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WEDNESDAY- EVENING. 1 OV. 2, 185*8.
Senator Hoab of Massachusetts, in
a HDeecb he made at Worcester last
A, said:
"We are to-day in greater dangj-r
.a tfe have encountered since the pil?
grim? landed at Plymouth. The dan
.o that we are to be transformed
from ?, republic, landed on tbe Decla
ra! dependence, guided by tbe
co;: -i Washington, into a vulgar,
co r>lace empire, founded upon
pbv- force."
Ax r"6t Mr. Hoar made a speech in
tbe 1 -. Senate in favor of seizing aocl
annexing Hawaii and deposing tbe
legitimate ruler of that country, against
the wishes of all the people thereof
oountry except a few hundred Ameri?
can filibusters.
The South-bating New York Press
designates Judge Van Wyck, the dem?
ocratic candidate for Governor of its
State, as "Secession" Van Wyck. There
is a large Southern colony in New
York, and such eectional;partisanism
as this should be sufficient of itself alone
to induce, even those members of it
who deserted tbeir kith and kin two
years ago, to vote with their old friends
again next Tuesday. The President's
acts and his organ's words throw dis?
credit upon his reiterated assertions to
the effect that the Spanish so-called
war has wiped out all sectional lines
and that the hearts of tbe people of
both sections now beat as one.
WHY all this "backiDg and filling"
about the conquered provinces ? Spain
can make no resistance to any indignity
or outrage that may be attempted upon
her. Sbe is utterly powerless and has
no friends who will take ber part
against her powerful conqueror. She
has given up Porto Rico and Cuba
without recompense, and will give up
tbe Philippines also if tbey be demand?
ed, as she is defenseless. All the delay
and expense therefore, attending the
Be'zure of her possessions, to many
intelligent people, seem incomprehen?
sible. A highwaymen having felled his
victim, doesn't parley with him before
taking his pocketbook.
General Fitzhugh Lee is reported
to have said, "I'm sorry I can't be in
Havana before General Blanco sails for
Spain. I would like to be present to
give him a parting salute." Like some
of his previous quoted remarks in rela?
tion to Cuban matters, this can hardly
be true, and is discredited by tbe Gen?
eral's real friends. A man thoroughly
qualified for the position he holds
doesn't talk that way. Though the
toucbs of Havana did "salute" him
when he sailed from that port, General
Blanco certainly did not, and cannot
be held responsible for their conduct.
Why thes, should he express a desire
to "salute'.' him?
The Baltimore Sun says: "Sound
money is indispensable to commercial
health and prosperity, but there are
some thiogs even more important and
valuable than money, whether sound
or unsound." But, two years ago, the
Sun, by supporting republicans for
fch ieral and State offices, thought,
c apparently did so, that gold money
was the most important of all things.
/ 19 republican President, whose
el- .^n it advocated, by appointing
i to office in North Carolina, has
h< to produce the deplorable con
diti of affairs now existing in that
State. _
As self preservation is the first law of
nature, the white people of North Car?
olina, in order to preserve themselves,
have determined to submit no longer to
negro domination and the intolerable
state of affairs that, from the nature of
the case, must result from such a con?
dition. Statutory laws should, of course,
be observed, but they can't be expect?
ed to override those of nature. The
world over, the white, is superior to
the black, race, and it must be so in
North Carolina, as it is everywhere
else. ___________
Ay harmless Southern negroes, who
merely tried to work in Illinois, were
refused protection by the republican
Governor of that State, and as the let?
ter's action was approved by his party
in the North, it could hardly be the
ciuse of surprise in that section if the
republican Governor of North Carolina
Bhould refuse to defend the dangerous
negroes in his State, if they shall at?
tempt to gain control of the property
and white people of that State.
According to the testimony of the
Commissioner of Indian Affairs, the re?
cant Indian trouble in Minnesota was
provoked by the robberies and other
ill-treatment to which the Indians en?
gaged in it had been subjected by tbe
government. Bat, if the government
robs its own citizens by the war tariff,
why shouldn't it rob the Indians? And
if the former submit without objection,
why should the latter presume to do so?
The broken bank at Springfield, 111,,
certainly cannot be presented as an in?
stance of the prosperity that Mr. Mc?
Kinley says he saw during his recent
electioneering trip through that State.
FROM WASHINGTON.
[Correspondence of tho Alexandria Garotte.]
Washington, Nov. 2.
The excitement in North Carolina
over the race question causes a feeling
at republican headquarters here that
the republicans are likely to lose seve?
ral Congressional districts in that State
The managers ure anxious to devise
means to settle the trouble, but they
do not kuow how to proceed, iu view
of the fact that the republican governor
of the State has not called on the fede?
ral government for assistance. Pri?
vately Governor Russell is denounced
in Washington by his party associates
aa being without backbone, but some
of the North Carolina republicans in
the departments say that outsiders
have no ideu of the intense feeling, and
that an embarrassing feature of the
situation is that white men who have
heretofore affiliated with the republi?
cans and populists under a fusion ar?
rangement, are deserting by the thou?
sands, and have announced that they
aro going to vote for a local govern?
ment that does not recognize the negro
as an office holder.
Comptroller Dawes will appeal from
the decision of the Now York judgu
who held that the sheriff could levy on
the assets of the Tradesmen's Natioral
Bank because a receiver bad not been
formally appointed. Mr. Dawes says
that if the New York decision is up?
held it will cause heavy losses and al?
most endless confusion in the settle?
ment of the affairs of suspended na?
tional banks. It will enabie creditors
to descend upon a bank with attach?
ments within half an hour after the
examiner has olosed the doors and
before the comptroller has had time to
place a receiver in charge.
The President to-day appointed John
B. Waddy postmaster at Norfolk, Va.
This appointment, it is said here, indi?
cates that the President has "gone
back" on the republican executive
committee of Virginia and Mr. Bow
den, and taken the part of the republi?
can congressional campaign committee,
and, republicans here say, strengthens
the idea that the delegation from Vir?
ginia in the next Congress will be
solidly democratic, as the republicans
of that State think they can manage
their own affairs better than people
from Iowa and Indiana.
Senator Martin of Virginia was at
democratic headquarters here this
morning. He saya his information
leads him to believe that every
district in Virginia will be repre?
sented by a democrat in the next
Congress. Some of his correspondents
in the ?th district, he says, say that dis?
trict is doubtful, and he is here to re?
move that doubt if means can be ob?
tained to do so. Ee will go to Rich?
mond to-night on the same business.
It is reported here that the Pennsyl?
vania railroad company intends to re?
pair the wagon road from the south end
of the Lon-4 Bridge as far south as the
brick yards.
Congressman Rixey of the Sth Vir?
ginia district, who spoke in Alexandria
last night, was here to-day. While
there, he says, he was informed by Mr.
Hughes, one of the republican candi?
dates in his district, that Mr. Agnew
would not get many republican votes
if he were a candidate. Mr. Rixey
says his majority will be larger
than it was last ypar. though the vote
will probably not be as large, as he has
practically no serious opposition.
A good many Virginia democrats
were here to day, among them Senator
ilartiu, Representative Rixey; Messrs.
P?cher, Thomas and Wickharn, mem?
bers of the legislature; Walton Moore,
Marshall McCormick, and Secretary
Button, and Mr. Witcher, a leading
populist of the Danville district was also
nere.
Democrats here to-day from the
North say tho attempt of the adminis?
tration to scare people into voting for
its candidates next Tuesday as a
meaus of preventing a renewal of hos?
tilities, is such a transparent fake that
nobody will be deceived by it; also that
the truth about the late so-called war,
though the 17th Virginia regiment, C.
S. A., lost almost as many men at Wil?
liamsburg as the whole ?. S. army did
in all Cuba, has now been learned
there, and that neither the war nor the
conduct thereof is as popular there now
as it was.
The following changes in the organi?
zation of the 7ca army corps have been
recommended by the commanding gen?
eral and ordered by the Secretary of
War: Brigadier General Edward B.
Wiiliston, U. S. volunteers, is relieved
from duty with the Second brigade,
First division, and assigned to command
the First brigade, Second division;
Brigadier General Henry T. Douglass,
U. S. volunteers, is relieved from duty
with the First brigade, Second division
and assigned to command the Second
brigade, First division.
The war investigating commission rosum?
ed its hearings in this city to-day. The
first witness called was Captain Henry
3omeyn, a retired army officer. His obser?
vations at Tainp-% led him to the belief that
tbo regulars woro well cared for, but there
was very bad management so far as tho vol?
unteers were concerned. Tho embarkation of
the troops for Cuba was also mismanaged,
there being a lack of surf boats, and the stores
of many of the regiments were left behind.
On arriving in Cuba it was found that the
-upply of tents was short and not suitable for
the campaign :n the island. Trinsportation
faci ities wore poor. Captain Eomeyn was
wounded in tho log whilo in Cuba, and after?
wards was a yellow fever patient in tho hos?
pital near 8iboney. Not enough doctors and
attendants were available and the food was
not such as the sick should havo had. The
only milk thoy had was malted. All tho
men in cbargo of tho sick and wounded did
their whole duty Captain Eomeyn was vory
severe in his references to the condition of
tho transport Conche, in which he returned
from Siboney along with several hundred
other sick The water was putrid, having
been in tho tanks for two months when it
was obtainod at Tampa, tbo captain admitting
this, his explanation being ho was not allow?
ed to land anywhere to got fresh wator. They
had nothing but canned meat. It wa3 rotten.
Mon died en route because they had so little
attention. There.'were not half enough nurses.
Captain Eomeyn did not know who was to
b ame. If the men bad had proper food and
attention thoy would not have died on the
ahip. Things were awful on tho lower deck.
Men were lying there in filth. Most of them
had to lio on hard board bunks.
The following changes in the fourth class
postofficffs of Virginia were made to-day :
Brown's Cove, Albemarie county, J. E. Brown
appointed postmaster, vice J W. Early, ro
moved ; Minerva, Carroll county, James M.
Vaughan, vice J. E. Harris, resigned; Mount,
Stafford county, B. E. Mountjoy, vice W. E.
Mountjoy, dead ; Sherando, Augusta county,
W. E. N. Balsley, vice Z. T. Waid, resigned ;
Vernon Hill. Halifax county, Addie M. Irby,
vice J. C Walker, removed.
Some of the present leaders of the Alexan?
dria democrats wore hore last night in con?
sultation with Senator Martin.
Ambassador Pauncefoteand Lord Herschell
called at the Whito House to-day so that the
lattf r might pay his respects to the President.
Lord Herschell was twice Lord High Chan?
cellor under Gladstone, and is at the head of
the joint high commission appointed to settle
questions in dispute between the United
States and Canada which meets hero Novem
ber 10.
NEWS OF THE DAI.
The British government is continuing j
to rush its naval preparations.
It is reported in Paris that Spain will I
decline to accept the American demand !
for cession of the Philippines.
The cabinet at its meeting yesterday |
discussed plaDS for tbe military govern- |
ments to be established in Cuon and !
Porto Rico.
The Methodist bishops aunour.ee
that they will shortly mike an appeal
for a "twentieth century fund" oi ?20,
000.000, to be used in church work.
It is believed that the Presi ieat will
find great difficuliy in securiug the con?
sent of the Senate to the payment of
money to Spain for the Philippines.
General Blanco, it. is expected, will
sail from Havana for Spain November
20, leaving General Parrado in com?
mand. Spanish soldiers who leave
Cuba for homo aro given duo bills for
their back pay. There has not been a
case of yellow fever in Santiago for GO
days.
Recent advices received at the Cuban
headquarters in Washington report a
terrible condition of a?Viira existing in
Cuba. According to figures furnished
by representatives in the various prov?
inces there are nearly 75,000 people on
the island in a starving condition, and a
large percentage of the sufferers must
perish unless prompt aid is furnished by
the American government.
William Hayes Fisher, a junior lord
of the British treasury, made a speech
in London last night, stating that ho
had seen dispatches which enabled him
to say that France has decided to re?
call the Marchand mission from F-i
shoda. Tho new French cabinet has
reached complete accord regarding tho
past attttude of M. Delcasse in refer?
ence to the Faehoda dispute.
There is every probability that the
contracts the Navy Department hbs
with the Merritt Wrecking Company,
which is engaged in the work on the
Colon and Mercedes, will be annulled
and some other method employed to
raise the Spanish ships. Constructor
Hobson has reported that they can be
raised and added to tbe navy if proper
appliances and intelligent men are pro?
vided.
It is probable that the President will
recommend an increase of the army to
100,000 men. The demands which
have been made upon Senators and
Representatives for the mu3ter out of
volunteer regiments and the discharge
of volunteers in regiments which have
remained in tbe service, has been very
great. It is believed, consequently,
that members of Congress will bo con?
vinced that a regular army for garrison
duty in the now possessions is an ab?
solute necessity.
Senator Hoar, in a political speech at
Worcester, Mass., yesterday, made a
vigorous protest against any absorption
of Spanish territory as a departure
from American ain s and purposes. He
pointed out the dangers of conquest
and territorial expansion. The highest
service the American people can ren?
der, said the Senator, is to preserve un?
stained and unchanged the republic.
The right of cooquest of the Philip?
pines he denied and said human beings
are not to be won as spoils of war. No
such doctrine, be declares, has a place
under the American constitution.
Wado Grant, colored, was arrested iu Par
kersburg, W. Va., charged with assault on
Mis A. J Berry and Mrs. Henry Barermui
at differont times. Lynching is talked of.
GEN. FITZ. LEE AND THE SEN
ATORSHIP.
In speaking of Gen. Lee having re?
iterated his intention of being a candi?
date for the senatorship, the Richmond
Dispatch says: General Lee has said
he will canvass every county before thc
election of members of the Legislature
next fall. He and his friends will work
to have candidates instructed to vote
for him for the Senate. Whether be
will get a majority is to be the great
question in Virginia politics in 1SW.
General Lee's chief opponent will, of
course, be Senator Thomas S. Martin,
though he may not be the oniy one.
Mr. R. Walton Moore, of Fairfax, has
already announced his candidacy. At?
torney-General Montague has not yet
done so, but there are many people
who would like to see him wearing the
toga of a Senator from the Old Do?
minion. There may be other candi?
dates, but it is no disparagement of
anybody to say that at present, at any
rate, Lee and Martin are far in the fore?
front so far as all other aspirants are
concerned.
Senator Martin has been very active
in Virginia politics this year, and he is
said to have made many friend.-. He
has spoken in various counties of the
State and his manner of presenting
democratic doctrine has always won
the attention and the applau?e of the
crowds.
A letter from Richmond says: "The
Senatorial situation in Virginia is be?
coming very much complicated. It
has been generally understood ever
since General Lee was defeated by
Senator Martin that he was a candidate
when Senator Martin's term expired.
Then came the announcement recently
that General Lee would, in all proba?
bility, not be a candidate. Then there
was a boom of Hon. R, Walton Moore
for the honor, coupling the names of
Hon. J. H?ge Tyler and Hon. J Taylor
Ellyson for the office. General Lee
was seen on Sunday by a newspaper
man and again avowed himself an as?
pirant. Mr. William A. Jones, of the
First District, ir also said to be in the
hands of his friends, and with General
Lee out of the race, he will give Mr.
Martin more trouble than all other
candidates combined. The fight for
United States Senate has already com?
menced in this city, the friends of one
of the candidates having approached a
well known and influential man and
asked him to be a candidate for the
legislature in his interest. It is under?
stood that others have been approached
on the same subject, but, so far as
known, none have agreed to be candi?
dates for the legislature in the interest
of any candidate.
Satolli axd the Pope ?A dispatch from '
Washington in connection with tho rumor
that Cardinal 8atclli is now in disfavor with
the Pope, says it is due to a discovoiy the
Cardinal made after having an intimate ac?
quaintance with Archbishop Keane, that Sa
tolli's private representations to Borne about
tho church and its leaders in this country
were at variance with the real facts. It was
generally believed that tho resignation of
Keane as rector of the Catholic University
was requested by the Pope through the in?
fluence of Satolli, and this impression was
heightened when it was declared by a high
official when Keane left for Europe that
"Keane will never come back to America
again." That Keane's ideas were not objec?
tionable to the Pope was proven by the fact
that, ho did come back, and his ideas" on both
visits appeared to be more vigorous than ever
regarding tho proper direction of the church
in this country.
DEMOCRATIC MEETING.
Enthusiastic Gathering at the Opera I
House?Speeches by Hon. J. P.
Rixey and Messrs. R. W. Moore, J.
B. McCabe, J.R. Caton, P.E. Ander,
sou uud T. C. Pitcher.
Ia response to the announcement,
quite a number of citizens gathered at
the Opera House last night to hear the
speeches of several prominent gentle?
men of this district. Prof. Dunn's
baud was in attendance which dis
I coursed enlivening music before the
meeting was called to order and after
each speaker had taken his seat,
j Among those ou the stage, apart from
the speakers, were Messrs. Leonard
Marbury, O. F. Carter, J. A. Marshall,
i K. Kemper and George Drewry.
Shortly after S o'clock Mr. Marbury
called the meeting to order and in a
few appropriate remarks introduced
Hon. Johu F. Rixey, Congressman
from this district. Mr. Rixey was re?
ceived with loud applause. Ho began
his speech by saying that as a storm
tossed mariner proceeds at times to
examine his compass to see where he
hue been drifting, so it behooves a peo
d!e to occasionally take a retrospect in
order to ascertain whither they have
been driftiDg. The speaker then pro?
ceeded to give a resume of the history
the country has made during the pres?
ent year?the war, its results, the an?
nexation of territory, etc., and the
peace which has followed. He pictured
the results of the acquisition of Porto
Rico and predicted that Cuba, of her
own volition, would eventually place
herself under the protec?on of the
Stars and Stripes. Mr. Rixey said that
he looked with complacency upon this
as while under the Monroe doctrine we
could not allow any other coun
iry to rule over those islands, the
1'oited States was of all other natiocs
the proper one to assume sovereignty.
In regard to the Philippines, however,
a different matter altogether was pre?
sented. They were in another hemi?
sphere, 6,400 miles from our shores,
while 400 islands of the group were
inhabited by a mixed population. To
acquire them would be a marked de?
parture from the Monroe doctrine, and
from his standpoint it would be an un
wise procedure. We had no use for
them; besides, the speaker was opposed
to paying Spain for the privilege of
raising the flag of this country over
chera. He argued to show that the
proposition was illogical, and quoted
history to prove that no such thing
was expected of a conquering nation,
referriug especially to the case of Al?
sace-Lorraine after the Franco-Prussian
v. nr. Mr. Rixey said he would not
; discuss what brought on the war, but
he asserted that had the advice of the
democrats been followed all trouble
could have been satisfactorily settled
and war avoided. It had come, how?
ever, and ell were naturally proud of
the results, especially of the activ
heroic and successful parts played by
southern men during the short conflict.
He dwelt especially upon the valor of
General Wheeler in the fight before
Santiago. He alluded to the embreglio
between the Third regiment and Gen?
eral Butler, and meutioned among the
pleasant iridtancen. of the war the fact
that Mr. Park Agnew, the chairman of,
the republican committee, warmly
espoused the cause of the regiment.
Mr. Rixey proceeded to excoriate
the administration for its failure to
proviso for the men who had gone
forth at their country's call, bow they
had languished in camps and hospitals
to the everlasting disgrace of
the powers that be, a"nd which
had rendered those powers re?
pulsive to all civilized people.
He then proceeded to dissect the pres?
ent administration for its flagrant mis?
management of the vital interests of
the nation by its tariff measures, its
open opposition to the proposed income
tax, the fact that it taxed the working
man at the sumerale as the millionaire,
its protection of monopolies, trusts and
other institutions which grind down
the millions of poor people and increase
the wealth of the opulent. He follow?
ed up the history of the party during
the McKinley administration, and went
into an extended explanation of their
currency ideas. His speech through?
out was logical, and he made the issues
which now confront the country clear
and comprehensive. In conclusion in
referring to the conflict of 1900 he pre?
dated that the people would hold the
udministration tesponsible for the pres?
ent order of things and by their ballots
express their disapprobation of its
course. Mr. Rixey took his seat amidst
loud applause.
Mr. R. W. Moore followed Mr. Rixey,
and he made a very interesting and
spirited speech. Among other things
he said a 11 airs are the same now as in
1S90, and the Chicago platform will be
that of 1900. It would, however, be
more defined, and propositions would
come from both sides. In a succinct
and forcible manner Mr. Moore gave a
j history of the issues which confronted
! the country in 1S96, and said the demo?
cratic parly would again in 1900 stand
for free silver. He went into a critical
exposition of the unwise and unjust
methods of the republican party in re?
gard to the currency and banking ideas,
and said the spirit of Andrew Jackeon
should animate every member of the
democratic party at this present time.
He showed' the fallacies of the Gage
bill which would sweep silver out of
existence and in its stead issue
a billiou of boDds, and showed the hor?
ror 5 which would follow the enactment
of such a law. Mr. Moore spoke hope?
fully of the result of 1900, and said
should the Supreme Court refuse to re?
verse itself in tue matter of the income
tax, the interests of the common people
might at some time bring about a con?
stitutional amendment which would
provide for this equitable measure. He
rapidly glanced at the history of the
democratic party from the dayy of
Thomas Jeflerson to those of William
Jennings Bryau, and at the mention of
the latter's name there was uproarious
applause.
At the close of Mr. Moore's speech
Judee J. B. McCabe, of Loudoun, was
introduced. The judge, in answer to
che suggestion made by Mr. Marbury
that years ago the 8th district was
saved by the vote Loudoun, said that
county was right then, had ever been
right, and would be right at all times
when democratic principlea were to
be maintained. There was, he said,
practically no opposition to Mr. Rixey,
but that was no reason why we should
not meet and show interest in the par?
ty. Besides there was a struggle ahead,
a continuation of the struggle of 1S96,
which would be continued until settled
aright, or the republic lost. The demo?
cratic party was fighting for the eleva?
tion of man, and though the party had
been betrayed by Grover Cleveland
and corrupted by Mark Hanna the
struggle would be continued until vic?
tory perched upon our banners. The
judge attacked the administration for
the misconduct of tbe war and referred '
to many things characteristic of the I
misrule of the republican party in the i
past few years. He said the people of j
Loudoun stood upou the Chicago plat-!
form and heartily endorsed every plank I
in it. He predicted that in 1900 it would j
take* more than $14,000,000 to corrupt j
the ojuntry. Twice that amount may
be found necessary, while defeat may
follow, at the polls,
Mr. James It. Caton was the next
spoaker. He said the democratic party
had everb&en pre-eminently right. The I
issues set forth by tho party in 1S9G de?
manded argument, but had been met
by subtefuges. Mr. Caton in a lucid
and succinct manner dissected the re?
publican methods, especially regarding
the currency and the mismanagement
of the war. His speech was greatly
relished.
Mr. F. E. Anderson followed. He,
too, gave a resume of tbe i.;su<s which
confronted the country at the last elec?
tion, and said tbat in spite of defection
elsewhere the sction of bolters, etc.,
the old city of Alexandria had rolled
up a majority ot 570 for William Jen?
nings Bryan. The parly had been sold
out and betrayed then, but in 1900
Mark Hanna and William McKinley
would receive their quietus. Mr An?
derson was frequently applauded.
Mr. T. C. Pilcher, of Fauquier, was
the next speaker. His remarks were
humorous and highly eDjoyed. He
said it was the first time he had ever
faced an Alexandria audience, though
he had been coming here all his life. It
was a square town and all its people
were square. Mr. Pilcher said it was
too late for hint to make an exterded
spsech (he did not reach the hall until
nearly 10 o'clock), and he therefore
would not refer to any of the issues
which confronted the party. Mr. Rix
ey, be said, had virtually no opposi?
tion. There were, he bad been tild, two
fake candidates in the field from Alex?
andria. They probably wanted to let
people know they were living, a3 no
one seemed to know them, and it was
presumed they were from the Philip?
pine islands. It was rather early for
aspirants for Congressional honors from
those benighted regions to be springing
up. Mr. Pilcher's speech was short.
He spoke in an easy und humorous
manner, and his happy flings brought
forth much applause.
The meeting adjourned at 10:15. Let?
ters were read from Hon. E. E. Mere?
dith,Capt. J. E. WillBrd and prominent
gentlemen in the district regretting
their inability to be present.
ViKGINlA mm
The free-mail delivery system was in?
augurated in Winchester yesterday.
The democrats are claiming a clean
sweep in congressmen next Tuesday.
A pension of $72 per month has been
granted to Annie V. Lee, of Delanlane.
Tbe Baptist Ministers' Association,
of Norfolk, proposes to make a flight for
a stricter observance of Sunday in that
city and in Portsmouth.
Rev. George T. Gray, a minister of
the Lutheran Church and chaplain of
the Virginia Agricultural College at
Blrtcksburg, died iast Saturday.
While hunting in Spottsylvaaia coun?
ty on Monday Mr. Mai. Pritchett, was
badly shot in the shoulder by a gun in
the hands of Mr.Dabney Wheelar,being
accidentally discharged.
Mr. Joseph Dawar found a hen's nest
on his farm,near Berry's Ferry,in Clarke
county, that contained over 100 young
chickens, and nearly 200 eggs. Seven
hens were setting on the nest.
The first twenty miles of the Rich?
mond, Petersburg and Carolin? rail?
road, between Petersburg and Ridge
way, has been built, but there is a hitch
in tbe plan in building the road to
Richmond.
S. L. Hobson, the discharged con?
ductor, who recently broke the nose
and otherwise assaulted Mr. George E.
Fisher, the general manager of the
Richmond Electric Railway, was yes?
terday in Richmond sent on to the
grand jury. The attack was without
provocation.
Mrs. W. C. Matthews was found dead
yesterday in a small garden attached to j
her home in Lynch burg. She had been
absent from home for some time, and,
after a search, her oldest daughter
found her lying near the garden path,
with her face buried in the ground.
Death had been caused by heart trouble.
Governor Tyler will leave Richmond
to-night for Savannah to visit the
Fourth Virginia regiment. He will be
accompanied by General Fitzhugh Lee
and several members of the Governor's
staff. Mrs. Tyler and tbe Misses Tyler
will also accompany the Governor.
During their stay there the Governor's
party will be cordially entertained by
the Fourth regiment and its friends.
Tbe Business Men's Association, of
Norfolk, last night appointed a com?
mittee to inaugurate the movement to
make the arrival of the former Spanish
cruiser Infanta Maria Teresa in those
waters a gala occasion. Visitors are
expected from all parts of the coun?
try, and preparations will be pushed to
completion to make the event a mem?
orable one.
Mr. William A. Little, who has just
returned from New York, where he
had busidess connected with the Vir?
ginia, Fredericksburg and Western
Railroad (Northern Neck), says he is
confident that the English capitalists
who had expected to take the bonds of
the raiiroad, but declined to do so
when war was declared, will carry out
their original intention and furnish the
money to complete the road, which
was commenced last spring.
Gov.Tyler will look into the merits of
tte cases of various soldiers of the 4th
regiment who are applying for dis?
cbarges, and iu the event of being able
to arrange with the War Department
to have men from the Second and
Third regiments to take their places, he
will endeavor to have them discharged
General Lee is understood to favor this
plan. There are some men in the other
Virginia regiments who desire to re?
main in service. There are many in
the Fourth who are staying in against
their will.
Abraham C. Gordon, a former well
known resident of Frederick county,
died in New York city Monday night,
aged fifty-five years. For the pa3t few
years he bad been in the employ of
Charles Broadway Rouss, the New
York millionaire merchant. This is
the second death of employes of Mr.
Rouss from the Winchester section
during tbe past week, tbe other being
M. Morgan Brannon, who was found
dead near Stephensona last Thursday,
only a short distance from where Mr.
Gordon lived.
Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup is a true
friend to all suffering with coughs or
colds. This reliable remedy never
disappoints. It will cure a cold in one
day and costs bat 25 cts.
TO-DAY'S TELEGRAPHIC NEWS j
Foreign New?. j
Paris, Nov. 2.?Several unknown
officers were mysteriously imprisoned
in the Mont Valerien military prison
during last night. No cause is assign?
ed for their confinement. Paris fears
that this action denotes a new coup in
the Dreyfus case.
London, Nov. 2.?The mother of
Mrs. Florence Maybrick is continuing
her efforts to obtain the release of her
daughter, who is serving a sentence of
life imprisonment for the murder of
her husband. The baroness had a con?
ference on the subject with Mr. Henry
White, U. S. charge d'affaires, yester?
day.
London Nov. 2.?The sentries on
guard tc-iay arrested a Frenchman who
was attempting to enter the Turret on
the pier at Dover, from which the big
gun is fired.
London, Nov. 2?The court of ap
peals has confirmed the order of the
probate court permitting Mrs. Anna
Maria Druce to exhume the body of
her*hushand's father, Thomas C. Druce,
which is interred in the Higbgate
cemetery. This is her first step in at?
tempting to establish her claim to the
great Druce estate and also to prove
that her son, now in Australia, is the
rightful Duke of Portland. Mrs. Druce
maintains that the coffin marked "T.
C. Druce" contains only lime and not
the body of her father-in-l*w, as has
hitherto been bei eved1 Her ca?e is
based upou her contention that her
father-in-law was alive many years
after the burial of the coffin, which is
recorded as having taken place in 1864.
Canea, Nov. 2.?The foreign admi?
rals have informed the Turkish gover?
nor of Crete that they will proceed
with the military occupation of the
various administrative offices of the
island on November 4, and the Turkish
officials will not thereafter be permitted
to re-enter them. The Turkish troops,
theu in the island,' will cease to be re?
garded a.s garrisoning Crete and the
Turkish military posts and military ser?
vices will be abolished. The admirals
also ask the governor to embark all
the Turkish troops that the transports
now in Suda bay will hold, and to re?
quest his government to speedily send
enough transports to embark the rest.
London, Nov. 2.?A severe gale is
raging alonir the coast and trans
I channel traffic has been interrupted.
Owing to the violence of the storm the
steamer Teutonic, from New York, Oc?
tober 26th, did not touch at Queens
town to-day, but proceeded for Liver?
pool. A severe rain and wind storm
has swept over the south of Scotland
causing serious floods.
Russia and England.
London, Nov. 2.?A dispaicb from
Wei-Hai-Wei says that all of tho British
war vessels there havo cleared for ac?
tion aud are ready to put to sea at an
hour's notice. The authorities observe
the utmost secrecy as to their move?
ments. A large RuE.siau fleet has as?
sembled at Port Arthur.
The Globe, commenting upon the
telegrams from Wei-Hei-Wei,says: "In
the absence of more definite informa?
tion it must be surmised that Russia,
taking advantage of the present ten?
sion between England and France, has
pushed her far Eastern policy to un?
bearable lengths by forcibly taking pos?
session of the valuable treaty port of
New Cbwang."
London, Nov. 2.?Great Britain's
naval preparations, ostensibly made
against France, now seem to have been
made against Russia under cover of the
Fashoda incident. The dispatch from
Wei-Hni-Wei saying that tho vessels cf
tne British fleet in Asiatic warters were
stripped for action and that a large Rus?
sian fleet had assembled at Port Arthur
came as a stunning surprise to the Brit?
ish public which was not contemplating
war with Russia as the criois in the east
was believed to have been passed. The
exact nature of the crisis in the east is
not known, but, naturally it roust rela'e
to Russia's grabbiug policy there. Se?
curities ou the stock exchange wore
weak and stagnant to-day, chiefly as a
result of the new turn in affairs.
Great Britian's preparations for war,
which have been on a Ecale exceed?
ing any since the Crimean war, have
puzzled many. France has all along
shown a disposition to yield Fashoda
and in the face of the fact the continued
preparations for war have seemed
queer. To-day's developments explain
the mystery.
London, Nov. 2.?If indications,
preparations and guarded hints mean
anything they mean that the British
government is about to perpetrate a
coup which is nothing more nor less
than the proclamation of Egypt as a
British protectorate?that is to say, as
an integral portion of the English em?
pire.
london, Nov. 2.?The belief is grow?
ing that the preaent naval activity U
directed more against Russia than it is
against France. Rumors are current
that Russia has taken advantage of the
recent situation between France and
England to reattack British influence
in China.
Spain and the Philippines.
Paris, Nov. 2.?Spain, through her
peace commissioners, is really disposed
to relinquish the Philippines, but her
representatives will continue their dip?
lomatic protest against surrendering
the islands without a cash indemnity,
and will ask for a similar indemnity for
Cuba if compelled to assume the Cuban
debt. This will be refused. The ne?
gotiations will be strained to the break
ing point, when 8pain will yield and
retire with what the generosity of the
United States permits them for tbe
evacuation of the Philippines.
The Paris correspondent of the Lon?
don Duly Telegraph says: "The Span?
iards are in a position to know and as?
sert that their government will resist
the American demands and will sell the
Philippines for a large sum. If this
proposal is not accepted Spain will re?
call her commissioners aDd let the Yan?
kees do what they choose."
Suicide by Asphyxiation.
New Yobk, Nov. 2.?Geo. S. Lieber,
a travelling salesman, committed sui?
cide in the Grand Union Hotel last
night by inhaling illuminating gas.
Early this morning Lieher was found
lying on tbe bed with a long gas tube
fastened in his mouth with strings.
Gas was ?owing through the tube from
the jet in the room. He had been in
bad health and financial straits for some
time. __
While passing through West Jefferson, 0 ,
yesterday Ben Wheeler, a bicycle thief, sprang
through a window of a car and made good bis
escape though he was manacled. The train
was going at a terrific speed at the time
De. Bull's Cough Sybl'p will cube
croup and whooping-cough. No dan?
ger to the child when this wonderful
medicine is used in time. Mothers, al?
ways keep & bottle on hand.
The "Holy War "
Pakis, Nov. 2.-Tn?
commenting editoriallj .
plan of the American , ig
It istotakeallof8pain's<
leave Spain tbe debt of
nies. This is the result oi .
undertaken to insure t
of the Cubans. What base
do these liberals, th -
these republicans show!
.S?00.000 on Van Wy<
New York, Nov. 2.?Van \v
money now goes be; - . g Q
of 10 to S and better yre no
tbe democratic candidate.
I $500,000 is in the bands
j people ready to place on V .
the odds above mentio
The Market?.
New Yobk. Nov. _ - v,
66%; closed 60^: May0
07^ Com?Dec opened
Mav 34; closed 3.T-, Oats
,2Z%; closed 23^. Pork- , J ..:
closed $7 85.
Baltimoke. Nov 2.-F?or
Nl^; Dec 72%a73. Corn du
month 37V37\
Georgetown,flov. 2.?Wheat! i -
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES
Daniel Holliday, who yes ei
Birmingham, Ala , kille
in law, John McLeod, in a
their partnership crop-. -
himself a few hour- lat< r ?
to be captured by the si
Sinc6 the death a few w<
John H. Alleman, cast
National Bank of Hai
been discovered that the
fered a less of fifty-sevet
lars through their lat<
When Mr. John Wi nan
from a train at Roches!
he was served with asm
pass for slander. Tr,.
of a criticism recem
Wanamaker of Tho.-. 1
State printer.
Edward A. Kent, of Pal
a well-known tenor and wi
sang with Sousa's hand, gave areciit!
in Temperance Hal: .
Saturday morning he I
uood bye and hn- n
It is be'ieved that there ..:
tne case.
The New York etock cktr
a special Londou dnpatt
the market for Ameri i
is heavy because of a reviva
democratic success in I
other departments art- :i
the continued active
preparations and the
opening of the whole
tion.
Aiice Pegged 16,di< ?:
yesterday from the efl
girl's parents had quarre c I
and their daoghter
father struck her in the
lired to her rooms!)*! U
uel I'eo, her father, was
stuuently released
Tmil Sonnabend, a cousii
henloho, Chancellor ttho
committed suicide at Detr .
ten days ago by taking m .
being discovered yosterdsy A
battered down the do u
decomposed form of t: ? w ? :.
bed.
The new Japanese ? i
from Cramp's shipyai I
England this morning. 1
panese man-of-war eve
SITUATION IN NORTH
A dispatch from Wilu . >'
says: "There is no m >
tbe political situation
come, it is believed, will he peaceful
I But tbe agreement m
to the very lett?-r.
trouble. Tbe latesl
fort is being made toil
r- gister of deeds, ?
come a so-called ii
for re-election, the objeci heil i
out the negro vote.
would regard this a- a
grant violation of the
ready made in the h
and will not submit to
consequences mav be.
The progress of tl e
waged for white
couracing. Genera I
a iett'er that is really ?
democrats. He practical!] ?? ?
he made a proposition to tbe democrw
to join forces and either disfrancnw
the negro or limit bis vote Go Im -
is steadily coming into democratic bew
I quarters.
Tbe greatest parade oi Bed saw
ever seen in North Carolina was*J
nessed at Laurinburg vesterd
ten miles the cavalcade I
it coneieted of a mile of Red Jw?
nearly all of whom wen " 1 v
Mas. Straus's Cleves Ri
appears that Emperor W
an amusing mistake al
which preceded the galabai | ; r;
in his honor by the .-u tai
in Constuntin?ple last Friday
Evidently mistaking ?* !S
Straus, wife of the United
ter to Turkey, for tn< ? V'. fli
diplomatist, the Emperor said De
her queen very well.
Mrs Straus quickly rep" ?? jjjj.
some your majesty refer, to u - ?
Emperor William was evidently ?"^
entertained I y bis own
It is understood . 1
Board of Coc-:r ic I
acain?t Hobeon'e i lans |
Viscaya and Colon. ']'??? I
has been some talk ; I
Navy Department r< e j
aypeal to the cou I
to continue the no, - I
partment has iodicat< ?
tion would be highly I
would promptly dec : I
young constructor to I
project were he to bring il J
tion of Secretary L I
Col. William Je;.- .I
Third Nebraska v I
-Monday at gavanr:? I
Ja handsome watcri . i
gold nugget* direct " "I
I dike. Mrs. Bryan w . I
a breastpin, made of< I
gold miner's calling. ' |
were from the miners '
river. 9
An Dkfopdxab ( h ?. . I
the Birmingham, Ala. I
building late Mon i ... _ I
mone, chaplain of tho first '?
ment, was ba: 0
figure were sev< S
er vidted the sick. ' "He " ??? 8
liked good whisky an I a H
wanted to be m?j at 9
Fitzsiaimons sided wit:; the ?
the enlisted men in a conti ... ?
months ago relative to the ?
the regiment.