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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-07-07

VARIETIES
WORCESTER SAUCE.
WALN UT and TO MATO CATSUP.
DESSICATED COCOANUT
CONES GELATINE.
SARDINES.
TWIN BROTHERS. YEAST CAKES
BABBlTTS, RUMFORDS and PATAP-
SEQ YEAST POWDERS
PINEAPPLE CHEESE and
MACCARONI. just received by
my 10 DAVY & HARMON.
EANCY GOODS, NOTIONS, HOSIERY,
II &c.-We are receiving and keep constant
ly on hand full line Of Hsndkorchiefs, Hose
and Half Hose, Ladies' and Mems Vests, Shirt
Fronts, Cravats, Collars and Cuffs, Suspenders,
Belts, Buttons of every description, Hat Grape
English Grape Wells, Shsws in great variety
Printed and Plain Skirts, together with other
very cheap goods. d. +. BRASHEAR,
my 20 No. 100 King st., Alexandria, We.
MORE NEW DRESS GOODS-May 3lst.
VI lS75-We open to-day line of the cheap
est Iron Frame Grenadines ever offered in this
market ranging in price from 371c, 45c, Soc,
G24c and upwards. Also beautiful high lustre
Alpscas at 374c. 45c, soc, &C., &C. All first
class standard Calicoes at l0c
d. +. bRASHEAR,
my 81 No. 100 King street
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-07-07

SlhT Nc County, Va Je IS-Ll
ORKNEY SPRINGS VA
TWELVE MILES WEST OF MOUNT
JACKSON,
VALLEY B7s 1ch B. & o. R. R,)
Will be opened ft- the reception Of visitors
FROM JUNElst y NT1L OCTOBER lst, 1915,
under the management of j. N. WOODWARD,
late of Rswley Springs, Va.
This place has beta greatly improved, and the
Hotels and Cottages are equal to any NORTH
OR SOUTH.
The waters have an established reputation for
their wonderful curative powers. The Springs
are numerous and If great variety, viz: Sui
phur, Healing, Sulpnate of Iron and Magnesium,
Chaly beate Carbonate of Iron,) &c
Terms of board per day $3.50; per week SIS;
per month of % day $50.
Circulars will be + und at E. j. Miller s. Cos.
China Store, Is king ST., Alexnndris, Virgins.
MOORE s. PERRY, Proprictors.
10 Aim
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. A w l. EI s PRIN GS.

This popular ard delightful summer resort,
near Harrisonburg, Virginia, will be
OPEN ON JUNE1 1876,
under the manager ,ent of Major G. B. LUCKE.
Circulars, with full description, can be OBJ
taned of Coleman s. Rodgers, Baltimore; Will
kinson s. Withers, kchmond Major G. B.
Lucke, of "Spottswood HOTEL" Harrisonburg,
Virginia. or of Mr.. George G. Wedderburn,
room 3, Second ational Bank, 500 Seventh ST.,
Washington, d. G.
A. B. TRICK,
my 6-2m President Board of Directors
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-07-22
The Iron Mask,

When General Cass was minister to
France he became somewhat intimate
with the then king of the French,
Ilouit Philippe. One evening when
they were alone, the general requested
permission to ask q question
" Ask what you please, " the king re
piled.
g Then, +" queried the minister, "can
your majesty tell me anything Of the
man In the iron mask p
"Ab." replied Louis, somewhat
amazed. % yes, and I will tell you all
know about it. When I returned from
Amsrioa. Immediately upon seeing my
cousin. Count D'ArtOis, /, evincing the
same curiosity, asked him whether be
could tell me anything about the mys-
| terry. Only this replied the count,
'once In rambling through the Tuileries.
I found myself Ia the apartments Of
| the queen, Marie Antoinstte. Parting
i the curtains which concealed me from
] her ewes. I saw her on her knees before
4 the king. In mercy's names said she,
1 Sire. tell mel who was the man IN the
/ iron mask2, i cannot tell you, an
swerad Louis XVI, sterniy, I learned
il from my predecessor, and can tell d
] cnly 70 nay successor. But this VII
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-07-22
The English snarrow.

The Rural New Yorker regards the
English sparrow as one of the pleas
ATTEST features of the parks and private
gardens of New York, Brooklyn and
surroundings. It adds:
They destroy insects and worms
which would otherwise be annoying
and injurious and, excepting that they
have driven away most other small
birds, they seem in cities to do no par
ticular damage. Some complaint is
made of their destructiveness in grain
fields and In seed gardens, and further
south they may in time become more of
a nuisance than a benefit but in all
northern latitudeg no such danger need
be feared. The little songsters would
perish by thousands as far north as
New York or Brooklyn if not provided
with warm bO9es and food during the
winter. Many of them died last winter
in spite of ali precautions and care.
This places the matter on an easily
regulated basis. In the cities the spar
row is an undoubted blessing and there
be may be fed and protected through
the winter. In the country, whenever
farmers and gardeners find him too
troublesome, they have only to with
draw their care and the severity Of
northern winters viii rapidly reduce
their numbers. In England farmers
find these sparrows an intOlerabie
nuisance; but English winters are
never severe enough to check their In
ereage
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-07-22
Curious Death Prom HydrOphObia.

The death from hydrophobia which
occurred IN Brooklyn last week is in
some respects note worthy. The victim
was a large, robust man, of temperate
habits. The dog that bit him showed
no symptoms of disease, and is still
alive, apparently in perfect health.
The wound was inflicted accidentally
when the man and dog we're at play it
healed kindly, and no marks were left.
The patient however continued anxious
and morbid. BE consulted physician,
and was assured that there was no
danger. Still he lived in constant
dread of hydrophobia, passing sleepless
nights, and often sui jecting himself TO
various tests in fear of discovering
traces of disease. Finally, on the 18th
of June, eight weeks after the bite, the
first symptoms OF hydrophobia were
manifested. Spasms supervened, and
the patient died in great agony. The
case is anomalous, but not without
parallel. just about a year ago one
Mccormick died in New York city
under much the same circumstances.
All that seems TO be established in re-
gard to hydrophobia does not conflict
with the developments just noticed.
The prime condition of the disease is,
that the animal communicating the
virus should be excited, which has been
the case with all healthy dogs whose
bites have proved fatal. Chicago 1Tt-
h9f,aa
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-07-22
Fish Oultnre on the Farm

To raise fish as a market crop may be
profitable IN some cases near cities, and
where there is no natural supply IN the
vicinity, but, generally, attempts to
make money by Fsh- growing have
proved failures. This Is no reason why
there should not be a fish pond on
every farm to yield and always accessi-
bic supply of wholesome food for the
family, to take the place, In part, of the
inevitable bacon, and save some of the
hard earned cash which now goes to
our distant smoke houses in the west.
On numerous FARMS" the New
York Tines says, "spring brooks and
small streams or rivers, may be utilized
for this purpose. On many others.
springs of pure cold water rise and
flow over the surface, losing themselves
IN a disagreeable. if not injurious
swamp or quagmire, which is trodden
mp by stock, or wallowed in by hogs to
their injury and their owners loss. In
many other farms again, at certain
seasons of the year, temporary water
courses are filed, and pass large ouau-
titles of water to rivers or lakes, into
which it disappears. By simple or
cheaply constructed dams, these tenn
porary streams of water might be re-
strained, and made to yield a permanent
supply of stock water, and afford facili-
ties for the production of an ample
supply of fish. Trout, bass, perch, and
pike, all of which are excellent and
valuable fish, might be raised In ponds
thus prepared, while the homely, but
not unsavory cat fish, the carp, and
other second rate fish, will live and
thrive In such a pond as might not
un nworthily be termed s mud hole"
The beautiful spotted brook trout re-
quires conditions not always attainabIe
pure water, a gravelly or sandy bot
tom, and temperature not over sixty
degrees in summer, but bass, and
perch, will flourish under less favorable
than trout. They will
not object to q muddy bottom, nor to
water whose temperature for part of
the year may rise above sixty degrees,
nor to water without any current passing
through 1t for some time Temporary
streams may be damned for these fish, !
or ponds IN which there Is only spring |
water enough TO supply the evaporation |
will meet their needs. A considerable |
supply of food may be gathered from |
the offal of the farm for these fish, and |
ia short time insects and worms will |
in the pond, which will |
furnish food. The necessary labor and |
skill is so small, and the pleasure and |
profit so great from the culture of fish, |
that it is only necessary to point out |
how it may be readily undertaken to in |
duce many farmers to experiment. It is |
needful to follow natures ways as near
rs possible to insure success, and it is |
not the least part of the profit that a /
ish pond upon a farm will furnish a |
reservoir of stock water IN sea-
sons when water is scarce"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-07-22
Postal Points.

The law went into effect Thursday
placing the fees on domestic money
orders as follows:
On orders not exceeding S15, 10 cents.
On orders over $15 and not exceeding
$50, Is cents.
On orders over $50 and not exceeding
$40, 20 cents.
On orders over $40 and not exceeding
$50, % cents.
Postage on printed matter and mer-
chandise, one cent for every ounce, or
fraction thereof, up to four pounds.
The fee for registering letters will
shortly be increased from eight to ten
cents, in addition to the regular post
age.
Postage on letters to Great Britain,
Germany, Sweden, Spanish possessions,
Switzerland, Turkey, Italy and Den
mark, has been reduced to q regular
standard rate of five cents to every
half ounce or fraction thereof.
By remembering these points. those
who have business at the postofice will
save themselves and the clerks much
trouble and annoyance.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-07-22

THE CARRIER Dove
Ny bird let loose in far-on skies.
When hast'ning fondly home,
Ne'er stoops TO earth her wing, nor flies
Who're idle wsrblers roam.
But high she shoots through air and light,
Above all low delay.
Where nothing earthly bounds her flight,
Nor shadow dims her way.
So grant me. God, from every care
And stain of passion free
Aloft through virtues purer air,
To hold my course to thee
No SIN 20 cloud, no lure to stav
Ny soul as homo she springs -
Thy sunshine on her JOYFUL way,
Thy freedom on her wings.
There is nothing like 'em. A
worthy Athol lady fed q tramp, the
other day, after which he asked If he
might go TO bed long enough for her
to wash and iron his shirt.
After all the street car conductors
who have committed suicide because
their honesty was doubted, the New
York companies now find that they have
saved over million dollars by the uss
of the beil-punoh.
The Tennessee river went through
the strange freak OF rising some
eighteen inches and then ebblng and
flowing like the ocean for about four
hours, at London, Tenn, the other day,
and nobody can tell what was the matter
with it.
The Niagara hacAman has once more
come to the surface. He drove a young
couple TO q cierevman's house Ofliciated
as "best mar" for the bridegroom,
drove the pair back to their hotel, and
then called upon the clergyman 20 di-
vide the fee with him.
Honey comes originally from the
roots of plants, and undergoes processes
during the formation of the flower, and
that which is gathered up by the bees
is an excess, and not essential TO the
development of the fruit or flower. If
not saved by the bee il would waste it's
sweetness on the desert air.
II My LOVE
II my love smile:
So twinkle stars, through nights by moons
made gold;
rolled.
II nv love laugh
So play in song glad waves along white sands
So harps OF leaves laugh meath holian hands.
II my love speak
50 ring the merry voices Of the woods,
That cheer alike sunshine and soiitudes-
II nv love blush:
SO morning fiushes mp the dimpled skies;
So ewes carnation with the twilight dies.
II my love weep.
So fall the CRYSTAL tears Of night in dew.
Skies weep that earth may bloom moro fair
aud new.
II nv love love:
So bliss leans gladly from blest heart 10 heart
Nor life nor death shall find our souls apart.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-07-22
England.s New cause Of Alarm.

A new potato disease, which promises
to be more disastrous than the old one,
is announced in the British Journal Of
Horticulture as having made its ap-
pesrance in the garden of the Royal
horticultural society at Chiswick.
Since then the editors have received so
many communications on the subject
as TO show that this disease is 50 widely
spread as to call for the greatest vigi-
lance on the part OF cultivators TO pre-
vent it becoming general II appears
as yet to be confined to the new varie-
ties which have within the past few
years been introduced form America,
but there is reasons to fear that it viii
not be confined to them. The disease,
which is a fungus, affects the haulm
when It is about six inches high /: the
leaves become curled and growth
ceases, the tubers never exceeding the
size of large peas. It viii be observed,
therefore, tina while With the old dis
ease there was the chance of st least q
partial crop, with this one there is nc
chance of any. AS the nation If
threatened with such a scOurge as this
promises to be, the editor hopes hel
majesty's government will take the
matter up and adopt the necessary
measures TO stamp it out whilS
there is yet time.
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+" Great Cotton.,,

The Washington Capital tells the fol-
lowing amusing and improbable story :
humorous incident, the result of alb
sent-mindedness aud wet weather, oc-
CURED lest week with a prominent treas
ury gentleman as the principal per-
former. Business detained him at the
office until after dark, and the rain com
ing on he was still further detained
He wore new and elegant pair of pants
of light material. and not wishing TO
rumpie the goods IN a June shower. de-
cided to take them of. leave them in
the desk, and horaeward pike his drearv
way IN his mb-undeVclothing trusting
to the night to keep them from observa-
ton. He started ont umbrelIaed and
his drawers pnIled down as closely to
his instep as they could he induced to
| go. 1t seemed so natural, and no one
appearing to notice it, that he FORGOT
| about the condition of things altogether
80 entirely so that he had opportunity
TO remark TO young lady acquaintance
who glided pssta 0asliRhto on her way to q
memorial meeting or a Shakespeare club
| performance. He was only slightly ae
qusinted, but counted on his umbrella
and the rain to hurry over and offer his
services as escort. These were readily
accepted aud the couple got toIerabIv
intimate through the slushy street. so
much 20 that when they arrived at the
girls destination she invited him in.
He ought not 70 have accepted IL, b1t
feeling that little relaxation, such as ia
afforded by our amateur dramatics,
would benefit his mental qualifications
for the next civil-service examination.
overcame his scruples and entered.
Quite a number of ladies aud gentlemen
were present when he was 2shered in,
and, taking prominent seat, as treas
Ury clerks are won't to do, started with
faeetious remark to a Deighbor and TO
pull his pantaloons up TO save them from
creasina at the knees. He stopped in
the middle of the facetious remark and
didn't pull them up either. He merely
Razed at his lower self for a moment in
that sbeadfast manner in which a man
looks when he sees something he hasn't
seen before. and with painful interest
that shows he doesn't care much if he
don't see it again. The females blushed
and puckered their mouths like as if
thev we're starting to whistle and sud
denly recollected that they couldn't, and
the gentlemen smole wicked smiles. Our
friend arose with velocity, and. merely
murmuring " Great Cotton 7" slid out of
the house with celebrity and another
mans umbrella.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-07-22
Wicker Comns

A number of prominent medical men
In England are conducting a spirited
crusade against the present method of
tucking our dead bodie under the
daisies, recommending that wicker
baskets be substituted for the splendid
metallic and air-tight affairs with which
corpses are now epveloped preparatory
to interment. While ig is the aim OF
our sciehsifc undertakers TO SO perfect
their eaEkets that the remains enclosed
will preserve their life likeness as long
| as possible, thsse medical folks across
the waters are endeavoring to pop
ularize the use of wicker coffins, IN
order that the dissolution of the body
and it's resolution into mother earth
viii be allowed to proceed in the natural
order of things without hindrRnce. The
movement seems to be a sort of COM
promise between the costly process of
inhUmation now in vogue and the more
repugnant, though cheaper, cremation.
Dust thou art, dust retGrnest," seems
to be the text of the advocates of the
new movement, and they are in favor
of making practical application of it.
DR.. Seymour Haden has opened an
exhibition of the wicker basket with
open me5hes, which he recommends for
burial, at the duke of Sutherland's
house, and fashionable society has
focked to it as one of the sights of the
season. When fashion commends q
new idea in anything, no matter if it is
a coffin, of course the success of the
thing is pretty well assured. But it is
doubtful if the project will really
succeed. There is entirely too much
earnest sentiment in the world regarding
the preservation of the form and facial
ineaments of deceased friends to allow
the proposed innovation to gain pop
ularity. On the contray, the world
would rather know the secret of the old
Egyptian process of mummy-makinR,
and learn thereby to preserve through
sill time the physical semblance of the
departed, even though a mummy, after
it gets to be ten or twenty centuries
old, is one of the most hideOus things
imaginable. In an agricultural point
of view, however, the wicker basket
Id is not bad one.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-07-22

The pencil marks you see around this
paragraph Cthus) mean that your sub
sc1Ptior is out or unpaid, and thai
you are requested to pay up at once.
We would take great pleasure in extend,
ing credit to Our friends and patrons.
but cash alone viii pay expenses, and
We are forced 70 adhere to 8 strict cash
rule. We hope You viii comprehend
and appreciate the necessity Of such q
course, and renew your subscription
without delay. We solicit your favor.
- We enter no new names on oux
books without the money in advarce.
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success. My husband, Count Steffano
Perragi. desires to be remembered to
all his dear friends at Constantinople,
and hopes that this second surprise may
be of some value to them. Your dia-
monds brought me five million francs.
Adieu -
There was no signature or date.
And this was the last of the "Dia-
mOnd Robbery" The thieves were
never captured.
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pound it in a mortar, and then roast the
powder on a moderately heated iron
plate, until it assume dark brown tint,
when it is fit for usa. Then sprinkle it
In sinks or cesspools, or lay it on
plate In the room which you wish to
have purified.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-07-22
Making Canphor Gum

Vice Consul Allen, in his report of
the trade of Tamsuy and Kelung,
quoted in Nature, describes the distill-
alton of the champion of commerce
from Cinnamonum camphOra, F'r.,
Eees ct Eb., as a most hazardous trade,
the distillers having to be constantly on
the alert for fear of attack by the abo-
rigines, who are naturally opposed to
the cont 1ual encrOachments into their
territory for the purpose of cutting
down the trees for extracting the cam
phor. No young trees are planted to
replace those cut down, nor do the Off
cials take any cognizance of the diminu
tion which is being surely effected In
the supply of a valuable commercial
article. The stills are described as
being of very simple construction,
and are built up In a shed in such a
manner that they can be moved as the
Chinese advance into the interior. A
long wooden trough, coated with clay
and half filed with water, Is placed
over eight or ten furnaces; on the
trough boards pierced with holes a Q
fitted, and on these boards are placed
jars containing the camphor wood
chips, the whole being surmounted by
inverted earthenware pots, and the
joints made air-tight by filing them up
with Temp. When the furnaces are lit
the steam passes through the pierced
boards, and saturating the chips, causes
the sublimated camphor to settle in
crystals on the inside of the pots, from
which it is scraped off and afterwards
refined. During the summer months
the camphor often loses as much as
twenty per cent. on its way from the
producing districts to the port of ship
nent.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-07-22

-Somebody wrote to the editor Of
country paper to ask how he would
ssbreak an OK ?" The editor answered
as follows "If cnly one OK, q good
way would be to hoist him, by means
of q long chain attached to his tail, TO
the top of q pole forty feet from the
ground. Then hsist him, by q rope
tied to his horns, TO another pole.
Then descend on his back q hve-ton
pile-driver, and, il that don't break
him, let him start country newspaper
and trust people for subscription. One
Of the two ways viii do il, sure"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-07-22

DISPATCHES from the Black Hills
geological expedition indicate that near
Harney's Peak gold has really been
found in paying quantities. The cor
respondent OF the New York Tribune
accompanying the expedition writes
that, after the party entered the unex-
plored region from the east, they struck
a granite formation and bearing
quartz, besides finding gold in flakes in
the gulches. Prof. Jenny, Lieut.. Nor
ton and Dr. Lane, of the government
expedition, are said to be satisfied that
gold exists there. Whether it will be
found in sufficient quantities to FIJI the
pockets of the thousands who are wait
ing to crowd into the hills, makes no
difference, The people will go, in spite
of restrictions, and possess the land on
the mere intimation that gold is there.
If Gen. Custar had never rambled in
that vicinity, the Indians to-day might
be resting in secure possession of this
refreshing and rich oasis.
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a little three-year old, warned by
her mothernOt to put her fingers into the
chopping tray, lest the knife should cut
thcm OF, said 81 viii have more when
I get to heaven" Her mother replied,
''You vii not need them there. yes, "
said the child, 81 shall else how can I
/ play on my harpT"