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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-08-08
German at Fairfax Courthouse.

A correspondents OF the Baltimore sun
writes from Fairfax Courthouse The
browning social event Of a comparative
~ gay sumber eliminated here Mon
dav night in q german given BY the
Fairfax German Club in honor of their
fair friends, residents and v.s.tors in the
ueighborhood. The dance was held in
picturesque and romantic old mill at
one end Of the town, which in more re-
cent wears has been only used tor scenes
Of g2yety. ard IS provided with floor
that FOR sLnoothness and polish com
pare= :avorably With Lehman in Bal
timore. The Invitations were issued
for g o'clock, and a. carriage after car
rage rolled up 70 the door and deposit
Cd their freight of pretty girls with
their escorts, the guests were received
BIZ the chaperones, Mrs w. ?. Mon
cure. Mrs. May Plummer, Mrs. Adrian
Hughes. Mrs. Ewell Thornton, Mrs.
Harry Fitzhugh, and Mrs. Thomas Adj
olson. At one end Of the hall was sta
toned an excellent string band from
Washington, and at half-past 8 the CO.
tillion commenced, which was grace
fully led by Mr.. c. Vernon
Ford of the Fairfax bar, and
| Miss Jessie Love, daughter of Major
| James NJ. Love, of this town.
The toilets of the ladies were hand
some and tasteful, the favors were pref
ty and plentiful, and to an outsider
| looking upon the gay scene. with the light
| dresses of the girls against the dark back
ground Of the conventional evening suit Of
the men, the thought naturally occurred that
| Virginia still sustains her reputation for the
| charm and grace of her women and the gal
lantry Of her men. On account of the num-
| Der Of figures it was after , a NJ when the
| carriages were called, as there issued from
the band the soft strains Of "Home Sweet
| Home"
Among the dancers and guests present
were the Ncssrs and Miss Moncure, Mrs.
Powell, the Misses Moore, Mr.. and Miss Wells,
Miss Gordon, Miss Cooper. Miss Bond Miss
Fitzhugh, the Miss-s Egelin, Mr.. and Miss
Huntington, R. Walton Moore, James n.
Love, s. r. Donohoe DR.. Moncure, Mr. and
Mrs Bond. tho Messrs. Bond, Mr.. Goldson and
Mr. Holbrook, of Fairfax; Mr.. and Mrs. j. Ran
dolph Smith Miss Pauline Mostly, MISC Anna
Smith and Mrs Charles E. Stuart, Of Wash.
ington; Mrs Helen Jackson, Miss Jackson,
Miss Reed Raleigh G. Smith and Garner
Denmead, Of Baltimore; Miss Love, Miss Du-
lany, Mcssrs. Carter and Cassus Dulany, OF
Fauquier; Miss Mason and Messrs. Wheatley,
Gilkerson and Rixey, of Culpeper.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-08-08

NEW YORK. Aug. -Flour-state AMI
Western quiet and firm; Southern firm.
common TO fair extra 50 1Oa3 90: good
to choice do So OOa3 so. Rye Flour ste.dy
and quiet; snperfne 81 6Oa3 10. Wheat
No red irregular and unsettled; Sept 5-5 +.
60t.. Rye nominal; Western 4Sa51. Corn
No irregular, unsettled and lower Sept;
39l2a6t. Oats-No > dull and weaker State
and Western 40a50; Sept 361ha37lo. Pork
quiet and firm; mess s14 30 to Sill - .x-
ira prime $13aS13 30 Lard quiet and
firm; steam rendered 81 20 asked
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-08-08

PEACHES FIVE CENTS a BAsKET.-The
Sacramento river steame arriving at San
Francisco yesterday brought in over 10000
packages of fruit. There were also heavy
shipments by rail, and the local market be-
came so badly gutted that peaches and p'ums
sold at five cents basket. As each basket of
fruit weighs from thirty to forty pounds the
price realized does not psy freight and COM
mission charges.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-08-08
MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL

After an irregular opening the stock mar
ket developed weakness for sugar and the
grangers, but the other stocks remain steady
to firm. Sugar, which was rushed up to
1o74. at the close yesterday on an VI.
founded report from Washington regarding
tariff matters. settled back 10 o. after
the opening this morning. The marketat
o'clock was weak in tone.
BALTIMORE Aug. S.-virginia 3s new
721a asked do century bonds 5s.: bid.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-08-08

BECAUSE President" Debs has e1-
perienced realizing sense Of the in
furious effects of strikes upon strikers,
and has expressed himself to that ef-
feet, some people, who don't under
stand human nature, vainly imagine
that strikes will cease, at least for q
while. Strikes are the natural attend
ants upon labor, have been from the
beginning and will be until the end, and
always to the injury, sooner or later,
of the strikers. Many people are in
capable of learning lessons, even though
taught by bitter personal experience.
Why, twenty thousand factory hands
at Fall river are already talking about
striking, and that, too, though every
body knows there will be at least five
applicants for every one of the places
they may abandon.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-08-08

Herford Ratlif' was arrested near Pttsburg
last night, charged with the murder of two
negroes and q white man at Charleston, w
Va, some time ago. Ratitf is connected with
prominent Virginia families.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-08-08

THAT coal should be on the trse Ii,
few disinterested men viii deny; bn; %
should all the other articles tha. tn
poor have to buy in order 70 livs, 1of
taxes should be levied upon ths luz
uries, not the necezsaries, Of lie. Sugar
is as much Of necessary az coal, and
its use is infinitely more general. VIZ,
then, it should be heavily protected for
the profit ola rich Northern monopoly
while the coal of poor Virginia should
be unprotected, to promote the creation
of another Northern monopoly, whose
coal mines are in Canada, though readily
comprehensive by we'll informed Vir
ginia democrats, is by no means salts
factory to them. If coal must be free,
so should sugar. What is sauce for the
goose should be sauce for the gander.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-08-08
FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS-.
WASHINGTON, Aug. S
SENATE.

SENATE.
Among the bills introduced and re-
ferred to committees was one by Mr.
Allen ito prevent professional lobby
ing" II defines lobbyist TO be q per
son who habitually attempts to lnfiu'
ence the legislative action OF Congress;
by soliciting members to support OF de
feat a measure; and it declares lobby
ing in the Capitol or in the District
of Columbia an ofense against the
United States, to be punished by fine
of not less than 81 coo or more than
5000, and by Imprisonment in the
common jail of the District of Column
ba for not less than one or more than
five years.
An amendment which was offered
last week to the sundry civil appropri-
alton bill by Mr.. Hunton, looking to
the appointment of member OF the
Confederate army of Northern Virginia
on the commission TO mark the battle
field of Gettysburg, was made the oc-
casion of short speech by Mr.. Ran
som, in which he took the ground that
the amendment was reflection upon
Col. VIM. NJ. Robbins, of North Caro-
lima, who was already on that commls-
sion.
Mr.. Hunton disclaimed any purpose
of rejecting on Col. Robbins and de-
clared his object in offering the amend
ment to have been to have two men
employed where only one had been be-
fore.
The explanation was declared by Mr..
Ransom to be perfectly satisfactory.
The House bill to authorize the Wash
inston, Alexandria and Mt Vernon
Electric Railway Company to extend
its line of road into and within the Dis
trict of Columbia was passed with
amendments.
HOUSE.
Several District of Columbia bills
were disposed Of
House bill providing Tor consular in-
spection OF immigrants. which the Sen
ate amended by substituting therefor
Mr.. Hills bill to prohibit the immigra-
ton of anarchists, was laid before the
House, and on motion of Mr.. Culberson
the Senate amendments were non con-
Cured in and conference agreed TO.
Resolutions reported from commit
tee on judiciary were agreed to provid-
ing for an investigation of the charges
against Judge Kicks. of the United
States court for the northern district OF
Ohio, made by the Central Labor Union
of Cleveland The investigation is to
be made by q subcommittee of the
committee on the judiciary.
A concurrent resolution, offered by
Mr.. Warner, was agreed to authorizing
the citizens committee for the Knights
OF Pythas' conclave to illuminate the
dome Of the Capitol at night during
the week it is in session.
House bill was passed 10 amend the
revised statutes so as TO give afiidavits
in land contests made before any officer
authorized and empowered to admins
ter oaths the same force and effect as il
taken before the laud officers.
House resolution directing the COM
missioner of labor to Investigate the
effect of machinery upon labor wsS
pissed.
The House then began consideration
OF bills for the erection Of public build
ings.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-08-08

The Southern Planter for August has been
received from its publishers in Richmond.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-08-08

CHICAGO CATTLE MARKET. aug .
Hogs-left over about 5000 head quality
very poor marketa tive and finn with pr.e2-
loc higher; sales ranged at $4,000 - .oI
light, $4.15a4.S5 for rough, $49osj.22 ~
mixed, So .0Oa5.40 for heavy packing and
shipping lots, pigs S4.25a4 50 per 100 !17.
Cattle-market strong; sales were lsrse ~ 3,
S1.T5a2 10 for Cows and Bulls and So
and $3.50 for Steers; Westerns quoted II
S1.15a4.10; Texans steady. sheep-maFSe'
steady.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-08-08

NEW YORK CATTLE MARKET. Aug. =
f'igerator beef at 7laaSlac per h. Calves
market quiet; yeals steady buttermilk calves
&c per ID higher; poor 10 choice veals $it
$50; prime buttermilk calves S225 per l~'
lbs. Sheep and Lambs -27 ears on sale; sheep
firm; good lambs 14c higher; Others -teady
poor to prime sheep 81 62laa3 -, very con-
mon TO choice lambs 81 75a5.50 per 100 s.
Hogs-2 cars on sale: market firmer, nfcfo2
to choice 50. 40a5. 50 per 100 lbs.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-08-08
BALTIMORE Aug s-Flour steady and

BALTIMORE, Aug. S.-Flour steady ard M
changed. Wheat unsettled; No > red spot
and August 557sa56; Sept 56a, 4j6is
Dec 6Olia6Oi2: No 2 red steamer 81 ;a5i
milling wheat by sample 55a5o. Com
higher on small receipts spot and Aug 81 bii,
southern white corn 61a62 do yellow ga
%. Oats strong and higher No Whit
Western 40a4Oi2; No > mixed do 3Giea:',.
Eye lirmer; No > 46. Hay firm: S14 o1A
SD 90. Other articles unchanged.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-08-08

CHICAGO, Aug. .-Whcat-sept 5Gis
Dec 595s; May G42.. Corn-Sept 5Gi4
Oct 90 bid; May 1914. Oats-Scpt 80
Oct 1886 asked May 37ln. Pork-Se.
$13 25: Jan $13 20. Lard-Sept : 90
Jan 81 20. Ribs-Sept SO 92l2 Jan - -
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-12-28
In the Near FIXTURE,

Extract from the Congressional
Record of February steenth' 1896:
The senate having under consider
alton the river and harbor bill, Senator
Hill called up his amendment offered
yesterday and, obtaining the floor
said:
Mr.. President-This amendment re-
lates to stream which is one of the
most important in my state, 1t is a
stream on which the traffic is very
heavy, being only increased by hard
times. l recently had occasion myself
to make a journey to the very source
of this stream and / found the chan
mel ill a shameful condition. Though
naturally wide and deep, it was entire
ly insufficient to accommodate the
immense fleet of vessels which was
making the ascent with me. In con-
sequence its banks were literally
strewn with wrecks, while the Tester
ing corpses of drowned ambitions
made an unbearable stencil.
1t was terrible journey, gentle
men! Fhope may never be called on
to take it again. But no man can tell
what the future has in store for him.
/ may be required to ascend that
stream many times more and there is
not man within the sound of nv
voice who may not also be forced to
that journey.
Therefore, gentlemen, for our own
comfort and that of our friends and
associates, for the sake of public health
and in the name of a pitying, merci-
full humanity, 1 ask that you adopt
this amendment providing for the
widening and deepening of Salt liver.
Express.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-12-28
Sec Up. Rang Acres Dolls Dollars

Said land will be sold for not less than the ap-
praised value and subject to the improvements
situated thereon and appraised by the Board of
state Land Commissioners in the manner pro-
vi led by law, statement of which is now on
file in the office of the auditor of said county.
Terms of sale are One-tenth to be paid on
the day of sale; one-tenth ON the first day of
March next after the date of sale and the bal
ance within ten years from date of sale: Pro-
yided. That any purcba ser may make full pay
ment at any time; All deferred payments shall
draw interest at the rate of six per cent. per an.
num- The first installment of interest shall
become due and payable on the first day OF
March next after the date of sale; and thereafter
all interest shall become payable annually on
the first dav of March,
The purchaser of such land will be required
to pay at the time of sale the appraised value of
any timber On such land in full in addition to
the one-tenth of the sale price, less the apprais-
ed value of such timber.
The above described lands are offered for sale
by virtue OF an order of the Board of State Land
Commissioners, made on the 18th day of Nov
ember, 1894 duly certified and on file In the Of
flee of said county auditor.
J.W, DAY,
County Auditor.
Dated Shelton, WASH, November II, 1894. 49-6w
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-12-28
Editorial Notes.

Ten THOUSAND would be very con-
sentative estimate of the fruit trees
brought into Mason County this fall.
In fact, fully that many have come to
Shelton for delivery on the Satsop and
in this immediate vicinity-while all
points in the county have received
more or less fruit trees. Within the
past two or three years our farmers
and ranchers have given more atten-
ton to fruit and the good results are
already shown in some splendid fruit
being brought into the markets. With
few exceptions, the older orchards of
the county. do not have much good
fruit, but all the new orchards are
supplied with the best varieties. Next
year will drive every outside apple
from our markets, and another year
will cause our growers to reach out
for other markets in competition with
the products OF other sections. To do
this successfully, business methods
must be brought into use, and especi-
ally in the cultivation, handling, sort
ing and marketing of fruits. Prices,
too, will be coming down, and hence
the necessity of devoting time and
study to this question. Another
source OF trouble will be the insect
pests, but they must be fought from
the start, and kept down by repeated
watching and spraying. Join the local
horticultural society, profit by the ex-
periences of your neighbors, observe
carfully your own results; canneries
will come to utilize the surplus pro-
duct and there will always be profit
able thing in a well kept orchard.
We notice that big proportion of
good winter apples is being planted.
This class of fruit will command best
prices, coming as it does, when no
"small fruits" and very little other
fresh stuff is to be had. The JOURNAL
has always urged the planting of more
fruit trees and is pleased to note the
good results.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-12-28
On the Financial Question.

Washington City, Dec. 10.-Great
interests is manifested to-day in the
closing OF the hearing on the question
OF currency revision before the COM
mittee on banking and currency of
the house. President &. G. Williams
of the Chemical national bank of New
York represented the prevailing view
among the bankers, while w. P. St.
John of the Mercantile bank of New
York presented the eastern view favor
able to silver.
"The first problem in our clumsy
and conglomerate financial system is
a disposition to be made of our legal
tender notes." said Williams. He
urged that these notes be funded $780,
100000 at time until eliminated
from the financial system. Bonds at
3 per cent should be received as securi-
ty for. national bank notes on basis
of par value. President St. John lent
much spirit to the hearing by the
vigor of his statement and its novelty,
coming from eastern bankers under
official dictation.
Said he: "Tutored by one OF the
most aggressive oddities in the United
States, congress fiddles with bank
notes, while the burning issue is our
primary money coin. Identically
tutored, our chief executive has re-
quired his secretary to abandon the
option. conferred by law upon the
United States and grant the holders
of United States notes the right to
exact gold always, silver never, as their
redeeming coin. Had the option to
redeem silver dollars been exercised
boldly Mt the time when only three
million silver dollars were owned by
the United States with the ownership
of $116, 100000 of gold any possible
alarm would have been hushed.'''
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-12-28
" ashingtOn Letter.
From our regular Correspondent
WAcurucrON loo OEtb 100

From our regular Correspondent
- WASHINGTON, Dec 25th, 1894
The administration and the demo.
cratic leaders of the House are, by
their attitude on the currency ques-
ton, giving the country another in
structive object-lesson, showing the
democratic idea of craftsmanship.
Notwith standing that those fnanciers
of reputation who have heard, either
in person or by letter, by the House
Banking and Currency Committee,
were unit in condemning, either the
whole or part of Secretary Carlisle's
misnamed plans of currency reform.
the bill drawn up by Secretary Carlisle
is to be railroaded through the House
this week, unless democratic plans
discarry.
1t may be true, although many are
inclined to think that it is, that the
administration is encouraging 1.-THE
withdrawal of gold from the treasury.
In order to brighten objecting demo-
Gratis into the support of the currency
bill, which as a sop to the overwhelm-
ing vanity of Representative Springer,
chairman of the committee on Bank
ing and Currency, has been re-christ-
ened, the Springer Bill', but those
who are unquestionably authorized to
speak for the administration are pre-
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-12-28

Says an exchange: eff the dear
girls persist in making inroads upon
our positions in the business world
that were heretofore filled almost ex-
clusively by the sterner sex, we may
expect within ten years to be reading
marriage notices like this: 1.-THE bride
looked very we'll in a travelling dress,
but all eyes were conferred on the
groom. He wore dark suit that fit
ted perfectly his manly form, a large
boquet decorated his coat lapel, and
his dainty gloved hands carried a
boquet of American Beauties. His
hair was cut close and a delicate odor
of BARRIERS oil Heated down the aisle as
he passed. The young people will
miss him now that he is married. He
is loved by all for his many accom-
p1ishments, his tender graces and
winning ways. The bride commands
a good salary as book keeper and the
groom will miss none of his 1uxuries
to which he has been accustomed. A
crowd of pretty young men saw him
off at the depot
Did anyone ever see such beauti-
full Christmas week; crisp and frosty
days, bright sunshine and free from
rain or snow. But we must pay up
for this glorious weather when the
New Year conies.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-12-28

the administration would be entitled
to more respect if less were known of
the methods in vogue in the depart
merfts to get big salaries for democrats
at the expense of good clerks, women
as we'll as men. For instance, a $14O0
women clerk was compelled to ex-
change salaries with 5000 democrat
and they both do the same work they
did before the exchange.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-12-28

first church north of the Snake river,
at Colfax. He preached the first Pro-
testant sermon in Walla Walla, and
delivered the first Fourth of July ora
ton at that place. At Chewelah
fifty-four years from the day on which
he first camped at that place he dedi-
Gated a Congregational church. He
came to Puget Sound for the first time
in 1872, and was engaged in bone
missionary work in Mason county
He crossed the Cascades three times
on his favorite pony, lie Blond, which
was a familiar figure on the streets of
Tacoma during his last days.
| These are a few of the facts and in
cidents of memorable life. Father
Eells was true pioneer, and at his
death the oldest pioneer in this state
He was noted for his industry and
ECONOMY, man of very abstemious
habits, never using tea or coffee after
his twenty-fourth year. He had the
I true New England thrift, and one of
the remarkable things about him was
that he accumulated so much money
considering the work in which he was
exclusively engaged, and thus was ell
abled to give so literally to the further
ance of his life purpose. He was al
ways, though sparing for himself,
liberal to others, and the recorded
beneyOlences of himself and wife
amounted to 1924, 454 65, in addition to
which he left a legacy of $4,000 to
Whitman college. When one consid-
ers the physical and moral difficulties
of such a career, it is encouraging to
read with what fortitude they were
borne, as well as to note the results at
tanned. AS missionary to the Ind
ians his work dwarfs into comparative
insignificance beside the establish
ment OF permanent institutions of
education and region in new states. It
was this work that he regarded with
much satisfaction. After ten years
among the Spokane Indians he left the
mission with the feeling that not one
was fit for church membership,
though he said that if one-quarter or
one-eighth were true Christians he
was rewarded for all his labors among
them. Not only for what he accom-
plished as one of our state builders,
but for his life and example he is emf
nently worthy of the. honor his son
has paid to his memory, and the time
will come when the state will recog-
nize the value of his services, as we'll
as those of DR.. Whitman, by some
enduring monument. In sense its
soil has been hallowed by their foot
prints. They were both good soldiers
OF the Cross and their works do fol-
low them.
One accent of the Holy Ghost
The needless world hath never lost.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-12-28
The Mason County Journal.
J. c ANGLE. Editor and Proprietor
City & County Official Paper.

NOTICE TO PRlNTERs.-The, JOURNAL
has extra material and machinery for
sale, to fit out a first-class news paper
or job Office, or both, consisting of
Hand, jobber, and proof press, paper
cutter; big lot of body type, display
and job fonts in cases, furniture, leads,
slugs, cutter. racks, stones-in fact
material to fit out a good plant. For
sale cheap and on good terms.