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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-05-14

- FOR PENTHOUSE No. So south St
/ - Asaph street, containing 8 rooms, will be
rented to good tenant on moderate terms.
FOR SALE-SEVERAL LOTS bounded
by Oronoko, PendIeton, Patrick and Alfred
streets, can be bought on reasonable terms. .Ap
ply to Zap 30] E. FRANCIS.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-05-14

MISSES, FINE !BU TToN B COTS,
At >WADDEY'S, IA King street. Ct
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-05-14

iVXIALNUT and MUSHROOM CAToUP in
w store and tor sale cheap BY
mo VIM f BROOKES.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-05-14

- FOR tRENT-The STORE and VEL
IL LING HOUSE lbs King street, now occu-
pied by Mrs. G. L. Simpson. Possession given
on the LIST of January, 1874. For further infor-
nation enquire of
dec 5-tf JNO. B. SMOOT.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-05-14

DOSE HILL PURE CIDER VINEGAR in
~ store and for sale ut l47 King St. l.,
mre VIM F. BROOKES
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-05-14

- FOB RENT--The DWELLING HOUSE
IL No. So north Royal street, ut present occu
pied by Captain Chapman. It is in good order,
and supplied with water and gas Possession
given April 10Th. Apply to
: ap '13-eotf "3lG! WIN. GREGORY.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-05-14

CMOKED POTOMAC RERRINGS in store
- and,for sale by VIM. +. BROOKES,
my9 -, .r la King street.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-05-14
ID A RLOR ORG MS.

NUR FULL SUPPLY7OF NEW GOODS
NOW COMING IN FROM NEW YORK.
The latest styles at the lowest prices. .,,g :,
"A large, assortment o. elegant new goods.
Our friends and the public are requested 20
King street on
r sp p - B. L. WOOD. y
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-05-14

IN EvERY STYLE, QUALITY and PRICE,
~ : AT WADDEYSS, IA King street
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-05-14

MISSES. WALKING and SCHOOL BOOTS
a large stock, in every style and quality.
Prices low,
At WADDEY'S, "A King street. =,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-05-14

LADIES, FRENCH KID EMPRESS SHOES
Entirely new, .....:
At WADDEY'S, IA King street.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-04-25
4 BalkY Horse.

There are two ways of managing a
balky horse. My companion knew one
of them, and l the other. His method
is to sit quietly in the wagon, and at
short intervals throw small pebble at
the horse. The theory is that these re-
peated sudden annoyances will operate
on horses mind, and he will try to
escape them by going on. The specta-
tors supplied my friend with stones, and
he pelted the horse with measured gen
tleness. Probably the horse understood
this method, for he did not notice the
attack at all. My plan was to speak
gently to the horse, requesting him to
go, and then to follow the refusal by one
sudden, sharp cut Of the lash to wait a
moment, and then repeat the operation.
The dread of the coming lash after the
gentle word will startle any horse. l
tried this, and with certain success.
The horse backed us into ditch, and
would probably have backed himself
into the wagon if [ had continued.
When the animal was at length ready
to go, Davie took him by the bride,
ran by his side, coaxed him into a gal
lop, and then, leaping in behind, lashed
him into n run which had little respite
for ten miles, up hill and down. Re-
monstrance on behalf of the horse was
in vain, and it was only on the return
homo that this specimen Cape Breton
driver began to reflect how he could
erase the welts from the horses back be-
fore his father saw them.-G ID. Var
ncl IN AprH atlantic.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-04-25
Desperate ValOr of the Ashantees.

A correspondent writes from the
field "The Ashantees fought like de-
mons. They were present in enormous
numbers, pouring on our gallant tronpes
by thousands, yelling and screaming
hldeously. Although our firing told
on them immensely, they had to be
driven from point to point, and even
when pushed out Of the successive vii
lagos, returned to the attack. In the
thickest parts of the brush they climbed
the trees i'll order to fire more effectually
upon our troops. The order of advance
from Insarful was as follows Tie at
tack was made in the form of Il square,
through the middle of which ran the
main road, and the line extended about
300 yards on either side. The 42d regi-
ment, preceded by Lord Clifford and
his scouts, formed the front line, with
two of Rats guns in the center, Cor
don's Houssas in dense corner of
jungle. 1t really seemed as if nothing
but the failure of their ammunition
would drive them out. Now at one
point, now at another, along the hill
crest they poured down crushing vol
leys. Life they counted at no price if
only white man could be killed. 1t
was the same desperate obstinacy we
had seen at AbraArampa. They climbed
trees to fire with more deadly effect, but
the mass just lay down and shot till
shot themselves or short of ammllni-
tion. Sir Archibald Alison, Brigadier
of the white troops, declared he never
came under fercer fire in India OF the
Crimea."
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-04-25
Useful Hints for the Home Circle

PARoXYsMs of coughing may be pre-
vented or cured by swallowing q little
dry salt.
board, glass or canvas. Where they do
not exceed q foot square. it is usual to
mount them on cardboard or glass. If
over that size, ON canvas.
AS substitute for cream beat two
eggs, one ounce of sugar, and small
piece of butter, with pint of warm
milk then put it into hot water and
stir it one way, until it acquires the con-
sistence of cream.
WORMS in flower pots may be de-
stroyed by using common lime water,
made by stalking lime in water. The
solution must be weak; an ordinary
sized lump of lime will be sufficient for
six gallons of water
To prevent pitting from small pox
procure camel s-hair brush, dip it in
some glycerine, and paint the face with
it the time for application is about the
seventh day, when the lotion, prevent
ing the formation of matter, saves the
skin from being marked.
For weak eyes, put piece of alum
about the size of azel-nut, and a
piece of lump sugar, the same size, into
a quart of cold spring water, and stand
near the fire to dissolve then saturate
little lint with the mixture bathe the
eyes several times a day destroy the
lint Immediately after using, as it must
not be put into the lotion second time.
LINEN that is placed, Immediately af-
ter being ironed, near the stove or in
the hot sun, is stitfer when dry than if
it is permitted to dry slowly. 1t is Il
good plan to lay collars and small az
ticles on waiter and set them on a
kettle or other support on the stove, till
they are quite dry. A bowl of clear
water and clean old linen cloth is use
full to remove any specks the linen may
acquire before or while being ironed.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-04-25
Light.

Light is a force, and science holds
that it is made up of impulses. Ma
ture has been shown to conform all
kinds of dynamical effects to rhythmical
phlsing, or wave-like action, and the
impulses of light are held to be of the
same kind. They are, at any rate,
measurable effects which are unequal
in the different colored lights, and the
scale has been determined. In an inch
of violet light it is shown that there are
no less than $1,000 waves, statement
in which there is nothing extraordinary
or impossible, as Nobert, the German
optician, is in the habit of ruling his
microscopical test glasses at rates all
the way from 100000 to 100000 per
inch. But, when we are told that the
ray enters the eye at the rate of 1S5, 900
miles per second, and, as each inch ccn-
tains $1,000 waves, that when we are
looking at violet object there are 500,
0O0, 0,000,0 100000 beats upon the retina
each second, the statement battles all
imagination; we may accept, but can
not understand, it. In the attempt to
penetrate the nature of light we are lost
in the mysteries of the infinite. Yet
the modes of its action have been de-
termined, and they furnish the most
splendid example we know of the in
flexibleness and eXactitude of what are
called the laws of nature. .-Pop"ta1
Science MOnthly.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-04-25
The Temperance Movement.

The temperance crusade is no long
er the sensation of the day in the news
papers, but it continues to appear Il
matter of absorbing Importance to the
women engaged i'll it, and of practical
interest to the men whose business it
so materially affects. There is no evi-
dence thatthe women are weary in their
well doing. The number of saloons
closed has increased from day to day
until it now exceeds thousand, and we
look in vain for an instance in which
the women after fairly beginning battle
have fled the field. Their faith is of
the kind that is said to remove noun
tains. 1t hesitates not to attack the
enemy whether he be strongly in
trenched in 5000 grog- shops as in Gin
cinnati, or supported by an angry rab
bic as in Cleveland. An array of su-
perior numbers in opposition serves only
to call for more thorough organization
and greater perseverance on the part of
the crusaders. Persecution arouses the
spirit of martyrdom and elicits sympa-
thy for the prosecuted from unexpected
quarters. A single victory encourages
a praying band to weeks of more earn
est and devoted prayer and labor. But
a speedy victory does not seem neces-
sary to keep the fire of faith aglow.
Weeks may pass without surrender,
yet the women keep on with a patience
which enhsts the sympathy of the most
careless spectator and assures the ha
rassed liquor-dealer that, though the day
of his capitulation may be distant, it
must inevitably come.-Neao York Irib-
lkllC.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-04-25
Horrors of English Prison Life.

| Mr.. James Greenwood has published
n frightful account of the silent system
which is in operation at the Holloway
Model Prison in London. 1t is an Of
| fense for a prisoner to speak one word,
and he is never addre ssed except in
whispers, so that he may be in prison
two years without hearing the natural
sound Of the human voice. The effects
of all this is so terrible on the mind
that prisoners will speak out in desper-
alton, at the risk of any punishment,
rather than endure that horrible silence,
The prisoners never see one another,
but remain in perpetual solitude. One
poor wretch, driven to desperation by
nine months solitude and silence, reck-
lessly broke out in Mr. Greenwood's
presence: "For Gods sake, Governor,
put me in another cell. Put me some
where else. I've counted the bricks in
the cell | am in till my eyes ache" The
request of the tortured wretch was re-
fused. There is a fine hole in each cell,
and as the wardens wear shoes of India
rubber soles, the prisoner can never be
sure of being alone. Those condemned
to the treadmill have to ascend 200
steps every alternate twenty minutes for
SIX hours. And this IN place so hot
and close that prisoners often lose in
perspiration three stones in as many
months. Every day the prisoners are
taken to chapel, SO arranged that they
can see no one save the chaplain, and
him only through an iron grating. And
thus is the order of devotion observed.
Wardens are constantly ON the watch,
lest for a single instant they, through
the whole of the service, depart from
the rigid rule of "eyes right" They
must look steadfastly at the preacher
must raise and lower their prayer-book
with the elbows squared, and all at
once, like soldiers at drill. They may
not scrape their feet without having af-
terwatd to explain the movement.
They scarcely wink an eye or sigh with
out danger OF rebuke or punishment.
God help them, poor wretches.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-04-25
IiuillOr.

UNwELcoME Observation-Disclosures.
TYPOGRAPHICAL errors - Printers
strikes.
A MAINE girl has killed herself-by
gum This is not an oath.
AN exchange tells of an undertaking
wisely abandoned before it was begun"
AN impecunious citizen said the only
change he was allowed was that of the
weather.
ADAM had one consolation when he
fell Fifteen or twenty acquaintances
didn't stand on the opposite corner and
laugh ut his mishap.
A STARVING woman in Paterson, N.
j., driven to an excess of desperation
forced to spend her last six dollars for u
wig. Pity the sorrows of the poor.
WHERE did you learn wisdom ?"
inquired Diogenes of u man esteemed
wise. "From the blind" was the reply,
"who always try their path with stick
before they venture to tread ON it p
One of our neighbors had just put on
his pants, the other morning, when he
Immediately took them off again, under
the impression that they We're haunted.
The kitten was pulled out by the tail
and drowned.
"THE evidence shows that he sot up
with her night after night, and they
squoze hands and talked soft, and I
think she ought to have about 1923
damages" was the charge of a Kansas
Judge to jury in breach promise
case.
AT party, while young lady was
playing with peculiar brilliancy of
touch, bystander bachelor exclaimed,
"Td give the whole world for those
fingers = perhaps you might get the
whole hand by asking" said the young
lady's observant mamma.
WHAT" exclaimed the fashionable
Fitzwiggle to the exquisite Miss La
Sparrowgrass- what would you be,
dearest, if L should press the stamp of
love upon those sealing-wax lips 2"
81" " responded the fairy-like creature,
" "should be-stationery!'
THE following sweet dispatch passed
over wires to q Maine girl "To-:
Your life is rich bouquet of happiness,
yourself the sweetest flower. If north
ern winds whisper southern wishes, how
happy you must be. Good night.
Happy dreams, sweet love. Frank.
RESPECTABLE people" are a singular
set in Portland. Within week one re-
spectacle citizen was caught stealing
iewelry, another with kid gloves stole II
ham, third was arrested for stealing
spoons, and fourth, q "prominent
citizen" was picked up at midnight in
state of almost hopeless intoxication.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-04-25
Badly Sold.

A clerk in book store in Louisville,
where lottery tickets were sold, laid
aside one for himself numbered 3,307.
A short time ago the proprietor of the
store received letter from one Perkins,
living in an interior town, stating that
he had dreamed that 3,307 would draw
the capital prize, and requesting said
proprietor to purchase that ticket for
him if it was to be had. The clerk
stated that this was the identical ticket
he had selected for himself, and there
upon pulled out his money and paid for
it. He then wrote to Perkins that he
could have the ticket for 5000. Strange
to say, the return mail brought an ac-
ceptance of the offer and request that
the ticket be at once forwarded to Per-
kins. This so excited the clerk that he
backed square out, and declared he
would not sell it for less than 81 900.
He was soon astounded ut the receipt
of another letter agreeing to the terms
and demanding the ticket. This SO
worked upon the nervous clerk that he
refused point blank to sell it at any
price, and for fear that the priceless
ticket might get lost, he locked it up in
a bank vault. The young man has just
discovered that the whole thing was a
hoax, played upon him by acquaintan-
ces, and, what is worse, has found out
that 3,307 drew nothing bnt a blank in
the "grand scheme"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-04-25
Summers Marriage.

His marriage was the most incompre-
hensible thing he ever did throughout
his long and useful life Mrs. Hooper
was a very beautiful, brilliant and great
ly admired woman, who moved in the
choicest Boston circles. Her position
could not have been augmented by be-
coming Mrs. Sumner, although her am
bihon might have been gratifed, and
she certainly forfeited her fortune. She
was used to homage from men her
husband was accustomed to reverence
from every one. She found him an alb
sorbed man, only going into society for
the etiquette of the thing. She was
devoted to gay life, and drew around
her Il crowd of worshipers. When the
Senator, weary from his duties at the
Capitol, would at an early hour be ready
to order the carriage, the madame was
in the zenith of her enioyments, and |
have been told of several remarks she
WAS wont to make to him before people,
stinging to his self-lovc and mortify-
ing to his pride. She is accredited with
high temper, over which she exercised
not the slightest control. We cannot
penetrate the causes which led to the
enlargement, for Mr.. Sumner never
mentioned the matter after the separa-
ton, but who can tell what he may not
have suffered? His death, 50 immedi-
ately following his. wife's application
for permission to marry again, is, by
some, thought to be the effect of learn
ing the above news, his physicians
prophesying that any sudden excitement
would prove fatal. Be that as it may,
l pity her the remorseful feelings she
is probably mistress of to-day Wash
inutOn Letter.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-04-25

LOCOMOTIVE steam carriages on rail-
ways were first introduced at Liverpool
in October, 1929.
CITIES in England in the 10Th century
were inconsiderable. They were first
incorporated in 1909.
Music was first reduced to rules by
| Jubal, 1900 B. @. The flute was in
vented by Hyagnis, 1906.
The office of Master of the Cere-
| monies for the reception of persons at
court was introduced in England in
1903.
The small island of Monte Cristo is
situated in the Mediterranean. 1t con-
| tains the rufus of fortress and con-
| tains also an abbey.
| The Greeks crossed narrow seas on
RATS or beams tied together, till the use
| of shipping WAS made known to them
by Danaus of Egypt.
TIE first steamboat was that invent
ed by Fulton, called "The North
River" which made her first passage
from New York to Albany in 1907.
AT the surrender of Gen. Burgoyne
to Gen. Gates, in the war of the Rsvo-
luton, 5,791 men laid down their arms.
1t occurred at Saratoga Oct II, 1777.
THE first Protestant Bishop in the
United States was the Right Rev. DR..
Samuel Seabury, 1884 The first Catho-
lie Bishop was DR.. Carroll, of Mary
land, 1889.
THE first daily newspaper ever pub
lislied in the English language was is
sued in London, March IL, 1702-one
hundred and seventytwo years ago. 1t
was called the COurant, and was about
the size of half asheet of foolscap, print
ed only on one side, and contained "no
editorials, locals, court news, political
matter, advertisements, or English in
telligence of any kind"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-04-25
The Home of the Communists.

New Caledonia, the penal colony of
France, from which Henri Rochefort
and Pascal Grousset have escaped, is
an island in the South Pacific ocean.
It's surface is mountainous, and rises in
the center to an elevation of 5000 feet.
The convicts, now numbering about
5000, live in improvised huts of sap
lings and grass, and are guarded by IL
garrison of 200 meu. The island is
800 miles in length and thirty miles
wide. The smallness of the guard and
the large extent of coast render an es-
cape comparatively easy, especially
if aided from without. Preparations
are now being made for the re
ception of the Communist pris-
oners, 5000 of whom, with their
families, have been exiled to this
island. Upon their arrival the prison
ers are turned at large, first being eau
toned as to the manner of their be-
havior. Rochefort and his companion
escaped from New Caledonia in small
boat. They had been three days at
sea when they were picked up by Il
British sailing vessel and brought into
an Australian port.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-04-25

DIR. Brown Squeard, the eminent sur
geon, in II lecture delivered in New
York the other day said: "Ihc cure
Of any illness which does not consist in
a disorganization of the tissues can
often be accomplished when the person
thinks that it can be done. If we
physicians, who treat patients every
day, had the power to make them be-
lieve that they are to be cured, we GER
tainly would obtain less fees than we
do, and l must say that the best of us
would rejoice at it. There is no doubt
at all that if we could give to patients
the idea that they are to be cured they
would often be cured, especially if we
could name time for it, which is Il
great element in success. L have Sue
ceeded sometimes, and l may say that /
succeed more now than formerly, be-
cause have myself the faith that can
i'll giving faith obtain u cure. ] wish,
indeed, that physicians who are Younger
men than myself, and who will have
more time to study this question than [
have, would take it up, especially i'll
those cases in which there is tunc-
tional nervous affection only to deal
with, rs it is particularly, though not
only, in those cases that cure can be
obtained. Indeed cure may thus be
obtained in certain organic affections );
even in dropsy it may lead to a cure.
You know that it vii stop pain that
going to dentist is often quite enough
to make toothacle disappear. L have
seen patients come to me with terrible
neuralgia, who dreaded the operation L
was about to perform, and, just at the
time l was to undertake it, ceased to
Sl1ffar -
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-04-25
A Comparison.

An exchange says: Compare the
publisher of newspaper, who has to GO
all around the country to collect his
pay, t. farmer who sells his wheat on
credit, and not more than bushel to
any person. Ii any farmer will try the
experiment of distributing the proceeds
of his labor over two or three counties,
with the addition of large percentage
scattered over his own and other States,
for one year, we will guarantee that he
will never, after that years experience,
ask publisher to supply him with .
paper year or two without the pay
for it,
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-04-25
Cremation.

Sir Henry Thompson, the great Eng
lish doctor, has another long argument
in the Contemporary Rcviet0 in favor
of the incremation of the dead. After
demonstrating the sanitary necessity of
such measure in ali great cities, Sir
Henry gives the following as pro-
gramme for the funeSl ceremonies:
"When death occurs and the necessary
certificate has been given, the body is
placed in q light wood shell, then in q
suitable outside receptacle, preparatory
to removal for religious rites or other
wise. After a proper time has elapsed
it is conveyed to the spot where crema-
ton is to be performed. There nothing
need be seen by the last attendant or
attendants than the placing of the shell
within small compartment and the
closing of the door upon it. 1t slides
down into the heated chamber, and is
left there an hour, till the necessary
changes have taken place. The ashes
are then placed at the disposal of the
attendants" The communal councils
of Vienna and Gratz have adopted q
proposal to establish in their cemeteries
the necessary apparatus for cremation,
I" the use of which will be optional and
Open to all.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-04-25
An Old Use for Hammers.

I remember, says correspondent of
the Mcdicdl and Surgical Journal,
that, when / was very young, they used
to raise blisters with boiled hammers.
Old DIR. Twitchell, of Keene--peace to
his ashes-once wanted to blister some
one in farm house, far from home.
He asked his wife to find him ham
mer. The article was brought ont, put
in tea-kettle over the fire, and, after
the water steamed and bubbled well, he
lifted it out and gently touched it to
his patient in half dozen spots, over
the seat of pain, with very positive ef-
feet. Boiled hammers, were, for many
years, used in that neighborhood for
pleurisy and every old lady knew moth
ing was equal to hammer ; and there
was long dispute whether it should be
a claw-hammer or not. [ think theyeas
finally conquered,