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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-28
THE CONFERENCE.

In the Baltimore Conference of the
NJ. E. Church South, in session in
Washington yesterday, after the GA
zETTE's telegraph report closed Rev.
A. Poude asked that a special commit
tee be appointed to consider the gener-
al subject of church and parsonage in
surance The conference ordered the
appointment of such a committee, and
the president took the matter under
ad visement.
The secretary of the board of church
extension read q communication show.
ing that the Baltimore Conference had
aided 80 churches in the last twelve
years, and had paid them S11,9S5. The
general board had aided IA churches in
the conference, giving them $4,000.
The amount loaned in the conference
was SIS, 900. The Baltimore Confer
ence had contributed in regular assess
ments $23,561. During the past four
years the conference had raised, by
regular subscriptions, for support of
ministers, bishops, conference claim
ants, missions and church extensions
the sum of $577 ,764. The assessment
on the conference for this year was an
nounced to be $4,000.
The call of the roll of superannuated
ministers produced an impressive scene.
Rev. Nelson Head, in a brief speech,
announced that he was now the sole
survivor of r class of twenty-one or.
dained in 1884. The conference broke
out with the hymn, "We Are Travelling
Home to God" as DR.. Head sat down.
Word was heard from DR.. Hoffman
Waugh, who was not able to be pre-
sent. So, also, word was had from
Francis Mills and John w. Tongue.
Rev. Joshua Grandin was present when
his name was called and made a happy
little speech, abiding to his having
served with Bishop Cranberry as chap.
lain in the Confederate army. Rev.
John Wolf, it was announced, was dead.
The report of the publishing house of
the NJ. E. Church South was present
ed by DR.. Barbee. 1t shows that the
total business of the year ending March
81, 1894, amounted to $343 1888. The
total assets March 81, 1894, were 1862,
O45, and liabilities $11 $3.50, and the
capital available, las per ledger" is
$3.50, 164.
At the suggestion of Rev. DR.. Cox,
the greeting of the conference was sent
to Rev. DIR. ]. Hoffman Waugh, Of
Harrisonburg, with congratulations
upon his having reached his eighty
first birthday.
The report of the Woman's Mission
Society of the conference showed it to
be in a flourishing condition. The re-
ceipts during the year were $23, O54.64
and the expenditures, s~23.054.6l. The
next meeting of the society will be
held in this city.
The annual conference sermon was
preached last night by Rev. DR.. S.
Keener Cox, of Front Royal. The
church was crowded TO the doors and a
number of persons who attempted to
gain admittance were turned away.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-28

MURDER AND sUIcIDE.-John Bigelow, an
actor, shot and killed Amy Thill, an actress,
yesterday in tie furnished room of the WON
an on Twenty-fourth street, New York. and
then turned the weapon, a revolver of large
caliber, to his WI head aud blew out his
brains. The double tragedy was not discoy-
cred until almost evening, when both bodies
were found lying cold and bloody on the floor
of the apartment where the crime had been
committed. None of those in the house could
esslgn q motive for the deed. Bigelow has
been in insane retreats at least five times
within the last ten years, and there can be no
doubt that the murder and suicide yesterday
were caused by q sudden return of his in
sanity, brought on by the night of drinking
AMI debauch that preceded it. Coroner Fiz
patrick viewed the remains of the murdered
woman and the suicide this morning, but has
not yet decided when to hold the inquest.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-28

SOUTHERN PASSENGER ASSOCIATION.
The mass-meeting gathered at Allan
ia, Ga, yesterday to organize the new
Southern States Passenger Association
to succeed the old Southern Passenger
Association obtained a sufficient num-
Der of signatures Of railroads for mem
bership to declare its existence.
W. w. Finley late general traffic
manager of the Great Northern and
Montana Central Railway, was elected
commissioner; Harry Walters, of Balti-
more, president of the Atlantic Coast
Line, will be president, and the audit
ing committee will be G. E. Har-
mon, chairman; ]. G. Halle and
Joseph Richardson. The rate COM
mittee and the executive board has
not been chosen. all of the South
ern lines in the old association east of
Birmingham, Chattanooga and Mont
gomery have either signed or have in
dicated that they will. The Seaboard
Air Line was not a member of the old
association and has not joined the Few
one.
Mr.. Finley's selection is a surprise,
as he had not been mentioned for the
place; the officers committee, which
chose him on March Is, at Savannah,
having kept absolute secrecy.
Col. Mercer Slaughter, prominently
mentioned for the new commissioner
ship and the assistant commissioner of
the Southern Passenger Association,
will come to his old home at Orange as
soon as the affairs of bis Office are
wound up.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-28
Attempted Train Robbery.

LITTLE Rock, Ark, Mar. 2S.-Two
masked men held up an Iron Mountain
train about 1910 o'clock last nightnear
Williamsville, Mo. They uncoupled
the mail, express and baggage cars and
after running them down the track
some distance they ordered the mes
senger to open the through safe, but IS
he did not have the combination he
opened the local safe, but there vas no
money in it. Meantime the ialarm hav.
ing been given, the robbers jumped
from the train and ran through the
woods. Before they LETT, however,
they secured the conductors gold
watch.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-28
THURSDAY EVENING. MAR. 50 1895.

FIFTY YEARS ago, when Alexandra
didn't have near as many inhabitants
as now, and when the houses In sign'
in Maryland could be counted on the
fingers of one hand, a steamboat ran
from the foot of Market Alley to Opos-
sum Hall, on the opposite side OF the
river. and it must have paid expenses, as
fine ferry was maintained until after
the close of the war. 1t is said that
when, at length, its receipts did not meet
its expenditures, the reason was the
fact that it did not run regularly, being
used, when occasion offered, to carry
freight to other nearby landings, there
by delaying for hours people who de-
sired to cross the river. Before that,
a great deal of the butter, eggs, poultry,
pork, vegetables, fruit, game, herbs and
tobacco twists sold in the market square,
was brought here by Maryland people,
who bought all their supplies of every
thing from Alexandria merchants. Ii
such a trade was profitable when buy
ers and sellers were few, why wouldn't
it be more so now when both are nu-
merous? The GAZETTE has taken the
tropble TO obtain estimates of the cost
of o suitable boat to r~e-establish the
ferry. and finds that one can be built
right here, at home, and by town peo-
ple, for about a, 800, that could cross the
river in a straight line, irrespective Of
the tide, as it would have an attach
ment that in two or three weeks of its
regular trips would scrape a sufficient
channel through the flats, even when
the water is lowest. Can not that small
amount be raised for a purpose that
would be so generally advantageous.
and would not the city council be JUST.
fed in helping to make it a success =:
Nothing can be done without an effort,
and with SO much to gain and so little
to lose, it seems that a trial should be
made. 1t stands to reaso that Mary,
landers would rather come a mile in g
safe and comfortable boat, and bring
their horses and carts with them, than
drive seven'or eight miles to Washing,
ton. as they now have to do.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-28
ROYAL ARcANuM.-The Grand Coun-

ROYAL ARcANUM.-The Grand Coun-
Gil, Royal Arcanum, Of Virginia, con-
cluded its session at Staunton yester-
day evening and adjourned. The
grand officers who were elected yes
terday were duly installed. The re.
ports from the subordinate councils all
show gratifying growth during the year.
The council heard reports from forty
two of the f%orty-seven councils in Vir-
ginia. 1t vas determined to hold the
next annual council in Richmond, and
hereafter the annual meetings will con-
vene on the third Tuesday in April in
stead of on the fourth Tuesday in
March, as has been the rule heretofore.
J. J. Jameson, Of Alexandria, Grand
Vice Regent, presented on behalf of bis
Council, No. 627, of Alexandria, to the
Grsnd Council through its Grand Re-
gent a gavel, made from the post of a
bed, formerly the property of George
Washington, and which had been TAX
en- from Mt. Vernon and kept as a relic
by General Robert E. Lee. The Grand
Regent, on behalf at the Council, &C.
cepted the present, and in his words of
thanks referred in glowing terms to
the fact that no other Grand Council
could receive such a present with as
full appreciation of its value from the
fact that both Washington and Lee
were sons of the grand old common
wealth of Virginia.
Last night at the Opera House the
visitors were entertained by a concert
by the Stonewall Band, vocal music
and Rotations by local amateurs, etc.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-28

PROSECUTED BY A WoMAN.-Last summer
Otto q. Fraysier was shot and killed in q bar.
room in Richmond by John E. Robinean.
The latter was tried for murder, but the jury
decided that the pistol went off accidentally,
and he was released. YesterdaIe applied
to court for protection against the mother of
his victim. His grievance was that Mrs.
Fraysier on occasions would come to the store
where he was engaged in business. afew doors
from her house, stand in the doorway, and,
shaking her finger at him, denounce him as a
murderer, and predict q swift vengeance upon
him. Again she had brought the little child
of her dead son to the store and pointed out
the proprietor to the little one as the murder
er of her papa. Robineau also produced in
evidence a letter which he received on the
night OF his acquittal from Mrs Fraysier, in
which she arraigned him in bitter terms, re-
buked him severely and called down ven.
geance upon his head. he said the Iady's
prosecutions had become unbsarable, and he
was compelled to bring her to court. She
promised the court to desist and was released.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-28

THE CIVILIZED Turks are wise peo-
pie and are good judges of human
character. They do not think that q
man who changes his political princi-
pies as he does his coat, to suit the
varying popular whims, and that, too,
in his mature years, is by any means an
example to set before their young men,
and therefore they have prohibited the
public display of Mr. Gladstone's por-
trait in their country.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-28

AS ANTICIPATED, when the law was
passed authorizing the commissioners
of the District Of Columbia to appoint
women as members of the board of
school trustees of that district, the
negroes there are now demanding that
women of their race be appointed. or
course they are, and of course their
demand will be complied with. There
are negro men on the board, and, for as
good reason, there should be negro
women. After a while the white people
of Washington may possibly conceive
the idea that they have had a surfeit of
negroes.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-28
Found Guilty.

PHILADELPHIA, March 2S.-Rev.
Alexander G. McAuley has been found
guilty of improper conduct by the COM
mission appointed by the Philadelphia
Presbytery to try him. The commits
sion recommend his dismissal from the
ministry. Mr.. McAuley is seventy-ive
years old and for fifty years has been
pastor of the Union Tabernacle church.
About a year ago suspicious were
aroused and an investigation resulted
in the disclosure that for the past five
years he had visited houses of immoral
ity. When the discovery was made
Mr.. McAuley offered his resignation,
but it was not accepted.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-28
TO-DAY,S TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
Foreign News.

LONDON. Mar. 2S.-A dispatch from
Toxic states that the condition of Ii
Hung Chang is progressing satisfaction
ly and an early resumption OF the
peace conference is expected.
ST. PETERSBURG, Mar. 2S.-Ihe
statement is published here that Ger
many and the United States, replying
10 the solicitations of the Chinese
peace ENJOYS, both declared that they
had resolved to observe strict neutrali-
ty. tits also said that the other pow
ers replied that the time for %interven-
ton had not arrived.
MADRID, Mar. 2S.- General Marti-
nez de Campos has declared that the
moment he lands in Cuba he will pro
coed with operations designed to put
down the revolt. There is a great deal
of irritation in official circles over allie
cations that Americans are supporting
the insurgents by supplying them with
money, arms, etc.
LONDON, Mar. 2S.-Field Marshal
Patrick Grant died this afternoon in
Chelsea Hospital, of which institution
he was governor.
OTTAWA, Mar. 2S.-The rumor to the
effect that the Governor-G General, Lord
Aberdeen, has been offered the Lord
Lieutepancy'o of Ireland. which has been
current for q day or two, is gaining
credence. 1t is believed his presence
in Ireland at the present juncture
would do much to unite the d%iscordant
elements.
LONDON, March ga dispatch from
Shanghai says that on Sunday last the
Japanese landed at Hal Chow, On the
coast of the province of Kiang-Tsu, ITO
miles northwest of Marking. The Chi
nese opposed the landing and three
hundred of them were killed in the
fight. 1t is believed that the Japanese
intend to march overland to Marking.
avoiding interference with the traffic of
the Yang se-Kiang. This move will
enable the japanese to block the Grand
Canal and prevent supplies from going
through it to Pekin. AS their fleet
holds the Gulf of Pe-Chi-Li, this gives
the japanese two lines upon which to
advance to Pekin.
TORONTO, Mar. 2S.-An Ottawa dis
patch to the Mail and Empire govern
ment organ) says that the reports that
Minister of Finance Foster and Min
lister of Justice Upper, and Comp
troller of Customs Wallace have re-
signed are upfounded. Mr.. Foster is
quite IN accord with the action taken
by the government. Mr.. Upper diff
fers from his colleages, and has offered
to resign as soon as he has disposed OF
his unfinished departmental business,
or, if desired, at once.
WINNIPEG, Man. Mar. 2S,-The
Manitoba Legislature will not deal at
present with the psrochial schools
from Ottawa it has been decided by
Premier Greenway to adjourn the
House till May 9th.
LONDON, March 2S.-A dispatch to the
Standard from Constantinople says the Ell.
glish, French and Russian ambassadors jointly
presented a memorial to the Porte yesterday,
calling attention to the insecurity of Christ
ians in the province of Diarbekir. The Porte
gave assurances that the provincial author
ties would be ordered to protect them.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-28

A c%oRoNER's jury in Washington has
failed to fix the blame of young Bahen's
death upon any body. Why, of course
it has, and no reasonable man ever
supposed it could do otherwise. The
young mar was fatally hurt in 8 game
of football. 1t was the game, and not
those who played it, to which the
blame of his death is justly attribute
bic, and no game can be indicted.
Football has been played by boys of all
past, and will probably be by all future
generations.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-28
T"ELEGRAPHIC BREyIT|PS

James Keelan, one of the most "a.
nous spies of the Confederate arynr
died at the City Hospital in Kapsa.
City, Mo-, last night.
One end of Wainwright & Companv,.
five story malt house, at P%ittsburp. I'm
into the street this morning. The work.
men all escaped, the cracking of lba
timbers giving them sufficient warning,
James Pritchard, a scene shiher at
music hall, in New York, fell from the
platform of the station on the Third
avenue elevated road this morning and
was crushed to death under an an.
preaching train.
A cable dispatch from Caracas. Nene-
zuela, says that the dispute with En-.
land will be settled by arbitration. and
that England has given assurance
that there will be 70 more trespassipg
on Venezuelan property.
Nearly the entire village ofCanasera.
ga, N. Y, was wiped out by fire this
morning. 1t started at 1910 a. m. near
the Cottage hotel and under a brisk
breeze spread rapidly to neighboring
buildings. The entire population was
called out to fight the flames, bat thew
were uncomfortable.
The tug-boat MARY A. Packer sank
off Red Hook, Long Island, this morn.
ing. A tug went alongside the Packer
and took off all hands but before the
Packer sank the tug Ida l.. Tebo got a
line to her and endeavored to beach
her in Gowanus Bay, but she sank be-
fore they could tow her in.
About l o'clock this morning fire
started in the grocery store of Henry
Hubert, in Canaseraga, \. y, and aid.
ed by q high wind leveled the entire
business part of the village in three
hours. Fifty-six buildings were con.
sumed and 81 families rendered home
less and desolate. The total loss will
reach S135,000.
The New York Senate has adopted
the Lexow amendment to the Lexcw
bipartisan police commission bill for
New York city, while strikes OUT the
elective feature and empowers the
mayor to appoint the police commits
.sioners, as at present. The Senate all
adopted a further amendment to tie
Lexow bipartisan police bill which
gives accused policemen the right to lie
represented by counsel on a trial.
E. G. Humes, aged 81 years, the mil
lionaire president of the First National
Bank of Bellefonte, Pa, died this morn
ing. He was the oldest president OF a
national bank in the United States.
A forest fire which started on TUESDAY
night eight miles south Of Mays Landing,
N j., is burning fiercely to. day and now ~
tends over several hundred acres. The fire is
raging in heavy timber and is doing much
damage.
Samantha Hoyt has disappeared from tho
farm of George Kirk. in Huron county. O..
Dallas Washburn and George Washington arc
under arrest charged with numbering the
woman. The body has not been found.
The Andrews Brothers Company. at Ia.
~zelton, Pa. succeeded in starting up its bar
mill with non union men yesterday. All the
finishing mills there are now running with
non union men.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-28

LoUDoUN NOTES. Charles Mer-
chant, perhaps the oldest citizen of this
county, died at his home near Hughes
vile last Friday, in the ninety-ffth
year of his age.
VIM. E.. Mcpherson, an old and we'll
known farmer of this county, residing
about four miles east of Leesburg, died
at his home last Sunday night, in the
6Sth year of his age.
The dwelling house belonging to Mr..
Henry Fur, near Hughesville, was
burned to the ground on Tuesday
night, together with nearly all of its
contents.-Mirrm.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-28

NEW TREATMENT OF CARBUNCLEs.
The Herald's European edition pub
fishes an article from its medical cor
respondent suggesting a harmless and
apparently eficacious treatment OF
boils and carbuncles by beer.yeast CIV
en- internally.
The cause of boils is now held to be
the penetration of the skin by a mi
crobe known as the staphylococcus
aureus, and, hence, the treatment
should be one which kills these mi
crobes. The old-fashioned linseed poul-
tice does not kill the the stapbylococci
burrowing into and poisoning the flesh,
but it helps them to multiply and to do
their mischevious work. In mild boils
tincture ofiodine may be applied with
good effect, or a compress of gauze
soaked into a solution of sublimate
heated to a temperature of 125 degrees.
Often, spraying a painful boil with a 2
per cent. solution ofcarbolic acid works
extraordinary cure.
But u foreign medical correspon-
dent says thermo-cautery Tin reference
to the knife) should, if possible, be used
to e~vacuate the pus, and he suggests
the new remedy, "a dose of beer-yeast;
two or three tablespoonful mixed with
a glass of beer and taken at meal time"
1t can do no harm, and it reported to
do its work rapidly. DR.. Debouzy
states:
that he has seer carbuncles the size
of a small apple, covered with thin,
violet-colored skin, perforated in places
and on the point of undergoing gan.
creme, in which the skin recovered its
vitality and the whole thing healed up
in an incredibly short space of time
N. Y. Herald.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-28

AFAMoUs ORDNANcE.-The famous Mo.
sier ordinance providing that all children un
der 16 years of age shall leave the streets a.
8 o'clock has gone into effect at Still Water,
MINI, and is rigidly enforced. Any child
found On the street after 9 o'clock is COM
PEELED to give a good account of himself and
if not the child is taken either home or to
the jsi', and parents notified. The ordinance
has worked very satisfactorily in Still Water
80 far,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-28
A NIrsterious Murder.

PRINCETON, KY, March 29.-The
dead body of Miss Mollie Easley was
found in the house of W. w. Darrah
this morning with her throat cut from
a to ear. The young lady was visit
ing her uncle, Darrah, and was alone
in the house for a short time. When
Mrs. Darrah returned she was Mortified
at the sight which met her as she en-
tered the house. Lee Darrab, a son of
w. w. Darrah, is missing and is sus-
pected of the crime.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-28

AS THE proposed democratic confer
ence at Roanoke can do nothing except
talk, every democrat in the State who
may have the requisite time and
money to spare can attendit, if he may
feel SO disposed. The legislature is the
only body that can determine whether
a convention to change the State con-
~stitution shall be held or not, and,
what's more, can correct many of the
existing evils without the extra ex'
peuse of a convention. Then, too,
Judging by the result of several recent
popular elections, there is no telling
whether having a convention so elect
ed would not be jumping out of the fry
ing pan into the fire.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-28
Court of Appeals Yesterday.

The only matter considered yester-
day was the case of Morrison against
Wilkinson. This vas argued, but was
not concluded.
To-day there were a number of opiu-
ions by the court, and, after the con
clusion of the case at bar, an adjourn
ment till Wednesday, the 3rd proximo,
was announced.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-28
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence Of the Alexsndris Gasette.]
WASHINGTON. March 2S.


1t is believed to be not improbable
that Thurston, the rejected Hawaiian
minister to the United States, may re-
tire actively from political and dip
lomatic life upon his return to Homo
lulu. Reports that he may succeed
Mr.. Hatch, the present minister of for
eign affairs for Hawaii, or that Mr..
Willis, the United States minister, may
be sent out of the country in retaliation
for the dismissal of Mr.. Thurston, are
said to be mere speculations without
basis of probability. 1t is said that
each family of standing in Honolulu
keeps a telephone, for which the
charge is $40 a year. The invitations
to all social functions are sent by
telephone. This is not only a saving
to the hostess in the matter of cards
and postage, but it also obviates the
necessity of the physical labor which
attaches to such work. Some houses
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-28
LEI

On wednesday, March 81. at $40 O'Clock
y. M, RICHARD 81. WARDER. jr.. aged %
years. Funeral on Friday afternoon at q
o'clock from the residence Of his parents,
81 Wilkes street. Friends and acqualnt1
ances are respectfully invited to attend,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-28

The house of Jury Commission NJ. ]. Clark,
of Mount Washington, Pa, was destroyed by
fire at 2 o'clock this morning. Nh. Clark
was probsb'y fatally burned while attempting
to cross the rear porch to get water, falling
through into the fire. Mrs. Clark and their
children escaped.