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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-07-16
DAZAR OF FASHION.
ID Mrs. G. L. SIMPSON,
No 105 King st

NO. 10 hHIS sI'J
Is daily in receipt of new and desirable, goods
Victoria Lawns, all qualities beautiful for suits
and new Trimmings for the same; Swiss Mus
lins, beautiful quality; Swiss Edgngs and In
sertings, PercaIes and Calicoes for Suits, Gui-
pere Iaces, Colored Fringes, Gimps Corded
Satins, Plain Satins and Dress Trimmings of
every kind; Olympic Adjustable Bustles; also
another supply of those Hip-gored Corsets;
beautiful Real Hair Curls, at SIC, very cheap;
Mixed Straw Hats at cost. Received to day new
Straw Goods. Will take great pleasure in show
ing goods. 9.l my 81
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CANDIDATES.


A THE REQUEST OF MANY VOTERS
II in this and adjoining counties, JOHN A.
CARTER has consented to let his name appear
as a candidate to represent this District in e n
gress-subject to the decision of the nominating
convention.
Uppervile, Fsuquier CO., jy 1-tf
ITO THE VOTERS of Orange, Culpeper, Fau-
L quier, Alexandria, Fairfax, Loudoun, Madl-
son, kappahannock, Clarke Warren and Fred
erlck:
At the solicitation of friends from various por..
tions of the district l hereby announce myself
candidate for Congress at the approaching fall
election.
My lifelong devotion to the principles Of
democratic liberty, my editorial experience aho
pronounced opinions upon all questions of pub
lie policy, my active participation in the labors
and discussions of every political campaign
which has occurred in Virginia during the past
ten years, ought to be sufficient guarantees that,
if elected, l will discharge faithfully and fear
lessly all the duties of the Office.
-, ~ Y. HOWE PEYTON, '>
my loft Culpeper, Va.
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.., GROCERIES,. {.
HINESE TEA COMP PANY,
NO.II NORTH ROYAL STREET.

Have just received large and carefully Sc
lected stock of
TEAS, SEASON 1872.
(No old stock.) - ......
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ENOR CONGRESs-Dr. ]. c. HILL, Of Alex
the decision of the Conservative Nominating
Convention, as candidate for Congress from
the District composed of the following counties: !:
Loudoun, Fairfax, Fauquier, Alexandra, hap
pahannock, Culpeper, Madison. Warren, Ciarke
Frederick and Orange. my 9-u
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IN SETS Tucked Muslin OF Cambria for Skirt
ing also Tucked Skirts, Sun Umbrellas, Hem
med Handkerchiefs, Gloves, Collars, Laces,
Edgings, &C., at
iy 2 X. u. WOODS.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-07-16

SUMNER GOODS,
which were bought very cheap on account of
the lateness of the season.
Splendid bargains are offered in VICTORIA
LAWNS, SWISS MUSLINS, PIQUES, Or
CANDIES and ali sty les of WHITE GOODS,
suitable tor ladies' and children's wear. We are
enabled to offer the greatest bargains ever sold
in this market. We only advertise facts Come
and see and be convinced.
PRETZFELDER & BENDHEIM,
iy 2-1m 144 King street.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-07-16

Married persons, or Young Men ,contemplst-
ing marriage, aware of Physical Weakness
Loss Of ProeEeative, PoweI-lmgotency') ) heE-
ness, Nervous Debility, or any other Disqusli-
fcation, speedily relieved.
he who places himself under the care of Dr:J.
may reigiously confde in his honor as gentle
man, and confidently rely upon his skill as
nh usician
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1872-02-10
M, srfIIaurous.
OsO
A story for Boys.

Lads, let me tell you story. Once upon
time youth left his home, at sixteen
years OF age, to learn q trade, a dirty, disa.
greeable trade, but one that his parents
thought good one in a pecunary point OF
view. He went into a strange neighbOr-
hood, where his name was not known.
Around his own home he was somebody IS
son in his new home he was somebody
elSe's apprentice. Around his old home
the doors Of respectablity were opened to
somebody's son in his new home the doors
OF respectability were closed tightly against
somebody's apprentice. This was new
order of things, and surprised him very
much at frst--yet, when he reflected cool
ly, he did not much blame respectability
for its self-preservatfon. There are doors
that open easily to every conner. There he
summed. There are apprentices in every
village that will bear shunning-he did it.
The important question was, "What
should he do ?" After discussing this,
amid the din and dirt, he said to himself,
well, if l can't go where | ought, will
not go at ALL" Easy to say-hard to do
because he was just like you-he liked fun
just as we'll as you do, and spice of mis-
chief too. He must do something. In
self-defence he began to read.
The old system of apprenticeship in the
country used 10 require the boys and jour
neymen to work until O'Clock in the
evening, in winter time, and after this was
done, it was customary to loaf about the
corners, stores and taverEs until 8, 10, OF
IL O'Clock. Tom 1.-THE boy) went to bed
In the morning it was difficult to get boys
and journeymen up to breakfast at $3.50 OF
7. Tom got up at O'Clock, sometimes al
8, sometimes even as early as 2, in mistake
for his rule was to get up when he goI
awake, and from that time until the Others
got up he read and studied. His morning
candle came in time to be signal for the
villagers who had occasion to start some
where early. He borrowed money to buy
books with, and borrowed others, took &
leading newspaper, and in the quiet morn
ing hours took in food for the days rehec
4 ton.
This of course bore it legitimate fruit HI
went to his level, or rather put himsel
there, and he now lives in the neighbor
hood of the old shop, as much respected a
any one. believe he has written two o.
three books, and In every respect would b.
considered up to the "Mediocrity,"
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1872-02-10
NO Necessity for Lying.

1t ia painful to zee a man--otlierwise 80
| spectable--unreliable in the place where
men meet him the most for Il weakens
hold upon the popular regard and cannot
fail to depreciate his OWE self respect. You
must feel ashamed at times TO rcalize that
your word is not to be believed, and to
know that you have no customer in the
world who feels at all sure about getting
work done by you until it really is done
and in his hands. The kind of life you
lead must also be an exceedingly uncomfor-
table one.
Now, my friend, there is not the slight
est necessity for this and there is no apo
logy for it. 1t had very natural begin
ming, but you ought to have learned long
ago that it was not requisite either to your
prosperity or your comfort. You get your
work in spite of your lying and not in con-
sequence of it. This is the only thing peo-
pie have against you. They give you their
custom because you are a good workman
and for nothing else and no man leaves
your shop for another except for the reason
he cannot depend upon your wurd. You
never made dollar or saved friend by
all the lies you have told.
Honesty, reliableness, truthfulness-these
are premium to all the markets of the
world and you have made yourself miser-
able and contcmptible throughout your life
for nothing, Your business is always at
loose ends, everybody is crowding you,
many Of them abuse you, and it all comes
from your promising to do work before it is
possible for you to do it. Not decent
man whose custom is worth keeping enters
your shop who would not wait your time
patiently, if he could rely upon having his
job upon the day promised.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1872-02-10
s.I.tt postrp.
THE OLD YEAR AND THE NEW.

An old man totters on the road
Bowed down with age and care
His locks are white and float about
Like snow flakes In the air 1;
The clouds are gath'ring darkly around,
The night seems setting fast,
The wind sends forth moaning sound,
The owlets futter past.
The old man halis along the road,
He sees the gathering gloom
No hope has he power to stay
His fast approaching doom,
He secs the children pass him by,
And sadly turns his face
He knows too well that he must die,
The new year I. .kes his place.
He hears the children clap their hands
And shout aloud for glee,
He marks them hasten ON their way
The glad New Year to see.
And then he hears the midnight chime
Ring out his funeral knell
His life fades fast-She rests at last,
The New Year breaks the spell.
A little child now leads the way
His step is light and bold,
His hair is bright and floats about
Like threads of FURNISHED gold.
The clouds are passing swift away,
The morn seems soft and clear,
The night has passed, the suns bright ray
Brings in the glad New Year.
Farewell, Old Year your work is done,
A new one fills your place:
The darkest night will pass away
The morning dawn apace
We cannot bring the dead to life,
Nor wasted hours recall
But in the coming year we may,
Perhaps, atone for all.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1872-02-10
What 1 KnO About Pharmin.
by JOSH BILLINGS.

What kno about pharmin' is blessed
little.
Mi buzzum friend, Horace Greeley, haz
rit book with the abuv name, and altho i
haven't had time to peroose it yet, | don't
hesitate tew pronounce it bully.
Pharmin (now daze) is pretty much all
theory, and tharefo: it amt astonishing
that Il man kan liy in Moo York, and be a
good chancery lawyer, and also kno all
about pharmn.
A pharm (now daze) ov one hundred
akers, will produce more buckwheat and
pumpkins, run OH theory, than it would
GO years ago, run with manure and hard
kn0ks.
Thare il nothin like book lafnin, and the
time will eventually cum when man won't
have tew hav only one ov josh Billings
Farmers AlimanaX," tew run a pharn
!, with.
Even now it amt uncommon tew sec
three or four hired men on farm, with
three, or four, spans ov oxen, all standin
still, while the boss goes into the library,
and reads himself for the days ploughin.
If wuz running a pharm (now daZe),
suppose would rather hav 36 bushels oy
sum nu breed oy potatOze, raised on theory
than to hey 81 bushels got in the mean,
bented and underhand way, ov our late
lanlented grand parents.
Pharmin, after all, IL good deal like the
tavern biziness, emmy body thinks they kan
keep hotel (now daze), and emmy body
thinks they kan pharm (now daze), and
they kan, but this is the way that poor
hotels cum to be so plenty, and this iz like
wize what makes pharmin such eazy aud
profitable bizness.
just take the theory out ov pharmin,
and thare amt nothing left but hard work,
and all fired lite krops.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1872-02-10

THE OLD-FAsIIIoNED MOTHER. Thank
God some of us have an old-fashioned
mother Not woman of the period,
enameled and painted. with her great CHG
non, her curls ard hustle, whose white
ieweled hands have never felt the clasp of
baby fingers but a dear oll-fashiOned,
voiced mother, with eyes in whose
the love-lght shone, and brown hair thread
ed with silver, lying smooth upon Her faded
check. Those dear hands worn with toll
gently guided our totterng steps in child
hood, aud smoothed, our pillow in sickness,
even reaching out to us in yearning tender
ness when her sweet spirit was baptized in
the pearly spirit of the river.
Blessed is the memory of an old-fashion-
ed mother. 1t floats TO us now, like the
beautiful perfume of some woodland bios
SONS. The music of other voices may be
lost, but the enhancing memory of hers
will echo in our souls forever. Other faces
will fade and be forgotten, but hers will
shine on until the light from heavens por-
tails shall glorify our own. When in the
fitfnl pauses of busy life our feet wander
back to the old homestead, and crossing
the we'll worn threshold, stand once more
in the low, quaint room, so hallowed by
her presence, now the feeling of childish
innocence and dependence comes over us,
and we kneel down in the molten sunshine,
streaming through the western window
just where, long years ago, we knelt by our
mothers knee, lisping "Our Father.
How many times when the tempter lured
us on, has the memory OF those sacred
hours, that mothers words, her faith and
PRAYERS, saved us from plunging into the
deep abyss of sin. Years have filled. great
drifts between her aud us, but they have
not hidden from our sight the glory of her
! pure, unsel6sh love.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1872-02-10

SowING TOMATO SEED.-It is probably
too early to sow seed for a general crop :;
but those who have warm rooms or a green
house may safely try few plants. l have
some two or three inches high, and expect
to have them well loaded with fruit by the
time it vii! do to plant out. a half dozen
good strong plants, started early will yield
many good dish Of fruit long before it can
be procured from hot-bcd in spring. In
starting the plants thus early some care is
required in pinching off the ends of leading
shoots as well as side branches in order to
make them grow stocky and bloom early.
The plants should also he allowed plenty
Of rooom and only one grow in pot, COM
mencing with the smallest size, and then
shifting into larger ones as the plants re-
Quire it. 1t is very easy matter to obtain
tomatoes early if one starts in time
Moore'S Rural Netr Yorker.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1872-02-10
j. w. WASHINGTON'S
GRAND BARBER SHOP.

The old permanent shop of the town.
We decline the boast, but at the same time
consider that the mighty truth maybe seasona-
bly, spoken without manifesting an uncomforta-
BILE amount Of vanity and ambition.
just twenty years ago i began my business
career in this place-half my lifetime thus far
spent, have stood upon the floor of our shop
day after day, and night after night, and applied
the sharp blue cleaning steel, and within that
elapse of time embraced by the mighty folds of
that eyentful period have shaved nearly every
body in the country Gin common parlance) aud
TO oblige the public interest we herein publicly
announce to our patrons old and new that We
are ready to shave them all again three hundred
thousand times more. -.
Come when you please, Just IN time Is the max
im-we are always ready to work, forenoon or
afternoon, to shave you, hair cut YOU, shampoo
you, whisker dye you, or perfume, comb and ar
range the hair with artistic skill, In the "water
fall'' or water raise style to suit the customer
We work to please, not please to work.
Stop, don't 60 past our shop TO get shaved on
the basis of ability-because we do 1t as well al
is can be done or ever could be.
chance is all that We demand
To give the proof We hold In hand.
few door above Depot, near Market street.
oS. !, 1870.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1872-02-10

WHO'S AHEAD "A gentleman asks
the girls the following pointed questions
Gould you love n man who wore false hair
on his head, when he had enough of his
own ? Who painted his face and improved
his form as you improve (D yours Who
pinched his feet with small shoes, his hands
with small gloves, his waist with corsets :;
and then. as if he had not already deformed
himselfenough, tied huge hustle to his
back, and thrust tiny mountains of wire
into his bosom p The reply to which,
lady responds. Gould you love a girl who
detled her mouth with tobacco and loaded
the air with fumes of cigars ? Who stag
gered home several times 4 week the worse
for liquor? Who INDUCED in fast horses,
bet high at races, and staggered around
the streets with questionable companions?'
Which picture wears the most alluring
colors = We also see it reported that Mrs.
Van Cott says, if she had all the money
ever paid for liquor, she could buy every
foot of land in the world. Very likely.
And if she had all the money paid by wo-
men for back hair she could buy every drop
Of liquor in the world.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1872-02-10

Iieave you TO imagine all the hardships,
if you can, of the situation, and would ask
you what you do from TO @ O'Clock in the
mornings These two hours, rightly used,
will be worth more to you than you can
possibly conceive. When you awake, get
up instantly. You may bring excuses for
the other twenty-five hours, but those two
you waste if you sleep them. "Midnight
oil'' is a humbug. You go to bed in the
evening when you are tired, and set your
mind to work in The morning, when you
are rested. Guard your character in the
beginning, and in the end it will guard
you. H
TO tell you the fate of other apprentices,
who loafed the evenings and slept the
mornings away, is not my intention. Try
Toms course for one year, and you will
find your pay in genuine happiness. Your
usefulness will increase, your self-respect
will strengthen, your mind will develop in
harmony with your bodily growth, and
your whole being will march along the up
ward path rejoicing. N. Y. Tribune.
THE DISPERSION OF THE JEwS.-The
Agomeine Zietung gives some interesting
particulars as to the dispersion of the Jews
over the world. In Palestine they havc
long been reduced to a very small proper
ton of their former numbers. They are
now most numerous in the northern part
of Africa, between Morocco and Egypt,
(where, especially in the Barbary States,
they form the chief element of the popula-
tion,) and in that strip of Europe which
extends from the lower Danube to the Bal
tic. In the latter region there are about
1000, 900 Jews, most of whom are Of the
middle class among the SlavOnic nationali.
III Al, l. IL
there are not 100000 of them. Conse-
quencc of European migrations, descen-
dants of these Jews have settled in Ameri-
ca and Australia, where they are already
multiplying in the large commercial towns
in the same manner as in Europe, and
much more rapidly than the Christian pop
ulation. The Jewish settlers in Northern
Africa are also increasing so much that
they constantly spread farther to the South.
Timbucto has, since 1858, been inhabited
by a Jewish colony of traders. The other
Jews in Africa are the Falaschas, Abys-
snian black Jews, and few European
Jews at the Cape of Good Hope. There
are numerous Jewish colonies in Yemen
and Ncdschran, in Western Arabia.
1t has long been known that there are
Jews in Persia and the countries on the
Euphrates {; in the Turcoman countries
they inhabit the four fortrcsses of Scheri-
sebs, Kitab, Schamatan and Urta Kurgan,
and thirty small villages, residing in a
separate quarter, but treated on an equal
footing with the other inhabitants, though
they have to pay high taxes. There are
also Jews in China, and in Cochin China
there both white and black jews. Tile
white Jews have Il tradition, according to
which, in the year 70 a. d. their ancestors
were 10000 Jews who settled at Cranga-
more, on the coast Of Malabar, after the
destruction OF the Temple of Jerusalem.
The Jews remained at Cranganore until
1865, when they were driven into the in
terror by the Portuguese. The black set
tiers arc supposed to be native proselytes,
and have a special synagogue Of their own.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1872-02-10
OR ST e!

IL Il S u " H - u " N
CHRISTIAN NEFF,
Second Street, opposite the Court House, SUN
BURY, PA,
Respectfully invites the attention of Retailers
and others, that he has on hand, and will con-
stantly keep all kinds of
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC LIQUORS,
Consisting of Pure Brandes: Cogniac, Cherry,
Ginger, Rochelle and Otard.
Whskies Pure Rye Copper Distilled, Mon"u-
gahela, Apple and Nectar.
PURE HOLLAND GIN
Wines: Champagne Wine, Sherry, Port and
Claret
Crab Cider, Champagne Cider, N. K. Rum,
Brown Stout and Scotch Ale.
STOMACH AND BAR BITTERS,
Aud all others Liquors which can be found in
the city markets, which will be sold at Whole
sale and Retail. Every article guaranteed as
represented. Also, large lot of DEMIJOHNS
and BOTTLES, always on hand.
tB- Orders promptly attended IN, and public
patronage respectfully solicited
NEFF.
sunbury, July 8, 1se9.-1y.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1872-02-10

Rev. John Selby Watson has been found
guilty of the murder of his wife in England,
and sentenced To death. The reverend in
dividuel seems to have been a man of con-
siderable literary reputation. There is ono
thing we must say to the credit of English
laws - they are enforced without regard 10
the position of individuals
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1872-02-10

Helen Josephine Mansfield, the Delilah
in the Stokes Fisk murder, was slightly
mobbed while visiting Boston on Friday.
When arriving at the depot she was hooted
at aud hustled about rather roughly. 1t
is unmanerly to use violence to 4 woman,
but these she finds should be made to feel
how the public despises them-if the public
really does 40 uesnise
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1872-02-10

DEESE HOUSE, Third Street, at the
N depot, SUNBURY, PA, WIN. REESE, pro-
prietor. Warm meals served up at all hours.
Fish, Fowls and Game. Fresh Oysters con-
stantly on hand and served in every style. The
best of wines and liquors at the Bar
E Families will be supplied with oysters
done up in any style, by leaving orders at the
Bar. tNov.5, ,'70-1y.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1872-02-10

The way to quarrel with wife is to wait
till she is at her toilet preparatory to going
out. She will be sure to ask you if her
bonnet is straight. Remark that the lives
Of nine-tenths of the women are passed in
thinking whether their bonnets are straight,
and wind up with the remark that you
never knew but one woman who had COM
who that was. You will, with q sigh, re-
ply, "Ah never mind" Wife will ask
you why did you marry her. You say,
abstractly, "Ah! why, indeed 2'' The
climax is reached by this time, and a regu-
lar row is sure to follow
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1872-02-10

correspondent o: the Cincinnati Gazette,
"cau generally be cured if taken in time,
by the use Of bromide Of potass. When the
attac!: is leit to be coming on, take twenty
grains of the bromide dissolved in water I;
go to bed and sleep to or three hours and
you are cured. Sometimes it may be ne
cessary tirepeat the dose, which may be
done in two or three hours. The bromide
is perfectly harmless, unless taken in very
large doses. There will be no danger in
taking twenty grains every two hours, until
you have taken three doses. But most
cases, if taken in hand early, will need only
one or at most two doses"
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1872-02-10

BLACKSMITH WANTED.-A good
Blacksmith or Carriagesmith will ind constant
employment by applying..at the Carriage shop Of
-.,-----.-..- Us. sEAtOLTE.
"a sanbury Dee. 10, 1871.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1872-02-10

GooD DLANGUAoE.- Y oung people should
acquire the habit of correct speaking and
writing, and abandon. as early as possible,
any use Of slang words or phrases. The
longer you put this of, the more difficult
the requirement Of correct language will
be and if the golden age of youth, tho
proper season for the acquisition of lam
guage, be passed in ITS abuse, the unfortu-
nate victim will most probably be doomed
to talk slang for life. You have merely to
use the language which you read, instead
OF the slang you hear, to form a taste in
agreement with the best speakers and poets
in the country.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1872-02-10

Don't be ashamed, my lad, if you have
patch on your knee. 1t is no mark Of
disgrace. It speaks well for your mother.
For our part, we would rather see dozen
patches on your jacket, than to hear one
profane or vulgar word escape your lips.
No good boy will shun you if you cannot
dress as well as your companions and, if
a bad boy sometimes laughs at your APP
pearance, say nothing, my lad, but walk
on. We know many a rich and good man
who was once as poor as You.