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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-14

HoPEIs, of course, better than regret,
but, when false, is more injurious
therefore, instead ofrelying upon hoped
for Improvement of the times, people
who are not rich should pay more at
ten,ion to the necessity of economy.
The prosperity of country depends
upon that fits agricultural class, and
what is to improve the condition OF
that class in the United States is invis-
ible. On the contrary, the extension
of old, and the opening of new lines OF
transportation in foreign countries, are
bringing the agricultural products Of
those countries more and more into com
petition with those Of this, and conse,
quently reducing the price thereof still
lower. If ends are to meet, diminution
of receipts must be Offset by diminution
of excnditures.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-14
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Republicans and populists of Prince
George county have combined In noml
mating county ticket.
Henry Baggerly, thought to be the
oldest Mason in Virginia, died at MS
home near Flint Hill on Monday Last
A meeting of agriculturists and po'
mologists to consider the insect ques'
ton was held at Charlottesville yester-
day.
NC. Armour was yesterday appoint.
ed receiver for the Rsdford Pipe and
Foundry Company, of Radford. on q
bill filed by stockholders in Cincinnati
The Eakleton Hotel, at Staunton,
was yesterday sold privately to Z. T.
Doug hefty, formerly proprietor OF the
Purcell House, Norfolk, and the Nor
msndie, Danville, for sol 900.
The trial of John Dulin for the muir
der of Samuel Leak at Little Washing.
ton more than year ago commenced
in that place on Monday last. 1t took
until o'clock Tuesday to get a jury.
The Rosenberg block in Waynesbero
was destroyed by fire late Tuesday
night. The origin of the fire is un-
known. The total loss is estin a.ed at
$4,000. The fire company had to
fight hard all night to save the new
Baptist church and other valuable
buildings. Insurance not known.
The Jury in the case of the Common
wealth VS.. Joshua Slower, indicted for
stealing 81 cents worth Of bacon,
which has been on trial in the Hust-
ings Court of Staunton, late yesterday
evening found him guilty, and fixed
punishment at one year in the periten-
tiary. This is Stover's third conyic-
ton, and he will, according to the law,
be sentenced for life.
j. w. Newcomba, who was leading
grocer of Petersburg, and who was sup
posed to have been drowned by falling
from the steamer Alabama, of the Bay
Line of steamers, last September, while
on its trip from Baltimore to Norfolk,
is still alive, letter to that effect hav-
ing been received in Petersburg last
night by Mrs. Newcombs, mis- wife.
The missing man is at his brothers, +.
G.. Newcomba, who resides at Greens
boro, n. c. His family was all in
mourning for him, supposlng him to be
dead. Mrs. Newcomba and her chill
dren were overcome with JOY to learn
that the husband and father was still
alive. The letter did not state where
Mr.. Newcomba had been all these
months, nor why he had not informed
his family of his whereabouts; neither
did it give the character of his illness.
Mr.. J. NJ. Newcomba, jr., left Peters
burg last night for Greensboro to visit
his father.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-14
From Honolulu.

SAN FRANCISCO, March 14.-The
steamer Arawa arrived from Honolulu
to-day. The ex.Queen has after all re.
fused to lease her Washington Place
residence. Apparently she hopes 5000
to return there. The government feels
the necessity of separating her from
access to the native population who
would instinctively pay homage to her
as a semi-divine parsonage.
The Hawaiian annexation leagues
are vigorously perfecting and extend
ing their organization.
Among the passengers on the Arawa
were Captain Davis, Camarinos,
Klemme, Won Werthen, Ashford and
Jaen-all from Honolulu, who were re-
leased from prison on condition that
they would leave the country.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-14
TERRIBLE HOTEL FIRE

The hotel of J. D. jenkins at Macy
vile, four miles from Wheeling, w.
Va, took fire and burned to the ground
Tuesday night. The building was
big frame structure, standing in lot
with no buildings within two hundred
feet. 1t was twso tories high, and when
the fire broke out every room was
occupied, and the building con-
tanned over forty people, includ-
ing the family of the pro.
prietor. The fire was we'll un-
der way when discovered, and had APP
parently originated in the kitchen or a
back stairway leading from the kitchen
to the second story. The flames were
burning furiously in the stairway when
first seen, and the heat and smoke rous-
ed the occupants of the first room on
the second floor beyond the head of the
stairway. The only means of escape
from that part of the house was cut OIL
and the occupants had to jump for their
lives from the back windows, but US
there is slight elevation at the back
of the house those who jumped Were
not badly hurt Before all the occn-
pants of the front part of the house
could be reused, the flames were roar
ing through the Railways, and five per-
sons were shut in their rooms with no
means of escape. Four men-Jacob
Coffner, William Wilson, J. X. vii.
liams and James Jenkins-were in one
room. They tried to escape by the HAL
way first, but were driven back by the
flames, after being terribly burned in
trying to reach the stairway. They
then tried the windows, but the flames
were roaring up from below, and their
only hope was to jump through the
furnace TO the ground. This they did,
but it is thought they are so badly bum
ed that they cannot live. In two other
rooms on the second floor were Eugene
Sisson, Homer Catlett and James Cor
ley. They could not be found during
the fire, but after the embers had died
out the three horribly burned corpses,
so badly charred as to be unrecogniza-
BILE as human beings, were found. 1t
is supposed they were suflocated in
their rooms, aud were dead before the
fire reached them. The building and
contents were valued at s., 900, and not
a thing was saved, most of those who
escaped getting out in their night
clothes. The town is located in the
heart of the numbering district, and all
those burned were either workmen or
otherwise interested in numbering.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-14
A Bank Suspends.

DUBOIS, Pa, March 1.-THE Bank
of Dubois failed to open its doors this
morning. No statement ha been given
out and nothing of the banks condi-
ton can be learned. President Long
is travelling at present, and cashier
Wise cannot be seen. The depositors,
however, are not greatly alarmed.
The stockholders are individually
liable and all are owners of valuable
real estate. 1t is said that there has
been quite run on the bank for the
last two weeks on account Of certain
rumors and that the bank has simply
run GU of funds. The belief is that
matters will be adjusted within a week
and that business will be resumed.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-14

The sHoEMAKERs III some of the
towns of England are on q strike now,
not for increased wages or shorter
hours, but against the introduction Of
improved machinery into shoe factories
Strikes occurred years ago among the
employees of the English cotton facto.
ries against the introduction of labor
saving machines in those establish
ments. II is hard for the workmen
unquestionably, but necessity knows
no law, and they must accommodate
themselves to the inventions of this
progressive" age. Every body was
happier when there wasn't so much
progress"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-14

I. ONE OF the Richmond newspapers,
disputing with another about contested
elections, says Governor o'Ferrall will
never condemn party friend without
giving him a fair hearing" But it will
be remembered that in contested
election case from New York, Gov
ernor O'Ferrall, then chairman Of
the elections committee of the .. S
House of Representatives, refused to
hear what Senator Hill, who was
familiar with that case, had to say in
behalf of the democrat, and condemned
a party friend by voting with the re
publican members of that committee
There are some people who don't for
get, if others do.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-14

THE Baltimore Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church has de.
termined that women shall not be ad-
mitted as delegates to the annual and
general conferences of that church. AS
delegates speak and, by their votes,
have authority, this action was not only
in accordance with prescriptive law, the
best of ali, and with that of common
sense, but with that of the Bible, for
Paul, in his first epistle to Timothy,
wrote: "But | suffer not woman to
Teach, nor to usurp authority over man,
but to be in silence
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-14

A STRANGE DUEL.-An extraordi-
nary duel has taken place in Brussels
between two Young men. They were
enamored of the same young lady, who,
after considerable hesitation, made her
choice. The unsuccessful sutton chal-
iepged his rival to duel, and proposed
that each should be armed with piece
of rope, and that they should thrash
each other as long as they could hold
out. The challenge was accepted. The
fight. however, had not been long in
progress when the police came up and
stopped it. Both "duelists' were COW
cred with blood. The challenger had
the worst of the encounter, his face be-
ing a mass of bruises.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-14
ATerrific Hurricane.

VANCOUVER, B. c., Mar. 14.-Ad,
vices from Chinese and Japanese ports
state that the terrific hurricane which
swept over the FIJI Islands on January
6 and wss the most severe that has
visited the islands for many years.
Several churches, the custom house,
bonded store and many small stores
and dwellings were wrecked. The
cocoanut and banana plantations are
totally ruined and few lives were lost.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-14
Foreign News.

MONTE CARLO, March 14.-Oscar
Wilde and the Marquis of Queensberry
have arrived here.
TANGIER, March 1.-THE Spanish
Legation here have received no news
of the missing ruiser Reina Regents.
A Spanish man-of-war has just passed
here OIL her way to the straits in a
search for the missing ship.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-14

NIosr all the good people of Maine
have left that State, for their own
good, but that some intelligent ones
still remain IS proved by the fact
that q law has been passed there pro-
hibiting physicians from assigning
"heart failure" as cause of death.
There can be no death without heart
failure; so that the real question is,
what caused the heart to fail as, when
it fails, death is the immediate result.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-14

A USEFUL DIsCovERY.-Quite q no.
table discovery, which bids fair to prove
of great service to the industrial world,
has been recently made in North Caro-.
lima, according to the theory of several
scientific men. Professor P. L. Wilson,
of North Carolina, is credited with hay
ing produced compound of lime and
carbon which, when thrown into water,
decomposes with the emission of in
fammable gas. This gas, in burning,
p 'oduces bright flame, and is suitable
Ior illuminating purposes. The profess
sor, upon examination, found that the
substance produced by the combination
of limestone and coal dust was acety-
lene, which has long been known, but
has been too expensive for industrial
use. 1t is said that his process will en-
able gas makers to sell gas at profit
at a price less than ten cents per one
thousand feet.
Major ]. Turner Morehead, of Leaks
vile, N. c., one of the proprie,ors of
the aluminium works at Spray, N. c.,
where this interesting discovery was
made, was recently in Richmond and
explained the process by which the
compound is produced.
The compound is known to chemistry
as cafcic carbide. Calcic carbide is not
a new discovery. 1t has been known
to science for many years, but hitherto
the ingredients used in compounding it
were so expensive as to deprive it of its
commercial value.
When small fragment of calcic car
bide is dropped into water it emits at
once pungent gas, which burns bril-
liantly when lighted. Major Morehead
also has small burner which can be
fitted into the mouth of an ordinary
bottle, and gas generated in the bottle
escapes through the burner and gives
by far the most brilliant gas light ever
seen.-Raleigh Times.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-14

OLDEST CHURCH IN THE SoUTH.-A
dispatch from Atlanta, Ga, says: The
Old Midway Church, in Liberty coun-
ty, the most ancient house of worship
in the South, having been built in 1852,
was the scene yesterday of the one
hundred end third annual reunion OF
the Midway Society, an organization
whose mission is to perpetuate the his
torical associations of the venerable
structure. Negroes now own the
building.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-14
All Free.

Those who have used Dr.. Kings New Dis.
covery know its value, and those who have
not, have now the opportunity to try it Free.
Call on the advertised Druggist and get Trial
Bottle, Free. Send your name and address
to Fl. E. Bucklsn & Co., Chicago, and get q
sample box of DIR. Kings New Life Pills, Free,
as well as copy of Guide to Health and
Household Instructor, Free. All of which is
guaranteed to do you good and cost You moth.
ing. For sale at E. s. Leadbea.er & Sons
Drug Store.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-14
DIED.

On Wednesday morning, March IS, 1895,
after lingering illness, Mrs. LUCY A. ARM.
STRONG, widow of the late John T. Arm.
strong, aged eighty years. Her funeral will
take place from the residence of her son. 4.
W. Armstrong. 81 Prince street, Alexandria.
Va, at o'clock Friday evening, March is.
Relatives and friends are invited to attend.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-14
The Bennett-Goelet Cup Race,

CANNES, Mar. IA. = The thrice post
poned race for the James Gordon Ben
nett and Ogden Goelet challenge cup,
valued at 81 500, was sailed day oyer
thirty. mile course with the wind light
from the southwest. The Corsair
crossed the line first, at 11:0O:21; the
Ailsa at 11:0l;07, and the Britannia %
seconds later. Ailsa won easily.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-14
A Professional Murderer Convicted.

LOUISVILLE, KY, Mar. 14.-Thomas
Smith, one of the most notorious des-
peradoes of eastern Kentucky, was
Yesterday found guilty of the murder Of
DR.. RAIDER, at Jackson, and condemned
to be hanged. He was a professional
murderer and was at the hire of every
outlaw who wanted a man more un-
scrupulous than himself. Smith has
been credited by some with killing
twenty men but he acknowledges only
eight. He had been indicted for seven
murders.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-14

IF foreigners were as keen set on en-
broiling their countries in war with the
United States as the jingoes here are to
provoke hostilities with them, the lat
ter would soon be accommodated, for
the recent murderous assaults upon
Chinese and Italians in this country,
without reparation, certainly afford
good ground for war.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-14
Court Of Appeals Yesterday.

Shepherds administrator against
Chapman; further argued and submit
ted.
Turner's administrators vs.. C. & @.
Railway Co. Continued.
Bowlea VS.. Allen and Pollock; ar
gued By Judge w. Willoughby for APP
pellant.
TO Staunton.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-14

Chamberlain's Cough Remedy gives
the best satisfaction of any cough medi-
cine i handle, and as seller leads all
other preparations in this market. 1
recommend it because it is the best
medicine I ever handled for coughs,
colds and Group a. w. Baldridge,
Millersville, III. For sale by L. Stabler
g. Co
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-14

Nine Choctaw Indian chiefs, under
the direction of Chief Whirlwind, were
the center of attraction at Union sta
ton, st. Louis, last night. They are
en- route to Washington to see Presi-
dent Cleveland by invitation. They
are splendid specimens of manhood,
talking English fuently and dress in
correct fashion,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-14

PARTIES who intend to build would do well
to ca on Smoot & Co., corner Of Cameron
and Union streets, as they are selling Build.
ing Material and Mill Work cheaper than
ever. They make special dis cunt to con-
tractors and builders.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-14
LoUDoUN NOTES.

Mr.. Romulus Ferguson was partially
paralyzed in his left side last Friday
morning at his home near Aldie.
One evening about six weeks ago
Mr.. K. B. Wildman felt sharp pain
in the right forearm and an investiga-
ton convinced him that there was a
foreign substance there. At intervals
ever since he has felt similar pains,
hut for the most of the time the arm
has not troubled him. On Tuesday,
however, he consulted Dr.. West, who
instituted proceedings with q surgeons
knife and extracted a broken needle
point about one inch long. When,
how or where the needle got in there
Mr.. Wildman has no idea.
In the County Court of Loudoun, on
Monday, the will of the late Washing
ton Haines was admitted to probate,
with A. J. Bradfeld, ESQ.,, as executor
The estate of the deceased, real and
personal, the sole accumulation of his
own industry and frugality, was valued
at $110, 000-and the bond of the ex-
ecutor fixed at 100000, his bondsmen,
Colonel Robt. Beverly. e. T. Holton,
w. h. Rogers, ]. F. Ryan, Geo. F.
Eamich, J. B. Beverly, R. A. Beverly,
Jos. l.. Norris, A. T. NJ. Filler and S.
W. George, justifying in the sum of
$1S6,00O.
On Monday last, a petition from
Mercer district, containing $50 names,
was laid before the County Court, pray
ing for vote to he ordered in said dis
trict upon the question of license or no
license for the sale of Intoxicating
liquors. Should vote be ordered, it
will be the fourth time the question has
been passed upon by the voters of Mer-
Ger district in the last fifteen years.
The judge has the petition under adj
visement and will, we understand, on
Saturday next, the 10th, pass upon it,
by either ordering the vote to be taken
or deciding against such action, as in
his judgment may be proper.-Ai,ror.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-14
Alexandria Market, March "A.

BALTIMORE. Mar. 14.-virgina century
5Saia59.
Alexandria Market. March II.
The wholesale commercial markets are de.
cidedly stronger. and business continues 10
increase in volume, but prices are still very
low for all farm products, and no permanent
improvement can be expected until they bring
something more than cost of production.
Flour is higher, and in fair demand. Wheat
is wanted at an advance Of from 1 to &c per
bushel, range SO to 63, latter for choice long
berry only, Corn is firm at 1S to 40 Rye
81 to sac. Oats 30 to 3Sc for mixed and
white. Eggs are steady. Butter is scarce.
Dressed Pork, Dressed Poultry, Potatoes,
Peas Beans other produce, Provisions, Grcce
ries and Ml'lfeed are readily so d at full fg
ures.
New YORK, Mar. 14-Flour-State and
Western moderate demand and firm; South
ern quiet and firm; common to fair extra
81 9Oa2 rs good to choice do 50 S0a3 25.
Rye Flour firm and quiet; superfne 81 ga
erately active aud steady; bay 81 LIZA
81 7-16. Rye nominal. Corn-No 9 ouiet
and frmer; May 50asa50b. Oats-No 9
dull and steady; May 333a State 37a4l:
Western 34a41. Pork firm; mess ST. 90 TO
$13 90: Lard quiet and firm; steam rem.
dered 81 05 asked.
BALTIMORE, Mar. 14.-Flour firm. Wheat
steady No 2 red spot ant March 607sa61
May 61%a62; steamer No 2 red 57a.a577.;
southern wheat by sample 6Oa62; do on
grade 59ha611a Corn firm linked SPOT and
Mar 4S7sa49; April 49a49ls; May 1914
49%; steamer mixed 47a.a4s; southern
white 50a51 ; do yellow 49a494b Oats firm:
No 2 white Western 36'ba37 No , mixed
DO 34Aha35. Rye dull No 81. Hay
steady at$12 50a$13 90. Other articles UNI
changed.
CHICAGO. Mar. 14.-wheat-May 56l.s
56ss; July 571a; Sept 5sas. Corn-slay
46; July Asa. Sept 457s asked. Oats
May 294; June 291s bid; July IS bid.
Pork-May 81 So; July SIP 90. Lard
May So 95 July So 95. Ribs May So S.;
July So 95a$5 971a; Sept Sc 10.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-14
MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL.

New YORK. Mar. 14.-Thc bulls continue
in contro of the stock market and a number
Of the prominent issues scored further ad.
vances during the first hour of business At
II o'clock the market was quiet and ir.
regular.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-14

BALTIMORE. Mar. 14.-virginia century
5SAa59.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-01-08
THAT SUNDAY Law AGAIN
Petition Asking that Penalty for Its
Violation BE Increased.
RECEIVED MANY SIGNATURES
1t Was Circulated ut Last Nights Annual
Meeting of the Green Ridge presby.
tcrian Church Officers That Were
Elected for the Year.

At the annual meeting of the Green
Ridge Presbyterian church, held last
night, the following petition was read
and received the signatures OF many of
those present:
To the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the State of Pennsylvania:
Your petitioners, whose names are
hereunto signed, do most respectfully and
earnestly request your honorable bodies
to so amend the Sunday law of 1894 as to
make the penalty for the violation of the
first section of said act for the first con-
viction $25, for the second conviction $50
and an increase of $40 for each subsequent
conviction. We earnestly protest against
any modification or amendment of the
said law, which will decrease said PEN
atty or render it less effective to secure
Sunday observance.
At the meeting pews were also rented
for the year, officers elected and the
annual reports read.
Business OF the Meeting.
The meeting was presided over by
Colonel +. l.. Hitchcock. The report of
the treasurer, c. X. Pond, showed the
financial affairs to be in very satisfac-
tory condition, as the receipts were
much more than the expenses. A re-
port of the church work in general was
read by J. Fl. Fisher, secretary of the
board of trustees. The terms of c. II.
Pond, DR.. j. l.. Rea and j. f. Hangi as
members of the board of trustees hav-
ing expired, they were reelected with
the exception of j. f. Hangi, who de-
clined the honor. Townsend Poore was
elected by acclamation, to fill the va
cancy
During the afternoon the Ladies' Aid
society held its annual business meet
ing, and after very encouraging reports
by Mrs. NJ. j. Clark, the secretary
treasurer, were read, the following Of
ficers We're elected President, Miss
Tenney; vice president, Mrs. M. c.
Carr; secretary-treasurer, Miss Jean
Lindsay; managers, Mrs C. II. Pond
Mrs. M. l.. Fine, Mrs. Frank Merri-
field, Mrs. C. w. Kirkpatrick, Mrs. F.. l..
Merriman, Mrs. Clifton Colvin and Mrs.
y Hnwp