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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1878-07-24
The Conservative Congressional SOH-
ventiOn Of the Sth District,

The Conservative Convention for nominating
4 candidate of the Conservative party to repre-
sent the 9Th Congressional District in the United
States Congress, will be held in the city CT AIe1-
and1ia, on Wednesday. August 2S:h, 1878, at l.
m. The basis of representation will be one DEL
egste and one alternate to every ore hundred
votes and fractions Ct one hundred exceeding
6fty, cast for Tilden and Hendricks III the last
Presidential election. to be appointed in such
manner IS the county aad city committees may
prescribe for themselves.
} };P #: + + 5 kS:5FH Dist Com
va If YOU WANT A FIRST Glass Bo0T OR
Shoe, Of the finest material, best workmanship
and perfect fit, 20 TO WADoEY'S. No. no King
street. ap9
W.BoYs' SHOES
BOYS SHOES!
Eors' SHOES!
Largest and cheapest stock in the city
my2l ". b. WADDET, 10 King St
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"a AN ELEGANT STocK OF SPRING AND
Summer Boots and Shoes for gUntlemen's wear
at WApDEY's 10 King St, AleHs., Va. lap 3
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the
DISTRICT OF UOl.lT Al BlA

This company offers nnrivallel facilities for
the transportation of fr2ight ani passengers,
and will run thor ssesmera regularly as follows:
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FOR NEW YORK

The Al Steamships Il. G.. KNIGHT u-paee
and JOHN GIBSON leave the com-S4aAk
pany's wharf, Ale1sndris, EVERY NON
DAY MORNING, and New York, from pie,
Al East River. EVERY SATURDAY at fou
o'clock p. m.
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L.. A. DAVIS, Clerk.
Commissioners Office.

CommiGsiOnc:'s O1ico, [
Brentsvillc, July 18th, 1873 !
TO Lucien N. Fewell and Sarah e. hs wife,
James X. Brawner, Charles Il. Brawner, +.
A. Weldon, johnson Cockrell. William E.
Goodwin, Sheriff, committee administrator dc
bonis non of William Brawnor. deceased,
Edmund Berkeley, j. Y. Rosebcrry, admin
traitor of NJ. NJ. Roseberry, deceased, +. j.
OF Allen Howison. deceased.
Take notice. that have fixed THU RSDA?,
the I'D day of August, 1878, st my otlico, in the
town of Brentsvlle. as tho time and place to ex-
ecute the requirements Of tho decree Of which
the above is An extract, at which time and place
you are required to attend.
Given under my hand ss Commissioner in
Chancery of the Circuit Court Of Prince vii.
liam county, the day and year last aforesaid.
jy 23-w4w 4. A. SINCLAIR.
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LEAVE ALEXANDRIA

A. NJ? 90. s. 8 so, Q 90, 10 ID, II 90 and II ;
7. Mp d. .. 6 20 4, S. 5 35, 81 snd
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r6- EXQUISITE Low QUARTER SHOES
very cheap at
my q WADpEYs. 10 King e.
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mo. 6549.l

mo $780,
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE
L United States for the Eastern District of
Virginia.
In the matter of In Bankrupt.
Jameson IL Collins, Bankrupts cy.
TO whom it may concern: The undersigned,
a. w. Armstrong of Alexandria county, Vir-
ginis, hereby gives notice of his appointment as
Assignee of tho estate of Jameson & Collins, of
were on the 2lst day of June, AID. 1873. adjudg-
ed bsnkrupts on their own petition BY the Dis
trict Court of eaid District.
a. W. ARMSTRONG. Assignee.
Dated July 10Th. 1878. iy 19waw
VIRGINIA--In the Clerks office Of the Cor
Y porstion Court Of the city of Alexandria,
ON the Sd day Of July, 1873
Maria Skidmore, plaintiff vs.. LOWS Skidmore,
Emily G. Skidmore, Mary D. Allen and Mary
u. A. Skidmore, defendants. In chancery.
estate of Andrew F. Skidmoro amongst his heirs
At law.
The defendant, Mary D. A. Skidmore,
not having entered her appearance and Civ
en- security according to tho act Of Assem-
bly, and tho rules Of this Court, and it ap-
pearing by affidavit that she is not resident of
this State, it is ordered that the said defendant
appear here within ono month after due publica-
ton Of this order, and do what is necessary to
protect her interest in this suit; and that copy
of this order be forthwith inserted in the Alex
andria Gazette, 8 newspaper published in the
city of Alexandria, once week for four sue
4essiye weeks, and posted at the front door Of
tho Court House Of this city. A copy, test:
Jonc ID. johnson, p.q jy 9-w4w
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Largest and cheapest stock in the city.
my2l W. b. WADDET, llU hing 81.
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GORGE 4. HILL i CO.'S.
CAREFUL MANUFACTURES
OUR NEW GOODS.
ALMOND-Fapcy Nut Favored.
COCOANUT-Rich Fine Drop Toy Coated
PRESlDENT-lce Drop, h.igh: l,yo7
PRlN CESS-lced Sheet. soft obIong.
SEASID E-For light summer luncheon.
OURlST-SWeet Hard Biscuit, figured top.
BISMARCK Germsn Biscuit, CsTawsy fseo-
SARATOGA-Crimp edge, Mace flavor
These fancy goods are furn.ahed tie trade in
assorted or straight packages, s.tractivoly Pr:
up for retail They are no: kept in stock. No
tin csns used, consequently they are Always
fresh and in high dsvor. We respectfully solicit
an examination Of these goods.
GEORGE K HILL Il CO.,
my ~ Alexandria, Va.
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A7FXANDRTA GAZETTE AND VIRGINIA ADVERTISER.
kTEAMERR.

FERRY COMPANY.
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TNSECT POWDER for the destruction of
l. Ants, Reaches Bed Bugs, &C.. also GUNS
Of the latest and best kind can be found at
en24 W. F. CREIGHTON'S.
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l@.RoYs' SHOES
BOYS Shoes
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1878-07-25
THE RESPONSIVE CHORD.


A we'll EeHaamberea In eidenf Of lkae WAR
Belween tlAe Staies.
Rev. J. William Jones, in an address
before the national Sunday school con-
yention, Atlanta, Georgia, related the
following incident: /" In the eafiy
spring OF 1868, when the Confederate and
Federal armies were confronting each
other on the opposite bills Of Stafford and
Spottsylyapia, two bands CHANGED one
evening at the same hour to begin to dis
course sweet music on either bank of the
river. A large crowd of the soldiersof bots
armies gathered to listen to the music,
the friendly pickets not interfering, and
soon the bands began to answer each
other. First the band on the northern
bank would play Star Spangled Banner
sHail Columbia or some other national
air, and at its conclusion the boys IN
blue would cheer most Justify. And
the band on the southern bank would
respond with Dixie or Bonnie Blue
Flag or some other southern melody,
and the boys IN gray would attest their
appreciation with an told Confederate
yell" But presently one of the bands
struck up-in sweet aud plaintiye notes
which were waited across the Rappa.
hannock--weIe caught up at once by the
other band and swelled into grand an
them which touched every heart, Home,
Sweet EoIneP At the conclusion of
this piece, there went UP q simultaneous
sheut from both sides Of the river, cheer
followed cheer, and those bills (Which
go recently resoundsd with hostile guns
echoed and re,echoed the glad acclain.
A chord had been struck responsive to
which the hearts of enemies, enenies
then, X could beat in unison;
and On both sides of the river
fSomething down the soldiers cheek
Washed of the stains Of powdsrip
II CeIumbia Is. C.p Register,
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1878-07-25
RELIGIOUS READING.



Ieannot see TO walk in these dark Ways
NY eyes are bind with dust
cannot read Thy purpose, dear Lord,
But can humb'y trust.
Though clouds may vail the blessed MONDAY FUN
Or hide nights diadem,
Yet penetrating all through tears see
The star OF Bethlehem.
What matter, then, though see not my steps,
The goal Is still in sight;
The treading eft on thorns, with bleeding feet
In burning deserts lost
Thou, Lord, hast passed through every Ill before,
There's comfort at the Cross.
My soul, dear Lord. Thou dost restore again,
And rae to walk dost make,
Within the paths OF patjest righteousneBs,
Zen for Thine own nsmes sake.
Veal though l walk through deaths dark lonely
vale.
Yet shall / fear rome i'll
For Thou srt with me and Thy blessed rod
And stat me comfort still"
Come. then, the storms of earth, IL only Thou
Wilt hold my trembling hand
only ask abiding faith. dear Lord,
Not Thee to understand
Goodness and mercy all my humble life
Shall surely follow me,
And in Gods house forevermore, my home
And dwelling place shall be.
-[Cincnnati Times.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1878-07-25

itest him 2" with chill dismay creeping
over ysu, lest you should slip away from
the ever present care of God.
Some of the purest, noblest natures
suffer from this benumbing paralysis of
doubt, now and then. 1t Is humiliating
to reflect, too, that the tortures which
visit this intellectual and mental part are
often part of the penalty which an
abused physical constitution exacts. The
nerves are overweight, the brain has
been unduly stimulated, or the stomach
has been i'll treated, and then the body
makes its reprisals on it's spiritual tenant.
But, come from what source soever it,
may, there is mute agony of soul, which
we sometimes endure, and in which it Is
consolation indeed to remember the
Master, and His hard and bitter conflict
beneath the olives of Gethsemane. At
such hours, like sheeted ghosts, the errors
and defeats of the past revisit you, ard
life grows unutterably sad.
Is there a bright side here? Some
poet has said that the mark of rank in
nature is capacity for pain, and to
these nights OF sorrow there are corre>
spending days of joy. But the real
bright side is found only when, out of
the whirl of struggling emotions, the
spirit casts itself upon the sympathy of
Jesus. So strong, 30 true, 80 tender is
the love of our Lord, that even as we
cry, "Save or we PERISH" there comes,
swift as our need, the answer, "Lo, am
with you always"
No subtler habit of evil is there in the
world than that of selfpity. The victim
OF this form of selfshness is always sur
veying the dark side of things. If we
choose we can cultivate in ourselves and
in our children the sunny nature, as we'll
as that which is ever bemoaning itself,
and comparing its lot with that OF
Others. 1t would be well tor each of us,
every day, when the trials press, to say,
"But after all, how much pleasure there
is here, how much delight there is
yonder, and what a garden of glory is
this beautiful world. Let me, at least,
try to be as happy as l can."-[Christian
Intelligencer.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1878-07-25
s,lrnpes ne Bee F@sd.

Every farmer living in fruit-growing
district should keep few swarms of
bees, enough at least TO furnish honey
for his own table. There is an
abundance of honey material in the
flower garden, In the meadow, in the
orchard and in the vineyard to support
half g dozen swarms of bees on each farm
in the neighborhood. But, more espe.
cially should they be kept in sections
where the culture Of the vine is made a
speciality, for there can be no better
honey food than. ripe grapes. 1t is true
that the honey bee has not been pro
vided by nature with any means of
puncturing the skin Of sound fruit, but
there is always more or less fruit with
broken or cracked skins, sufficient for
the bees to carry away. As lar as any
difficulty might be concerned, q few
lunches could be picked each day and
placed where the bees could find them,
the grapes first having been bruised or
the skins broken. First, 10 the spring,
would be the wild and tame flowers,
then the fruit flowers, then the ripe
fruit, and, finally, lasting until late in
the fall, the grape crop. From this II Ii
easy to see how the hives would be filled
with honey, and the pleasure OF having
white comb honey for table use, saying
nothing of what would be sold, would
more tlaprepay the cost and trouble.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1878-07-25
Fashions.

Hosiery is much better In quality and
much lower In price than 1t has been for
the past ten years.
The fashionable stone color, it is saId,
is "run into the ground" Gould it run
into anything more appropriate
Small capes and mantelets-the latter
having square ends, knotted In 'front.'
have quite taken the place Of jackets.
Among the ornaments for bonnets are
green peas, visible in the split pod, with
natural vine, leaves and tendrils.
Dresses of dotted and checked white
muslin are revived tor house wear, and
are trimmed with lace and colored rib
b0ns.
The new soft beige flannel, of home
manuis cture, for children's wear, hss
hair stripes OF color upon gray and dark
grounds.
Very neat balmoral skirts, for summer
travelling wear, are made of striped seer
sucker, and trimmed with fine plating,
for $l.25 each.
A captivating hat of black chip Is
called the "None Such" 1t is lined
with delicate, mastie,colofed satin and
trimmed with black lace, and wreath
Of the little English flowers commonly
known as "none SUCH"
The "AayaP costume is 3 pretty over
skirt and jacket OF fine, darksblue cloth,
the latter double breasted, or, rather,
| fastening from the shoulder with gilt
buttons, and disclosing the lower part of
rich, broeaded silk vest.
Among the latest novelties are fruit
bonnets, and one of the prettiest is com
posed of strawberries-perfectly natural
in appesranee-shaded to repre- sent diff
ferent degrees of growth and ripeness
and imbsded in perfectly natural leaves.
Confirmation dresses are made with
one straight skirt finished with single
rufle; a simple overskirt and round
French waist, high in the neck, but un-
lined. The sleeves ara half long, and
finished with two ruffies. A white sash
il worn round the waist.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1878-07-25
Frat Drying i'm Tenuessee.

ave had letter few days ago from
q gentleman in Hartford, Conn, inqnir-
inr shout the feasibility of erecting q
trnit-drying establishment in this coun-
inv, We have written and advised him
to do so. We believe 1t viii pay. and
now is the time to do it. With our im~
mense crop coming on, fruit viii be sold
at low prices. Such an establishment
will furnish employment for a large
number of laborers, and will open up q
certain market to our farmers for their
iruit. Besides, we have learned upon
inquiry from one of our leading retail
rrocers, that fruit dried in this way is
worth in the New York market more
than double of that dried in the ordj-
nary way. We will probably have a
response from the gentleman alluded to
in q few days, and trust lie may be con-
WINGED that this will be profitable In
vestment. We are greatly in earnest in
having our fruit crop cared for. 1t will
be source of revenue which we can not
afford to overlook in these hard times
Knoxville Chronicle.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1878-07-25
sorT8ERN HOME AND FARM.


warning to housekeepers comes up
e,om many states. People hsve been
, rlocautly killed by eating bacon not
r,,rronerly cooked. Tbereportsof genuine
= p +richi nosis" are multiplying. Painful
assfhg from exiting under-done or raw
, uO' meat have occurred within few
a aogs in Missouri, Maryland and PENN
sTivania. The Richmond State saysEery
timely, in reference to trichinosis:"
at IS rnalady whose prevention lie
olwayg possible and easy, and it seems
styange that even the most ignorant peo-
ME should not be careful to cook their
nod. Raw bacon is not 30 inviting, one
, would think, as to induce people to eat
4 with the risk attached OF q disorder
which humanity can hardly suffer q
worse."
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1878-07-25

same bnsiness or profession that thev
themselves follow. This is likely to h.
true OF shoemakers, merchants, rnillers.
carpenters, ETC. Farmers are not excep.
tlons to this rule.
Farming, when well conducted, ia a
good and pleasant business. IF our sons
and Daughters do not like it, there il
always some good reason for their dislike.
L have often taken an interest in tracing
out the reasons. They are likely to dis
Ike farming because they are not
pleased with the way In which their
parents have managed it. In some cases
Inc young person has very decided
lnclnatien to some other business.
III you want to make your son like his
business, place himin responsible places.
trust him, consult him about the work he
Is to DO. Let him do part of the think
ing. Give him nearly the sole care or
responsibility OF something on the farm /;
the fowls, the pigs, some of the other
stock, some of the crops, or the garden,
or a part of it. Suppose he does
not do everything lust as YOU
would; advise him. 1t is much better
that he should fail while be is vet
young and has time TO learn under your
training, than to not try or fail till he
goes into business for himself. By
treating children In this way they will
take more interest in their work, and
will be much more likely to succeed
when they start for themselves. Do no!
make slaves of your children.
Too many of our most prominent
farmers-farmers who are called the
most successful-send their children To
work each day as they would send an
ignoramus, without any "ifsn O,
ands," or reasons for so doing.
For want of proper training In thi,
respect, many young man has grown
up without mental discipline. He has
been able without much help, in an in
credibly short space of time, to run
through all that hisstrong-minded father
left him. Twenty years ago ! knew
such man. His farm wss called and
known as perfection for a long distance
around. He had son, who is to-day
living in sight of this old farm. III
OWNS only poor span of horses, and il
living from hand to mouth; and very
poor living he gets at that. The fine es
tate slipped easily and rapidly from the
hand of the son who had no skill to man
age it, because he had never been placed
in responsible positions while he was 8
boy. So too often one generation makes
money for the next to squander. IL
laying up comfortable fortunes for on,
children to waste we are doing them q
great injury. Better by far to spend
more of our time in giving them prop.
er discipline to nansge well. Then, i
they are healthy, in most cases, they
need only ittlestart to make them wei
off in the goods of this world.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1878-07-25
Breaking 8 iEroster,

This common and exasperating habit,
which spoils so many otherwise splendid
trotters, is o plain case 1or applying in
the ''ouuce of prevention" If the coltis
trained so that he won't "bfeak," or will
recover himself at oneeand without loss
from au occasional and perhaps inevita-
BILE loss of step, the horse will be steady
goer.
To the boys, therefore, who are begin
ming to speed their 3ayofite colt this
spring, we say again: !" Remember that
your business is to educate to trot, not
TO teach him to run. But # be does
ever break, then let him break with o
vengeance. Let there be no halfway
work about it.; no hating aud hobbling
and coming back in the preceding, but
a regular plunge forward, aud 9 rockets
like movement through the air. Ii he
breaks, make him gain by the break.
Make him understand that his business
Id to 60 ahead, hit or miss, in one style
az long as possible; but to go It, style or
no style.
II you have o green horse that comes
back in the breeching when he breaks, or
even when his backbone begins to twist
up before the break has actually begun,
then give him the whip; give it to him
sharp and quick. Get all that nonsense
out of him at once; keep him salling.
DO not "yank" him now, aud grab at
him with the lines, d if your HE de-
pended OH pulling your wagon over his
back; but let him take Jour or hye
Jumps until his backbone il strengthened
out, and he has got leyeled down tolt, and
sgathering his legsup under bim like .
racer; thensmoye the bits ia his mouth,
and "pick him up Don't saw and
sway him, and double him up until bus
nose ia down between his fore legs, and
dis launches up over his shoulders.
Remember that his back must be KEPT
straight at all events, or he will net catch
his ttet square, or be able to keep when
he has caught It. With sharp, hrm
turn of your wrist, and q lift on the bit
pick his nose upward, and slightly 70 one
side; this will throw him from hii
balance just enough to make him graz
Tor his Bit and not enough TO TWIST hill
INTO unsteadiness or to slack him up.
You may not succeed the first Or sec
ond time, but peEseyere until you NAYS
educated your wrist and eye 70 ACT =
conjunction, and you will then hays
mastered one of the NEST diftleult iaau
OF finest horsemanship. Fl PEARSON Miur
ray.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1878-07-25
The Protection of Humming Birds.

Following the example of other couu,
tries in the matter OF protecting their
rare and useful or beautiful fauna, some
of the West Indian colonies are taking
steps to put stop to the slaughter OF
the pretty humming birds and other
varieties of the beautiful plumaged
feather tribes whose destruction has,
during the last few years, become exces-
siye, owing TO the demand for them for
decorative purposes. Trinidad already
possesses law making it penal to take,
as well as to kill, the less commoa
kind of wild birds In the island and q
similar measure has recently been
passed by the "court of policy OF
British Guiana, under which it Is pro
hibited to kill, sell or export at any time
of the, year certain birds LAUNDERING
forty) named in the schedule, under q
penalty of ga for each bird. Among
the more curious birds named Ia this
schedule are the csmpsnero (bellbird),
humming bird, qu'est-ce,a ue-c'st ,qu'ildit,
sunbird, toucan, jackanlar and carbon
crow, Under second schedule econ
tanning the names Of nine birds, among
which are the douraguara, ployer, parrott,
pigeon, quail, snipe, trumpet bird and
wild duck) it is prohibited to kill of the
birds therein named during the close
time, l. O., from the list Of April to the
LIST of september.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1878-07-25
The Pastors Plan.

Detained over Sunday in the little
hamlet of Whitneyville, near New
Haven, Conn, it was my good fortune
not only to listen to q sermon of more
than average ability, but to witness an
incident 30 rare in its character, snd
rejecting so creditably Oh the pastor
as to merit public mention. 1t being
fashionable to have church debts, of
course the little Whitneyville church
must have theirs, and it was the duty of
the good minister at the close of the
sermon to attend to the pressing charac-
ter of this obligation. He said: 1.-The
times are hard, and we are poor. How,
then, can we pay the debt? Now, my
dear people, can see hut one way to do
it, and that is through the strictest econ
omy. But you will say, where can we
economize? The items of fuel and
lights we have already reduced to min-
imum, and the cheir and sexton give us
their services gratis Well, then, my
friends, there remains the salary of your
minister, and that must be cut down.
When times were good you voluntarily
raised my salary from 5000 to $500.
Now retrenchment is demanded, and
you must cut off the extra 5000, and,
sppropriatipg this saving to the pay
ment of the debt, you will, in tive or
three years, again be free"
This narration Of actual fact seems,
indeed, stranger than fiction, and cars
ries with it its own besutitul Lesson.
All honor to this worthy, self sacrificing
man of God.-[Cor. n. Y. Herald.