Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-05-18
Alefan0rla @azette
FRIDAY. MAY lS. 1877.

a Story OF ANDREW JACKsON.-The
keeper Of {. boarding house here, when Jack
son was president, waited 90 him one day, and
complained that TennesSeean. who had been
appointed by him to clerkship 10 one of the
departments, would not pay board bill. Get
his note said O.d Hickory, for the full
amount, ioterest included, payable in 60 days,
and bring it to me- That will be Of 10 use, "
replied the boarding house keeper, "for he
never pays bis notes. do as | tell you, sir, "
said Jackson, and turned away.
The next day the boarding house keeper re-
| appeared at the white house and handed the
note to the president. lie took it, read 1t.
| wrote ANDREW Jackson across the back 10
his wclIkoown autograph and handed it back,
saying, Take that 10 the Bank of the Metro
polls and tell them for me that at its maturity
it will be paid by either the drawer or indorser.
They will discount it FOR you
A few days afterWard the man who had
given the note met his creditor aud tauotngy
said: swell, | don't suppose you have beeu
able to negotiate my paper?' Yes. replied
the boarding house keeper, II had no trouble
10 getting it discounted at legal rates OF inter
est. who in thunder is willing to discount
my uotcs?' asked the Tennesseean. THE
Bank of the Metropolis discounted the one you
gave me, upoD the assurance that if you did
not pay it the endorser would" But who
would indorse my note" General Jackson,
and he sent word to the bauk that if you did
not pay the note lie would 1t is hardly no
cessary to add that the pote was promptly paid
by the maker.- Washington Letter to the Eos
ton Journal.
REMEDY FOR TROUBLE.-Work is Jour true
remedy. If misfortune hits you hard, you hit
something else hard; pitch into something with
will. There's nothing like good, solid, ex-
hausive work to cure trouble. If you have
met with losses you don't want to lie awake
and think about them. You want seep-caln!,
sound sleep-aud cat your dinner with appetite
But you can't unless you work. II you say you
don't feel like work and 70 loaGug all day to
tell Tom, Dick and Harry the story OF your
woes, you'll lie awake aud keep your vile awake
by your tossing, spoil your temper and your
breakfast next morning, and begin tomorrow
feeling dozen times worse than you DO to-day.
There arc some troubles that only time can
heal, and perhaps some that can never be healed
at all; but all can be helped by the great pa
nacca-work.
Try it, you who are afflicted. 1t is not
pstent medicine. 1t has proved its efficiency
since first Adam and Eve left behind them,
with weeping. their beautiful Eden. 1t is au
efficient remedy. All good physicians in regu-
lar standing prescribe it in cases OF mental and
moral disease. 1t operates kindly as well, eav-
ing no disagrecable effects, and many have
taken large quantities OF it with most benehcll|
results. 1t will cure more complaints than any
nostrum In natcria mcdica, and comes nearer to
being curcall than a1y drug or compound IN
the market And it will not sicken you II yol!
do not take it sugar coated
"SroNEwALL' JACKsoE.-Thc widow %!
"Stoncwai' Jackson says that No man haa
been more misunderstood than her husband.
Gle is represented she asserts, "as having
been stern, inexorablc, and hard Eatured. lie
was lust the opposite. He was as dcnonsra'
tive, as afectionatc and yielding as woman.
At home lie was tender. playful and loving.
His whole life hung around his home. lie had
no ambition--nO love OF power--no thought oi
nlace or nomp. His horror OF bloodshed Was
instructive aud powerful lie served his coun-
trv from sense of duty. He was passionatcIy
devoted to children. Our first child died, aud
nv daughter was born only a few weeks be-
fore his DEATH lie never took Il days inf'
Tough during the war; not even to como to see
his child. Just before the battle OF Chanccl'
lorsville took The little baby and went to see
him, You should have seen what raptures he
went into over that ttIc girls cradle. l have
seen him kucel by her cradle for hours at a
time Just gazing into her sleeping face. Ii
was suggested that the letters to her during
the war would give mahy Interesting polLs'.
"Oh, no." she said, a charming blush stealing
over her face while soft rcmcmbrances put
new light 10 her expressive eyes, they woro
all real love letters He had little room tot
aoytbinr else 10 his letters home. And
theu he was very prudent man, and never
talked Of his plans to any one.
A bonded warehouse 10 Dublin, ireland, con
tanning 100000 gallons Of whiskey, was burned
last night
Marlot, Stettheimer u Co., ribbon manutac
turers, cf Paterson, have failed. Liabilities
Sl00,090.
Dewbcrres arc now hawked about the streets
Of Vcksburg for fifteen ccuts per quart.
Ex.Gov. Yarmouth, Of Louisiana, is to mar
~ Newark. N. j.. lady May Goth.
ENCOURAGE HOME ENTERPRISE!
ALEXANDRIA BROOM FACTORY,