81, 100; on farms whose average value
is S., 100; among the home owning families
81, i39 on homes valued on the average
at s.. 254
The census will show the number of
farms to be about 100000, leaving 1886 152
families occupying homes that are not
farms Mr. Holmes confines his wealth
estimates here to properties valued at less
than $1,000 Such farms incunlbereG con-
stitute 80 per cent. in number and 81 per
cent in value of all incumbered farms,
and such incumbered homes constitute 81
per cent in number and as per cent. in
value of all incumbered homes The cen
sus did not take the value OF unincum-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-01-14
JOSEPH JEFFERSON ON BOOTH.
Tribute of the New President of til
Players to Its Founder.

Tribute of the New President of the
Players to Its Founder.
Joseph Jefferson, as president of The
Players, passed the loving cup for the
first time in the celebration of Found
er's Day" on New Years eve. He also
on this occasion made his first speech
as president, and spoke in loving terms
of his predecessor, Edwin Booth. In
speaking of the founder of The Play
ers, Mr.. jefferson said:
IAN early remembrance of the stage
brings before me the figures of the ell
der Booth. When I was but 5 years
of age 1 acted the Duke of York to his
Richard Ill His son Edwin was then
just born. We first met when he was
a handsome youth of Is, little and
graceful in figure, buoyant in spirits,
and he had the lovliest eyes l ever
looked upon. We were friends from
the first, and it is a comfort for me to
know that our friendship lasted nearly
half century, unbroken by a single
act or word. His early performances
upon the stage did not give much
promise, and there were grave fears
that he had not inherited the genius
of his father. But after the death of
that father young Booh's friends and
the public were suddenly startled by
the news from across the continent
that a new star had arisen, not in the
east, but in the west, and was vending
| its way hOmeward.
May 1 not speak here of this gift
of the players? 1t is comparatively
easy for those who are rocked in a
golden cradle and who at their birth
are endowed with great wealth to dis
pense their bounty. l do not desire
to disparage the generosity of the rich.
Those of our land have done much
good, are now freely dispensing their
wealth, and will continue to do so, but
we must remember that the fortune
of Edwin was not inherited. The walls
/ within which we stand, the art. the IL
brary, and the comforts that surround
us represent a life of toll and travel.
sleepless nights, tedious JOURNEYS. and
weary work; so that when he be-
slowed upon us this club is was not his
wealth only, but is was himself that he
gave.
but few years ago he was. though
lrich in genius, poor in pocket. He hao
been wealthy. and saw the grand
dramatic structure he had reared
taken from him and devasted. His re-
verse of fortune was from no fault
of his. but from a confiding nature
When he again, by arduous toll, ac
formulated wealth, one would have
Thought that his former reverses would
have startled him and that he woulC
fhave clutched his newly-acquired golC
and garnered it to himself, fearful
Hest another stroke of Ill fortune SHOULD
fall upon him. But instead of making
him coward it gave him courage. I
Ibid not warp his mind or steel hi
heart against humanity. No sterilit,
lsettled upon him. His wrong seemed
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-01-14
Shakespeare. the Player.

Shakespeare was not only a poet,
but a player and a playwright-the
chief glory of the actors calling.
Shakespeare recreated the English
stage while he was founding the
greatest reputation of English litera-
ture. He was an actor before he at
tempted dramatic composition. He
wrote his plays for the stage alone; his
chief care was that they should be
acted and not published, having a nat
ural objection to having his plays
printed as long as the acting right was
vested in his own company, for there
was no Dramatic Authors society in
those days. He made his fortune in
the theatre. he made his friends in the
theatre; his distinction in the refined
society of his time he owed en-
tirely to the theatre. And when we
speak of Shakespeare's company we
want it understood that he was always
a player in that company; he was not
like our modern so-called actor-man-
ayers. That idiotic discussion known
as the Shakespeare-Baco controversy
lis made. valueless when it is asserted
that only a player could have written
the plays of Shakespeare. He wrote
for the theatre and succeeded where
other poets failed, because he under
stood what is SO much to a play, the
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-01-14
Getting Vaccinated.

All gripmen, motormen, drivers and con-
ductors on South Side street cars have
just been vaccinated, and there will be fun
on those lines in the next few days. Or
ders were posted in the barns that every
employee found unvaccinated January l,
1894, would be discharged. Physicians
were employed by rhe company to be in
attendance at the barns and vaccinate
the men as they came in. Some of the
most stalwart gripmen, who have been
accustomed by sheer. force of muscle to
toss their cars clear over across street
car lines, have peen compelled to lay
off from duty by the swollen arms. Mot
ormen are practicing with their right
arms as subs and drivers coax the
smoking passengers who ride On the front
platform to twist the brake for theE
while they hold the fractions horses with
their unimpaired right hand. The con-
ductors in collecting fares in a crowded
car do not hold on to the strap with their
left hands. While the sanitary effect of
the vaccination cannot but do good the
car that is packed before he will attempt
to secure all the fares.-Chicago Tribune
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-01-14
matchmaking Organizat ions.

The Chinese Six Companies represent
the six districts near Canton, China,
from which almost all the emigrants
come to this country. The companies
bring the immigrants here, paying their
passage, supporting them until they
get work, burying them when they
die and take their bones back to China.
For all this they exact enormous rates
of interest, and blackmail their sub
jects from time to time as occasion
arises The highbinders are simply the
agents of the companies in blackmail-
ing or in removing Cinnamon who re-
fuse to be blacllmailed or are other
wise obnoxious to the companies.-Chi-
cagO Herald.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-01-14

Of idle men than Colorado, in proper
ton TO the population. There is also
a greater percentage Of suffering on
account. of the hard times. In two
weeks absence did not find any COM
munity as nervy and hopeful as Den
yer. The outlook in the large cities is
very depressing. Such industries as
start up after the financial shock are
beginning again on smaller capacity
and with their products at lower prices
than ever before in this country 1t
is the opinion of many competent
judges that the proposed tariff legis-
lation will be carried out and that it
will compel q. very material reduction
Of wages on all classes of working
men and in all the necessaries of life.
Mr.. Jeffrey does not expect any
change for the better until next spring.
Railway Notes.
B. F. Morris. of the Denver & Rio
Grande, is visiting with his family in
the east.
The "Sinbad" company left over the
Union Pacific for Denver last night
after the performance.
The calendar of the Chicago Inter
Ocean for 1894 has on it a series of
artistic pictures of scenes along the
Rio Grande and the Western.
R. F. Neslen, contracting agent for
the Burlington, is moving around on
clutches, the result Of a sprained
ankle, chargable to a slippery pave
ment.
II. A. Johnson. recently appointed
general agent of the passenger de-
partment at Denver, was at one time
contracting agent of the Rio Grande
Western in this city and was after
wards Union Pacific general agent in
San Francisco.
The Rio Grande Western train which
brings in the Iowa State band, the
magnificent organization of ffty-six
pieces, which will be the official band
of the Midwinter fair, will arrive to-
morrow morning at 11:15. The band
will then give an open air concert in
order to show the people of Salt Lake
how they can play.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-01-14
Not Beautiful, but Efficient.

There is a difference between the
gripmen of Chicago and New York.
The New York variety generally wears
his hat at rakish angle, is well shaver
and often has curled mustache. He
watches the street corners with some
thing of the look of a masher as his
car goes whirling along Broadway. In
Chicago the gripman is usually a burly
unshaven person, who stands in the
middle of the motor car with long
iron lever in either hand. He does not
wear a uniform, has fondness for a
SLOUGH hat and an antipathy for gloves.
AS a rule he chews tobacco and uses
language, as he mumbles to himself,
of a particularly violent and crimina!
character. But he controls his train
of three cars with an eye to business
which invariably establishes confidenc@
in the passengers. He is western
product and his main object seems to
be to get his train through on time
without killing people. 1t is question
whether the western gripman would
not be a beneficial importation to New
/ York New York Sun.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-01-14
Evening".

Far DER the plains the setting sun
Sinks in flood of liquid light;
The creeping shadows dark and dun
Speak the diurnal journey run,
And herald the approaching night
The slanting sunbeans glance and CLEAN
On many broad and winding stream,
Whose slowly winding waters seem
Full 10th to lose a ray
The smiling groves, the fruitful trees,
Deserted by the wandering breeze.
Fade dimly on the eye that sees
The gently dying day.
The mountains bare their storm-beat
breast
In gladness to the golden west,
And every shining height
Ambitious rears it's joyful peak
To catch the last faint golden streak
OF slowly waning light.
So dies the day, and as it dies,
Fair Luna mounts the eastern skies,
Calm, cold, majestic, as TO say;
why mourn the slow departing day?
Let grief for fair Aurora's fight
Be lost in rapture for the night
j. Sansome in the Gentlemen's Magazine.