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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-05-28
AT CAMP LEE.

Colonel Male has not yet taken
charge of the Third Regiment. He
has been mustered in, but his time has
been employed in winding up his bust
ness at the acknowledgements Office.
He will visit his home in Culpeper to-
morrow unless he shall be ordered
away.
The preparation of the Third Regi-
ment for service was completed yester.
day by the muster in OF Company c.,
Farmville.
1t is known that two regiments will
be s,nt to Tampa. The Second will be
one of them. The Third will probably
be the other.
1t has been positively settled that
Col. 10. Lane Stern will be placed in
charge of the next regiment that is
mustered into service and Col. George
WAYNE Anderson will be next in COM
mand.
The decision of the Secretary of War
under which VOLUNTEER officers of the
same grade shall rank according to the
date of muster into the United
States service, formed the princi-
pal topic of conversation among
the officers at Camp Lee yester-
day and created great deal of in
dignation. Under this decision, Capt.
Sheen, Of the Lee Rifles, of Norfolk, is
not only the ranking captain of the
Fourth Regiment, but also of the en-
tire Virginia forces, because his CON-
pany happened to be ordered to camp
first. In that manner he ranks such
officers as Captain Bossieu, of the old
Richmond Grays, who has been in the
service for many years. Captain
Hatcher, of the Lse Rifles, of Norfolk,
is the ranking captain of the Sec
ond Regiment, and Captain Miller,
of the Fitz Lee Rifles, Company l., the
ranking captain of the Third Regi'
ment.
Under this same decision Captain
Wyatt and Captain Pegrsm, of the two
companies ofBlues, who were mustered
into service under the same date, will
have to draw straws as to who ranks
The other, although Captain Wyatt has
been a captain for about five years and
Captain Mayo only few days.
Lieutenant Blow will be promoted
major of the Fourth Virginia Regiment,
to take the place which Lieutenant
Croxton would have filled but for his
illntss.
Governor Tyler yesterday sent the
following telegram to the Secretary OF
War relative to the appointment 81
respectfully request you to grant leave
to First Lieut.. William N. Blow, FIT
zenith Infantry, if available, in order
that 1 may appoint him major in Fourth
Virginia Regiment. Lieut.. R. G. Crox-
ton, First Infantry, is sick and unable
to go with the Fourth Regiment"
Lieutenant Blow 10 not stationed at
Norfolk. 1t is understood that his ap-
pointment now will be a matter of mere
form.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-05-28
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Mrs. James Keith Marshall died at
her home, in Fauquier county, last
week.
Mr.. II. M. Woolf, of Fauquier cour-
ty, died yesterday, aged eighty-two
years.
Mr.. Philip P. Baker, we'll known
citizen OF Warren county, died of pa
ralysis Monday, aged seventy-nine
years.
The large barn on the farm of A. H.
Lindsay in Norfolk county, was des-
troyed by f vest erdsy, together with
one thousand FIVE hundred bushels OF
corn, farming implements, &c.
The Richmond Locomotive Work
received yesterday telegraphic con
firmation of an order for fifteen CON-
pound mogul locomotives for The State
Railway of Finland. The telegram
came from Helsinefors, the capital of
Finland, which has separate govern
ment from Russia, although the Car is
the Grand Duke of the province.
The Winchester city council brought
up the question of having the city fur
nish the electric lighting for the streets
about two months ago, and, not being
able 10 decide on the question, it was
put to vote of the people at Thurs
days election aud resulted in letting
the city operate an electric light plant
in connection with the pumping station.
Governor Tyler yesterday granted a
pardon to Walter Cox. who WAS SEN
fenced in May, 1897, by the county
court of Grayson, to nine years. i'm
prisonment for killing a man named
Pugh. Applications for the pardon OF
Cox were presented to Governor OFFER.
rail- Just before the close of his term,
but he turned the same over to his sue
1 oalcor
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-05-28
WAR NOTES.

Captain General Blanco has cabled to
Madrid that Admiral Cervera's squad
ron is still at Santiago de Cuba, and
that the bulk of Admiral Simpsons
feet is blockading that port. Commo-
dore Schley's fleet, he states, is watch
ing the Yucatan channel, at the wes-
tern end of Cuba. With the names OF
the commanders reversed, this is be-
lieved in Washington to be the correct
situation. Ell impartial, a prominent
Madrid newspaper. reiterated yester-
day that Admiral Cervera was at San
tiago. 1t is limited in London that per-
haps Cervera was sent to make a bold
move in order to quiet discomfort in
Spain.
Navy Department officials in Wash
ington are surprised that none of the
American scouting vessels has captured
the Spanish torpedo boat destroyer
Terror, which recently left Martinique.
General Blanco cables that the Terror
has arrived at Faiardo, Porto Rico.
The alleged Spanish hospital ship Ali
cante, which supplied the Terror with
coal, will be treated in future by the
American navy as hostile vessel, it
being stated that she has forfeited her
right to fly the Geneva flag.
SPANS army at home and in Cuba,
Porto Rico and the Philippines is larg-
er than the total land force of the
United States, according to figures re-
ceived in Washington. The Spaniards
have 100000 men in Cuba, 10000 in
Porto Rico, $4,000 ia the Philippines
and $4,000 in Spain, totsl Of 295, 900.
The United States army now consists
of 100, S54 volunteers and $1,000 regu-
lars, total of 157, S54.
Pressure has been brought to bear in
Washington to have the invasion Of
Porto Rico begun before that of Cuba,
because there is said not to be enough
ammunition available to equip the
large army which will be needed for
the Cuban invasion. 1t is stated at the
War Department that there is enough
ammunition, and that the move on Gu
ba will be made first.
The second Manila expedition will
leave San Francisco next week. 1t will
include about 5000 volunteers and
1000 regulars. With the limited num-
Der of war vessels available on the Pa
cific coast to act as conveys for the
transport ships, the authorities may be
unable to provide an armed vessel for
each expedition hereafter, and many CT
the transports must make the long
journey unprotected.
A circular letter has been sent to the
Acknowledgement of each State notify
ing him that under the provisions of
the auxiliary defense law 5000 addi-
tional naval militianon are to be en-
listed.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-05-28
War Bulletins.

CHICAGO, May 2S.-The statement
that Reuters news agency had an.
nounced that Admiral SIMPSONS fleet
had been destroyed by the Spani; h az d
t at Sampson lad been killed, IL silly
falsehood.
KINGSTON, Jamaica, May % 90 q. NJ.
The marine observer at Port Royal
reports that large steamer, with three
smokestacks, can Re seen to the east
ward, headed for this port. The OBJ
server makes her out to be an Ameri-
Can warship, but he says he cannot
identify her at this hour.
MADBID, May 29.-A private dispatch
from Spanish sources at Manila alleges that
Aguinaldo, the Philippine insnrgent leader
after receiving arms aud fell pieces from
Admiral Dewey, declared himself in favor OF
Spaniards. The dispatch also says that other
insurgent chiefs followed Aguinaldos ex'
ample.
ST. THOMAS, West Indies, May 29.-Every
thing is quiet in this vicinity and there is no
news of the movements of the American OF
Spanish warships.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-05-28
The Rrnnkiyn Handican

NEY YORK, May 2S.-Disagreeable
weather and heavy track are the con-
ditions for the opening of the Brooklyn
Jockey Club meeting to-day and the
Brooklyn Handicap, at mile and q
quarter, which is to be run this after
noon, is not likely to be the success it
should be. Fifty horses are on card as
starters, although not more than ten OF
the lot are likely to go to the post.
1t was conceded On all sides this morn
Ing that Ornament would be the best
backed horse in the race. Next to 0rIa.
ment in the opinion of the trainers was
Tillo and then came On Deck, Don De
Gro and Pen Holiday. At 10 o'clock
this morning the track was dryer than
had been expected but the prospects
were that very slow track would be
seen at about o'clock, the scheduled
time for the big race. The Brookly n
handicap ia for purse of $4,000 FIR
three. year-oids and upwards-S9, 900, 0
the winner, 81 800 to the second and
$500 to the third.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-05-28
NEWS OF The DAY.

Henri Rochefort, the Paris editor,
was slightly injured in duel yesterday
with NJ. Gerault Richard, socialist
deputy.
The general deficiency bill to be pass
ed at this session OF Congress will carry
at least 100000, 600, mainly for war
expenses.
An American mission at Tong Chow,
China, was recently looted and burned
by natives. The inmates are believed
to have escaped.
The American missionaries who es-
capped the recent massacre in Sierra
Leone arrived in England yesterday on
their way home.
The House committee on foreign
affairs yesterday reported bill provid-
ing for non-partisan commission to
reorganize the consular service.
A delegation of the representatives of
transportation companies called upon
Secretary Alger yesterday to petition
him to modify the harbor regulations
for Baltimore.
1t is stated in dispatch from Wash
iugton that colored officers will be ap-
pointed over colored troops where they
seam efficient, aud that colored men
have already been given staff appoint
ment.
Senator German, in speech in the
Senate yesterday, declared his opposi-
ton to an issue of greenbacks and the
coinage of the seigniorage. He advo-
Gated q bond issue and tax on cor
porations.
The quartermaster's department has
contracted for $4,000 of the canvas suits
designed especially for the use OF
troops in tropical climates, and they
are being shipped rapidly to the mo-
bilizing points.
The Vienna correspondent Of the
! London Daily Telegraph says Marquis
de Hoyos, the Spanish Ambassador to
| Austria-Hungary, will be succeeded
there by Senior Polo y Bernabe, late
Spanish Minister TO the United States.
Among the bills passed by the House
of Representatives yesterday evening
| was one granting pension of $50 per
month to General Cassius M. Clay, OF
| Kentucky, and another giving a pen
sion of $50 to the widow of Brigadier
General Daniel Macauley.
| Late yesterday evening the State De-
partment received telegram from Mr..
Gollan, the British consul at Havana,
stating that tine exchange Of the Ameri-
can newspaper correspondents, Messrs
| Thrall and Jones, for four of the Span
ish prisoners captured on the Argonau-
ia had been effected.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-05-28
Rumored American success,

CAPE HAYTIEN, Hayti, May 2S.-A
rumor has reached here Of an import
ant American success, but no confma'
ton of the report can be obtained here.
Since the rumored arrival of the Span
ish fleet at Santiago de Cuba no news
has reached here, though the cable be-
tween this place and Santiago de Cuba
is not interrupted. The significance of
this mysterious silence is not known,
but excites great wonder. No explain
alton is furnished excepting surmis ;
base on various infuenc The theory
that the Spanish admiral allowed him
self to be bottled up in the bay of San
tiago de Cuba, is not entertained here.
On the contrary, the Haytien officials
say it is far from likely that such a
thing has occurred. 1t is hoped that
the message from Commodore Schley
will soon be received at the Mole st.
Nicholas or elsewhere.
New YORK, May 29.-A special cabegram
from Kingston, Jamaica, to the Evening
Telegram says that there is current there q
rumor which cannot be confirmed that CON-
modore Schley has forced the haIbor at San.
t:ago de Cuba and sunk the fleet of Admiral
CeIyera
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-05-28
ATTEST in Westminster Abbey.

LONDON, May 2S.-In the northern
transept of Westminster Abbey, where
EngIand's greatest dead rest, the body
of the late William Ewart Gladstone
was entombed to. day with the ceremo.
uies of the nation he had served and OF
the church he had loved. His grave is
beside that of his lifelong adversary,
Benjamin Disraeli (Lord Beaconsield),
whose marble effigy looks down upon it
iecked with the regalia which Glad
stone had refused. Two possible future
! kings of Great Britain walked beside
the great commoner's coffin and all the
nobility and learning of the state sur
rounded it, though the wish of the de-
ceased had been for simplicity. This
official funeral, the first since that OF
Lord Palmerston, was rendered an i'm.
posing spectacle by the magnificence OF
the building in which it was solemn.
lied. The coffin rested on an elevated
bier, before the altar, its plainness hid
den beneath a pail of white and gold,
embroidered with the text "Requiescat
in pace" Six tall candles burned be-
side it and on either side stood the sup
porters of the pail. The Prince of
Wales and the Duke of York were at
the head of the coffin, and ranging be-
hind them were the Marquis of Sails
bury and other notables. Within the
cnancel stood the Dean Of Westminster
and behind him were gathered the ca
thedral clergy, the Archbishop of Can
terbury and the scarlet and white-sur-
pliced choir, filling the chapel.
A choir of one hundred male singers,
which had awaited the coffin at the en-
trance to the Abbey, preceded it along
the nave chanting ~ am the Resurrec-
rection and the Life" While the coffin
was being borne to the grave all sang
Mr.. Gladstone's favorite hymn, Praise
to the Hottest in the Height"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-05-28
JUDGE VIM. ]. ROBERTSON.

Judge William J. Robertson died al
2 o'clock yesterday morning at his resi-.
dence, in Charlottesville, in the eighty
first year of his age. He had been in
delicate health for two or three years
but was still going about until, on last
Sunday, he was taken suddenly i'll.
Judge Robertson was native of Cul'
pepper county, of Scotch parents, was
educated at the University of Virginia,
from which he was graduated more than
fifty years ago, his law professor having
been the late Judge Henry st. George
Tucker. He became a member of the
Albemarle bar and was soon distinguish
ed for his great ability. He was Com
monwealtn's attorney for several years,
and in 1859 was elected Judge
f the Supreme Court of Appeals
Of Virginia, defeating Col. John B.
Baldwin. of Augusta, and Judge Rich
ard Parker, G! Winchester. He re
NAMED on the bench until the fall OF
the. Confederacy. He returned to
Charlottesville and resumed the prac-
lice of law. Ee succeeded Col. Bald.
win at the latter's death as general
counsel of the Chesapeake and Ohio
Railway Company, and some years la
ter he accepted the same office from the
Norfolk and Western Railway Compa-
nv. Two or three years ago, on aC-
count of the infrmities OF age, he re-
tired from the bar.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-05-28
List of Unclaimed Letters.

The following is list of the letters re-
naming in the Alexandra, Va, postoiiic'
May 2Sth.
Persons calling for letters will please say
they are ADVERTISED.
Advertised letters not called for within Two
weeks will be sent to the dead letter Office
Anderson, Mrs Clara Graison, Mrs Emily
Biscoe, d L Jones, Mary a
Brown, Miss Annie Patterson, barry Z
Burrell. George Peark, MRS Emma DC
Cannon, Robt + Rad, r. II
Cain, William Snoot' bliss osiiie
Emmert J W Naddy, Col L
Foster, John ,.,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-05-28
important DISPATCHES.

NEW YORK, May ga special to
the New York Evening Telegram, dat
ed Kingston, May 2S.h, says: SPY ar
rangement with the Associated Press,
the latter's dispatch boat Dandy took
on board a messenger with dispatches
cabled to Consul Dent here for trans
mission to the American feet. The
Dandy left Port Maria on the north
coast OF Jamaica last night. The mes
sanger on the Dandy is an officer of the
Navy Department, and it is understood
he has dispatches of the greatest i'm
portance from Commodore Schley.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-05-28

Nor ANXIOUS TO Go TO WAR.-A
dispatch frou Richmond says: The re-
$urns from the municipal election held
yesterday show that the democrats
carried Jackson ward. Tie great strong
hold of the republicans, ana Ehich has
always been controlled by the cegro
votes. The reason for this unlocked
for turn in affairs is said to be that the
negroes were afraid to vote for fear
that the federal government would use
the poll books as list from which to
draw recruits for the war with Spain.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-05-28

TRUE patriotism" shrinked the
other day when the destitute wife OF a
man who had enlisted for the Spanish
war to fight for humanity" went into
the Police Court of Washington and
begged that her two little children
might be sent to charitable institution
to keep them from starving. The man
referred to will probably be among the
first of those who will throw away
9heir guns and play sick at the ap'
proach of a battle. But as there are
men and men, so there are patriots and
patriots.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-05-28

The appropriations Of this years
regular congressional deficiency bill
amount to the enormous sum of over
two hundred million dollars. But
money must be spent and thrown away
in wars as we'll as in sleigh-rides, with
this difference, however, that while in
the latter it comes out of the pockets OF
those who engage in the sport, in the
former, all are made to bear the ex-
pense, whether they like it or not.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-05-28
BEWARE OF OINTMENTs FOB CATARRH
THAT CONTAIN MERCURY

AS mercury will surely destroy the sense of
smell and completely derange the whole sys.
tenn when entering it through tie mucous
surfaces. Such articles should never be used
except on prescriptions from reputable physi-
clans, as the damage they will do is tenfold
to the good you can possibly derive from
them. Halls Catarh Cure, manufactured
by F. Cheney 8; Co., Toledo, O., contains
no mercury. and is taken internally, acting
directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces
of the system. In buying Halls CatarTh Cure
be sure you get the genuine. 1t is taken in
ternally, and made in Toledo. Ohio, by F. j.
Cheney & Co. Testimonials free.
Sold by druggists. Price Toe per bottle.
Halls Family Pills are tie best.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-05-28
DIED.

Mrs sARAH WINS wife of James A.
j wins, died 1T her homo, Up n. Pitt street,
Friday, May 9th, at 1 a. III Funeral iro13
her late residence Monday, May son. at ~
N, Relatives and friends are jnYihd 10
attend
At Fletcher, n. C., on Thursday, May &c,
May FRANCES, daughter OF the late
William c. and Mary Frances Yeaton. ln-
terment at Ivy Hill" Alexandria, Va.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-05-28

MAY FILL REGDfENTs.-An import
ant phase of the military programme
was the decision reached yesterday not
to take up the details of organizing the
new force of $1,000 volunteers for at
least week or ten days. At the Cab
met meeting inquiry was made of Secre-
tary Alger as to what steps he proposed
taking on the organization of this large
additional force of volunteers. His rt-
ply was that he had not even consider,
ed the details of the question, and that
his plan was not to take up the matter
for week or ten days.
IN the meantime no conclusion has
been reached as to whether portion { f
the7 600 volunteera Yill be used to IT.
eruit the regiments still remaining un-
filled under the first call for l26 600
volunteers. II the regiments under the
first call are to be brought up to their
maximum strength, it will take about
10000 men from the second call to COM.
plete the 125 regiments under the fret
call. This will leave 35, 600 men to be
organized in distinctly new regiments.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-05-28
SENIOR CasteIar's Declaration

MADRID, May IS Senior CASTELAR,,
he republican leader, in an interview
on the infect of alliances, is quoted as
declaring that he favors SPANS isola-
ton. He recommends "a policy of
ri resignation now, and the greatest pru-
dence, economy and energy in the
future" Ia conclusion Senior Castelar,
remarked after all, the Yankees
may blockade our islands, but they
cannot blockade our hoDor."
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-05-28
Her Armament TO be Increased

New YORK, May 2S.-The auxiliary
cruiser St. Louis arrived at this port
from West Indian waters this morning.
She was last reported at Mole ST.. Mic
olas, Eayti. Her trip from there to
this port must have been hurried one
The st. Louis has been ordered to the
Cramp ship yards, Philadelphia, and
will sail Immediately for that place. 1t
is said that she is to have her armament
increased by six 5 inch quick. firing
~ n ac
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-05-28

THE MEMBERS of the Universal
Peace Union, from their headquarters
in the loyal republican city Of Philadel-
phia, have sent letter to the Queen
Regent of Spain, offering her their
sympathy, hoping the right will sustain
her, and rendering her Ed asylum here
if her own people shall rebel against
her. 1t is we'll for them that they live
in the North and are republicans q
purest ray serene.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-05-28

If SOUTHERN communities can put up
with negro postmasters certainly North
ern soldiers should make no obi ection
to fghtingunder negro commissioned Of
fcers. If the obliteration of race distinc-
& N aud if the leveling process can be c.
lively prosecuted in time of peace there
10 no apparent reason why objection to
{ at process should be made during
war
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-05-28
From Richmond.

RICHMOND, Va, May 26.-No orders
to move the troops came to-day ard
they will now certainly remain till Mon.
day. Thousands of excursioDists are
coming tomorrow. Col. Male and
Lieut.. Col. Kellar of the Third are both
absent. Rev. Benz. Dennis, of Man
chester, will probably be chaplain Of
the regiment.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-05-28
RUCKLIN's ARNICA sALvE.

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perfect satisfaction or money refunded.
Price Is cents per box. For sale by
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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-05-28
SATURDAY EVENING. MAY IS, 1855
LACK OF enthusiasm for the Spanish

LACK OF enthusiasm for the Spanish
war among the old established
patriotic organizations of Baltimore,
is complained of by one OF tie
present war journals of that city.
But why should the pnembers of organ
izations whose object is to perpetuate
the memories of wars in which the hon
or and feelings of the country were con-
cerned, be particularly enthusiastic for
one in which neither are involved, and
to which the great majority of the in
telligent and disinterested people Of
the country were opposed?
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-05-28
MILLION DOLLAR MoRre AGE.-There

MILLION DOLLAR MORTG AGE.-There
was placed on record in the clerks of.
flee, in Norfolk yesterday, a mortgage
from the Old Dominion Steamship
Company to the Farmers Loan and
Trust Company, of New York, for one
million dollars. It conveys the steam
ships Princess Anne, jamestown, Wy
andotte, the steamer Hampton Roads
and new steamship in course of Coz
struction at Chester, Pa; also, the COM
pany's real estate in Norfolk, Rich
mond, Smithfeld, Newberne, n. c.,
Roanoke Island and Washington, n. G,