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The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-12-18
What IL Means.

{, When we advertise that we will guar
antce Dir. Kings New Discovery, Flee
trio Bitters. Bucklen's Arnica Salve. nr
Dr. Kings New Life Pills. It means
that we are authorized by the proprie-
tors to sell these remedies on n posi-
tive guarantee. that If purchaser Is not
satisfied witty results. we will refund
the purchase price. These medicines
have been sold on this guarantee for
many years and there could be no more
conclusive evidence of their great merit
Ask about them and give them trial
Sold at burrows, Martin s; Co.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-12-18
FUNERAL OF MRS. SANS

The funeral, Of Mrs Grace l.. Sans.
who died Wednesday morning, took
place at O'Clock yesterday from the
residence, 122 Boush street The de-
ceased was daughter of the late Con
way Whittle, OF this city, who was q
cousin OF Bishop Francis White. Of
the Protestant Episcopal church OF Vir-
ginla. She was educated here and on
October 18th, 1860. married Captain
Horace II. Sans
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-12-18

the most accomplished and sweetest
or women. and has winning manners
that make the girls devoted ITO her
She as n tower of strength TO her hus-
band IN the encouragement and discipline
OF schools. The entire school far,,ity
IS Sratiiied at the choice OF the board.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-12-18
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The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-12-18
What are You
Going to
Do About 1t?

Such an opportunity as this may never
come again. AS q special Holiday offer I
will treat any patients who apply before
JANUARY list, ut tho rate of $500 Der
month, medicines included.
This is just onc-half my usual rate, and
less than onc-foUrth what specialists usu-
ally charge. If you apply before January
LIST you will he treated at this rate until
cured, but this rate. will not be given to
any one applying after New Years Day.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-01-08
NEWS OF THE DAY.

1t is reported in Havana that an in
surgent, who recently surrendered, de.
clares that there is widespread disgust
among the insurgent leaders.
Senator Chandler has made canvass
of the Senate on the proposition for an
international conference on silver and
finds practically no opposition.
A Vienna dispatch reports that a
rumor prevails there that the recent
illness of King Humbert of Italy, which
was said at the time to be due to cold,
was, in fact, caused by slight stroke
ofparalysis.
Hon. VIM. ]. Bryan, in speech at o
banquet held at the fremont House.
Chicago, last night, in honor of jack
son Day, said there should be no COM
promise of the issues involved in the
late campaign.
Miss Ida V. Hoagland, private secre.
tary to Miss Mary Garrett, was killed
by fall down an elevator shaft in Miss
CARROTS mansion in Baltimore yester-
day. She was on the third floor and
attempted to pull the elevator down
when, LOSING her balance, she fell to
the bottom Vi :y shaft, forty feet be-
low.
Senator Sherman may visit Canton
in the near future to confer with Presi-
dent-elect Mckinley. He will accept
the position of Secretary of State pro-
vided Gov. Bushnell will appoint to the
vacancy thereby occasioned in the Sen
ate some one who is acceptable to him.
This means, of course, that Governor
Bushell must appoint Hanna.
Just as an angry mob of farmers had
placed rope about the neck of Frank
Thomas, colored, who assaulted Mrs.
Irvine Ball, the wife of q farmer near
Stanton, DEL, and were preparing to
hang him to tree late yesterday after
! noon, two detectives of Wilmington
arrived upon the scene, AID, with
drawn pistols, rescued Thomas and car
ried him to prison.
The trial of Police Captain Chapman,
who raided a private dinner given at
Sherry's in Fifth avenue, New York,
by Herbert B. Seeley in honor of his
olOuuci piooPoOVifo OOooi oiou W oaOn-
elorhood, was begun yesterday after
noon. The trial might more properly
be called an official investigation Of the
dinner, for Capt. Chapman has asserted
that wicked things were to go on there,
and that he will prove it in order to
justify his raid.
A dispatch from Washington says
"The President and Postmaster Gen
eral Wilson got their revenge on ex-
Congressman Cadmus, of Paterson, n
j., yesterday, by refusing to appoint
him postmaster at that place, because
J he refused to vote for the Wilson bill
| when it first passed the House. In
stead, the President yesterday nomi-
mated to the Senate for postmaster
Herman J. J. Kohlhaas, free silver
democrat.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-01-08
COURT OF APPEALS.

The Court of Appeals yesterday
handed down opinions in these cases:
P. Childress, administrators. VS. Gin
cinnati and Ohio Railway Company,
from the, Circuit Court of Henrico af.
firmed.
Smith vs. Burton, from Circuit Court
of Cumberland County affirmed.
Sims VS.. Tyrer, from Circuit Court
of Alexandria county; affirmed.
Mccartney VS.. Potomac Electric
Company, from Circuit Court of Alex
apdria county; affirmed.
Young vs.. EASILY, from Circuit Court
of Halifax county affirmed.
Mahoney VS. James, from Corporation
Court of City of Portsmouth decree
amended and affirmed.
Haupt vs. Tebault, from Corporation
Court of City of Norfolk reversed.
George M. Harrison, James, &c, VS..
Kibler's administrator and KILLERS ad-
ministrator VS.. James, from Corpora
tion Court of Danville; reversed.
Turnbull vs.. Mann, from Hastings
Court of Petersburg reversed.
Kelley vs.. Bankers Loan and Insur-
ance Company, from Hastings Court of
Petersburg appeal allowed, bond re-
quired in penalty Of $3.50.
Owens vs. Owens, from Circuit Court
of Scott county appeal allowed, bond
5000.
Hughes, Sheriff, vs. Kelly, from Law
and Equity Court, City of Richmond ;
writ of error allowed.
Stoneburner and Richards vs. Motley,
from Circuit Court of Essex; appeal
allowed.
Georgia Home Insurance Company
vs. Goode & Co., from Circuit Court of
Fauquier, writ of errow allowed bond
$500.
Washington, Alexandria and Mount
Vernon Railway Company VS.. Quail,
from Corporation Court OF Alexandria /;
writ of error allowed.
Fishburn & Engleby vs.. Engledove, from
peal allowed bond 5000.
Reid, trustee, vs.. King, trustee; appeal re-
fused.
Speer VS.. Stratton appeal refused.
Watkins VS.. West Wytbeville Improvement
Company appeal refused.
Coweu McChury and others VS. Hsgan; ap-
peal refused.
Langhorne Vi. Richmond City Railroad
Company writ Of error refused.
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company vs..
Fen petition to rehear refused.
May We. Commonwealth writ of error re-
fused.
Fifeld VS. Van Wyck; further argued by
Judge L. J.. Lewis for appellant and sub.
mitted.
Company argued by P. A. L. Smith for APP.
pellant and Hill Carter for appellee and sub
mitted.
Wooc bridge Travers & Co. vs. Green ar
gued by w. w. Henry for appellant.
The next cases to DO called are: Ferguson
VS.. Daughtry. City of Petersburg VS.. Cooke
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-01-08
TO-DAY'S TELEGRAPHIC NEWS
Lady Scott Sentenced,

LONDON, Jan. S.-The court room
was crowded this morning when Lady
Selma Scott, John Cockerton and VIM.
Aylott, who yesterday pleaded guilty
of having crininally libelled Earl Rus
sell, Lady Scott's son.in-law, were
brought up for sentence. Lady Scott
entered the court room accompanied by
her daughter, Countess Russell. In
reply to the question as to what she had
to say why sentence should not be pro-
nounced upon her, she said all that she
had done was in defence of her daugh-
ter and she would gladly suffer any
thing for her sake. The judge then
condemned each of the accused to eight
months Imprisonment without hard la.
boz. Lady Scott, on account of her deli
cate health, will be treated as irst.class
misdemeanant. As Lady Scott was
leaving the prisoners dock after the
Judge had sentenced her she turned
and said Every word 1 uttered
against my daughters husband is true"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-01-08
THE GAZETTE.

Yesterday the ALEXANDRIA Ga.
zETTE entered upon the 9Sth year of its
existence. Referring to its birthday
the GAZETTE remarks that that's q
pretty long life for newspaper in
country of such changes as have occur
ed in this; but during all that time,
save only when the Union army-worse
than the British when it took the city
in 1S12-seized, suppressed and finally
burnt and utterly destroyed its Office
and all its invaluable contents, it has
never failed, on every week day, to
give its readers the local and national
news and all of that from abroad that
was of any interest. Indeed it has for
nearly hundred years made daily
and true exhibit of the "age and body
of the times" 1t is one of Alexandria's
Oldest institutions, and in its files can
be found the complete history of the
city from the beginning of the century,
and perfect record of the marriages
and deaths and testaments of Alexan-
drians, and there is hardly day in
which those files are not searched for
some old and forgotten local lore. In
all the many years of its life, the GA
ZETTE has taught what it believed was
right, and, therefore, having a clear
conscience, it has hewed to the line, ir-
respective of the direction of the chips.
We tip our hat to the Oldest paper
in the State, and wish it sll the happi-
ness and success that this world and a
liberal patronage can afford.-DaNyiUe
Rentster.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-01-08
THE PRESIDENTS DINNER.

The President and Mrs. Cleveland
gave their first state dinner of the sea-
son in honor of the Cabinet last night,
the company assembled including also
other guests of note. The Marine band
was stationed in the reception lobby
and midnight found the executive
mansion still echoing with their
strains. The east room was massed
with palms set against the long win
dows, the mantels were banked with
scarlet camellias, white roses and
azslias, and the pillars and crystal
chandeliers we're wreathed with smilax
vines. Plants ornamented the top of
the satin fauteuil in the centre OF the
room, and on either side was circu-
lar group of growing tropical foliage.
The same arrangements OF floral dec
orations as on New Years Day pre-
vailed throughout the several hued
apartments, except that the red room
was even more cheerily beautiful than
on that occasion by reason of the
unique and exquisite massing of ferns
into pyramids, from which bloomed
poinsetta blossoms. like thousand
scarlet stars.
The great dining-room was tropical
with palms. The mantel was filled
with white roses and ferns, and the
mirror above it half yelled with smilax
tendrils. From the center of the e1-
quisitely appointed table rose mound
of ferns bedded in long gilded basket
with cream white roses blossoming
along its outer edge.
At either end of the board were mas
sive silver baskets, filled with fruit,
and the candles in the cluster groups oil
candelabra burned under rose pink
shades. From the crystal chandeliers
above the table were garlands of smi-
lax, illuminated with red, white and
blue electric lights, and the same pa
triotic colors twinkled in the greenery
that wreathed the mirrors and frames.
Half-past seven was the hour set, but
it was nearly eight o'cloak before the
brilliant gathering was seated. The
President entered with Mrs. Steven
son, and Mrs. Cleveland with the Vice
President, the Cabinet following in Or
der of rank,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-01-08
FRIDAY EVENING. JAN. 8, 1897.

THE ANTI. BETTING laws of the North
have almost broken up the race tracks
there, and greatly injured the stock
farms, as they have in Virginia. In.
deed, so great has been the injury to
both, and also to the people who live in
the neighborhood of either, that strong
efforts are being made in all the parts
of that section in which racing was for
merly practiced to have those laws
amended. Pool selling is the Oldest, fair
est, and simplest form of betting, and as
horse racing cannot be carried on with
out wagers, why that particular system
of doing so should be especially pro-
scribed has not been satisfactorily told.
Reformers as general'rule do more
harm than good. There could not pos
sibly have been more favorable weather
for racing on the Alexandria county
tracks than that we have had, 80 far,
this winter, and even the moral reform
ers in the Virginia Legislature cannot
say that the men who 90 to st. Asaph
every day to bet on races at New Or
leans, Memphis and other foreign
tracks, are any better than if they had
been permitted to bet on races run be-
fore their eyes.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-01-08
Archbishop of Canterbury.

LONDON, Jan. S.-The Rt. Hon. and
Most Rev. Fred'k Temple, the recent
ly appointed Archbishop of Canter-
bury and primate of all England, en-
throned in the Cathedral at Canterbury
to-day, in the presence of twelve
bishops, $50 clergymen and large
gathering of the laity. AS the process
sion entered the Cathedral an enthusi-
astic ritualist named Greenwood cried
out: "Bott the ceremony and the arch
bishop ore frauds" Efforts were made
TO quiet Greenwood but he continued
his disturbance until he was seized by
policeman and locked up. The ap
proaches to the Cathedral we're depsely
packed with people and the edifice was
filled to the limit of its capacity.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-01-08
The Arbucklc Case.

LOUISVILLE. KY, Jan. Sired Bau-
man, a prisoner in the Jail here, yester-
day confessed to participation in the
murder of Frank P. Arbuckle, in New
York. on November 10, naming Dave
Edmunds, an actor, of Chicago, as bis
accomplice. Bauman says he struck
Arbuckle over the head with the butt
of pistol and that Edmunds used o
small slung-shot.
NEW YORK, Jan. S-Captain O'Brien,
of the detective bureau, said this morn.
ing that he took no stock in the story
told by Frederick Bauman in Louis
vile. "There was no mark of violence
on Arbuckle's body" said Captain
O'Brien, "and the whole story'told by
Bauman was evidently made out OF
whole cloth.n
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-01-08

THE NORFOLK PosToFFICE.-The
latest developments in the case of W.
W. Degge, late postmaster of Norfolk,
are the efforts made to prevent prose-
cution. He and his friends are attempt
ing to have that stopped.
Inspector Clumm says that there is
no chance for man who has been
using the funds of the government as
Mr.. Degge has used them to be retain
ed. He may consider himself fortu-
nate if he escapes prosecution. Dis
trict Attorney Wbyte has not received
any instructions from Washington to
begin q prosecution.
Mr.. Degge began drawing money
from the receipts of the postoffice
about eighteen months ago, drawing on
the returns from the box rents, one of
the stamp windows, and later from the
money order department.. In the case
of the first two mentioned his system
was to make good the shortage of the
month by transfer from the receipts
of the next, holding his statement back
until sufficient amount had come in to
enable him to replace it. This system
had been worked until it was no longer
possible to use it, the shortage having
become 80 large that 1t could not be
concealed, and there was not money
enough in the Office to pay off the em-
ployes. Matters had reached this crisis
when the Inspector came. There is
already q scramble among the demo-
Gratis for the place.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-01-08
Foul Play.

PORT JERvIs, N. Y, Jan. S.-The
dead body of VIM. Speidel, 81 years of
age, was found this morning in the
yards of the Erie railroad. The body
was frozen stiff and bore evidence of
foul play. A white handkerchief was
stuffed in the mouth. The pockets of
the young mans clothes had been turn
ed inside out and a watch which he
carried was missing. A doctor who
made an examination of the body said
that death was caused by strangulation.
Spiedel was to have been married last
evening to Miss Annie Bowman, of
Matamoras, Pa, across the river from
this place. He undoubtedly had quite
a sum of money on his person to defray
the wedding expenses. His intended
bride is wild with grief. Spiedel was
strangled while on his way to meet his
future wife. Several tramps have been
arrested on suspicion.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-01-08

A WHOLESALE MURpERER.-Sim
Cooper killed Ben Wilson, his wife, and
their son, Wesley, and q colored man
named Smith in Sumter, S. c., yester-
day. Cooper went to Lynchburg yes
terday evening for the purpose of fore
ing a young colored girl to marry him.
The girl and her mother by some means
escaped and ran into the swamp. He
left as soon as he failed to get the girl
and forced some colored men to 60 with
him and kept them with him all night.
He came out of the woods about day
light and went to the house of CT lored
man named Boyle, took his horse and
compelled Boyle's son to accompany
him. From there he went to the house
of the Wilson's, about mile distant,
where the horrible crime was commit
ted. When the bodies of the Wilson's
we're found the old man, seventy-fve
years old, was sitting up in the bed
with shotgun in his hands, his son,
Wesley, was in another bed, his head
split, while on the floor lay the body
of the woman, her head smashed in and
her throat cut. Smith, the colored
man, who was killed on the road, was
found with an axe still in the back Of
his neck, and his head half severed
from his body. A sheriff's posse is in
pursuit of the murderer.
LATER.-Cooper was surrounded by
sheriff's posse in Sumter county this
morning and killed. Gov. Evans was
asked for cannon as Cooper kept up
fusilade with his Winchester on the
posse, but a lucky shot finally downed
him.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-01-08
CONGRESSIONAL.

The Senate yesterday evening took up
number Of bills relating to commerce and
navigation. The House bill to amend the
navigation laws was passed with Senate
amerdme The bill provides for shipping
commerce officers, for the shipment and dis
charge of sailors, fixes ~ cubic feet as the
minimum space to be allowed each seaman on
a large vessel and makes minor changes in
the regulation of lights, signals, settlement OF
seamen's estates, etc. Senator Burrows, from
the committee on claims, reported a bill for
the payment of 326 claims for stores and
supplies seized by the government during the
civil war and passed upon by the Court OF
Claims under the Bowman act The claims
aggregate 1854, 901 After a brief executive
session the Senate adjourned until MONDAY;
The House was engaged most OF the day
upou the consideration Of the Pacific railroad
funding bill. When the committee rose sew.
era minor appointments to the bill agreed
mon b, the Pacific railroad committee were
adopted to perfect the measure. final vote
will DO taken on Monday.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-01-08
MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL

This has been quie. week in business
circles generally. But little grain hiss been
offered and prices remain unchanged. The
usual after holidays quiet prevails in the retail
market, and money matters are also quiet.
In New York yesterday money on call was
easy at 11aa 9 per cent. last loan n, closed
2s1b per cent. Prime mercantile paper
3aa41a per cent. In Baltimore call loans
were readily obtained at per cent, while
bank discounts and time accommodations
were quoted at and per cent. Local
shares are quiet, with but little doing:
NEW YORK, Jan. S.-The irregularity noted
in the stock market at the opening soon gave
way to firmness and before the expiration of
the first hour of business the entire list was
on the up grade once more. The advance
was unimportant, say 1sa9s per cent. At II
o'clock the market was quiet and firm.
BALTIMORE, Jan. 9.-Virgnia century
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-01-08
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

U. S. Senator elect Money, of Mis-
sissippi, returned to Tampa, Fla, yes
terday, from Havana.
Since the outbreak of plague in Bonn,
bay the population of that city has been
reduced one-half and the weekly NOR
tality has averaged 200.
AT Grand Rapids, Mich, to day ex.
Pension Examiner ]. A. Jordan was
sentenced in the y. Court for defraud.
ing the government. He pad 81 ,OOC
and was released.
Stephen Won Papay, chief of the pri.
vate chancellerie of the Emperor
Francis Joseph, died at Vienna to-day
He was credited with having powerful
influence with the emperor.
A telegram has been received in
Chicago from Dan Stuart announcing
that the fight between Fitzsimmons
and Corbett will take place in the
United States and not in Mexico, as
was surmised.
It is understood that the Union Pa
cifc reorganization committee has
practically matured it's plans for pur.
chasing the Indebtedness of the com
pany 10 the government, in the event
of the failure of the funding bill.
The entire town of Linn creek, in
southwest Missouri, is under water by
the overlooking of the Usage river
One man and FIVE children were drown
ed in Texas county, Mo-, last Saturday
as result of the floods in that section
of Missouri.
Mr.. Quesads, of the Cuban Legation
or Cuban Junta, stationed here, says
the published report that Gen. Maxine
Gomez, commander.in-chief OF the
Cuban army, had sent through an in
termediary to Senior Sagasta. liberal
leader in Spain, the conditions on
which the Cuban insurgents were resoy
to treat with Spain, is Gle"
AS result of the new law against contract
convict labor. Frederick Hoffman, prisoner
attempted to kill himself in Sing Sing prison
this morning He had been employed IN inc
printing office. Warden Sage fesrs that the
close confinement of the prisoners may drive
some of the men mad, They are begging, tof
something to do, but the warden is powerless
to put them to work.
The North Carolina legislature to-day unan'
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-01-08
VIRGINIA NEWS.

The fine Mantan estate, near Heaths-
Vile, formerly owned by Col. James NJ.
Smith, has been sold for $500 cash.
Deer hunting has revived to a great
extent in the Northern Neck this win.
ter and many fine animals have been
shot by hunting parties.
Major J. W. Newton died suddenly
yesterday at his residence in Staunton
of apoplexy, at the age of ffty-seven
years. Major Newton was gallant
Confederate soldier.
Mr.. Decatur Axtell, the second vice
president of the Chesapeake and Ohio
Road, says his company did a larger
business during the month of December
last than In any preceding December in
its history.
Mr.. John Carter, of Spotsylvania,
while removing an old carriage house
blown down by the recent storm, found
an old pot containing a considerable
sum of money supposed to have been
hidden there early in the war.
The engagement is announced of
Miss Agatha Walsh, of Richmond, to
Mr.. A. W. Bikker, jr., son of Col.
Arthur Wellesley Bikker, of the Cold.
stream Guards; of London, England.
The wedding will take place early in
May.
John M. Sibert, who is jointly charg
ed with G. G. Rice for causing the
death of Isaac Bowers in Shenandoah
county last week, was yesterday adj
mitted to bail in the penalty of $1,000.
Rice was allowed bail in like amount,
but as yet has not been able to furnish
security.
The Virginia Soapstone Company,
located in Nilsson county, is doing a
large business. There are over one
hundred hands employed, and the soap
stone is said to be of the finest quality
and commands ready sale-in fact the
orders can't be filed. The plant is be-
ing enlarged constantly.
A deed of assignment was recorded
in Lynchburg yesterday from J. II.
Valentine aud wife, conveying num-
Der of houses and lots and other assets
to II. D. Flood. trustee, for the benefit
of creditors. Tbs total liabilities are
placed at 500, 725.77. Mr.. Valentine
was formerly well known auctioneer
of that city.
The Commercial Bank, of Lynch
burg, was yesterday merged into the
First National Bank, all the accounts
and deposits of the former being trans
ferred to. the latter. The consolidation
adds large amount of business to the
First National Bank. Five of the
Commercial Bank directors will 60 on
the board of the First National.