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Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1820-01-15
Extracts from a Law

Of the Corporations 10 prouade for tie speedy
sxtiagsishment of Fare, &c.
Sec |. That every proprietor OF any dwell
5 ling house, or store house within the limits of
tle corporation, shall, at his OF her own ex-
pence, provide as many IRE buckets, made
of good aud suitable leather, and containing
at least two and half gallons, as shall be e.
dual in number to the stories in such house.
Provided, That no proprietor shall, in any
case be compelled to provide more than
three buckets for one house. Every proprie-
tor who shall neglect to procure the proper
number OF buckets in the manner herein dl-
reeted, shall forfeit and pay one dollar per
month for each bucket he shall SO neglect
TO procure. The proprietors of all dwell
ling houses and atore houses which shall
hereafter be erected within the corporation,
shall furnish the same with buckets IN the
manner before prescribed, within two months
after such houses shall be occupied or fail
ing to do so, shall be subject to the penalties
before mentioned.
2. Where the proprietor of any dwelling
house or store house residing out of the limits
of the corporation, shall neglect to comply
with the acquisitions of this act, the occupier
of such house shall within two months after
seening TO the possession thereof, procure
the necessary buckets; and failing to pro-
vide the same, shall be subject to the like Pc
nalties as are in such case imposed on ,he
proprietor.
s.. II shall be the duty of the supeIinten-
'deat Of police, once in six months at least, to
tisil the houses within the limits of the cor
poration to examine and take an account oil
6 the buckets belonging to such houses, and 10
report TO the mayor the names Ut all persons
who shall neglect to provide and keep the
sane, according to the acquisitions of this act
81. 3l&3a. GEO. c ELL, Sup. Pc.
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S. Drew, Merchant Tailor,

Remored from uarfdI-street to the corner Q,
King nnd Columbus streets, andMs
prices falling,
y ESPECTFULLY acquaints his custo-
& mers and the citizens in general that
he has removed as above, where he will
study to give satsTaction.~ He has by him
small but well assorted stock Of goods,
which will be found on inspection to be OF
the best quality, the whole of which he
wishes to sell low for cash, and as further
inducements to purchasers he offers to cut
out any goods, bought of him to any size or
pattern gratis.
S. Drew aware, of the advantage realty
money business has over one where long
credit is given. thinks that distinction
ough to be made in the prices in each case:
and as the price of provisions are low at
present, he is glad to be able to announce
to those customers who will feel disposed
to pay him ready money for his work, that
he will reduce the price of making to them
according to the present journeymen's wa
ges; and to prevent any supposed imposi-
ton on the one hand or dissatisfaction on the
other he is willing to be governed by the
printed regulations of prices by which the
journeymen are paid in Alexandria.
n. b. Bread, -four, beef, groceries, IL.
quors or any thing valuable taken in ex-
change for clothes.
S. Drew has this day opened tavern in
the same house. where he has laid in sup
ply OF Philadelphia and the district porter
and ale, together with liquors of the best
quality, aud ne feels confident that he shall
be able to give satisfaction to all who viii!
please to favor him with a call.-He is fit
ting up his house for the accommodation Of
boarders, travellers, sc. and FROM its central
situation, good beds and stabling, together
with other requisites, he presumes that it
will be found convenient establishment.
may 25
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To Rent,

r.. A commodious three story brick
s dwelling house ON Washington-str't,
H.. lately occupied by Mr.. Jno.J Jackson.
ALSO,
A small frame house, on Fairfax-street be
tween King and Prince streets. In my alb
sence, application may be made to X. Vet ch.
July 3 d3ttuthstf JOHN LLOYD.
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For Sale or Rent,

80 The unexpired lease of the Spring
AYsA Garden, with all the improvements
Ws.xx..ln now attached thereto; as well as
asrAsxslthe crop in the ground; the whole
being in high state of cultivation.
En1nire Of the printer nov 20
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HOUSES, LANDS, Sc.
To Let.

- Two houses, near the Toll Gate,
&T4M West End--one convenient TWO
nsssl story house, and in complete orae 1
49, Any additional Improvement, III lne
way of shop, Sc. will be made to accomo-
MEDIATE a tenant, who wants an advantageous
astablishment Also two small comfortable
houses agreeably situated in town. these
houses will be rented low to good tenants.
no nsc A. HOLLBROOK.
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R Notice
W. ~'oISCC.
4 ANTIQUITIES ar;s;r

DlFFICULTIEs arising fr,n d,
~ oilhe following work tho ,' n,i iie nature
been compelled to remove 10 publisher nil ha,
s soT ,ns pe,'er execution Of his psn Gi
editorial department has III consa r,"a, The
len into other hands. Mr. Arr Irqaence faI.
engagement rendering itimpossibIe ID Present
intend 1t in another city. The V G.; 10 super.
relations Of The different sgners 70 n zen snj
ration oflndependence are tbsro ,H .he Decla
445' Market-s'reet PHILADELPHIA. ''sne'' Ne
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To Rent,

49, That large and commodious brick
@T7 warehouse, lately occupied by Geo.
E.ssI Kincaid; also, the frame dwelling
Alhouse, and store adjoining. The a.
hove property is well situated for the -four and
grocery business, will be rented low to good
tenants, and possession given immediately
July s JAMES SANDERSoN.
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For Rent.

s,n The dwelling house and store, oc-
&sFn cupied by Mr. Rob't. S. Blackjack.
So for one or more years, and immedl-
49, ate possession will be given. This
situation is one of the most desirable in town
for grocery business, and the dwelling is
large and pleasant. For terms apply to-
september "a mth6w CHR. NEALE.
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To Let,

s,a ON moderate terms, three story
&rYB brick House, in central part OF
Esas) the town, well calculated for pri-
@..sAs.l vate family, or genteel boarding
house. Possession given on OF before the Isl
Of December next. Inquire OF the frlnter'
June % ull
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rr'nters have been looking -
press their unqualified apn s al, and al {,
our rress is better made s'' ,h olit.
nave nav IRON Ruthven's manufae,o,.nna n one y
ta:t, an excellent machine Its,
'nI COLUMBIAN, and 70 be prete lp~eiul
lightness and simplicity. 'ef'ea for /
Mr: a: Kamage: If Decent. |.
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For Sale.

- That three story brick house, sltu-
St ated on the south side of Rrnce-st
Mssssi now in the occupancy OF Mr.. VIM.
49, Rudd; perfect title will be given,
and the terms of payment made convenient
Apply to JOHN II. LADD S0Co
September 10
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Screw and Ruthven
PRINTING PRESSES.

The former, in its present improved state,
with iron beds, sc. he has obtained patent
for. The estimation in which this press is
held, is perhaps best shewn by the demand
for it-nearly Geo being IN use of his make !;
and every exertion shall still be made 10
render it as complete as possible.
fSyAl other articles in his line, as usual.
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dec
John Ramsay

TT AS imported in the ships Boston, captain
L Il Finlay, &. Potomac, captain Bradford,
direct from Liverpool, handsome assort-
ment of
Fail and Winter Goods,
which are now opening, and offered for
sale on accommodating terms
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.J.HMES,

absut 29 years of age, his tore teeth wide
apart, and cannot speak very quick
on Virginia cloth clothes and carried off a
shaggy great coat, he has father named Pc
ter Hall, who lives with the widow Morgan,
at Oak Hill, Fauquier Co. and his grandfa-
Their, old Frederick Hall, is supposed to be
living at Mr.. Terrett's near Alexandria, and
it is likely he may be lurking about there
| will give the above reward for apprehend-
ing and securing said fellow so that get him
again, and reasonable charges if brought
home. j. II. WASHING ON.
Masters of vessels and others are fore
warned against harboring or carrying of
said fellow tt June IA
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PROPOSALS
BY 7 JOSEPH NJ. sANDERsoy
70 FOR Publishing by Subscription,
A Biography of the sjonor.
OF 7HE
Declaration Of Mdepende0c.

IT, Accompanied with Plates,
10 which will be annexel; Hist ss,
Proceedings of Congress, duripr tbo y Of lie
OF the Law, and the DecIaratiooss Tue IL, pas'ase
the fac simile EngraYings of the Si 'sseIl, VIII
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400 Dollars Reward.

Dan away from the subscriber living IN
AZ King Georges county Va. On Monday
the 22nd March, yellow man named
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For Sale,

yVyHE HOUSE and LOT in which used
Il to reside in the town of Alexandria, con
tanning an acre of ground, on Westinghouse
being one of the most agreeable situations fol
4 genteel family in that town. For terms,
and view of the property, apply to James
L. Mckenzie, esq. who is fully authorized
10 treat for and dispose of the same, and will
explain any facts respecting it which may be
required. JOHN HOfh'Ho
Hill and Dale, April 90.
Bur: Mill Stone Mandatory.
TINE subscriber wishes to inform his
Il friends and the public, that he has
opened his Burr Mill Stone Mandatory, at
the upper end of King-street, (opposlte the
Blacksmith and Farrier's shop, in the town
of Alexandria, J where he will supply milers
with French Burrs, of any size, at the short
est notice and will warrant them equal, if
not superior, to auy in the United States
II millers will order their Wheat Burrs be-
FIRE they are built, he will build them IN
4 manner, as he can prove to the satisfaction
of any person. that they will run, without
stop or fail, for 100 years; y il not bespoke,
from 90 to 100.
N. B. Prices as low as possible
iune 90 ROBERT GLENN.
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TO PRINTERS.

ADAM Ry4.MAGE
DESPECTFULLY informs the trade, that
~ he continues to manufacture the
Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1820-01-15

Neu York, July 8. 1919.
Dear Sir have for tome time past been
threatening to write to you, TO let you know
how we'll am pleased with the Ruthven
Press. improved and made by you but a
variety of circumstances have prevented it.
have had it in constant operation three
months during which time nearly all the
printers OF this city, and number of our
most ingenious mechanics, have called to ex-
anime it. They have pronounced it as COM
plele in every respect, as any machinery
they have ever seen.
The following is the idea have of it.
No Printing Press has ever been construct
ed, on which more or better work Can be
done in given time.
The ezer,ionof working it is no more than
healthy exercise for boy of Is years of age.
q have boy of tina. age to work on mine
1t is well made, the different parts a9mira-
bly, proportioned, and not more liable than
other presses to get out of repair.
| am, yours respectfully,
D. FANsHAW.
cir. A. Ramage.
Neu- York, April 25, 1918.
Sir-The Ruthven Press arrived safe, and
is IN successful operation. Many of orr
Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1820-10-10
LYCURGAN. SOCIETY.
JOSEPHUS.

Al meeting OF the Lycurgan Society Of Yale
College, held August 9th, 1920, on the re-
commentator of i Committee of the Soce-
ty, composed of members from the different
states in the union:--
Rescued, That extravaganza in the
articles OF dress, is inconsistent with the
republican principles of our govern
meat, and III evil which at the present
time threatens its interests. 1t is, there
lore, the duty of every friend of his coun-
try, to afford his assistance in opposing
It's alarming progress.
ReSoEUeG, That it is The fecuHar duty
of the mcnbess Of cur Colleges, and a
debt of gratitude the owe their country
for the distinguished privileges which
she has conferred upon them, 10 exer
their influence in the accomplishment OF
so laudable an object
Rescued, That we disapprove of =
travagance in dress and luxurious indn,-
gencies in our seminaries of learning e.
the present time; especially do we disap-
prove OF them in the institution with
which we are connected.
Resolved, That, to reduce the expense
of Clothing and prevent the evils arisin,5
from the continual fluctuations of fashion,
we adopt an uniform dress to be here
after worn by the members of this So
ciety.
Resokued, That to promote industry
IN Our country and to promote Amerll az,
Manufactures, we wear cloth exclusive
y OF domestic manufacture.
ResoiUed, That these resolutions bc
signed by the committee, who are in
structed to describe our dress for tn
benefit of those who may hereafter be-
come members of this institution; and
that the same be published in the news
papers.
Committee.-Geo. L. Adams, Maine :;
4. L. alexander, Georgia Charles At
wood, MaS8ochuSetts Edward f.
Barnes, AA8sisaithi; P. w. Chase,
.Ne7o- Hampshire Asa Child, Counecti-
cut; ]. P. Jones, Delaaoare Thos. p.
Little, North Caroiina VIM. B. M'CuI-
Tough, .Nesv-Jeraey George w. Peter,
District Of Columbia; Edward E.
Phelps, Vermont George Sheaff, Penn
syluania Edward A. Strong, .Me7v-
York 4, w. S. Sullivan, Ohio Landon
A. Thomas, Kentncky; Edmund B.
Yass, Virginia Thomas J. Young,
South Carolina.
Description efde Dress.-A coatee
or short coat, and pantaloons of dark
Domestic Cloth, black and white mix
ture, denominated Iron Grey, made
agreeable to the present fashion in every
respect, except that the coatee is single
breasted, with a small pointed lapel /;
the pockets on the outside of the skirt,
with small scalloped welt.
Yale College, NerO-Htven, CT. .4Rgust25.
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their approving notice, and held up his
stubborn virtues and manly independents,
to the emulation OF posterity.
Let not those then, whose business ii
is to cultivate the rural arts, despise then
humble employment. In vain among
the busy scenes Of commercial transao
tons, or in attention to the harrassing
duties of professional life, may they
expect the enjoyment OF that tranquiiIas
OF mind they now experience. Wearied
by the tastidlous customer, the veXatioos
client, or the petulent patient, they may
often sigh again for their native hills.
lie who in the language Of Horace,
Paterna rura bobus exercet sus,
IS but little dependent upon the caprices
OF fortune, and has little to fear from Ca
sual circumstances. His profits are no
large, but they are certain; his success
Is slow but OF sure event. How much
more enyiable his state, how much su-
perior IN happiness is he to those, who
Bit by the rage canine OF dying rich.
undergo all extremes oil anxiety in lii,
accomplishment Of their purpose. The
tenor of his way is noiseless, but it is the
vale Of content; rich in all the bounties
Of nature, rich in ali the tender endear-
ments OF domestic life.
JOSEPHUS.
Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1820-10-10

in twsn<s Jars and what can we call 1t
but q "a loss with the interest for ever.
1872 saying this plan of keeping cat
Aeup in yards is best, you are not to in
fer from it that they are not 20 have &C
casional ran; for | think that if a wood
should be advantageously fenced off with
lane from the barn yard, it would be
well, and the cattle would improve with
two or three hours run in it each day (;
in the construction of barn yard the
comfort of cattle greatly depends. Barn
yards generally have springs or branches
through them at the lowest part OF the
yard--now this is very wrong, for the
yard ought to be in the shape of basin
with a contrivance for letting an over
abundance of water that might accumu-
late by rains or SHOWS, that might be good
for the manure to escape; now the water
for the supply of drinking should be
raised if possible to a convenient height
to drink at, or SO high as not to let them
dung in it, for it is fact when cattle go
down to those springs or branches (upon
the old plan and lowest part of the yard
after being completely satisfied with
water, they turn and Immediately dung
either in the water or Immediately in its
neighborhood; so that the first rain or
flood sweeps it off and it is consequently
lost. BY building yards upon the con-
struction | mentioned, great saving OF
manure would be found which is great
inducement.
From my little experience in the Gull
tivation of land, am confident that the
system | have adopted is saving of a
handsome per centum. In the ensuing
spring | intend planting locusts the
length of rail part and hedge be.
tween; and by keeping my cattle up
shall then have no occasion to train the
hedge to a fence, and if the hedge will
not succeed have a durable post left.
MELIBEUS.
P. S. If you should consider my.
pieces worthy of your notice, you may
rely upon their being the re-
suit of actual experience and not mere
theory; for no one has had to work End
twist more about fencing than I have :;
but am SO pleased with the plan ]
have now in use that if the timber was
given me to fence with would not maui
it.
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VETERINARY.
AlbanY, July 10, 1920.

DEAR SRI was to-day applied TO by
a gentleman, TO cut the Lamhas out OF
his horses mouth. | told him that ii
was never considered as a disease by
scientific practitioners Of the veterinary
art, and that being an unsurgicat opera
ton, l should not perform it, but that l
would inform him how to remedy the
evil, as he said his horse would not cat.
| did SO, and it is simply this-to rub
the upper part of the roof of the mouth,
which you find on those occasions red,
and swollen, with coarse salt, three or
four times day-to throw in his man
ger also few ears oil the hardest corn J;
and thus, few days would totally rene
dy the evil.
l cannot suppose, that any person
possessing the least experience, should
fall into the ridiculous and absurd belief,
that horses are subject to that imaginary
disease called Lamps. Because, ex-
aiming the palate or roof ofthe mouth
would be quite sufficient to convince a
,judicious investigator, that the supposed
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FROM THE SAME.

me .4Tt o. Making and Bottlng Cider.
MIR. SKINNER-A glass Of good cider,
now sparkling before me, brings to r,y
mind your request, to be informed ofthe
best method to bottle cider. have had
the satisfaction to furnish my table for s
years with that article, without any ma
lerial interruption, having some always
OF two years bottling on hand.
1t would be needless to detail all the
experiments made to save my bottles j;
however, will relate two that were very
promising, which will shew that nothing
less than raising the proof Of the cider
will answer.
Experiment IL bottled cider of fine
quality in February, with the best of
corks, and moved it to the cellar, after
the bottles were filled they were placed
in tubs ofwarm water, and raised TO foil
summer heat, and then corked.
Experiment 2.-Considering that good
corks would begin to stop the air in the
neck Of the bottle, before they were half
driven in, and that portion Of air would
be condensed, and therefore greatly en-
danger the bottles, when the temperature
was increased, l procured perforated
corks, and stopped the perforations, after
they were driven in with pegs and sealed
all over.
Neither ofthese probable experiments
were efectual: every hot day was an
nounced by an explosion in the cellar.
Giving over every stratagem that had not
an alteration of the liquor in view, it oc-
Cured to me that wine did not burst
their bottles, and that cider was only a
low wine, and also recollecting that
small beer was both the weakest and
most violently Preventative of all COM
mon drinks, l resolved to raise the proof
of my cider, by the addition of two tea
spoons Of French brandy to each bottle.
Since which have had no more explo-
sions nor broken bottles, and the cider
is improved by the addition. Piumbs
or honey, SO much used, must have the
same effect, i. e. to raise the proof; for
it is only necessary to add larger
quantity of either to make cider into
good wine, that will flash in the fire my
method is to get cider made late in Oc-
tober or in November, from Reds,reaks,
Catalins or Maidens blush. In Dccem-
Der, l put half an ounce of isinglass to
each 80 gallons, and bottle it in Febru-
ary. If the isinglass is put in later, it
will deposit some sediment in the bottles.
1t is to be dissolved by chipping i. into
fine pieces and placing it in a covered
mug with quart of cider, for ten hours
or more, in very warm ashes heat
about as much as we use to draw tea
little scalding of the corks, at the mo-
men, they are to be used, will soften
them, so that they will fit better and be
more readily driven in.
But it would be needless to expect CT
der to be made good by boiling, it must
be pure and we'll favored whilst in the
cask; and therefore the subject neces'