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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-11-19
VIRGINIA NEWS.

At meeting of the East Honover
Presbytery in Richmond, yesterday,
Rev. Geo. II. Ray, jr., who withdrew
from the Methodist Church, was re.
ceived as licentiate in the Presbyterian
Church.
At Charlottesville yesterday a special
grand jury brought in two indictments
against Dan Lee, colored, who murder
ousiy assaulted Mrs. Kelley last week
one for housebreaking and one for as.
sault with intent to kill, but not for
criminal assault. He will be tried at
once.
The Fredericksburg city council has
authorized the committee on light to
contract wieh the Rappahannock Elec
trio Light and Power Company fol
lighting the streets with arc lights fol-
three years at $50 per light per annum
The city has been paying 3 higher rate
heretofore.
The executive committee of the
board of directors of the Union Theo
logical Seminary met in Richmond
last night, to consider further the plan
for removing the seminary to that city
The committee will to-day view the
new site donated by Major Ginter and
probably appoint building committee
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OFFICIAL.
BOARD OF ALDERMEN.

At a called meeting of the Board of Alder.
men of Alexandria, Va, held November 10
1895, there were present:
VIM. II. Marbury, esq., President, and
Messrs. Havener, Burke, Ballenger, Hinken
and Sweeney.
A communication from the Mayor, giving
his reason for converting Council, was receiy.
ed from the Common Council and their action
concurred in.
The following was received from the Com.
mon G ,un ii:
An ordinance allowing the Home Telephone
Company, of Alexandria, Va, to erect polls
stretch wires aid establish an exchange n
this ,ity.
Mr. Ballt n ger moved to non-concur in tie
action of the Common Council in requiring
the company to substitute iron for wooden
poles at the expiration of five years, and also
moved en- amendment to the Dill by ms king
the limit eight years. The motion wa;
adopted. and conference committee asked for
Messrs. Ballenger and Sweeney were appoint
ed the part of this board.
The conference committees report recon.
mt nding the adoption of the board OF alder.
mems amendment of making the limit eight
years, instead O. five. was Il en- adopted, after
the tn r reading the foll.w svote:
Ayes, MesSrs. burke. bayener, Ballenger.
Hinken, Sweeney and Mr.. President.
Noes, none.
The board then adjourned.
Teste: =. E. KNIGHT, Cerz.
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LETTER FROM J. c. GIBSON.

Mr.. J. Catlett Gibson, in answer to
several questions put to him recently,
has written letter to the Fredericks.
burg Free Lance, in which he express
es his views on the recent elections, ex-
pounds democracy, the great political
questions upon which parties have
been at issue for years, describes the
silver cyclone, the demands of the sill
yer mug and the gold bug, the question
of negro domination in Virginia, fraud
ulent elections, SC. His letter is about
two columns and half in length. In
the concluding portion he says:
Beaten | was by the count and
there is no redress, because the only ap-
peal is to body elected under the law
which defeated me, and now am ask
ed what is my position to the democrat
ic party. 1t is adverse. 1t does Dot
now represent my principles; it has re-
pudiated me; kicked me out; refused to
admit me to its back yard, cheated me;
why should fight for it? l am not
the born serf of Cedric, the Saxon, nor
the bought slave of the knight Tenn
plar. I shall fight the southern de-
mocracy because it has fought me. 1
cannot cope with it single-handed. l
am not Samson, nor am I armed with
the jaw-bone of an ass. When Satan
was kicked out of heaven by Michael,
he brought up in hell, though it took
him several days to get there. When
his satanic majesty from Culpeper was
kicked out of the high heaven of the
Smithers democracy, be fell on his
feet somewhere. He must go to some
party. 1t is not meet for man to live
alone. Where shall he go? He can't
go to the populists; they have
name but no local habitation; they
have no party and no history.
1t would be sad necessity to be COM
PEELED to go to party which has so
long denounced me and my people as
traitors, but we could still talk back at
them. Old things have passed away,
and behold all things are new. The
national issue is, should the United
States coin the many billions of the
worlds silver at Is to /, and then re-
deem is at 80 to 1. The national de-
mocracy refuses to solve this riddle; it
simply straddles it and splits upon it,
and is clinging to che straw of populism.
It has demonstrated its incapacity TO
rule this people, or even to rule
itself. 1t has not demonstrated its
superior honesty. The number of
rascals in Office is scarcely less
than before it began to turn
them out; it let many of them in
for fear of putting 10 bigger ones. You
ask me as to the future of the demo-
cratic party l did not know that it
had any future, save the hope of "a joy
full resurrection. / had thought that it
had bought its futures on narrow mar
gins, and that these had all been wiped
out. fit still has any, it should bury
them deeply, to the end that earth may
purify and renew them. 1t may, in
the dim future, walk the earth-in all
the beauty, majesty and power of q
Grecian god of old, but to do this it
must suffer the second birth.n
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COMMON COUNCIL.

At a called meeting of the Common COM.
Gil of the city of Alexandria, Va, held No.
vember 18th. 1895, there were present:
Hubert Snowden, esq, President, and
Messrs Burke, Thompson, Moore, Strider.
Mushbach, Harrison, Cation, Greene, Uhler.
White and McCuen.
A communication from his honor. the
Mayor, converting Council upon the written
request of five members to consider the appli.
cation Of the Home Telephone Company for
permission to erect poles and place wires in
the city Was received.
An ordinance granting certain rights aud
privileg s to the Home Telephone Company.
of Alexandria, was favorably reported by the
Committee on Streets, the second reading
commenced,l and the following amendment
to section offered by Mr. Mushbach was lost.
Provided also, That no wooden posts poles
or supports shall be erected in, on or along
the streets and alleys of the city to sustain or
carry tho wires of the said company, but that
all of such posts, poles, or supports shall he
made of iron; aud shall be of such construC.
ton, foundation, eize and character as tho
City Engineer may prescribe and direct aud
be erected only at such places as he may An
prove, and be painted and kept in such rde,
as he may from time to time require and be re-
newed or changed in location whencv er in HI
judgment it may be necessary.
The second reading continscd, an amend
nent for wooden poles TO lie replaced by iron
poles within FIVE years adoptei second read
ing concluded, read third tine and passed Nv
the following vote;
Ayes. Messrs. Barke, Thompson, Moore
Str;der, Harrison, Cation, Greene. Uhler
White, McCuen and Mr. Presidential. Noes.
Mr. Mushbach-1.
The Board of Aldermen non-concurred and
requested Committee of conference, which re.
quest was granted, and Messrs. Cation and
Greene appointed from this board
The ordinance with conference committees
lepo t amending the section in reference to
time within which iron poles must be used
Was received from the Board of Aldermen
and action concurred in.
The board then adjourned.
Teste: JNO. T. JOHNSON. Clerk
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on its hands at the end of that tine
when it undertook to carry out the pro-
visions of the ordinance.
Mr.. Burke asked how long wooden
poles lasted.
Mr.. Whyte, of the Bell Telephone
Company, who was present, replied
about sixteen years.
The ordinance was then read the
third time and passed.
1t was soon returned by the Board Of
Aldermen non-concurred in and com.
mittee of conference asked. Messrs
Cation and Greene were appointed on
the part of this board and after con.
ference with Messrs. Balleuger and
Sweeney of the Aldermen they report.
ed that the committee had agrt ed to
substitute eight years instead OF five
as the limit in which wooden poles
could be used. The Common Council
concurred in the report, after which
thew adjourned.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-11-19
FROM TURKEY

The Young Turks movement is
spreading in spite of the efforts made
by the Turkish officials to suppress it.
Anti Christian placards have been torn
down by the police at Scutari, Albania.
1t was stated in London that the as
sembling of the British and foreign
fleets in Salonica bay is having good
effect upon the Turkish government,
but the Anglo.Armenian Association in
London received advices from Armenia
that their people we're being massacred
everywhere in Asia Minor, and that
over 100000 were dying of exposure
and starvation.
The revolutionary movement is said
to be spreading in Turkey, and it is
estimated that the Armenian outrages
have been countenanced by the Porte
to detract attention from Mohammedan
movement against the Sultan. The
American missionaries at Bitlis have
been compelled to return to Van under
escort of Turkish troops.
The Imam of Sana, the capital city of
Yemen, Arabia, at the head of As, 900
Arabs. has defeated the Turks in three
battles.
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Reinforcements Landed.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, Nov. 19.-The
Danish steamer Horsa, which cleared
from Philadelphia for Jamaica, landed
40 men, with q quantity of ammunition
upon the Island of Cuba on November
Is. The party were transferred from 8
tug near New York. While the men
were being landed the Horsa was pur-
sued by Spanish gunboat and, in con-
sequence, forty-three cases of ammuni-
ton were left on board the ship, Upon
the vessels arrival here she was seized
by the authorities.
Boston, Nov. ia telegram was
received last evening stating that Gen.
Carrillos' expedition had arrived safely
in Cuba. This expedition is said to be
the largest which has landed so far in
behalf of the insurgents, and to be well
equipped in ammunition.
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NEWS OF THE DAY.

The battleship Indiana was yester-
day turned over to Capt. Evans at the
League Island navy yard.
General Garcia, who took part in the
former uprising in Cuba, has, with three
companions, broken his Spanish parole
and come to the United States to join
the Cuban revolutionary committee.
Sentiments being cultivated in Hon
olulu to grant Princess Kaiulani, heir
apparent to the throne, a pension OF
$4,000 year. Many of the legislators
have expressed themselves as favora-
BILE to the proposition.
A Great Northern train was held up
by eight or ten men three miles west OF
st. Cloud, Mimi, about 1915 last night.
The robbers cut the train in two and
ordered the engineer to go ahead. This
he did. The amount stolen is not
known.
AS anticipated four new directors of
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com
pany, representing New York and for
eign interests, succeeded the late Wes-
ley A. Tucker and Messrs. Jas. Sloan,
jr., VIM. T. Dixon and ]. Wilcox
Brown, retired.
Senator Dubois believes the republic
cans will organize the Senate. "We
will hold a caucus" he said in Wash
ington yesterday, land select our Off
GERS, and when they are proposed for
election in the Senate they will, in all
probability, be elected. Senator Jones,
of Nevada, will vote with US, and this,
with the two Senators from Utah, will
give Us majority without any aid from
the populists.
Attorney General Hancock, of New
York, has decided the Tobacco Trust
case against the American Tobacco
Company on the ground that un-
der the conspiracy laws their consign-
ment agreement which compels dealers
to sell their goods exclusively is illegal
and constitutes trust. The attorney
general will Immediately begin action
in the supreme court to prohibit the
company from doing business in New
York State.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-11-19
THE BAPTISTs.

The most important matter which
claimed the attention of the Baptist
general association of Virginia at its
session in Petersburg yesterday was
its report in reference to consolidation
of the State mission and Sunday-school
aed Bible boards. The report was read
by Rev. E. w. Winfree, of Culpeper.
A minority report opposing it was read
by Rev. DR.. Thames, of Danville.
The vote being taken, 81 voted for con-
solidation and 1873 against it.
The report on State missions was
submitted. There were 1, 245 baptisms
and over 1000 professions were made
in meetings held by the missionaries.
With the pastors of the State they Or
ganized seven churches and twenty
three Sunday-schools. The board as
sisted in building nineteen mission
houses of worship. Seventy-one mis-
sionaries labored in every association
in the State except one. The receipts
of the board for its work were $40, 706.
The report of the Sunday-school
and Bible board showed the receipts of
the board during the past year to have
been Sc. $50 81 and expenses s., 099.79.
The annual meeting of the woman's
mission societies of the Virginia Bap-
tist association was held. Mrs. Will
liam Ellyson, of Richmond, the treas
urer, submitted her report which show
ed that during the past year $9,7O4
had been raised by the ladies' societies.
Miss Daisy Hutson, the corresponding
cretary, rendered her resignation,
which was accepted.
At last nights session of the associa-
ton reports on foreign missions and the
orphsnage at Salem were read and dis
cussed. A collection for the orphanage
was taken and about 1925 contributed.
The association was addressed by Rev.
George Taylor, of the Italian mission.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-11-19

No MERCY TO MooNsHINERs.-Judee
John Paul, United States circuit Judge
of the western district of Virginia. an
nounced from the bench at the begin
ming of the present session of his court
in Danville, that the leniency and
mercy heretofore prscticed by his cour.
was not having the good effect in de.
creasing illicit distilling and general
moonshiuing that he had hoped, and
that he would no more permit com
promise or allow a plea of guilty TO
necessarily mean light punishment.
Yesterday William Via, Charles Booth,
]. o. Kelly and Samuel Manning, of
franklin county, and ]. D. Lawson OF
Patrick county, were sentenced to the
penitentiary for one year and a day
and fined 500 each for illicit distilling.
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To-DAY'S TELEGRApHIC NEWS
Foreign News.

VIENNA, Nov. 19.-The report that
Russia has rejected the proposal of the
Austrian foreign minister for an abso-
lutte entente of the European powers in
regard to Turkey is s,mi-oficially de-
MED. Russia is in accord with the other
powers concerning Turkey, and has re.
solved to send a .econd war ship to
Constantinople.
LONDON, Nov. 19.-Latest advices
received from Constantinople say that
the state of affairs in Asia Minor has
reached a point beyond the control of
the Sultan. He spent the entire night
of Saturday by the side of telegraph
instrument personally debating dis
patches to the provincial governors in
Asia Minor commanding them to spare
no efforts to restole order.
ST.. PETERSBURG, Nov. 19.-The cor
ronation of Emperor Nicholas II has
been fixed to take place at Moscow on
May "a next, the date of the 18th birth
day of Queen Victoria.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-11-19

THE DEEP and sincere inter
est the District of Columbia takes in
the welfare and prosperity of Ale1an-
dria county, was rendered apparent by
a brief paragraph in the GAzETTE's
Washington correspondence of yester-
days date, in which it was stated that
the Commissioners of the District had
refused to allow the Washington and
Falls Church Railroad, which runs
through that county, to bring the cleo
tricity necessary for running its cars,
and which it has contracted for with
the electric company there, across the
Aqueduct Bridge by wire, though
they permit telegraph and telephone
wires to be stretched across that bridge
ad ibitum.
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TUESDAY EVENING, NOV. 10. 1895.
THE RICHMOND Times says pc

THE RICHMOND Times says poll
tax requirement for voting would be
nothing but shelter for bribery and
fraud.n 1t would be impossible for it
to be so under the Walton law, for that
wise measure efectually destroys the
influence of money at elections. No
sane man will give money or pay poll
taxes for votes, with no means ofknow-
ing whether the purchased articles will
be delivered, and such knowledge is
impossible by reason of that law, as
the man low enough to sell his vote, IS
certainly low enough to deceive the
purchaser, especially as he can do SO
without any risk of detection. When
there was poll tax requirement In this
State, the man who bought vote could
always tell whether ne got it or not;
but then all the ballots were not alike,
and there were no screens behind which,
exempt from public haunt" the voter
could strike off any name as secretly as
if in a closet in his own house. 1.-THE
members of the new legislature be as
wise and as independent, and have the
interest of Virginia at heart as much as
those who in the better days of the
State occupied the seats they will ill,
the only amendment to the present
election law they will allow, will
be one making the payment of the poll
tax a prerequisite to voting. The man,
white or black, who doesn't take
enough interest in the welfare of his
State to pay dollar for the privilege
of participating in her affairs, certainly
should not ask for suffrage.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-11-19
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

Judge Andrew J. King, who served
several terms 10 Congress, died at JEFF
ferson City, Mo-, last night, aged SO
years. He was native of Virginia.
During heavy fog in New York this
morning collision occurred on the
elevated road, and several collisions
occurred between steamers in the river,
but the damage done was slight.
Fire started in the city of Purcell, O.
T., this morning, about 4 o'clock, and
is still raging. Late news is that three
fjurths of the town is burned down. 1t
is reported that some lives have heen
lost.
As the result of a family quarrel in
Allegheny City, Pa, last night, Mrs.
Bessie Luty threw vitrol in the face of
her nephew, ]. G. Hornecker, disfgur-
ing him for life and probably binding
him. Mrs. Luty blamed her nephew
for estranging her two daughters from
her.
A fight between Peter Maher and
bob" FitZsimmons for the heavy
weight championship of the world now
seems assured. Dan Stuart's offer of
$4,000 purse for a contest between
the men to take place in Juarez, Mex,
on January IS, has been practically &C.
copied.
Lucy Gibbs, an eighthteeu-year-old colored
girl, while returning from church meeting
near Henderson, K, on Sunday night, was
assaulted by two negro tramps. The girls
father, frotter and some farm hands went in
pursuit of the ASSISTANTS and having found
Them shot and killed them.
Thirty thousand barrels of crude napsha
went up in smoke at the Standard Oil Com
pany's works at Whiting, Ind, last night.
Fears are entertained regarding the fate of
three men who were seen near the tanks
few minutes before the tops blew off.
A mining stock craze is now fully on in
Colorado, and the prediction is made that the
wild days Of Comstock will be repeated or e1-
ceeded before the winter in gone.
John N. Gano, city marshal, shot himself
dead this afternoon in the marshars room in
the Courthouse, in New York.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-11-19

SENATOR VEST, alluding to the ex
pressed delight of the administration al
the recent democratic defeats, says
Whatever else may happen. the time
will never come when I can rejoice in
seeing the democratic flag trampled I'M
der foot, no matter by whom it is borne
I am not that kind of democrat" But
then it must not be forgotten that Mr.
Vest is not Cleveland democrat
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Methodist Conference.

RICHMOND, Va. Nov. 19.-The fea-
ture of the morning session Of the Vir-
GINA Methodist annual conference was
the report of the committee charged
with the investigation of the Lafferty-
Bennett controversy growing out of the
purchase Of the Christian Adcocate by
DR.. Laferty and subsequent publica-
tons relative thereto. The report was
practically an order for an amicable
settlement. and was accepted by all
parties. The rest of the session was
taken up in routine matters.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-11-19

GOVERNOR O'FERRALL, in letter to
the Board of Trade of Washington, as
sures them of his determination to ex'
terminate gambling from Alexandra
county. None of his predecessors
ever conceived the idea of ex.
planning or accounting for his
official action to any body but his OWL
State. But why he should be so in
tent upon prohibiting gambling in this
county, while ignoring that carried on
publicly under his own nose in the city
of Richmond, has not yet been ex.
Dlained.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-11-19

TITS to be hoped that the untimely
fate of a married woman who was killed
in New York last Saturday by falling
from the bicycle on which she was rid
ing in that city, may be warning to
her sex 10 return to the ways of their
mothers, and to let those of tomboys
severely alone. Men and women are
different by nature, and nature cannot
pe changed by art, and the infraction OF
her laws always, sooner or later, brings
its own punishment.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-11-19
Railroad Wreck.

ROME, N. Y, Nov. ia limited
fast mail train on the New York Cen
trail was wrecked. two miles west of
this city, about 4:S0 o'clock this morn
ing. Somebody had removed the spikes
from the rails. The engineer and an
unknown tramp were killed, and ten
other persons were seriously hurt. The
locomotive fell into a ditch and several
cars we're demolished. Three young
fellows aged Is to 10 years have been
arrested for wrecking the train. Their
object was robbery.
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planned

THE prominent part certain adopted
citizens Of this country are taking il
the filibusters' attempt to rob the right
full owners of the island of Cuba of theil
property, evinces not only a super
abundance of gall, but degree of bare
feed impertinance and impudence thai
deserves the severest censure. If they
should succeed in involving this coun
try in a war with Spain and her Euro
pean allies, it is doubtful if a single one
OF them would shoulder musket.
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Accident ON Brooklyn Bridge

NEW YORK, Nov. ia serious &C.
cident occurred on the Brooklyn Bridge
shortly before 5 O'Clock this morning,
which was directly due to the fog. A
collision between trains occurred and
number of passengers sustained
slight injuries. The brakeman had
both legs out off and cannot recover,
and a student, who was to have grad.
uated to-day, had one of his feet cut of
at the ankle.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-11-19
A Valuable title Acouired

SPOKANE, Wash, Nov. ia con-
test OF ten years standing over the title
to l20 acres of land in the heart of the
city, which has been waged between H.
T. Crowley aud the Northern Pacific
Railway, was yesterday practically set
tied in favor of the former by the United
States Supreme Court. The land is
valued at over 81, 100000. Many fine
buildings have been built on this land,
the owners of which now have no title
to the ground.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-11-19

Trunk MAKERS have begun to use
aluminium as means to strengthen
their products. But if aluminium can
not resist the ice jams of the polar seas,
as was proved By the Wellmsn expedi
ton, what possible chance will it have
against the attacks of the modern bag.
gage smashers