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The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1895-05-03

Worr ssuMM1 ". W, VII
TO Ronas;-Our baby is nea st &
months old, and we had Ooas ~
given 1t 2 bottles of "Castor'L ~
much change for the better ana e : NJ n
seemed hearty until we gave In
OF Susanna, which cured 1t en.i'''
JOIN I. WrIlIA.,Hs ~
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The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1895-05-03

Sick headache, constipation and III.
digestion are quickly cured by De
Wits Little Early Risers, the famous
little pills. Sold by Il. J. Criss.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-02-05
TUESDAY EVENING, FEB s. 1895.

THE NEGRO EMIGRATION from the
South to the North and West having
failed. and abhorring Africa, the home
of their race, as nature abhors vac
uum. they have turned to Mexico, and
hundreds OF them are now passing
through New Orleans weekly, on their
wav to the south side OF the Rio
Grende. where, it is said, the Mexican
Colonization Society is supplying
them with land at nominal price.
Though free and endowed with the
privilege of suffrage, the negroes are
moi satisfied with their condition here,
d he few industrious and thrifty ones,
because they are not recognized as So
cial equals, aud thelmany others, be-
cause they have 10 work i'll order to
live. And yet before they were eman-
cipated. and when they bad no free
schools. ard the idea of voting never
entered their heads, and before the
abolitiouists got hold of them, there
never was happier or more contented
people, and runaway negro was .
r4rity- But happiness and progress"
are not Synonymous.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-02-05

The North american Resiew for February
has been received from its publishers in New
York. Its contents are: The Financial
Middle, by tho Secretary of Agriculture,
Hon. VIM. NJ. Springer, Chairman of the Com
mittee on Banking and Currency, and Henry
W. Cannon, President Of the Chase National
Bank, New York; Literature and the Eng
lish Book Trade, by Ouida; Politics and the
Farmer by the Presi lent of the Farmers
National Congress The Now Pulpit, by the
Rev. a. B. Hawcis: Recollections of Robert
Louis Stevenson by Andrew Lang Problems
in the Indian Territory, by Senator O. II.
Plat; The Matrimonial Puzzle, by II. IL.
Boyesen; Why We Need National Uni
versity, by Prof Simon Newcomb; The Ply
steal Comedy by Charles Sedgwick Minot !;
Personal History of the Second Empire, by
Albert D. Vandam; Images in Dead Eyes, by
Rllerslie Wallace, D. D.; Newspaper Row and
National Legislation by Albert Halstead :;
The Cat in Law, by Gertrude B. Rolfe, and
How to Repel Train Robbers, by Lieut.. J. T.
knight, q. S. A
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-02-05

FIRE IN LEEsBURG.-A fire occurred
in Leesburg Sunday night which for q
time threatened to become serious
conAagration. Shortly after 2 o'clock
a moderate-size two-story frame dwell
ling on the rear of the lot belonging to
Mr. Edward Nichols, at the corner
of King and Cromwell streets, was
found to be on fire, and an alarm was
sounded, which brought the fire de-
partment out promptly and some two
hundred citizens. The burning build
ing was in close proximity to Mr.. Mich
ols's dwelling and that of Mrs. j. A.
Wildman, both of which were in i'm
minent danger. Owing to the intense
cold the fire apparatus were slow in
getting to work, the efforts of the citi-
zens in the meanwhile being directed
towards preveutinga spread of the fire,
in which they were aided by the fact
that the roofs were covered with snow
and there was little wind. Just as the
roof of Mrs. Wildman's residence began
to burn the engines got to work, and,
under two well-directed steams, the
flames were soon under control. The
location of the fire was near the centre
of the town and it was surrounded by
dwelling houses. That it was subdued
without serious injury to them was
most fortunate. The building in which
the fire originated was pretty well de.
stroyed, the loss upon it being some
5000 mr. 5000. There was no insurance.
The origin of the fire is unknown.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-02-05
TO-DAY'S TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
Foreign News.

LONDON, Feb. parliament reas-
sembled to-day with the customary
ceremonies. The session was opensd
at 8 o'clock this afternoon by the read
ing by commission of the speech from
the throne. In the speech the queen
said that proposals will be submitted
for remedying the defects in the work,
ing of the law governing the landlord
and the tenant in Ireland and for deal
ing with the CAGES of evicted tenants.
Bills will be presented dealing with the
church establishment in Wales, for the
popular control of the liquor traffic
and the abolition of the system of plu-
raj voting.
broken out in Constantinople, all YES
sells arriving here from that port are
being subjected to five days detention
in quarantine.
LONDON, Feb. 5.-The snti-Parnellite
members of Parliament met to-day and re-
elected NJ. Justin Mccarthy chairman for the
session. Mr.. John Redmond will move an
amendment to the address in reply to the
Queens speech demanding an immediate APP
peal to the country on the ground of the gov
ment's failure to carry home rule.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-02-05
FEATS OF MEMORY.

Virchand R. Gandhi, a Hindu, who
represented the Jain community at the
Congress of Religions at Chicago while
the Worlds Fair was in progress, lee
tured in Baltimore recently. The
most subtle of Hindu science and phil
osophy has never been written" said
the lecturer, because the Hindus de-
pend upon memory for the perpetual
ton of these things. They have no
schools as you have, but the masters
travel from place to place and speak to
the masses, who come back the next
day aud repeat what they were told
the day before. In this way the mem
DRY of the Hindu is wonderfully train
ed"
By way ofe1ample he told of q men,
her of his own community, aged twen-
ty-six years, who lives at Bombay and
who can perform the following feats Of
memory: Blindfold him, then hand
him fifty books, one at time, let him
feel the books with his hands and then
tell him the name of each book; let
thirty men, one at o time, recite
verse each in a different language; at
the same time let a bell be rung and
have some one throw pebbles at him,
telling him to count the pebbles and
the strokes of the bell. He will after
ward be able to tell how many pebbles
were thrown, how many times the bell
was struck, give the names of all the
books after feeling them again and re-
cite each of the verses in the order in
which they were recited to him.
The lecturer told of another man
who, between the ages of twenty-one
and eighty-fou years, composed $4,000
articles on great variety of topics.
This man will go to room where
there was q fountain of ink, around
which sat thirty or forty scribes. He
would dictate verse of his first article
to the first scribe, verse of his second
article to his second scribe, and so on
until he had dictated to all. He would
then return to the first scribe and
dictate the second verse of his first
article, and continue in this way with
the composition of from thirty to
forty articles.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-02-05

GENERAL LORD WoLsEIEy makes most
important contribution to the literature of
the China-Japan war. In an article for the
February Cosmopolitan, he discusses the situa.
ton and says what China must do in this
emergency. Two other noted foreign au-
thors contribute interesting articles to this
number. Rosita Mauri, the famous Partisan
danseuse, gives the history of the ballet, and
Emile Olivier tells the story of the fall of
Louis Philippe. From every part of the
world, drawings and photographs have been
obtained of the instruments used to torture
humanity, and appear as illustrations for an
article by Julian Hawthorne, entitled, "Sal.
vation Wis the Rack" Mrs. Reginald de
Koven, Anatole France, w. Clark Russell,
Albion W. Touges, and William Dean How
ellis are among TIE story tellers forsthe Feb
ruaty uumbc: of The Cosmopolitan.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-02-05
CONGRESSIONAL.

The Senate spent almost the entire
day yesterday on the District of Co.
lumbia appropriation bill, and, for the
first time since the measure was taken
up, it did not serve as text for inan-
cial discussion. Senator Mitchell, of
the sub. committee on claims, which
considered the bill for the paying of
sugar bounties for last year, reported
the bill for recommendation to the full
committee for such action as it thinks
proper. The postoffice appropriation
bill was reported.
An attempt was made in the House
to pass an omnibus bill for the pay
ment OF claims for stores and supplies
confscated from loyal people in the
South during the war, amounting to
S71S,663. 1t excited much opposition,
especially from Pennsylvania members
interested in Pennsylvania border war
claims amounting to 100000, and
not included. The measure was de-
feated-95 to 14S. The remainder the
day was devoted to the agricultural
appropriation bill, which was passed
without amendment. An attempt to
reduce the appropriation for the distri-
button of seed failed. Representative
Cooper introduced q bill providing for
elections once each four years to rec
ommend for appointment all postmas-
tiers, except postmasters of Offices of
the first class and those whose compen-
sation does not exceed 500 per annum.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-02-05
BUSINESS AND ROMANCE.

A dispatch from London says: The
mysterious schooner yacht Mohican
from New York, is not lost, as report
ed in the United States, unless she has
met with disaster since January Is, for
on that date she arrived at st. Mi
chael's, Azore Islands.
The Mohican sailed from New York
in the latter part of November with
DR.. w. Conyers Herring, his bride of a
few days. and young girl, Letitia
Thompson, on board, according to
general report. Miss Thompson is said
to have run away from home in order
to take the cruise.
DR.. Herring is the son of William
Herring, the promoter of the Georgia
Central Railroad. He purchased the
Mohican from George Fitzgerald & Co..
of Boston.
The first wife of DR.. Herring was az
English lady, with whom he lived in
London for several years. In Eng
land the most intimate friend of DIR.
Herring was Montagu Elder, who was
the doctors classmate at Oxford, and
who is said to be his partner in the
Mohican venture. When DR.. Herring
returned to New York with his wife
Mr.. Elder accompanied them. DR.. ana
Mrs. Herring disagreed, and Mrs. Her
ring returned to England, to which
country she was followed by Mr.. Elder.
DIR. Herring began divorce proceed
inps early in 1894, but his wife and
Mt. Elder, who came back TO
this country, succeeded in Undue
ing the doctor to refrain from
pushing the action. Sometime after
ward Mrs. Herring began suit against
her husband, and in November last she
was granted an absolute divorce, with
the privilege of marrying again. This
privilege was denied the doctor. How
ever, DR.. Herring and Miss Mable
Harris, of Booth Bay Harbor, Maine,
were married in Jersey City on No
vember II last. They returned to New
York, and resided there while the
Mohican was being prepared for her
voyage.
Wishing to secure a companion for
Mrs. Herring No. 2, the doctor adver-
tised for one, and Letitia Thompson
applied for the place, and she was en-
gagged. But Mrs. Thompson, the girls
mother, positively refused to let the
girl go, and visiting the yacht one day
while the family were away compelled
Letitia to go ashore, but while walking
up Vesey street the girl ran away and
made her escape.
Mr.. Elder, it appears, in the mean
time had married Mrs. Herring No l.,
and had returned to England after, as
reported, drawing up copartnership
papers with DR.. Herring, which result
ed in the purchase and fitting out of
the Mohican for : long voyage. 1t was
said that it was intended to arm the
Mohican with two Calling guns, but
whether this was done or not ia not
known.
The destination of the Mohican was
said to be Plymouth, England, where
Mr.. Elder and his wife, formerly Mrs.
Herring No. 1, were to join the party.
The first stopping place was ANNOUNCE
ed to be at Fayal, Azore Islands, and
the eventual destination of the Mohican
was said to be the south Pacific, where
her two owners were to go into pearl
fishing on large scale.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-02-05
are not synonymous.

THE employees of a street car COM
pany in Brooklyn. struck, which they
bad right to do. They then, by as
@anlsing the men who were glad to
take the places they had abandoned,
and by iDjuring the property of the
company, which they had no right to
do, prevented the running of the cars
The Board of Aldermen of Brooklyn
then met and passed a resolution re-
voking the company's charter. And
all this, too, in one of the largest cities
of the country, and where free schools
and cheap newspapers abound. OF
course the courts, that is if justice has
not fed the country, will permit no
such outrage as that attempted by the
Brooklyn Aldermen, but the mere fact
that such an attempt was made, is an
apt illustration of the danger to which
property rights are now subjected il
this so-called Gland of liberty"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-02-05
A Card from Mr.. Summers,

With regard to the gun that killed
Mr. Jackson, my father never owned
the gun, but it was the property OF NJ
John Summers, brother-in-law of MF.
Robert Edelin,. The gun was in use by
Mr.. Summers very frequently, though
he was not exactly the original owner
1t was borrowed from Mr.. Robert Ede.
lin by Mr.. Jackson, who remarked at
the time he borrowed it, that il any
man took down the flag from his house
it would be case of two dead men
In regard to the "coon killer, Nh
Jackson borrowed it from Mr.. John
Rudd, loaded it and placed it in III;
yard, and after Mr.. Jackson was killed
Mr.. Rudd took it out of the yard OF the
Marshall House and buried it in Inc
yard of Mr.. John Summers on Plu
street. After the war closed the Gun
was dug up and remounted and used
on political occasions many times.
VIM. J. SUMMERS.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-02-05
The Munitions Sent to Hawaii.

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. Sit has been
learned that the rifles carried by the
Hawaiian rebels from America and the
bullet which killed Commissioner Car
ter, were shipped from San Francisco.
According to the statement of the Eng,
lishman, Captain Davis, who landed
the arms in Hawaii, they were loaded
in sailing vessel here and subsequent
ly transferred to his craft. He was en-
gagged to get there ten days before by
W. 81. Rickard, and was to receive
$4,000, $1,000 cash to bring them
ashore.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-02-05

SENATOR GALLINGER of New Hamp-
shire is q physician, and evidently
knows what he is talking about, e he
yesterday opposed an appropriation for
the antitoxine cure for diphtheria. He
said he expected the reported remedy
to be condemned as worthless in
short time. Of course it will. AS there
are already hundreds of cases in which
it has been used aud failed, and as no
body can tell whether those who re-
covered with its use, wouldn't have
done so without it, the proof is alto
gether against it.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-02-05

THOUGH NOTHING is better attested
than the fact that General Jackson was
killed by Confederate troops through q
disastrous mistake, the assistant super
intendent of delivery at the Boston
postoffice, arrested yesterday for robbing
letters, is attempting to show that "his
heart beat warm for his country's
cause" and thereby to win local SYM
pathy, by the ridiculous assertion that
he, as Union soldier, fired the shot
that deprived the Confederate States of
their right arm. But barefaced assur-
ance goes a long way these days.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-02-05
A Household Treasure.

D. w. Fuller, of Canaoharie. n Y, say
that he always keeps DIR. Kings New DIS
covery in the house and his family has 81.
ways found the very best results follow Us
use that he would not be without it, ii pro-
durable. G. A. DykeDan, Druggist, CatsSlll
N. Y. says that DR.. Kings New Discovery Is
undoubtedly the best Cough remedy; that he
has used it in his family for eight years, and
it has never failed to do all that is claimed
for it. Why not try remedy so long trei
and tested Trial bottles free at E. S. Leaf
bcater & Sons Drug Store. Regular size so,
and 81.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-02-05
SUICIDE AT HIS W1FE's FUNERAL

SUICIDE AT HIS WIFE's FUNERAL
John Bell went to the Third ward
chapel, at Franklin, Pa, yesterday af-
teruoon to attend the funeral of his
wife. While the services were in
progress he became insane and at
tempted to commit suicide over the
coffin of Mrs. Bell by cutting his throat
with razor. There was intense ex-
element in the church. a dozen women
tainted, and several were Injured in the
panic that was caused by the attempt
OF the congregation to escape from the
church. Bell was restrained from kill
ing himself by men who were near him,
and the funeral services were conduct
ed to the close.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-02-05

AsTHE U. S. Ambassadors say they
can't live on their salaries of 1880
year and, as the country is too poor to
give them any more, this is good time
t abolish the whole diplomatic corps,
which has been an entirely useless SER
vice since the laying of the transatlantic
cable, and which has frequently in
yolyed the country in trouble.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-02-05

A Chicago paper says that rumors
were currens yesterday that the long
negotiations between the Standard Oil
party and the Benedict Jerzmanowsky
crowd over the control Of the gas COM
panies were at an end and that an
agreement has been reached.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-02-05

SOUTHERN RAILROAD EARNINGS
For December the Southern Railway
reports gross earnings of 81 SOS, SOB; in
crease s27 1923; expenses 81, 06S, 33l; in
crease $12,93S and net s600,472; in
crease $14, 800 and for six months to
December 81, gross IS, 746, 139, increase
$500 1926; expenses $5,646,275; decrease
So, 5SS; net 5000, 1854; increase 1886, SIS.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-02-05

Fureral services over Ward McAllis-
tr at Grace Church, New York, yes,
terday were marred by the disgraceill
conduct of souvenir hunters, who stole
flowers and fragments Of set iloF
pieces.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-02-05

Mrs. Emily Thorne, who resides at
Toledo, Washington, says she has new
er been able to procure any medicine
for rheumatism that relieves the pain
so quickly and etfectually as Chamber
lain's Pain Balm, and that she has also
used it for lame back with great sue
cess. For sale by L. Stabler & Co.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-02-05

No dresser is complete without a
bottle of Quratol Face Wash. 1t is IN.
excelled as a toilet requisite. 1t re.
moves all roughness of the skin. keeps
it soft and plant and in healthy con.
dition. Large pint bottle, so cents.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-02-05

Mr.. ROCKFORD, the French COM
munist, on his return from exile to
Paris, said his only desire was "to OBJ
tain for France the liberty that ex-
It's in America" Which shows that
though Mr.. Rockford may be we'll in
formed in respect of his own country,
he is sadly ignorant of the condition Of
this one. In the capital of France he
can be shaved, and drink his absinthe,
and so to the theatre and races, and
buy anything he may want, even oleo-
margarine, on Sunday, but he could do
none of these things in the capital of
The United States on that day. Why,
if an attempt were made to enforce the
sumptuary laws of this country in
Paris, there would be French revolu-
ton before the day was half gone.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-02-05

THE U. S. House of Representatives
Yesterday defeated the bill to pay
certain Southern war claims. All of
those claims are those of men who,
though living in the South at the time,
swore they were loyal to the Union
during the war between the States.
Whether country be right or wrong,
its people, leaving patriotism out OF
view, should always be for it. If they
be, aud it fail and all else be lost, they
will at least retain the respect of their
countrymeu. If they be not, they not
only lose that respect, but all else be-
sides, for the victorious enemies of their
country have no regard for them.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-02-05

The hearing in the Drayton divorce
proceedings was postponed in jersey
City yesterday on motion of Mrs. Dray,
toms counsel.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-02-05
MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL
BALTIMORE. Feb. 5.-virginia 3s, new,
IA do century 50 . L.
Alexandria Market, February 8

Alexandria Market, February
The commercial markets are without
chang in prices to-day and very quiet but
steady. Flour is in liberal receipt and fair
demand at current figures. Wheat is wanted
at from "a for ordinary to SIS for choice mill
ing samples. Corn is easy at 40 to AZ in
bllk. Oats 30 to 81 on cars. Eggs % to
%. Butter Is to 20. There is better de-
mand for Potatoes, Dried Fruit, all kinds OF
Produce, Provisions and Groceries. Millfeed
is finn
strong; No 2 red spot 561aa569s; Feb 561a
a56a. March 57iaa57Ss; May 5sAa5sa. !:
steamer No red 53iha53@ southern
wheat by sample 56a59; do on grade 54,
81. Germ strong; mixed spot 459 sa45a. Feb
45iaa45a.; March 5a.a46; May 47as bid !;
steamer mixed 44lha44% southern white
and yellow 46a47 Oats weak No 9 white
Western 35a36; No 2 miyed do 34a341b.
Bye steady; No 2 56a57. Hay steady !;
good to choice timothy $12 90 to S12 so.
Others unchanged.
CHICAGO. Feb 5.-Wheat- NAV 53a
53k; July 537s Corn-May 42Tas43: july
43 OAts-May 2Sas. Pork-Msy SO 95.
Lard-81ay Sc 57ls. Ribs-May $5 20.
NEW YORK CATTLE MARKET. Feb. L.
Beeves- steers active and 1Oc higher; in.
ferior to prime native steers $4.35a5 20,
oxen 81. Dad. 40. Cherokee steers S3.75a
4.45, bulls S2.60s3 40, dry COWS $1.5Os
3 IS per 100 lbs. No exports to-day. Calves
-veals 1ac lower: other calves steady; poor
to prime veals 4.50a7per 100 lbs barnyard
calves $2a2. so per 100 lbs; Western calves
So. 25a2. rs per 100 lbs. Sheep and Lambs
sheep 1sc higher; lambs firm to shade
stronger; poor to prime sheep $3a462lb
per 100 lbs common to choice lambs 81 5Oa
$50 per 100 lbs. Hogs-market steady:
choice State hogs $4.7O per 100 lbs.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-02-05

Court of Appeals Yesterday.
Exchange Building and Investment
Co. vs. Bayless and others. Argued
and continued.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-02-05

CHICAGO. Feb 5.-Wheat- May 53a
53ks; July 537s Corn-May 427ss43; July
43. OAts-May 2Sas. Pork-Msy SO 95.
Lard-May Sc 571s. Ribs-May S5 20.