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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-06-06

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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-06-06

BURTS FINE SHOES,
FOB LADIES, MISSES AND CHILDREN,
At WADDEY'S, "a King street.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-08-20
An Educated Chinaman's Ideas

Hong Chin Foo, Chinese exile, who
boa been educated in the United States
has m lectured in Rochester. He said that,
Of nil the people the Chinese came IN
contact with, the Americans were most
liked. While hundreds of young emma
man were sent to this country TO pe
educated not one was ever sent 70 hng,
land or France. The people who came
to this country, as rule, did not prop
srlv represent the Chinese nation. Ihey
we're low and ignorant, and the treat
ment they received here from the lower
classes did not give them any comph-
mentary or truthful character OF the .he
American people. He explained the nj
raason wby American missionaries Ia
boIed under such great disadvantages
in China. He said that the Chinese mao
been taught by Confucius to regara,
nropriety of conduct as OF the ntmos'
Importance. There was but one wa!
for their clothes to be fashioned, ont
wav in which to sit, stand, walk, an
bnt one formula to be observed IN th
duties of life. In this country III
speaker had observed the utmost ire
dom in these regards, and Americai
taxing their habits with them to Chin
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-08-20

"Why, Ned, don't look at me So,
screamed Jennie; "what does IL all
mean? Your portrait, OF course one
of those photographs you had taken
I found the rest after You went away:
Oh, Ned, don't, don't look so, dear?"
"thought you told me she wore an,
other mans PICTURE" said. "Ihat
drove mo away that, and nothing else.
OH, what a wretched fool I've been. !
did not know she had my picture; ana
| might have cast her away !, VINO
loved her so, and have pined for her all
these years. v" en- 49,.
But Jennie, dear Jennie, with her
kind, motherly face and loving woman's
ewes, came close to me, and put her
arms about my neck, and whispered,
"don't despair, Ned. She has never
liked any one else, and | know, Tor Ger,
tain, that she wears your picture still.
Aud those words brought my you'll,
back to me; and the years seemed
blotted ont and [ saw the Ned Brown
who fell in love with Nellie Brodle,
once more.
Well, Jennie told the truth; went &c
see Nellie Brodie, and foun her sweet
and beautiful as ever and we were mar
ried when the spring came aud the brd
beoon to build their nests in the greer
orchard. Afterward, when she had pee,
nv wife for some time, Nellie told me
under those very apple trees how sh
had found my picture one day when n
one saw her, and worn it afterward 10
love of me--worn it and wept over
while | was far away, and trying to fo'
get her-trying, but never sncceeomt
for the love had for Nellie Brodle VIZ
part of my life, and will be, | bellev'
, part of the eternity, where, when deat
sewers lis here, we shall be reunited
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-08-20

that she had been in the business two years,
and has produced several hundred abortions,
and duplicates quite number OF highly re-
spectacle people of the city. 1t had been
her custom to burn all premature births OH
the ground, az she expressed i, that ashes tell
no tales.
Col. Richard Ten Brock, the we'll
known horse owner, was shot at Gilman's
station, KY, last week by Gen. Walter Whit
taker, a lawyer. Whtakert had already killed
two men aud is regarded as desperate char-
acter. 1t will be remembered that Ten Brock
took number of American horses to Eng
land some years since and matched them
against English runners. Ten Broeck is not
dangerously wounded. Whitaker fired -four
shots, the last shot hitting him in the center
of the forehead, and fortunately glancing up
wards cutting through the skin and hair but
not fracturng the skull Ten Broeck's ea
cape is regarded as very extraordinary "hht
taker had an examining trial, and was admit
ted to 80, 500 bail. His attack seems to have
been unprovoked.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-08-20
Scandal.

There ia nothing in social life more
ignobIe and contemptlble than What
Byron calls "the abomiuable tlttle,tat-
tie" of those who delight in circulating
scandal, who gloat over, even whlio
they profess to deplo,e, the details Oh IL
slanderous story, whose very manner OF
deprecatng crcdencc in the tale con
firms the listeners belief in its truth
fulness. How many there are OF these
mischief makers i'll every circle, VINO
know how, with skillful touch, to
hniphteu the tints of a slandcrous rumor
with insiuuations worse than open lles,
! because Jney can no1 pe hio. ~ Gron r
denial by mingling sneers with smlies,
and by pretense OF candor. Ana inc
pity Of it is that they shound hnd sc
many people willing TO listen t"", 90 90
MANY would rather believe evil than
Good of their neighbor. Nothing spreads
like scandal, aud the worse and more
unlikely it is the mere readily 1t OBJ
t,ins circulation and credence. Society
is ouite as much to blame as thc sean
da,.mopgors themselves. II is as meal
aud disgraceiul to listen to sl"hoer I"
to utter one. ,,.
II is n common trick with slanderer'
and scandal. mongers to scatter tllel
vile inventions bro ldcost among th'
community, and then point triumphant
: lv to the wide circulation their Store
l lave obtained as confirmation OF thei
truth. They bespattar a1 1man with mua
I and crv ont upon him for dirty fellow
Calnmniate calumnlate Is tnei
, motto. "some of it will stick. Pel
: hans ii 10 most effective, as we'll as I'll
!, meauest, way of slandcring ~ to 90
c With affected pain and reluctance, as
}, wcll-nigh heart broken ut hearing eV
u things whispered round about man
1t dearly loved and honored. An adept
N tl,;a method of slander can work mum
- mischief. .
OF There is something marvellous IN
a. voy slauder grows as it passes lrt
ne month to mouth, we'll illustrated by u
IS. ihe well known story OF three pia
IL crows. Without intending, perhaps,
a exagoeratc or be untruthtul, each o
OF Who Prepeats the story adds somethl
80 Of his own, and by the time 1t has go
mt the rounds of society it has grown IL
ks a bideous Frankenst lin, monster
no nntruth and malignity. This may
or tested by the game OF "exaggeratlo'I
h' where one whispers story, couched
M as few words as possible, to the pers
ar sitting next him. He repeats 1t III
nt ear of his neighbor, and so on throu
ne a circle of ten or twelve, each one I
fn- ;,,, 10 tnll Tho story lust as he he,
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-08-20
FAMINE IN ASIA MINOR.
Five Thousand starye 10 Death in VI
District.

DhStfIC's
Rev DIR, Clark of the American Board
of Foreign Missions has received let,
ter from the Rev. J. o. Barrows, of
Cesarea, dated July 10, in which he
gives some thrilling details OF the ter
rible famine now prevailing in that re-
gion. Mr.. Barrows writes
While a, Yodegat, which is eighty or
ninety miles north OF us noticed raw
ages of the famine, which is very Sc
we're. and also bcNold aud toward An
goria, many villages are entirely de
serted In some only one or two, three
or four families, on parts ot iAm'lies'
remain. In the district OF Snngarte,
which is beyond Yodegat, and IN whlch
CITY there Is a Pro estant church, as
many as s, 900 persons have died OF star
walton. But the horrors of t is famine
are indescrihable. Many people have
subssted ON grass for weeks and then
died. BpggNrs have locked to the
cities and there many OF them nave
died because they could not get NOR
sci of bread. Old men, mothers viii
babes nj TIN il breasts, young children
bows and girls, are all half naked, beg
ging and crying. Dying bodies hav
lain in the streets one, two, and ever
three or four days, before burinl, an'
the dogs have feasted on them. Man
of our Protestant communities Nn'
families have suffered greatly.
AT Sungartc some OF the brethre
have sold house, shop, household iUr
niture, everything, and now must be
or staryc, and perhaps both IN ON ON
village there was one Protestant inmllS
The father, mother and all the ch''drG
but two have died OF starvation |
,, the village of lngicrlle there was
. pleasant little Protestant commnn'l,
several Of whom vete memt o! u
church, with n preacher residing WI VIII
e, them, but they were poor. In
: preacher went to Yodcgat and pu1
chased flour, becoming responsible IL
. the pay himself, aud 50 kept 1--we -
:, families. Now, unless the preacn,'
3 can be paid, his creditors Will '"t
= everything from him.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-08-20
vxerc;se ana Grain for Horses.

Very many farmers who own goou
l,orsns 40 not appreciate the Importance
Of a little grain and give them regular
exercise in winter. At this season ~
the wear farmers horses are frequently
Iaft standing in the stable for weeks ~
~ time eating unlimited quantities OF
Inv and when taken out submit
,nI I to violent exercise with their stom-
oohs overloaded with undigested nay.
4 veor or two of this management Is
almost certain to bring on heaves, In
inc1Irable disease that very seriously
Ienreciates a horse for work ana runs
him for market. The horse has COM
nar,tiyely smaller stomach tnan any
pthor animal, and never should be dry
en hard Immediately after eating heart-
;lv Of hay or after drinking, us IL ls .ha Ioa
tain to cause permanent injury 'ii"'
will develop itself in time w horses
II il not economy to keep hos;u" ;u
through the winter without sian Sn
With little grain every day ana Que
Lolf the hay that most farmers leeu'
ices " will come ont of the winter mucll
Latter Later fitted for the springs work than w
p1vau ,hou the Grain is omitted, and the SAVING
IN bav mt present prices will nearly Il
not quite pay for the gram. u.h j.
"VJ Tbere is not sufficient strength ~ II
boy TO support the muscles OF III, III,
horse. and il fed on it alone Tor q ION .Ii
t;mo M there ia certain to be a great laii
@ ;mn off Of the muscle strength, althoug
hs the nsnal amount of flesh may be IT
tanned. Corn in the ear, II SOUND an
we'll wei cured, is good grain for horses
cold m weather, as it is heating and
sufficient strength when they are u
at hard work; shelled corn Is not 81
feed. as it is very liable to have oe
a heated and is almost invariapiy aus
. For several weeks previous to the co
y meucemeut of hard work, oats sho, 10,
d be the grain fed, as there IS ,,s no osa =,
u "a Grain that contains so much muscle ,;ss .
% tanning element, and they are S eoSe ~ root
% the blood. An occasional fssa fSsstoes 70 "
~ either carrots, parsniPs Or o. Snripg u
t' e,.I "atar The former) to horses uotheP in
NJ prefer Tue 81 - Great value AnT'f as' fesd !,
-. u portant item is say Times week shoul
n this s .. omitted. Many oil our h.vo, ~,
he not ee pc, borsemen keep salt oelo, @
Hrao.h, H" hn, ses constantly, and recommel
'e q thsn ;n strong h terms. ms.-0hio Farmer
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-08-20
:. romc Home; the Beans are Burning.

last Sunday morning family llvlnR
in tbe suburbs of the city went 10
suburban church, leaving little glll
about seven years OF age ana oot y,
a about twelve years Of age in charge OF
tpo tho bonse. The church was situated
IrI hnt a short distance from the house
The T%t { family we're to have beans Tor dun
nov m and these were left in yessel on
tha ' stove TO cook. The little girl whiie
mlovinp. suddenly began to smell the
ppJor p of burnt beans, upon when 81
rushed out of the house over into III.
church where the pastor was gravel'
and earnestly preaching the profooutnI'
vr word of God. The first person OF til
family the little girl espied was youni
lady cousin, and to her in a loud yoi'
which startled the assemblage cons'de
ably she cried, "Come home, con
home the beans are burning" and II
meliately rushed out again. Ths a
tonishment was great, and all the s9'th n
, nity of the preacher as well l,asssth as A. "
!. congregation disappeared .Deae Denea'| nf th
. brosd smile at the ridicuionsINe.,, gu. IN,r,nai.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-08-20
MISCELLANEOUS.

The encouragement has received a
latter from Gov Cooke, of Colorado, IN which
tbe latter states that he has ordered militia W
cross the Rio Grande, if necessary In pursuit
- ,be mauraders from Mexico.
Can't, Beall, just from Fort WORTH
hr;rcs information that the Indians have cap
trred two mail stages, one going ana one
oominp between Fort Hill and Wichita Ihere
wore only three passengers, all OF whom w''h
the drivers, were killed and scalped'
The secretary of the treasury is pre-
roripp formal demand on the several racine
rai,roads embraced in the act OF last june
occurring the payment of five per cent OF the
nat earnings Of the companies to the govern, u,
n,ent imposed by act Of July lSt, looz - -
,na ~ demand is not complied with within 5lA's m
aaSs % the secretary will notify the attorney
u naneral who will institute legal pr0Ceea
;nn. AGAINST the roads for the delnq"on
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-08-20
WEST.

Omaha reports 72 cars OF Japan tea
enroute east.
Robt Gillatin and G. W. Adams,
wealthy farmers Of Iowa. have been arrested
nj st. joe NO., as extensive showers of the
green.
The grasshoppers have literally de
youred everything in northern and south
western Kansas and Nebraska. The damage
inflicted on vegetation is far greater than in
1869. The corn crop through all this region
is totally destroyed.
Adiutant-G General Baker, of Iowa,
writes to commissioner Burdett OF the general
land Office, representing there is great suffer
ing among homestead settlers in the north
western counties Of the state, owing to the
visitation of grassnoppers.
Gen. Pope telegraphs Lieutenant
General Sheridan that the Indians who have
beeu marauding in southwestern Kansas
haze gone to the borders Of the Llano Estac-
ado, a county filled with game, and that they
have abundance of ammunition, The three
columns of troops now operating will con-
verge on the section named
A special from Seneca, Kansas says
During heavy thunder storm fifteen miles
west of this city, two men named John u
Hnddleson and Edward Roscoe were killed by
lightning Mrs. Huddleson was severely
burned Five others in the wagon cscapec
unhurt. They had abandoned their homes OF
account of the grasshoppers.
Information from Fort Laromier say'
the Sioux Indians report that the Arapahoe
and Cheyennes are getting ready for war
MANY Sioux will go with them, should this b.
true. The military are very active, but tn
movements are as quiet as possible that tn
Indians may not be informed thereof throug
renegade whites and half-breeds
News received at Lieutsnant-G Genera
Sheridan's headquarters indicates that tn
Cbeyeunes, Kiowas and Comanchcs seein
the formidable preparations made to puns
them for their recent depredatons are askln
forpeace, and for the military to call it eyel
Orders have, however, been s'ued not to IL
these hostile bands enter the reservation
but for the troops to follow and punish the
wherever found
Reports from various portions
Minnesota, represent the wheat harye
nearly completed. The wheat has been saw
in good condition, and although the yield
not quite equal to that of last year, it is be
ter than expected. The quality is genera
No. /, in many portions of the grasshopp
districts the Weld of wheat is fair, Oats a
barley are good. Corn and potatoes prom
eyCellenty
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-08-20

mt it,
1t hath been said, for all who die
There is a tear;
Some pining. bleeding heart to sigh
Der every bier
But IN that hour OF pain ana dreau
Who will draw near
Around my humble couch and shed
One farewell tear?
Who'd watch lifos last departing ray
In deep despair,
And soothe my spirit on its way
With holy prayer? .u
What mourner round my bier will come,
In weeds OF woe,
And follow me to my long home,
Solemn aud slow?
When lying on my clayey bed,
In icy sleep,
who there, by pure affection led,
Will come and weep;
By the pale moan impant the rose
UpOn my breast,
And bid it cheer my dark repoSe,
My lowly rest?
Could but know, when am sleeping
Low in the ground, ,
One faithful heart would there DE Keeping
Watch all night round,
As'if some gem lay shrined beneath
That sods cold gloom,
'Twould mitigate the pangs OF death
And light the tomb
Yes inthat hour, if ! could feel
From halls of gee
And Beauty's presence one would steal
In secercy
And come and sit and weep by me
III nights deep noon,
On | would ask of memory
No other boon.
But all a lonelier fate is mine,
A deeper woe ,.
From all love in youths sweet time
soon must go; .,,
Drawn round me my pale robes of white,
In a dark spot
To sleep through deaths long, dreamIess hiel
Lone and forgot.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-08-20

rur fact that Patagonia abounds sodn IN
ihL ny aa m;ninp districts has been
known ESn for but i has ,ol been mi0sps s1o
e seassved sG from the party sent nta ont BY ps shs
sosa They went up sp,a the tbsn snl9oT Followed 1ssd
the santa crp1 aka hEss ssentysevsn hgHsssa miles
long and one hundIsa IT it's entire length,
The river is navisaose aos not ets less than nine
sst a. IN 'GS sspth The lake has s. ApStiS' T,e
o,,aar' "ann which is but thirty-two n',,' ,han
Sisn" Sstsnt They brought back wit" a,, 'hsm nn,
such samples Of gold dust .aa ana of Tg''' 10 G es
alta at last accounts had started OIL ~ 90
plore tue Galegos river
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-08-20
SOUTH.

Atlanta ladies propose to organize
female industrial school.
Elbert county, Ga., has produced
about95, 900 bushels of wheat this year.
A diamond rattlesnake was killed
near Pilatka, Fla, recently. 1t was ten feet
long and had eighteen rattes.
The president has appointed w. ii.
II. Clayton United States attorney for the
western district of Arkansas.
The caterpillar has made its appear
ance in several cotton fields of Levy and
Alachua counties, Fla. Rust has also appeared
and the prospects are not SO good as they
were two weeks ago.
Mob of whites and negroes hung
negro named Munro Divers al Warrenblrg,
Mo-, last week, charged with ravishing
white child six years DID, belonging to re-
spectacle citizen Of Warrenburg.
A dispatch from Memphis says, the
men who went to Austin have returned, and
are satisfied that the Austin fight was as much
of fiasco as Somerville, and there has been
much exaggerated reports. During the entire
trouble one negro was killed and no white man
even wounded. Only one store was sacked by
the negroes during the time they had possess
sion of the place The seventeen leaders are
rather the more bositerous ones, as they
seemed to have no leaders. They were arrest
ed and confined in jail to await trial.
The Austin returns of the department
of agriculture show improvements in the pros
poets of the cotton crop in all the large cot
ton states except Alabama, in which during
July, the average declined two per cent Vir
gna also declined per cent. Arkansas
per cent, and Tennessee G per cent. III
state averages were as follows: Virginia
per cent ssof average crop, North Carolina lO
cent, South Carolina 81 per cent, Georgi
81 per cent, Florida 1O2 per cent, Mississippi
SO per cent, Louisiana SO per cent, Texas IL
per cent, Arkansas 81 per cent, Tennessee
per cent
The steamer Henry Ames with fu
cargo from St. Louis for New Orleans, strut
snag last week near Waterproof, and sank
twenty-five feet of water. Only three llv
are known to have been lost. The Ames hi
about 1000 tons of assorted merchandis
The value of the boat and cargo is estimate
at 91SO,0O0 The boat was owned aud nsur
in st. Louis.
Near Carlisle, Nicholas county, Ky
last week, one Hamilton, while attending
Methodist church, being offended at son
thing said stood up on bench, and ho
ished pistol. Thomas Shaw, one OF
trustees succeeded in pacifying him, and Co
ing him out of doors. When outside Sh
told him the penalty Of the law for his often
whereupon Hamilton shot Shaw through
heart The congregation came out, seized
murderer and sent him to Carlisle, whel
from fear Of lynching, he was sent 10 l
ington.
Madame Fortinmyre, MIDWIFE
siding at No. 1877 Morgan street, St. i'c
was arrested last week. 1t is stated she
practiced abortion several years that
Der of infants havo been cremateu oy
that several highly respectable per
are involved in the matter. Mme' ro
meyer made confession to the general
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-08-20

greatly shocked the sensibilities OF that
nation. For instance, they would speak
to the ladies and hand things to them
deeds which were gross insults in their
ewes. Then they would hold CONVERSE
ton with people Of the lower classes
which eifectually debarred them from
intercourse with the upper circles OF
society,
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-08-20
NEWS OF THE WEEK.


The chief of police of Philadelphia
has issued a proclamation stating that the
uolice forego any claim to the whole or part
of the twenty thousand dollars reward,
offered by the Mayor for information
that will lead to the arrest and conviction
of the abductors of Charley Ross. The chief
invites communications, otherwise from per-
sons who NAV have the needed information.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-08-20
TIE EOkSA KEN.

This poem, written by "stela" (Mrs. Estella
Anna Iewisl, at the age Of fourteen Poe said was
"the most beautiful ballad of the kind ever writ.
ten. We have read 1t" he remarked, "more than
twenty times. and always with increased admra-
ton" And on the strength of this opinion we re-
PRINT It'll
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-07-11

1t was our good fortune a day or two since
to hear the following rather interesting dia
lOgue in one of our provincial 'hash-hOuscs.
The interlocutors were Il Misunderstanding
siCie-whiskered, llsping, middle-aged man
from California and bury, round-headed
merry-eyed Comstocker who were seated at
opposite sides of the same table. The men
were evidently strangers to each other. The
conversation opened as follows:
Dundreary-Deah ne, this is disgusting
(Holding up his knife and gazing tiXedly al
its point) This is ethaw the second or the
third hair--I think it's the third-that I've
found in this bu,tah
Comstocker--.Youve not bees4 here long, |
Judge?
Dundreary-No, sir; arrived here yester-
day morning.
Comstocker-I thought so, otherwise you
would not have complained OF hairs IN the
butter
Dundreary-Not complain of LIARS IN the
buttah! You suppwise me, sir. How could
| do otherwise?
Comstocker-Thosc hairs, sir, are just as
natural to Washoc butter as butter ls natur-
al product of milk They are just as good
and Just as clean as the butter
Dundreary-!mpossible!
Comstocker-NOt at all sir. All our but
ter comes from the great valleys OF our state
where flourishcs the most nutritious and truly
wonderful plant, the white sage. On this our
cattle feed and fatten. This white sage has
many virtues Strange as 1t may appear to
you, sir, from the white sage is manufactured
amost wonderful and very popular HAIR re-
storativc.
Dundreary-Ah, yes; I've heard of tin
fact may say that on one occasion, when
thought observed my hair growing little
thin, | used some of the preparation.
Comstocker-Well, then, sir, in country
where all the cows feed on the white sage, 90
you think it likely that the butter will
be bald-headed?
Dundrcary turned red, pushed back his
chair and left without deigning TO answer the
corundrum- -TirgtatG CITY Ehte'prtse,