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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1870-07-21
BY Green & Wise.

Real Estate Agents and Auctioneers.l
ERS' SALE OF PROPERTY
u IN THE CITY OF ALEXANDRA VA.
By virtue of decree Of the Circuit Court Of
Alexandra county Va, rendered at February
term, 1863. in the suit OF VIM. 4. Church.
plaintiff, vs.. j. n. Watkins Ell ais, defendants,
the undersigned, Commissioners therein nsmed
will sell, on SATURDAY, the 9th day of Au-
gust, 1870, at II o. clock NJ. in front of the May
ors office, in the city of Alexandria BY public
auction. the following REAL ESTATE:
A LOT, on Peyton street l29 feet, and run
ming back 200 feet.
TERMS-One tenth Of the purchase money
to be paid in cash, and tho residue in three
equal instsments, payable at six, twelve ana
eighteen months from the day Of sale: the bonds
bearing intel est from the day Of sale to be tax
en- for tho deferred payments, and the property
liable to be resold at the risk and cost of the
purchaser upon failuro to comply with the
terms of sale, and the title to be retained until
all the purchase money has been paid. Stamps
and conveyancing at the cost of the purchaser
CHARLES E, STUART.
FRANCIS L. SMITH,
ie l4-ts Commissioners
DUBLIC SALE.-By virtue of a decree Of
L the Circuit Court of Prince William county.
pronounced on the 18th day of October, 1860.
in the suit Of Lstshsw vs.. Miner. the under
signed who was appointed Special C9mmis-
slOner LOT INA. purpose, VIII, oA hC3 N ~
the Let day OF August, 1870, that being Court
day, at the front door of the Court House Of
said county, sell &t public auction, TWO
TRACTS OF LAND, adjoining each other;
one containing 7O5 acres, rood and 2ss ksFA
poles and has on it {. comfortable Dwell IN
LING. The other contains CO acres, roods and
II poles.
These tracts of land are situated in Prince
William county, on the telegraph road from
Dummies to fredericksburg, ABOUT two miles
from the former place
They are we'll timbered and wstered and are
considered very good lands, and are within two
miles of navigable water.
TERMS-One-fourth Of the purchase money
to be in cash on the day Of aalo, and the residue
in three equal instslments of six, twelve and
Ell. hteen months; the deferred payments to
bear interest from the day OF sale, and to be
secured by bonds, with approved personal SO.
curity; the title to be retained and the land
subject to resale under order OF the Court,
and ten per cent of the purchase money forfeit.
ed in case the terms arc not complied with.
EPPA HUNTON, Comm'r.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1870-07-21
Prince William CO., jy l-eots
nANK or THE OLD DOMINION.

DANK OF THE OLD DOMINION,
b Alexandria, Va, June 9th, 1870.
No.ice is hereby given that the countersign.
cd notes of this Bank and its Branch at Pearls
burg must be presented ut this office for re..
demption at par en- or before the LIST day Of
July, 1871, or the Same will BIO barred, in con-
formity with an act ofthe General Assembly OF
Virginia, passed June 10th, le1o, entitled =, an
"Act for tho relief OF the Bank of the Old Do
mnion."
This Bank having been in course OF liqui'
tlstion for the past five years, and it being very
desirable to close up its business and to redeem
the small amount of its circulation now out
standing, tho holders of its notes are earnestly
requested 10 present them for payment at an
early day. WIN. q. LAMBERT, Cashier
4. II. MILLER, Prest. je N-lawom
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1870-07-21

1t was reported in New York that Jane
Fisk, Jr., intended to establish an ocean line
of steamships immediately 10 ussst in The
carrying trade and take the place of the Ger
man steamers TO the Continent. The plan was
thought to be feasible, and it is not iuproba-
bic that he may make an otf.r for the North
German Lioyds steamers at once.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1870-07-21
The Suicide of the French Minister

The Suicide Of the French Minister.
From all the statements it would appear that
the act was not the result Of an as!ant impulse,
but that his thoughts had been that way for
some time previously, for on Monday he left
note with the Legation, not to be opened ex.
cept 10 case OF some extraordinary event, and
which IS dated the Dist indicating some con
fusion in biz mind The letter is written in
French, OF which the following is a TRANSACTIONS
MONDAY, July 81
1t any accident should happen pray NJ.
Dejsrdin to attend. with ~ Riggs and the
Consul General at New York NJ dc Ia Place,
to see that my family and servants are sent
home. hope that the measures to be taken
will be facilitated hy the friends that | may
have made in the United States
PREVOsT PARADoL
On small table in the centre of the room
was common japanned candles,ck and can.
die, with the following words written upon an
ordinary white envelop. 81 kill myself. Der.
themy. come back and stay.
The Coroner's jury, alter hearing ali the evil
dence that could be obtained, rendered the fol
lowing verdict:
That VI, Anaole Provost Paradol came 10
his death at about O'Clock, Il. H., ~ the ooh
day OF July, in the year eighteen hundred and
seventy. They further find that the cause oil!
the death OF the said NJ. Ana;o!e Provost Pa.
radol Was q gun shot wound Of the heat pro.
duced by pistol discharged by his own hands
while hc was laboring under temporary ab.
beration of mind
1t was reported in New York that Jane
Fisk, Jr., intended to establish an ocean line
of steamships immediately 10 uss!st il The
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1870-07-21
Associate Principals.
Alexandria, july 13-lawtSepl2

nOVER ENGLISH AND CLASSICAL
~ SCHOOL.
Tho 18th Session Of this SCHOOL will open
the lst Monday of September next, and close
the 1st of July following. Send for circulars.
Address r. B. MCCORMICK,
Aide, Loudoun county, Va.
A16io T,oudoun 20 Va ia o-eO2m
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1870-07-21

MOSQUITO NETS,
M With the hes. and most improved h1
lures, at JOHN P. CLAkkE'S,
jy8 No. l58 King street.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-10-27
The Sexes.

The Woman's Journal pithily re-
marks: When God settled the solitary
in families. he decided the question of
the relations of the sexes. While broth
ers and sisters continue to be born, it
will be safest and best that men and wO-
men should be associated in all the af-
fairs of life. They need each other. Not
that either is superior to the other; men
are not so much wiser than woman, nor
woman so much nobler than men; it is
only that they were originally meant to
live together, and it is several thousand
or several hundred thousand years too
late to improve that arrangement. Men
are bad enough, no doubt; but, as Aunt
Chloe remarks in "Dred." "Dey's enuff
sight better than muffin" On the other
hand, women are often weak and silly,
and that delightful shrew, Mrs. Poyser,
is obliged to admit. in adam Bede, f"
"I'm not denyin' that women are fool
ish; God Almighty made them to match
the men,"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-10-27
Don Ptatt and tn. Pos,m,.,.r

L had been at Lake George some two
weeks without getting any mail matter,
although L had sent over almost every
day. Wearied out at last, 1 went my
self, L found little. sandy haired,
heavy :jawed, fuIl-stomsched man peg
glng away at an old boot on cobbler's
bench. | asked this industrious son of
ST. Crispin for the Post master.
I'm him" responded the shoemaker
He might be Sam or him but 1 look
ed incredulous upon the fact asserted or
referred to of Postmastership. He con-
tinued to drive in the pegs, whistling as
shoemakers are wont to whistle, In a
waxy way "a tune that, when accom-
panied by the proper words, refers to
some sort of eccentricity of the weasel
when popping, whatever that may be.
l looked at this vegetable production
WITH carroty hair and reddish cheeks as
he pegged and popped, and finding that
he intended taking no further notice ol
me, mildly suggested that if he were
the Postmaster would be pleased to
get my papers and lett ers.
"What your name?" he asked, sus.
pending the whistled popping of the
weasel, but going on with his exasperat.
ing WORK.
responded by giving the cognomen,
and was told, briefly, in words, to wit
"Ain't nothing for you," and then he
took up the extraordinary weasel.
remon strated, and asserted that there
must be some mistake.
"Well," he said, Ego look for your
self. There's the P's."
did az directed, and found eighteen
letters and pile of newspapers.
"What the devil do you mean by say
ing that had o mail?"
"Is that your name?" he asked, ,coolly
Certainly it is."
"N ell, though it was Daniel Pratt.
was rapidly resolving into an indi
gnation meeting, with divers resolutions
and u strong tendency to punch some
body's head.
"You thought that name Daniel Pratt
did you? Well, il strikes me that i
would be well for you to learn readin,
and writing before playing the devil in
postoffice."
"Well, stranger" he responded, sus
pending both music aud work, "if
had such an outlandish nam, rs your'r
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-10-27

HON. ANDREW STEWART, the veteran
protectionist and Republican candidate
for congress i" the 2lst Congressional
district of Pennsylvania, in the course of
a recent protection speech, narrated the
following anecdote which we pricnt not
only as giving the origin of one of those
phrases which for their sententious brew
ity will some day rank as the American
classics, but as an original argument for
protection:
In lS2S-fortytw years ago-this sub
ject was before Congress, and we were
discussing it. l was trying to show to
the farmers of the country that they
were purchasing foreign agricultural
productions in the form of goods, while
they leave their own produce at home
without market. 1 said Ohio, Indiana,
and Kentucky send their hay-stacks and
co fields and fodder to New York and
Philadelphia for sale.
Mr.. Wickliffe, of Kentucky, jumped
up and said:
why that is absurd. MIR. Speaker, I
call the gentleman to order. He is stat
ing an dbsurdity. We never send hay
stacks or corn fields to New York or
Philadelphia"
"Well," / said, "wlaU do you send?"
"Why, horses, mules, cattle, and
hogs"
"Well, what makes your horses, mules
cattle and hogs? You feed a hundred
dollars worth of hay to horse; you just
animate and get upon the top of your
hay stack and ride it off to market.
Laug hter.l How is it with your cattle?
You make every one of them carry fifty
dollars woth of hay and grass to the
Eastern market.
Then l came to the hog question. Said
I, "Mr. Wickliff, you send a hog worth
ten dollars to an Eastern market; how
much corn does il take at thirty-three
cents per bushel TO fatten it?"
"Why, thirty bushels"
"Then you put that thirty bushels Of
corn into the shape of hog and make
it walk off to the Eastern market"
Mr.. Wickliff jumped up and siad: Mr..
Speaker IacknoDtedge the corn. Laugh
ter.
That raised laughter just as it does
here now, and the expression found it's
way into the newspapers and came to
be common one-"I ackL owledge the
corn" Renewed laughter.] Well, you
! can say whether it is not true that the
! productions of agriculture are not sent
! away in this form.
submit if this is not true. 1 am ad.
dressing you as farmers. The western
| people are deluded with this doctrine of
free trade, and they will vote it down if
we do not rally to- the rescue. They
! are working like beavers everywhere tc
/ break it down. IF go to Congress
shall take up this subject where l left it
and defend this policy to the end. Thar
Is what shall advocate.
shall recommend you and your wives
! ojust go to the store and look over these
J articles, examine them, and analyz,
this subject. Find out how much of tn,
material in them is made up of agricul-
tural produce. You can find 1t yourself
1t is the easiest thing in the world.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-10-27

That editors keep reading rooms. That
they have plenty of time to talk to every
anything to fill up the paper. That
they have plenty of time to correct bad
manuscript. That they should puff
everybody for nothing That they must
have no opinion of their own. That
they should know everything, whether
informed of it or not. That they have
plenty of money. That they should
"notice" every scalawag show that trav.
els That they should have news
whether there is any or not That they
should print every mans name who at
tends dog fight or a horse race.-[Ex
change.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-10-27
1870. New Series-Vol 10, No. 40.
A Race for Life--An Incident OF the
Canada Fires

a
Canada Fires.
A woman, who escaped the fire fiend
in Canada, gives thrilling account OF
her adventure. She harnessed :. horse
to a wagon (which had but Stag ie
seat and placing in it her uncle and
aunt, an aged couple, three of her own
chill iren, and the few clothes and beds
saved from the house, she started to
seek the shelter of her mothers house, a
mile or more away. She had not gone
far before five more children were added
to her load, and to make room for them
this brave woman stood upon the step
at the side of the wagon and drove the
horse down the valley with the fire
racing and roaring on either side, and
sometimes close upon her. Indeed the
cotton dress she wore was burned of
her, as well as the hair from her head
The clothes and the bedding in the
wagon took fire and had to be thrown
out. Then, as the fires closed in and
the smoke grew denser, death came to
the old man, as told in former letter.
Twice he fell into the lad and was
lifted into the wagon again, but the
third time he was unavOidably left to
his fate, Not dozen rods from where
the old man perished, the wagon was
halted by the roadside. To go further
was impossible. To remain seemed like
tempting death; but still there was
hope. The children and the old woman
were placed under the wagon, and an
attempt was made to shut out the flamt 8
by h nging up sheets and blankets.
The horse, which was one the farmers
wife had been in the habit of driving,
seemed to understand the situation, and
stood perfectly still, though the fire
bur led the hair from his body, and the
roaring of the wind and the flames was
enough to strike terror into the heart OF
the boldest. The faithful animal turned
his head now and then, as I'll ough to see
ifthe party were safe, but never moved
an inch. Had he ran, or even gone p
few yards farther on, nine lives more
wonld have been added to the death
roll.
The children escaped with but slight
ir ju les, from the fact that they W re
dressed in woAlen clothing. They ''ut-
tered neither moan or cry, " save that
the youngest, four year old girl, SOuld
sometimes say, az the parks fell upon
her, Pm burning up.n The old lady
was badly burned from having on cot
ton dress, and her ecovery is cOnsio cred
doubtful. The party remained some six
hours in this painful position, when,
daylight appearing and the fire having
somewhat subsided, they were enabled
to reach place of shelter. 1t was learn
ed later that the morher's house had
been burned before the daughter left her
own house.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-10-27
Influenza In Horses.

In the treatment of influenza, the
strength of the patient must be support
ed. If what has been called heroic treat
ment is resorted to, viz, bleeding and
purging, influenza proves very fatal
disease. From the beginning the
strength of the animal must be sus-
tanned. The horse shou be placed in
a comfortable airy box or stable, and the
body clothed according to the state OF
the temperature. 1t is generally advi-
sable to give stimulants and tonics from
the first, as quart of good beer three
times day, in which might be mixed
one ounce of nitrous ether. The bowels
should be opened gently by means OF
clysters, and if the throat is tender a
stimulating embrocation should be well
rubbed into the submaxillary space, or
head of the windpipe. Of course many
of the stimulants used in veterinary
practice are useful in influenza, but we
Just mention such as can he easily pro-
cured The horse should also be encour-
aged to take food that is easily digested,
and the clothing should be renewed at
least twice a day, and the body well
rubbed over. As recovery takes place
SLOWLY it is greatly expedited by the use
of tonics.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-10-27

A NEW CovENANT.-A singular in
cident occurred in the office of an at
torney at law in Louisville, recently. A
couple who had been married sixteen or
seventeen years had wearied of the
matrimonial harness and the wife had
brought suit for divorce, on the ground
of cruel and inhuman treatment. The
affidavit had all been made out in true
form and filed in the court, and she had
called at the Office of her attorney that
day for the purpose of urging him to
push the suit. While seated in the
Office, her husband came in. He sat
and looked at his wife for some time, and
then said, "Old woman, we lived to-
gether for long time" The wife re-
piled, "Yes, we did," The husband
said. Don't you think we had better
try it again?" The wife replied, "Yes if
you will treat me right" The old man
rose up, and lifted his hand to heaven,
and with voice tremulous with emo
ton, repeated his vows to nourish, cher
ish, love, honor and protect until death
the bride of his youth, and then folded
her to his bosom, and they wept togeth-
er for joy. Even the flitty-hearted at
torney, who sa " good case with big
fees fading forever from his sight, was
moved to itears. The gentleman then
paid the fees and costs and the attorney
was authorized to withdraw the pend
ing suit. and the old people left the Of
flee hand in hand and as happy as June
bugs.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-10-27
Printers Jokes,

1t is the practice amoung waggish
printers, when green 'un enters the
office as deviL, to play jokes on him by
sending him on an errand to a neigh
boring Office for something that he would
be sure not to find, and he returns with
some strange article or other, thinking
that in printers phrase he has got what
he was sent for. A joke of this kind
was once perpetrated in neigboring
town. A boy who was rather 'verdont,
went to learn the printing business, and
journeyman, loving sport, sent him
one day with dish to certain editor,
to borrow "a gill ofeditorial.' Theeditor
understanding the game, returned the
picture of jackdss. The first one, find
ing himself rather come over,' set his
wits to work to think how he should he
even with the other, at last he called
the lad. and told him to go and tell tie
editor that 1T was editorial heAwanted
and not the editor.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-10-27
,rrcE PARTITION


~,EORGE w. BARNES, Petitioner VS.. Hester
u Ann Probasco and John Probasco, her nus
band. of Marshall County, West Virginia, Sally
N Rarnes. AdaIine Hatcher, Louisa Rinker,
lanes A. Rinker, her husband, of Belmont
County Ohio (aduits)a and Henry Close, George
A. Close. Annabel Close, Mary Close, Emma
Close Coraine T. Close, John Close, Addison L.
Rinker, George w. Rinker and Anna Rinker,
of Belmont County, Ohio, (minors) defendants.
The ABOVE named defendants, are hereby no.
titled that on the 18th day of september, A. ID.
1870. the above named petitioner Held petition
in the Clerks Office of the Common Pleas
Court of Belmont County, Ohio. praying 1or
partition of the following descrcribed real
estate situated in Richland Township, Bel
mont County Ohio, being part of Sections s and
9: Township T. Range 4, containing 9l12 acres
more or less; being the tract OF land Of Whlch
Ann Barnes, late of said County, died seized,
and now in the occupancy OF the DEFENDANT,
lanes A. Rinker. particularly deScr1 bed In said
petition. Said petition alleges that said par
ties own interests in said premises as follows:
said George W. Barnes, Hester Ann Probaseo,
Sally NJ Barnes, AdalIne Hatcher ana Louisa
Rinker each one undivided seventh part
said Henry Close, George A. Close, Annabel
Close Mary Close Emma Close, Lorraine L.
Close and John Close, each one eundividedforty
ninth part.
Said Addison I, Rinker, George w: Rinker
and Anna Rinker, each one undivided twenty
first part.
said petition VIII be for hearing at the next
term OF said Court, commencing November L,
i''O' GEORGE W. BARNES, Petitioner.
By D. n. r. CowEN. his Atty
Sep Is, lS7O-6w
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-10-27

AFTER DINNER NAPs.-Many persons
are in the habit of sleeping for half an
hour or an hour Immediately after din
ner. This is bad practice. Ten min
utes sleep before dinner is worth more
than an hour after. 1t rests, and re-
freshes, and prepares the system for
vigorous digestion. If sleep is taken
after dinner il should be in sitting
posture, as the horizontal position is
unfavorable to healthful digestion. Let
those who need rest and sleep during
the day, take it before dinner instead of
after, and they will soon find that they
will feel better, and that their digestion
will improve thereby.-[H Herald OF
Health.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-10-27

A model jonrnal explains how warts
come: THE papillomata (warts, con-
dylomata, epiheloma) originate essenti-
ally in an active neoplastic process TAX
ing place in the rete, which penetrates
to a greater or less extent into the like
wise hypertrophid connective tissue
matrix os the corsum. The papilar ot
the cults here, too, perform only a pass
i've role, their elongation and dendritic
from being occasioned by the hypertro,
ply of the epidermis; while the eleva'
tion of the skin is due to the hypertro.
ply or both"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-10-27
ANCIENTIIsCOVERIES.
&C., 4.

SC, &.
Advice from Santa Fe state that Gov
ernor Army, the Special Indian agent
for that Territory, has found the Canon
de Chelly. which was explored for
twenty miles. The party found canons
whose walls tower perpend cularly to an
altitude of from 1000 to 1000 the rock
strata being as perfect as if laid by the
skilled hands of masons, and entirely
symmetrical. Among these ruins were
found deserted ruins of ancient Aztec
cities, many of which bear the evidence
of having been populous to the extent
of many thousands of inhabitants. In
one of these canons, the rocky walls OF
which rose not less than 1000 feet from
the base, and whose SUBMITS on either
hand inclined to each other, forming
part of an ar~h there were found high
up, hewn out of the rocks, the ruins of
Aztec towns of great extent, now ten
antless, desolate. In each of these
rockyeries there remained in state of
good preservation house ofstone, about
twenty feet square, containing one bare
and gloomy room and single human
skeleton. In he center of the room
were the evidences that fire at some
time had been used. The only solution
ofthis enigma, so far ventured. is, that
these solitary rooms were the altar places
of the Aztec fires; that from some cause
the people at remote period were con-
strained to abandon their homes, but
left one fiithful sentinel in each in
stance to keep alive the flame that. ac-
cording TO the Indian tradition OF these
regions, was to light the way Of Mon
tezuma again to his prople-ther hoped
for Messiah and their Eternal King
A close examination of many of the
ruins proved that the builders must have
of edged tools, masonry, ami other
mechanical arts. But who these people
were, whence they came, or whittier
they are gone, is now, probably, one of
the mysteries to remain eternally un-
solved. Some of the ruins are reported
to be stone buildings seven and eight
stories in height, being reached by lad
ders planted against the walls. Round
houses. twenty feet in diameter, butt
I'm the most substantial manner, Of cut
stone, and plastered inside, were also
fund in excellent preservation. Aston
ishing dicoveries have been made of
gold and silver regions richer than
yet known on this continent. They are
supposed, by well-informed persons, to
be the East mines, of which tradition
has handed down the most marvellous
tales, and the mines themselves dis
cover unmistakble evidences of having
heen successfully worked ages ago.