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PORT OF ALEXANDRIA, oCTOBEp =
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Schr Flora NJ Crowley, Boston, by Hsmnsb;-o
and Baltimore Coal Co. p'N''e
MEMORANDA.
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Schr Nellie j Densmore, for this por, ssnoi
from Windsor n. s.. 18th. >S'e1
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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-10-03

JOHN CAROLS WIDows--OSE HUNDRED
THOUSAND DOLLARS IN ljIspUTE.-A singular
case came up on Saturday in the Kings County
Supreme Court. Two women claim to be the
widows of one man, whose estate, amounting
to nearly one hundred thousand dollars, they
are low quarreliog over According to one
side Of the story, John Carroll married young
lady In Manchester, England, and they had
four children; then he disappeared from Eng
land, came TO this country, and married another
woman, with whom be lived, at the corner Of
Myrtle avenue and Duficld street, for num-
Der of years. Hi. first wife learning Of his
whereabouts came here in October, 1872, for
the purpose of asserting her rights as his law,
full wife. Carroll became alarmed and returned
to England, leaving the women to settle the
matter. 1t was then announced that Carroll
his nronerty. The court reserved its decision.
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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-10-03

=, T. 4 C. X 4 l. Z 4 a )
More 0: our regular goods that have given 80
much satisfaction in me past. Double waTp5
and cOlcr= durable ,,co
oct ~. L. W 80 hG' w.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-10-03

The schr Jos Baxter. previously repo,,ol
ashore, near Point Judith, is going to pisra.
and Capt Baxter has instructed the wreck, :,
company to strip her and save AL avaiI.hIs y
tects The cargo is insured in the A.lsntir e.
of New I ork. The vessel is on what is Erl,,,
as Old Dsniel Rock and will prove tai vr..:
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-10-03

HYGIENE USE OF TEA--Dr. Adam Smith,
in paper read before the London Society of
Arts, recommends the use of tea in the follow
ing cases: After full meal, when the sys-
tenn is oppressed for the corpulent and the
old for hot climates, and especially for those
who, living there eat freely, or drink milk or
ALCOHOL 10 cases of suspended anmating; for
soldiers who, 10 time of peace, take too much
food in relation to the waste proceeding in the
body; for soldiers and others marching 10 hot
climates, for then, by promoting evaporation
and cooling the body, it prevents in degree
the effects of too much food, as OF too great
heat.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-10-03

JACOB BDHRATS
Has fitted up ut his Restaurant Ne = South
Royal street,
LADIES DINING SALOON,
Up otairs,)
where al the dcicac!cs OF the season can be oO'
tained at AL hours.
His Rcstauran, is to hc cInbcllish"d with beat
tifuly painted platc.gas windows, from '"'
work shop Of Mr.. a. & kcll.
Md~ FRESH OYSTERS served daily IN any
style desired. sep ~"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-10-03

VI ity of T. decree Of the Circuit Court of Alley
andra county, Va, rendered III the sui! Of
Roncns executors W. Roach's devisees, the un-
dersigned, surviving Commissioners, will sell.
III public auction. on SATU RDAi. the lst day
of November, 1873, At - o'clock noon, at the
front door Of the Custom HOUSE, Aleyandria,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-10-03

r AMRS' WOOL SHIRT; and DRAWERS.
IL A fii u"rir jus. opened; some very de-
sirablc, a. No. ~ king stic:t ,.ln
oct Il. L.. MOoD.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-07-04
THE ANCESTORS OF WASHINGTON.

Void Of family pride as he was of tho
ordinary love of appreciation, George Wash
ington neither knew nor protested to know
anything about his ancestry beyond the
family tradition that the progenitor who
brought the name to Ameri ca " came from
one of the northern counties of England"
How much more solicitous than their SUBJ
iect have some of his IbiogS apters been to
trace out for him both an old and an arlsto-
cratic pedigree. L. is now positively hui
initiating to reflect on their waite of time
and labor, for Col. Joseph LemueI Chester,
an American genealogist residing in Eng
land, is the merciless iconoclast of the his
toric figures which the bio4raphers had set
up as the line of Washington's forefSthers.
Col. Chester has irrefutably demonstrated
that Lawrence Washington, Of Brighton,
NOrthamptonshire, bad sons, John
and Lawrence, but they could not
have been the brothers who emigrated
to Virginia about 1867, for John was
knighted, married and had three sons be-
fore 1924. and in 1878 bis widow (who had
been his second wife) made her will. 1t
would be difficult, indeed, to identify this
Sir John with the Mr.. John Washington
who emigrated, and whose viii of 1913
speaks of a deceased first wife and men,
tions a living one. Colonel Chester also
proves incidentally that Lawrence WASH
ington, of Brighton, vas proctor in Brace
nose College, Oxford, in 1924, and that
from 1888 to 1913 he was rector of Purleigb,
| Essex, from which, in the latter year, he
was elected. He probably died in that
neighb9rhoOd without having emigrated to
Virginia. Where, then, are all the pedigree
fabrics of Washington? Are we all to be
transformed into such extreme genealogi-
cal cynics that men will deny the identities
of their own graDdflthers unless they per-
sonally knew them2 Is there any such
thing as absolute truth in history? In the
light of Col. Chester's investigations Clio
appears almost as much demon as q muse
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-07-04
EERTILTZTRS FOR POTATOES.

A correspondent in a recent number Of
the Country Gentleman recommends as a
fertilizer for potatoes the following, viz
One part salt, two parts plaster, three parts
lime, and four parts wood ashes, mixed
together, and one tablespoonful applied to
each hill at the time of planting. On land
tolerably rich with humus or vegetable sub.
stance, ike an old pasture, or boUnd-out
moving lot, the above fertilizer | think
would prove an excellent dressing for pota-
toes, much better than barn-yard manure,
especially il in its raw, green state.
think l shall use some in this wsy this sea-
son by way of experiment on a small piece
of potatoes. But on land such as usi-
ally grow potatoes, viZ:-saudy ioam and
rather lean in humus or vegetable substance
should prefer sSInoherate rbarn-shovelful
of ripe compost in addition to the above
named fertilizer, applied to each hill. COM
posed Of one part green BARNARD manure
and three parts good swamp muck. Ihave
had very excellent luck for number OF
years with this compost in the cultivation
Of potatoes on soil as above described, and
can recommend it. l have used also with
good success all the, ingredients in the above
described fertilizer except the lime, incor-
pors ting them with the compost, and also
applying them to the bill at the time OF
planting, and to the vines, except the salt
during their growing state, it serving not
only to promote their growth, but to keep
the vines green and healthy, and see moth
ing why a little lime mixed in with these
other ingredients shOu d not be equally
beneficial to promote the growth of the Pc
tato plant Germantown Telegraph.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-07-04
HOW LIES ARE CIRCULATED.

A Wandering ImpOsfer on his Trav-
els.
From the Knoxville Press and Herald.
q The following letter from our esteemed
and well known friend, Geo. A. Fam, at
cambridge, with the accompanying circu-
lar, exposes one of the many ways in which
the people of the North are deceive and
humbugged by wandering imposters:
DANDRIDGE, Tenn, July l, 1S73.-ln'
closed you will find circular, one OF the
many falsehoods circulating in the North
ern States. The entire concern is false.
No such man ever lived in this place. 1t
was sent to a gentleman Of this place by
some person in the North, who was wish
ing to know if Dr.. S. Troy ever lived here,
GEORGE a. FAN.
DIR. S. TROY, A MARTYR TO HIS COUNTRY
DR.. Simon Troy is a native of the South.
He lived in cambridge, East Tennessee,
and was member of the Methodist Eplsco-
pal Church for more than thirty years, up
to the inauguration of the late rebellion.
He graduated in the school of Physic, but
soon engaged in merchandising. When
the war began, he had store and other
property, worth in all twenty thousand dol
lars. But choosing to remain true to the
Government of our Fathers, be was soon
''spo.ted" and had all his property taken
and destroyed by plllage AMI fire. lus
store was sacked and burned to the ground.
His wife and FIVE children were driven
from his dwelling and it also was burned
to ashes, with all its contents. He had fled
to save bis life. Nine weeks afterward he
was captured by guerrillas and assaulted
for his life. They disloca'ed and broke bis
right hip, crushed his right knee and injur-
ed his spine. They also broke his
skull, destroyed bis hearing in one ear, and
Injured the Optic Nerve, so thai he is now
almost blind. They tiJslly stamped him
under foot and left him for dead, but in ten
hours he came to again and after nine
months of terri lie suffering on a bed OF
pain, he arose a terrible wreck; half Dear,
nearly Blind, MANNED in Body and Limb,
and has ever since been continually suffer-
ing. In November last, the Ku-Kiux took
him out to hang him, hut after they had
adjusted the batter, two of the number beg
ged for his life, and conveyed him the same
night out of that locality, since which time
he has not seen one ofhis family, and dare
not 90 to them. He asks generous public,
of the happy and prospe Gus North, a little
aid. to enable him to remove and locate bis
family, somewhere in the Free North, be-
fore he becomes entirely and forever, blind
| { Judge A. KINNEY,
Endorsers. Major T. BCFoRD, US. A.
Capt. T. +. Conn, and others
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-07-04

SEEDs-We quote as follows Glover
$500; timothy $4.2564.50; orchard grass
S2.25N2.5O; blue grass S1.50; herds grass
$3.50; German millet $3.50; Missouri mil
let $500; Tennessee millet $3.50; Hun
garian $2.25. "
COTTON YARNs-We quote st lac, l44e,
16!c and 1s!c for 100, 60o, 500 snd 200. T
SHUCK@In demand at $3.50 per 100 De
for hacked, and S1.50 for rough. -i. -
NRAPPM9 PAPER.-We quote small 1t
F0c; medium 75c; double crown 81. al
IRoN.-We quote rs follows: Tennessee
bar 6tc ~ D; Kentucky do sc; Tennessee
band 669c; Kentucky DO. -5fG6ac; Ten
nessee boiler plate sc; boiler heads 9tc;
fire box 1Oc, sheet, common 6fD7c; do
Kentucky 71As4c; DO Tennessee SG9ic.
BARRELs-We quote at 45c. t..-
GLAssWARE--We change our quotations
to suit the card rates as follows: by IL
Sc. rs; 10 by Il $7.25; Toby IA $500; 1Oby
Is 1915; II by IA 1915; II by IL 1915; IL
by Is 1925; II by 20 1925. Discount
401. @ d. '.- -1 /.
F1AsK-The quotations net are IS fol-
lows: Half pint S2.75; pint 1918; quart
$4.75.
CANDIEs-We quote stick candy 16o;
common fancy lie. @
RAIsINs-We quote rs follows: box
95c; box S1.75; whole box $3.25.
CoRDAeE-Jute 15c; grass &c; cotton
SIC. ~ lE &. ..-- -Es- @
PEPPER-We quote at &c. -
SPICE-We quote at 16e.
GINGER We quote at 17c. --.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-07-04
SIMMER BLANKETS FOR HORSES

Rlanketing horses in summer has now
become an acknowledged necessity; and
light blankets are now an important por-
ton of the harness-maker's stock. The
materials used for these are brown and
ble8ched linen, tcrims, flaBnels and light
cotton duck. Muslin sheets are also used,
but these, as well as those made of duck,
are not popular. Linen and flannel are the
favorite goods; they cost more, but are
durable and look well; twillsd braid is
used for binding and joining, and some Of
the finer qualities have mOnograms or the
name of the horse worked on in very mar
row braid of she same shade as the binding.
Scrius is used more as a protection
against flies than for any other purpose,
and being very light and loosely woven,
requi res 10 be well bound and secured at
the seams; d strip of light lesther should
be stitched on under the braid, either on
the back Of the scrims or between il and the
braid; the edge of the scrims must be
turned in so that the outer row Of stitches
will pass through two thicknesses; if this is
not done it will ravel and the bi nd ng come
off.-Cdrridge and Harness JOu TnGl.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-07-04
Potato Fungus.

The monthly report rom the Depart
ment of Agriculture for June contains an
illustrated description Of common fungus
growing on and 10 potatoes and their stems
and roots, which is called perOnospOrd in
fesIdnS. The experiment were made in Abe
hot-house Of Martin Mckenzie, Boston,
Mass, and samples of the tubers planted,
and of affected potatoes raised, were sentt
to the Department in Washington for
microscopic observation. While the parasite
had obtained considerable growth on and
in the tuber, up the stem, and down
iuto the roots of the infested plant, "nei-
ther spores, my celium, nor fruit was
found on the fungus" 1t is important to
know that the seed planted early Rose,)
had the disease upon it. Seed potatoes
with only the microscopic germs of potato
rot upon hem, very naturally, and very
certainly, produce infected plants in the
next generation. The intelligent reader
will see in these facts an explanation
OF true hereditary disease
in our common Irish potato.
Mr.. Taylor, the microscopic, says: "Tbe
stalks and leaves of the unhealthy Early
Rose potato, although presenting to the
naked eye healthy appearance, were
found TO be interpreted with amber-colored
mycelium, peculiar to potato rot. The
only appearance observable to the naked
eye was brown spots on the new tubers,
the skins of which were otherwise smooth
aud transparent. Their fungoid markings
TO an inexperienced eye would not readily
attract attention, as they appear like
small portions OF brown earth"
Many potatoes have fungal growths upon
them without being noticed by persons
buying and using them. Properly cooked,
they are doubtless quite harmless; but no
one should plant potato that has any
parasite on it: for the enemy will outgrow
the pota' 0 cultivated. The same remarks
apply 10 planting any young fruit trees,
such as apple, pear, peach, plum and cherry,
which are affected by fungus or insect, like
the common Gotten aphis on the roots
of our apple aud pear trees. Blight
IS propsgsted on grapevines and roots.
Potato fungi were first discovered in 1916
10y German and Russian Observers-a year
in which potR 0 rot caused famine in Ire
land more calamitOus than any cholera in
that country or any other in Europe. There
is reasoi to believe that parasites which
subsist mainly on plants cultivated by man
as food for himself and his farm stock, are
slowly ut steadily increasing with their
means e subsistence. Since packages of
diseased potatoes with new name, and
big puff, are sent everywhere by mail, the
distribution f the germs Of potato rot is
nasilu II ,lharsinnl-
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-07-04
The Louisiana sugar Crop.

The crop Of sugar in Louisiana for the
past season was los, $50 hogshesds. This
is decrease of 1924 hogsheads on the
yield Of last year, and 36,36l less than
the year preceding, while, compared with
the large crop of 1S61-2-the last raised
with slave labor-it shows falling off
amounting TO $50, 800 hogsheads. The pro-
duct of molasses also shows q decrease of
over 10 per cent. compared with last year.
These figures show the difficulties with
which the sugar culture has to contend
under the system of free labor-one OF the
few temporary disadvantages Of emsncipa-
ton. Were the system of compulsory laoor
to be perpetuated in Brazil ard the Spanish
West Indies, there can be little doubt that
Louisiana-no longer able to compel t'e
colored population to work in the cane
swamps-would have 10 retire from this
branch of cultivation. In Brazil, however,
emancipation is in progress of execution; in
Porto Rico 1t has gone into effect; aud yes
ierday we were informed by cable that the
Spanish Government viii present bill for
the immediate abolition of slavery in Cuba,
and granting the same political privileges
to the Colony as are enjoyed by the people
of Spain. What may be the effect on the
| ChOAAAOuo sugar NAOP VI 1L3O 0hASAA~eSA 49,
tinent and its islands, flowing from this
sweeping change in the labor system on
which nine-tenths Of the crop is dependent,
is most important question, demanding
the most earnest consideration of those i'm
mediately connected with the sugar trade,
The significance of the change to Louisiana
| however, is no enigma. The plantations
of that State will no longer have to con-
pete uneven terms with the unquestion-
able advantages which compulsory labor az
lords to its competitors m this most irk
some of all branches of field labor; and the
advantages the Louisi ana planters possess
| in having the start of other countries in The
management Of emancipated laborers and
in having more intelligent and disciplined
class of negroes, should enabla them TO re-
| cover rapidly much of the ground they
have lost during the last eleven years Il
competing with Cuba and Brazil. Tht
| Louisiana sugar interest has only to hole
on with little patience, for the time of it;
recuperation is coming near.-Ne1o YOrI
| Bulletin.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-07-04
GEnRGIA FLAMING

Georgia has 4 few live men woI king earn
estly TO improve its agriculture. Among their
number is Mayor Huff, of Macon, who has
written an admirable address TO the farm
ers o the State to participate in the grand
exhibition of The State Agricultural Society,
commencing the 9th of October next.
Our agricultural friends will find food for
thought ii the following statements:
"Fifteen years ago, when ] first com
menced The produce business in Macon, my
little orders for grain aud meat seldom went
farther west than the fertile hills of Cher
okee, Georgia, and the narrow valleys in
East Tennessee. | had then to write and
send letters for these supplies aud wait the
return of quotations before buying. l,
with other merchant, purchased there, at
our leisure, all that vas necessary to sup
NV The wants of Middle aud Southwestern
Georgia. Now we send our i'm
mepse orders by Geographic wires to
the rich fields aud broad plains f
Illinois and Missouri; and il, by any
chance or i'll luck, a railroad bridge is
harmed or a transfer boat is sunk and lit
lie bIockA Ie occurs en- route, panic en-
sues and a II eat, bread and hsv famine al
once threatens every man and beast south
of Chattanooga. This is oar misc ably
moor and helpless 5ndItiOn tO-day-ieartul
AMI unreasonable as &c may appear to out
siders. But that annual deficiency Of fifty
millions of bushels Of grain in the four
States Of Georgis, Alabama, Florida sno
Soutb Carolina, commented upon so grave
" by the late Canal Convention in Atlanta
tells the whole story. We have suddenly
awakened. as it were, from deep sLeel
ano discovered the uuwelc ,me fact that We
ore a moor, thrifJless non-prcdhclng, all
consuming, dependent people. Aud Just
sn lorg as the farmers and planters o
GeoTeil pursue their present mad policy o
buying fertilizers to make cotton 10 ou..
corr, bacon and bay VI b and then pay =! n"
ner cent month for money from Aprll U
Ecvemhpr of each year to run this will
schedule, just so long will they be Pitiabl
Llco..rs and borrowers st the doors o
tra.7 CITATION offices and Georgia shaVln
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-07-04
Stock on hAnd..,....

We are indebted to McAhster q Wheless,
Commission merchants, corner Broad and
College streets, for the following cotton
quotations in New York and Liverpool
during the day.
LIVERPOOL, July 8, 1900 Cotton quiet
and steady. Middling uplands Ss685d;
middling Orleans 969d5d. Sales to-day
Il, 600 bales, of which 1000 bales are for
export and speculation. . .
LIVERPOOL, July 3, 5:00.-Cotton qniet
and steady. Middling uplands SaG0sd;
middling Orleans 969bd. Sales to-day
II, 900 bales, of which 1000 bales are for
export and speculation. Sales of American
1850 bales. Cotton to arrive irregular.
New YORK, July 3.-Net receipts
1O,47O bales; exports to Great Britain II ,999
bales; to the continent 1897 bales; stock
DBL 41 haieS. -
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-07-04

shops, provided a worse fate does moi
speedy overtake them.
"The truth is, the whole country has be-
come one common coun ing room and
huge gambling shop What we once did
with the axe and the. hoe, the plowchare
and the reapiDg-hook, we now seek to &C.
complish by strategy and chance, credit
and speculation. And we must, sooner or
later, come back to first principles, or we
must perish. We have too many able
bodied young men in shady places; too
much tape cutting and pin selling, aud too
little cotton chopping aud hay curing; too
many yard sticks thrown around loose on
smooth-top counters, and not enough hoe
handles and plow-stocSs; too many law
books and lager beer. barrels in proportion
to the rail-splittiEg and ditch digging; too
much foolish fas hion and foppery, and not
enough sledge-hammers and saw-horses =
in a word, too much wholesale idle
ness Georgia to-day, buried
in TIE rich bosom of her varied
soil and precious mineral beds,
greater wealth and grander results than can
ever be worked out by canal projects or
Congressional enterprises. And how is it
to be done? Not by dreamy theories and
mythical plans, but in talking corn Instead
Of csnal-in diversifying and developing
our own vast resources-in writing more
about home effort and less about foreign
immigration-ln planting less cotton and
manufacturing more yarns. In this, and
this only, lies the great secret of Georgia
success-sgriculturs as well as financial
and commercial. We are immensely rich
- v,nio Nv in ho
handling of them. What we want is
lUork-honest, hard-fisted, intelligent, we'll
directed toll, labor and application in de-
velopiDg and utilizing what We have here
at home rather han so many spasmodiC
efforts to bring from abroad thai which
we should moi buy. Oar poverty, like our
pride, is the result of misapprehensions and
mistaken ideas of ourselves, of our country
and of each other. The abolition of slave
ry in the South has developed vast world
of sickly, sentimental, lazy, indolent, stupe-
fed, inert and unapt pOpulation-a popula-
ton of young aud middle-sged men, some
of whom have known better days. These
men put on old store clothes, hang around
dirty grogshops and dingy hotels, smoke
cheap segsrs and drink mean whisky, affect
old habits and snte-war style, talk politics 8
little ard curse destiny and free negroes
more, fret and fume over the result of the
late war, write and sign mortgage liens or
their cotton crops before they are planted
pay two per cent. interest on money for nine
months 80 the year, and then promise to
pay annually in the fall more money PEI
acre for commercial manures to scatter
over their lands than some uf them origin
ally cost" 81
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-07-04
GOVERNMENT BONDS.
Government bonds are Jun and without
LOCAL STOCKS AND BONDS

Tennessee bonds are very firm, closing
in New York at 79aa. They are worth
about 70 in this market. 80. -
Comptrollers' warrants are very dull
and in no demand by taxpayers. Dealers
pay 94695 and sell at SO. ,..---.......
All of our local stocks and bonds are
very Gull, and we hear of no transactions
whatever, and quotations are in general
way nominal. For rates we refer to those
given by the Nashville "a Tings Company,
corner Union and Collie. streets.