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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-08-09
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Mrs Paget, the widow of the late
DR.. R. G. NJ. Paget, of New York, has
conveyed to the University of Virginia
her late husbands extensive library.
At Petersburg yesterday Judge
Mullen sentenced Robert Morton, col
ored, convicted of the murder Of Geo.
Westmoreland, to be hung October Z.
Mr.. John M. Ryall, it is understood,
will oppose Mr.. Otis II. Russell for the
nomination for Congress in the Rich
mond district. Mr.. Ryall recently kept
q saloon in Richmond. He is quite a
humorist and clever actor.
Mr.. ]. Newton Harper has issued q
prospectus for oiut stock company to
be formed at Stafford Courthouse for
the purpose of blacksmithing, quarry
ing, and to build bridge across Aqua
creek connecting Harpersburg with the
courthouse.
Mr.. Joseph Button, secretary of the
State democratic committee, announces
that party headquarters will be opened
in Richmond about the first Of Septem-
Der, and strong efforts will be made to
redeem the Ninth and Tenth congress
sional districts.
There will be an animated fight over
the three members of the republican
State committee in the Richmond dis.
trict Messrs. Edgar Allan, Morgan
Treat and colored man named Sin
gleton are the incumbents. They are
all supporters of Brady-Agnew faction.
The Old Point postofiice was robbed
some time after ten o'clock Sunday
night of 81, 400 in stamps, $50 in cash
and twenty registered letters, the con-
tents of which are unknown to Post
master Kimberly and his assistants.
The building was entered, hole bored
in the safe and the lock smashed.
On Sunday afternoon Mr.. Thomas
Bane, aged so years, q well-known
farmer of Kerr's creek neiehborhood,
ckbridge county, was struck by light
ming and instantly killed. He was
crossing a meadow with two COM
panions when the fatal bolt came.
Bare was knocked senseless, his
hat-crown was torn out and his shoes
shredded. ,Only faint mark was found
on him,
Mr.. Isaac Newton Vaughan, a
wealthy tobacconist, of Richmond,
dropped dead in his Office yesterday.
Mr.. Vaughan went to his place OF bust
ness early yesterday morning, and up
to the time of his demise, 8 o'clock,
showed no signs OF ill-health. Apo
plexy is supposed to have been the
cause OF his end. Mr.. Vaughan leaves
very large estate 10 addition to this
he carried life assurances 10 the amount
of nearly 100000.
During a picnic at Whitewater, on
the Potomac river, Saturday night,
Traverse Colviu aud Smith Clements,
the former section foreman on the
Richmond, Fredericksburg and Po-
tomac Railroad, and the latter one Of
the workmen employed under him, Ell
gagged in q friendly tussle, which ended,
however, by Clements cutting Colvin
badly about the neck and shoulder.
Colvin is not expected to live. After
the cutting Clements disappeared and
has not been apprehended.
The Secretary of War has awarded tie con-
tract of dredging the channel from the sea to
the Norfolk navy yard to the American
Dredging Company.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-08-09

LEE For CUBA.-The Washington
correspondent of the Richmond Times
says: 81 think it is pretty we'll settled
that Lees Seventh Army Corps will
take care Of Cuba after the peace terms
have been concluded. 1 think
that the idea that Gen. NJ. G..
Butler is to made military governor of
Cuba was suggested to the reporters by
the mouthpiece of clique here which
is Jealous of the prominence already
given to Lee. There is no doubt in
nv mind that the President has always
intended to make General Lee military
governor of Cuba. and his corps has
been reserved for Havana, whether
there should be hostilities or not. Gen.
Lees thorough knowledge of the situa-
ton in Cuba renders him peculiarly
fitted for the military governorship OF
the island, and the President fully ap-
preciates this, and considers the ap
pointment O fitting reward for Gen.
Lees Invaluable services"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-08-09

ONE Of the American soldiers
wounded at Santiago, who has return
ed and is now at the Arsenal in Wash
ington, says: "The Americans wanted
to kill every Spaniard they could get
hold of, and one time the privates re
ported that twenty-five Spanish pris-
oners had tried to run away, so that
they-that is, the American guards
might have the privilege of butcherine
them. The Americans enjoyed that
recreation" But there are ill-inform.
ed Americans who really believe thai
the Spaniards are blood-thirty, priest
ridden wretches, whose chief delight
consists in manning and slaughtering
those unfortunate enough to be subject
to them. The per centage of wretches
is as great in the American, as in any
other army. Human nature Is the
same everywhere; but the people who
see notes in others eyes, but are un-
able to see the beams in their own, are
as numerous now as ever.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-08-09
DEAFNESS CANNOT BE CURED

Ry local applications, as they cannot reach
the diseased portion Of the ear There is only
one way to cure deafness, and that is by cor
stitutional remedies Deafness is caused by
an infamed condition Of the mucous lining
of the custodian tube. When this tube gets
inhamed you have rumbling sound, or i'm
perfect hearing and when it is entirely closed
deafness is the result, and unless the infsm-
nation can be taken out and this tube re-
stored to its normal condition, hearing will
be destroyed forever; nine cases out of ten
are caused by catarrh, which is nothing but
an infsmed condition Of the mucous surfaces.
We will give one hundred dollars for any
ca of deafness caused by catarrh) that can
rot be cured by Halls Catsrrh Cure Send
for circulars, free
F. ]. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, o.
Sold by druggists, Toe.
HALLS Family Pills are the best.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-08-09
WAR NOTES.

General Miles campaign in Porto
Rico is progressing 10 o satisfactory
manner. He intends to keep on fight
ing vigorously until ordered by Wash
iugton to stop. The Spanish troops at
San jus are busy constructing defenses.
Most OF the city's population has fled
to the country.
The hospital ship Alicante sailed from
Santiago for Spain yesterday with 500
Spanish prisoners on board. Several
steamers laden with United States
troops sailed for Montauk Point, L. l.
1t is likely the war expenditures
during August will be 81 $780, 900 day
General Shafter, in dispatch to the
War Department. denies that he was
responsible for the inadequate provision
made for the sick and wounded brought
from Santiago on the transports Seneca
and Concho. From the day the army
left Tampa for Santiago up to the pres
ent time General Shafter says there
have never been sufficient medical at
tendants or medicines. Three times
since the army arrived 10 Cuba it has
never been almost entirely with
out medicine. Assistant Surgeon
Munsen, in a report to Surgeon-Gene
raj Sternsburg, says it was impossible
for the medical department of the army
to get its supplies landed at Santiago,
and he thinks General Shafter and the
quartermaster department we're re-
sponsible for the condition existing
there.
The total number of sick in the army
at Santiago on August 7 was 3,445, Of
whom 2,49S had fever. There were II
deaths on Sunday, FIVE from yellow
fever
Secretary Long has written letter,
in which he defends Admiral Sampson
against charges made against him. He
saws the Admiral was ordered not to
expose his armored ships to mines; that
he was not sent to capture San Juan,
Porto Rico, but merely to make a
reconnaissance, and that the defeat OF
Ceryeras feet was the contamination
of the Admiral's plans and of his
thorough preparations.
The Paris Gsulois says the United
States does Spain q service in taking
Cuba.
Tho Navy Department has made public the
correspondence between Admiral Sampson
and. Gen. Shafter relating to the cooperation
of the army and navy in tho operations at
Santiago. No new facts arc developed and it
is shown that the army and navy worked TO.
gethcr tremendously.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-08-09
as numerous now as ever.

NEGROES were members of the COM
mittee appointed by the G. A. R. OF
Philadelphia to receive the Pickett
Camp of Confederates from Richmond,
aud negro posts would have escorted
that camp through the streets there
had it not been for the protest of its
commander, who threatened to with
draw his camp from the line if there
should be such an escort. The camp
has also discovered since it reached
Philadelphia that its hosts were inspired
by the spirit of gain rather than by that
of patriotic non-sectionali5m. There is
always string to gushers, North as
well as South. Lee Camp of Richmond
was more discerning and declined the
invitation.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-08-09
than good

RIGHT THINKING people everywhere
are disposed to pity the Spanish prime
minister, Sagasta, but at the same time
TO applaud him for checking the ambi-
tious designs of that INSCRIPTIONS pre-
tender, Don Carlos, who availed himself
of the opportunity afforded him by
his country's troubles, make more
difficult and serious the straits into
whica she had been forced. Not only
the neople of his own, but those OF all
other.civIized countries, would have
thought better of Don Carlos if he had
fought in the Spanish army.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-08-09

A JUDGE 10 New York day or two
go, in censuring man for occupying
two seats in car, though he had only
paid for one, added, that when he saw
conductors and train hands putting
their feet on the car seats, and smok-
ing and chewing tobacco and splitting
On the floor, he was not surprised to
see passengers following their exam
pie. Similar expressions from the
bench elsewhere might not be without
good effect.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-08-09

THE PEOPLE of Long Island are pro-
testing against the danger to which
they will be subjected by the landing
on their shores of fever stricken SOL
diers from Santiago. Their protests
are by no means unreasonable. The
sick soldiers should of course be brought
back to their own country, but there
are plenty of unsettled sites for conva'
lsscent camps all along the whole At
lautic coast, without selecting one In
the most densely populated region on
that coast. 1t really seems as if, dur
ing the Spanish war, orders from Wash
ington have resulted in harm, rather
than good.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-08-09
Killed His Brother and Himself.

WEST STocKBRIDGE, Mass, Aug. 9
George Webster shot and killed his
brother Fred and then killed himself
last night on the road three miles from
here. Fred was convicted several years
ago of attempting to murder Chester
Goodale and sentenced to 33 years in
State prison, and he had served seven
years OF it, when in March last, he YVES
pardoned out for good behaviour. Yes
terday both men were intoxicated and
quarrelled over trivial matters with the
fatal result.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-08-09
PICKETT'S MEN.
A dispatch from Richmond SAYS

The ex Confedcrates hore, wh9 wefe "
posed TO the Pickett men gong 10 Pbiair'
phia, were not surprised to learn il4' '.'
color line had become 81 upp'cass 'a'o' j.
the visit. There was a colored Fo'I ''
the organizations that welcomed tHe Wig
isns, and one of the members Of lie ieiti.e,
committee was also a negro it Is oeif'a.
thst colored posts, CT which there arc iaIt..
more in Philadelphia, would have ia'...
p ted in the parade but for the acton o.. u.
executive committee of the Picket -ar'''.j,
late Sunday night in declaring they "g -
notplrticipate if such was to be Tie oi'c' ~.
Grand Army people promptly aefec' y'.-s
day morning to eliminate this icaiaie. ~
Southetners are being roys.ly enie'''.-.
but advices from Philadelphia sag there ..
sort of doubt that consderaion' OF f'.-
were the invitation upon which they wen
the city of brotherly love, The J. 'sei' c .-.
have accepted an invitstion. WHICH ice e'..
had declined. to receive Schuy.cr o'i '"''-
as the Lambs, when they come here
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-08-09
TUESDAY EVENING, AUG 9, 1888

THE republican press and their al
lies, the boiling so-callsd democrats, ale
gloating over the fact that the democrat
ic convention of Texas, defeated the fol-
lowing resolution:
a colonial policy is contrary to the
theory of this government, and we are
opposed to the acquisition of any terri
tory Inhabited by people who are ~
capable of self-government, because we
hold the right of local selt-government
to be a basic principle of our
republic. We are opposed also
to the acquisition of any ter
ritory the government of which Will
necessitate an increase in the stand
ing army. All governments derive
their just powers from the consent OF
the governed; and We are opposed to
the establishment of any government
BY the United States without the con-
sent of the people to be governed"
That republican newspapers should
be gratifed at this, is not strange, but
what fault any real democrat can find
with it, is not readily seen; AID ohjec'
ton to it by men who supported the
Southern cause renders them absurd.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-08-09

Now that Turkey has refused to
make any indemnity for the attacks on
American missionaries in Armenia,
hough the United States has done
likewise in the case OF foreigners who
suffered from mobs in this country,
as the treasury isnow full and the army
numbers quarter OF a million, and as
the jiDgo spirit is still rampant, it would
not be at all strange if the scene OF the
war were changed TO the Sultan's do
miuionS,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-08-09
Fooled Dy the Rain.

COLUMBUS, O., Aug. 9.-The heavy rains
of the last few Days prevented wholesale
escape from the penitentiary. A squad Of
convicts had tunnel partially completed
when they were driven away from their task
by the heavy rains which filled the hole with
wat r. The tunnel was driven between two
boilers and was ten feet deep and about four
teen feet long. The corvicts had but ten
feet farther to go t. reach the walls and
perty
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-08-09

THE high tariff was said to protect
he labor of this country against the
"pauper labor" of Europe. But a
change has come over the spirit of the
dreams OF those who passed that tariff,
as, by their annexation of Hawaii, and
heir seizure OF Cuba, Porto Rico, the
Philippines and the Ladrones, they
nave subjected American labor to the
competition of labor even cheaper than
that OF Europe.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-08-09

GEN. WOOD, the military governor of
Santiago, is the right man in the right
place. He has directed that American
soldiers implicated in looting, within
the limits of his Jurisdiction, shall
be hanged. In all armies there are
some villains, and the only way to
suppress their deviltry is to hang them
# there were more General Woods,
there would be fewer lootings, not only
ia foreign countries, but in this one
also
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-08-09

CAPT. SIGsBY, who gained distin-
guished honors by being in the aft part
of the Maine, when the forward part
was blown up ''from the inside" in
Havana harbor, has been appointed to
the command of the ship Texas, which
vessel, though built at Norfolk, has not
proved such an entire failure as she
was said to be in the North until her
recent experience in the West Indies.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-08-09
MEDICINAL.
LADIES CAN WEAR SH0pA

0ne size smaller after using Aliens Fo,.
Ease, powder to be shaken into the .boo.
1t makes tight or new shoes feel easy giyo.
instant relief to corns aud bunions. liz tba
greatest comfort discovery of the age Gu
and prevents swollen feet, blisters. Gallon.
and sore spots. Aliens Foot.Esse is c 1-.
tain cure for sweating, hot, aching. neryor'
feet. At all druggists and shoe stores o.
Trial package Free. Address, Allen :. O,m.
sted, LIE BOY, N Y.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-08-09

AS THE United States went to war
o assist the Cuban insurgents and to
secure to them independence and home
government, the Cubans whose prop
erty has been destroyed or damaged by
Inc insurgents have naturally filed
claims against this government for their
losses, as those by whom the damage
was inflicted have neither government
nor money!
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-08-09
Colombia Yields to Italy

ROME, Aug. cit is credibly report.
ed here that Colombia has fully agreed
to the Italian demands. Italy firmly
declined to extend the time within
which Colombia might endeavor to
raise funds TO satisfy the Cerruti claim
with the result that Colombia was
forced to Weld.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-08-09

THE BEST SALvE in the %G pb.rs
Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcer 7a I JHsp1
Fever Sores, letter, ChaPpssIGi ga Erer
Chilblains, Corns and a.! DE- 59.. Or
Jay required. 1t is guarantee irsia-
nerfect satisfaction or money 20 4.e :!
Price Is cents per box. f0' =
Ernest L. Allen
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-08-09

DeWitt's Witch Hazel salve has the largest
sale of any save in the world. This fact and
its merit has led dishonest people to attempt
to counterfeit it. Lookout for the man who
attempts to deceive you when you call for
DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve, the great pile
cure. c. @. Lennon
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-08-09

More than twenty million free samples of
DeWitt's Witch Hszel Save hsve been dis
tributed by the manufacturers. What better
proof of their confidence in it's merits do you
want? It cures piles, burns, scalds, sores in
the shortest space of time. C. G. Lennon.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-08-09
The Markets.

BALTIMORE. Aug 9-Flour dull and un
changed. Wheat stcadicr at the decline; spot
76a7GA; month 74a. Corn frmer; spot
37l4 month 3 -4s37i3
GEORGETOWN. Aug. 9.-Wheat 70s75.
CHICAGO, Aug 9.-Wheat G3 Corn 33.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-08-09

At THE same moment, the Spanish
army is returning to Spain and the
American !ermy to America. The form.
or will never 20 back-for its country's
own good; the latter will, for its and its
country's harm. A nations strength
does not lie in its foreign possessions.
especially when the people thereof are
half savages and incapable of self gov
ernment. Such possessions have
brought Spain to grief, as they did
Rome, before her.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-08-09

THE ABUSE of Mr.. Bailey by the re-
publican, jingo and gold press OF the
country has, as is natural, strengthened
that gentleman among the true blue
democratics in all sections of the coun-
try, and if the democratic party shall
regain control of the U. S. House Of
Representatives in the next Congress,
will add greatly to the chances of Mr..
15ailey's election to the speakership of
that body, for by the time it reassem
bles, at least some of the evil effects of
jingoism and annexation will have
probably begun to manifest themselves.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-08-09

One Minute Cough Cure 'a'i'. be
by its quick cures, aud children as. as i,r.'
in large quantities without Nv rr,asia
1t has won for itself the oe.- ~ t'-t
any preparation used t'-isy . r.. cosgss
tickling in the throat OF 0's''D'''
G. Lennon.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-08-09

BAsEBALL.-The following 8 The '
of The National League games l.Ai,eI i,r...
day: Cleveland e, Washingio o.
ington ., Cleveland > (h'caso o.. L-' r.-.
pha . Philadelphia s, Chicago % ..r..
4, New York =. The following j. We '
ino NJ the clnhe.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-08-09

DR.. Clement c. speiden died at his
home in Marshall, Va, yesterday in
the siXty.sixth year OF his age.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-08-09
RUCKLIN's ARNICA 5ALFL

To.dsy's scbedule:-PhiIa'
cago; Boston at Cincinnati
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-08-13
FRfE LIBRARY PLANS.
Trustees to Confer With the
Architects About Re-
CURED Changes.


on Monday, or perhaps later in next
week. Messrs. Brite & Bacon, of New
York City. whose plan fer a new Free
Public Library Building was accepted,
will confer with the Library Trustees as
to the changes desired in the plans, the
architects having finished the working
plans.
A change in the style of the roof will
be made and the location Of some of the
rooms viii also be altered. Economy in
space Is what the trustees have in view,
so as to give the very utmost room to
exclusively library purposes. The gen
eral appearance Of the facade on Jersey
avenue will not be changed. but in minor
details the trustees will desire some al
terations.
No time win be lost after the plans are
finally passed upon to prepare the speci-
fcations for the contractors. A proper
length of time will intervene until the
date set for the reception Of bids. From
that stage the trustees will advance mat
tiers until the actual work IN the ground.
The first thing to be done is, of course,
to tear down the present buildings: the
Leon Albeit house and adjoining mansion
on Montgomery street. the old Street and
Water Board offices and houses on Jersey
avenue. That viii mean two sets of pro-
posals. one for denolishing the old build
ings and the other for the erection OF the
new library building.
The Trustees hope that by October the
actual work win be begun so that the
building viii be finished by October, 1899.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-08-13
IMPERSoNATED A POLICEMAN.
Ex-Omcer of the S. p. C. A. Gets In
to Trouble.

Daniel T. Downes. t~wenty-six years old,
of No. 81 Cottage street, was before Act
ing Police Justice Mccormick this morn
ing charged with impersonating a police
officer. The complainant was Abel Brown,
superintendent of the Society for the Pre-
vention of Cruelty to Animals. He al
legged that he made several arrests for
cruelty. alleging that he was an officer of
the society, when in reality he had no
power.
Downes has been a member of the s. P.
C. A. for nearly four years. He was made
an agent nearly a year ago. but he made
so many unwarranted arrests that in
February last his powers were revoked.
failed to turn in his p~oliceman's shield
and continued to make arrests. Super
intendent Brown warned him several
times but he did not heed him. Finally
as Downes was making arrests for which
the S. P. C. A. did not feel like being re-
sponsible, Brown was forced to have him
arrested.
Downes in court this morning pleaded
ignorance of the law and commended that
he did not understand that his powers
had been revoked until a short time ago,
since which he has made no arrests. He
gave up his shield. Justice Mccormick
was lenient with him and paroled him
with a severe reprimand and warning.