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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-01-08
LEGAL NOTICES.

VIRGINIA: At Rules held in the Clerk 8
Y office of the Circuit Court Of Alexandria
county, on the first day of January, 1871. Jere-
misb Dunlevy, jr., VS.: George OFT Wundcr,
Annie NJ Wundor, d. j. Smoct, trustee and
William C. Clarke.
Memo-The objocG OF this suit is TO enjoin and
restrain the said George OFT Wunder, Annie NJ
Wunder, D. l.. Smoot trustee, and William G.
Clarke, their agents and attornies from convey.
ing and disposing of or in any way incum berlng
the property conveyed on the 24th day of March,
1874 by the said George OF Wunder to tho said
D. l.. Smoot, trustee, in trust, for the benefit OF
Annie NJ. Wunder, and ly, the said j. l..
Smoot, trustee, George OFT Wunder and Annie
M. Wunder conveyed on the 9th day of Do'
cember. 1875 to the said William q. Clarke
and that the said William 9. Clarke may be on.
Joined and restrained from paying over the said
purchase money or any part thereof to The said
Annie NJ. Wunder, her agents assigns or attor.
neys, and that the said AMMO NJ. Wunder, her
agents, assigns or attorneys may bc cnJolned
and restrained from receiving the samo.
Tho defendants, D. l.. Smoot trustee, and
William G. Clarke not having entered tner
appearance and given security according
to the act of Assembly and tho rules OF
this Court, and it appearing by affidavit
that they arc not residents OF this State, 1t
is ordered that the said defendants appear here
within ono month after due publication of this
order, and do what is necessary to protect their
interest in this suit; and that copy OF this or
der be forthwith inserted in the Alexandra ia
zette, newspaper published in the city OF Alex;
posted at the front door Of the Court House o
this county. A copy, test:
LOUIS E. PAYNE, Clerk,
Kont &, Naala n n ian 3.N4W
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| [lec 29--tfl
CLOSING SALES or WINTER STOCK
" From 10 to Is per ct. Reduction.
Blankets, Quilts, Comforts and Cloaks at Cost
Thursday, December Is 1875;
We take account OF stock TO 1st feoruarS'
1877, and from to-day we offer all styles OF
FANCY AND STAPLE DRY GOODS.
at such reduced prices as to ensure quick sales.
Special inducements offered to country mer-
chants. We sell at Baltimore quotations
D. F. BRASHEAR,
r. r Hoomes No. 100 King street,
dec Is Alexandra, va.
NEW AND CHEAP DRESS GOODS.
~ December %, 1876.
ws Go 5s:syee sn toPeHR f5HRz ez fsEsLss aEss E nsa
BAGSHAW, and sell them at l2ic per yard
verv desirable Wo have few very handsome
CLOAKS in stock, which we sell sell at about
cost,
II. 5. Hoomes. No. 100 King street,
dec G2 Alexandra, va.
SHIRTS OF MASONFILLE COTTON.
1900, Linen in Bosoms and Lsundried. at
Sl,25. A lob lot of 20 boxes just received. The
cheapest Shirt wo have ever sold.
dcc22 a. G. SLAYMAKER co.
NECK WEAR AT REDUCED PRICES.
Just opened SCARFS that we have been sell.
ing at 81 .371 reduced so that wo can sell them
a'Sa; Ssc . Splendid sfH2aCe; T! &. s1AYMAKER co.
T1HE FEW CLoAKs STILL ON HAND
MUST BE SOLD,
and you can buy almost at
YOUR OWN PRICE,
as we do not intend to carry over one single
Cloak if prico will sell them.
DRESS GOODS AT CLOSING PRICES,
and TEN CENTS OFF ON EACH DOLLAR
for the cash,
dcc2 H. c. SLA I MAhEK W.
WE HAVE DECIDED TO CLOSE OUT
the balance OF our stock of Winter Goods at a
largo REDUCTION IN PRICE. We name
in part
New Dark Shades of Twilled half wool Cash
,nercs at poe, present price 25c Tycoon Reps at
15c; all Cssaimcros and Waterproofs marked
down i per cent; balance of CloaEs at cost
Blankets very cheap; Domestic Goods al bot
tom prices. Wc have lately received large lines
ofFANCY GOODS and arc ready fol Christmas.
PHETZFELDER s. CO.,
dac 10 144 King street
NIEyV GOODS! NEW GOODS!
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NEW YORK STATE CIDER, very choice,
AN just received
nov g GEO. McBURNEY s. SON.
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dec s

Ezg-To THE LADIES. We have just received
fne assortment of Gontlemen's, Boys ana
Youths Fine Toilet Slippers, suitable for the
holidays, which will bo sold at prices 70 SUIT sne
rmes rdec 81 WADDEY, "A King st.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-01-08

THRISTAAS GOODSl
" CHRISTMAS GOODS!
RAlSINS-Lordon and other Lager Raisins
IN whole, half and quarter boxes, Curr ,nts. Cit
ron, Grsln end Ground Spices, received by
dec II DAV Y j. HARMON.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-01-08

A largo assortment of double width (36 ihch)
all Wool Cashmere, worth 75c, at &c.
Black all Wool Cashmere, worth 81, at 75c.
Striped oil Wool Goods fer Polonaises at 25c.
1000 yards Of Simpsons Solid Black Calico, IN
remnants, at &c per yard.
A beautiful line Of Black Mohars and Alpac-
as, very cheap.
Cashmere for Men and Boys woar al 374 up.
Fine sl Wool Shawls, Blankets, sc.
Opera Flannel in all shades at 35c per yard.
A full line Of Gents and Ladies' Underwear.
A large and complete stock Of Notions, Ho'
sisry, sc.
u. BENDHEIM, 1l2 King ST..
noyls Adj'g. Marshall House.
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GROCERIES,, &c.

MINCE MEAT, APPLE and PEACE
Xk BUTTER and SWEET CIDER for sale by
nov - r. w. AVERY, 226 King st.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-01-08

a PPLE BUTTER, in large and nall tubs
~ for sale by
dec II DAF q HAhMON.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-01-08
Kent & Neale, p. q. J

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Nr,
IN JULIAN T. BURKE is authorized to
sign our firm name to drafts and endorsements
of drafts, notes and checks for collection in the
usual course of banking and brokerage busi,
ness, and we do hereby consider all Of his legal
acts in the above premises as binding upon US
on and after this date January ., 1877.
ian 0-1m BURKE & HERBERT.
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TXECUTORS NOTICE.-The subscribers
d having duly qualified before the Corpora
as executors Of the last will and testament OF
THOMAS DAVY, deceased, hereby give no.
tice to all persons having claims against the es.
tet. OF the said Thomas Davy, deceased, to pre-
SEM them to the subscribers ;or settlement, duly
suthe ticsted; and al persons indebted to tho
said estate are required to make lmmedlate pay
ment. ALLEN y aAhMoN'
jan 2-w4W L. n. l'AVE1, E1ecutoFS i.
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nUFFEY'S NEW YORK SWEET CIDER
~ in store and for sale by
nov % r. w, AVERY, 226 King st.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-07-05
CHINA MEN As WITNESSES

The admissibility of Chinese as wit
nesses has been affirmed by the Criminal
Court of Baltimore, after consideration
of a letter by S. Wells Williams, for
mer resident and official in China. Mr..
Williams says the Chinese are not sensi-
BILE of the obligations of an oath, no
matter in what form it is administered,
but he also says: In general the wit
nesses ina native court give as fair an
account of a transaction as they give it
in their common intercourse with each
other; they have learned by experience
that in order to get along in life GER
tain degree of truth Unnecessary, but few
or none of them would expect that an
invocation or oath to or before an idol
would have much weight, or carry a
sanction to make man speak the truth
when otherwise he would lie. The cere-
mony of killing a cock is rather an i'm
precation of like punishment on himself
than a call on spiritual being who
knows the heart and whom he fears, to
attest the truth of what he says. Con-
sequently such ceremonies are not gen.
eral, for they do not carry much weight,
and yet believe the experience of con-
sular courts in China is favorable to the
general credibility of the testimony.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-07-05

A RECENT estimate or calculation
fixes the entire railroad mileage of the
world at 1884 miles, of which 74,1S3
miles are in this country and 30,315 in
Great Britain and her colonies. The
progress made in other leading nations
is "a follows: Germany has carried its
railroad network from r. ,4O8 miles in
1871 to 1882 miles in 1876; Russia,
from 5,579 miles sn 1871 to 12,14S miles
in 1876; Austria, from 1858 miles in
1871 to 1922 miles in 1876; and Italy,
from 3,4OS miles in 1871 to Att miles
in 1876. While Germany, France, Rus
sia, Austria and Italy had thus COM
pleted 36,064 miles in 1871, they had
built 5S,503 miles in 1876.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-07-05
A Florida Tornado.

Autumn is the dread season of hurri-
canes in Florida, and at its approach the
inhabitants quake with apprehension.
Tearing through the West Indies, they
often strike the coast with deadly effect.
With scarcely a note of warning, houses
are overthrown, sail-boats blown from
the water, and orange groves swept bare
of leaves and fruit. The day may be
bright and beautiful, and all nature re-
ioice in the sunshine. Almost imper-
ceptibly the wind may die away. Cries
of terms and water birds fall upon the ear
with painful distinctness. The mud hens
of the marshes pipe an alarm. Not a
blade of salt grass moves. The blue sky
grows hazy, and the eastern horizon is
milky white. Fitful gusts begin to rip
pie the water and handle the green
leaves. A low moan comes from the
ocean. Smoky clouds roll into the sky
from the southeast, and a strong wind
whitens the ruffied water. Every minute
it increases in fury. An ominous yellow
light tinges the atmosphere. The SUN is
gone, and great drops of rain are hurled
to the ground Within fifteen minutes
there is gale, and soon the full force of
the hurricane is felt. Birds, large and
small, are swept through the air, utterly
powerless. All living things disappear.
Tall pines are twisted asunder. The
1.-the limbs of willows and oleanders snap
like cow-whips. Lofty palmettoes bend
their heads to the ground, their great
fans turned inside out like the ribs of an
umbrella. The force of the wind keeps
trees down until every green fan pops
like pistol-shot. Orange groves are
ripped into shoe strings. The leaves of
the scraggy scrub OH the beach are wiped
out, and their stems whipped into little
brushes. The tough saw-palmetto is
blown as fiat as northern wheatfield,
and the dead grass of the savannas
lashed into fine dust. Boards in the surf
are struck by the wind, and sent spin
ming hundreds of feet into the air. The
sand dunes are caught up bodily and
sifted through the tops of pine trees miles
away. The foam of the sea is blown be-
meath the houses on the main land, and
comes up between the cracks of the floor
like steam. Sail-boats are torn from
their moorings and destroyed or stranded.
These hurricanes last from seven to eight
hours, even longer. During the lulls
rain falls in torrents. The tide rises to
great height, carrying away wharves
and boat houses, and flooding the low
country for miles. Gardens are de,
stroyed, fences swept away, and the tor.
mented Floridian has three months
work and no pay to repair damages.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-07-05
UTAH DITORCES.

1t will be recollected that, not long
ago, in the case of Hood vs.. the State of
Indiana, Judge Roberts, of Dearborn
County, decided that Hood, who had OBJ
tanned divorce from his first wife in
Utah and married again, taking up his
residence in Dearborn County, was guilty
of adultery, and Hood appealed to the
Supreme Court. On the trial it was
shown that the divorce was obtained by
a Chicago lawyer, one of the disreputable
class who obtain divorces without pub
licity, ETC., and that Hood was never a
resident of Utah. The question for the
Indiana Supreme Court to decide was
the validity of divorce granted under
such circumstances The Supreme Court
has decided that the Utah court had no
jurisdiction. A statute of that Territory
provides that where person applies for
a divorce, if the court is satisfied that
the applicant is resident of the Terri
tory or wishes to become one," the
court may grant a divorce. The Su
preme Court hold that this statute is
ultra wires and void, and that court in
Utah cannot thus obtain jurisdiction o.
non-residents. The decree of divorce il
therefore void. 1t is believed that thi
decision will have the effect of breaking
up the business of obtaining such di
vorces. Other States will doubtless fol
low the example of Indiana in their de
cisions on this important question.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-07-05
GERMAN DISCIPLINE.

The brilliant successes which have of
late years been gained by the Germans
are, it is now generally recognized,
mainly to be attributed to the careful
provision with which the organization of
each of the separate parts, which, when
united, form an army, has been perfected
beforehand. Every detail is arranged
during the years of peace; nothing has
to be improved in haste at the moment
when it iswanted. The invitation, there
fore, which has been recently sent to all
the civilian medical practitionersinB inBerlin
can only be regarded asa part of the gen.
eral system. Every doctor and surgeon,
namely, residing in the German capital
has been requested through the police to
inform the authorities on the following
points. He is to state, in the first place,
whether, in the event of his country be-
coming involved in war, he will be pre-
pared 10 serve during the whole cam
paign, or during any period of it of less
duration than six weeks, in the field hos
pitals of the active army; secondly,
whether, if he is willing to undertake
this duty, he will consent to serve in the
reserve hospitals not situatedin the town
in which he resides; or, thirdly, whether
he will be disposed to render medical
service in reserve hospitals in his place
of residence. In the event of his de,
claring himself willing to serve in any
of these ways, the authorities undertake
to consider, as far as possible, any wish
he may express as to the place in which
he would prefer to be employed.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-07-05
Louis NaDOIeOn's COurtshiD.

. Mr.. Blanchard Jerrold, in his volume
just published in London, tells the con-
clusiOn of Louis NapoleOn's courtship.
1t was at the New Year ball in 1853,
that as the company were passing to the
supper-room Mademoiselle de Montijo
and Madame Fortoul, wife of the Minis
ter of Public Instruction, reached one of
the doors together. Madame Fortoul,
mastered by that jealousy of that fortu-
nate lady which was general at court,
rudely rebuked MademOiselle de Montijo
for attempting to take precedence of her
The young lady drew aside with great
dignity before this affront, and when she
entered the supper-room the pallor and
trouble in her face at once attracted the
notice of the Emperor as she took her
place at His Majesty's table. In great
anxiety he rose and passed behind her
chair to ask what had happened. "What
is the matter? Pray tell me-" The
marked and sympathetic attention of the
Emperor drew all eyes upon the lady,
who became covered with confusion.
implore you, sire, to leave" she answered,
"every body is looking at u.s." Troubled
and perplexed, the Emperor took the
earliest opportunity of renewing his in
quiry. a insist upon knowing What
is itY' at is this, SIRE" the lady now
answered haughtily, the blood mantling
her cheek, "I have been insulted to-
night, and will not expose myself to a
second insult" "To-morrow," said the
Emperor, in a low, kind voice, 4" nobody
will dare to insult you again" Returned
home, Madame de Montijo and her
daughter, their Spanish blood thoroughly
reused, made hasty preparations to leave
Paris for Italy. On the morrow morning,
however, the mother received a letter
from the Emperor, in which he formally
asked the hand of Mademoiselle Eugene
de Montijo in marriage, and the ladies
within few days removed from their
apartments to the Elysee, which was as
signed to the Emperor's betrothed,
Within month Mademoiselle de Montijo
sat on the throne of the Tuileries beside
Napoleon III.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-07-05
The Great Wall of China.

Kalgan commands one of the passes
through the Great Wall of China. 1t is
there built of large stone, cemented to-
gether with mortar. 1t tapers toward
the top, being twenty-one feet high and
twenty-eight feet wide at the foundation.
At the most important points, less than
mile apart, square towers are erected,
built of bricks. 1t winds over the crest
of the mountains, crossing the valleys at
right angles, blocking them with fortif-
cations. The Chinese estimate itslength
to be about three thousand three hun
dred miles, but in parts more remote
from Pekin the wall is of inferior con-
struction. There is nothing but dilap-
idated mud rampant, as Colonel Preje-
valsky saw it on the borders of Ala-shan
and kansu. 1t is said to have been
built upward of two centuries before
Christ, to protect the empire against the
inroads of the neighboring nomads; but
the periodical irruptions of the barba-
rians were never checked by this arti-
fetal barrier.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-07-05
UnexplOred Africa.

Those who have attained maturity
may recolled seeing upon maps of Africa
large black space in the center, indica-
ting a land unexplored and unknown.
Of late years explorers have pierced its
mysteries, and ascertained that this region
of great equatorial lakes is one of the
most populous and fertile of the earth,
and that an immense plateau, among
mountains crowned with eternal snow, is
watered by great streams proceeding
from them, and offers climates of various
degrees of temperature. This inviting
land is, however the abode of savages,
who are at perpetual war with each other,
and who mutually cause adestruction of
human life computed athundreds year.
At least forty thousand slaves are also
annually captured there, for use upon the
Continent, or for shipment elsewhere.
The International African Association,
headed by the King of the Belgians,
desires to commence the civilization of
the country by establishing stations for
scientific observations and for the use
and protection of travellers; and branches
of the association have been formed in
European countries.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-07-05
Undecided Young Men.
[Terre Haute Mail. !

A world of trouble is occasioned to
young girls by the indecision of charac-
ter of young men. A pretty girl is living
in the neighborhood of half a dozen
young men. She is not only beautiful,
but she is good, we'll educated, and ac-
complished. Perhaps there is not one of
these young men who would not take a
peculiar interest in her, for she is gen.
eral favorite, but they observe that one
of their number seems to gave got the
start of them; he is regular and fire.
quent visitor, and his attentions do not
appear to be at all displeasing in the
quarter where they are bestowed so the
others fall back, or turn their eyes else
| where.
The young man who has brought all
this about goes on from week to week :;
from month to month it may even be
from year to year, without any definite
plan of the future, or so much as any
clear decision in his own mind of what
lady; he knows that his visits are pleas
ant to himself and acceptable to her he
| would not like her to receive particular
| attention from another yet he says not a
| word about engagement and marriage, the
end and aim of a woman's life.
He has gradually won her affections,
until he has become the ocean to the
river of her thoughts" She could not
bear to break off with him, to be sepa-
rated from him for she loves him as She
fondly believes, and perhaps truly, as she
can never love another! But how har-
rowing is the state of doubt and uncer-
tainty in which she drifts on?
Reflection should make young men
careful how they win the hearts they do
not wish to wear. They have no right to
monopolize a girls society so long as
they are in state of entire indecision as
to their own wishes and purposes.
But while the fault may lie with the
young men, the folly rests as much with
the young women. They should be early
wise; and guard their affections from be-
coming fastened upon young man from
whom they have no assurance and of
whom they know nothing more than that
he is an agreeable companion. They
should beware of young men of indecis.
ion of character, who having once in.
gratiated themselves into favor, will
dawdle along, as if it were no part OF
their duty to give to the future, and
to the happiness of others, a single
thought.
1t is rarely undecided associations are
productive of permanent good. There
are many circumstances which intervene
in the progress of time, and render then
highly I'M furious to both parties As il
the one case the eligible young men keeI
their distance for fear of intruding, so il
the other the undecided young man il
looked upon by young girls in the neigh
borhood as partly, if not wholly, en-
gagged; and it is only in the case of ;
flirt any attempt is made to draw hin
away; but, should his attentions ceas,
for any cause, he finds it difficult mat
) ter, indeed, to reinstate himself else
| where.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-07-05

MAX ADELER: We have just perfected
an invention which will probably relieve
us in the future from the persecution of
life insurance agents and book canvassers.
1t is in the nature of patent combina-
ton refex-action door scraper. We
fasten it down by the side of the lowest
step in front of our house, and wait un-
til book canvasser comes along, which
one is tolerably certain to do within
fifteen or twenty minutes. The canvasser
stops to scrape his boots, while he thinks
up some new and vigorous exaggeration
with which to impose on us. AS his foot
touches the iron, two clamps fly over his
instep and hold him fast, steel claw
suddenly shoots up his leg and grabs his
trousers; a trap flies open in the pave
ment, and the victim is hauled into a
cellar, where we have an infuriated
Irishman engaged to mellow him and
fatten him out with scoopshovel. We
allow the Irishman a royalty on the re-
mains, and he seems to be animated by
an earnest desire which promises rich re-
suits. If the machine works well we
shall either buy graveyard or found a
medical college. In the mean time per-
sons in want of bodies for dissection or
other purposes will please apply.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-07-05

passengers evinced but little alarm, and
none were demonstrative, it was very
different with many of the men. Some
were running to and fro in frantic ex-
element, others began to pray with We
hemence, and not few sought to monop-
olize the life preservers. One coward
provided himself with not less than three
one under his arms, one at his waist,
and the last one on his legs. Had he
got into the water he would and ought
to have been drowned.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-07-05

THERE are. fourteen thousand four
hundred and forty-one persons in Eng
land members of the Society of Friends.
Last year they numbered fourteen
thousand two hundred and fifty-three,
so that they have slightly increased of
late Of ninety-five members who mar
ried last year, forty-nine were united to
persons not belonging to their society,
and these mixed marriages are probably
not favorable to the perpetuation of
Quakerdom. There is one fact respect
ing Quakers, namely, that they are Il
long-lived race. The rate of mortality
among them is remarkably low-only
eighteen in one thousand for the past
year.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-07-05

THE Cincinnati Commercial says that
the name of the terrible Mollie Ma
guires" comes from Ireland. Some fifty
years or more ago poor old woman in
Ireland had her cottage pulled down
over her head by her landlord. Her
name was Mollie Mcguire, and she died
of grief and exposure. Thereupon her
sons and some neighbor lads formed
themselves into a secret band, and
vowed and took fierce revenge on Irish
landlords in general. The band spread
rapidly, and they called themselves the
"MOllie Maguires," and Irish coal min
ers brought the name to America.