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The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-02-01
Dated
Certificate.

The undersigned, postmaster at -, State
OF -, ~certifies, UNDER HIS OATH OF OFFICE,
that he Is acquainted with the above guarantors,
and knows them to be men of property and able
to make good their guarantee; and that bidder
and guarantors are above the age of 81 years.
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Bids of $4,000 and uppard must be accom-.
painted BY a certified check, or draft, on some
s~olosnt national bank, equal to 8 per csntum on
the present annual pay on the route; or In case
Of neio ~serufce, not less than 8 per centum Of
one gears pay proposed in bfd.-(Section 1858,
act Of June s, 1871 :
TIL Postmaster must not sign the certificate
until the sum of the bid Is inserted and The bid
and guarantee signed by all the parties, and
dated.
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FOR SALE.
TOR SALE CHEAP,
nny Y nxyO m

T1OR SALE CHEAP, g.
II ON LONG TIME, Eu
one of the BEST FARMS in Fairfax County.
Two.thirds open land, one.third good young
TIMBER, Oak and Pine.
New HOUSE of seven rooms. modern built ;
houses.
This farm contains about SIX HUNDRED
ACRES, and borders the Potomac River nearly
three-fourths OF a mile The soil Is dry loan,
with a few sandy spots adapted especially to
grass corn, tobacco, trucking, and fruit-growing.
1t would make a fine DAIRY FARM.
1t Is located twenty-five miles south of WASH
ington, near a steamboat lauding, and four
miles from q station on the railroad from Wash
ington and Richmond. Good fshing privileges,
and neighborhood pleasant.
PRICE: &l9,0O0. Enquire at
de 20-tf STATE JOURNAL OFFICE.
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TN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNI
i ted states for the East IN District Of Vir-
ginia.
In the matter of Thomas Humphrey Brooke,
bankrupt-.n ba' kruptc
TO WI. IN 1T MAY CONCERN:
The under igDed, Jacob Cohn, of Rich
mond city and State of Virginia, here
by gives office of his appointment as assignee of
the estate of L. H.. Brooke, of Caroline county
in said district, who was, on the 10th day
of december, A. D., 1872, adjudged a bankrupt
on his own petition by the District Court of said
district.
Dated Richmond, Va. Januqry 10. 1873.
JACOB COHN,
ia 13-M3w Assignee.
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TN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNI
L TED STATES for the Eastern District of
Virginia.
In the matter of Henry o. Moss, bank
rupt-in bankruptcy.
TO Whom 1t May Concern-The undersigned,
q. II. Wendlinger, of Richmond, Va, hereby
gives notice of his appointment as assignee Of
the estate OF Henry o. Moss, of Greensville co.
in said district, who was, on the 9Th day OF
lee, A. D., 1872. adjudged a bankrupt on his
own petition by the District Court OF said dis
trict.
Dated Richmond, January 10, ls73.
O. II. WENDLtNdER,
In l9-N9w Assignee.
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Sworn TO and subscribed before me -, for
the - of -, this - day of -, A.
ID. 1877 and in testimony thereof I hereunto
subscribe my name and afix my official seal the
day and ear aforesaid.
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lNSfALLMENs - ORE.
THE ORIGINAL
INSTALLMENT HOUSE,
l4Ss MAIN STREET, RIoBmoSD, VIRGINIA.

I offer for sale the following goods for cash, or
by weekly or monthly payments. For cheap
ness, quality, and variety, secoud to none IN the
market for accommodation, surprising any:
1900 Lithograph and Steel Engrayings; Chro-
Looking Glasses, in great variety Photograph
Frames, large assortment. Frames OF all de-
scripuions made at the shortest notice. A large
stock of Picture and Looking-Glass Mouldings
always on hand, sold cheap, by the foot or man
ufactured. Special contracts made for large
orders and dealers. Clocks, Bibles, Window
Shades, carpets, Rugs, Mating, Oil Cloths,
Walnut Extension Tables, and other goods.
Parties in want of any of the above articles
will consult their own interest by giving me a
call before purchasing elsewhere.
no % '72-3m WILLIAM DAFFRON.
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the mail on route No. -, from ---,
do swear that 1 have the ability pecuniarily to
fulfill my obligation as such bidder; that the
bid is made in good faith, and with the intention
TO enter into contract and perform the : ervice In
case said bid shall be accepted and that the
signatures of the guarantors thereto are genuine,
and that ! believe the said guarantors tn be
~pecuniarily responsible for and able to pay all
damage the United States shall suffer by reason
Of my falling TO perform my obligations as such
bidder.
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AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS,
W A r PL 0 W
EVER TRIUMPHANT; AND THE
CUFF BRACE PLOW,

of all sizes, from one to four horses.
WHEAT DRILLS, very superior; HAIR
ROWS. CULTIVATORS, and all kinds of
FARMING IMPLEMENTS for sale on the
best terms.
Send for circulars.
je 26--d, sw&w9m WATT & GALL.
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OATH REQUIRED BY SECTION 24s OF AN
s, 1872, TO BE AFFIXED TO EA,JH BID
FOR CARRYING THE MAIL, AND T
BE TAKEN BEFORE AN OFFICER
QUALIFIED To ADMINISTER OATHS.
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T4-inyol.
TN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNI.
i TED STATES for the Eastern District Of
Virginia.
In the matter of We Mayo VS.. d. @. Mayo.
bankrupt-in bankruptcy.
To Whom it May , oncern-The undersigned,
VIM. II. Allderdice, of Richmond city Virginia,
hereby gives notice of his appointment as As.
signee OF the estate of ID. g. Mayo, of Rich
mond city in said district; who was on the
9TH day of december, A.. D., 1872, adjudged a
bankrupt upon the petition of WI Mayo, by the
District Court of the United States. for said
district.
Dated Richmond, the 10th day OF January, A.
D., 1878.
VIM. II. ALLDERDIGE.
ia ll-S3w Assignee.
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TN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE N
TIED STATES for the Eastern District of vir-
ginia.
in the matter of P. T. Atkinson, bankrupt
in bankruptcy
To Whom Il May Concern. THE undersigned,
O. II W-ndlinger, of Richmond city, yir-
ginia, hereby gives notice of his appointment as
assignee of the estate of r. 7. Atkinson, of the
county of Henrico, Virginia, In said district, and
who was, to-wtt, on the 18th day Of December,
A. d. 1872, adjudged a bankrupt upon the
petition of himself, by the District Court
Of the United States for said district.
Dated Richmond, January 10, 1873.
q. II. WENDLINGER,
ia l3-M3w Assignee.
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TN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE AZ
i ted States for the Eastern District of Vir-
ginia.
rupt--in bankruptcy.
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:
The undersigned, JAG b Cohn, OF Rich
mond city, Va, hereby gives notice of his
appointment as assignee of the estate of James
T. ~siouldin, of Caroline county, in said district,
who was, on the 10Th day of December, A. D.,
1872, adjudged a bankrupt upon his own petition
by the District court of said district.
Dated Richmond, Va, January 10, 1873.
JACOB COIN,
In la-M9W Assignee.
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THIS is TO GIVE NOTICE-That on the
i 10th day Of Jan'y, 1878, a warrant in bank
ruptcy was issued out of the District Court of
the United States for the Eastern District of
Va, against the estate of John r. Dunton, of
Northampton county and State of Virginia, who
has been adiudged a bankrupt on his W
and the delivery of any properly belonging TO
said bankrupt, to him or for his use, and the
transfer of any property by him. are forbidden
by law /: That a meeting of the creditors of said
bankrupt, to prove their debts, and choose one or
more a~ssignees of his estate. will be held at a
Court of Bankruptcy. to be holden at No. rs
Il. b.. Foster, Esq, Register. on the 4th day of
February, A. d. 1878, at IL O'Clock Nj.
JOHN w. FARRELL,
Deputy Marshal as Messenger.
Ia 22-W1w
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scRIBNER's

A SERIAL STORY BY na. HOLLAND.
VIEW STORY BY SAKE HOLM.
AL ING STORY FkON Il II HABrE.
BRILLIANT ARRAY OF N~ONTRIBTtT, RS.
CLARENCE CuIK ON FURNITURE
AND De- On ALTON.
r. II. ST0DDARD ON AUTHORS.
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TN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE
i UNITEDSTATES for the Eastern Districtof
Virginia.
In the matter of William M. Embrey, bank
rupt-in bankruptcy.
TO Whom it May Concern The undersigned,
Johu S. Fowler, of Alexandria county, Virginia,
hereby gives notice of his appointment as
assignee of the estate of William M. Embrey, of
Stafford county, in said district, who was.
on the 4th day of Deer, A. D.. 1872. adiudged
a bankrupt on his own petition by the District
Court of said district.
Dated Alexandra, January IS, 1875.
JOHN S. FOWLER.
10 2l-Tsw Assignee.
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N THE DISTRICT JOUR- OF THE UNI.
i E STATES for the Eastern District of vir-
ginia.
In the matter Of William @. johnson.
bankrupt-in bankruptcy.
To Whom it May Ooncern-The Undersigned,
Jacon Cohn, of Richmond, in the county
OF Henrico and State of Virginia, hereby gives
notice of his appointment as assignee OF
the estate Of w. g. johnson, of King William
county, in said district, and who was, on
on the 18th day of Deer, A. ID. 1872, adjudged
a bankrupt upon his own petition by the
District Court of the United States for said dis
trict.
Dated Richmond, the 10th day January, 1873.
JACOB COIN,
al3-M3w Assignee.
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ia l3-Msw

TN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNI
Il L STATES for the Eastern District of vir-
ginia.
In the matter of Thomas Dickerson, bankrupt
lin bankruptcy.
At Accomack G. H. Va, this 2sth day of
December, 1872.
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:
Please take notice, that a petition has been
presented to the Hon. John O. Underwood, Judge
Of said District Court in Bankruptcy, by
John Nicely, assignee of the estate of said
bankrupt, TO sell the real estate belonging to
said bankrupt, free from all liens and encum-
brances hereon.
This is to give notice to all persons interested,
that in the terms of said petition, an order has
been issued by the Judge aforesaid, for all per-
sons who may be interested In said estate, to APP
pear before Register ]. L. Waterman, at his office
at Yorktown. on the 10 h day of January
1873, at 10 O'Clock A. NJ, and show cause.
If any you have, why such order should not
be granted. JOHN Nicely,
ia 2-Th2w Assignee.
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THE wIsHING.RING.

HOW 1T BROUGHT GOOD LUCK TO IT'S
OWNERS.
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INSTRUCTIONS TO BIDDERS AND POST
MASTERS:
Containing also conditions to be incor-
porated in the contracts to the ertent the
Department may deem proper.
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STOCK BROKERS'.
LANCASTER & CO.,
STOCK AND EXCHANGE
BANKERS Sc

RICHMOND, VA,
HAVE ON HAND FOR SALE
Virginia Coupons tor payment of taxes
Virginia State Bonds of the various issues
Richmond City Bonds, IS and Is;
Lynchburg City Bonds, endorsed by o. A.
& M. Re-;
Richmond and Danville Railroad Bonds and
Shares
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Bonds and
Shares
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Gold Bonds
Southside Railroad I'd and Sd Mortgage
Bonds;
Virginia and Tennessee I'd Mortgage Bonds
State Bank Stock;
State of Virginia Insurance Company
Stock.
Buy and sell on commission privately or at
auction, all BONDS and STOCKS.
ja24-dlw&w4w
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UNITED STATES MAILS.
VIRGINIA
PosToFFIcE DEPARTMENT, I
WASHINGTON, December /, 1872. !

Bidders should examine carefully the laps,
forms, and Instructions annexed. See
iaws requiring certified check or draft
aoah bids Of $4,000 and uppard.l
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PHRENOLOGY-The Brain and its Func-
tons; Location of the Organs, with directions
for culture and training, end the relations of
Mind and Body described.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1873-01-17
"A sI.v'G UL.fR BEF.V'6'.

On drive with some friends over Pom
fret Hills the other day, we called on sim
gular character--a man who is thirty years
old, who Is deaf dumb and blind. lie was
born deaf and blind. Whether he would
have been dumb or not If he had been
blessed with the sense of hearing 1t is i'm
possible to tell, but his glimmerngs of in
telect are evidently rather feeble. Where
all the avenues of communication but the
sense of touch are closed, If intellect exists
IL will manifest itself, as in the case of
Julius Brace. This man is well developed
physically; is of ordinary height has a
stout, thick neck, looks strong and robust.
And here comes in an interesting fact for
Psychologists and those who make study
of health in connection with diet This man
has never eaten anything but milk has
never tasted water, nor particle of any
food but milk. Thirty years on clear milk,
and with neck like an OK, and apparent
ly muscular system to correspond. Can
we say now that milk Is for babies and
calves only, aud not for strong men? This
man had fun set of strong, double teeth
clear around, and every one of them had
to be pulled out, as he tore his clothes to
pieces with them. As he didn't need them
to chew his milk with, he probably thought
he must make some use of them, az they
were evidently made for something, and
his clothes furnished excellent materials
on which to exercise them. Another pc
culiarty of this strange being is that
through all his life he has chewed rag.
From his infancy his mother has had to
place rag in his mouth as soon as he had
taken his food. | asked her what he would
do if she omitted it. She said he would
give her no peace till she put it back. He
distinguishes strangers from the neghbors,
and those who have visited him before. |
took hold of his hand, and he took il in
both of his, and seemed to be considering,
then passed his hand up the length of my
arm, and then patted his head and chest,
and made singular cultural noise. l ask
ed his mother what these manifestations
indicated. She said that was his way OF
expressing his joy-of showing that he was
pleased. His principal enjoyment seems
TO consist in having his mother get through
with her work and sit down by his side.
He has a swing in the room in which he
spends a good part of his time swinging.
Sometimes, when his mother steps out, he
will lock the door so that she can't gel
back again, which shows thatFhe has some
wit about him, or trckery, at least. He is
always very wakefu at night, aud rouses
his mother out of bed many times a night
She SAYS he has lived thus without a good
nights rest for thirty years, with the ex-
cepton of Saturday and Sunday nights
Every Saturday night he calms down like
lamb, and keeps that night and all the
Sunday, after the strict letter of old "blue
laws" of Connecticut. / don't suppose he
would venture to kiss his mother on that
day. Evidently the spirit of Cotton Math-
err takes possession of him and triumphant
ly rules till Monday mornng.-Letter Il
HdrtfOrd Times.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1873-01-17

ANTIQUITY OF BUcKwHEAT CAKEs.-A
paragraph has been going the rounds of
the press since the buck wheat season was
inaugurated, which claims that this de-
lectable but itching article of diet was
wholly unknown until sometime during
the sixteenth century. In a book pub
lished in the twelfth century, entitled "Ye
delighters of we Break fast Table" the fol-
lowing occurs: aye corne naymed buck
wheate, Upon which ye deere dothe much
love to tede, Us denied to forme cakes of
might've gudeness. Ye boyled Sape of ye
Lynden (maple) Tree dothe much Improve
them. Babe stomaked ones saye that to
eat of these dothe cause them much scratch
ynge, but this fayles 10 stop the eatynge of
theme"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1873-01-17

BEECHER ON THE SNow-A REMARKA-
port a Friday evening discourse from Rev.
Mr.. Beecher, at Plymouth Church, in the
course of which he remarked:
was turning in my mind last evening
thoughts of my early experience, and there
came up particularly train of memories
connected with early sorrows-the loss of
my children. / remember as well to- night
as l did at the time, the night my Oldest
born son died. l remember well the hope
and the fear, and remember the victory
of submission. 1t was the first great sor-
row. ] remember the spirit of prayer that
seemed to fill the whole hemisphere, AS |
went down to the city, for the life of my
ing his soul out of his body did that night.
Before the morning had dawned the child
had found a brighter world. 1t was a
double sorrow, because / had given him
up first and then taken him back again. 1t
was in March, and there came great
storm like that we have been passing
through, and the ground was covered, and
gle, and waded through the snow. / got
out of the carriage and took the little child
in my arms, wading knee-deep beside the
grave, and saw winter down at the very
bottom of it. We lowered the little coffin
in and saw the snowfakes follow il, and
then the earth hid ii from me. If / should
live thousand years | could not help shiv-
arin / nf
to me then as if had not only lost my
child, but had buried him in eternal SHOWS.
1t is very hard for faith or imagination to
break through the physical aspect of things
and find brighter feeling, but from that
day to this l do not suppose there has ever
been a snow that first or last did not come
back to my thoughts that picture and that
experience.
But the preacher went on suggestively to
ask, "When l see him, shall | know him p
in other words:
VIII he be child to me there when
meet him in heaven? Shall 7 find what |
have lostY No, think not, any more than
the farmer finds what he lost when he
sowed the seed. Shall we, when we awak G
in the other life, find our friends lust as we
left them here? trust not | hope not. |
should be unwilling to appear in Zion be-
fore God Just as am here. l think it is
perfectly natural for persons to expect TO
find their friends, although 1t gives great
play to the imagination, so to speak for,
after all, we know but very little about II
in the space of positive knowledge-defi-
mite, actual knowledge; we hear from va
rious sources.
There are those who think they know,
and they tell us of so many things about
the other life, but they strike me like the
phantasmagoria of a magic lantern on "A
screen. do not believe that it yet ap-
pears what we shall be. John said at
dost not yet appear what we shall bet
what the other life Is (; and If he did not
know, If 1t was not clear 10 him who laid
his head on the Redeemer's bosom, how
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1873-01-17
STUMBLING CURES,

Amongst the phenomena of human dis
ease for which the sages of the medical pro-
fession are accustomed to give explana-
lions more ingenious than satisfactory, is
that susceptibility of immediate cure by
severe nervous shock which is sometimes
exhibited by the system racked with acute
pain or disabled by protracted physical dis
order. The common circumstance of
the sudden cessation of pain in an incorri-
gibly aching tooth upon the arrival of the
patient in the dreaded presence of the sur
geon-dentist has some passable adaptation
to the ordinary powers of human appre-
hension in common with the benumbing
effect of extreme terror which is said TO &C.
cur so mercifully in the cases of lesser an
imals when seized by beasts of prey. In
the sensation of overwhelming alright, alb
ruptly precipitated, there is an at least tenn
porary insensibility to local pain; and the
dentists visitor and the hare caught by the
hound are alike anesthetized for the mo-
ment by the congestive climax of NOR
tai fear. Other than specifically nervous"
disorders, however, are often banished al
most magcally, and permanently, too, by
sudden great excitements of the brain, and
in these cases there is frequently room for
physiological curiosity and speculation
not yet wholly answered by the exposi-
tions of medical science. Not long ago, in
Paris, Nine. Lambert, or Lombard, was
atrociously murdered by her maid, a girl
named Panthalvers. The husband of the
slain woman, paralytic who for ten years
had been unable to move or to speak, was
shocked by the horror into an imperfect
immediate power of action and speech, and
presently attained degree of facility in
both, from which his complete .cure ensu-
ed. To draw an illustration from nearer
home: There is, in one of our suburban
cities, the well-knOwn case of lady who,
after years of helpless confinement to her
room and generally to her bed bya COM
plcAtion of obscure diseases for which doc
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1873-01-17
E.NPROJ'R I'OUR FIRMS .s.vD
F.fR.uE.vG.

Every agriculturist, however large or
small the domain which he has TO till, or of
which he has the oversight, ought to resolve
every year to make decided advance in
his farming and in the value and appear
ance of his farm. The idea of merely dig
ging living out of the ground without
any regard to the manner in which it is
done, or the state in which the soil is left
after each successive crop, or the real and
market value of the ground, is beneath an
intelligent being. There is nothing that we
do, or with which we have to do, that is
not susceptible of improvement, and it
should be the ambition of every one, what
ever his business, and not least, of every
one who is engaged in the ancient and hon
orable occupation of farming, to be constant
ly improving upon the past in the work of
the present and the future. Good taste,
duty to society and self-interest, all COM
bine in squirting him on in the march of
progress.
The farms of this country very general
ly, unlike those of old countries which
have been cultivated for centuries, need a
great amount of actual clearing-not the re-
moval of timber, which on the contrary re-
quires cultivation and renewal-but in the
way of removing brush and rubbish of va
rious kinds. The adornment of farms by
the removal of blemishes has been greatly
neglected in the pressing struggle for i'm
mediate returns. But it is not at all I'M
worthy of any farmer to have an eve to the
general appearance of his land and build
ings and fences.
If he has not taste to admire these things
himself land any one who has not should
be ashamed of it), he will find it to his ac-
count, when he comes to sell, to have look
ed after them. No one in buying overlooks
the general aspect of the farm. This strikes
the eye at once, and so affects the price.
Every one, too should have regard to the
claims of good neighborhood, and should
feel it his duty to crafty public taste by
such improvements and adornments as
strike the eyes even of the passers by.
But beneath the surface there is work
to be done constantly, in bringing the soil
and every part of the farm up to a higher
degree of fertility from year to year. 1t
cannot all be done at once, but it should all
be done, and it may be done by devoting
special attention and labor and ex-
pense, now to this portion and now to that
and by degrees going through the whole.
This month of January is the very month
in which to begin the work of improve
ments. The first part of the process is to
have plan which shall reach through the
year and into future years, and just at this
season every farmer has more or less leis-
ure which he can profitably devote to a
general supervision of his farm, study OF
its needs and capabilities, and to system
attic arrangement of the work that is to be
done when the season for more active work
shall open. Nothing is wanting on farms in
general more than system-a settled plan
covering the farm and covering the year.
Now is the time to arrange it, and so begin
the work of universal improvement