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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-08-21
VIRGINIA AGRIcULTURIsrs

The Farmers Institute.-for tie
Eighth Congressional district of Vir.
ginia met at Manassas to-day and will
continue in session tomorrow.
The managers are Col. 8. Wexford
Corbin, president of Virginia State
board of agriculture; Thomas White
head, commissioner of agriculture;
Capt. r. II. Tyler, official reporter;
Prof. Joseph Boorman, musical direct.
or. Local committee: William M.
Wheeler, chairman, Wellington; Geo.
@. Round. secretary, Manassas; Thos..
]. Chew, Thoroughfare; d. G.. Alexar-
der, Minnieville; John Mellow, Nokes-
vile; Edward Wilson, Hickory Grove;
George L. Harrison, Chantilly; Sher-
wood Stonnell, Occoquan; William S.
Swayze, Fairfax; J. G. Taylor, Inde-
pendent Hill; E. E. Mason, Accotink;
@. G. Mercier, Hamilton.
The programme is as follows: We'd
nesday morning session at 10 o'clock.
l. Prayer, Rev. D. P. Eaton. 2.
Welcome, Hon. E. e. Meredith, NJ. C.
8. Opening address, Hon. j. Sterl-
ing Morton, Secretary of Agri-
culture. 4. The relations of the
physical properties of the soils
to crops, Prof. Milton Riley, chief
Of Division of Soils, Agricultural De-
partment. S. Dairying in Virginia.
Major Henry E. Alvord, chief of the
Dairy Division, Agricultural Depart
ment. 6. Discussion, "How to eradi-
cato o1-eyed daisy, sheep sorrel. and
sassafras;" five minute talks by farm.
ers. Recess at 1890 o'clock.
Afternoon session, Q o'clock. /.
The road question, General Roy Stone,
chief of the Division of Roads. 2. Dis
cussion, 1.-THE crop that pays BEST" five
minute talks by farmers. Recess 4:30
p. m.
Night session at NJ. E. Church, 7:S0
p. M, Judge Charles Z. Nicol presid.
ing. ]. Address, Relation of plants
to man." Prof. Charles A. Keffer, as
sis.ant chief, Forestry Division.
On Thursday morning session the
farmers are invited to assemble to dis
cuss the topics of the previous day and
such others as they shall determine.
An afternoon session will be held if the
farmers deem it necessary.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-08-21

AN AMERICAN STEAMSHIPS FAST
TDfE.-The steam trials Of the Ameri.
can Line steamer st. Louis over
q measured course in the Eng
lish channel yesterday were o
complete success. The course was
from Portland Bill to Start Point
and back; distance of 1O4
knots, and the time in which it was
covered gave a mean speed of % 3 10
knots. There was smooth sea, with
little wind. The st. Louis was going
with the tide, and passed every boat en-
route. When nearing Start Point a
British torpedo-catcher was oyertaken
and soon left far astern. The run
to Start Point was made in 2 hours. 12
minutes and 1S seconds, which was q
a speed of % Clio knots an hour. The
trial was made to ascertain whether
the steamship comes up to the require
ments of the. government under the
contract for carrying the mails.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-08-21
Train Held Up and Robbed.

GoTHENBURG, Neb. Aug. GA
Union Pacific train was held up and
robbed by bandits in cut half way
between Brady's Island and this place
at o'clock this morning. The robbers
tagged the train and when it stopped
cut off the engine and exploded several
dynamite cartridges against the door of
the express car, blowing it open and re-
ducing tho express messenger to sub
mission. The safe was blown open and
its contents taken. It is not known
what booty was secured. The robbers
had taken the engineer from his engine,
but left the fireman unguarded. he
took advantage of his liberty to pull
open the throttle and started for this
place. Upon the arrival of the fireman
with the engine at this point q posse
was organized and returned to the scene
but the road agents had disappeared,
Aside from soaring the passengers by
volleys Of pistol shots, no one on the
train was hurt or molested. The posse,
which is in pursuit of the robbers, is
we'll armed and it is considered certain
that the bandits will be captured or
killed the next "a hours.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-08-21

SUSPECTED OF PoIsoNING.-State
Coroner Taylor had a mouse brought
to him in Richmond yesterday to be
analysed along with the stomach and
liver of Cleveland ]. Seamster. Seam
ster, boy about eight years of age,
died near Houston, in Halifax county,
on July 20. Four days before he was
taken ill with symptoms Of poisining.
His mother and her two other child
rem were made sick, but recovered. 1t
is believed that arsenic was put in the
meal from which the cornbread they
ate for dinner was made. Next morn
ing woman living on the premises
was ill after eating flour bread. A
mouse was seen in the barrel from
which this -four was taken. 1t died
there, or on the floor nearby, and the
presumption is that arsenic also was
placed in the flour. A man named
Cabell Granger, is in Halifax Jail, charg-
ed with the murder of the boy Seam
ster. It is said that Granger and Mrs.
Seamster were unduly intimate. The
theory is that he had cause to be jeal-
GUS and wanted to kill the woman and
poisoned both the cornmeal and flour.
The man was at Mrs. Seauster's the
day the bread was eaten, but did not
partake of it. The commonwealth ex-
poets to prove that he purchased arse
mic. DIR. Melvin brought the ohild's
stomach and liver, the mouse and sam
piles ofthe flour and meal to DR.. Tay-
lor, and was with the chemist about an
hnlr
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VIRGINIA NEWS.

The cornerstone of the Odd Fellows
Hall, in Staunton, was laid yesterday
evening.
Baltimore capitalists are endeavor-
ing to secure valuable street railway
franchise in Richmond.
Arrangements are being made for the
extension of the Atlantic and Danville
Railroad to the coal fields of south
western Virginia.
1t is reported that Colonel Pat Nc.
Caull will probably make another dash
for Congress in the Eighth Virginia
District next year.
The democrats of Richmond will
have viva voce primary for the NOM
ination of the five members of the
House of Delegates.
Richard T. Alvey, of the firm of AL
vey Bros, feed dealers. of Richmond,
died very suddenly yesterday at .Ashe-
vile, N. c., where he had been for sew
eral months for his health. Deceased
was 40 years old.
The democratic executive committee
of Clarke county has decided that del
egates to the Senatorial and House of
Delegates conventions shall be chosen
by ballot at primary election to be
held in each district on Saturday, the
31st inst.
Secretary Morton, who delivered the
address before the Farmers Institute at
Manassas to-day, has been on visit of
few days to Orange county. He went
on Saturday to "Rose Hill," the fine
farm of Mr.. o. F. Bresee, of Baltimore,
which is located just the other side of
Rapidan.
The Southern Railway Company has
completed arrangements with the au-
thorities of Norfolk for the lease of ter
minal property from the city. This
secures the entrance of the
Southern Railway into Norfolk. 1t
will enter the city over the Norfolk
and Carolina Railroad, but will use its
own engines, cars and barges.
The farmers State alliance of yir-
ginia, of which DR.. F. V. Winston, of
Hanover county, is president, met at
Richmond yesterday evening. The
attendance was small. President Win
ston and Secretary Silvey we're re-
elected. The membership of the order
has fallen of during the past few years,
and it is not near so large as it has
been.
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A Fight with the Insurgents.

SANTIAGO DE CUBA, via Key West,
Fla, Aug. 21.-General Martinez
Campos has ordered all the politi-
cal prisoners at Baracoa to be set
at liberty. On the 5th instant
a Spanish column, $50 strong, met
the rebels, 800 strong, near the river
Duaba, Baracoa. They had an en-
counter which lasted three hours.
Later the same parties met and had an
other encounter. In both these engage
ments, according to Spanish report, the
rebels had nine killed and twelve
wounded and the Spanisrds one killed
and one wounded.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-08-21
Salvation Army Arrested.

MADISON, Wis, Aug. 21.-The local
Salvation Army, including the visiting
brigadier from Wisconsin, were last
night notified by the chief Of police
that no more blockading of streets
would be permitted. The army paid
no heed to the warning but planned a
great demonstration in honor at Briga,
der Wincheli. A policeman seized
him in the midst of prayer and other
officers took his ten associates to jail.
The women were released, but the men
were placed behind the bars.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-08-21
The Farmers Institute.

MANASSAS, Aug. 21.-The second an.
nual session of the farmers institute OF
the Eighth district was begun here this
morning. The attendance is large, rep
resentative farmers from all over the
district and all the prominent persons
advertised to participate in the exer-
cises, being present. The session was
opened at 10 o'clock by an appropriate
prayer by Rev. S. B. Eaten. At the
conclusion of the prayer Representative
Meredith delivered an address OF vel
come in his usual felicitous style. He
was followed by Secretary of Agricul-
ture Hon. J. Sterling Morton. The
secretary's address was interesting
from start to finish and provoked no
end of applause and some amusement.
In the main his remarks went to show
the benefits TO be derived from inten-
sive system of agriculture. he ex-
pressed himself as being very favor
ably impressed by the fine appearance
of that portion of Virginia which he
had visited. During the course of his aG-
dress he, in making q comparison, had
occasion to refer to the Garden of Eden.
After drawing a word picture Of that
place, he went on to say that there
were no tariffs there and added, incl
dentally as it were, without any show
of levity, perhaps it would have been
a good thing for US sll fthere had been
tariff on serpents.
The secretary was followed by Prot.
Milton Riley, of the Department OF Agrl-
culture, in an address on .The relation
of the physical properties OF soils to
crops.n His address was interesting
and consisted of scientific expression
of the subject upon which ne dis
Msior Henry E. Afford, chief of the
Dairy Division Of the Department of
Agriculture, who is engaged in dairying
in Fairfax county, was the next person
to take the stand. The subject upon
which he discoursed was dairying.
What he had to say is something that
every person who has anything to do
with stock or farming in any of its
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-08-21
WEDNESDAY EVENING. AUG. 81, 1895
ONE OF the two anti-Alexander's
Island race track, and professed moral

ONE OF the two anti-Alexander's
Island race track, and professed moral
reform, newspapers of Washington now
saws the Western Union Telegraph
Company must be prevented from le-
porting the drawings of lottery Gonna
MES to "disreputable shacks on the
Virginia side of the Potomac, where
the poor are bled out of their hard-won
earnings" There are more policy shops
in Washington than were ever dreamed
of in Alexandria county. and II
the telegraph company be prevented
from reporting drawings to the hitter,
why not to the former? Then. too,
from all accounts, "the poor are bled out
of precious little of their hard.won
earnings" at the policy shops either in
Washington or in Alexandria county,
as, according to these accounts, most OF
the money lost in such shops is left
there by idle, worthless beats and bum
mers, if not worse, too lazy to work for
money, and foolish enough to hope to
get it by plying against sharper rascals
than themselves. Men who work for
money know the value of it, and don't
throw it away on games in which all
the chances are against them.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-08-21
TRIAL OF MRS. HARMON.

The trial of Mrs. Mary Harmon for
the murder of her husband, John R.
Harmon, June 2, was commenced at
Fairfax Court House yesterday. The
woman is charged with murder in the
second degree. After jury had been
impaneled Mrs. Harmon's attorneys
entered plea for the defendant of not
guilty on the ground of self-deiense.
The opinion prevails throughout the
county that the woman will be acquit-
ted. 1t is said that the prosecution ex-
poets hung jury.
The prosecution is being conducted
by the Commonwealth's Attorney, ].
NJ. Love, and Mr.. R. E. Thornton. Mr..
R.W. Moore is counsel for the defense. A
theory will be advanced by the prose-
cution that Mrs. Harmon did not shoot
her husband from downstairs window,
after quarrel with him, but that he
was shot from an upstairs window, as
he was standing close to the house and
looking up at his wife. The fact that
he was shot in the face and that the
charge of buckshot went downward
into his body, lodging just above the
right hip, is point in favor of this
theory.
Judge Chichester is on the bench and
the jurors are Arthur Cross, A. ].
Cross, Albert Powell, E. w. Birch,
George W. Powell, G. M. Cronk, R. D.
Haines, Davis Gheen, John f. Jerman,
P. P. Thomas, James Robertson, and
James Murthough, all of whom are
farmers. The jury was selected from
the first panel, not man being chal-
lenged.
In opening the case Commonwealth
Attorney Love, in short address, ex-
planned the law to the jury, and said
that the crime charged against Mrs.
Harmon was one that could not be
countenanced. 1t was his duty to pre-
sent the evidence against her, and he
believed that the jury would find the
evidence amply sufficient to convict
her OF murder in the second degree.
He would show, among other things,
that Mrs. Harmon had once threatened
the life of her husband by thrusting
revolver into his face.
In presenting the defendants side OF
the case Attorney Moore said self
defense would be clearly presented
He would show the extreme brutality
of the husband; that he had once as
saulted his wife with g knife. The
separation would be explained, and it
would be shown how Harmon persisted
in annoying the woman, who was try.
ing hard to earn bread for her eight
children. 1t would be shown by the
testimony of Magistrate Tumble that
Harmon had been advised by him to
keep away from the woman's house,
The examin ,tion of witnesses for the
prosecution was then proceeded with.
After the States fifteen witnesses are
examined the defense will present
twenty witnesses, SO that, with the re-
calling of witnesses and the arguments
of the lawyers, the trial will run over
until tomorrow at least.
At $3.50 o'clock this evening the ex-
animation of witnesses was still in
progress.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-08-21

Most right thinking democrats,
wherever they may be, are gratifed
that Senator Quay, of Pennsylvania,
has defeated the 'hog combine" that
was organized within his own party to
defeat him, because, as rank and un-
scrupulous republican as he is, he is
not whit more SO than his party op-
ponents who desired to 'down" him,
and is much better man in several
other respects.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-08-21

SOUTH CAROLINA ELEcrIoN.-Re.
turns of the election for members of the
constitutional Convention from the
shirty-fye counties of the State show
that The democratic nominees in every
county have been elected, with few
possible exceptions. Two Independent
democratic candidates may be elected
IN Union, and two negro republicans in
Darlington, and two in Beaufort. The
reform democrats (Tilmanites) will
have large majority iu the COnstitu-
tional Convention, which insures the
making of constitution which will
largely eliminate the negro vote. There
was no trouble yesterday at any pre-
cinct in the State.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-08-21

NATIONAL republican committeeman
Manley, of Maine, says: SIT would
have been infinitely better for the re-
publican party if it had dropped the
agitation of the Force bill question
eight years before it did. That policy
kept the South arrayed against it. The
people of the South are bound to have
rule of intelligence" This not only
shows that Mr.. Maniey has come to his
senses, but that he is opposed to the
denomination of Mr.. Harrison, as the
latter was the chief promoter and main
supporter of the Force bill, and, accord
ing to his latest expressions upon the
subject, still thanks God he was not
born in the South, and would again
subject this section to the race troubles
of reconstruction times.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-08-21

THAT POLITICS do make strange bed
fellows is made glaringly and gro
sesquely plain by the fact that the en-
nifty that has long existed between the
Baltimore Sun and the american of the
same city has be assuaged, and that
both these newspapers are now work
ing together with might and main to
defeat the democratic ticket in Mary
land. The Sun had theS indiaputable
right to oppose the nomination of that
ticket, but after the convention acted, as
a democratic newspaper, its opposition
should just as certainly have been with
drawn
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-08-21
Murder and Suicide.

MAcoMB, ILL.,, Aug. 21.-William
Blanchard, prosperous farmer living
near Prairie City, shot and instantly
killed his wife on Sunday. He then
shot himself and fell across her dead
body fatally wounded. The couple had
not lived together for nearly year,
and Blanchard had made an unsuc-
cessful attempt at reconciliation.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-08-21

In OHIO, as almost everywhere else,
except in the last Congress, where q
test has been made, the silver men have
been defeated, as they should have been,
according to common sense, if not by
the means resorted to for that purpose
by the federal oficeholders, and the
money of the millionaires who now
have practical control of the financial
affairs of the government.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-08-21

AMONG THOSE spoken of as the pos
sible nominee of the next national dem
ocratic convention Is Secretary Of State
Oluey. If the nomination of that con-
vention must 60 to member of Mir.
Cleveland's cabinet, Mr.. Olney. to
those familiar with the character Of the
respective gentlemen composing that
body, is unquestionably the man to
whom it should be given, as he is the
only one among them who has mani.
tested real and conspicuous iDdepsnd-
cnce, and plain determination to con-
duct the affairs of his Office according
to his own ideas, and not merely as q
ministerial officer and in accordance
with the orders of the President, how.
ever contrary to his own they may be.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-08-21
An EmhezzIer Arrested

ASTORIA, Ore, Aug. 2l.-A. ]. Lusk,
ex-cash;sr of the First National Bank
of Wichita, Kss., who is wanted for
embezzlemept, has been arrested at q
summer resort near here. Lusk, who
has been living q high life for some
time, is accused of robbing the Wichita
Bank OF $500 two years ago.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-08-21
TO-DAY'S TELEGRApHIC NEWS
Governor Campbell not a Candfdate

Governor Campbell not Candidate.
SPRINGFIELD, O., Aug. 21.-After q
consultation OF Two hours with his i'm
mediate friends, Ex-Governor Campbell
has just announced that he will not be
q candidate for Governor and has sent
q notice of his decision to Senator
Brice. This declination has broken all
states, shattered all predictions and
leaves the delegates to the convention
foundering in the sea of uncertainty.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-08-21
Collision at Sea.

FORT MONROE, Va, Aug. 21.-The
steamer Georgia, from Baltimore, ran
into the schooner Aaron Rupert, from
Savannah for Baltimore with lumber,
off Point Lookout about midnight. The
schooner leaked badly and was towed
into shallow water.
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branches should know. 1t should be
printed and scattered broadcast.
This session of the institute, which is
being presided over by Hon. S. Well
ford Corbin, will be continued until to-
morrow evening.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-08-21

Miss Mary Elizabeth Manning, daughter of
the late Secretary Of the Treasury, was mar
ried in Albany, n. Y, today to Mr. Julius
C. Won der oudermeulen, Of The Hague, Hol-
land.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-08-21

EVIL ASSOCIATION corrupts good
manners. The Baltimore Sun has fol-
lowed the example of the New York
World, aud the Louisville Evening Post
has followed that of the Baltimore Sun,
10 opposing the regularly nominated
democratic ticket in their respective
Statac
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-08-21

The business portion of St. Kilian, q
smaal town near West Bend, Wis, was
wiped ont by fire yesterday.
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EXCURSIONS.
INCLUSION -
St St nABY's SUNDAY So SCHOOL,
EXCURSIONS,
TO RIVER VIEW,

TUESDAY, AUGUST 81, 1895.
TICKETS 25 CENTS
Steamer Samuel ]. Pentz leaves Washing
ton at $40 a, NJ, and 1:45 and 6:45 D. m.
Ale1andria at 1918 a. m, 2:15 and Ills p.
n. LAST trip to Indian Head, stopping at
RiVsr View going and returning. aug21 ct
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VI
the ice box with the temperature near
zero he ceased perspiring and started
pounding on the walls with mallet
The noise he made soon attracted the
attention of his son, Charles, who hur-
ried to the assistance of his father and
released him. Roup was uninjured,
but was thoroughly frightened.
Gypsy tribes are gathering near
Edgewood and Metropolis View, for
the election of queen. Their camp
fires are burning nightly through the
woods lying north of the Washington
Outing Clubs grounds and so on to-
ward the Catholic University. New
parties are coming in from day to day,
and it is expected within the next two
weeks the rowing bands scattered
through the woodlands in that vicinity
will count their electors by the hun
dreds.
A pepper has recently visited the
houses of many residents of Ansonia,
Ct, who have pretty wives and daugh.
ters, and frightened them by peering in
the windows of their rooms while they
were retiring. Sunday night two men
caught him looking into the room
where the daughters of one of them
we're sleeping. They horsewhipped
him until he begged for mercy, and
promised that he would never commit
such an ofense again.
The 14-year-old son of Fred Becken-
holdt, a farmer, living near Lawrence
burg, Ind, was terribly injured by q
bull yesterday afternoon. The animal
caught him in a field and for nearly
four hours held him prisoner, tossing
him into the air and goring and tramp
ling him until his clothing hung in
shreds. Both arms were broken,
nearly every rib was fractured and
holes were horned into his breast. A
neighbor discovered the bull tossing
the nearly nude body of the boy and
gave the alarm. Several farmers gath
cred and attacked the bull with clubs
and pitchforks and rescued the boy.