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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-01-30
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Nov ~, 1871, in this city, Mr.. WM. GILES
STAPLES, Of Albamarle Co., Va, to Miss
VICTORIA JANE SW EENEi, Of this city.
On the 18th instant by Rev. Mr. Mann, at
Secluscval, Gloucester county, Va, Mr. RICH
ARD Ii. HORSEk, of Fauquer, and Miss
V. A. CARY.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-01-30

C.7Rs.,'ET EER.N'5TEssE.

JAMES " BRADLEY.
The bushes, will, in future, be co.'!u'tri un-
der the name of
&C. BRADLEY u son.
The new firm hopes 20 share g portion - The
public patronage, and invite, all 10 call nnd rE
anime their line and handsome assortment %:
PARLOR SUITES,
in Hair Cloth, Reps and SIX Brocatel: Na.aut
and Oak Chnnber Suites in every variety. -"
also hav, on hand some very beautiful na'd
Fancy Tables and Portable Writing DISK, b.
reaus, Bedsteals WaSh>tands and CHAR. Ct"
Those in need of Furniture will DO well :o.>-
anime our stock before purchasing. ~ 80 49,
prepared to sell NJ very low figures ia% 50
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-01-30
LIST or LETTERS

Remaining in the Alexandria, Va, fost"ifce,
January 80 1871.
Persons calling for letters will say they are adj
vertised and give the date of the list
If not called for within thirty days, they Will be
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-01-30

MATHEMATICS AGAINST TT--The London
Advertiser says Women are now wearing
high heels to their boots and piles of shaun
hair. Their aim is SIZE So complains CO.
temporary through one or two columns. But
does Lowell woman, who thus adds cubits to
her stature, counteract herself by stopping to
folly ? A lady Of FIVE feet becomes, say, FIVE
feet two inches per heels, five feet six inches
per hair, FIVE feet again per Grecian bend. The
afectation of commanding figure is neutraliz.
ed by an arching back. Maria Agnesi invent
ed mathematical curve called the witch. But
the Grecian bend is not worthy of Euclid. =
Arithmetic is enough to prove that to strut a
few inches and to stoop few inches however,
fashionable and artistic, is as suicidal as it is
unlovely"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-01-30

OYsTERs FOR ENGLAND. An English
steamer the Salsette is now lying off Cristeld,
Maryland, taking on board oysters to be carried
to London The Salsette, a ship Of about 1000
tons, has been sent out by the Fishmongers'
Company, Of London, to procure oysters for re-
penshing the exhausted oyster beds of Eng
land Last year the company sent over slr.
Weatherby as its agent, wko went 10 Crlsteld,
and spent week there. This gentleman re-
turned to England, carrying with him several
barrels of oysters in the shell. These We're in
spected favorabIy by the Fl hmongers Company;
and were afterwards served up in every style
at a dinner given for the purpose Of testing
their quality. At this dinner Mr. Frank Buck
land was present He eand the other guests
we're very much pleased with the American BIZ
valves, and so expressed themselves, although
not without a qualification Enthusiastically
British. The company then resolved to send
out a steamer and ascertain whether the oys-
tiers could be imported into Eng land in large
quantities, and the Salsette is now in Chrls6eld
for this purpose. This stcsher is to take on
board $1,000 bushels, and will clear from Girls
field direct to London. Should the venture
prove a profitable one, it liz likely that large
trade will be carried on and the oyster trade at
Cristield largely increase.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-01-30
NEWS OF THE DAY.
"To shooo the rery age and body ofthe Tin

\ journal in Philadelphia having republish-
ed an article purporting to set forth the pre-
dic,ions of notable person in religion, who
died several years back in an Italian convent,
TO the effect that about this time there would
come, along with wars and pestllence, an awful
calamity of three days Of total darkness, during
which many people would perish, Bishop
Wood of the Catholic Church has issued CIR
cular rejecting the publication as made without
sanction, OF authority
The ordinance to repeal an ordinance author
izipc the Mayor and City Council Of Baltimore
r. subscribe $3.50. 900 to the capital stock OF
the MARYLAND Central Railroad Company, came
mn in the First Branch of the City Council yes
terdaV afternoon, and after some debate was
nassed BY a unanimous vote OF the full Branch;
@p @ SEdnfpss The IS scpped B1an s
A dispach from Pittsburg says On Satur,
day night, by collision on one Of the tracks at
Cavenaugh's, two oil tanks were wrecked, the
crude oil flowing over the ground and filling
the cutters between the tracks. About !
o'clock hot coal from passing locomotive
fell the pool Of oil, setting fire to freight
OF which were consumed.
The Cincinnati Gazette says Evidences
multiply to show that Knoxville is built over
an immense cave. The Chronicle Of that city
says that in digging cisterns at the hotels, the
bottom fell out, and what were intended tor
cisterns made excellent sewers. Similar results
followed excavations on other premises.
Mechanics and aborers in various parts Of
the country are making great mistake in COM
ing to Chicago in search Of work. The supply
of labor of all sorts is far in excess OF the de-
mand, and will be for two months to come.
The property Of the late Isaac Rich, OF Bos-
ton, amounting to 81 100000 is willed under
certain restrictions to the Boston University, a
branch of the Boston Theological Seminary, a
Methodist institution.
A fire occurred yesterday atOntario, Canada n
the Boys Home. The building was totally de-
stroyed and one boy was burned to death The
night was intensely cold and the Inmates barely
escaped in thir night clothes.
The Mormon Council shows excessive bitter
ness on Gov Woods veto of the bill for the
admission of Utah az a State, and measures
are already 10 progress to accomplish the same
end in another manner.
Stokes. the murderer OF Fisk, was arraigned
in Court at New York yesterday. A motion
was made to quash the Indictment on techni-
cal plea, and further consideration Of the case
was postponed until Thursday.
Mr. Cuyler very able and popular pastor Of
a prosperous Presbyterian church in Brooklyn,
is to be arraigned before an ecclesiastical court
for permitting Quaker female preacher to oc-
cupy his pulpit.
The Congressional Committee have reached
New Orleans, and commenced their task Of
getting at the facts about the recent conflict.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-01-30

SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE or Commons
The English Parliament elects Speaker Oh
the 9th of February, The present Spea ker,
Right Hon. John + Denison. has served 81 c.
1857. The office, though in itself laborlous
and coniuug, is quite different in its emolu;,
ments from the Speakership Of our House of
Representatives. 1t secures to its possessor
the position Of first cummoner 10 the realm,
seat in the Privy Council: a salary of s25,"V
year: prlncey mansion IIn furnished and
u" r''"'", retirement ot a vxc"tcy and pen,
sion for himself and his legal success
sor in the title OF $23.0o0 year. 1t IS
thought that the candidate whose chances are
| the best is Sir John d. Coeridge, Attorney
General, whose name has lately figured so
prominent in the 'Icllborne case.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-01-30

SHORT MEAsURE.-[F From the Baltimore
Price Current We are informed, that for
some time past large proportion of the
coal oil sold in this market has been overguaged;
the casks being represented to contain larger
quantity of the article than could by possibility
be put into them. 1t may not be generally known
that there is no law requiring the uanutactur-
ers of coal oil to have their barrels guaged BY
State guager and that all the manufacturers
guage their own barrels, under which system
the practice of giving short measure has be.
come crying evil, and one which should be
stopped for the credit Of our city. We under.
stand that considerable number of barrels of
coal oil have been examined recently in the
hands of dealers in various parts of the city,
bearing several different brands, and scarcely
one has been found that would hold with in
two gallons of the capacity marked upon it,
whilst large number have been oyerguaged
from to 6 gallons.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-01-30

LEGAL PApERs-Some time ago the post
master Of this city received from the Dead Let
ter office in Washington, Il letter written by q
and directed to A. j. llodsson, esq, enclosing
legal papers. The papers We're sent to Norfolk
because they contained letters written Dy par
ties living in this city aud its vicinity. They
relate TO large landed estate in the island OF
Bermuda, the heirs Of which are supposed to
be in this country. The estate belonged 10
Jonathan Tatem, Of Warwick parish, iu the
island of Bermuda, whose will. made on the
18th of November, l11775, is among the papers,
There is also deed of conveyance Of several
hundred acres of land from certain parties TO
Jonathan ra,e1n This deed was made in 12.;c.
From the letters and other documents among
the papers. it appears that parties living in
ths city, Norfolk county, Portsmouth; and Isle
OF light county, are among the claimants; =
These parties are thc families of BenthaI $
lirookss Jorden Firth s. Bssell' sand others.
We have examined the papers and think they
are of great importance. -Norj"M JonrnnL
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-01-30

\ MOTHER LOT OF APPLE BUTTER, in
n small buckets. Call and examine at l47
King street
jan 29 w. +. BROOkES.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-01-30

10 BOXES BREAKFAST HOMINY jus
~ received and for sale by
GEO. McBURNEY son,
ian % lGG and 10 King street.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-01-30

HEDGES CHAMPION BAKING POW
Ill DER-Have you tried it? For sale at l41
King street. ,.
ian 20 VIZ. BROOKES.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-03-03
Dickens, First Production,

Forsters gives this account of Dickens
first production: In January, 1914, his first
writing saw the light-the sketch of Mrs.
Joseph Pooter Over the Way" which he
had :" dropped stealthily one evening at
twilight, with fear and trembling, into a
court on Fleet street." The letter-bOx was
that of the Monthly Magazine, and when
some days afterward he bought that mag
azine in the Strand-strangelye enough from
a young man afterward the Hall of Chap
man d Hall, thus lending new illustration
to his theory of the smallness of the world
he was seized with no slight agitation at
seeing himself in print.
con which occasion / walked down to
Westminster Hall, and turned into it for
half an hour, because my eyes were so
dimmed with joy and pride that they could
not bear the street, and were not fit to be
seen there
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-03-03
The Cincinnati Road,

The discussion over the Cincinnati
Southern Road progresses and various
plans are being discussed. The one now
most attracting attention is that proposed
by Mr.. Theo. Cook, one of the most active
men of the city. His proposition is sub
stantially this:
l. The city shall purchase the Kentucky
Central Railroad, including its interest in
the road from Paris to Lexington, and the
Lexington and Danville Railroad.
,. The city shall lease perpetually at a
nominal rental, say one dollar per year,
these properties to any responsible party
or organization who will without unreas-
enable delay proceed to build and equip
lines of railway making direct connection
with the cities of Knoxville, Chattanooga
and Nashville, the same to be operated in
the interest of our city, upon such terms
as might be agreed upon, fair and advan-
tageOus to the owners of the road and our
citizens.
3. The opportunity and privilege of in
vesting money in this enterprise to be first
offered to all citizens of Cincinnati upon
equal terms. In case the sum necessary
be not subscribed within given reasona
bic time, then the capital required, or such
portion Of it as may not have been sub
scribed may be secured elsewhere.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-03-03
FOREIGN.
Oneriur rewards for Refugees,

WASHINGTON, March 1.-The Havana jour
Mas publish the following decree issued by
Capt General YalmasGda and dated at San
diago, dc Cuba, February 1st:
\ white male or female or free Colored male
or female who will bring US free or slave ne
groes, now roaming in the mountains, to head
quarters will receive a full pardon and six
hundred dollars reward. A male or female ne
gro slave who will bring in % negroes from in
surrecting districts will receive his freedom if
bringing the number with arms seventeen dol
lars will be paid for each negro. Pparties un-
able to bring in the required number, but who
bring in some will receive pardon and value OF
their services will be taken into consideration OF
the matter of recompCsense. r..
The Spanish troops captured and executed
near Canto del Embarcodero Cuban Colonel
Calixeto Piclro and Captain Laudeliue Perese.
\ heavy engagement is reported in the LOr-
res Mountains, in which the Spaniards were
victorious.
LONDON, Feb. 2-Considerabee xcitemcn &C.
Cured in Kingston, Surrey county, over the
sudden termination of Republican meeting
held there. While Mr.. Adger, a member of
Parliament, was addressing the assembage, a
party of Royaists attacked the building and
dispersed the meeting. The ROyalists were par
ticularly threatening in their demonstrations
toward Adger, who was compelled to seek safe
ty by flight
PARIS, March 2.-Should General L'Admi-
rault resign the governorship of Paris, probably
he will be succeeded by General Clinchaut.
ROME. March 1t is believed that the Pope
meditates an early departure from this city;
1t is reported that a warrant was issued to-
dav for the arrest of two revenue officers for eX
torting money from merchants.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-03-03
The German Press.

The Cincinnati German Press say of the
proposed Liberal Republican movement:
The FOlkS6Latt says:
If the coalition of all the elements of
the opposition to General Grant, to he
known as the New Reform Party can offer
nothing more than the candidacy of
Judge Davis, of Illinois, it had better bury
itself at once and save expenses hereafter.
1t would take a larger magnifying glass
than we possess to make us perceive the
services for which Mr.. Davis is entitled to
the Presidency. In general, the public
knows nothing of him, and the little that
his record comprises is rather damaging.
The T0K$trC.md says: ---
The Liberal Republicans, who may as
semble in Cincinnati, simply on their own
motion, and not in obedience to any def
mite authority, can do nothing of any po-
litical significance The different States
should commence by forming an organiza-
ton, to be represented as a polit-
ical body by their chosen dele
gates, and before that is done
no one has right to act in the name of
another. So close is the Presidential cleo
ton now upon us, thOt mere assemblage
of vOluntee RefOrmers, gathered from ali
quarters, can be of no possible avail"
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-03-03
Memphis and Knoxville Railroad.

At meeting of citizens yesterday evening to
take into consideration the question of construct
ing this road, Col. c, NJ. McGhee was called to
the chair, when the following resolutions were
offered and adopted:
WHEREAS We are credibly informed that
means have been taken in West Tennessee, to
effect a direct railroad communication with
Knoxville.
ReSoLred, That it is the sense of this meeting
that direct railroad line to West Tennessee
would be of great advantage to this community,
and that VIC pledge ourselves to use every exer7
ton to aid this enterprise and push it forward
to speedy completion.
Resolved, That the Board of Trade Of this city
be requested to open correspondence with the
officers of the Memphis and Knoxville Rail-
road Company, and obtain such information as
will enable our citizens to cooperate intelllgen-
ly and successfully with those of West Tennes-
see in this enterprise, so important to the cities
of Memphis and Knoxville, and the region ly-
ing between them,
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-03-03
GrceneyIIle Items.

The evening of sacred song with Philip
Phillips was brilliant success; Mr..
Phillips more than met the expectations
of his friends. We are glad to notice that
the members of the NJ. E. Church kept
the new Smith organ used on the occasion,
which is worth S275.
There is a great revival in Greeneyllle,
which is resulting in much good. It was
commenced in the NJ. E. Church on the
9th ult., and after three weeks duration
resulting in thirty-five conversions and
twenty-five accessions, it closed, when a
meeting was commenced in the Z. r.
Church which is still progressing with IN
creasing interest. Penitents are at the al
tar day and night, with from one to hve
professions almost eveay day. The WORK
is wide spread and thorough.
Greeneville is proverbial for the Chris
tian tone manifested among the churches
toward each other. In these meetings,
ministers and members work together
with an earnestness which says, we be
brethren"
The snow is II inches deep.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-03-03
CHURNS AND LILY BULBS.
Judge ID. ..Wishes DO Remark,"


Butler is quite we'll Satisfied" with the pro-
gress the great cause of education is making in
the world; nay, is in a very amiable mood,
even joyful over it. Never before, was general
education and high professional training SO
much priced and sought after as now. Witness
the mighty educational movements in Spain,
Italy, Russia, China, Japan, and, indeed, III al
most every land. And that MeSsrs. COlyar and
Baxter, in their recent speeches at the court
house, in presenting the wants of Tennessee,
(the only subject discussed while we were pres
ent) said nothing of education, is no concern OF
ours. But we seized upon the occasion to draw
the attention of this people to the vast wealth
Ito say nothing of higher considerations that
lies in this (amOng u.s. comparatively unWroughI
mine of education.
Upon calling Col. Bakers attention to the
omission, before we left the house, he acknoWl-
edged it and admitted the correctness OF our
views. Afterward, upon accosting MIR. Colyar
upon the street, with, Mr.. COlyar it seems to us
that you failed to mention the most pressing
want of the people OF this State; - he asked,
g What's that, education? We replied, yes,
and added that the style Of manufacturers, agrI-
culture and other industries that he advocated,
was utterly impossible without higher degree
of education among eur people. 10 TINS ne
readily assented and said that he ought to have
urged the importance of the higher education
Of the masses. Now the noticeable fact is that
these two eminent and representative men dld
not mention the subject of education, IN con-
nection and on an occasion so emlnently calcu-
lated to suggest it. Not only are the common
people deplOrably Indifferent to this vital ele-
ment of their own prosperity and the prosperity
and honor this commonwealth, but our leading
men also, who who uld and guide public opinion
are not half awake to it. In our opinion we
need in Tennessee new departure" in edu-
cation far more than in politics. We need few
Horace Mann's to go through the length and
breadth of the State, to rouse the people to an
educational enthusiasm, hobbyism, if you
please, and to make ignorance, in this glorious
dav odious BUTLER.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-03-03
Mayor Hall viii Sue for his Damaged Rep
UtatiOn.

Mayor Hall will Sue for his Damaged Rep.
utatiOn.
WAsHINGroS, March 1.-The Wisconsin As
sembly voted 40 to IS. tabling the resolution en-
dorsing Sumner one term amendment.
Charles Manley presides over the Southern
Baptist Educational Convention at Nashville.
Nearly all the Southern States are represented,
The steamer Japan took million and half
in specie from San Francisco for China.
Rev. VIM. II. Day. for thirty-fve years con-
nGcted with Bethel Mission at Cleveland, is dead
New YORK, March 1.-The Tammany meet
ing resolved to hold a new election, at which
an entirely new General Committee will be
chosen.
The Irish societies will parade on st. Pat
rck's dag
Henry F. Chorley, the celebrated musician of
London, is dead.
Schuyler Crippen an ex-Judge of the SUI
preme Court, is dead, aged II years.
The Times states that Mayor Hall has thirty
nine actions to bring against the proprietors and
editors of that paper, as soon as he is acquitted
in the case now pending against him; and also
that the Mayor offers to bet that he will have
them in the State prison.
At meeting OF the lrlSh societies last even
ing motion to invite the negro militia to per-
form as an escort on st. Patrick's Day was vot-
ed down, and an ardent Fenian, fresh from Ire
land, who counselled the cutting of the Threats
Of the Orangemen, was elected.
Judge Cardaza to-day charged the jury in
the Stokes case, ordering a verdict which
legalized the action of the Grand Jury and up
holds the Indictment He granted the staV of
the proceedings twenty days to enable the
cunsel to bring the matter before the affected
tribunal
During the commencement of the snow storm
this afternoon the weather was very cold.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-03-03
Communicate

Mr.. Butler is right. The source of most Of
E,ur evils is ignorance 1t is not pleasant to the
pri5e of communities to say so. Demagogues
have so long flattered the people that even the
most IGNORANT are unaware of their Ignorance.
II is high time to speak out on this subject.
There can be no hope of improvement until this
idea i dispelled. How much advance can be
rypected of a community that refuses to eStab-
lisb common schools? Nome none. And yet
this is lust what the State has done. And 1t Is
done purposely to keep the masses in Ignorance;
With an intelligent people such conduct would
be rebuked with an earthquake force. Here 1t
clicits no complaint, except from few men
like Mr.. Butler And when he speaks, such
men as " Ego Sum Homo are ready to laugh
at him. Bravo. Mr. Butler There are others
who think us you do. Let the hills and the
valleys echo and re-echo your thrilling notes.
Ignorance is weakness. 1t is the parent OF
laznesS. From lazinesS springs CRIME and IN,
temperance No intelligent community VIII
remain poor nor stationary as the hills, from
generation to generation. Intelligence Is active;
1t moves forward. In progress, as IN natural
order intelligence halls the future instead OF
looking back to the past Intelligence Is pow
or. If it were possible to educate the whole
PEOPLE of the State in year. the moment OF
the grand corsumatiOn would witness the doub-
ing yes the quadrupling of the productive
capacity, and wealth creating power OF our peo-
PIE Massachusetts, so often referred to, Is an
Illustration. Her soil is poor; her climate rig
TTIIE1uS let she Is great rich and powerful
mhy! Simply because of education. In Ten
t6eGGe, We are scarcely moving. We cling to
tb ,lpJ aaI. And no man is bold enough to tell
''' 'r7i, on this subject PROGRESS.