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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-01-29

CUT OFF HIS Own Foor-Two
years ago Robert Galbraith. aged q
well-known farmer Of Payne towns P.
Indiana county, Pa, fell from load Of
nay and injured his Left ankle aud foot
The injury has caused him great suffer
ing ever since, and the family ply
stefan has long insisted that unless the
foot was amputated, the farmer could
never be any better. Galbraith stub
bornIy refused to have the operation
performed. One morning last week
the farmers daughter went into the
room. Della" said he, "the jobs
done. The foot is amputated." On
the bed by his side lay his foot. On
the other side was razor. The Old
farmer had amputated his own foot
with his razor, and had done it neatly.
too, at the ankle joint. Although he
is now 76 years old, Farmer Galoraith
i, not even suffering from shock from
his self-amputating operation, and the
doctor says he could not have TAX en-
the foot off more neatly himself.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-01-29
TELEGRApHIC BREVITIES.

DR.. Nagle reported l3 deaths from the
grip in New York this morning. The
disease is on the increase.
Five ballots were to-day taken by
the Delaware Legislature for United
States Senator, without result.
Mrs. Louis sahm, prominent church
dy, of Niles, Ohio, stood before a
mirror this morning and blew her
b.ains out with pistol. She has been
i'll for some months.
Fifteen fine horses were shipped from
New York to-day to Austria. 1t is the
intention of the Austrian government
to inbred the American trotting horse
with the native horses.
A large coasting sled carrying party
of eight young people ran into cable
car in St. Louis last night and seven
persons were injured, two of them
seriously. The force of the collision
threw the sled under the car, and it is
miracle that none were killed out
right.
The Coleman-D rayton divorce suit,
WHICH, was w AdbC COtuO up DclOlO tuC
Vice Chancellor in Newark, n. j., to-
day in preliminary proceedings, was re
moved to the jurisdiction Of the Vice
Chancellor at Jersey City on Monday
next. Lawyer Vradenburg, out of
court, secured the postponement and
transfer of the case to further amend
the answer of Mrs. Drayton to the
charges of her husband who seeks the
annulment of their marriage tie on
statutory grounds.
The United States assay Office in New York
has received instructions from Washington to
exchange gold bars for coin at Ito of per
cent premium instead of 1-S of 1 per cent
The Withdrawals from the sub-treasury up to
noon amounted to S2,050000 Gold coin to
the amount of S2,500,000 was to day ship
ped from the Philadelphia mint to the New
York sub-treasury.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-01-29

VETERANS TO CALL ON Mrs. GRANT.
A dispatch from Atlanta, Ga, says
The Confederate Veterans of Atlanta
will call in body to-day on Mrs.
Ulysses S. Grant, who is at the Aragon
Hotel. Mrs. Grant will hold formal
reception for the veterans in the hotel
parlors. General Clement A. Evans,
Colonel J. Mcintosh Kell, first officer
of the old Alabama; Colonel Albert
Howell, Colonel Lawandis Calhoun,
Colonel w. A. Hemphill and other
prominent -Confederates will head
the party. Formal speeches will be
made, welcoming General Grants
widow to Atlanta and to the South.
ATLANTA, Ga, Jan. 29.-The recep-
ton of the Fulton County Confederate
Veterans Association to Mrs. Grant
was notableevent. Many Con-
federate veterans took this oppor-
unity to welcome her to At
lanta. The Fulton County Confed-
crate Association last night appointed
a number Gifts members to visit Mrs.
Grant and towelcome her to Atlanta
in behalf of the association.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-01-29
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The woman's suffrage amendment
was killed in the West Virginia State
Senate yesterday.
The gold balance in the treasury fell
to s51, 773.175. being S416,327 lower
than it ever was before.
Mexico is still sending troops to the
frontier, and indications point to hos
tilities with Guatemala.
Dispatches from Shanghai state that
the japanese fleet was repealed in two
attacks upon Wei-Hai-Wei.
A revolution has broken out in the
United States of Colombia, and in the
first encounters that have occurred the
rebels have been defeated.
John W. Proctor, treasurer of the
church extension board of the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church South, died at
his home in Danville, KY, yesterday of
grip.
Mrs. Rutland drowned herself in q
we'll in New Village, L. L., last night,
because her children were all dead.
She had been married more than sixty
years.
The nomination of Mr.. William L.
Marbury to be United States district
attorney for Maryland has been favor
ably reported to the Senate by the jul
dietary committee.
The New Orleans police announce
that the Malta, the Italian murder So
ciety, which it was supposed had
been crushed by the Parish prison
lynchings of few years ago, is again
at work,
Fred. Root, 81 years old, son of E. T.
Root, of the insurance firm of Smith
and Root, clerk in his fathers Office
in Waterbury, Conn.,, shot and killed
himself with rifle is room at his
fathers home at an early hour this
morning. He had a severe attack OF
typhoid fever few months ago, and
had never recovered his health since.
The schooner yacht Mohican, which
sailed from New York in the latter part
of November with DR.. w. Conyers Her
ring, his bride of a few days, and
Letitia Thompson, young girl who
ran away from home to take the
strange cruise, has not been sighted by
any incoming vessel, and considerable
curiosity exists as to ner whereabouts.
In New York yesterday James Flower
committed suicide by swallowing prus
sic acid after stealing Miss Margaret E.
Forbes pocketbook and finding that he
could not escape from the men who
pursued him. Starvation induced him
to rob, and when caught he took poison
in the street. His wife and baby were
in want and he had been unable to work
and could not procure money for food
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-01-29

widow of Gen. J. ]. Crittenden. The
report recommends pension of $50 a
month. The SenateImade it 500 aud
the House reduced il to $50.
MIR. Jones made the point of no quo
rum on the vote to agree to the report,
123 ayes; noes, and the yeas and nays
were ordered. The result was an
nounced: Yeas 207; nays 20, and SO
the bill passed.
Mr.. Cultivate, from the committee
on rules, reported and the House adopt
ed rule providing for 81 hours de-
bate on the sugar bill.
The House, in committee on the
whole, resumed consideration of that
bill, Mr. Diugley replying to the state
ments madein his opening speech last
Saturday by Mr.. Wilson.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-01-29
ABAD WRrcK.-A terrible railroad wre,

A BAD WRFcK-A terrible railroad wreck,
causing loss of lie .,.'d MINED limbs, oc
Cured at Coatesville, Ind, yesterday after.
noon. A vandalia train was wrecked by the
Spreading of the rails. Two persons were
killed almost instantly, and thirty or forty
were seriously injured. The train was run
ming at full speed, and was about twenty
minutes late. 1t had just passed the town O!
Coatesville, and was rounding curve, when
the tracks spread. The private car of Presi-
dent w. R. McKeeD, which was attached to
the train, jumped the tracks. This was fol-
lowed by the parlor car. and then the ladies'
car, the two rear cars going down the en-
bankment ten feet before the train could be
stopped. The smoker left the tracks, but did
not go over. The two rear cars caught fire,
but the flames were extinguished without
damage. John W. Norton. manager of the
Grand Opera House at st. Louis, died after
being taken from car. Mrs. Zelda Seguin
Wallace, the noted singer, was among those
who We're badly injured.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-01-29

THE MILITARY CoURT.-Tne court of in .
quiry appointed to investigate the troubles in
the First Virginia Regiment has prepared its
report, but il has not been placed in the
hands of Governor OFerrall. The members
OF the cour. are unanimous in their opinion
but of coursc will not give any information
as to what that opinion is Colonel Boykin
and Captain Nelson called on the Governor
and told him that the court had completed its
labors, but did not advise the Governor even
as to Whist conclusion had been reached. 1t
is snrmised that the report will show sort of
tempest in teapot and that nobody will be
harshly censured; that Colonel Jones erred
only IN not conforming strictly to the Cam
eron order No 2, and that the members of
the court martial erred only in not reporting
at once to Colonel Jones that they believed
the court to be illegal When the facts and
the opinion of the court of inquiry are in
the hands Of the Governor he will pass upon
them
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-01-29

To DEVELOP THE soUTH.-Negotiations
have been pending in New York for some
time which are expected to culminate soon in
the organization of corporation to develop
southern industries and enterprises by pro-
viding a permanent exchange in that CITY
where such transactions may take place.
Hugh K. Garden, of New York, president of
the southern Exchange Association, who has
been considering the project, aud to whom
has been left the full charge of the oreaniza-
ton, said Yesterday" believe that its success.
Jul operation OF the plans proposed will mean
the solution of the problem how to develan
southern industries. have therefore adj.
yised the formation of such Corporation
providing the southern people would fake ths,
initiative, as l know they would meet with
the heartiest responses from basiness and
financial people Of other States.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-01-29

No MATTER how wrong Rev. DR.
Parkhurst may be in some things, that
he is not wrong in all, is demonstrated
by the fact that in one of his recent
pourings forth he said:
"If women want to retain the suprem-
acy which belongs to their sex, they
will have to keep it by making more
and more of their womanliness, and not
in trying to be manpish. The security
ola woman's hold, the security of q
wife's hold upon her companion, is not
that she is female, but that she is o
woman. There is an element in the
feminine world that is suffering from
passionate aping OF everything that is
inannish-an attempt on the part OF
those affected with the disease to
m nimize distinctions by which man.
hood and womanhood are ditferentiat-
ed, whether as regards their culture,
their interests or their activities"
This is a apt and timely sermon,
which all women afflicted with IAN
dromania" would do well, for them
selves, to take to heart.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-01-29

The INCOME TAX.-Officials in the
internal revenue collectors Office are
engaged in sending out notices to per-
sons in this district who it is thought
will be liable to the income tax. All
persons whose. incomes are $500 or
over, have to make returns of the
same, though the tax will be levied
only on the amount of income in ex-
cess ofS4 900. After as many returns
are secured as can be by mail, the
deputy collectors will begin a syste-
matte canvass of the district in order
20 make the list complete. Some AL
,yandrians who have received notices
10 make returns say they regret that
heir revenues are not sufficient to re-
qure the payment of the tax.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-01-29

A LAWSUIT FROM VIRGINIA. del
egation of Virginia lawyers was in
Washington yesterday and filed with
The U. S. Supreme Court petition for
writ of mandamus to compel Judge
Paul, of the western judicial district of
Virginia, to acknowledge the jurisdic-
ton of the Supreme Court in suit
brought by the Lebigh Manufacturing
Company against John Kelly, of south
western Virginia. The party consisted
of ex-Attorney Generals F. S. Blair and
Rufus A. Ayers. Judge Morrison, the
defeated democratic candidate in the
9th district, and Judge Duncan, OF Lee
county. The suit in question is one to
eject John Kelly from property claim
ed by the Lehigh Company.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-01-29
The News From Oreson.

A canvass for the adoption oftextbooks for
the public schools of Oregon for the period NJ
six years from October /. 1895, has just been
completed, and the result was officially an
nounced by the State Board Of Education
January s. 1895. The plan of adoption pro-
vided by the Oregon law is thoroughly demo
cratic and peculiarly adapted TO Obtain air
expression of the popular mind. The officers
entitled to vote on the school book selection
are the 30 County superintendent and thr
Board of Examiners (9), composed OF leading
teachers and college professors. The book
campaign has been active for several months
and each officer was required TO record his
vote with the State Board in writing some
time during the months of November ana De-
cember No more careful and deliberate ~
animation and decision of a school book cues
ton by those most intimately connected with
the use of the books would have been posi-
bic
The result as announced has been a com
plete victory for the publications of the Amen
can Book Company, the merits of whose
books had been thoroughly tested in LIE stre'
gon schools
The OreGonian says, editorially. 1.-THE
American Book Company got everything"
This selection is notable as a vindication of
the American Book Company, and an indorse-
ment of the merits of its publications for two
reasons 1t has taken place a. in the face
of the fercest and most determined agency
competition, aud q in the midst of a deluge
of unprecedented SANDER and falsehood, TO.
mented, and spread anonymously through
pamphlets newspapers, circulars, and letters,
in despe ate attempt by our business rivals
to assassinate our character and reputation.
In few days we shall present our answer
addressed to Virginians, in reply to the
mountain of falsehood being daily brought
forth by the Norfolk Pilot.
AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY.
Now York, January II. 1895.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-01-29

A CANADIAN school teacher was ex-
pelled from Northern State last week,
under the contract labor law, and on
Saturday, before the Pope's encyclical
could be landed at New York from the
steamer that broughtit over, a customs
Niuty had to be paid on it. Why, in the
earlier and better days of the country
professors of the University of Virginia
were engaged by contract in Europe,
and not only encyclicals, but all other
sorts of instruction intended to i'm
prove manners and morals, and increase
knowledge. were admitted free. But
there were restrictions upon suffrage in
those times, and congressman could act
in accordance with their convictions,
and not be deferred from doing so, as
they are now, by the fear of the loss of
o vote.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-01-29
FROM KING GEORGE
A letter from King George conn,

a letter from Mig george county
says:
Coleman Pitts and Willie Pitts wers
arrested last week on charge Of ss.
saulting and robbing young Mr.. Tng.
ger, on the road.
Several points on the Potomac river
near Comorn, have been examined
with view TO the establishment Of a
watering-place, or summer resort, in
this county.
It has been learned here that The
government lighthouse, which was
destroyed by fire, of Cedar Point, near.
" thirteen months ago, will not be re.
built this spring, as was contemplated
Miss Blanche A. Inscoe, the pretty
daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. j. f. Inscoe
and Mr.. Charles r. Hudson, one OF the
most popular and prosperous young
men of our county, were married al
Montague's Chapel, on "Wednesday
night.
Oysters are abundant along the owe-
Potomac and its tributaries this season.
and are of very fine quality TIE
oyster business in some parts OF tn,
Northern Neck affords lucrative en-.
ploymept to many hundreds OF men
and boys.
The vestry of St. Johns Episcopal
Church had meeting recently to pass
upon the repairs to the church, mad
by contractor w. n. Hefip. Wal
some fault was found with the material
used (sent Hefin by an Alexandra
merchant. the workmanship was pro-
nounced very fue. This church is con
sidered the handsomest 10 the Nor
them Neck.
Friends of Capt. R. L. Robb, who
some days ago broke his hip bone by
fall, will be glad to learn that he is,
under the circumstances, doing Very
well.
1t is rumored that q Temperance 50.
ciety will soon be organized in kiag
George. Rev. Mr.. Mcbride headed
movement of this sort here some years
ago.
Some people in this section begin to
think there is fair prospect for rail.
road when there are two companies
organized to run a road over the same
route and to and from same points
while others think this does not look
very much like business.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-01-29
Ex-senator Fairs Will Stolen.

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 29.-The will
of the late ex-senator James G.. Fair
has been stolen from the Office of the
county clerk of this city, lot of worth
less papers being substituted. No
trace of the missing testament has been
discovered. The affair has caused a
great sensation, over twenty million
dollars being at stake.
Copies of the will are in the possess
ion of attorneys, but the signature OF
Mr.. Fair cannot be produced for the ad-
mission of the will to probate.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-01-29

A PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL ARCH
B1sHoP.-From information gained at
St. Louis from high social circles, it ap
pears to be probability that the Epis-
copal Church will have an archbishop
at Washington before long. The COM
mission on the revision of the consti-
tuition and canons, appointed at the
general convention at Baltimore, will
consider at its coming meeting in New
York, February Z, a proposition to set
aside the city of Washington as the See
of the archbishop or primus. Accord
ing to the existing law of the church,
the first archbishop would be Right
Reverend John Williams, D. D., LII. D.,
bishop of Connecticut. In order to
fully legalize the proposed change it
will have to be agreed to by the COM
mission and by the general conventions
of 1895 and 1898.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-01-29
TUESDAY EVENING, JAN. 90. 10 5.

JUDAE CHIcHEsTER's charge to the
grand jury of the county yesterday
should awaken the citizens there
of to the urgent necessity OF
suppressing the disgraceful and fragrant
gam bling, and its Accomplishments, now
practiced there every day in the week
and Sundays, land that, too, not by resi-
dents of the county, but by disrepu-
table people of all races and both sexes,
who 90 there from Washington. How
the law against gambling was SO con-
strued as to permit it in the one county
referred to, has never yet been salts
factorily explained, though some say it
can be; but, be that as it may, when
gambling becomes public and dis
graceful nuisance, as is the case now IN
Alexandria county, it can and should
he suppressed, and every citizen of that
county, not only for the reputation OF
his county, but for that of his State
also. should set himself to work to &C.
complish that object. The fact that
the Governor hsd the power to drive
unoffendiug Coxeyites out of the coun-
ty, but that he can not expel offending
gamblers, seems as strange to other
people as it does to the Judge, and to
those who live within, as will as with
on the limits of the State. 1t is i'm
possible to legislate morality into
people, but when immortality fiaunts its
brazen face in public, and becomes a
gross and fragrant nuisance, itshould be
suppressed by the strong arm. If the
disreputable and vicious people Of
Washington must have place in which
to indulge their evil habits, let them
seek it elsewhere than within the juris-
dictiou of Virginia. 1t is understood
that Judge Wexford is of the opinion
that both of the race tracks in the
county, as conducted, are illegal. BY
the terms of the compromise made with
the track proprietors, he, and the Gov
ernor and the Attorney General, can
close them on sixty days notice.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-01-29
Attempt to Rob a Cashier.

CHICAGO, Jan. 29.-About 6 o'clock
yesterday evening, John Herman, ac-
companied by a friend, after removing
the money from vault in Zander's
bank, of which he is cashier, stepped
to the street, where he and his friend
were attacked by thugs who threw red
pepper into their eyes and then began
pounding them with clubs. Herman
was on the point of giving up his sat
chel, which contained $1,000, when
other citizens appeared on the scene,
and the robbers were scared away.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-01-29
Court Of Appeals Yesterday

Manchester Railway and Improve.
ment Company vs.. Williams; writ of
error and supersedeas awarded to a
judgment of the Hastings Court of the
city Of Manchester.
Barnes VS.. city of Staunton; writ Of
error refused to judgment of the Cir,
cult Court of Augusta county.
Pope VS.. Richmond Ice Machine Co.;
further argued and submitted.
Rensens vs.. Lawson and others; ar
gued and continued.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-01-29
THE BROOKLYN sTR1xE.-Master

The BROOKLYN STRIKE.-Master
workman Connolly, representing the
Brooklyn strikers, who, as stated yes
terday, wrote to the company's presi-
dent, saying the men would return to
work upon six hours notice, received
an answer saying that application for
work might be made at the COM
pany's Office. There was collision be-
tween strikers and the police yesterday
in which one man was fatally shot.
Beaten at every point except the one
doubtful victory in the courts, the
strikers practically surrendered to the
trolley railroad companies yesterday
afternoon only to be told that their
places are filled. Ofthe 1000 men who
went on strike on January IA, there are
places left for less than one-third. 1t s
not at all certain that these will accept
the places.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-01-29

THE INDICTMENTS found against GER
tain democrats in Norfolk county for
fraudulent transactions at last Novem-
ber's election have been quashed. Re
coun's of the ballots cast at that cleo
ton prove that if any mistakes were
made in the count thereof, they resulted
in favor of the republicans, and the
quashing of the indictments referred to,
proves that there is nothing in the
charge that illegality was practiced in
the casting of the ballots. The new
election law has established itself in the
grace of most men who are really in
favor of a free vote and fair count.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-01-29

THE deep snow that covered the
ground this morning was well calcu-
lated to add strength to the appeal of
the ladies. referred to in yesterdays
GAZETTE, for help to the poor. Those
able to contribute, who have not al
ready done so, should hesitate no long
er. Those who intend to give, should
do SO now, as there could be no more
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-01-29

ONE republican newspaper now says
"any thing that hurts one part of the
country hurts all parts" 1t is to be
hoped that all the others have arrived
at the same wise conclusion, though
they have not said so, and that they
may bear it in mind when they feel
like maligning and vilifying the South,
and thereby injuring her in the estima-
ton of people outside her borders, who
are not familiar with the true condi-
ton of her affairs and do not under
stand the animus of her defamers.