davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-07-27
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Mr.. Bryan and Chairman Jones con-
suited at Lincoln, Neb., yesterday about
the plan of campaign.
Gen. Richard n. Batchelder, quar-
termaster-general of the United States
army, will retire from active service to-
day on account ofage.
Mr.. Cornelius Vanderbilt left New
York for his summer residence, 1.-The
Breakers" at Newport, early yester-
day on the steam yacht Conqueror.
At Louisville, on Saturday, the Chesa.
peake and Ohio and Southwestern road
was sold at auction under foreclosure
proceedings to the Illinois Central for
81 100000
The UDion Pacific Railroad was sold
at auction. under an order of court, at
West Superior, Wis, Saturday. 1t was
bid in for the recognized company for
$l0,000,000.
Chairman Jones, of the democratic
national committee, has appointed VIM.
p. st. John, of New York, who pre-
sided over the silver convention, treas
urer of the democratic national CON-
mittee.
In Washington on Saturday, Judge
Hagner issued an order placing the es-
tate of Major George A. Armes in the
hands of Mr.. Peyton Gordon to collect
rents and pay to Mrs. Armes the ali
mony granted to her by the court.
John Crump, gunner's mate in the
United States navy, was drowned
while swimming in Spring Gardens,
near Baltimore, yesterday. His father,
Thomas w. Crump, was on the shore
and saw his death. The father was
overcome by grief.
The Society of st. Vincent de Paul,
at Washington, has taken charge of the
asylum for outcast men and discharged
prisoners, to whom Mr.. VIM. F. Dow.
ney had established a building on L.
near Seventeenth street northwest,
The institution has already done good
work
julius II. Allen, colored, OF Danville,
is locked up in the. Hagerstown, Md,
jail charged with feEoniously assaulting
white woman. The woman is about
thirty years OF age, and it is said she is
from Connellsville, Pa. She had been
drinking and had called upon Allen to
guide her to a saloon. She says that
Allen enticed her to the freight yard
and committed the assault.
A dispatch from New York says:
"The sentiment in favor Of pla cling Mr..
Cleveland at the head of the proposed
third ticket was perceptibly growing
yesterday. Adyices received at the
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-07-27

American wheat, as London fixes
the price OF wheat for the world.
And this is due to the tact
that silver is the standard OF
value in India, and the silver
rupee in India. the standard OF value OF
their money, will purchase bushel OF
wheat in India, the same as it ever
would. OF course, if the Englishmen
can force down the price of silver bull.
lion one half, he can have it coined
into rupees and buy wheat in India at
exactly one half what it would cost him.
providing silver was worth Sl.29 an
ounce, its par value with gold at ratio
of 16 TO l, as We free silver men contend
it undoubtedly would be under the free
and unlimited coinage Of both gold and
silver at the ratio of 16 to l.
Practically all OF Mr. Gordon's ques-
tons are based on a mistaken idea that
silver bullion, even under free coinage.
would be worth no more per ounce
than it is now: and, if that were true,
there would be no excuse for the fren-
zied wall now going up from the bul.
lion brokers and moneyed men and
millionaires of the East and West on
this subject. They claim that the re-
monetization of silver would not in
crease the price of silver bullion; and
if this were true, of course the silver
miners would not be benefited by the
reconciliation of silver; and if the sill
yer miners were benefited by the in
crease of their product, the farmers Of
the country and the manufacturers of
the country would also be benefited by
a corresponding increase in all their
products. And under such conditions
the State of Illinois alone would get
more benefit per year out of the free
coinage of silver than all the miners
and mine owners of the six mining
States of the West. II. c. BELL.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-07-27
VIRGINIA NEWS.

The gold democrats of the third dis
trict are anxious for Hon. L. L. Lewis
to announce himself an Independent
candidate for Congress.
William Cuykendall, at one time a
large contractor at Petersburg, com
mitted suicide yesterday evening by
jumping into the Appomattox river
there. He had previously made two
unsuccessful attempts to destroy himself
by jumping into the river.
Marshall Crow, son of John 7. Crow,
of Berryville, was accidentally shot ana
instantly killed by George Nightingale,
of Washington, on Saturday night.
They were playing with revolver
when the accident happened. The de-
ceased was about nineteen years OF age
and promising youth.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-07-27

TIE government bondbolders have
made three hundred million dollars
during the last three years by forcing
bond Issues. Now they are lending
the government gold in order to
stave of another issue until after the
election, fearing that another one
would add a million votes 10 those
Bryan will receive. Their course Is
not conducive TO the success Of the Nc
Kipley cause.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-07-27

THE \. Y. Adrertiser, republican
gold standard newspaper, says the pres
ent political campaign is "a contest Of
the sans culottes against civilization, a
war on the finger bowl and napkin, for
,the suppression Of clean shirts and q
decency that the cowboy cannot COM
prehend except as an offensive afecta-
ton. That is the essence of the senti-
ment. a gold bug is man who bathes
and loves clean linen" If this were So
the paper referred To, if wise, would
know that Just such talk, in country
where every body has the right to vote,
must necessarily decide the contest in
favor OF the silver, and against the gold
bug, as people who don't use finger
bowls and napkins greatly outnumber
those who do.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-07-27
MONDAY EVENING, JULY p, 1886.

The RICH men Of this country have
not held their wealth sufficient length
OF time to acquire the wisdom It's long
possession by their families naturally
inculcates; otherwise they would re-
alize the fact that all knowledge OF pc
cuniarv affairs is not concentrated IN
them; that poor but intelligent people
who have studied the currency question
may know as much about it as they do
and are not simply because they disagree
with them on that question, necessarily
anarchists or communists. Their self-as-
sumed superior knowledge and the in
temperate language they use toward
those who are in favor of the resumption
Of silver coinage, and to those who, while
not believing in the alleged benefits OF
such coinage, will not desert their party
simply because it has declared for it, has
done great deal toward strengthen
ing the cause of free silver.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-07-27

SHOT AT CAPT. RoGERs.-In Roam
oke on Saturday colored girl named
Lulu Corellas attempted to kill Capt.
NJ. NJ. Rogers, a prominent citizen Of
Roanoke county, residing short dis.
lance from the southern limits of the
city. The girl had been employed as
domestic in Capt. Rogers family, but
owing to her insolence was discharged
few days ago, after a stormy scene in
which she declared she would kill
Captain Rogers. Saturday morning
about 9 o'clock as he was riding on
horseback to his place of business, he
was stopped by the girl, whom he told
to call around to his Office later in the
day and he would pay her small ball
ance due her. Just as he started to
ride on some one called to him to look
out and, on turning his head ne found
the girl pointing q pistol straight at
him. In order to divert her aim be
rode directly toward her and as she
stepped back che fired, but fortunately
the bullet missed him. He then went
in search of a policeman, and while
thus engaged the girl made her way TO
to the station house and surrendered
herself. The pistol was taken from
her and found to be 32-cslibre of six
chambers, two of which were loaded.
Captain Rogers is chairman of the dem
ocratic county committee of Roanoke
county and is an uncle Of State Senator
Fairfax.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-07-27

CONGRESSMAN PATTERSON of Tennes-
see is pronounced gold man, but he is
democrat, and, being such, he will not
desert, but stand by his party, saying,
very appositely, if he cannot correct
wrongs within it, he is powerless to
correct them any where else. Political
parties fight with votes as armies do
with bullets; neither can win battles
without discipline, and an army would
be ridiculed by all observers if on the
eve of battle those of its members who
might not agree with the whole plan
arranged by the council, Of war should
either refuse to fight or else march oil
and Join the enemy.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-07-27
RAILROAD RATES

At conference held in Ba,.
Saturday between President Ho 81
and Vice President -. John.
Seaboard Air Line, the action
Southern States Freight Assoc.a
authorizing cut Of So per cent. il 1ae.
was discussed. II was announce
the Seaboard will not meet the pro- ,.
ed cut OF so per cent. to be made ag -e
Southern, but it will very likely nod.
ify its present tariff. which ! q -e
ton OF 33 per cent. from regular ra.e-
The 50 per cent. cut TO be made ay re
Southern Railway, it was stated YES ~
st. John, will be ruinous in is el.e,
upon that system. He added thai tie
Seabosrd by not meeting the cut Of tae
Southern does not surrender the pos
ton it has taken.
Correspondence has passed between
Mr.. st. John and Chairman Trammr
of the Georgia State railroad commi--
sion, relative 10 q reduction o: the local
rates along the Seaboard system 10 tie
same basis as the through rates. CHAIR
man Trammell said that it was h. in.-
perative duty in protecting the me.-
ests OF the State to insist upon redlc.
ton OF the Seaboard local rates to cor
respond with the reduced rates tro@
Baltimore to Atlanta.
Mr.. St. John replied that the con-
mission ought not to take hand ID
this fight against the Seaboard AMI
said that if the local rates OF ali rail-
roads in the State Of Georgia were TO
be reduced the Seaboard would 30,
then complain.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-07-27

Mr.. WHITNEY asked Mr.. Mckinley
to hold his high tariff ideas in abey'
ance until after the election so, that low
tariff democrats could vote for him
without stultiiying themselves. The
reply he received was contained in q
speech Mr. Mckinley made last Satur-
day, in which he boldly announced that
one of the first things the republicans
would do, if they should come into
power again, would be to pass bill to
increase the tariff. Mr.. Whitney has
no love for Mr.. Cleveland now; posi-
bly, because the latter may have gagged
him more correctly than some other
people have.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-07-27

ONE OF the strangest things in this
strange, eventful age is the vehement
assertion of the boilers that they are
not supporting Mr.. Mckinley. If they
be not supporting Mr.. Mckinley, who,
in the name of common sense, are they
supporting? Certainly not Mr.. Bryan.
Each of them who won't vote at all or
who votes for a third candidate will
take one vote away from Mr.. Bryan,
and each one who may vote for Nc
Iipley will count as two against Mr..
Bryan, that is, as it looks to man on
the ground.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-07-27

THE NEW NOTES.-The new two
dollar silver notes were sent to the
United States Treasury this morning,
but it is not expected that they will be
paid out to-day. The two-dollar note
is regarded as the most beautiful in
design and execution ofthe whole issue,
which includes the one-dollar, the two
dollar, and the fve-dollar denomina-
tons. In the center of the note is q
group of figures, the title of which is
HScience Presenting Steam and Electric
ity to Commerce and Manufacture. !"
The remaining denomination to be
issued, which will be shortly, is the s.
note. The design of this is by Walter
Shirlaw. Its story is America" The
central figure is America idealiZed.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-07-27

The FACT that the Chicago platform
is in favor of an income tax and is OPP
posed to the civil service law humbug
is powerful appeal to nine-tenths of the
people OF the country and will strength
on the candidates who stand upon
it to the extent of hundreds of thou.
sands of votes. Men without money or
Office, being human, are naturally Cd.
posed to system of government by
which those most able to pay taxes are
exempt and a privileged class establish
ed TO whom all its offices are given.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-07-27
STATEMENT OF SILVERITES.

STATEMENT OF SILVERITES.
The national committee of the silver
party has issued an address to the pub
lie, as follows: To the American people:
Inasmuch as it had been charged upon
the national silver party assembled in
St. Louis that we are convention of
regulators, revolutionists and anar-
chists, we submit the following to the
candid judgment of the people. Ia our
delegation are four veterans of the
Mexican war, 40 e1-Confederates and
1876 Union army veterans of the late
war. OF the 731 delegates attending, 9
are prohibitionists, 40 are populists, JAG
democrats, and 527 past republicans.
Under this composition of the conven-
ton we appeal to all true patriots,
without regard to previous party affilia-
lions. to vote for Hon. w. J. Bryan for
president and Hon. Arthur Sewall for
yice-president OF the United States. A
result of their election will be the
restoration of free coinage of silver on
equal terms with gold; providing there
by growing volume of money which
will tend to disseminate rather than
aggregate wealth, which will relieve
the present profound depression and
replace it with an easy prosperity. We
urge you to unite upon this ticket as
your sole hope of escape from the rigors
OF grinding gold monopoly. Ours is a
poor mans campaign. We therefore
call for contributions toward legitimate
expenses, the same to be sent to VIM.
st. John, treasurer, at 121 East 34th
street, New York. Contributions of
one dollar or more will be regularly &C
knowledged.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-07-27

THE EFFECT of free silver coinage
upon the general public will be map
preciable. and the assertion OF the bolt
ers that vote for Bryan would be
vote to cut wages in half is absurd.
When the price OF commodities goes up'
as it does when money is plentiful,
that OF labor, which produces those
commodities, advances at the same pace.
When gold dust was currency in Cali
fornia, -four was fifty dollars barrel
but labor was twenty dollars q day, and
as the fact that the government would
receive its dues in silver dollars would
make such dollars az good as gold dol
lars all over the world, how wages
paid with them would be cut in half
can not readily be told; certainly noa
body could get hold of them unless in
exchange for something else.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-07-27
Fatal Result of a Feud.

WILLAMsTowS, KY, July 27.-Carl
Hightower and Noah Readenower, sons
of well-to-do farmers, sometime ago had
fist fight at the wedding of neigh
boris daughter. Last night they met at
Mount Pleasant Church. Hightower
fred two shots at Readenower, each
shot making slight wound, and then
started to run, when Readenower fired
at him, the ball striking him in the
back and killing him almost instantly.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-07-27

POMONA, Cal, July 27.-Edward N. Clark.
of New York, and Henry Sanford, of Column
bus, Mo-, have undoubtedly been lost in the
Mojave desert, while prospecting for COLO. In
all probability their provisions gave out and
their horses succumbed to the heat, az pros
pector yesterday reported finding two bodies
answering the description of Clark and San
ford % miles from Volcano Springs. Their
dead horses were also found.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-07-27
IIynching Threatened.

LANCASTER, Ky, July 27.-On Saturday
afternoon, as Nora the IA year old daughter
of James Stewart, farmer living near town,
was returning from an errand to the house OF
William Henry,she was waylaid and assaulted
by Henry. The man has been arrested and
lodged in Jail and strong threats Of lynching
are being made. Henry, who has wife and
two children, was a near neighbor and init.
mate friend of the Stewart family.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-07-27

Or CHRISTIAN UNITY.-Rey. ls.
McKim has addressed an open letter 10
Pope Leo Nil, in response to his late
encyclical on Christian unity Or
McKim in three columns Of a new.
paper mentions certain difficulties which
appear to him inexorably to forbid the
cordial acceptance of the plan which
the Pope proposes to heal the wounds
in the body Of Christ. The issues in
volved in the contention, the doctor
refers to the arbitrament OF reason.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-07-27

Reform Club during the day ind.ca,
an increasing desire on the par. b.
souud-money democrats 10 nominate
Cleveland with a running mz-e @.
sound-money principles from the >oeta.
10 this connection the name Of - "a.
ry Carlisle was most frequent 81.
toned. These views were cou-
Gated from widely separated po.l,- o.
only in this State, but throueaolt ~
cOuntry.'
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-07-27

WHY protested members of the dem
ocratic party should be publicly an
nouncing: their intention of voting the
ticket fairly and regularly nominated
by the national democratic convention,
is one of the many things that no ordi-
nary fellow can find out.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-07-27

THE TEXAS boiling populists have
resolved to support Mr.. Mckinley. If
the populists are regulators, those re-
ferred to have only made natural al
lance, as the republicans joined the re-
indicators in Virginia.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-07-27

On his way to the depot at Cairo,
Ills, at midnight last night l. n. Coffee,
president of the State board of phar-
macv, was killed by DR.. Crabtree, also
a prominent druggist. Crabtree stab
he'd Coffee twice. No reason has yet
been assigned for the assassination.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-07-27

KILLED BY A TRAIN.-Oscar Schnei-
der, of New Haven, Conn.,, German
carpenter, who went TO Orange last
January, was run over yesterday
morning about i o'clock and instantly
killed by Cannon Ball train No. 3S, on
the Southern Railroad, in Burgers Cut,
about mile above Orange. The body
was taken to Orange for interment. 1t
is said that the man, who had gone 10
Orange as tramp, was seen under the
influence of liquor on Saturday night
and that he was sitting on the end of q
tie when struck by the train.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-07-27
THE CHICAGO TICKET.


If millionaires and bank presidents
tatten on the sweat and blood of the
poor, why is a millionaire banker put
on the ticket to preside over the Sen
ate and have the casting vote?
# free coinage will raise the price Of
silver from 50 cent to 81, why did it 60
down when the coinage was increased
from %, o0O,OOO to 81 100000 a year?
England, France, Germany, Spain,
Italy and Belgium aggregating about
20O, 100000 people nave only lifted sill.
yer 10 50 cents, why should the United
States with 10000, 900 succeed in raising
it TO 100 cents?
If the silver men think the new dol
lar is going to be as good as gold, why
are they unwilling to agree to pay gold
10 their present creditors
II the free silver men favor an in
crease in the currency. why did they
vote to strike out hundreds OF millions
of bank notes?
If silver is going to rise TO twice its
present value if Bryan is elected, why
did it 20 down the day after he was
nominated?
II man is insured for $1,000 why
should he vote for system which may
permit the insurance company TO pay
only 500 to his wife after his death?
II the silver men are opposed to class
Legislation, why should they pass law
which will make multi-millionaires OF
handful of western mine owners, and ii
handful OF western mine owners are
made multi-millionaires, why should
the price OF wheat 90 up?
BASIL B. GORDON.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-07-27

A cyclone struck Buella Park picnic
near Cleveland, Ohio, Sunday evening
completely destroying eight or nine
houses, large tabernacle and other
valuable property. The loss is esti-
mated at many thousands of dollars.
No one was hurt.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-07-27

Have tried others. but like Ayers best IS
the statement made over and over agsin by
those Who testify TO the benefit derived from
the use Of Ayers sarsaparilla. Disease never
had greater remedy than this powerful
blood purifier. 1t makes the weak strong.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-07-27
Alexandria Market. July % -.

The market opened quiet with very light
offerings and no changes to note in either
Grain or Country Produce since the close az
last week.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-07-27

The strike among the New York
tailors continues,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-07-27

BALTIMORE, July 27.-Flour firm Whoa.
finn spot and July 627 -a63 Aug 62lga
62", Sept 63aG3l, steamer No. , red IS
a59 Southern wheat by sample 5Sa6ii.
do on grade 6iaG4. Corn weak; spot ani
July 30i2a305- Aug 3ol. s50l2 Sept 30.
a3O5s southern corn white corn 81 i2a;2.
Oats strong; No white 25a25l. NJ -
mi1ed 23a23l3 Rye quiet No > nearly
54lpa35 do. Western :}5a35i2. Hay firm
choice timothy $40 bid. Coffee steady IS,
12Aa121a. Sugar stronger: sranulatei
$40. Other articles unchanged.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-07-27

NEW YORK, July 27.-Flour-Statc AM
Western quiet and steady Whcat-No red
advanced &c; moderately active and sesdy
Sept 64asa65. Rye dull; W, stern 3Sio
Corn-No , dull and easier Sept 81 3,a32
OAis-No dull and firm: State 24a29
Western 22aa29 Sept %, a22a, Pork
quiet: new mess s. 75aS % old mes
s. 50a7 10. Lard dull; steam rcndcrci
So 80.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-07-27

CHICAGO. July -Wheat-lGly D
Sept G0a593. Dec 61aia617-. Seq,
257s; Dec 265, May 2S7-. Oa;s-Sep.
1Sas May 21a21L,. Pork-Sept So 07I2
Jan 81 92ip Lard Sept So Ply: Jan
So 60 Ribs-Sept 80 by; Jan 3 4212.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-07-27

Csttle.-The market was practically nominal !;
receipts were disposed of at unchanged prices
Hogs-A few early sales were made at steady
prices, but weakness soon set in and the day 3
business was largely done at decline OF 81
Zoe; sales were at 50. 65a3.20 FOR heavy.
S3.05a3.}5 for medium weights, s.. 10a3 80
for mixed, and 81 25a3 30 for light weights
rough, heavy hogs sold at 81 S5a2 % SHEEP
Trade was fairly animated at uuchaug,
prices native sheep being saleabie at S1.75s
3. % for inferior to choice Westerns 81 5Os
3.25, and lambs at S3a5. -. with few ss,5
above So 25; ycarlings sold at 50 5044 80
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-07-27

Senator Butler, ofNorth Carolina, chairman
of the populist national committee, said yes
to-day that Mr.. Watson would not be With
drawn if Mr.. Sewall did not withdraw. The
two campaigns would be conducted separated
on parallel lines, but that he hoped the vote
would be united