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sless, his two peppers having gone into
mourning, his smeller and kisscr being
materially enlarged, half u dozen of
Iris worries sent on q commission to his
commissary department., and the ruby
all over his DIAL" you are prevented
by the grotcsqnencss Of the description
from realizing the abject condition to
which the noble art. has reduced the
particular human form divine, owned
by the Dumping aforesaid. Nor,
should you read "that, in the recent
mill, the Boy was unlucky, and met
with an accident" would you immc,li-
atcly conclude that he had slain a man
and brother; yet such was the slang
of !stic etiquette with Which an Eng
lish sporting paper gently spoke of a
case OF homicide in the prize ring. If
prize fights were described without tho
sloss-vulgar though it be-of slang,
it is probable that the disrcputc into
which they are day by day more rapid
ly falling, would be wonderfully ac-
tolerated.
Facility in description, however, is
not the only valuable characteristic Of
slang to those who employ it. Ii
brings with it q familiarity of namo
aud manner that must be indescriba-
bly, soothing to the stranger in strange
land. Who ever heard of a pugilist,
or jockey, or variety-show "artist" be-
ing spoken to or Of. in anything but %
Tom and Jerry style of nomenclature
How wonderfully familiar men of tho
same slang clique become the very in
slant they meet. And then in their
manner there is nothing of the stern
convcntionality which prohibits famil-
iarity before at least some sort of an
acquaintanccship. Suppose that bust
ness or curiosity, leads you to some
gathering of this class of humanity;
you will find in an instant that it is
within your power to know every man
in the crowd if you only so desire. A
perfect stranger, seeing your ignorance
of tho presence of some particular
bright exponent of the manly art, will,
in nine cases out of ten, address you
with some such remark as "That's i'm,
that's the slaslcr as fit Bill Marks last
week he'd shake lands with you if
you were to arrest 'im," while tho bull
dog appearing slasher, happening to
oyerlcar the information thus general
~ rendered you, will just as probably
cordially extend you his "lin," and
make you acquainted with u grip that
will make your blood Jingle for u IL
hour.
You may not be able to appreciate
it, but this is a familiarity, which slang
begets, and which breeds just tho re-
verse OF contempt. 5,
Swearing is often meant for slang,
but the words used, if they have any
meaning, arc essentially blasphcmous.
We may here take u hint from Shakes
peare. Sir Toby Belch recommends
Sir Andrew Aguecheek to "swcar hor-
ribly rs an accompaniment to quar-
rel )" and the advice may. be consider
cd as Il satire upon the employment Of
abusive slang, wherein meaningless OBJ
scenity and senselesss oaths are tho
chief constituents; for Sir Andrew is
represented as being both a fool and 4
coward. -[Chicago Times.
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DARTIES INTERESTED IN THE
l. Warehouse business will do well
to note the fact that they can have
their cotton and other freight insured
rithout charge, and stored at the Low
EST RATES, at the New Brick Ware
house by HENRY A. BIOSSAT.
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DR., A, COCKERILLE

HAVING RETURNED TO RAPIDES,
IL offers his services to the citizens OF
Alexandria aud vicinity.
70 0tiice at his residence, corner of
Third and johnston streets.
Anril %. LII
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PROFESSIONAL.
R. W. BRINGHURST,
Civil Hn in q eE
and
pdRZSH s NR TE 7 or
ALEXANDRIA, LA.

nRDERS sent by mail, or left at r. c.
" Hetherwick's store will be received
and attended to.
Parties desiring to enter land in this
and adjoining Parishes can be satisfactory
is attended to.
Those who have lost Jheir entry papers
of State or United States Lands and wish
them reestablished aud Patents acquired
for receipts of land, entered before the
war: also re-enterng under the Homestead
law, lands acquired after the 2lst day of
February under the Confederate dispen-
satiou; locating Land Warrants, etc. /
will attend TO upon application.
Jan. Goth, l969-tf.
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A TREACHEROUs FRIEND AND AN
UNSUCCESSFUL Su1cIDE.-The Sioux
Journal ge>s off the following story I:
Cal. Trusty a sturdy blacksmith of
Fort Dodge, attempted to shuttle off
his mortal coil on late evening, but
made sad failure of it. He went into
his shop, mounted a box, tied a rope
to a rafter, and was fixing q moose
about his neck when a fellow:crafts-
man called big John entered the room,
and inquired the cause of the unusual
proceedings. Cal. mournfully tol d
John that lie was tired of living any
more, when the latter, who was in
specting the moose, told the would-be
suicide that the knot he had prepared
wouldn't do but that lie could fix one
that would. Cal. accepted the services
of his friend, who adjusted tile rope so
that when the mans weight came upon
it the knot would unite and the victim
fall to the ground. John fixed things
to his satisfaction, Cal. babe him good
bye, and giving the box vigorous
push sent it from under his feet; but
instead of remaining suspended in mid
air he came down with fearful force,
striking the end of his back bone on
the corner of the box, driving his
spinal column as he thought into his
shoulders. He picked himself up rue
fully, rubbed the tender part ,tenderly,
limped on painfully, and remarked
profanely that it was "a id sight
worse than hanging"
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II Fodder, dear folder, come
home with me now" as tho da,key
said wien stealing load oil hay.
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WILLIAM ELLIOTT,
Speaker Of the House Of Representatives.
JAMES +. RUTAN,
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AprpovEp-Tbe twenty-seeond day OF
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NV HENHNS. IN nnI by an Net OF ih3
w General Assembly in the State, en-
titled. AN Act b. reg iate tho general elections
of this Commonwealth" enacted the I'd day of
July. 1879 u Is cniuiued upon me 10 give public
notice ot such elections To b. held AMI cuumerAto
what uic"fs are tohc clecled, therefore JouS :.
WOLF, High sheriff " the county uf SHydcr, d1
hereby make known 60 the qualified voters 90, seid
county that aHcuerh Election be held on Uv
second Tucsdiv ofrctob'r ux', (hc'ul tn s,h
day OF said m Iuthl IN aul fur the scNcratEcciiou
hstri"'a of said county. - VT
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The Geneva Arbitration.
Cl.EANHNCS.

The First Comptroller of the Treasury
has decided that powers of attorney and
other evidences of authority to collect inte-
rest, or to enclose drafts or checks executed
on or after the first Of October next, need
not be stamped.
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue
has issued circular instruetiEg collector.
that after the 30th instant they will be held
responsible for the collection of ali penalties.
1t appears that collectors have been in the
habit Of using their discresion, and not en-
forcing the payment. They are informed
that no discretion is expected on thempart,
but simply the enforcement Of the law.
"A terrible boiler explosion took place
at Northeast in Cecil county, Maryland,
about daylight, on Saturday, in the large
rolling mills Of the Mccullough Iron Com
pany. The building was nearly entirely
demolished. Ten out of the forty hands
employed were injured, three fatally
namely, Alfred Holcroft, John Mcdowell
nd Henry Bouldin. This is the second
EXPLOSION in these works the present year.
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THE ALLEGED NATHAN MURDERER.

The ALLEGED NATHAN MURDERER.
The Washington Star of Saturday even
ing contains the following concerning the
arrest of the supposed murderer of Mr..
Nathan, mentioned in special telegram to
the Stair JOURNAL on Saturday even
ing: Billy Forester, alias Billy Marshall,
alias Billy or Frank Campbell. alias Frank
Harding, alias Frank Howard, the suspect
ed murderer of Mr.. Nathan, the New York
banker, was arrested in this city this morn
ing by Detectives Claryoe, McDewitt, Nc
Elfresh and Miller, who have been on the
watch for him the last few days, believing
him to be here. He acknowledges himself
to be Forester, ard Chief Clarvoe will
take him to New York, accompanied by
Chief Kelso, of New York, who has been
telegraphed for to come on. The rewards
offered for this man amount to about &c.
900, outside of the Nathan murder which
he is suspected of, but which remains to be
proven. After his arrest he telegraphed to
New Orleans for his baggage to be sent to
Barney Aaron, New York, and says he is
lately from the South.
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A DESPERATE CASE OF SHOOTING.
On Saturday afternoon, William Harris,
who resides in Rockets, got into difficulty
with colored man, and had fight with
him, coming out second best, as we are IN
formed. He went off in great rage and
procured double barrel shotgun to shoot
the colored man, who, on seeing Harris re-
turning, took refuge on the porch of MIR.
Echo's house, where were also several
ladies and children. Harris discharged one
barrel Of the gun at the colored man,
wounding him and three white ladies named
Mrs. Stevens, Mrs. Radford, and Mrs. Gill.
The colored man, who we believe is not
badly injured, then retreated into Mr..
Echo's house, Harris approaching nearer
and swapping the other barrel at him.
by this time a crowd had assembled and
Harris went away and loaded up the other
barrel of the gun. When he was requested
to give up the gun, he declined to do so,
saying he had a load in it for any man who
interrupted him. He then mounted his
mule and rode off, and has not yet been
apprehended.
We are informed that two of the ladies
are badly injured. Mrs. Stevens, who is
pregnant, is perhaps fatally wounded. The
shot took effect in the lower part of the
abdomen. A permit was obtained and she
was taken to the alms-house on yesterday.
Mrs. Radford is also seriously injured,
though perhaps not fatally. The wounds
of Mrs. Gill and the colorel man are
reported slight.
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VIRGINIA M EWS.

DIR. John f. Sale. of Liberty, has lost
two children by diptheria within few days
and has another i'll with it.
Charles Ii. Hunton, ESQ.,, died while
on visit to Logan Hunton, in Warrenton,
on the 4th inst. He was sixty years OF
age.
The War Department announces that
John G. Gresham and Albert G. Hartman,
of Virginia, have been admitted as Ca diets
at West Point.
Judge r. III. Cockerills, on Monday
last. removed George G. Seaton, from the
Office of Clerk Of the County court of Alex
andria, for ''malfeasance in office and gross
incompetency."
The Warrenton Indcr gets down after
this fashion: "As every one anticipated,
the election in this black Republican State
this week resulted in an Administration
victory. If the Liberal Republicans and
Democrats carry any New England State
before or in the Presidential election, it will
be pleasing surprise to u.s."
The Tidewater Inder declares that " it
is not q blunder, but crime" for /" Vir-
ginians to permit the training and instruc-
ton of their children to pass into the hands
of men or women who entertain the mar
row and illiberal views which are the natu-
raj results of the system in vogue in YAM
keedom." 1t is quite possible that our
friend is little prejudiced against the
Yankee.
One of our correspondents in Motto
way county says he does not believe Mr..
Porter will receive twenty-five Republican
votes in that county. He says now that
the people have came to understand the
circumstances of the Farmville convention,
they are fast deserving him, and will treat
all Independents and boilers alike. Our
correspondent complains of hot, dry
weather, but says tobacco and corn look
well. Stock has suffered much for water,
and nearly all the branches and creeks
have gone dry, and large number of wells
have failed.
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Tobacco VS.. the Farm.
[From Moore's Rural New Yorker. ]

u Aoih. 4Aooio . ie"i al iNo" Aohci.l
Although the experiment nroves that
wheat does we'll when Il follows tobacco.
vet the latter is. unouestionably. a violent
exhauster. The reason for wheat succeed
ing well after it are patent. The land is
generally well manured for the tobacco
and shows the effect the second wear. The
ground is well prepared bv nlow and hoe
for the tobacco. and all land well broken
shows fine effect of thorouob nrenaration-
Again. the grass and weeds are kent
down until Il is too late for them to attain
much Growth. and broad-leayed and low
plants shade the ground. The suckers
which grow IN after the mai, nlant is cut
afford considerable manure as green CT on
since thew are plowed under. generally
when thew are in q green fresh state. Bnt
it is doubted whether anv well-informed
person would contend that the little that is
taken up from the air by these suckers. and
returned to the soil, will equal or bear even
a respectable ratio to the entire mass of
nutrirnent which the crowded main plants
have extracted from that soil.
Let it be noted that only very small
extent of land can be well cultivated in to-
bacco-since not more than from eight to
fifteen thousand hills. saw from two to
three acres. can be attended to by one
laborer, when the other common crops are
carried on. Hence, in ordinary tobacco
farms. very limited territory can be nut in
wheat after tobacco.
But the main effect OF ''the weed" on
the farm is not to be sought in its inAu-
ence on the spot that produces it. 1t is a
real despot among the several crops. when
ever it is made and sold with success. 1t
is of SO precarious nature in several
respects, and is so liable to various injuries
at the several stages from the kindling of
the fire at the plant-bed to the final deliv-
cry in the market, that it is the virtual
master OF the planter and plantation. In
consequence it interferes seriously with the
interests OF the farm in every other branch.
In the winter, when others are cleaning up
and making compost, or winter-plowing, it
must be watched, fired, stripped, taken
down, hung up, and is sure to be hurt
somehow in the great majority of cases
where the attention and handling are not