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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-09-25

General stntemcnt Of nssets mar hsld bythe COM
nlis$ioners Of tie sinking jun Of Ateranlria
this the 3lst day 81 A"gpst, 1872.
Cash in the S2J.s2l oi
Amount ip vested 10 date being cash paid Oh
=" the Market building. ''''''' 81, ID
Note vf the Orange, Alexandria and Manassas
Railroad COMPANY, dated January 9TH. 49,
payable five years after date. 5000
One Thousand shares preferred stock Orange and
Alexandria Railroad Company par valne...... 10000
Accrued interest the above uncollect-i H. LIST
July lS72.. ,.. ...... 5000
Interest interest from 1T July, lS69-
Interest $4,000 from lst July, 1869, three
sl,a2p
Int on 5000 from Isl July. 1870. years. 2to
5000 ISL, ycar... $50
5000 lS12, 1870 10
stock the Curporat H. Alexandria,
Accrued interc. the ahuv. from LIST January,
1s;u, 10 lst July 1872 40 90
L.---
Cash received from CityIC"unciI, being
amount Of insurance money the
old Market House. .......$f0,0pJ ~
Coupon bonds received from
Financed enmittee in part
payment Of interest ....... 700 90 1000
Leaving balance Of int unpaid 10 l,t July lS72." 1850 10
Coupon bonds Of the Corporation Of A.Nanlr 1000 90
Amount due from Contractor for old material sold
from Market 2'ur w
To,al.... ............. sl75.6,3 10
WD C0RSE, City Treasurer.
4 communication of G. 4. Hoof, D. A. Wind
sor and +. N Lowe, respecting the improve
ment of the sidewalk in front of Nos. HJi, 2OS
and 30 Prince street. and directing attention to
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-09-25

The National Council of the Order Of Ameri-
can Mechanics is holding its annual session in
New York city.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-09-25

Bilious fever prevails in Allegany county,
Md, to such an extent 'as to be almost an cpl
demic'
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-09-25

w D. CORSE. City Treasurer
Alexandria, Va, August 3lst, 49,.
certify lv careful examination Of the financial stale
the Treasurer. here rendered COMPARED with thr
uf the commissioner If the sinking fund 10 b" Cor
rect ROBERT :. ASlIBI, Auditor.
Respectfully submitted,
HENRY L. SIMPSON Pres. Board Aldermen.
GEO. K. SIIINN, Pres. Common Council.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1872-04-11

MARK TWAIN on WoMAN's SUFFRAGE
Mark Twain says that when women frame
laws the first thing they will do will be to
enact:
|. That all men should be at home at ten
P. NJ, without fail
2. That married men should bestow con-
siderable attention upon their own wives
3. That it should be hanging offence to
sell whiskey in saloons, and that fines and
disfranchisement should follow In such
places.
4. That the smoking of cigars to excess
should be forbidden, and the chewing Of
tobacco utterly abolished.
5. That the wife should have the title OF
her own property when she marries a man
who hasn't any.
such tyranny AS this" says Mark, 1--WE
could never stand. Our free souls could
never endure such degrading thraldom.-
Women, go away Seek not to beguile US
of our imperial privileges. Content your
selves with your little feminine trihes, your
babies, your benevolent societies, and your
knitting-and let your natural ''bssses" do
the voting. Stand back-you will he wanted
to 20 to war next. We will let you teach
school as much as you wan: to, and pay
you half price, too; but beware. we don't
want you to crowd Us too much"
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1872-04-11

WoMENAs SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
Ii IS as special correspondents that WON.
Ell have won their chief success in Jour
nalisin. There is scarcely paper of
weight and versatility which has not M
on It's staff at least one feminine corre-
sspondent. Women is par excellence the
ietter-writer Of her race. To every detail
she gives dainty charm-a certain
quallty that strikes one in the perfume of
the sweet human flower. Every one who
possesses the friendship Of thoughtful,
sPirttasfe women must feel the regret
that often comes to ine-the regret that
heir personal letters full of tact. viy-
acliy aud humor. are not for the worlds
enJoyment Tho captivating gossip of De
Sevlgne, the modern graces OF that most
graceful writer, Kate Field, are daily ri
vailed in private letters which but one
pair ofeyes probably ever scans. Lord
Chesterficld's stately platitudes Wal
poles naughty ironies, Sidney smiths
sometimes vulgar wit, Charles Lambs
buoyant fun. have for years and years
been cited as models oil epistolary excel
lence in men. I'd give them all for that
one letter, o deliciously simple and
naive, IN which young Fanny Burney
describes her dinner with tho great Mr.
Burke.
Newspaper correspondence makes A
kind of literary seventh heaven for a
clever and large-rninded woman. To
nnd free space and appreciation for her
written talk are inspirations in them-
selves. Her worst faults are haste and care
lessness in transcribing her impressions
- hus allowin. sudden prejudices and
preferences TO stand above her name as
well-considered Judgements. The charac-
terlstic womanly dislike 10 method with
the necessity tor regular" letteIs, must
bear the blame Of this. must confess
that the best feminine newspaper letters
are occasional ones. Men are much more
even in correspondence, but what woman
lacks IN literary trustworthiness they
more than make up in picturesqusness
naivete, elan av'vid elasticity tLat be-
longs to them and them alone. "Gush"
ls,in correspondence, ,an amable fault.W
cant afford to spare enthusiasm altogath-
er, even lit does sometimes induce in
praise or vague redundancy of
expression The modern journalist often
sacrifices literary art TO much less wor-
Thy purpose.
Grace Greenwood's droll aud pictur-
esqne sketches, and those of Kate Field,
: seer!r, always agate, vivacious and sug-
nine neWe .ex.
lasting success u. Il
d work depends very mu1ipst o, %"a,
avoidance OF the rock OF srnai. ..
ms asn IA 4 rock upon which corrt-pi-
be quickly wrecked."mag these are apt TO
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1872-04-11

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES on Wo-
MEN.-A woman, notwithstanding she
Is the best of fasteners, knows her busi-
ness, and it is a woman's business to
please. | don't say that it is not her
business to vote, but do say that the
woman who does not please is a false
note in the harmonies of nature. She
may not have youth, or beauty, or even
manner, but she must have something
IN her voice or expression, or both,
which it makes you feel better dispos-
ed toward your race to look at or lis
ten to. She knows that as we'll as we
do and her first question after you
have been talking your soul into her
consciousness is, Did Iplease? A wo-
man never forgets her sex. She would
rather talk with man than an angel,
any day. Womanly women are very
kindly critics, except to themselves,
and now and then to their own sex.
The less there is of sex about woman,
the more she is to be dreaded. But
take real woman at her best moment,
well dressed enough to be pleased with
herself, not so resplendent as to be a
show and q sensation, with the varied
outside influences that set vibrating
the harmonic notes of her nature stir
ring in the air about her-and what
has social life to compare with one of
those vital interchanges Of thought and
feeling with her that makes an hour
memorable? What can equal her tact,
her dellcacy, subtlety of apprehension,
ner quickness to feel the changes of
temperature as the warm and cool cur
rents of thought blow by turns: At
one moment she is microscopically in
tellectual, critical, scrupulous in judg-
ment as an analysts balance, and the
next as sympathetic as the open rose
that sweetens the wind from whatever
quarter it finds its way TO her bosom.
1t is in the hospitable soul of a woman
that a man forgets he is q stranger, and
50 becomes natural and truthful, at the
same time that he is mesmerized by
all those divine differences which make
her mystery and bewilderment.-
The Atlantic.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1872-04-11
Vol. XVIII. Whole No. S99. No. Is.

evident as that these drifts Of opinion
exist within the Unitarian Church.
viz; that the mightier the Christ Of
CHURCH is, the mightier the church, ~
an influence for good in the world.
onrist disarmed of divine power, shorn
OF divine authority, stripped Of His
inhnite loneliness, and despoiled Of
those glories which He shared with
the Father before the world was," 10
only a milder Mahomet or q finer
Joseph Smith. We can say 90 much
without pushing any partisan view Of
the subject. If any proposition can
be more nearly self-evident than that
the power of religion depends upon
the power Of its inspiring source, We
have never met with it. [Scribners
Magazine.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1872-04-11

The Teutonic tailor OF PENNSYLVANIA
village having married second wife in
decently soon after the funeral of the
first, the Young men of the place notified
their disapproval by tin-horn serenade
during the progress of the wedding
feast. The vulgar fraction of man ex-
postulated in the following style: 4
say. pOys, you ought to be ashamed of
yourselfs to be making all dis noise ven
der vas q funeral here SO soon!'
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1872-04-11
CHAPTER IL.

No one about yet, save the srvant
letting the sunlight into the driving
room, and busting the furnitur,; SO !
stepped out to hnd Frank, ad dis
cloAe.
caught the glitter Of brass httons
through the shrubbery, and ranround
. turn in the walk to meet him.
o Franz! I began, but suddenly
stopped, for that was not my Fank.
Beg pardon. he said, bowig low,
but is Mr.. Thornton in!' And hen he
grabbed me, and kissed me.
Twas on the point Of screaming for
Frank, Uncle Henry, Miss Melbourne,
and the whole household, as visons Of
murder, abduction ETC., fitted troagh
! my brain, when Franks cid, ausical
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1872-04-11
pottrp.
Ruse de 0uerre.

There's beggar stands af the door. Therc.e
A child with a hungry eve;
Ills feet are bare on the icy street
let they must not come too nigh
Cold drives the slect
Yet the beggar must no, come nigh.
Go tell him Of palaces near. Therese.
Where his weary limbs may rrpose:
Where the banquet halls are richer than mine.
With couches ofpurple and rose,
80 fine. so fine,
Purple. and amber, and rose.
VIII he none Of your counsel take, Therese,
Then hearken to what I say;
FOR now by siratagem foul or fair,
he beggzr must go his way:
No sleep-no prayer,
TIL the beggar is on his way
So empty the plates from the board. There.e
And scatter the viands about;
And the last red drop from the cordial Gun
Drain out, good child. drain out;
For how can he sup
hen Niands and cordials are out,
Qucnch all the bcau,ifnl lamps, There's.
Break every harp-string sweet:
Heap ice on the fire till IL foods the floor.
And drips At the beggxr's feet
Under the door,
Drips at his waiting feet.
Is everything done as said. There's,
Then open the house door wide:
., colder and darker than any stree,
lie never viii come inside;
Poor feet! poor feet.
They viii never come inside
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1872-04-11

A Connecticut boy swallowed three
marbles and four bullets recently, and
being somewhat of bony structure,is
now utilized by the neighbors, who Dor.
row him ~ . rattle.
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1872-03-21

"BACK-LOG STUDIEs."IIn this unique series Of
papers, now appearing in Seibser's Monthly, Mr..
Warner, author of "My Summer in Garden" is
doing his best work. Here VIC have-in pleas
ant fiction ofs talking group in front of an old
fashioned country backlog -philosophic sugges-
tion sarcasm that SMILES, not sneers, bright bits
Of description, social out-looks,-and, enlivening
all. fresh, "crisp, yet juicy" and delicious hu-
NOR. Backlog Studies have been quickly ap-
preciassd by the press. The New York 7imes says
that these sketches, "for light, airy but genuine
delincations Of character, have rarely been sur
passed by any writer Of the present day." The
Bosto. Transcript says that for delicacy of touch,
quaint sentiment. and quiet humor, Back Log
Studies a,s the best Of things in their way" The
Nat;o. thinks that Backlog Studies No. III. "re-
news and increases the evidence given in his pre-
y;ous performances that we have in him hnmOr-
st of real merit" Writing of one of these papers,
the N. Y. Nail says it is the "best thilg be has
written, and the best thing in its way any Amer
lean or English magazine has had for many a
day." and the Boston Commercial Bslletia says:
Backlog Studies constitute decided hit in
magazine literature" Another of these delight
full papers will appear in the April number Of
Scyibmers Monfhly, which will be for sale by all
Booksellers and Newsdealers. 800 year, IS cts.
a number Scribner & Co., 654 Broadway, New
York.
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1872-03-21

"SDE SHOws."-The New York Herald tbnt
irreverently speaks of the third. fourth and fifth
party nominations for the Presidency:
"As the period for the quadrennial advent oi
the Presidential circus begins to approach, the
side Shove are putting in an appearance, and
with the aid Of claptrap and buffoonery are ann.
sing the people until the grand performance, the
regular grand and lofty tumblng commences
These side shows are variously designated by the
titles of the "National Labor Reform Conven-
tion." " National Temperance Convention, ~ " Wo-
mans Suffrage National Convention, /" Protec-
tion to American Industry National Convention, -
and 90 on to the end Of the programme. Theee
shows pop up like Jack in the box, the managers
take a look at the audience, and espying the par
ty likely to have the most cash tn Distribute sell
out to the highest bidder all their trappings,
principles, men, canvass, clowns and pantaloOns,
and are not heard of until another four years ex-
pire and their harlequinade is to be done over
again.
"The old Liberty party under Birney, in 1874.
was about the only politicians side show that
ever amounted to mnch in Presidential cam
paign. laying the foundation, as it did, Of what is
now the powerful Republican party. But, as a
general thing, these shows are catch-penny
affairs, aud those who engage in them with a sim
cere purpose are likely to he humbugsed finally
by the demagognes who pull the wires for their
own selish and sordid ends"
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1872-03-21

GETTING THEM MrxEp.-We last week copied
from some paper an article headed Bolts" in
which the writer got badly out Of his reckoning
as in the following:
The next bolt was in 1852 when General Scott nomi
mated over Fillmore and Webster both Of whom gave Scott
the cold shoulder. Fillmore and Bell the
tive ticket and got the electoral vote Of only
succeeded in electng Franklin Pierce over the greatest
general Of the age"
The fact is, there was no boiling Wing candi-
date for President in 1852, although some 1900
men in Massachusetts voted for DANIEL WEBSTER
after he was dead. The only opposition candi-
date to ScoTT and PIERCE was JOHN p. HALE,
Abolitionist. SCOTT carried the four States Of
Vermont, Massachusetts,, Kentucky, and Tennes-
see. The writer mixes the ScOTr campaign Of
1852, the FILLMORE campaign of 1856, and the
BELL and EVERETT campaign of 1860, in one jum-
bled mass. FILLMORE and BEILnever ran tOgeth-
er on one ticket; but FILLMORE and DONEIsON
were the candidates for President and Vice Presi-
dent in 1856, and carried the single State of Ma
ryland.
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1872-03-21

NJ. Z. CONFERENCE.-THE appointments OF
preachers for the ensuing year in Northern Kan
sas are as follows:
LeareRrorth Disfrict..-W. X. Davis, Presiding e.
der.
Leavenworth, LIST church, and 9th street, j. j.
Thompson.
DOniphan-J. Cook.
Atchison-T. j. Leak.
Severance-G. W. Wood.
Troy and Wathena-C. L. Shacklcford and B. F.
Bowman.
White ClOui-W. Smith.
Hiawatha-J. T. Shackleford.
Robinson and Grand Prairie-D. B. Campbell.
MOnrovia-J. c. Dana.
WetmOre-E. Gill.
Grasshopper Falls-O. Brnner.
Winchester-J. Robinson.
Edwarlsville- Day.
Tonganoxie-E. s. Arlington.
Grantville-H. X. Mnth.
OskalOOsa-R. H. HOrsfield.
Netawaka-E. H. Balif.
WyandOtte and Kansas City-S. P. Jacobs.
L. ID. Price, agent of Jefferson County Bible So
ciety-Member of OskalOosa Quarterly Con-
ference.
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1872-03-21

THE ARMS DEBATE.-Don Piatt, of the WASH
ingtOn Capitol, paper bitterly hostile to Presi
dent Grant and to his denomination, makes the
following sensible comments upon the useless
French arms discussion in the Senate of the Uni
ted States:
"After sitting with care all the evidence Offer
ed, we are forced to admit that not even prina
facie case has been made ont. At the close Of our
late civil war, the government found itself pos
sessed of vast amount of material in the way of
arms Of all Sorts that were not only useless, but
you'd not hear keeping, because of the improve
mcnts continually demanding acceptance, if We
wish to keep pace with other governments in
this respect. The Law authorizing the sale is
sufficiently broad tn allow . general sale Of all
material. 1t reads, 'the Secretary of War may
sell at private or public sale, as he may deem
most advantageous to the public interest, the old
cannon, arms and other ordnance stores now in
possession of the War Department, which are
damaged or otherwise unsuitable for the United
States service Now, whether to secure m ad-
vantageous sale the Department could manu.
facture ammunition to suit the arms, is question
able. 1t is the only question in the whole affair."
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1872-03-21
TariG On Printing TyPes.

The Free Traders have assaulted another point
in Protection, and hope to gain the united snP-
port of the press in their behalf by appealing 70
their selfshness. RowELL's AmerioaR Nesspeper
Reporter has inangurated it, and keeps urging It
every week, even enclosing blank petitions to
Congressman, for printers to sign. The scheme In
to place printing types ON the free list mis- tney
claim, will admit the Scotch types in competition
with those of home manufacture, as they are very
much cheaper.
Now, if there is any need Of protection to
American manufactures, we presume that the
manufacture of types is no exception; and it Is q
Door principle to advocate Free Trade on single
branch of enterprise, simply because it wonld oen
eft the one class sdvocatingit. No person douots
that Scotch types can be sold cheaper fhan Amer
ican, for the laborer who produces them receives
smaller wages. 1t is the same reason WY all i"r-
eign manufacturer are cheaper than American,
and which makes protection necessary. 1t comes
off Of the laborer.
Ru, a majority of American printers do not
want foreign types American types are hand
somer. and printers peter them. THEODORE De
WINNIE, of New York, one of the most accomplish
ed printers in the United States says that foreign
times of the same name different in size from
those of American make, and are also different in
height. printer using foreign types, could new
er get sorts to justify or work with them in q
pinch-he would have to send to Europe for them,
or the Scotch manufacturers would have to es-
tablish branch foundries in this country, in oppo-
sition to our own, when that cheapness would
vanish, in the absence of Protection.
Then, it is said, the tariff on types is . tax on
knowledge. There is a good deal Of demagoguery
in this cry of tax ON knowledge. Any price what
ever attached to books and newspapers, is tax
on knowledge. Taxes for building school houses
and paying teachers, are taxes on, or for, kppwl-
edge. knowledge is . costly commodity, in what
ever shape we take it; but it is tax that the
American people can well afford to pay.
We decline to sign the petition.
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1872-03-21

SOMETHING ABOUT INvEsTGAIIoN.-We this
week copy from the Wathena Reporter, the an.
swer of the editor to certain statements made in
the Report of the Investigating Committee. II
illustrates the manner in which the whole thing
was conducted. Men are implicated, who are per
fectly innocent, and who could prove themselve.
80; but they were not permitted to know tina,
there was pretended evidence against then-in
fact, it seems to have been the design to prevent
the summoning Of witnesses to disprove rumors
and random statements. Men were present, anx.
iOus to be examined but the Committee refused
to hear them. Mr.. DRENNING was examined be-
fore the Committee, and could have told his own
story about the Nemaha Representatives; but in
stead of asking him personally, the Committee
took the secondhand statements of somebody else
statements which both Mr.. DRENNING and the
Treasurer of Nemaha County pronounce totally
false But this is fair average of the whole pro-
ceeding
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1872-03-21
State News.

HOMICIDE IN CLOUD COCNTY.-A few days ago
difficulty occurred in the Southern part of ClOnd
county, in which three men were wounded by
shots and one killed dead. The following partic
ulars were furnished the Topeka Commonwealth:
Two Texas cattle men have been allowing theil
herd to eat the hay belonging to two brothers
named Dalrymple, who after time claimed dam
| "Ses anu 'n,s eiallll clea'eu umcui'!. CaI,hl
enael, one on tne owners OF tne nero, swore tha'
ne 1ouH Mn.P Any o.e VI .nen', MneleuPon one
IA. so az, .,i M '.na ,;,';' UNI . .ne
~: i!, sG :lo:sn no M"S siuS AZ I.s. accounts ~
~: coIuiEn a,. s az very elcal. e AI.el
De.nG snos " m nP,e 0s;aenasi III! nrsd a' MS
aSsal'an. an! anu .ne pa1i 1S'seu ln ms ooweiH
49, a. an,s iuncIu5e, l. =. Dairympe and Carmi,
| cuaei Doss heruer, Lewis, had contest and
shot at eacn other, resnlting III !ne death OF Dal-
| r!mpie anu the Touhdnsoi VI Lewsm the shoulder
Inc DairymPle brothers nave always borne
killed was member OF tne Legislature III ieos.
Inc surviving parties, VINO We're connected
with tine array, are under arrest.
A KANSAS MAN IN LIMBO.-On Friday night
Sheriff Maquilken, of D0niphan county, Kansas,
arrHea u: IN tle cit! Win man named Eaiiagher
IN cna1Ee, ana yesteiday starred win the prison
er !or I"y. some time ago 1aiiagher, VINO Is a
Sutcner, oolowed sum OF money, Joseph
Nixon, OF tnat place, becoming security for its
payment. aGsecare @ M nixon against loss, Gallagher
understood that h. was to have The n,;,ile~a " y
using them. Last week GALLAGHER s,ld ths b"rsa
and wagon nocIetsd the nreceads nnrch.s..5
several head of cattle from farmers in tie rc;n;tv
of Troy. and one hundred head of sheen from NJ
las Ccneiond near paIern,o for ,rh;.b -. .1, ~,
ised to nav ain a few days soiJ them Al, S,r cash
in st. Joseph, and started for parts unknown.
The Sheriff was too quick for him-St Joseph
Gazette.
Arc,usox e. yr,p.sxw A.. e.u..
inc chanoas On The in. If tho Stnb;s,,, e III Nv
hrsesL. rS;I-s,ad. NJ G...o. |1s." G.. an" We
anno;nted master of transnertst;o and I s,,sc;ai