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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-03-26
DIR. PACKARD AND THOMAS
JEFFERSON.

To the Editor of the Alexandria Gazette:
In that interesting and valuable work
recently published, "Recollections of a
Long Life" by DR.. Packard, one para
graph, on page 1877, strikes me as being
incomplete, and that it might cause
misunderstanding on the part of the
general reader 1t is this al saw in
Baltimore at the house of a Jewish Rab-
bi, Simon Wolf, two New Testaments
from which Jefferson had cut out all the
words of Jesus Christ. At Edge Hill
DR.. Norton saw the passages that had
been cut out"
| have knowledge of the facts connect
ed with these fragments, given me by
direct descendant of Mr.. Jefferson a
short while ago When Thomas Jeffer-
son died there was found in his desk a
blank book bound in red morocco, gilt
lettered on the back ''The Morals of
Jesus" In this he had pasted extracts
from the Gospels, in English, Latin,
French and Greek, so arranged that he
could run his eye over the readings of
the same verse in four languages.
This collection was not known TO his
family until after his death, and they
learned from a friend, to whom he had
written, that he was in the habit of read
ing every night from it before retiring.
After the title page are pasted two
maps, the first, "Places in the Holy
Land Mentioned in the Gospels" the
other, Geographical Tables to the Acts
of the Apostles" An index is pasted
in the beginning, giving texts employed
in the narrative and the order of their
arrangement. As a Daughter Of the
American Revolution could not with
hold this bit of information concerning
him who was its "tOngue and pen."
DC.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-03-26
GOOD ADVICE.

The most miserable beings in the
world are those suffering from Dyspepsia
and Liver Complaint. More than
seventy-fye per cent. Of the people in
the United States are afflicted with these
two diseases and their effects such as
Sour Stomach, Sick Headache, Habitual
Costiveness, Palpitation of the Heart,
Heartburn, Water-brash, Gnawing and
Burning Parns at the Pitof the Stomach,
Yellow Skin, Coated Tangue and Dis
agreeable Taste in the Mouth, Coming
up Of Food after Eating, Low Spirits,
etc. Go to your Druggist and get
bottle Of August Flower for 25 or IS
cents. Two doses will relieve you.
Try it.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-03-26
FOREIGN NEWS.

While some of the Irish press hesitate
to speak in an enthusiastic manner of
Chief Secretary Wyndham's land bill,
the general tenor of the comment is favor
able.
The fitting up of Sir Thomas Lipton's
new cup challenger Shamrock III is now
practically completed, and a trial race
will probably be held on Saturday. The
yacht was towed TO Gourock to have her
sails bent.
Among the papers of Major General
Sir Hector Macdonald, who committed
suicide at the Hotel Regina, in Paris,
yesterday, were found letters from sew
eral persons Of prominence in Ceylon,
assuring the accused general of their
sympathy and support. MacDonald's
body will be placed in a coffin tomorrow
and sent to London.
The Pope has been inquiring among
the members of the Sacred College as to
the ACCESSIBILITY of creating Archbishop
Ireland a cardinal. He has received
some favorable answers; others were in
different while still others including
Cardinals Steinhuber, Martinelli and
Vivesy lotto have expressed them
selves as emphatically opposed to the
idea.
The Liverpool Post states that King
Edward is suffering from much depres-
sion, and that it requires physical effort
for him to carry out the public engage
ments. His Majesty, the Post says, puts
a smiling face on it all, but notwith-
standing this, he is not well man by
any means. His physician sees him
daily. The King will embark for his
visit to Portugal on Monday next.
The trial of the four seamen of the British
bark Veronica on a charge of having murder
ed the captain and crew, and then set fire to
the vessel, was resumed in Liverpool this
morning. After further details of what had
happened after they deserted the blazing ship
had been brought out, the men were again
remanded.
The German Government is in receipt of an
invitation to support scheme for a perma-
nent exhibition of German goods in the
United States The plan is that the first Of
these exhibitions should be held in New
York and in Chicago and other cities later.
A government launch which had been
loaned to the Prince of Monaco, for scientific
marine researches while returning to the
Toulon harbor yesterday evening" sank and
four of her crew were drowned. The Prince
was not aboard ut the time.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-03-26
THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH %, 1908.

TIVE srIcIpE of General Hector Mac
Donald. of the British army, is at pres
ent the theme of the hour throughout
the civilized world. His illustrious
Trojan namesake found his conqueror
while bravely defending his city and kin.
While treated as a dog aud trailed
around the walls of Troy attached to
Achilles chariot, he was noble in de-
feat and death and his name has become
immortal. General Macdonald, in every
sense a soldier, a valiant one, too, and
on the field of battle worthy of the name
he bore, had honestly won his spurs;
but, if reports are true, he tripped and
met a worse and more ignOminious de-
feat after the clash of war. The sweet
psalmist of Israel when but boy could
Law Goliath of Gath in the dust, but
later, when man, ended his days with
a wounded conscience, the result OF one
wrong step. There are mary such ship
wrecks on the shores Of the past from the
DAYS of Samson down to our time, and
the unfortunate story of General Mac
Donald is but another page in the dole
full history of great men whose terrible
blunders are hard to be understood.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-03-26

SENATOR STONE, of Missouri, has
been indulging in some plain and good
democratic talk. He says:
eve have plenty of able men who
would make safe, conservative Presidents
and govern well, although they might
not indulge in such erratic strenuosities
as would keep the country on the tiptoe
of some dread expectancy. On this sub
iect of men | make but one remark, and
that is that the democratic candidate for
President must be a democrat who has
always supported his party ticket ; he
must be a party man, who, if elected,
would give us a stalwart democratic adj
ministration. That is the only test Of
eligibility for the nomination | would
apply. 1t is not necessary that a man
should have subscribed Internationally
to every declaration of the Chicago and
Kansas City platforms.
These requirements are fair, reason
able and liberal enough, and the nominee
possessing them could and should receive
the support of every democrat in the
land.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-03-26
important Gun Test.

Pensacola, Fla, March 26.-An i'm
portant test of the system for controlling
the fire of large disappearing rifles was
successfully made at Fort Pickens yes
terday when the new Wadsworth system
was given a practical trial. The new
system, it is claimed, revolutionizes fir
ing at coast defenses and will displace
the horizontal and depression system
now in use. Nearly 800, 900 was spent
this year in completing it. The time of
loading electrically, laying on and firing
was AZ seconds with ten inch rifles Bat
teries can be fred from towers three
miles distant by means of the under
ground electrical system.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-03-26

The BORON DROPS OUT.-The bottom
has dropped out of the government road
leading from Chimborazo Park to the
National Cemetery, Richmond. Along
the foot of the park since the heavy rains
that have fallen for the past week the
road has sunk six feet and is inn
passable Trees, posts, and all went
down with the road.
Accompanied by a rumbling noise,
the peach orchard of Carrot DUNCAN,
situated on the bank of the Potomac
river, at Lodge, Northumberland county,
has sunk Is feet. The trees in full
bloom are in huge dry lake below the
level of the ground.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-03-26

CASTRO, IT seems, had string to his
resignation. 1t is possible that he knew
the Venezuelan Congress would ask him
to remain. 1t seems to have required
no special persuasion on the part of that
BODY to induce him to recall his letter of
abdication. This individual has played
his part, has achieved about all the no.
toriety he will ever attain and he should
have been allowed to make his exit
Many people never heard of Castro until
during the past few months when he
posed as the spaniel which came dan
gerously near causing trouble between
the larger mastifs. 1t was hoped by
many that he would have been allowed
to snow himself under and save his
friends the trouble of performing that
act for him.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-03-26
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Former Judge j. B. Prince, Of South
ampton County Court, died yesterday
at his home in CORTLAND, aged fifty-nine
years.
Regular army officers are to be detail
ed to make an inspection of the Virginia
militia before the new rifles are issued to
them.
State Senator John n. Opie, Of Staun-
ton, is able to be out again, and expects
to return to his duties in the Senate in a
few days.
William Ballenger, prominent citi-
zen of Loudoun county, died on Satur-
day night. at the home of his son, Mr.
Henry Ballenger, near Lucketts, aged
seventy-eight years.
81 shot myself, | want to die, D." is all
that America Bertucci, an eighteen-year-
old girl, would say in explanation of her
attempt to kill herself at her home on
east Grace stree. Richmond, Tuesday
night.
King George county was visited by
heavy rain storms on Sunday and Mon
day which did much damage. On Mon
day cyclone passed over the Comorn
neighborhood and leyeled fences, trees,
&C., in its track of about thirty yards
wide and nearly a mile in length.
Oakland Farm, the county seat of
Mr.. and Mrs. S. Howell Brown, near
Charlestown, w. Va, was the scene Of a
pretty wedding yesterday, the occasion
being the marriage of Miss Sallie Powell
Wager, sister of Mrs. Brown and daugh-
ter of James r. Wager, of Culpeper
county, to Warner Throckmorton Whit
ing, a young business man Of Charlestown.
Moses Turner, a negro, yesterday
morning was brought into the Norfolk
Police Court on the serious charge of
criminal assault on Estelle Copeland,
white woman of that city. The woman
was found by neighbOrs locked in her
room with Turner unconscious and in a
pitiful condition. She was sent to the
Jail hospital for ten days and Turner was
held for indictment by the grand jury.
The Appomattox river at Petersburg
rose several feet Tuesday and yesterday
was higher than it has been since the
memorable freshet of June, 1889. The
freight depot yard of the Norfolk and
Western Railroad Company is under
water. and all of River street is mum
dated, and the first floors of the stores
and residences on the street are flooded.
Foundries and other industries have
closed down.
In a rear-end collision of an engine
and a train of freight cars yesterday
morning in the yards of the Atlantic
Coast Line in Manchester, Engineer
Lamb was scalded and severely injured.
Fireman Xix, colored, was also serious
ly injured. The trainmen on the other
train jumped an saved themselves. The
freight cars crashed into the cab,
splintering it to pieces and twisted every
part of the mechanism of the engine.
The cars plunged down the steep en-
bankment on both sides of the track.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-03-26
MACDONALD's SUICIDE.

As was stated in the Gazette of that
day Major General Sir Hector Mac
Donald, of the British army, who was
about to be tried by court-martial on
charges based on immortality, committed
suicide by shooting himself in the head
in Paris hotel yesterday. Little was
seen of him after his arrival in Paris.
He was, however, in the lobby of the
hotel yesterday about noon, and it is
believed that newspaper printed in
English, containing resume of the
grave charges brought against him, and
embellished with the Generals portrait
in full uniform, came under his atten-
ton. He left the lobby, going to his
room, and the pistol shot followed soon
after.
The nature of the ofenses with which
General Macdonald was charged has
not become generally known to the
public, but has been common gossip in
military circles. Although,'in the army,
and among his Highlander comrades
especially, there is keen grief, their
feeling is that it was "better to die thus
than face dishonor." General Mac
Donald was separated from his wife
many years ago, before he got his COM
mission. He had not lived with her
since. He leaves a son, who is being
educated in an English public school.
His friends attribute the unfortunate
business to his broken health and
shattered nerves, the outcome of two
campaigns in the Soudan and South
Africa. An attack of dysentery and a
touch of sunstroke at Paardeburg during
the South African campaign left serious
effects, and wound he received in the
leg healed badly.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-03-26

THE WASHINGTON newspapers are
extremely gullible concerning Virginia
political affairs. They quote Mr.. b. A.
Davis, of Franklin county, who was a
member of the constitutional convention
and the republican candidate for Con-
gress last year against Hon. G. A Swan
son, as saying that many well-informed
politicians believe President Roosevelt
has a good chance to carry Virginia in
1904. Mr.. Davis is also quoted as say
ing that zone thing that helps the
President greatly in our State is the ex-
cellent appointments he has made. The
men chosen to fill Federal places in Vir-
ginia are without exception men of fine
character and fitness for offices. Now
all this comes from the mere fact OF Mr.
Davis going to see President Roosevelt
Secretary Cortelyou and Commissioner
Garfield about a position he wishes to
secure and of course it was but natural
for him to flatter the President in order
to fall into his good graces. Mr.. Davis
knows that Mr.. Roosevelt could not
carry Virginia over any ore who might
oppose him.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-03-26
The Wall of Alexandria.

Search all the ways and treasure-up
The homes that stretched their hands
To him who led the patriot host
Through all the warning lands.
The Cragie house at Cambridge,
Where first his c0lOrs flew,
The Variok and the Pearl street house,
Where shone the buff and blue.
The Murray house on Murray hill,
The house ON Harlem Heights,
The Jersey homes, he held awhile,
Amid his famous fights.
AT Barkley's seat and Keith's old home,
On Pennsylvania ground,
At MorristowR and Valley Forge,
And all the country round.
The tavern, inn and dwelling where
He rested midst the wars,
Stud all the countryside and shine
AS shine, in heaven, the stars.
At Middletown and SummervilIe,
In Patterson and plains,
The threshold that he trod is firm,
The rooftree still remains.
TIC Vernon's Hills and Faunc's inn,
In New York, at the End,
The spirits of the long passed times
From out Of heaven bend.
All, all the sacred memories Keep,
OF Washington and his men,
They wait by city, plain and steep,
In mountain, grove and glen.
Blest, basement unto roofridge,
The peerless houses stand
From Lexington TO Yorktown,
Thro all the smiling land.
Alas put ashes on our head,
Let penance drear be done,
Woe to us, we have razed to earth
Our House Of Washington.
1908. W. +. c.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-03-26
METHODIST CONFERENCE.

The Baltimore Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church South
convened in the Southern Methodist
Church in Fredericksburg yesterday
morning at 9 o'clock, with Bishop A.
Coke Smith presiding. The call devel-
oped the fact that nearly all lay and
clerical delegates were present.
DR.. James Armstrong was elected
secretary and he appointed the following
assistants Rev. w. L. Waters, f. v.
REGISTER, George I. Tyler, j. P: Stump
and II. s. Coe.
The reports from presiding elders and
preachers, IA a rule, were of a very
gratifying character as to both finances
and spiritual conditions.
A committee was appointed to con-
slider the matter of the Methodist
orphanage.
A communication from the Board of
Church Extension, at Louisville, KY,
was read, stating that the board had
fixed the assessment of the Baltimore
Conference for this year at S5,l97.
The report of the Board of General
Education and the reports of the publish
ing house, at Nashville, Tenn, and of
the Sunday school board were received.
Miss Nina Wilson, of Baltimore, made
the report of the Conference Board Of
Woman's Foreign Missions, and Mrs. j.
B. Perry, of Westbrook, Md, of the
woman's home missions.
The report of the Sunday League of
America was referred to the committee
on Sabbath observance. The committee
on Sabbath observance was appointed.
A committee on orphanage was named.
A communication from the trustee of
the endowment fund for superannuated
preachers was received and referred to
the joint board of finance.
A committee composed of presiding
elders of the Baltimore and East Balti-
more districts-Rey. w. II. d. Harper
and Rev. B. w. Bond, respectively
and Rev. E. B. Prettyman, of Baltimore,
was appointed to confer with the Confer
ences ..of the Methodist Episcopal and
the Methodist Protestant Churches of
Baltimore in regard to the two hundredth
anniversary of John Wesley's birth, with
the view of appropriately observing it.
The two-hundredth question was cal
led, and the following presiding elders
responded, and their characters were pas
sed: Baltimore district, w. H. ID. Har-
per; East Baltimore, B. w. Bond,
Washington, j. w. Duffy; Winchester,
H. P. Hamill; Rockingham, David Bush,
Roanoke, J. f. Armstrong; Lewiston,
j. S. Hutchinson; Moorfeld, ]. I. Will
liams.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-03-26
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Former Gov. Abraham Arroniz, of
California, is dead.
Alonzo Jackson, while beating his
wife in Chicago yesterday, was shot and
fatally injured by his 19-year-old son
Ray.
In Georgetown, Del, last night Elmer
Collins was acquitted of the murder of
his wife, the jury returning verdict Of
not guilty.
A number of democratic reorganizers
are reported as booming Mr.. Cleveland
for the democratic presidential nomina-
ton in 1904.
After reading his special message to
Congress at Caracas, yesterday, General
Castro withdrew his resignation of the
presidency of Venezuela.
General Leonard Wood left Washing
ton yesterday on his way to Manila, and
an order was issued by Secretary Root
thanking him for his services in Cuba.
Operators in the Georges Creek and
Somerset regions, Maryland, have an
nounced an Is per cent advance in
miners wages, and the price of soft coal
is also to be advanced.
Mr.. w. X. Vanderbilt denies the re-
port published in New York that the
New York Central Railroad had passed
into the hands of the Rockfeller-Penn-
sylvania- Morgan interests.
The Navy Department has made pub
lie a statement to the effect that the
North Atlantic squadron would not
visit Germany this summer as has been
suggested in some quarters.
Frank NJ. Steinhart is to be APP
pointed consul general at Havana, sue
ceeding William A. Rublee. 1t is un-
derstood that a place has been found
for Mr.. Rublee as United States consul
general at Vienna, post almost as in
crative as that of Havana, and much
more to his liking.
Mr.. Henry Oliver Watts, of Washing
ton, employed at the Washington navy
yard, secure1 marriage license in Bal
timore yesterday morning to wed Miss
Sallie Isenock. Mr.. Watts returned to
the office of the clerk of the Circuit Court
at Towson later, and said that the we'd
ding would not take place, Miss lsenock
having charged her mind.
To kidnap Secretaries Shaw and Root
and Attorney General Knox in the
wilds of Montana and hold them for an
immense ransom is said to have been
the object of an alleged plot revealed to
Congressman Tawney, at Winona,
Mimi, the latter's home, by j. G.
Fremont an aged colored orator. The
story is not taken seriously.
Advices received from San Domingo
show that Gen. Alexandra Wos y Gil
and his revolutionary followers are
masters of San Domingo city, and it is
said that Gen. Miguel Pichardo, the
minister of war, and Gen. Juan
Francisco Sanchez, the minister of
foreign affairs, who had sought refuge
in the United State Consulate, have
surrendered themselves to the revoIu-
tionists, with a small group of followers.
Mr.. Samuel Spencer, the president of
the Southern Railway Company, has
purchased the large residence of Mrs.
Joseph Beale, 20l2 Massachusetts ave-
nue., Washington. The price agreed
upon is said to be about 1925, 900. 1t
is the intention of Mr.. Spencer to make
this his home, and although the house
i, spacious, it is said to be the purpose
of the new owner TO make an addition in
the rear, which will be used as library.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-03-26
W. F. c..

The IRISH LAND BILL.-As stated
yesterday the new Irish land bill was in
troduced in the House of Commons on
that day. The leading points in the
bill are:
The government will advance to each
tenant maximum of 81, 500 in the con-
gested districts and $4,000 elsewhere to
enable him to buy the land he cultivates.
Tenants are to pay interest ranging
from 81 to q per cent.
A free grant of $50, 900. OOOis provided
by the government to adjust the differ
ences in compensation for land and for
other purposes.
Three commissioners, acting under the
Lord-Lieutenant of ireland, Earl Dud-
ley, are to supervise the sales.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-03-26

THERE Is considerable talk among
democrats now in Washington of chOos-
ing Senator German as the successor of
former Senator James X. Jones, of Ar
kansas, as soon as thatgentleman resigns
from the Craftsmanship of the democratic
national committee. No better selection
could be made if he could be induced to
accept it, as Mr.. German has held the
position before and knows the ropes,
having once successfully conducted a
national campaign, but it is extremely
probable that Mr.. German will be placed
at the head of the next national demo-
cratic ticket and in that event he could
hardly be the national chairman.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-03-26

WASHINGTON BANKS. The comp
trOller of currency has received an APP
plication from the Riggs National Bank,
of Washington, for permission to in
crease its capital stock from $500, 900
to 81, 900, 600. A similar application
has been received from the Citizens Ma
tional Bank, of that city, the increase in
stock asked for in that case being for
$500, 900 to $500, 600. The newly or
ganized bank in Washington, the Ameri-
can National, will open its doors about
the middle of May.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-03-26
The stomach Is the Man.

A weak stomach weakens the man, because
il cannot transform the food he eats into nour.
ishment. Health and strength cannot be re.
stored to any sick man or weak woman with.
out first restoring health and strength to the
stomach: A weak stomach cannet digest
enough food to feed the tissues and revive the
tired and run down limbs and organs of the
BODY. kodol Dyspepsia Cure cleanses, puri-
hes, sweetens and strengthens the glands and
membranes of the stomach. and cures indi-
gestlon, dyspepsia and all stomach troubles.
Z. 5. Leadbeater & Sons.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-03-26
Another "Get Rich Ouick >

Chicago, March 26.--The United
States Land Syndicate in this city is the
latest "get rich quick scheme to fall
under the ban of the postofice depart
ment. Louis Enricht and A. G. Duescher,
the promoters, were arrested yesterday
and from evidence now in the hands of
the authorities it is estimated that not
less than $50, 900 and probably as much
as $500, 900 has been received from al
legged victims. The company advertised
free farms and for a small price, it is
alleged by the victims, and gave bogus
titles.