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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-10-16
GEO r PRICE !. F. COOK.
NELICACIES OF TEE SEASON.

NELICACIES OF TIE SEASON.
We have this day opened st No. l6 north
Fairfax st. adjoining the n srket square store,
where all the delcscies of the season, from land
and water, can be obtained. We have made ar,
raneements by which VIC shall have the earliest
FRUITS and VEGETABLES. fresh from inc
trees ard vines, ard FRESH FISH, CRABo,
CLANS, OYSTERS, Sc, will be brought. Us
daily in ice packages by the Potomac flyol
boats.
Orders from the country promptly attended to.
jy l3-tf PRIZE q COOh.
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A,1DB1A GAZETTE A ADVERTISER
FlSH, OYSTERS, Ac.

uyILLIkM q. SMITH s. CO.,
Dealers in
PRODUCE, FISH AND OYSTERS.
No. Is north Royal street., (Merket BUi!dins)
Alexandria, Virginia.
Having completed our arrangements Tor me
Produce, Oyster sud Fish business, we ere now
prepared to furnish the trade with anything IN
cur line at prices to suit,
atty.
We will also receive fresh SALT WATER
FISH three times week, which will he offered
for sale at stall No. g. City srket, by Mr.: ). IT,
GRIMES. Orders will receive our special At
ontion. aug
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GROCERIES And LE4UORs.

GROCERIES And LEQUORS.
w A. JOHNSON,
Wholesale end Retail
GROCER & COMMISSION MERCHANT,
DEALER IN ALL KINDS OF LIQUORS.
Also Agent for Arlington Brewery and LAT
land s. Rsnd's Powder Co.
Consigoments of Grain, Flour snd all kinds
of Country Produce solicited Liberal advances
made on consignments in store.
oct8 N. f. cor. Cam ard Royal SIS
\ Office
l offer for sale
500 BARRELS OF FISH
Comprising
Family Roe Potomac Herring in obs 6 do.
Bay Island Labrador and Boone Bay Split
Herring
Newfoundland Round aud Split Herring.
Call early and buy cheap.
SAM'L. j. REED,
jy2 No. 1t s. Fairfax st Alexandria
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WIN. MANN RED WARRIOR AVE-
w Our Axe has stood the test for more thsn
fly years. We make our Axes in the old way,
putting the steel into the iron, not over it.. Our
Axe is just what wo claim for 1.-THE Eest IN the
market. Every Axe stamped "Wm. Mann,
Superior Lewistown Cast Steel"
A large stock of the above Axes just received
and for sale wholesale and retail at SO King ST.,
corner CT Royal, by
oct j. r. CREIGHTON q SUN.
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FOR NEW YORK

Tho AL Steamships E. g. KNIGHT oxSsa
and JOHN GIBSON leave the com. *aa&AE
psnys wharf Alexandria EVERY SATUR-
DAY MORNING, and Now York, from pier
IL East River EVERY SATURDAY at four
O clock p. m.
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n GORGE r. HILL & CO.'S.

| 4 ~
CAREFUL MANUFACTURES
OUR NEW GOODS.
ALMOND-Fsncy Nut Flavoro1.
COANUT-Rith Fine Drop Top Coated.
PRESIDENT-Iced Drop. bright flavor.
PRIN CESS-Iced Sheet, soft oblong.
SEASIDE-For light summer luncheon.
TOURIST-Sweet Hsrd Biscuit figured top
BISMARCK German Biscuit, Csrawsy flavor
SARATOGA-Crimp edge Mace flavor.
These fancy goods are furnished tho trade in
assorted or Straight packages, attrsctivey put
up for retail. They are not kept in stock. \"
tin cans used, consequently they are slways
fresh and in high flavor. We respectfully solicit
| an examination of these goods.
GEORGE K. HILL i Co,
roy I9 AleXsndria, Va
E. W. AVERY
Dealer in
CHOICE FAMILY AND FANCY GHOuh
RES, WINE LIQUORS, &c, &c.
sons ALEXANDRIA, "a.
~ NEW GlODSi .
NEW rRICESH
The subscr Dor respectfully announces that
he has 'ak 30 th ~ I:"T KING STREET,
and is prepared to oGor e FIJI! And carefully sa~
lected stock of
FINE FAMILY GROCERIES
at prices which cannot fail 10 ploaso. Good;
delivered promptly 10 all parts % tho city. Az
satisfaction guaranteed in every particular. An
'ni Ry 5.tf % a'''A A'''' Z. J. DAVIDSON
OEORGE McBURNEY Il SON,
| Dealers in
CHOICE FAMILY AND FANCY tGUtr
RIE:', WINES AND LlQuok%,
ENGLISH and SCOTCH 4 LIZ and BROW
| STOUT
| Algo, EAHTEEN and POTOMAC HhHNi
ami hlACkKEEh.
| NOS lGG AND no KING SrEEh:
washington HAil B:l'!i1G.>
| Alexandria, Va
Orders promptly h!lol. q" III
~ WM. RAMSAY,
WHOLESALE AND FAMILY uknu:;t
| AMI
IRA DSAi.En
s, F.. cor. KING AND SIR ASAPH S?A.
nov Off :,oXnnIr.H vs.
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Aletauoria 6aztttt
EsDAY EVENING, OCTOBER le.

COLLEGE BoYs ON A "LARK."--Between
forty and fifty members Of the class OF Nv
of Rutgers College, entered the college q
mory, in Geological Hall, one gay las'
week, and, armlpg themselves WIN o,a mus
the the campus. They afctward marched i p,
Professor Merrman's room 10 the college build ID
ipp and nd startled that gentleuaD, who thought
that a rebeIliou had broken OUT. President
Campbell heard Of the affair, and, burryiog r. 70
Professor Merriman's room, he compelled ing
students to disperse, leaving their arms stacked
Daring the night some of the same GLASS
emptied the contents of several paint cans, lett
by painters over the new doors Of the entrance
TO the old college building The faculty have
begun an investigation, aud the students co
gagged in the lark are to be punished 1t Is salo'
by expulsion. IT,. /. M a.....~
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STEAMERS.
THE POTOMAC FERRY COMPANY,
O

FTHE POTOMAC FERK4 CUMfAN 7,
August 9, 1877.
SPECIAL NOTICE-Both Fer. sEA
~ Boats will be on tho line between =!
Alexandria and Washington on and AFTER M on
LEAVE ALEXANDRIA
AZTEC, $50. 60 10 80 and II 80 8. M, snd
II go l so, 80, 8 80. 4 80. 5 80 and 80.
LEAVE WASHINGTON
ALSO, $50. 9 80, 10 80 and II 30 8, NJ, and
l23O ] 80, 80, 80, 80 o 81. 3, 3 81 and ~
2. m. "
Leave Alexandria at 9 so, 10 80, and II 80 9.
ID. and IL 80, so, so, $50, 4 80. 5 80 and 80.
Leave Washington at 9 80, 10 80 and II 81
M, and u 80 50, 50. so, 80. 80 and 30
GEO. X. PHILLIPS, Manager.
SAML. GEDNEY, Supt octo
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BOOTS AND SHOES.

es- THE MOST USEFUL AS WELL AS
ornamental article for ladies wear is pair
Of handsome fitting BOOTS. They can be
had ut WADDEY'S, no King st. They
are beautiful durable and cheap.
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DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

This company offers unrivsled, facilities for
the Transportation of fraght and passengers,
snd will run their steamers regularly As follows:
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nor POTOMAC RIVER LANDINGS.

On and after Monday, February &c, IL =
81, the steamer MATTANO, Capt
VIM. II. Byles will be run as follows: Leave
Alexandris EVERY MONDAY and THURS
DAY, from King street wharf, at so o'clock
\. m, for Landings on the Potomac as far down
as Nomini. Leave Nomini EVERY TUES
DAY and FRIDAY MORNING, at o'clock,
for Washington, arriving carly the Same even
ing. Freight received daily.
feb 70 J. BRODEKS s. CO., Agents.
INLAND s SEABOARD COASTING 90
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rs GENTS FINE BOOTS AND SHOES A
specially, small expenses novelty. lowest
prices reality, is what we can prove at
WADDEY'S, Ito King stroet.
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NOTICE-Having purchased the stock and
~ good will of tho DRUG STONE formerly
occupied by Mr.. G. B. Grigg, at the northWes:
corner of King and Royal streets, we have tho,
suppliod it with o FIRST CLASS STOCK Of
everything pertaining to the DRUG BUS1::
NESS, and propose 10 carry it on ns a branch OF
our establishment 81 No. lbs King street. The
branch store will be under tho charge of MIR c.:
J. w. SUMMERS, whom We hevc associated
with us in business, and who will be prepared 10
compound Physicians Prescriptions, or dis
pense medicines at any hour of tho day or night.
Night bell at the King street door.
oct off JANNEY g co.
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SPRING ARRANGEMENT.
TWO TRAINS DAILY (EACEPT SUN
DAY. BETWEEN ALEXANDRIA AN L
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-07-05
A Russian Dare. Devil.

Among the officers on the Grand
Dukes staff is tall, handsome man. with
a 1.-THE, slender, active figure, clear
blue eye, large, prominent, well-shaped
nose, and face young enough fora Sec
ond Lieutenant It is Skobeleff. the
youngest General in the Russian army,
the conqueror of Khokand. He has the
reputation, even among the Russians, of
being mailman who would fling away
his own life and those of his troops
without the slightest regard for conse-
quences. During the war which resulted
in the conquest of Khokand, Russian
detachment of 800 men, with 400 Co.'S
sacks, was compelled to retreat before a
superior force of the enemy. Gen.
Trotscky decided upon a night attack,
and confded his plan to Col. Skobeleff.
then his Chief OF Staff. The latter en-
tered into the idea with great enthusi-
asm, and proposed to lead the attacking
column himself, and to take only $50
Cossacks. Skobeleff, having recon
noitered the ground, perceived that the
Khokandians had encamped within a
mile and half of the Russians in an
open plain, which gave every facility for
the maneuvering of cavalry. At MID
night he took his $50 Cossacks, divided
them into three parties, and cautiously
surrounded the enemy's camp. The
party led by Skobeleff himself managed
to pass the enemy's outposts, who were
sound asleep. Then he gave the signal
for the attack by firing his pistol, and,
followed by $50 Cossacks, he rode head
long into the enemys camp of 5000 Or
1000 men, shouting and yelling like
fends, and cutting down everything in
their passage. For a quarter of an hour
the plain resounded with shrieks and
yells, shots, the trampling of horses,
shouts and groans, and all the uproar
of battle. Then all was silence. Sko-
belief assembled his Cossacks, and when
morning came he found that the whole
army of the enemy, 5000 or 1000 men,
had disappeared, leaving on the field
about forty dead, 1900 or 3, 900 muskets
and sabers, all their camp material, and
baggage. But what was his astonish-
ment on calling the roll to discover that
he had not lost a man either killed or
Mr.. MacGahan. who first
met him on the banks of the Oxus, re-
lates this exploit to show how much |
method there's in this dare-devil's mad |
nncc
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-07-05
Bridging the Danube.

The Russians seem to have built their
bridges and crossed the Danube into the
Dobrudscha very quietly. It was a
holder and more brilliant undertaking in
1928. The Turks had OWNED the inten-
tions of the enemy, and had intrenched
themselves opposite the point of cross
ing. The Russians had to make cause
way 1000 PAGES in length before they
could reach the bank, and were under
fire while at work. They had fiotilla
on the Danube, and when their causeway
was complete they sent detachment of
infantry and Cossacks across the river in
boats and landed below the Turkish
earthworks. These troops carried the
intrenchments by storm, and the Turks
abandoned the attempt to dispute the
crossing.
Napoleon's passage of the Danube in
the face of the Austrians before the bat
tie of Wagram was still more brilliant.
He concealed the materials for floating
bridge in the woods and brushwood; he
sent across at 8 p. m. two battalions Of
infantry, who held their ground till the
bridge was completed; he then threw
another corps across the river, and by
daylight there were 10000 soldiers OF
the other side.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-07-05
A Texas Tragedy.

Emberry Cannon and his two sons
went on spree in Rockwell, Texas, and
made so much trouble that Sheriff Starks
decided to arrest them. The drunkards
resisted, and were savagely whipping the
Sheriff when he shot and killed one of
the sons. This happened three years
ago. Cannon declared that he would re-
taliate for the death of his son, and he
offered several desperadoes the job, at
good pay, of killing Starks. These efforts
to hire q murderer were heard of by
Starks, and he advertised his farm for
sale, intending to move to safer part of
the country. Last September George
W. Garner, fugitive from Texas, but
stranger in Rockwell, called on Starks
and proposed to buy the farm. He asked
to be shown the premises. Mrs. Starks
noticed that Garner carried a revolver,
and she warned her husband not to ac-
company him. Her fear was we'll ground
ed. Garner was under engagement to
assassinate Starks, and Cannon had
agreed to pay 1926 for the deed. Starks
was found dead, with several bullet holes
in his head. Garner and Cannon were
convicted of murder, few weeks ago.
On the day before the one appointed for
the execution, Garner and his wife, who
had been admitted to his cell, were dis
covered dead. The woman had gone in
with her mouth full of morphine, with
which they had poisoned themselves.
Thus over 1000 persons, who gathered
to see the execution, were disappointed.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-07-05
Killing Young ,HODpers.

Bulletin No. l OF the United States
chronological Commission is just out.
These will be issued from time to time
as the occasion may seem to warrant, to
meet such exigencies as may occur.
The present pamphlet has reference
principally to the destruction of the
young locusts by artificial means. One
is by means of bitches with square
sides, in which the young pup@ are en-
tangled
A net, which has done good service,
made by Major J. G. Thompson, eff Gar
den City, Mimi, is made as follows !:
Two pieces Of common batten about
sixteen feet long were used as frame
work for the mouth of the net. one for
the bottom and one for the top. From
the end OF the bottom piece a wooden
shoe OF the same material ran back
about six feet to steady the trap and
serve as runner. To the rear end of
this shoe similar piece was fastened by
a hinge, and ran forward and was fast
ened to the top Of the frame, so that the
mouth OF the trap would open and shut
like a jaw. To hold the mouth open,
two short upright posts were fastened to
the top piece by a hinge, and rested up
right upon the bed-piece. The net itself
was made of cotton cloth for the bottom,
and the top was made of mosquito-net-
ting. The mouth OF the net extended
sixteen feet from one side of the trap to
the other, and the net ran back about six
feet to point with hole at the end to
let out the insects collected. A boy of
10 years old can draw one end of this
net, and by the use Of it Major Thomp-
son saved one piece of wheat.
Similar machines have been drawn by
horses hitched to each side of the trap.
being twelve to sixteen feet apart. The
horses serve the purpose of driving the
locusts inward toward the mouth of the
net. There have been many forms of
this machine, but all on the same gen
eral principle.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-07-05

Everybody makes mistakes. Things
will not always come out just as we try
to make them, because some little wrong
thing is done, or something that needs
to be done is overlooked.
Well, what then? Shall we get dis
couraged and let things go as they will ?
Some people do, but such people have
hard life Of it; they think themselves
very unlucky, and complain of their
hard fate.
The little fellow who is at work on
his example in multiplication finds he
has made mistake what does he do :?
Drop his slate and go off fretting and
wishing there were no such things as
old bothersome figures? No; he is
puzzled, but he knows there is mis-.
take somewhere, but he means to find
out.
"Try again" is his motto. Fe will
begin again and go slowly und carefully
through all the work IF he does not
find the mistake then he will do the
same again, running through all the
lines OF the multiplication table in his
mind, or making them by additions on
his slate. He will hit on the wrong and
get the right, you may be sure.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-07-05

During the night we passed through
the property of Messrs. Muller & Lux,
the most extensive real-estate owners in
the valley. Here is farm seventy three
miles in length by twenty in width. If
a poor man owned 100 acres of it, it
would be worth nothing to him, as part
of it is swamp land about Lake Tulare
which he could not drain, and part of it
is desert sand, which he could not irri-
gate. But to these capitalists it is valu-
able, because they can cause the two I'M
productive parts to fructify each other
by means of canals. At present, while
engaged in this enterprise, they content
themselves with raising few thousand
acres of alfalfa, and with the pasturage
Of their IS, 900 head Of cattle and 10000
sheep. One single straig ht fence on this
property is seventy three miles long.
Now, this has the appearance Of "gob-
bling up land. But when the small
number OF inhabitants and the vast area
of territory in the State are considered,
and especially when the result of this
speculation is inevitably division after
improvement, preparatory to cultivation,
it will be seen that the gobbliDg is
for the general good. Consulting the
early history of New York and New En-
gland, we find that the territory was
coded by the crown in patents to few
individuals. Property there has been
divided and subdivided, until 100 acres
is considered to be large farm. So il
the future it will be here California
Cor. Neao York -Eveaaipg Post.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-07-05
A Baby Incendiary.

The town of Wilbraham has been
greatly puzzled ever since Sunday about
the origin of the fire which destroyed the
Congregational Church and six other
buildings on that day, causing loss of
1874, 900. The mystery is solved, how
ever, by the discovery that the fre-bug
is mischievous 5-year-old boy, who
seems to have a passion for starting
CONGREGATIONS. The child happened to
remark, last evening, that there would
soon be another fire. He was ques-
toned, and frankly told how he had
crawled into the basement window of the
church, found matches in teapot, and
kindled fire to see the blaze, and then
crawled out again. The child is per-
fectly truthful, and Rev. Mr.. Howard,
pastor of the church, thinks this expla-
nation can be relied on as the real one
of the origin of the fire. The boy lived
in a house that was fired last winter,
and it is thought now he was also the
thoughtless cause of that fire. He has
now been removed to another locality
Springfield (1Nass.) Republican.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-07-05
Poisoned hY a C0rnse

Or; William Leroy Stevens, one of the
physicians OF St. Peters Hospital. Brook
iyn, died at that place on Sunday even
ing under peculiarly unfortunate circum-
stances. About ten days ago he made a
post-mortem examination of the remains
of patient who had died few hours
previously in the hospital, and during
the operation accidentally punctured the
index finger of his left hand. The wound
appeared insignificant and the doctor
paid no further attention to it except te
apply poultice the following day. The
latter part of last week he began to fee
unwell, and on Saturday, when thu
poison had spread through his system
he was completely Frustrated. He con
tinued to grow worse until he died
| NeaO York Tribune.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-07-05
Kansas: A Prosperous State.

OF all the grain-growing States, both
old and new, the most remarkable is
Kansas. She springs to the front in her
average yield per acre of the cereal crops,
while her nutritious native pasturage
affords an inexhaustible supply of feed
for stock. Four hundred miles long by
200 wide, there is scarcely one of her
more than 50, 900, 900 acres that is not
adapted in one form or another to agri-
cultural or pastoral purposes. What is
known as the golden belt lies through the
middle OF the State, east and west, along
a line fifty miles or more in width, and
which, curiously enough, passes through
the geographical center of the United
States. All the streams of the State seek
its center, and their waters eventually
find their way into the Kansas river.
The golden belt covers the broad valley
OF the Kansas, the mouths of the Re
publican and Solomon, and the valleys
OF the Saline and Smoky Hill. A large
number OF prosperous towns, varying in
population from 1000 to 10000, have
sprung up through the middle of the
belt, along the line of the Kansas Pacific
railway. Each Of these towns, or cities
as most Of them are called, commands it's
proportion OF the trade which is the out
growth of the settlement of the sur
rounding country.
The present population Of Kansas is a
little over 100000. Five millions of
acres of land are under cultivation. The
grain crop OF this year is expected to
aggregate 120,000,0O0 bushels, of which
about 8O,OOO,00O will be corn, nearly
100000 wheat, and the remainder
oats, barley, rye and other small grains.
The value Of the agricultural products
for the year 1875 was over $43, 100000.
he value Of the crops of the present
year is estimated at $60,0O0,OOO. Many
of the agriculturists of Kansas are now
turning their attention principally to
winter wheat as a most profitable spe-
cialty.-Kaaas0s Cor. NeaO York Herald.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-07-05
THE LITTLE FOLKS.
Which Loved Best?

81 love you, mother" said little John:
Then, forgetting his work, his cap went on,
And he was off to the garden to swing,
And left her the water and wood to bring.
~ love you, mother, said rosy Nell;
q love you better than tongue can tell -
Then she leased and pouted full half day,
Till her mother rejoiced when she went to play
81 love you, mother" said little Fan.
"To-day I'll help you all / can;
How glad am school doesn't keep!''
And she rocked the babe till it fell asleep.
Then, stepping softly, she fetched the broom,
And swept the floor and tidied the room;
Busy and happy all day was she,
Helpful and happy as child could be.
II love you, mother" again they said
Three little children going to bed.
How do you think that mother guessed
Which Of them really loved her the best?