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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-02-24
NEWS OF THE DAY.

In the United States District Court
for the Northern District of Texas
Judge Charles Swain yesterday declar-
ed the Texas anti. trust law unconstitu.
tional.
Ex-President Cardenas and others
have been imprisoned at Managua on
suspicion of encouraging the people in
conspiracy against the present gov
eminent of Nicaragua.
President Cleveland has completed
the commission which, according to the
treaty entered into between those
countries, is to mark the boundary line
between Costa Rica and Nicaragua by
appointing Mr. E. p. Alexander, OF
Georgetown, S. c., IS the engineer COM
missioner for this purpose.
United States Minister Matt w. Ran
som before his recent departure from
Mexico for the United States resigned
his position of referee in the Guate-
lnala- Mexico boundary dispute, for
which he was to have received $4,000.
The two governments will select an
other referee at an early date.
Returning from Wilmington to New
port, Dal., on Sunday, Milkman Doug
lass Marston unloaded his cans and
placed then on platform near where
his horse VS. standing. He laid q
wallet containing 500 near the cans,
and entered the house. An instant
later Mrs. Marston saw the horse swal'
loving the wallet, money and all.
Desultory firing was reported last
evening between the insurgents along
the heights of Suda, on the Island OF
Crete, and the Turkish outposts. The
Turkish menof war threw few shells,
but did no damage. A dispatch re-
ceived in Vienna from Athens says the
powers have requested Greece to with
draw her forces from Crete in a hours.
There lives in Fairfield, KY, an old
uegress named Maria Heady, who
claims to be at least LOG years of age,
and is known to have i-s.,i the cen
fury mark. She was horn in Culpepel
county, Va, about 1890, and was q
slave in the Montgomery family and
moved TO Tennessee in 1905, when She
was girl sixteen years old, and after
ward removed to Kentucky and I've.
came slave of the Heady family.
Miss Ellie Montaine, of Knoxville, who
went to Bristol a day or two ago with
the hope OF getting possession Of hel
brothers child, which its grandfather
refused to surrender, made an effort tt
throw herself from an upper story O
the Hotel ST Lawrence on Monday
night, but was saved by the proprietor
who had been summoned to her room
on account of her peculiar actions. Sht
is supposed to have been under the il.
fluence of morphine. She was hand
somely attired and gave evidence OF re
6nement.
1t is reported that Gen. Fiiz Lee yes
terday evening telegraphed his resigna
ton as Consul General at Havana tc
the State Department at Washington
aud that Secretary Olney replied ask
ing him to withhold his resignation and
to keep his post for the present. A dis,
patch from Havana says the Spaniards
are wildly excited against Gen. Lee
and the Americans over report that
American ships are coming to Havana
by request OF Gen. Lee. The report
was subsequently, denied and the ex
@ tement subsidized. The release of San
gully is now almost impossible.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-02-24

Mr.. MCKINLEY's hobby is high
tariff, and, as is the case with every
body else who has a hobby, all the
energy he has at his own disposal, he is
devoting to its promotion. AS an eili-
Gent means to secure its success he has
now, as announced by his mortgeger,
determined to dispense little of his
patronage until the passage of the new
high tariff bill has been secured. This, of
course, means that the congressman
who may oppose that bill, need not APP
ply to him for any of that patronage.
This is any thing else than agreeable to
the boilers, but they, having made their
beds, must lie in them.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-02-24
NOT INVITED TO SPEAK,

The fact that Mrs. Kate Waller Bar
rett, of this city, q well-known worker
in woman's behalf, took no part in the
proceedings of the recent Mothers
Congress in Washington, but attended
the sessions simply as member of the
audience, has resulted in considerable
comment in the various organizations
to which she belongs, says paper Of
that city.
Referring to the various reasons as.
signed, Mrs. Barrett says: II wish it
plainly understood that Mrs. +. w. Bir-
ney and myself are the rest of friends.
l knew her in Atlanta. The fact that
was left out of the Mothers Congress
programme is nothing to me personally.
All know about the movement to con.
vene this congress | learned at Grand
Rapids, Mich, two years ago. The Board
of Charities and Correction held con-
vention there at that time, and by re-
quest read paper. entitled Mother.
hood and Regeneration AS result
of that paper meeting was called in
one of the committee rooms OF the
place of meeting, and l was made
chairman of committee to organize
"A Congress of Mothers, for the discus
sion of conscious motherhood which
it was agreed should be held in Wash
ington.
II intend to convene fathers as well
az mothers for this discussion, and l
addressed letters to number OF scen-
tifc men and women requesting them
to read papers. Conventions held in
Europe appointed delegates at our re-
quest, and many scientific men were
coming to the congress. Last August
gave to the Post the first information
of this proposed congress, and then |
continued to correspond with numer-
GUS people, arranging the plans. The
illness of my husband took me away
from the work and l was compelled to
drop it for a month.
"One day l was delighted to see by
the papers that Mrs. Birney had taken
the idea up and was working with her
association toward the great congress
which has just adjourned. l imme-
diately addressed her letter, stating
that l had collected considerable valua-
BILE information on the subject, and
offered to turn it all over to her. In
the same letter I requested that she
put on the programme paper, by
some one familiar with the unfortunate
mother whom represent in my rescue
work, to suggest means of saving her
and her child.
"My letter was not answered for q
very long time, and then I received a
letter from Mrs. Birney, stating there
was no place on the programme she
was arranging for paper of that kind.
She said nothing about taking the data
I had collected, and l dropped the
whole matter. l attended the congress
as spectator and that was all.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-02-24
A Washingtonian Robbed.

New YORK, Feb. Plat about ten
o'clock last night, in Goth street, be-
tween Broadway and 9th avenue, Jos.
II. Kerr, OF sos Florida avenue, Wash
ington, D. c., was seized by two high
waymen and robbed of 5000. The
victim at once hurried to the police
station where he reported the robbery.
Mr.. Kerr was walking westward
through the block when he was seized
! y the two men, who took from an in
side coat pocket a wallet containing
the money and made their escape.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-02-24
CONGRESSIONAL.

the Senate made slow progress yes
terday on the appropriation bills, dis
posing Of only one item of the Indian
bill, that directing the opening of the
Uncompahgre Indian reservation in
Utah. A communication from the
President was received transmitting
further reports on the Competitor
prisoners in Cuba. The Senate in
executive session refused to adopt Sena-
tor Sewell's motion to reconsider the
votes by which number Of nomina-
tions for the Office ofpostmaster in New
Jersey were confirmed. The Alaska
boundary treaty was laid before the
Senate in executive session and referred
to the committee on foreign relations.
The House passed the naval bill, the
last of the appropriation bills. The
feature of the day was political debate
which occurred late in the afternoon
on the subject of civil service reform.
1t occurred during the consideration Of
bill to permit the Governors of the
Territories to appoint certain officers Of
the Territories in case of vacancies with
out the consent of the legislative coun-
ellis, which is now required by law. 1t
was precipitated by some remarks of
Mr.. Bailey, of Texas, which led to q
denunciation of the law by Delegate
Flynn, of Oklahoma, and General
Grosvenor, OF Ohio.
Every .ime they attacked the law
they were greeted with enthusiastic ap-
plause by most of the republicans. Mr..
Bailey himself boldly declared the
law to be "humbug," and suggested
that General Grosvenor, as the repre-
sentative of the incoming adminislra-
ton, had given notice that the law was
to be repealed.
General Grosvenor parried this by
recalling the fact that his first contro-
versy in the House with Mr.. Mckinley
was over this very question.
Mr.. Brosius, chairman of the commit
tee on the civil service, defended the
law and declared that General Gros-
venor had "fashed the sword in the
heart of the President elect" He called
attention to MIR. McKinley's letter of
acceptance, in which the President-elect
said he would take mo step backward"
in the matter of civil service reform.
Representative Gibson introduced
joint resolution directing the President
to demand the release of American citi
zens imprisoned in Cuba, and in the
event of refusal TO lombard Havana.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-02-24

ENTERTAINMENT IN Mon
tana Hail." the beautiful country home
of Mr.. and Mrs. w. G. Conrad, situated
near White Post, in Clarke county, was
the scene on Friday evening, the 10Th
instant, of one of the most delightful
entertainments given ia Clarke county
this winter, the occasion being dance
in honor of the eighteenth birthday of
Miss Josephine Conrad, eldest daughter
of the hosts of the evening About 100
invitations were issued for this interest
ing event, which had been eagerly an.
ticipated for weeks past, especially by
the younger set, and large crowd
was in attendance. An orchestra
of stringed instruments furnished the
music, and the supper was prepared
by well-known caterer of Washing
ton. The german favors were unusu.
ally handsome. The german was led
by Mr.. Edmund P. Cooke with Miss
Josephine Conrad. Others present were
Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. Whiting, Mr.. and
Mrs. George II. Burwell, Misses Minnie
Conrad, Florence Coke, Ethel Timber
lake, Agnes Page, Anna Meade, Mary
Voolfolk and Julia Laws; Messrs.
Robert ?. Page, Townsend Burwell,
Robert Cooke, Lawrence and Truxton
Boyce, A. c. Carson, c. w. Mcdonald,
George Jones, p. Mccormick, John
King, T. w. Daniel, Graham Webb,
James Hay, jr., Thompson Sewers,
George Page and DR.. Robert Randolph,
of Clarke county, and Misses Marguer.
lite Trenholm and Margaret Dame, Of
Winchester, Va, and Miss Louise Hop.
per, of Washington.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-02-24

If THE resolutions introduced in the U.
S. Senate to- day be correct expression
of the feeling of that body in respect OF
the Cuban question. there can be no
doubt of the fact that the grave and
reverend members of what some of the
ill-informed people of this country
vainly believe is the most distinguished
legislative assembly in the world,
would have this government go to war
before breakfast with Spain in behalf of
her insurgent subjects in Cuba and their
aiders and abettors, the tilibusters from
the United States. Jingoism has evil
IDENTIFY taken an abiding place in the u.
Senate. For the good of the country
it is hoped it may be confined there.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-02-24
March fiji 1907

The Washington, Alexandria and Mount
Vernon Railroad will, on March 4th, run
trains of three cas- each from Alexandria
from $50 a N. to /: 80 a. M at 5 minutes
interval. In the afternoon after the exer-
cses trains will be run from Washington az
rapidly as same are filed. Schedule trains
will stop at way stations
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-02-24

FRUIT Is necessary for sick people,
and a health preserver of those who
are well, but, all the same, the pro.
posed neg republican tariff bill will
impose higher tariff on it even than
that laid by the old Mckinley bill.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-02-24

The REPUBLICAN convention OF
Michigan yesterday sat down heavily
upon their gold boiling allies. The lat
ter, in view of the efficient assis-
lance they rendered them last fall,
made claims to recompense and
asked that one Of themselves lie
put on the republican State ticket as
the nominee for regent of the universe
ty. The reply they received was to the
effect that their assistance was entire
ly voluntary, and that as the conven-
ton was composed OF republicans, and
not of democratic deserters, the ticket
it would nominate would have on it the
name of no man who was not a straight
out republican. Deserters are non
grata to all right thinking people.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-02-24
DIED.

At his home, in this city, on February %
JOSEPH IDEN, aged so years His funeral
will take place from mis- late residence, No
SIT Oronoco street 70 morrow Thursday
morning at 10 O'Clock. Friends ana &C.
qusintsnces are invited TO attend.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-02-24
The Ohio StiII Risinn

EVANSVILLE, Ind, Feb. 24.-The
prospects now are that the Ohio river
will reach higher stage than ct any
time since 1854. Yesterday morning
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-02-24
In Search orGold and Wives

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 24.-All is ex-
element and hustle aboard the brig
Percy Edwards, which will sail to day
for the South Sea Islands with one
hundred men in search Of gold, wives
and homes. Sufficient provisions will
be carried to last one year. Each man
pays 800 for his share of stock in the
concern. Most of the men have never
been to sea, some are farmers, some
mechanics, painters, blacksmiths, etc.
There are about ten able seamen
aboard, and they will manage the craft.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-02-24

The floods yesterday extended to q
wider area and were general in western
Maryland, Virginia, West virginia
western Pennsylvania, kentuc Sr,
Tennessee and southern OHIO. Inc
property loss will be hundreds OF
thousands of dollars. The waters are
now subsiding.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-02-24

We know of but one community in
the world where dyspepsia is practically
unknown, and that is the Shakers OF
Mount Lebanon, N. Y. These good
people have been studying the subject
of digestion for more than hundred
years, and that they understand it
pretty thoroughly, is evidenced in the
foregoing fact. Their Digestive Cor
dial is the safest and best remedy in
cases of indigestion that we know of.
A trial bottle can be had through your
druggists for the trifling sum of 10
cents.
The Shaker Digestive Cordial sup.
plses the system with food already d.
gested, and at the same time aids the
digestion of other food. II will almost
instantly relieve the ordinary symptoms
of indigestion, and no sufferer need to
be told what these are.
LAXOI, is the hest nedicina for child
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-02-24

The report from Paris of the dea h
of William Steinitz, the noted chess
player, is untrue. Steinitz still remains
in the asylum.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-02-24

An information hiss been filed in court at
Lincoln, Neb., charging Eugene Moore, ex.
State Auditor, with embezzlemcnt of $27..
20S of State funds, to which amount he is
short.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-02-24

JUDGING FROM the adverse criticisms
the civil service law and rules received
in Congress yesterday from democratic
as we'll as republican members OF that
body. the most ridiculous humbug OF
this humbug, age seems to be as
correctly appreciated by congress
men as by everybody else. The
whole law is transparent sham
and fraud, and the sooner 1t Is
wiped from the statute books the bet
ter, not only for the country, but for
the party by which that work shall be
accomplished; and no wise democratic
member of Congress will oppose its re-
peal now, because republicans will be
the beneticiaries. The civil service was
conducted much better before the civil
service law was passed than 1t ev'r
has been since.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-02-24

GEN. WALKER A RECANTER.-The
Michigan Club. of Detroit, on Monday
celebrated Washington's Birthday with
a banquet. Among the speakers was
Gen. James A. Walker, of Virginia,
who responded to the toast Virginia,
the Mother of Washington" In clos
ing he said II have lived long enough
to realize that the success of the Con-
federate cause would have been evil,
not good. Over the great sons of Vir-
ginia and of the Northwest brooded
the same spirit of liberty; in the breast
Of each burned the same love OF right
and iustice.n
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-02-24
wEDNE Jay EVENING. FEB %. 1897

Az REGULARLY as the annual spring
freshet in the Potomac comes, just so
regularly do some of the Washington
newspapers threaten the undismayed
people of that city with death and des'
truction from an imaginary flood which
thew assert must result from the dam
ming of the river by the Long Bridge
The fact that no body pays any atten'
ton to the would-be alarmists does
MT seem to deter them in the least
from their yearly raising OF the danger
signal. No more water comes down
the Potomac now than ever before, and
as the channel has been deepened and
the banks improved, SO as to facilitate
the flow, why the necessary Long
Bridge, that has stood where it is for
century. and that now is less obstruc-
tive to the tide than ever, should be re
moved, in order to preserve Washing
ton from deluge, seems TO most people
as silly as would be the removal OF the
monument to save the city from such q
storm as ravaged it last September. The
Potomac preserved Washington during
the war between the States, and neither
it nor the Long, nor any Of its other
bridges, will ever do that city any harm
That bridge is the chief line of com
municstion between the North and the
South. four railroads now use it,
and its removal will never be permitted
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-02-24

LAxoL is the best medicine for child
rem. Doctors recommend it in place O;
Castor OIL.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1897-12-11

Lady Felicie's red lips curled and she
could scarcely hold her quivering voice
to calmness as she interposed:
Though I were ever so terrified, NJ.
Pierre, it would not be likely that my
companion and myself should have
seen precisely the same apparition.'
You had companion"
Il did. We both saw dark figure
with a spade on his shoulder passing
along the forest path"
He sat a moment in silence; then
crossing himself with a sanctimonious
air, exclaimed
"Jeannot must be right, then; it is
ghost or lie diable himselfp'
Il think you will find the ghost a
substantial one; at all events, I wish
you to investigate the matter, and 1
shall write the count to hasten home
to attend to it himself. Now, l wish
you good evening, M. Pierre"
The overseer rose, bowed, and was
evidently glad to get away The mo-
ment he was gone, Lady Felicie said
impressively. fg a.-
Mamma, the detestable man knows
more about the ghost than he pre-
tends. verify believe he is at the bot
tom of it ALL"
The countess looked perplexed and
annoyed, but wisely refrained from
adding to her daughters agitation.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1897-12-11

The Mad Mullah. The great mu-
tiny in India forty years ago was large
ly indicated by the preaching of ia
natieal priest, the Moulyie of Fyzabad.
Another fanatical priest, the so-caIled
MAD Mullah," or MoulVie, of Haddah,
is the most conspicuous leader in the
present troubles on the northwestern
frontier of India. He expects a power
full influence over the Momand and 9th
er Mohammedan tribes, and the Brit
fish agent at Cabul estimates his disci-
Piles at one hundred thousand. The
home of the Muliah, who is otherwise
known as Najam-uddin Ahkoond-zada
that is, disciple OF the Akhoond, lis
at Haddah, in the Jelelabad district
He was active in fomenting the hos
tility 10 the English which was the
cause of the Chitral expedition of 1896.
Lately he has been preaching a holy
war against them, and he led in person
the tribesmen who attacked Mainland
last month.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1897-12-11

Wilhelmina, the young girl who win
presently be queen of Holland, refuses
to marry the prince her mother picked
out for her and insists on choosing her
own time for marrying and likewise
the man who is to be her husband.
That is sheer rebellion. No prospective
queen and no real queen has any right
to such privileges. They are reserved
solely for the young sovereigns Of the
world who have nothing to do with af
fairs of state.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1897-12-11

The Boston subway, one of the most
interesting experiments in under
ground rapid transit, was opened, in
part, September first. The section in
use is somewhat less than a mile long,
and extends from the entrance in the
Public Garden to the corner of Park
and fremont streets. 1t is practically
an underground street, holding a part
Of the way four tracks, and a part Of
the way two, so constructed that there
is no crossing of tracks at the same
grade. Fourteen street car lines, run
ming ninety cars an hour, are using it,
to the great relief Of surface travel
on fremont and Boylston streets.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1897-12-11

An east end of London boy Of eight
years who was put on the witness stand
said he did not know what a lie was.
do you go to SCHOOL," Eyes, SIR
Don't they teach you that it is wrong
co tell lies?" mo, sir" What do
they teach you, then?' "sums, sir. .
What a picture Of mechanical edu-
cation which cares for figures and not
for faith; for marks and not for man
illness; for catch question more than
for a clear setting forth Of the fun
damentals Of morality!
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1897-12-11

It has been estimated, says the Loco
motive Firemen's Magazine, that the
present producing capacity of the world
ia such. by the aid Of improved ma
chinery, that If operated to its full ex-
tent ten hours per day sufficient can
be produced in six months to supply
the worlds demand for one year. This
being the condition with which the
people are confronted, it remains for
them to provide some means of greatly
increasing these demands, or else so
control methods of production that all
who depend upon labor for means Of
subsistence shall have an opportunity
to secure employment. If half of the
population by working ten hours or
more a day can produce sufficient to
supply the demand of the entire popu-
lation, and this half insists on retain
ing monopoly of employment, what
is to become of the other half-the half
who are unemployed? There are but
three courses 10 pursue: Those who
earn wages must contribute as charity
sufficient to sustain the unemployed;
the employed can join with the unem-
ployed In dividing such employment so
that all may work ten hours or more
per day for half the number Of days;
or. as is now advanced nv trade union
lists, the remedy can be found by short
ening the hours OF labor, so that all the
people can ind some employment ali
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