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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-09-25
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Bishop Paret, of Maryland, returned
from Europe yesterday.
1t is believed that the populist move
ment in the South will amount to very
little in the present congressional cam
paign.
Brazil has given notice to the United
States that on January l next she vii
abroeate Il Q reciprocity treaty between
the two countries.
Senator Faulkner, chairman of the
democratic campaign committee, re-
ceived a joint letter yesterday from
Senators Turpie and Voorhis, of !ndi-
ana, in which they declare the outlook
in that State to be most encouraging.
The Carroll county. Nd, democratic
convention yesterday adopted resolu'
tons antagonistic to Senators Gorman
and Gibson, and elected delegates to
Towson in the interest of D. n. Hen.
ming for Congress as against Mr.. Tai
bolt.
St. Mary's College, a handsome brick
and stone structure in Oakdale, Cal,
erected five years ago by the Christian
Brothers, was damaged by fire yester'
day to the extent of 500, 900; insurance
$50, 900. The building was completely
Quilted.
John Murphy, of Boston, Jake Xii,
rains protege, fought twenty-five
rounds to a draw in New Orleans last
| night with William Plimmer, of Eng
land. The fight was for a purse Of
$500 and took place before the Olymp,,
ic Club in the presence of five thousand
spectators.
Mrs. Emma Ware, a young widow,
whose husband has been dead for two
years, is in Jail in Beverly, W.. Va.
| charged with infanticide. 1t is alleged
that a week ago she threw her newly
born infant from asecond-story window
into a pen Of half a dozen hungry hogs
The child was completely devoured.
In Washington yesterday the attor.
neys on behalf of Charles Glasscock, in
his suit for divorce against his wife
| naming Senator Stewart as correspond
ent, have asked leave to include the
af6davits offered by Senator Stewart as
| evidence of the intimacy of Mrs. Glass
cock with w. R. Abel and James s
| Cobb, mentioned in those afidavits,
! these two persons thus being brought
into the case as additional co-respon'
dents.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-09-25
Foreign News.

WARSAW, Sept. 25.-Sixty houses in
the city of Blaszhi, Russian Poland,
where the cholera is making fearful
ravages, were set on fire last night and
completely destroyed. A number OF
inmates of these houses who were
suffering from the dreaded disease and
were too weak to make any effort to
save themselves, were burned to death.
HAVANA, Sept. 25,-At noon yester-
day the barometer began to rise and at
s o'clock last evening the worst of the
storm which set in the night before had
passed. The storm was general through
out the island. No lives were lost.
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Massey and Hoce.


Hon. John E. Massey and j. Hamp.
ton Hoge, the latter the republican nomi'
nee for Congress from the 9Th district
and who was removed from the consul
ship to Ambay, China, by President
Cleveland, held a joint discussion al
Houston, Halifax county, yesterday be.
fore about 500 people. 1t was agreed
between Mr. Massey and MIR. Hoge that
the latter should speak for q hour to
be followed by the former in an hour
and a half speech, and then MIR. Hoge
should be allowed an hour to reply in.
Mr.. Hoge, in opening, said that he
had never been what is called g senti.
mental politician. He severely crit
cised the Walton election law. Refer
ring to Lieutenant Governor Kent and
the bill which bore his name, he said
that the railroads were too smart tor
him, and his bill went down when he
was nominated for Governor. He also
mentioned the senatorial investigation
which occurred last winter and said
that Fitzhugh Lee when he was de-
feated said then that there was some
thing rotten in Denmark" and began
an investigation which proved that the
legislature was owned by the railroads
before it was born. Grover Cleveland,
said he, sent Fitz Lee $1,000 for the
conduct of that fight and marked the
package &c. c." which meant SCOT
caught"
Hon. Paul Edmunds in a few words intro
duced MI. Massey. Mr.. Massey confined him.
self chiefly to the issues of the day. In open
ing he referred to Mr.. Hoge's sudden con-
version to the republican party n said
1.-TWO years ago I know he had the most ex-
allied opinion of Grover Cleveland and was
willing to take the crumbs that fell from his
table, and felt honored in doing so" Mr..
Massey then read extracts from several lead
ing republican papers denouncing Hoge's
nomination to Congress, and whenever the
consulship to Annoy, China, was mentioned
his hearers gave expression of their approval
in loud applause.
Mr.. Hoge, in his reply, took considerable OF
his time in abusing the Cleveland admins
tration. He said he had been removed from
the consulship to Annoy, Chins, by President
Cleveland because he refused to support
Charles T. O'Ferrall for Governor of Virginia.
He denied that it was because of any miscon'
duct on his part, and said he had letters from
C. P. Huntington to disproye the story that ne
was drunk while travelling from New Orleans
to Ell Paso, Tex.
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1t is generally understood that cam
paign funds are exceedingly limited at
democratic headquarters. Well, what
else could have been expected? What
reason has the average democrat for
contributing to such funds nowadays,
when the policy of the democratic par
ty is to entrust the execution of its
measures to republicans and when
among those measures are several that
have a strong republican, faint? If
the officers be servants, they certainly
should be the servants of the party in
power, and not those of the party the
people have ,epudiated.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-09-25

WHEAT LOWER INNEw YoRK.-The wheat
bulls in New York are well nigh discouraged.
With prices lower than they have ever been
in the history of the trade, there seems to be
nothing upon which the market can get a
foothold. Yesterday witnessed more heavy
selling. following a sharp break in corn, and
December slowly sank to So 1-16c, which is
just half a cent under Fridays record price.
Apparently wheat is without friends, as de-
spite the low price and bull theories, nobody
wants to buy it and with receipts West lsrger
than requirement, aud receiving points all
over the country well stocked up, 70 say moth
ing Of the independent attitude OF Europe,
the outlook for higher prices is not hopeful.
Chicago is predicting 45c. for corn, or about
SC. lower than present prices, and if such a
break should come, wheat would probably fol-
low in the present demoralized state Of the
market.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-09-25

New YORK PoLIT1cs.-The New
York State democratic convention
meets at Saratoga to-day, and up to 9
late hour last night no one knew who
would be the nominee for Governor.
Yesterday evening Judge Gaynor, who
had been prominently spoken of as the
nominee, declined to become a candi-
date, and most of the talkis for ex-Sec-
rotary of the Navy W. c. Whitney. 1t
is announced by the Tammany people
that Mr.. Whitney will be home from
Europe to-day and will be in Saratoga
on Wednesday. This is in itself signi6-
cant, for Mr.. Whitney was not expect
ed to be a visitor at the convention.
Senator Hill arrived at Saratoga yes
terday afternoon and later opened
headquarters at the Grand Union Hotel.
From the time of his arrival until the
late hours of the night he was besieged
by crowds of delegates.
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THE LATE State convention of the
New York republicans protested against
free wool, which, it declared, "meant
the destruction of sheep husbandry and
which has brought the price of wool to
the lowest figure recorded" Texas
raises more wool in one year than New
York does in twenty, and yet every
Senator and Representative from that
State, all of whom are democrats, voted
for free woodland thereby showed
that they had the material interests OF
their constituents at heart, as the price
of wool has advanced since the duty on
it was removed by the German tariff
hill.
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L1n1ouKA1AN1 MAY suE.-It is re.

L1LIoUKALANI MAY SUE.-It is re-
ported that the errend of H. a. Wide
mann, of Honolulu, TO this country is
for the purpose of commencing a
damage suit against the United States
on behalf of the ex-Queen of Hawaii.
The amount of damage asked for is
said to be $500, 900, and the friends of
the ex-Queen declare that this govern
ment has been instrumental in mulct-
ing her to fully that amount. Her
claim is that the provisional govern
ment could never have been established
and herself deposed had it not been for
the unw~arranted action of a recognized
agent of the United States, the captain
of the warship Boston, which action
was subsequently, formally disavowed
by the President.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-09-25

MEREDITH IN ORANGE.-A dispatch
from Orange Courthouse to the Rich
mond Times says:
A warm trio discussion between Pat.
McCaull, Hon. E. E. Meredith and
| General James G. Field, took place here
yesterday.
McCaull led in a speech of one hour,
in which he claimed to be- a protect
ionist, and for free silver. Protection"
exclaimed the speaker, under the
| Mckinley bill. fostered American in
dustries everywhere under the Will
son bill. it was in the interests of the
English bond-holders." He had voted
for Sullivan, the one-legged Confederate
soldier, for door-keeper of the House of
Delegates. He was identified with these
people, and would ever be for their in
terest.
MI. Meredith, amid cheers, came to
the front, and although suffering with
a sore throat, utterly refuted McCaull's
statements. He rehearsed his cours in
Congress, and satisfied his constituents
that he will do to trust again.
Mr.. Mason, he said, is the last off
spring of Colonel Beverley, who is the
head and front of the populist party,
and every democrat should regard
every vote cast for him as one for Nc
Caull, and against the old democratic
party.
General Field made an able plea for
the populists, but had no following.
In rsjoinder MI. Meredith had and
completely held the crowd.
He will get a big majority in this
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Fairfax county, Va, Sept. 81, g

A QUESTION OF ETIQUETTE.-A let.
ter from New York says: In spite Of
the pacifying presence there OF Ward
McAllister, Newport is determined on
ending the season with a spat, if nota
duel, between two distinguished deyo-
tees of society. The names OF these
gentlemen are James Van Allen and
Richard Peters, better known as Dick
Peters. News comes to Gotham from
Newport that there might be a duel as
a result Of the bitter feeling between
tie two men. Mr.. Van Allen is the
wealthy gentleman who bought a for
eign mission from the democratic ma
tional committee, and then failed 10 re-
ceive the goods for which he had paid.
The Newport incident out OF which the
present strained relations between MI.
Van Allen and Mr.. Peters grew, is said
to ha We occurred during the progress OF
a series of festivities arranged by Mr..
Van Allen in honor of his guest, Lady
Lister-Kaye. The particular question
at issue originally was the propriety of
smoking in the presence of ladies. Mr..
Van Allen and Mr.. Peters entertained
different opinions on this momeutous
question, and a discussion of it is said
TO have led to words that hinted at q
meeting on the field. Mr.. Van Allen,
according to all reports, has been the
victim Of a good deal of envy since he
began TO entertain the Lister-kayes,
and this wrangle is attribute by some
to this feeling. 1t may be necessary to
call in Mr.. McAllister himself 10 settle
the question at issue, which is, whether
a man may with propriety smoke a
pipe in the open sir while holding con-
verse with ladies of the Newport upper
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eventnauv redeemed by 8 ,parats bills.

eventually redeemed by 8 'parats bills.
The Senator said the administration
of President Cleveland has beea
cleanhanded, economical, painstak-
ing and patriotic. The various
departments of the rational govern
ment have been conducted with
great success and the democratic party
as a whole is entitled to the confidence
of the masses of people whose interests
fs endeavors faithfully to serve.
At 2:3S o'clock the convention adj
burned until tomorrow at noon.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-09-25

AT A meeting of railway trainmen,
engineers, fremen, conductors, tele-
praphers anG switchmen, in Baltimore
Yesterday, the course pursued by Presi-
dent Debs of the A. R. q. was con
demned. That was wise, and as it
should have been but, all the same,
the idea suggests itselfthat had the Debs
movement been successful, it might
have been otherwise, as, while that
movement was in progress, it certainly
was not hindered by any Of the unions
to which the men referred to belong.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-09-25

a BOLD GANG OF BURGLARs.-A
dispatch from Woostock says: "a bold
burglary occurred at Cabin Hill on
Sunday night by a gang of four or FIVE
men who entered the store of Mr.. Noah
Coffmsn and blew open his safe, secur-
ing sixty dollars in cash, a check for
six dollars and eleven cents, and a rail-
road ticket to New York and return.
Messrs. Charles Dodson and ]. ".
Stickley had been out calling on Ia
dies, and passing the store between one
and two o'clock in the morning, saw a
light inside. Surprising Mr.. Coffman
to be in, they rode up and stopped in
front of the building, where they were
met by several of the gang, who COM
PEELED them to go inside, where they
tied their hands behind them. They
then robbed Stickley of his watch and
nine dollars, but allowed Dodson to
keep his watch, he pleading that it was
his mothers. They then left them in
their uncomfortable fix until Mr.. CofE-
man relieved them about FIVE o'clock.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-09-25
TUESDAY EVENING. SEPT. %, 1894.

Bishop POTTER of New York has the
reputation among those who know him
best of being a good and wise mau. A
man deserving honor may be without 1t
in his W ~neighborhood, but certainly
none is better qualified to judge OF his
goodness and wisdom than his neigh
bors. But no matter what other EVIL
dences ofhis wisdom the Bishop referred
to nav have exhibited in the past,
there could not be a more patent one
than tAat ofiast week, when, in talking
about the aogging system in use at the
Elmira prison in his State, he said:
81 regard this cry against the infilc-
ton of corporal punishment q q symp,
tom of the emasculated spirit OF the
times. There are certain criminals VINO
can only be made to realize through
their hides the fact that the State has
laws to which the individual must be
obedient. Experience has proved this.
When the crime of garroting was rag
ing at its worst in England the author
ties. after trying all other remedies
without success, put an instant and
complete stop to it by applying the iash
to the backs of garroters."
If the law makers of Virginia were IS
wise as Bishop Potter the condition OF
their State and that of the people there
of would be greatly improved.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-09-25
In Philadelphia this morning At

In Philadelphia this morning At
torne1 Samuel Dickson, on behalf of
the receivers of the Philadelphia and
Reading Railroad, presented to Judge
Dallas, in the 2. S. Circuit Court the
nlan for the reorganization of the con-
Germ. The court wss asked to allow
the commission of the 0lcott.Earl re-
organization and to approve the plan.
Judge Dallas named October Ia as the
day for hearing the matter IN court.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-09-25

Asrwoop, the secretary of the negro
national democratic league, who resign
Ell because the administration would not
include him in its recognition of the
negro element of the country's popula-
ton, called at republican headquarters
in Washington yesterday and sought
recognition in that quarter. But as he
halls from the North he was disappoint-
cd, as no federal Offices are given to ne
groes in that section by either republic
CANS or democrats, and though there
have been numerous negro congress-
men, Senators as well as Representa-
tives from the South, not n from the
North has ever darkened the doors of
either house of Congress.
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Murdered.

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Sept. 25.-J. B.
Cayen, general passenger and freight
agent of the Valley Railway Company
and one of the best known railroad men
in the State, was murdered in a ques.
tionable part of the city some time after
midnight, this morning. What his
errand to such a spot could have been
can only be conjectured. He was So
years of age, q widower aud leaves six
children
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-09-25

JACK THE RIPPER AGAIN.-A terri.
BILE double tragedy Of the "Jack-the'
Ripper" class is reported from Amras,
not far from Innspruck, capital of the
Austrian Tyrol.
Gu Friday last q young and pretty
waitress of Amras went away from her
employers residence in order to wit
ness a religious procession neal that
place. On her return home the girl
was murdered, and the only clue found
up to the present time of her assassin
is o r~azor-edged knife which was pick
ed up near her body. The murder
caused a great sensation in the neigh
borhood.
Close to the spot where the waitress
was killed the body of another woman,
naked and slashed with a knife in the
regular Jack-the-R Ripper fashion, was
found. In addition, another woman
belonging to the same n%eighborhood is
missing. Naturally, the whole of the
Amras district, as we'll as all the neigh
boring towns, are in q state of the
greatest excitement. A strong detach-
ment ofgendarmes and two companies
of imperial ridemen are securing the
country around Amras, but all efforts
to arrest the murderer have proved un-
successful.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-09-25

THE BISHOPS AND THE A. P. A
The following written statement was
yesterday, in Peoria, ILL.,, issued by
Bishop Spalding, with reference to the
criticism upon his A. P. A. article in
the North american Reriew by Bishop
Keane:
have read Bishop Keane'5 criticism
on nv article in the North american
Rerieu, and as it has not been disown-
ed I must suppose it to be authentic.
The important question is whether
what 1 have published in the Reriew is
true. A thing may be unfortunately
true, and this is doubtless what Bishop
Keane e when he calls my article
unfortunate. He says also that it is
untimely, but I fail to see how this cpl
thet can applied in any right sense to
the honest and dispassionate discussion
of a subject which now attracts general
attention and is not without import
ance. If my very moderate expression
of views on a question which is actual
ly before the public, and which is of
concern both to the church and to the
country, is to be condemned as unfort-
innate and ill-timed, then rational dis
cussion among Catholics is no longer
to be thought OF, and Catholic univer
salty is but a pretense. If what is
said of Cardinal Gibbons is true, the
least I can do, 1 suppose, is to regret
that he should have to regret to ex
press his regret to the Pope. Regrets,
however, are idle, and the manly and
American thing to do is to confront me
with arguments and not to attempt to
frighten me with groanings.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-09-25

a terrible waterspouJ is reported
from the village of suchil, Mexico.
The deluge carried away a wood chop
per,s camp o ten families, and all are
believed to have been drowned. A
number Of other cases of drowning are
reported.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-09-25

THOUGH nearly thirty years have
e]apsed since the close of the war, and
the South votes one hundred and fifty
millions a year for pensions to those
who murdered her Sons and impoverish
ed their survivors, and though General
Gordon calls the members OF the 6. A.
R., comrades, the Northern republicans
sill continue to wave the bloody shirt,
and evidently entertain the belief that
under that flag they can win more VIC
tories. The New York Press, n OF
their leading organs, in its issueIof yes
terday's date, asserts that the war is
not over and says: "The Stars and
Stripes and the music of the Union
symbolic the spirit which animates
the campaign. The republican party
is fighting for the same principles that
formed the issue in its ancient battles"
No, the cruel war is not yet over, and,
what's more, never will be, as long as
democratic postmaster generals COM
NIT such a solecism upon good taste and
the proper feeling that should subsist
between the people of different sections
of the same country, as to change the
name of Appomattox to Surrender.
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No surrender" for Us.

To the Editor of the Alexandria Gazette:
The announcement that the name of
the ~postofice at Appomattox Court
house, Va, has been changed to Sur.
render strikes many people, as it does
you and the present writer, painfully.
If the seat of county government has.
as is understood, been changed, and
another name for the village where it
once was is thus required by public
convenience, let n be given it. but
not this. The great event of April 9.
1865, though not one under the circum.
stances for the followers of Lee to he
ashamed of, is certainly one of which
they and their c%ompatriots do not wish
to be reminded, and the name now Sc.
lected by the postotfice department for
the place where it occurred is a Der.
petual memento, offensive and imrritat.
ing in the extreme. As a Confederate
soldier, and in the name of the surviv.
ors of the army that surrendered to
Grant, I protest against it. 1t was a
| bitter enough thing TO have TO do with.
out the humiliation of having it COM
memorated thus. 1t is adding insult to in
jury even 10 attempt it. If the sweet
ola Indian name must 60 and some re-
| ference TO the later historical associa-
ton is necessary in the new one, why
not select something not offensive to
the South and call the postotiice, for
example, Grant-Lee or Sirty:fre? Any
thing is better than perpetuating, IN
der pretence of patriotism, the memory
of something which it still paius, and
always will pain, so many to recall.
l.. ". B.
Fairfax county, Va, Sept. u, ~.
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MONETARY BND COMMERCIAL.

new YORK, Sept. 25.-The opening trad
ing at the Stock Exchange showed few feat
ures Of interest. At IL o'clock the market
WIS weaker in tone.
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Alexandria Market. September %.

The wholesale markets are without changes
in prices to-day. Flour is still very quiet
and easy. Wheat is steadier in toue; sales
A to 50, latter for lancaster milling samples.
Corn is in very fair demand, inclining lower
60 to 6 in bulk. Rye 45 to 30. Oats are
finn at 30 to 81. Eggs are scarce at j. to
Is Batter 16 to 81. There is a good de
mand for all kinds of Produce at full figures,
Bacon. other Provisions and Millfeed arc
stronger. Hay and Straw are very dull.