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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-01-07
The Ohio Legislature

COLUMBUS, o., Jan. The sitr.
ton 30 far as votes are concerped -
mains unchanged. The air Of tba
Kurtz democratic managers in tbsir
headquarters at the Great Sortbern
gives color to the story that sens
tional move of some kind may be ey
pected to Offset the call for q repuhIi
State mass meeting here next Mondsy
The Kurtz party hope to agree by ,o
morrow night, as reported, upon man
for Senator, but the indications ara for
a deadlock for q short time at least
The latest phase of the case is that tbo
two fusion silver republicans of Cincir.
natl will, as claimed, vote for Mr.. Ear.
ma provided they cannot get their sij.
YER republican choice elected Senator
In that event Mr.. Hanna would IN
need some votes.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-01-07
FAIRFAXNOTES

The telephone line between Hern-
don and Vienna is nearing completion.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. N. Gibbs have re-
turned home, near Mt. Vernon. after
spending q delightful Christmas at the
home of Mr.. Cbas. Gibbs, in Camden,
NJ.
Tbs Board of Supervisors have fixed
the tax levy of 1898 as follows: Coun.
ty levy. 25 cents on the 800 valuation
of real estate, personal property, rail-
roads, telegraph snd telephone lines in
the county; county school tax, 10 cents
on the 500 of such valuation; district
school tax, 10 cents on the 500 of such
valuation in each OF the six districts in
the county; road tax. 20 cents on the
800 of such valuation in Centreville,
Lee, Falls Church, Providence and
Dranesville districts, and Is cents on
the 500 of such valuation in Mt. Yer
non district; so cents on each 1.-THE and
so cents on each dog.-THerald.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-01-07
COURT OF APPEALS.

Maias's administrator vs.. directors o.
Eastern State Hospital writ of error
awarded to judgment of Circuit Court
of city of Richmond.
Southern Railway Company vs.
Childress: writ of error refused TO judg-
ment of the Circuit Court of Amherst
county.
Anderson VS.. Fairlamb; appeal re-.
fused to decree of the Chancery Court
OF city of Richmond.
McClanaban and others vs.. Roanoke
Iron Company and Others; argued and
submitted.
Townsen and others vs. Outten and
others; argued and continued until to-
day.
The next cases to be called are
Greer, receiver, vs.. bale, and Brooke,
clerk, VS.. Turner.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-01-07
Foreign News.

GLASGOW, Jan. 7.-During a lie &c.
day at Hatrick's chemical works there
was an explosion which killed four
fremen and injured number of other
people. The damage done is estimated
at $250,000.
LONDON, Jan. Lady Henry Som.
erset has again rendered her resigne.
ton of the presidency of the British
Women's Temperance Association on
account of prolonged i'll health.
LONDON, Jan. The Standard says il !.
rumored that Great Britain will lond Clll,I
81G.OO0,000 direct, without the issue q! !.
guaranteed loan.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-01-07
Provincial Of the Holy Gross.

MIsHAwAKA, Ind, Jan. 7.-Rey.
John S. Zahm has been appointed
Provincial of the order of the Holv
Cross OF the United States to succeed
the late Father Corby. of Notre Dame
University. DR.. Zahm is 46 years DID,
He was born in Perry county, OHIO
and has been member OF the congre.
cation OF the Holy Cross since he was
II years of sge. Father Zahm was cali
ed to Rome several months ago on all
important conference mission with
Pope Leo regarding the Church in
America. He expects to leave ior
America next Sunday.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-01-07

THOSE CHEcKs.-The question OF
how Mr.. Greer II. Baughman obtained
possession of the two cancelled checks
signed by J. w. Womack, the proceeds
of which had gone to Colonel James N.
Stubbs, was yesterday explained to the
satisfaction of the grand jury of the
Hastings Court of Richmond and that
body reported to Judge S. B. Witt that
it had no report TO make upon the case,
thereby showing that there was moth
ing criminal or improper in the manner
10 which the checks were obtained.
Mr.. Womack handed in his testimony
In writing, which was to effect that Mr..
West distracted the checks from his
locked desk. 1t is believed that the &C.
ton of the grand jury this morning will
close the much-talked Of affair.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-01-07

THE LEGISLATURE yesterday defeat
ed bill to repeal the law making it a
misdemeanor to sell liquor to the young
men in the University and other COL
leges of Virginia. No young Virginian,
at college or elsewhere, should drink
LIQUOR: but that he should not, will not
prevent him from doing so if he wants
to, goes without saying, AMI the fact
that he can't get it near By, will nstur'
ally stimulate him to send for it else
where and keep it in his room.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-01-07

THE DEMOCRATS in the Virginia
legislature elect boilers from their
party to Offices, but Senator Mason OF
Illinois, republican, says he will never
so into caucus with a Senator from
Ohio elected by democratic votes.
That's what he says of boilers, but tine
election of Mr.. Mckinley, the man he
delights to honor, was due in part to
the votes of democratic deserters and
their money and bulldozing.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-01-07
To-DAY's TELEGRAPHIC NEWS
From Richmond.

RICHMOND, Va, Jan. 7.-SeDator
Mason's resolution to have joint COM
mittee settle the boundary line between
Virginia, Maryland and the District OF
Columbia was passed in the Senate.
The bill to correct the defect in the
law relating to betting on horse races
run outside the borders of Virginia has
been reported favorably in the Senate.
The defect in the act was discovered in
the case of Lacy vs.. Palmer.
Senator Lecato offered bill to es'
tablish q board of fisheries to have ex'
elusive control of the oyster and hsn
industries.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-01-07

TIE LATE strike on the electric rail-
road here is local object lesson
AGAINST the ACCESSIBILITY of resorting to
such measures, without having pre-
yiously secured other work. There
were dozen applicants for every va
cant place, and those who were ap.
pointed consider themselves fortunate,
while those who struck are walking
about in the cold with their hands in
their pockets, and will never again
have employment on that ROAD.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-01-07

LATER AND more reliable intelli-
sence from the Spanish government is
to the effect that the insurgent chief
Araneuren invited Colonel Ruiz, whom
he called his friend, to visit him, and
then had him murdered. Which. of
course, proves-that is to the 6libus-
ters-that the bandit chief referred to
ia christian patriot"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-01-07

AN OFFICER of the salvation army IN
New York was arrested there yester-
day for murder. This is certainly as
little conducive to the cause OF saliva
ton. as is Rev. DR.. Rainsford's denial
of the Instability of the Bible, or Rav
DR.. Briggs assertion that there is down.
right fraud in that book, or Rev. DR..
Abbott's avowal that he only believes
az much of it as ccmmends itself to his
judgment, conducive to the cause OF
the Christian religion.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-01-07

THE republicans of Maryland, who,
nv means of the desertion of the bolt
era there, obtained control of that State,
have not only played their hand for all
it was worth, but have mutilated the
official records ofthe legislature of their
State 30 as to hide at least some OF
their rascality. When republicans and
btlters get together and cry for reform
and honesty, other people had bet
ter put their hands on their pocket
hooks.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-01-07
FRIDAY EVENING. JAN 7, 1898
A NORTHERN gold paper says, "the

A NORTHERN gold paper says, "the
late hard times were years of compare
tive temperance" Late hard times
If times were ever harder to the people
of this country than they are now, that
fact has escaped their memory. And
how they could have been harder,
without endangering both society and
government, can hardly he conceived.
IF the "late hard times" were conducive
to temperance those now existing
should certainly be sufficient to effect
total abstinence.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-01-07

THE GRAND JURY of Richmond hay
ing very properly refused to take nc
tice of the now famous checks in the
Stubbs' bribery case, the question that
is naturally suggested is, what will the
legislature and the board of visitors Of
William and Mary College, and OF the
Deaf and Dumb, Asylum, of each OF
which Mr.. Stubs is member, do in
the matter, for their own reputation :?
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-01-07

ACCORDING to ex-senator PETER, un-
less there shall be "new alignment Of
voters" the populistic party will in
short time be thing of the past. its
democratic members returning to their
old party, and the ultras making such
other arrangements as may suit their
fancy. But what sad condition will
Senator Marion Butler of North Caro-.
lima be in then ? There is none in the
Senate so poor as to do him reverence,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-01-07
A Fraudulent Pensioner.

CHICAGO, Jan. flames Howard
colored, who says he is Methodist
minister, has been held to the fedora!
grand Jury on the charge of violating
the U. S. pension law. His bail was
fixed at 81 00O, in default of which he
was sent to the county Jail. Eleven
years ago Howard applied for a pen
sion, asserting that he had been sol.
der during the civil war and that he
had received sabre wound during a
battle. Yesterday Howard admitted
that he had never been in the army.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-01-07

Mrs. Mary Bird, Harrisburg, Pa, says -
my child Is worth millions to me yet
would have lost her by Group had l not in
vested twenty-five cents in a bottle of One
Minute Cough Cure" It cures coughs, colds
and all throat and lung troubles. Charles G.
Ionnon.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-01-07
Lynched by Negroes.

MERIDIAN, Miss, Jan. Jim Watts
and Sam Cole, colored men OF Ne-hoba
county, were lynched in Pea Ridge,
Kemper county, few days ago. Watts
and Cole went to Pea Ridge to visit
relatives, and became too thick with
their kindsmen's wives. The lyncheIs
are said to be negroes.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-01-07

IT Is risking little or nothing to say
that neither the currency bill reported
in the q. S. House of Representatives
Yesterday, nor any other bill that pro-
yides for the withdrawal of greenbacks
and the use of national bank notes in
their stead, will ever pass that body,
composed as it Is at present.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-01-07
The Maryland Legislature

ANNAPOLIS, Md, Jan. Louis
Schaefer was elected Speaker of the
House of Delegates on the first ballot
to-day, by union of the democrats
with the eleven boiling republicans.
1t is not definitely known what effect
Schaefer's election will have on the
senatorship.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-01-07

Mrs NJ. B. Ford, Ruddells, III, suffered for
eight years from dyspepsia and chronic con-
stipstion and was finally cured by using De.
Wits Little Early Bisers the famous little
pills for all stomach and liver troubles.
txhsrles G. Lennon,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-01-07

Miss Allie Hughes, Norfolk. Va, was
frightfully burned on the face and neck. Pain
was instantly relieFed BY DeWitt's Witch
Eszel salye which healed the injury without
leaving scar. 1t is the famous pile remedy.
Charles G, Lennon.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-01-07

A CARD Il hereby extend my thanks to
the firemen and citizens for their effort: to
save my property from destruction by .Io
last night.
GEORGE H. 5IcHAgD,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-01-07

You can't cure consumption but You car
avoid it and cure every other form OF thros,
or lung trouble by the use OF One Minute
Cough Cure. Charles G. Lennon.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-01-07

Colonel J Lyle Clarke, we'll known Con.
federate veteran and YirginisD. died at
Gainesville. Md, yesterday, where ne We.
superintendent of the postal station.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-01-07

Mrs Bope L. John:e1. wife of mer.
chant, of Bridgeton, N J, committed suicide,
this morning, by hanging herself with
clothes line in the cellar. It is believed she
killed herself while temporarily insane.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-01-07
THE LEGISLATURE.
SENATE,

In the Senate yesterday a bill was
introduced to provide for the expenses
of the boards of directors of the State
hospitals.
The Senate passed the House bill to
amend section 2, chapter 633, acts
1S93-'94, in relation to tax on building
and loan associations.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-01-07

One Minute Cough Cure cures quickly
That's what you want Charles g. Lennon.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-01-07

Drawn Turkeys, nc
Undrawn =" l2Hc
Dressed Chickens, I2Ec
Choice Loudoun County
Roll Butter, IS, 20 & 23c
Fresh Eggs, per doz 22o
Pure Leaf Lard, per h., &c
Prime Rib Roast Beef, loo
Round Steak. I2c
Homemade Sausage &
Sausage Meat, per h., loc
Sweet Picked California
Ham, per h., &c
The Springfield herald., 1898-02-11

done away with the drawing of lots.
Young people are not satisfied with
leaving the matter to fortune. as were
their ancestors, but fix 1t themselves.
The universal means used to celebrate
the day is a combination of lace paper.
pictured hearts, cupids and verses.
thousands of which now hang in the
stationers' window. From one to Il
dozen OF these are selected at a cost
OF from one cent to several dollars,
and entrusted, properly addressed, to
the postman's care. Invariably. the
missive is sent anonymously. Often.
too, the sender steals, mssive in hand.
up to the door of the one who is to re-
ceive 1t. after dusk of st. Valentines
day. The bell is pIlled, the valentine
dropped, and awayIuns the young one
in high glee. The most delightful joy
however, is experienced when the "ir-
repressible" steals thus up the steps,
chalks white square the size of an
envelope upon the porch, rings the
bell, and scampers away. or course,
in the darkness. the square resembles
a valentine, and the fair one. her heart
stoops to pick up-nothing.
A spirit of irreverence for the senti-
ment of St. Valentines observances
has sprung up within the memory Of
living man. Instead of the regulation
lace and verses. the latter of which are
of the "molasses drip" sort. contracted
for by the hundred pounds, there is
now a most grotesque sort of carica-
ture, with a libelous accompaniment of
lines. Great swollen heads. emaciated
chests and misshapen feet. printed
upon cheap paper, are dedicated to
tradesman or man of professional
calling. Some Of the caricatures have
their foundations based on peculiari-
ties of custom or eccentricities OF habit.
One OF these eccentricities is taken
apart from any other trait. dressed in
an outrageous body and glaring
clothes. and becomes the missile of the
small boy with which to attack the
foibles and foolish conventions of So
ciety.
There will long remain, notwith-
standing the practical, hardening tend
ency Of the age, something of the sent-
ment peculiar to St Valentines day.
which led the Roman lads to choose
and honor their lady loves. Though
the New York postmen may cease to
carry 100000 extra letters on that day,
Cupid will continue to be honored, and
the confectioner and the florist may
notice an increased sale of their wares.
for the spring still comes and the birds
still mate, and human nature is much
as 1t used to be in the olden days at
Rome.
e. L. SANDERSON.
The Springfield herald., 1898-02-11
CHICAGO SPECIAL.
One Night, Denver to Chicago.

The Burlington Routes famous train. the
Chicago Special, will be restored Sunday.
February 9th.
1t will leave Denver ut 10 n. IN. after ar
rival of the ID X Il. G. train from the WesD.
reaching Chicago at 2:l5 p. m. next day.
in ample time To connect with the fast af-
ternoon trains for the East.
Chicago will be reached in twenty seven
and n quarter and New York In ffty-four
and a half hours after leaving Denver
The .Chicago Special is the only zone
night on the road train between Denver
and Chicago-the only fast enst-bound morn
ing train out OF Denvcr-the only Denver
Chicago train making close connections ut
Chicago with afternoon trims for New York,
Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore and all
other eastern cities.
Its equipment consists of sleeping, rcclin-
ing chair, dining and smoking cars. Meals
are served on the European plan-you pay
only for what you order.
The Chicago Special Will be In addition
TO and In no way Interfere with the Bur
lington's .Vcstibuled Flyer" which will
continue to leave Denver at $50 p. M,
reaching Omaha at p. m. the next nfter-
noon. and Chicago at $40 the following
morning.
offices of connecting lines or write to G. w.
Valery, general agent, 1883 18th ST., Denver.
The Springfield herald., 1898-02-11
THE MAN WHO LIVED.
He should have been dead.
But he wasn't, because

"rhere's nothing succeeds like success"
There is no withstanding the living argu-
ment of the man who should be dead, who
isn't dead, but who would be dead, but for
. preserving medicine. That's about the
way 1t seemed to strike Editor Lawrence,
of the Ohio Farmer, Cleveland, Ohio. He
was afflicted with one of those colds that
have. thousands of times over, cul minated
In consum ption, when not promptly cured.
In this condition he met friend, CON
sumptive, whom he had not expected to
see alive. The consumptive friend recon-
mended DR.. J. c. Ayers Cherry PsetoIal
for the editors cold. on the ground that it
had "heiped him wonderfully.", II helped
the editor just wonderfully, giving
"almost instant relief" But read his
letter:
.About two months ago, I was afiicted
with bad cold, and meeting a friend, he
advised the use of Ayers Cherry Pectoral
which, he claimed, had helped him won-
derfully. As he was a consumptive, whom
I had not expected to see alive for several
years, concluded there must be merit In
this preparation. ! accordingly bought a
couple of bottles, one of which keep on
my desk all the time. This Is certainly
the best remedy for cold F.! ever used. II
gives almost instant relief, and the ]. c.
Aver Co. nre to be congratulated on posses
The Springfield herald., 1898-02-11

The new coal plant that the Balti-
more and Ohio railroad is erecting at
Sandusky, Ohio, will consist Of an ele-
waited track to be used either with side
dump or drop-bottom cars. the coal
dropping into bins from which 1t Will
flow into buckets OF four tons capacity.
each placed upon movable platforms.
Derricks of a capacity Of ten tons each
will lift the buckets to the vessel.
There will be sixteen of these patent
drop bottom buckets and they will be
handled by two of the latest steam re-
volving derricks, and these machines
will give the plant capacity OF about
300 tons of coal per hour at minimum
cost for the work. and with a slight
breakage. The plant will be in opera
tion April 1.
The Springfield herald., 1898-02-11

man would appear as Pan, alias Lu-
percus, alias Faunus, alias Inuus,
dealer in grain and crops. grape grow
er. proprietor Of the woods and fields,
the god of plenty" In ancient times
30 important parsonage as he who
controlled the increase of the products
of the earth must necessarily have been
shown great consideration, and 1t was
peculiarly fitting, when the grasp of
winter was about to be loosened from
the face of the earth and life was
about to spring up in grass and flower
and tree, that an entertainment should
be given for this god of the aliases.
From time immemorable, therefore,
the 18th of February was given up to
his worship. Youths of the best Ro-
man families assembled then in the
grotto of the Palatine hill. Cakes
made by the vestal virgins from the
first fruits of the preceding year were
offered. Goats and young dogs were
killed and, when two of the youths
had been chosen and brought forward,
their foreheads were smeared with the
blood from the knives used in the sac
rifice. A feast followed, and then the
young men. clad in the skins of goats
and armed with thongs OF the same ma
terial. ran around the city, striking
with the thongs the thousands who
put themselves in the way. To be
struck thus was a symbol of puriflca-
tion, implying increase for the future.
The thongs were "februa." purifiers,
and SO the month. But the most pop
ular custom of this festal day was the
assembling of youths and maidens.
The names of the maidens were put
into an urn and those OF the youths
likewise, and then each drew a slip
from the proper vessel, having upon
1t the name of the one to whom 1t was
his duty to be devoted during the re-
mainder of the year. The custom was
almost universal In the city of Rome,
and continued unabated for five hun
dred years of the Christian era. Then
happened one of the most humorous
incidents recorded In history. Pope
Gelasius was a sober minded man,
shrewd and sanctimonious, having lit
tie tolerance for the revelries of pagan
Rome. The festival of the Lupercal,
with its attendant worldly customs.
seemed to him out Of place in a Chris.
tian age. He was sagacious enough,
moreover, to know that suppression
Of 20 long standing popular observance
was. impossible. He therefore decreed
this change in 496. The date OF the
festival was put day earlier in the
month and the occasion was made one
in honor to st. Valentine. a good and
charitable bishop who had become a
martyr two hundred years before.
When the young people were assembled
for the drawing OF lots, instead of writ
ing their own names upon the slips.
they were to inscribe there the name
Of saints. The saint whose name any
one might draw was to be his patron
for the rest OF the year, to be honored
The Springfield herald., 1898-02-11

in her condition. She continued taking the
ills until seven or eight boxes had been
consumed and she considered herself en-
tirely cured. She can now eat all kinds of
food, which is something she has not been
able to do for years. She is not troubled
in the lenst with nervousness as she was
during the time of her stomach troub es.
She is now well and all because of DR..
Williams Pink Pills for Pale People n
complete cure has been made
II any one would like to hear more of the
details of her suffering and relief gained
by the use of DIR. Williams Pink Pills for
Pale People they may be obtained prob
ably, by writing the lady direct. She is
one of our well-known residents, Mrs
Ellen A. Oderkirk, Paw Paw, Ill.
The Springfield herald., 1898-02-11
VIII Immortal,ze Woman.

Superintendent of Public Works AL
bridge has decided to give woman n
place in the artistic work of the grand
stairway in the capitol building at AL
bany, New York. The heads of gov
ernors have been carved in the capitals
below the dome. and there are half n
dozen spaces for heads remaining un-
cut. Superintendent Aldridge an
nounces that he has selected four wo-
men as types in four distinct spheres,
and that their portraits shall be carved
in the stairway caps. These four wo-
men are Captain Molly Pitcher, Har-
riet Beecher Stowe. Clara Barton and
Susan b. Anthony.