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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-04-21
The Markets..

New YORK, April 2l.-SLocks active. VI o7cy
g. Col AZ Flour du! and drooping. Wheat
shade 6rmer. Corn quiet and unchanged.
BALTIMORE, April 2l.-VirgInis 6s peelcrs,
Al; Virginas, consolidated, 54s West Vas. 81.
Cotton dull low middling> lJ3. Flour quiet,
but stea y and unchanged. Wheat frmer; No.
2 Western red Us; others unchanged. Corn
frmcr; Southern white o1aS9; do. yellow 81"
SIS; Western mixed IS. Oats quiet; Southern
72.71; Western 70.7l; do mixed is .69. Rye
quie: and unchanged. Hay dull and unchanged.
Provisions quiet. Butter-n"w faiTIy active;
choice to eytra Il me % 20 good to prime 23a25 /;
old dull and nominal. Coffee lir,n and I'M
changed Sugar fl m at l0b ,l0!. Nhskey
quiet; small sal3 At l4laSl To-
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-04-21

Attention is directed to the advertisement
dry goods for sale by u. b. braShear' els'
where 10 to.day's Gazette.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-04-21

New GRANGE. j. Wedderburn, Depu-
ty, organized Central Grange No. 562, at
Fairfax G. H., Monday, 4. r. Farr, Master
and D. NJ Chichester, Secretary, with sevcu-
teen gentlemen and eight ladies.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-04-21

4 blessing to humanity is what Or. Bull
Cough Syrup Gao we'll be termed, tor 1t ha
doue more good already than any other med
icloe.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-04-21
Q PRIM G OP EN- N Gl
DLACK GOODS DEPARTMENT.

BLACK ALPACAS AND MOHAIRS.
A large invoice Of our favorite brand that has
been SO satisfactory in the past, both in color
and wearing qualities, no goods that we have
ever kept having given like satisfaction. Also
new styles Black Grenadines Black ga Mouse
sn2 b. F. WILMER co.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-04-21

MISSIONARY WoRK.-rhe Southern Church
man says: 81 he students of the Episcopal
High School, near Alexandria, have establish
ed scholarship in Miss Badwin's Mission
School for Syrian boys at Joppa They have
Just sent TO The treasurer OF the foreign COM
mttee 10 New York the amount $50 required,
and propose to do the same every spring. The
scholarship is ramed in honor Of their late
scboomate, Nelson Massie. y
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-04-21

Personal. MIR. Penick, principal of the
Culpeper Female Institute, who proposes to
remove his Furnishing school to this city, was
here to-day making arrangements Tor the pro
posed change. La former years Alexandria
boasted of her large and prosperous schools
male and female--aud as location for such in
stituious there is none better 10 the couotry,-
and the addition OF Mr. Penick's established
school will be valuable acquisition to the ex-
cellent seminaries that yet remain.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-04-21

best musical talent of Washington and BaltI-
more, who have kindly volunteered for the oc-
casioD. A meeting of hose interested 10 get
ting up the match will be- held in the Mansion
House parlors on Friday evening next at eight
- al
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-04-21

DEATH OF MINISTERS. Rev A. II. Spill
map, Baptist minister, residing 10 the upper
part of Culpepcr; started to QUO Of his preach
lug appointments last Friday, was taken sick on
the way, and died before reaching his dcstIna-
tion lie had charge OF StevcnSburg Thornton 5
Gap, and Bethel churches. Rev. Joseph Car
son. aged niuety-onc years, who had been a
minister in the Methodist church for over sew
euty years, died at his residence, i'll Culpeper
on Friday last
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-04-21
SSEsA- A. sst5D S,
DOBr. L. WOOD

II OBI. L. WOOD
Will continue his
CLOSIN OU T
Only short time.
He Is selling great bargains. apo
WHITE GOODS in great variety, Tar tons,
w Swisscs, NslnsooKs, Plaid, Striped and
Pain Victoria Lawns from l2tc up, Cambrics
and everything else 10 make cur stock complete
in this and other lines.
apt u. +. WIlMEh w.
4 NORS ELSA full line of Corsets just re-
~ ceived.
VIM. N. BERKLEY s. SON,
ap6 81 King street.
d ECEIVhD-6.4 SERGE, for Gents Spring
AH CvercoAts.
WIN. N. BERKLEY s SON,
ap6 "a King street.
GUN UMBRELLAS in latest styles; full
y assortment; all colors.
sp6 D.F. WILMER CO.
GENTS FANCY HALF HOSE, all num-
VI bers, at o,r>,,
sp6 u. +. WlIMEh Coo.
SEAMLESS KID GLOVES, Spring shades,
- just received.
apo u. Z. WIIMEh w.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-04-21

The Cold WAvE-The like of the prevail
ing spell of cold weather rarely occurs 10 this
latitude. By this assertion it is not meant to
say that the same degree of temperature has
not been experienced during the latter part OF
April, or even later in the year, but that the
protracted continuance of such low tempera-
turc is of rare occurrence For the last week
there has been ice every day, the THERMOMETERS
on some mornings standing as low as eight de-
grees below the freezing point, aud the ground
10 the country Immediately SURROUNDING the
city, being frozen to the depth of several inches
below the surface As heretofore stated, all
the exposed carly vegetables, and, it is feared
much of the fruit, have been killed. The gard
eners are preparing to repaut settings and to
SOW seed for the crops that have been de-
stroyed.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-04-21
POLICE REPORT. The following cases have
been reported at police headquarters since yes

STILL HARPING ON MY DAUGHTER. The
colored woman who created an excitement at
the upper end of Queen street, last week, by
an attempt to take her child away FROM its
father, colored man named Richard lhomp-
500, was down here again to-day from Wash
iugton with an officer FROM that city for the
same purpose, but retired from the Mayor S
Office disguised when informed that the ouly
way 10 which she could get possession of her
child was to obtain divorce aud au order from
the court 10 that effect.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-04-21

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American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-03-13
Fatal Absinthe.

THE Paris correspondent of the St
Louis GtDbe writes "Absinihe has
greatly increased in popularity during
the last five or six years. Its drinking
was formerly confined to the well to do
classes. 1t was sort of artistic and
literary dissipation; painters, sculptors
and authors slipping it daintily and com
menting on its delightful effects. 1t is
still drank by all the boulevard loungers
and promenaders, and drank more than
ever, but it has grown to he IA democratic
potatIon also. Laborers and mechanics
quatf it at the wine shops on the street
corners, and women in every grade of
society are reported to yield to lis seduc
tions. 1t is largely manufactured in this
country and literally exported to the
French colonies, Great Britain and
America. Very insidious is absinthe
1t acts very differently from liquor. and
is regarded by the medical faculty as
much more dangerous and harmful Ii
steadily destroys the finer feelings
wastes the faculties, corrodes the stom.
ach. obliterates the memory, extinguish.
es the senses. 1t acts directly on the
nervous system and its stimulating in.
huence on the brain is one of tine reasons
why it is SO alluring. A distinguished
physician SAYS that it gradually poisons
the whole system, soon or late producing
despair, insanity and disease. The
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-03-13

a certain time it may be taken out and
dried, and then it will retain the same
property for an indefinite period. A
small piece of the nav thus dried is
stepped over night in few tcaspoonfuls
of warm water, and this water will turn
the milk of three or four cows"
Though the rennet is most commonly
made from the stomach of a calf, it can
be prepared from the young of other
animals, as for example the pig, the
lamb, etc. At the meeting of the Massa-
chusetts State Board of Agriculture at
Westfield, Mr.. l.. b. Arnold, after his
lecture on milk and in reply to ques-
ton as to how to test the quality of
rennet, said: "In my experience with
rennct ] found that pigs rennet was
much more powerful than calf S rennet.
| found it would make skim-milk cheese
when Calls rcnnet would not do any
thing with it. found lambs rcnnet to
be inferior to calf's rennet; l could not
do anything with lambs Iennet; when
ust d calves rennet l had better success !;
but when used pigs rennet l had the
best success of all. l found it had a
very powerful effect, and that it would
reduce the curd TO cheese when no other
rennet would"
Pigs rennet was found to reduce
skim milk to curd more readily than
that OF the calf s stomach, and the use
of il may often be advisable. We think
it worthy of careful experiment and in
vestigation, though it may not change
the universal practice. -Kassochusetts
Ploughnldn.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-03-13
Dead.Heading Across the Continent in
q Hearse.

A FEW days ago hearse arrived from
Rochester, N. v, consigned to Easter
day d Morgan, of this city. The hearse
was transported from the shop in Roch-
ester without change of cars from the
fiat on which 1t was originally placed
Before shipment the manufacturers
placed large box over it to protect it
from the weather. The box rested on
the axles, inside the wheels, being long
enough to extend from the rear over the
dash board in front. Owing to the con-
structiOn of the drivers seat on the
hearse, the corners of the box extend far
enough to allow room for the body of a
man to pass between the box at that
point and the hearse. The front and
rear of the vehicle is SO constructed as
to swing open, and thereby hangs the
tale. This was noticed by some one who
silently contemplated how easy it would
be to save few scads and see the coun-
try where strawberries grow as large as
hen eggs all the year round, and then
bounced off to lay in a stock of provis-
IONS. These he procured and poked them
through the cavity between the hearse
and the box, after which he followed.
Once within the wooden sepulcher,
it is thought he waited song of
praise, for there reposed large box
partially filed with silver-pIated casket
trimmings, ETC., which had been packed
in straw and shavings, as also the seat
cushions. After arranging his corn-beef,
bread, sardines, Theoretically sealed cab
bage and a quantity of tobacco, he ar
ranged the ornaments in the box SO as to
leave nice place in the center for him
to repose in. And then, after taking a
drink and a chew of tobacco, he reclined
amid the straw and fine shavings and
quietly snickered. The appearance of
this suffering soul as he laid back and
elected the nicotine from between the
ruby lips against the plate glass sides of
that hearse must have been emInently
satisfactory. AS was seen by the rem
nants left in his lodgings his appetite re-
manned substantial throughout the jour
ney, but his amiable weakness seems to
have been in lining the glass walls of his
sanctum with tobacco juice. A highly
colored, short-stemmed Cay pipe found
in the corner gave proof that it was not
allowed to rust with inactivity and told
now vacation between meals was some
times passed.-OdkL1nd (Cdl) Tribune.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-03-13
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

"A Pretty Ornament.-An exceeding
" beautiful effect is produced by simply
placing a handful of the heads of wheat
in a vase of water. Each grain will send
out bright leaflets and continue to re
place the old ones for many weeks to-
gether.
A good walnut stain for wood is com
posed OF water, one quart Washing soda
one and onehalf ounces; Nandykc brown
two and one half ounces; bichromate of
potash, one-fourth ounce. Boil for ten
minutes and apply with brush, either
hot or cold.
Care of Canarics.-Occasiona V
place in the water small piece of cx-
tract of licorice, and put between the
wires ut one end OF the center perch a
piece of white sugar. The seed boxes
should contain sufficient seed for the
day. A mixture of canary, rape and
hemp seed is usually given, but hemp
seed is too fattening. We have always
found canary and rape the best food,
with occasionally little German millet
added.
Dressed Mutton.-To have it as it
should be the dish must be lined with
mashed potatoes, the mutton nicely
minced and properly seasoned, placed in
the dish, Il little stock added, and then
covered over with mashed potatoes
roughed with a fork and placed before
the fire till the little dish assumes the
appearance of nicely-browned hedge
hog. The hotter served the better it will
be relished, provided it has only been al
lowed to simmer and not to boil.
Another Cure for Chilblains.-I send
you my recipe, hoping and trusting it
will cure the afflicted, Tor we have used
it for years, and it always gives relief.
Here is the recipe: Take two good
sized cabbage stumps, pare oft the hard
outer rind, then take the pith or inside
and slice very thin, put into spider with
one teacup of good sweet lard. and cook
slowly till there is nothing left but Il
soft mess of the cabbage, strain off the
lard, and after soaking the feet and
wiping them dry grease them thoroughly
with This lard, and heat in by the fire
grease them every night, and heat them
as hot as can be borne, and, my word for
it, his chilblains will soon disappear
Cor. Cincinnati Times.
A correspondent of the New York
Tribune gives an exceedingly simple pre-
caution in the use of kerosene or any
other cheap oil. His plan is to fill the
lamp lightly with jewelers. cotton before
pouring in the oil. The cotton absorbs d
| great deal of the oil, and in case of acct
dent the latter does not flow about, and
can thus be eXtinguished. On one occa.
sion his kerosene lamp burst, and I
mass of flame jumped out; but, being il
a compact body, he covered it Instantly
with "a bucket, and with the help of ;
waterpitcber and a few wet towels eX
| tinguished it before the slightest damag,
was done. Had it not been for the cot
ton the flaming oil would have flowed il
| all directions.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-03-13
Pig Pork vs.. Heavy Hogs.

ABOUT the time that whales became SO
scarce that the supply of oil for light be-
gan to fail, the manufacture of lard oil
became an important industry. Then
coal-Oil began to compete, and in turn
petroleum drove both out of the market
for illuminating purposes. Before lard
oil became an important product the
principal pork demand was for medium
sized pigs that would average 200pounds.
Lard-oil made market for heavy, fat
hogs. The packing demand has kept
the market pretty lively for heavy hogs
since. This will continue to be the case
SO far as barreled pork is concerned !;
but for bacon. hams, shoulders and es-
pecially for shipping East for cutting or
butchers blocks there, ami for butchers
use here, the model packers use we'll
fatted pigs, nine to twelve months old,
that will average 200 pounds each. Such
will always bring about 10 per cent.
more than the average heavy hog; no
mean matter when it is considered that,
by thus feeding, once wintering may be
avoided. We have Il neighbOr, com
mission merchant, who, besides his bust
ness talent, has taste for farming, and
who cultivates this taste. He yearly
fattens from ten to fifteen pigs, buying
them in the summer at about three
months old, slaughtering them at ten
months old or when they weigh 200
200 pounds. He makes it pay, notwith-
standing he has to buy most of his feed.
Small hams and breakfast bacon, rath-
er thin sides, with alternate streaks of
fat and lean, are what are especially
sought for in our city markets, and bring
large prices-fully three cents per pound
more than the great, fat, twenty-pound
joints. Why? People who can afford it
prefer young, juicy meat to old, tough
JOINTS.
There were about 100000 hogs
slaughtered in Chicago during the season
of 1S74-'75, and yet there is scarcity of
hams and bacon, such as young, we'll
fatted pigs make. Again, why? The
answer is simple: Western farmers have
got into the habit of thinking that two
and three year old hogs, weighing 400
pounds and over, are the ones tuat bring
the most money. They are running too
much into mammoth pork. Barreled
pork is used less and less, except to feed
navvles and laborers in regions difficult Of
access. A thrifty spring pig, wintered
once, and kept until it weighs 400 pounds,
will cost double, and % per cent. added,
what the 300 pound porker will. That
is, the two pigs, butchcred when the y
weigh 200 pounds each, will bring more
money at less cost than the 40O-pound
hog. Take your states and figure for
yourselves, and, if you cannot make it
come out so, "The Farm and Garden
will give the figures.
Stock hogs will probably be scarce
next fall. 1t will pay this spring to take
care of all early pigs and force them 10
an e ,rly maturity next winter" Farm
and Garden," IN Chtcogo Tribune.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-03-13
The HOpefulness of the COnsumptive.

In diseases of the lungs the condition
of depression is rarely present, and
when SO present is possibly due to some
abdominal complication; though, of
course, some of the existing depression
may be fairly attributed to the anxiety
naturally arising from an intelligent
comprehension of the danger impending.
In tuberculosis of the lung there is com
monty such an emotional attitude in the
patient as has earned for itself The desig-
nation of spes phthisica. Here the hope
fulness is as irrational as is the depres-
sion of some other affections. The con-
sumptive patient just dropping into the
grave will indulge in plans stretching far
into the future, ignoring his real condi-
ton and the impossibility of any such
survival as he is calculating upon 1t is
a curious yet familiar state. Hope seems
to rise above the inteiligencejust as in GER
tain abdominal diseases there is a depres-
sion which defies its corrections. The in
tellect is not equal to finding the true bear
ings or of correcting the exalted emotional
centers. In curious relation to these con-
ditions stand wellknown differences of
the pulse. In chest-diseases the pulse is
usually full, sometimes bounding; in
abdominal disease it is small and often
thready. The pulse of pneumonia and
the pulse of peritonitis are distinctly
dissimilar and contrast with each
other. 1t is well known that there
is much more tendency TO collapse
in abdomina al than in thOraeic disease :;
taking the conditions of the pulse to-
gether with the emotional attitudes of
these affections, the synthesis is unavoid-
able that some effect is produced by the
tubercular disease in the lungs upon the
emotional centcrs as opposite to the eff
feet of abdominal disease as are the
varied effects upon the pulse; and fur
ther that the result is probably produced
through the circulation. The explana-
ton which is Swallowed out, for it really
does not amount to more, is that abdom-
inal disease causes Il depletion of the
emotional centers-of which depression
| is the outward indicatIOn-while phthisis
leads to plethoric state associated with
exalted emotional conditions In either
case the intellectual and volitional cen.
tiers appear unequal to the task Of main
tanning the balance which normally ex-
lists. AS matter of fact, there are GER
tain mental attitudes found in some dis
eases which are SO regularly present, SO
we'll marked and pronounced, that they
may fairly be included as part of the
rational symptoms. So commonly rs
mental depression found along with bill
larry disturbances that the name n1elda
cltoIia was given to these conditions OF
mental gloom; and modern observation
is but establishing the propriety of the
term.-Dr. j. II. FothergiH, IN Popular
Science Monthly for March.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-03-13
What Some New York Bellies Did for
Amusement.

THE New York correspondent of the
Boston Saturday Gazette tells some anus
ing stories concerning street masqucrad
ing of girls in good society. The other
night, he says, two ofthese young women
dressed up in some cast-off clothes, and
went out on the street to beg. They were
long time in getting up enough courage
to ask anyone for money Finally, one
of them went up to a lady and asked for
something to get food with. The lady
looked at her moment, and said, MY
dear, you are much too pretty to be
begging at this time of night" and at
the same time handed her two cents.
The girl flung them at her feet, and told
her if she could not give more than that
she need not give anything, and then the
two ran off before the lady could recover
from her surprise. They stayed out un-
til ten o'clock, and, by good luck, met
with no serious adventure. Three others,
moving in the same circle, dressed up
one as a half -grown girl, and the other
as a respectable woman of the working
class This party took the daylight tor
their skylarking. They pretended TO
have come from the country, and stopped
on the first corner for a quart of peanuts.
Then they went to Woods Museum to
see rather sensational play. They pala-
vered with the ticket man; wanted to
know if tickets hadn't riZ," and " if the
half grown gal couldn't get in for half
price," They united their money from
the corner of their handkerchiefs, and
bought front seats, made comments on
the audience, wept at the pathetic
parts, roared at the jokes and made
audible criticisms on the actors. l for
got to say that two lady friends, who
were not disguised, kept near them all
the time, and it was as much as they
= could do to keep from laughing aloud.
They walked down Broadway, and
passed any number of persons they
knew, who looked right into their faces
and had no idea who they were. The
alf-grown girl" went up to one gentle
man whom she knew intimately and
asked him for a penny. He gave her
twenty-fiVe-cent note and told her not to
spend it all in candy. without once sus-
pecting that she was Miss -, whom he
was going to take to the opera that very
night. The strange part OF it is that the
only change she made in her face was to
comb her hair straight back and put a
dull sort of halfwitted expression into
her face. One of the other ladies wore
a ragged veil, and the other merely
combed her hair down over her temples;
but the disguise was complete. They
went to a photograph gallery and had
their ferrotypes taken in a group !
wish could reproduce it in these col
umns. You could scarcely believe that
those three common, countryfied-looki
females were three of the prettiest and
most stvlish young ladies in New York.
Their acting was perfect and would do
credit to the stage. They say that no
one can imagine what a strange sensa-
ton it was to feel that they were of no
consequence. They could walk along as
they pleased, sit down on a step when
they got tired and feel no more concern
than any old washerwoman. No one
paid the slightest attention to them, and
they felt as Independent as beggars.