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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-03-17

The eight soup houses established in New
York by James Gordon Bennett feed abou, {, UUC
applicants day.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-03-17

Cephas Rowe, of Fredericksburg, has been
appointed clerk of the House committee to IN
vestigate the alleged frauds committed In the
Western district of Arkansas.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-03-17

PORT OF ALEXANDRIA, Nj ARCH H. y.
SUN RosE........... 6 MOON EISEs...."...
SUN SETS. y
SAILED.
Steamer New York, Philadelphis, by + a
Reed.
Steamer Pilot Boy, Currioman, by + y Reel.
5 hr Enoch Moore. from Georgetown.
The scEr Il Bateman, which sailed from
this port last week with load Of grain for Bali
more, but ran aground few miles below tae
city, WAS gotten off last night, and this morning
proceeded on her voyage.
MEMORANDA.
Schr Cornelis, for this port, sailed from BsItl-
more 18th.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-03-17

Mrs. Newman, of ST. Mary's county Mary
land lately presented her husband with three
SONS at one birth.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-03-17

COOP ADVICE. The Senate Of Virginia
yesterday, by u vnte OF % to ID, refused to pass
the Petersburg charter over the Governor 5
Veto This settles the question, aud we hope
all angry disputes will cease at once. We sym
pathize with the people of Petersburg 10 their
condition, and also 10 their disappointment;
but at the same time we have no doubt Gov
ernor Kcmpcr was actuated by the highest
motives in exercising the veto power. Let the
people of Petersburg now demaud new reg
stration, which cannot be refused them, and
by vigilance and untiriug energy they will be
able to overcome the Insignificant majority
given to Hughes iu the last election. Lynch.
Republican,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-03-17

Gen. W. B. Franklin is visiting Washington
to use his influence in reopening the Fi,z John
Porter case.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-03-17

New BooKs.-Orauge, Judd & Co., iu
New York, have just published Pretty Mrs.
CASTOR and other stories, by John Esten
Cooke, illustrated with engrayiugs. The book
is highly spoken Of
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-03-17

A POLITICAL SIGN-I 1t is now certain that
substantial victory has fallen to the democrats
10 the New Hampshire election. The repub.
llcau majority Of TWO Thousand Obtained last
year is obliterated, and Governor Weston's
large plurality is made tantamount to an cleo
ton by the choice Of Legislature decidedly
democratic This event the leading republi-
can papers of New England account for by ref
erence to Butlerism, Sanboru contracts, the
moiety system, dcfalcations, scaudaIous ap.
pointments, ILLUSTRATED by many) and the
failure OF Congress to meet the wants of the
people. Ball. Sun.
SENT TO THE PENITENTlARY. Elizabeth
Taliaterro, colored. was sent to the penitentiary
by the Circuit Court of Orange county, last
week, for three years, for administering lauda-
mum. 90 three occasions, in excessive doses. to
child of the Rev Mr.. Camper Agues vii.
llams, also colored, was sent for eight years, on
the charge of numbering her own child 1t was
10 evidence that the child was born slive-was
killed almost Immediately upon its birth and
its remains thrust in fodder shock Fred
Herald
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-03-17

The house 10 which Benjamin IVES: the artist
was born, near Philadelphia, was destroyed by
FIRE yesterday.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-03-17

CONGRESS. The Senate Was not 10 session
yesterday. In the House the usual number OF
Mondays bills and resolutions were Introduced
and referred Among them was bill to re-
form various abuses in the civil service in the
District of Columbia, aud also bill Incorporate
iug the Citizens Mutual Glslight Company of
Washington. Bills were passed making ap-
preparations for Typographical survey of the
Capitol grounds aud for the Improvement of
the mouth Of the Mississippi. An evening
session was held for debate upon the Transpor-
talon bill.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-03-17
Potomac Pearl Hominy Mills.
GEORGE X. HILL e. CO.,
ALEXANDRIA, VA.

PEARL HOMINY AND BREAkF lS1
HUMlNY, IN BBLS., bones,
CASES, &C., sc.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-03-17

HANOVER JUNCTION AND WEST POINT
RAILROAD. There arc evidences of vitality
on the part of New Jersey Company, that
has lately been investing about West Point. 1t
is surmised that they will build the short line
of railroad from Hanover Junction to West
Point, and thus save freight charges on the
ores and GOALS which have been developed in
the country penetrated by the Chesapeake and
Ohio Railroad. The West Point Star says ::
The route will he from Hanover Junction,
through the county of King William, to West
Point, and down York River to the Atlantic
through the capes. The company has pro
cured 3hc re-charterng of the Hanover Juuc-
ton road, and mean business.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-03-17

JAcKsoN's celebrated toast, delivered 10 this
city at Browns Hotel, (uow the Metropolitan, }
was originally The Uniou-lt must be pre-
served - and was aticrward changed to the
present form. But four persons are surviving
who We're present ut the dinner as participants,
which was the Jefferson anniversary gathering
These persons are General Duff Green, now Of
Georgia; DR.. J. VI. Brodhead, Second Comp
lroIlcr OF the Treasury; DR.. J. B Blake Of the
Board of Public Works, and Msjor II. c. Viii
Iiams, of Fairfax county, Va. The late ~ P
Trist, postmaster of Alexandria, was present
as an lovited guest, he being connection Of
Jefferson. = Wash Chronicle
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-03-17
DIED.

DIED.
At Mulberry Grove near Winchester Va,
ON the fifth Of the third month 1914, > ANE 1.
BROWN, in the sixty-third year of her agy
daughter Of the late William A. and MaItn.
Brown, and grand daughter of the late Thomas
Wilson, of Fairfax.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-03-17

The CENTENNIAL. "A large meeting. of
merchants, mechanics, manufacturers and bust
ness men convened liz the Philadelphia cuuocil
chambers, in Independence hail, yesterday, at
noon, the purpose being to aid The United
States Centennial authorities 10 maintaining
the international feature Of the Centennial ex-
hihition, according to the plan prescribed by
Congress 10 the original act of 1871, aud 10
subsequent legislation. The meeting was the
largest ever held in Independence hall
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-03-17

HIGH GRADE FAMILY CORN MEAL
Jar l4-tf
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-03-17

acted upon
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-03-17

THIS Is TO GIVE NOTICE that my wits,
l. MILDRED ARNOLD, left my bed nnd
board on the I'D Of February, and | hereby Tor
warn all persons from trusting her on my nc
count or from harboring her, and wall give
reward o; % " any one who will bring hor 10
me. JOdN ON II,
NH 17lt South Royal street!
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-03-17

arGive me call. Jan o-u
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1874-09-25
FOREIGN.

A dispatch from Constantinople says
the governor of Angara reports $4,000 people
utterly destitute, who will require mainten-
ance throughout the winter.
The London Standard says that the
schleswig- -HoIstein question is assuming a
serious aspect, in consequence of the daily
expulsion of Danish subjects and the hostile
tone OF the German press.
By a railway collision in England,
Sept. IL, twenty persons were killed outright
and fifty were seriously injured. This acci-
dent occurred on the Great Eastern road,
which is supposed to be one of the best man.
aged in the island.
The government had received assur-
ances from its minister in London that there
was now great hopes that the Honduras rail-
road would be finally finished. One section
Of it, from the bridge of Lavinta to Blancas
had been contracted for at e4, 900 per mile.
The great strike of cotton operatives
at Bolton. England, has begun. The strike
stops seventy-four mills 2 @employipg 1900
hands. Forty-eighs mills, employing 1000
hands, continue operations. Subscriptions
for the strikers have been opened by the
trades-unions throughout the manufacturing
districts.
Guatemala advices say that four Eng
Hsh vessels OF war, including the flag ship
Republic, were at San jose The government
had appointed Don Mincent Dardef, of Qua
temala, minister at Washington, to confer with
the United States centenary commissioners as
to how Guatemala best could be represented
at the centennial exposition
Reports from Nicaragua show that
the country was at peace. The Official Gazette
remarks that the moral progress the republic
has made was shown in the orderly way in
which the people celebrated TIE feast of San
Domingo and Santa Anna Hundreds of pri-
.s,te and pubhcreports from the republic show
That it is beginning to enjoy some tranquility.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1874-09-25
Fishing With NitrO-GlxS

Residents of Boston and yi5
been excited by the opS@
VINO lss.s l,-s.. zzs1sf-se, I. = =
Point. Mass, by the exftt
olvcerine. Large numbers
bass have of late appeared
Glades and the waters around q
Point. and it was upon these that
man made his experiments. Hia
attempt was with q small bottle
tro-eIycerine, the explosion OF
under water brought to the
only three or four dead bass.
trial. with an extra charge OF the ey, Lo
sive compound in a can, proved more
destructive. all the fish within circle
of forty yards being shocked by the
concussion aud rising to the surface IN
great numbers. About one hundred
were found to have been instantly KILLED,
and we're captured and sold. Many
of the bass were quite large, one weigh
inc FORTY pounds, while one which was
but slightly shocked-being beyond
the area affected by the explosion
made his escape, and was judged TO
weigh seventy pounds. 1t was estlma-
ted that the dea h of nearly two hum
dred bass resulted from this expert
ment. as many which were killed or
captured with gaffs were so seriously
affected by the shock as to perish: a
careful inspection of the fish killed
showed. in every instance, that the sec
ond or air bladder was rent and nlled
with blood. The fisherman has been
warned against a repetition OF this ex-
pertinent, which is punishable by INES.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1874-09-25
The Longevity of Birds.

Among the feathered creation the
eagle and raven, the swan and parrot,
are each centenarians. An eagle kept
in Vienna died after a confinement of
one hundred and fourteen years, and
on an ancient oak in Shelborne, still
known as the craven tree" the same
pair of ravens are believed to have
fixed their residence for a series of
more than ninety years. Swans upon
the river Thames, about whose age
there can be no mistake, since they are
annually nicked by the Vintner's COM
pany, under whose keeping they have
been for five centuries, have been known
TO survive one hundred and fifty years
and more. The melody of the dying
swan is entirely NEUROLOGICAL. Upon
approach of death the bird quits the
water, sits down upon the bank, lays its
head upon the ground. expands is
wings q trjfe and expires, uttering no
sound. The extreme longevity OF the
parrot is equally authentic. In the ZOO
logical gardens of London there is a
maca8 that was admitted to the tower
in the year 1894. At Versailles, during
the reign of Charles X, there was al
ways hanging q cage in the Gil-de-b9uf
which contained parrot purchased by
the Regent Orleans for the the Duchess
de Berri. There is not collection of
birds in any of the royal aviaries of
Earope that has not its ancient parrot.
The writer purchased a gray African
parrot in 1856, whose residence in Wales
was authenticated for seventy-seven
years. The bird, more wonderful for
variety of speech than for her age,
learning everything and forgetting
nothing, accomplished alikein the Welsh
tongue and the English, born in Africa,
living more than three quarters of
century in Europe, and dying in Amer
ics, might have been alive now but for
heedIessness. In 1867 she had certainly
approached, if she had not reached and
passed, her one hundredth year. Upon
a severe cold night in December of
that year, she was sent from New York
to Washington, and perished by the
way. She was in perfect health, had
never known day of sickness, showed
no deerepitude, enjoyed life to the ut
most, demanded no allowances or con-
cessions on the score of advanced years,
and might, but for an exposure to the
rigor of an unaccustcmed climate, have
been alive to-day
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1874-09-25
The Danger Of Wet Coal.

People who prefer wetting the win
ter's store of coal to lay the duss on
putting it in their cellars, do not, we
believe, generally know that they are
laying up for themselves a store ofSsore
throafs and other evils consequent upon
the practice. But so it is said to be-
Even the fre-damp, which escapes from
coal mines. arises from the slow decom-
position of coal at temperatures but
little above that of the atmosphere, but
under augmented pressure. BY wettlng
a mass of freshly broken coal and hay
inc IL put in a warm cellar, the mass is
heated to such degree that arbureted
and sulphureted hydrogen are given on
for long periods of time and pervade
the whole house. The liability OF wet
coal to mischievous results under such
circnrnstapces man beappreciated from
the circumstance that there are 5eVerai
instances on record of spontaneous com
bustion of wet COAX when slowed INTO
the bunkers or holds of vessels. And
from this cause, doubtless, many MISS
ing coal vessels haveperished.- -Lofaoon
4(o<7ic0L Record.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1874-09-25
The First Steamboat.

At Shepherdstown, in Jefferson coun-
ty, West Virginia, the first steamboat
was built. General Washington and
Governor johnson, of Maryland, we're
the patrons of the enterprise. After
the war they procured together the in
corporation of the Potomac company
by their respective states. And in 1885
Rumsey demonstrated to them on the
Potomac, above Shepherdstown, his
great discovery that a boat could be
propelled by steam up stref9 against
the current. The boiler and machinery
for Rumsey's steamboat were made at
the Catoctin iron furnace, in Frederick
county, then owned by johnson and
some of his brothers. The gentlemen
of the Potomac country then used to go
to the Baltimore (now Berkeley) springs
to drink the waters, and this experiment
of Rumsey's, of steam navigation, was
certified to have been a success by
Washington, Johnson, and other emf
nent men then present. The first steam
boat was propelled on the Potomac ;
the first boiler was made In Frederick
county, twenty years before Fulton per-
fected the idea and applied it on the
Hu1c0p
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1874-09-25
Gossip About Young BOnapnrte.

The feelings of the Bonapartists-
sensitive souls-have been so much hurt
by reports about certain young man
pursuing his studies in this country
that they have published formal state
ment of what they call the facts. The
Young man in question } sometimes
spoken of as young ChiselhursS, some
times Chiselhurst w., sometimes the
Woolwich infant, and appears now to be
officially styled the prince imperial.
The Morning Post, always a sort OF
semi-official organ of the Napoleonists
whether they happen to be consplring
or enjoying the plunder accrulng from
former conspiracies seems to make no
difference to this automatic sheet-was
selected as the medium for giving this
important intelligence to the anxious
world. The prince stands, 1t declares,
eleventh in class of 80 cadets. In ar
tilIery he is fourth, in fortifcation
eighth, in mathematics and mechanics
tenth. and so on, down to twenty first
in chemistry and physics. 1 observe
with pain that in military history he is
only eleventh. Considering that he had
school books adapted expressly for him
in his early youth @Sy obsequieus Duruy
and others, he ought 10 have done bet
ter in that branch. But it is just pos
sibIe that the authorities of the royal
military academy at Woolwich do not
take the Napoleonic views of military
history. The visitor who scans the
long catalogue of French victories cut
into the stone of the arch of triumph
which crowns the Champs Elysees Sin
Paris, cannot but remark some names
which in all military annals but the
French have passed for French defeats.
The day may come when Sedan Will be
added to the list. Gravelotte has al
ready been explained away. However,
you will be delighted to hear that those
best qualified to iudge of the young
mans capacity and progress, both abso-
lutte and relative are entirely satisfied
in every respect. Those best qualified
to Judge must be the priests into whose
hands his mother-perhaps the most
bigoted woman in Europe-early gave
him, together, with such philosophical
students .of practical politics as Pietri
and the virtuous Rouher. Perhaps /
should also include that model of chris
tian peace makers, Mr.. Paul Cassagnac.
People who have seen something of the
Young hope of French Imperialism
speak of him as sustaining with diff
Guilty the hot-house forcing system to
which he is subjected system which
threatens to overtask his body and
mind.-Mr. SpaGlley, in N. Y. Tribune.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1874-09-25
MONKEYS.

The-... co"nee-ing LINK as Household
There are people who like monkeys.
| They it is who must be the true link be.
tween us and monkeys, just as monkeys
make the link between them and lower
animals. In my opinion one must be,
as it were, a semi-siInian to endure the
society or even the sight of monkeys.
L have. as / s9id, no sympathy whatever
with them my dis nifty will not admit
of it. l feel as q staid Castilian might
| feel in company with low comedian
from the Palais Royal. Their grimaces
make me uncomfortable, their half hu-
manity shocks me, their hideous COM
munity of feature with some of my
dearest friends is horrible TO me. A
party of my fellow creatures staring.
with faces expressive of various stages
of idiotic delight, at the antics of the
Gagged monkeys in the geological gar
dens, is to me pitiful and painful spec
tacle it is enough to persuade man
of the truth of Darwlnism. Mr.. Glad
stone, who, not long ago, deplored the
fact that his special duties gave him no
leisure to read Darwin and Wallace, and
to make up his mind upon the doctrine
of evolution, might perhaps now find
time to spend an hour in front of the
ulODhtN- -uOuSt III GllG Z4OOlOElCdA gar
dens. He would, am sure, come away
a strong believer in this fashionable
doctrine. Yet monkeys have many
pleasing qualities some of the species
are very gentle, and capable of con-
siderable affection toward human be-
ings. There is, however, that about
monkeys, in this country at least,
which should effectually stand in the
way of their becoming pets. They
have almost always, every one of them,
the seeds of a fatal consumption, their
lives are nearly always to be measured
by few months, and their antics are
none the fewer that they are racked
every now and then by a dry hectic
cough. Their i'll health depresses them,
bnt nothing can deprive them of their
love of mischief, and this contrast OF
buffoonery and depression is one reason
why a monkey makes one of the most
melancholy Of pets. They are ghastly
humorists, they are drolls in season and
out, their gaiety is like that ascribed
to the Chinese, who laugh to see the
executioner fog or behead a criminal.
A monkeys humor is of kind that l
could never enter into. 1t Is founded
on the doing of mischief. Let man
who does not believe me watch a mon
and compare t6eir. Is
with the cruel tricks the monkey will
put upon them. My own monkey pined
away, and in two months after he came
to me, do what l would, was in the last
stage of consumption. 1t was cold, |
shivery, winter weather. He crouched |
near the fire, feeble and exhausted, look |
ing at me, as sick animals will do, with |
eyes, as if 1 were response |
BILE for his sufferings; but almost to the |
last he would do mischief, pulling a
burning coal on the hearth-rug, or up |
setting cup of tea if it stood within |
reach of him. Notwithstanding his |
he was affectionate. And |
[ was getting reconciled to him when |
he died.-NeaO quarterly Magazine.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1874-09-25
Dancing With a Fat Woman.

The nsM York Herald reporter has
been to &c Fat Woman's Clam Bake, :"
in Pleasant Valley, n. Y, whereat
solid ladies of some three hundred
pounds attempted the light, agile and
graceful dance. He chose the smallest
partner he could find. Unfortunate
man There was band on the music
stand, which played quadrilles without
any dancers for some time, owing TO the
known modesty of the fat people.
Through an unadvised sentiment [ was
induced to dance a waltz with a fat wo-
man, who turned the scale at 1913
pounds. Now, let it be remembered
that the thermometer stood at SO de-
grees, and the floor was highly glazed.
After several bows had been delivered,
/ approached my female Behemoth and
grasped her madly around what was in
tended for waist, but which resembled
much more a sack OF oats. The band
of eight pieces struck up a waltz troll
temps, and in the words of Artemus we
"glode." After the first step or two,
l felt as II L had been swinging kehoe's
clubs for week, and there was a sing
ing in my ears as I vainly strove to glue
myself to the floor. l looked over the
lady's shoulders and saw tears in the
eyes of some of the spectators, while
others were laughing outright at my
predicament. The lady grasped me
tighter, and the drum gave a rattle.
My collar few off, and button was
heard audibly to rattle on the floor like
the sound of a pistol brllet that might
be dropped suddenly. She struggled
money! as we went whirling around
L mean as L went whirling around, for
she was moving with the specific grav-
ity of a lumberyard on wheels-and
suddenly 1 was hurled into space
and lay on a bench, while the lady
dropped into a seat, and her bench shut
itself into a fan, under the terrible
weight of her person. Thus ended my
first and last waltz with a fat woman.
I felt humiliated, and heard her telling
a lady friend shortly after that l didn't
amount to much-I was too light.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1874-09-25
MISCELLANEOUS.

Michael Hays, of treasury safe-bur-
glary fame, has been released on 81, 900 bail.
Edna Dean Proctor has instituted
suit against Francis d. Moulton for libel, lay
ing damages at 100000.
Army officers say that the army is not
large enough for the protection of the from
tiers, and at the same time act as comitatus to
the judicial officers of the south, and in en-
forcing process in extraordinary cases, such as
that of Louisiana.
Complaints are coming from various
sections of the west, and especially from
Pennsylvania, and New York, of the suspen-
sion. or partial suspension, Of mills and man
ufactories for the want of fgater to run. The
trouble is rapidly extending. with prospects of
its becoming general unless rain soon falls
This is not only true of textile manufa. tories,
but Touring mills Also especially at the west,
which are shutting down to an extent that
shippers say they find it difficult to obtain
their needed supplies on this market, and that
they are largely compelled to hold of for fear
of putting mp prices without getting supply.