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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-12-30
From south Africa

Pretoria, DEC. 2S. -Commandant
Synmsn reports from Molopo station,
north OF Matching, under date of Dec.
"a. that the enemy made sortie from
Mafeking that day with an armored
train and Maxims and attacked the
Boer forts. The fighting was carried
to the very walls of the iorts but the at
rack was repulsed, the British losing
fifty sight men, including three taken
prisoner. The burghers behaved splen-
didly.
Lorenzo Msrqaez, Dec. 30.-A re.
port from Pretoria states that in the
soryie from Msfekipg December "a, the
British casualties were 100 and the
Beers nine.
The German East African liner Bur
desrath, from Hamburg, has been CAP
tured by British warshlp and is held
as q war prizs. Aboard the Bundles
rath were three German officers and
twenty men stsir4d in khaki Uniforms
and en- route 10 the Trensvaal.
Chieveley Camp, Natal, Dec. 2S.-
Native reports received here say that
General Waite made sortie from
Ladysmiih December 90 and captured
one of the Beers big gus.
C4petowu, Dec 30.-rhe steamer Ma
iesiic arr vel here today with 1900
troops.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-12-30
TO-DAY'S TELEGRAPHIC NEWS
Foreign News.

London, Dec 30-rhe Gazette az
nounces the appointment OF the Duke
of Conuaught TO be commander of the
forces in Ireland, succeeding General
Lord Roberts.
Rome. Dec. 30.-The Pope today con-
6rmed the report OF the congregation
of the propaganda against the teaching
of the classics in the schools of the
Uuited States. The American innovs-
,iou has been strongly opposed by the
French superiors. Monsignor Satolll
says the decision of the propaganda is
perfectly justified and the American
order is merely commanded to abide by
the constitution OF the brotherhood
which forbids the teaching OF the class
les. The ruling OF the congregation ia
regarded as auothey alow at the liberal
tendencies OF the Catholic hierarchy in
the United StateS.
The report that the confirmation oil
Mgr. Sbaretti to be Bishop of Havana
had been cancelled appears to be erro-
neous and it is believed Sbaretti will
shortly take W his duties in Havana
despite the objections of many OF the
Cuban clergy 10 foreigner.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-12-30

10 the storm two days before Christmas
during which the Brltsh steamer Arios
to went ashore nearby and twenty.ope
of her crew were lost.
Mrs. Frank Daniel, widow, of North
Fork, Loudoun county. left her five
year-old daughter alone in an upper
room Thursday while she went down
stairs to attend TO her work. Shortly
afterward she heard screams, and run.
ming back to the room, found the child
wrapped in flames. The little one wes
literally roasted to death. How she
managed to set her clothing on fire is
mystery, as there was no fire in the
room.
Considerable excitement was created
in Danvllle last night by an attempt to
kill Mr.. Andrew Jameson, an attache
of the Continental Tobacco Company.
by Walter Hufcbins, negro operative.
Mr.. Jameson h, d bad ss,ue words with
Hutchins in the atternuon aud the NJ :
gro returned in the evening and renew
ed the quarrel, firing On Jameson at
short range with revolver, but FORUM
ately missing him. Hutchins fed and
is still at large.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-12-30

censed, aud ccrt .inly more than ono ea'h ia
owned by some of the -four hundred"
During the period in which disc cunt OF
10 per centum was allowed on city taxes
S74, 402 SO WAS the fsce amount of tax bills
, paid
A tax sale Of delinquent taxes was made on
November II Of this year that Immediately
prior was in November, 1895. More than
So, 600 was collected from deliuquents by
reoson of this sale.
Chain gang expenses were less this calen-
dar year than last by SOL. AZ. Last three
ye'rs as follows: 1897, $1,4S2.75; 1898.
| $750.62, and in 1899, $649 10.
The cost of operating electric lights this
year was So $50, last year S., 765. Several
hundred new poles have bean recently erect
ed.
sit cost 81. $50 10 clean the streets ard al
9ys ia 1898 and it cost $5,925 thi. year.
1865 OF the amount Last named having
BEEN expended since June 1 last, an average
Of So62 per month for seven months.
AIexandlia has moi an agent for bonded
insurance comEany. 1t has 80 fire insurance
companies licensed and represented by agents,
and life insurance companies. Two o! these
corporations lave their main Office here
the Alexandria and the Mt Vernon.
About $1,000 WAS expended on sewers
during the year as follows: Connections
made between lit street and Psff and Bros.
mandatory, $S3 10; Grace Church alley
and Prince street, $3.50: Columbus street,
$500; Washington strest. 1896; Pitt street,
1923; alley in the rear of FleischmaDn He
tel S175 The following WAS paid by per-
.oas tapping sewers: Pitt streer, 1925; Grace
huo =.
Washington street. S25; PATS alley, 500;
alley back of Fleischmann Hotel, $50; total,
$3.50.
Alexandria has but three licensed real es-
tato brokers and but two auctioneere.
Tho Clsrk of the Corporation Court during
the year issued 3lS marriage licenses-244
10 white and IA to colored persons. Last
v ar he issued 279 10 white and So to co..
ored persons.
The member o deeds recorded by the Clerk
of the COrpor atom fours dur,ns the year Wa.
$40 az agans, SOB last year.
In the Corporation Court there were %
chancerY suits institut ID, % common law
suit, s wi b admitted to probate, 81 powers
Of attorney recorded ard "A chtrt Is ard
amended charters granted. Last year 39
charters we're granted.
Ia the Circuit Court fot the City common
/ wv and 7 chancery suits were entered, 3
chsrsers granted and vii probated.
During the year The police made 957 a.
rests, as against ,412 LIST year. The num-
Der of lo@gers accommodated at the station
house WAS 1888. There were 3,O57 last
year.
Tho total amount Of insurance paid for Fl c
losses within tho city limits during the year
was $7.163, as against 81 378 last year.
Tao total amount of -four inspected dur
ing the YER was 1913 barrels, as against
a 300 last year. Many loo. mil 8 arc now
supplying some of the jobbng trade aid
much Of the -four received now is sold with
out inspection.
The Gazette completes its one hundredth
{ volume and wishes Is readers happy New
Year.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-12-30
Great Wallpaper Factory Burned.

New York, Dec 30.-Five fireman
hurt aud at least $500, 900 damage were
the results OF fierce fire at the foot OF
east Oath street last night. The build
ing burned was the greatest wallpaper
factory 10 the country. II was founded
oy William Campbell, but recently has
been controlled by the Wall Paper
Trust. The FIRE was discovered soon
alter 10 o'clock but when the fremen
reached the scene the huge building,
which was seven siories high and had q
frontage of 800 feet and a depth of 200
teet, was on fire from centre to circum.
ference. For hours the fire burned
furiously, bursting forth from 600 win
dows and lighting up brilliantly the
east side of the city and the river. The
fireman fought to copfne the fire to
the wallpaper factory. only one small
ouilding, occupied by the Hygeia Ice
c mpaoy, besides the factory being de-
s,royed. 1t was two o'clock this morn.
ing before the fire was under control.
rhe night was bitterly cold and the
iremen suffered terribly. Five of them
were caught under falling wall, and
seriously injured.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-12-30

TIE truth ofthe numerous dispatches
from Gen. Otis, to the effect that the
"rebsllion" of the Filipinos had been
suppressed and that civil govern
meut would soon be restored IN
the Philippines, is not sustalne q
by intelligence received from Me-
Mia today, according to which the
"rebels," instead of having been dis
persed and disintegrated, are moi Only
united and we'll organized, but have re-
occupied all the towns they had recent
ly abandoned, and been Hospitality re-
ceived by the Inhabitants thereof. The
conquest and paci6ca;ion OF alien races
are by no means so easily accomplished
as Gen. Otis vainly imegines.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-12-30
FROM WARRINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette
Washington. December 80.


Washington. December 80.
Senator Foraker, OF Ohio, will be the
chef supporter of she bill to provide E
system Of government for Porto Rico.
The republican programme In re-
spect Of the new fnanplal bill will be to
refrain from discussing it, and to allow
its democratic opponents to exheus;
themselves in talking to deaf ears, and
then TO pass it by the republican assuI
ed party majority.
The attempt OF the administration to
throw the blame on Secretary Gage for
selecting tavorite banks as the de-
positories of the internal revenue re
ceipts, Is ridiculed here, where it is we'll
known that the President was vel
aware of all the particulars of the trans
action as Mr.. Gage Was. II is also
well known that MIR. Gage, in addition
to his other tricks, sold the old New
YORK custom house to the same favor
lite bank, which has never yet paid a
single dollar for the purchase.
Robert E. Turner, motorman on
the Metropolitan railroad, died at the
Emergency hospital this morning of b
Knife wound in the temple which pene-
trated the brain, Inflicted last night by
CHARLES l.. McUln. Both were suitors for
IL year old Bertha Crown. the daue hter
of their boarding house keeper. She
had accepted the attention of Turner
McUin last evening became threaten.
ing in his attitude toward the girl
Turner came to her protection and r.,
ceived his death wound. He was q
years old and came here from Green
vile county, S. O.,
The time for the redemption of gov.
eminent bonds, so as to increase the currency
OF the country, was extended today until
Tuesday next
State Senator Senator Donshoe of the Alex.
andris district WAS here today. He says the
only local bill of interest to AlexandIis that
is likely to come up in the Virginia legisl.-
ture speedily Is one allowing the Smoot tar.
ming company to nse the switch on Wilkes
street, Alexandria. The sale of this propert ,
to a. other manufacturing company depends
1t is said, upon she use OF that switch.
The republicans of Lynchburs, Virginia,
or rather some of them, are very DESTROYS
that their present democratic pc. TIM astsr
though they concede that he has conducted
his office Very acceptably, shall be- removed
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-12-30
SATURDAY EVENING. DEC. 80. 1895

WITH today's edition the Gazette
closes its one hupdredth volume-a rare
old age for any newspaper in any coun-
try to reach, and more remarkable
from the fact that the descendants in
direct line from its founder still OWE
and conduct it. Through good and
had luck it has shared the fate OF Alex
apdris, and its settled determination Is
to continue to do SO, whether that fate
be propitous or otherwise, for, as Ru'h
said 10 Naomi, it says to Alexandra
"Wnither thou goest l will go; thy pee
ple shall be my people, and tiny God my
God.n
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-12-30

and that Mr.. Wilson, republican, his pre-
decessor, shall be- reinstated, and delegations
of them have been here recently to effect
that purpose.
S32,774, cash received. Miss Helen NJ.
Gould gave $500 and ]. IL Sears, OF Boston,
gave $500.
report received at the War Department
shows that there was wholesale case OF
ptomaine poisoning on board the transport
City of Bio which left Portland October 4
with part of the 35th iniantrv on board. at
one me there were $50 enlis ed men and
two Off cers dangerously sick. One man died
a II suffered terribly.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-12-30
Brazilian Line steamer Ashore.

Dungeness, Eng, Dee. 30.-The yes
sci ashore il East Bay, east
of here, is the Hamburg South
American steamer Pelotas, from
Santos, Brazil, for Rotterdam and
Hamburg, with iull cargo of graiu.
Early today the life savers succeeded
in establishing communication by
means OF rocket apparatus with the
dig liaer. The ships officers signslled
that they were in urgent need of as
sistance, but as yet 30 life boats have
been able to breast the terrific sea to
reach the stranded vessel. The wind
has abated somewhat this morning, but
the heavy sea continues. The life
savers at Dover ard Folkestone have
made several attempts to get to the
Pelotas, but their boats are hurled
back on the beach. Several tugs are
reported to have left Dover for the
stranded steamer, but they have not
yet put in an appearance. The
Pelotas il lying about q mile
apl e half off sore apparently,
% her beam ends. The seas catch hel
amidships and break clean over her,
sending ups shower of spray. The yes
sci has been washed little farther in
shore since daylight. Her position il
perilous and she cannot stand the
pounding much longer. The gale
which hes bl,wn for two days is one of
The most severe ever known in the
Eoglish channel. A tremendous sea is
running. The breakwater at Dover is
smothered by the waves. The South
Sands head light ship is adrift and is
flying signals of distress.
Dungeness, Dec. 30.-There were no
passengers on the stranded liner Pelo-
,as. Tue officers and crew have been
landed and seut to Dover.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-12-30

THE PROJECT of erecting monument
TO General Lee in sight OF his conhs
Gated homo and within view of the
tombs,ones of those who shot his xiii
and kin, conquered his country anc
ravaged, despoiled and divided his
State, has not, IS was once supposed
been abandoned, but has been revived
and its promoters are again at work ii
Washington. A Northern republican
was at the head of the previous attempl
to profit by this scheme; who heads il
now is unknown, but it is hoped thai
no Southern people have any thing te
do with it.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-12-30

GOVERNOR TYLER has refused to al
low his name to be used as vice pres
ident of an anti-British meeting in New
York to express sympathy with the
Beers. The republican and imperial
istic and gold mouometallst Anglophc-
Dist feeling is not as popular in this
country as Governor Tyler evidently
supposes it to be.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-12-30
RESIGNATION of a Rishon,

Montgomery, Ala, Dec. 30.-Infor-
nation has reached here that Right
Rev. q. NJ. Jackson, D. D., bishop coad-
jutor of the diocese of Alabama (Episco.
PAY, has forwarded his resignation to
tue presiding bishop, Rev. DR.. Clark,
OF Rhode Island. Bishop Doane, of A.
bany, however, is the acting presiding
bishop, 10 consequence of the feebleDess
OF the bishop of Rhode Island,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-12-30

The State Superintendent of educa-
ton favors manual, iastesd of mental
education for negroes, and says the lat
ter turns their heads, while the former
improves their usefulness. The expe.
rience OF thirty years proves that the
study of school books improves neither
the intelligence, the manners, nor the
morals of the ne sres. Whether manual
schools would do otherwise or not, CAN'T
be told until they, too, shall have been
tried.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-12-30
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Engineer John Wise was asphyxi
Ated yesterday in tunnel on the Ches
apeake and Onio road.
The river at Richmod is frozer
| over from bank to bank. This is unusua
and with the exception of last winter
has not been known for several year!
past.
1t is given out that early in the new
year great manufacturing concern ii
20 locate in Richmond. The capita
stock of this company, it is stated, ia
100000
A bill will be presented to the legis.
iatnre, af.er tho holidays, empowering
the town council of Woodstock to Issue
bonds sufficient to give the town good
water system.
II is said that a somewhat similar
measure to that offered in the Georgia
legislature for preventing the consoli-
dation of the Seaboard Air Line, is to be
introduced in this legislature.
Mr.. John w. Logan, well-knowD
and prosperous farmer of Loudoup
county, Gied at his home, near Wood
burn, yesterday. He was 81 years OF
age and leaves widow, but no child
rep.
The Southern and B. s. O. railroad
complication at S.rasburg Junction is
20 be decided by Hon. Thomas w.
Harrison, Judge OF the Circuit Curt OF
Shenandoah county in Woodstock, on
January 8.
Mrs. George Flint, who died at her
home near Emeri,, Rockbridge coun-
ty. few days ago, was but tbirty-six
yesrs old, bat was the mother of sew
enteen children. Seven of her progeny
survive her.
News from Smithield is to the effect
that Nick Gilingan who is spected
of the murder OF Mr.. G. B. turner al
Fergusou's Wharf, is believed to have
succeeded in escaping the officers who
sought to arrest him. IL was at first
believed be had been arrested.
Governor Tyler yesterday refused to
allow his name TO be used as one OF toe
vic presidents of meeting to be held
in New York tomorrow for the pur-
pose OF expressing sympathy with the
Boers. The request Came from the
Irish American Society of New York.
Governor Tyler refuses requests for
his views on the business and 6Dancial
prospects for the new year. 1t is known,
however, he is not willing to concede
that the era of general and lasting pros
perity has come to this country, al
though year ago he saw its rapid ap-
Droach.
The Southern Railway has notified
Mrs. L.wis Apperson, owner of Will
sons Hotel, ct Mount Jackson, that the
ine hotel building, which is situated en-
the company's property, must be re-
moved within sixty days. The South
ern proposes to erect passenger ste
ton at Mount Jackson, and the hotel
site is the only available location.
Governor Tyler yesterday issued rem
dition papers for Burnley Taylor, who
is charged in Boston with the forgery
OF coffee orders, amounting to $4,000.
A Massachusetts officer arrived at
Richmond yesterday with reauisition
p pers for the accused. Taylor ex-
pressed perfect willingness 10 accom-
pany the officer without such formality.
The British steamer Ashland, Which
arrived at Norfolk yesterday, reported
that she sighted twenty-five miles north
of Diamond Shoals lightship, which lies
of Hatteras, the topmasts of three
masted schooner. The crew of the
schooner, it is believed, lost their lives
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-12-30

The negroes OF Washington met last
night and declared in favor of the ap'
pointment of negro officers in the army
and navy, OF the appointment of rs,
groes as com missioners at the Paris ex-
position, for the reduction in Southern
congressional representation, against
separate cars for the two races, fol-
their full share in the government Of
tile District of Columbia, and against
lynching in the South. Washington i;
the very place, of all Others, in which
they should make such declaration.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-12-30
Beauty Is Blood Deep.

Clean blood means a clean skin. Nc
beauty without it. Cascarets, Candy Cathar.
tic clean your blood and keep it clean, by
stirring up the th lazy live liver and Rd driving all i'm
Danish pimples, boils, blotches. blackheads,
and that sickly bilious complexion by taking
Cascarets,-beauty for ten cents. All drug.
gists, satisfaction guaranteed, lOc, 25c, Soc.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-12-30

J I. Bevry, Logantown, Pa, writer, II am
willing 10 take my oath that I was cured of
pneumonia entirely by the use OF One Minute
Cough Care after doctors failed. IT also cur
cd my children OF whocping cough" Quick
" relieves snd cures coughs, colds, grippe and
throat and lung troubles. Children all like
il. Mothers endorse it,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-12-30
River Steamer Burned,

Shreveport, La.. Dee. 3O.-The steam.
er Linda, Ia the upper Red yer trade.
was burned yesterday near VAUDEVILLE,
in Bossier parish. The Linda was load
ed with $50 bales of cotton and $50 sacks
of cotton seed. Four of the crew, who
were colored men, are reported drown
ed.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-12-30

By the explosion of boiler near Eliza
BEETHOVEN, Pa, this morning four men lost
their lives The victims were all employed
by the firm OF Keller s. Crosson, contractors
The body of an Italian, who was known as
Tony was found $50 feet from the scene
of the explosion.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-12-30

Lewis Dannis, Salem, Ind, says X dol
Dyspepsia Cure did me more good thsn 'i-i
thing 1 ever took" 1t digests what you CT
and can not help but cure dy pep "a And
stomach troubles.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-12-30

G. II. Appleton, Justice of Peace. CLARK
burg N j., says "DsWitt's Little Eary
ers sre the b;st pills made for oonstipat
We use TO Others" Quickly cure for Il ~
and bowel trouble.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-12-30

To Cure Constipation Forever.
Take Cascarets Candy Cathartic. l0c or 25c.
Il G. c. G. fail to cure. druggists refund money
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-12-30

The fire. companies are ell well equipped
and have sn average membership.
During the year the number OF persons sent
to jail vas 3O3, of wh1m So were white
males and 257 colored males OF these 191
we're sent to the chain gang, SO were Stat,
~ county and = United States prisoners
The number of females was colored.
The deaths occurring in Alexandra Tin
which is incladed the persons who died at the
aims housed numoer 366 for the yea. 1892
which is IA more than in 1898, the Acrease'
ia white being 10 and increase in coored IA.
The number of deaths sex and CO or, was as
follows: White, males SO, females 81 color
ed, msles "a, females 50; total white III
colored 1S9, the youngest having lived 80
minutes, and the oldest within one year of
the century mark. The average death rs te
in Alexandria for yesrs-1891-'96-w
376; go comparing these years with 1899
which is 10 less than the aver ige, there has
been good health for the past year in spite of
the so-called smsIloo1 o. last .uusry and
February. The d. ath IA of 1899 was about
IT out of each 900 white and 80 out of
each 1000 coored. The remains of 125
per o1s were brought here for inte1ment, of
which 81 were from the District of Columbis.
The amount of fines collected in the May
or's Court during the calendar year 1898
was S26O2.45; this year S2.093, recalling
ex-Msy or Strauss remsrs to q city officer,
"sammie business is very dull at tho stst:ol
house"
Alexandria has 10 licensed physicians, 4
dentists and Is lawyers.
A slight increase is noted in the number of
dog licenses, $40 having been issued this
year as against 5SS lsst year. The average
each year 1s92-96. was 72O per year. 1t is
estimated that at least 400 dogs are uni-
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-09-14
MORE sympathy FOR DREYFUs.
Tho Central Republican Club Denounces
His Conviction.

Tho Central Republican Club Denounces
His Conviction.
The Central Republican Club at a regular
semi onthly meeting last night at 10l West
127th street. unanimously passed the follow
ing resolutions which were proposed by Henry
Grasse:
Whereas. In common with the whole civil
lied world. NO have observed with amazement
the extraordinary trial concluded at Rennes
and its Anal judgement and since 1t is the
sacred interest Of all men to defend and main
tain courts for the administration OF justice in
any country which 10 frequently visited by
foreigners. that lives and property may be
secure under the full intercourse OF our times
We declare Our unqualified csnsure Of tho hate
full methods OF injustice which were employed
to obtain the second unrightsous condemna-
ton OF Alfred Dreyfus by French court
martial. and we declare that such methods and
such tribunals are q perversion Of justice and
are more fitted for harbarous lands than for a
country boasting to possess the civilization oil
the French Republic"
A COPY OF the resolutions will be mailed to
Nine Dreyius.