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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-12-13

THE passage of the pension bill should
not prevent the passage of another bill,
providing for publishing the rames Of
the pensioners in the newspapers Of
their respective localities. Such a pub
LEGATION would go far toward exposing
the frauds by which the tax idden pso
Pile of the country are robbed for the
benefit of those who have no legal OF
moral right to pensions, and WHO, in
thousands OF cases, are not in need OF
them
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-12-13

SENATOR LINDSAY, of Kentucky.
who assisted the republicans to the full
extent of his power TO defeat the party
of which he professed to be member
last year, essays the vain task of rees
tablishing himself in the good graces OF
that party by advocating interference
in behalf of the negro and scalawag in
surgents in Cuba. Right minded dem
ocrats are as much opposed to flibus-
tering and jingoism as they are to Dol.
tiers.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-12-13
Thc Public school COLOR Line,

ALTON, ILL.,, Dec. 13.-Mayor Bruez-
geman and other city officials will 60 TO
Springfield to-day to fight in the State
Supreme Court the final answer of this
city to the petition of colored citizens
for writ of mandamus to compel the
admission of colored children indis.
criminately to all public schools in this
city.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-12-13
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Secretary Long has presented 10 Con.
gress his bill for the increase of the
navy which provides for one seagoing
coast line battleship.
Bishop McFaul, of Trenton. \. j.
has decided, as referee, upon a PLAZA for
uniting the two factions of the Arciens
Order of Hibernians.
The Haytian ministry has resigned.
and the situation at Port gu Prince IS
hourly becoming more critical. A new
C .oinet was formed to-day.
1t is reported that Great Britain ta=
agreed not to oppose Germany's occu.
patton of iao'Chan, Germany promis
ing not to interfere in the Egyptian
question.
Fire Saturday night destroyed John
and James Dobson's big carpet ware
house, and damaged adjoining property
on Chestnut street, Philadelphia. Loss
es aggregate 100000.
An official note from Rome announces
tina: the Marquis di Rudini, having 90
far failed to form a cabinet, visited
King Humbert last night to acqusint
his Majesty with the state of affairs.
j. W. Bishop, wholesale grocer al
Martinsburg, w. Va, committed sui.
eide yesterday by shooting himself. He
was suffering from complete nervous
prostration resulting from overwork
aud business cares.
Last week Mrs. F. F. Briggs, wife 81
the pastor of the Second Bnptis.
Church, at Wilmington, Del, pres nted
her husband with bouncing twin boys.
Yesterday the congregation increased
Rev. Briggs's salary $3.50 year.
Lenna Winslow, who sued the
Knights of Maccabees for $25 900 for
dislocating one of his kidneys while
initiating him into the local order four
years ago, was on Saturday awaldeG
$4,000 by jury in Judge Gates divis-
ion of the Circuit Court in Kansas Civ.
At Parsons, w. Va, on Saturday the
defense produced more testimony tina.
Thompson fired the first two shots ct
Eastman, a number of reputable bust
ness men having so averred, and ;he
impression is growing tha. Easthsu
will bs acquitted on the ground Of self
defense.
Two hundred Cubans pardoned By
General Blanco, who had been imprs
oned i'll the Santiago de Cuba fortress,
found themselves free on December >
They joined the army of the insurgents.
Spaniards there criticise General Blauco
severely for turning the men loose AID
favor the policy pursued by Weyler.
The teirs of the late George E
Lemon, II 9 wealthy pension at,orney,
have presented to the Corcoran Arr
Gallery Of Washington the splendid co..
lection OF paintings owned By Mr.
Lemon and valued at Tany Thousands
of dollars. The collection will be pre-.
seated this week and placed on exhio
ton.
Col Robt. Ingersoll's arraignment Of
the Divine Word was heard by 81 ,200
house at the National Theatre
in Washington lset night. "Why
Am an Aenostic" was The materials
text. A member of the audience oiler-
ed 10 meet the famous agncstic in open
depate and was severely arraigned ly
the latter.
After @ consultation with Mayor
Master, Of Baltimore, on Saturday
morning, Commissioner Andrew W.
Boslwick, of the street cleaning depar'
ment, decided to place the new dir
trict, recently created, entirely in Ae
charge of colored men. and asked fOs
the resignation of certain democrats.
all Of whom are white, and who viii be
replaced by colored republicans.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-12-13

Now THAT intelligent and unpreju-
diced American newspaper correspon-
dents have been sent to Cuba, the truth
about affairs in >that island is being
printed ir this country, and the fill
busters are rapidly losing their strength.
But ignorance and prejudice rule this
country, as they do all Others blighted
with unrestricted suffrage.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-12-13

Mrs. Mary Bird, Harrisburg, Pa, gays:
"My child is worth millions to me yet I
would have lest her by Group had not in
vested twenty five cents in bottle of One
Minute Cough Cure" 1t cures coughs, colds
and all throat and lung troubles. Charles G.
i lennon
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-12-13
Don't be persuaded into buyipe lini.

Don't be persuaded into buying lini.
ments without reputation or merit
Chamberlain's Pain Balm costs no more,
and its merits have been proven by q
test of many years. Such letters as the
following from L. G. Bagley, Hueneme,
CAL, are constantly being received !:
THE best remedy for pain l have ever
used is Chamberlain's Pain Balm, and
say SO after having used it in my fami-
ly for several years" 1t cures rheuma-
tism, lame back, sprains and swellings.
For sale by ]. H. Janney, Druggist,
701 King street.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-12-13
Cyclone.

New ORLEANS, La, Dec. ia
small cyclone visited Pointe La Hache,
10 miles below New Orleans, this
morning. Seven. houses were cspsized
and a lugger was wrecked and one
man lost his life.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-12-13
TO be Tried.

NORFOLK. Va, Dec. 13.-The Olive
Pecser crew have been indicted and, it
is announced, will be tried under the
indictments, Notwithstanding recent re-
ports that their cases never would be
tried
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-12-13

1t is easy TO catch cold and just as cssy to
get rid of it if you commence early to use
One Minute Cough Cure. It cures coughs,
colds, bronchitis, pneumonia and all throat
and lung troubles. 1t is pleasant to take,
cafe to use and sure to cure. CaaIles G.
Lennon,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-12-13

Miss Allie Hughes. Norfolk, Va, wa7
frighttully burned on the face and neck. Fan
was instantly relieved by DeWitt's Wl.eA
Hazel Salve, which healed the injury withoN.
Leaving a scar. II is the famous pile rtm d!.'
Charles G, Lennon.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-12-13
Foreign News.

BERLIN, Dec. 13.-The German
scholarships Charlotte and Stein, which
were engaged in the recent demonstra.
ton against Hayti, will leave Port au
Prince tomorrow.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-12-13
THE LEGISLATURE.
SENATE,

Ia the Senate Oh Saturday the House
bill to suspend the operation OF section
666 OF the code in relation to delinquent
land purchased in the name OF the
Commonwealth for period of sixty
days was finally passed as it came from
the House. This law has permitted
speculs tors to wrest from original own
ers many valuable lands for song and
has caused much hardship. The sus.
pension will stop the landgrabbers and
give the legislature time to formulate
good law.
House resolutions that the auditor of
public accounts be requested to inform
the general assembly by report in writ
ing, at the earliest practicable moment
Of he status of the several accounts of
the treasures and Of the officers of the
several counties, cities, and towns OF
this State with the commonwealth were
referred to the finance committee.
HOUSE.
A resolution WAS agreed to looking
to the ascertaiDment Of the States rev.
enue under act of the last legislature,
providing for the better assessment CT
personal property.
Captain Parks asked that his bill
amending the law concerning liquor Ii
C nses be transferred from the finance
committee to that of courts of justice.
MIR. Willard stated that the bill had
bsen considered by the finance commit
tee and would have been reported in
some shape if its patrons had appeared
before that body.
The request of Captain Parks was
granted
Bills were introduced to amend the
present law requiring the quarantin.
lag of stock with infectious disease, and
providing for the creation of live
stock sanitary commission, and to
amend section 60 of the code of Virgin.
ia ia relation to vacancies in electoral
boards. The measures provides that
if any vacancy occurs in the electoral
board and the remaining members there
on refuse to fill the vacancy, the Judge
OF the County Court shall do so. II
every position on the board becomes
vacant it shall I've the duty of the court
to appoint new electoral beard To
amend the act in relation to competen
cy of husband ond vile to testify for
aud against each other in civil
cases. To amend tho code in rela-
ton to the fraudulent of removal goods
which have been levied upon. To amend
the code in relation to the penslty for
taking another's boat n vessel
to amend the code in relation to public
holidays. The bill provides that Jan.
uary Goth snail be set aside as public
holiday, in commemoration of the birth
days of General Lee and Jackson, the
former having been born on January
10Th and the latter on January 21st
To amend and re.epact section ITO OF
the code in relation to statements made
by banks; to amend section 1873 of the
code in relation to the powers and Gu
ties of the boards of supervisors of the
counties at their annual meetings; to
amend section 3419 of the code in rela.
ton to appointment ofa trustee in place
Of one who has died.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-12-13

One Minute Cough Cure cures quickly
That's what you want. Charles G, Lennon,
The Portland daily press., 1897-08-31

The senatorial campaign in South Caro-
lima has been prolific of many sensations,
but the most remarkable one comes in
the shape of confession Efrom Irby that
Tillman was made governor by cheating
and that he (Irby) did the cheating.
Irby tells the story in this picturesque
language:
''I Matched Tillman. The truth of this
whole matter is that Tillman and I
joined hands in 1886, after his agitation
in 1885, for the purpose--first, to estab-
lish an agricultural college, and on the
question of college or no college we were
ingloriously defeated. Tillman became
Disguised, and attempted to organize the
farmers of the state, threw up the sponge,
wrote long letter to the people of the
State expressing his contempt, and retired
to his home among the hills of old Edge
field. didn't surrender, however, and
kept up the fight in the legislature along
the lines of reform in the administration
of the state government. The college
seemed to be hopelessly gone, but God
came to the rescue by putting it into the
heart of Mr.. Clemson to make his be-
quest. A fresh hold was taken, the fight
was renewed, and the college established
But Iillman, was voluntarily out. To
get him back originated the March con-
vention idea year before the convention
was held, and gave him the nomination
on silver waiter. On the question of
nomination or no nomination in that
convention we were defeated by one vote.
1 cheated the question of nomination in,
which saved Tillman, who was to be the
nominee. The end justified the means.
Tillman is the last man in the world to
raise his hand against me, for UP to last
year | had been better friend and closer
to him than brother. Without me he
would have been on his plantation today,
a humble farmer and busted politician.
He says he's hands off in this fight. God
grant it. 1 ask no man to be my political
godfather If / can't make the fight
with my own heels 1 am not fit to be
Senator. -
Later on the Tillman fpitchfork' will
surely be bought into action.
The Portland daily press., 1897-08-31

The proper thing for Republican states
reform to do is to denounce it upon the
foor'of the convention of their party. To
wait until after election and then declare
that a plank in the platform
to which the party was pledged
and the candidate pledged, is humbug
and ought not to be lived up to is sharp
practice. In their last national platform
the Republicans pointed with pride to
the fact that the civil service law was
first placed on the statute book by Re-
publican Congress and pledged themselves
to maintain it and extend it wherever
practicable. If the party did not believe
what it said it was guilty of hypocrisy
hypocrisy which can only be explained on
the theory that it thought the people did
believe in it and that to repudiate it or not
to endorse it would lose it votes. But
whether it believed in it or not, having
put this declaration and promise in the
platform it is bound by all considerations
of good faith to live up to them. Anybody
who advises to the contrary, is guilty of
advising the party to be guilty of bad
faith. The party is under just as much
obligation to extend the civil service re-
form wherever practicable as it is to
maintain the gold standard or frame a
tariff along protection lines. If the party
does not believe in civil service reform
the square and manly way is to say SO in
its platform.
The Portland daily press., 1897-08-31

The Hon. William G Whitney gives no.
tice that if the Democratic mayoralty
convention in Greater New York endorses
in any degree the Chicago platform he
will vote either Tor the Republican candi-
date or for the candidate of Gold Demo-
Gratis, if one is put up. 1t would seem to
be the fair implication from this that if the
convention does not endorse the Chicago
platform Mr.. Whitney will support its
candidate. His manifesto shows how
utterly Indifferent Mr.. Whitney is to the
real questions involved in the campaign
for the Mayoralty of his city. Whether
the party endorses free silver or repudi-
ates it can make no appreciable differ
ence in regard to that cause. The cleo
ton cannot affect that question one way
or another. The sole issue involved is
one of good municipal government. But
about this issue Mr.. Whitney apparently
cares nothing. He is perfectly ready to
help turn the city over to Tammany,
which has looted it in tho past and made
nostrils of all honest men, provided Tam
many Will keep mum ON silver. he seeks
to exact no promise that the nominee
shall be man of good reputation, or that
the platform shall declare for honest and
capable government. II will swallow
anybody or anything he practically says
provided there is no silver in it, 1t is
such attitudes as this on the part of
prominent and influential men that
makes the problem of municipal govern
ment so difficult of solution. Mr.. Whit
ney is practically letting national issues
determine how he shall vote at the COM
ing election, and where his influence
shall be thrown, and ignoring che real
issue of honest and competent men, cap
ablessgovernment; and his pernicious ex-
ample will be followed by thousands of
Others simply because he has set it.
The Portland daily press., 1897-08-31
CURRENT COMMENT.
THE LESSONS OF HARD TIMES.
Boston Herald

Thomas B. Reed calculates that the
direct result of the hard times through
which we have passed has been to lower
the cost of the production of all things on
an average more than ID per cent. Our
mills, manufactures and railroads have
introduced economies during the long
period of depression that have reduced
the cost of production and operation
enormously. This saving in cost has
gone all over the world, as well as into
all industries. Moreover, the people
have learned habits of economy that were
unknown in former flush times, and all
these advantages we carry into the COM
ing days of prosperity, with all that they
imply. With the next run of good
prices, lower though they may be than in
earlier years, we shall have wider mar
gin of profit, and wealth will resume it's
accumulations at q pace never before
reached. Here is sound and encouraging
philosophy and sound economic doctrine,
which makes the promise of the near
future bright, indeed.
ANOTHER CABINET OFFICER
NEEDED.
(Lowell Mail.)
The counter is in need of another cabi-
net officer whose department should be
devoted to classifying and recording the
world records broken.
The Portland daily press., 1897-08-31

Though, there is apparently good deal
of apprehension in England over the npris-
ing on the Indian frontier it does not ap-
pear from the dispatches that it has
spread much, as yet So long as
it is confined to the tribes along the Al
CHAN border there is probably no great
danger, though it may involve costly
expedition to punish the tribesmen and
make them keep the peace in the future.
If. however, the dissatisfied people OF
the interior towns should take advant-
age of the incursion to.revolt then affairs
would wear a serious aspect But the
English know this danger, and have
doubtless taken strong precautions to
avert it. The lesson of 1857 has not been
forgotten, we may be sure. The English
can never be caught mapping again as
they were then.
The Portland daily press., 1897-08-31

Alfred J. Ostheimer, who has been
appointed honorary consul at Philadel-
phia by the emperor of Japan, is well
known importer of that city. He is
| about forty five years old, and was edu-
Gated in this country and abroad.
The will of Caroline Fry, widow of
Major General James B Fry, who died
in Newport ten days ago, gives to the
Association of Graduates of the United
States Military Academy, at West Point,
all her books and pamphlets, a writing
desk and two small tables, each supported
by three small m uskets, which belonged
to her husband, and all the pictures of
officers of the army in her house in New
York.
Mr.. Hall Caine holds the record for
high prices. He may not get as much per
word as Mr.. Kipling, but he has been
paid more for his latest book, "The
Christian" than any novelist has received
even in this age of big prices. Major
Pond, who has just returned from visit
to Mr.. Game on the Isle of Man, says
that he was at Greba Castle when Mr..
Heinemann's first cheque was received,
and that it was for $780, 600. This, mind
you, is only an advance on royalty ac-
count, and for English book-rights alone.
The United States and the CO lonies are
still to be heard from. The announce
ment of the publication of new and i'm
portant work by Professor Ruskin will
doubtless come as surprise, says the
London Speaker. His Lectures on
Landscape however, which were given
at Oxford SO long ago as the early part
of 1871, wero III IN withheld from publica-
ton owing to the difficulty and expense
of reproducing as illustrations the exam
pies with which the lecturer had eluci-
dated his text Now, however, the i'm
provements effected in photogravure and
photography have made it possible. to
reproduce no less than eighteen of the
pictures referred to in the text-pictures
taken from the University Galleries. from
Mr. Ruskin's own collection and from
the Ruskin Drawing School at Ok ford
and Mr.. George Allen is about to publish
| the work.
John Locke 'sydescendants had an en-
| joyable reunion at Rye, N. H., but it
was Captain John, not Philosopher John,
whom they represented.
The announcement that Colonel Ly-
man Dixie of Stoneham completed his
seventy sixth year last week brings to
mind that the colonel was commander OF
the Seventh Regiment, M. v. NJ, in
1858, when Brigadier General Butler
marched his command from the muster
| field at Winter Island, Salem, with
dubbed muskets rs a mark of his disre-
| spect for the commander-in-ch Gov
ernor Banks.
1t is the Springfield Republican which
says that 'the real truth is that the writ
| ings of the late General Francis A.
Walker afforded the free silver movement
much more encouragement than anything
| DR.. Andrews has ever written or said.
General Walker would not advise indie
pendent action by the United States, but
! his books gave the silyerites an arsenal
of first principles and arguments against
single gold standard, and the way to
become silverite was first to read Gen
nral Walkers works assailing monometal-
| ism. I'D
The Portland daily press., 1897-08-31

In the choice of Brevet Brigadier Gen
eral John p. S. Goblin for the comman-
dership of the Grand Army of the Repub-
lie, the rank and file as well as the com
missioned officers are duly recognized
In 1861, Gen. Goblin enlisted as private
in the eleventh Pennsylvania Infantry
and retired at the close of the war with
the rank of colonel and bre vet brigadier
general. His membership with the Grand
Army dates back to 1867. He was with
Sheridan in the Shenandoah campaign.
and it was there he won his spurs as a
leader of dash and ability.
The Portland daily press., 1897-08-31
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The Portland daily press., 1897-08-31

Frequently has it been remarked tina t
truth is stranger than fiction and an apt
illustration is found in the story sent by
cable relating the finding of the body Of
Captain Arkwright. British officer,
who was killed in an avalanche in 1866.
Excepting the head and feet the tody was
found in a remarkable state of preserva-
ton. The mans jewelry was also found
scattered about where it fell when he met
his death thirty-one years ago.
The Portland daily press., 1897-08-31

& Estimates differ, but in some quarters
it IS now believed that the wheat yield
r~ill show $40, 900 bushels, which is
25 900 greater than any crop except
lat of 1881. The Secretary of the Min
neapolis Chamber of Commerce thinks
that the wheat crop of the two Dakotas
and of Minnesota has been underestimate
ed and believes that for these three states
the yield will be not less than II $40, 900
bushels.