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American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-03-08
DIR. Andrew COmbe.

DIR. COmbe is an Instance of what may
be done under the most disadvantageOUs
even by a hopeless invalid.
He was well educated in medical science,
and for many years he practiced as a ply
sician. Then he was compelled, by dis
ease of the lungs, to withdraw himself
from the active duties of his profession.
He had now to watch his own health with
the utmost discipline and caution. He
knew that he was suffering from fatal
disease, from which there could be no
hope of cure but he knew that, with the
utmost care and self-cOntrOl, his life might
be indefinitely prolonged, though always
with il feeble and Uncertain tenure. He
fully acted up to the conditions which he
saw imposed on him, and his life was
spared during ten years. In this period
of extreme ill-health, caused by extern
sive organic disease, he addressed himself
to literary labor, which had wide useful
ness and popularity. He issued volume
after volume, in which he made impor-
taut knowledge Ineligible to almost ev-
cry order of mind. His long experience
rs an invalid was useful to many invalids,
on whom he urged the necessity of mod
Grafton and self-dscipline. With all his
weakness. there was hardly any healthy
man who lived so active and beneiicent a
litc.-Ielstre Hour.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-03-08
Ashes and Salt for Growing Wheat.

All farmers who have growing wheat
should avail themselves of the OppOrtuni-
ties offered in the leisure days Of winter,
to top dress the wheat land with these
substances. Ashes, from the contained
potash, afford most valuable fertilizer.
not only as direct food for the wheat
plant, but also for their solvent effect
upon some constituents in the soil. They
are also effectual in destroying the germ
OF smut that was sOwn with the grain for
smut is but fungus growth; Of diminu-
tive form, that adheres to the grain of
wheat, and its growth is analogous to that
OF other vegetable forms more apparent to
the eye. We take it for granted that no
good farmer has sOwn his wheat without
soaking the seed in blue stone or strong
brine, both of which are effectual in des-
trOying the germ of smut; but if this
were neglected by any, the top dressing
with ashes will supply the place of those
preventives. Eight to ten bushels of I'M
leached ashes should be applied per acre,
and more would be still better. This
home fertilizer is generally accumulated
rapidly on every farm during the winter,
and is too often left to wasteful exposure
to the rains of winter. Leached ashes are
also of much Importance, as they contain
salts highly conducive to plant growth.
The agricultural world has never yet
settled the question as to the value of
common salt as fertilizer; but any far
mer who will apply to his growing wheat
at the rate of at least fifty pounds and not
| over one hundred pounds per acre, can
| determine the question for himself when,
toward the time of harvest, he perceives
the thriftiness of the straw. the plump
| ness of the grain, and the greatly in
creased yield over that of any portion of
| the field that was not treated with salt.
| There is danger in the use of salt in eX-
cessive quantities as fertilizer, and there
| fore we fix the precautionary limit of not
| over 100 pounds per acre. The price of
salt does lot place it beyond economical
use as a fertilizer, as in almost all sections
| of the older States, the quantity judicious-
| ly applied to an acre can be purchased at
from sixty cents to a dollar and a quarter.
Salt is not only stimulating to the growth
| and effective in the yield of whelt, but
| produces earlier maturity of the crop,
| thus afiOrding an avenue of escape from
that other malady of the wheat plant, rust
on the stem and blade, from which our
wheat crops in the South are in greater
peril than from smut. Rust is generally
an almost complete blight, while smut is
usually but damaging to the quality of the
crop prOduced-N J.. World.
|
An Englishman, it is said having heard
a great deal about the Yankee propensity
OF bragginS," thought he would make
an experiment in the art himself. lie
walked up to Il market-woman' s stand,
and, pointing to some large water-melOns,
| said What, don't You raise any bigger
! apples than these in America - :. p
| pies ~ said the woman, disdainftIllV
anybody might know you was an Eng
| lishman. Them's huckleberries
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-03-08

"RHEUMATIsM Discussed is the theme
of an editor. A neighbor suggests that he
drop the first syllable from the last word
and go on with his haranguc,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-05-16
LETTER from New York.

lCorrcsponlencc Of the Alexandra Gazette.
NEW York, May II. I was yesterday taken
to the great horse car building establishment
of John Stephenson, on 9th street. near 4th
Avenue, and had my eyes opened to the m
mcnse business he was doing in building horse
cars for every part of the unitcd States, and he
il going to make those wanted for the Alexandria
Railway Company. In addition to building
cars tor the United States he has immense or
dcrs from all parts OF the world; | saw cars
building there for London, and am told that
orders can be filled quicker here tflan III Blrnl-
ingham: that is an order can be given at the
same time both to New York and Birmingham,
and that those from New York are first on the
track They are building cars for bucnos Ayrrs
and Moutcvideu, Jamaica, for Porto Rlco, for
Havana. and for everywhere, in fact. They
turn out $50 cars per annum, or one and hall
cars per day and employ 800 hands.
I went last night to Slrinway Hall to hear the
celebrated lecturer, J. Is. Cough. 1t was Il
rich treat; he is great orator: his subject
was peculiar People, and his descriptions
we're exceedingly amusing and Instructive
His taking off Of the various characters
this world is loaded down with. | would
not even pretend to describe. This man has
done great good, and the world has been
made better by his coming into it. lie an
pounccd that this closed his lectures, 1000 since
his commencement, twentycght years ago,
and was his last in New York this season.
learn that Mr.. S. S. Cox will be, probably,
the successor of the late Mr. Brooks IN the
43d Congress. hope it may be so; such men
are valuable, if their politics don't suit every
bndv POTOMAC
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-05-16

A dispatch from Vienna. dated yesterday,
says:-"The stormy weather which has pre-
vailed for week past eliminated yesterday in
a gale of extraordinary violence. In the after
noon the gale of wind broke the glass of the
western front Of the exhibition building, and
some visitors were struck by the falling frag-
ments and injured. Torrents Of rain poured
through the openings, and a large quantity of
goods were damaged The number Of visitors
for the past few days has been small and is de-
crcasing. Those that come are mostly foreign
crs, but few Viennese are seen. The protracted
panic on the Bourse Gisheartens the citizens. !"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-05-16

The Petersburg Appeal speaking of the
number of gentlemen who have been named as
candidates for the State offices at the ensuing
clectinu says:-'The fecundity Of the press
and people of Virginia 10 suggestions of sulta-
bic persons to occupy the position ofcandldates
for Governor, Lieutenant Governor and Attor-
ney, General in the coming canvass, is really
surprising. If,hs thing is continued as it has
commenced, We arc satisfied that every man
in the State, who has once in his life address
ed the assembled sovereigns at a cross-road
meeting, or whose fame has reached beyond
the confines of his township or county, will be
mentioned in the papers as a suitable person
for one of the three positions on the ticket.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-05-16
VIRGINIA N EWS.

During the war Mr. John T. Scawell, Of
Gloucester county, buried large lot Of silver
to prevent its falling into the hands of the
Federals Some persons found the buried treas
ure, and, unearthing it, divided it among them
selves. Recently MIR. Johu S. Brown, who
now lives with Mr.. Seawell, while walking
through the woods, perceived something shin
ing in the leaves, and found part of the sill
yer, about one-third Of the original amount
buried.
The Town Council. of Harrisonburg, at a
called meeting on Wednesday afternoon last,
unanimously adopted an Ordinance providing
for taking the sense of the voters of the Cor
poration on the question of subscribing an add
ditional amount of $25, 900 to the capital stock
of the w. c. 4 St. Louis Narrow Gauge Rail
road
The will of the late Dorilas Martz, Of Rock
ingham has been set aside by jury, the
heirs being dissatisfied with its provisions. The
Register says: This is believed to be the first
case ever tried in this county in which will
made by sane man was ever set aside. The
executor has taken the case to higher Court. !"
The heavy freshet in the Rappahannock has
enabled some families in Fredericksburg to lay
In enough drift wood to serve them for fuel for
the summer.
The tobacco plants in the upper part Of
Spotsylvania arc reported to be abundant and
looking we'll.
The Prince William Circuit Court, Judge
Keith presiding, adjourned on "Wednesday.
THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION.
The Southern Baptist Convention, which as
sembled last Thursday at Mobile, Alabama,
was largely attended by delegates from the diff
ferent Baptist churches in the South Rev.
DR.. j. P. Boyce, of South Carolina, presided
over the body. On Friday the convention dis
cussed the subject of the removal of the South
ern Baptist Theological Seminary from Green
vile, South Carolina, to Louisville, Kentucky,
and resolutions we're adopted approving the
action of the board Of trustees in locating the
seminary at Louisville when a sufficient endow-
ment of at least 100000 should be raised,
$500, 900 of that amount to be raised In the
State Of Kentucky and the remainder in other
States, coupled with another condition, that
the convention recommend the board to raise
100000 outside of Kentucky, to be used for
the location and endowment Of the seminary
elsewhere, If Kentucky did not raise $500, 200.
The report on domestic missions showed
that the board had employed last year fifty
nine domestic and twenty-seven Indian mis-
sionaries, and that the several States which do
their own work, but report through the board,
have sixty-6ve additional missionaries, making
one hundred and 6fty-one in all. Add to this
number the missionaries of the State boards
of Virginia, Maryland, Missouri, North Caro-
lima and South Carclina-none OF whom have
renorted their work to the general board, al
tbouph thew each have more missionaries than
the States that have reported. Virginia has
nearly fifty State missionaries. The Baptists
of the South sustained last year at least three
hundred home missionaries.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-05-16

Speaking of the condition Of affairs in the
State Of Louisiana, the Richmond Enquirer
says, that in the State there arc more than one
million acres less in cultivation than in 1860;
the debt of the State has Increased twelve mil
lions since the war; the debt Of the city of
New Orleans is nearly twice as much as that of
the State was in 1861 the white population
has decreased more within the past year than
it had increased 10 the preceding twelve prop
erty has deprecated fifty per cent; the State
tax has increased five hundred per cent;
anarchy and bloodshed are rife within her Dor
ders; the worst class of the population hold
fraudulcntly executive and legislative control
OF the State.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-05-16

Gov. Walker, of Virginia, presided over the
St. Louis conference yesterday. A series of
resolutions was submitted in favor of the
completion of the James river and Kanawha
canal, the Atlantic and Great Western canal,
and the St. Crox and Wisconsin river improve
ment also a resolution in favor of the Niagara
ship canal Resolutions were then passed urg-
log these and other subjects presented during
the conference upon the attention Of Congress.
Gov Walker made speech urging the neces-
>ity of cheap transportation and the improve
ment Of present water routes, and especially
the completion Of the James river and kauaw-
ha canal
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-05-16

A dispatch from Halifax, n S., last night
suys.-A gentleman who has returned from the
burning colliery says relays Of men have been
at work since yesterday, filling mp the slopes
and air. shafts with clay. The fire still burns
6crcely as ever. He went within few feet Of
the shaft from which the blue sulphurous flames
were ascending twenty or thirty feet The
roar from the burning mine was something ter
rifle. Dense volumes Of smoke continue to as.
ccnd from several air-shafts.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-05-16
SAILED.

Steamship + Knight, New York, by Hoo.
Sc Johnston.
Steamer Chariot Vanderbilt. Baltimore bv
IIooo u Johnston.
Steamer Wnwaset, Curr"nan, by Potomac
Ferry Go.
Schrs Fred Gray Boston; Fra, AlIyn'> Pr.
Hattie Butler, MiddicLowri, and Sarah Cullen
New Haven, by American Coni Co.
Schr Althca, Boston, by Hampshire and Bal
tilnore Coal Co.
Schr Jane Emson, Port M0rri- to.J p A cnrw
Schr Victoria Baltimore, by Snoot & Perry
MEMORANDA.
Schr H g Mcfarland, hence q: Boston 18th
Schr Julien Nelson, hence ut Providence 18th
Schr Charley Woo!scy, for this port, cleared
ut New Haven 18th.
nchr Wellington, hence. Mt New Haven 18th
Schrs } K Halla4ay and Mcnuwa, hence, At
New Yo-k 18th
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-05-16
lCOMMuNICATED

SDhMUNlCAI led.
I regret to see the Ladies' Mount Vernon
Association the subject of such unfair cxac-
tons, and their regent so mallgned. pre-
sumo the matter to be this: that the party
prefering the charges desires to make use of the
facilities offered by the wharf at Mount Vernon
as means of entry and cgrcss for ncighborhood
purposes This cannot be expected from the
regent, or the Association, for the trouble and
annoyance of havinga county road through the
grounds would not be tolerated by a single citi-
zen of this county or country, as any one will
readily see who has private road through his
place, open to friends even. Roads cut up,
gates left open and broken, grass run over,
bridges broken, property injured privacy de-
stroyed, and the like, is not expected to be
borne by any individual or corporation.
would mention in the same conuexion, that
if the chartered privileges already granted by
the State are insufficient to give the Asso-
citation entire control over their purchase,
they should demand further of the next
Legislature, and if they have justice meet
ed out to them, and | have no doubt of it,
they will get all they want. The action of the
committee in refusing to entertain the charges,
for moment, against the regent, is what might
have been expected, as they arc new and un-
heard of in this community. B.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-05-16

a correspondent of the London Times shows,
by reference to the agricultural returns from
the United Kingdom, that the acreage Of land
in cereals is much less there than last year, and
that the bad condition Of the ground from ex-
ccssivo rains threatens short crop. He esti-
mates that more than one-half of the grain
needed for consumption 10 the Kingdom must
come from foreign sources
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-05-16

Littells Living Age, for this week, has been
received, containing its usual variety of inter-
estirg selections from the foreign magazines
The subscription price Of this Ga page weekly
magazine is SIS year, or for $40 any one of
the American 81 magazines is sent with The
Living Age for year Littell Il Gay, Boston,
Publishers
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-05-16

1t is said in the London Globe that st.
Pauls and ST. Georges Islands, belonging to
the Aleu,ian chain, have been leased to the
Alaska Commercial Company for seal fishing
at a yearly rental of $50, 900. A tax of nearly
So on each fur seal skin taken and shipped
from the islands is also imposed. As 100000
skins are exported yearly now TO San francisco
and New York, fruitful source of revenue Is
obtained from these two rocks.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-05-16
ALEXANDRIA,, VA.
FRIDAY, MAY 1G, 1873.

Mr.. Montgomery Blair states that nc wrote
70 Chief Justice Chase 10 reference to the
claims set up for MIR. Seward IN MIR. Z. +.
Adamss Grafton as being the controlling spirit
Of Lincoln 5 administration. The Chief JUS
,ice wrote that he did not think Mr.. Lincoln S
character called for any relutation of Mr.
Adams's assertions Before Mr.. Chase $
death conference was held between him and
Mr.. Blair and Mr. Wees, and it was agreed
that statement should be prepared, to be
signed by the three, as members of Mr.. Lin
coins cabinet, stating the true facts IN the
case, which are that Mr.. Lincoln himself con-
trolled his own administration. Before the
letter could be prepared MIR. Chase died. Sena-
tor Cameron concurcs with Mr.. Blair
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-05-16
Sf.HHEfs RESrfsTS.

1ORDAN'S WHITESULPHURS SPRINGS
- Frederick County. Virginia,
Wll be regularly opened on the FIRST DAl
OF JUNE Excursion and through tickets
will be on sale ut reduced rates from Baltimore,
Washington, Alcxandrls and other prominent
points
Pamphlets To be had at the Springs, Coleman
& Rogers, Baltimore, Ebbitt House, Washing
ton, and at Z. S. Lcadhcatcr Il Bros AleAaIt'
dris, Va h.. G.. JORDAN,
my l6-tJcl Owner and Proprctor
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-05-16

We have received the Catalogue Of the oftl.
GERS and students of the University of Virginia
for the session Of lS72-'73. The faculty will
on the 10Th of June make appointments for
State Students for vacant districts. The dis
trict Of Loudoun, Alexandria, Fairfax and
Prince William, will be vacant at tho close OF
the present session; also, the Fauquier and
King George districts.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-05-16

A Geographic dispatch from Philadelphia a
few days ago, announced the killing Of a young
girl named Mary Bracken by a man named
Jerry White. From the Philadelphia papers
we learn that White, after killing the girl, COM
mitted suicide by cutting his own throat with
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-05-16

The New York Bulletin says:-"Of all the
Atlantic States there is not one able to contest
the superior natural advantages of Virginia in
relation TO the widest development Of the con-
tnent towards the West and Southwest.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-05-16

The annual examination Of the cadets at the
Naval Academy at Annapolis commences on
Monday next, and ends on the 10th OF June,
when the diplomas to the graduating class will
be distributed and the exercises at the Aca;'-
envy closed until the first of October next. The
graduating class this year has twcnty-clght
members
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-05-16

The Presbyterian General Assembly, which
met in Baltimore yesterday elected Rev. DR..
Howard Crosby, of New York, Moderator
The sermon of Rev. S. j. Niccos, the retiring
Moderator, was fine effort
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-05-16

1t is not generally understood that, while
letters may be forwarded without additional
postage from one post Office to another at the
request of the paaty addressed who may be
travelling or has removed to another CITY, news
papers cannot thus be transmitted according
to the recent ruling of the Postofice Depart
mont
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-05-16

After the lst of July next letters containing
fractional, or other currency, sent through the
mails to or from the Treasurer Of the United
States may be registered without charge; but
the postage on them must be paid, as on all
other like maiable matter"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-05-16

The fatal result of the late unfortunate duel
in Richmond, mentioned in yesterdays Ga
zettc) has caused much feeling in that city.
Mr.. Mordecai, the deceased, is highly spoken
Of as gentleman of worth and talents.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-05-16

Yesterday morning many Of the members of
the Internal Improvement Conference at St.
Louis, started on an excursion over the Atlantic
and Pacific Railroad to Texas.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-05-16

From the Dist Of the present month the
North German Lloyd steamship line between
Baltimore and Bremen will be Increased to a
weekly departure from each port.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-05-16

Throughout the South generally there seems
to be an expectation that the incoming cotton
crop will be the most valuable ever raised in
the United States.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-05-16
q razor.

The Washington Chronicle says: "A Phil
adclpbia judge has decided that person who
purchases ticket to a threaten and finds no
scat is entitled to q refund of his money. The
same principle should be applied to seats in
railroad and street cars.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-05-16

The destruction of the Church Of the Ascen-
sion, in Baltimore, was caused by the sexton of
the church, burning out a number Of wasps
nests in the ceiling of the church.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-05-16

Gs" FoR MAYoR.-Rcpublican be true T.
yourselves. There are now two parties in the
field, and only two. Hugh Latham represents
one. Who shall represent the other? Shall it
be W. n Berkeley? We say no! He has no
strength Samuel H,iicbower is the winning
man. Rally to his standard and he will win.
my l6-lt UNION.