davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-04-25

COLLECTORS OFFICE, Alexandria, Va.
TTNAX L. \ Ek>, 1ArlE NOIlCn-Ihr NJ
l. tcn!!on of de!:'iq cent taxpayers Is called %
the following orGcr recently pissed by TIE CITY
Council:
ORDERED, That the Collectors Of Taxes be-
and they are hereby, directed to ndr"rtIs" ana
sell ali property Tor unpHid taxes, AS follows, !"
wit:
The list of properly Which t'xcs are dr"
and unpaid shall be made oil hy May 1st, ISL
snd published il the two daily pnp r. OF tn,
city once IN each month unit! >ep.+Mber L.,
1914, atLor which the inserting shall be twl""
week for enc month. when, on the first I,lr7day
Of October. in default Of pay ncnt. the Collect r
shall sell at public su, ton All property - M
vcrtised ns delinquent
J +. HILL, Col Taxc: ID
ap24-tMl1 5. X. FIELD, Col. T.%e: :. ID.
DOR SP X n 6.
NEW PAPER HANGINGS AND lEThEl-
Or DECORATIONS.
The largest and most elegant assortment 81
WALL PAFhhS
ever offered in this city over one tho"-Af1
different patterns cheaper then ercr.
My long experience and known ta7te '"EN'5
me confident that will give sals'ac!Io.i to "''
that favor me with their patronage.
JOHN 7. CLARKE,
an % No lJS hlng street.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-04-25
FERTILIZERS.

FERTILIZERS.
DUGDALE'S EXCELLENZA TOBACCO
FERTILIZER.
EACELLENZA CORN FERTILIZER
TuOMA> PERRY,
ap II II kiEg street
ROUND BONE and MEAT, treated with
" GERMAN POTASH 81 Its. Price ; l.
per ton. F sale by TiiOM y PERRY,
ND II II King 'trr"L
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-04-25

ALEXANDRIA FISH MARKET April 2.-.Thc
receipts OF fresh Fish ut the city Fish wharfsince
yesterdays report have been 10000 Herrings
winch sold ut from i - to s. ~ per thous and ;
l. 800 Shsd which brought from u to Sit per
hundred, and limited supply of Rock and
Perch, which scld ut from Is to 25c II bunch.
The largest c.rgoes received since yesterday
have been two f ON Arkndale, one containing
81, o. IIcr!ings and the other 42OOJ.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-04-25
DRESS GOODS.

DRESS GOODS
Just opened Zamors Cloth, L ,yara Cloth,
Linen Bingham, Black and Colored Alpacss
Japanese Silks, Seersucker Ginghams, &c, NJ
w. 4. BkkkLEY'S,
sd IA "a King street.
DRIED HERRIES, Apples, Turkish
~ Prunes, Currants &c, for sale by
GEO. McBURNEY & SON,
ap2l l66 and l'O King street.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-04-25
COMM ERCIAL.

ALEXANDRIA MARKET, April 25-Wheat is
quiet at slight decline; offerings of 795 bushels
red, with sales at l78 80 l8l and 1873 for prime
and choice samples. Corn is less firm, and
prices are lc off; offerings of 1904 bushels, with
sales Of mixed at a. and yellow at u and -
Oats are less active and prices are off; sales to
day nj 81 and Ga, with offerings of 443 bushels.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-04-25

CEALED PROPOSALS will be received UP
- to MDND. ". april 27tn, At " {" c,ocN IL;
MARKET ALLEY from Lee TO Chi"h -
Plans and specifications car be sen at Dir -
ward Hughes, corner Prince and 81 As" =
Prupo- ais to state tn" price per running '"@t
~. b stone and running foot Of paving sciia ''''
ROBERT poRTN Elk.
an 16 I'd Chairman Committe" on Htrr'l,.
The Placer herald., 1874-10-31
NUMBER IL
s'MY LIFE IN BONDAGE"

This Is the title Of lecture now being de-
livered BY woman who. whel9 at full age.
and widow at that, voluntarily became the
nineteenth wife Of Brigham Young, and whs
was at liberty 10 leave him at any Time, just
as she has left him now. The bondage che
alludes to Was during thep period when she was
entitled to be called "Mrs. Young. No TO-"
and then. by her own showing. Bsishsa III
her severely alone. He was not iu her
house more than once ~ three or four
iiiohths. and did not speak to her 4 dozen
times year-and if this were bondage, the
fetters were extremely sken. She, full
grbwh woman and widow, welded hiut
voluntarily; he troubled her not after mat
riage she was at any time free to 70 wheu
she desired, and did go; and il tie title Of
her address be not misnomef, then thef6
are multiiudes Of bohd-women all over thi5
nation. The Bee is no apologist for Moss
monism-quite the contrary; but it ID not
healthy sight to see women going cf6und tie
country publicly abusing tlIcit husbands;
whom, III their ripe senses, they Voluntarily
married, knowing all their surroundings, and
who have been treated BY their husbands
just as they expected to be treated befotg
becoming his wife; just as all his othef
wives have been treated, according to tee
custom of his and her faith, There are
tens of thousands of wives in this laid whts9
bondage during nearly all Of their welded
life was more unendurabIe than hSrs, yet they
have not complained to the publics nofi
having denounced the faith Of their fdther1i
have they proclaimed alodd TIE apustaeyt
But this we suppose is matter Of taste@
and tastes difer.-Sdc. Bee.
The Placer herald., 1874-10-31
JlNGLES.

Who can tell what a baby thinks
When it wakes from its forty winks,
And rubs its face into numerous kinks,
And stares at the light that comes in at the
chinks
Of its rock-a-ty nest, and gapes and blnks?
Who cantell what baby thinks?
Who has courage to hazard a guess
As to what the baby may think of its dress
Trimmed and ruffled to such excess?
OF what the baby may think of the mess
For the headache and toothache and stomach
distress
And all for its ailings more or less?
What does it think when it wakes in the night
With all the pretty things out OF sight,
And nobody striking or making lght?"
Does it think its condition far from right,
And that big folks are not all polite,
And treat their visitors far from right
And that darkness is meant for personal
slight?
Is that the reason it takes delight
In screaming with all its personal might,
And rousing all the neighbors at dead of night?
What do you think that baby thinks,
Looking around like mld-eyed lynx,
Watching the spoon that tinkles and chinks,
While mamma Is warming its milky drinks
Over a candle that glimmers and blinks.
Humming and drumming out Captain Jinks, "
That the children skate now in the rinks,
What do you think that the baby thinks?
Do you think that babies are thinkless things,
With no other light than instinct brings,
With brains as drowsy as butterflies WINGS
And heads as empty as ball that swings
Over and under, and rings and springs?
When muscular motion is working the strings ?
Do you say that babies are thinkless things ?
Then when does the thing begin to grow?
And when does the mind begin to show?
And when does the baby begin to know
That this is true or that is so?
Say, when you find out please let me know
The Placer herald., 1874-10-31
The CH ICE OrA LOvER,-Woms

The CHy1cE or LovER.-Woman cad
not be too cadtious, too wdtchfal, too e4A
acting in her choice of lover, who, from
the slave OF few weeks or months rarely
years), is to become the master Of her future
destiny and the, guide not only through ah
time, but perhaps eternity, What naddesS
then to suffer the heart to be taken captive
by beauty, talent, grace, fascination. before
the reason is convinced Of the scunduess Of
principle, the purity Of faith, the integrity IT
mind Of the future husband. It IL nst a.
ways the al-enduring. devoted and infaS.
stoned lover who makes the kindeet, The
most attentive and forbealiug husband;
We have often seen the coldest inattentiou,
the most mortifying disparsgement, the r5oet
insulting Inconsistencies follow, even in tbE
first months of matrimony. on the most 70.
mantle devotion and blindest alteration Of
courtship. The honeymoon secms to OK
haust every drop Of honey, and leave moth
ing tut strings in the jar. The lover who
dares to be a man, and to 'hint fault, and
he itate dislike, even though the happiness
of his life seems to him at stake-ope who
may forget a bouquet, or neglect eompli-
ment, arrive a few minutes late, or be diss
inclined for waltz or polka, not admire .
fashion, or disagree with sentiment
a lover, despicable and Indifferent as he il
pronounced by astounded iuammas and h..
different aunts, aid far as lie falls short Of
romantic sisters, and young friends, exact
ing notions, may turn out the best Of good
husbands after ALL If he dared to Se NAH
when he had everything to gain, be will not
be a coward when he has, in the worlds
opinion, nothing to lose.
The Placer herald., 1874-10-31
HIS Foil NAME You will be grati6ed I'd

HIS FOIL NAME You will be grati6ed I'd
learn that we are at last in possession Of the
full name of the King of Siam. No nah
will ever know how l have yeamed fof
this, and how embarrassed l have some-
times been to know what 10 call him whed
have been with him. But it is ell right
now. He is known among bis friends %
"Somdech Phra Parymindr Maha Bbula-
long Korn Bodinthong Depava Maha Mongs
cut Parusaya Observation-Disclosures varut'
mawongse Pribat Warakatrya Rsjanikfa-
dom Cl,akuranta Parom Maha Chaltrabani-
tary Sangkat Poromnhanan Mix Matsrajy
Dhirary Poromuat Pobit Phra Chula Ch0m
Klaw Chaw Yuhua Supreme King Of Siam
fifth of the present dynasty, who founded
the great city OF Bangkok Amaratue Ko.
sindr Mohindr Arythia. l should think
letter directed to him would hardly be likely
to miscarry and reach some othet ttah.
None of my relations have such name -
that 1t might be made useful in civil asfvice
examinations, I should think. Any thah
who could give satisfactory reply when be
was suddenly asked, "Who is the King Of
Siam?" oughtto have perpetual free admis'
sion to the Treasury vaults and no questions
asked when he came out. If the King
marks his shirts. bis waslIerwoman hardly
need take weekly paper. She might spend
many pleasant afternoons perusing tue back
of one Of the garments. AdeIef.
The Placer herald., 1874-10-31

MISTAKEN ADvEkTIs1Na.-The Denver
(Col } Herald, in late number expresses
the opinion hat the public can Q better
reached through the columns Of a newspaper
Of fair circulation than through all other
mediums, costly circulars, posters, give
aways and jimcracks put together. The old
established weekly newspaper is, after all,
the only general, judicious medium for ad-
va''tageous advertising Athousand doors are
opened 10 welcome it; thousand messen-
gers are weekly seeking the postofice to re-
ceive It; Thousand read it when 1t does
come, advertisements and ALL"
The Placer herald., 1874-10-31
AUBURN PLACER COUNTY, CALIFORNIA; OCTOBER 4,
THE GOLDEN RULE.

The golden rule. the golden rule,
Oh, that's the rule for me!
Were this the law for all the world,
How happy we should be!
CHORUS.
The golden rule, the golden rule,
Oh, that's the law for me!
To do to others as would
That they should do to me.
We love our :athers-mothers too,
v hose love our life attends;
We love our brothers, sisters, too,
Our teachers and our friends.
The golden rule! then would no war
Be known in any land,
If each one sought the others good,
And loved the Lords command.
Were this the rule. in harmony
Our lives would pass away;
And none would suffer, none be poor,
And none their trust betray.
The Placer herald., 1874-10-31

The tendency to bolt regular nomination:
is breaking out in the most unexpected
places, and the wire pullers and man"ss1
are filled with trepidation. Their sentiments
on the subject correspond pretty well Win
those of the colored candidate for babtiem
who, slipping out of the parsons hands Just
as lie was about to be dipped. remsrkeds
"Somc gentleman's nigger's gwine to DO
drowned by dis yer nonsense yet.
The Placer herald., 1874-10-31
THE CHINESE PROBLEM.

The remarkable decision rendered by Uni
ted States Supreme Judge Field, sitting in
the Circuit Court at San Francisco, in the
habeas corpus case Of the Chinese women
brought to California on the steamer Japan,
demonstrates the futity of attempting the
State inhbitory legislation upon the subject
while the Burlngame Treaty Is allowed to
stand intact. So long as articles five and
six Of that convention between China and
the United States are nnrepealed or unmodi-
fed, the people of the Pacific Coast are
and the people Of the whole Union ultimate
y will beat the mercy Of the Chinese
hordes, who are hocking to these shores, and
deposing honest white labor from its place
of dignity and supremacy. Under those ar
tices, Judge Field holds that the State is
entirely denuded of any power in the pre-
misses, and we much fear the Supreme Court
Of the United States will sustain him in what
we believe to be IA perversien of law, a deni-
al of Constitutional right, and gross out
rage upon the sovereign power of local State
governments power in this regard in
herent and inalenable But the fact remains
that we must abide by the decision, so long
as the treaty continues in operation.
The true and only solution of the difficult
ty, was suggested by Hon. Philip A. Roach.
Of San Francisco, in the State Senate last
Winter by introducing Concurrent Resolu-
tions, which passed 10th Houses of the
Legislature, instructing our United States
Senators, and requesting onr Representatives
to use their influence to have appropriate ac-
ton taken to modify or abrogate the ob-
jectionable articles of the Chinese Treaty.
Senator Roach's idea is the correct one, and
his persistent efforts for over twenty years
against the ercroachr ents of chinese entitle
him to the gratitude of the people. His
name is favorably mentioned as candidate
for Governor of California. We have no
hesitation in saying, without prejudice to
any other Democratic leader, that Philip A..
Roach would make an available candidate
and a good Executive officer. No man can
find blot on his record of quarter of a
century in California. Like the Chevaier
Bayard, he is worthy Of the crest, -sdAs penn
ct sans reproche Lake Co. Bee.
The Placer herald., 1874-10-31

A FACT WoErH KNOWING. While the
slaves of the administration, says the Sacra-
nento Union, are carefully parading every
assault and battery and every quarrel os-
curing at the South in which colored man
comes out second best, vigorously declainl-
ing against the White League. and shouting
against the treason of the McEnery party 10
Louisiana, and applauding the many virtues
and severe trials Of the carpet-bag brigade,
it is worthy of note that the troubles OF the
S.uth are wholly confined to the States in
which these virtuous thieves rule, and are
no where existing in the States which are
ruled by the conservative men. We hope
the reader will make a note Of this significant
fact. In Louisiana, South Carolina, Ala
bama, Aakansas and Florida. all is political
and social confusion. In all these States
the carpet bsggers rule. In Georgia. vir-
ginia, West Virginia and North Carolina,
the conservatives are the ruling power. and
there IL no call or cause for Federal inter-
ferenae.
The Placer herald., 1874-10-31
PLACER HERALD
official Paper of Placer County
PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY MORNING Bl
WALKUP & FILcHER.

Terms Of Subscription.
For one years subscription, in advance. ~ OO
II paid within the year. ..........- W
Forsi months, .......... ......'........ oU
For three months, oU
Single copies, .............. ~
Rates OF Unofficial Advertising.
First insertion of ten lines, this sized type, 81 80
Each subsequent insertion, n,.............. 0O
For half square, or less, s,................ l w
Each subsequent insertion, n,.............. 50
Liberal deductions made to monthly or yearly
advertisers.
The number of Insertions must be marked on
tie advertisement, otherwise it will be continued
until forbidden and charged for accordingly.
1t is hereby expressly agreed and stipulated
between the proprietor and those having work
or advertising done, or being subscribers. that
ill payments at the above rates are to be made
current United States gold or silver coin.
OFFICIAL ADVERTISING.
The following rates. AS FIXED By LAW, will be
charged for all legal advertisements and notices.
For the first insertion, one dollar and fifty
cents per square of two hundred and fifty ems,
end one dollar per square for each additional in
sertion, up to four and thirty-hve cents per
square for each subsequent insertion.
~ All legal advertisements must be plainly
written, and the number of insertions must al
ways be marked on the margin of each adver
tisement or they will be continued and charged
accordingly. The publisher will not be respon-
sible for faulty or illegal manuscript.
The Placer herald., 1874-10-31

If anything will impress the hnman mind
with awe, it is the expression Of tho mans
face who has just been aroused from snoring
in church.
The Placer herald., 1874-10-31
DANCING WITH A FAT WOMAN.

The New York Herald reporter has been
to Eat Woman's Clam Blake, in Pleas
ant Valley, N. Y, whereat solid ladies of
some three handred pounds attempted the
light, agile and graceful dance. He chose
the smallest partner he could find. Unfort-
unate mani 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 un-
advised sentiment was induced to dance
waltz with a fat woman, who turned the
scale at 1913 pounds. Now, let it be re-
membered that the thermometer stood at SS
degrees, and the floor was highly glazed.
After several vows had been delivered,
approached my female Behemoth, and
grasped her mady around what was intend
more sack of oats. The band of eight
pieces struck upa waltz triotempts, and. in
the words of Artemus, we ''glode" After
the first few steps OF two, felt as if had
been swinging Keboe's clubs for week,
and there was singing in my ears as
valnly slrovc TO glue myself to the floor.
| 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. My collar flew off, and a
button was heard audibly TO rattle on the
floor like the sound of pistol bullet that
might be dropped suddenly. She struggled
moment as we went whirling around-l
mean as | went whirling around. for she
WAS moving with the specific gravity of a
lumber yard on wheels-and suddenly was
hurled into space and lay on bench, while
the lady dropped into seat, and her bench
shut itself into fan, under the terrible
weight of her person, Thus ended my
first and last waltz with a fat woman. !
felt humilaied, and heard her telling lady
friend shortly after that didn't amount to
mach-was too light.
Too MANY STATES AND CoUNTIEs. Every
taxpayer will find a point that he should
work to accomplish, in the following reason
ing:
Referring the other day toihe multiplication
Of offices, and alleging that this is the main
cause of the high taxation, the Bee suggested
that instead OF carving territory iu'o more
States and counties, consolidation should he
the rule; and said that New England might
he squeezed into one state, New York, New
Jersey and Pennsylvania into another, and
SO on all over the nation; and held that here
in California several counties should be
rolled into one. Aud now comes the San
Jose Mercury. reasoning thus:
The tendency to multiply State and coun-
~ governments-tbereby swelling the ranks
Of the grand army of office-holders TO de-
your the substance of the people, and pile
up the burdens of taxation-is one of tile
crying evils of the times. Two States
ought to do for the Pacific Coast, one for
the New England States, two each for the
Middle and Western, and three for tile
Southern States. We have three times too
many representatives In Congress, and by
Tar too many office-holders in all depart.
ments Of government. We have too much
red tape and too high salaries. The whole
system needs simplifying and economizirg.
The Placer herald., 1874-10-31

New PUBLICATlON--We have received
the first number Of u new San Francisco pub
licaiion, called the Bohemian, by Daniel
O. Connell 1t is proposed to make the
bohemian an illustrated chronicle Of art,
science and literature of California. This
first number contains an account of a Bo-
hemian banquet, at which in reply TO toast
DR.. Behr, delivered himself of the following,
which is as good an example of irony, and
as apt as we often see. Tie subject was
new conner who had fed his own country to
escape the prosecutions of mother-in-law.
DR.. Behr. says: "When he arrived in this
country the President accosted him friendly;
he said his government had made philosophic
can race in the highest begree, and it there
fore elects for every Office the man who is
least adapted for it; whose mental consti-
tuition is most in need of that peculiar devel
olment in the direction for the office. In
former times, we used to fill tie Coroner's
Office with some undertaken, but since we
found out that the people really understand
something about the business, we take a
doctor. The circumstance of your being
Northern Barbarln without any education
would adapt you admirably to the office Of
Superintendent of Public Instruction; but as
some Of yuur fellow-passehgers have stated
that you know some Latin, Of course that
circumstance will disqualify you forever.
But | will tell you what can do; can ap-
point you Inspector of Mothers-iE-.aw.
When he heard these words, he grew pale;
he left the place and went in'o a blacksmith's
shop and ordered cast iron overcoat; he
went to tinnan's and fitted himself with
stove-pipe on his head, put on pair of fire.
proof gloves, and then lie retired frum the
view Of the public into a building, which he
had erected on the model of the penitentiary
OF the Baltic. Some months afterwards, bis
friends found him stark dead in full armor
leaning against the wall. There was much
Inference of opinion in regard to the cause Of
his death. The public was inclined to be.
lieve that it was brandy and water on the
brain; but the Coroner pronounced it an af-
fection of Mothcr-in law. His friends passed
the usual eleven resolutions, headed by the
words: "Whereas, it has pleased Divine
Providence in his inscrutable wisdom" etc, 1,
and accordingly an intelligent Coroner's jury
found the verdict. "Killed by the inscrutable
wisdom Of Divine Providence.