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The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1874-03-18

THE crusade against whisky continues
in the East and in the West. In New York
city last night several temperance meetings
were held in the churches of various de-
nominations. In Chicago two large tenn
perance meetings were held last night. The
ladies of that city are to have an interview
with the councils on the subject of tenn
perance tonight. In Columbus, Ohio, the
ladies were out on Saturday. Several
groggeries surrendered. The crusaders
continue active work in Dayton, Ohio, but
can induce no saloon-keepers to give up
business. The league have resolved 10
adopt detective system, and will soon at
tempt to establish guards near each bar
room to record the names of customers.
This will be quite as annoying as the street
prayers. Mrs. Thomas, the chief crusader,
has been held to bail for obstructing the
streets and will be tried on Wednesday.
Father Goetz, Catholic priest in Dayton,
preached against the crusaders yesterday.
The saloon keepers of Jacksonville. Ind.
will apply for an injunction to-day to pre-
vent the crusaders from obstructing the
streets. In Hamilton and GAINESVILLE, Ohio,
anti-temperance meetings were held last
night. y-rr Tod.
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Items.

Items.
SOTHERN will pay "Iiord Dundreary''
at the Theatre next week.
THE Kemper Kampaign Klub meets to-
night at No. 915 Bank street.
A BAND of gypsies passed through the
city yesterday en- route to Washington.
o. LoITERISe voice and breath of the spring
Why will we not haste and the yiolets bring
W. ]. ANABLE was tried for felony in
the hustings court yesterday and acquitted.
DAN HIGGINS, who was sent to jail for
a year for an assault, was pardoned yester-
day by the Governor.
THE WHOLE NUMBER of deaths in this
CITY, for the week ending March l4th was
3S-including 10 white and 10 colored peo-
pie. a
THE CITY CANINE.APPREHEND
are preparing their nets for the usual spring
and summer campaign. The dogs with
medals and those without in this city, are
in the ratio of one to ten. When the dog
catchers commence work, they will find q
numerous and healthy swarm of. useless,
NANCY ours, Of all sizes and no particular
breed, on whom to work.
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looked better at this season of the year
than it does at present.

looked better at this season of the year
than it does at present.
The symptoms Of DR.. s. G.. Perrow,
OF Lovingston, Nelson county, who was
stricken with paralysis last week, are de-
cledly better. The Doctor can now use
ore Of his hands, and converses with bis
attendants.
s-On Thursday last the house at Pitt
sylyania Courthouse occupied as DWELL
ing by DR.. Chas. E. Kloeber, was burned.
But little was saved. Loss estimated at
about $40, 900, including $4,000 in curren-
cy and q large amount in solvent bonds.
No insurance.
-Thirty-one immigrants, six families,
one from Ann Arbor, Michigan, and five
from eastern Ohio, arrived in Alexandria
tuesday morning in the charge of Mr..
Freeman, agent for Green q Wise, real
estate agents, on their way to farms they
had bought near Nokesville station, on the
Midland railroad.
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ROLLING THE GRoUND.-A CORES.
pendent of The Germantown Telegraph
writes: ION dry or wet ground the effect
of the roller is found to be salutary. Pillow.
ed and prepared for sowing, dry land is
much helped by the roller. The blades Of
grass spring 10 sooner and retain frmer
hold in the earth. In season of drought,
rolling has saved the crop, when without
it the seed would never have sprung from
the ground. In wet and heavy ground il
is believed the roller, smoothing and
hardening the surface, will leave
the soil Immediately beneath the
surface in better condition to
generate the seed. On grass ground that
has been heaved by the frost, the roller
has an excellent affect in fixing the roots.
Rolling the ground is also good when the
land has been laid down une genly the pre-
vious year. If the land is too dry wait
till just after soaking rain, and it will
work capitally. 1t is q. good idea to roll
plowed sowed ground before narrowing it,
as 1t presses down the .urrows that would
be turned back, and makes the surface
less uneven, and the harrow pulverizes it
much. We find that on an average moi
one farmer in four has roller.''
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Growing Clover--Rcstoring Worn
Land

Growing Clover-RcsfOring Worn
at Land
TO the Editor Of The Stdte journal:
Having frequently heard questions asked
about growing clover, will here submit q
lew suggestions derived from considerable
experience and observations in different
soils in different localities.
Land well plowed and pulverized, any
where. will grow a good crop of clover il
rightly sown.
1t is best sown in the fall, but will do
well sown early in che spring also.
A good fertilizer for clover, so wn broad
cast in the fall or spring to give it an early
start and make it grow fast, is fish guano,
or the Pacific guano. So is lime and ashes.
But best Of all, is plaster Gypsum,
sowed after the weather becomes warm
and dry, in the spring or early summer |;
plaster is great absorbent and holds for
use of the growing plants all the moisture
and gases especially in dry time, it re-
tains the dews and other light moisture, SO
as to be appropriated by the leaves of the
plants with which it comes in contact but
plaster is of use and benefit only on the
surface and to growing vegetation; not in
the ground. like manure, guano, lime and
phosphates.
1t is my opinion that the fish guaho,
made at Norfolk, is the best fertilizer for
clover, to give it quick, rapid growth
Glover. or better still, lucerne, is the best
crop to renovate the WORKOUT lands for
the reasons, that both these plants have
large, deep roots, running down for nour-
lshment, besides pulverizing the ground
deeper than grasses. And then they have
, good deal Of broad, thick. leaves and
Collage, which readily absorb the gases
and moisture that would otherwise escape
With narrow-blade plants; besides, clo-
yer and lucerne furnish large quantity of
taulra and vegetable fertilizers, to be plow-
I'd under to enrich the land, and fit 1t.
admirably, for wheat and other grains
Try it, farmers. PoToMAC,
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This is strong language, but 1t
is true. 1t is no humbug; the recipe is printed
around each bottle. A circular containing
certificates of wonderful cures of rheumatism,
neuralgia, lock-iaw, sprains, swellings, burns,
scads. cakedbreast. poisonous bites. frozen feet,
gout salt-rheum, ear-ache. &C.. and the recipe
Of the Liniment will be sent gratis to any one.
1t is the most wonderful healing and pain-reliev
ing agent the world has ever produced. 1t sells
as no article ever before did sell, and 1t sells be-
cause it does just what 1t pretends to do. One
bottle of the CsNTAuR LININRsr for animals
yellow wrapper) is worth hundred dollars for
spawned, strained or CALLED horses and mules,
and Tor screw-worm In sheep. No family or
stock-owner can afford to be without CFSTAuR
LIsIMEsr. J. B. ROSE b Co., 50 Broadwsv New
York.
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A SENSIBLE mother writing of children's

AsENsIBLE mother writing of children's
clothing says II see many children whose
legs are too much exposed for health or
comfort" tits curious fact that in the
statistics laid by teachers of public and
private schools Of this city before the ladies'
who have recently lectnred on the subject
of dress, it was proved that the children OF
q mission school in the lower part of The
city wore more underwear and were more
comfortably dressed than those of an up
town private school. The wife of the
Scotch and German mechanic, and even
the hard-working Irish washwoman, will
contrive to get hoods, leggings, and mittens
to keep her darlings warm, while poor little
Miss Gentility will be beautifully supplied
with sashes and beads, though shivering
with the cold for want Of proper winter
ng.-Erchange. sE.s.s
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Plain Talk to Temperance Ladies'.


The Louisville Courier-Journal, while
offering its sympathy to any scheme which
will destroy the evils OF intemperance.
thinks that the assault on the liquor sellers,
who are only middle-men, must fail, and
offers the following advice:
"The points of attack, then, lady leaders
in this movement, are very simple: Either
stop the manufacture of intoxicating liquors,
or direct your efforts against the consumer,
and bring the whole weight of your moral
force to bear against the unnatural appe-
tite, which is the root of the whole evil.
Destroy this, and neither distillers nor
dram. sellers will need your further At
tention. Do you ask how this can be &C
complished? We can tell you readily how
it cannot be accomplished. This curse is
not to be removed by declaiming against it
In public and tolerating it in private. Treat
the gentlemen as they treat you measure
them by the standards by which you are
measured by them, and the accessions to
the ranks of temperance will surpass your
most sanguine expectations.
"If a woman is addicted to the exces.
sive use of ardent spirits, are men still
ready to take her to their bosoms with
merely sigh Of pity? No; the sentence
is more stern and severe, and, shall we
add, more just. She is banshed from re-
spectacle society, and her character con.
sidered wrecked. Have you not sufficient
nerve and moral force to exact as high o
standard Of virtue from them? Instead Of
boiling over in public and being lukewarm
in private, boil, if you wish to, hut try the
effect Of freezing. You ladies who are un-
married would acquire sufficient dig
nifty and strength of character to re-
fuse 20 associate with drunkards, even if
they have sober intervals. Let young men
understand that if they love ardent spirits
better than they do you, you consider them
already welded to more alluring mis-.
tress, and are not disposed to become
bigamist. Is this asking too much of you
Then 60 on in your crusade against the
rum-sellers, pour out the walls of wrath
upon the accursed traffic, and compel the
vender to close his 'front.' doors. Then in
the evening rest your head upon the bosom
of his sodden patron, and, while you are
inhaling the sweet fragrance of Bourbon
and lager, let your mind repose under the
consciousness of duty well DONE"
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TN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE
of Virginia.
In the matter-of Ransom Hudgins, bankrupt
lin bankruptcy.
To whom it may Concern 1.-The under.
signed, ]. M. Morton, of Nottoway county
and state OF Virginia. hereby gives
notice OF his appointment as assignee
OF the estate Of Ransom Hudgins. of Nottoway
county in said district, who was to wit !:
on the 10th day Of Jan, a. d., 1874. adjudged a !.
bankrupt upon the petition Of himself by the
District Court of said district. is,esE :
Dated at Burkeville, the LIST day Of March 1874.
49,. J. M. MORTON,
nih i&--iawo" Assignee,
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NEW YORK, March 1S.-The Germans
mad an immense meeting last night at Tur-
ner Hail to take measures to resist the
temperance movement. The Hall was
crowded, hundreds of persons having to
60 away unable to gain adm ttance.
Speeches denunciatory OF the woman's
movement were made. IN" :
CINCINNATI, March 1S.-The German
saloon-keepers of the Seventh, Seventeenth
and Eighteenth wards held meetings TO
complete their protective associations. =
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The spring term of the federal court
for the Western district of Virginia COM
menced yesterday in Lynchburg. The
most important criminal case which will
claim the attention of the court is that OF
John G. Henry, late clerk in Collector
Rives' office, charged with embezzlement.
Mr.. Henry will be defended by Messrs.
kirkpatrick & Blackford and T. N. Will
Jams, esq. @@@ - 20
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MASSACHUSETTS,.
Summers Successor

BOSTON, March 1S.-The contest for
Summers successor is narrowing down,
The principal candidates are now conceded
TO De Messrs. Dawes, Adams, Hoar and
Banks. 1t is thought the Democrats, who
have % votes out of $50, will unite on a
Liberal Republican. NJ INV" I'm
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LOUISIANA.
Steamer burned.

NEW ORLEANS, March 1.-THE
steamboat Southwestern, hence Thursday
for Shreveport, with full list of passen-
gers and five hundred tons of assorted
cargo, was burned at Colfax Sunday morn
ing. The boat and cargo are a total loss.
They are valued at $50, 900, insurance
$4,000; The passengers lost their bag
gage. The officers and crew returned
here by the Marie Louise.
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THE BILL TO PENSION THE OFFICERS

The BILL TO PENSION THE OFFICER
AND SOLDIERS OF THE WAR OF 1872
The following communication, receive,
from Washington, corrects an erroneous
impression as to the authorship Of tn,
above bill, and will be read with interes
by all: nia+1
The Enquirer, in Fridays issue of last
week, in speaking of the bill granting pen.
sions to the soldiers, and widows of deceas-
ed soldiers, of the war of 1912, which re-
Gently passed the House of Representatives,
attributed the passage of the bill to the
efforts of Hon. John T. Harris. Mr..
Harris is an efficient representative, and
doubtless did all in his power for its
success; hut the bill as passed is the same
bill, word for word, offered by the Hon.
y. Amber Smith, Of your district. The
bill reported from the committee fixed
1928 as the time required for the marriage
OF the widow to entitle her to the pension.
The bill offered by Mr.. Smith left the time
blank, and the House, in committee Of the
whole, when the bill was on its passage,
filled the blank by inserting 1850.
1.-THE law as it now stands, or at least
the regulations of the Pension Bureau, re-
quires the soldier or widow to file declara-
tons before clerk Of court of record.
The claimants are generally from seventy
i've to ninety years old, and cannot travel
many miles. Mr.. Smith proposes to
amend the law so as to allow them to
make declarations before notary public
or q justice.
This communication is not written to
take from Mr.. Harris any credit due him,
but to correct the statements as to the au-
thor Of the bill.D go
1.-The gratitude of the old soldiers and
widows will be given to the Hon. J.
Amber Smith for his successful effort in
their behalf" ~ b.
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GREAT Distress from the Famine.

CALCUTTA, March l7.-Tne distress
from the famine in Bengal is increasing.
and many thousands of natives are depend.
ent upon the government for food. In
Tirhoot district 100000 persons, all of
whom were IN an emaciated condition,
have made application for relief within the
last ten days,
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CAsToRIA.-Is more than a substitute
or Castor Oil. 1t is the only cafe article in exis
tence which is sure to regulate the bowels. cure
wind-colic and produce natural sleep. It is
pleasant to take. Children need not cry and
mothers may sleep.
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A HORSE MAKES A RUN ON A BANK
AND STRIKES A DARKROOM. This morn
ing, about six and half o'clock, horse
attached to the butcher wagon of Mr.. John
Lindsay was lett standing in front of the
st. James hotel by his driver, and for
some reason to us unknown, he started off
at full tilt through Twelfth street to Main,
down Main to the Bank Of Commerce, and
instead of entering the bank, which seemed
to be his intention, he bolted down the steps
of George Schoens saloon, situated under
meath the bank. The door being locked he
bursted it in and landed in the base
ment, the wagon he left on the steps.
When found by his owner he was standing
in the saloon waiting to be asked to take
something. His friends thinking that he
had had enough for such an early hour in
the morning prevailed upon him to accom-
pany them out into the street. This be
did by mounting the steps most manfully.
The result of his freak was a slight cut on
the shoulder and few bruises. The
wagon sustained slight fracture, and the
door which his horseship entered so uncer-
ANONYMOUSLY was right much worsted.
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Hurricane at Cairo.

CAIRO, March 18.-A terrible hurri.
cane, accompanied by thunder, lightning.
and rain, passed over this city at 8 o'clock
this morning, causing considerable destruc-
ton of property. No loss OF life is re-
ported.
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WASHINGTON.
Congressional.

WASHINGTON, March 1s.-Ssaate.
Mr.. Frelinghuysen presented a petition
OF citizens of Macon, Ga, for the removal
OF the political disabilities of Thos. Hardy.
Referred to the judiciary committee.
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THE ANTI-TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT
NEWS FROM ABROAD
POLITICS IN ENGLAND
THE FAMINE IN INDIA
NEW YORK.


NEW YORK March 18--Noon.-Stocks
dnii anf weak. Money 3. Gold lie.
exchange, long, 485 !; short, 1884. Gov
ernments strong and active. States quiet
and nominal. i"'''
DeIa"sting Book-Keeper--susp
NEW YORK, March 49, Frederick A.
Bailey, the principal book-keeper Of ,Ba-
deau, Lockwood & Co., importers and
wholesale dealers in fruit, is a defaulter
ana has absconded. The amount of his
deialcation is thought to reach 100000.
Tending an investigation of the books the
nrm have deemed it prudent to suspend.
They claim to be solvent.
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THE WOMAN QUESTION: What did
she have on."-Erchanqe. Ass
The Man Question--s'How much has
she ~
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ANNIvERsAKYP ARADE.-The Carney
Guard paraded to-day to celebrate their
second anniversary and for target practice.
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EGYPT.
Anarchy tn Khiya.

LONDON, March Is. $50 A. MA
special to the Daily News represents that .
anirchy reigns in Khiya.
EAST INDIES
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POLICE CoURT.-The following cases
were disposed of in this court to-day:
Harriet j. Anderson, creating disturb
ance on the street, jailed thirty days. 2
Marcella Smith, trespass, jailed thirty
days. te'
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PERSONAL. Rev. Father O'Kane, pas
tor Of St. Mary's church, in Alexandra,
and Hon. +. M. Lowe, city Judge, of the
same place, are in Richmond.
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CENTAUR LINIMENT.-

CENTAUR LINIMENT.-
The great discovery of the
age. There is no pain which
the CENrAUR LrsrxRNr will no,
relieve. no swelling which it
will not subdue, and no lame
ness which 1t will not cure.
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LIES CHANGEs.--A person Of pleas
ant exterior and genteel address named
Leonidas E. Meyer was introduced to the
police court yesterday by member
of the bar as practicing lawyer, and this
morning was introduced into the same
place by a policeman as practitioner of
the confidence game. He looked very
much depressed in spirits. He represents
that he came originally from Georgia,
and that he had at one time been public
school teacher in Madison county Virgil
mia. He exhibited certificate under
the seal Of the clerk Of the United States
supreme court, dated in 1865, emitting
him to practice in that court. It appeared
that he had gotten one dollar and twenty
five cents from B. T. Williams by false
and specious representations, as well as
other sums from different parties by the
same means. The police Justice sent him
to. Jail for sixty days. Measures will be
taken to ascertain the validity of the SUI
preme court certificate. 1t is certainly
proved fully inconyenient to find ones self
In strange city without money or friends.
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FOREIGN.
SANDWICH ISLANDS.

Election or LunaniIio's Successor.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 1.-THE
steamship Mikado brings intelligence from
Honolulu that Prince Kalakua has been
elected King OF the Sandwich Islands, to
succeed Lunanillo. The elections were
quiet, 3 Fl
Commercial news is unimportant.
ENGLAND.
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The Government and the Reichstaa

BERLIN, March 1.-THE Prussian
Cross Gazette intimates that the Reichstag
will be dissolved If it persists in its refusal
to Tx the ordinary strength Of the army at
400. 900, as demanded by the government.
BERLIN, March ISL. Heinrich Maed-
Ter, the distinguished German astronomer,
is dead. He was 70 wears old.
EGYPT.
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Forthcoming Speech of the ouee

Forthcoming Speech of the Queen.
LONDON, March Is, $50 A. Mt is
said the Queens speech on the assembling
OF Parliament will propose reduction Of
two pence on a pound In the income tax.
Viscount Darlington, Conservative, has
been reelected to Parliament from Eye
Suffolk by 270 majority. Disraeii and Sir
Stafford Nerthcote have been re-ele cted to
Parliament without opposition. .
GERMANY.
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CONvICTs.-The following prisoners
were received at the state prison to-day !:
From Norfolk, Abraham Woodhouse, two
years, forgery; from Wythe. George Cur
tbs Fusch, twelve years, horse stealing and
a grand larceny, and Robert Miller, five
years, felony; from Brunswick, Primus
Jones. three years, house breaking; from
Fredericksburg, Robert Akers, one year,
petit larceny. second offence. The last
was the most painful subject of all.
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THE VIRGINIA OPERA-HoUsE was
crowded last night, to witness the play Of
Robert Emmett" by the Magill Literary
and Dramatic union. The play was
well put upon the boards, and the differ
ent characters admirably represented. The
large audience were most agreeably enter
tanned, and we can in truth say the MagilIs
contain some excellent dramatic talent.
The concluding play Of "Nan, the Good.
for-Nothing," was unexceptionally per.
formed in all its parts, Mrs. Mortimer
O'Brien, as Nan, receiving the most
generous applause. The performance OF
Handy Andy" Monday night. was very
creditable, but the weather being so disa-
greeable the house was small.
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Marine.

Rhein. 0N''
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-12-19

NEXT. "What's tho use Of taking
so much pains about the transit Of
Venus?" 1T tells us the distance of
the SUM-" What's the use of knowing
the distance of the sun? 'It enables
MS to tell its size, the distance of the
liked stars and the velocity of light. -
What's the use Of knowing the volo-
city Of light? slight, heat. magnet
ism, gravitation. thought and life are
ali said to be intimately related, and
the knowledge of tho properties Of
light may be the guiding string which
shall lead us into the profoundest
depths of SCIENCE"
The old United States frigate Con-
stitution is being patched up and re-
juvcnated Mt the Philadelphia navy
yard. She was built in 1894. and has
done good service, but it is doubtful
whether there is anything left of the
old ship except her ribs.
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When Rev. De Witt Tslmage gets
through with his theatrical sensation
he had better turn his attention to a
Nevada Justice, lately appealed to to
issue warrant for the arrest of thrae.
card monte men who had swindled
traveller, but who refused to do so,
saying that the offence came under the
head OF Interpretations of Provi-
dence," and that lie hadn't iurisdio-
tion.