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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1879-04-18

wWIDE AwAKEi New SPRING STYLES
Doors AND SuoEs.-Tho largest. best selected,
and cheapest stock of boots and shoes over offer
ed in this market.
Every man ought TO consider wheto he can
get tho most value for his money. A penny
saved, is penny earned. All we ask our friends
and patrons is 10 favor us with call, and con-
vince themselves Of the fact that we can meet
the demands Of all.
We are resolved to sell cur goods at SO small
profit that the people must buy.
Thereby enabling US TO keep oar stock always
sessonsble.
A failure 10 oxsr.iae our stock is an opporlu-
nifty cost.
We can mako i! to your nte'os! 10 trade with
Our goods are bought from frs! thanksgiving
double prof. and giving our customers the
benefit.
Country merchants will find it 10 their advan.
tage to examine our stock from which equally
good selections can BIO made at prices that will
compare fayorably with those of the northern
cities.
Ladies' Pebble Goat Button Boots, 81 % to 3 % %
French Kid l Is to 80
Lasting Foxed 4" - l25 to CO
Polish - / co to 2 90
L" I" IS to 81
Slippers in srea! variety 70 to 2 oO
Mana (Islf Roots ! 60 to 5 co
Coarse SHOES (Solid) 90t 81
Misses Boots Boo ''' 1oOto1 80
Children's Bco,s ~ TO so
W.B. WADDEY,
No. 10 King Street..
Alexandria, Va
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1879-04-18

My custom mado CLOTHING is warranted
OF the best imported material, we'll made, thoz
roughly shrunk. and will be sod st prices to
suit the times. Gail aud conVioce yourself, at
8. DEAIHAM's, G2 King st., ocrocr OF Farfax.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1879-04-18

Crochet aad Marseilles Quilts. We have on
extra bargain JUST purchased much under the
,epu'ar ptic,. ISAAC EICnBERG.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1879-04-18

as> ALI. COMPLETE. sSea AT ISAAC ElcH:
BERa's.-Our new stock is now ready and
complete, We do say that wo have as tioo an
assortment Of Dress Goods as can be fouad this
side Of New York.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1879-04-18

DUTTER-IowsS ID pals Creamery, Nor
- wood 10 pals do, aud Iowa so ID tubs
Butter, for sale by
apo THOS. PERRY, Agent.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1879-04-18

On TIE SPOT AaAIN.-Another large lot OF
Inserting and Edging at sacrifice. slightly
soiled. l. EICHRERG.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1879-04-18
PREMIUM FRUIT TREES.

ID. o. MUNS0N'S NURSERY
VIII take orders for the above Fruit, Ornament.
al and Shade Trees, Small Fruits. Roses, Flow
ering Shrubs, &C., at Nursery prices, at my
store, corner of Fairfax and Franklin sts. Send
card, and will call and take your orders and
leave catalogue of prices and varieties, and can
give purchasers inquiring useful hints about de.
srabls varieties.
feb 21-2m w. P. GRAVES.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1879-04-18
WeeesEs AMgs E<bsE.

Cj;oAh' COAL
We invite .ho attention of dens7s and con-
euineTs 10 our large stock OF CAREFULLY
PREPARED COAL of tho following varieties:
LYKEN'si VALLEY.
LGHpERRY and
SHAMOhIN RED ASH
WHITE ASH Gree burning and hsrd) o.
also GEORGES GEEK, CUMBERLAND
snd KANAWaA SPLINT, from West Va,
, Making Coal specially, We Him 10 Keep only
Storage Yards. each variety is kept scpsrs!e,
end is especially prepared for family tl1e.
Yards ioG7ed, and 81 Coal sont on: WE'LL
SGEEEA SD Arb FREE FROM IHr U RI
TIES.
D9aIers, fsrli!ies, rH6lic institutions and man
ton of oa2a0 lEs. r. j. MEEAFFEY s. Co,
feb Wharf end Yards foot OF Queen st.
GOAL COAL
On My wharf ard 10 arrive during he season
9 fuil stock
kNTEANCGTG.
DUMBEnLhEG art.
WEST VIRGINIA GOALS.
Of bost quality,
sni Wei! acrcned. | val be pioased to
supply my friends snd customers at lowest mar-
ket price. Delivered 5. housos, care or Dosts.
per ton Of Z2d0 lbs.
jaT n. Z. SMOOT.
, 1879-11-24

INTEMpERATE MoTHERs.-Ont the sup
preston of the Commune in Paris,
among the prisoners taken were five
hundred boys of ages averaging from
nine to fifteen. OF the many atrocities
committed, the most fendish were by
these lads. While the murders and
incendiarisms we're perpetrated by men
during an attack of political fury, the
assassinations committed by these boys
were done solely out of a spirit Of
cruelty and mischief. The Govern
ment, not liking to treat these lads as
political criminals, sent them to the re-
formatory at Rouen. Shortly after
wards, two eminent physicians reported
their mental and physical condition.
They found that out of the five hun
dred youth, three hundred and thirty
seven were of very delicate PHYSICAL
form and stunted growth. They were
among the most mischievous of the
whole, ,(and all the children of drunken
mothers.
, 1879-11-24
Detroit Currency,

A woman who comes into church half
an hour late in order to show off her
good clothes, should be looked upon
mildly. She is simply making room
in Heaven for two women in calico.
There is something passing strange
about human nature. If man had to
support his family by playing billiards
at two dollars day, he'd swear he had
to work awful hard.-MiddletO,on Tran
| script.
There was never yet boy so good
that he didn't have an overweening de-
sire to look for lump sugar if he came
home and found that his mother had
gone to a neighbor's to "borry flat
irons"
There is Norristown in Pennsylva-
mia and Morristown in New Jersey,
and when you are sending money by
mail to pay an old debt of twenty
years standing you cannot be too care
fnl of the address.
Beware of the landlord who wants
you to make his hotel your home. He
invariably arrives at the opinion that
when you are home you cut your beef
steak with hatchet and mastieate it
with corn-sheller.
Lightning struck tree in Georgia
to which mule was tied, splintered it
to kindlings and melted the buckles on
the halter, and yet that mule was
browsing on the fallen limbs when
hunted up. Are mules non n-conductors :?
, 1879-11-24
The Wonderful Girl.

Those who have begun to fear that
the wonderful girl " would not put
in her annual appearance this season
can take heart of grace. She has been
heard from, not in the West, as usual,
but in Maine. She is but Is years of
age. Two years ago she surprised her
father by cutting an incredibly large
quantity of wood in an incredibly short
space of time; but her achievements
the present summer have outdone all
former ones. Being at work on farm
in the village where the Honorable
Hannibal Hamlin formerly resided, this
Is year-old maiden went out after sup
per few evenings since, put up forty
five bundles of hay and MIXED twenty
three COWS before sunset. The next
day, after washing the dinner dishes
and putting the house to rights, she
went into the field, loaded three loads
OF hay, slowed them away in the barn
and then slowed away a fourth load,
which somebody else loaded. Then
she prepared supper for family of
four, served it, washed up the dishes;
walked two miles to get pair of shoes
and got back before dark. In one
way, of couse, this energetic damsel
deserves the admiration of her sex for
destroying the theory that woman is
ga poor, weak critter," and creating a
demand at the East for the helpful
wives who are, as the census reports
persist in saying, so much in excess
there. But, in another way, she is do
ing an incalculable injury to her sex,
inasmuch as her example will be held
up as perpetual taunt to the over
worked wives and mothers of the land.
Detroit Free Press,
, 1879-11-24
Why the Light Went Out.

Next time you go out on the Michi-
gan Central Road, take seat on the
right-hand side Of the car, so that you
may notice, about ten miles down the
road, little, old, red farm house. The
curtains will be down, the doors shut.
and rank weeds and tall grasses will
meet the flying glance in the front
yard. A month ago old Nan Rogers
lived there !; to day the place is in the
keeping of rats and mice and desola-
tion. The old woman was a widow and
childless. If she had q relative any
where in this great world, those who
She lived all alone, having only bit of
land, and being aided by kind neigh
bors to raise enough to supply her
wants. Seven or eight years ago, when
her last child left home to meet vio-
lent death on this same road, the men
of the rails became interested in that
quaint old farmhouse. One night
they saw bright light in one of the
windows. Its rays streamed out over
the flowers and fell upon the rails along
which the wheels thundered, and the
engineer wondered over the signal.
The lamp was there ths next night and
the next, and it was never missed for a
single night until one evening a month
ago. Old Nan, deprived of husband
and children, made friends with the
rushing trains and their burdens. The
train-men soon found that the lamp
was for them, and they watched for it.
During the early evening hours they
saw old Nanny's face behind the light
or at the door, and thousand times
conductors, engineers and brakemen
have called cheerily through the dark
ness:
Good night, old Nanny-God bless
you !"
Winter and summer the light was
there. Winter and summer the train
men looked for it, and the more
thoughtful ones often left bit of
money with the station men beyond, to
help the old woman keep the bright
rays shining. The lamp was not there
for one train, but for all, and all men
understood the sentiment and appreci-
ated it.
One dark night, not long ago, when
the wind howled and the raindrops
beat fiercely against the headlight and
cab, the engineers missed the signal
light. They looked for it again and
again, as one suddenly misses an old
landmark in city, and when they
failed to find it, the hand instinctively
went to the throttle, as if danger lurked
on the curve beloV. Each train abroad
that night looked for the signal, became
anxious at its absence, and made in
quiry at the stations above and below.
Next day men went down to the little
old house, fearing old Nanny might be
ill. There sat the lamp on the window
sill, but the oil was exhausted. In her
bed, seeming to have only fallen asleep,
was the poor old woman, cold and dead.
Life and the lamp had gone out to-
gether, and men of rough look and
hardened heart replied as they heard
the news:
Poor old woman! May her spirit
rest in Heaven !-Detron Free Press.
, 1879-11-24

HEAR Tiff you place one of your
fingers into your ear, a roaring sound
will be heard, which DR.. Hammond
says is the sound of the circulation of
the blood:
Try it, and think what wonder of a
machine your bQ1y is, that even the
points of yor fingers are such busy
workshops that they roar like a small
Niagara. The roaring is probably more
than the noise of the circulation of the
blood. It is the voice of all the vital
processes together-the tearing down
and building up processes that are al
ways going forward in every living
body from conception to death.
, 1879-11-24
guset Sound 9ispateh.
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON TERRITORY.
Like His Dad.

l hear his mothers Gliding voice:
"How came your trousers torn?
And black as ink, sir, is that shirt
You put ON clean this morn.
"Your feet are wet, too, declare;
You're muddy to your knees;
1t is too bad you only care
Your mother, sir, to tease.
"And those nice shoes--your Sunday best
That but three times you've worn.
Are scratched and scraped and all run down
The heel of one is gone.
"Your hair is twisted in snarl,
And just look at that hand
1t looks as though 'twere never washed
How dare you say it's tanned?
"You've been a-ishing sir, guess
What been to see the match?
You'll have fit of sickness, sir;
A pretty cold you'll CATCH"
And thus she talks for half an hour,
And only stops to say,
"Your father'Il hear of this tonight;
wonder what he'll say ?'
My friends in complimentary way
Declare to me they see
A close resemblance-very marked
Between the boy and me.
But nothing that they see in him
In either form or face
Bespeaks my son as do his pranks-
In these my own tracs
And why should at tattered clothes
Or dirty ones repine?
In him live my youth again
God bless the boy! he's mine.
, 1879-11-24

A Hartford paper gives the following
signs of the times" +" to be found in
that city: Washing and going out
to days work done Kere;" +" Breakfast,
dinner and supper at all hours :" and
Saws fled, and set up-stairs."
, 1879-11-24

1t is no sign because a farmer is
growing sage that he is becoming wise.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-12
WHO HAS NOT BEEN BILIOUS,

Probably no one. Doubtless We have all
suffered to some extent the disagreeable sen.
sations which . disordered or languid liver
can infict. sallowness Of the akin, oonsti.
patton, nausea. vertigo, soreness in The vicin
ity Of the organ affected, . sensation ~ o
congestion in the head, positive headache
. los of appetite, extreme Thirst, Q high
color Of the urine, are among the sympton.
which announce . psrvsssion or vitistion Of
the bile. The remedy of remedies for the
above j. Hoststtsrs Stomach Bitters, admin.
issered By medical men -psooounced pare
and wholesome BY them, and popular q {
comprehensive family medicine, and q :
specific preventive and remedy for chills
and fevsr and bilious remittsats throughout
ADsrica, and to . wide extsnt in ioreieu
countsieA Disorders in the stomach and
bowels, - well - liver, are speedily rsus-
diable with this popular AID tine hssored
medicine.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-12
r,3 asvea.

The steamer Meade from Sioux City fol
Fort Pierre will arrive here tomorrow
morning.
The steamer Niobrara passed Fort Ran.
dali coming down this morning. She will
doubtless arrive here this evening.
The steamer Psninah from Fort Pierre
arrived at three o'clock this afternoon. She
made the round trip inside of six days.
The Nellie Pack Was d~ischarsing freight
at Fort Pierre when the Peninah left there
On Wednesday. She will probably be here
tomorrow.
Bismarck Tribune, 9th: The Far Yves.
will arrive here Tuesday and leave We'd.
nesday for Yankton The Eclipse arriv.
ed ct Benton on the 9TH. She was to have
left that place on the 9th with a good cargo
."".The Benton left yesterday for Cow Is.
laed. The Helena will take her freight on
through to Benton. The Key West from
Cow leland passed Buford yesterday morn
ing. She will leave here for Yankton Sun.
day mornins......The Rose Bud arrived at
Coal Banks on the 1st. She will arrive
here on the 4th and leave on the 9th for
81. Benton direct...sThe boats from above
report the water lower than it has been for
years and it is only BY double tripping that
boats can get over the many bars.....The
steamer Butte 10 expected about the 10th.
wheel is fixed and she will leave
Spread Eagle - soon ~ the Helena relieves
her Of her freight and passengers. The
Josephine arrived At Buford from the Vel
and 10 engaged At that place trans.
ferrins to the west side Of the river. She
will arrive here Monday and leave for Cow
Island Internationally steamer Benton
got through to Benton with all her freight
on the first. She started on her return trip
the next day. 1t requires skillful manage
ment to take q boat to Benton with the low
stage OF water ct present existing. The
Big Horn arrived at Buford on the
Sd and discharged her cargo Of l75 tons at
that port. She will leave Buford for this
place to-day and will Immediately load for
q return trip for Cow Island leaving here
on Tuesday next....The steamer Bachelor
arrived from Fort Keoeh Tuesday night.
She gave up her Terry Landing trip
in order 10 bring The Thompson
party down. She had forty.eight cabin
passengers. At Miles City abe barely
escaped being blown to eplinters BY
. heavy wind. She was blown down the
river about q mile, the first guet Of wind
having parted her from the shore breaking
three fast lines. Her next trip will be to
Fort Benton. Capt. Buesen writes Capt.
Maratta that the new cabin of the steamer
Montana 10 almost completed and that in
point Of grandeur it surpasses the one re-
Gently torn of BY the hurricane at this
place. The Montana and Dakota will be
on the track for the spring business, looking
Landowner than when they first left the
hands of the builders at Pittsburg. Capt's.
Todd and Buesen are experimenting the
repairs in person.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-12
PROPOSALS FOR FLOUR.
OFFICE CHIEF G. 6. DErT. or DAKOTA
81. pAIIL. MINI. Sent. lis

OFFICE CHIEF ca 6. DEPT or DAKOTA.
81. FAUI, MINI. Sept. , 1859.
SEALED PROPOSALS, in duplicate, will be
- O'Clock noon on Saturday the 18th day Of
September, 1879. at which time. and places they
Will be opened IN presence Of bidders, for fur
Army, delivered on Or before the 3oth day Of
points ON the st: Paul. Minneapolis & Manitoba.
Sioux City y st. Paul railroads.
x% IS <? s TS'inSs Il !5'Fs fseaSSi Es!f' ff9G&.
wheat.
a sample Of al. least ten pounds Of flour. and
eight quarts OF the wheat irOm which the flour
BY straight It is intended to describe that quail.
iity from Whicl,iilo .middlings have been removed.
!; e.; ,, containing All Of the patent and wheat
To DO packed in twelye-hooped barrels. well
with heads Of bass wood. or N double sacks,
from sizing and covered with a new gunny or
burlap sacks and covers to he well sewed with
strong, new twinsJ all the corners, OF the pack
age to be tied. The sacks to contain 100 pounds
net each, and to be of q quality equal to sam
Commissaries at st. Paul and Yankton. All
shall have distinctly marked thereon the date of
packing. the month and year in which delivered,
the initials Of the contracting officer. the name
name of the article contained in the package.
and the words Sub. Dept, U. s. A.
The wheat will be inspected and the manufac
ture of the flour will be Witnessed.
Proposals from millers only will be considered,
and will state that, il offer is accepted, the flour
will be delivered within fifteen days Of receipt
OF notice Of award OF contract. or within ten days
Of arrival of Flour Inspector ut mill.
Proposals for quantities less than the whole
amount required will be received.
No conditional bids will be considered.
1no Government IpSarvpS fha RIGHT tn rp ipCf
any or all proposals.
Envelopes containing Proposals should he
marked Proposals for Flour delivered at
ton, to Capt. W. A. Elderkin, C. S. US. a. and
for delivery at st. Paul, or at any points OH tht
railroads herein named, to the undersigned.
tached to each duplicate proposal, and must h,
mentioned therein rs comprising part OF it.
NJ r.. MORGAN.
/ Major and c.. 5.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-12
A CARD.

10 tile ToNrs Of Tanhton county, q. T.
On the fret Tuesday in November next tn,
voters of Yankton county will have th.
right and privilege to elect q county com
missioner, as the term of Office of Mr.. W
B. Valentine expires on the first Of Janua-
~, 1850.
l think it behooves every well. meaning
and honest voter of our county to looh
carefully into the lab0rs and duties which
have been entrusted to Mr.. Valentine during
the past three years, and in case he-the
voter-inds any cause why his services
should be desirable for another term. to
come to the front and state his objections.
The Office Of county commissioner is a very
important one although only small pay is
attached to it-and hence in the selection of
such q public servant every voter and tax
payer should exercise oil the common sense
at his disposal. No political wire. pulling
should undermine OF bear any Influence.
The best msn-whethcr he belongs TO the
republican. democratic, or liberal party
for the position should be elected.
For my Owe psrt-and I express this sen.
timent 10 behalf of . considerable number
of adherents TO various shades Of politics
/ know Of no better man ana no one who
is better qualified for the Office than the
present incumbent, Mr.. w. b. Valentine
that is In case he can be induced again to
become . candidate for reelection. Mr.,
W. B. Valentine has proved himself . very
efficient county commissioner; is now &C.
quainted with every nook in our county and
has (this is greatly due TO his influence and
popularity of the board) handled our finan.
cial affairs 40 economically Is they can be
managed. that 10 to say under existing cir.
cumstances and difficulties. Mr.. Valentine
10 . man Of sinew and brain, q man of ener
81 and liberal and expansive ideas. Partie,
of all shades of politics give him credit 70,
this. and such q man it is our duty to cleo,
70 Office.
E. Du1s.
Yamkton, D. T.. Sept. 9th, 1879.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-12
THE NEW STAGE ROUTE.

BrfnkerhoR L Gordan,s Now Line, ans
h Country Il T~ravsrses.
The Northwestern Land Journal, pub
llshed at jamestown, the northern terminus
of Brinkerhof s. Jordan's new Jim river
stage line. has the following to say in re-
gard to the importance of the line and the
character of the country through which it
passes:
We cannot overestimate the advantage to
Jamestown, aud all the James river valley,
OF the stage and mail route established
from this place to Firesteel and Yapktou.
The immigration into southern Dskota, in
the vicinity of the places named, is keep
ing pace with that into northern Dakots
along the Northern Pacific; but there is On
equally rich and attractive region, between
these extremes, up and down the river for
. distance Of $50 miles, that has been less
known because isolated from the channels
OF travel. All who have been down the
James river from Jamestown to Firesteel
are enthusiastic In their praises of Whist
they saw. Forty miles below jamestown,
the river widens and flows int Sand lake.
which extends for GO miles south and ie
navigable for steamers Of light draft the
entire d!stsnce. At the foot Of the lake .
thrifty settlement has gone in this season.
and . small village is christened Richmond.
On down the river IL miles below Rich
mond 10 York, an enterprising community
Of Americana, While s miles south of York
We reach Foster CITY, boasting . land Office
aud considerable business.
some Of the finest claims In the world
can be found along this route, and land
seekers who are not satisfied with what they
SEQ about jamestown can now take tho
stage down the river and make their selec.
lions from q country that is comparatively
unculled.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-12
CARPETS, CARPETS, CARPETS!

Twenty-Five pieces Carpets. consisting OF
Tapestry Brussels, oil wool Three.ply, Ex.
ira super6ne. superfne. Venetian and Hemp
Carpets. and Napier Mattings. Oil Cloths In
~four-fourths. hve.fourths and ~six.fourtbs. Al.
90 . full line Of Rugs and Mats just re-
ceived from New York and for sale At nnu.
sual low prices, corner Of Ord street and
Broadway BY
L. D. PAanrn.