Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1871-06-20

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and ninety-eight licenses to keep dogs have
beer issued by the Auditor and seventy-hve
dogs have been captured and two killed since
the dog cant commenced its rounds. The
rounds of the cart have been suspended for
| the present.
ROBBERY. The house of Mr. John Supple,
| upper end Of King street, was entered by 4
sneak thief yesterday, during the temporary
| absence of the occupants. and robbed Of SOM"
money that had been left lying on the mantle
| piece.
PEACnEs.-Pcachcs have made their ap-
| pcar,ncc in the market, but they are small.
badly favored, and held at high rates
Whether NJ Dulany Ball be migratory or
| not in his habits, is still mootcd question with
some, but that he certainly possesses IN IN emit
nent degree one OF the peculiar characteristics
of the migratory birds is point about which
there can be no dispute; and that distinguish
inr trait is the inordinatc desire for noise and
notorictv that continually gets the better of him,
and by which, invariably, his weak points are
discovered ~ easily as the arrival Of the sor;s
from the North is in the fall made known to
the sportsman by the inccssant chlrplng OF that
wandcrer, in the marshes. Some men, usually,
however, much younger than NJ. Dul;Iny Ball,
have the cac,rthcs scribcndi, Others the cacG-
thcs lo,ueni but rarely is it that both diseases
are So well developed in one individual us IN
that gentleman Since last winter no Corn f.X-
change meetings on the subject OF the new city
charter hut ii. Duany Bali was there and
made Il speech meetings OF the Friendship
Fire company, for L time, gave linn opportunl-
ties IL be heard then he transferred the scene
| from which his scintillations We're emitted TO
| the meetings Of the Columbia Fire company
No political m:lss meetings were held but he
was in tl,. midst Of them, with words OF advice:
and though he washed his hands OF them
on one occasion, he appeared soon alter IN the
| Ward meetings Meetings to organize Build
inc Associations and Insurance companies ai
torle,l him facilities for speaking which were
! not .liSr.rari.-l. Az I" mi itary com pac$ and
| ircnlcn professions, who could be orderly
| sr,,.,un, or chief marshal lut NJ. Duany Ball;
and then oh tide in the affairs OF! men taken
at the food ly NJ. Dulany Ball. was the burn
| inc of the Market House and the public meet
inrs in consequence thereof. But VI. Dulany
| BAN must not only talk no he must write, and
for time the editorial columns ct L paper
we're ut his command in which to disseminate
! his thoughts: hut he soon found, and so cx-
pressed himself, that his tai ents did not lie IN
that directi0n--a illogical deduction to Which
many of his friends agreed. But visions OF
editorial distinction having vanished, the char
ter having been adopted, the lire companies or
ranizcd, elections over, building associations
ami fire insurance companies in full operation
military companies, drilling and the building OF
the Market House in the hands Of an efficient
COMMITTEES, what could NJ. Dulany Ball do to
be heard? Some old people say it is better to
be born lucky than rich and if 50, NJ Dulany
| Ball ought to he i happy man, Tor Just ut this
roint, when the public were to be deprived for
= time at least of the sound of his voice or the
sight Of his printed words and there was dan
ger of his going into eclipse. how could for
tune smile on him more iayorably than to or
dam that Il poor old man should be put III jail
here charged with bigamy. and that 4 reporter
for the Gazette should sry, upon the authority
of the leading counsel in the cast, that the I'M
fortunate prisoner would bc brought before
Judge Lowe and app y l"r release Oil bail, and,
upon the uthomty the most logical deduction,
that an application for bail was not made to
the magistrates who committed him because,
under the law, they could not grant it? As
lovers after long separation. rush into each
others arms as drowning men clutch the ropes
thrown to them. 50 NJ Dulany Ball seized upon
this Fortunate incident i'll his life $ career, and
hurried into print. lie sent to the Gazette
office card which appeared rrrjatim ct Mclu
TIM ct pnnctn0tim precisely as he wrote It, with
the following exceptions: The address, '1n the
Editororthc Alexandria Gazette, was omitted,
rs is usual in the Gazette Office with such COM
mun;cations for the words your paper, the
words the Gazette were substituted; Tor the
words you add the words 1t is added were
used the word erroneous wassuhStttuted with
the knowledge and consent Of NJ. Dulany Ball,
for the words ''unwarrantahlc and unwisc; you
say 'wassubStitutcl by 1t is stated; had WAS
used for was; 1T is understood was made
to read that it was understood. and the was
substituted for you These exceptions con
Stirute the ..mutl,tions' to which the COM
muncation was subjected. and which so chan
gcd its phra>cologya to deprive it o!'itS point.
Now it is no more the result OF logical dcduc-
ton to say that the suspicion ut the crime OF
higamy is not ligh; upon Il man when the priest
who married him to one woman, and the preach
or who married him to another are, present, and
say they will swear to those facts, than it l.; to
SAY that 4 communication which could he de-
privcd of its point by such alterations as are
mentioned WAS utterly devoid of 4 Semblanre
OF point and consequently unworthy Of fur
thcr notice The communication with regard
to the type in which it was set up anal the po-
siton itoccupicd in the paper, received the
same treatment that is awarded to all personal
communications OF Il similar character Mr.
Bird is truly an unfortunate man, and can we'll
exclaim save me from my iricndSr' 1t is to
be hoped that NJ. Dulany Ball is now satisfied,
tor the ''wholc range Of the arched empire
has been informed that lie still lives and moves
and has his being and is always ready To write
or talk, even 1T the risk of his own or his
| chants interests