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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-12-17
TO THE INVESTOR.

We have several beautiful tracts
Of land lying within the city limits
suitable for subdivision; city water
and car lines to the property. Now
is the time to buy, as these tracts
can be purchased a a bargain.
JOHN T. HAMILTON & Co.,
1923 If No. lW East Commerce st.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-12-17
Grave Robber Shot.

CINCINNATI, Dec 17.-From Mount
Hope, Ky comes the news Of the shoot
ing Saturday night. of grave robber,
caughtin the act. There hal blen rob-
berries. and hen Miss Morris was buried
Saturday, her betrOthed determined to
watch the grave. Near midnight two
men began digging. A dozen shots were
fred and "Smi ey" Jordan, cOlOred. was
shot and killed. The white N IN escaped.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-12-17
National Parks Dedication.

WASHINGTON, Dec 1.-THE President
has approved the act providing for the
dedication of Chickamauga and Chatta-
nooga National parks.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-12-17
A JeWeler AsslPns.

A deed Of assignment was filed
Saturday afternoon by Otto An
drea, jeweler, No 319 West Com
merce street, DR.. G. G. Clifford be-
fng named as assignee. No sched-
ule OF assets and liabilities was
aled.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-12-17
On Finances.

ST. PAUL, Mimi, Dec. 1.-THE Cham
Der of Com merce passed resolutions today
favoring creation of a currency commits
sion, and against currency revision by
Congress.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-12-17

Oscar Farris, who is wanted at
Waco on a charge OF assault to
murder, was arrested by Constable
McClOskey Saturday and taken to
Waco last night.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-12-17

The case Of 7. P. Mccall against John
P. Campbell, to have the latter ousted
from the office OF sheriff and have the
same adjudged to complainant, was set
as the first jury case in January, in the
Thirty seventh District court this morn
ing.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-12-17
LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP!

Before purchasing your Angoras
and furs examine the elegant stock
and prices of the San Antonio Fur
Dressing Co, at 2l5 South Alamo
street. FIR. HARDMAN. II II ut
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-10-30
CONTRACTING AND BUILDING.

CONTRACT AND BU1LDIN G..
The undersigned hereby informs
his friends and the public general
~, that henceforth he will conduct
a contracting and building bust
ness, in all it's branches, on his own
account. All matters pertaining
TO the building trade which may
be entrusted to him, will receive
his most careful and prompt atten.
ton. Telephone No. 53.
Respectfully,
10 26 I'm HENRY PAULY.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-10-30
The Black Dinner Gown.

The black dinner gown, whether
IL be plain velvet or some OF the
richly.figured materials, is always
in good taste, and the woman
wearing well.made black gown
of suitable material is properly
dressed for the most elaborate
function, writes Isabel a. Mallon
in the November Ladies' Home
Journal. Elderly ladies have long
ago concluded that nothing is so
becoming or so suitable as black
velvet, made to look even more
elegant by the use of fine lace and
so, very many Of them adhere
strictly to gowns Of it, and very
often to one style Of making--the
princesse. Dame Fashion has or
dered that black satin is suitable
to all ages and conditions for a
dinner dress, and so combined
with lace or made harmonioUs
with color it is very generally
seen. Jackets richly embroidered
with gold are liked for wear over
a black satin gown, and one will
tend to make it look very rich. A
woman who goes out a great deal
and always looks well has had five
different bodices made to wear
with her black satin skirt, and she
expects to be considered a we'll
dressed woman at every dinner
party which she attends during the
season.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-10-30

TABLE CLARsr SO AND 60 CTS.
White wine 75e and $l00, imported
claret and white wine 1928 a gal.
Ton; free delivery. p. Magadieu,
1877 South Flores street, Telephone
3SS, Black Elephant Saloon. 8 I'm
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-10-30
TURNED A JOKE ON A VEN
TRILoQUIST.
He Stirred Up the Passengers on
an IL" Train, But Had to
Leave the Car.


Leave the Car.
A ventriloQuist had great fun
! the other night on a Sixth avenue
elevated train, and at the same
time put a train guard in danger
of being attacked 10y a score Of in
dignant passengers. Then he was
warned that he had better leave
| the car.
1t was a rainy night and the
train was crowded with passengers
going down town. In the rear car
every seat was taken when the
train left the Ninety-third street
station in Columbus avenue. In
one OF the rear seats was a person
who appeared to be enjoying
calm sleep.
Just as the train was approach
ing the Seventy second street sta
ton a voice at the forward door
cried out:
"Flfty-ninth street-change cars
for Ninth avenue.
The voice was clear and resonant.
Every one in the car heard 1t, an
unusual thing on elevated trains,
as every one knows. A dozen pas
sengers who thought they had been
carried beyond their stations at
Seventy-second and Sixty-siXth
streets, hurried toward the door,
aud as many more who wanted to
change cars at Fifty ninth street
Joined in the forward movement
Passengers for Seventy-secOnd and
Sixty-sixth streets were angry be-
cause they believed they would
have to go back in the rain.
As the head of the procession
reached the door the train guard
poked in his head and called:-
"Seventy-second street"
The train halted with jerl,
which threw half dozen passen.
gers off their feet. There was a
struggle at the door between those
who wanted to get off the train and
those who didn't, and by the time
the train moved forward there were
dozen passengers angry enough
to assault the conductor.
"What in thunder do you mean
by this performance ?' demanded
one of them as he approached the
conductor. "Why did you call out
, Fifty-ninth street when the train
was at Seventy. second ?"
"But L didn't" said the train
guard.
ayes, you did, shouted the an
cry passengers in a chorus, and
one big man put himself in posi-.
tion to attack the guard.
"But know he didn't ~ piped g
shrill voice, just under the roof Of
the car.
Every one looked up in astonish
ment and the amaZement was in
lcreased when a voice, which seemed
to come from beneath the car floor
said, soothingly, "Calm yourselves
gentlemen, calm yourselves.
called out the statlonp
The passengers, recognizing the
situation, retreated to their seats
and began looking around. Then
suspicion began to fall on the
sic, py man in the rear corner. A
big mantle one who wanted to
fight the train guard-went over tC
him and said:
"rhat was fine joke, but don't
you think you had better get off al
the next station"
The sleepy man left the car al
Fifry-ninth street and took another
rain d pwn.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-10-26
By O'Neal g. Lunt. Auctioners.
y ALE OF VALUABLE REAL ESTATE.

By virtue of deed of trust dated the I'd
day of June, 1891, and duly recorded in the
Clerks office of the Corporation Court of the
city of Alexandria, in deed book No. 26, page
2S, and at the request of the person thereby
secured, the undersigned, trustee therein
named, will, at u o'clock m. on
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1894,
in front of the Market House, on Royal street,
offer for sale at public auction the following
property to wit:
ALL THAT LOT OF GROUND lying and
being in the city of Alexandria, Virginia,
bounded and described as follows: Beginning
on the south side of Duke street at the dis
tance of 115 feet inches west of the corner
of Royal street and at the east line of a ten
feet alley, and running thence east on Duke
street % feet 6 inches to the outside of tho
west wall of the dwelling house lately occu-
pied by Major w. w. Herbert; thence south
along said west wall ITO feet parallel to
Royal street; thence west parallel to Duke
street 90 feet inches to the east line of said
alley thence with the east line of said alley
north 40 feet to the beginning; together
with all of the buildings and Improvements
thereon aud the use of said alley in common
with others entitled thereto, and all rights
and appurtenances TO the said ground belong
ing or in anywise appertaining.
Terms of sale: Three thousand four hum
dred dollars to be paid in cash on the day Of
sale, to cover the amount secured by said
decd, the interest thereon and the expenses
Of executing the trust the residue, if any, to
be made payable in two equal parts at six
and twelve months from the day of sale, evil
denced b. the bonds of the purchaser with
good PEI, Unsl security bearing interest from
the day OF sale, and retention of the title
until the same are psid, or all the purchase
money in cash at the option of the pur-
chaser. Conveyancing at the cost of the pur-
chaser. w. F. LAMBERT,
oct2 I'd Trustee.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-10-26
Miscellaneous Items.

Arrangements have been completed
for an interstate drill to be held in
Memphis, Tenn, next Monday. Cit
zens have raised purse of $4,000 to
be distributed as prizes.
AT democratic headquarters in Wash
ington there is feeling of confidence
that the House will remain democratic,
and the great lead the party will have
in the South gives the managers hope.
kentucky court has decided that
the Pullman Company are not common
carriers, and not, therefore, liable to
damages for accidents occurring on
trains to which their cars are attached.
The tug Pioneer has returned to Port
Townsend, Wash, from fruitless
cruise along the west coast OF Van
couver Island in search of the ship
Ivanhoe, on which Col. Fred. Grant
was passenger. All hope for the safe
ty of the Ivanhoe seems to be abandon,
ed. 1t is believed the passengers and
crew may have been picked up by q
foreign outward bound vessel.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-10-26
PRICE 2 CTS.
AUCTION SALES.
By r. F. Knox. Auctioneer.

By R. F. Knox. Auctioneer.
RY VIRTUE OF a DEED OF TRUST
- dated August Goth, 1891, and recorded
in deed book 26, page $50, one of the land
records of the city of Alexandria, Va, from
Ellen Murphy and J. Murphy to me, and
at the request of the holder of the notes Sc.
cured thereby, will sell at public auction on
the the premises at 10 o'clock q. M, on
SATURDAY.
October 18th, 1894, the following prop
erty; to wit:
ALL THAT CERTAIN LOT OF GROUND
in the city of Alexandria, Virginia, situated
at the southeast intersection of Prince street
with West street. fronting on Prince one hun
dred feet, more or less, and extending back
south with equal width and parallel with
West street to the middle of the square.
,. THE FOLLOWING PERSONAL PROP
ERTY viz: One engine and boiler, one cart,
one Fairbanks Standard Scale, one frame
shed and all the equipments of the Wood
Yard at the above described lot.
Terms Of Sale Cash.
CO. SIPPLE,
sep13 Is Trustee.
P0STPONED-The above sale has been
postponed until SATURDAY, October 27,
1894, at the same hour and place
oct12 rs
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-10-26
Alexandria aGazette& Virginia Advertiser

PUBLISHED DAILY AND TRI-wEEKLY AT
Gazette Building, $40 & Sf2 Prince st.
Daily emo year, SO; six months SO ;one month
ou cents.
rri-Weekly one year 81; six months So;
three months 81.
Al transient advertisements must be paid for
in advance.
Contract advertisers will not be allowed to ex-
coed their space unless the excess is paid for
at transient rates, and under no circum-
stances will they be allowed to advertise
other than their legitimate business in the
space contracted for.
Marriage and death notices must be paid for
ii advance
Resolutions in memoriam, of thanks, tributes
of respect resolutions adopted by societies
or persons unless Of public concern, will
only be printed in this paper ss advertise
ments.
Tae GAZETTE Office is connected with the
Telephone Exchange. Advertisements, or
ders for the paper news or any information
or business can be sent by telephone.
Entersd at the Postof6ce Alexandria, Virgin
IS as second-ciass matter
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-10-26
FOR SALE OR RENT.
M. B. HARLOW & CO.,
Real Estate Loan & Insurance Brokers
NO. 10Y S. ROYAL STREET.
For SALE.

Hine-room and bath, bay window, lovely
front and rear porches; contains pantry, china
closets. dressers and all convcniences necessa.
ry for complete and lovely home. New
house with lot 120x1S0; 21 600 feet OF
ground can have flowers, poultry, horse and
cow if desired /; has largo dry cellar. We can
sell this desirable and lovely home for SO, 100.
Terms S400 cash balance very easy. This
is bargain.
Bargain on Easy Terms-S1 900 will buy
seven room frame house, in good order,
large hall, side alley, lot 25x121. Call at
once.
$1,SOO will buy an eight-room Brick
House, lot 24x90 fifteen feet side alley
contains Latrobes, slate mantels, hot and cold
water; house in splendid order: location
south Lee street. 5000 cash balance TO suit.
500 will buy snug eight-room house
near V. NJ. L. W. shops. Call atonce for this.
$4,000 will buy a nine-room and bath
brick house lot 43x115 to a twelve feet al
ley; concrete cellar with furnace, on Wash.
ington street. between Duke and Wolfe.
81 800 will buy desirable property on King
street lot 22x10O to an alley; has side alley
also. This is bargain. Call at once.
$3.50 for comfortable home on north
Henry street. Lot 17x115 to an alley. Terms
easy.
$1,40O investment Paying IA per cent
Queen street. Look ut this.
$1,000 for TEN-RO0M BRICK HOUSE.
Good order. Prince street, near Lee. Lot
20xSS feet.
LOTS.
Pendleton street, 2Ox12O feet to an alley
5000 Oronoco street. near Alfred, 19x1O0
feet to an alley, $3.50. Southwest corner OF
Cameron and West street, 63x113 feet to an
alley, 81 500. Southeast corner of Payne
and Princess street, 1O0x63 feet. 81 800
Alfred street. near Gibbon, 20x113 feet to
an alley, $3.50. Northeast corner of Franklin
and Royal street, 176 feet 8 inches on Royal
street, and so feet on Franklin, S1,700.
We have the most desirable BUILDING
LOTS on north Washington and Columbus
streets, to be had at prices within the reach
of investors for speculation or home seekers
for homes. 1t Will pay you to call on US and
look at this property.
NJ. 3. HARLOW & CO.,
107 south Royal street.
Alexandria, Va.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-10-26
A CoNvICT's ELIXIR OF LIFE.


Romer Best, convict in the prison
at Dannemara, Clinton county, n. Y,
claims to have the secret Of perpetual
life. and wants to have his formula
leste on the condition that if it is sue
cessful be shall be given his freedom.
His cause mas been taken up by Chas.
Brady. who was released from the
prison Thursday. Best, he says, is an
Intelligent colored man, about 3S years
old, who was sentenced in Brooklyn
court to serve twenty y'ars for burg
larry. His term will expire in 1902, and
for his liberty now, Brady says, Best is
willing to offer mankind's greatest boon.
His proposition is that he be taken
frcm prison IN habeas corpus proceed
ings and that ne meet committee OF
doctors and scientists before judge,
the latter to decide the merits of his
claim. Brady says he knows little Of
Best's secret, except that the principal
Ingredient in his elixir Of life is alcohol.
A part of his treatment is to give the
candidate for perpetual life an ounce OF
butter and follow this with quantity
of alcohol. Best's theory is that tn
alcohol will sink below the butter, and
thus the patients brain will be pro-
tected from the fumes and he will not
'set jag on
Unfortunately for the locked. up
Ponce de Leon, he can't get the alcohol
in prison to make test Of his theory.
In fact, Mr.. Brady is inclined to criti-
else Warden Thayer for not giving Best
the necessary ingredients and allowing
him to practice on prisoners in the hos
pital. Brady says Best has made this
proposition to the warden repeatedly,
but has always been laughed at. He
also offered, after an execution by elec-
tricity, to restore the victim to life, but
the State authorities would not take the
chances of having to infict capital pun
ishment twice on the same subject.
Brady says Best is we'll educated, in
telligent apd popular with convicis and
keepers. He says he has been thirteen
years perfecting his formula, and u.s.
serts that it will prolong life as long as
it is used. He will not, however, give
up the secret until released from prison.
The discoverer of the new elixir is
known at Dannemora as No. 727. He
is in No. company, cell 36, and works
with the whitewash gang. His grand
mother lived to be 100 years old, and
he expects TO live always if he can get
the required alcohol.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-10-26

A DIVORCE PAPER.-About three
weeks ago lady giving her name as
Mrs. Huldo Marino, richly attired, hut
in penniless circumstances, came TO
Chattanooga, Tenn, from no one knows
where and took apartments at 413
Lindsay street. She was evidently in
great trouble of some kind, but when
approached by the sympathizing and
interested ladies of the house would
say nothing of her woes, nor divulge
her home or identity. Although she
had no money, she carried two trunks,
which were filled with gowns of the
richest description, costly laces and ex-
pensive ornaments, seen at once to be
the owners and not stolen property.
She was a woman of about thirty five
years of age and beautiful to an unusual
degree, though pictures of herself hung
up in her room revealed the fact that
time had wrought changes in her beau
ty. The trunks in question were Ia
beled with hotel tags from many fore
ign as we'll as American cities. Two
weeks after her arrival she was taken
sick. Having no money nor friends it
became necessary to take her to the
hospital, where she died Friday Dight.
An examination on Saturday led four
doctors to concur in the belief that she
had committed suicide with opium.
Saturday afternoon she was buried in
potter's field. County officers took
charge of her trunks and search was
made of their contents, but nothing
was found to establish her identity ex-
cept divorce papers granted her March
Sd, 1887, by Henry Sheppard, of Cook
county, Chicago, from her husbal d,
who was named in the bill as Joseph
ii. Marion.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-10-26
Rudy,s Pile suppository

is guaranteed to cure PILES and CONSTIPA-
TIoN, or money refunded. 5Ocents per box.
Send stamp for circular and Free Sample to
MARTIN RUDY, Lancaster, Pa. Forsale by
ali frst-class druggists
ES LEADBEATER & SONS,
my 16 Tyr Alexandria Va.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-10-26

rod Ailments, are treated as speciality,
Win @ GREAT success. by the Staff OF the
Inralids' Hotel and Surgical Institute,
Bnffalo. n. Y. Many are cured ut .
distance without personal consultation
tbe necessary medicines being sent by
mail or express. Question blanks sent
on application.
For Pamphlet, References, and Par
ticulars. enclose 10 cents in stamps for
postage
Address, WORLDS DIspENsARY MEDI-
cal ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, \. y.
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MEETINGS..

NOTICE OF STOCKHOLDERS MEET
~ ING.
The annual meeting of the stockholders of
the NATIONAL CITY FIRE INSURANCE
COMPANY will be held at tie Braddock
House. in the city of Alexandria, Va, on
MONDAY, November 10Th, 1894, at 1:30
o'clock p. M, for the purpose of eectiDg
Board of Directors for the ensuing year. and
to transact such other business as may come
before the meeting.
/. w. SPEAR,
oct20 I'd Secretary.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-10-26

A SPECIAL MEETING of the stockhold- :
n ers of the DEIS MANUFACTURING
COMPANY will be held at their Office, in
New Alexandria, Va, on THURSDAY, No
vember Is, 1894, at 2:3O p. m.
+. E. WHILE, Secretary.
P. II. DEIs, President. oct17 2w
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-10-26

MILLER HEATERS.-Just received an
lYl other lot of these heaters Is youi
dining room chilly and uncomfortable these
Jaw mornings? 1t is too early to start up
your furnace, so the very thing to fill this
want is one of these HEATERS. If you want
to see what it can do, drop US a card, or call
in to see us, and we will send you one on trial
and if does not suit you can return it. We
are sole agents here for the miller" and it is
the best, remember
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-10-26
MEDICINAL.
&C. uddsn Eaiating SpaIls,

/ aEpileptic Convul-
sslons, or Fits, and all
nervous diseases, as
Paralysis, Locomotor
Ataxia, Epilepsy, CT
Fits, ST. Vitus' 5
Dance, Sleeplessncss,
Nervous Prostratior,
n Nervous Debility,
Neuralgia Melan-
cholia, Threatened
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-10-26
Va, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 26, 1894
DRY GOODS.

CHARM
SA|,I',
This space has been
reserved for the trus-
tee Of Pretzfelder &
Co. I have just COM
pleted an inventory,
and find their stock
complete and we'll as
sorted with desirable
and seasonable goods,
which must be dis
posed Of at once in
order to carry out the
trust assumed by me.
To do this I will, be-
ginning; on Thursday
next, offer these goods
at less than half their
value until disposed
of. Our offerings will
be from day to day,
and it will pay you to
read their future an
nouncements and at
tend the sale.
NJ. STRAUSS,
TRUSTEE FOR PRETZFELDER & Co
1onrr5r,<rroHrEDU
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-10-26

ITALIAN MACARoNI, best New York
i Cream Cheese.
r. C. WALLACE.
900 King street.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-10-26

DANQUET LAMPS An entirely new
ID line OF lamps and silk Shades just re.
ceived, and at low prices at
Ell. MILLER 4 SONS.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-10-26

NEW MACKEREl., Potomac Family Roe
IN Herring by the barrel, half-harrel and
dozen. II C. WALLACE,
900 King street
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-10-26

ID oSToN BAKED BEANS. standard, 3-lb
ID cans 15c. H.C. WALLACE,
900 King street
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-10-26

u EST on the market, ELGIN CREAMERY
~ BUTTER. u. C. WALLACE,
900 King street.