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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-10-26
DiSEASES OF IMPRUDENCE.

Weakness of the Back or Limbs, Structures,
Affection of the Kidneys or Bladder, lnyolun-
tary Discharges, Impotency, General Debility'
Nervousness, Dyspepsia, Languor, Low Spirits,
Confusion of Ideas, Palpitation, Of the Heart G
diness, Disease of the Head, Throat, Nose or
Skin, Affections of the Liver, Lungs. Stomach
or Bowels terrible Disorders arising
from Solitary Habits Of Youth-secret and SOL
tary practices more fatal to their victims than
the songs of the Syrens to the Mariners of Ulys-
ses, blighting their most brilliant hopes or an
Sc.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-10-26
DR.. JOHNSTON.

Member of the Royal College of Surgery of
London, Graduate Of one of the most eminen
Colleges in the United States, and the greater
part Of whose life has been spent in the hosspi-
where, has effected some of the most astonishing
cures that were ever known; many troubled with
ringing in the head and ears when asleep, grest
nervousness, being alarmed at sudden sounds,
bashfulness with frequent blushing, attended
sometimes with arrangement OF p'lnd, were
n11raA i'm madatelV
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-10-26
.MEDICFL.
BALTIC. LOCK HOSPITAL,
DIR. JOHNSTON,

Physician of this celebrated institution, has dis;
covered the most Certain, Speedy, Pleasant and
Effnctusl Remedy in the world for all
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-10-26
GYM. HI. DeVAUGHAN,
Manufacturer and Dealer in
E u r n / 7 u r B. ,
No ITO Kino strnnt

North side,) Alexandria, Virginia.
Respectfully calls attention to his large as
sortment of FURNITURE, which he is selling,
quality considered, as low ss can be bought in
this or any other market.
PARLOR SUITS, in Hair, Cloth or Reps;
Marble Top Centre Tables, Whatnots, Hat
Racks, Lounges, Office Dining Rocking, Side
and Childrens Chairs, Breakfast and Dining
Tables and Hair Top Mattresses constantly on
hand Agent for the celebrated
NE PLUS ULTRA SPRING BEDS,
pronounced by those who have examined them
to be the very best Spring Beds ever offered in
this market.
REPAIRING promptly attended to at mod
crate prices. mn lo-I
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-10-26
CO.n.nTsSIGJ>- MERCHANTS.

D, D. GOULD. W. 4. WILKEN1NG.
TOULD s. WILKENING,
VI Successors to W. F. Henderson,
GROCERY, LIQUOR s. GENERAL COM
- MISSION MERCHANTS,
No. 80 North Royal st.
Dealers in GROCERIES, TEAS, COFFEES,
SUGARS, CIDER VINEGAR, BACON,
WHISKEY, BRANDY, WINES, SCOTCH
ALE, PORTER, SC.
Also, Eastern and Potomac SHAD, HER
RING and MACKEREL.
Choice brands of SEGARS and TOBACCO
always on hand.
CLOVER and TIMOTHY SEED. A large
invoice of GRASSES just received.
Strict attention paid to the sale of COUNTRY
PRODUCE. NH 26-tf
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-10-26
T AIDES AMI CENTS MERINo VESTS.
pLACK GOODS.

B
fine line of BLACK and MOURNING
GOODS, embracing
Merinos, Cashmcrcs,
Versailles Grape,
Gros. de Londons,
Cashmere dc Ecoise,
Alpacas, Mohuirs, &c. Just received @ ed by yn
oct4 j. Nj. STEWART.
NEW STOCK NOW COMING IN AT NO.
IN 81 KING STREET.
ROBERT L. WOOD is receiving alarge stock
Of DRY GOODS. Purchasers generally would
consult their interests By examining his stock.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-10-26
DRY GOODS.
wynn N. BERKLEY,

WYNN. N. BERKLEY, .a;.'
w No GA King street.
Is receiving a large addition TO his stock Oh
FALL GOODS,
which have been bought on, the most advanta-
geous terms, and will be sold accordingly.
Black Blue and Brown Cloths.
Plain and Fancy Cassimeres
Sattinets and Fulled Cloths.
White and Colored Flannels.
Bed Blankets, very cheap-wth many othef
desirable goods. - OCT - i
r AIDES AMI GENTS MER1NO VESTS
J. NJ. STEWART
Has just opened lot of the various sizes OF hs.
dies Merino Vests, high neck and long sleeves
also Gents, of the small and some of the largest
sizes; also Gents Silk Vests, a desirable article
oct 4-tf
WARNS AND WooL-Received this day
L another supply of Germantown Woods and m
Yarns. Owing to great scarcity of and de-
msnd for Wool, Yarns are increasing in price RI &C.
every day. Buy your supplies before before a further
advance. y. =. bEhN1
oct s - King street.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-08-02
A Mechanical Cat.

Leonard, of the Cleveland Leader, has
invented sheet iron cat, with cylindri-
cal attachment and steel claws and teeth.
1t is worked by clock-work. A bellows
inside swells up the tail at will to bel
lieerent size, and by tronolo attach
ment, causes, at the same time, the
patent cat to emit all noises of which
the living bird is capable. When you
want fun, you wind up your cat and
place him on the roof. Every cat within
half a mile hears him, girds on his armor,
AMI sallies forth. Frequently, fifty or
one hundred attack him at once. No
sooner does the patent cat feel the
weight of an assailant than his teeth and
claws work with lightning rapidity. AID.
versaries within six feet of him are torn
to shreds. Fresh battalons come on
to meet similar fate, and in an hour
several bushels of hair, toe nails and
fiddle strings alore remain.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-08-02
The Production Of Gold.

Gold, the most valuable of all the
metals, is issued by all civilized nations
as standard of value. Besides enter
ing largely into the arts, it forms the
coin most generally in use in Europe
and the United States, and is an article
of production and export from the lat
ter country. Gold is preferable to sill
yer for coin, as the expense of coming
given sum is onl y about ne-tenth of
that of silver, while it is much more
conveniently carried and in large sums
it is more easily and rapidly paid out.
1t is exported in bars and in coin.
a great impetus was given to COM
merce about the middle of the present
century, by the astonishing increase in
the production of gold which took
place at that period. The immediate
effect was an advance in the prices OF
certain necessary articles required in the
then remote mining regions of Califor-
MIA and Australia, and in demand for
vessels to transport these articles, to-
gether with thousands of adventurous
miners and traders, to the mining dis
tricts. The next effect was 10 disturb
the relative value of products, gold
being the standard of value. This
gave higher prices higher prices slim
ulated production and increased pro-
duction demanded Of commerce new
markets for exchanges, and new and
larger facilities for etfecting them. This
demand upon American commerce was
promptly met. II Immediately estab-
| lished steam communication between
| New York and New Grenada; founded
new city on the coast OF the latter
country for the accommodation OF gen
eral commerce; built railroad across
the lsthmus OF Darien; organized steam
ers on the Pacific to connect New York
with San Francisco; constructed tele-
graph across or under the Atlantic
ocean; made and equipped railroad
over and through the hitherto compare
lively impossible Rocky Mountains /;
and, finally, established direct steam
communication between our own coun-
try and Japan, China. and the East
indies all these wonderful achieve.
ments having been accomplished with
in the space of about 20 years after the
new discoveries OF gold.
The continued production OF gold
from the sources alluded to, as well as
from other parts OF the world, would
seem to preclude the probability of a
return TO the general scale of prices
which existed prior to the year 1850.
The annual production OF gold
throughout the world is now pretty uni.
form the amount varying in each coun-
try more or less each year, but in the
aggregate is probably not far from $500,
100000; some estimates are below and
others above that amount. In a report
made to Congress, recently, it Was put
down at Sl5O,OOO 900; furnished by diff
ferent countries as follows
United States 500, ON, 900 Siberia. sl5OOOOa
| Mexico * ). America 100000 Elsewhere 1900 0O
| Australia ................ 0O,Oun,vO
British America. 10000 Total....sl5O,OO ,OC
-.ucElrath'S Commercial DtctionarV.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-08-02
A Defense OF Pretty Women.
From the Saturday Review.

FROM tue odtuTudy heNleW.
After all, is the world so very absurd
in its love of pretty women? Is woman
SO very ridiculous in her chase after
beauty? A pretty woman is doing a
woman's work in the world, but not
making speeches, nor making buildings,
but making life SUMMER and more beau
ttul. Man has forsworn the pursuit of
beauty altogether. Does he seek it for
himself, he is guessed to be frivolous, he
is guessed to be poetic, there are whis-
pers that his morals are no better than
they should be. In society resolute to
be ugly there is no post for an Adonis
out that Of model of guardsman. But
woman does for mankind what man Las
ceased to do. Her aim from childhood
is to be beautiful. Even as school girl
she notes the progress of her charms,
the deepening color OF her hair, the
growing symmetry of her arm, the ripen.
ing contour of her cheek. We watch,
with silent interest, the mysterious
reveIies OF the maiden; she is dream
ing of coming beauty, and painting
for the glories of Is. lnsensibly, she
becomes an artist; her room is a studio,
her glass an academy. The JOY of her
toilet is the JOY of Raphael over his can
vas, of Michel Angelo over his marble.
She is creating beauty in the silence and
the loneliness other chamber; she grows
like any art creation, the result of pa
tience, of hope, of thousand delicate
touchings and retouchings. Woman is
never perfect never complete. A rest
less night undoes the beauty of the day
sunshine blurs the evanescent coloring
of her cheek frost nips the tender out
lines of her face into sudden harshness.
| Care plows its lines across her brow
motherhood destroys the elastic light
ness of her form; the bloom OF her
cheek, the quick flash OF her eyes, fade
and vanish as the years 90 by. But
woman. is still true to her ideal. She
won't know when she is beaten, and she
manages TO steal fresh victories even in
her defeat. She invents new concep-
tons of womanly grace she rallies at
40, and fronts us with the beauty OF
womanhood she makes last stand at
GO, with the beauty of age. She
falls like Caesar, wrapping her mantle
round her" buried in wooden 'twould
saint provoked Death listens pitt
fully to the longings of lifetime, and
the wrinkled face smiles with some.
thing of the prettiness of Is.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-08-02
Quality vs.. Quantity.

/ am not prepared to suggest rem
edy. | leave that to ADLER men. But
one thing feel certain of farmers need
not abandon their business on account
OF temporary low prices. There is a
chance for us yet. Let us study to raise
good crops, improve our stock, keep up
the fertility of our farms, vote for honest
men, and we need have no fear that the
country j. going to the dogs, or tn t
agricultural products on the whole will
not sell for what they are worth.
We want TO raise better wheat. better
beef, better pork, better mutton, better
cheese, and better butter. The best is
the cheapest, and | think consumers
are beginning to find it out. | am told
that the demand for the choicest white
wheat -four is by no means confined to
the wealthy. One of our large Roches.
ter nurserymen tells me that his men,
almost without exception, prefer to buy
the best flour they can get, even at the
almost extravagant price asked for it.
They find it ''goes farther" and is real
ly cheaper than common brands of flour
that can be bought for two or three dol
lars barrel less money. The miller:
tell me, further, that it is exceedingly
difficult at all times to find really choice
pure white wheat.-Col. Waring, i,
american AgricuLturiSt.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-08-02
Horse Notes.

JoHN HARPER was offered $4,000 for
Longfellow the day before he was beaten
by Harry Bassett. Old Uncle John said
twice that sum couldn't buy him.
NINE races have been won at Long
Branch by horses which originated in
Scott county, Ky.
THE stallion. Bonnie Scotland owned
yC. c.. a r. H. Parks, Waukegan, H.,
has been sold to Tennessee parties for
$4,000.
IT is believed Longfellow will never
run another race, although he will be
most valuable in the stud.
A HORSE in Geneva, n. Y, last week
became so frightened at a circus tent
that he ruptured blood vessel and
bled to death.
UNcLE JOHN HARPER is said to be com
pletely overcome by the defeat of his
idolized Longfellow, and walks about
with sorrowtul looks, refusing to be
comforted.
AT the Saratoga races, July Is, Hun
ter 81 Travers' three-year-old bay colt
Alarm, by Eclipse, made the fastest three
quarters of mile dash on record. There
were ten entries, including klngfisher,
Ortolan and other noted flyers.
Alarm won the race easily by four
lengths, in l:l6.
The annual sale of Mr.. Alexander
yearling colts and FLIES occurred at
Woodford Farm, KY, the last week in
June. Forty.three head were sold,
averaging 1897 each-the highest sale
Of yearlings on record.
A SARATOGA letter of July II, says
"Poor Longfellow, in his stable this
evening, presents the picture OF misery
There is complete circle cut from the
center of his hoof, extending around the
coronet ring to his heel. His middle
tendon, tonight, is three times the nat
ural size. 1t appears that he broke the
shoe-plate on one of his hind feet at the
half-mile pole, when he was tapping
Bassett, and cut his fore foot with it
No doubt exists in the minds of expe
rienced turfmen that he is completely
broken down, and will never appear il
public again.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-08-02
Maxims for the Farmer.

|. Only good farming pays. He who
sows or plants, without reasonable as
surance of good crops annually, had bet
ter earn wages of some capable neigh
Der than work for so poor paymaster
as he is certain to prove himself.
=. The good farmer is proved by the
steady appreciation of his crops. Any
one may reap an ample harvest from
fertile virgin style; the good farm er
alone grows good crops at first, and bet
ter and better ever afterwards.
3. 1t is ia, easier to maintain the pro-
ductive capacity of farm than to re-
store it. TO exhaust its fecundity, and
then attempt its restoration by buying
costly commercial fertilizers, is wasteful
and irrational.
4. The good farmer sells mainly such
products as are at least exhaustive. Ne
cessity may constrain him, for the frs
year or two, to sell grain or even hay
but he will soon send off his surplus
mainly in the form of cotton, or wool
or meat, or butter and cheese, or some
thing else that returns to the soil nearl,
all that is taken from it. A bank &C
count daily drawn upon, while nothing
is deposited to its cridit, must soon re
spond, mo funds )" so with farm
similarly treated.
5. Rotation is at least negative ferti
ization. 1t may not positively enrich
farm it will at least retard and post
pone its impoverishment. He VIII
grows wheat after wheat, corn afte
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-08-02

temporarily left the journal with which
his name has since become so closely
associated.
In 1866 or the early part Of 1867 he
determined to go TO Europe and enlist
in the Cretan army as volunteer,
making arrangements before leaving
New York TO send occasional letters TO
the Herald. He was, however, greatly
disappointed in the character OF his in
tended companions in arms. and soon
changed his plans. He then, in com.
pany with three travelling compatriots,
one of whom was his step-brother ,arrang.
ed for walking tour through the heart
OF Asia, passing through Asia Minor, the
provinces of Russian Asia, the Khane-
ties, Bokhara and Khiva, Eastern Turk
estan, and so through China to the coast.
This project, however, came TO disas.
trous end. The little party had pene-
trsted only hundred miles from Smyr.
ma when it was plundered by brigands
and compelled to return.
The next year Mr.. Stanley spent in
travelling about Europe. In 1868 he
accompanied the Abyssinian expedition
w -'AoEtoia, anu toiltllNCu vi etFcIdl
occasions to get important news through
to New York ahead of the dispatches of
the British Government and of the civil
correspondents. These successes, of
course, strongly recommended him to
the favor of his journal, and when the
Herald determined upon its quest OF
the great explorer, Mr.. Stanley was
selected to head the expedition.
Mr. Stanley is now about twenty nine
years of age. He is a thickset, power
full man, though, like William the Con-
queror and other celebrated people, he
is short of stature-only about five feet
seven inches. A sure shot, an expert
swimmer, practiced horseman, and "a
trained athlete, with very wide and
varied experience of roughing it," he
was admirably fitted for the duty he
has calamity and successfully per
formed.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-08-02
The Railroads OF India-LOcOmOtive
as Eyangelists.

Mr.. Brooks, in his Seven Months
Rum" writes as follows:
The railroads of India are doing more,
il seems to me, for the conversion of
Hindoos, if not Mohammedans, than
all the missionaries and if the English
Government here would give little bit
of preference TO the Holy Bible over the
shastras, and vedas, and the korans
(only little bit), should have some
nope that the railroads would do what
the missionaries have, for now two CEN
turtles, not done-that is, turn the
people from the error of their ways.
The railroad is breaking down slowly
the Hindoo castles. The proud and
lofty, and blue blooded Brahmin must
now go into the same Car with the poor,
despised pariah, or not go at all. The
hard hearted English conductor pushes
in, or tumbles in, psrish on top Of
Brahmin, and Mohammedans among
them too. Each wraps up his garments
around him, and preserves himself as
much as possible from the horrible con-
tamination; but, when once holy Brahmin
is in the car with polluted pariah, 60 he
must or Jump out and die. The railroad
now has become here the great vein OF
life, the heart, as it were, of the geograph
ical anatomy Of the country; and hence,
this mixed circulation of all those
various religious sects and bloods in it
is amalgamating slowly, despite religion,
caste, and creed. And this is happen
ing in land, too, where, if even the
shadow of Christian or Mohamme-
dan pariah should pass over the food Of
Brahmin, he would not eat it, or over
his body, he would feel himself polluted.
Railroads are great Jewelers. everywhere ;
but railroads in India are leveling heath
enism, and may, by-and-by, bring it up
to Christianity. What conquers caste
here, equalizes. What. equalizes heathen-
ism here, strips it of its pride, selfshness,
exclusiveness, ETC., and thus prepares it
for something better than itself.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-08-02
Agricultural Items.

Cows and sheep should not be pastur.
ed together. Hoses and sheep form a
more suitable partnership, rs their graz.
ing habits are similar.
IT is recommended to place iron filing
or bits of iron in the soil about rose
bushes. 1t increases the vividness of
the bloom. The sweepings of a black
smith shop are excellent for this pur-
pose.
ONE of the most important principles
established by Liebig is rotation OF am
monia collecting with ammonia dis
persing crops-that is, root and green
crops alternating with cereals.
Hoe frequently around newly planted
trees. 1t is better than mulching with
any material, as the fresh stirred soil
admits air, light and heat, and absorbs
the dews of every night.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Country Gen
Heman says that even where land was
too poor to grow clover to amount to
any thing, blowing under two crops Of
rye brought the land in good condition
for clover, and this, plowed under, put
the land in good order for other crops.
GONE who knows makes it point
TO select cow with yellow skin. One
whose skin is pale or colorless is not,
he says, half so likely to produce good
butter.
TIE New England Farmer says that q
gentleman used saltpeter in the kitchen
and flower garden, where it increased
the beauty and prolonged the bloom of
the flowers. At the rate of two hundred
pounds per acre, on crop OF horse
radish, he experienced the most bene.
fetal results. 1t presented mildew on
early peas and wall fruit trees. On
gravelly grass lands the results were
exceedingly satisfactory. On calcar aous
or limy soils, the effect of saltpeter was
excellent. Its application to red clover
was attended with the same success.
The best buyers of wool do not like
wool to be put up in square packages
and tied around twice or three times
each way with strong Irvine. They pre-
fer the feeces to be rolled up neatly
and left as loose as possible: SO that
each fleece will be springy and light and
elastic to the hand, not solid, hard,
square, compact masses in which the
wool is pressed together till the fleece
feels like brick. Then one Irvine
tied across to keep the rolled up fleece
in its place and two .twines the other
way.
THERE is hardly more valuable plant
in the garden than sage. 1t is easily
raised. The plants should be set about
eighteen inches apart in rows three feet
distant. Sage will grow on almost any
land we have in the West, and if prop
erly mulched will stand our coolest and
most severe winters. 1t is very neces
sary that the plant should be cultivated
frequently, and no weeds should be per
mitted to choke the sage. 1t Away
brings good price in market, and {
small, or, for that matter, a large patel
usually pays the farmer.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-08-02
Feeding POultry.

The influence of the food of poultry
upon the quality and flavor of their flesh
and eggs has not generally been taken
into consideration; out it is now well
ascertained that great care should be
exercised in regard to this matter. In
some instances it has been attempted
to feed poultry on large scale in France
on horse flesh, and although they
devour this substance very greedily, it
has been found to give them very un.
pleasant SAVIOR. The best fattening mate
rial for chickens is said to be Indian corn.
meal and milk; and certain large poul-
try establishments in France use this
entirely, to the advantage both of the
flesh and of the eggs.-.Scientfc Amer.
lean.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-08-02

corn, for twenty years, will need to EN-.
igrante before the term'is fulfilled. The
same farm cannot support lnor endure)
him longer than that. All our great
wheat-growipg sections of fifty years
ago are wheat-growing no longer, while
England grows large crops thereof on
the very fields that fed the armies of
Saxon Harold and William the Con-
queror. Rotation has preserved these,
as the lack of it ruined those.-BOstoa
Journal Of Chemistry.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-08-02
steam Cultivation,

An extensive English farmer, who
has long practiced steam cultivation,
thus testifies to its advantages On two
fields he has grown fifteen crops of
grain, wheat and beans in succession,
without fallow, and last years crop of
wheat was forty bushels per acre; on
two other fields he has grown fifteen
successive crops of wheat, the last crop
quite equaling forty bushels per acre.
Under horse cultivation the average
crop of these fields was twenty bushels.
The total cost of preparing the land for
the seed is only $l.00 per acre. Much
similar testimony is now coming in.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-08-02
Measuring Corn In the Crib.

5. Fuller, Greenville, H., gives rule
for measuring corn in the crib, as fol-
lows Multiply length, height, and
breadth of the crib in feet together,
then by Al, and divide by ten; the
result is bushels of shelled corn. This
may do for some localities, but as ears
and shelled corn bear as many relations
to each other in quantity as there are
localities and sorts, the safest way is to
reduce the contents of the crib to cubic
inches, and take $3.50 of them for a
bushel of ears.