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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-02-19
VIRGINIA NEWS.

The Henrico democratic committee
has endorsed Mr.. w. H. Sands for coun-
ty judge.
Bendall, Harvey & Co.'S tobacco fac
tory at Danville was burned yesterday
loss SIG, 900.
A large mass meeting Of the students
of the University was held Thursday to
protest against the performance of I'm
Gle Toms Cabin in Charlottesville.
Major Robert w. Eubank, aged SO
years, died Saturday at his home, on
the York road, near Govanstown, Nd,
of heart disease. he was born in Ian
caster county.
Rev. DR.. j. S. Felix, pastor of the
First Baptist Church of Lynchburg, has
rendered his resignation to his congre-
CATION, which was accepted with reso-
lutioDs of regret.
Luther Brown, who has been travel
ing around for some time obtaining
money from parties under false pre-
lenses, and who is now wanted in Bal
timore and Washington to answer some
charges, has been arrested in Fred
ericksburg and lodged in jail.
To the surprise of his physicians and
friends, Gen. Early yesterday left his
room and made the circuit Of Lynch
burg on the street-car line despite his
painful accident of Thursday and his
advanced age. The old General is ap-
parently good for several years yet.
Captain William A. Graves, for many
years a prominent ship.builder of Nor
folk, died Saturday night, aged seven
ty-four years. During the late wal he
was appointed a naval constructor by
the Confederate authorities, and placed
in charge Of the navy yard at Rich
mond.
The Chesapeake and Ohio and Big
Four systems have made a traffic ar
rangement with the Chicago and
Northwestern by which great deal of
the corn and wheat business of that
line will be sent to Newport News and
shipped to Europe by the Chesapeake
and Ohio steamship line.
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FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 10, 1894.
Senator Hoar has introduced an anti
lottery bill, under which the term "lot-
terry" means any scheme for the dis
tribution of property by chance among
persons who have paid or agreed to pay
a valuable consideration for the chance,
whether called a lottery, rattle, or gift
enterprise, or by some other name, and
extends the present law more rigidly
than before, to mailing importation,
interstate commerce, ETC., making the
oflense punishable be fine or imprison.
ment.
The following changes in the fourth
class postoffices of Virginia were made
to-day: Balcony Falls, Rockbridge
county, Mrs. l.. d. Shannon, appoint.
ed postmaster, vice r. h. Brown, re,
moved Coates, Louisa county, A. L
Voolfolk, vice Helen r. Hall, resigned;
Davenport, Buchanan county, FloyC
Artrip, vice S. T. Ball, resigned Figs
boro, Henry county, E. ?. Turner. vice
S. H. billiard, resigned.
The condition of the tariff bill is il
as much doubt as ever. Senators mos
interested in it don't know to-day wher
it will be reported, or whether or moi
coal and sugar will be on the free list
Rumors about it, however, are plentiful
Some say the bill when reported will be
more of a free trade bill than it was
when it left the House, and that moi
only will coal, iron and sugar be left on
the free list, but many other articles
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Eipht with Oystermcn.

Two men from Tangier Island ar
rived at Tasley yesterday bringing
intelligence of a hot fight that took
place Saturday between the Virginia
oyster police boat Tangier and a fleet
of Maryland dredgers in the Virginia
waters of Tangier Sound. Early Sat
urday morning Captain Reed, COM
mander of the Tangier, saw 8 fleet OF
about thirty schooners and pungies
bearing down from Cris6eld upon the
oyster beds of Tangier Sound. On
coming up with them Captain Reed in
formed the dredgers that they were in
Virginia waters, and ordered them to
desist from violating the law.
1t is reported that they replied in q
defiant manner, and warned him not to
interfere with them. Captain Reed
fired q shot across the bow of one of the
boats, and the dredgers, forming a semi
circle around the police boat, swept her
deck with their Winchester rifles. The
Tangier, an ordinary schooner and
poorly equipped, was practically at their
mercy, and they could have captured
her and her crew of five men had they
the courage or inclination to do so.
The police boat kept firing at the dred-
gers until all her ammunition was eX-
hausted, when she withdrew to Tan
gier Island and procured a fresh supply
of powder, and returned to the scene of
operations.
The battle was kept up until night
fall, when the dredgers withdrew, and
the police boat returned to Tangier Is
land with her sails riddled and her
sides perforated with bullets from the
rifles of the dredgers.
The dredgers were about $50 strong,
all armed with Winchester repeating
rifles. They continued redging,a and are
supposed to have taken from FIVE to
ten thousand bushels of oysters.
Captain Reed has telegraphed to
Governor O'Ferrall asking him to send
the steamer Chesapeake to his assist
ance, and the governor has replied,
saving that as soon as he can find out
where the Chesapeake is he will order
her to Tangier sound. People at Tas-
ley are indignant that the authorities
at Richmond have not adopted vigor-
Gus measures to increase the Virginia
oyster police force, and thus put q stop
to the marauders,
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TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

Two chambermaids at the Palmer
House, Chicago, are down with small
pox.
Ernest Camille Sivorl, the distin'
guished Italian violinist, died at Genoa
to-day.
John y. McKane was sentenced in
Brooklyn this morning to six years in
Sing Sing prison.
The Arcade Hotel and Big Four de-
pot at Springfield, O., burned to-day.
Loss, half-a-million.
Emperor William to-day returned
the visit recently made to him at Ber-
lin by Prince Bismark.
A line of fast freight steamships be-
tween Baltimore and Tampico, Mexico,
will soon be in operation.
Matthew Johnson, the murderer OF
Emile Ku%ckelhorn, awaiting electricu-
ton at Sing Sing, N. Y, on February
26, has made a complete confession.
VIM. T. Stansbury, who vas proba-
bly, the Oldest printer in active service
in the United States, died suddenly in
Baltimore yesterday. He was rs years
old.
The Princess Colonna has departed
for Dakota, to establish q residence in
that State as the preliminary for pro-
curing q divorce from her husband,
Prince Colonna.
The grain men all say the recent
heavy snow will make a wheat crop of
100, 600, 900 bushels in Kansas despite
the low price of wheat and the dry
weather last fall.
Matthew Ashton, 8 convicted MUIR
derer, held in jail in Madison, Wis,
pending an appeal to the Supreme
Court, died of smallpox this morning.
He was worth $35O,OOO
A cyclone passed over the country
near Warren, Ark, Saturday evening
and carried destruction in its path. A
number of dwellings, barns and other
buildings were demolished and the con
tents scattered.
Ella Fayson, who was convicted Of
the murder of Theodore Cromwell at
Atlanta and who before the date set
for execution was adjudged insane and
transferred to the State asylum, has
now been declared we'll and is to be
sent back to Jail to have sentence exc.
cuted.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-02-19
NEWS OF H DAY.

Five thousand insurgents from the
southern part of Brazil have entered
the State of Sac Paulo and are march
ing in the direction of Rio Janeiro.
Three lions escaped from their cage
al the winter quarters of a circus in To-
peka, Ks, yesterday and killed four
head of cattle before they could be Sc
cured.
The difficulty of satisfying demo-
cratic Senators has caused the post
ponement of the presentation of the
tariff bill to the Senate committee on
finance.
The Paris police believe that, through
the admissions made by Emile Henry,
they arc upon the track of an anarchist
conspiracy with a complete organlza-
ton in Paris and London.
Daniel H. Williams, a colored ply
sician of Chicago and the leading repre-
sentative ofhis race in Illinois, has been
appointed by Secretary Hoke Smith as
surgeon in.chief Of the Freedman's
Hospital in Washington.
1t is thought probable in London that
Queen Victoria will counsel the Lords
not to provoke a conflict with the Com
mons. A mass-meeting in Trafalgar
Square, London, yesterday condemned
the House of Lords as a useless institu-
ton.
Brazil's dynamite cruiser, the Meth
eroy, has arrived outside the harbor OF
Rio Janeiro, and that long looked for
contest between the rebel guns and the
pneumatic dynamite rifle which the
Nictheroy carries seems now to be
nearer realization than ever before.
Bluefelds, Central America, has been
occupied by the Nicaraguan troops.
Bluefields is the capital ofthe Mosquito
Territory, an independent State con-
trolled by the native Indians under o
hereditary chief and under the joint
protection of Great Britain and Mic
aragua.
Leroy Harris, the man who held uT
an entire court in Buffalo, n. Y, with
a revolver on Saturday afternoon anc
escaped, is now in the Erie County jail.
He was captured in q railroad statior
in Clifton, Ont, late Saturday night
He tried to draw his ready revolver
again, but was too slow for the police
official.
The closing ceremony in connection
with Pope Leo's jubilee year took place
in Rome yesterday and consisted OF
mass celebrated by him in st. Peter
in grand state, followed by the "T'
Deum." Sixty thousand tickets Were
given out for this final celebration, ant
it is estimated that $4,000 people wer'
present.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-02-19
Foreign News.

LONDON, Feb. 19.-Dr. Granger, the
occulist who has been in attendance up
on Mr.. Gladstone, said to-day that the
prime minister was threatened with
blindness resulting from cataracts.
Mr.. Herbert Asquith, the Home Sec
rotary, declares that the government
will insist upon the passage by the
House of Lords of the Employers
Liability bill in the exact form in which
it was originally passed by the House
of Commons.
PARIS, Feb. 19.-Acting under or
ders from the ministry of the interior,
the police throughout France are en-
gagged to-day in making extensive
raids upon the haunts of anarchists.
A large number of arrests of men
known to be anarchists or suspected OF
sympathizing with them, have been
made. Among those taken into custody
is Sebastian Faure, who was appointed
by Auguste Valiant, the man who was
executed for throwing q bomb in the
Chamber of deputies, guardian of his
daughter Sidonie.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-02-19

TIE OYSTER CoMMIrrEF.-Col. VIM
Henry Legg, chairman of the Joint committee,
appointed by the legislature Of Maryland to
confer with a like committee from the Vir-
ginia legislature, on concurrent legislation on
the oyster question, received a letter on Satur-
day from X. II. Cardwcll, Speaker of the Vir-
ginia House of Delegates, stating that the
Virginia legislature had adopted joint reso-
lutions providing for Il committee to confer
with the Maryland joint committee at once
with reference to the length Of the oyster
season for the two States. Chairman Legg has
named Tuesday evening next ut 8 o'clock 1T
the Shorcham Hotel, Washington. Chairman
Legg, who is at Annapolis, is busy ut work on
the general oyster law, which he hopes to get
before the Maryland House some day next
CceE
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The Industrial Outlook.

New YORK, Feb. 19.-Despatches
from all over the country seem to indi-
cate q general revival of business and
the unemployment of many working
men who have been idle for months
past. Not only are old industries re-
Stunning operations; but new ones are
projected and the general outlook is
more encouraging than for some time
past. From all points the dispatches
report an increase in the number of
men at work, and also in the hours of
labor where "short time" had recently
been the rule.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-02-19

THE RICHMOND AND DANvILLE.-The
Richmond and Danville railroad case was
heard in Baltimore on Saturday before Judge
Golf, sitting as the United States District
Court for Eastern Virginia. The hearing was
on two motions, one by the Carnegie Steel
Company Qimited), for a consolidation of the
case of VIM. P. Clyde and others against the
Richmond and Danville, with the case of the
Central Trust Company of New York VS.. the
Richmond and Danville, and the other was on
the part of the Central Trust Company for a
decree of sale of the road. Mr.. A. Joline and
Mr.. F. L. Stetson, of New York, appeared for
the Central Trust Company; Mr.. Henry Craw-
ford, of New York, for the railroad, and Mr.:
N. P. Bond, on behalf of the Carnegie Steel
Company Omitted.
The Judge granted an order as prayed by
the petition of the Carnegie Steel Company
Qimited), consolidating the suit of VIM. p.
Clyde and others against the Richmond and
Danville Railroad Company with the suit of
the Central Trust Company of New York
against the Richmond and Danville Railroad
Company, and fixed Saturday, March 3, for
the hearing of the decree for the foreclosure
of the mortgage and sale of the railroad.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-02-19
MONDAY EVENING. FEB. 10, 1894.

Mr.. FITHIAN, democrat OF course
from Illinois, has introduced a bill IN
Congress to repeal the civil service law
and to abolish the civil service commis-
sion, than which there could not be two
more glaringly conspicuous hum
bugs. There is hardly a democratic
member of Congress who, in his heart:
doesn't approve this bill, but only a
few of them will have the moral cour-
age to stand by their convictions, IN
face of the known opposition OF the adj
ministration. The faculty of looking
into the future is not possessed by NOR
tails, but a knowledge of human nature
and existing conditions teaches hat II
there be any means by which the de-
mocracy can escape from the slough OF
despond into which it has fallen, the
most certain are, the passage OF the
bill referred to, and of one that will re-
duce the cost of living and collect rev.
enue by taxing luxuries and surplus
incomes
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-02-19

FORMERLY fihbustering was so OBJ
~jectionable to the people of this country
that they permitted, without protest,
many OF their bravest and most promis-
ing young men to be shot for engaging
in such sport" by the authorities of
the countries they had invaded. But
times have changed, and now many OF
them openly advocate filibustering at
tempts, and actually urge their govern
ment to seize Hawaii, Nicaragua and
other foreign territory. But change
being the order of the day no longer ex-
cites any special wonder.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-02-19

IF THE President shall not nominate
aud the Senate not confirm the success
sor of the late Associate Justice Batch
ford Of the Z. s. Supreme Court pretty
soon, such an appointment need not be
made until next December, as the next
term Of the court will adjourn the 18th
of1Iay until October, when the present
session of Congress will have ended,
ana such appointments are rarely made
when the body that must confirm them
is not in session. While on this subject
it may not be amiss to remark that the
nomination OF Senator Gray, OF Della
ware, though he does not reside in the
circuit, would not be without precedent'
as Mr.. Fuller, of Illinois, was put on
the Virginia circuit.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-02-19
Davis,s Spectacular Company

Owing to the destruction by fire Of thu
Brooklyn Orcra House, Davis's Collossa
Spectacular Uncle Toms Cabin Company, thu
largest travelling organization in the world
will remain in Alexandria three nights, Feb
ruary 10, 20 and 21-60 people-Hyer Sis
tiers, the greatest singers living. The three
most talented children OH the stage-MamiC
Freeman. Marie Chunn and Helen mcCabe.-
The Magnolia Quartette, Two Bands of Music
and an orchestra of eight %soloists. Genera
a~dmission-25, 80 and soc. feb19 3t
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incomes

THE revolution in the South, pro-
duced by the result of the war between
the States, seems to be general; nothing
has escaped its effects. Atlanta mas
invited the men who burnt it to hold
their next annual meeting there, and
the women s~uftragists have decided
upon it as the place for theirs, and a bill
is before the Virginia legislature provid-
ing for the coeducation of the sexes at
the University, and another for women
doctors at the insane asylums, and one
was before it to compel the railroads
and steamboat lines to supply its
members with free passes, and was only
defeated by four votes. So entirely
different is their new, from their old
life, that people familiar with the con-
ditions that prevailed in the South
prior to the war, rub their eyes and
pinch themselves to know whether or
not they are dreaming.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-02-19

ONE OF the several so called indie
pendent and non-sectional newspapers
of Washington, referring to General
Early's recent accident says the General
'never did any great amount of fight
ing but was a great Splinter" This
shows that the paper referred to is as
ignorant of the life of General Early as
it is of many other Southern matters
about which it presumes to instruct its
readers.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-02-19
DIED

On Sunday, February 18th, 1894, ISABEL,
daughter of the late H. c.. and Anna L.. Stay
maker. Friends are invited to attend the
funeral services at her mothers residence,
429 north Columbus street, at noon on Tues
day, the Goth instant. Intermcnt private.
On Sunday, February 18th, at 11:50 p. m,
Miss BRIDGET MARY McCAULEY. Fu-
neral from st. Mary's Church, at 10 a. m.
Wednesday, February Dist. Friends and
acquaintance are invited to attend. Wash
ington papers please copy.l
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-02-19

There car be no happiness without
health, and no health when you havea
severe cold without some good cough
cure. Bear it in mind hal DR.. Bulls
Cough Syrup has a record running
through nearly half a century, which
no other similar preparation can begin
to claim, and it stands to-day head and
shoulders above any other cough rene
DIV in the market.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-02-19
IMPORTANT TO REAL ESTATE OWN

IMPORTANT TO REAL ESTATE OWN
l. ERS.-Having been for sometime engaged
in handling REAL ESTATE in Alexandria
for myself, as well as on commission for
others, I have concluded to open an office and
engage prominently in the business. 1 am
preparing to publish in pamphlet form a bull
letin Of Real Estate for sale in Alexandria
city and county, and 1 earnestly request all
persons having property to sell or exchange
for Washington Real Estate to send Inc full
description and prices of what they have to
offer. These pamphlets will be widely dis
tributed and will bring your property to the
notice of a large number of people. l believe
the coming year will be one of more than
usual activity in Alexandria property, and
those who desire to sell should be awake to
the opportunity. Please call or send by mail
what you have to offer, and it will receive
prompt and reliable attention.
7. F. BARRETT,
112 north Fairfax street,
Washington Office, 631 F street.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-02-19

A PopULIsT CAMPAIGN PLAN.-The
populists propose a novel way of cam
paigning. They will organize atheatri-
cal company of young people of the
requisite talent as an adjunct to the
State campaign and sent them over
Kansas giving the plays depicting the
woes and ills which afllict the working
classes. A number of plays of this
character have been written and it is
predicted the scheme will make a great
hit. Governor Lewelling is said to
have approved of it, and other leading
populists agree with him. The propo-
sition has been submitted to Chairman
Breidenthal and it will be acted upon
at the next meeting Of the State COM
mittee.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-02-19

No MATTER what may have been
thought of the nomination of Messrs.
Hornblower and Peckham, no demo-
crat ear object to that of Mr.. White.
And then, too, by his nomination, a
man we'll versed in the civil law will be
upon the Supreme Bench-a long de-
Sideratum.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-02-19
TO-DAY'S TELEGRAPHIC NEWS
For Associatc Justice.

WASHINGTON, Feb. Ex-senator
White, of Louisiana, has been nomi-
mated for Justice OF the Supreme Court
of the United States.
Senator Hill, when asked what he
thought of the nomination of Senator
White to be an Associate Justice of the
Supreme Court of the United States,
said: 81 am perfectly satisfied. Nh.
White will be undoubtedly confirmed
promptly
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-02-19

There are no developments at the Gaylord,
Pa, mine up to noon to-day. The r%escuing
party continue to work their way through
the debris and should nothing interfere with
them the bodies may be found within the
next twenty-four hours. The company has
made evesy preparation to receive the men
daad or aliye
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-02-19

General Secretary Hayes, of the
Knights of Labor, has issued a statement
to the effect that Powderly, the past gem
eral master workman, and Wright and
Devlin, of the late general executive
board, have entered suit against the
order for balances of salary, which they
claim are due them.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-02-19

Mrs. j. H. Brown, of New Oxford,
Adams Co., Pa, confirms what the pro-
p%rietors have always claimed for Saliva
ton Oil, namely That it is the best
cure tor rheumatism. She writes 81
was a sufferer from muscular rheuma-
tism for several years, tried a number
of remedies but found nothing to cure
me so quickly as Salvation Oil. al
ways keep it in the house."
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-02-19

One of the most destructive cyclone
known in the history Of ClairooH'
parish passed seven miles norta .
Homer, La, Saturday evening. l'
roaring of the storm being disiinsl
heard there. The cyclone irayeI..
northeast, laying low everything IL j. !,
path. The casualties known thus y
are one white child and II negro %
killed and many wounded.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-02-19

EOR PENTHOUSE, No. 9o4 Prince
II street. Apply to Mrs. J. Ii. D. SMOOT,
GIL Prince street feb19
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ascertain and report to him the typ4
condition of things. He argued that
President Cleveland had not exceeded
his powers in making Mr.. Blout por..
mount, but had acted fully within bis
Constitutional warrant, having Wash.
inston himself for an example.