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SLEW HER ALEXANDER
A Wife'S Confession of an Entirely
Unavoidable Deed.
COULDN'T BEAR TEMPTATION
One of Those Terrible CalamitIes
to Which a British Curate Is Par
ticularly Susceptible Over
took Him, and He Fell.
From the Philadelphia Times.

From the Philadelphia Times.
1t was his sole fault. During our
earlier married life he showed no trace
OF the vice that, alas! wrought his un-
doing. Then was he blameless; his
aged parishioners loved him, and his
rector reposed confidence in him. / re-
call all too distinctly the first symptom
of that disease, which, gradually in
creasing in rigour, sapped his brain,
and left him a jibbering idiot, who in
mercy had to be-but 1 anticipate.
1t was a sunny Friday afternoon in
September. last year. A fine apple tree
shaded our tiny lawn, and under the
canopy of its branches we passed
many pleasant and profitable hours in
happier times-I over my Dorcas sew
ing, he netting macrame lace, work
whereat he was an expert, for some di-
ocesan bazaar, the while he recited sa-
cred poems of his own composing, for
he had sweet gift of song.
On this particular afternoon we were
engrossed with these occupations. de-
lightful as inocuous. when our privacy
Peters second son, who had been
shooting. and who paused to rest on
his way home. He is a frivolous youth,
inclined, / fear. to irreverance. His
chair was under a branch heavily
laden with fruit, and scarce had he
sat down when an apple, loosened by
the slight breeze. or moved perhaps by
its over-ripeness. came plump down,
narrowly missing his head.
"I am afraid you are injured. Did
II strike your" inquired anxiously.
20 thanks. awfully," he replied, but
appely 1 escaped"
/ was amazed to perceive the delight
with which Alexander-whose language
had ever been conspicuous by reason
of persistent propriety-greeted this
vulgar play upon words. He chuckled
with delight and listened with wrapt
attention TO Masterson's silliest ut
terances. evidently awaiting other
rhetorical pearls of like value. Nor
was he disappointed. When at tea our
guest. being asked IL he liked dough-
nuts. replied, mo; / doe-nut," my poor
husbands admiration transcribed all
bounds.
Presently Alexander himself ven
tured an attempt at witticism. Mr..
Masterson produced a small chamois-
leather pad and polished the metal of
the fowling piece. After watching him
thoughtfully for some minutes my hus-
band cleared his throat and observed
laboriously. 20. / see you have begun
to clean your gun" So proud was he
of having delivered himself of this
effect of fatuousness that, in sheer
observation-disclosures and self-glorifica-
ton. he ate hugely of the doughnuts;
and consequently his voice was scarce
audible at evensong. His initial efforts
were all equally lamentable; but the
fever. having fastened upon him. in
creased rapidly On the following Mon
day l remarked that 1 trusted Widow
Mudford would use the cake of soap
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HERE AND ERE.

Two miniatures of Joan of Arc by a
contemporary artist, now In a private col
lection at Isenheim, in Alsace. are said
by M Gatrio to be probably portraits OF
the Maid of Orleans from life.
In distributing telegraph wires for army
purposes. preparatory to establishing
communicating stations, II has been
found that a great economy in time is eff
fected by mounting the real on bicycle.
Bar Harbor is consoling itself for duh
winter with the reflection that the peo-
ple who summered there last season rep
resented wealth to an amount greater by
$50, ,o00, 900 than those who summered at
Newport
That wonderful people. the Chinese. are
said to have constructed bridges from
very early times. but those known to US
date from comparatively late periods,
and many Of them are timber structures
of the cantalever type.
Scores Of bottles which once contained
perfumes have been found in Pompeii. In
one jar, having q capacity Of two gallons.
there was a very delicate and ethereal
perfume, the composition OF which Is not
known.
Many Of the oldest of the Roman
bridges especially those erected for STRAIT
egic purposes, were built partly of wood
and partly of stone. such as that erected
by Caesar across the Rhine. and describ-
ed by him IN his commentaries
The Connecticut fish and game COM
missioners have decided not to place fry
In the rivers. The fry will be kept in the
retaining ponds. the shad until they are
three or four inches long. and salmon
until they are six to eight inches long
two years old.
New London. Conn. is going to observe
its two hundred and fiftieth anniversary
next May and already steps are being
taken with that end in view by the mayor
and common council. the board of trade.
the civic and military organizations Of
the city.
In 1883 hundreds OF people assembled In
the town of Rudley. England. TO attend a
wife sale The first bid was three half
pence. and ultimately rose to sixpence.
The husband. in his Ignorance. thought
that, after the ceremony had been re-
peated three times. she actually had no
ciaim upon him
Agricultural returns from the county Of
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The proper way to roll an umbrella is
to take hold of the ends of the ribs and
the stick with the same hand, and hold
them tightly enough to prevent their
being twisted while the covering is being
twirled around with the other hand.
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London have queer sound. Yet of the
75,442 acres on which its population of
4.232,11S lives, no fewer than IA, 401 are cul-
tivated, besides 267 ued for grazing. maxi
ing nearly one-fifth of the whole area
used for farming purposes. Between 1898
and 1895 500 acres were lost to cultivation.
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Certain of the Hour.

'Ts Mr.. Brownstone about the Of
fce?"
mo. sir; he's out to luncheon. He
won't be gone. though. more than 10
minutes"
Are you certain?'
"Oh, yes: he's too hard up to eat
longer than that!'-Chicago Record.
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1t Was "A X lief.

"Oh. DOCTOR" said the mother. Pm
glad you have come! We have just
had such a scare! We thought at first
that Tommy had swallowed half SOW
erign."
replied the doctor.
"Yes: it was only a half-penny.
London Tid-Bits.
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Paris bank; a bull fight takes place
near Cripple Creek, Col.
25-Colonel Romero convicted of kill
ing Vrastegui in a Mexican duel.
26-Four murderers lynched near Yre-
ka, Cal.
27-Bones. supposed to be of Howard
Uietzel. found in Holmes house
near Indianapolis.
29-Amela Haswell. Missionary at
Troy, arrested for assisting Rob-
ber Perry to escape.
so-Twenty men arrested at Penn's
Grove, n. j.. for organizing a Gu
ban filibustering expedition.
SEPTEMBER.
2-Fraker, the Kansas City insurance
swindler, arrested near Duluth.
six men cremated in an incendiary
barn fire near Norristown. Pa.
5-The second attempt to wreck the
Paris Rothschild banking house
with a bomb thwarted and the cul-
prit arrested; Robert Ritson, bank
forger, arrested in Philadelphia
u-An army deserter at Fort Sheri-
dan the first man killed by a shot
from the newly adopted Krag-
Jorgenson rifle.
19-Bandits wreck a Wisconsin Cen
tral train. but get nothing; defalca-
tions of Teller Won Bokkeln OF the
Merchants Loan and Trust COM
pany, and Tellers Jones and Will
son of the National bank of Illi-
nois. all of Chicago. discovered;
an expert finds a heavy deficit in
the treasury of Kanawha county,
w. Va.
26-Mounted desperadoes lombard Tom
Davidson's house near Cushing,
Okla, killing four members of the
family.
ga Frisco train held up at CASTOR,
/. T.
11-Gaetama Stamoli arrested in Sicily
for poisoning TO death with phos-
phorus 23 children.
1.-THE State bank of Fort Scott, Kan,
closed by the defalcation of Cashier
Colean.
17-Treasurer Ward OF the Memphis
Barrel company absconds; found to
have forged nearly 100000 worth
of paper.
IA mob in Tifin. O.. repulsed in an
attempt TO lynch Murderer Martin;
two assailants killed and troops
called out.
2e-Henry Hilliard. colored. slowly
roasted to death by a mob at Tyler.
Texas.
NOVEMBER.
1-Durrant convicted.
2-Holmes convicted.
4-Embezzler Ward arrested In Hon
duras.
14-Private detectives in Chicago kill
Frank White in trying to arrest his
burglar brother: the entire agency
force arrested next day: Schiatter.
the faith healer. disappears from
Denver
l5-Twenty-th three citizens killed and IA
soldiers shot in a riot at the bar
racks at Bogota. Columbia.
16-The cashier OF the Societe Generate,
Brussels. arrested for embezzling
81. SOC. 900.
l9-Four boys wreck New York Gen.
trail train near Rome, n. Y, for
the purpose OF robbery; Secretary
Brenizer. of the City Trust and
Surety company, Philadelphia,
missing. leaving a $4,000 deficit
20-Jabez Balfour convicted of the
Liberator society frauds in London.
s0-Hyams brothers. at Toronto. ac-
quilted.
DECEMBER.
5-Apaches take the warpath and
murder several settlers: three ne
groes. a man and two women. mob
bed In colleton. county. S. c.; two
die.
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take the warpath and
murder several settlers; three ne
groes. a man and two women. mob
bed In Colleton. county, S. c.; two
Ole.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-12
Bitten by a Mad Dog.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, March 12.-The
New York Recorder special having on
board Johnnie and Willie Davis aud
Willie Anderson, the three little boys
who were bitten by mad dog, LEFT
he-e this morning at $50 over the Flor
i ia Central and Peninsular Railway for
New York. The children will reach
New York tomorrow at 2 p. M, where
hey will be met by Recorder reprcsen-
l,tives aud coEductad to the Pasteur
p! stitute for treatment for hydrophobia.
The parents of the afflicted boys are
very poor and the Recorder offered 10
lcfray all expenses OF transportation to
New York and treatment. There was
a large crowd at the depot this mora
ing when the special pulled out, and
there were cheers for the Recorder"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-12

How Gov. O'FERRALL WAS Res
CUED.-Governor O'Ferrall gives the
following account of his rescue during
the late war by Hon. J. h. II. Figgatt,
a brother of the defaulting cashier of
the Lexington Bank. 1t was upon the
governors attention being called to a
paragraph saying that it must have
been sad task for the executive to
have to offer reward for the brother
of the man who saved his life, that tie
governor told the story. at Pools
vile, he said, when the Confedera.es
under Colonel Harmon were retreat
ing from the advance cavalry force of
Mcclellan, Governor O'Ferrall and a
few men were cut off from the rest of
the Confederates, and in dash which
they made through the enemy's lines,
the governor received sabre cut on
his wrist which disabled him. His OPP
ponent saw his advantage and YVES
about to run O'Ferrall through when
Figgatt dashed up, and after a sharp
encounter the Federal fell to the
ground. The two Confederates then
dashed off and joined their commands
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-12
Foreign News.

LONDON. Mar. 12.-Lord Rosebely
presided over the cabinet council
which was held in his residence to-day.
The principal question discussed was
that of the speakership, in view of the
retirement of the Right Hon. Arthur
Wellesley Peel from that Office.
Frederick George Brabazon Pom
sonby, sixth earl of Bessborough, died
this morning. He was eighty years OF
age.
PARIS, Mar. 12.-It is generally be-
lieved that NJ. Waldeck. Rousseau will
shortly become premier.
BERLIN, Mar 1.-THE sittings of the
Prussian Council of State were opened
this morning by the Emperor in per-
son.
HAVANA, Mar. PA commission
from Manzanillo arrived here last even
ing to offer to the Captain General the
services of themselves and those they
represented. Among the commission
were six conspicuous leaders in the last
revolution. They now protest against
any actual seditious movement and
heartily support the authorities in sup
pressing the present revolt.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-12
Eloped with the Hired Man.


Owosso, Mich, Mar. 12.-Ida Allen,
the daughter Of the richest farmer 10
this county, has caused sensation by
clipping with her fathers hired man.
She is eighteen years old and the iav-
orite school teacher of Byron. The
hired man is illiterate, gross looking
and never had name in the neighbor-
hood but Freddie" and no one ever
supposed that the accomplished young
woman would take fancy to him. 1t
appears from investigation that the
young man came from Port Huron,
where he was known as Fred. Fortress.
The father yesterday received note
from his daughter saying that they had
been married.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-12
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
Labor Troubles in New Orleans.

Labor Troubles in New Orleans.
New ORLEANS, March 12.-At Z
O'Clock this morning as the negro la
borers of the Cromwell line and also OF
the Harrison line we're reporting for
work on the levee at the head of ST.
Peter street they were fred upon by a
crowd of about 80 white men. Several
of the negroes were killed.
The attack was so unexpected that
the negroes made no response anu me
uniniured fled from the scene leaving
their dead and wounded companions
living on the levee. A number of small
er riots took place along the shipping
district early this morning. A gang OF
strikers attacked number of negroes
who had copgregated in the vicinity OF
the French Market and several OF the
blacks were badly wounded. At the
head of First street the mob chased
gang of negroes and fired a volley OF
bullets after the fleeing figures. One
Mexican roustabout was shot and fatal
" wounded. A number of negroes re-
ceived slight fresh wounds. 1t Is be-
lieved that the list of killed will not ex-
coed six negroes, and the wounded will
not go above II or Is.
A committee ofcitizens this morning
waited on Mayor Fitzpatrick and ask
ed him to call out every available pc
liceman in this city. The mayor is in
vestigating the trouble, but it is feared
it has gone beyond the control of the
police and the State militia may be
called out.
In the riot at the head of st. Peter
street two negroes and white man,
shoemaker named Jules Calico Cara
bee, who was ooker.on, were killed,
and over score of persons, white and
black, were wounded. Among those
known to be injured are James A.
Bane, white, purser of the steamship
Engineer, who was standing on the
wharf when the riot began. After the
shooting the white men quickly ran
away, escaping before the police could
reach the spot.
Mayor Fitzpatrick is now patrolling
the levee front with squad of police.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-12
fectually destroyed the pull method

fectually destroyed the pull method
by which the settlement of certain
claims were advanced there.
People from Alexandria county here
to-day say that as soon as the frost,
snow and rain get tout of the ground,
the construction Of the Washington
and Falls Church electric railroad will
lie begun; also that the Golfer dam at
the Aqueduct Bridge has been COM
pleted and the pumping out Of the wa
ter begun, in order to rebuild the Vir-
ginia pier of that bridge, and that
When that work is completed about a
million feet of good timber will be for
sale there.
Mr.. Miller, commissioner of internal
revenue, who has been i'll for some
time, has recovered, and if the weather
be favorable will be at his Office to-mor-
row. This is good news to some ofthe
congressman who have been waiting
here to urge him to appoint their
friends to the ten new positions created
by the income tax law.
1t is learned at the Agricultural De-
partment that the agents appointed by
the government for the distribution of
seed to the drouth striker people OF the
far West, make those people pay them
notarial fees, attesting their inability to
buy seed, before they give any of it to
them.
1t is said here to-day that the recent
report to the effect that the President
had met with an accident originated
from the fact that he had fallen ard
sprained his leg.
The members of the Virginia dem
ocratic association of this city are
in high spirits to-day in conse-
quence of the removal of Mr.. B. A.
Colonna from the coast survey, an Oh
ject they have been striving to accom-
plish for year or two. Their chief
objection to him was that be was not
good democrat, inasmuch as while,
under democratic administration, he
promoted two democrats for efficiency,
under a republican administration, he
removed the same two men for ineffi-
cipnt.v
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-12

STOPPED THE WEDDNG.-Mattie
Meadows, at Lewiston, W. Va, Sunday
in a fit OF outraged pride fatally cut
Agnes Young's throat with razor.
The Meadows girls father, aged rs,
wanted to marry agnes Young, but his
daughter objected, whereat she was
badly beaten by the old man. She
then snatched her brothers. razor, Sc
verely cutting her father and fatally
cutting the woman.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-12

The CoLoRED METHoDIsTs.-The
Washington Conference, colored, in
session in Richmond, adjourned yes
terday, after the announcements of ap-
pointments.
Charleston, w. Va, was chosen as
the place of the next session.
The following appointments were
made:
Alexandria DISTINGUISHING Elder
]. L. Thomas. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.,
S. G. Griffin; Ashegrove, j. E. Will
liams; Bedford City, J. 81. Jackson;
Bedford Springs, B. Brice; Buena Wis
ia, ]. w. Carroll; Browsburg, J. w.
Galloway; Charlottesville, B. w.
Brown; Falls Church, John Barnett;
Fincastle, G. D. Pinkney; Leesburg, S.
II. Norwood; Lexington, W. II. Gaines;
Lincoln, Fillmore Diggs; Middletown,
w. H. Jones; Lynchburg, II. A. Car
roll; Lynchburg Circuit, G. 81. Fore
man; Lynchs. N. Opher; Motleys, G..
w. Cohen. Richmond-Asbury, T. H.
Cooper; Leigh Street, William II. Fox.
Roanoke, B. B. Martin; Salem, T. B.
Snowden; Stewsrtsville, ]. II. Good.
rich; Waterford, II. Sellen; Woodlawn,
G. II. Booze. Rev. w. w. Brooks was
made presiding elder of the Washing
ton district, and Rev. Alfred Young,
now of Roberts chapel, this city, has
been transferred to Asbury church,
Baltimore.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-12
FROM DEATH TO L1FE.-News ha.

FROM DEATH TO LIFE.-News has
been received of case of remarkable
restoration to life in eastern Virginia,
near Belle Haven. A lady was given
up for dead and preparations were be-
ing made for shrouding her when a
physician from Newport News who had
been attending her injected some kind
of fluid Of which arsenic was one of the
ingredi ,nts, into her body presumably
to pre- erve the remains. Almost in
stantl,, there were signs of returning
life. in day or two the lady was able
to recognize her friends and now it is
thought she will recover. The name
of the lady could not be learned, but
lbe iacts here given came from a relia-
BILE source.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-12

TERRoEs OF a JACK THE CHASER
Something like r,i.n of terror ex-
lists among West Philadelphia women
rssi ling in the vicinity of the Park
front. a tall, well-dressed, impudent
and exceedingly willy stranger has for
week been following and insulting
unprotected wives, daughters and sis
tiers in that section of the city. Not
one of the women's husbands or broth
ers can catch sight of the fellow, and
he appears to have perfect knowledge
of the whereabouts of policeman, so
that they never get their eyes on him.
Men have stationed themselves on the
street to catch him, hut up to date he
has not been deceived by any decoy fe-
male thus guarded. While such traps
have thus been set for him he has been
heard from two squares away following
and using offensive language to lone
females.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-12
TUESDAY EVENING. MAR 10. 1885.

NEGROES NEVER have been admitted
iato the trades at the North, and no"
their places at almost all the larger
and fashionable hotels there are being
supplied by white men. Northern
people, as rule, don't like the pr0pin
DUTY of negroes, and this is as apparent
in official, as in social relations. Ii nc
eroes were as wise as white people they
would remain with those among WDom
tbev were born aud bred, who under
stand their natural frailties, and make
allowance for them. Northern people
do not understand them, and conse-
ouently make no such allowance. The
average negro doesn't comprehend the
true meaning of liberty. With him.
when removed from his old associations,
it soon resolves itself into license, and
then follow crime and restitution. No
where in the South does such so]ect
poverty exist rs among the negroes ID
The rich cities of the North.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-12

WILL BUILD THAT BRIDGE.-An en-
thusiastic public meeting was held at
Williamsport, Md, yesterday in the
interest of the project TO erect bridge
across the Potomac river at that place.
A committee was appointed to raise
subscriptions to the amount of $1,000.
1t is proposed to issue bonds to raise
the remainder Of the funds necessary TO
baild the bridge, which is estimated to
cost SAC, 900. Stock to the amount of
$4,000 has been subscribed. West Vir-
glnia people held meeting at Falling
Waters and 81 800 was raised for the
bridge fund.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-12

BECAUSE the democratic legislature
of Tennessee, having good ground to
believe that the returned majority for
the republican gubernatorial candidate
there last fall was fraudulent. is exer
cising its constitutional right OF exam
lining it and eliminating the frauds. q
Washington, so-called, Independent
newspaper, says it destroying right
ful majority, robbing the franchise and
is engaged in death dance" But the
legislature will continue its examina-
ton, and if the republican candidate
has been fairly elected, he will occupy
the gubernatorial chair, but not other
wise.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-12
An American steamer Fired Upon

NEW YORK, March 1.-THE steamer
Alliance, from Colon, which arrived
here to day reports that on March Sth,
when off the cast end of the island of
Cuba, man of war, flying the Spanish
flag, fired solid shot that came bound
ing toward the Alliance, missing her
narrowly. Two other balls were fired
but both went wide. The Spaniard
fast dropped astern and after chase OF
% miles altered her course. The mat
ter will be brought to the attention Of
Secretary Gresham.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-12

a WASHINGTON newspaper, under the
following heading, "Sons Of Veterans
Scent Treason" contains notice of a
meeting of camp of the Sons of Nete-
rams, Z. s. A., in that city, at which a
resolution was passed denouncing an
attempt to organize camp of Sons OF
Confederate Veterans there And yet
the country is reunited, and ex Confed-
crates are as loyal as ex-Union soldiers,
and that there was no treason among
the former is proved by the fact that
President Davis could not be prosecu-
ted on ANY such charge.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-12

A POLICE justice in Washington yes
terday, contrary to the ruling of the
Attorney General, decided that the
translator and bookkeeper at the Ar
gentine legation, in that city, charged
with embezzlement, must be discharged,
as being domestic of the legation,
he was exempt from arrest for such q
crime. If the attaches of the foreign
legations at Washington are to be
known hereafter as domestics, they will
not be such "swells" there as they have
been heretofore, and are now.