Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1860-11-05
MISCELLANEOUS READING.

cIdDIe attention on CQ6 Ialr~ grOuuQ yester'
day, because ola most handsome, and neatly
fitting copperas .homespun dress which she
wore, and OF which she seemed justly proud.
She Is SAID to be wealthy and of a fine fami-
~ and for her dress, which really was among
the handsomest of any kind on the ground.
she certainly deservesa grand premium and
we insist upon the Agricultural Society
awarding her one. We heard number Of
ladies wish for dress like it, but whether
they wished it because of the style of goods,
or because they discovered it to be SO popu-
lar we will not say. But most assuredly we
were delighted to see this one Southern lady
rugged out in homemade CLOTH Southern
manufacture, and we predict that in short
time it will be all the go. The North then
will learn that our Southern ladies can dress
neatly and lock sweetly without calling upon
them for fine silks and muslins, or Northern
manufactured goods of any kind.-Auanta
Ga Locomotive
BAD WEATHER AND MURDERs.-People
have said that the long continuance of bad
weather, the eternal gloom, the perennial rain
of the last twelve months has inspired GER
tain degree of moroseness and acrimony into
the minds OF our countrymen, thereby pre-
pairing them for deeds of violence and blood.
It seems, however, not little difficult to be.
lieye in the connexion between murder and
the hygrometer. Are our homicidal tenden-
cies keptin check by greatcoats and umbrell-
as? Has the occurrence Of wet summer
commonly produced crime; or really increas-
ed-thc tendency to acts of violence? If that
were so, we should expect that in rainy dis
tricts Of Lancanshire, Cumberland, and
Westmoreland, the returns Of murder would
stand the highest Kendall is said to be the
wettest spot in England By this time eve
rybody should have murdered everybody in
that famous little town; or, assuming that
there must have been one survivor, he in
all probability would have committed sui
cide.-Once q 3reeE. ~"
OYER WORKED WoMEN.--An overworked
woman is always u sad sight; saddera great
deal than an oyer-worked man, because she
is so much more fertile in capacities of suf
ferns than man She has so many Yarie-
ties of headache, sometimes as if Jael were
driving the nail that killed Sisera into her
temples, sometimes letting her work with
half her brain, while the other half throbs as
if it would 90 to pieces. sometimes tighten
Luke's iron crown and then her neuralgias,
and her back aches, and her fits of depres-
sion, in which she thinks she is nothing, and
less than nothing, and those paroxysms
which men speak slightingly Of as hysteri-
cal commissions, that is all, only not common
~, fatal ones, SO many trials which belong
10 her fine and mobile structure, that she is
always entitled to pity when she is placed IN
conditions which develope her nervous ten
dencies-D:. o. y. Holmes.
z.y> ELECTION NoTICE.-The following per-
suas have been appointed to superlntend and con-
duct ut the respective Election Precincts in Alex
andria City and County, the election of Electors
for President and Vice President Of the United
States, on the 9Th of November:
Ar THE CouRr HoUsE.-Isaac Buckingham,
Turner Dixon, Geo. II. Robinson, Geo. W. Brent,
C. ~ Castieman, and Rohs~J amieson. Conduc-
tor-Jos. Cotton.
FIRsr NARD-(ut First Ward House.)-C. +.
Snttle. |. l.. Kinzer, and j. J. Wheat. CoHduc-
tor-Wm. Walker.
SECOND WARD--(at the Council Chamber.)-H.
L. Simpson, l. kei!, and A. Moran. Conductor
Geo. ". Nelson.
FOURTH WARD-(at the house On the Northwest
corner Of Prince and Alfred streets. .)-Wm. W.
Harper, D. r. Blackjack, and Z. B. Powell. Con-
ductor-W. J. Summers.
CouNTY-( Balls 4 Roads. John Birch, JAS.
f. Smoos, and j. l.. Somcrs. Conductor-Rich.
Williams. nov 3-dtE
A1lj-T TO C0NSUMpTIVES.-Thc advertiser,
having been restored to health in few weeks BY
very simple remedy, after having suffered sevc-
raj years with severe lung affection, and that
dread disease, Consumption--is anxious to make
known to his fellow sufferers the means of cure.
70 all VINO desire it he will send copy Of the
4: NF ahu \ \, I'm Itrnp
tons for preparing and using the same, which they
will find Il sure cure for Consumption, Asthma,
Bronchitis, &C. The only object of the advertiser
in sending the Prescription is to benefit the attic
tcd and spread information which he conceives
to be invaluable, and he hopes every sufferer will
try his remedy, as it will cost them nothing, and
may prove Il blessing.
Parties wishing the prescription will please ad-
dress Rev. EDWARD A. WILSON,
Williamsburgh, Kings County, New York.
New York, oct 15-wly
z.s- THE AMERICAN MEDICAL AND Toll
LET RECEIPT 500K.-This Book contains Re-
cipes sud Directions for making all the most valu-
able Medical preparations in use; also, Recipes
and full and explicit directions for making all the
most popular and useful Cosmetics, Perfumes,
Ungenis, Hair ReStoratives, and all Toilet Arti-
clus. Ii you are suffering with any chronic dis
easc--f you wish i beautiful complexion, fine
head of hair Il smooth face, a clear skin, 4 luxu
riant beard or moustache--or if you wish to know
anything and everything in the Medical and Toi-
let lire, you should, by all means, peruse copy
OF this Book. For full particulars, and sample
OF the work for perusal, tfree,) address the pub
Usher. L. +. CHAPMAN,
oct 3O--d3m No. S3I Broadway, New York.
FlOR SALE.-The Catawisa, Eyerbearing
IL RASPBERRY, now in full fruit; also, the
true RED ANTWERP RAS P ER Y; fno
PLANTS of the following kind of GRAPE
VINES, Catawha, Isabella, Rebecca, Concord,
Diana, Black Hamburg, &c
SHADE TREES, WEEPING WILLOWS,
HARDY EEFRDLOOMING RO SES, ut the
Garden on Washington street. opposite the Cot
ton Factory. JOHN y. HUGIES,
oct 1.--,ltf Nurseryman and Florist
n EW GOQDS.--I nave just received another
~ large sappy Of Dress Trimmings and But
tons, Velvet, and other Ribbons, Zephyr Wors-
teds Shetland Wool, Embroidering AMI Work
ing Materials Worsted Goods, Yarns, Skirts,
Hosiery and Gloves, Scarfs, Travelling Bags,
Purses and pcrtmonies, Combs and Brushes all
of which will sold cheap for cash at
&C. BERRY'S,
oct 72 King street.
z OST. Yesterday morning in the Market House
! or on the street, between the Post Office and
tho Market House, LADY'S GOLD HUNTING r
CASE WATCH, with chain, and three keys at
tached.