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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-26
THE CONFERENCE.

Arrangements have been completed
by members of the Methodist Episco-
pal Church South in Washington for
the entertainment of the $50 delegate
to the one hundred and eleventh an
nual meeting of the Baltimore confer
ence of the Methodist Episcopal Church
South, which will begin in that city to-
morrow at Mount Vernon Place
Church, Rev. DR.. I. W. Canter, pastor,
and continue for seven or eight days.
The conference will open tomorrow
morning at 9 o'clock. Bishop Gran
berry and the presiding elders are to
held preliminary meeting this even
ing. The annual sermon will be
preached Wednesday evening at eight
O'Clock by Rev. S. X. Cox, of Front
Royal. The ordination of elders and
deacons occurs Sunday next, and it is
expected the conference will reach an
end Tuesday evening April 2.
The Mt. Vernon Place choir of thir-
ty-one voices, under the direction of
Mr.. Geo. w. Law1 ence, is preparing a
fine programme of music to be render
ed during the conference.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-26
FOREIGN NEWS.

Two Spanish steamers arrived at
Havana yesterday with 1000 troops, to
reinforce the army in Cuba.
The German government does net
intend to dissolve the Reichstag as a
result of the refusal of that body to
congratulate Prince Bismarck on his
birthday.
Col. Santoscildes, who commands the
government force at Manzanillo, Cuba,
reports that yesterday troops under
Col. Araoz attacked and dispersed in
surgent bands at Juraguana and Cayo
Camacho.
IL is thought that the Manitoba legis-
lature will reject the order of the Ca
madam council to provide separate
schools for Catholics, and that the DO
-minion government will be obliged to
enforce its order by arms.
Senior Dupuy De LONE was yester-
day appointed Spanish minister to the
United States, to succeed Senior Muru-
qua. Senior de LONE was the Spanish
minister at Washington three years
ago, serving only six months, and be-
ing succeeded by Senior Murugua.
The celebration of Prince Bismarck's
birthday was begun yesterday. The
Prince cordially received nearly four
hundred members of the Reichstag, and
the Prussian Diet at his castle at Fried
richsruhe. He appeared in uniform,
looking hearty and cheerful, and SEEM
ed delighted to receive the good wishes
of his friends in the national bodies.
In his address he urged them to adhere
firmly to the imperial sentiment and
support the king and emperor in his
endeavor to pursue the national policy.
Diplomats in Washington are inclin-
ed to believe that the entire Japan
China peace negotiations may possibly
be broken off by the assault on Ii
Hung Chang by affording pretext for
European Intervention. Lii himself,
however, will prevent a failure of
peace negotiations if it be possible for
him to do so. Officials regard it as
settled that Russia and Japan have
reached an understanding by which the
former will extend her territory south
ward from Vladivistock, thus securing
Pacific harbor open the year round.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-26
LAUNCH PosrpoNED.-As stated il

LAUNCH PosTPoNED.-As stated in
yesterdays GAZETTE, the huge Amer
lean Line steamship st. Paul, which
was to have been launched on that
day, is still high and dry on the ways
at Cramps shipyard. The best efforts
of $50 stalwart men, supplemented by
powerful hydraulic jacks, failed to
move her at the appointed time, and
finally 20 600 spectators were grievous-
ly disappointed. Every force known
to experienced shipbuilders was exert
ed, but the great mass of iron and steel
stubbornly refused to bulge, and,
when the tide had fallen so far as to
make any further effort impossible, the
deeply-chagrined builders were COM
PEELED to abandon the attempt and an
nounce an indefinite postponement.
The inferior tallow used on the ways
became hardened and prevented the
launch. The "patent plate matter"
papers 10 Virginia and elsewhere that
announced the launch yesterday were
badly caught in so doing.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-26

A MURDERER BAPTIzED.-Morris
Hopkins, the negro who is to die on
the gallows April Sd for the murder of
Harry S. Parsons, was baptized yester-
day. His mother, brother and sister
went to thejail with Rev. L. Ross, pastor
of the Gilfeld Baptist congregation, of
Powhatan county, who performed the
immersion, A bath tub was put in the
cell of the doomed man and filled with
water. The service was of the country
negro character, the preacher being a
typical specimen of the illiterate minis
ter, He is an intimate friend of Nor
ris and lived on the farm adjoining
Hopkins former home. He says that
Hopkins is penitent and that an entire
change of heart has possessed him.
Two sisters from St. Sophia's Home for
the Aged and Infrm visited the prison.
er just before the negro pastor arrived.
Richmond State.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-26

CowHIDED.-A young and pretty
woman dressed in the height of fashion
wore out riding whip upon we'll
dressed young man on Fifth avenue,
New York, on Sunday, while second
young and equally pretty woman
watched the operation with face of
dismay and terror. Although the affair
took place shortly before one o'clock,
and was witnessed by great crowd of
gaping strangers, not policeman was
in sight, and the woman who did the
horsewhipping triumphantly sailed up
west FifIy.ninth street after her I'M
seemly Sunday amusement, leaving q
battered young man and hysterical
young woman behind her. The identi-
ty of the young man and his companion
is shrouded in mystery. He is said to
be certain well-known man about
town, and his companion is a we'll
known society young woman to whom
he has recently become engaged to be
married.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-26

WENT AWAY IN MALE ATTIRE
Hettie Dickey, aged thirty years, who
lives at Stanton, Del, left her home
early Sunday afternoon and has not
been heard from since. When she left
the house she told her mother she was
going to get something from the
grocery, which her father kept. She
went into the room above the store
and exchanged her dress for a suit of
mems clothing, and walked out of
town. A search was made for her and
she was traced as far as Newark,
where it is believed she took train for
Baltimore, Miss Diol1ey has been ill
for some time, and it is thought that
she left home while temporarily de.
ranged. She is staunch admirer of
the Seventh Day Adventists of Vir-
ginia, and her family believe she has
gone to join them.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-26
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The Westinghouse and General Elec-
trio companies effected combination
in Boston yesterday.
In Hagerstown, Md, yesterday two
democrats and one republican were
elected to the city council, which is a
gain for the republicans.
Louisa de la Rance, better known as
Ouida, the authoress, is reported to be
penniless, and all her property in Italy
has been sold to pay her debts.
The trolley death roll in Brooklyn
was increased yesterday by one more
victim, making total of 104. He was
Frederick Copyright, a newsboy.
Capt. A. W. Fisher, who was chief
clerk of the pension Office in Washing
ton under President Harrison, was
stricken with paralysis yesterday after
noon.
A mighty thunder clap, that shook
buildings like an earthquake and shat
tered many window panes, startled
Reading, Pa, yesterday. 1t occurred
shortly after 8 O'Clock, and lasted for a
lullu vi q lblAOpOs
The State Department has received
cable message from General P. NJ. B.
Young, United States minister to Hon
duras, announcing that the Hondurean
government has promised to speedily
settle the Renton case.
Advices from Germany and France
indicate willingness on the part of those
governments to participate in the pro-
posed international monetary confer
ence. England's cooperation, how
ever, is believed to be necessary for the
success of the movement.
The experts who for a month have
been examining the books of the Dis
tilling and Cattle Feeding Company re-
ported in Chicago yesterday to Gen.
John McNulta, receiver, that the form
er directors and officers, by disposing OF
stock to themselves, have left dis
crepancy of 81 1924 100.
Mary Delaney, the woman who was
arrested in Washington on Friday
morning charged with setting fire to
two Catholic churches, and who was
committed to jail yesterday to await a
hearing before Judge Miller, has be-
come violently insane, and all idea OF
trying her on the charge preferred
has been abandoned.
OF the. many foreign complications
now confronting the State Department
the most troublesome, it is stated, is
that of Great Britain's demand upon
the Nicaraguan government for an in
demnity. which, it is believed, the Mic
araguan government cannot afford to
pay. 1t is further stated that should
the English back up their claim by a
bombardment this government will
enter a protest against such summary
action.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-26

A DISPATCH from Richmond, on the
18th inst, stated that at banquet in
that city the day before, Governor
O'Ferrall responded to the toast, Our
Southland" and that the audience
went wild over him, and when he had
concluded some one said He shall be
our next Senator AT this the ap-
plause broke out afresh and three rous-
ing cheers proposed for 'our next Sena-
tor were heartily given" There is no
doubt of the fact that the Governor has
his heart set on Senator Daniels seat,
and that he will have many supporters
is equally as plain.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-26

A GIRL sHoT.-Lillian spooner, the
thirteen-year-old daughter of Cassius
M. c. Spooner, a clerk in the sixth
auditors Office, was shot through the
leg in Washington yesterday afternoon
by bullet from a pistol in the hands
of Henry Roberts, seventeen-year-old
boy. Miss Spooner was standing on
the sidewalk talking to several girls
when the boy rode by on bicycle:
AS he passed he drew a revolver and
fired four shots at the pavement, evi-
IDENTIFY trying to frighten them. One
of the bullets rebounded, striking Miss
Spooner, inflicting serious, but not
necessarily dangerous, wound.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-26

THREE SISTERS COMMIT SUICIDE
Frances Bailey, aged twenty-eight, was
found dead in her room in Chicago on
Sunday night. On table nearby was
an empty two-ounce bottle of NOR
phine. She is the third of three hand
some sisters of Allegan, Mich, who at
different times made runaway matches
and were each in turn deserted. Each
then committed suicide. Frances went
off with travelling salesman. Aroller
skater and an actor were the faithless
spouses in the other two cases. The
father of the girls is said to have died
of broken heart.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-26
Not Daughters of the Old Dominion.

NOl Va viz OiNA
ALEXANDRIA, VA, March 25, 1895.
To the Editor of the Alexandria Gazette:
The writer. having a vague idea OF
"the eternal fitness of things" would
like to inquire why the women who
figured so conspicuously in the recent
melee at New Alexandria, in which an
alleged traducer of the fair fame of
Yirginia's daughters was severely cas-
tigated, are called daughters of the
Old Dominion"
1t appears that these persons came
to Alexandra with some of the enter
prises recently started here, and, while
they are in Virginia, they do not ap-
pear to be of Virginia, for their recent
action was not of the cast which
characterizes the spirit other daughters.
The fair fame of Virginia-the natal
State of mothers of presidents, states
men and patriots-is unassailable, and
for daughter ofthe Old Dominion" it
would, under no circumstances, become
necessary to make a public exhibition
of herself 10 order to prove her virtue,
but, if there are wrongs to be righted,
she recognizes the fact that the act OF
PREPARATION is the duty and ever the
happy privilege of the men-the true
knight errants of "the Old Dominion. :"
The righteous indignation" of the
writer is aroused when she reads of an
action accredited to the daughters of
the Old Dominion" which is entirely
foreign to their nature. She thinks the
foregoing will meet the hearty approval
of every loyal daughter of Virginia.
A DAUGHTER OF THE OLD DOMINION"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-26

THE PRICE of iron ore and coke has
recently advanced, which, of course,
implies consequent rise in the price OF
the manufactured product. But such a
rise finds Mr. Carnegie with an enor-
nous supply of both the raw materials
referred to on hand. Mr.. Carnegie
could have we'll afforded to pay the
fine imposed upon him by the Navy
Department for cheating the govern
ment with fraudulent armor plate, and
the President need not have reduced
that fine by nearly two-thirds.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-26

THE LATEST explanation of the Gov
ernor's most recent inroad upon the
manners and customs of the executive
mansion at Richmond, is that made by
the State of that city, which says he
was so badly "rattled" that he "lost
his head" Under the circumstances.
this is hardly plausible, but it is I'M
questionably the best for the Governor
that has vet been offered.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-26

OS SATURDAY last Secretary Carlisle,
on a cutter, went out to an incoming
foreign steamer at New York, and took
one of the passengers, his son, on board,
and brought him ashore without inspec-
ton, thus violating the quarantine law.
But this has become personal govern
ment, and its officials are not bound
either by laws or constitutions.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-26

The PLAN ofsupplying tramps with
food and shelter, in exchange for work
on treetimprovements, has been adopt
ed in many cities, with satisfactory re-
suits, abating considerably the tramp
nuisance, and lettering in equal de-
gree the condition of the streets. AS
an experiment, suppose it be tried
here. Some of the streets are in sore
need OF Improvement, and as the re-
CURED material is at hand, all that is
requisite is the necessary labor. The
ends of some of the streets would al
fort excellent testing grounds.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-26

GOVERNOR MCKINLEY is reported as
saying that he will withdraw from the
republican party if it shall declare for
silver. As that party is for success,
irrespective of principles, and as the
silverites are certainly more numerous
now than they have been, present ap-
pearances indicate the probability of
the Governors mathematician is if
he be sincere.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-26

A severe rheumatic pain in the left
shoulder had troubled Mr. J. 81. Lopez,
a well-known druggist of Des Moines,
Iowa, for over six months. At times
the pain was so severe that he could
not lift anything. With-all he could do
he could not get rid of it until he sp-
piled Chamberlain's Pain Balm. 81
only made three applications ofit," he
saws. ''and have since been free from
ali pain. He now recommends it to
persons similarly afflicted. 1t is for
sale BY L. Stabler & Co.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-26

THE New Orleans strikers, now that
they have failed, like those every where
else in similar circumstances, plead that
thew be not held accountable for the re-
sultant violence and bloodshed, which,
they say, was committed by uncontrol-
able sympathizers. Such plea holds
no better with them than with others
who have done as they have. Under
the laws of this country, every man has
the right to earn his bread by the sweat
of his face, and those who attempt to
interfere with that right, and they
alone, are responsible for the conse-
Ouences
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-26

In the q. S. Court in Boston to day
Major John McDonough, who pleaded
guilty of stealing from the mails, was
Sentenced to five years in the State
prison. Major McDonough was as
sistant superintendent of delivery in
the Boston postofice, where he had
served in various capacities for 81
wears. >He is a prominent Mason and
has good war record.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-26
AnnOnattOx.
BERRyv1LLE. Va, March %, 1895.

BERRYvILLE. Va, March %, 1895.
To the Editor of the Alexandria Gazette:
Dear Sir:-I have been directed by the
]. E. B. Stusrt Camp to send you copy of
the enclosed resolution and kindly request its
publication in your paper. Yours truly,
JOS. PRICE.
At meeting of the ]. E. B. Stuart Camp of
Confederate Veterans, held at the Court
House in Berryville, March %, 1895. the
following resolution was unanimously passed {:
Resolved, That this camp is unalterab!y
opposed to the proposition that has been made
to establish what is called national park"
at Appomattox Court House. We are up-
willing to give our countenance or aid to an
effort TO perpetuate the memory of an event
which ended gallant effort on the part of
the southern people to mlintain and pre-
serve the right guaranteed the people Of all
the States by the Constitution formed and
handed down to them by the fathers of the
Union. We sincerely hope that no officer or
soldier of the late confederacy will give his
countenance to the proposed movement, and
we especially appeal to General Fitzhugh Lee
to orposeit.
Jos. PRICE, Adjutant.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-26
TUESDAY EVENING. MAR 26, 1895.

SINCE THE German tariff bill went
into operation English merchants have
been importing manufactures from this
country and then exporting them to
countries that do not trade with the
United States. This fact looks very
much as if such articles can not only be
made here as we'll as any where else,
but cheaper, and also, that they are
sold to English merchants at lower
rates than to those at home, as was the
case even under higher tariff. With
free trade, so that American products
sold abroad could be paid for with the
plentiful products of other countries
instead of, as now, with scarce gold,
American manufactures would soon
stock all the markets of the world.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-26
Court of Appeals Yesterday

Langhorne against the Richmond
Railway Company and the same
against Richmond City Railway Com
pany, argued and continued,
Jennings executor against White,
argued and continued.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-26

Godcy's Maga-ine for April has been re-
ceiyed from its publishers in New York. This
number is beautifully illustrated, and is one
of the most attractive and interesting ten
cent magazines. 1t contains "The Metropoli-
TIN Opera Season of 1895" Mysteries Of
Africa Artists in Their Studios clever
story by Edgar Fawcott a story of the "Man
of the Iron Mask" and other short stories
and noems
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-26
DIED..

On Monday, March %, 1895, BROOKE E.
CORBETT, aged 21 years. Funeral from the
residence of his father, Frank E. Corbett
924 NJ street, D. W, Washington, D. c., at 10
o'clock Wednesday morning. Omit flowers.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-26

The April number OF the St. Nicholas Maya
zine has been received from its publishers,
the Century Company, New York. Among its
contents are combinations of three attractive
stories commenced in preceding numbers.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-26
Rudy,s Pile suppository

is guaranteed to cure PILES and CoNsTlP4-
T1ON, or money refunded. 90 per box.
Send stamp for circular and Froe Sample to
MARTIN Rudy, Lancaster, Pa. For sale by
all frst-class druggists.
ES. LEADBEATER & SONS,
Wholesale Agents
myf6 Tyr Alexandria Va
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-26

A VERY Pretty Assortment of Gentle
"A mems Cravats, Bows, Tecks and Four
in-hands, latest styles, ut
A. c. SLAYMAKER'S
Successor to A. b. Slavmaker
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-26

CWEET MIXED PICKLES, Sweet Cher.
- kins and Chow Chow, tic per quart, at
II WALLACE'S,
800 King street
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-26

IT Attest styles in COLLARS and CUFFS
IL at A. c. SLAYMAKER'S,
Successor to Amos 3. Slaymaker.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-26

pICHMOND PICKLES, in glass bottless
4e 1Oc at II. G. VILLAGES,
900 King street
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-26

ELOUR-A carload, 125 barrels choice
~ Flour, bought before the advance, io'
sale low by ]. c. MILBURN.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-26

ENREsH GUNPoWDER, ooLoNG, JAPAN
II and ENGLISH BREAKFAST TEAS, for
sale by &c. MILRURN.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-26

A LABAsTER STARCH for Collars and
"A Cuffs, sc package, received to-day by
&c. MILBURN.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-26

CPEAR's CLIMAX BRANDY-vintage oil
- 1S76-for sale by
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-26

NEW ALMONDS, Walnuts, Pecans, Fill
IN berts and Brazil Nuts, received to-day
by J. c. MILBURN.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-26

FLGIN BUTTER-Choice Elgin Creamery
ia Batter received direct; for sale at 3Cc
by J. C. MILBURN.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-26

nLIvE OIL, Lea & PERKINS, sauce, Cam
" ned Salmon and HOLSTERS, fresh, lusL IT,
cejyed by J. G. MILBu NJ.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-26

DURE LARD, our own make, Sets per ID
i VIM. P. WzyOLLS 81 son,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-26

10 NESTS ELECTRIC BOUND cEDAR
1O TUBS received to-day br
J.C YlLBURNs.
The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1895-01-29
]. h. TWKLYEs, Cashier.
Thu Glory of Trees.

The natiG0al pride of America in its
giant trees is we'll founded If the
giants Of our own woods appeal to us as
an embodiment of magnifcenoe, what
must be the impression created by this
hall of columns in which each equals
in height the spire of cathedral and
has stood through ages of whose dura-
tion the years of the oak are an incon-
siderable fraction? These California
giants lack one element of impressive
ness. They have no associations other
than chose which their size conjures up.
Human fancy has never played with
their mighty forms. So far as is known
no human eyes have watched the ages
of their growth. They have no place in
the story of nations. They have built
no temples and furnished no navies.
They have no place in story. They were
found alone in the wilderness, as the
Siberian fur hunter found the ice cased
mammoth, in world of their own. To
the mind of the educated west the
groves of the cedars of Lebanon would
appeal more strongly than the groves
of the Sierra Nevada. The bulk of the
one could not outweigh the associations
of the other. But to the primitive no.
tons of eastern peoples the giant tree
makes direct appeal pot only for re-
spect, but for worship. Whatever de-
parts from the ordinary course of ma
ture strikes them as the immediate work
of God and one which necessarily pre-
serves something of the divine. Lion
don Spectator.