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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-11-07
BRUTAL, MURDER.

One of the most shocking and brutal
murders ever perpetrated in Page cour
ty was committed on Monday afternoon
at the home of DR.. Willis d. Kidler,
near the base of the Massanutton
Mountain, about five or six miles north
west of Luray.
Mr.. Kibler himself was the victim.
He was seventy-one years old, and I'M
married, and his household consisted
of himself and a nephew, Newton Kib-
Ter boy seventeen or eighteen years
of age, who was ploughing not very far
from the house when his uncle return
ed home about o'clock, after having
been to Springfield to vote. Mr.. Kib-
Ter said he was not feeling we'll, and
after giving the boy some directions
went to the house.
About an hour afterward the nephew
heard the report of q gun, and four or
minutes later two more shots, and upon
going to the house discovered tbs dead
body of his uncle lying in the yard. He
had been shot in the left side of the
face. the load ranging upward and en-
tering the brain. The back part Of his
head was crushed in with blunt in
sirument, and the victims threat was
cut, the windpipe being severed. The
shots were fred through the window of
the kitchen as the unfortunate man ap.
preached or looked in the window and
were sufficient to cause death.
The murderer, however, made sure
work of fastening the end by the blow
on the head and the use OF the knife.
The gun used belonged to the murder
ed man, and an axe, said not to belong
on the place, was found.
The pocket of the slain mans coat
where he usually carried his money,
was found empty, and pocket diary
he had kept for nearly thirty years
was found near the body. Some sus-
picions are entertained as to the per-
petrator of the horrible dead. The de.
ceased was Confederate veteran and
generally respected.
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NEWS OF THE DAY.

Senator Sherman says free wool was
the cause of the republican majority in
Ohio on Tuesday.
Ex.Gov. Foraker predicts that there
will not be another democratic adj
miuistration in thirty years.
The roundhonse of the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad Company, at Bay
view, was burned yesterday.
The Sultan of Turkey seems to be
powerless TO stop the killing of Ar
lnepians. Kiami Pasha, the Grand
Vzier, has resigned.
The Ashley Phosphate Company, of
Charleston, 5. c., one of the Oldest and
best known phosphate companies in
South Carolina, made an assignment
yesterday.
At least forty persons were killed
and twenty others injured more or less
seriously by the bursting of the battery
of boilers 10 the building of the Evening
Journal, at Detroit, Mich, yesterday.
Detectives are busy endeavoring TO
ferret out the mystery surrounding the
murder of Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick
Lang, at Gardenville, near Baltimore.
The people of that section are getting
excited. and threats of lynching are
freely made.
Theodore Durrant, convicted of the
murder OF Blanche Lamont. has written
a sketch of his life and ambitions, and
has gone into the matter of how it feels
to be on trial for murder. He stoutly
proclaims his Innocence and satirize5
some of his critics.
Fire nearly Quilted the south end OF
a row of buildings in the vicinity
known as Chinatown" on Four and
a.half street, between Missouri and
Pennsylvania avenues northwest,
Washington, about 6 o'clock yesterday
evening. The Chinese temple was
damaged to the amount of $500.
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THURSDAY EVENING, NOV. Z. 1895
ALLUs1oN WAS made in the GA

ALLUsIoN WAS made in the GA
ZETrE's Washington correspondence,
some time ago, to the stem ofa tree al
the national museum, inscribed to the
effect that such was the fire to which
General Miles's command was subjected
to and withstood at the bloody angle
at spottsylvania on the 18th of May,
1864, that it was cut down by the bull
lets of the Confederates. For the truth
of history, and for the future reputa-
ton of General Miles, who sentit there.
that inscription should be efaced.
The angle referred to was held by Har-
ris's and McGowan's Confederate bri-
gades, and such was the federal fire
they sustained and withstood, that the
tree was so cut by federal bullets that
it fell during the night after the battle,
one Gifts branches catching Capt. Har-
nv Smith, of the 10th Alabama regi-
ment and injuring him slightly. On
the following morning General Ewell
measured the thickness ofthe tree with
his handkerchief. But the difference
between the facts of this incident and
the statement as inscribed on the wood.
is not greater than that between the
facts and the truth of much that is con.
tanned in the Northern histories OF the
war between the States, used in South
ern schools.
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bankers over the American people
with resulting profo of ten million of
dollars to the foreigners. The demo-
cratic party by its votes, conventions
and the history of hundred years, is
pledged to the use of both metals. If
the demonstration of silver be wise
act the republicans who adopted il in
1873 are entitled to all the credit. Mr..
Cleveland, by the inscriptions use of
the Presidential Office, has attempted to
commit the party irrevocably and final
ly to the gold standard. The act is
one of bad faith to his party. 1t il
ruinous to the producing classes and
the debtor class. Il cannot be done
without the disruption and overthrow
of the democratic party, as We all
know.
In the management of foreign ques-
tions Mr.. Cleveland has been partly
wrong and partly right, but the masses
of the people fear that the administra-
ton is unduly subseryient to England.
On this point, the plutocracy feel one
way and the masses of the American
people another. Mr.. Cleveland seems,
in all that be does, to study the views
of the plutocracy, and his foreign poll
CIV is distrusted accordingly.
These blunders and others that could
be named serve to explain the great
democratic defeat. But there is yet
another cause which has quickly but
effectively operated upon the voters.
In spite of the cry put forth for pur-
pose by Wall street organs that pros
perity has been restored, the very re-
verse is the fact. Very few people are
doing we'll. Now and then you may
find cases of business activity and pros
perity, but the number of unemployed
people is yet great and SO is the number
of embarrassed and almost hopeless
debtors. The farming class, so far as l
can learn, are unprosperous all over
the South and West. Lands in Vir
ginia and the South have fallen to an
exceedingly low figure. There is a
constant dropping in value. What
farmer is hopeful or happy? For o
country so vast as ours, with such a
variety of production and such great
resources, this is bad state of affairs.
Does not single gold standard neces-
sarily involve low and diminishing
prices. diminished production, in
creased debt and suffering, stagnation
and the rapid transfer of property to
the creditor class, most of whom live
in the East. Is it not evident that
hard times have not passed away, and
that people suffering from a vicious
financial policy have visited their
wrath upon the party assumed
to be in charge of the national
government. I say assumed 1 wish
trey were actually and really in charge
of it, for we should then be able to re-
trace some of the steps that have led
to this business depression and politi-
cal overthrow that bodies no good for
the future. DEMOCRAT.
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The Glbson-Langhorne wedding.

RICHMOND, Va, Nov. by far the
most brilliant social event that has
taken place in Richmond for years
was the marriage at St. Paul's
church to-day of Miss Irene Lang
horne, daughter of Mr., G. d. Lang
horne, OF this city, to Mr.. Charles Dana
Gibson, the New York artist. The
church was profusely decorated aud
was crowded with the beauty and
fashion of Richmond and guests from
other cities. Among the bridesmaids
were Misses Mamie and Phillis Lang.
horne, sisters of the bride. elect, and
Mr.. Langdon was best man. The cere-
mony was performed by Rev. DR.. Hart
ley Carmichael. The BRIDES gown was
rich ivory satin en- train with high cor
sage of chiffon and satin sleeves, be-
ing gracefully festooned in renais-
sance lace of exquisite pattern. a clus
tor of orange blossoms adorned the left
shoulder. Her tulle veil WAS fastened
to the head by crescent of diamonds,
and her bouquet was lilies of the val
ley and violets. The bridesmaids CO.'S
tumes were yellow taffsta with chiffon
waists and black Gsinsborough hats
They carried bouquets of yellow chry-
santhemums. Immediately after the
ceremony a wedding breakfast was
served at the home of the brides pa
rents
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To-DAY,S TELEGRApHIC NEWS
Foreign News.

MADRID, Nov. IA dispatch from
Havana says that the insurgent leader
Maxine Gomez, at the head of large
force of rebels, is advancing upon Santa
Clara, while the leader Maceo, with his
command, is making his way through
the province of Puerto Principe. These
movements of the insurgents are caus-
ing great anxiety to the Spanish au-
thorities. Dispatches from Havana tell
of several small fights in which the
rebels were repulsed in every instance.
CoNsTANTINoPLE, Nov. IA new
ministry has been formed, which il :
cludes Said Pasha, Aarrifa Pasha and
Tewfik Pasha, the Turkish Ambassa-
dor to Germany, who left Berlin alb.
ruptly last Saturday. Tewfik has been
assigned to the portfolio of foreign at
fairs.
Accounts from Erzeroum say that
Turkish regular troops took part in IL Q
recent massacre of Armenians there
aud the plundering of their shops and
houses. The condition of the Asiatic
provinces is deplorable and veritable
reign of terror prevails.
LONDON, Nov The Irish National
League of Great Britain held meeting this
afternoon and removed the name of Timothy
Healy from their executive committee, sub
shutting Michael Davitt's therefor.
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cratic party, on three plank platform
free trade, sound money and personal
liberty, said another one should bs
addsd-to the victors belong the spoils,
as it is against human nature to expect
the average man-to do political work
without at least the hope of remunera-
ton.
Congressman Livingston of Georgia
SAYS the recent election has given The
grace stroke to the populists, and that
as much in favor of silver as he is, he
thinks it advisable for its friends to let
it rest for while.
The latest news received here this
evening from kentucky is to the effect
that the legislature OF that State Is
democratic by email majority, but
that it is, does not secure the reelection
of Senator Blackburn, as some of
the democratic members OF that
body were elected as anti-Black
burn men. The fact that one of
the assistant secretaries of the Treasury
and the comptroller of the currency ex-
pressed regret that the republican ma
jority 10 Kentucky is not larger, is ex-
ceedingly provoking to every democrat
here, except those dependent upon the
admintration's favor.
Frank Jones, the boy who stole $500 from
a newspaper office in this city some time ago
aud ran of, returned this morning and re
stored $3.50, having spent tie remainder
he was called wayward brother and told to
Mr.. Ellis Mills, of Virginia, consul.general
of the United States at honolulu, has reached
Washington on leave of absence from his post,
and almost simultaneously with his arrival
here cards have been issued for his marriage
to Miss Cora Ritchie Male, Of Rapidan, Va,
daughter of Mr and Mrs. Benjamin F. Male.
The wedding will take place November 9
Mr.. Mills obtained leave OF absence some
months ago but was detained in Honolulu by
the cholera epidemic there
Senator Quay believes that the choice OF
the natonal republican committee for the
place for holding the next national conven-
ton will be Pittsburg. The Senator was here
fora short time yesterday, but left at night
for Florida, where he will remsin until
Thanksgiving, and possibly longer.
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TELEGRApHIC BREvITIES.

John G. New said at Indianapolis
yesterday that recent events point to
the election of Harrison as President
aud Bradley the newly elected governor
of Kentucky, as vice-President.
The large furniture factory of the
Woodson-Jo Johnson Company, in West
Lynchburg, was entirely wiped out by
fire yesterday; loss over $4,000 in
surance S32, 900. The factory was fully
stocked and there was big lot Of fur
niture on hand and in process of man
ufacture. About one hundred men are
thrown out of employment by the fire.
For forty consecutive hours fog has
had an uninterrupted and impenetra-
bic reign over New York city, bays and
rivers for fifty miles around. Naviga-
ton on the water is fraughr with great
danger and navigation on the rail is
delayed everywhere, and no European
mail has been delivered in the city since
Monday. A fog has seldom thrown
the service of the elevated roads more
out of gear.
The steamer Missoula is nearly week
overdue from Fort William, Mich, and it is
fearsd that she snd her crew of sixteen arc at
the bottom of Lake Superior.
The Bank of North America, State bank,
at New Orleans, with capitI of $3.50, 900,
closed its doors yesterday. The bank is OF
;ecen! origin and has not prospered.
A dispatch says the Greek vessel Mahdia
has been struck by g waterspout near Tunis
and sunk. Seven persons on board Of her
were drowned.
Ex-Lieutenant Governor Thomas g. AL
word was found unconscious in his bed at
Syracuse, N. Y, yesterday. His condition is
precarious
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VIRGINIA NEWS.

Mr. VIM II. Young, an aged and re,
spotted citizen of Berryville, died
rather suddenly on Tuesday.
1t is said that the apple crop in Rap
pshannock county will amount to
seventy-five thousand dollars this year.
Mr.. w. l.. Brannon and Miss Sarah
Cole, daughter of Mr.. E. D. Cole, were
married in Fredericksburg last night.
Miss Susan A. Foster died on the
night of November 4th at the home Of
her sister. Mrs. Judge Gaines, in War
renton, in the Goth year of her age.
Mr.. John G. Phillips died very sud-
denly at the residence of Mr.. Town
send Belt, about two miles east of
Clark's Gap, Loudoun county, On Mon
day morning.
Burnley Taylor, the self-contessed
aud convicted forger of County Court
orders. was yesterday removed from
the Richmond Jail to the penitentiary
to serve his two years term.
Col. Frederick Peasants, of Rich
mond, and member of the Governors
staff, was married yesterday to Miss
Emma M. Barksdale. daughter of Col.
Barksdale, of Halifax county.
A fire last Friday evening destroyed
two large stables on Mrs. D. 81. Sow
ers's farm, situated near Berryville,
end also burned up new binder. a
new mower and new drill, together
with some corn and rye.
Rev. DR.. T. S. Dunaway, pastor Of
the Fredericksburg Baptist church,
celebrated his Goth birthday on Tues
day by going to the polls and voting
the democratic ticket and preaching q
strong and impressive sermon at Sa-
lem Baptist church, Spottsylvania
county, in the Afternoon.
At Warrenton yesterday evening at
tour o'clock Miss Virginia Day was
married to Mr.. E. Beverly Slater, of
the Baltimore bar. Rev. q. W. Nell
son oficiated. The church was deco
rated With autumn leaves, evergreens
and chrysanthemum5, while the chan
eel was filled with palms and cut
flowers.
Samuel B Nelson, the horse owner
and sporting man, who oyerdrew his
account $4,000 or more at the State
Bank, and for which r. III. Cardwell,
jr, was sentenced to the penitentiary,
was indicted by the grand jury in Rich
snond yesterday, and warrant issued
for his arrest. 1t is understood that
action was based upon public sentiment
to large degree.
Mr.. Juan A. Smith, of Brooklyn, who
was to have been an usher at the mar.
rage of Miss Irene Langhorne to Mr..
Charles Dana Gibson in Richmond to-
day, mad his arm broken yesterday in q
hunt given by the Deep Run Hunt
Club in honor of the wedding party.
Another usher, Mr.. Mellwaine, of New
York, has biackened eye, the result
OF riding accident on Tuesday.
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FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of tho Alexandria Gazette.


WASHINGTON. Nov. 7.
Senator German says: II have no
complaint to make. / suppose if the
democrats had carried Baltimore ard
the State our opponents would have
charged US with all sorts OF election
crimes. l shall not act that way to
wards them. l believe we were out
voted and outvoted honestly. Under
the laws of Maryland it is next to i'm
possible to have dishonest ballot.
The republicans got out every man in
their party, and were aided by the
votes of the democrats who had a
grievance. The figures show that their
vote was polled almost up to the regis.
tration, while in Baltimore alone we
were some Il, 900 or 5000 short"
Rear Admiral Shuieldt died at his
residence i'll this city at twenty five
minutes past ten o'clock this morning.
The latest information regarding the
much discussed alleged impending
duel between Prince Iturbide of Mexico
and Mr.. Robert Neville of Fauquier
county, Va, is that it will not take
place. Assurance to that effect has
been given the police authorities by
MIR. Fred May, who is said to be o
friend of both parties. Detectives who
were put on the case report that the
Prince and Mr.. Neville did leave the
city the day after the incident occurred
Mt the Metropolitan Club which gave
rise to the report that duel was on the
taps, but no information confirming
the runor that they met or intended
to meet at any place outside the Dis
tricr, is ootainable. The principals in
the affair are now said to have returned
to Washington, but their Whereabouts
is unknown to any one who will impart
the information to reporters.
OF all the many deplorable results of
the recent election, none is more regret
ted here than the defeat of the ticket Mt.
German strove to elect in Maryland.
Democrats here from all parts of the
country say the railroads had it in for
him." because Of his opposition to the
pooling bill. They also say that but
for his opposition to the Wilson bill. the
Treasury deficit, large as it is, would have
been three times as large, and also that
ne was the only democratic Senator
man enough to say what he thought
OF the President, though many of the
Others thought of him just as he did.
An old time and prominent democrat
now here, who had read in yesterdays
GAZETTE that there was talk here of
reorganizing what is left of the demo-
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Buried the Hatchet.

HARRISBURG, Pa, Nov. There
was surprise in political circles yes
terday when it was announced that Sen.
ator Cameron would be one of the party
which left with Senator Quay yesterday
for Florida. Acoldness has existed be-
tween these two Senators for some time
as the result of a misunderstanding
during the craftsmanship struggle, but
there has evidently been healing Of
the breach.
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NEW JERSEY, which, of all the North
ern States, is the only one that remain
ed true to the democrats throughout
the war between the States, had to go
with the rest of the States on its side Of
the line last Tuesday. Her democrats
could have withstood the republicans,
as they always had done previously,
but when, in addition to them, they had
the administration, the mugwumps and
the so.called "reformers" against them,
the odds were too great; they had to
fall and see their State go with the
enemies of free institutions.
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COMMUNICATED.
DIR. BROWNS LECTURE.

DIR. BROWNS LECIURE.
The lecture delivered at the Opera
House on Tuesday night by DR.. Bedford
Brown, before the Anne Lee Memorial
Association, deserves more than pass
ing notice.
DR.. Brown began his address by re-
viewing the services of the Lees from
whom sprang the hero of the Confed
crate army, the most noble, glorious
and brilliant star of this distinguished
family. The doctor spoke of the early
death of General Lees father, after
which event care and training of the
son devolved upon Mrs. Lee, herself an
invalid. The sons devotion and atten-
iion to bis mother were beautifully and
graphically told by the lecturer, who
also spoke of the warm and confidential
relations between Mrs. Lee and her son
in the invalid chamber where were laid
the foundations of the character of the
most illustrious man on earth. His
mother, after her husbands death, nat
urally turned to her son, then mere
child, as her counselor and advisor, in
stilling those firm principles of honesty,
integrity, piety and devotion to duty
which through life distinguished Gen
eral Lee. He inherited the traits OF a
warrior from his father, but his charac-
ter was the result of the early training
of his pious and lovely mother, who
sowed the seeds of goodness and great
ness in that youthful mind, with train
ing and discipline which would have
made him great man in any depart
ment of life. The lecturer contrasted
Mrs. Lee with an INDECENT and careless
mother and stated that she was
no ordinary woman, but one whose
social standing, intellectual culture
and refinement made her the peer of
any in Virginia's history.
The doctor referred to the reverence
of the Romans to their matrons and
said that no nation had attained emil
nence that has not revered and recog-
nized the influence of the mother-the
name dearest and sweetest on earth;
the first lisped by the helpless babe and
the last breathed by the honored sage.
Among the great women of earth none
stand higher than the mothers of Vir-
ginia who have given to the world war
riors, statesmen, jurists, poets and art
lists who equal or exceed any in his
tory, and the annals of our own coun-
try is replete with the gallant deeds
and glorious achievements of the sons
of Virginia mothers.
He also mentioned some of the great
men, Nelson, Napoleon and others
who had, as General Lee had done,
given the mother the credit for all they
were or had achieved.
Our gratitude is due to these noble
women whose patient, intelligent aud
eternal devotion to duty in performing
their part towards the civilization of
the world has not heretofore been prop
erly recognized.
The lecturer closed by saying that
the movement for the erection of the
proposed memorial to Mrs. Lee has not
only the consent of her family, but their
sanction, and it is the duty
not only of the people of Virginia but
of the entire South to carry the move.
ment to successful termination. The
lecture was replete with beautiful
thoughts and ornate expressions and
never did the doctor appear to better
or have more interested or
audience.
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Lost Their Lives In the Flames.

BROOKLYN, N. Y, Nov. IA four
story brick tenement on Van Brunt
street was burned at one o'clock this
morning, and six persons lost their
lives. The fire is supposed to have
been caused by gas jet in the lower
hall setting fire 10 the wood work.
Some of the inmates were rescued by
taking them out of the windows.
WEST SUPERIOR, Wis, Nov. THE
house of Nils Dahlbert, dock laborer,
was destroyed by fire yesterday after
noon. His five year old boy was taken
out dead and his daughter, 9 years old,
was seriously burned. 1t is very likely
that Mrs. Dablbert will die from shock
and exposure.
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