Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-12-19
VOL. LXXIN.

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(r0R THE COUNTRY
Published regularly on TUESDAYS, THURS
DAYS and SATURDAYS, at FIVE DOLLARS
PR ANNUM, payable in advance.
VENTRILooUrAL JoKE-A man who plays
practical jokes upon his wife deserves to be
punished, and S!attery, Of Muncy's, was
punished. His wife had dread of cats, and
before retiring at night she always looks care
fully under the bed to see that no stray puss
and no man, or robber intent, are concealed
there. A few nights ago, after Mr.. and Mrs.
Slatterly had retired, Slatterly, who has been
learning ventrioquism. thought he would
amuse himself and scare his wife by gently
yowling and making the sound come from un-
der the bed. Mrs. Satterly instantly sat up and
exclaimed: /.
Josiah, do believe there is cat 10 this
room.
"Oh, nonsense" grun,ed Slatterly; and then
he made the noise again.
IL tell you, Josiah, exclaimed Mrs s., Il
out and drive it away"
"..Oh, 90 to sleep Matilda" said Slatterly.
II don't hear anything. There's no cat
about.
Then Josiah, with his mouth beneath the
covers, uttered louder screech than before.
'Weli, if you won't clear the cat out, you
brute will" said Mrs. Slatterly. r.
So she reached over, picked up Josiab'a
boots and put them on in the bed in order to
protect her feet and ankles from the iniuriated
aoimaL Then she took Slattery's cane apd
stopped down to sweep.it around under the
bed. Just as she did so, j Josiah emitted a fear
iul yell which might have come from cat 10
she last paroxysms of hydrophobia. This
startled Mrs. SIatterIy- 80 that she spraDg back
ward, and'iL doing 80 she stumbled against
the baby 8 cradle, which was overturned, and
she went headforemost against twenty-five
dollar looking glass on the bureau, while the
came few out of her hand and fell with consid-
erably force on Slatterly's head. The screams
of Mrs. Slatterly aroused all the neighborhood
and even brought out the Fire Department, so
that by the time the baby was rescued from the
wreck, and the broken glass picked up, two
engines had streams playing Dpon the house,
and the front door had been burst open by the
police, and the 6remen were engaged ir drag
giug wet hose over the entry carpet and up
the front stairs, just as Slattery came down to
explain things That feline ventriloquism cost
him just ninety dollars for carpets and looking
glasses, and confusion on the head which the
people of Muucy TO this hour believe he re-
ceived in q pugilistic encounter With his WIFE
REDEMPTION OF LAND SOLD FOR TAXES. :
The following two extracts from the revenue
law now 10 force relative to the redemption OF
land sold for taxes will be Of interest to the
public, now that the sales of delinquent lands
are taking place throughout the State:
''The owner of any real estate 80 sold; bis
heirs or assigoees. or any person having right
10 charge such real estate for debt, may re-
deem the same by paying to the purchaser, his
heirs or assignees, vilhiu; two years from the
sale thereof, the amount for which the same
was so sold, and such additional taxes thereon
as may have been paid by the purchaser, ms
heirs or assiguees, with interest on the said
purchase money aod taxes, at the rate OF ten
per centum per aDnum, from the time tnst the
same may have been 80 paid
- 'sWhat is authorized to be paid By the pre-
ceding section may be paid within the said two
years to the clerk of the county or corporation
Whose officer may have sold such real estate}
in any case 10 which the purchaser, his heirs
or assiguees may refuse to receive the same, or
may not reside or cannot be found in the ooun-
ty or corporation. ,,
In cases where land is purchased by the
Commonwealth it may be redeemed by paying
into the treasury the amount tor which such
real estate was so purchased, with such addl-
tioual sums as would bave accrued tor taxes
thereon, if the same had not been purchased
BY the Commonwealth, and interest at the rate
of ten per centum per anDum on the former
amount from the date of the purchase, and on
the additional sums from the fifteenth of De-
cember in the year in which the same would
have so accrued. When real estate so pur-
chased is 80 redeemed, the auditor shall certify
the fact to the proper assessors of the revenue:
When persons are under dlsaDillty, the lano
after such disability be removed.-Lynch0nrg
Tg,ntaa. -. '.'.l :
The New FRENCH MINISTER jean Francois,
Charles Bartholdy, appointed minister OF
France at Washington by President McMahon
10 place of Marquis de Noailles, is the 500 or
an Alsatian Jew, native of HaReoau. 10
Asace, and about forty-fve He was to be
graduated as Bachelor Of Laws when the revo,
lution OF lS4S broke out when he supported
the Republicans. He was vice. president of
the Anue Marie Club, socialist organization,
and in the June riots of ls48 fought desperate
ly ON the barricades. He escaped summary
execution By ruse, saying that Monseigneur
d'Affre, the Archbishop of Paris, had sent
him to purse the wounded. He. was Indicted
for high treason, and transported to oLambessa'
in Africa, for three years In 1851, after the
coup d'etat Of December, he was released by
order of Louis Napoleon. at the request OF has
aged father. Nj. Bartholdy at once became an
ardent Bonapartist, vas employed 10 the M'n.
istry of Justice, then in the Department; OF
Foreign Affairs as translator, and in 1858 was
second secretary of legation at Berio, and 10
two years he went as diplomatic agent to Iurln'
then to Vienna, where he remained until 1854.
In 1865 hs was charged with special mission
to Bazaine in Mexico. Since then he has been
first secretary OF the legation 10 St. Petersburg,
The new minister is one OF the most fsstute
diplomats of Frauce. aud at st. Petersburg vas
on intimate terms with the Gear and bis
family. H... G s.
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