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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-01-11

JOHN HARLOW. NJ. h. HARLOW.
HARLOW i BROTHER,
MISSION MERCHANTS,
Northwest corner Royal and Cameron streets
Alexandria, Virginia.
Special attention given to the sale of Country
Produce We most respectfully call the altcn
ton of the trade to our large and splendid stock
of goods, consisting of Wines and Liquors,
ter, Lard, Cheese, Corn Meal Crackers, Syrups
MolasSes, Cod Fish, Mackcrcl, Herring, Wood
enware Baskets, Spices, Cigars, Tobacco. Canned
Goods, Coal Oil, &c, and every other article
usually found in first class wholesale and retail
establishment Orders from the country respect
fully solicited, and all orders shall receive our
prompt attention. mar Nlly
NnrEsCH rpE&y nIns-luTgnS
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IA IN THE
PRICE OF TEAS AND COFFEES

Remember that We guarantee ou- 1taS to De
fresh, pure and unmiNcd, and if not satisfactory
will be exchanged.
COFFEES:
Java, Mocha, Ceylon, Maricnbo, Laguyrs and
Rio, Green, Roasted or Ground, if desired, from
to Sc per pound less than former T.. We use
great care in the selection Of our Coltces, and
guarantee them to give entire satisfaction.
We would also call attention to our stock OF
Jellies, Canned Goods. French, English and
American Mustards, Gross s. Backweil's Pick
les, American Pickles, Peak, Frcan u Cos. eel
cbrated Biscuits Albert Biscuits, Pure French
Candy, from SO 10 &c per pound.
Every variety OF Spices, perfectly pure. ground
and whole. y liberal discount 70 the trade;
CHINESE TEA COMPANY,
No. | North Royal street,
isn2l Near the Market.
RICHARD W. AVERY. FL. DAVIDSON
A VERY i DAVIDSON
Dealers in
CHOICE FAMILY GROCERIES, WINES,
AND LIQUORS,
No. 22G, King street, corner of fired,
ian l4-tf Alcxandria, Va.
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CHILDREN'S SCHOOL AND WALKING
~ BQOTS-A large stock and great variety OF
styles at very reduced prices, at
sep Il WADDEY'S, "a King street.
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Roots IND SHOES.

r AIDES FINE SHOES at
IL sep2l WADDEY'S, "a King street,
r AIDES HANDSOME BUTTON BOOTSat
IL sep2l WADDEY'S, ID King street.
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rENTLEMEN'S FINE DRESS BOOTS
" AND SHOES-A large stock of new sly les,
very handsome of the best quality and at low
sep 81 WADDEY'S, "A King street.
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MISSES LASTING BOOTS.
VA In every style, quality and price, at
sep q WADDEY'S, "A King street.
The Hickman courier., 1872-02-03
Murder by a CLERGYMAN.

LoNDoN.-Joh ohm Selby Watson (cler-
gyman) has been sentenced to be hanged
for murder The trial of this eminent
divine aud another has been lingering
long time in the courts. The plea for
his defense was insanity. The facts of
the murder are as follows:
Mr.. Watson, about thirty three months
ago, while engaged upon a book became
exceedingly irritable, fuming and fret
ting if he was interrupted, and breaking
out into terrible fits of rage. One night
he was writing in his study at , A. NJ.
his wife came to the study and tried TO
persuade him to 90 to bed. lie ordered
her to leave the room, and as she did
not comply with his wishes he suddenly
attacked her with a hatchet, mutilating
her IN a hOriable manner and finally
killing her. After the murder he did
not attempt to escape, and was immedi
ately arrested.
The murder created a great feeling Of
horror all over the country, more espeei'
allg as hesKas a man universally lookee
up to and respected.
1t is stated that in the afternoon OF
the day be murdered his wife, had preach
ed a sermon denouncing murderers.
The Hickman courier., 1872-02-03
Late LIeutenant-GeneraI E,veII-
NAsHYILLE. JanuarY %.


Following close upon the decease Of
his wife, Lieutenant-GeneralR r. L. Ewell,
one of the most distinguished and best
leaders of the late Confederate army,
died early yesterday morning and was
brought here for interment by the side
of his wife AS we write Il o'clock A.
NJ, all the bells in the city are tolling,
and business men are closing their houses
to attend the funeral He was sick ff-
teen days with typhoid fever. When
told that he could not survive heremark-
ed with the calm sympathy characteris-
tic of him:
II don't want any monument raised
over me; only plain headstone and a
footstone like those over the grave of
my father and my mother, in Virginia.
My rank, while in the Confederate SER
vice, might be inscribed upon one of the
stones, but l wish nothing in the inscrip-
ton which will cast any reflection upon
the government of the United States"
General Ewell had been in the habit
of wearing pair of blue infantry pants,
which he had purchased subsequent to
the war. Upon one occasion, not long
before his death, and when he could
speak only with the greatest difficulty,
he said of them:
after all my fighting against the
United States so long, it is strange that
an old pair of infantry pants should kill
me at last"
He attributed his death to having put
them on during the cold weather, after
having worn a much thicker pair.
The Hickman courier., 1872-02-03

The EeNy LIQUOR Law.

The "Ohio Liquor Law''-the system
which Illinois has just adopted of re-
pressing the trade in intoxicating drinks
by making the vendor responsible to
some extent for the behavior of a'drunk-
ards making quite a sweep through
the country. After being tried with sue
cess in Ohio, it has carried the conserva-
tive Legislature and Governor of Hi
nois in its favor, and made its appearance
in the Wisconsin Legislature, with strong
backing in the way of petitions, and
with every prospect of passage. 1t seems
likely that the Ohio Law will become as
much subject of popular discussion
and of angry clamor among the rumsel-
lers as the Maine Law was eighteen or
twenty years ago. 1t is to be hoped that
it will prove more capable of enforce
ment, and more efficacious in striking
the evil at which it was aimed, than
Neal Dow's nostrum proved. Legisla-
ton against the traffic In intoxicating
beverages has never been very successful.
From the Lycurgan code, which aimed
to discourage drunkenness by much the
same method which the Homeopathic
doctors now cure, or claim to cure, their
patients, down through the law of the
French monarch, who clipped an ear of
all his inebriate subjects, to the Yankee
system already referred to, the legal en-
actments against the wine traffic have
been lamentably inadequate to their pur-
pose. Statistics show that the habit of
drinking some kind of alcaholic bever-
age has steadily increased during the
last fifty years in all countries.
The Hickman courier., 1872-02-03
KeY-Xote For 1912.

One of the most influential Democrats
in the Illinois Legislature is the Hon.
VIM. W Morrison, gentleman of pro-
found political sagacity. In speech
the other day he produced a stir among
the Republicans by uttering the follow
ing words Il expect to vote for Re
publican for the Office of President Of
the United States next November l do
not think it will be one of the class the
Republican majority of this House would
like. 1 do not expect to vote for a Re
publican whose acts the majority of this
House dare not have Investigated before
the country but do expect, and mean
what say, if am afforded an opportu-
nifty, to vote for Republican for Presi-
dent, and also for a Republican for Gov
ernor of the State of Illinois, and also
erpect aohen Z do 50 to do Il icth the De-
nlOcracy. am in earnest about this I
may be mistaken, but this is my belief. "
This is simply the keynote of the mi
nority policy for 1872, and on its adOp-
ton generally will rest the success of. the
Anti Grant movement.
The Hickman courier., 1872-02-03
A MAN win nerves OF steel.

Young Donaldson, the daring aeronaut,
who made a balloon ascension at Reading,
Pa, on the 30th of August last, and
performed a series of trapeze feats when
a mile or more from the earth, repeated
his thrilling performance in Norfolk on
Monday last There was no basket to
the balloon, but its place was supplied
by a trapeze similar to those used by Cir
Gus performers, and above the trapeze
was placed hoop, secured to which was
a suit of heavy clothing to be used by
the aerial voyager when he encountered
the cold currents. The Norfolk Journal,
in describing the ascension, says that
when the balloon was released from its
moorings and reached a great altitude
Donaldson suddenly and apparently with
little effort threw himself into sitting
posture on the bar, kissing his hand to
the crowd below, suddenly, pretending to
lose his balance, he fell backwards, Sill
ding head downward until he caught by
his toes on the side ropes that suspended
the trapeze bar. In this perilous po-
sition he swung to and fro several seconds
"a time which seemed an age to the
awe stricken crowd below II was Gu
rious to observe the varying emotions OF
the crowd-as varying as the dispositions
of each individual. Some were thrilled
with admiration of the courage of the
daring man, and kept their eyes rivited
on him. Others shuddering with horror
turned away with pallid faces and beating
hearts aud covered their eyes with theil
hands to shut out the dreadful sight.
The Hickman courier., 1872-02-03
German Emigration.

During the period of twelve years,
from the beginning of 1859 to the close
of 1870, . 267 800 Germans have arrived
in this country. The largest immigra-
ton of this thrifty class of our foreign
population in single year took place in
1869, when the aggregate was 1896.
The war with France stopped the tide for
several months, so that the total for the
year 1870 fell to 81 1,000-but since the
peace, the old desire of the Germans to
find new homes has returned with such
vigor as to create alarm in the Cabinet
at Berlin II is not therefore, surprising
to hear that the government of the new
empire is devising schemes by which to
keep the German people upon German
soil The first indication of this move
ment is the account Of an agreement be-
tween the governments of Berlin and
/ Vienna to divert towards the Austrian
Empire the flood which is once more set
ting westward It is understood that no
! measures of coercion Will be employed 10
effect the result, but Bismarck and Beust
have settled the preliminaries for the in
direct exercise of powerful influences.
The German Empire is overstocked with
labor, and wages are low but Austria
lacks supplies of workmen, both in her
factories and her fields, and offers prices
fifty per cent. higher than is now paid
under the rule of William. The bait is
tempting, and will be be likely to draw
off many enterprising Germans who have
hitherto regarded the United States as
the land of promise.
The Hickman courier., 1872-02-03
Mord on ChemIstrr.

DR.. james r Nichols, the well known
chemist and editor of the Boston Jour
nal Of Chemistry, writes the following on
kerosene
"Kerosene is not explosive; lighted
taper may be thrust into it. or fame ap
piled to it, with perfect safety. Acct
dents from kerosene occur from two
causes; imperfect manufacture and adut-
teration. Naptha is volatile, imfamma-
bic and dangerous, and with imperfect
distilIation of kerosene some naptha re
mains. aud further, unprincipled dealers
add naptha to kerosene. But even nap
tha is not explosive; to render it or the
vapor that rises from it explosive 1t must
be mired ,cith air, and this is the great
secret of the terrible accidents now so
frequent. A lamp full, or nearly full,
is comparatively safe. In using impure
oil above the line of oil is inexplosive
vapor, (not gas) aud as long as 1t is
warm and quiet, no air can reach the
oil but when the lamp cools, the yapoI
eondenses, and vacuum is formed which
is instantly filed with air and the mix
ture is more or less explosive. Let the
lamp be suddenly shaken and an explo-
sion is probable or let an unreplenished
lamp be lighted and there is similar dan
ger. Cold air striking a partially filled
lamp will condense the vapor, air will
rush in and there will be an explosion.
So much for impure kerosene. Moral,
buV&f responsible parties, and always
- BUR Jumps well filled. 1.-The whole
haz comes from mixed vapor."
The Hickman courier., 1872-02-03
Dead Reat-Pass him Around.

Some time ago there came to Lexing
ton a man representing himself as an
agent of paper in St. Louis, of particu-
larly enterprising character, entitled the
Merchants Express, which was to con-
tain all sorts of matter important to
business men. The price of this paper
was 81 80 a year; the price current which
it would contain would be entirely worth
the money, but for fear that was not
enough, each subscriber should receive
100 pass books, with an advertisement
of his own particular business on one
side of the cover, and an advertisement
of an insurance company on the other,
the later paying the expense of both ad-
vertisements for the sake Of the circula-
ton its own would receive.
With such presentations, he obtained
subscriptions from about $50 people in
and around Lexington. He sent two
copies of the paper to some, and no pass
books whatever. 1t is now known that
the same individual has gone to other
towns and cities in this State, and has
practiced the same deception, with SINH
lar results. He is still in Kentucky,
and if the story of his doings is handed
around, it may succeed in preventing his
fleeing any more.-LeriRgton Press.
The Hickman courier., 1872-02-03
NO. ).
IN Love wITH ALEXIS.
An Insane InfaIuafiOn.

The Omaha Bee of the 18th ult., has
the following singular story;
Among the passengers on the regular
train from st. Louis this morning was
well-dressed and well-appearing lady,
who made inquiries as to the whereabouts
of the grand duke On learning, she
expressed a good deal Of regret al not
having arrived sooner, and so conducted
herself as to cause inquiry. 1t was
learned that she belongs in a small town
near St. Louis, and is a maiden lady of
some twenty six summers, who has con
ceived the singular il fatuation that she
is the destined wife of the Grand Duke
Alexis She attempted to take passage
on the ducal train when it left st. Louis
yesterday noon, but was prevented. She
finally secured ticket on the regular
train. and arrived here only few hours
/ behind the one on which Alexis rode
She expressed determination of going
with him on his buffalo hunt, but failed
in securing a seat in the Pullman ears
She belongs to a good family, and has
plenty of means to carry out her whim
Of following his highness over the couD-
try, but so far her devotion has met with
no reward, Alexis not deigning to bestow
upon her a single glance She is not
discouraged, however, but seems conf
dent in the ultimate result of her mis-
sion, and as it is leap year she does not
have that modesty in the pursuit of her
object that is usual with maidens of an
uncertain age. She first met the duke
at his reception in ST. Louis, and to use a
common phrase, she has been "struck -
after him ever since. She says she will
only desist when he shall make her the
Grand Duchess. She remained at the
Ninth street depot all the time Alexis
was up town, patiently waiting for his
return. There is little doubt but she is
a monomaniac upon this subject, and
should be taken care of. The railroad
authorities will do their best to return
her to ST. Louis by the next train.
The Hickman courier., 1872-02-03
A San Francisco sensation.

a San Francisco correspondent Of the
Times says:
San Francisco has been having a sem
sation lately, which has shaken the many
billed city like mild earthquake. Ghost
faces have appeared in many divers win
dow panes about town The first spec
ire of this kind was discovered in the
front window of very respectable house
occupied by a widow, who, it is said, re-
cognized it as the apparition of her late
husband. II caused tremendous ex-
element. Jones, living, might have
gazed out of that window with that dole
ful expression, (for it is a most infelicit>
Gus looking ghos) for every day of
long and vrtuous life, and nobody would
have needed him but Jones, defunct,
drew half the town to cape at him. OF
course | went to sec the crowd. That,
by the way was what everybody said they
went to see. | found that the widow
had been 30 bcset by visitors and repor-
ters that she had brought herself, for
consideration, TO part a second time with
her hus band lone gets used to these af-
flictions-and that he had been removed
to w oodward's Garden where he was
drawing we'll. Scarcely was he gone
when other ghosts appeared in neighbor-
ing windows, staring out Of their crystal
like limbo on a marveling or mocking
world, looking more or less miserable, as
though in purgutorial pains. These new
cOmers | saw and | must confess that
they we're to me something quite mex
plicable. They seem to have been done
in not on, the glass, and are scarcely of
character to serve any purpose Of orn1-
mental art. They are the very diabolism
of photography. cannot even guess
at the process by which they are made to
appear, as and where they aie. But
ghost 'sharps" tell me they are quite in
ferior to the original apparition now at
the Garden. That, however, Is said TO
be fading slowly away. Jones evidently
dosen't feel at home there. He was a
family man. Bids are not lively for the
other panes-the spectre business has
been overdone, and spectators are fear
full of taking a glass too much.
The Hickman courier., 1872-02-03

IT has been frequently asserted that II
the same trimming were given women as
men, their intellectual capacity would
have proved itself the same The truth
or falsity of this can only be judged by
the career of those women who have
been educated like men. 1t cannot be
denied that many women have risen to
great reputation, yet it is certain that no
woman has produced work Of any value
in any line of speculative philosophy.
No memorable theory of being in gen
eral, of mind or matter, of history or
religion, has yet eminated from the pen
of woman. In poetry, many women
have been eminently successful, aud, as
novel writers, the women are far ahead
of the men. The sensational, the emo.
tiona1. and perhaps the patiently labori
oGs az The lhIhgs ia which they excel
and in which alone they can be said to
have really achieved greatness. This
experience would seem to suggest that
there exists between men and women a
native difference of mind, suggesting, if
not demanding, diversity of intellectual
discipline 1t is like the difference we
generally see in boys, one of whom is
especially bright in mathematics and cor
respondingly dull in language, while the
other is directly the reverse.
The Hickman courier., 1872-02-03
Crontiu a New Role.

The resorts of the Grant concern tC
get presents and avoid paying money arr
as innumerable as the changes of the
Kaleidoscope. We now have him pre-
sented in a new role. He seems to have
gone somewhat into the theatrical bust
ness. The Washington spondeut oi
the New York World under date of Jan
Is, gives US the following:
"The President has gone into theatri
cal business. He is &c o6icio, a partner
of Mr. William Z Spaulding, the pro
prietor of the National Theatre in the
city of Washington. 1t was financial
necessity which induced the President
to enter into this new compact
The Hickman courier., 1872-02-03
A GRAND FINANCIAL TRANSACTION

A GRAND FINANCIAL TRANSACTION.
A company of European bankers, con
sisting of the Rothschild, of Paris 81,
mon Sina, of Vienna, Thomas Gibbs, of
London, and the German House, OF St.
Petersburg, have just arranged with the
French government for the immediate
payment of three milliards francs of the
indemnity due 1874. The tobacco du-
ties are the basis of the operation. These
duties yield revenue of two hundred
and four million francs per annum, and
will be farmed by Rothschild and his
associates for thirty years, on condition
of the immediate payment of three mil
liards, plus half milliard due next May.
Another project, proposed by the gov
ernment, is a lottery with four drawings
yearly for fifty years. These projects
indicate clearly how sensitive the French
are under this great load of debt to Ger,
many on account of the late war and
show. too, that they are determined to
wipe it out at ary sacrifice.
The Hickman courier., 1872-02-03
The Missouri Liberal sIovement.

The Missouri Liberals opened the
Presidential campaign, on Wednesday
with shout and a charge. They do not
so back, nor stand still; they move
straight upon the enemy's works. They
discern, as if by instinct, who is their
foe, and their fire converges directly up
on flm Their artillery is trained upon
the White House and the congressional
majority, and they do not even attempt
to conceal the fact that they aim at
nothing short of the defeat of the Ad
mlnistration party and the overthrow OF
the unrepublican and undemocratic poll
sYet force which that party maintains.
= speeches, the letters and the reso-
/ Is are all aimed plainly and boldly
= sident Grant and those who stand
aaAThey contain no apologies
suatons OF the movement
4 mot marked by the tremor and
re- eIvH.ance of men who, while believing
theyare right, fear they may be wrong
they have all the high spirit OF men who
know they are right, and all the bold
unquestioning faith of men who feel sure
OF triumph. Such words as "renegrades,
TRAITORS, selling out to the Democracy
and abandoning Republican principles
have DO terrors for the men who met al
Jefferson City on Wednesday they ran
this gauntlet in 1870; they bore all these
denunciations then, and not only came
out uuhurt, but they gained victory
over their denouncers which has left its
marks on them to this day. They are
confident that what was done in Missouri
two years ago can be done in the whole
Union now; and as the whole Union
needs deliverance from corrupt and pro
scriptive rule as urgently as Missouri
did. they resolve to attempt it with pre-
cisely the same method that has already
given one success.
The Hickman courier., 1872-02-03
The Missouri Liberal COnVen-
fiOn
From the Cincinnati Enquirer.

FROM the cincinnati Enq qulrer.
The Liberal Republicans of Missouri
evidently mean business. One of the
largest conventions ever assent bled in the
State, composed of the leading spirits Of
the party, met yesterday at Jefferson
City and adopted a series of we'll con
sidered and decidedly emphatic resolu-
lions, which may serve as a model for
other gentlemen of that party similarly
disposed. They also call for a national
mass convention to be held in this city
on the first Wednesday in May next, to
devise ways and means to hurl from
power those who are now disgracing "the
honored name of the party thereby
meaning Grant.
From the Chicago Times.
The convention of the Liberal Re
| pubicans OF Missouri, that met at } effer-
son City on yesterday, was an occasion
4 limits of that State. The attendance
and all the proceedings of the Conven-
| tion seem to have been commensurate in
intelligence and dignity with the great
results to which it may lead. The reso-
lutiUns that were adopted accept as final
| the results Of the war as expressed in
the Fourteenth and Fifteenth amend
ments demand universal amnesty; re
commend the removal of duties that in
volye an increase in the price of domestic
products; urge the reform of the civil
service; denource the growing tendency
of the federal power to encroach upon
the vital principle of local self govern
ment, aud call for a mass convention of
those coincding in these opinions, to be
held at Cincinnati on the 81 of MAY.
This platform Is certainly one upon
which all opponents of the present ad
ministration can unite; and IS one, also,
that cannot fail to command the support
of an immense number of people, what
ever may be their present political as
sOciation.