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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1870-08-13

DEATH OF MAJ. B. B. FRENCu.-Major
3. B. French died in Washington, at 10
O'Clock yesterday morning. He stood high in
the Masonic fraternity, and at the tlmo OF his
death was Lieutenant Grand Commander Of
the Supreme Council of tho thirty. third de-
gree, besides having been Grand Master of tho
District of Columbia and Grand Master Of the
Knights Templar. He was born in Chester,
N. H., on tho Alb day Of September, 1900. 10
1925, was admitted an attorney at law and
in the month Of March following commenced
the practice. He was appointed Commission
or of Public Buildings under President Pierce,
and again under President LiDcon's admins
tration, continuing in that Office until it was
abolished 10 1868, since which time, until the
lst of July, he was employed in the Treasury
Department until few weeks since, when he
resigned. Major French was for many years
president Of the Board of Aldermen and Com
mon Council respectively, lie was also q
member OF the Levy Court, and the Oldest
Inhabitants Association. He was known
throughout the country for his high standing
10 the Masonic fraternity. His remains will be
buried Tomorrow, at o'clock D. m, in the
Congressional Cemetery Wash. Chronicle.
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REAL ESTATE sGE~Ts.

eH> Special attention paid to the sale and eE
change of farms in Virginia and Mary land and
&C houses and lots in the city Of Alcxsndris.
40 TT
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GALE VALUABLE LAND.-lr c."-
y cuton Of decree CT the Circuit Court o'
Fairfax, rendered NJ its June term, 1870, m T."
suit OF Joseph SandersOn Va. John r. Nelly.
Samuel MCKINNEY and others. the unders ign'@
viii oilor, Ly public sale, on MONDAY, tie
18th day OF September next. at Fairfax Co"f,
House, Court day, tho undivided interest q:
said NJ eginney tit being one third in aTRACt
OF LAND conveyed by him and wife to j, +
Kelly. Said tract consists OF lOO Hcre:' b"'"I
tho land formerly owned by g. w. Callah"'.
1t is situated near tho Chain Bridge, and LcH'
tho road to Langley, shout four miles ir""
Georg clown, and is highly improved with g"".i
buildings, Nc.
TERMS--T,n per cent in hand the lc .id".
in T. II and Is months, with Interest. BOND,
with good security, to be given, and title r.
TAXED until the purchase money Is pait
H. w. THOM AS, Comm =.
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aug G-lawt; Cons. o! Snr.
lLeesburg Washing:oni.n copy.

TARM FOR SALE.-In execution .! = T..
cree Of the Circuit Court Of Fairfax, zen.
der.d ut its June term, 1870. in the suit OF j. Il.
Daniel, next friend, &c VS.. n. 5. Gr'gsby 81
others, the undersigned will offer for "a" =.
Fairfax G. u. on MONDAY, September ':.r
Court day, the FARM now occupied by 1~"..
Ii. Daniel, situated in the county OF f"lr!"Ao:
the waters Of Elk Lick yum. containing -
acres, and adjoining the Lands OF K. y Dam"
Thomas Settle ana Others. This tract wns j."
viscd by the late Stephen Daniel /" the "a:
John Il. Daniel is o! ooi quality, w,th c"'.
Portable improvements.
TERMS-Ten per cen. t. BE- p"I Io"'n r. h.
deposit the residue in i, - and l. month.
with interest to be secured Ivy boLd, with rooA
security; the title to be retained until the pa:
chase money is psid, and The cash psvrIc:! T.
be forfeited and the re:old a. the risk e.. IT,.
purchaser should lie fail to comply
II. w. THOMAS, Conan
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1870-11-03

ARDENT SPIRITS VERSUS WINE-PrOfes-
sor l.. Agassiz, addressing the Massachusetts
Agricultural Society, in December, 1867 said:
II was born and have lived two.thirds of
my life in q grape growing country, and feel
deeply interested in the question how the grape
shall be grown here successfully. But think
it cannot be grown with perfect success until
q prejudice which exists throughout the whole
country is overcome. It is because know it
is prejudice that would speak openly about
it. Wine-growing countries are the regions
where there is no drunkenness. There are
countries where the traveller is helped to a
glass of wine to warm and strengthen him;
where the clergyman holds it TO be an act of
charity to give glass of wine to him who
needs comfort. Before came to this country,
/ had never taken a glass of water over a
meal in my life, and. though am sixty, was
never flushed with wine-I will not speak OF
drunkenness My mother gave all her children
wine rs soon as they were weaned, and have
done the same with my children. You in
America cannot be successful in grape-culture,
until you have introduced the use of native
wine as daily beverage into every household,
and come to regard it as the most wholesome
beverage than can be taken"
A clergyman of Michigan who passed two
years in France for his health, going all over
it on foot, testifes that in all the wine districts
he found temperance, but the moment he got
into those districts where the grape could not
be grown, but where the people drank beer
and brandy distilled from the potato and beet,
there he found intemperance Immediately.
Hardly any grape is now grown east of the
Mississippi, that yields wine that is palatable
to our people generally without sugar, to sup
ply the want of saccharine matter in the fruit.
Portions of Missouri, Kansas, and the Midland
country southwark through New Mexico, pro-
duce considerable quantities of excellent wine.
California and the adjoining States are becom-
ing the vineyard of the continent, and will
doubtless soon produce wines that will rival
for lightness and delicacy of favor the choicest
vintages of the Rhine.
1t is to be hoped that a supply of harmless.
cheap, light wine for our people is not far dis
tant, TOR it seems certain that in such a supply
lies the solution of the terrible problem of our
national tendency to drink to excess.-Er.
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where widowed mothers with dissipated hus-
bands press their orphan children to their bo-
SONS. Think, o, think of George Washington
at Mr.. Valleys forge, bare-footed, and-shell
out.
This appeal was SO moving that majority
of the audience moved toward the door. About
seven dollars and half was collected, how
ever, which went for Mrs. SINNERS newest
of cork screw curls. After putting the amount
in her reticule, and planting her right foot firm
ly upon it, she proceeded.
My dear friends, must now bid you adieu,
but will be with you again when times are
better, for intend to agitate this question till
we get our rights, and whatever we can
sponge besides. will agitate it till my breath
gives out and my wig turns grey.
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1870-11-03

ANCIENT AND MODERN ENGINEERING.-
The Pyramid of Cheops covers space 700
feet square and contains 6 500 900 tons of stone.
1t is composed OF the soft limestone from the
opposite side of the Nile, but some of the blocks
were brought one hundred miles. The smaller
stones were hauled by oxen, on sledges, and the
remains of rude wooden tramways, or rail-
roads, still exist. The big stones were drawn
by men. 1t required 1000 men to block of
800 tons, and they worked in concert to the
sound of music One party of 2,O00 men la
bored three years in transporting q 700ton
stone one hundred miles
The builders had no scaffolding, but as fast
as they raised the structure, they piled up dirt,
making an incline plane, up which they dragged
the enormous blocks of stone. When it was
necessary to raise their scaffolding, they piled
up more dirt, and so kept on until the pyramid
was completed, $50 feet high, and then the
dirt scatfolding was cleared away. This vast
embankment must have required 50,000,000
tons of earth. The whole work required
SOC, 900 men thirty years, and at the present
value of labor in that country, would have cost
S5,000O00,000.
A modern engineer could construct simi-
lar work for about Sl00, 100000, and with
third of the men. He would quarry the stone
by steam-drill, load them with steam-cranes
and transport them by steamboats, and loco
motives Instead of the fifty million tons of
embankment, costing ten million dollars, he
would employ numerous hosting machines,
with score or two of men. and would deliv-
or the stone to the hand of the masons as fast
as they could lay them.
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1870-11-03

THERE is cockney youth in Shawneetown
who, everytime he wishes to get glimpse OF
his sweetheart, cries Fret" directly under
her window. In the alarm Of the moment she
plunges her lead ont Of the window and asks,
"Where2 |" when he POLITICALLY sleps himself on
the bosom and exclaims: "'Ere, my beloved
and adorable Hangelinai"
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1870-11-03

SOME years ago, at public dinner, a Dutch,
man was one of the company, and during the
banquet he paid 90 much attention to suck
ing pig Immediately in front of his plate that
he devoured the entire animal As he finished
the last morsel, unctuous and savory. bust
ling waiter asked him what he would be helped
to next. "Oh," replied the feeder, I'm dank
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Sheriff IS Sale.
DY VIRTUE OF AN EXECUTION

~ Win Ia OF y FSA ECC IoN
- issued out Of the D.s;ric, Cour, in AMI Boise
county. Idaho Territory. upon Judgment rendered
IN sail Court. wherein Con HCAly - the planG atd
Green White. &. i. Etn"ry. John Dickinson and
James Hua che defendants. for the sum OF Three
Thousand and eight 81. C9sI Dollars with in.
terr@i thereon ~ tho rate ~ Il per cent. per
from the l9th day 81 October. n u. 1870. together
With the ~ sat; taxed one Hundred and Thr.
ty.onc aui oJ-iod si3i 60 Dollars. duly tested the
15th day ot October. \. u 1870. have seized aud
taken uaier execution all The right t,tlr claim and
intercs: nf Gruen White. C. T. Emery. John Dcktn.
son aud James Hue the following described prop.
erty to-wtt: That certain quartz lead lode known
the Yellow Jacket Gold aud Silver bearing Quartz
Ledge. wth all Uf its widths. depths. dips. spurs
aud angles originally located by John Dickinson.
c. =. Emery and Milsle Wallace October 27in. ls69.
and running north eas:erly eight hundred feet from
the initial point commencement o; The discovery
claims and being on che southeast side Of Granite
gulch: also. one Tcn.S,amp Steam Quartz Mill aud
Machinery and all appurt"n3aCos belonging thereto
also. the mill site. bntding. curtilago and appur.e.
nanccs belonging thereto: also. any aud all water
rights or other mining privileges. Also. one frame
boarding house. frame lodging house. one house
occupied by tho superintendent of bald company.
with all the apVurtcuances aud fixtures to each and
all the property adjacent thereto 90 the said mill
site. tho said mill house and other premises; the
said mill house and machinery being recently erect
ed and adj accent To said ledge. and being known "a
tho yellow Jacket Quartz Mill and property. the said
mill being usod IN crushing the rock from said ledge
also, all the right title. claim and interest Of said
defendants Of. tn and to the mill site, dumping privi-
Iegcs. &c: aso the boiler. engine tools and all and
every the appurtenances belonging to said MILL also.
one telegraph conducting water to the mill: all Of
above described property being situate in Boise
county. Territory Of Idaho: Public notice Is hereby
given that on
Saturday the 10Th day Of November, A. D. 1870,
a. II o'clock. n. will sell in front Of the Court
House door Idaho City. Mt public auction. for cash.
the above described property TO the highest bidder
to- satisfy said execution. costs and all accrning
costs. T. u. BRTTTEN, Sheriff
Idaho city October u. 1s69-w3
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1870-11-03

A LADY teacher in Sunday School had oc,
casion to illustrate lesson on faith by the sto-
himself fall from an ms elevated POSITION into bs s
arms The father could not be seen by the
child, yet, when commanded, it dropped. Up
on the teacher asking her class what was shown
by this story, bright little fellow Immediately
replied: at showed he had lot o. pluck"
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1870-11-03
2rpfessipnal Cards.
SAM'L a. MERRITT.

4 TrORNEI AND COUNSELOR AT LAW. OF
~ nee ON Commercial street, second door abov,
the court house. nltf
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of Idaho Territory in and for Boise County.
In the matter of the
ESTATE or THOMAS HIGGINS. DECEASED.
TT SATISFACTORILY APPEARS
l. from information hed in this Court by Jos.
w. Huston, United States Attorney for the Territory
of Idaho, that Thomas Higgins, late of Boise
county, in said Territory. died about the 1st
day of June. 1867 in said county that at the time of
his death the said Higgins was seized and possessed
of real and personal estate within said county and
Territory Of great value, towt Of the value Of about
Seven Thousand Dollars and II further appearing by
said In formation that said Thomas Higgins at the
time Of his death left heirs, representatives de-
visecs capable Of inheriting or holding said estate
whereby, and by force Of the statutes in such case
made and provided. it IL claimed In and by said in
formation that said estate escheated to and become
vested in the Territory Of Idaho IL Is ordered that
all persons interested In said estate shall appear and
show cause If any there be. why the said estate shall
not vest In said Territory, within thirty days from the
date of this orer and IL Ia further ordered that this
order be published mon tn from the date hereof
in the IDAHO WORLD. newspaper published In Boise
coun ty In said Second judicial District.
~A Witness: Hon. w. G. Whitson Judge OF
EfS8 the Second judicial District. at Idaho City,
- I'm the county of Boise, and the seal OF the
said Court, this Goth day Of September, A. D. 1870.
JOHN DUNLAP, Clerk.
idaho city, October Q, 1s70-n49w5
Jos w. Husros. u. 8. Attorney for !. 7.
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GRO. AISSLfE.
L. L. rOoTE
AINSLIE AZ FOOTE,

4 TTORNEYS AND CoUNsELoRS AT LAW, IDA
~ no City. Patents obtained for mining lodes
under act Of Congress OF July ri. 1866. OFFIcg-on
Wall street. opposite Andrews Co. 5 store. nltt
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FRANK MILLER.

4 TTORNEY L COUNSELOR AT LAW. IDAHO
~ City, l. I. Ofhce in third bailding above the
court house. Commercial street nStf.
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DIR. &. r. FREEMAN,

nHYSTCTAN. SURGEON AND ACCOUCHEUR
Il Once at the Drug Store, CENTERFILLE. l. T
MAY -, lS1O-tf.
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1870-11-03
JAS. flEALI. NJ. ID,

DHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. OFFICE ON EAST
Il side OF Montgomery street three doors abov,
Wall. Idaho City. nlI.
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Notice.

In the District Court Of the Second Judicial District
of Idaho Territory in and for Boise County.
In the matter of the
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IL. ZIPF, VI. d.,

DHYSICIAN, SURGEON AND ACcoUCHRUR-
\ Once ON Main street. next door 10 CITY Dru.
Store. Idaho city. uittf
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c. WAGNER, VI. d..

Il ATE BREVET Lr..COLONEL AND SURGEON
IL L. = Army. oFFIcE-BOlso Drug Store. Main
Street, BOISE CfFf. lApl1. 7U-u
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IDAHO WORLD.
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY
The Idaho World Printing Company
OFFICE IN xlSoNlC HALL BUILDING, WALL STREET.
TERMS, :::::: INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE

Rates OF subs tfon.
One Year. ......sl2 90 Three Months. 81 90
Six Months...... 90 Single Copies SO
The weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1869-18??, 1870-10-26
British Impertinence.

Between the Dominion of Canada and the
State of Michigan flows the strait which is
known as the St. Clair river. This river
which is link in the great chain Of inter
nal water communication in the northwest,
has been deepened by the United States at
an immense cost. Canadian shippers have,
at sundry times, presumed to force their
goods over this channel without payment
of duties. That these were American waters
should have been sufficient reason for hold
ing them secure from foreign infringement.
But when they are not only American wa
tiers, but American waters which have been
rendered safe and nayigable by a vast ex-
penditure of American money and by, years
of American toll, nothing should prevent
the government from a most jealous regard
for American rights. - ~ - 70
A few days since the British authorities
moved over and took possession Of these
waters by force of arms. Such is the re-
port, although no official communication
has yet been transmitted to Washington.
This channel is in our waters. 1t has
never been in dispute. All the official maps
show this.
We are sure that if the facts are correctly
reported, Gen. Grant viii strike first and ad-
monlsh afterward., We wait Developments
with intense interest War is great evil /;
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Call ont your Neiehbors.

In electing Mr.. Phillips to the Legislature,
as the people have determined 70, do, they
will not merely be putting a good man into
an Office which he will worthily fill, but they
will be giving expression to their decided
and united opposition to the party of law
lessness and fraud. How can good man
vote for party that has obtained power
through the Ku Klux Will you uphold
assassinationa Will you connive at organ
lied murders Win you co operate with the
Bloody Brotherhood , r. 45ea -,f.-, (
ia The election of Mr.. Phillips is a foregone
conclusion but the people should sweep to
the polls for him in such masses that their
coming should be like the march of an
earthquake. Let there be no uncertain
sound. Alright might defeat him and
would certainly show indifference, listless-
ness, absorption in petty matters, unbe-
coming freeman and Republican. 1t is
the united voice of the people that the
oligarchy fear. Let them hear, that, and
they mar hesitate in the execution of their
revolutionary designs. See to it that your
neihgbors are informed about the election,
anu that all is ready for action. iAi =
The weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1869-18??, 1870-10-26

The annual accounts of the pension Office,
for the fiscal year ending June Goth, have
been completed. The expenditures of the
previous year were $ss, 4es 900; for last year,
although $4,000 pensioners were added to
the rolls. in each case of from $500 to ST.
500, the expenditures were s642, 900 less, or
$s7, $780, 900. The estimates for the year
were 81 100000. The causes which have
led to this are, minors attaining sixteen
years of age; biennial and special surgical
examinations, and the reductions resulting
from the energetic investigation offrauds
which have developed the fact, among many
Others of Importance, that large number
Of pensions have been drawn where the real
pensioners have been dead fora number of
years. Agood result of the active measures
taken against all claim ageats who have
been in regular practice. is shown by the
fact that where eislE clerks were reqeired D
few months since, IL the special service divi-
sion, two would now be able toisdo the
whole work IL Is believed at the Pension
Office that, contrary to general expecta.
ton, the amount needed to meet the de-
mand on the pension rolls within future de-
crease, and that the maximum Of expeudi-
'ture was reacheda year ago. la49omaG
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Paris.

We have refrained from writing on this
prolific subject, because it is difficult to
obtain accurate data for a judgment
We do not believe that Paris will be bonn
barded. A few shot may be thrown into
the city, but the Prussian soldiers who had
so great regard for art as to- spare the
Strasburg Cathedral, will not willingly open
fire upon the libraries and galleries of Paris.
Especially will brave men be unwilling to
rain bombshells upon millions of. women
and children. True, war has no bowels,
and small conscience; but there seems to be
no necessity, and SO no excuse, for such
wholesale slaughter. We do, not believe
that, while the Prussians are able, as they
seem to be, to establish Gordon of troops
and Notifications about the city, to scour
the country with cavalry and cut off all sup
plies, we can not believe, that they will
resort to what, at this distance, seems the
inhuman measure of crushing the helpless
and innocent, like mites in cheese. Human
life is precious; and Prussian soldiers are
too brave to resort to such measures, if they
can possibly be avoided. 1t can not be that
modern civilization, so fertile in expedients,
is unable to reduce Paris without lombard
ment. gf
The weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1869-18??, 1870-10-26

The accounts whch reach us of the effects
Of the late hurricane in the West Indies are
2 of the most appalling character. Theover-
flowing waters of the tw rivers which flow
on either side of Matanzas-the geographical
position of which is semewhat similar to that
5ot New-York-met in the center of the city,
i causing a fearful destruction of life and
property. % Out of aspopulation of forty
thousand more than two thousand are said
ito have persisted. Great damage has also
been done at Cardenas, Matamoras and
/ Gaines. 10 The hurricane extended across the
Gulf as far as Florida, and from Key West
we learn that all the lower parts of the city
are flooded, and that all communication
| with! the.upper part is carried on by means
of boats. The various lines of steamers
have been delayed, the crops seriously injur-
ed, and much anxiety is felt as to the fate
of the numerous vessels at sea. The loss OF
the steamer Darien and several coasting
vessels is already announced. No such
hurricane has been known for many years.
It far exceeded that which devastated the
Island of st. Thomas a few years ago. oIt is
to be hoped that further details will prove
the accounts already received to be exagger-
ated, but in any case they must be sufficiently
serious. adi 10 6sg.lc 5al .ss;sl
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Napoleons downfall has been followed by
disturbances in the foreign dependencies of
France. To the Instructions in Algiers we
have already referred, and now we have tt
dings Of serious instruction in the Island
of Martinique, where portion ofthe color
ed men have risen in revolt and committed
numerous excess The Governor of the Is
Hand has for the present suppressed the up
rising, but grave fears are entertained Of sim
liar demonstrations should the home govern
ement meet with new reverses. A similar
state of affairs prevails in the French
Province of Algiers, and the .prolongation
of the Franco-Prusslan war will no doubt
cause the conquered tribes OF the latter
country to put forth strong efforts to regain
their lost liberties. But the object Of the
uprising of the blacks of Martinique is less
clear ) their battle cry is said to, have been
'.ViYe Napoleon r. They certainly can have
no special interest in the restoration Of the
Empire, and it is natural to suppose that their
sympathies would be on the side Of q free
government. -,,at5 E.sl;.-f