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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-10-02
THE EPIsCopALIANS

The preliminaries of the triennial
council of the Protestant Episcopal
Church, which assembled at Min
neapolis to-day for a three weeks
session, were inaugurated with a
meeting of the joint committee
of bishops, clerics and laymen appoint
ed by the council of 1892 to revise the
constitution and canons of the denomi-
nation.
The report of this body was complet-
ed and distributed to the delegates
several months ago, but some of its
features, especially those dealing with
matters in which the laity are directly
concerned, have aroused so much hos
tility and adverse criticism that it is
possible some radical changes may be
made before the report is presented to
the council. AT yesterdays session of
the committee, which was held in
secret, the lay members were present
in force. Published reports to the eff
feet that among the new recommends
tons would be one changing the name
of the denomination were characterized
as ''unqualifedly false"
Many of the bishops will be missed
from the present council. Bishop Will
liams, of Connecticut, who, by virtue
of seniority, would have presided over
the house of Bishops, is too feeble to
make the trip. The next in authority,
Bishop Clark, of Rhode Island, is
similarly circumstanced, and so the
bishops will have as presiding officer
their brother Whipple, of the Minnesota
diocese. Bishop Wilmer. of Alabama,
telegraphs that the weight of years
prevents him from making the journey
and Bishop Thompson, of Mississippi,
will be also absent.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-10-02
Massachusetts Democrats.

WORCESTER, Mass, Oct. 2.-The
Massachusetts, democratic State con-
yention was held to-day, and was call
ed to order by John w. Corcoran,
chairman of the State committee, who
was named as the temporary chairman
of the convention. The committee on
permanent organization reported, nam
ing Hon. Josiah Quincy, of Boston, for
permanent chairman, who delivered an
address.
The following ticket was nominated !:
For Governor, Geo. T. Williams Lieu
tenant Governor, James S. Grinnell !;
Secretary of State, Edward J. Flynn !;
Treasurer, Eben S. Stevens; Auditor,
Alfred G. Whitney; Attorney General,
Henry F. Hurlbut.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-10-02
The Enisconalians.

MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, Oct. 2.-The
celebration of holy communion with
which the triennial convention of the
Episcopal Church was ushered in this
morning was the most imposing ever
witnessed in church of that denomi.
nation on this continent. Sixty bishops
attired in vestments of snowy white,
with hoods of scarlet, purple and blue,
occupied the chancel of st. Geth-
semane, which was brilliantly illumi-
mated with candles and fragrant with
floral offerings. Eight hundred cleri-
cal and lay delegates and local church
men occupied the pews in the body of
the church while the front seats of the
temporary galleries were filled with the
wives and daughters of the visitors. At
the opening notes of the professional
hymn, Forward be Our Watchword, %
The head Of the procession moved from
Knickerbocker Hall, and, crossing the
lawn, entered the edifce through the
main aisle. The bishops of Kansas and
Indiana, and the juniors of the Episce
pal Lords, led the column and the
senior bishops brought up the rear, the
delegates from Canada being given pc
sition ofhonor between BishopsWhipple
and Coke, the two seniors in attendance.
When the bishops had taken their
places the communion service was be.
gun by the reading of the epistle by
Bishop Nicely, of Maine. The gospel
was read by the Archbishop of Ruperts
Land, and the aims were received by
Assistant Bishop Gilbert, of Minnesota,
in golden bowl valued at several
thousand dollars. which was brought
from England many years ago. Bishop
Whipple was the celebiant of holy
communion and every bishop aud dele
gate approached the Lords table. The
service was fully choral, the chants
and hymns being rendered by a sur
pliced male choir of fifty voices. After
the reading of the gospel, the annual
sermon was delivered by Right Rev.
Bishop Cox, of the diocese of Western
New York. The service commenced at
II o'clock, and it was after one when
Bishop futile, of Missouri, pronounc-
cd the benediction. The Houses of
Bishops and Deputies will meet for or
ganizltion at 8 o'clock.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-10-02
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The Chinese government has accord.
ed full satisfaction to France for the at-
tack upon the French missions in China.
1t is said that Col. W. G. P. Breckin-
ridge is already full fiedged candidate
for Congress from the Ashland, KY,
district in 1896.
Chief Justice Alvey, in Washington
Yesterday, ADM ted Capt. Henry How
gate to bail in SIS, 900 pending the de-
cision of his case in the Court of APP
peals.
1t is reported in Constantinople that
the ENJOYS of Great Britain, France and
Russia will shortly receive instructions
from their governments to resume ne
gotiations with the Porte regarding the
Armenian question.
At Mount Vernon, KY, yesterday
the jury gave Rev. W. q. Capps two
years in the penitentiary for shooting
his wife five times some three months
ago. She had applied for divorce on
account of cruel treatment.
A movement was put on foot in New
York yesterday to revise the committee
of seventy, or to create similar body
to take the steps necessary to bring
about union of all anti-Tammany
forces. This movement is inspired by
the action Of the Good Government
Clubs convention Monday night in
nominating ticket against the advice
of majority of the executive COM
mittee.
The Spanish warship Cristobal Colon,
sccond-class cruiser, has been wreck
ed in the Gulf of Guadiva, not great
distance from Havana. Reports as to
the cause of the disaster are conflicting,
but the authorities state she was driven
upon reef in cyclone. Insurgents
intimate that the cruiser was blown up
by a torpedo in the same manner in
which they claimed the cruiser Bar
costequi was destroyed few weeks
ago. It's believed that all the crew Of
200 men were saved.
Its said that an important programme
and policy are to be discussed IN
Washington to-day in secret conclave
by the Catholic archbishops of the
United States. The plan involves the
arraignment of Hon. Hoke Smith, Sec.
rotary of the. Interior, for unjust dis
elimination in the administration of
Indian affairs; and there is great pos
sibility that the motives and forces of
new political agency are about to be
set working. Mgr. Stephan is the
prime mover and advocate of the new
policy. He claims there have been
grossirregularities in the administration
of Indian affairs by government officials.
He wants the church to enter politics.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-10-02

ware river at 1:Os this afternoon with
the usual accompaniment of the noise
furnished by shrieking steam whistles
and the cheers of at least 5000 specta-
tors, including many government off.
Gals. Mayor Schieren, of Brooklyn,
attend the launch, and Miss Schieren
christened the new warsbip. The
Brooklyn is said to be the finest and
most effective ship of war in the world.
She is 46O feet, six inches long, GA feet
beam, and has mean draught of "a
feet. Her cruising displacement is
9, l53 tons and the maximum indicated
horse power (estimated) is expected to
be $1,000. The contract for the Brook
Ign calls for maintained speed of at
least twenty knots an hour for four
hours.
The next launch ofa vessel at Cramps
will be the battleship Iowa.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-10-02

IF Mr.. MARTIN shall prove AS wise
man in the U. s. Senate as he is out OF
it. he will be one of the safest represen.
tatives Virginia ever had in that body.
He notonly opposes the unwise propo-
sition to make the currency question 8
factor in the approaching State cleo.
tior, which has nothing to do with it,
but he also opposes the even more in
discreet idea Of allowing non residents
of the State to come here and preach
the administration views on that ques-
ton. There is no danger of democratic
success in Virginia, if the democratic
voters be let alone. They require DO
unasked advice from outsiders. If the
administration be really interested in
the success of the party that elected it,
Let it manifest that interest in Mary
land, Kentucky and New York, in all
of which States the democrats not only
need assistance, but need it badly.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-10-02
AN Important Witness Discovered.

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 2.-The prose-
cution in the Durrant case has al last
found witness whose evidence it be.
lieves will establish beyond all room
for doubt that Durrant accompanied
Blanche Lamont to Emmanuel Church
the fatal afternoon in April. He is
Harry e. Shook, assistant manager of
an undertaking company. He believes
he met Durrant and Blanche Lamont
together on Bartlett street between 22d
street and Emmanuel Church at about
4 o'clock the afternoon ofApril 3. The
information obtained is considered of
the greatest Importance, and it is be-
lieved Shocks testimony will settle all
doubt about Durrant taking the girl to
the church.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-10-02

THE Texas LEGIsLATURE.-The
Texas legislature met yesterday. The
Governor, in his message, reviewed the
laws against prize fighting in Texas,
calling attention to the errors therein.
and closed by saying: "All persons
have been given notice that the Cor
t-Fitzsimmons exhibition would not
be permitted; that whatever has been
done by its projectors was with full re.
sponsibility for the consequences. The
public interests require that this exhi-
bition especially should be suppressed
He recommends a law making prize
fitting without gloves felony.
There is strong lobby present from
Dallas, and leaders of it claim to have
votes enough in the House to defeat the
emergency clause.
Several bills, strictly anti.prize fight,
were introduced in both Houses, and
adjournment was had until to-day.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-10-02

PHILADELPHIA FIREs.-The four.
story building at the northeast corner
of Broad and Noble streets, Philadel-
phia, occupied by Horn, Brannon, For.
sythe & Co., manufacturers of gas and
electrical fixtures, was totally destroy
ed by fire last night. The loss is es.
timated at 100000, fully insured. The
firm employed about $50 men.
The extensive sheds in the brick
yards of A. Fl. Dingee, covering nearly
eighteen acres of ground in the neigh
borhood of Twenty-third and Cumber-
land streets, were completely destroyed
by fire last night. The boiler and en-
CINE houses and thousands of feet of
Lumber were consumed, entailing loss
of $85, 900; insured.
Sparks from the burning sheds set
fire to the stable of F. Hahn, on Harold
street, and before the flames were sub.
dued nearly the entire row of frame
houses adjacent and number of others
on Huntingdon street, near by, were
destroyed. Fifteen families were made
homeless. The losses from this fire will
over 100000, upon which
there is very little insurance.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-10-02

WHEN THE Confederate monument
in Chicago was dedicated last summer,
General Schofeld, whose last official
act was a public exhibition OF petty
spite, wrote letter, in which he said :;
The flag of the confederate states
should never again be unfurled or
given to the breeze, even at reunion
ofconfederates soldiers" He didn't even
capitalize the words Confederate States
At Chickamauga, more recently, Gov.
Woodbury. of Vermont said the Con-
federates were wrong" and that their
children should be SO taught; and now
the commander of the Pennsylvania
Department of the G. A. R. says, "as
long as the Southern people teach
their children that their cause was o
righteous one, there is little hope OF
their becoming patriots" So now
as ever, the forgiving and forgetting
must be all on one side, and that, even
according to Colonel IDgerso |, the r g I
one.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-10-02
sourH CARoLINA CONSTITUTIONS.

SOUTH CAROLINA CONSTITUTION
The report Of the suffrage committee
of the South Carolina constitutional
convention was made last night. 1t
provides for the registration of quail
fed voters. The qualifications of elect.
ors, given in the following section, are
regarded as practically disqualifying
the majority of the negroes, on account
of the educational and property re-
quirements:
The person applying for registration
must be able to read and write any Sec
ton in this constitution, or must show
that he owns and pays taxes on $500
worth OF property in South Carolina;
provided, that at the first registration
under the constitution and up to JAM
Jury 1, 1898, all male persons of voting
a ,e who can read clause in the coz
sitution or understand and explain il
when read to them by the registration
officer, shall be eligible to register and
become electors. a separate record Of
every illterate person thus registered,
sworn to by the registration officer,
shall be filed. one copy with the clerk
of the court and one in the Office of the
secretary of Safe on or before jan
uary l, 1898, and such person shall re-
main during his lifetime qualified
elector unless convicted of some dis
qualifying crime. The certificate of
the clerk of court or the secretary of
State shall be sufficient evidence to es-
tablish the right of said class of citi-
zens to registration and the franchise.
The convention, after hard fight,
by vote of sc to 40 adopted section
of the constitution forbiddipg the grant
ing of divorces for any cause whatever
and not allowing recognition of d.
vorces granted in other States. South
Carolina occupies unique position,
being the only State which has no d.
vorce law and has never had.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-10-02
WEDNESDAY EVENING. ocr. 2, 1886.

ACCORDING TO dispatch from Port
land, Maine, the anti-liquor law there
has had the same effect as it is report
ed to have had in Loudouu county in
this State. The dispatch referred 10
says: Anybody who knows the
ropes can get all the liquor he wants
in this town. In fact there is more
drunkenness here than in many cities
Of the same size where the saloons are
legally Open" There is still a faint
spirit of personal liberty lingering in
this county, and it induces those
who entertain it, whether they use Or
do DOT use liquor, to resent the attempt
of others to prescribe what they shall
eat and drink. And peoples tastes,
natural or acquired, can not be chang
ed by human laws. If man be fool
enough to drink so much as to hurt, or
even annoy, others, let bin be punish
ed for it, but because thare are such
fools, is no good reason why sensible
men should be prohibited from taking
a glass of beer, wine or grog, when
they feel in need of stimulant.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-10-02


The CRIMINAL expenses OF Virginia
amounted to thirty thousand dollars
when the assessed value of her proper
tv was six hundred million dollars, and
though that value has now been de-
creased to one half, her criminal ex-
penses amount to a quarter of a million.
When the legislature shall assemble, it
is hoped it may be able to devise some
means by which the honest people Of
the State may not be taxed to death to
pay the cost of trying and imprisoning
her thieves and other sorts of rascals;
and by far the best, would be return
to the old, cheap and effective method
of the whipping post.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-10-02

Mr.. VIM. L. Royal presented to
Judge Coleman at Powhatan Court.
house yesterday petition, asking for
q writ of error and new trial in the case
of Solomon Marable, who is under SEN
tence to be hung for the murder of
Mrs. Pollard, of Lunenburg. Judge
Coleman promptly denied the writ, as
he did in the cases of the negro wom-
en-, and the case now goes to the Su-
preme Court. In his petition Marable
adheres to his white-man story.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-10-02
Storm on the British Coast.

LONDON, Oct. 2.--Terrifc gales pre-
vailiug along the British coasts are
causing number of disasters. Sever
al large vessels have been blown
ashore and owing to the tremendous
sea great difficulty was experienced by
the life saving corps in rescuing the
crews. In one instance the boat con-
tanning the rescuers and the rescued
disanpeared afterward and it is beliey.
ed that all have been drowned. a
number of tugs and other small craft
have also foundered or been wrecked,
but no loss oflife is reported.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-10-02
VIRGINIA NEWS.


A big fire is raging in the Dismal
Swamp.
Mr.. A. &. Perry, one of Manchester's
oldest citizens, died yesterday.
Sixty more hands were taken into the
navy yard at Norfolk yesterday on
repair work.
Col. II. J. Williams has declined the
fusion nomination for the House of
Delegates in Augusta county.
Dr.W. P. f. Randolph, son of Rev.
John T. Randolph, of Verdant Lawn,
Albermarle county, died yesterday.
The CRANKY Street Methodist Episco-
pal Church building, in Norfolk, has
been sold to the First Baptist Church
for So, 900.
Mr.. Lewis Moore, ST., of Philadel-
phia, and formerly of Fredericksburg,
died yesterday in Baltimore, where be
was visiting.
The tenth annual exhibition of Shen-
andoah county agricultural society
opened at Woodstock yesterday, and
promises to be a success.
Pensions have been issued to John
Price, deceased. Alantbus, Culpeper
county. Original widows, &c.-Martha
Price, Alanthus, Culpeper county.
Rev. G. R. Haines, rector of st. Paul's
Protestant Episcopal Church, Peters.
burg, has resigned on account of i'll
health, to take effect January LIST.
Representative Swanson thinks that
Gen. J. a. Walker will succeed Gen.
Malone as chairman of the State re-
publican committee, should the latter
die.
Stulz, Lisberger & Co., large tobacco
manufacturers of Danville, who do an
extensive business in the South and
West. assigned yesterday. Liabilities
5000.
Frost on Wednesday night did much
damage to the tobacco crop in lower Vir-
ginia. All standing tobacco was de-
stroyed. 1t is estimated that this will
be about one-third of the crop in Vir-
ginia.
The resignation of Col. Rives, of AL.
bemarle, from the position of superin-
tendent of the Panama Railroad Com.
pany will be forwarded to New York
by the steamer Alliance, which sails
from Colon October 4.
DR.. George c., Rowlings, former
personal friend and physician of Edgar
Allan Poe and one of the most interest
iug figures in Richmond, died there
yesterday. Deceased was recluse
and without any known reason had not
been cut of his room for ten years. He
was formerly prominent in Virgins
medical and literary circles.
Owing to an insuficiency of evidence
to convict, upon instructions of the
District Attorney, ]. j. Trice, ex-post
master of Fredericks Hall, Louisa
| county, and T. E. Beckham, the pre-
sent incumbent of that Office, who were
charged with making unlawful returns
| of the cancellation of stamps made by
them, were discharged Monday by
United States Commissioner Flegen-
heimer.
An 11-year-old son OF DIR. c. Il. Ku
per, of Orange, died Sunday at hi:
fathers residence, in that county, from
drinking too much apple brandy. He
attended picnic and fsh-fry Satur
day, and while the older members o
the party we're hauling seine he got t.
the jug of liquor, and drank himsel
into Inconsistencies. As soon as bi:
condition was discovered medical aid
was summoned, but all efforts to save
him proved fruitless.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-10-02

If COZ popali be coz Del, as some
demagogues assert and more simple
tons believe, why should not the voters
of this country be permitted to take a
direct part in the election of all their
officers, national, State, and municipal,
and why should some of the newspa-
pers and preachers of Richmond oppose
the demands of the labor party there,
that the police force of that city be
chosen by popular elections as some OF
the other city officers are? But this is
q humhug age.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-10-02
Foreign News.

LONDON, Oct. PA dispatch from
Capetown says that Bishop Naples, of
Nyassaland, and a companion, Rev.
Joseph Williams, q missionary, were
drowned in Lake Nyassa on September
18th, and that Rev. Mr.. Atlay, o mis-
sionary and son of the Bishop of Here
ford, was recently murdered on the
Zambesi river by natives.
Mrs. Langtry has made formal de-
mand upon the Union Bank for the
sum OF e40, 900, the value of the jewels
she deposited with the bank which
were subsequently surrendered by the
bank to stranger upon his presenta-
ton of a forged order.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-10-02
Fast Trip of the st. Louis.

New YORK, Oct. 2-The American
liner st. Louis arrived at Southampton
this morning after a remarkably fast
passage, cutting her own record down
about FIVE hours, beating the record ef
the Paris of the same line by about 8!
hours, and failing by only two hours
and 80 minutes to equal the record of 6
days, 10 hours and SIS minutes, which is
held by the neutrality-suspicious. liner
Fuerst Bismarck.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-10-02

IF SENATOR T1LLMAN be the director
general of the convention to amend
the constitution of the State of
South Carolina, as he is said to be, that
he is not as bad a man as some have
supposed, is proved by the action of
that convention in prohibiting divorces
and in imposing both property and
en- educational qualification upon suf.
1rage.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-10-02

EVERY MAN with human sensibilities
regrets General Mahone's illness and
probable death, and certainly no such
man would now detract from any mer-
it to which ne is entitled; but even his
most devoted friends must regret the
publications of the ignorant scribblers
who make his illness the occasion for
reiterating the utterly groundless state
ment that General Lee would have
given him the command of the Confed-
crate army if any thing had happened
to himself, and who make the equally
erroneous assertion that he is blue
blooded Virginia aristocrat and that the
Southern Senators opposed the pur-
chase of his lot by the government.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-10-02
Court of Appeals at staunton.

Burke vs.. Shaver. From Rocking.
ham Circuit Court. Argued and sub.
mitted.
Bowman, trustee, vs.. Flavin. From
Augusta Court. Dismissed for failure
to furnish appeal bond.
Houcks's administrator vs. Durham
& Keanforte. From Rockingham Cir.
cult Court. Partly argued, and con-
tinued until to-day.
The court will probably adjourn on
the 10th instant.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-10-02
Burning of a Young Ladies' College

Burning of Young Ladies' College.
WooDyILLE, Miss, Oct. 2.-The Ed
ward McGhee school for girls, one of
the finest institutions in the south, was
destroyed by fire last night. There
were rs young ladies in the college
buildings, besides the teachers and
their families. A panic ensued and
several of the young women who at
tempted to dash down through the
binding smoke were overcome, and
but for the speedy arrival of help would
have sufficated. The windows and fire
escapes of the building were filled with
a screaming crowd of young women in
all varieties of dishabille and their
rescue was effected with much trouble.
1t is believed that no lives were lost.
The building is total loss.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-10-02

WASHINGTON Cattle MARKET, Oct. l.
At Union stock yards.-Some 70 Cattle were
offered and sold as follows: Best sold at A
4Eac, good 34a3lac, medium 2a.a3c, com
mon 2a215c per lb. Some 277 Sheep and
Lambs were on the market with sales as fol-
lows: Old Sheep sold at 2a3c per lib. Lambs
SOLD at 4a4Ta per ID. Cows with calves sold
from S25 to $40 each. Market fair.