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Tensas gazette., 1894-02-09

Two cstlsfs Ut the State Usi.
ssts.s. at Bates R'vse have died
serenity OF that dreaded d,s~aae,
meningitis, and oil exer,'ises ., this,
'nssitution hsse be~u susv~n.Ie,i
a"siI Fe6. 26. A thososs6 invssti.
gssi""'"f the ssnitssy coudit,ona 0,
the Usiversity aud The causes ol
sh' ds ases viii b~ made b, IN.
sA'ho'i'i-s. There are /. large
oaober u Tensss cadets Ut the
University and ws are glad TO know
that none OF them were ssricksu.
Tensas gazette., 1894-02-09

NJ. @. Il. R~dsord has ssnou need
hinssh % . candidate for sepre
sshtstivs from Madison Parish tn
~. :ta"> ,xa''Cy :eAsseds by the ap-
p"'ntsens OF Hon. JED. B. Snyder,
~ naval O@c~r.
Tensas gazette., 1894-02-09
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Tensas gazette., 1894-02-09

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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-10-04
Fauouier Notes.

Miss Amelia Clement, of Sowcgo, and DR..
Mills, of Catletts Station, were married on
Thursday last at the brides home.
An extra train hauling the railroad officers
over the road to inspect the depots ran over
and killed five COWS for Mr.. J. A. Marshall at
Markham. They paid him $50 a piece for
them.
Col. 81. T. Jones, of Norfolk. Va, will buy
a lot near Markham and build q handsome
house on it at an early date. 1t is reported
that he is going to run a largo male boarding
school.
The old Mt. Blanc House, near Orlean, own
ed by James Edward Marshall. who now lives
in Florida, was burned down Monday night
It is supposed to have caught accidentally. A
large amount of silverware and a number Of
nice feather beds and household furniture,
also q $500 piano were lost.
The store of II. F. Robertson, at Broad
Bun, was broken into Friday night. The
robbers secured 500 in postofice money and
priced open the money drawer, securing about
IS in small change and a silver watch, No
goods were taken. Monday night of the same
week John Smallwood's store at Thorough
fare was broken into and about $75 worth of
goods carried of.-Warrenton Virginian.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-10-04
THURSDAY EVENING. OCT. A, 1924

COMMENTING upon the commotlon
created in a fashionable locality III
Brooklyn by the purchase therein OF a
house by a we'll behaved and respectlui
negro, the New York Sun says;
aIf the negro referred to undertook
to buy a residence for himself in any
other quarter Of Brooklyn, or IN any
other ouarter of New York not already
inhabited by negroes. he Woqld en-
counter the same prejudices. usuaily
the introduction Of a colored family IN
to a tenement house drives out tne
white occupants, no matter how poor
and humble they may be-: No matter
how prosperous and well educated o
negro may be, he has no more chance OF
being received in white society at the
North than he has at the South. Nay,
at the South the social prejudice against
him is not generally SO incompetence
as it is here"
1t is we'll that there is one Northern
newspaper that has the faculty OF see,
ing things as they are in the North and
the spirit to speak of them.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-10-04
The Georgia Election.

A1S
ATLANTA, Ca, Oct. 4.-Returns from
all the accessible counties indicate that
Atkinson's majority for Governor may
range from 10000 to 10000 and that
the State ticket will probably receive
about 10000 more. Probably 40 popu-
list members of the legislature have
been elected. The democratic ma
iority last year was $1,000. The great
est falling off in the vote occurs in the
fourth district, where Atkinson resides,
and which is represented in Congress
by C. L. Moses. The seventh, ninth
and tenth districts all show big
deficits. Speaker Crisp's district
also shows something Of a slump,
as do the fifth and sixth districts.
From Turner's, Testers and Russell's
districts the usual democratic MAORI
ties are fully sustained. Most of the
districts represented by free silver dem
ocrats have furnished the populist
gains. ALI senatorial calculations have
been upset by the increased represen-
tation of the populists in the legisla-
ture. Turner's chances are considered
much improved, as the section of the
State which is solid for him will send
solid democratic delegations to the leg
islature.
The Journal claims that the demo-
Gratis will have 80 majority in the Sen
ate and $50 majority in the House. 1t
says that every Congressional district
except Representative JohnC. Blacks
(tbe 1Oth) went for democrats. The
9th, now represented by Tate, is car
ried for the democrats by 700 majority
anl the 4th, represented by Moses, by
900. This is the first election since the
war when the republicans and popu-
lists have made a complete fusion.
The negroes voted solidly with the
Iopulists.
SAVANNAH, Co., Oct. 4.-Returns
in the First congressional district indi-
cate 1000 democratic majority. The
indications are that the democratic
majority in Congressman Turner's dis
t-ict will hold up well. The indica-
tons are that the constitutional amend
ments increasing the number of Su-
preme Court judges to five and increas-
ing pensions to Confederate Veterans
are lost.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-10-04
Cor HER HALF MuLros.-Mrs He

Cor HER HALF MnLIoN.-Mrs. Her
man Oelrichs, of New York, who was
Miss Tessie Fair in the days of her resi-
dence in San Francisco, has celebrated
her 25th birthdays and consequently the
first large slice of devised property is
about to be cut from the estate of the
late Mr.. Fair. 1t will amount to some
thing like a-half million dollars, and
receipt for that amount, scheduling va
rious gilt-edge appraised securities, has
already been drawn up by the e1ecu-
tors for her signature. One reason for
the presence of Mrs. Oelrichs and Miss
Virginia Fair in San Francisco just nov
is for the transfer to Mrs. Oelrichs of
her Inheritance. Another is the trans
fer of the remains of Mrs. Fair from the
temporary vault to an imposing mauso-
leum of granite, now completed, at a
cost of $4,000.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-10-04
The situation in New York,


NEW YORK, Oct. 4.-Senator Hill
was seen at democratic headquarters
this morning. He said he would stay
in town a day or two longer, and that
he hoped to give out q statement before
going back to Albany. he was asked
in regard to the situation but declined
to discuss the matter. When asked in
relation to the prospects OF the success
of the democratic party this fall, he
said that it was always his fortune to
go into the fight when the clouds were
dark, but that he came in strong at the
stretch.
BROOKLYN, N. Y, Oct. 4.-Major
Hinckley, chairman of the democratic
State committee, paid another visit this
afternoon to Judge Gaynor. After their
talk Major Hinckley said II cannot
talk now. I think nothing will be set
tied to-day, nor for a reasonable
time" Judge Gaynor also refused
to tell what they discussed. In regard
to the rumors concerning him he said
II do not deal in rumors. l know moth
ing of the matter of which you speak.
In relation to my own nomination, l
must be treated with a little patience.
You must remember no one has as yet
been notified and no one has accepted"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-10-04
Killed by Electricity.

Boston, Oct. &c. E. Day and A.
]. Munroe, employees of the Boston
electric light company, were killed this
morning. Day was at the top of a pole
trimming the arc lamp, when, with q
shrek, he fell backward and clutched
the wires with his hands. He was
prevented from falling to the ground
by a body belt fastened about the pole.
AS he hung limp and %lifeless his hands
and clothing were burning with a
sizzling noise and sending up clouds of
light smoke. The electric company
was quickly notified and in a few
minutes a repair wagon was at the scene
with several employees of the company.
Munroe ran up the pole to his comrades
rescue with a pair of nippers with which
to cut the wire. AS soon as he touched
the wire he received a heavy shock and
was thrown from the pole into the
street, striking on his head and fractur-
ing his skull. Other help was secured
and with the aid of a rope Day was
lowered from the pole. He was still
breathing but died on the way to the
hospital. Munroe had in the meantime
been taken to the same hospital, where
he died an hour later, without recover-
ing consciousness. At the same time
this accident happened, Thos. Nc
Carthy, an employee of the same COM
pany, who was working on a light at
the corner of Congress and Shanning
streets, on the same electric current,
received a severe shock and was knoci-
ed from the pole, falling heavily on the
sidewalk. He was taken to the hospi-
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-10-04
Coupons Again.

The tax receivable coupon which for
so many years has pestered the State
of Virginia has bobbed up again in a
new phase. On Friday next, Messrs.
Maury and Maury, attorneys for Ed
win Parsons, of New York, will ask
Judge Simonton, of the United States
Circuit Court, to grant an injunction re-
straining the city tressurers of Rich
mond, Petersburg and Norfolk from re-
fusing to receive coupons in payment
of taxes. The ground upon which this
action is brought is that MI. Parsons
has sold to certain Virginia Taxpayers
tax receivable coupons and, it is pre-
sumed, has entered into a contract with
them by which he guarantees that the
coupons thus sold shall be received by
the State of Virginia in payment of
taxes. Mr.. Parsons contends that no
man has the right to interfere with him
in carrying out his contract with these
purchasers of his coupons and that the
treasurers of the cities named are gull
ty of such interference when they re-
fuse to receive the coupons rendered.
Hence the prayer for the injunction.
This case, it is said, is on all-fours
with the Debs case. A railroad COM
pany has contracted with the Pullman
Palace Car Company to run Pullman
cars over its lines. Mr.. Debs attempt
ed to prevent the railroad company
from carrying out its contract and an
injunction was asked for and obtained
restraining Debs from all such inter-
ference. This phase of coupon litiga-
ton is entirely new and if the i%njunc-
ton prayed for is granted the State may
be put to no end of trouble. In this
connection it may be mentioned that
an appeal has also been taken by
Messrs. Meury & Maury, counsel, from
the decision of the Virginia Court of
Appeals in the Mccullough case. In
this case, it will be remembered, the
court decided that the coupon contract
was void. This case has been appeal
ed to the United States Court, but it
has no connection with the Parsons in
junction suit above referred to and, as
already said, the Parsons suit, while its
ultimate object, to wit, to force the
State to receive coupons in payment of
taxes, is the same, the manner of pro-
cedure is different from all previous ac-
tions in the wide range ofcouponl itiga-
tion.-Richmond State.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-10-04

THE EIGHTH DIsTRICT.-The Wash
ington correspondent of the Richmond
Dispatch writes: Reports received here
from the contest in the Eighth con-
gressional district of Virginia are to
the effect that Colonel Pat. McCaull is
conducting a campaign of so much Drag
and buster that he is making no head
way at all. "Steeny" Mason, the pop
ulist candidate, has fallen fiat, and does
not appear to be able to interest the
voters in his talks. They cannot be
called speeches, as be does not rank in
that class; and opponents of Congress
man Meredith who expected that Ma
son would draw heavily from the DEM
ocrats and thus help to pull McCaull
through, are said to be gloomy over the
outlook. At the beginning of the cam
paign there was some dissatisfaction
among the democrats, but it is said to
be rapidly disappearing. The best
posted people think Mr.. Meredith will
secure q majority over both McCaull
and Mason. The old Eighth district is
as reliable any other in the State, and
the size of the democratic majority will
depend on the success of the efforts to
get out the vote on election day.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-10-04

In A crush last Monday at an Ohio
college to which female as we'll as male
students are admitted, the newspaper
account of the d~isgraceful affair says
that half a dozen of the latter we're Sc
riously injured, and that "the female
members of the classes took part and
some faces will carry the marks of their
pretty fingers for days" This affords a
patent illustration of effect OF the
''progress of the age" And yet there
were people in Virginia, and Virginia
people at that, who, only a short time
ago, advocated the admission of young
women to the University of Virginia.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-10-04

THE Richmond Dispatch says the
order changing the name of the post
office at Appomattox Court House to
Surrender will not be revoked until
''the people of Virginia and of the coun-
try at large take pains to let Mr.. Bis
sci know their views" on the subject.
But even then the order would not be
revoked, unless the people served with
mail at the postofice referred to should
let Mr.. Bissell "know their views"
And it would be much easier for them
to do go than for those of the whole
State and the whole country.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-10-04

A NEWSPAPER correspondent in
Washington says Second Assistant
Postmaster General Nelson is giving a
great deal of attention to mail facilities
in the large cities" 1t is hoped that
the Third, Fourth, or any other Assist
ant, or the Postmaster General himself
may give some attention to mail facili-
ties in this part of Virginia. Hardly a
day passes on which some complaint
does not reach this Office from the GA
zETTE's country subscribers, of the in
excusable delay and i%rregularity in the
reception of their paper.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-10-04

THE large gains made by the repuo
licans at the recent elections in Yer
mont, Maine and Connecticut only
show, what has always been shown be-
fore, that the democratic party de-
ponds for its success upon the vote OF
the South. There may be an occasional
spasm of true democracy in q State or
two of the North, but it soon subsidies
into the prejudice and se%ctionalism Pc
culiar to the republicanism ofthat part
of the country. But Northern demo
Gratis seem to think that the defeat OF
the Force bill is an amply sufficient rec
ompense for the south's constancy to
the democratic faith.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-10-04
New York Politics.

Senator Hill was in New York city
Yesterday and held conferences with
Judge Gaynor and the leaders of the
State democracy. 1t is said that il
there is an Independent democratic
ticket for State officers the State dem
ocracy will not support it.
A dispatch from New York says
yesterday was productive of much
which is expected to clear the local po'
litical muddle. AS q result of the
agreements which are said to have heen
made it is considered probable thai
there will be but two municipal tickets
in the field, one having the support o.
all the democrats of the city and the
other supported by the republicans, the
independent county organizations and
the good government clubs"
The Herald says: political surprises
came so fast yesterday that they fairly
trod on one another's heels. Demo
cratic harmony had gone so far by noon
that MI. William G. Whitney and
Senator Hill had met on friendly
terms for the first time in years,
and Mr.. Whitney had undertaken to
assist in uniting the local democracy.
There was a meeting of the executive
committee of Tammany Hall following
a visit of Mr.. Whitney TO Mayor Gilroy,
and Mayor Gilroy relinquished the
leadership, which was on his motion
vested in a committee of eight. Th9
congressional and other nominating
conventions were postponed in order
that peace negotiations might be open
ed with the State democracy. AS if it
was a part of a concerted scheme to
make a union ticket Impossible, the
State democracy and the German
American Reform Union, both of which
have conferences with the committee
of seventy pending, met in convention
last night and practically nominated
John W. Golf for Mayor. The prscti-
cal nomination of Golf, it is believed,
has q twofold object. The first is to
force the committee of seventy into
breaking off negotiations with the re-
publicans. The second is to veil for
the time being the plan to nominate
William r. Grace, or some one he may
name, lot mayor Oh SITaiSuG ucuioCial
ic ticket to be Endorsed by Tammany.
It is said that the nomination for Mayor
on 8 straight democratic ticket was
offered to MI. Goffyesterday and he de.
clined it. His name will be used until
the State democracy has TIME to ascer-
tain whether Tammany is so DESTROYS
of saving the State ticket as to join
hands in trying to elect Grace or some
one he may name. The likelihood of a
IDEAL" was on everybody's lips last
night. Tammany men were swearing
they would do anything for harmony
but surrender the mayoralty to the
anti-snappers. The democratic State
committee is no nearer knowing wheth-
er Judge Gaynor will accept the nomi-
nation for Court of Appeals than yes
terday. Brooklyn politicians, who are
ratified" say Hill will decline to run
for Governor and that Judge Gaynor
will be named for the head of the ticket
by the State committee. Secretary OF
War Lamont is here to aid Mr.. Whit
ney in securing harmony"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-10-04

TowED TO DEATH BY A SwoRDFIsB,
The fishing schooner John M. Keen,
from the Channel Fishing Grounds, ar
rived at Boston yesterday, with colors
at half-mast. The captain reports that
on September 80 two of the crew, John
Matheson and Howard Smith, left the
vessel to terd the travis. The captain
thinks their boat struck a swordfsh,
which towed it out to sea. Matheson
was twenty-six years old, single, and
made his home in Boston. Smith was
about twenty-five years of age, and
came from Halifax, N. S.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-10-04
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Fourth Assistant Postmaster General
Maxwell says he has failed to receive a
single protest against the change IN the
name of the Appomattox postofice to
Surrender.
Miss Myrtle Gibson, of Culpeper, was
married on Wednesday, the 26th ult.,
to Mr.. E. Boteler, of Bristersburg, in
the NJ. E. Church at S%tephensburg, Gull
pepper county.
The prohibition convention of the
Richmond Congressional district recon
vened Yesterday and nominated G. M.
Smithdeal for Congress in place of G.
B. Jones declined.
MI. J. Walter Smith according to a
statement in the Loudoun Telephone,
made his wheat crop pay him S1.5O a
bushel by feeding it to hogs and mar
keting them in September.
At Staunton yesterday the jury in
the case of Mrs. Minnie McCauley, who
had been on trial in the Augusta Coun-
ty Court for four days charged with
numbering her husband, returned g
verdict of acquittal.
Thepresent session of the University
of Virginia makes the forty-eighth that
Henry Martin has filled the position
of ianitor at that institution. Henry
was a slave and belonged to DR.. Viii.
liam G. Carr. His mother belonged to
Thomas Jefferson.
The p~ostofice in Harrisonburg was
broken into Tuesday night, the safe
drilled open, and stamps and money
amounting to $1,000 were stolen. No
| clew to the robbers has been obtained,
except that three strangers left that
place yesterday morning at 3:45 on q
mixed train and got off about four miles
north of Staunton. The work was evil
IDENTIFY that of experts.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-10-04

The SEAT OF GovERMENT.-The
capital of the United States has been
located, at different times, at the fol-
lowing places: At Philadelphia from
September 5, IVA, until December,
1776; at Baltimore from December 20,
1776, to March, 1777; at Philadelphia
from March 4, HI, to September,
1777; at Lancaster, Pa, from Septem-
Der 81, 1777, to September 80, 171I;
at York, Pa, from September 80, III,
to July, IT'S; at Philadelphia, from July
2, IT'S, to June 90, 1873; at Princeton,
n. j., from June 80, 1888, to November
80, 1888; at Annapolis, Md, from No
vember, 1888, to November, 1854; at
Trenton, n. j., from November, 1884,
to January, 1885; at New York from
January IL, 1855, to 1890, when the
seat of government was changed to
Philadelphia. where it remained until
1900, since which time it has been at
Washington.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-10-04

RUSSIANS MURDER A FAMILY.-A
dispatch from wilma, Russia, describes
a terrible outrage upon the part of a
number of robbers. A rich farmer, it
appears, resided in the town of Giba-
niszki, near wilma, with his wife, three
children and four servants. The farm
er was believed to have q considerable
sum of money in the house, and this
fact becoming known to a gang of rob-
bers, they attacked the farmers resi-
dence, killed him and all of his house
hold, completely looted the house and
escaped with their booty.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-10-04

A COMMITTEE of the public school
board of Baltimore has reported in IA
vor of teaching sewing in the female
schools of that city. Public schools for
boys are bad enough; they + infinite
ly worse for girls, for evil communica-
tions corrupt good morals as well as
manners. But as there are such
schools, the report of the committee re-
ferred should be adopted, for good
seamstresses can always earn their liv-
inp
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-10-04

NOTWITHSTANDING the fact that the
wishes of the old ex.Confederates of
Georgia were set at naught by the NOM
ination ofthe democratic candidate for
Governor of their State, the democrats
thereof gave that candidate q majority
of from thirty to forty thousand. At the
congressional election next month,
when all the democrats there will be of
one mind, the majority will be much
3aroer
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-10-04

A NORTHERN republican newspaper
saws President Cleveland loves his seat
to x-Confederate votes" Why, of
course ne does. But, for all that, he op-
posed a tariff bill that reduced the cost
of almost everything x-Confederates
have to buy, because it did not remove
the entire duty on coal, a Southern
product, so that Northern manufactur-
ers might get free coal from the Nova
Scotia mines.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-10-04

MAY Go SoUTH.-For several weeks
an expert from the Massachusetts Cot
ton Factory at Lowell has been visiting
various points in the South, the direc-
ors having decided to set apart 100000
to establish a branch factory in the
South. The Age.Heraid says this ex-
pert has returned to Lowell and will
make 8 report favoring the location of
the proposed factory at Birmingham,
Ala. .'Mr. Nichols, the expert" says
the Age-Herald, was thoroughly i'm
pressed with the inducements of the
Birmingham district; our unsurpassed
climate, which not only allows a saving
in lights and fuel by long days and mild
temperature, but adds to the tineness
of the texture of the cotton goods; our
splendid railroad facilities; our abun-
dance of cheap labor, which cannot do
the heavy work around the mines and
furnaces and must look for lighter EN-
ployment; our direct communication by
rail with the great cotton fields of the
Black Belt, aud last, but not least, our
cheap coal, the cheapest in the world.
Mr.. Nichols was particularly impressed
with this latter superiority"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-10-04

IN VIEW of Mr.. Governs recent mug
wump and kicking propensities, he is
not the best man the democrats of Bal
timore could have nominated for Con-
gress, but, hell do, in view of the other
fact, that he sayshe is q free trader. But
how any democrat a help being a
free trader is what, though many pre-
sumo to tell, no body can understand.