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LOVE FOR THE BLUE, Decoration Day in Different Parts
 of the Country. CEREMONIES IN THIS CITY Were Appropriate and We'll Attended-Gov- ernOr Morton Prostrated During the
 Parade in New York.

Memorial Day was observed here ap- propriately yesterday afternoon by George A. Custer Post No. 1, Grand Army of the Republic, and George II. Thomas Camp No. 1, Sons of Veterans, United States of America.
 At the appointed hour, 2:3O o'clock, a number of the members of the two or ganizations and a few friends met in their hall on Nineteenth street. between Second and Third avenues. and there held some appropriate services.
 General orders from the commander in-chief were read, and also some of the ritualistic reading was gone through. The choir, which was composed of sev- eral excellent voices. rendered some ap- propriate vocal music after which march was formed and the body pro- ceeded behind fife and drums to the Oak Hill cemetery, going out Nineteenth street to Eighth avenue, thence to Sev- enteenth street and then to the burial grounds
 There the two organizations gathered around the Grand Army of the Republic monument, and were Joined by a large number of lady and gentlemen friends, and the programme as set down in the books of the Grand Army of the Repub- lie was carried out.
 The chaplain led in prayer after which Post Commander Stone read the object of the observance. The choir sang the beautiful Decoration Day song. Peacefully They Are Sleeping" after which Dr. A. N Ballard delivered the annual memorial address.
 The address was simple and yet to the point, showing the objects of the or der and explaining the ceremonies then being carried on.
 The quartette sang a beautiful hymn, and the monument was garlanded with a short and neat ritual address.
 America" was sung by the choir, and the graves of departed ones. which had been previously marked with petite flags, were strewn with flowers.
 The drum caled the old soldiers and their sons together again, and the march to the city was begun.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-05-01
DURANT,s FATE.

The evidence in the preliminary ex-
animation of Theodore Durant for the
murder of Marian Williams, whose
body was found in Emanuel Baptist
Church. San Francisco, is all in and
Police Judge Conlon will deliver his
opinion to morrow. He denied, for the
time being, a motion of defendants
counsel to dismiss the case and also re.
fused to admit Durant to bail.
When Durant was taken to the court
room yesterday he looked pale and
wan, his confinement apparently begin
ming to tell upon his health.
DIR. j. S. Barrett, who performed the
autopsy on the body of Miss Williams,
was on the stand and was cross-exam-
ined for hours by the defendants at
torney. He stated that Miss Williams
died from asphyxiation and hemor.
rhage, the former caused by rags forced
down her throat. and the hemorrhage
by severing of the arteries in her wrists.
Other wounds on various parts of her
body were inflicted after death.
Charles Hills testified that man re-
sembling Durant met woman answer
ing Miss Williams's description near
Emanuel Church on Good Friday night,
walked rapidly down the street and
disappeared inside the dark church.
He watched them intently, because, as
he testified, he thought the woman was
his wife keeping an appointment with
another man. When he went home,
however, he found his wife there. He
examined the entrances and exits next
day aud found that the pair could not
have left the church while he watched
and have escaped observation.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-05-01
w GOODS DELIVERED
ANDPTA
Woodward & Lothrop,
10th, 18th & F Sts., n. W.,
WASHINGTON. D. c.

COUNTY LIQUOR LICENsEs.-At the
last meeting of the legislature the pow
er to grant liquor license in Alexandra
county was taken from the judge of the
court and placed in the hands of an
excise board. This board composed
of Messrs. Charles w. Frought, Melvin
Johnston and Edward Barnard, each
representing one of the districts of the
county, met yesterday to consider the
eighteen applications for liquor licenses,
which had been filed with them. Ten
were approved and eight were rejected.
Those to whom licenses were granted
are:
Milton 81. tombstone, Columbia pike and
Georgetown; George w. Wolff, Rosslyn; Dan
Cumbraugh, Chain bridge; George W. Myers,
Jackson City John Heath, above Aquedu,t
bridge; Eliza Groves, Fort Runyon; Virginia
Jockey Club, ST. Asaph track Gentlcmens
Driving Park, st. Asaph junction; q. u.
Jones, Alexander Island track, and John W.
Clark, Rosslyn.
Those rejected were:
3. E. Cunningham, Rosslyn; Frank Fors-
ter, above Aqueduct bridge; James T. Patter-
son, DIFinB ra!k cuIrance WIN. N. dOus
son, Columbia pike, near Georgetown road
w. A. Haley, Jackson City; Joe Thomas
Jackson City, and Nettie Dougherty, Fort
Myer Heights.
All the applications of the jackson
City liquor dealers except one, and all
the barrooms in Rosslyn except two,
were rejected, and it is said the Alexan-
der Island track came very near not
getting its license. A protest from Mrs.
Alice s. Thomas, Of near Rosslyn,
against granting any license in that
vicinity, except j. w. Clark, wasl read
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-05-01
DR.. Buchanan.

SING SING, N. Y, May DIR. Buch-
anan awoke at 10 o'clock this morning,
when the warden went in TO see him
and found him in a cheerful mood.
State Electrician S. T. Davis is on duty
at the prison with the apparatus ready
for the inhiction of the death penalty.
The warden said he had received no
further communication from the attor-
ney-general or any other competent
authority as to the proper course for
him to pursue. Under the respite
granted by Governor Morton last week
the warden has power to execute Buch
anan at any time up to midnight to-
night if he should be so advised or d.
rected by the proper legal authorities
After midnight he will be powerless to
carry the sentence into execution and
before the death penalty can be in
flicted Buchanan will have to be re-
sentenced.
ALBANY, n. Y, May Gov. Nor
ton has granted DIR. Buchanan another
weeks respite.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-05-01
Oscar Wilde.

LONDON, May 1.-The court room
was crowded at the opening of the
Wilde trial this morning, Wilde look
ed careworn and anxious, but Taylor
maintained the air of unconcern which
has characterized him throughout. JUS
tice Charles proceeded to analyZe the
evidence referring to Wilde, and said
he was of the opinion that there was
confederation in the testimony of all
the witnesses in the sense that the law
required. 1t did not, it was true,
amount to seeing the actual act, but it
showed the relations and general con-
duct of the parties. The jury, he said,
must exercise their own judgment in
regard to the letters. In concluding
his charge he said the case was one of
great Importance to the community. II
the jury believed that the charges
against the prisoners were true they
should say so fearlessly. The jury re-
tired at $3.50 o'clock.
After celebrating three and a.half
hours the jury announced that they
had failed to agree upon verdict.
They were thereupon discharged and
the prisoners were remanded for new
trial. Application was made for the
admission of Wilde and Taylor to bail
but the judge refused to accept bail
for either of them.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-05-01
NEWS OF THE DAY.

At Brezink. Russia, sixty-five houses
were burned yesterday and eighty
families rendered homeless.
Admiral Saldanha da Cana has won
a victory over the government troops
in Rio Grande do Sui, Brazil.
The two houses of the Tennessee
Legislature met in joint session yester-
day and began the consideration of the
governorship contest.
A mass-meeting was held in Balti-
more last night to urge the nomination
of Mr.. Isador Rayner as the demo-
cratic candidate for Governor of Mary
land.
DR.. Joseph NJ. Toner celebrated yes
terday his SEVENTEEN birthday by re-
ception to the memb of the Medical
Society of the District of Columbia, at
his hospitable residence, Highland
Place, Washington.
Attorney General Hasbrouck, of
New York, has written letter to
Warden Sage, of Sing Sing prison, in
which the warden is advised to defer
DR.. Buchanan's electrocution until the
appeal claimed to have been taken to
the Supreme Court of the United States
shall have been dismissed or deter
mined.
A force of government troops under
command of Maj. Tegerso made an at
tack yesterday upon a band of insur-
gents at Ramon de las Yaguas, Cuba.
A desperate fight ensued, which result
ed in total rout of the rebels with a
loss of seventy-two killed and large
number wounded. The government
force lost six killed and three wounded.
Marshal E. Price, charged with the
murder of Miss Sallie Dean. was placed
on trial at Denton, Md, yesterday. His
counsel elected to try the case be-
fore the court. a motion for removal
of the case was overruled. Among
those who testified were the father,
mother and sister of the murdered girl.
The trial will probably not end before
Thursday or Friday. A large crowd
was in attendance.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-05-01

CHINA AND JAPAN.-A dispatch re.
ceived at London from Shanghai says
it is believed in official circles there that
China has notified Japan that she in
tends to ratify the treaty of peace.
Foreign warships are assembling at
various ports of Japan and the French
vessels have been ordered to prepare
for emergencies. A correspondent ofthe
London Times at Kobe, Japan, says
there are evidences of serious crisis in
the relations between Japan and Rus
STA. The Japanese ministry are report
ed to have adopted resolute attitude
against Russian dictatiou.
1t is reported in Paris that Spain will
associate herself with Russia, Germany
and France in the protest against the
terms of peace arrived at between China
and Japan in regard to the cession of
territory and extraordinary privileges
accorded to Japanese traders in China.
A dispatch from Toxic says Japan is
reported to have received assurances
that England and Italy will not allow
the war ships of Russia, Germany or
France to pass through the Suez Canal
if such vessels should be avowedly dis
patched for the purpose of coercing
Japan. The Japanese Government is
also assured of the benevolent neu-
trality of the United States. The de-
lenses of Port Arthur have been i'm
proved and extended, and are now
stronger then ever before.
A Berlin paper has ST. Petersburg dis
patch which says that Japan is making ex-
tensive preparations for defence She has
modified large bodies OF troops and has
erected Notifications and b'ockel important
coast points with mines. Several swift steam
ers have recently been bought for the japanese
government in England and America Rus
STA, the dispatch Gays, is still sending troops
to Yladivostock Japan has at her command,
including the reserves, 100000 troops A
conflict with Russia, however. would be the
beginning Of q general conAagation in the
East.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-05-01

AT LAST one of the Washington
newspapers has seen the way by which
the vicious residents of that city who
come to Alexandria county to indulge
their villainy can belarrested and pun
ished. That way, as long ago pointed
out by the GAZETTE, is the election OF
proper people to the county offices. But,
as also previously stated by the GA
zETrE, it is impossible to take that way
as long as it is DISTRACTED by large
negro republican majority, whose votes
must be counted, though the paper re-
ferred to opposes negro suffrage in its
own city.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-05-01
TO-DAY'S TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
Foreign News.

WARSAW, May Ia dispatch from
Dubno, in the government of Volhynio
has been destroyed by fire.
PARIS, May Seventeen soldiers
have died in the hospital at Wire from
the effects of eating tainted canned
meat purchased from an American firm,
and thirty-four others are seriously
i'll from the same cause.
BERLIN. May 1.-The Berlin art ex'
hibition was opened this afternoon,
The exhibition is remarkable for the
number of Frenchmen who are taking
part. The American artists have their
own court.
VIENNA, May Forty seven meet
ings of workingmen were held in va
rious parts of the city to day, at which
resolutions were passed demanding
universal suffrage and an eight-hour
working day. There was no disorder.
LONDON. May 1.-The divorce suit OF
John R. Rogers against his wife, Minnie
Palmer, the actress, was up for trial to-
day. Mr.. Rogers was called to the
WlLD6SS Slduu duu uduCu NIL JOiAoAo
the'tl e,trical manager, as correspond
emit in the case. The trial was ad.
journed.
LONDON, May 1.-The Elbe investi
CATION was concluded at Lowestoft this
morning. The jury returned a verdict
that, in their opinion, the collision was
due to gross negligence on the part OF
the mate and lookout man of the era,
THE. There was not sufficient proof
however, that the Crathie was solely
to blame. The captain of the Crathie
was entirely exonerated.
LONDON, May 1.-The Globe prints
statement that in well-informed circles
it is believed that Great Britain is will
ing to entertain the proposal of Mica
ragua regarding the payment of the in
demnity, upon receiving security that
all of the demands of the ultimatum
will be satisfied.
SANTIAGO DE GUATEMALA, May L.
This republic has united with Honduras
ina dispatch to Secretary Gresham
asking him to use his good offices to
bring about peaceable solution of the
Nicaragua dispute with Great Britain.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-05-01
REFRIGERATORS.

We are sole Washington agents for Jewetts
and Belongs Refrigerators. Good RefrigeTa.
tors can't be bought for less than these:
Jowetts Nursery Refrigerators zinc lined,
charcoal packed, galvanized ice chamber,
nickel faucet cherry finish. Each S4.95.
Belongs New Perfection" Hardwood Ice
Chest, kiln dried lumber, ice rack on bottom,
metal Shelves $495.
Belongs New Perfection Hardwood
Dry-air Refrigcrators, antique oak-fnsh,
metal shelves and ice rack, charcoal sheathcd
$685..
Same as above in larger size, with porcelain
water cooler, $40.
Fourth foor.... ........11th st. building)
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-05-01
VIRGINIA NEWS.

The Rappabannock river at Fred
ericksburg is Is feet above high water
mark.
DIR. Moses D. Hoge has written let
ter to the R. E. Lee Camp, Confederate
Veterans, of Richmond, regretting his
Inability to accompany the camp on
their trip to Houston. Tex, on account
of a previous appointment and engage
ment.
Mrs. Sophia L. Bolts, widow of the
late VIM. Bolts, sister of Col. John Fair
fax and aunt of State Senator Henry
Fairfax, died at her home, Stafford
Store, in Stafford county, a few days
ago, in the seventy-third year OF her
age.
Mr.. Henry Williams, president OF the
Weems Line, has made proposition to
the committee appointed by the busl-
ness men of Norfolk to run steamer
from Norfolk to Fredericksburg twice
week, touching at all landings going
and coming, and the committee think
the proposition very liberal.
A primary election for the selection
ola democratic council ticket, to be
voted for at the regular election on the
23d inst, was held in Lynchburg yes,
terday, and resulted in the defeat OF all
the present members of the council ex-
cept five. This is claimed as victory
for the reform party. Little interest
was manifested.
The State board of commissioners for
the negro department of the Atlanta
exposition met in Petersburg yesterday.
Reports from the State were read show
ing that the outlook is exceedingly
bright for a creditable display of the
progress of the negroes of Virginia at
the great exposition next fall. Last
night large mass meeting was held at
the Union Street c. NJ. E. Church IN
the interest OF the exhibit.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-05-01
THE NICARAGUAN AFFAIR.

A dispatch from Managua, Nicaragua,
says: Nicaragua has formally decided
to accede to the compromise PROPOSE
ton for the settlement of the pending
trouble, and this decision has been
communicated TO the authorities at
Washington and London. According
to this proposition Nicaragua agrees to
pay the e15,5 800 in London fifteen days
from the time the British ships leave
the harbor of Corinto. 1t now remains
for Great Britain to agree to this con-
dition. The governments course is re-
garded as shifting on Great Britain all
further responsibility for the trouble.
The most positive assurances of the
prompt payment of the money have
been given so that there may be no
question of uncertainty on this point,
but nothing definite is known here as
to the attitude of Great Britain upon
the proposition that her warships shall
withdraw from Corinto.
A dispatch from London says; "It
is learned from official sources that
there has been no change in the atti-
tude of Great Britain toward Nicara-
qua, the British government having
no alternate but to insist upon settle
ment of its demands and not to listen
to any offers of compromise. The
United States, it is added, is not inter-
yening in the matter.
The report that the British warships
Wild Swan and Satellite have been
ordered to Paso de Cabellos and San
Juan del Sur, and that Rear-Admiral
Stephenson has cabled to London say
ing that Corinto is useless possession,
is unfounded.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-05-01

A QUADRUPLE TRAGEDY.-Shortly
before dark yesterday evening the
sound of fusillade of pistol shots was
heard on the main street of Newbern,
Tenn, but men who ran in the direc-
ton of the shooting were too late, as
within ten seconds of the first shot the
four participants Icy dead in the street.
These four are R. W. Townsend and
his son, Beauregard, and Abb and John
Fulgham. The quadruple tragedy was
the outcome of feud that started two
years ago and grew out of a trivial
dispute between the Townsend and the
Fulgham families. The troubles
smoldered along without breaking ont
in open violence until last Friday
evening, when Murray Fulgham, meet
ing young Avery Townsend, began to
abuse him. He finished by administer
ing beating to the young man with an
axe handle. Townsend swore out q
warrant, charging Fulgham with as
sault and battery with intent to kill
Fulgham at once left the town to avoid
arrest, but his father sent for him and
brought him back. Fulgham was ar
rested upon his return home and gave
bond. Yesterday evening he was tax
en- before magistrate tor a hearing
and as the evidence showed the assault
to have been unprovoked, a fine of $50
with costs attached was inflicted. At
the conclusion of the court business the
crowd moved out and near the door
the Townsend and Fulgham parties
came together. There were few
angry words. Then weapons were
drawn and the shooting began. In al
most an instant the wholesale killing
was done and four men lay stretched
on the pavement.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-05-01

CONFEDERATE MUsEUM.-In Rich
mond last night there was meeting OF
the advisory committee of the Confed
crate Memorial Literary Society, for
the purpose of awarding the contract
for the Improvements to be made to
the old Jefferson Davis mansion, which
is to be turned into Confederate mu.
scum, under the auspices of the asso
citation named. The work to be done
is to make the structure entirely fire.
proof, to put on a new roof, to repaint
and otherwise beautify the home of the
President of the Copfederacy without
changing its appearance materially
from what it was when it was occupied
by Mr.. Davis and his household. These
improvements are to be finished with
in FIVE months from the time of the
signing of the contract, which will be
be done in few days. The contract
was let at $12, $50.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-05-01

ROBBED WHILE DRUNK.-A middle
aged man giving his name as John Sell
man, badly battered up, walked into
the Pennsylvania depot in Washington
last night and with s. which he had
borrowed from some friend, bought a
ticket to Richmond. He said that he
resided in that city and had had enough
of life hereabouts
Selman came to Washington several
days ago on lark, having at that time
about $500 in his pocket and diamond
stud in his shirt. After trying his luck
at the race track he visited Jackson
City, where he became acquainted
with a crowd of companionable men,
who, when he was drunk, robbed him
of his money and jewelry.
When he entered the depot his
clothes were covered with mud and
one of his eyes was bruised. He was
still under the influence of liquor and
could give no accurate description of
the men into whose hands he had fallen.
He said be was an intimate friend of
Gov. O'Ferrall.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-05-01

A NEW YORK republican newspaper
says the action of the legislature OF
Tennessee which, after thorough in
vestigation of last falls election, has de-
cided that Governor Turney is the fair
ly and legally elected Governor of that
State, was q "barefaced steal" But
that it should talk this way is not sur
prising, when Richmond democratic
paper puts the dispatch about the action
referred to under the following head :
Counted out of Governo r;hip." When
Mr.. Tilden was counted out of the
Presidency, Northern republicans had
nothing to say against the counting out
system of elections.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-05-01
Through Connection.

BALTIMORE, May 1.-The Belt Line
Railroad tunnel, one of the most re-
markable engineering feats of modern
times, which has been built under this
city from Camden station to Bayview
junction, on the Philadelphia division
of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, a
distance of seven and a-half miles, was
formally opened for business this morn.
ing. The first train to make the trip
under the new schedule was the Royal
Blue express. Hereafter there will be
no transferring of passenger trains
across the Patapsco river. The B. &,
o. road will, undertake to run trains
between New York and Washington in
four and a-half hours.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-05-01

WHIPPED BY WoMEN.-Edward Tucker, a
merchant of Port Tampa, Fla, was taken
from his home Monday night and unmerc-
fnlly whipped by female white-cappers.
Fucker had been in the habit of going home
Trunk and abusing his wife. He had been
warned to desist, but paid no attention to the
threats. He was taken to the outskirts of
the town where he was lashed to tree strip
ped to the waist and beaten by women gather
ed there for that purpose Some of the most
prominent ladies in tho town were engaged in
the affair.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-05-01

ARCHBISHOP IRELAND seems to be as
fond of the American Protective Asso-
citation now as he was when he aban
doned his own diocese last fall and
went to New York to go on the stump
against the democrats of that city-a
large number of whom belong to his
own church-and told the voters there
that he did not see as much harm in
the A. 2. A. as other people protested
to do. He made a speech in Boston
asst iSunday night in which he ad.
vised his hearers to be Americans, u
as the A. P. A. do, as though it were
possible they could be any thing else,
that is, if they be voters.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-05-01

The May, the first, number of the
Virginia Lac Register has been re-
ceived from its publishers, the ]. P.
Bell Company, Lynchburg. Its editor
is E. @. Burks, with G. A. Graves and
W. NJ. Lyle as associates. Its contents
are: Licenses for the use of Streets, The
Deeds of Trust Puzzle, Virginia Decis-
ions, Notes of Recent Virginia Decis-
ions, Miscellaneous Notes, and Book
Notices. 1t is a neatly printed magazine,
and one that will be of great service to
the legal fraternity. especially that
portion of it resident in Virginia.