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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-02-07
Swept BIZ Fire and Flood.

SoMERyLLE, N. J., Feb. 7.-Bouni
Book last night experienced the ms st
dreadful calamity in its existence. The
water from the Raritan river at 8
o'clock this morning was nearly ten
feet high in the main street, and the
surrounding country on each side OF the
village was flooded. While the citi-
zeDs we're trying to rescue men, wo-
men and children from houses, hre was
discovered in lumber yard, resulting
from q large quantity of lime coming
in contact with the water. Word was
sent to Somerville and Plainheld LOT
assistance and engines started for
Bound Brook, but were forced TO re-
turn on account of the roads being
made impossible by the floods. No at
tention was paid to fighting the iire by
the residents OF the village and all dl'
rected their efforts toward resculng
those who were imprisoned in their
houses by the flood. All communica,
ton with Bound Brook was cut oil and
last reports received from the town
was at five o'clock this morning. The
fire was still raging and the Presoy,
terian Church, the Annex Hotel and
several residences and business places
had been destroyed. The church wa;
crowded with people at the time
of the fire, but fortunately all
had time to escape. The lire
later in the morning died out
The loss by fire and water is fully $780,.
600. A man named Miller sacrificed
his life while bravely trying to rescue
some of the imperiled inhabitants. The
residents took refuge in the second
stories of their dwellings when the
food came, and all the rowboats OF the
town were brought into use to rescue
those whose positions were dangerous
Hundreds of fragile structures were
torn from their foundations and floated
down toward the ocean in the seethiDe
current. Great numbers of dead ami.
mails went down in the torrent. Many
outhouses and barns belonging to farm
era on the outskirts of Bound Brook
were carried away by the flood and
swept along the course OF the Raritan
river. Most of the inhabitants OF
Bound Brook have had nothing to eat
since yesterday afternoon, not being
able to get into the lower portions oil
their homes.
The iron bridge over the Raritan
river has been swept away, cutting OF
all traffic from New York to Philadel'
phia on the Reading Railroad.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-02-07

A MEAN HUSBANDS RUsE.-Suit has
been instituted at Bloom ington, Ind,
by Mrs. Ella Bowman, of indianapolis,
formerly of Bloomington, against Dr.
Peter Bowman, her former husband
In her complaint she charges that Dr::
Bowman is guilty of betrayal and
breach of promise. She says that she
and DR.. Bowman were married in 1881,
and lived together until January, 1891
as husband and wife, when she obtain
ed divorce, the proceedings OF when
the citizens of Bloomington are familiar
with.
The divorce was granted on The
grounds of cruel and inhuman treat
ment. At that time Mr.. Bowman Sc.
cured considerable alimony in way Of
valuable property in Bloomington, ana
it was supposed that a satisfactory
agreement bad been made with her.
She now claims in her complaint that
"she consented, at his request, to bring
the divorce suit, with the agreemen!
and understanding that after il was
granted they would be married"
She now claims that the defendant Is
owner of property in Ohio and Indiana
valued at So, 900, and that he fraudl'
lently obtained a divorce from her 10
cheat her out of her inchoate entail Is
his wife, and that she only agreed 10
the divorce proceedings believing ina.
he would carry ont his agreement 10
remarry her, which agreement sns
claims she has always been ready anu
willing to carry out, owing to her greS.
love for him. This, she says, he to9A
advantage of, and caused her do"nian;,
and that in January, 1896. he maTFlea
another woman in violation of his com.
pact with her. She therefore asks .1'
court to grant her a judgment OF SI0''
900 and all other proper relief.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-02-07
COURT OF APPEALS.

The following opinions were handed
down in the Court of Appeals yester.
day
By Judge Keith, President:
Aylett, trustee, vs.. Walker. From
Circuit Court of King and Queen coun-
ty. Affirmed.
Richmond Granite Company VS..
Bailey. From the Circuit Court of Hen
rico county. Affirmed.
City of Petersburg vs.. Todd. From
the Hastings Court of Petersburg. AZ
firmed.
By Judge Rely:
Fitch VS.. Commonwealth. From
Hastings Court of Staunton. Reversed.
By Judge Cardwell
Staude vs.. Keck. From Chancery
Court of Richmond. Affirmed.
By Judge Buchanan
Walkers administrator vs. Mason,
trustee. From the Circuit Court OF
Lunenburg county. Affirmed.
By Judge Harrison
fuckers administrator VS.. Norfolk
aud Western Railroad Company. From
the Circuit Court of Dinwiddle. Af.
frmed.
Stanley, ct. ais. VS.. stanley's admin
istrator ct ais. From Circuit Court of
Hanover county. Affirmed.
Houghton & Sweet VS.. Mountain
Lake Land Company. Appeal and SUI
persedeas to Corporation Court of Rad
ford county.
Bridgeforth VS.. Bridgeforth. From
Circuit Court of Elizabeth City. Appeal
refused.
Buntin VS.. Swami & Holland. From
Corporation Court of Danyille. Writ of
error refused.
Hawkins vs.. Commonwealth. From
Corporation Court OF Lynchburg. Writ
of error refused.
Russell ys. Almond. From Circuit
Court of Gloucester county. Petition
for rehearing refused.
Anderson vs.. Hygeia Hotel Company.
Argued and submitted.
Henley va. jefferson. Three cases.
Argued and continued.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-02-07
A Night ofTerror.

MoRRIsTowH, N. j.. Feb. THE residents
of the lower section of this town were kept in
q state Of terror all night by the floods caused
by the breaking Of tho Pocahontas dam in the
upper end OF Morristown. The water rushed
into the valley. sweeping everything before it.
The residents had to go to the upper ttones Of
their houses and remain there until they were
reached in boats- Tho water rose 70 depth
Of from seven to ten feet No lives were lost,
but much damage was done.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-02-07
The sultan,s Version.

LONDON, Feb. THE reply of the
Sultan to the letter recently addressed
to him by Queen Victoria declares that
the reports of massacres of ArmeniaDs
by Turks have originated with
i'll disposed persons. The Turks, the
Sultan says, were first attacked by Ar
menians while they were praying il
the mosques and did nothing more thar
defend themselves. In every part Of
Asia Minor, the Sultan asserts, every
thing is now perfectly tranquil, except
at Zeitoun, and without doubt the lei.
tounites will soon resume their peace
full yocations.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-02-07
TELEGRAPHIC BREvITIES.

William Fl. English, who ran as the
democratic candidate for Vice Presi-
dent with Gen Hancock in 1880, died
in indianapolis, Ind, today.
The steamer Lamington, which was
stranded off Fire Island, N. Y, on
Tuesday night, went to pieces to day,
but all on board were rescued.
The British steamer Laurestina which sail.
ed from Baltimore on December 9th for Sligo,
Ireland, is belle, ed to have foundared with
all on board, twenty-five in number.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-02-07
Foreign News.

LONDON, Feb. IA dispatch from
Paris says that serious FIRE is burning
in the building of the ministry of war
LONDON, Feb. IA dispatch from
Accra says that Governor Maxwell, Of
the Gold Coast Colony, has issued
proclamation declaring British pro
decorate over Ashantee.
GLASGOW, Feb. THE Glasgow
Herald says that the coming British
naval programme will cost f9, 500, 600,
with which will be constructed four
battleships, four first-class cruisers,
four third-class cruisers and sixty tor
psdo destroyers.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-02-07

THE EDITOR of the Globe quarterly
magazine, an original abolitionist, now
says: "My experience leads me to con-
clude that in manners, morals and In
dustry the negroes as q whole, North and
South, have deteriorated and have moi
been advanced by and under our eman'
cipation and educational system. This
conclusion have reached very reluc'
family" 1t is needless to say that Mir.
Thorne's ideas of the effect of emanci-
patton and education upon the negroes
are in perfect consonance with those Of
almost every intelligent man in the
Snnth
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-02-07

1T Is now feared that the Treasury
itself will, of its short gold reserve,
supply nearly half the amount required
for the purchase of the new gold bond
issue, the yellow coin to be drawn out
of its vaults for the redemption of its
paper money. If this fear be realized
it won't be long before another gold
loan will be called for and the Morgan
syndicate, that got more than half the
bonds just issued, will have still an
other inning. But money, with most
people, will buy anything.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-02-07

In THE contested election case o.
Thorp vs.. McKenney, from the Peters
burg district, now under consideration
by one of the elections committees o.
the q. S. House of Representatives,
much reliance is placed by the counsel
of the contestant upon the statements
of the Richmond Times, to corroborate
his allegations of democratic fraud and
corruption, and those allegations are
read all over the North. As often BE-
fore said by the GAZETTE, Northern
South-haters are supplied with most Of
their effective ammunition by Southern
newspapers.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-02-07
Hammond Released on Bail.

PRETORIA, South Africa, Feb. T.
John Hays Hammond, the American
mining engineer, who was arrested at
johannesburg, together with a number
of other reformers, was released on bail
last Wednesday. His release was due
to his illness. The amount of bail re-
quired was 10000 and bis release was
granted upon the condition that he re.
main under police surveillance and that
he should not be permitted to see any
visitors except with the permission of
the authorities.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-02-07
FRIDAY EVENING, FEB. 7. 1896.
AT A recent hearing before one of the
,lections committees of the u. s. House

AT recent hearing before one of the
elections committees of the o. s. House
of Representatives, its chairman, MIR.
Mccall, of Massachusetts, referring to
a statement of counsel for one OF the
Virginia contestants, relating to the
large number of ballots that had been
thrown out in consequence Of irregu-
larities in their preparation. remarked
that in his State about ten per cent. was
the average of thrown out ballots for a
like reason. The people of Msssachu-
sets have the general reputation OF be-
ing better educated than those of any
other State, and they have been voting
under the same law for many years.
and yet ten per cent. of them cast bal
lots that, under the law, have to be re-
jected for irregularity. Why then
should it be thought at all strange that
in Virginia, where nearly half the
voters are illiterate, and when they vot
ed for the first time under the present
election law, the percentage of rejected
ballots should have been less than
twenty in some of the black districts,
and where the negroes, under in.
structions, refused TO ask the assist
ance of the sworn officers stationed at
the polls for the express purpose OF aid
ing illiterate voters in the preparation
of their ballots? But, nevertheless, the
number ofrejected ballots and of voters
who did not cast either perfect or i'm
perfect ballots, constitute the sole
ground upon which rest the only two
real contested election cases from Viz
ginia, that of the others being the un-
constitutionality of the election law,
which is no ground at all.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-02-07

The Tirginia Law Register for February has
b,en received from its publishers, the J. P
Bell Company, Lynchburg. It's contents are
Trusts and Monopolies, Fellow Servants, Vir-
ginis Decisions reported in full, Digest Of Be-
cent Virginia Decisions, Miscellaneous Notes,
Correspondence, For the Juniors, and Acts of
the General Assembly. Among the Decisions is
the one recently rendered in the case of Nun
ford VS.. Mcyeigh, an appeal from the Circuit
Court of this city; and in the Correspondence
is a reply by R. DeverenI Doyle, of Norfolk,
to the recent letter of J. Ran Tucker on the
Presidents war manifesto.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-02-07
Robbed and Gagged.

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich, Feb. w
a. Meyer, cigar manufacturers agent
here, while working in his Office late
Wednesday night was confronted by
two robbers who compelled him at q
revolver's point to open his safe and
give them $4,700, after which they
gagged him, tied him in a chair and
m ade their escape.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-02-07
FROM WASHINGTON.
fCorrespondsnce of the Nc1sndria Gazette.
WASHINGTON. February z.

WARRINGTON, February 7.
Chairman Dingley, of the House ways
and means committee who has charge
of tbe silver substitute to the bond bill,
said this morning that vote on the
pending measure would not be taken
before late Monday afternoon. There
was no desire, he said. to stiae debate,
and so many members wished to be
heard that it would be impossible to
accommodate all of them in less time.
General debate will proceed to-day and
saturday in committee of the whole
and on Monday the measure will be
considered under the five minute rule.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-02-07

Mr.. D. G. Tyler, representive from the
Second District, has been invited to de.
liver the alumni address at the COM
mencement at Washington and Lee
University in June next. Z
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-02-07
TO-DAY's TELEGRApHIC NEWS
TbeMaunin BilI Passed.

RICHMOND. Feb. THE Maupin
bill passed the House to-day with bit
few dissenting voices.
Mr.. Maupin introduced another bill
to pr ohibit pool-sslling in Virginia IN
races run outside the State.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-02-07

The following opinions were handed
down in the Court of Appeals yester-
day
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-04-30
POULTRY METHODS.
Fowls Need as Good Care as Any Other
Kind of Stock.

Fowls Need as Good Care as Any Other
Kind of Stock
To make poultry success they
should receive good care and manage
ment, the same as any other stock.
When we want milk, lots of 1t, and
good butter, we protect our cows from
storms and feed them what we think
will produce rich milk and good butter.
Hence we must have for our poultry a
warm poultry house where there will be
plenty of sunshine and protected
through the day as we'll as nights from
the storms.
The best feed ever found TO make
hens lay was wheat, not threshcd, but
cut and fed to them strawhead and all
After they have picked the wheat from
the heads, one has the straw for bedding.
1t would pay any farmer or poultryman
to have the wheat cut and saved, straw
and all; have it loose or in sheaves, and
feed what they need. When wheat Is
only 20 cents bushel there is no feed
so cheap as wheat.
Through the winter, II the groud Is
covered with snogg, they must be pro-
vided with oyster shells or ground bone
to make shell. Feeding wheat heads
beats throwing grain among litter to
make them scratch for exercise, for they
will scratch to get the wheat out of the
heads.
MIX is one of the greatest egg pro-
ducers Known. The great trouble with
many farmers is that they think the
poultry can 60 through the entire year
without feeding. Not long ago hauled
a load of corn TO a man whose wife kept
a lot of chickens. When unloading 1t
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-04-30
His own ExecutIoner.

At St. Pierre le- Palud, in the Canton
of Abresle, near Lyons, lived, says
Paris correspondent, handy man, half
carpenter, half mason, and AZ years old.
His wife died seven years ago, and he
had lived alone ever since. Some lime
ago he said an idea he was going to
work out would astonish the whole
country. His idea, it now appears, was
to construct unaided guillotine and to
be his own executioner. He had got
two vertical beams nine feet high. The
knife was Ratchet carefully sharpehed,
and mason's sledge-hammer, weighing
stone, was adapted to it. Nothing
could be neater than the grooves, pull
leys and adjustments. A semi circular
groove was arranged to keep the head
we'll under the Ratchet. Deparcieux
lay on his back with his neck In the
semi-circular cutting in cross-plank.
He set heap of straw on the place
where he calculated the small of his
back would be and placed his feet
against wall.
This done, he let go the knife by
means of cord that he held. In the
fall 1t severed his head clean from his
body The strange suicide was not dis
covered for some days after it was com
mitted. Neighbors began to wonder
what had happened to Deparcieux. Al
his dog howled fearfully, they deter
mined to enter the house. Going from
one room to another they discovered
nothing unusual, but when the dog wa
liberated from the kitchen 1t rushed
down to the cellar and again began t.
howl. The neighbors following, foun'
there the guillotine aad the guillotined
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-04-30
Growing . crop Of ArtIehot...

After using and raising artichokes for
the last ten years, have no hesitation
in saying they are one of the most val
liable foods we have for hogs. But my
asserting this may not satisfy every one
so | will endeavor 10 give my actual
experience with them, thus showing
how arrive at this conclusion. have
not the ability nor the opportunity to
analyze the various properties Of the
artichokes, that is, am not able to tell
Just how much fat, how much starchs
etc, there is in any given quantity of
these tubers. The ground should be
prepared the same as for potatoes in the
early spring.
Cut the tubers to one or two eyes each
and drop in the furrsws, which should
be three and one-half feet apart, and ff-
teen inches apart in the furrow, some
thing like Irish potatoes. Follow with
a small plow and throw furrow over
them to the depth of five inches. At
the end of ten daM of warm weather,
or two weeks of c3ol weather, run
over them with light harrow and level
the ground down good, thus destroying
all weeds that may have started up, and
preparing the ground for easy and ehec-
tive cultivation when the plants have
come up large enough to stand such
work, which will usually be two week
| longer, or from three to four week
from time of planting. Then begin cul
tivating and cultivate as often as needed
to keep the ground loose and clean, cul
tivating deep at first and coming NOR,
to the surface each time, so as not t.
disturb the small roots that soon star
out.
After they are two feet high they nee,
no more attention except an occasiona
irrigation as they will take care of them
selves. They will keep all weeds dow
and soon be so thick in their foilag
that one can scarcely walk through then
In September they will begin to bloom
and when the bloom is Drowned, tn
crop is made and the tops may be CT
off and put away for winter use or stoc
may be turned In on them for pasture
Artichokes make a pasture superior
clover for either horses or cattle.
have not noticed that hogs care muc
for the stalks and fodder. More goo
fodder can be gotten off one acre of a
chokes than five acres of corn In ar
season. The foliage is SO dense tn
the dry weather we usually have in la
summer does not effect the artichoke,
the ground is completely shaded.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-04-30
Value OF the Telephone.

"Excuse me for half an hour or So"
said prominent official few days ago,
"while have talk with my doctor"
81 thought your doctor was in New
York;" was the reply.
"oh, yes" the Official, answered, "he
is in New York, but at O'Clock every
afternoon he comes to the telephone
the long distance telephone - and we
have talk. 1t is not convenient for me
to run up to New York often, SO re-
port my condition to him every after
noon, and changes, etc, and he in return
gives me his advice and prescribes for
me through the telephone. When the
time comes for him to send the pre-.
scription, l simply connect him with
my druggist, and my doctor tells him
what to mix for me as easily as II he
had to write it. This long distance tele-
phone surpasses even the widest dreams
of its inventors. New York Tribune
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-04-30
The Germ Theory.

What the world owes to Louis Pas
teur the worlds great vocabulary is in
competent to express. Through his
researches, and those of the students
who have come after him, the light has
has been turned on what has hitherto
been total darkness. Doubt, expert.
ments and uncertainty has given way
to precision and accuracy In diagnosis
AS the farmer knows that the chinch
bug is the cause of his withered crops
so the physician knows that the bacil
lus OF certain diseases brings about Ger.
tain symptoms The microscope is the
physicians reliance. A few drops of
tion brough. under the eye of this
magic assistant will tell him at once the
cause and progress of the disease. And
1t is not the physician alone who bene-
fits by this knowledge. The farmer,
the vineyardist, the dairyman, he stock
raiser, the ''cultivator of the silk-worm
and the enthusiast on bees are alike In
debted to the discoverer of the germ
origin of disease for invaluable aids in
their business. A necessity for the near
future is an improvement IN micro
SCOPES and their cheapening, so that
knowledge of germs may become more
widespread. Every township should
have its bacteriologist and its micro.
scopic equipment. There Is no study
more interesting, and none that Is so i'm
pSrtsnt TO humanity.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-04-30
Illustrated.

A teacher in the primrry school OF
Western city recently read to her Pu-
pills "The Old Oaken Bucket" After
explaining it to them very carefully she
asked them to copy the first stanza from
the blackboard and try to illustrate 1t as
the artist illustrates a story. Pretty
soon one little girl handed in her book
with several little dots between two
lines, a circle, half a dozen dots and
three buckets.
81 do not understand this, Bessie"
said the teacher. "What is that circleP
ooh that's the well" was the reply.
"And why do you have three buckets"
"Oh, one is the oaken bucket, one is
the iron bound bucket and the other is
the bucket that hung in the we'll"
"But what are the little dots"
"Why those are the sPsts which my
infancy knew."-New York Tribune.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-04-30
TIL. Ar, of Milking Cows.

Milking cows should be practiced ac-
cording to the following prescriptions:
/. Work rapidly slowness causes loss
of cream.
=. Milk thoroughly the last drop, be-
cause The last milk is the best
). Milk at the same time every day.
4. Milk cross wise-that Is to say one
fore teat on the right and hind teat on
the left and wee versa; the milk thus
flows more copiously than by parallel
milking.
s. Milk with FIVE fingers and not with
index and thumb, fault too common
with milkers.
g. Do not employ any kind of milking
machines.
7. To milk young, FESTIVE cows raise
one Of the fore feet. Never strike them.
8. Always keep the hands clean and
also the cows udder and dairy utensils.
g. During milking avoid distracting
or disturbing the COW.
Those who neglect any of these pre-
scriptions jnfallably lose milk.