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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-08-30

SPEAKING OF the proposed coalition
OF the republicans and populists of this
State. the Baltimore American says;
every such an alliance made in the
South has in the past proved DISASTROUS
to the republican party. Nothing has
ever been gained by the party by q
combination of that character and moth
ing ever will be gained" There are
only two parties in the South, and, ow.
ing to existing conditions, there can only
be two. and the voters who do not be
long to the democratic, to all intents
and purposes, do belong to the rspubli-
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-08-30

A DOG CoSQUERs SHARK Thousands Of
bathers at Atlantic City witnessed an e1e,-
ing marine battle yesterday The light was
between handsome setter dog and shsrk
four feet in length. The dog was swimming
in the ocean just beyond the breakers when
he was attacked by the shark The canine
was handicapped By the fact thu. his opp,
nent was fighting in his natural element, but
he put up strong defence aud soon became
the sggressor. The water wss lsshei into
foam by the fierce struggle that ensued, and
for time it was hard to tell which Of The
gladiators hsd the better chance Of becOuirs
the victor. Little by little the dcs gsinet
the ascendsncy over his opponent and the
water was dyed with the litebood Of the eI'
piring man.ester. The four. footed champion
was loudly applauded as he dragged the i:h
ashore and then no modesily trotted swsy ii
II such things were OF everyday occurrence
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-08-30

SECURED HIS FoRTUNE.-A dispatch
from Ocean City, Md, says; Henry
Smith, the Washington carriage painter
who has been working at his trade in
Berlin, Worcester county, for several
months past, and who inherited $12O, 600
in cash and $500, 900 in real estate few
weeks ego, has returned from New
York, where he went last week to see
his LAWYERS. He received in cash while
there the 1920, 900 to which he is emil
tied. He also looked over the property
on Broadway in which he has an inter-
est. he will go to Washington in few
days and will probably engage in the
ieWelry business.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-08-30
grounds.

A SUPPORTER of what many South.
ern people look upon as the amazing
invitation to the G. A. r. to hold its
next meeting in the capital OF the lste
Confederate States, in public COM
munication, says:
ssShall we bring to Richmond q
BODY of men who, apart from the good
feeling such meeting would promote,
will spend at least two millions OF dol
lars in our State"
There it is. Sentiment. natural feel
ing, cherished memories and associa
lions are all to be ignored and disrs-
esrded in Richmond, for nothing else
than the vain and absurd hope that
pensioners may spend two million
dollars there. If they should spend
two million cents, it would be as much
as could be reasonably expected.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-08-30
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Mr.. Ham Bartlett, prominent farm.
er Of Orange, died on Sunday.
Mr.. VIM. r. Alexander, of Winches-
ter, has recovered from his recent ILL
ness.
The democrats OF Accomac on Satur-
day renominated DR.. LeCato for the
State Senate and 8. W.. Wilkinson for
the House.
Miss Sallie Fitzhugh, of Culpeper,
and Mr.. George Bayley, of Washington,
were married Wednesday evening In
Washington, Rev. Mr.. Johnson officiat-
ing.
The Office of the Collector of Internal
Revenue in Richmond will be transfer.
red by Mr.. VIM. Ryan to Col. J. B.
Brady after the close OF business next
Tuesday afternoon.
Rev. J. Howard Gibbons has resign
ed as rector of the Episcopal Church in
Washington, Rappahannock county,
and accepted call near Fredericks.
burg, and will make bis home in that
city.
The crop OF wheat in Virginia this
year Is about &c, OOO, 900 bushels. It Is
larger by 10000 than any raised
since the war. At an average of 85
cents per bushel, it means $22, 100, 900
to the farmers Of the State.
Mr.. Chas. B. Wood, the pioneer fruit
grower of Rappahsnnock county, was
offered last week by Jno. J. Miller, esq.,,
IS, 900 for his apple crop. which offer
he refused. The trees in his orchard,
which is the finest In that section, are
loaded down with the finest fruit, being
unusually large and perfect.
The democratic primaries in Prince
William county on Saturday resulted
in the nomination of Mr.. G.. G.. Gala.
her for the House over Mr.. Patton by a
large majority. The result of the cleo.
ton is regarded as a decisive victory by
those who favor the reelection of Hon.
W. M. E. Lipscomb as county judge.
The sheriff of Richie county, W. Va,
arrived in Richmond on Saturday even
ing with requisition papers for Irwin
Brown. Brown was arrested in that
State charged with the murder, near
Sistersville, of Emanuel Crull, of Rich.
mond, escaped from Jail and was cap
tured in Richmond. The prisoner left
in the custody of the sheriff to-day.
The Zionist Congress opened at Basic
yesterday. Two hundred delegates
from various parts of Europe were In
attendance. Among other subjects the
congress will discuss the plan for the
purchase of Palestine and the settle.
ment there of the Jews. DR.. Herzl,
the originator of the scheme, and DR..
Nordau were elected presidents.
Brunswick county democrats on Sat-
day renominated DR.. R. 8. Powell for
the House. An interesting contest was
practically decided on Saturday in the
democratic primaries of Nottoway coun-
ty, James Mann securing the majority
of the delegates to the nominating con-
vention for the House over General
George J. Hundley, the present incum,
bent.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-08-30

THERE Is no doubt of the fact that
the few farmers who have wheat to sell
are in better trim now than they were
four months ago, but no man with his
eyes open can say that the condition Of
the many city laborers, who have to
stand the rise in the price of -four with
out any increase in their wages, has
been improved to the slightest degree
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-08-30
Recruits for the Insurgents.

CHICAGO, Aug. 30.-Two hundred
Americans and three carloads of ammu-
milton are supposed to leave Chicago to-
morrow night for Jacksonville, Florida.
there to board the steamer Soledad for
some point in Cuba. The date of the
5oledad's sailing is fixed for Saturday.
The Americans composing the Chicago
contingent have enlisted for II months
and are to receive salary of $40 per
month. In the event of Cuba recelv-
ing her freedom each soldier is prom
ised large tract Of land and sum of
monaV
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-08-30

SOUTH CAROLINA PoLITICs.-John
T. Duncan on Sunday issued a card re-
firing from the senatorial race. His
object in entering, he says, was to be
able to confront Ex-Governor Evans
with proof of the charges of corruption
which he made last summer. He has
made this offer on the stump, he states,
aud Mr.. Evans had been mum" At
Florence Saturday night Colonel 1rby,
in speech, savagely attacked Tiliman,
saying the Senator had been secretely
boosting McLaurin, who was his tool
in the Senate and would vote for pro.
lection with him.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-08-30

SU1c1DE.-Mr. Henry Waripo G, ;,..
committed suicide on his farm in p ,.L,ss
Georges county, Nd, adjoinipy 'r ,S''
village of Nottingham, by hanging HIM Ia'
self to tree. He had been nis -iai'
since Sunday of last week, but a. ~ q
frequently went away from home on rS
stayed several days, nothing w Ia
thought of his absence. He bsd s aa'
IDENTIFY been hanging from the tree e v,,
since his disappearance, for when bs
was found his body had begun to decs &c
The rope had stretched until his knes.
were on the ground and but for tbis
his head would have been pulled "a
as the remains were 20 mnob
decomposed. The discovery was msds
by his tenant, who went out Saturjsr
morning to repair dividing line fencs
which ran through a piece Of wood. 6s
tween the farms of Mr.. Grimes ana
Reeds farm. Attention was drawn ~
the spot by the unpleasant odor
Mr.. Grimes was about sixty.tb,a.
years old and widower, having MAN.
years ago married Miss BealI
sister OF ex-Sheriff r. Wesley Besli
of Prince Georges county, who died q
few years after her marriage Hs
owned a fine farm on the Patuyent
river, about twelve miles from Upner
Marlboro. For the last ten or tyeirn
years he rented out the place, not hsy
ing any children, and made bis hons
with the tenants.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-08-30
After Girard,s Millions.

KANSAS CITY, Aug, 9O.-Mrs. Edith
Sigler, wife of q travelling salesman Of
this city, to-day made the folling
sensational declaration: 81 am de.
scendent of Stephen Girsrd. Mygreat
grandfather was brother of Stephen
Girard's father. When Stephen Girard
died in Philadelphia in 1881 he left a
fortune, which has increased until it is
now $40, 100000. He had no direct de-
scendants and the collateral descend
ants could not be found, 80 he left his
estate to charity. 1 am going try to
wreck Girard college and get my
money!"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-08-30

CORPORAL TANNER, ex-Commission-
or of Pensions, and prominent mem
Der of the G. A. r., says: ut would
be the height of impertinence to force
ourselves into place where we would
not BIZ welcomed. The time is not ripe
for the North to e1ult over it's glory
in the old capital of the Confederaoy."
The Corporal has great deal more
common sense and natural feeling than
the people who invited the surviving
soldiers of the federal srmy to hold
their next annual reunion in the once
proud capital of the nation they de-
stroyed,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-08-30

THE Pennsylvania law imposing q
tax on laborers who are not naturalized
has been decided to be unconstitutional
by o. 8. Judge in that State. No
State that has any knowledge Of, or re-
gard for, the Constitution would have
ever enacted any such law. The un.
restricted right of man to earn his
bread by the sweat of his face ia not
only granted by the laws of the country
but by the laws of God; but such laws
are as nothing to the "higher law" Of
republican ignorance aud prejudice.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-08-30
Cracksmen Loot a Bank.

ELMDALE, Kans., Aug. 3O-shortly
after midnight crscksmen literally blew
the vault of the Exchange Bank to
pieces. Nitro glycerine was used three
times and the explosions we're heard q
great distance. Before the third ex-
plosion occurred the citizens surrounded
the bank and opened fire. During the
excitement the robbers escaped from a
rear door, taking with them 81 300 in
money and $500 worth of drafts.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-08-30

TIE Wire Nail Company at ADDER.
son, Indiana, has notified its employees
of reduction in their wages, though
they we're getting little enough before.
But this, according to the protection
lists, is a sign of the advent of prosper
ity. How differently different people
look at the same thing?
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-08-30
From Japan.

TACOMA, Aug. 3O.-The Japanese
steamer just in veri6es the reports OF
severe earthquakes in Japan on August
s, followed by tidal wave and great
floods. A thousand houses were inun-
dated and 200 persons were killed and
injured. Sixty.fve Chinese villages
were inundated.
A widespread disease has attacked
the roots of the sugar cane. The roots
rot and the cane dies. 1t has already
struck four provinces and extending.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-08-30

The ScHooLs.-The forthcoming r..
port of the Superintendent OF Public In
struction of Virginia, John Z. Massey
will be of unusual interest and import.
ance to the public throughout the State
The system has grown marvelously
Whole number OF schools in operation
S,34S, of which 2,255 are colored. ppniI.
enrolled, 362, 1873; teachers employed
SAY; average length of school term
595 months; average age OF pupil:
10 9years;percentage ofattendancr 3 ).
whole humber of school houses in rs.
6977; number built during the wear. .0-
otal number of volumes in school libsrie,
$3.50; value of all school property owned by
the various districts 100000 ~; revenue
o. the schools for the year State fund.
$780, 86 Al; city funds S2S7 .S74 93
county districts and other local funds $565
399.45: total, $1,S33 go s.. expense
teachers salaries 1888, 534 36: permsnep,
improvements. $40, 10465; All other eI.
penses, $243, 262.S2; total, 81, SOC 90l So
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-08-30

THREATENED LNNcHING Lark TsylF
colored, assaulted Mary Jane Mickey four
teen-year.old white child, near ElIl'ior,
Montgomery county, Friday Only the child
and her younger sister were in the house 81
the time. The negro fled when the siaIG
was gwen. posse soon started on hl' IsI.
however, and he WAS apprehended Saturday
by the authorities and lodged IN jail at Chrsi
isnsburg. The lynchers were close tehtd
him, and it was only through freight wreck
on the road that they were kept RON i ,l,
prey till he ives comparatively sale 'eHln9
t e Jail doors The lynchers are determined
and express their purpose TO wreak vengeance
OH TayIor.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-08-30
Visited by a Hurricane.

NoGALEs, Ariz., Aug. 30.-Advices
from Guaymas state that severe hur-
ricane visited the lower Mexican coast
on the 22nd inst. At Las Guacimas
the region for miles around was inun-
dated and the town swept away. Sew
eral vessels were wrecked and some
lives are reported to have been lost and
great damage was done to crops.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-08-30

TALK ABOUT the indemnities paid by
France to Germany, and China to ia
pan, and that to be paid by Greece to
Turkey, why, they are as nothing com
pared to that exacted of the yanquish.
ed South by the victorious North, in the
shape of pensions. But it is woe to the
conquered in an internecine, as well
as in foreign war.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-08-30
MONDAY EVENING. AUG. 80, 1897.
n1sp.rcg from Newport's News

A DISPATCH from Newport's News
says good deal OF dissatis-
faction is being expressed by
the q. A. R. men there over
the appointment of negroes to positions
in the Norfolk navy yard, in the place
of white men who had been removed,
one of whom was Union veteran.
There is neither rhyme nor reason in
any ouch dissatisfaction as that referred
to. for all the G.. A. r. men voted for
the republican President and declared
that the ''blue" obliterated all the diff
ference between white and black
Therefore, their opposition to division
of the spoils with the negroes cannot oe
justified, at least on commendable
Il.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-08-30

A FARMER living near tho camp Of
the striking negroes near Unity, Penn.
sylvania, says that when that camp was
started, he had four hundred chickens
Now he has only 6fty.seven, and has to
watch them day and night. AS misery
loves company, that poor man may find
some store of comfort in the fact that
chicken raising has become almost q
lost art in Alexandria county, where
the negroes have large majority, in
consequence of the number of chicken
thieves there.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-08-30

THE DEMOCRATS of Virginia we're de
nounced by the boilers last year be.
cause the populists. of their own free
will, supported the democratic ticket
but now the boilers allies, the republi-
cans, say they will unite with pop
ulists, silverites, or anybody else, to de-
feat the democrats, who have declined
to have anything to do with populists.
The object OF the republicans issuccess;
the means by which it may be obtained
ia of little or no consequence.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-08-30
AWarning to Prospectors.

SEATTLE, WASH, Aug. So.-The Do.
minion surveyor for the Northwest
Territory discourages all strangers from
going into the Klondike country.
There is, he says, nine months win
ter in that bleak country; barrenness is
almost total 80 far as vegetation and
food is concerned, the earth js bound IN
eternal frost and the thermometer often
reaches so and 70 degrees below zero.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-08-30
JApAN's Observation-Disclosures suf-

JAPAN's NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. SUI
fered great disaster on August 5 and
6, when severe earthquake was fol-
lowed by q tidal wave, which raised
the rivers flowing to the sea hfteenlto
thirty feet above their usual height,
causing great destruction to property
and much loss of life. From reports
received at Yokohama up to August 10,
it was known that something over 200
people had been killed or fatally in.
jured. Iu the neighborhood of 5000
buildings in towns near the sea coast bad
been flooded, and fully one.tenth OF
that number were swept away.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-08-30

STAR POINTER BREAKS RECORD
Star Pointer, at Readville track, Bos
ton, on Saturday, took the champion
crown away from the pacing stallion
John r. Gentry, pacing a mile in
1881, lowering the worlds record d
second and quarter, thereby demon.
strating the long disputed question Of
alight harness horses ability 10 90 a
mile in less than two minutes.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-08-30

The MosLEM commissioner in Crete,
while on his way to camp of the Chris
tian insurgents on peaceful mission,
was fred upon and compelled to return
last week. Many OF the troubles of
this country are the legitimate result OF
the ignorance and prejudice of its peo-
pie, who vainly imagine that they know
every thing, while, in fact, they know
little or nothing outside of their own
e,vasipht.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-08-30

THE St. Nicholas Magazine, for Sep
TENDER, has been received from its pub.
fishers. the Century Company. New
York. Among its contents is "a Girl
of winchester, by Virginia Cabell
Gardner.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-08-30
eyeslght.

WHEN THE negroes shall celebrate
their next Emancipation Day." they
should, but they wont, know that the
man their votes in Kentucky and
Maryland, in and the closer Northern
States, elected President. in recent
speech, said:
"Mr. Lincoln, you remember, said he
would save the Union with slavery, or
he would save it without slavery. No
body believed, I mean no great mass of
our people, that the end of that war
would be the end of human slavery"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-08-30

BAsEBALL.-The National League baseball
games played yesterday resulted as fol.
lows: Baltimore 7, Cincinnati Q; Boston II
Cleveland 5; Louisville IL, Brooklyn 5;
Louisville 6. Brooklyn 5 Pittsburg 6, Phils-
delphia 4; Washington Is, st. Louis IL +;
New York g. Chicago 6. The following is
tho standing of the clubs:
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-08-30

TERRIBLE ACCIDENT is terrible Sc
cident to be burned or scalded but The Ialn
and agony and the frightfnl di'hsaIsmens
can bs quickly overcome without lesS1s'
scar by using DeWitt's Witch Hazel sSl'"
Charles G.. Lennon.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-08-30

Don't thin your blood with sas'aifs' :,
poison it with blue mas. but sit Nature v
using Dewitt's Little Early Blsers the l'1l'-'
little pills for constipation, biIion'ne's 'Ir
stomach and liver troubles They sie Fu'''
vegetable. Charles G.. Lennon.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-08-30

Sick headache can be quickly and complete
" overcome by using those famous little pills
known as "DeWitt's Little Early Risers. !
Charles g. Lennon.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-08-30

PURE SPICES for ssle by
~ J. C. MILBURN.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-08-30

OAsTILE SOAP and Turkish B,Gn C% oi
" This soap is made from pure Un ', The
pressed from prime fresh olives, r ,o -
natural color Of the fruit Prce IVc' coys
Es LEbDBEATEB & oo.'e.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-08-30

B4 assIsy, 7e large o 81 =, ,eg 19s
large cans, Van Camps W G MLBr%
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-08-30

FRUIT JARS CHEAP.-Pint' u 1.H
dozen ; Quarts 55c per dozen h'i's
Ions Toe per dozen, at - ,,,r prRSs
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-08-30

0ovIL SEAL CANNED sALs ,.csir,i
Il, on eb aud ono pound ''n'' -
to-day By C MILBth!
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-08-30

TEE os saMos positive cure f0' s.
diseases. For sale By WAKEFIELD HAL1 :,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-08-30

PE ssiiar. attached snts5s and de:s5e' !. ~
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-08-30

I'D opTCTAL SHIFT at 67c = =
- as any 75c shirt to be 81 own yI;1g,4sKEBa-
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-08-30

TT1EBoUY INSECT DESTRol kL,."o o,
not burn. Not poisonous 70 iD'-
beast Prices 15c and zoe, ID SSl' /. coys
F 8. LEADBEATER & 9D:-1--
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-08-30

DEDUcED.-our mild sa9 9l5.' y 49, to ia
II ed at my store reducef l y 0W,1rLFUBS
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-08-30

=mvm, Minimum, Clialca. .,1 S:sss
M dairy and Brewers lar. Ia.,I h. "a
Hyds0m'ssraik 1 2 1IiSSlibjRE1TER = soss-
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-08-30

CMALL Lot IA and IS NEG NEG. 81,
y SHIRTS, plated and plsln DGsC:I' ys
Is1s and cuffs separate. Formerly r. FRS
Soc. at a /. 9hA -------- =
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-08-30

A NICE TOOTH BRUSH with , +, .oei
brush with every box AntisePi ieg J9o: soy 4;
da I'a q, WIZ ES LeADBEATER 8 80,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-08-30

CIFETY RAzoB, once ased y''
d. do VI without it. For sale q q Wild,
Hh los n FoE.I TT
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-08-30

A CASE OF SEAMLESS H a5- ;asT
II splendid value, 4 pair; 1917 -o 'gscccees,o;t:
ceived by A. C. sLAYMAhhk' '''''
l--o- o cis~-rsLer
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-08-30

0RoVN,s CAMPEoRATED 10 :.
b SALTS. Price 23 Se;op4TEB s SUI