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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-04-13
MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 10, 1896

THE Richmond Dispatch, published
in the capital of the late Confederate
States, compares the negro, mulatto ana
scalawag insurgent banditti OF CUBA
who fears to meet the forces OF their
government in battle array, but hide In
swamps and mountains, and make IN
cursions into the settled country, laying
waste all in their path, Ito the Confed-
crate army, and says: "Mr. Lincoln
thought it not beneath his dignity to
hold a conference at Old Point with his
.rebellious' insurgents. Why may not
Mr.. Cleveland have that celebrated
conference in mind when he proposes
TO send commissioners to Cuba to see
with his eyes and hear with his ears:
But as has been the case for the past
twenty odd years. it is what is not,
rather than what is, done in Richmond
that is surprising.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-04-13
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Holmes alledged confession states
that he has murdered 81 persons.
The fiftieth anniversary of the iucor-
poration of the Pennsylvania Railroad
was fttingly celebrated at Philadelphia
to-day.
Ex-Governor William E. Russell, of
Massachusetts, is said to be President
Clevelands choice for President il Car
Isle fails.
The grand organ OF the Metropolitan
NJ. E. Church 10 Washington was 81.
lent yesterday, an eel having gotten
into the pipes which supplies the water
power.
Paul Hellmuth, a grocer, forty-nine
years old, was asphyxiated by illumi-
mating gas early yesterday morning at
his home, No. 215 G street northeast,
Washington.
The Women's Health Protective AS
ISOLATION of Brooklyn has passed res
olution requesting theatre managers to
require women to remove their hats
while witnessing plays.
Afer two days debate, the House
Saturday evening by vote Of 160 to IS
passed the Grosvenor filled cheese"
bill. The democrats voted solidly
against the measure, together with IL
republicans.
A cable dispatch from Havana, Cuba,
says that Spain, as reported, will not
consider claims for damages made by
Americans unless the United States
will agree not to intervene in the Gu.
ban question.
The American athletes who are tax
ing part in the Olympic games at
Athens have been given receptions at
the different places visited, and at Ma
pies and Athens they were treated with
great courtesy.
Hillsdale, a colored settlement, be-
yond the Anacostia river, furnished a
murder on the Anacostia bridge Satur-
day night. Some negroes who were
under the influence of liquor got in o
row, during which Thomas Burrell
stabbed to death Bryant Mackell.
Thomas NJ. Holt, Ex-Governor of
North Carorlina and the wealthiest and
most prominent cotton manufacturer
in the State, died Saturday evening at
his home at Haw River. He was buried
to-day at Graham. He had been legis-
lator, acknowledgement and Gov
erncr, retiring from the latter office in
1898.
A wind storm with the violence of a
cyclone visited Red Cloud, Neb., early
Saturday evening. In the country it
was severe. On the farm of Andrew
Hawley barn was blown over, bury
ing Hawley and his little girl, crushing
the child's shoulder and leg. The father
was seriously injured. The damage to
property is thought to be large.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-04-13
TO-DAY'S TELEGRAPHIC NEWS
Foreign News.

MADRID, April Traditional re-
turns from Yesterdays elections Tor
members of the Cortes show that among
those elected are Seniors CASTELAR, and
Margall. The manipulation OF the
polling and counting of votes in Mad.
rid has resulted in the election of five
conservatives and three liberals. 1t is
conceded on all sides that the new par
lament will be short-lived.
HAVANA, April 13.-Timoteo Vega,
a political prisoner, was shot this morn
Jog at Matanzas. Other executions of
revolutionists will take place this week
in Havana.
CALAIS, April ia violent gale has
prevailed in the channel to-day, render
ing navigation extremely perilous. A
fishing boat belonging here foundered
in the channel this morning and SIX OF
her crew were drowned.
CoNsTANTINoPLE, April 13.-The
Porte has addressed to Mr.. j. w. KID
die, United States charge d'af1airs, u
written promise to deliver Rev. George
p. Knapp, the American missionary re-
Gently expelled from Bitlis by the Turk
ish authorities, to the United States
consul at Alexandretta.
LONDON, April 13-The manager OF
the British South Africa Company's
mines at Gwelo wires that upon the
withdrawal of the chartered company's
men from that place, they left their
stores of dynamite behind. The Mats-
beles occupied the place after it was
abandoned by the British and while
they were tampering with dynamite, it
exploded, killing 200 natives and in
juriDg many more.
PARIS, April l3.-The Prince OF Ba-
gan and NJ. Hermant, the dramatic au-
thor, fought duel this morning on the
race course at Auteuil, suburb OF
Paris. The weapons used were pistols.
Four shots were exchanged, but neither
of the combatants was wounded.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-04-13

auguration the superb presence of Gen.
Fitzhugh Lee riding at the head of the
Virginia troops down Pennsylvania
avenue to the Capitol amid tumultuous
cheering was the great feature OF the
day. General Fitzhugh Lee was elect
ed Governor of Virginia few months
later. Tile President last year appoint
ed him collector of internal revenue at
Lynchburg, Va.
It's conceded at the Capitol to-day
by sound money Virginians that their
State convention will declare for free
silver, and even by sound money demo.
Gratis from the North, that the national
democratic convention will DO likewise,
and the silver men say that by doing
so the latter will take the only way by
which the democrats can hope for sue
cess.
This was District Day in the House,
and among those present to watch the
proceedings were Messrs Hine and
Lacey, of Alexandria, who are interest
ed in the fate of the bill for the en-
trance of the Falls Church and Potomac
Railroad into this city.
Congressman Tyler of Virginia is
trying to have the naval appropriation
bill amended so as to provide for the
purchase Of the Cedar Grove property,
near the Norfolk Navy Yard.
p. H. Dowdy was to-day appointed
postmaster at Otterview, Bedford coun-
ty, Va, vice John M. Dowdy, dead.
The vote in the House elections committee
to-day il the Thorp. Mckinney contested
case from the Petersburg, Virginia, district,
was unanimous in favor of the republican
contestant. General Walker says he will have
the report ready by Wednesday and will try
to have it called up in the House on tnat day.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-04-13
VIRGINIA NEWS.

A number of charitable requests were
made by the will of the late John Pope,
of Richmond. His funeral took place
in that city on Saturday.
Mrs. Edith Allan Graves, daughter OF
General Edgar ALA of Richmond, VINO
was married last December, died sud-
denly in Washington on Saturday.
Charles W. HARDWOOD, past grand re-
gent of the Royal Arcanum of Virginia,
died at his home in Richmond on Satur-
day. He was soliciting freight agent
in that city of the Southern railway.
Rev. John K. Mason, rector of ST.
James Episcopal Church, Richmond,
preached his farewell sermon in that
church Yesterday and will on Wednes-
day leave for Louisville, his new desti-
nation.
Major Andrew L. Pitzer, who was q
member of the staff OF General Early
for the last three years of the war, died
Saturday in Roanoke. He was ~ years
of age. and had been deputy in the
city treasurer's Office for the last five
years.
A lengthy address to the republican
voters of Virginia by the anti-Lamb
leaders is now ready, it is said, to be
sent out. The whole controversy is re-
viewed, and the Lamb letter to coun-
ty chairman, to which reference has
been made, is published. This docu-
ment will be freely distributed among
the delegates to the conventions and
other local leaders of the party.
Edward Gould, the man who wrote
letters to Governor O'Ferrall, Mrs.
O'Ferrall and others, charging promi,
nent men in Richmond with immoral
conduct, was tried in the United States
district court in that city on Saturday
and found guilty. Judge Hughes post
poned sentence. Gould's letters were
printed with blanks left for such names
as he chose to insert. His charges
were against public officials and law
yers. In the same court John r. Valid
man was found guilty on twelve indlcI'
ments for pension frauds. Sentence
will be passed later.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-04-13
ODD FELLOWS.

The ffty-ninth annual session ofthe
Grand Lodge of the Independent Order
of Odd Fellows will convene tomorrow
morning at 10 o'clock at Charlottes-
vile. Grand Master Hill Montagu will
preside.
Preceding the opening of the grand
lodge the citizens and Odd Fellows of
Charlottesville will tender public re-
ception to the grand officers, past grand
officers, and grand representatives of the
order at the Opera House tonight, pre-
sided over by the Mayor of that city.
Interesting addresses will be delivered
by prominent members of the order,
giving history of Odd Fellowship, its
aims and objects.
Questions of interest to every Odd
Fellow will be presented at this session
and discussed; notably among them the
revised constitution. Some of the ar
ticles of this document will be bitterly
confessed; taxation will be thoroughly
ventilated, and efforts will be made to
decrease the same but there is little
chance of such effort passing without
strong fight against it.
The report of the Grand Master for
the year ending with last December,
will show a total membership of the
order in the State of SO97, with l2S
lodges. The total relief fund paid out
during the year to brothers, widows,
orphans and so forth, was SOS, 565. The
total receipts for the year were $40, 231.
The number of weeks sickness for
which benefits were paid was $5,763.
Amount paid for working expenses
$Sl 1913, and amount paid for expenses
of Grand Lodge S3,S63. The number
of new lodges instituted during the
year was 81 including at Mt. Sidney
and at Basic City. The condition of
the order was never better.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-04-13
INGERsoLL IN THE PULPIT.

With a prelude that included the
pronouncing of an invocation, the re
peatipg of the Lords Prayer inunison,
the reading of the tenth chapter of
Luke, commencing with the twenty
fifth verse, the singing of a Hozanna OF
"Nearer My God to Thee" and Amer
ica,n Robert G. Ingersoll, stepped to
the rostrum of the Church Militant in
Chicago yesterday morning and for
nearly two hours expounded to the
congregation his views upon "How
mankind could be reformed" The
Church Militant is composed of the
major portion of the former adherents
of the Fullerton Avenue Presbyterian
Church, one of the strongest congregs-
tons of that denomination in Chicago,
ard who, with their pastor, Rev. DIR.
James Rusk, branched off into an indie
pendent organization some months
since, as result of opposition of the
minority of the congregation to the
introduction of radical changes in the
conduct of the services, including the
use of and instrumental orchestra, and
the attachment to the church of en-
ployment, hospital, clubhouse, and
other guilds. Some time ago an invi-
tation was extended to Col. Robert G.
Ingersoll to deliver an address under
the auspices of the congregation, and it
was in response to this invitation that he
found himself in its rostrum yesterday.
The hall was packed almost to sutfoca
ton. In the prayer that followed the
musical exercises, DR.. Rusk asked for
special blessing on their guest Of the
day, who was endeavoring to show the
world how this life might be made one
of usefulness and joy, and invoked
dispensation for his wife and children,
while in his Introductory remarks, DIR.
Rusk characterized Col. Ingersoll as
1.-The man who is endeavoring to do
this world good and to make it better.
COL Ingersoll took as his text the quo
tation from Shakespeare, whom he
characterized as the greatest of human
beings, "There is no darkness but ig-
norance," and for two hours spoke
upon the necessity OF arbitration as
substitute for war, the need for new
methods in the treatment OF criminals,
the desirability of the occupancy of the
prairies of the West for homes as a
panacea for tenement systems, the
question of divorce, the relations Of
capital and labor, and the need of re-
form in the education of children.
When he concluded the congregation
united in singing Blessed Be the Tie
That Binds" and with the pronounc-
ing of the benediction the unique SER
vice came to an end.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-04-13

CHARGED WITH SwINDLING.-John
NJ. Nelson is a young man who went to
Washington few days ago from Or
ange Court House with the intention of
making that city his home. He was ar
rested yesterday on the charge of OBJ
tanning money under false pretenses.
To this is added q long list of minor
offenses and unpaid board bills. The
Young man is charged with swindliDg
people wherever he went. His baggage
is held at Manassas, the American
House of Washington has bill against
him, and half dozen boarding house
keepers of his native town are pressing
their claims. 1t is the old story of
life OF dissipation with "Dum uiuimus
uipan,usp as the motto. he was placed
in charge of the sheriff of Orange who
took him back to that place.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-04-13
FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS.
WASHINGTON. April IS.
SENATE.

The president of the Senate pro tenn
pore-Mr. Frye-took the chair this
morning in the absence of the VICE
President.
The Joint resolution introduced by
Mr.. Call requesting the government OF
Great Britain to pardon Mrs. May brick,
and which was then referred to the
judiciary committee, was reported back
from that committee, with unusual
promptitude, by Mr.. Hoar with the
recommendation that it be indefinitely
postponed as, sin the opinion of the
committee, the matter is not within the
jurisdiction of the Senate" In the alb.
sence of Mr.. Call, the adverse report
was not acted upon, but was placed on
the calendar.
The conference report on the legisla-
tive, executive and judicial approprin-
zion bill was presented and agreed to;
and Mr.. Cullom chairman of the Senate
copferees, made an explanation as to
the points on which no agreement had
been reached.
These were for twenty-five clerks
10 Senate committees at $500 each.
For an increase of messengers and
skilled laborers for the Senate. AS to
IS annual clerks to Senators. AS to
an increase of the Capitol police force.
AS to librarian; and for appointment OF
register of copyright. As to salary Of
the assistant comptroller. AS to coin
age expenses at the assay office in
Idaho AS to change of the time of
meeting of legislature of New Mexico.
For classification and division in the
natept office. Authorizing the Secre-
tary of the Interior TO continue for one
year the contract Tor the official ga
zette. Additional appropriation for
carrying on surveys in different States
and Territories. For an increase OF
force in the Office of the Attorney Gen
eral. To increase the amount of APP
preparation for the new Library build.
ing. For printing and distributing an
additional number of opinions of the
Supreme Court. All the provisions in
regard to the compensation of United
States district attorneys and marshals.
Mr.. German moved that the Senate
recede from the amendment extending
for one year the contract for printing
the official gazette of the patent office,
one of the points on which the con-
ferees had failed to agree. He made
an explanation of the facts in the case,
recalling the investigation of the pat
ent office by the committee on printing,
couple of years ago, and argued
against the extension of the existing
contract.
Mr.. Platt, chairman of the committee
on patents, replied to Mr.. Germans
argument, and favored adherence to
the Senate amendment.
Mr.. Germans motion to recede from
the Senate amendment was agreed to,
yeas rs, nays %.
The Senate insisted on its other
amendment to the legislative bill, not
already agreed on in conference, and
further conference was ordered.
The Dupont election case was taken
up, and Mr.. Burrows spoke in favor OF
Mr.. Dupont's right to the vacant seat
from the State of Delaware.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-04-13

A SAMPLE of the utter worthlessness
and needlessness Of the great expense to
which the people of this country are
put by their government, is afforded
by the fact that the only apparent Ell
feet of the last official report OF
the wheat crop, which showed lower
average of the condition of that crop
than that of last March, and which, ii
believed, would reasonably have tend
ed to raise the price of wheat, had the
directly contrary effect, a decline OF
over two cents bushel. The advant'
eyes of government lie altogether in its
administration, and not at all in lis
form
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-04-13

TERRIFIC STORM IN TExAs.-A terrific
storm, the velocity of wind being sixty miles
an hour, accompanied by an inch of rainfall
swept over Abilene, Tex, Saturday. In that
city four residences and half dozen work
shops were demolished, snd number of resi-.
dcnces moved from their foundations and
otherwise damaged, and many buildings un
rooted telegraph, telephone and electric light
poles were blown down, and telegraph COM
municstion cut off until late yesterday even.
ing Mrs. Mckinley was seriously and Mrs.
johnson painfully injured, their residences
being destroyed
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-04-13

WHY SHOULD the farmers complain
of the tax imposed upon them for pre-
pairing crop reports so inaccurate that
nobody pays any attention to them,
when, according to Senator Vest, no less
than $4,000 are spent i'll one year for
orchids, lilies of the valley and giant
palms for the White House?
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-04-13
ALEXANDRIA UNION MISSION.
The Alexandria Union Mission was

ALEXANDRIA UNION Mission.
The Alexandria Union Mission was
organized April Is, 1895, with board
of six directors, representing six differ.
emit churches. The constitution under
which it was organized requires that no
less than four different denominations
shall be represented its management,
thereby making tia union work. The
object of this mission is not to supplant
or proselyte or organize other churches,
but it is expected to act as the agency
of the churches to lookout for that
class of our people who have become
estranged from them, and win them
back to Christ and the church. Through
the earnest efforts of their missionary
they have been more than successful
along this line. The gospel has been
preached to thousands who possibly
would not otherwise have heard it.
Many lives and homes have been made
brighter and happier. Men who had
become almost hopeless through the
effect of Incorporate habits and who
were more or less charge to the pub
lie have been assisted into more hope
full and useful lives and are
now earning honest livings fer
themselves and their families. AS
the burden of this work has been al
most wholly left to Mr.. Redding, the
city missionary, who uncomplainingly
has struggled to maintain it, the
ministers and people at large have con-
cluded to give him their sympathy and
assistance in the future, and in view of
this fact they have called mass meet
ing to be held in the N. E. Church
South Tuesday evening, April IA, at
7:3O o'clock. An interesting programme
has been arranged for this occasion. Mr..
Fl. K. Field will have charge of the
singing. Mr.. Havel, the noted mission
singer of Washington. will be present
and sing. Addresses will be made by
Rev. E. D. Bailey, president of the
Union Mission of Washington, and by
the ministers of this city. The public
are urged to be present.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-04-13

Mr.. POPE, q Catholic, who died in
Richmond last week, left legacies to
various charitable institutions of that
city, among them, the Retreat for the
Sick. the Home for Incurables, the Male
Orphan Asylum, theVirginia Mechanics
Institute and others of non sectarian
character. But still the A. P. AS OF
Richmond would have ostracised and
prescribed the deceased if they could
have done so.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-04-13

TIE U. S. House of Representatives
last week refused to make an appro-
priation for Catholic schools among the
Indians-acknowledged by Protestants
TO be the only effective ones among that
race-but did appropriate $32, 800 to a
Congregationalist negro school in Wash
ington. Consistency is jewel-but
not to a modern American Congress.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-04-13

New YORK and Chicago are still
rivals for the trade Of the South, and
are lavishing their Establishments up
on this section for the purpose of at
tanning the object of their desire. The
South now strikes minor key in the
music of the Union, but commerce, not
arms. makes people powerful, and il
Southern merchants would unite and
establish direct trade arrangements
with foreign countries, this section
would soon receive the obeissnce of both
the Others.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-04-13

In the democratic primaries in Ala
bama, Johnston, the free silver candi-
date for Governor, secured a majority
of the delegates. His election is at
tributed, however, to his personal pop
ularity rather than to his free silver
views. A successor to Senator Pugb,
on the other hand, is likely to be a
sound money man.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-04-13
A Bomb Sent to Roosevelt.

New York, April ia suspicious-look
ing package came through tho mails Satur-
day night for Commissioner Roosevelt. After
it had been soaked in pail of water it was
examined and found to be bomb Captain
OBrien has detailed some of his men to assist
the postoffice authorities in making an in
ycstigation.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-04-13

Among the bills passed in the House
to-day under unanimous consent were
the following To hold terms of Unite d
States courts at Biloxi, Miss, instead
of Mississippi City, and numerous pri-
vate measures.
Business relating to the District of
Columbia was then taken up and the
following bills We're passed Permitting
the Pintsch Comprising Company to
lay pipes in Washington city to supply
railroad cars with gas.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-04-13

THE CONGRESS of the United States
passed alaw under which negro men and
women are sent to the penitentiary for
incontinence, and now the negro Meti o
dist Conference at Richmond has de-
barred two young preachers because
they have not been satisfied with one
wife apiece. While the law of Congress
and the act Of the Conference are both
ridiculously absurd to all familiar
with negroes, the former is inf
nitely more censurable, because those
who enacted it pose as intelligent men.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-04-13
IN COLORED DRESS GOODS
SILK-LIKE MOHAIRS.

The following are most reasonably priced:
Mohair Glace, 40 inches wide, SOC per 3D.
Mobair Sicilian, 40 to so inches wide, -5c
to 81. so per yard.
Mohair Glace Florentine, Il inches wide
ST. 90 per yard.
Mohsir F'lorentine, Navy and Brown, As
inches wide, 81 % per yard.
Mohair Fancies, Two.toncd Figured effects.
SO inches wide, soc per yard.
Mohair Glace siciliau, A. inches wide
$1.25 per yard.
Mohair Figured Iridescents, Navy Brown,
and Green effects. Extremely stylish, IS
inches wide, $1.25 per yard.
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