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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-08-04
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ALEXANDRIA, AND FREDERICKSBURG RAILWAY
Alter JUNE :, 1875 trains will run Is
follows d
Leave Southwark from Alexandra & Frede,
lcksburg depot at l2.0I =. M Southern E.pres,
daily, except Monday. The Southern EXPIRES.
runs through 20 Rich mond without change, con.
meeting 1t Richmond for all points South.
Leave Northward from Alexandria 6 Preder
icksburg depot al 3.5S g. m. Northern Expires,
daily, except Monday, through North and
Vest The Northern Express run through to
Baltimore, without change, connecting with
Trains on the Northern Central Railway for the
North and West
ALEXANDRIA AND WASHINGTON RAILROAD.
After JUNE ID trains will run rs follows.
daily, except Sunday:
Leave Alexandria for Washington, from ST
Asaph street depot, at 600, 100, $780, 800, lO.U
and 10 a. nn.; and LOO, 3.0O 400, 500, 800
and 100 p. III.
Trains leaving at 600, 500 and 10 90 a. m. and
500 and 100 p. m. I'm, daily; all others daily
except Sunday.
The trains leaving Alexandria at /, 8 and II
AM, ), I, and pm. connect through to Bslt
more. The and II .. III. and .. NJ train,
connect at Washington with through New York
trains
Leave Washington for A!oxandris from pss
senger depot, cor 9th and B streets, at SOC
30 500, 900, 1000, and Hoo a. m; and 10
800 400, 800, 600 and 100 p. m.
Trains leaving at 100 and 800 H. M, and LOO
amp " p m. run daily; all others daily except
Sunday.
Trains leaving Washington at :, and 1Oa.m.
!, 8, O. +, and lbs p. IN. connect with trains
ron. Baltimore. The s.n., and 5, and IL 80
p. N. trains deliver passengers from New York.
s@Aiexsndris and Fredericksburg Railway
trains leave passenger depot cor. 9Th and sts.,
at | SS p. m. Southern Express for Richmond
and all points South
TRAINS FOR PHILADELPHIA AND
NEW YORK.
Leave Alexandria at 100 a. M, and ll.OOs.
M, and and 7 D. m
Leave Washington at 7.45 g. m, and lis,
4. 53 and sos p. m.
Tain leaving Alexandria at 4 D. m. connects
with train leaving Washington al 453 p. IN. for
Philadelphia, arriving at Philadelphia at 10 Is
p. NJ.
Tickets to Philadelphis and New York can be
obtained At the St. Asaph street depot.
GEO. q. WILKINS, Sup't
d. NJ. BOYD, Jr., Gen. Pas. Agent lie 10
WASHINGTON & OHIO RAILROAD
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-08-04
CL DIES STEAM LINES

PHILADELPHIA, PROVIDENCE AND
BOSTON.
Steamers leave Alexandria EVERY TUES.
"a a !, ;, and nd leave Philadelphia EV- -,
from Pier No. North Wharves.
Tins line connects at Aexandris with the O.
4. y NJ. and W. & Q. K Rs, ana at Philadei,,
PIMA with the new and popular Iron Line,o for
Freight forwarded with promptness and care,
free of commissions. -
No charge for transfer in PHILADELPHIA, and
no wharfage in Boston. Through to Boston in
sixty-6ve hours. Through rates and Though
bills of lsding given. Insurance guaranteed st
less than usual rates.
Agents:
Il. a. REED, Alexandria.
VIM. P. CLYDE s. CO., Philadelphis.
GEO. F. HYDE, Georgetown, D. 6.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1875-08-06
LOOK TO YOUR INTERESTS.

LOOK TO YOUR INTERESTS,
and insure at once in your own State, where
you participate i'll the profits.
Now gentlemen you have a chance to insure
in gnnd and perfectly reliable company under
our own supervision.
The Directors Of the Company hope by encr-
gy, economy. and fairness with ALL to meLit
and receive, in the future in the past, the
patronage and cooperation of our citizens in
all pa ITS of the State.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1875-08-06
farm ann, 0nltsebulb,
SOCIAL LEANNEss.

The American farmer, in all his
planning, and all his building, has
never made provision for life. He has
only considered the means of getting
a living. Everything outside of this
everything relating to society and
culture-has been steadily ignored
He gives his children the advantages
OF schools, not recognizing the fact
that these very advantages call into
life a new set of social wants. A
bright, we'll educated family, in lone
ly farmhouse, is very different materi-
al from family brought up in igno-
rance. An American farmers chill
dren, who have had q few terms at d
neighboring academy, resemble in 70
degree the children of the European
peasant. They come home with new
Ideas and new wants, and if there is
no provision made for these new wants.
and they find no opportunities for
their satisfaction, they will be ready,
on reaching their majority, to fly the
farm and seek the city.
1t the American farmer wishes to
keep his children near him. he must
learn the diffaranee between living and
getting a living; and we mlstahe hin,
and his grade of culture altogether if
he does not stop over this statement
and wonder what we mean by it. To
get a living, to make money, to be-
come ''forehanded''-this is the whole
of life to agricultural multitudes, dis
couraging in their numbers, to con-
template. To them there is no differ
ence between living and getting liv-
ing. Their whole life consists in get
ting living; and when their families
come back to them from their school
ing, and find that, really, this is the
only pursuit that has any recognition
under the paternal roof, they must go
away. The boys push to the centers
of the cities, and the girls follow them
IT they can. A young man or young
woman, raised to the point where they
apprehend the difference between liv-
ing and getting a living, can never be
satisfied with the latter alone. Either
the farmers children must be kept ig-
norant, OF provision must be made for
their social wants. Brains and hearts
need food and clothing as well as bod
les; and those who have learned 10
recognize brains and hearts as the best
and most important part of their per-
sonal possessions, will go where they
can find the ministry they need.
What is the remedy How shall
farmers manage to keep their children
near them? How can We discourage
the influx Of unnecessary-nay bur-
densome-population into the cities?
We answer: By making agricultural
society attractive. Fill the farm
houses with periodicals and books
Establish central reading rooms, or
neighborhood clubs. Encourage the
social meetings of the young. Have
concerts, lectures, amateur dramatic
associations. Establish bright. ac-
tive social life, that shall give some
Significance to labor. Above all, build
as far as possible, in villages. 1t is
better to go a mile to ones daily la
Dor, than to place ones self a mile
away from neighbor. The isolation
of American farm life is the great
curse of that life, and it falls upon the
women with a hardship that the men
cannot and drives the edit
Gated Young awav.-,Scri6nerS.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1875-08-06
Useful Recipes,

Lime slaked just before application
and sown by hand is said to be an in,
fallible protection against fly in tur.
nips.
\ whitewash made of quicklime
and wood ashes will destroy moss on
trees.
4 mixture of tallow parts, tar l
part, applied to the bark while hot
will protect fruit trees against mice
A horse team will haul from 25 to
36 cubic feet Of limestone at each
load.
The best homemade fireproof safe
is a hole in the ground, we'll lined
with brick and cement.
About 21O cubic feet of new mea-
dow hay, or from 216 to 243 cubic feet
of hay from old stacks, or from 297
to 324 cubic feet Of dry clover, weigh
one ton.
To compute the number of tons an
ice house will contain, calculate the
number Of cubic feet in the house and
divide by 35; this gives the number
of tons if closely packed.
y cubic yard of sand or earth
weighs about 80 ewt; mud 25 cwt
mari 26 cwt; clay 81 cwt; chalk 36
o"t, s"ndstone 80 cwt; shale 10 cwt:
quartz II cwt; granIce- IS, owl trar,
42 cwt; slate 43 cwt.
To determine the weight of live
cattle, measure in inches the girth a.
round the breast Just behind the
shoulder blade, and the length of the
back from the tail to the fore part Of
the shoulder blade. Multiply the
girth by the length and divide by IL.
If the girth is less than 3 feet, multi
ply the quotient by Il. If between 3
and 5 feet, multiply by rs; if between
) and . feet, by %, or if between :.
and 8 feet, by 81. Ii the animal is
lean, deduct 1-20 Of the result and the
answer is the weight in pounds: this
multiplied by o.605 gives the net
weight.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1875-08-06

Among the great
discoveries of modern
science, few are of
more real value to
mankind than this ef-
fectual remedy for all
diseases of the Throat
and Lungs. A vast
trial of its virtues,
throughout this and
other countries, has
shown that it does
surely and effectually
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1875-08-06
The Maryland Life Insurance Agent Wanted 0I Urles TO-
pTIrEII

CO1Il pdIIy.
nFFICE in Company's Building, No. ~
I South Street. Baltimore. business done
upon the esMutual Plan. All Policies MONITOR
feitable.
President-GEoRGE P. THOMAS.
Secretary-A. X. FoARD.
Directrs-H Hamilton Easter, Allen A. Chap
man. George P. Thomas, Hugh Sission, HiI
Wood. George II. Miller, VIM. Devries, Chas.
Webb, Thomas Cassard.
These gentlemen are well and favorably
known as among the best commercial men IN
the State.
This successfully and thoroughly established
Company was chartered in 1864.
TIE COMPANY
! in the hands of its able Directors, has been a
grand success. II now pays dividend on the
! first year All policies non forfeitable. 1t Of
fcrs advantages equal to any Company in the
country.
/ The laws Of trade, commerce, self interest and
self. respect combine to make this the Company
for Maryland.
RErERENcEs.-Hon. F. Stone, William Bos-
well, ESQ.,, J. Thos Cotton, Esq, Geo. A. Hunt,
Esq, and Capt. E Wells. PRICE
MEDICAL ExAMINERs.-Drs. Dige"-' f'ice'
Recder and G. D. Mudd. s,h;aot of 1;ea T.,
Persons interested veil to eonss soneit the li sbone
publications. can be found at the stores of
I VIM Boswell, J. H. Roberts & Co., j. /. Lacey
| also, at the store of w. w. Padgett, in the
hands of II. G. Robertson.
| ny-Mr. J. Thos. Cotton, of Aliens Fresh, will
act as local agent for the Ma, yland Life Insur-
ance Company. Persons wishing to insure can
also apply to Dr. Robert Dgges of Port Tobac-
co. VIM H. Blandford, ll2 S. Charles street, or
at the Company's office, No. 10 South. street,
Baltimore
Al. MYERS, State Superintendent.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1875-08-06
Stay Where You Are.

One of the greatest drawbacks to
prosperity is the restive, rowing, and
unsettled spirit of the people. Each
one imagines there is an FL Dorado
somewhere, or that some section is
more prosperous than his own, and
that he must get to it before he can
accomplish anything. The idea has
unsettled him, and if he does not ''pull
up'' and migrate at once, he is forever
thinking about it, and neglects to i'm
prove his present farm and home.
The delusion has been wide spread
since the war, and much individual
disaster has been the result. The
curse of Reuben seems to rest upon
the people.
1t is a great mistake. Contentment
is the great secret of life. Old Horace
struck the right key when he said:
s.Happiness depends not upon place
nor climate, but upon the state Of
ones mind.'' "Rolling stones gather
no moss" and the experiment of SELL
ing out and moving, in the hope of
bettering the condition, often ends i'll
bitter disappointment and irretriev-
able loss.
Better stay where you are. If you
are in a good community, and your
lands have bottom, drive down your
naos and locate. Remember that
a.there's more in the man than the
land'' as old Texas Jones said, on re-
turning from Texas, after terrible
failure. to the worn out homestead he
had sold. and found it blooming like
q garden. Right up the old dwelling,
renew the outbuildings, palings, fen
ces. and barns; spend "a few dollars in
white paint, and give the premises an
air of cheerfulness. Cultivate less
ground and make it richer. Make
plenty to eat and some to sell, and let
your crop be clear profit. Plant fruit
trees, have your rye, oats, barley,
wheat and clover patches; fine horses,
fat COWS, and rich butter. Give your
wives and daughters flower gardens,
and assist them in collecting a good
assortment of roots and cuttings. Do
these simple things, and, our word
for it, your houses will take new hold
upon YOUR affections, and instead OF
the rickety, dilapidated establish
ments, and solemn, hungry-looking
countenances so common IN our coun-
try. we will find comfortable and in
yitine homes, where all is love, con-
tentment and happiness. It will be
a Colchian enchantress lnfuslng new
iuices into the veins for the prolonga-
ton of life and youth. Tryit. Turn
over new leaf and begin anew. Fear
God and love your neighbors, your
wives, and your children, and don't
try to get rich in one year.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1875-08-06

Ice IN THE HOUSE. use of ice
in small quantities frequently repeat
ed is very general in many diseases,
but it is generally found to be diff
Guilty to keep it from melting, especial
" in small blocks. DIR. SchWarz re-
commends, to obtain this result, that
the ice should be put in a small vessel
covered with a plate, which vessel
should be placed on a feather-bed and
covered with feather pillow or cush-
ion. feathers being very bad conduc-
tors of heat. DIR. Schwarz states that
by this plan he has been able TO keep
six pounds of ice for eight days when
-1Le thermometer marked summer heat.
The New York herald., 1875-07-12

elsewhere in the city. In fact ne rather
seems to relish the sickly stencil and to re-
gard it, as Dsbecker regards it, as q fragrant
perfume. A short time ago Mr.. Green was
far more offensive TO Alderman Vance nos
trils than are the foulest pest holes of the
deadly fats. But while the Alderman's
championship of the abominable nui-
sance may gain him the favor of the
garbage dumping Disbecker AMI make
him the choice of Jones & McQuade for the
next Mayoraty, it will not enhance his rep
utation among the citizens as professor of
organic chemistry. The unfortunates who are
compelled to live within the influence of the
mephitic vapors of the fats would no doubt
rejoice to compel Mr.. Vance to undergoa
practical experience of the nuisance for q few
weeks during the heated term Indeed, it
would seem practical method of settling the
difficulty, and at the same time be an evidence
of sincerity If the Alderman should take quar-
ters in the neighborhood for q month. Alder
man Smonson follows in the wake OF Mr..
Vance, and not only fails to discover any un-
pleasantness in the Disbecker stenches, but
argues that as the flats have been there for
years without doing much harm, they cannot
be very dangerous now. But then the sage
Simopson must remember that Disbecker has
not been in official existence for years and
that contractors have not received from him
the facilities for cheating the city and Gre
ating foul, deadly pest hole in our midst.
The minority Aldermen may as well make
up their minds that the people understand the
unworthy object OF thoir reprehensible action
as public officers and the hypocrisy of their
affectation of regard for the citys interests.
The Harlem flats are to-day peril to the lives
of o million of people. Disease and death
are in their plague breeding vapors, and if we
escape a pestilence during August and Sep
tember it will be only by good fortune or tho
benefcence of Providence. The republican
Aldermen only vote to perpetuate the danger
in obedience to the instructions of their party
leaders and as q partisan act. In so doing
they violate their oath OF Office and forfeit
their claim to be regarded as honest repre-
sentatives. Unless they speedily reverse their
action their official regulations will be as
unsavory as the stenches that fail to offend
Alderman Vance's nose as he drives by the
Harlem flats
The New York herald., 1875-07-12
The Harlem Flats Aldermen.

The Aldermen who have seats in the Com
mon Council of the city by the grace of
partisan charter, without any constituencies
at their backs, have suddenly become enam-
CURED of the contract system and justify their
championship of the Harlem pest hole
stenches on the ground that, should the rot.
ting flats be filed by days work, done under
the supervision of the Commissioner of Pub
lie Works, the city might be robbed. No
doubt dishonest officials can rob the city,
either by allowing the foul refuse of the
streets to be used by contractors in filing in
lots in violation of the law or by cheating on
the material and labor required to abate q
deadly nuisance by covering up the pestilen
tial filth. But there are two points which
prove the insincerity of the Harlem flats
Aldermen when they make this excuse for
their obstructive action in the Board. When
Commissioner Van Mort, republican Com
missioner, was at The head of the Public
Works Department, they had 10 such
scruples as they now pretend to have in re-
gard to days work, and when Commissioner
Porter was named by the Mayor as Mr. Van
NOIb ouSSOooOl OhSoS o"hAO ASPNDiiS"h NAbSA-
men indorsed his appointment, voted for his
confirmation and openly expressed their en-
tire confidence in his honesty and capacity.
This being the case they impose upVn the
credulity of the citizens of New York when
they pretend that they defeated the ordinances
providing for the immediate protection of the
city from the danger OF q pestilence because
they are opposed to days work or because
they thought Commissioner Fltz John Porter
might rob the city if they gave him authority
to abate the nuisance at once. Their excuses
for their partisan action are the more con-
temptible since they know that the expense
would not fall upon the city at all.
Alderman Vance, who won d temporary
popularity O short time ago by assuming an
indignant opposition to the cavilings and
obstructivcness of Comptroller Green, goes a
little further than some OF his associates, and
declares that when he drives in the neighbor-
hood of the Harlem plague spot he does not
discover any offensive smells or anything
that can be considered detrimental to the
health of the citizens living in the locality OF
The New York herald., 1875-07-12

two unfortunate States, South Carolina and
Mississippi and there is not the least doubt
that this event. SO perplexing and uncom-
Portable to the republican party, must DO laid
to the door OF General Grant Such men as
Casey, Packard, Kellogg, Spencer, Pease,
Brooks, who and whose like have been the
Presidents Southern organizers, have played
out their few winning cards and are nov
done. They will hold place while their mas
ter can hold them in; but they have no politi-
cal influence; on The contrary, they would be
q dead weight to any party which should ad-
NIT them to its membership. They can or
ganize third term movement, and can do
very much to carry the next republican Presi-
dental nominating convention for Grant;
and if that is indeed his object they are still
the most useful men he can g.t II his recent
letter is rightly understood by those who be-
lieve that it is bid for denomination, then, in
deed, he is now, as he has always been, shrewd
in the choice of men to do his will But even
then he could only ruin the republican party.
The New York herald., 1875-07-12

CARL VoGT IN ANTWERP. a legal
struggle of three years Carl Vogt has at last
been returned to the Belgian government fol
trial on the charge of numbering and robbing
his master. This case is the most interesting
of modern times, for in il not only was the
fate of the criminal involved, but the interpre-
tation of the extradition treaty between the
United States and Belgium. Extraordinary
precautions were taken to guard Vogts move
ments during his voyage from New York and
to land him safely on his arrival at Antwerp,
which are described in our mail report to-day.
The New York herald., 1875-07-12

juster reeIing arrer-a feeling based upon
respect and better knowledge of each other.
THIS is the homely and sensible view Of the
American Revolution. The separation of the
two countries was inevitable, and the quarrel
that came Que of the most painful and deplo-
rable in history. If the great men Of that
day-Burlze and Chatham and others like
them-had been allowed to counsel there
would have been no quarrel. But, at the same
time, we cannot but respect the feeling which
led George III. and his ministers to fight for
their provinces George Ill is by no means
an ideal king, and there are many points in
bis character that we cannot admire and thai
led to great disasters to his people but we re
spect his sturdy, obstinate resolution not to
surrender America without struggle. That
resolution was at least worthy of an English
king. And when we see what we ourselves
have done in the past few years to save the
Union we can understand the feeling which
animated the stout, persistent soul of this
ruler.
Therefore, when we celebrate the Fourth of
July we by no means celebrate the discomft-
ure of England That is the smallest phase
of the ceremony. We have seen nothing
in the many centennial events which we ara
from week to week commemorating-in the
speeches and poems-to show the least un-
kindness to England. On the contrary, the
ideal ''red-coat' of our youth, the villanous
"Britisher" aud malignant story" have faded
away. The more we look into the history of
that time the clearer we see the virtues on
both sides-the gallant soldier who died for his
king, The loyal gentleman who abandoned
home and possessions rather than disavow his
sovereign. These are qualities which we have
learned to respect, more particularly since our
own time has seen thousands dying for flag
and in obedience to sentiment of loyal devo-
tion to the Union. This is the spirit in which
the far-minded men of both countries should
contemplate and commemorate the Revolution.
And poor, vain, foolish, loud-talking buster
ers like the Standard will only be listened to
in sport and derision, as idle men who know
not what they say.
The New York herald., 1875-07-12
RAPID Transit SCHEMES. degree oi

RAPID TRANSIT SCHEMES. degree oi
rapid transit we possess in the elevated steam
road, although inadequate to the wants of the
city, is enough to prove the enormous advan-
tage of complete system. We elsewhere
print careful review of the different plans,
and do not doubt the conclusion that the
scheme of an underground railroad is as un.
popular as it is difficult. Probably more than
one plan will ultimately be required, but the
pressing want now is road which shall be
quickly built and cheaply put in operation.
The extension of the Elevated Railroad to
Sixty-frst street is one step in this direction;
the construction of good road on the east
side would be another But to these ques-
tions the Commissioners will doubtless give
their earnest attention, and thus far the public
has every reason to be satisfied with the zeal
they have displayed.