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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-01-15
or indirectly interested in or connected
with any mercantile business, shall te
chosen or be allowed to act as district

or indirectly interested in or connected
with any mercantile business, shall te
chosen or be allowed to act as district
school trustee.
The House passed the House bills to
define and regulate fraternal beneficiary
associations, orders, or societies. To
amend the act, so as to exempt from
the license-tax boarding house keepers
who keep boarders for period not ex.
ceedipg two months. also the Senate
bill to authorize the Town Council of
the town of Culpeper, Culpeper county,
to fund its bonded Indebtedness. To
provide for a new registration of voters
of the town of Culpeper.
To amend sections 1445 and 1446 of
the code in relation to the annual
meetings and annual reports of the
county school boards, and requiring
railroads to receive and transport one
bicycle for every passenger as baggage.
Bills were also introduced in the House on
Thursday to authorize State banks to issue
obligations payable in silver bullion and to
create lien in favor Of said obligations, and
TO provide for the defence of said banks by
the Attorney General from any taxation by
reason thereof and for other purposes to Ii
censo employment agencies, prescribe regu.
lations for doing business and prescribe PEN
alties for violation of the law to amend sec-
ton 1858 with reference to railroad com.
panies encl sing their roadbeds with fences !;
TO amend section of an act to regulate the
practice of veterinary medicine and surgery
in the State of Virginia; to amend seet:f Us
TIT and 718 of the code, and to repeal sec.
ton 723 of the code in relation to fines by
justices OF the peace.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-01-15

VIRGINIA CoLoNELs.-Th increase
of the Governors staff from seven to
eighteen has stirred up a demand for
the title of colonel. The initiation in
the number who hold this rank, so fak
from satisfying the demand, has only
tended to increase it.
1t is published that bill granting
magistrates the authority to confer the
rank of colonel will be introduced in
the House by Mr. Owens. This meas
ure, which has already been drafted,
provides that, inasmuch as many wor-
thy gentlemen in this State find great
difficulty in satisfying their laudable
desire and ambition to become colonies,
therefore, be it enacted by the Gener-
al Assembly Of Virginia that any Vir-
ginia gentleman of good standing in his
city or county may apply to justice of
the peace and, after taking the oath OF
Office required by law, and particularly
the anti dueling oath, and upon the
payment of 8 fee of one dollar, such
justice shall issue warrant creating
such applicant colonel with full rank
for life." 1t is asserted that the patron
o. this proposition thinks it will not
OILY increase the revenues of the State,
but will satisfy laudable desire to at.
thin rank no much sought after.
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TRIED TO KILL MRS. CLAY.

Clell Richardson attempted to kill
his sister, Mrs. Dora Clay, wife ofGen.
Cassius NJ. Clay, at Valley View, KY I,
yesterday morning. He fred TWO shots
at her at twenty PAGES. He then fired
one shot at his mother-in-law, Mrs.
John Bryant, who was with Dora.
Neither shot took effect. Dora STUN
bled and fell at the second shot and he
thought he had killed her. The shoot
ing was the result of Il family quarrel
between Clell, Mrs. Bryant and Dora,
over Clell's brother-in-law, Will Bry-
ant, who was boarding with Cl.ll
when Dora LETT Gen. Clay. Richard
son, after several quarrels with Bryant
because of bis attentions to Mrs. Clay,
ordered him to leave his house, threat
ening to kill him unless he did so.
Bryant, advised his mother of the Cir
cumstances and che went to Richard.
sons house yesterday morningin an eff.
fort to make peace. Dora joined in the
appeals, which so angered Richardson
that he drove them from his
presence aud fred two shots at
them as they fled from the
house. He was intensely angered up
on learning that his shots were inefect-
i've and still threatens to murder his
sister. The young woman was guard
ed by two other brothers last night a.
the house of her sister, and will prob.
ably return to her husband to-day.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-01-15

The PROPERTIES OF THE SENATE
During the debate on the Hawaiian
treaty in the U. S. Senate last Thurs
day evening, Mr.. Morgan said the
'lades" of Honolulu go barefooted
along the streets in long, loose gowns,
which we call Mother Hubbards, and
the men with little clothing, but yet
strong and manly looking fellows.
Here Mr.. Tillman, of South Carolina,
broke in and asked "How many OF
them are allowed to vote2"
"Let me answer the question:" said
Senator Kyle, of South Dakota, "How
many of such people are allowed to vete
in your State ?"
Mr.. Tillman-'.I've had that cram
med down my throat until you max G
me puke."
Senator Mason, who was in the chair,
brought the gavel down sharply and
said: "Order, gentlemen, order. We
can have no puking here. Senators
who desiI to puke must retire to the
cloak ROOM"
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TO-DAY'S TELEGRAPHIC NEWS
From Richmond.

RICHMOND, Va, Jan. 15.-The whip.
ping post bill was to-day recommitted
to the committee on courts.
The bill providing for working and
keeping in order the public roads and
bridges in Fairfax was passed in the
Senate under suspension of the rules.
Delegate Reddy has offered bill in
the House to give the people an oppor-
tunity to express their choice for U. s.
Senator at the election for members. of
the legislature. The bill provides that
upon petition of one hundred voters OF
any one political party in any city or
county to the county or corporation
court, the judge of such court shall
issue an order requiring the election Of
fcers at the election for members ofthe
legislature to take the sense of the
voters of the party making the petition
as to the choice for Senator.
RICHMOND. Jan. l5.-Gov. Tyler has
pardoued Harry Poss, who was con-
victed of highway robbery in Fairfax
county and sentenced to nine years in
the penitentiary. He did so upon the
petition of Col. Barley, Mr.. Carlin and
others, and upon the certificate of the
surgeon of the peni,entiary that Poss is
hopeleasly i'll with consumption.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-01-15
TELEGRApHIC BREVITIES.

The Lawrence, Mass. cotton mills
employing 800 hands, will reduce
wages 10 per cent. These are the last
mills in New England to join in the
general reduction in wages.
Robert Pithie, a bridge contractor. has dis
covered deposit of natural cement near ST
Helena, CAL, which he says is much superior
to the imported article and which can be pro.
cured at much smaller cost. Mr.. PitLic
says the deposit is found in large quantities
and can be easily prepared for shipment.
An effort was mado at Dayt Ohio lsst
night TO pull of four.round contest between
Kid Mccoy and Jimmy Ryan. Both men
had on their fighting costumes when the
chief of police entered and put an end to
further proceedings.
Officers Of the steamer Andes, which yessal
arrived at New York to-day from Hayljsn
ports, say thst eight hundred buildings were
destroy ed by the fire which devastated Port
an Prince on December %.
The safe in the postofice at Warwick
Y was blown open this morning. One hun.
died dollars worth of stamps and five dollus
in cash were taken. The burglars es capcd on
hand car.
Two men were killed and another was bad.
ly Injured by an explosion of one hundred
pounds of dynamite yesterday in the Eureks
and Excelsior mine i'll Baker county, Oregon.
petition protesting against the annexa.
ton Of Hawaii, signed by 100 sugar beet
raisers of Venture county, Cal, has been fo.4
warded to Washington.
In six round boxing exhibition at Seattle
Wash last night between Dial Hawkins erJ
Jack Green, the latter was clearly outpointed
General William Booth, the head Of tho
Salvation Army, reached New York toia,
on the steamer st. Paul from Southampton.
The plate glass strike at Elwood Ind
inaugurated December has come to an emf
and work will be resumed il all departments
February J..
Fighting is still going on among drunken
negroes in Leslie county, Ky. Nine have
been killed and four ha lily injured
Anthony Hope HAWKING, the author, to.
day sailed from New York for Europe.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-01-15
COURT OF APPEALS.

Ware va. Bankers Loan and Invest
ment Company, continued from We'd
nesday, argued and submitted.
Smoot VS.. Peoples Perpetual Loan
and Savings Association; argued and
continued.
City of Norfolk VS.. Norfolk Land
mark Publishing Company ct al; ar
gued and continued until Monday.
The next cases to be heard are Lynch
burg vs.. Rivermont Street Railway
Company and Cameron and Franklin
vs. Peers, clerk.
No opinions were handed down on
Thursday. While quite a number of
them have been matured, the deliver.
ing of them is delayed by the sickness
of the stenographer of the court, who is
not we'll enough to be out. Judge
Cardwell is detained by indisposition
and Judge Rely is not sitting in the
building fund cases.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-01-15
FOREIGN News.

PARIS, Jan. 15.-The cabinet has de.
cided that it will not agree to accept
the Interpolation, to-day, on the subject
OF the imprisonment of Dreyfus, be-
cause, the ministers claim, there is no
ground for re.opening Thursdays de-
bate.
LONDON, Jan. 15.-Sir Polydore de
Keyser, who was Lord Mayor of Lon
don during the year 1SS7-SS is dead.
He was born in 1882.
PERM, Jan. 15.-The German war.
ships Deutschlad and Ge6on, under
command of Prince Henry of Prussia,
have passed here, on their way
to China, and signalled all we'll on
board.
PEKIN, Jan. 15-Germany has de.
manded SO years. lease of Kiao Chou
and a large area surrounding it. China
offers TO lease the bay and shores only
for fifty years. Here the matter rests.
The Germans insists on the right
to build railroads and work mines
whenever they wish. Germany has
renewed her demand for an indemnity
of 100000 taels for the erection of q
cathedral, and for compensation, to
the amount of several thousand taels,
for the relatives of the murdered mis-
siOnaries.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-01-15

SOME years since the custody OF
white criminals under q Tor persons
suspected of being criminals, for boys
were sometimes sent 10 the refcrma
tory without conviction,) was entrust-
ed to private organization, which was
empowered to hold them until they
were of legal age (uo matter what their
offsnse, or alleged oflense, wss) unless
satisfied that they were thoroughly re-
formed before attaining it. A bill hav-
ing been introduced into the General
Assembly to correct some of the worst
features of this system, charges of cruel
sy were made against the superintend'
ent and an investigation has been or.
dered. Quite probably these charges
are unfounded, yet the fact remains
that boys and youths can be sent to q
reformatory conducted not by the
State, but a private corporation, at the
will of single person in authority, and
kept there sometimes for term which
a housebreaker or highway robber
would get. This is certainly not right;
let all such prisons be under the direc
ton of persons appointed by the State,
and let no one be sent to them without
a legal trial. Boys have rights as well
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-01-15
Remarkable Surgical Operation.

CHICAGO, Jan. 15.-UndeI unfavorable
conditions, the operation of removing
the stomach from woman, which was
successfully performed in Zurich last
September, was repeated yesterday in
Milwaukee. Mrs. E. Bestian was the
patient. She died four hours after the
operation. Her mslady, cancer of the
stomach, had progressed farther than
had been apparent, and an operation to
which she was subjected last November
left her ill-prepared for the operation of
yesterday.
ST. LOUIS, Jan. 15-One of the great
est surgical operations Of the age was
performed at the Rebekah Hospital
last Wednesday morning, by DR.. A. c..
Bernays. 1t was the excislon of the
er tire stomach of Conrad Beck, who
suffered from cancer. Beck recovered
from the operation, but died last night.
The surgeons say the operation was
nevertheless a scientific triumph, the
patients debilitated condition alone
frustrating permanent success.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-01-15
SATURDAY EVENING. JAN. 10, 1873
A B1LL is pow before the General As

A BILL is DOW before the General AS
sembly which ought 10 pass, and those
who are interested in the matter, as
most people are, should write to their
representatives at once, for the agents
of the insurance combination are Cd the
ground, actively engaged in represent
ing to the members the advantages ~
of the three fourths proviso, and may
hoodwink some who do not understand
the subject well. When man iosures
his house now for, let us say. thou
sand dollars, andpays the full premium
on tina. thousand dollars insurance, be
gets, if his house is totally destroy I'd by
fire, not a thousand, but seven hundred
and fifty; because, forsooth, there are
swindlers who set fire to their own
property, having first overinsured it.
In other words, because few dishon'
est men are allowed to insure their
property for more than its value, aud
get probably more than that value
under this tbree-fourths provlso, honest
men pay premium upon the true val
ue of theirs, or less, and get but three
fourths. 1t is, of course: necessary for
insurance companies to protect them
selves, but they should not be allowed
to do it at the expense of honest men.
Their agents should be required to as.
certain carefully, by personal inspec-
ton, the value OF the property offered
for insurance, and insure it no higher,
and when there is total loss, pay that
loss in full. The value Of houses and
furniture is easily estimated by a good
agent; that of stocks OF goods, which
differ at different seasons, &C., is not SO
easily ascertained, and regard should
be had to the character and standing OF
the insurers. If strangers ask for large
assurances, their antecedents should be
looked into, and, if necessary, insurance
should be refused them. Last session,
it is said, the lobbyists succeeded in de.
feating similar bill by threatening to
withdraw their agencies. Let them DO
it if they please: our Virginia compa-
MES can easily do all the insurance we
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-01-15

THOUGH THE defeat of Mr.. Hanna
would have dsorganizsd and demol-
a izs the republican party in Ohio and
probably have been the means of Sc
curing the vote of that State for the
democratic candidate at the next Presi.
Dental election, the boilers felicitate
themselves upon mis- success, irrespec-
tive of the methods by which he at
tanned it, because, by it, another vote is
assured against the proposition to re-
store silver to its old place as money
matted.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-01-15

IF Mr.. Hay, the U. S. Minister to
England, be as loose and careless in the
conduct of the diplomatic affairs en-
trusted to him as ne is in the supervis-
ion of the behavior of the young men OF
his legation, who take the sidewalks OF
London for their bicycle exercise, in
stead of the streets, and, when arrested
therefor, plead the privileges of his en-
bassy to exempt them from the fine Tor
such gross and impuoent violation OF
the laws of that city, his country is not
likely to be benefited to any great de.
gree by his service.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-01-15
The Mort h Atlantic Fleet.

NORFOLK, Va, Jan. 15.-Up to II a.
m, there has been no movement of the
fleet in Hampton Roads and it is said it
will MOI sail before tomorrow. The
New York, Massachusetts and the Iowa
are victuaing off Old Point.
NEWPORT News, Jan. 15.-The cruiser
New York, and the battleships Indiana and
Iowa will not leave Hampton Roads for the
south until tomorrow morning.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-01-15

There is mole catarrh in this section of the
country than all other diseases put together
and until the last few years was supposed to
be incurablc. For great many years doc.
tors pronounced it a local disease, and pre-
scriped local remedies, and by constantly
failing to euro with local treatment, pro.
nounced i. incursble. Science has proven ca.
tarrh to be constitutional disease, and there.
fore requires constitutional treatment Halls
Catarrh Cure manufactured by F. j. Cheney
& Co., Toledo Ohio, is the only constitutional
cure on the market. 1t is taken internally
in doses from 10 drops to tcaspoonful. 1t
acts directly on the blood and mucous sur
faces of the system. They offer one hundred
dollars for any case it fails to cure. Send for
circulars and testimonials Address,
FL. CHENEY & co, Toledo, O..
Sold by druggists 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-01-15
ONE CT TIE chief reasons the boilers

ONE THE chief reasons the boilers
assigned for their desertion OF their party
in lis time of extremity last year was
that it's national platform contained an
assault upon the Q. S. Supreme Court
though that alleged assault consisted in
the simple declaration that the demo
cratic party denounced arbitrary" in
reference by federal courts and gov
ernment by injunction. But the man
the boilers helped to elect President has
committed real and outrageous as
sault upon the court referred to by, ap-
p pointing, as member thereof, MIR. Nc
Renpa, whose incompetency for such a
position is attested by the most distin-
guished republican legal talent in his
own section.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-01-15

THE REGULAR assertions of the
brokers' weekly organs in.respect of re.
vived industry and generally prevailing
prosperity, are we'll calculated to make
common sense people feel like Senator
Tillman does at the reiterated state
ments of Northern republicans regard
ing the alleged denial of the privilege
of suffrage to the negroes in the South.
If industries have revived and general
prosperity returned, why are SO many
laborers idle, so many lockouts and
strikes, so many bank and business
failures, so much enforced and neces-
ssry economy, and SO many beggars
everywhere throughout the country?
The men who make the assertions re.
ferred to must be great fools, or else
must labor under the vain delusion
that all other people are. Hard times
now have this country by the throat,
and it will be fortunate if it can release
itself before many of its people become
desperate.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-01-15
Masonic Insurance COMPANIES

Sr. PAUL, Mimi, Jan. 15.-The Min
nesota Grand Lodge of Masons has de-
clared that all insurance companies
operating under Masonic" titles in the
State are uImasonic and that Masons
must not insure in them. This order
will take effect March l. 1t will afford
insurance companies employing the de-
signation Masonic" opportunity to
drop the term aud also cease to use
Masonic emblems on their stationery.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-01-15
RUCKLrN,s ARNICA sALvE.

THE BEST SALvE in the world for
Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Self Rheum,
Fever Sores, letter, Chappsd Hands.
Chilblains, Corns and all Skin Erup-
ions, and positively cures Piles, or no
,ay required. 1t is guaranteed to give
perfect satisfaction or money refunded.
Price 25 cents per box. For sale by
Ernest l.. Allen
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-01-15

JUDGING FROM an account of the
proceedings of the Senate last Thurs
day evepiug, printed in another
column, it is presumed that even Sena.
tor Hoar now entertains the idea that
he may possibly have made an impru-
dent remark when, month ago, be
said that so far as he knew, no deterio-
ration had taken place in the Senate.
But with all his acquirements,the are
many things of which Mr.. Hoar is ig-
norant. Indeed he has been SO highly
cultured that his instruction in the
common things of ordinary life has
been sadly neglected.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-01-15

Mrs. Mary Bird, Harrisburg, Pa, says
"My child is worth millions to me yet l
would have lost her by Group had 1 not in
vested twenty-five cents in bottle of One
Minute Cough Cure" 1t cures coughs, colds
and all throat and lung troubles. Charles G..
Lonnon,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-01-15
oOIu Dy uruBsIsls IoC'
Halls Family Pills are the best

Malaria produces Weakness, General De.
bility, Biliousness, Loss of Appetite; Indiges-
ton and Constipation. Groves Tasteless Chill
Tonic removes the cause which produces
these troubles. Try it and you will be de-
lighted. so cents. To get the GENUINE ask
for GROVES.
For sale by CHARLES G. LENNON,
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as men.

Mr.. MURPHY's bill to re.establish
the whipping post is being violently
opposed by certain seniimentalists in
the General Assembly, because, they
say, the punishment is barbarous, de-
grading, behind the age, &c, &C., ad
nauseam. Others oppose it because
they fear it will injure the democratic
party. II the democratic party has so
many adherents who have cause to fear
the lash for stealing, &C., and prefer
their chances for the penitentiary, that
it can be injured by their voting tie
republican, or some other ticket, it is
about time it ceased to exist. Tie
crime, not the punishment, is the deg
radiation, and why the Commonwealth
should be put to the expense of send
ing hundreds of petty thieves to an
over crowded penitentiary for year
or so, when good whipping would
much more easily reform them, or the
fear of it keep them in the path of rec
tituds, is what no body but mawkish
ssntimentalist can find out.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-01-15

The cabinet yesterday discussed the
situation in Cuba. The President has
decided to have warship in easy dr.
lance of Havana in order that no tin g
may be lost in protecting American in
terests if the emergency arises.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-01-15

]. ~. stonehouse, of Chicago, whose sign
painting establishment recently failed, COM
mitted suicide to-day in the rotunds of the
Masonic Tempe by jumping from the railing
on the sixteenth floor of the building. His
BODY was shattered.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-01-15

Mrs Stark, Pleasant Ridge, O., says: "Af.
ter two doctors gave up my boy to die, say.
ed him from Group by using One Minute
Cough Cnre." 1t is the quickest and most
certain remedy for coughs, colds, and all
throat and lung troubles. Charles q. Lennon
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-01-15

Small pill, cafe pill, rest pill. DeWitt's
Little Early Rsers cure bilionsness, constipa-
ton, sick headache. Charles g. Lennon.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-01-15

THE VICE PRESIDENTS DINNER
The Vice President and Mrs. Hobart
entertained the President and Mrs. Nc
Kinley yesterday evening at beauti-
fully appointed dinner of twenty COW
ers. The drawing rooms and library
of the Vice Presidents mansion, the
former home of Senator and Mrs. Cam
eron, we're fragrant with roses, while
the table at which the guests were seat
ed was superbly decorated with brides
maid roses, and lighted with wax ia
pers under silver and white shades.
Mrs. Hobart's gown was of pearl gray
brocade, trimmed with rare old lace,
with which she wore ornaments of
pearls and diamonds.
This was Mrs. McKinley's first ep-
pearance as dinner guest in Wash
ington since the Inauguration, and was,
consequently, awaited with great liz
terest. She wore very rich toilet Of
blue satin, with diamond ornaments.