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Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1828-06-10
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George 5. AOugM
VSnow oDening A select assortment OF SPRING
4 GOODS, among which are the following, VIZ
Blue cloths apt cassimeres
Steel mkt and medley do
Black do, some superior
Vig0na and Rouen cassimeres for summer
Stripes of all kinds
White and striped satteens very neat for pantaloons
Colored and white drillings
Beautiful assortment of vestngs
Blacks,astingssnd circassans
Black and cold brocheIle article tpr coats, &C.
Super and common black bombazine
Bombazettes :.
Green blue orange and black rattinett for coach lin
ing
Irish linens, sheetings and lawns
8-4 and ga very stout barnsley diaper
Do do cotton do
Damask napkins
Super black Italian lustring
Black and plain gros-de-naples
Pink, blue and real blue black satin :.
Bonnet cambria, MILNE and foundation muslin
Furniture cambria and garment dimities
Plaid and stripe catpalye
Batiste robes
Calicoes and super ginghams
First quality and common nankins
Nankin dive blue do
GYenadne and barrage scarfs
Fancy silk and gauze hdkfs
Pine blue searsuckers
Large assortment of coored, black and white slkand
cotton hosiery
Gauze fiannels
worsted bindings, all colors
Carpet do
| Red, black, drab and blue cotton DO
| Parasols and umbrellas
Russia, Germanand Scotch linens and diaper
White, green and other Italian grapes
Black and colored Canton do
Mems and boys Leghorn, fine pam-leaf& coarse hats
Leghorn fats and crowns
| Super patent roller suspenders
Grey Canton pongees
Chop tckings
With general assortment of
DOlfESTTCS and COTTON Y4RN.
4uo %
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For sale.
NEW. ORLEANS sugar
~ Philadelphia and Baltimore refined sugar in box
esand barrels
Molasses and w.England rum
West India rum, Cognac brandy
Holland and american gin
Whiskey, in Hogsheads and Barrels
Do 100 bbls Of Richardson's best
Madeira and Sicily Madeira
Dry and sweet Malaga
Glaret in casks and cases Choice Wines.
Sauterne, Frontignac and Port
Sparkling and still Champagne }
Brazil, Cuba, and Java coffee
Hyson. young hyson and imperial tea in chests and
catty boxes
Sperm and mould candles
Window glass all sizes pipes nails and brads steel
Richmond manufactured tobacco ofthe best quality
White lead ino salt petre, winter STAINED oil
Sack salt, powder & shot oxes of snuff, etc.
mar 10 AC. CAZENOVE Co.
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Writing Paper.


n THOMPSON has just received on SAFE iarg {
.. supply Of Ames' deny, folio post, cap, ana 4.o
post writing paper, hot aud cold % 10
s13 per reaIn. oe,
Armies medium and royal envelope paper, OF very
fine quality. yellow and gray.
Langstroth's deny
medium
super royal
imperial
Folio post oolscap, 4to post, and note aPer manu-
featured by Donaldson, Ames Blake. Allen, King &C
Whatman's fine antiquarian royal super royal dou
BILE elephant, Columbian, ard denny drawing paper
sealing wax wafers quilts, inkstands, penknves, eras
ers letter folders, and stationary in general.
.OSBORNES' AMERICAN WATER COLORS.
The Manufacturer Of these coors, having brough'
them to degree of excellence, which will sustain
comparison wsth the finest imported water colors' IN
froms his customers and the public that ne can no"
furnish all the fine colors used in flower, landscape
and miniature painting, at reduced prices, vz:.genu
inc sepa carmine crimson, scarlet, and Madden Lakes
of the finest quality, Indian yellow, Gladstone; Ultra
marine, Cobalt Blue, Thenard's Blue, &c. OSBORNE:
Prussan Blue, Bistree, Cologne Earth and blue yer
otter, are particularly recommended to the attention
of Artists The above colors sold wholesale anf
retail by p. Thompson, Agent.
Also-CamePs hair; sable; Pitch and Varn'sh Brush
es for water and oil color painting paint stones bsci
lead pencils, ivory paper. Bristol Boards, soid En-
bossed, Coored and marble papers,
march II
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District Of Columbia.
Counf;

APRIL TERN, 1923.
John II. Runnells CompPt.1
Augustine Leftwich, John I'm Chancery.
F. Webb and Henry Pitt
man, Deft's
yTYiE defendant, Augustine Leftwick, not having
l. entered his appearance and given security. ac-
cordng to the statute and the rules of this Court and
happening to dissatisfaction of the Court, upon af-
hdsvit 6ed that the said Augustine Leftwick is not
an nlsbtant of the District Of Columbia, onthe mo-
ton Of the Complainant by his COUNSEL it is ordered
that the said defendant Augustine Leftwick, do a2
pear here or before the first day of next November
Term, and answer the bill of the Complainant, and
give security for performing the DEGREES of the Court
and that the other defendants John F. Webb & Hen.
ry plttman do not pay, convey away, secrete the
money, debts or effects by them owing to- or in their
hands, belonging to the said absent defendant Au-
gustne Leftwck, until the further order and decree
OF this Court, and thata copy of this order be forth
with published in the public newspaper printed in
the town of alexandria, for two months SUCCESSFULLY
and that another copy be posted on the front door of
the Court House of the said County
,e ss EDM. LEE, &C.
may 80 law2m
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For ReNt.

New-Orleans Sugar
As, barrels, landing this day, from the Schooner
AkIGrriton from New York, and will be SOLD d., low
fromth wharf. Apply to s. MEsshhoMiin H.
feb 90
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D;strict Of Columbia,
.alernndriQ County, set.

alexandria County, SCI.
ApRiL FERN, 1925
James Birch, Administrators OF Nancy
Birch, deceased, Compr.
AGAINST
Thomas p;reh. Joseph Birch, Caleb
B;rcb John Birch, Samuel Birch, z m Cho"ee'y'
Isaac Birch and willism Birch, and
Elizabeth Taylo.ewdow of .Arch
bald Taylor, decd. late Elizabeth
Birch, DeTs. c.:.,hsr
yIyHES day came the complainant by CnristOpsr.
Neajs his solicitor s. fled ais Bill, & the Defen,
dan,s appeared by Robert l. flor, their sohc''or anu
6led their answer, TO which the Complainant rePnes
generally and by coUscut of paress this cause Is nov
act for hearing on the Bill and answer, and by ixe
consent by the Court decreed that the Marsha OF
the District of Columbia do forthwith expose 10 sae
at public Auction, all the real estate ~ the complain
ants Bill mentioned, of which Nancy nircn' ue ''e
tate ofthe Compliments died sic zed. One SIN part
of the purchase money to be paid in hand, the resi-
due on the LIST day Of November next Two weeks
notice of the time and place of sale, to be gwen oy
advertisement in the Phenix Gazette, and the ute 70
be retained until the purchase money shall De pa'a'
aud it is further decreed, that the Marshal do orng
into Court on the first day ofthe next term, the mo-
new which he may receive from such sale, to be SUD-
ect to the further decree of this Court and by con-
sent Of parties, it is further decreed that Master Com
missioner Moore, do take account OF the ndividuai
transactions, between the Complainant and the SAID
Nancy Brch in her life tme-of his transactions, as
her Committee and Administrator OF her estate IN
cluins in the said accounts, the claim preferred by
the Complainant, for her board and maintenance, and
that he take the dispositions of such witnesses may
be produced before him, by either OF the parte !,
Complanants Defendants, and report such special
matter pertinent TO the matter in issue, as either par
ty may direct.
a Copy--Teste, EDM l. LEE, C. c..
In pursuance of the above decree, shall proceed
to sell on Tuesday TIE Gam day of June merit at II
O'Clock, 5-12ths of the
"a House and Lot situated on the south
&If8 side Of King-street, and at present occupied
HsssI by George $. Hough as dry goods store
ILL., Aiso,-FYVE ACRES OF WOOD L3ND
in the county of Alexandria and near the Falls OF
Potomac. GrThe Terms of the above sale are one
fifth part of the purchase money to be paid IN
cash. the residue on the LIST day Of November next
no title of the property to be given until the whole Of
the purchase moneys pads and should the purchaser
fail to comply with either of the payments, the pro
perry viii be resod again the spot, and the rs'
purchaser held liable for any deficiency that may ARISE
in consequence of second sale. The 5acres OF land
will be sold at the time and at the front door OF
the said house occupied by George s. Hough IN
Alexandra. G. SCOTT ID. NJ.
NAV 30 For T. RINGGOLD, Marshal
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taw Books.

yUsT received. at the Auction Store, for prr..
% sale, at half book store prices.
Samples OF variety Of Law Books, to the at,entc.
of practitioners and others, is requested. ANON
them, are
Easts Reports by Day, 10 vols Tauntons Repors
s vols Bannell y Aldcrson's do, vols; Tyler, o.
vols; American Digest, 4vols; Blacksone's report
vols; Abbot on Shipping; Hawkins Pleas OF The
Crown; Jacobs on sea Laws; Msnner,'s Digest Ssit.
Evidence; Fell on Guarantees; Edwards Admirly
Re ports, Coke's, Addisons, &c. Reports; BaHsny
Acts; Bailments, &C. api2i
Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1828-06-10
Marshals Sale

/. ~, Snner;or Court OF Chancery, held in the Town
n of Fredericksburg the 10Th day OF May, io:G
Vincent Moss,
Bv consent Of the parties, by counsel, the court
doth .diudge, order and decree, that unless tue ue
PENDANT shall within twelve months from inc aa'S
hereof pay to the plaintiff. the sumsof one .hcuSa"u
dollars, with interest," thereon at the rate o.
centum per annum, from the first day OF uo.o ;,,,
1919, until paid (subject to credit OF twenty e 6s
dollars and 6fy six cents, paid the 27th Gay or De
cember 1920. one thousand dollars, with the nke III
terest thereon from the lst day OF uc'ops'
iii paid, onethousand dollars with tae hke nv ~
thereon from the first day OF Apri ieus and rty
subject to acredit of sixty eight dohars anu io
s;x cents. paid the Esd day OF Narch 1925 ohe
thousand dollars with the like interest thereo'''
from the LIST DAY of April 1S2o, unti pao; one
sand dollars with the like interest thereon rom 'e
day of April, 1921 until pads one thousana uo
with the like interest the Is, oay VI ,hs
1870 mill maid; and one thousand dollars with tne
like interest thereon from the LIST day OF April 100,
unt;i Maid; and the costs by the plaintiff expehuea ~
the persecution of this suit, the said defendant Anu
his heirs. and all persons claiming under nun, os
thencerorth forever absolutely barred ana -
of and from oil equity OF redemption III anu ~ or,
lands and nvemises described in the mdentufe OIL "loi
g,ge exhibited in this cause bearing date the z4tn
dsy of September, 1911, between the dei'.hua". VI
the one part and the plaintiff of the other Pari ahu
that the marshal of this court, after having ete,,
CIV wceks notice of the time and place thereof BY al
vertisement. published in some newspaper printed IT
tine town of Alexandria, do expose to sale stpu9
lie auction, to the highest bidder, for cash. the 'and
and premises aioresaid and out OF the proceeds o
the sale, after defrayng the expenses attending tht
nav to the plaintiff the said principal sums ant
and the costs and the surplus ofthe proceed
fthe said SALE if any pay the defendant orto suci
person as may be legally authorised to receive th'
same and report his proceedings herein to the eour
in order TO a final decree.l
Copy, teste, J. IL. WILKINS u. u
| Costs, S27 @
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Notice,

u-1Pursusnt to the foregoing decree. shall on the
oath day of June next before the front door OF the
Tavern, at present keptby Mrs, Norris, IN the town
of warrenton and County of Fauquer expose to sale
by Public Auction, to the highest bidder for Cash. all
that tract of land living and being in the County a.
foresad, whereon (the plan,iH) Vincent Moss form,
erIy resided and which is composed of the several
following tracts, viz tract formerly the proper
ty of Nathaniel Moss, on which stands the Dwelling
House. One other tract purchased by the said Vin'
cent Moss of George Fisher and other tract pur'
chased by Hezekiah Glssscock and said Vincent
Moss, of Caleb whtacre, on which is erected a mer'
chant mill, &C. The whole bounded by Goosecreek.
.mavl2-9awts JOHN STANARD, VI. +. IL.
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John Lynch and Mahon
Schol6eld, Deft's.
The Defendants, John Lynch and Niahlon Scolfeld,
not having entered their appearance and given secu
rty according to the statute and the rules of this
court, and appearing to the satisfaction Of the court
upon affidavit Gled that the said def ndants are not
Inhabitants of the District of Columbia on the motion
of the Complainant by hS Counsel it is ordered that
the said Defendants John Lynch and Mahlon Schol.
field, do appear here or before the first day Of
next November Term, and answer the Bill of the Com.
plainant, and give security for performing the de-
crees OF the Court, and that copy of this order be
forthwith published in newspaper printed in the
Town of Alexandria, Cor two months SUCCESSFULLY and
that another copy be posted at the front door of the
Court House ofthe said County.
Test, EDM l. LEE C. C.
may 26
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Nistrict of C0luMhia,

County Of alexandria.
APRIL TERN, 1928.
joseph Vaudeville, Hugh CarOlin, Jas.
g. Scott, Alexander Moore, James Il.
Riddle, John jackson, Daniel Som
ers, Thomas Semmes, thos. Mount, I'm Caaneery.
and Benjamin Baden, Complts
AGAINST
Ronlulus Riggs, Deft
yNlai defendant Romulus Riggs, not having entered
mis- appearance and given security, according to
the statute and rules oil this Court and il appearing to
the satisfaction of the court upon affidavit filed, that
the said Roulus Riggs not inhabtant of the Dis
trict of Columbia the motion of the Compliments by
their counsel, it is ordered, that the Defendant Rom
uus Riggs do appear here the first day of next No
yember Term, and snsu er the bill Of the Complain
ants and give security for performing the DEGREES OF
the Court, and that copy of this order be forthwith
published in one ofthe public newspapers printed in
the town of Alexandra, for two months successfully
and that another copy be posted the front door Of
the Court House of the said County,
Test, EDM. 1. LEE, c. C.
NAV 26.-2aw2m
The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1828-05-28
SALEM WITCHCRAFT.
From a0ork entitled, /" An account of the En-
r0pean settlements IN. 4nerjca

From a aDOrk entitled, " I'm account Of the Elt
rOpean settlements In .4mericG."
When the New England puritans began d
breathe little from these dissensions, and hal
their hands tied up from prosecuting the Qua
kers and Anabaptsts, they fell not long after into
another madness OF yet more extraordinary
and dangerous kind, which, like some epidemi,
cal disease, ran through the whole country, and
which is perhaps one of the most extraordinary
decisions recorded in history. This tragedy
began in tire year 1882.
There is town in Massachusetts, which they
fanatically called Salem. One Paris was the
minister there. He had two daughters troubled
with commissions which being attended with
some of those extraordinary appearances, not
unfrequent in such disorders, he imagined thew
were bewitched. AS soon as he concluded upon
witchcraft as tho cause Of the distemper, the
next inquiry was to find out the person who be-
witched them. He cast his eyes upon an In
dian servant woman of his own, whom he fire.
quently beat, and used her with such severity.
that she at last confessed herself the With and
was coihhlllleo 70 juil ,,la-e che lay Tor long
| time. ~
The imaginations of the people were not SUI:
tclently heated to make very formal business
( OF this /; therefore they were content to dis
charge her from prison after long confinement,
and TO sell her as slave for her FEES Hover
or, as this example set the discourse abo,t
witchcraft afloat, somePeeple troubled witha
similar complaint, began to fancy themselves
bewitched too. Persons in an i'll state of hesltl
are naturally fond of finding out causes for Their
distempers especially such as are extraordinary
and call the eyes of the public upon them
There was perhaps something of malice in the
affair besides. For one of the first objects whom
they fixed upon was Mr.. Burroughs, gentle
man who had formerly been minister Of Salem;
but upon some of the religious disputes which
divided tho country, he differed from his flock
and left them. This man was tried with two
others for witchcraft by special commission Of
oyer and termner, directed to some gentlemon
of the best fortunes, and reputed to be of the
| best understanding in the country. Before
| these judges piece of evidence was delivered
the most weak and childish, the most repue-
nant to ITSELF and to common sense. that per
haps ever was known upon any serious occa-
sion. Yet by those judges, upon that evidence,
and the verdict founded upon it, this minister,
man of most unexceptionable character. and
two others, men irreproachable in their life,
were sentenced to die, and accordingly hanged.
Then these victims Of the popular madness
were stript naked, and their bodies thrown into
a pit, half covered with earth, and left TO the
dissection of the birds and wild beasts. Upon
the same evidence in little time after. sixteen
more suffered death, the greatest part of them
! dying in the most exemplary sentiments Of
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PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY
SAMUEL III. COTTON & co.
OPPOSITE THE CENTRE MEETING HOUSE.
CONDITIONS OF PUBLICATION.

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cents will be deducted when the payment is
made in advance
NJ Advertisements, not exceeding twelve
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continued three weeks longer for fifty cents
Larger advertisements in the same proportion:
. ID The publishers of this paper win hold
themselves responsible for no error, in any ad-
vertisement, beyond the sum charged for its
insertion.
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In accordance with the foregoing, it will, al
once, be perceived that it is proper to say, the
Misses Sarah, Caroline, and Lucy Brown" be-
cause Sarah, Caroline, and Lucy, are collec-
lively in opposition to Misses.
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POETRY.
From the Episcopal Watchman.

From the Episcopal WatchmGa.
" WHEREFORE i PRAISED THE DEAD, MORT
THAN THE LIvINe."-King Solomon
They dread no storm that lowers,
No persisted joys bewail,
They pluck no thorn-clad flowers,
Nor drink of streams that fail,
There is no tear drop in their eye,
Nor change upon their brow.
The placid bosom lleaves no sigh,
Though all earth's idols bow.
Who are so greatly best
From whom hath sorrow fed?
Who find such deep unbroken rest
While all Things toll Tile dead!
The holy dead Why weep ye SO
Above their sable bier
Thrice blessed they have done with woe,
The kcing claim the tear.
Go to their sleeping bowers,
Deck their lone couch of clay
With early Springs uncolored flowers,
And when they fade away,
Think of the amaranthine wreath,
The bright bowers never dim,
And tell me why thou hyst from death,
Or hid st thy friends from him ?
We dream, but they awake,
Dark visions mar our rest,
Mid thorns and snares our way we take,
And yet we mourn the best
For those who throng the eternal throne,
Lost are the tears we shed,
They are the LiUing, they alone,
Whom thus we call the dead
ENIGMA. The dying address of Mar
mion,
" Charge, Chester, charge, on Stanley, on,
Were the last words Of Marmion,'
have given occasion for the following cpl
gram;
Were | in noble Stanley's place,
When Marmion uged him to the race,
A word you then might all descry,
Would bring tear to every eye.
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If unspotted innocence, and genuine social
happiness ever dwelt on earth--if they ever
took up their abode with these frail tenoments
Of clay, il was with the first inhabitants Of New
England, when the heart uncorrupted, aud the
mind unpoTluted, felt and thought as nature
prompted; and the tongue, untrammelled by
the arts of refinement, gave free utterance to
those thoughts and feelings.-Neal
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POWERFUL. LANGUAGE. All the performan-
ces Of hHman art, at which we look with praise
and wonder, are instances Of the resistless force
of human perseverance,. 1t is by this that the
quarry becomes a pyramid, and that distant
countries are united by canals. If a man were
to compare the effect of single stroke of the
pick-axe, or of one impression of spade, with
the general design or last result, ho would be
overwhelmed by the sense of their dispropor-
ton. Yet these petty operations, necessarily
continued, in time surmount the greatest diff
iculties; and mountains are lcyellcd, and
oceans bounded, by the slender force of human
beings. 1t is, therefore, of the utmost impor-
lance that those who have any intention Of de-
Waiting from the beaten roads Of life, and ac-
curing a reputation superior to names hourly
swept away by time, among the refuse Of fame,
should add to their reason, and their spirit the
power Of perssting in their purposes-acquire
the art Of sapping what they cannot batter, and
tho habit of vanquishing obstinate resistance,
by obstinate attucks-Dr. johnson.
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D1AMoSps. The ancients attributed extraor-
binary virtues to the Diamond They believed
it could not be broken even by the greatest
blow, but Pliny says if it be soaked in blood of
goat, il may then be broken. The ancients
believed that diamond kept in the house would
prevent domestic strife betweeB man and wife.
This was mere idle Imagination, but there is a
diamond which may be kept in every family,
which has this virtuo-and that is good temper
Professor D'JVoB.
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A CoMPLIMENT. A Frenchman who had
learnt English, wished to be particularly polite,
and never neglected an opportunity of saying
something pretty. One evening he observed 10
Indy r., whose dress was fawn-colored, and
that of her daughter pink" Milady, your
daughter is the pink of beauty" An, Mon
sieur, you Frenchmen always fattcr" "No,
Madam: |. only do speak the truth, and what all
the world will allow, that your daughter is the
pink, and you are the drab of fashion Il" II
was with great difficulty the Frenchman could
BIO made to comprehend his sottise.
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The foregoing Bylaws having been re-
ported by a Committee chosen at previous
meeting for that purpose, were unanimous
ly accepted by the Corporation as the By
Laws and Regulations of the Institution.
ISAAC GOODWIN, Secretary.
Worcester, Mon /, 1928.