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FRIDAY EVENING. JULY 22.
Home ok the Washington newspapers
aoem to he ho put out by the result of I ho
recent murder trial in this city that, in the
hurry of their denunciation of the verdict,
they have actually failed to conceal the fact
oft heir inability tostaudthegeographiealpart
of competitive civil service-examination?, by
describing a city bo near their own as Alex?
andria, a* in Fairfax county. Their feelings
aie so wrought up on the subject that they
portray Alexandria as a city possessing bu
perior advantages for the perpetration of
murderous crimes, and where the maximum
enjoyment of such crimes can be attained
with thu minimum of risk, so far as tue law
is concerned. While newspaper verdicts
are easily reached, they are by no means in?
fallible, und are usually based upon ex parte
evidence. Iu the case referred to, the jury
were considerably above ihe average in in?
telligence and fairness, and though the com?
munity from which they were taken, previ?
ous to the trial, thought lho accused parties
should be severely punished, they, after
hearing all the evidence ou both sides, de?
clared them not guilty. As long as the jury
system shall prevail, the verdict of juries
should be sustained by law abiding people
But, of hII the peoplo in the country, those of
Washington should have the least fanit to
?n4 with vor dint* rendered outside of that
city, for t*?s vinavTon* acquittals there, in?
cluding tfc?l?t< <p th* siafu burglary and star
raula tt*?s\in the race of apparently con
olmrif? ?-?-?HfiiCH fitr conviction, have
aabicv-' fat Hi* national capital a reputa?
tion ?v? ? ?? ff*-????' "??t'fcblo in respect of the
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by. r-residetit of tho Ohio
>.ls.'? ?a*ocrftiK! convention iu bis speech
hAfcrn I*if?-t body yesterday, said:
"While all democrats give tho adminis?
tration a hearty support, there are many
who would feel better satisfied if democrats
instead of republicans should assist a dem?
ocratic President in administering the gov?
ernment. I.?t us have the courage of our
convict ions and here now so declare. If it
bo the civil service law that keeps republic
ans in and democrats out of the public ser
vic<\ b-r us strike boldly and high, and de?
mand of our party representatives a! Wash?
ington in Senate and Rouse to labor and
vote for the immediate und unconditional
repeal of the iaw."
While the competitive examination pro?
vided by the civil service law is not only
un*democratio, but positively un-American,
tho just complaint of the democrats is not
ho much against thu law as passed by Con
grass, as against the execution of iliut law by
the administration and against tho rules
foiinulittfil and enforced by the republican
ami mugwump civil service commissioners.
There is nothing in the law that prohibits
the discharge of eveiy republican in the
civ.I service; and yet all the departments at
Washington are tided with republicans,
either by the dicta of the administration or
by the rules of the civil service commission.
Bomhof the new issue repudiators of the
Sfcto debt found their present support ol
repudiation upon the ground that to pay the
debt would be, as stated by ilu> Richmond
Dispatch, to impoverish theState by sending
beyoud the seas every year a million dollars
or more, [f Ihe State be honest enough to
return the money sh'< borrowed, it should
make no difference to her whether her cred?
itors live on this or the other side of the seas.
When she borrowed the money she pre?
ferred none of her creditors. But as those
from abroad lent hor their money with more
alacrity than those at home, and in greater
amouut, and are strangers, it would not bo
at all unnatural for her to prefer, rather than
to exclude them, as she is attempting to do.
The few ill-advised Virginia democrats
who follow the self-interested teachings of
Mr. liandall, will not derive much gratifi
cation from the platform adopted yesterday
by the democrats of Ohio, in Slate conven?
tion assembled ; for, in that platform, it is
declared that, "We denounce any attempt
to abolish the lax on liquors for the purpose
of keeping up the present unjust, uuequal
and onerous tarill system.'' It is the tax
on the prime necessaries of life, not on the
luxuries, that the democratic party, the
parly composed of the poor people of the
country, desire, and it is the removal of the
former tax that all true democrats should
strive for, us that object is in accordance
with the cardinal principles of democracy.
The Besskmbr steel manufacturers of
this country havo such a good thing by rea?
son of the protective tatitl* that they are
combining to purchase all the Bessemer
ores in the Liko Superior region. The tar
id not onlv raises the price of every thing
transpoi ted over railroads laid with Besse?
mer steel rails, by enabling the manufactu?
rers of such rails to increase the cost there?
of, but also necessarily reduces the demand
for and the price of American labor, by stop?
ping tho importation of Bessemer ores, aud
thereby restricting the manufacture of Bes?
semer steel.
The Richmond Dispatch says the people
of Virginia "have shown by their acts that
it is not the democratic party, fmt the debt
payers, that they are determined to keep
down." Few Virginians will be willing to
agree with the correctness of this statement.
If it be correct, it is tho worst show the peo?
ple of theState ever havo made, and the
worst tbey could possibly make. !
FKOM WASHINGTON.
[Special Correspondence of the Aloxa. Gazette]
Washington, D. C, July 22, 1887;
"They are at it again, I see. Repeating,
I mean, that puerile stull about Jno. S. Bar
hour being not enough of an orator or a
talker to qualify him for a seat in the 1'.
5. Senate. Shades of Demosthenes, of Dan?
iel Wehster and Henry Clay! The graves
may yet have to give up their dead heroes,
and Senators be reconstructed from mould?
ering bones before some of these caviling
critics of Barbour will lind an orator great
enough tor their dudisb imagination in the
matter.v It was an orator himself of most
extensive acquaintance with so-culled great
public speakers, who, iu the exact language
nt the above quotation, spoke to the Ga
ZRTTK's correspondent, to-day. Continuing,
du saiii. " I ii: se simpletons don't know Jno.
6. Barbour or the breed from which lie
springs. Were it ft mark of nobility in a
man to boast that the blood of orators
coursed his veins, then Harbour, to begin
with, could point to an ancestry famous for
their talent of oratory, and vigorous, sledge
hammer oratory at that, not the summer
lightning sort, that plays around the head,
hurting nobody, but the otter aud very dif?
ferent kind which strikes with a roar and
leaves a mark and a crush behind it. John
S. Haibour Is ::ot a wordy man, but bis
critics had belter not mistake him lor a
worklessman. Harbour's very plainness of
language would disqualify him irom being a
mouthy and verbose man, tree with the
artificial phrases of speech and ever ready
at first opportunity with some orutorical
climax or other: but let no man suppose
that Barbour, even asa speech maker would
not prove a practical success in the United
State Senate. l>jn't theseoiitics know that
in late years speeches are written, not
spoken, in the Senate chamber ? Don't they
know it is work aud not words which marks
with success the public mau in Congress? See
how quickly your brilliant young Senator
Daniel, 'caught on' to this fact when lie
came upon the lloor of our great unlistening
House of Representatives. Did lie go into
the bu.~iiie.-s of oratory or seek to thunder
strike anything or aiiybmly with speech
making ? Why, his example in the matter
should teach foolish people much seuse.
Daniel went to work. He made no set
speech nor poured out any oratoricrd
effusion whatever during his term oftwc:
years in that body. What is the result.
Why men begin to speak of Daniel as %
thoughtful man, and as capable of a great
deal more thau mere elaborate speech
making. They now say, "Why, he is solid;
why, he is a worker no less than a talker.
He has proved a success in the Hou?e, and
will make a strong, which is far better than
to make a showy Senator. That's the way
tbey talk of Daniel," said he. "As to Bar?
bour, although not a wordy man, as I have
s.iiil. he always keeps his wool. He has
been a success in business; he is a success iu
polities. He was u success in the Houso,
and he will prove a success iu tho Senate,
where In-is certain to go unless all rigns
fail. Now," he continued, "I wish you had
time fo. me to go over the Congressional
Record with you, and point out the few
'orntois'who have accomplished any real
good lor themselves, their party, their
States or tin ir country. Von would he sur?
prised al the paucity of their number. On
the contrary, 1 can .-'now you on every page
tho uaiuea of men who were not 'orators,'
but whose monuments are seen in the pub?
lic good they have conferred upon their
party and their people, which uro more en?
during than braes or marble. .No, the day
for orators in the Senate has passed.
Speeches are read there now, not delivered
extempore.''
The present aud late prevailing warm
weather bus caused more people to leave
this city than in any previous summer. Vir?
ginia prolits no little by this exodus, for
many of tho.-e in it. lind sojourning places
in thai State, and the proprietor o( many a
farm house there, within easy reach of
Washington, is now in receipt of temporary
board money from people who have left this
city to avoid its intenso and sweltering heat.
It is said to be really truo that Postmaster
Conger, of this city, informed the President
that if he would appoint as his successor a
i simon pure democrat he, Conger, would
not only iill'ord him all the assistance in his
power, but would work for his confirmation,
but that if a mugwump were appointed bo
would let him puddle his own canoe.
Republicans from the Valley of Virginia,
here to day, say their party in that section
of their State is not in favor of Mnhono for
' tho seat in the Senato now tilled by Mr.
Riddleberger.
It is learned hero from ft personal friend
of ex-Congressman Kied, of North Carolina,
that Mr. Kied will not go hack to North
Carolina to live thero, but that, having sot
1 tied his shortages there satisfactorily to the
i parties most interested, he will go West, or
North, possibly to New York city, and com?
mence life anew there. He is a man of un?
doubted talent, ami those who know him
well say that a new life, away from old as?
sociations, nnd among dill'erent peoplo and
, in a different Slate, will soon obliterate the
stain his reputation has sustained, and en?
able him to regain the competence and con?
fidence thai lie so unfortunately lost,
i The Provident has signified to the St.
Louis delegation who are to bring him the
second invitation to visit their city that it
will be agreeable for him to receive them
next Monday. It is now certain that he has
reconsidered his determination not to visit
St. Louis, and that he will do so on the -Ith
of October, by which timo the G. A. R. will
havo had their turn out there and left the
city. Hp will not returr direct from St.
Louis, but from thence go further West, or
proceed to Atlanta, which city he has prom?
ised to visit during the Georgia State fair to
he held there.
The Alaska Seal Company is and always
has been a specially favored monopoly. It
is well Known that though nominally re?
stricted to the slaughter of a certain number
of seals annually, it always exceeds that
number by thousands- But, in addition to
this, it has the government to protect it lur
keeping oil other slayers of seals. Govern?
ment ships have recently captured several
vessels, both of this and other countries,
that were attempting to kill seals in the
North Pacific.
The interstate commerce commission to?
day beard Me. Fortb, president of the St.
I Louis Grocers Association, in referenco to
the complaint of the grocers of St. Louis
against the Southwestern Railroads, which
complaints had been presented to the j
authorities of the railroads. The grocers
bad been received by the railroad people'
with great politeness and consideration, but
"politeness and consideration, were all they !
did receive. The Missouri Pacific road j
! was charged with un just discrimination j
I which jeopardized the interests which com
! plainiuits Had devoted their lives to build
j inc up.
I Georgetown people are not at all elated |
1 at the proceedings of the canal meeting in
Cumberland last night. They seem to think
the C. cc O. Canal is doomed to early aban- j
donment unless the Government shall come
to its assistance speedily. ?
Tin- Navy Department is in receipt of tlmof
ficial report of the commander of the new ship
Atlanta respecting the late trial of the batt >ry of j
that vessel. From it those who hope for au early
effective navy will derivo little satisfaction, as
there could hardly have been a greater failuro.
Si-. Nicholas for August has been received
from its publishers, the Century Publishing j
Company, New York. I
NEWS OF THE DAY.
Ex-Congressman Asa H. Glover died at
Georgetown, Ky., yesterday, after a linger?
ing illness, from heart disease, aged 70.
In the British House of Commons yester?
day, Dr Tanner apologized for tho expres?
sion he had uaed to Mr. Long, and tho inci?
dent ended.
The Paris Figaro says it believes that the
negotiations between Germany anil the Vat?
ican for the Gormani/.alion of Alsace Lor
raino have collapsed, the l'ope refusing to
forbid the use of French in tho seminaries of
tho province.
The Bulgarian delegates who were sent
to notify 1'rince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg
Ootha of his election to tho Bulgarian throne
and to urge his acceptance, are leaving Vien?
na. They are disappointed with the result of
their mission. It is the general opinion in
Vienna that Prince Ferdinand will formally
decline to occupy the throne.
Bishop W. P. Adams, rector of Holy
Trinity Church at Vicksburg, has been
ollicially notified that a majority of the
bishops and standing committees of the
Episcopal Church had assented to his elec?
tion to the bishopric of Easton, Diocese of
Maryland. He will leave for Easton the
first of next week, and will be followed by
his family iu a short time.
Judge Wallace, in the United Slates Cir?
cuit Court yesterday in New York nave a de?
cision in tho case of the American Bell Tele?
phone Company against tho Globe Tele?
phone Company, to restrnin thu defendant
from infringing on tho patent granted to
Alexander Graham Boil, on March 7, I87C
Judge Wallace grunted the permanent in?
junction asked for by the Bell Telcphono
Company.
M. DeLesseps presided at tho meeting
of tho shareholders of the Panama Caual
Company in Paris yesterday. Dom Pedro,
Emperor of Brazil, was present. The annual
report of the company showed a decrease in
the former confidence that the canal would
be opened in lsS!?, but expressed a hope
that a connection between the Atlantic and
Pacific would then exist across the Isthmus
of Panama, and that the works would be
completed soon afterwards.
Letter from Roanoke
>? (Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette.]
S Missing my Gazette this morning I went
~~ the Times office to read the copy that
I comes to its table; but, when 1 fished it out
? of the debris, it was delicient. The editor's
ever ready assistant?scissors?had culled
and clipped the coveted sheet until but a
bare fragment remained. This shows tho
fate of a uewsy exchange. There are some
exchanges that suffer no mutilation at the
hands of editors and readers. They contain
nothing that is worth preserving, nothing
worthy of reproduction. This is not the
case with the GAZETTE. But 1 havo heard
mrao bard things said about the GAZETTE of
late. In giving tho opinions of the pre.-- for
and against Hoanoko ns the place chosen for
tho meeting of the democratic State conven?
tion, some of the papers put down the Ga?
zette as a paper very hostile to our young
city and very disparaging and belittleiog iu
its remarks. I was approached and remind?
ed that my bighly#cberished journal, pub?
lished in the quiet old city of Alexandria,
was so and so, Aie. But it has turned out
that it was not the ALEXANDRIA GAZETTE
thut bad spoken so sneeringly of our young
and growing city. I waa glad to make the
correction and assure those who were so in?
dignant that the GAZETTE is never oil'of its
dignity and good manners, and is loo old
and well established to lie unfair, unkind,
envious or malicious, and is too patriotic to
discriminate sneeringly against any city,
town, village, hamlet or locality in our
grand old Commonwealth. There is a bet?
ter feeling, and the Gazette's representa?
tives will bo cordially welcomed and hospi?
tably entertained from the lilt of August
and on till the close of the convention.
Roanoke is making ample preparations
for the gathering of the democratic clans.
She may not be able to give each delegate
a feather bed, all to himself, with room and
tire, etc., but she will lodge and feed and
water each delegate. You have doubtless
heard it said that this mountain city is a
hard and wicked place. But not, so. We
hope that our democratic friends who pro?
pose to attend the convention will leave
their vices, if they have any, behind.
It would bo a sad visitation to have the
seeds ot vice planted iu our soil. If a dem?
ocratic patriot should so far forget himself
as to imbibe until reason is detboned and
locomotion is no longer possible, and (ho
gutter or street becomes his resting place,
such a spectacle would greatly shoc k our
busy community. Our children would look
on with wonder and alarm. They would
ask, "What is tho matter with that man?"
"What did it?" "Will he ever wake up?"
"Will he ever walk any more'.'" "Will his
limbs ever stillen from their present condi?
tion of dish-rag limberness ?" Oh, it would
be awful if any of our democratic patriots
should come To our young mountain city
and teach our people how to get dunk, and
curse and swear and talk big and loud.
The heated term did not. puss us by. The
"oldest inhabitant" said that never within
his recollection had the mercury figured so
high in this region as it did those hot. July
days, from the 11th to the isth of tho
month. Cool and pleasant nights, the al?
ways compensating law for the hottest
days in these mountain retreats, were tho
exception on the nights of the above men?
tioned dates. But the hent, in tho moun?
tains does not enervate like the heat of the
lower lands of Virginia.
Tho mountains are full of summer hoard?
ers. More than half a hundred are now
stopping at tho Allegheny Institute, in this
city. Pax.
Roanoke, July 20.
Roi'.ert Garrett Sued.?Henry S. Ivcs
and George N. Stayner, of New York, have
sued Robert Garrett. They have com?
menced two actions in the Supreme Court,
and the summons in each was served upon
Air. Garrett last night at the Victoria Hotel.
One action is for the specific performance
on the part of Mr. Garrett of a contract
made between him and Henry S. Ives and
George H. Stayner for the delivery to the
last named at a fixed sum a controlling in?
terest in tho stock of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad, which carries with it both the tel?
egraph ami express companies. Tho other
suit is for pecuniary damages for breaking
this contract. The action on the part of
Ives and Stayner was hastened on account
of Mr. Garrett's contemplated departure for
Europe to-morrow.
A Library kor Railroad Employes.?
Yesterday evening the new library for the
use of the employes of the Baltimore and
Potomac Railroad, provided for them at the
suggestion of Mr. H. H. Carter, the super?
intendent, was formally opened by Mr. I).
P. McKeever. in the presence of a number
of the men. It is located in the largo rooms
in the northwest corner of the second floor
of the depot building in Washington, which !
were formerly useri by the Pullman Co. \
The rooms have beeu carpeted and provided
With tables and chairs, and on the walla are
handsome pictures, while on the sides ?rc
ueat book casts, in which are over Gve bun- !
dred volumes. All the shelves have not as j
yet been tilled. I
vjju;i^i v NEWS.
A. W. Sinclair, esq., lato candidate for
Commonwealth's Attorney of Stafford, ha
moved back to Prince William.
The board of trustees of the State Female
j Normal School, located at Farmville, havo
oiected John A Cunningham principal oi
that institution, vico Dr. W. H. Ruffner, re?
signed.
John M. Langstoo, colored, president ol
tho Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute
near Petersburg, advocates the nomination
of Gov. Lee for tho Vico Presidency.
Mr. Thomas W. Waller, former sheri 11 of
Spotsy Ivania, is engaged as resident agent,
at Memphis, Tenn., of the Empire Soap Co.,
of St. Louis, Mo., and is doing fairly well in
bis new position.
Tho hearing of the cases of Nathan Kohn
and bis niece, Emma Frankel, indicted at
Winchester, on the charge of violating the
marriage laws of tho State, has been po-:
poned until September court.
Soroo wheat has been threshed in Clark
county, with a fair turnout. The crop will
not exceed three-fourths ofan average. The
corn looks fairly well, all depending upon
the rains in the next four weeks.
The Potomac Baptist Association, to meet
at Leesburg nexr mouth, will be composed
of delegates from some fifty Baptist churches
iu Lcudoun and adjoining counties. Ex?
tensive preparations are being made to re?
ceive .".nil entertain them.
The three weeks' drought iu the region
about Not folk was broken yesterday by a
succession of heavy showers, making a re?
freshing cbnnge in the temperature. It
was worth thousands of dollars to the fann?
ers, whose corn and oilier crops were burn?
ing up.
Last Wednesday a young man named
John Copeland, aged about twenty-one years,
ot Nansemond county, was caught by the
belting at a mill near Coresville, where lie
worked, and being brought in contact with
the machinery was crushed so terribly that
he died in a few minutes.
A Sensation in 3.ou<lo?i.
I From the Frcdcricksburg Free Lance],
i Years beforo the war Mary Jane Chewn
ing was considered tho handsomest girl in
the neighborhood. Her futher kept a
"tavern" on the road leading to Richmond,
four miles from Fredericksburg. Oa*
evening a wealthy Frenchman slopped at
the "tavern," caught sight of the splendid
figure and beautiful features of tho land?
lord's daughter, which so enamored him
as to cause him to forget tho dill'erence in
rank and birth and to ask tho hand of tiio
then simple country girl in marriage.
Pleased with tho prospect of his daugh?
ter's alliance with the distinguished and
wealthy foreigner who hastened to satisfy
the father of bis affianced of his standing
and the honesty of his intentions. Landlord
Cbewning gave his daughter's hand to Mon?
sieur Cariioe and died never regretting tho
act. Mary Jane Chewbing became Alary
Jane Carline, and her remains are now
buried iu the Whitlemore lot attached to
St. George's Episcopal Church, of this place.
About the time the present.congregation
of Trinity church were struggling to erect
their present bouse of worship Mrs. Car
line came to Frederickaburg. She became
interested in their purpose and generously
gave to Trinity's congregation ?1,000 to as
Bist in building the church and also loaned
them $2,000 more which was subsequently
paid.
Lately the congregation placed a memo?
rial window |n their church (and n very
pretty and appropriate one) on which the
following inscription appears:
1801. To the Glory of God 1983.
ami
In Memory of
MARY J. CARLINE.
The first dato represents the year of
Mrs. Carline's birth, the latter tho ycar ol
her death.
Miss Ella Penned, is a granddaughter of
Mrs. Canine. She spent several years in
Frcdericksburg, where she attracted con
Biderable attention on account of her beauty
and wealth and because of her relationship
to Mrs. Carline.
Recently Miss Bennett has figured in a
ludicrous affair in London, an account of
which we copy from n late issue of the Cin?
cinnati Enquirer, which will be read with
interest by readers of the La ice, and espec?
ially liy those who were acquainted with
Miss Bennett while visiting here.
New York, July 11.
The Sun to-morrow will publish a special
c.niiie from London giving the details ot a
collirion between men ol noblo blood, with
Mrs. Frank Leslie as the cause. She is a
frequent visitor of Europe, and on her return
from her last trip she was followed to this
country by Marquis De Leuville, who was
madly in love with either her, her fortune,
or both. The man was po persistent that
She about half consented to marriage, tier
friends objected so strongly that the match
was broken off. Mrs. Le?lie is again in
Europe, and is acting as chaperone to Miss
Bennett, a lovely young American girl.
Mrs. Leslie and her charge are occupying
an elegant suit of rojms in the Albert Man
.-ion, near Victoria street, in London. Ro
cently Princo Eristoff, a nobleman of
wealth, has been laying siege to America's
noted woman publisher, and has engaged
apartments on the same lloor in the Albert
Mansion, and has continued his devoted at?
tentions. On Friday Mrs. Le.-lio, Mi?s
Bennett and tho Russian Prince went.for a
drive in Hyde Park, Clattering behind
the in came a pair of iron-grays, driven by
the rejected Marquis, who looked a
curious picture with his powdered face,
padded shoulders, pinched waist and
high-heeled oboes. He drove past Mrs.
Leslie's carriage nod saluted, receiving from
all its occupants an acknowledgment, the
Prince sneering as he raised his bat. Later
on the Marquis, coming from a new direc?
tion, drove up beside tho Leslie brougham,
and, reversing his whip, gave the Princo u
blow across the face with tne butt end of it.
Tho Prince took tho insult without a mur
mur, although tho Marquis continued beside
the carriage grinning at his rival. In the
evening the Prince packed up and lefc tho
city. It gives the all'air a ludicrous phase
since it came out to day that the Prince was
not in any sense a rival, for he was smilteu
with Miss Bennett.
A Suit Involving the White Sulphur.
The case of William A.Stuart against the
Greenhrier White Sulphur Springs Compa?
ny is now on trial in the United States
Court at Parkersburg. W. Va., before Judges
Bond and Jackson. There is a long array
of distinguished attorneys in the case, .in?
cluding ex-Gov. J. B. Jackson, of West Vir
ginirt. and Judge Wm. J. Robertson and
Judge Hunter H. Marshall, of Virginia. It
is a very important case, involving the own?
ership of the White Sulphur Springs, and
is being contested with great ability on both
sides.
The Rev. I. C. Bagley of Camden, N. J.
was called upon recently by a stylish-look?
ing couple who desired to bo wedded.
There being no impediment, the pastor soon
made them ono flesh. Then the groom
handed the clergyman a large official en
velope marked "A present, with thanks."
Upon opening the envelope Mr. Bagley
found inclosed tho sum often cents.
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TO-DAY'S TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
Capture?! by a Lady.
bonham, Tex., July 22.?Last night Mrs.
Teftellcr wa-i awakened by the furuos of
; chloroform, and not wishing to frighten her
' four daughters who had been sleeping in
the room with her since the Gainesville
tragedy lay quiel lor a minute, when Miss
Nellie Teftoller screamed out that there
was r-omo one in the room with ehlo
i reform, ami awakened (he whole family.
The watch dog began hat king at some
I one, and continued until Mrs. Teftoller
; awakened two young men who were
J boarding in her house, and sent
one oil' after an officer, while the other
I went to sea what the dog was barking at.
I Upon his appioach a burly negro sprang
j fro n behind sotno undergrowth in the yard
i and made for the hack fence which was
made of pickets and barbed wire. In reach?
ing the fence the negro feil over some chick?
en coops and missed the narrow gap through
which he had evidently entered the yard.
The lady overtook the negro lit. the fence
and ordered him to "hands up'" or she
would blow the top oil his head. His hands
came up, and marching him before her she
brought him buck to the house, where
she and the young man held him un?
til the officer came and conducted him
to jail. The negro proved to be Bill Willis?
Ott immensely big black, burly negro, about
IE.' j ears of age. There was not a -hooting
iron of any description on the place.
Train Attacked.
St. Louis, July 22.?Trainmen of the
' andalia train due here at 7:30 o'clock last
'ght hut which did not arrive until he
? recn twelve and one oVlock this morning
: ?? port that at Long Point, this side of In
. .. anapolis, Conductor Pflautz disjoverod
r k'Ur rough looking men on the rear plat
.-crm of tho baggage car. He ordered them
off the car, hut as the train started up they
got on tho rear of the tender where they
were again found, when the train reached
Greenup crossing. This time they were
forcibly ejected from the train and they
moved away, but it appears they did not go
far, for a3 the train was passing a clump of
hushes near tho crossing they opened lire
from revolvers and sent some twenty bill
lets whizzing through the baggage and ex
press cars and the passenger coaches. Luckily
nobody was hit but there were several nar?
row escapes. The train was brought to a
halt and backed up to the crossing and a
short search made, but tho miscreants were
not found. A posse of citizens was organ
ized at once however, and a systematic
search was begun.
Assassination.
Ballingkr, Tex., July 22.?News has
just reached here of the assassination of W.
H. Nichols, a prominent sheep man, living
on the edge of Green county near Fort
Chaubourne, last Sunday. Mr. Nichols was
aged forly years and single. He was living
with a family named Mauderelle and em?
ployed the male members to herd for him.
Sunday last young Mauderelle requested
Nichols to herd the llocks of which he
(Mauderelle) had charge while the latter
hunted for a horse. This Mr. Nichols did,
and that was the last, seen of him alive.
That night, the dog brought the sheep home
und Nichols was found tho next afternoon,
having been shot in the hack with a Win?
chester, after which the murderer placed the
gun against the head of his victim, sending
a bullet through tho brain and literally
burning the face to a crisp.
Trouble Ainoug the Knights
London, Ont., July 22.?The final session
of the district assembly knights of labor
was held last night. After a lengthy dis?
cussion on the subject of the separa
j tion of tho Canada knights of labor
from tho American body in the matter
of jurisdiction, n resolution was passed
urging Becession from the United Stales
General Assembly and the formation of n
general assembly for Canada, the latter
body to have complete and unrestricted
jiowers to adjudicate on all questions and
business connected with the order.
Railway Agents' Convention.
Minneapolis, Minn., July liu.?At th?
evening session of the Railway Agents'Con?
vention the report of the executive com?
mittee read showed the receipts to bo $1,344
and disbursements $1,3-12. Tho com?
mittee on coiistitulion amid much laughter
asked for moro time to prepare a report.
A committee of live was appointed to form i
a mutual insurance company. The associa?
tion then proceeded to the election of of
licers, which resulted in the selection of
Ii. A. Clark, of Columbus, Neb., as President, i
Tho Afghan Frontier.
St. petersburg, July 22.?The German
Gazelle, speaking qf the arrangement ar- ]
rived at regarding the frontier of Afghanis?
tan says that Kus.-'a's most Southern point
cf the river Amu Daria will be Bosaga,
which is about t wenty versts below Knoja
Saleh, on the old boundary between Afghan- i
istan and Bokhara. This territory will be
preserved intact. Russia obtains the whole
pasture district between the rivers Kushk 1
and Murghab.
Saratoga Racing.
Saratoga, N. Y., July 22 ?The annual
racing season of the Saratoga Association
began to-day. The track is heavy. First .
race?purse $400 of which $100 lo the see- .
ond, for three jcars old and upwards, five , r
furlongs. Tho race was won by Fenelon.
Gleaner waa second, and Col. Owens third. ^
Time 1.04._ >
Drunken Trainmen.
Sr. Thomas, Ont, July 22.-At the in j
quest in connection with the late railway
disaster witnesses swore that the engineer ;
was under the influence of liquor and unlit J
to control the train ; also that the conductor
hnd been drinking, though not intoxicated. r
The ioqtiest is si ill proceeding.
Mr. Garrett ami the l?. a O. Deal.
j New Yobk, July 22.?"Mr. Garrett falU
; hack on his ietter,'" said Mr. Henry Clews,
j the bunker to-day, und has nothing to say
on the subject of the Baltimore and Ohio
mailer v4iich is not contained therein.
His position, as taken in that letter
is absolutely correct. 1 did not see
Mr. Garrett last evening after the pap
j eis in the contemplated suit were served on
him. 1 saw him to day though. The suit
does not scare him. It is simply au ell'ort
on the part of Mr. Ives to compel Mr. Garrett
tn return the securities which were for
feiled "
Murdered and Kolihed.
Ci.kvki.ani>, (>., July 22.?A special from
Nelflonville Ohio, says: Mrs. Hatlie Sey
mour, an aged lady, living in Harrisou
township, Vinlon county, across the border
from here, was found murdered lute Inet
night. She was lying on the tloor in n pool
of blood. A bullet was in her brain and ?
fearful knife stab in her stomach. The
object of the murder was robbery. There i3
no clue to the perpetrators of tho crime.
Sharp's Case.
Nkw York, July 22.?The argument to
make permanent the Blay of proceedings in
the case of Jacob Sharp, which was to bare
been heard by Judge Potter in the Supreme
Court Chambers, has been adjourned
Tuesday next. Burke Cochran has been re
tained by Sharp to make the argument and
it was to give him time to make himself
familiar with the case and prepare hia briefs
thut the adjournment was granted.
Trial ol a H'ould-be Suicide.
Nkw York, July 22.?Albert K. Given,
the salesman for a Philadelphia house, who
was found yesterday in his boardiug house
with a bullet wound in his side, was held in
court to day charged with having tried to
kill himself. Ho claimed that the shooting
was accidental.
Suicide.
Baltimore, July 22.?George Hoffman,
aged t!"), a prominent brewer, east of this
city, shot himself through tho brain early
this morning and died shortly after. He
had Buffered from rheumatism for eeverul
years, and his mind is thought to have been
aflected.
Execution.
Nebraska City, July 22.?David Heil
man was hanged hero to day for wrecking
a Missouri Pacific passenger train on the
night of the lltti of January last at Dunbar,
a small station on the Missouri Pacific I?1
miles west of this place.
Disbauded.
Wilmington, Del., July 22.?Germania
Assembly No. 7,598, K. of L., this city, dis?
banded last evening because of the orthr
prohibiting the use. of intoxicating bever?
ages at picnics ami entertainments.
Acquitted.
Charleston, July 22.?John D. Sbce
bam, tried at Laurens for (he killing of
Bishop, last July, has been acquitted.
I.ascivionsness in Ottowa.
Ottowa, On! , July 22.?Chief McVeity, of
the Ottowa police force, is authority for the stftto
meut that a condition of affairs similar to thut
oxposod in London by the Pali Jf?'.' Gazette two
years ago, now exists in Ottawa, professional men,
civil servants, tradesmen ami all sorts of men Lu
Lug implicated.
Dead.
Baltimore, July 22.?Lambert Gittiu^s, njjei
about 80 years, ami one of the wealthiest men of
Baltimore, dud at bis residence hero to-day. a
-holt time ago the eslato of Mr. Gittinga was
placed in the hands of a committee, bo having
In en declared mentally incapable of managing it
Bicycling.
London, July 22.?Woodsido, of Philadelphia,
to-day heat the English bicycle record for ten
miles, covering tbo distance in 2S minutes, 3 I
seconds.
A Reconciliation.
Vienna, July 22.?Tbo Tagblatl states Ibat
Kiiij; Milan, of Servia, ami Queen Natalie, hn
wife, have heroine reconciled.
The Right Man.?The Juden, the organ
of the Richmond "Mozart Association," a
musical society composed of tbo elite of thut
City, is now under the management of Air.
Jefferson Wallace, n popular and efficient
young gentleman of Richmond,and a direct
descendant ol the famous Wallace family ol
Scotland. His great-grandfather came to
America in the last century, and his de
Bcendants have figured in the "first fam
iliee" ever since. Mr. Wallace is an excel
lent, man for tho position. He has friends
in Alexandria who wish him much success.
The Distribution of Wealth.?Tho
United States adds about $800,000,000 to its
wealth yearly. In the last six months it
ha? spent j'Irl ,000,000 on railroads and $1"j0,
ooo oiio on buildings in its big cities, and
companies o/eaoi/.ed in the South alone call
for $161,000,000. What is more, and better,
the prosperty of this country is more event)
distributed among th& people than in any
other country the world has ever seen ?
Hartford Post.
Jno. Tyler.son of President Tyler.and for a
loug time clerk in the Treasury Department
was stricken with paralysis in Washington
last night.
MA RRIED.
At.St. Mary's Church, in this city, atl2::JOp.
m., on Thursday, July 21st, 1887. Bev. Dennii
d'Kane, 8. J., officiating, EBNEST L PADGETT
Utd MARY K. COOK, both of this city.
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