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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-08-07
LOCAL NEWS.

The WARD MEET INGs, for the election OF
Delegates to the Congressional Nominating
Convention, to be held in this city, will take
place tonight, at the different points designated
in the notice calling the meetings. There will
probably be, as there ought to be, full assem-
blages of the voters.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-08-07

EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL OF V1R-
~ GINA, NEAR ALEXANDRIA-Th
10Th Annual Session of this School FOR BOYS
opens SEPTEMBER IS, 1872 Terms: $3.50 per
year Catalogue, with particulars, sent on APP
plicaton to l.. M. BLACKBOARD, NJ. A,
Principal; Alexandria, Va. jy 25-2m
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vITASUINGTON & LEE UNIVERSITY,

wv Lexington, Virginia.
The next session of this Institution will COM
mcncc on the third Thursday (l9th) of Scptcm-
bcr 1872 and continue without intcrmlssion UNI
til the fourth Thursday in June 1875:
The instruction embraces thorough
CLASSICAL LITERARY andSClENTlFlC
COURSES,
together with the Professional departments of
LAW AND ENGINEERING.
The entire expenses for the session of nine
months need not exceed 500 or S;3;25, according
to the price of Bonrd Arrangements are also
made for messing, by which students may re-
ducc their expenses to $3.50 per session.
For further information address
g. w. c. LEE, President, or
VIM DOLD, Crk. Of Faculty.
Lexington, jy 27-2w
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MOSQUITO NETTING.
WI White, Pink and Yellow-a full supply.
iy Is ROBI. IL. "OOD.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-08-07

Try MBRELLAS-Alpsc Scotch Cling ham
u and Cambria Umbrellas; all sizes and OF
different qualities; full supply at ~
aug ROBT L. WOODS.
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TLOUR-l25 barrels now arriving OLD
Il WHEAT EXTRA FLOUR, for sale by
THOMAS PERRY,
oup 3-1w II King street
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-08-07

NIATER COOLERS, of superior quality
w with plated spiggots. will be sold at low
prices to close out at IS King street.
sug6 j. r. CREIGHTON Il SON.
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A GENUINE article Of MOCHA COFFEE
~ for sale by the
II north Royal street,
ouc3 Alexandria, Va.
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DR.. TUFTS Hair Dye is endorsed by the best
chemists. aug 5-eolw
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REGATTA On Monday the Goth inst. boat
race will be run from 7th street wharf in Wash
ington to Glymont aud return commencing at 9,
a. NJ. The prizes are to be $40 for the first
class and two prizes for the second class; the first
boat rounding the take-boat to have double
the amount of the second. The following yachts
arc entered First class-Witch of the Wave,
Ella Dolphin, East Wind, Curlew. Second
class-Spray, Gertrude Fannie Bell, John L.
Given, Nellie, May Brook, and Helen.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-08-07

ERESH SUPPLY OF SALAD OIL just re-
II ceived and for sale by
GEO. McBURNEY 6 SON,
augT l66 and ITO King street.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-08-07

PROPERTY SALEs.-Th following sales OF
city property have just been made by G. W..
Parker, real estate agent Lot on Patrick
street between Queen aud Princess, belonging
to William Gregory, to Samuel johnson for
$50 lot on the corner Of Pendleton and Al
fred street, belonging to Emanuel Francis, to
Elijah Taylor for $50 lot adjoining the above
and having the same owner, to-klng. for $ 20
and three lots adjoining the above and having
the same owner, to Harry Royal, of Front
Royal, for 800 each.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-08-07

BROKEN ARMs.-On Saturday last an old
lady named johnson, living near the Court
House, while walking on the street, fell aud
broke her arm.
On Sunday colored boy named Walter
Fields, while playing near Hunting Creek, ac
cidentally broke his arm. The necessary sur.
gica assistance in both these cases was render
ed by DR.. j. 3. johnson.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-08-07

FINE NO. MACkEREL in kits, for fami-
IL lily use, for sale BY
GEO. McBURNEY s SON:
aug7 1G6 and 10 King street
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TANTZ SICILY LEMON SUGAR for sale
" by w. T. BROOkES i BRO,
aug l47 King street.
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VTAVENNERS unrivalled CRACKERS for
III sale by the
CHINESE TEA COMFY.
II north r .yal street,
aup3 Alexandria, Va,
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MURRAY & LANMAN'S FLORIDA
lHl WATER and G EN- UIN E FARM A GU
LOGNE just received and for sale by
ivH JANNEY & co.
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A RRlVED AND FOR SALE, per schooner
n J. Tull, a cargo of LYkENS VALLEY
COAL-egg and stove.
iY 20 MEuAfF n y W.
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>Nn BALES OF GLOVER and TlMO-
OOO THY HAY in store and for sale at
2Ol King street
ie I'm ACG USIUS w ALL.
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WRAPPING PAPER-lOO reams Wrap
w ping Paper received this day and for sale
by Lily 3Ql ). {. Ml1-BOfN'
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CUGAR-CURED SHOULDERS just rcceiv-
- ed and for sale by
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jy Oats
FLOUR!

Z. w. " = I LED,
5. FERG USON BEACH,
jy Oats Culnm'rs. OF Sale.
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~ Bones CHEWING TOBACCO, best
CO assorted grades at reduced rates, Tor
sale by Iiy l9l 4. M. LA NSON.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-06-05
A Story Without a Name.
Br JOSEPH HoBBlNs, ND.

1t was a simple expedient to save lite !;
and yet the mere incident Is one that
find myself occasionally dwelling upon,
both wondrously and pleasurably.
1t IS many years ago, when | was sum
moned TO visit an exquisitely beautiful and
interesting young lady, said to be dying,
or in almost the last stage OF pulmonary
consumption. Quietly and gently l learned
her history-it was sad. She had been
engaged for several years to a naval officer
whom she had loved from childhood, and
who on his way home from India had been
lost at sea.
The treatment, if any, mus. be moral
and mentai-means far more subtle and
powerful in their influence over disease
than the widest imagination could ever
dream Of Leaving a simple prescription
for the purpose of gaining time, went
home and thought the night away before L
had sketched out plan Of treatment at
once satisfactory in its principle and in all
its details,
Morning found me with cheerful and
confident face once more beside my inter-
esting patient felt and knew that it
was to be fight for life, and that whether
death or | should win, the fight should be
manfully and hopefully fought on my part.
Strange, how the merest trife will some
times suggest to US actions Of the most
vital importance. My cue was taken from
observing a simple little plant on a small
stand near the chamber window.
Carrying with me a few punches OF
grapes, carelessly, but elegantly arranged,
[ contrived before my visit was over to
draw her attention, as it were by accident,
to their cultivation How the vine so
much priced had been tortured into its
present excellence-cut down almost TO
the earth, summer pruned and winter
pruned and bent in all directions wounded
at one time and stripped of its beauties at
another-yet living, and even graceful and
useful as we'll as ornamental. And then
in a few appropriate words-delicately
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-06-05

noon but the annoyance became at length
so extreme as to render them impatient OF
delay, and they made haste to bring the
momentous business to a conclusion.
After such long and severe strain up
on their minds, members seem to have
INDUCED in many jocular observation
as they stood around the table. Tradition
has it that when John Hancock had affixed
his magnificent signature to the paper, be
said, " There, John Bull may read nay
name without spectacles Tradition
also, will never relinquish the pleasure Ot
repeating that, when Mr.. Hancock remind
ed members of the necessity of hanging
together, Dr. Franklin was ready with his,
" Yes, we must indeed all hang together,
or else, most assuredly, we shall all hang
separately" And this may have suggest
ed to the portly Harrison luxurious,
heavy gentleman as John Adams de-
scribes him-his remark to slender Elbridge
Gerry, that, when the hanging came, he
should have the advantage for poor Gerry
would be kicking in the air long after it
was all over with himself
French critics censure Shaks peare for
m;ngling bufoonery with scenes Of the
deepest tragic interest. But here We fnd
one of the most important assemblies ever
convened, at the supreme moment of its
existence, while performing the act that
gives it its rank among deliberative bodies
cracking jokes, and hurryiug up to the
table to sign, in order to get away from
the flies. 1t is precisely 50 that Shaks-
peare would have imagined the scene
James Parton. IN lime Atlantic M0HtRly
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-06-05

How THE WORLD Will ENp-A FEAR
FUL LOOK AHEAD-Eztract from a lecture
delivered by Prof John Fiske of Harvard
University, before the American G Geograph-
ical Society
Planets are continually lutegrating dit
fused materials which they encounter in
their progress through space, and it has
been estimated that the earth adds to itself
nearly one hundred and fifty billions such
meteoric PARTICLES every year. Secondl :,
it has been proved that every planet must
be slowly losing a part of Its m0lar motion
of rotation. The effect of tidal waves,
which are caused 0y the gravitation Of H.
quid matter toward other planetary bodies,
IS TO retard diurnal rotation; and, IN fact
the terrestrial day Is leugthening by reason
of this friction Of the tides, and Is des-
tined in the remote future TO give about
four hundred hours between sunrise and
sunset The earth Is also losing molecu-
lar motion bv radiation. That some ter
restrial heat is lost without compensation
and very slowly, of course-cau hardly
be doubted, and for the state Of things thus
ultimately TO be produced We may find
parallel in the present condition OF the
moon. That appears TO afford an example
of the universal death which in an i0c0n
ceivablv distinct future awaits the entire
solar system. 1t along with the dissipa-
tion OF the molsr and molecular motions
the planets are also losing angular velocity,
this loss of motion viii ultimately result IN
their integration with the sun. OF two
facts which bear upon the subject, one
familiar to all students of science Is the
observed retardation of Encke's comet by
the resistance of the medium through which
it moves The other, which so far a. !
know. has not hitherto been mentioned is,
that all the planets arenearer the sun than
they ought to be, according to Bodies law.
the variation being most conspicuous, as
might be expected, in the ease of Neptune.
1t Is at least worthy of notice that the
discrepancy Is such as might have been
caused by a slow diminution of the angu-
lar velocity of all the planets Another
fact, that the inter planetary spaces are
filled with matter, and consequently all
planetary bodies rushing through them
must meet resistance and lose momentum,
proves that immense momentum viii be
eaten up by the resisting force. This loss
of tangential momentum must bring ali
the planets into the sun. rs the planet
slowly draws near the sun its lost tangen-
tial momentum Is replaced, By the added
velocity due to the increased gravitatiye
force exerted by the sun at the shorter
distance At last the planet must strike
the sun with tremendous force. The heat
generated by the earth and the sun alone
in such a collision woul suffice to produce
"a temperature Of nearly > 100000 degrees,
centigrade OF course, disintegration
would Immediately follow, and the next
stage is the dissipation of the whole into
q nebulr
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-06-05
Burmese COuFtShip.

\ Burmese damsel is demure, laughter.
loving, and self-reliant Her manner is
graceful and pleasing. She wears bright
silk petticoat, white jacket, gold neck
lace, and has glossy black hair decked
with flowers, She often smokes q green
cheroot. OF course, she has admirers and
gives them all fair chance Every
evening she receives a visit from all these
young gentlemen and such is the way
wardness of human nature, that the same
swain will often pay similar visits on the
same evening to other young ladies Of the
same village or township. Thus courtship
is always going on, and courting time has
been an acknowledged institution from
time immemOrial
Here some explanation is necessary.
The Burmese evening is divided into three
watches-namely, children's bed time, old
folks bed time, and young folks bed time.
Childrens bed time is sunset, and it con-
tinues long after old folks bed time, which
is about nine o'clock. Young folks bed
time depends a great deal upon the will
and pleasure OF the young people IN
question; say about eleven O'Clock.
When the hour Of courtship approaches,
the young lady trims her little lamp, so
that it CLEANS through the window, and
takes her seat upon mat on the floor.
Meantime the young gentlemen have been
putting on their best bright silk putzoes, a
nondescript garment something between a
pair Of trousers and a petticoat, have
donned their clean white jackets, have tied
colored silk handkerchiefs on their heads
in the most approved style, and have
turned out altogether in the height OF
Burmese fashion. They enter, they seat
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-06-05

Nothing is easier" said Birdie, smil-
ing; " | take it out Of the furniture. This
plain threep-ly will explain it, and my
useful but not very elegant chairs. TC
be sure they look very nicely, since
have covered them with chintz but L take
more pride in nay old-fashioned fireplace
which is like poem in house, than
should in the finest and costliest velvet
pile. And some Of the statuary l have
taken out Of my dress" she added in an
aside to a friend. " Brother Charley con-
trived to let me know that he intended to
buy me costly silk dress for Christmas
present, but he found out in SOME perfectly
unaccountable way, that three or four of
Rogers statuettes would be q thousand
times more appreciated, and so all my
presents come now in books and pictures,
and things that live and give pleasure to
all Of Us. Besides she said, laughing,
havn't a shut-up room in the house
this is my parlor, and when the crumb-
cloth is spread) my dining-room and con-
servatory, all in one. l enjoy it every
day, and we are each Of US constantly de-
yising something pretty for it. So you
see 1t keeps our wits at work and always
bright, while think we have everything
else we need"
Many Of that little society went to their
homes that night with a new wrinkle Less
embroidery, less costly furniture and dress,
palmer living, less trctting over shut-up
grandeur, and more homc-comfort, happi-
ness and virtue.
1t will DO US all no harm to take the
lesson to heart.-Ailce Rollins IN Chris
tizH Union.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-06-05

much longer than was her custom while
she arranged lessons. and laid out work
enough, it seemed to me, to last for
months.
Why so much tonight ?'' inquired
conscious that my heart ached and vaguely
suspecting the cause.
because, DEAR" she answered, q. do
not want you to come for the next week
and | am anxious that you have sufficient
work to anticipate, as well as to keep you
busy. | think | can trust you to be a good
boy, John"
Il think you can, ma am, s. l answered,
almost sobbing.
"lf should see your mother, my dear
boy, before long, what shall say to her
for you?"
Then l knew all, and my grief knew no
bounds 1t is no use to 20 on. She died
two days after, and when l hear folks
saying i" There's a woman at the bottom
of it, L feel like telling the whole world
what a woman did for me- -Vood's
Household Aaga-iHe.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-06-05

one Coon DREss.-A writer In Woods
Magazine makes the following remarks on
dress:
would have one handsome dress, proba-
bly, black silk, of rich material, hand
somely trimmed, but not over trimmed
and made to fit elegantly Black silk is
better, because you can vary it in many
ways by ribbons. laces, white over-drssses,
&c. 1t may be used for the street. or for
the house, for morning, for dinner, for eve
ming. Even when it Is worn to shreds it
may be cut up into something Therefore
I think 1t no economy to buy cheap goods.
Besides, if you get a rich thing, and it is
handsome, you enjoy it, and are careful of
It. The numberless items it takes to make
a dress are hardly less expensive in a COM
mon than in q rich dress | would, for
these reasons, advise any person, be she
rich or poor, to buy one quiet, rich dress
to 20 without until she can do it, and then
wear it, Of course with care, all the time,
nearly, until it is gone. It is an absurd
idea to make up variety of dresses,
which you cannot half use, and next sea-
son be obliged TO discard or make them all
over. In this way, replenishing when one
is gone, you will always have a nice old
dress TO save the new one. You can scarcely
wear out 4 good material. 1t is frigbtful,
the amount of time and thought women
expend upon dress
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-06-05

BIRDS WEAVE A GOLDEN THREAD.-The
efforts of the societies for the prevention
of cruelty to animals in this country and
in Europe where they are much more ex-
tensive, have been subject to some silly
comment from people who have not
heart enough to recognize the sensitive
consciousness of the unspeaking brute, or
head enough to know that the creatures
God took the trouble to make, are worth
mans kindest consideration. God is more
Just than We to the animals, for while their
lives are terminated to lengthen ours, he
has permitted that needless cruelty to them
shall be revenged by injury to the higher
race Fred erick the Great had the spar
rows exterminated because one ate a cherry,
but he was very glad to get the sparrows
back to save the cheery-trees from exter-
minatiou by the worms. If we wish to
derive the fullest benefit from the beef we
eat, we must protect from their brutal
master helpless creatures that furnish it.
The interests of civilization in all of It's
forms demand that the brutes employed
IN mems service be treated with kindness,
if for no other reason than that they may
render the best service to their masters
All animal life, whether it be intended for
mains sustenance ro the enlivening and in
animate nature, has right to protection
from wanton cruelty The patient beasts
that bear the burdens OF the day, and
the birds that weave their golden threads
Of song upon the summer air, have perfect
right to mans protection, since they are
his for use, but not for cruelty, since
they are dependent upon his greater
strength and intelligence; and since their
needless injury defeats the purpose of
creation, and Injuries man himself. Every
instinct of gentleness in the human heart
cries out in behalf of those who cannot
speak for themselves Chicago Post
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-06-05

insinuated rather than expressed-drew
not inaptly be made between our life and
that of the life-giving vine.
never paid her a visit without carrying
into her room-seemingly as a matter of
habit rather than of design-a simple
flower, or an equally unpretending bouquet
of scarcely colOred flowers. After time
[ brought with me some rather rare speci-
mems Of Siberian apples. l gave her their
history. How in spite Of the exposure to
the iercest trials of climate, and though
transported to another and far off country,
it still grew and lived, and bloomed, and
returned to the hand that wounded and
tore it from Its native soil-fragrance for
the crushing, beauty for the wounding, and
good for the evil.
My patient had become interested in my
eonversation-she had begau to learn sym
pathy-and with ito learn to live. She
was evidently no longer inclined to die.
Love destroys but it also saves. There is
much in nature to love. This was the
, turning point. And now TO secure the
/ tendency to liye-was all | wanted.
I Reader, DO you know what plant Is
1t is animate, it has life; that Is, it has
divinity within it. God made it and blest
it. How few there are who seem to know
it. Nevertheless it Is 50. l sent her
/ plants-I took them TO her in my visits.
[ talked Of them to her, and, above all, of
/ the resemblance of their life to our life
+ How both alike grew up and were cut
down. OF the intimacy, and not only
/ intimacy but mutual dependency that ey-
/ listed between Us. That one could not live
/ without the other. How thousands of
miles over land and over sea, we exchanged
the breath Of life. How kindness and
care-domestication as it IS called-im-
proved, developed and even changed their
! almost every characteristic, their color,
4 their shape, and flower and fruit How
\ the like kindness and care had the like
effect upon Us. How they paled, withered
and died like Us from the like causes
/ What a strict relationship there was be-
| tween plant and animal life How the
same good God was the creator Of both.
How the roots, the earth, the sea, the
winds, the rain, the dew, and the heavens
at large Influenced both, and in the end
what charming, interesting, instructive
and even religious work because the love
OF Gods work is a religious love- it was
to tend these plants. All this and much
more now lost to me- l taught her, and
thus she learned the love of life and was
saved from death.
Her recovery paid me thousand fold
but she still thinks that it was my pre-.
scriptions of medicine which cured her
and her family never suspected my design,
nor how many hours of night it cost me.
/ Why not tell them People IN general
give the physician very little credit for
mental or moral treatment, but a thousand
/ times too much credit for the efficacy OF
/ his material medicine
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-06-05

DUsT WILL SOON Fly WHERE NOW THE
FRErFUL ERIE RoLLs.-It is predicted
that Lake Erie. now the pathway of
mighty commerce, will in time dry up and
become the home Of teeming population.
Careful surveys have shown that while
Lake Michigan has an average depth of
500 feet, Lake Superior of 800 feet, and
Lake Ontario of 800 feet, Lake Erie has
an average depth Of only l20 feet, which is
said to be constantly decreasing. The bot
tom Of the lake is level, and composed of
soft clay, which IS constantly accumulating,
from sediment carried down by tributary
streams. The south shore is composed of
easily disintegrating blue, gray and olive
shoals and gray sand stone. The western
and northern coasts are made up of lime
stone Of the Heidelberg group, which
quickly yields to the action of the waves.
Consequently both shores are constantly
contributing to fill up the bed of the lake.
The work is not rapid, but it is said to be
as certain as fate.