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

The Winchester Times says We were
panied to hear, on Sunday last, of the sudden
death of COL Daniel T. Richards. formerly of
Clarke county, but more recently connected
with Baltimore firm as its business traveller.
Col R was on a visit to GerardStown in Berk
cley county. and was seized with bilious collie
on Friday morning about two clock and died
on Saturday night an eleven. He was in his
9th year. He was gallant soldier in the
Confederate service during the late war
On the 9th of August before the Court
House in Liberty Bedford county. f. G. Burks,
}. F. johnson, John r. Thurman, and L. \.
Sale, Commissioners, will sell the valuable pro-
perry IN Bedford, 10 miles from Liberty. and
eontainlng 2,7O0 acres, known as the Peaks Of
Otter property.
Colonel Withers, one of the Presidential
Electors for the State at large, has entered
upon the canvass with his usual zeal, earnest
ness and energy. His speech in Farmville
Monday has already been mentioned, and on
the preceding Saturday he spoke in Petersburg
MIR. Bernard Getz, residing near Broadway,
Rockingham county. threshed Al dozen
sheaves of his wheat, which made 337 bushels:
0. c. Billings and J. W. R. Moore have
purchased the Kelley Springs property, near
Orkney, with a view of improving it, aud max
ing Of it first class watering place.
We learn that the wheat crop in Page is
making splendid yield. Corn will be short
10 consequence of the continued drouth Rain
Is very much needed
COMMUNICATED.
A WONDERFUL INVENTION 1t exceeds the
Kaleidoscope as far as train of cars does a
wheel barrow. There is no end to the scenes it
can produce. With it you can see what is go
ing on In all the great cities in the world 1t
not only magn6cs things thousands of miles
away, so as to make them look like they were
present, but it does away With distance and
massive walls by bringing these objects in close
proximity to the vision. By turning it one way
you can see up and down all the great rivers in
the world and across the ocean, and note what
boats, ships or other vessels are reaching or
leaving any landing, port, or city 10 the world
and IN some cases you can even discern who
SOule VI the passengers are
With the best kind Of these curious contri.
vanceS you can look through the market and
see just the true value of any commodity, so you
need not be cheated in buying.
And incredible as it may seem, it will enable
you 10 lind auy piece of property that has been
lost Or stolen, Or to find any one who has run
away | need not add that with one of these
curious things you can not only tnd out all the
seer! ia;,t> uty your opponent. aud expose them
TO the gaz- Of the world, but you can so adjust
it a to Gauss, the most WORTHLESS person OF thing
to br looked upon as the most to be de-
sired. But time would fail to show all tue
wonderful and useful as we'll as hurttul things
that eau be done with it.
We may mention one more very curious and
very useful purpose OF this instrument: By
turning it 10 a certain direction it will answer
as a sort of looking g'ass, By which any person
may see himself aud others just as they appear
10 the people In their public Or private lives
1t is u curious fact, however that few per-
Sous are willing to make this use of it. This is
perhaps owing to the fact that people are No.
willing to see their moral ugue>S This dread
Of seeing ourselves as others see Us may be H.
lustrated by the story OF 5ackwoods black
smith. This was not the learned blacksmith.
The wife Of this backwOods-mau went to the
neghboring village TO dispose OF some rags,
feathers, and other articles which she had been
for years accommodating. In part payment tor
these she received a real looking glass-a long
coveted tavorIte. That evening the blacksmith
happened to 90 to the house for something
when his wife was out As he entered the door
to his utter amazcment and alarm, be saw what
he took to be great ug bear coming 10 at
what seemed to be new doOrln the other side
of the house. With steady nerve he returned
to the shop and soon made his appearance at
the door once more with the great sledge in his
hand held in striking attitude. He looked
in, so did the bear. He advanced, SO did the
bear And the poor wife came III just IN time
to see her favorite purchase smashed into a
thousand flinders.
The application is easy. But my readers are
anxious to know what in the world the thing is;
where it can be had, aud what it costs. Well
there is great variety of them, and at various
prices They are called NEWSPAPERS.
PARvTs.
CoNDESsED MILK FOR TowNs-We see
public attention directed to the subject Of con-
densed milk, says Noore's Rural New Yorker.
The city milk consumer has been subjected to
frauds 10 milk dilution and aduteratlon year
after year Farmers in the country who send
their milk by rail to the city are often at the
mercy of the mddlemen while the difficulty of
keeping mix sound and in good order until 1t
is delivered to the customers seems to demand
u radical change 10 the way milk is usually put
upon the market Again, milk as it comes
from the COW, as is we'll known.coDtains eighty
seven per cent of water. To transport this wat
or nvar tho r.ilvaU for loup distances and 10