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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-07-31
AUCTION SaLES.

TRUSTEES SALE OF VALUABLE REAL
l. ESTATE IN ALEXANDRIA,, VA.-By
virtue of deed of trust from Philip Park and
wife to me, dated February l., 1869, and record:
ed in Lber Z, No. 3, page 1872 one of the land
records of Alexandria County Court, SHALL IN
front of the premises, at II o'clock M, on SA-
TURDAY, the 9th day of August, 1873, proceed
to sell by public auction to the hi ghest bidder, all
that LOT OF GROUND, with the THREE a
STORY BRICK HOUSE thereon, situated III
on the east side Of Fairfax street. between King
and Prince streets, about 63 feet south of King
street, having front on Fairfax street OF l9 feet
inches ard depth Of IS feet more or less. This
prop arty is bounded on the south by q twelve
feet alley, and will be sold subject to the reser.
vation &c mentioned and alluded to in the said
deed OF trust and the deed from Deborah b.
Stab!er to Philip Park, dated February LIST, 1869,
and recorded in Liber 2 page lO1, one of the
land records of Alexandria corporation Court to
which deeds reference is made.
Terms: Eleven hundred dollars in cash; the
residue, unless the said Philip Park, by or be.
fore the said sale directs otherwise shall be upon
a credit of one and two years, secured by the
purchasers bonds, and deed of trust on the
property sold. Cost Of conveyancng to BIZ borne
by the purchaser. PETER WISE,
~ lS-dts Trustee
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IN Alexandria, Va, July 81, 1873
All artisans, builders, mechanics, lumber
dealers and others who have performed work or
furnished materials for the construction OF the
MASONIC BUILDING, on the Market square,
are hereby notified to present to the Building
Committee of Alexandria Washington Lodge
No q, A., F. IL A. NJ, trough their Chair
man. Geo. + French, on or before the 10th day
of August 1878, an accurate account of all mon
les now due them for such work and materials
GEO. Z. FRENCH, Chm,
GEO. R. SHINN,
w. d. STEWART
JNO. A. FIELD,
A. H. SMYTH,
Bulldog. Com. Alex. Wash. Lodge No. o.
jy 81 eot-Al5
WIASHINGTONC CITY, VIRGINIA MID
w LAND s. GREAT SOUTHERN R. r.
Orange, Alexandria and Manassas, and Lynch
burg and Danville R AdT2 Companies consol'
idated.) NOTICE.
Alexandra, Va, July 3lst, 1873.
Holders of FIRST and Third Mortgage Bonds
of the Orange and Alexandria Railroad Com
pany, that matured on 1st May last, are hereby
notified that this Company is now ready 10 OK
change their First Mortgage Seven Per Cent
Gold Bonds upon the terms indicated in Circu-
lars of April 30th and May 18th last. The past
due bonds can be delivered to either of the Trus-
tees under the new mortgage OF the company,
viz: Decatur ii. Miller or Robert Garrett, OF
dria, Va. w. d. MAkBUR1,
iv3l-eo2w Treasurer.
OOLMAN'S ENGLISH MUSTARD and
v CROSSE i BLACK WELLS PICKLES
III '''i' N''N ~ ~ WI. BROoKEs,
iy31 147 King street.
A IEw1vEs' A1Ev1vBs,
50 bbls ALEWIvES HERRING for sale by
iy r. NJ. LAWSON.
NTOSOUITO PAPER-BAGNOLS MOS
M QUITO PAPER just received at
WAKEFIELD & HALLS,
ie24 Corner Prince and Fairfax streets.
VAMPS PHILADELPHIA FRUIT and
u FANCY CAKES received and for sale by
AVERY s. DAVIDSON,
iyl2 ZIG King st., cor. Alfred.
TREsH TOASTED and GROUND COZ
Z FEES-Java and RieI + T Sse y
~ 226 King ST., cor Alfred.
rANTZ SICILY LEMON SUGAR, for
VI making Lemonade; canhoI oe eAeetie"' ioi
SAFE ie 81 81 l4' Ming S''''' W.T. BRooKEs.
DAVIS & MILLERS FLAvORING EN-
IL lNAoi' 'o' sS'' G. G. WIN. RAMSAY,
2s King and St. Asaph streets.
-.
PORCELAIN PRESERVING KETTLES
i and SAUCEPANS, BELL METAL ana
BRASS KEITH Es; full stock at o>,c,
~ Is JAS. +. CARLIN & SONS.
CHEET ZINCI SHEET ZINCl
- Solder, Rabbit Metal, Bar Copper, lron'
Steel, &C. for sale by cows
jy Is JAS F. CARL1N i SONS.
VIRGINIA COUPONS, receivable for taxes,
' for sale at the Banking House OF
w. u. CORSE q CO.,
my Is 81 and So King st.
DUCKLESl BUCKLESl
~ & choice assortment Of fine BUCKLES
for belts just received direct from the importers al
je 10 FERG USON'S HAIR DEPOT.
" HOLE and GROUNDSPICESan and FLA
w VORING EXTRACTS for sale by
GEO. McBURNEY s. SON,
jy2S 166 and ITO King street.
STlCKEY FLY PAPER just received sup
- ply at
jy 10 WAKEFIELD s. HALLS.
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DOTOMAC ACADEMY,

MISS ELIZA G. ADAM will reopen her
INl BOARDING SCHOOL FOR SIX PU-
Pills on WEDNESDAY, September 10 Early
applications are requested that Il class may be
formed engaged in the same studies. For tu!l
information address Miss ELIZA G. ADAM
Alexandria Va y 23-eO2m
, 1873-03-19
LIFE ASSURANCE.

Great as is the value of life assurance, it
is, unfortunately, too much neglected.
The wealthy and well-to-do have general
ly the forethought to provide for their fa-
miles but the strug Ling clerk, who
lives up to his income, and strives to make
his wife, and daughters keep up a genteeL
appearance-who endeavours, fimsy as the
artiice usually is, to make a salary OF one
hundred a-year look like t.oo, and always
fails in the attempt-and poor professional
men and tradesmen, who are obliged, po-
sitiveIy obliged, by the exigencies of their
various callings, to appear richer than they
really are,-these are the people who neg
lect life assurance and these are the pe0-
pie for whom it is more especially n%eedful,
and two whom it proves OF most real adj
vantage. Mechanics and the better sort of
labOurers are usually more provident in
this respect than the class Immediately
above them for they have their clubs and
benefit societies, the whole economy Of
which institutions, imperfect though they
be, have for their end and object the help
ing each other in sickness, and providing
for a decent funeral for a deceased mem
Der, or members wife. Besides, the wives
and children of the artisan class are more
'apt at getting their own living; = and the
sudden misery and restitution which oc-
ours upon the death Of a so called indepen-
dent and respectable clerk or professional
man, seldom happens with them Never
theless, life assurance is as valuable to the
artisan as to the clerk, and we propose
drawing the attention of both to some Of
the advantages offered by the system.
In a disordered state Of society, where
the administration of the law is too feeble
, 1873-03-19

and ineffective to provide perfect safety to
life and property, life assurance, unless
confined to very narrow limits, might be
dangerous; but in a community like ours,
where stern Justice is sure to overtake the
w%rongdoer, and where the laws are res
pected and observed, and the passions and
feelings governed and controlled by con-
siderations of moraiity and the public good,
it is eminently calculated to ensure the
most important benefits. The preiudices
which exist-or rather did exist-against
it, on the ground that it triAes with the
DEGREES of Providence, by sitting a price
upon the solemn event Of death, are with
out the least foundation in reason or good
sense, and hardly deserve serious conside-
ration. These predudices arise from a
want of due deliberation and reflection of
the true principles on which the world is
governed, What infringement of morality
or religion is committed by an individual
who pays a small yearly sum-, that his fa-
miIy may enjoy a humble competence at
his death Is it any presumption towards
his Maker, ifa man endeavours to make an
event, which must inevitably produce
mourning and %unhappiness, fall on his dear
wife and children as lightly as possible?
Can there be any impiety in his looking
forward to his dissolution, and "~setting his
house in ORDER against the day when it
shall arrive ?-or will it be pretended that
he shows less love to those who are near
and dear to him in life by rendering his
death less painful, and taking as it were,
the sting out Of grief? We think not !
Where is the moral distinction between
insuring a ship for a voyage, with a hun
dred souls or board, and i~nsuring the life
Of an individual 2 In either case, the loss
may depend upon equally uncertain and
contingent circumstances the lightnings
of heaven, the pillows of the sea, or the
rocks that sleep beneath it, may destroy
the vessel, and death may be the portion
, 1873-03-19

of every person on board. The event thus
insured against is productive of the most
dreadful consequences, while assurance
upon the life of a single individual contem-
plates a result in which the safety of that
one person only is involved.
Another objection is, that a man may
realize a larger sun by laying by the sur
plus profits of his trade so he may, if he
live to carry out his intentions but he
may die before he has added a years sur
plus to the found whereas, if he insure
his life, he is by so much the richer, in fact,
as soon as he has paid the first premium.
The advantage of the assurance system be-
comes, therefore, at once apparent.
Again, many persons decline to assure
their lives on the ground that they are
young, strong, and healthy, and may live
to amass a sufficiency for the decent main
tenance of their families. A few words
would settle this part of the question.
When any man can guarantee to himself
hea tn, long life, and the power of resisting
temptation, and "the thousand ills that
flesh is heir to-" then, and then only, can
such an argument be available. There is
no time like the present a good should
not be delayed too long. A young man
may bein good health to-day, tomorrow
he may be stricken with disease or death.
Besides, a state of health is an almost in-
dispensAble requisite in life assurance.
ga whitened tongue or a quickened pulse
find no passport to the life Office )" who
shall say how many days the hue of health
shall rest upon the cheek, or how long he
may be free from those dangerous symp-
toms ? A slight cold may be the herald of
consumption ; pain in the abdomen the
%premonitory harbinger.: Of cholera-delay,
therefore, in such a case as this, becomes
almost criminal.
Driven from these strongholds Of OBJ
lection, the last argument of the v%acilla-
tor is that he /" cannot afford it. " If he
, 1873-03-19

ly(as can testify to my sore annoyance), being some
times sold at 3S or As. a cart-load. Though we'll aware
of the nature Of the answer which must be given, l
nevertheless wrote to the Editor of the Agricultural
Gazette on the subject, and here Is the answer IN his
own Words" Cut up the carcases into small pieces
and bury them in good vegetable mould they will
ultimately rot and incorporate with the mould, SO that
YOU will soon have a homogeneous mass OF 1t TOR
p~IOughing under as manure" The hXatlOn OF the
ammonia would ofcourse be greatly promoted by the
addition of a little diluted ulphuric acid to the mould
from time to time. This has lately been stated by
Professor Johnson in answer to a question on the sub
iect. Neither lime nor mari should be added to the
heap, on account, as Solly informs US, of the tendency
to promote the volatilization Ofthe ammonia, In con-
sequence of their attracting to themselves any acid
with which the ammonia might be combined IN the
form of salt and so setting the ammonia free. In
deed, as I believe | have before said, these substances
should on no account be added TO recent manure, solid
or LIQUID, on this same account. Mari may advantage
ously be placed as a covering to an old pen, but 1t may
also with great advantage be used as a coating to land
into which the manure has been plOughed tor some
time. Lime would be better used by itself, or to lands
Astounding in vegetable manure, as before explained.
It should never be brought into contact with guano,
for the same reasons as those which apply to manure.
There is another fertile source of manure in all thick
ly populated countries, on which [ shall not further
dwell, because of the ~prejudices which must attended
it, though it is extensively used not only in China,
where the very laws forbid a waste of it, but even in
France where it is extensively sold in a dry portable
form. More attention is now being paid to it in Eng
land, and really, though the idea is not pleasant, it
may we'll attract attention in a highly taxed country,
since there can be no doubt of the correctness offs
calculation by Liebig, that the value of this material
annually carried to the sea by the rivers OF Great Brit
, 1873-03-19
DEAR SIR,

DEAR SIR,
l have lately been in communication with
Professor Johnston of Edinburgh and Durham, hav-
ing subjected some soils and other matters to analysis
in his laboratories, and with his permission | purpose
to communicate to you the important results of those
analysis, and the deductions and suggestions arising
from them. When [ say that these will be found IN
every particular to corroborate what | have long been
labOuring to inculcate, [ am, in fact, laying claim TO a
very small portion of merit, for, as [ have repeatedly
stated, | have advanced no new principles; | have
ooly sought to apply to our practice principles point
ed out and taught by the most eminent authorities,
and especially Professor Johnston himself. l have
only attempted to perform the duties of a foraging
party whilst the rest of our forces have been en-
plOyed in the camp or f~eld-works. [ have been work
ing for those who had not, [ considered, time to work
in this particular line for themselves. For those who
can and will read Professor Johnston's volume Of
Lectures of some 1000 or 1900 pages attentively,
I pretend to do nothing: everything necessary for their
information will there pass under their view, and, |
doubt not, they have judgment and acuteness enough
TO carry into practice what is applicable to the culture
of our estates. [ suspect, however, that these will
not constitute a majority Of our community. Well
then, to the matter 10 hand. First, | subjected to
the Professors analysis three soils taken from a
strong basin-shaped cane bottom in a leeward pa
IRISH -the first was the surface soil the second about
the level of the bottom of the cane-hole and the
third some eight or ten inches deeper--in fact, the
, 1873-03-19

Ton, I2s.
Morton on Soils, I2s.
Lindley's Theory of observation-disclosures, l2s
Fertilizers, by Cuthbert Johnson-Ridgway, l2s.
Waste Manures, by Hannah, As. Cd.
, 1873-03-19
From the Bow BelJS.)

ESSAYS:
HIsToRICAL, SCIENTIFIC, N DOMESTIC.
, 1873-05-31
NEW YORK.
George Francis Train.-A Curious Law
poillt--Wifo Observation-Disclosures

George Francis Trai1.--A Curious Lnw
poiIt--Wifo Murder--NKiscoll
Local Items.
spectas Ditpatch to Tho Chicago Tribune.
NEW Yong, Mny 80.-Georgo Franois Train
leaves for Europe tomorrow on the Baltic. lIo
has instructed his counsel to institute suits for
damages against the District Attorney, experts,
and Grand Jury that indicted him, and Judge
Train and bis Prlvate Secretary visited tho
Tombs Prison at 10 o'clock tonight and requost-
cd permission Of tho Warden to remain until
were assigned to their old coll for the night.
ITO tho Asaoefated Pressl
NEW YoRK, May 80.-The Sheriff d jury having
% waa discharged f from custody today, 10 'e'' -
The announcement Of the great fire in Dos-
ton causod much oxcitomont in this city. Tho
insurance ofticos woro nearly Ill closed, but soon
tho principal officers Of many woro On h9nd,
Z Ex-hfayor Hail in tho bnitod States Circuit
Court. to-day, argued demurrer taken by him
against tho Indictment charging GoorgoF. Dun
Treasury In this city, Mr. Hall contonding TINT
tho indictment was drawn under tho statute of
1923, which ho claimed WIS repealed by tho Btat-
uto Of 1866. In tho course Of his argument ho
the blunder Of nolerk. It had boon intended to
repeal that part Of the act which related to tho
copyright, but by IN error Of the clerk who drew
tho BILL tho whole act was repealed,
tho aub-Troaaury ia not legally In OK
istenco. Tho District Attorney admitted tho
blundbr had boon mado, but that Attornoy-G Com
only to repeal tho copyright clauses, tha remain-
dor of tho net was still in forco. Decision ia re-
Borvod. Ex-Mayor Hall says there nro nunlbera
of auch cases pending, but none will probably DO
called until the next Congress- meets, when tho
blunlor will be remedied.
George Francis Train, it Is said, will suo tho
city for false imprisonment, claiming el00, 900
damages.
During quarrel last night between John
Burns and his wife, in Brooklyn, the latter WAS
80 severely beaten that she died soon afterWard.
Tho husband was arrested.
, 1873-05-31

Park Board gota $4,000, ovory Alderman goss
$4,000, oxcopt tho Proaldont, who gets Ro, ,600;
tho Assistant Aldermen n1so got s4o00. AL
those magnificent salaries aro III aocorlarco with
tho provisions Of tho late charter gotten ur by
tho ttepublioana in Now York, and adopted by d
Republican Legislature. a.. =.
"A suit in m English Divorce Court is yet ro-
markablo for tho ouriouB lnliHorimination Of thb
several positions Of ifo held by tho parties. Tho
petitioner is gentleman Of largo estato and
magistrate; the Indy from whom ho rocks to bo
sot froo has boon q barmaid and tho oorrospon-
don't was ourato Of the parish in which tho couple
had lived. Thore bolng no dispute rs to the
faotB, TINT tho Clergyman Ind elopod with his
neighborB wtfo, and Ind allowed her to pasa for
hts own, q dissolution Of tho marriage was do
creed, with costs.
An inventor comes upon tho soone, in
dorHod by tho high authority of tho London
Times and Standard, who promsos to place
lights on tho street and In our houses aHhite as
tho moon, md apparently as intonBo ns tho sum-"
In recent experiment mado at London, tho
light thrown upon the street waa estimated at
fully equal to 1000 oandlos. Moreover, it docs
not flicker, tho ourront that PRODUCES It being
unintorruptod. Nor Is this I'LL. The intonao
heat evolved from tho apparatus will produce
chemically pure copper ut tho cost Of tho conl-
morcia article Wilt fossen sodium and potassl-
um to one-lalf tho present price; roluco alun1-
inu1n from s20 d pound to $40; and Bavo four
ffths Of the present oxpenao incurred in
purifying iron orc.
, 1873-05-31

Two laborers were killed yesterday in the told
burned district III Boston.
Ground has been broken for tho erection Of
Al opora house in Joliet, ILL.,, by a jsint stock
oompany-capital$ 100000.
The mercury sank to the freezing point at
Madison, Wis.,, On Thursday uight, but It ia
hoped that no serious damage was done to tho
fruit.
a man namod John Stevenson, from Ohio,
employed on the now Court House at Indianapo-
Es, WINS killed yesterday by falling from tho Soc
md story into the basement.
Vice-p1oBident Wilson Ia In Boston, suffering
from oyerwork. Ills physicians order cesHa-
tion from all labor, and that ho shall sock rest
and relaxation during tho summer.
On Thursday night Andrew Eichenbaum, .
gardener Of Detroit, was kicked to duath by hia
own horse. Ho WAS In the act Of hhrnessing tho
animal, and was atruck Qn the head, fracturing
bis skull. Ho lcayeH o vito and family.
Tho trial Of Col D. III. Nelson, son Of r. A.
=. Nelson, late Supreme Judge Of Tennessee,
Tor Killing don. J. @. Lanton, Of Montgomery, ia
b progress ct Knoxville, Tenn, the jury having
News Of the fro at Doaton produced much of
sensation In Cincinnati yesterday, Large
numbers gathered about the bullotin boards,
Tha dispatches we're read On Change by the
Superintendent, and when the news wan an
nounood Of tho fire being under control, thero
was gonoral applause.
:. At Andrew. jackson CoQpty. Iowa. on Wodnea-
, 1873-05-31

Discovery Of Immense Frnuds-.Fenrs
of I'm Outbreak Among the Tribes Of

Discovery OF Immense Frn1Hds..FenTs
of I'm Outbreak Among the Tribes OF
tho Far West.
lTasaigton talaY 81 DspateMn A. 70 the Beston Gtobe.
tho Conl1nitteo On Indian Affairs Of the House Of
Representatives, on tho subject Of frauds upon
tho Government and Indians by Indian claim
agents, exhibit tho grosBest corruption. Tho
coiyeB considerable prominence, in the report OF
tho Committee, which makeB q searching inyoa.
tigation, oil OF which ia published ut longth: It
will DO sufficient, in thts connection, morally to
give tho nnmming up Of tho report, and, when
the people will DO euablod to form candid and
correct Judgment Of tho corruption whicl,
frequently attonds, tho application Of pub
lic money to tho ~, fulhllmont Of trea-
by Latrobo with the Choctaw aud Chiohasaw
delegates OF 1866 aro published In Tho report and
upon thoso tho Committee express tho following
vieT; -. ..u.o,.. ..,, a....,,,,, ..,,
collugiyoly mado in tho intoroBt OF Latrobe,
Douglass e. Cooper, aud J. r.. Coohrane, who
were to receive ono-half, md tho delegates Of
tho Ohoctawa and ohiekasawe, respectively, WHO
Coohrane, to hayo tho other hall Of all the
moneys and foes provided for un1or the aall
agreement to be paid to latrobo. These parties
have received tlior Hllaros so far as collections
arc Maue. 1AkFuD5 WA6 t11o IblEchbnLht1Vo rus
col Of tho lot, as he waa at that time supposed
to hayo moro character than Cooper or
Cochrane and further, beoause Oochrano
llad another exorbItant contraot with tho
Ohootawa for so por cent Of tloir
net proceeds, the claim thon amounting, with
out interest, to s2,Os0, ,500.85. Tho feo On thIa
amount would hayo been $62A, ,078.25, and il my
intoroat should be allowed OIL any part Of tho
olaim, tho 90 por cent. would atatoh to that
also; and also beoauao Cooper had, while
f1Yitad Efn nrnnt to tim GhnntAWa anil 1hfc1,w
asaws, in 1851, hooomo both a traitor and do
faultor; honce tho use of LatrobeH namo only
az attorney. Latrobe was willing to prostitute
/ his profession. and conclude with bis clients
, 1873-05-31

Tho pana Il.) Gazette HayH thore are more
quails in tic fields this yoar than for long
Tho Philadelphia Press wants us to bolievo
that over 1000 Pennsylvania hotels have boon
closed since tho vote on the license question,
few months ago.
Tho hoaviest brain on record WAS roeontly
found in tho skull OF d London .bricklayer who
could neither read nor write. 1t weighed CT
OUNCES.
AN Engliahman acting aB Superintendent Of
tho harbor dofonHes at San Francisco has raised
a howl Of indignation by diacharging old soldiers
from the worka for speaking irreyerently Of tho
Queen and British Institutions.
Tho Boston Herald declares that THO fro Inst
fall was a profitable affair, and that this years
valuation Of tho land OF the burnt district is
larger than that Of tho aame land and all tho flno
"A lettor from Florence, wl,ero tho monu-
mont to be plncod oyoc the grave Of the Into
James Fisk, Jr,, is being made, says tho work Is
nearly completed, and tho faonument will short
Sign ia an obolsl, 20 feet high, on which will bo
medallion bust of tho decoaeed. At tho cor
ner Of the pedestal will bo four alogorical TO-
mule fgures-C Commerce, tho Drama, tho Rail-
work Is said to DO tho bust OF tho decoased in re-
1ief
Tho Hon. Jamcs Smith, Jr., Of St Paul, has
just returned from q trip to DEVILS Lake and
dams in council, nnd ended In concluding
treaty with them, whereby they surrender $780,
600 acres to tho Government. Tho dovornEnont
had given it in advance to tho Northorn Pacific,
that road. We are not advised Of the oxaot ter
ritory covered by tho treaty. but understand it
lies botweon Fargo and Dismarek.-St. Paus
Dispatch. . -,
vol to tako nothing but small change with
thom, or, at all events. no bill Of larger do
nomination than $5:, Dy, pursuing this co4rae,
H..tA 1s4- -. $ttf1ia a4of