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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-02-01
NEWS OF THE DAY.

1t is believed that the bids for the
new bonds will exceed the amount
offered-s1OO,O0O,000.
Acting Secretary Reynolds yesterday
ordered the suspension OF the sentence
disbarring Belva Lockwood from prac-
tice before the pension bureau.
The Louisiana republican convention
Yesterday Endorsed the populist State
ticket and selected a majority of Reed
men as delegates at large to st. Louis.
John Hays Hammond, under arrest
by the Beers. has cabled to Senator
Jones urging the United States govern
ment to bring pressure to bear upon
the Beers to release the American
prisoners.
At a secret session of the A. P. A., in
Rochester, N. Y, on Wednesday, az
ton was taken on Presidential nomina-
tons by what has become one OF the
most gigantic political organizations
that ever existed.
The pastoral relations of Rev. Adoli S
Allen with the First Presbyterian
Church, of Washington, have been
practically severed. Last night at a
meeting held at his request to appoint
committee to request the Presbytery
for severance of such relations be was
presented with handsome gold watch
by the congregation.
The French embassy in Washington,
which has been the scene of many
splendid events, was last night thrown
open to distinguished assemblage OF
several hundred guests, who attended
the reception given by the French
ambassador and his beautiful wife. 1t
was altogether one of the handsomest
affairs given at the capital.
The meeting yesterday evening OF
the Cabinet lasted for about two and
one-half hours, and it is believed that
much of the time was occupied in the
discussion of the expediency of acced-
ing to the request of Congress as set out
in the concurrent resolution relative to
Armenian affairs, and communicating
with the governments of Europe on the
! subject.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-02-01
The Dunrayen Incident.

LONDON, Feb. 1.-The ST. James Ga
=ette, referring to the Dunraven Incl.
dent, says: "The New York Yacht
Club has given Lord Dunraven severe
lesson in fairness and good manners.
Lord Dunraven's accusation of sordid
fraud appears to have been based up.
on the fimsiest of evidence and he
owes American sportsmen generally a
very ample amende. He owes it to his
own reputation as gentleman to apollo
gize."
The Globe says that Lord Dunraven
was justified in making charges, though
they have neither been proved nor dis.
proved, and hopes that England will
not again challenge for the Americas
CUP.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-02-01

PRINCE WILLIAM NoTEs.-Mr. rem
Reid died at his home near Occoqual
on Wednesday night Of last week u
about his 18th year.
Mrs. Mary Spittle.died on Mond'y
last at her home near BuckhaII, 'nl'
county. She was over 60 years OF az az,
Mrs. L. G. Lynn died at ner hoa s
near Sudley Springs, this county 0n
Friday of last week. "A
Little Mary Nicol, the two yeafoJd
daughter of Judge G. f. Nicol, got no.G
of a bottle of tablets on last SUNDAY o.,
ternoon, which Mrs. Nicol had o ,ys
using for the relief of heart tTou Va
and before it was discovered sne nSa a
made free use of them. DR.. SIN sg "
being in the house at the time, pFoing,
action brought the little girl thFous-
what came near being fatal case
Manassas Journal.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-02-01

THREE OF the leading hotels of Bos-
ton have refused to accommodate ne
gro bishop of the NJ. E. Church, upon
the ground that if they had supplied him
with bed and board their white guests
would have departed. One of them
had been selected as the place for the
banquet of the Unitarian Club, but the
chosen orator of the occasion says he
will not speak there on account of that
refusal. This is at least nominally, a
free country, and the hotel keepers re-
ferred to had as much right to choose
their guests as the orator has to choose
the place for the delivery of his GRAFTON,
but the incident alluded to shows that
the color line exists in Boston as well
as in New Orleans.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-02-01

LORD SALISBURY delivered speech
in London last night in which he said
he supported the Monroe doctrine, as
President Monroe understood it, that
the preachers were entirely wrong in
supposing that England had right to
90 to war with the Sultan in order to
force him to govern the Armenians well,
and that the reforms weak govern
ment had ordered could not be expect
ed to produce good results in two
months, among wild and disorderly
people in their mountain recesses.
Every word of this was right and the
government of this country would show
its wisdom by accepting it as such.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-02-01
Starving Patriots.

BALTIMORE, Md, Feb. 1.-The steam
yacht May is at this port from Key
West, Fla. The captain says that some
Cubans were found about Cape Sable,
where they had been sent to await a
chance to leave for Cuba, and that
these volunteers had undergone the
pangs of starvation and had eaten
everything but the trees. The turnip
patch of one of the residents had been
devoured by the voracious patriots.
When this last resource failed they left
Cape Sable.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-02-01

FROM THE annual report of the New
York State factory inspectors, just pub
lished, it is learned that large numbers
of white women and girls under age
are compelled to work in factories
there, and to work over hours, in or
der to keep soul and body together;
that illiteracy and immortality prevail
among them extensively; that the
Sweating" system is practiced as much
rs ever, and that the shelter these
workers have is shame, and the bake
shops at which they buy their bread,
are a disgrace to civilization. But all
this is in the rich. intelligent aud pros
porous Northern State of New York.
There is nothing to compare with it in
any of the poor Ignorant" and hall
civilized" Southern States, not even
among the negro convicts, though the
South haters of the North would have
people believe otherwise.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-02-01
Railroad Wreck.

LAwRENcEBURG, Ind, Feb. IA
disastrous wreck ACQUIRED on the Big
Four Railroad mile west of Harden
town at 8 o'clock this morning. One
car left the track near No. 1 Bridge,
the engine passed over, but thirty-one
cars crashed through the bridge which
gave way plunging them into the creek
below. One man was taken out, one
foot torn off at the ankle. There are
supposed to be eight tramps killed, but
it is impossible to reach them because
of the debris.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-02-01
AFTER THE VIRGINIA F1sHERMEN.-

AFTER THE VIRGINIA FISHERMEN
Delegate Jones, of st. Mary's, intro.
duced bill in the Maryland Legisla-
ture yesterday which, if passed, will
prohibit residents of Virginia from
scooping in fish in the Chesapeake bay
along the lines of St. Mary's and CAL
vert counties. 1t provides that fishing
with traps shall be confined to within
500 yards of the bay shore, and that
such fishermen must make affidavit be.
fore a magistrate that they have been
residents for one year. Virginians
now place their traps in the middle of
the bay and stop the fish from moving
up. Mr.. Jones proposes to put stop
to this. A law similar to the above ap-
plies to the Patuxent.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-02-01
From the TransyaaI.

New York, Feb. IA dispatch from
johannesburg says that the Transyaal
government is highly pleased at Mr..
Olney's cable, which states that tie
United States will act indep, ndently Of
England in the matter Of the imprisol-
ed Americans. President Krueger
promised to fastened HammonG's PIE.
iiminary hearing, with q view to fixing
the amount to bail.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-02-01

CoNGREssIoNAL.-In the House OF
Representatives yesterday most of the
session was devoted to the District OF
Columbia appropriation bill. The regu-
lar attempt was made to have all the
expenses of the District government
paid by the District, but the motion
made by Mr.. De Almond, democrat, OF
Missouri, to effect this was ruled out
on point of order. The District bill
carried S5,417 800, S353, 42S less than
the sum appropriated for the current
fiscal year. The House had night
session to consider pension bills.
The House committee on judiciary
approved bill introduced by Mr..
Broderick, of Kansas, which provides 9
penalty of not more than twenty years.
Imprisonment for shooting at trains in
the Indian Territory, throwing mis-
siles at them or derailing trains. If
any person is killed, directly or indi-
rectly, through such acts, the crime Is
made murder.
The republicans of the two houses of
Congress agreed upon Mr.. Cousins
resolution to censure Ambassador Bay
ard.
A resolution for the appointment of
committee to investigate tariff dis
elimination was adopted by the House
ways and means committee.
The republican Senators, at their
caucus yesterday evening, decided
upon making an attempt to complete
the reorganization of the Senate, and
to meet again next Friday for that pur-
pose.
The hearing on the bill to abolish the
compulsory pilotage law was continued
by the committee on merchant marine
and fisheries. Representatives of the
various pilots associations and Others
opposed the bill. The committee was
addressed by Col. Lamb. of Norfolk,
the agent of the Norfolk and Western
Railroad, President Marshall, of the
Virginia Pilots Association, from
Portsmouth, and Judge Beckwith,
president of the New Orleans Associa-
lion of Pilots.
The committee on public buildings is
unanimously in favor of new govern
ment printing Office.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-02-01
TO-DAY'S TELEGRAPHIC NEWS
From Richmond.

RICHMOND, Va, Feb. 1.-MessFs.
Diyps and Newberne, of the committee
on counties, cities and towns, which re- re
ported favorably the Pitcher racing DILL
with the Reddy amendments, have de- le,
cided to prepare minority report on the Dr.
They are in favor of the Maupin bill. They
were not present at the meeting OF the com'
mittee when the Pitcher bill was recon-
p,nnded
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-02-01

SOME OF the busybodies of Wash
ington, having nothing else to do, are
now engaged in an attempt to break up
the immoral houses in that city now
conferred in what is known as the "Di-
vision," though the effect ofthe success
of that attempt would necessarily be to
scatter the inmates OF those houses
throughout that city and, among re-
putable people, where their example
would be anything else than beneficial.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-02-01
TIE LEGISLATURE.
SENATE.

In the Senate yesterday MIR. VII.
liams's s'three-fourths' value clause"
insurance bill came up as special or
der and after considerable discussion
was defeated.
A bill was introduced to require
clubs and corporations that sell or give
away liquor to take out license;
The Senate passed the Senate bill Tor
the relief If Fannie Grymes, and House
bills to amend the code in relation to
admitting writings to record, and to
protect laboring men who are house
holders from being deprived of the ex-
emption to which they are entitled.
HOUSE.
The bill regulating the sale of fertil-
izer in the State was ordered to its en-
grossment.
Mr.. Hundley's bill to prohibit appel
late courts from granting new trials on
technical Irregularities in the records OF
trial-courts was, after debate, passed by.
The bill to amend section 3l49 of the
Code, in relation to jurors, came up, on
it's second reading and was amended by
Mr.. Taliaferro so as to provide that no
Juror shall serve twice in one year, IN
less all eligibles had been drawn.
The bill making husband and wife
competent witnesses for or against each
other came up for consideration of the
Senate amendment thereto. The
House refused to agree to the amend
ment. -,
Bills were introduced to amend tue
Code providing for reducing the mum
Der of grand jurors to number not less
than seven nor more than ten, and pro-
viding further that special grand Jurles
shall consist of not less than four MOI
more than seven; to prohibit any OH
Ger or teacher in a free school from
having any pecuniary interest in any
contract for building school-house, OF
for furnishing material therefor.
The following were placed on the
calendar:
By MIR. Willard To amend and re-
enact section 8, chapter 70, of the acts
of Assembly for the extra session Of
1887, entitled an act for working the
public roads of Fairfax county.
By same: To provide for working,
and defining the boundaries of certain
roads in Fairfax county.
The House passed Senate bills: 10
amend section 1880 of the code fixing
the order in which debts of decedenl
are to be paid To repeal the charter
of the Westmoreland Insurance Com
pany, of Colonial Beach To repeal the
charter of the Monarch Fire Insurance
Company, of Alexandria county.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-02-01

Settlers or western Cherokee Indians s.
A resolution asking the President 70
transmit to the House the correspon'
dence with the German government re-
specting the refusal to permit American
insurance companies to continue tneIr
business in that country was agreed 10.
Consideration of the District OF Col
umbia appropriation bill was then re-
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-02-01
Drowned in an Oil Tank.

STEUBENvILLE, Ohio, Feb. 1.-Chas.
Edmondson, on whose farm near this
city an oil well is located, was On the
tank yesterday engaged in skimming
something from the surface when he
fell in. james Neckly, an oil driller,
saw him and went to the rescue, but in
attempting to save EdmondsoD, fell in
himself ard was suffocated. Edmond
son was overcome by gas and this caused
him to lose consciousness.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-02-01
Another Rumored Exned;tion

BALTIMORE, Md, Feb. The state
ment was current here yesterday that
another steamer, the Luce Brothers.
had been purchased in the interests of
the Cuban insurgents and that she
would soon leave this port on filibus-
teriDg expedition. The Luce Brothers
owner denies that the vessel has been
sold, and says there is absolutely no
truth in the story connecting his vessel
with Cuban expedition.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-02-01

A. MOUSE IN A HORSES No5TRI .
While out driving yesterday In9I u:
Folk, of Lower Alsace, Pa, found ID ID
horse getting unusually FESTIVE ass
troublesome. Stopping at waItL ,,j.
trough he noticed something proiIa.aa
ing from the horses left noslr anu :. " I.
on pulling it out discovered it to pS'
i've mouse.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-02-01

BIGGEST WOMAN; SMALLEST BABY.-V-
boasts Of possessing the largest woman .. .
the smallest baby in the world. Miss ,.
Ewing is % years old and is eight feel y. H.
inches in height, two inches taller III III
Chang, the Chinese giant, who hitherto -
the record .,.,
The wee mite of humanity is a girl ba0'
Mr.. and Mrs. Ira Seeley, Of Columbus :.
though eight weeks old, she only weKs-
pounds. At birth she weighed less asiD~
bounds. A finger ring can be drawn oyef
hand and arm and an artificial feediog.A
has been provided for her. Her psrei1sS
of medium size and healthy.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-02-01
Rnhhe1.Y the Incentiye.

Houston, Texas, Feb. Yesterday
William Payne, colored, aged II years,
was found in his yard with his throat
cut and his skull beaten to a pulp His
aged wife was found lying across her
he'd with her head mashed in and soon
after died. Thursday Payne disposed
of some property for cash which is sup
posed to have been the incentive for
rho crime
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-02-01
COURT OF APPEALS.

Jackson vs. Hopkins. Further ar
gued and submitted.
Jett VS.. Harris. Continued.
Aylett, trustee, vs.. Walker. Argued
and submitted.
Chapman VS.. Chapman, trustee. Ar
gued and submitted.
Pierce vs. Grice. Continued.
Richmond Railway and Electric Com
rany vs.. Cartwright. Argued and con.
linued.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-02-01
Railroad Accident,

DECATUR, Ill.,, Feb. IA passenger
train on the Wabash road had a head
end collision last night with freig t
train at Oakley. near here. The eu-
gineer of the passenger train was killed
and the conductor of the freight train
is missing. No passengers were injured.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-02-01

1t has been finally decided to hold
the republican national convention in
the Exposition Building in st. Louis.
The northern portion of the building
will be remodeled at the expense of
about $4,000 and will insure salts
factory hall for convention purposes.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-02-01
SATURDAY EVENING. FEB. 1, 1856.

THE national weather bureau, for the
support of which the people of Virginia
are taxed their full share, now supplies
telegraphlc forecasts to thirty-three,
and fast mail forecasts to 2SS places in
Virginia-many of which distribute
those forecasts to other places in their
localities-and corresponds with about
forty volunteer observers in the State,
to whom it furnishes all the needed
meteorological instruments for making
accurate observations. Virginia, it is
thus seen, is supplied with weather ser
vice, of the best possible kind, in all
parts of her territory, and such service
i {, being extended as rapidly as it is re-
uuired. Neither the national bureau,
therefore, nor any other reasonable
body, can see why the State, so poor
that she had to compromise her debt,
should expend one single cent for a
service necessarily inferior to that OF
the federal government, which she is
already taxed to maintain. If the
State board of agriculture is solely re-
sponsible for urging additional legisla-
ton with respect to q State weather
service, so much the worse for that
board. Then, too, the president of the
board should know that brevity is the
sole of wit, and fippancy valuable
acquisition, aud that while ignorance
may be condoned iu squibs, it cannot
be in prosy articles, only conspicuous
for that delinquency and for the sell
complacency of their writer's.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-02-01

CONFERENCE.-The .
If "Youngster" will kindly caii If If
me, he will be cheerfully accorded .; ~
the information he wishes respecSHy 10
the affairs of the Y. NJ. G. a. OF AleA
andria. WORTH HULFlsH,
One of the Trustees
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-02-01

Tomorrow will be Ground Hog Day.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-02-01

In the House to-day Mr.. Powers, OF
Vermont, asked unanimous consent for
consideration of the bill giving to the
widow of the late Justice Miller of the
Supreme Court of the United States
S7,419, the balance of the salary for the
year within which he died. Mr.. Powers
stated the deceased justice left only a
single piece of property in this city bur-
dened with mortgage of $1,000, and
the widow was in need of the money.
Objection was made by several mem
bers who thought the bill should go to
a committee.
The following were passed:
A bill to issue duplicate check r
$50 1876 in favor of the Independence
National Bank, of Pennsylvania,
the original, in favor of the Mid.
vale Steel Company for material
furnished the ordnance department
and deposited with the Indepen-
dence Bank for collection, having been
lost in the mails; to pay Reese Voorhees,
and John Paul Jones the sum of IS 600
for legal services rendered the "old
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1896-06-04
THE OWEN COMPANY.
It will Present a Week of Shakespeare at
the Rhode

William Owen, the young and tai
ented romantic actor, and most ex-
cellent company of players are booked
for weeks engagement at the Rhode
opera house, commencing Monday,
June l, in Shakespearian plays. Mr..
Owen has the following to say of his
trip here:
- Our object in making this trip is as
much educational as anything else.
We want to show people how Shakes
perian dramas should be produced-in
othor words, applying the Irving idea
to towns of this size. Irving is our
model. | consider him the greatest
man in the profession since the days Of
Shakespeare himself. Booth undoubt-
edly was great actOr-in fact, / con-
slider him to have been the greatest
and grandest of the 'century-but as a
man, l believe Irving bis superior. Sir
Henry Irving would have become great
in any walk of life-as a politician,
fnancier, dignitary, or in any of the
professions, he would have been pre-
eminently leader, and lent the same
dignity to his calling that he does to-
day to the stage. We desire to give
the same aesthetic pleasure that he
does to people he cannot reach. That
is why say he is our model and the
Irving idea that which we apply in the
production of Shakesperian drama.
AS to our costumes-they are all
new, historical and beautiful beyond
description, representing a cost of
thousands of dollars. | do not say this
boastingly or with desire to draw a
single dollars worth of patronage on
the strength of this feature, but to sim
ply show you that it is our determine
ton to produce these plays as they
should be in every respect. Some of
the properties we carry could not be
duplicated for love nor money. One
sword alone we use was imported from
Europe at a cost of 500.
Our scenery is all brand new and
was painted by young man of new
ideas; it is not conventionalin the least.
The cathedral scene in Much Ado
About Nothing is especially elabo-
rate, berg an exact reproduction Of
one of the most beautiful cathedrals in
all Italy. In Much ADO we shall in
troduce choir boys, acolytes, soldiers
in armor, incense swingers, little girls
strewing flowers in the pathway of the
bride and the altar grandly and richly
decorated. We pride ourselves on the
splendor of this particular scene"
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1896-06-04
You Would Not Eat

Spoiled or decaying food, yet when you
are troubled with belching, sour stom-
ach or distress after eating, it means
your food is not digesting, but decaying
in your stomach. You can avoid this
by using DR.. Rays Liver t after meals.
1t aids digestion by it's tonic action on
the liver and stomach. For sale by G.
Fl. Hurd, Woodward & Conley, Hack
Iey's Corner Drug Store and Stark
weather IL Co. If
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1896-06-04
GUIDE BOARDS MUST 60 UP.
Every Corner in the County to Be Marked
Hereafter.

Wheelmen of this county and OF many
other sections of the country will be
pleased at the information that the law
passed by the legislature some time ago
providing that guide boards be nailed
up on all corners throughout the
county is to be enforced. Ever since
the law was passed it has been sort
of dead letter in this county, no atten-
ton ever having been paid to it. 1t
provides for the putting of guide boards
up at all cross roads containing such
information as is most desired by tour
lists, such as giving the name and
direction of the nearest town, the name
of the road and the number of miles
both ways to the cities, towns or vii
lagos adjacent.
This is law which was asked for by
the League of American Wheelmen and
was passed at it's behest. Wheelmen
have been complaining that it has not
been enforced and few days ago Dis
trict Attorney Buckmaster's attention
was called to the matter. He at once
wrote letters to all the town chairmen
of the county and cited the law to them
and asked them to look into the matter.
Several of the town chairmen have
been in to consult the district attorney
to see whether this was merely bluff
or meant business. The provisions of
the law will have to be lived up to.