Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-05-04

ept who writes in this style "On the 18th day
of December last, about o'clock p. M, Mrs.
Ward, an old lady living with her SOP, being
in the house alone, was surprised to see corn
stalks, sticks, bark, &c, strike the door-shut-
ter and fall on the floor. She arose, went to
the door, but seeing no one she became alarm
cd aud called her daughter-ln law, who was
seme PAGES from the house in the field, saying
TO her to run there, for an evil spirit was there
or the devil, TO use her own word. Mrs
Ward, on reaching the house and witnessing
the phenomeuon, was so much frightened that
she was immediately seized with an ague. Mr..
Ward, who was some distance from the house
with another mau, at Work, was sent for. Pieces
of wood bark, stalks and light-wood strik-
ing against the door shutter still confined. He
sent for several of his neghbors who witnessed
it through Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, till
Sor9 clock, when it ceased. Pieces of wood
eighteen or twenty inches in length and two
or three inches iu diameter, were brought from
the woods, distance Of 100 yards or more.
NocG placed near the fire for lighting purpos-
ct lor the family, was taken up 10 their pres
ence and spirited to the same door shutter.
MIR. Wards daughter, who was washing the
table ware, had all the teaspoons forced from
her hands by this unseen power and forced to
the same place. A carpenter 8 chisel was found,
which Mr.. Ward says i. not his, and no owner
10 the community can be found. A rumbling
noise on the house top attracted their atten-
ton, and on examination bushel or more of
dirt or earth was found lodged there, which
had the appearance of having been burned 10
the fire. Some of the earth is still on the house.
A large bar plow, weighing fifteen to eighteen
pounds, was seen by some of the family to rise
up and settle on the top of the house.
ABOUT SICK ANIMALS Nearly all sick ami
maIs become SO by improper feeding 10 the first
place. In niue cases out of ten the digestion is
wrong. Charcoal. says the Live Stock Jour
nal, Is the most efficient and rapid corrective.
1t will cure in majority Of cases if properly
administered An example of its use: The
hired man came in with the Intelligence that
one OF the finest cows was very sick, and kind
neighbour proposed the usual drugs and poisons.
HE owner being i'll, and unable to examine the
COW, concluded that the trouble came from
ovrreatiug, aud ordered a teaspoonful of pull
verized charcoal given in water. 1t was mixed
placed iu Junk bottle, the head held upward,
and the water and charcoal poured downward.
lG five minutes improvement was visible, and
10 few hours the animal was in the pasture
quietly eating grass. Another instance OF equal
success occurred with young heiter which had
become badly bloated by eating green apples
after hard wind. The bloat was so sever that
the sides were almost as hard as barrel, The
old remedy, saleratus, was tried for correcting
the acdity. But the attempt to put it down
always caused coughing, and it did little good.
Halfa teaspoouful Of powdered charcoal was
Dext gven, and In few hours all appearance
of boat had gone
Horace Greeley's copy" was continuous
s;rLg Of riddles for the unfortunate compost
tors engaged on the paper Of which he was pro-
prctor-riddes they often solved iu a wav not
exactly conducive to the propouud :r's Sc emit {,
When, in exposing some Congressional mal.
practices Greeley wrote, '"Ts true, It's pity,
and pity It's, tbs true, the familiar quotation
appeared iu the un- -ShakeSpearean eulse' tbs
twn 'tis fifty aud fifty tis, It's five y A leader
upon William H. Seward came forth headed
Richard the Third" When he alluded to
certain electors as ''Freemeu in buckram, the
printer turned them into three meu 10 back
roou' Thee under the circumstances, ,excus-
able drllnqucDcles, were capped oy the painter
Of The tribune bulletins Having received q
notice in the wcl-kuown but ever uulutelligl-
bc hIeroplyphics, intended to Inform the pub
lie that they must seek 'Eulrance in Spruce
Sutti, after SOlUe uOuT Hdlu olo0y ooN SoS
ltaon, the puzzled man Of the brush in sheer
desperation, dashed off in large letters, Ed
tors ou Spree" and posted the extraordinary
announce nent on the front door OF The Tri-
tune office.
GREAslNG WAGONS, &o--Greasing bug
ges wagons and carriages is of more import
auce than some imagine. Many wheel is
ruucd by oiliug too pleutifuly. A well made
wheel will endure constant wear from ten to
twenty years, if care is taken to use the right
kind and proper amount OF oil; but II this mat.
ter is not attended to, the wheel will be used
NJ in FIVE or six years. or 1t may be sooner
Lard should never be used on wagon, for i
will penetrate the hub, and work Its wa5
around the lemons of the spokes and spoil the
wheel. Castor oil is good material for use on
iron axles; lust oil enough should be applied 10
a>piudlc to give it light coating; this is bet
Ter than more, for the surplus put on will work
out at the euds, and be forced by the shoulders
aud nut into the hub, around the outside OF
the boxes To oil the axletre: first wipe the
s!lndIcs clean with cloth wet with turpen-
tue, if it doesn't wipe without it. % buggy
or carriage, wipe and clean off the back and
front ends of the hubs. and then apply very
'ula quantity Of castor oil, or more especially
Prepared lubricator, near the shoulders point.
Literature past and present gives innumera-
bic anecdotes of wretched writer's A fair cor
dependent of George Selwyu, who, while
beading pain in the hand in excuse for writ
log more in cipher than usual, frankly confess.
esshe uever could write. Lady Susans Keck' 8
inability to use pen to good purpose may be
ssccouuted for by the fact that 10 the days of
ler glrlhood it was questionable to write
Ia'uly; it was beneath the dignity of your man
Quality or your man of Wit to write so as to
Ot easily understood. Montague, man of
qaal'y, and man Of wit too, owns to writing
%S,ee'uusly as not to be able to read what he
had written.
=, Lord Eidon told George " the greatest law
VT VT ln England, could neither walk speak, nor
o.; ";ue; This legal fummary was MIR. Bell, a
S;i'pp'e, who had great difficulty in putting his
,usas n INTO speech, and had succeeded in hitting
s,0 soG three different methods, all equally orr
uI,: in,a, Of putting them upon paper one being
tn k,,,t than (xrooE n