Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-05-30
ALEyA GAZETTE l. VIRGINIA ADVERTISER
EVERY Night !!

town, upon returning home rather late one
evening last week, was regaled by his good
lady with an animated address In something
like this style:
'E.v-e-r.y night Here it is halfpast l
o'clock It's wonder. you came home at all !!
What-do-you- -think-a-Woman is made
for? l do believe if robber was to come and
carry me off you would not care ONE cent.
What is it you say? CITY council business
must be attended to- City council business |
How do know you go to the city council ? Z
They don't meet but once in-New York.
But suppose Bowling Gre. e-u is more
important place. Oh, yes-out every night.
Twelve o'clock-one o'clock-two o'clock.
Here stay with the children, all aIone-lying
awake half of the night waiting for you
Couldn't come home any sooner? Of course
you couldn't if you didn't want to-: But l
know something you think don't,
but l do; that I do. 1 wish l didn't.
Where were you Monday night =? Tell me
that. The marshal told me that the City
Council didn't meet that night; Nov
what have you got to say? "Couldu.t
get a quorum p Well. if you couldn't
why didn't you come home? Out every
night-huntDg Dg-for-a-quorum. Bet you
wouldn't hunt me this way if | was missing.
Where were you Thursday night and Friday
night? There was a show IN town wasn't
there? Do you always put on your best vest
and clean shirt to go to the Council? What
did you buy that bottle of hair-oil for and
hide it? ''Oil for your hone, " indeed Who
ever heard of hair oil for whet-stone? So you
think didn't see you in the other room, brush
ing and greasng your hair, aud looking in the
glass at your pretty self2 "A man ought to
be deccnt!" tie ought, ought he? Yes, in
deed, decent man ought to be, aud decent
man will stay at home with his wife sometimes,
and not be out every night How comes it
that the City Council didn't meet but twice a
month last year? Trying to work it out Of
debit Yes, that's probable-very; laughing,
and joking, and smoking and swapping lies
will work debt off, won't it2 Now-I-want
-to-know-ho w-much--longer you--are
--going-to--kcep- this--nigh ght--business?
Yes, want to know Out every night.
City Council, Freemasons, Red Men, Odd Eel.
lows, shows. hair oi-and it brush and brush
until you We nearly worn out the brush, and
your head, too What is it you say? ut
hclp lps your business to keep up your social re-
Iations!" All, indeed. You've got relations
here at home sir. They need keeping up
some, | think What did you say about
catching it" the other night at a euchre
party? "Fecrs, it's II G clock, but let's play
while longer; we won't catch it any worse
when We get home" A pretty speech for q
d-e-c-e- ut man! ''Catch it!'' Catchi i'll" Well l
intend you shall catch ia little What's that
you say? "IfI wouldu' fret you so, you would
stay at home more!" Well, sir, do you stay
at home few nights and try it. Perhaps the
ircttiug would stop. Out every night be-
cause fret you SO. What's that sir? You
know ladies who amt always scoldiug their
husbaudsl" You do; do you? How come
you to know them2 What business had you
know whether other women fret or not? That's
always the way. You men think that all the
other women are saints but your wives. Oh,
yes-saints, s.a-i-n-t-s. I'll have you to know
sir, that there isn't woman in this town that 8
any more OF saint than am. | know them all,
sir-a heap better than you do. You see
the sugar and honey side Of them, and they
ouly-see- the-honey- --sugar-side-
you. Now, sir, l jest want you to know that
ifyou don't stay at home more than you do,
LII leave these children to get burnt up, and
LII go out every night When poor wo-
man gets desperate, why, sir, she is-desper-
rate, that's all.
RESISTING A New YORK CLAIM TO LANDS
WORTH 500, 1000, 000.- From the New Y York
Sun, May 20 "A letter was received yester-
day afternoon by Mr.. Stewart Newell from MIR.
y. ii. Wheeler, now in Shamokin, Pa, saying
that three houses had been burned IN that
place BY mob, and that an army Of men were
holding the roads to that place. Very serious
trouble is appreheuded. Mr.. Newell's story
M the origin of the outbreak is as follows:
att uooert Morris, of revolutionary memory, pur-
I,,asea nS twenty-five tracts Of land containing
tT,ooo acres of what has proved the richest an
- ;''aoae coa region in the country. The land
n M now valued at over $2O,OOO,0OO. Robert
m'n IlolriS Sold this land to John Nicholson, of
i:h',aoelphla. Nicholson died inestate, and
% ms heirS appointed William Z. Farrand, their
attorney IN tact, to sell and convey these lands.
iiarrand sold to Henry K. Strong, the State Ii
olatlan and member of the Pennsylvania Leg
SS'alure Strong sold to female friend of Mr..
newell. Mr.. Newell now holds the titles as
trustee Tor the heirs of that relative. He con-
44fGyen "a, halt interest in the land to Mr.. 0.
H., neeier, a brother-n-laW to 9. Brain
sT1aSe e., Smith, Of this city, in consideration of
i .it: heelers obtaining possession of the land
when Is held by the Reading Railroad Com
la1y and purchasers from them This railroad
sE'lhls to have bought all the land in question
pneer pn another title, held by George Grant, of
t9uSvllie> and obtained under a Judgment
which Mr.. Newell claims was obtained by
fraud, and which has been so decided by the
Supreme of Pennsylvania, MIR. Wheeler went
on about SIX weeks ago to take possession. and
began to put up houses on the vacant land
hve of the tracts being vacant, while the other
twenty have on them probably forty coeries.
=, This proceeding was of course opposed by
the persons then in possession, and MIR. Wheel
cr sold portions of his interest to MIR. Jordan,
the ex.Secretary of State of Pennsylvania under
Governor Geary, to Judge Maynard and to
others, in order to obtain means to prosecute
his claim. May IA he wrote to Mr.. Newell
'hat two house had been erected, but were
Wlltully destroyed by fire while the tenants
were moving in. Other houses had been
erected and the tenants were in possession.
me surveys and leases were made, and suits
l9r the recovery of the other twenty tracts were
already begun '''''S "'A'