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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-11-25

The debate on the Electoral bill was contin
ued yesterday in the French Assembly. The
blu Is regarded as assuming character untav.
orablc to the Republican party.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-11-25
ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25.

In consequence of the war of the Mberians
with the natives, much distress exists among
the former, and those in the interior settle
ments are SAID to be IN a state OF starvation.
The natives are said to receive encouragement
from the students OF the Theological Seminary
at Cape Pa!mas, and number of EoglishmeD
are supplying the natives with arms and am.
munitlon. 10 view of this condition Of affairs,
a committee of the American Colonization So.
ciety yesterday waited on the President and
asked for aid to enable the Llberians to chas
tise the natives They were Informed that q
war vessel has been sent to the African coast
for that purpose, aud that the Secretary Of
State would communicate with Minister
Schenck with view to the removal of The
Eugsbmen who are supplying the natives
with the means of carrying ca the war.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-11-25

The recent meeting of the Virginia Radicals
10 Washin6tou was in reference to the Rich.
mond postofice. one faction favoriDg the claims
of Alfred Morton, the other DR.. Gilmer. 1t i:
said that Hon. John F. Lewis, the champion
of DR., Gilmer, efectuaIy extinguished Nor
ton $ prospects, by exhibiting to the Preaideu1
letter written by Morton to Franklin Stearns
in April, 1872. in favor of the Greeley move
ment, and urging Stearns to 60 as delegate
to Cincinnati We have authority for saying
that the newspaper reports representing CoI:
Mosby as participating in this meeting are IN
true. He was never consulted about it or had
any connection with it whatever, as he has
gone to Washington to practice law exclu
svey, and not politics
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-11-25
Letter from LOudoun Comfy.

Correspondence of the Alexandria G.za.to
tEESECRG, Nov u
the assessment OF 1879, rs .eturned t. III"
Clerk rtlitr shows falling off in the v,lu,. ~
bands without buildings of IA per cont since
1873, and including buildings OF l. & 100 perez
The average Va ne OF property in the seyeraI
Districts is rs follows:
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-11-25
John Randolph.

10 his letters TO bis freud Francis S. Kew,
Mr.. Randolph showed that his heart was
touched with gentlest and purest thoughts of
another world Toward the end of his egisla-
tive career, in tariff debate with Louis NJ Lane,
OF Delaware, he gave signs that it had genial cul.
ture. ln spite of his own remark, that he
would have gone to the distatf or the needle,
tut Tor spice of the devil 10 his nature, he
was as gentle as woman; aud 90 this occasion
he begged his opponent Mr.. M'Llue, in the
kndest way to point out his (Raniolph' 81 fall
iacles even by rldicule. ut is as fair a wea-
pom he said, ''as any 10 the whole parIia
meutary armory." But he denounced the
pois med arrow and the sea ping knife, and in
this debate he illustrated, by bis reply, that he
could, but would not retDrt in kind. He rath-
er praised the head and heart of Nj Lane, who
had praised Randolph's head at the expense
OF his heart. This dclicacy of feeling was a
part OF the elemental life OF the Roanoke wit
NO one IN the American Congress was fully his
equal as personal antagonist He often made
the lutlrmlues of others target. Nor does
1t detract from his wisdom as statesman. The
man VINO did SO much tor the Louisiana our
chase, who torcsaw our grand national future,
who SO deteStcd and denounced the corruption
which even theu existed in land grabs from
Erie 10 Mobile, who was ever rocking on the
ylclSsltudes of our widest politics, had heart
l'umlncd by the warmest friendships, and the
most faithful constituents and servants. While
his mlnd Was instinct with the finest humor, it
was alive to the largest humanity, as his will
OF mauumtsson shows. His spirit has not all
together departed from the Congressional body.
At least We have two of his connections in the
present Congress Bland, of Missouri and
Tucker, OF Virginia.
Randol phi is sample of that class of men
who, having no special vocation, gave to their
country and their neighbors the benefit of a
large roundabout sense Are not such men
rare? Are they not the best of our states.
men. re Hon. s. s. Cor, in Horper's Mag
dzine for October.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-11-25
THE CHEsAPEAKEAND OHIO R.R

John O. Steger, counsel for Henry Tyson,
receiver of the Chesapeakea and Ohio Railroad
furnishes statement of the cost of the road,
Its liabilities, assets &C., in which it is stated
that the total cost of the road and of equip
meot up to August 81, 1875, was S45, 269,-
common stock of the company given away by
the stockholders at their annual meetings of
1869 and 1872. 1850. GAS SO of interest paid
% bonded debt and loans during construction
and suudry other items.
The account furnished by the Richmond
office makes the liabilities Of the company w
| to August 81, 1875, $2S 7S9, 24O 81.
The account furnished by the New York
office, makes the total Indebtedness of the com-
| pany up to the same period, August 81, 1875.
| $40, 1868, 1926 10. But there is embraced 10 this
| amout SIS, S9S. 4Ol 96 Of paid up stock of the
company. Deductiug this, the amount of the
Indebtedness, by this account, is $33 49,
O24 85-a difference between the two accounts
OF $l95 2l5.S4
The account furnished by the Now York
office, shows the value of the assets TO be S49,-
643, 04l.76 10 this account the road aud
equipment are valued at $45, 269, 6SO06
MIR. Steger's statement is not accepted by
the late management of the company as fair
and correct
IRISH LACE.-It is 10 beautiful, delicate
needework, aud iu the making of lace of diff
ferent kinds that the Irish sisters excel Per.
sons learned 10 such matters can t III instantly
on looking at piece of work at what convert
1t was done. The crochet made uudcr the su
perlnteDdence of the Youghal nuns is exquisite,
and so tne that it has, in many cases, been
mistaken for other kinds of lace. have heard
of lady who purchased quaut ty of what
she believed to be old Roman poiut in Italy at
great expense. % bringing it bone she
took it to her dressmaker in Dublin and gave
it to her as trimming. for dress, with many
cautions against waste. and with repeated or
ders not to cut it unnecessarily. The woman
smiled when she heard the discolored work
called antique point. She got a maguitying
glass and showed her customer that she had III
reality bought Irish crochet lace, which had
been dipped in some yellow fluid in order to
give 1t an appearance of great age.-7he ar
COSY.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-11-25

A dispatch from Vieona announces the death
Of Cardinal Ranscher
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-11-25

AN OUTRAGE IN V,RaINlA.-T Democrat,
published at Woodstock Shenandoah county,
Va, gives the following particulars of an out
rage IN that county:
"On Wednesday last a party of hunters, con
slslng OF live or six men, went TO the house of
Minoah Harmau, III Powelps Fort, and, % "a
pretcnSe OF wanting tobacco. euiced him to his
door, where they presented gun to his face
and demanded t. know OF him who the parties
were who had billed some of their dogs. Mr..
Hartman protested his ignorance bat they in
sisted upon curing the evil Of dog killing that
night, and after much swearing t ,ok Mr. Har-
mau and his son, about twelve years Old, into
the woods, tied the old gentleman to ire !,
made the boy strip the father, and then they
administered q severe aud cruel whipping
which seriously disabled Mr. Harmau, ana the
bruises from which are yet distinctly marked
upon bis person. The sou Was thrown upon
the ground, stripped, and still ulore severely
whipped than the father The Democrat
adds that Mr.. Hartman Says he is not, aud
never has been hunter, and thar his son never
loaded gun. Efforts will be made to bring
the offenders to justice.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-11-25

DEATH OF AN OLD PRINTER. jesse White,
of fredericksburg died on Thursday last, in
the Seth year Of his age, and, was we believe,
the oldest practical printer in Virginia. Mr..
White was born in Stafford county, and ca me
TO Fredericksburg at an ear y age. being ap-
prentlced to Timothy Green, deceased, the
founder OF this paper. This was, We believe,
In 1904, over seventy years ago After serv-
ing his time in the Herald" office, Mr.. White
went to Alexandria, and worked Tor few
years in the 'Gazette' office Returoipp to
Fredericksburg he was Tor many years an en-
pluyee in the Herald" office. For some years
before the war he carried 90 job Office and
Tor lew years printed small paper known as
the Fredericksburg Advertiser although an
old man, immediately after the war he re open
cd his job Office in this place, and worked at
the case and press alter he was eighty years of
age. For the last two or three years MIR. ".
has been bed-ridden, spending lately, all his
days IN bed but he neither murmured nor re-.
pined at his sad lot 10 life being a great suf-
ierer and entirely dependent upon the liber-
atty of the public for his every day bread.
He was member of the Methodit church,
and for years has been consistent CHRISTIAN -
Fredericksburg HcroM
How GREENBACK PAPER is NADIA |
the paper for the money issued by the United
States Government is manufactured Oh a Sky
two Fourdrnitr machine. at the Glen Minis
near West Chester, Pa. Short pieces of red
silk are mixed with the pulp in the engine,
and the flush stuff is conducted to the wire
without passing through any screens, which
might retain the silk threads By an arrange
ment above the wire, shower OF short pieces
of 6ne blue silk thread is dropped in streaks
upon the paper while it is being formed. The
upper side, on which the blue S TX is dropped,
is the oue used for the face of The notes, and,
from the mauuer in which the threads are an
piled, must show them more distinctly than
the reverse side, although they are imbeddcd
deeply enough to remain Lixad The mill is
guarded night and day by officials to prevent
the abstraction Of any paper,
CHANGES IN PosToFFIcEs The following
changes have recently beeu made 10 post, hccs
10 the State of Virginia: Larton Valley, Far
fax Especial between Accoribk miles north
east, and Occoquau, miles southwest; estab-
llshed. Leedstown, Westmoreland county,
rout H. l3; 40 details Alden, King George
county, route lllO5, between MivilIe, Ito be
discoltioued) d miles east, and Edge Hill,
4 miles west; established.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-08-19
WISE AND OTHERWISE.

Old Probabilities has been happily re-
christened Old P'raps.
Two young ladies who don't agree to
gether-Em- Bezzlement and Belle. Punch
n. Y. Com. AID.
"That's horse of another cutler" as the
huckIsberry picker said when he walked of
with a companions quadruped.-N. Y. Com
Ad.
The cotton mills at Lowell shut down for
just six months when an operator gets
killed, but the stoppage is to oil up the ma
chinery.-Free Press.
"There is an easier feeling in Shoes" ssiu
the market reporter, as he wrenehed off q
pair of narrow eight boots, and stuck his
feet into his old ten brogans.
Mr.. Patrick Vesey, just committed to TIE
New York aims. house as a vagrant, has
$1,000 and a gold watch. Now let Cornele
Vanderbilt and Alec Stewart look to them
selves.-Courier Journal.
The ucalyptus tree is objected to in Mis-
souri, as not suitable for lynching purposes.
1t grows so high trat derrick would have
70 be used TO put the company through sue
cessfully.-Courier-Jo
The Detroit Post is alarmed at the report
that the Long Branch Sartoris baby has
very little hair on its head. The Post says:
This is ominous. Bald-headed, and rot
vet a month old! Cesar was bald headedl"
Twas the voice of the Sunshade, heard her
complain,
"Im of no use at all, for we've nothing but
Bright Sol is deposed by the Demon of Damp,
And I'm put in the shade by that Odlous
Gampi"
Punch
When the late DIR. Scudder, of India, was
arousing the children of America to care for
the heathsn, he received a note from little
girl, saying: my dear DIR. Scudder, 1 seud
you 10 cents. When you want any more
money, write to me-"
George Fishback, st. Louis editor, is a
hero. He brought her TO shore and placed
her in the arms of her distracted parents.
Who couldn't swim around and save peo-
pie with such a name. 1t would be scaly n
ne. dfdn't.-Ohio State Journal.
Somebody profanely challenged the god
less people of Cincinnati to repeat the
. Lords Prayer, verbatim ct literatim, for
500. One j. Smith writes to the CONNER
cial that lie is "about the size OF man who
can get away with that snoozer's money"
Beautiful story. Burning building; fe-
male seminary; crashing timbers; one child
missing; yellow-haired girl rushes from the
crowd; rescues child excites the admiration
of a captain in the French army; marries
Captain; yellow-haired girl Madame Mac
and President Of the Republic. Lovely!
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-08-19

UMBRELLA WANTED.
BY L. or.

Said Ma5ge t. me one yearsgo
b the sea, Cousin Jack, 90 you know,
Whv il is that a 'fellah'
With pice large umbrella
is preferred BY the girls a beau?"
j stupidly grinned for "A while.
Watching her bright witcning smile
But couldn't make out
Why il was that n stout
Big umbrella should add TO ones style
gave mp the thing in despair,
She, with IN ySferfOus al,
Marched m down tC the beach
NotR sound nor speech
Was heard, TIL she whispered, Look there -
Good gracious! for mile / could see,
And coun' ed at least thirty-three
Very singular plants
Glngham mushrooms, perchance
And all opened out towards the sea.
turned TO sweet Madge. standing near
I" I'm one in your debt, my dear,
I'll bet cravat
'Gainst a four-cent chip hat
That III cut my eye teeth by next year.
This summer sit near the tide,
And somebody's close by my side
tell you elijah
Does need an umbrella
The wedding? Madge says, Christmas-tide.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-08-19

"Man," says Victor Hugo, ''was the CO.
nundrum of.the eighteenth century; woman
Is the conundrum of the nineteenth GEN.
tury." We cant guess her; but we will
never give her up, No, never,
The Republican journal., 1875-12-02
Artificial Ice. How it is Made.

A correspondent who has visited the ice
works at Montgomery, Ala, gives this de-
scription Of the process OF manufacture :;
Seventy thousand gallons of water are
used daily in the manufacture OF 12,0Q0
pounds of ice-the cost of which. when
placed in the ice house, is almost three
cights of a cent per pound, and retaied at
one and 4 half to two cents per pound.
which is cheaper than the freight from
the lakes, i: the ice was cut and pat Oh
tie cars gratis, besides the advantage OF
getting it in small quantities when desired
and beng much cleaner and purer than
lake lee. The distilled water is put in tin
cans thirty inches long, 8 - inches wide,
and 2 81 inches thick, which leaves the
ice in convenient shape for handling. These
cans are then placed in rows, i'll tanks fill
ed with salt water (though of coarse the
salt water does not come quite TO the tops
OF the cans so as to mix with the distilled
water which they contain through which
iron pipes conduct the ether. The ether
is made in another room and after being
purified is pumped into Il receiver and
brought under Il pressure of 40 10 liU
pounds to the square inch, which liqHidiz-
es it, Ii is then forced through Il small
tube which opens into all the pipes in the
tank (ahout 100 pipes in each tank y il
then expands into IL Gas and ills all the
tubes. dts capacity for expansion being as
/ to Coz The ether extracts the caloric
which surrounds the tubes. thus equallZ-
inc the temperature, and bringing the
whole below the freezing point; the dis
titled water freezing very readily, and the
dawn Snta,.l1 al
grees colder than ice. yet without freez-
inc. The gas passes on through the pipes
and into q receiver, from which it is pump
ed into another ether holder, and again
reduced to liquid by pressure. which is
facilitated by passing il through long
coil of pipe surrounded with cold water.
1t is then forced through the tubes again
and performs the same work over. Some
OF the ether gas pipes We're covered with
SNOW to the depth Of tiree-quartcrs OF an
inch, which collected from the surround
NC atmospheric 1t is very difficult to
continc it. but if not allowed to escape the
same quantity can be used continually. Ii
is said to be much better than mercury
as the latter eats out copper pipes IN a
short time. and iron pipes in about two
years while the latter does not affect the
metals. The cans are taken out one at q
time and dipped in a vat OF bot water,
which l0osehs the cake al ice which thcn
slips out and the can is again filled and
set in IFS place This is done three times
dav. These slabs Of ice weigh twenty
i've pounds each, and four OF them piled
on top of each other and allowed to freeze
together, making one hundred pounds to
the block. These blocks are kept separate
by pl cling small stick, between them.
The Republican journal., 1875-12-02

From the Marshalltown Republican,
An ambitious little railroad town in this
county was shaken from stem to stern by
a quiet '-happening" which recently oc-
curred in her midst This event involved
SO wide departure from the beaten track
Of human custom and divine mandates, as
wen, that the moral sense of the commu-
nifty was greatly shocked, and even the
@ossiPs lifted up their hands to disclaim
against IT, There resides in this town Dir.
l., who, until recently, did business as
Il druggist. His family consisted of a wife
and an adopted daughter. The wife was
an amlable lady in the prime of young
Womanhood, and the daughter an intelli-
Gent ana engaging young woman, who
acted ms clerk III her foster-fathcr's drug
store. boarding with the family was a
Literary gentleman of cultivated mind and
taste, who occupied a room in the drug
store, where he devoted much of his time
to driving the quill, The family circle,
composed Of these four, moved along har-
moniousy until Cupid looked in upon
them, and discovering latent love in each
human breast, he thence began making
matches not of the regulation Kind re-
curing four strokes to illumine the dark
hess-but that Of binding genial hearts
and hands. The literary man secretly cher
lShed an ardent admiration for the doctors
Wiie, and the doctor more than fathers
affection for his adopted daughter. Then
followed amutual discovery of these facts,
y ihutnal recognition of the secret passions.
Il mutual agreement to allow the course OF
love to run smooth" u mutual separa-
tion OF the doctor and his wife-culminat-
ing at last in the uniting of hands with
hearts to suit their wishes. The doctor
gave his wife to the literary man and ac-
ceptcd the hand his own adopted daugb-
ter. They now form two families. the lit
crazy man having gone with his new
made vile to join the Changers on a farm
not tar distant. IT'S said the doctor OBJ
tame. divorce from the first wife; that
the latter marriages were legalized in a
quiet way but this, ii true, did not pre-
vent the gossips from using the keen dis
secting knife, and the affair awakened a
greater sensation in The town than any
thing that has TRANSFERRED since the Beech
Hilton revelation
The Republican journal., 1875-12-02
a-s-=lass.Zl rasz=zzEssz z<,sSxn1szxsso
&omanoe OF . SmuggIer's Daughter

'-'- -'''o % = gu .-e's' Ae- -''''' Is '''i
FROM the Aew ork Mrrcury
.iromd the whole rock-bound coast oi
ENGLAND there is no more romantic spot
than AiIr<,lcn Rock. 1t is Il marine resort
That attracts thousands Of picnickers dun
mr. the Summer, while in winter it is the
scene Oh the widest storms. There is no
house in the pltc,t-N hen the word house
Is used in the ordinary human acceptaton.
Hut therr is 4 mansion Governed out of the
Solid limestone elm. with its drawing
rooms. bathrooms. rrtjring-roo and
sleeping rooms which Ton halt a century
h@~ WoM the admiration OF all beholders
Peter Allen, a bold ana daring smuggler,
sought sanctuary here in the early part
1T The century. itH the assistance OF
some OF his human tools he governed his
m9nSion in the rocks, and when the work
was hait completed he brought home u
bride No one knew whence She came
or who She was. But every body saw
lhtt she wa, q ,iugularIy handsome VIC
man. When the smuggling business
ceased to be safe or profitable, Peter Al
len devoted his energies to the establish
nont "a ilis ~ra cavern TO a summer hotel.
Every ding he touched became gold.
lie c'teatcd a pie and two ravens, ami
"hoa he went - market the pig followed
him through the Streets. and the ravens
terc.ted "n his shoulders a his back, or
went thieyiHg at the lrHtcrs' stalls
The man knew the secret Of advertising.
:Ml his simmer hotel became renowned
all over ihe l;tnd
In the process oi time he Had two
daughters, Lizzie was i renowned rifle
shot, AMI. AT one hundred yards, could
lyuock the bottom out OF Il bottle through
the neck \ Gun manufacturer of Man
chester saw Her perform the feat, and he
presented her with Il gold-nounted rifle,
which She retains up to the present hour.
l.izzia was Il brunette of the magnificent
order and in some respects resembed
her father. From the time She was six
Teen She had scores Of lovers. and more
than one aristocrat offered his hand and
fortune. Like many women with dazzling
opportunities. she married beneath her.
and has since figured in the London Di-
vorce Courts. polly was beautiful
blonde. proud and pretty Us a picture.
The Republican journal., 1875-12-02

At Probate Court held at Belfast within and for
the County of Waldo, on the second Tuesday of
November, A. ID. 1873, by +. NJ. Wood, Judge of
Probate for Knox County, the Judge Of Probate
for Waldo County being absent on account of
sickness.
7 EWlS w. PENDLETON, Trustee under the
~ will of Jane Bishop, late of Belfast, in said
County of Waldo, deceased, having presented his
first and final account of Irusteeship for allowance.
Ordered, That the said Trustee give notice to all
persons interested by causing copy of this order to
be published three weeks successfully in the Repub
Journal, printed at Belfast, that they may ap-
pear at Probate Court, to be held at Belfast within
and for said County, on the second Tuesday of
December next ut ten of the clock before noon and
show cause, if any they have, why the same should
not be allowed.
+. NJ. WOOD, Judge.
true copy, Attest B. r. FIELD, Register.
The Republican journal., 1875-12-02

At Probate Court held at Belfast, within and for
the County of Waldo, on the second Tuesday of
November A. D. 1875, by L. NJ. Wood, Judge of
Probate for Knox County, the Judge of Probate
for Waldo County being absent on account of
sickness.
A BBIE l.. PARkHURST widow of Samuel B.
n Parkhurst, late of Albion, in said County of
Waldo. deceased. having presented petition that
j. ID. Lanson, of Freedom, may be appointed Adj
ministrator said deceased's estate.
ordered, That the said Abbie L. give notice
to all persons interested by causing a copy OF
this order to be published three weeks SUCCESSFULLY
in the Republican journal printed at Bel tast that
they may appear al a Probate Court, to be held at
Belfast, within and for said County, on the second
Tuesday of December next at ten of the clock before
noon, and show cause, if any they have why the
prayer Of said petition should not be granted
T. VI. WOOD, Judge.