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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1871-10-27

UNITED STATES CIRCUIT CoURT-Ju,lgc
Bond presiding. -The following business was
transacted yesterday:
United States VS. Fisher & GollStein, charg-
cd with violation Of the bankrupt law, by
lraudulently obtaining goods in violation of the
law. This is the first case under this particu-
lar clause Of the law which has come before
the court in this district, and considerable in
tercst is felt in the decision. The defendants
moved to quash the indictment. After the
argument, the court reserved its decision
United States VS.. +. Hcltrick Judgment
was rendered for the plaintiff, and the dam
ages assessed at 5000 for Il failure to make en-
tries as wholesale liquour dealer
United States VS.. Samuel +. Dove, one Of
the druggist cases, was taken up and tried.
The defendants were ably represented by coun-
sci, and after full hearing the jury returned
verdict for the plaintiff for 500.
As there are great many other cases of 4
similar nature upon the docket of this court,
the decision is important. Rich. EnQ~irer
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1871-10-27

Steamer Lady of the Lake, Gray, Norfolk, ["
VI Eldridgc II Co.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1871-10-27

IN STORE AND CONSTANTLY RE-
l. CEIVING:
WATER COOLERS.
: PATENT ICE PICKS.
PATENT FOUR-M MUTE FREEXERS.
PARSONS CELEBRATED KEFKlGE-
RATORS.
WIRE COVERS.
PLATED WARE, in all varieties.
ROGERS l. SONS CUTLERY.
FANCY MARKET and TRAVELLING
BASKETS.
JAPANNED and PLAIN III N WARE.
WOOD " NNH' A. g. H. IT,. Ss q & CO.'S.
mp 19-tf SO King street, AI"xandriH Va.
IN STORE
10 hhls F. l. M"l,s,,,s, Fort Baker.
10 hhds =. K. Sugar prime and medium.
80 sack, Rio, Lnguyra and jaws C",,'s.
) hhds Side and Shoulder Bacon.
30 bbls SyrupS, various grades.
III boxes Factory Cheese
$40 bblS No. Potomac Herring.
~ bbIs Family Ro" Herring
~ CASES Tea-thc finest Oolons-, Garden Ja-
pun and Gunpuwrr in market.
4 full line Of GRUCER rs ut Lhrl"wc.t mar
acl rates
oct IL X. VI. ia W son.
CILkS! SILkSl
tics, for sale. low nj
GREENS NOTION HOUSE.
&c: y; - King street.
7 + CIRCLE! LIE CERCLE!
- a new field game, ju-t received. Call and
examine liz merits 1t
GREENS NOTION HOUSE,
oct % Is King street
INANTED--lOO tons Of RYE STRAW at
w 2Ol King street.
oct G-2rn AUGUSTUS WALL.
CURRY POWDER and GUAEY JELLY
~ for sale by Il. WIN. RAMSAY, I,
oct y 8 F.. cor. King and st. Asaph sts.
DRANDY PEACHES for sale at l47 King st.
- oct E' w. +. BROOkES
iERESII GROUND and TUASTED COZ
j. FEES always on hand and for sale by
oct 2' w. +. BROOkES, l47 King st.
I BERRIES, Mince Meat and New
~ Layer Raisius. Il. WIN. RAMSAY,
oct ,; ). +. cor. King and st. Asnph sts.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1871-10-27

~
REMARKS. The Flour market, which nt the
clos" Of our last review WA, unsettled, lia, dur
ing the past week been quiet, with limited trans
actions. The receipts have Increased, and the
drlnnd, which has been confined {" the l"ra!
trade, has been light. Early in til" week prices
gave way from our rxtrrrn" quotations, holder,
cvinring more disposition I" meet the views "t
buyers, nni We have to note II decline If 10 {" ~
per Dbl on medium and low grades. Family
brands are without matrriul change. Extras are
in fair supply, with II Hi"d"ra," demand. Smp"r>
are Source and III demand. We r.vi>" our qu"-
tatun, and report the market Iuli. with II ten
dcncy to II further decline: Family - 10 - -;
choice - -: Extra 81 to :. 81: Sup'rs & 3, To
50 ~. Wheat Is active and 2:.5c better; offer
ings Of 25s huShrl. white and pa Of red,
with sales of the former NJ leo, lG2 and lhi for
prime lots, and OF the latter nj 49, 10, l'j, leo,
lGl and lGi for fair t" prime, and lGJ and 10 Tor
choice. Corn Is active, and lc better: offerings
Of liG bushels mixed, with sales ut g. IL, II,
y and % offerings Of 50 bushels white and "a
Of Yellow; n" sales reported. Rye is quiet
sales Of IS bushels AT 81 and 80. Oats arr dull;
offerings of 81 bushels, with sales at 80 and -.
Eggs are scarce and in demand. Chicken, ar"
in good supply; small fowls are dull, but large
ones are in demand. Lard IL in fair demand for
choice lots. Onions are dull Green Apples are
quiet under fair rccci pts; common lots are very
dull Dried Apples are in good request. Chest
nuts are wanted ut quotations. Butter is in larg"
supply, the market being "vcrst"ck"l with low
and medium grades, which are not wanted, and
sales urr difficult To effect brine lots of new
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1871-10-27
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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1871-10-27

A CHANCE FOR a BARGA1N-DAM-
~ AGED SklKTS-A lot ui Hoop Skirt,
from the celebrated factory of Downs " Bts,"tt.
THESE goods were made of superior material for
our own trade but got wet Oh the Steamer, nnd
will br sold NJ great sacrifice.
oct2I KUBT. l.. WOOD.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1871-10-27

Either by the cargo, Gar loud or retail.
M.1' Cual Ducks, AleAurdrin, Va, and (i'"rgc-
town, ID. {. ian . tt
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1871-03-15
Antiquity OF Man.

Professor Duncan, in addressing the
British Association upon the principal
geological changes which have occurred
in Europe since the appearance of man,
promised that no trace of man has been
found associated with any deposits formed
during the glacial period in Northern
Europe. The earliest remains of man
and his works and the animals associated
with him and hunted by him, rest upon
these deposits resulting from glacial
causes, and are, therefore, later in time.
4 second period, however of mountain
glacialization took place when the glac-
iers of the Alps and the Pyrenees espec-
tally extended far into the districts below
them. This was subsequent to the ex-
istence of man, since the mud and gravel
produced by the grinding down of the
mountain-sides during this period, and
its qualification over the plains, are
found to cover the remains of man and
his works and, therefore, to be of later
epoch.
This second GENERALIZATION, and the ar
rangement of the wash, are suggested as
forming a line of separation between the
paleoithic period, when man used rude
stone weapons, and the neolithic period,
when smooth and polished instruments
were manufactured, and, in a general
sense, marking the time when the great
mammalia disappeared from the northern
and western parts of Europe.
Among the principal geological changes
which occurred after the appearance of
man in Europe, our author enumerates
the subsistence of an area of land which
connected Sicily with Crete and North
ern Africa north of the Sahara; the for
nation of the Straits of Gibralter; the
excavation OF the valleys of Northern
and Eastern France; the separation of
the coasts of France and England, in the
region about Dover and Calais, and that
of the Isle Of Wight from the main land
the formation of a great part of the
Bristol Channel a considerable upheav,
al of the Scandinavian peninsula and
Denmark the uprise of the Desert OF
Sahara in Africa, after the second extern.
tionof the Alpine glaciers.
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1871-03-15
Advantages of Advertising.

The Daily Bulletin is showing the i'm
mense advantages the business man who
advertises has over the man who does not.
The editor says;
The sense of the business community
will bear us out in saying that if in two
equal cases, to one is added the element
of continued, iudicious and even lavish
appeals to the public eye and ear, which
is absent in the other, success will be so
largely and so invariably in favor of the
former as to form a safe basis of business
calculation.
The number who have by this means
alone obtained prodigious wealth, is
considerable and of those who have
thereby obtained handsome fortune,
still larger, while the men who have in
this way made all they are worth, and
more than they could ever have made by
any other means, is innumerable.
Where are those who have fairly tried
it and failed?
Gentlemen in trade who spend largely
for attractive signs and pay for the places
they occupy, would it not be judicious
economy to take them down in dull
times We believe the business sagac-
ity which counsels the neglect of the
public at the times when the public is
for any reason partially Withdrawing its
attention, is. next of kin to the philoso.
ply of the individual who sawed off the
limb on which he was sitting
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1871-03-15
hI..I..tT.nI.ns.

In the early histuTy q scotland Ard
IuslsnA a tEih.e q Celiic uaruors stand
forth urs-eninent by their bold adTei-
turez and NArlike dcedA he soenes o.
their exploits received names stil EeEl'ei-
uaied in thc topography q bon cum
triez. and the c1Tloits thenselvss h'-'aiils
thetheme q many poems. and ruInalc,'s-
Finn Ma Cumhasi pronounced Cook
Vas one q these WarTiurs, aud their ao.i
famous commander. According Ia lrlsh
annals, b. lived and died IN The thifd
century 81 the Christian enA - greai
uas Lis renoun that these Cache var
riors, who had previously been desiallaie1
hv various names. hsarlaruus D. our ing
hsh ears. we're hcnccforth known a.
Feinnc. Pima. OF feniAns; and sneh
were celebrstod in the legendary history
Of Scotland and Ireland They sem
eventually 81 have constituted a KIND OF
established militia. whose duty Il was IN
the words Of an old historian, -" % de
fend the country against foreign and
domestic enemies. % support the night
and succession of their kings, and 10 be
ready upon the shortest notice for any
surprise or emergency Of the state.
These meagre historical details give
one little idea Of the amount OF fenian
literature which still exists in ancient
Gaelic manuscripts. One Of its most
accurnte and learned students has com
puted that, were all the Fenian poems
and legends published, they would MI
three thousand closely printed large
quarto pages,
To enter the ancient Fenian order,
"every soldier must swear that without
regard 10 fortune he would choose wife
for her virtue, her courtesy, aud hei
. good manners that he would never ofiel
violence to a woman that rs far as he
could he would relieve the poor and
that he would not refuse 10 fight nine
men of any other nation. Every soldier
must he well acquainted with twelN
books Of poetry, and be able to compose
verses. He must also run well, and de
I fend himself when in flight. To try In
activity, he was made 10 run through
wood, having n trees breadth, and the
whole Of the Fenians pursuing him l
he was oyertaken or wounded IN thu
wood he was refused. as too sluggish anC
unskillful TO fight with honor among suci
valiant troops.
He must be so swift and light OF foo
as not TO break rotten stick by STANDING
on it able also to leap over tree a
high as his forehead, and to stoop unde
tree that was lower than his knees
Without stopping or lessening his speed
he must be able TO draw a thorn out o
his foot. Finally, he must take an oatl
of fidelity"
These are some of the qualification
given to us by an ancient historian, VIII
naively adds $50 long rs these form
of admission were exactly insisted upon
the militia of Ireland were an invincibl'
defence TO their country, and terror I,
rebels at home and enemies abroad.
/ What would become of our moderl
Fenians were such qualifications now re
quired I? 49, Prof. Sesiye, IN ScriJHer'
| Moahly for March.
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1871-03-15
A Real Rat Story.

A London Canada, paper says The
most exciting rat chase we have heard of
for some time has been going on in
Sparks street for some days past. Mr.
Oxford was terribly annoyed by the de-
structive little brutes, and had lost a
great deal of his stock by them, and
seeing a receipt for banishing the pests,
he tried it. The plan was simply to
spread some kind of drug on the floor
noar their runs, where they would get it
on their feet. The drug burns like caus.
tic, and they lick it off and get it into
their mouths. Mr.. Oxford was astonished
to find that in short time he hadn't a
rat about his premises DIR. Brown across
the road, however, found that his stock
had increased TO an alarming extent.
MIR. Oxford gave him his receipt for
banishing them, and drove the hungry
little brutes into Mr.. Alfred Brown S
house. Mr.. Brown saw with astonish-
ment the terrible plague that had come
on him and sat up at night to kill
the brutes. An idea of their numbers
may be formed from the fact that he
killed sixteen one night in his room.
Alter he was tormented for a couple of
days, MIR. Oxford gave him the receipt,
and he soon got nd of them, and they
retired on MIR. McCormick's fiour-store.
He has got rid of them also. and Mr..
Champness has now got the whole of
them. 1t is the intention of parties who
know the receipt to drive the rats into
Lower Town. A couple of weeks will be
sufficient, and they will cross the canal
some fine night and walk into the Metro
politan, and their entry will be as trium-
phant as that of the Germans into Paris.
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1871-03-15
Proverbs of All Nations.

A deceitful man is more hurtful than
open war.
A fox should not be on the jury at
goose's trial.
Justice will not condemn even the
devil wrongfully.
A great fortune is great slavery.
A nod from lord is a breakfast for
fool.
A good word for a bed one is worth
much and costs little.
An old dog cannot alter his way of
barking.
An idle brain is the devils workshop.
A penny worth of mirth is worth a
pound of sorrow.
Avarice increases wealth.
A small leak will sink a great ship.
Bacchus has drowned more men than
Neptune.
Expect nothing from him who prom
ises great deal.
Draw not thy bow before thy arrow be
fixed.
Grieving for misfortune is adding gall
to NORWOOD.
Good bargains are pickpockets.
Give neither counsel nor salt till YOU
are asked for it.
Have not the cloak to make when it
begins to rain.
He who would catch fish must not
mind getting wet.
He is idle that might be better en-
ployed
He who would stop every mans mouth
must have great deal of meal.
He that makes himself an ass must
not take it i'll if men ride him.
He that knows not when to be silent
knows not when to speak.
He that fears you present will hate you
absent.
If an ass goes travelling he'll not
come home horse.
If better were within, better come out
1t is more easy to praise poverty than
to bear it.
1t is hard for an empty bag to stand
upright.
1t is pity that those who taught us
to talk did not also teach us to hold our
| tongues
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1871-03-15

Fpsom ALI, Is extracted from the hqaoI
u drainage
In some parts Of the World zAli spElnss
ou-ur. bat 80 weakly charged With s.hne
natter that tie evaporation Of theiI
uater by fusl from The beginning yoaid
not be eoonomio.l In this ease the IN
gcaious sontnvance % "gradu1nng
houses.- a. they arr termed, u has ~
course b. A graduating house = an
open she'd flled with stacked hrushvood.
and open 10 the air, though protoctod
hv roadng from the rain. The Object Of
brushwooi l. b. afford q large surface
over which the weak saline solution, BE-
ing pumped up, may trickle, evaPoration
heing proportonate loFfeTis pII-i51sl 70
the evaporative surface exposed final
evaporation, however. cannot be effected
hy this means as At Lymington, fuel
heat being needed TO conclude the pro
cess.
In certain very cold countries, sea
water is concentrated by freezing, during
which process only frssh water turns q
ice, while very strong brine Is extracted
this needing only a small amount Of AZ
tifcial heat 10 effect capitalization.
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1871-03-15
The Shep-GIrl.

Iitiis foCi, pity he
Neater hadts shuuh nui inn1sc yul
shapsiy hands, the dAiutiosi glrvts
should h. happy o. cmhrace yuui
But I knuW ~ al that cuuld
Max year cyos a diAmund brighter,
MAKO ruur hrs ryssr murr rrt,
MAKO yuur ueck . suos fake vhiicr.
Straight and strunE, WITH ghdang saii
Clumsy boois, l hate you so!l
Every morning passcs she,
Rain ur shine, o. slnd % snow
One small hand parcel clasps
lGiarcless. happily foT mel;
Tother LIS the shabby drcss,
showing vaguely What might he
Sa-she's goneI the fainter eliok
Other haut-hools leads me on;
And I follow her in thought
And wonder where shes gone
Not the very hrunEest Nd
That iuuInines Bacon street
Could 20 lure me with its call,
Could 20 make my pulses beat.
Isshe walking stin. 50 swim
Sui the neat brown parcel pressed
Unrespousive tah, % thinkll
To the urgence q her breastf
Or has she reached her goal,
And put ofi her rusty hatt
Aud the shapcly hand, ] wonder
Has she gone 10 work with that
Simple shop-girll though your boots
shabby be and coarse your drcsss
Toll your bot, and scant your JOYS,
Rare Kind word. and rare cares;
Yet | see that in your eyes
That outshines al outward show;
That makes poverty content,
Aud that-makes me love you so!
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1871-03-15
Death Rather than Hma

Suicides are now beconrr
general. Few DAYS psU y
attempt at self-muriq. q.
curances are mostly anggt
are young, and who have g7
little worldly experience Il
writing to the Elizabeth h.
cent suicidal attempt II BID
The principal gossip IN g5
is the attempted suicide d
married woman in E4a Bot
husband is . moderat5lvVa-
good standing and rapuhtr
tremely eccentric in crat
No servants are all0veinEf
ment, and his wife, vh5 hrvs
domestic occupations tllrN
disguised with The oaeaan
scrubbing and working r
meals and cleaning iisnHrt
concluded she would apN d
known, and have ,hngg ay
In her letter oihEFl B. Slta
she had no fauf D. ind With hg
band, but she va t,dZl5lN
spot where ther vNW tSAsp
The pistol with vhl1 4s SteHr
shoot herself thryC.i The la
evidently anew weapon II aa
for the result was si.l' 711.
left side. causing conli1n4i
pain, but by no ,d12
heard last evening thh tAi u
house is likely to conquer AsI
servants. having engaged Z
housekeeper and sufficient n
the domestic machinery, VIII
forming his wife into ana
drudge. Pity he hadlIN
such system before she D
ridiculous.
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1871-03-15

HYNEN's "SELL. 1T was the custom
in Babylon, five hundred years before
the Christian era, to have annually an
auction of the unmarried ladies. In every
year on a certain day, each district as
sembled all its virgins of manageable
ages. The most beautiful was put up
first, and the man who paid the highest
price gained possession of her. The
second in personal charms followed her,
and SO on, so that the bidders might
crafty themselves with handsome wives
according to the length of their purses.
There may yet remain in Babylon some
for whom no money was offered, but
the Babylonians managed that. When
all the comedy ones are sold the crier
orders the most deformed one to stand
up, and after demanding who will
marry her for small sum, she is
adyudged to him who is satisfied with the
least and in this manner the money
raised from the sale of the handsome
serves as portion to those who are
either of disagreeable looks or that have
any other imperfection.
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1871-03-15

CACKLNG.-Fool as hen proves her
self to be when she cackles, because she
has laid an egg, she is not half such a
fool as when she sits upon eggs and
matches ducks, and does not know that
they are not chickens until they take to
the water, and to eating garbage, and is
not sure of it then. Her folly begins
when she dosn't know the difference
between her own shapely white eggs and
the pale green aquat ones of the duck ;
it increases to temporary insanity when
she clucks about with pride and scratches
for the sustenance of a lot of fiat-footed
spoon-billed creatures, with as much re-
semblance to chickens as the slender
silvery salmon bears to the Shiny broad
headed Goldfish, and it descends into
absolute idiocy, when she flies to an
island stone to guard her spurious chicks
from the dangers of the mill-pond.
Mankind furnish examples of such folly
and madness when they brood over and
hatch schemes which, blinded by the
pride of supposed maternity, they do moi
recognise as not their own until the evil
which is in them begins Enthusiastically tc
show itself, and makes manifest theil
real nature. If it were not for the
warning cackle of hens the land would
be overrun with fowls. If it were MOI
for the warming cackle of men brood
of monsters might be Matched which
would overrun and disturb the world.
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1871-03-15

WHEN" asks an English magazine
writer, "does the toy age really cease {
Look at the rich man with his establish
ment what is it but bigger box of
toys ?-the tin coach grown up big 4; the
horses become alive the box of sheep
and COWS developed and better made,
able to walk and bleat and blow the
trees able to stand more firmly than those
old avenues, whose trees were all of that
one peaked shape, with the green ring
lets upon them; the toy ship grown into
a yacht the box of dinner things with
the vanished provisions, immovable
upon them, exchanged for those grand
dinner parties d Ia Russo; the doll passed
into wife; the baby nurse into nur-
sery. All, sad if the command came to
lay by these in box and to put them on
shelf in Earth's great cupboard for our
broken toys. Well, / grant you it would
be a poor way to consider of things, to
look at these things only as toys, only as
ministers for amusement, and stays fol
the within of the hour. But it is certain
that they who look not beyond this briei
life do thus consider of them, do thus
employ them. The toy age continues
all the life long, though the child's hear
goes soon.