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The Forrest City times., 1895-09-06
Little Rock Free Silver Club.

A number of democrats met in the senate chamber. Little Rock, and or ganized free silver club. in accord ance with the recommendations of the recent conference held at Washington. Elk Mayor NJ. c. Hall was made tenn porary chairman and J. H. Carmichael, secretary. Committees as follows were appointed: Permanent Organization Judge w. S. McClain, J. T. W. Filler and J. II. Hamiter. Constitution and By-Laws-Ex-Attorney Dan w. Jones, J. T. Beal, John s. Braddock, c. s. Collins and Col John T. Fletcher A committee was also appointed to ar range programme of entertainment for the editors who will attend the state editorial free silver convention, which meets in Little Rock Septem- Der 2.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-08-02
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gsz

Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette
WASHINGTON. Aug. 2.
The consolidation of the Washington
and Georgetown cable street railway
company with the Chevy Chase cleo.
trio line company, is reported to have
been practically accomplished and that
there will be reorganization under the
name of the Capital Traction Company
with capital stock of ten millions OF
dollars. The Washington & George.
town company, composed of local cap
italists, owns the Oldest and most re-
munerative lines in the city, and the
Chevy Chase line is owned by what is
known as the California syndicate,
which owns vast tracts of land north
west of the.city as far as the District
line. The consolidated company will
extend the present lines to connec-
ton and operate them as one.
Assistant Secretary of the Interior
John Nj. Reynolds has rendered the
following decisions in pension cases ::
Where there is record of service in
the Confederate army, such record fail
ing to show whether such service was
voluntary or involuntary, it will be
presumed that service was voluntary.
but such presumption may be rebutted.
Where service in the Confederate army
is shown by claimants record the
burden OF proof is on him to show that
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-08-02

VIRGINIA FARM LANDs.-Secretary
of Agriculture Morton, in conversation
yesterday, said: Were 1 young, and
about to buy a farmland if I were
young buying farm is exactly what I'd
go first about-I'd get farm in Vir-
ginia. Twas out through Fairfax and
Loudoun counties the other day. To
say I was amazed would not any more
than express it. l was fairly aston
ished. Inever saw finer fields or bet.
ter crops anywhere. lisa garden. One
has, as some fellow said about some
other locality, but to tickle the sol, and
it laughs with harvest, cornP 1
met face to face with aa vigorous and
robust fields as eyer waved in Illinois.
Other crops were the same. I'll were
to modify Greeley's Go West, young
man. I'd make it 90 to Virginia,
young man. Just now with every
thing else equal, you would all but get
oar times as much for your money"
Mr.. Morton declared that the old north
ern idea that Virginia land was shack
brokenD by oyerproduction was myth,
and said that Virginia land which
would bring from gas to 800 an acre in
Iowa or illinois was selling for $15 an
(, ore in Virginia.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-08-02
AN ABscoNDER CApruRED.-Frank

AN ABscoNDER CAPTURED.-Frank
P. smoot, who ran away week ago
with $4,000 belonging to his employer,
Maj. Henry L. Briscoe, the wholesale
lumberman at the foot of Twelfth street,
Washington, was caught yesterday
morning at the Wayne Hotel, Fort
Wayne, Ind, by his employer. All the
money was recovered except between
$500 and $500, which he had spent.
Later Mr.. Briscoe gave Smoot 500,
and at noon he left for Chicago and
will locate somewhere in the west and
send for his wife, who lives in Wash
ington. It Ia understood that Smoot
said when he was taken that he was
very sorry he had run away, but that
he was driven to desperation by cir
cumstances which the public would
probably never know anything about.
He admitted that he had been drink
ing to excess before he left Washington,
and said this was what made him SO
weak and foolish as to take his en-
ployer's money.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-08-02
The Columbia's speedy Trip.

QUARANTINE, S. l., Aug. 2.-The U.
S. cruiser Columbia arrived at quaran-
tine this morning at 1875 o'clock after
the most memorable run at sea ever
made by war vessel. The Columbia
left Southampton, England, July Goth,
and arrived at Sandy Hook lightship
this morning, making the run of 3,109
knots in days, % hours and 40 min-
utes. The daily runs were 405, 400,
473, 45S, 455, 453 and 405. The hourly
speed averaged during the run was
1871 knots under natural draught. Ad-
ditional interest in the Columbia's
trip comes from the fact that the
American line steamer st. Louis left
Southampton "a hours and 20 minutes
behind the Columbia, and was expect
ed by many naval officers to pass the
latter before reaching port. The HAM
burg-American line steamship Augusta
Victoria was about 100 miles behind
the Columbia at the start, but neither
of these crack liners was able to over
take the cruiser.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-08-02
Fatal Railroad Accident.

CANTON, o., Aug "a freight train
broke in two on heavy grade near
Stark siding early this morning. The
rear end crashed into the first section
and ten cars were wrecked. A dozen
tramps were riding in a furniture Car
which was smashed to splinters. When
the trainmen came up they were hor-
rifed to see arms and legs of human be-
ings sticking from all parts of the wreck
age. Three of the men were badly
mangled when taken out; two of them
were dead, and the third died on the
way to the hospital, Another had his
head cut open and may die, and six
others are badly hurt.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-08-02
TO-DAY'S TELEGRAPHIC NEWS
Foreien News.

LONDON, Aug. PA dispatch from
Berlin states that the reports of Sir
Edward Malet's resignation of his pc
sition as British Ambassador to Ger
many are premature.
MADRID, Aug. 2.-The courts have
declared void the will of Don Alexan-
dro Soler, who bequeathed several
million pesetas to Queen Regent
Christina. The decision is based upon
q technical flaw in the document.
LONDON. Aug. 2.-Sadie Eakins,
young Irish woman living in London,
has obtained FL 500 damages for breach
of promise in a suit against William
Craig Powers, son of a banker of
Rochester, N. Y. The defendant did
not appear in court It was shown
that Powers was already married when
he engaged himself to Miss Eakins,
who at the time was employed in the
Holborn Hotel.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-08-02
The Yacht Race.

NEWPORT, R. l., Aug 2.-The race
for the Goelet Cup, one of the biggest
events in the cruise of the New York
Yacht Club, took place to-day. The
wind is blowing at the rate of is miles
an hour here, and seems to be heavy
off shore. At 1880 the starting gun
for the single.masted vessels and yachts
was fred. The Volunteer was the
first across the line at about 1871, fol-
lowed by the Jubilee. Vigilant and
Defender. The yachts are making a
beautiful race and will soon be hull
down from here. 1t looks here as if
the Volunteer and Defender were in
the lead.
The Dolphin, with Secretary Herbert
on board, joined the fleet at the start
ing line.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-08-02

WASHINGTON AS THE "FoREMosT
SwEARER OF HIS TIME.-Mr. Ambrose
Bierce's recent reference to George
Washington as "the foremost swearer
of his timep perhaps credits the Father
of his Country with more fuency in
the art of picturesque profanity than
he ever possessed. Washington was
not in other ways very fluent man,
and, other things being equal, an elo.
quent speaker and ready writer will
excel In piquant and original cursing.
Nevertheless, what Washington lack.
ed in fluency he doubtless made up in
emphasis, for there is no doubt that,
when in circumstances seeming to him
to require sulphurous explosives, he
could freeze the blood of his listeners.
The memory of the oaths he swore at
the fleeing continentals on Monmouth
field will live as long in history as any
serious exploit of their author.
1t must not be forgotten, though,
that Washington's ordinary oonyersa-
ton was perfectly clean, and even cere-
monious; that he was the most dignified
man of his time, and that occasional
profanity under provocation was not in
those days deemed inconsistent with
religious character and conviction. 1t
was coarser age, and language as well
US conduct was much more free thea In
our own: Washington was a pillar OF
the church, and when he prayed Cor
his unhappy country and his freezing,
starving troops at Valley Forge, doubt.
less he added personal petition for
grace upon his own sins of hasty tenn
per, and rose in confidence of divine
mercy, like the honest christian gentle
man he was,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-08-02
The Indian Scare About Over.

SALT LAKE, Utah, Aug. 2.-On We'd
nesday night rancher, while looking
for horses, ran into the camp of num-
Der of Indians on Willow creek, thirty
miles north of Soda Springs, who were
friendly and talked freely. They said
they had not heard of fighting or trou-
BILE at the Hole. White men did not
want them to hunt there and they had
no intention of disturbing the settlers.
Many of the ranchers who came in on
Wednesday are starting back. All re-
ports are to the effect that the Indians
are peaceable,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-08-02

THE A. P. A's. in Omaha are not
content to wait until the legal time for
their policemen to take control of that
city, but want them to do SO instantei
and threaten violence if that demand
be not complied with, and five thou
sand members of their organization in
Chicago have offered them their assist
ance. And yet the jingoessay this coun-
try is not large enough for its govern
ment, and that it must annex Cuba and
Hawaii, to say nothing of Canada aud
Mexico.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-08-02
TELEGRApHIC BREYITlES.

Robert ]. and Joe Patchen, the kings
of ps GERS, will race at Buffalo, N. Y /,
next Saturday for So 900 side on bet
that Joe Patchen could not again beat
Robert ]. as he did yesterday at Cleye-
land.
Warden Sage, of Sing Sing prison,
has sent out the invitations to the per.
sons who will witness the execution of
Richard Leach, the wife murderer, in
the electric chair at II o'clock on Mon
day next.
The q. 8. dispatch boat Dolphin with
Secretary Herbert on board sailed
from Newport, R. l., this morning for
Buzzards' Bay, where Secretary Her
bert will make a brief visit to Presi-
dent Cleveland at Gray Gables.
Rev. DR.. l.. T. Townsend, the cele-
brated Methodist divine and pastor of
the Mt. Vernon Place Methodist
Church, Baltimore, has rendered his
resignation to take effect at the end of
the conference year. Mr.. Townsend will
devote his time to literary work.
The San Francisco police are said 10
have located women who slept in
Durrant's house the night Minnie Will
liams was killed and who says she
heard Durrant come in after midnight,
and that shortly afterwards she de-
tected burning cloth but thought no
more of it until after Durrants arrest.
Deputy United States Marshal John
Garrett was ambushed and killed by
Sur Greek Indians at Okmulgee, l. T.,
last Tuesday night. The leader of the
gang of murderers is Rufus Buck and he
has long had q bitter enmity against
Garrett. The gang hid in barn on
the roadside and shot Garrett as ne
passed on horseback.
Judge Gildersleeve signed decree in New
York, to day, granting Mrs. Ollie Corbett an
absolute divorce from her husband, Pugilist
! James ]. Corbett, who had been guilty of i'm
proper conduct with woman named Vera
The decree provides that Corbett shall pay
his wife $4,000 year alimony. In case Mrs.
Corbett remarries she will forfeit the alimony.
She is authorized to resume her maiden name
of Ollie Lake and can remarry. Corbett can.
not remarry until his wife is dead.
Forest fires ragged northwest of Prescott
Mich, last night, and lumber camps, two
large barns, many head of hogs. sheep and
cattle we're burned. On the Mills branch of
the Detroit and Mackinaw railroad, about
two miles Of ties burned and the rails warped
80 as to prevent traffic on that branch.
Areonaut Barke made an ascension by
moonlight at Phoenix, Ariz, last evening in 8
hot air balloon, but in descending in his par
achute he fell on the top of house, sustain.
ing injuries from which he shortly afterward
| died.
1t is announced that Carl Brown, who but
few weeks ago married Mi So Coxey. cas- sep
arated from his bride, and that Mrs. Brown is
in seclusion in Baltimore.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-08-02

For HONEST ELEcTIoNs.-The hon
est election conference, to frame non
partisan election law, and to prosecute
the same. convened in Petersburg last
night at $50. E. P. Buford was made
chairman, and explained the object for
which the conference had been called.
]. Haskins Hobson and Gen. William
Malone and others spoke before the
convention and advocated the passage
of non-partisan law. A committee
consisting of one from each congress
sional district in the State was ap.
pointed to draft such a law as it might
consular proper, and to present the
same to the conference for considera-
ton; and committee consisting of
General Malone, ]. Raskips Hobson,
Gen. James A. Walker and E. P. Blu
ford was appointed to propose the plan
of organization.
The conference is only fairly we'll
attended, but representatives of the
press are excluded. The conference
will be in session again to-day.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-08-02
court Of Appeals at Wytheville.

Court Of Appeals at Wytheville.
In the Court of Appeals yesterday
the following causes were decided:
Shumate VS.. Williams, from Giles
county; reversed; opinion by Judge
Keith.
Southern Express Company va.
Walker, same against Pendleton, same
VS.. McGavock, same vs.. Buford, from
Wythe countyi affirmed, opinion by
Judge Kelley.
Hanks vs.. Lyons, from Pulaski coun-
ty; reversed; opinion by Judge Kelley
Simon vs.. Ellison, from Washington
county; reversed; opinion by Judge
Cardwell.
Cox VS.. Crockett, from Wytfie coun-
ty; affirmed; opinion by Judge Card
we'll.
Sexton & Co. vs.. Aultman, from
Wythe county; affirmed; opinion by
Judge Buchanan.
Norfolk and Western Railroad Com
pany VS.. Shott, from Pulaski county;
affirmed; opinion by Judge Harrison.
Campbell, trustee, VS.. McBee from
Wytbe county; reversed; opinion by
Judge Harrison.
Petition for rehearipg was refused in
the case of the National Building and
Loan Association vs. Ashworth.
Appeals and writs of errors were
granted in the following cases: Chesa-
peake Classified Building Association
vs.. Coleman, trustee; State Bank VS..
Blanchard, from Chesterfield county;
and refused in Walker vs.. Burnett, from
Augusta county, and in Winfree vs..
Martin, from Bedford City.
An Injunction was refused to the
Roanoke Loan and Safe Deposit Com
pany vs.. Morton Malye.
The Wytheville bar announced to
the court the death of Prof. John B.
Minor, of the University of Virginia,
and requested that resolutions bearing
upon his eminent services be spread
upon its minutes and that the court adj
journ for the day out of respect for this
eminent jurist. The court, through its
president. expressed its sympathy with
the sentiments of the resolutions and
ordered them to be spread on its min
utes. After handing down its opinions
without reading them the court then
adjourned.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-08-02
Eor orer Fifty years.

AN OLD AND WELL-TRIKD REMEDY.-Mrs.
Windows Soothing Syrup hiss been used fol
over fifty years BY millioHs Of mothers for
their children while teefhing, with perfect
success. It soothes the child, softens the gums,
allays al pain, curos wind collie, and is the
best remedy for Diarrhea. L pleasant to the
taste. Sold by Druggists in every part of the
world. Twenty-Five cents q bottle. Its value
is incalculsble. Be sure and ssk for Mra. Wins.
lows Soothing Syrup and take no other kind.
oct12 90 ddEu1yr
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-08-02

SECRETARY MORTON is q wise man
in his ~ and generation. His advice
TO young men is not like Horace
Greeley's, to go West, but to come to Viz
ginia, and especially to buy farm lands
in this State, and to work them. He
says, and truly, that such lands can be
bought for fourth or third of the
price they would bring in other parts OF
the country, and that the talk about
Virginia land being worn out, is all CAB,
or words to that effect.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-08-02
A Correction.

To the Editor of the alexandria Gazette:
In your account of the contested
election cases published last Thursday
week / am reported to have said that
two bottles of whisky were brought
into the poll room, one in the morning
and one at night, and had ordered
the last bottle taken out. ANY one
reading the above would naturally
think that was in favor of having the
first whisky in the room, and it is to
correct this impression that write
this. The fact is, I objected to the
presence of whisky in each instance
and it was promptly removed. This /
can prove by the judges of Jefferson dis.
trict. Respectfully,
ANDREW ScHLEvoGT.
Alexandria county, Aug. 1.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-08-02

81 know an old soldier who had
chronic diarrhea of long standing to
have been permanently cured by TAX
ing Chamberlain Collie, Cholera and
Diarrhea Remedy" says Edward
Shumpik, prominent druggist of Min
neapolis, MINI. 81 have sold the rem.
edy in this city for over seven years
and consider 1t superior to any other
medicine now on the market for bowel
complaints" Is and so cent bottles Of
this remedy for sale by L. Stabler & Co.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-08-02

ONE OF the Washington newspapers
that have only good to say of one of the
OUTLAW" race tracks in Alexandria
county, and only bad of the other, has
now widened its field of vain operations
so as to take in the whole State of Vir
giuia. whose election law, it says, is an
abortion" and should be supplanted
by one that will provide for a free vote
and fair count. Time was when
Washington newspapers knew OF what
they talked. but that time has gone By (,
and lack of Information and reckless
assertion have now become their char
acteristics.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-08-02
Trouble Brewing Among Chinese.


SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. chinatown
was almost deserted last night. The
theatres were very slimly attended and
few Chinese loitered on the streets.
The guides and sp cial policemen were
on the alert, and no two of them left
their districts at the same time. Should
it ever come to open warfare, the lives
of Consul General Ii Yuen and the
president of Sam Yups will be in dan
ger, as they are blamed for the whole
trouble, which originated over the
attitude of the Sam Yups, who are
trying to convict Mock Lai of murder.
For the first time in the history OF
Chinatown the consul has been insulted.
Eggs have been thrown at him and his
escort pelted with garbage. Nothing
but blood can wipe out the insult.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-08-02
Important Facts.

II you have dull and heavy pains across the
forehead and about the eyes; If the nossrils
are frequently stopped up and followed by q
dlsagreeable discharge; If soreness in the
nose and bleeding from the nostils is often
experienced; If you are very sensitive to cold
IN the head accompanied with headache /;
then you may Be sure you have catarrh and
should Immediately resort to Ely,s Cream
Balm Tor cure. The remedy viii give In
slant relief.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-08-02
The Honest Election Conference"

PETERSBURG, Va, Aug. 2.-Tfe
Honest Election Conference" recon
vened to-day about noon at which
hour the chairman, E. P. Buford, call
ed the body to order. He announced
that the committee appointed to form
ulate bipartisan election law was
not ready to report. The conference
then took a recess until two O'Clock
this afternoon when it is expected the
committee will be ready to make their
report.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-08-02

IT NOW turns out that all the news
paper talk about the alleged innumer-
able murders committed by Holmes was
simply sensationalism, and nothing
more, and was based upon such insub-
stantial foundation that not even an in
dictment can be found against him.
His alleged crime was too monstrous
To be true.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-08-02
FRIDAY EVENING. AUG. 2, 1896.
ONE OF the anti-Ale1ander's Island

ONEoF the anti-Ale1auder's Island
race track newspapers Of Washington
saws that murder, swindling, Sabbath
breaking, highway robbery, gambling,
rum selling and rioting have usurped
the place of law and order in Alexand-
ria county, and that even the officers
of that county are ranged with the
violators OF the law. Itsays this in the
face of the facts that churches and
school houses abound in Ale1andrla
county, that the material condition OF
the county has improved in recent years
more rapidly than that of Washington
that the valuation of its property has
greatly increased, and that SO attractive
as place of residence has it become
that many reputable Westinghouse
have bought land, and built houses,
and made their homes there during the
past few years. The paper referred to
should also know that the perpetrators
of every one of the recent crimes COM
mitted in Alexandria county were peo-
pie from Washington, or negroes who
frequent that city and that the officers
of the county are elected by the voters
thereof, q large majority of whom are
negroes, whose ballots, it says, must be
received and fairly counted. No
wonder those people Of the county who
have any material interest in its welfare
look with distrust upon the proffered
assistance of such newspapers.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-08-02
Panic in a Lecture Hall.

FENN1MoRE, Wis, Aug. 2.-While a
lecture was being given in the Opera
House last night under the auspices of
the United Brethren Church, q lamp
fell among the audience causing blaze
which started panic. In the wild en-
deavor to get out of the house safely,
the spectators trampled over one an
other. Many persons, including women,
jumped from the windows. The fire
was soon e3tinguished but a number of
people were badly burned.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-08-02
Stage Held Up.

MERGED, CAL, Aug. 9.-The Coulter
vile stage was held up and robbed
about twelve miles northeast of that
city yesterday afternoon by a masked
man. There.was only one passenger,
who contributed what he had-a ten
dollar piece. Several packages of coin
were taken but the amount Is not
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-08-02

GOVERNOR O'FERRALL has pardoned
q man who married four women with
out taking the trouble of obtaining q
single divorce. The criminal had beat
the record of other bigamists in Vir-
ginia, and the Governor has now given
him chance to beat his owns
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-08-02

In WASHINGTON last night police
man arrested man who was chasing
another man who had robbed him, and,
though the robber was in full view,
allowed him to escape. No wonder
the anarchists entertain such violent
antipathy for the police. Policemen
should have good sense as well as hon.
estv
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-08-02

BAsEBALL.-The baseball games Of yester-
lay resulted as follows: Baltimore 10, Bos-
ton s; Pittsburg 2, Cleveland O; Brooklyn
10, Philadelphia g.; Washington y. New
York 6; Chicago S, st. Louis 2. The follow.
ing is the standing of the clubsi