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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1879-08-19

Evening mt Oakland.

The nclosed lines were written on the coca.
sion Of the death of the late Nj. II. Wells, esq
They are most appropriate ss we'll as beautiful.
| hope you will not object to publishing them
in your paper, thereby confering favor on his
many friends aud aequaiutances. N.
Fairfax @. H., Va, Aug. IS, 1879.
How fair is twilight On you mountains brow
Clouds lie, still pulsing With the light of day
Fainter and fsebler, till th' empurpled glow
Fades quite away. r
Those clouds, as sorrowng for the vanish d suu,
Don black, till westering stals their riffs peer
through.
Spangllog again their mourning masses dim
In glorious hue.
A dead mist hauuts tho winding rivers banks
Till Zephyr molds it into fitting spiites,
Who charge the mountains sides with spectral
ranks.
And scale it's heights.
The town lies quiet iu the vale below,
Starr'd with its lights embower' d 10 it's trees;
From fair parterres rich perfumes come and 90
% each light b.eez:.
Music is Oh the air. Against the lights
ln yon fair dancing hall gay figures glide;
Thus youth and beauty waste these lovely nights
On pleausure's tide.
The moon is up. She tbius Nights enVious
veil.
Showing of art and nature all that's far;
Mellows the town, enVelops mcuot and dale
In misty air.
Bat hdsous noises mar this fairy scenes;
The engines scream--the trains far echoing
roar,
While smoky streamers mantle Heavens high
Aud natures store.
As the nights shades are sottliog DER the
town,
Shades not of night descend on this hush'd
home;
A stranger may mt see another SUI
This side the tomb!
A Stranger, yot beside his dying bed
Ara dearest fIieuds, who, horiag, bore him
Though. cen then. hauoted by that namsless
dread
That wrngs tho tear.
Dying He recks not of tho lovely night
Hears not the muslc-sees no glowing cloud.
Nor moon, nor stars. nor mountains misty
height,
NuE [tftnuS CEuWu.
He harks to music. but 'tis not of Garth;
For gorgeous SUNSETS he see, streets OF gold;
For stars and mnon, the Throne that giveth
forth
Splendors untold.
He was soldier-brave, and tried. aud true;
Full many battle soar attosts this TRUTH
He follow'd where Lees meteor banner few
Ger his lov'd South
And if yon camp like forest fires should meet
His failing ego, turned toward the fading
West,
His thoughts may wander forth comrades 10
ln Warlike quest.
Or if you trains loud din strikes his dull car
Well may he deem it battles rushing roar-
As bis great leader, Leo, when death was near,
Dfeamt carnage Ger,
No more he'll dreaul just as the Sabbath's
dawn
Greeted you mountain top he sank to rest.
But yesterday, with agony so wan-
To day, SO blest!
Stranger, farewell Good Christian knight,
adeu!
Upon thy dust lay this tribute light,
For that thou, aye. hast been to freedom true,
God, and the rightl
G.. w. ARCHER, NJ. D.
OAKLAND, Nd. Aug. 2, 1879.
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DOTOMAC HEkRIN4.

TABLE CUTLEEY ct 50 KING STREET
& CORNER OF ROyAL-The subscriber
have just received supply Of Table Cutlery, of
good quality and style, st low prices-wholessle
snd retail.
iy3l j. I. CREIGHTON s. SON.
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The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-02
The Do OMiNie Net Drunk.
TD., hal c..nttn


A man unjustly accused of being mad
is much to be ptied; hardly less so is a
man unjustly accused of being drunk;
for, whereas in the first instance he runs
the risk of losing his liberty, in the
second he loses his character, and per-
haps his employment, and is often ruined
for life One of these hard cases came
under the consideration of the Free
Church Synod of Lothian and Tweed
dale, at their meeting this week. and is
Interesting as an illustration of the dan
gers to which Scotch minister is some
times exposed at the hands OF a critical
and fastidious congregation.
The Synod WAS enga ed for eleven
hours in hearing an appeal by minister
against the findings Of Presbytery un-
der libel charging the reverend gentle
man with being intoxicated on three Or
four occasions, one of these being when
he was in his own pulpit in September,
1878. The Presbytery had found the
charges proven, and against this finding
an appeal was made to the Synod. The
first charges having been disposed of by
the Synod reversing the decision OF the
Presbytery and sustaining the appeal,
the charge of drunkenness in the pulpit
was made the subject of inyesti lation.
The evidence against the minister was
certainly of a startling nature.
'The first prayer that he offered up
was in very travelled state--there were
verses in the chapter read, the 40th of
Job, which needed explanation, and none
was given--the sermon was in travelled
condition." and one witness stated that
the mini ter "was rather of ghostly ly ap-
pearanee, of pale white and blue
mixed.' In the end the Synod came to
the conclusion that the charge was not
sustained, and reversed all the decisions
of the Presbytery. 1t certainly seems
hard to pronounce man drunk because
his complexion is Ike that Of II ghost
Moreover, ghosts complications are not in
variably ''blue and white mixed" Some
well authenticated ghosts have almost
rosy compilations and look remarkably
WELL
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-02
John Cotton smith.
New Haven Regist al

new raven heSlsl T.
The late John Cotton Smith, Of Shar-
on, is described as follows: "He looked
like character out of play of the days
of Queen Anne, with his tall and com
nanding figure, bushy gray hair and
beard and heavy gold chain worn around
his neck. He always kept up the man.
ner of grand seigneur. Withal he was
generous to fault, very tender to chill
dren and any of his own kin, very cour-
teous to strangers, especially if he deemed
them of 'patrician' origin, condescending
but not offensive to such as he deemed
his interiors, but bristling with a sense
of his own superiority before the new
rich,' whom of all people he despised.
"a devoted ladies' man, his gallantries of
manner were innumerable but not of an
improper nature, and he was SO devoted
to all women that he never married any,
vet was in constant fear that he might
be deemed too old to wed. Of decided
conyivial tastes, the happiest hours of
/ his life we're when a member of the
Legislature he was seated at the table Of
some such man az the late William
James Hammersly, Of Hartford, where
there was sure to be good food, good wine
and congenial company. There gathered
Stuart, Deming, Russ and other brilliant
takers, among whom John Cotton Smith
felt at home, and with whom he appeared
at his best. After these days had gone
his greatest happiness was in talking
them over.
GAN in all, the memory of this faded
Rose of Sharon is so fragrant to the wri-
ter that / must disclaim any unkind in
tent in the picture I have drawn Of q
lovely old gentleman who was intrusted
with several positions Of importance by
his State and one Federal Office, and
} filled them all creditably. He died alone
and suddenly, but was spared the misery
that to him would have been especially
keen, of decrepit and infirm old age
His tall figure and CHEEKY manner viii
long be remembered in the wales Of pic
turesque old Sharon, and none Of th,
many who knew him in public life vii
r hesitate to drop tear ON the grave o
{ queer old, dear old John Cotton Smith,
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-02
vEGETINE.
vEGETINE.
VEGETINE.
Scrofula and ScrOfala Humor.

scrofula Is the great parent Of disease and prob
ably not more than two out of every ten persons
new living are entirely free from Scrofula ehtac-
teristiCs. Some people manifest the Mlnt more
than Others. The scrofulous ch Id is a Wet m. as
il were, of every i'll wind that blows. The least
irregularity of diet or exp sure to cold throws him
into state of feverish excitement. Inc eyellus
are frequently nf1ancd, diarrhea is easily exciteo
and the skin is so irritable that barely wasn,e II
with scented soap, proaut es pmply eruption,
Such are only few of the many characteristics
known 10 physicians When Scr0fula preys on the
lungs one of the most serious diseases to which
humanity Is able results, VIE: pulmonary Or
Tubercuar Consumption. Everything which
tends to lower the ~ tenl-stich as unhealthy ana
ndigestible fO,a bud air, iitemperance, baneful
induigences, Overwo'k, previous diseases, eitner
chrome or acute and melancholy-act as predis-
posing causes of the local developments nf the g.
ease. That the germs of the mai dy are always IN
astate of ncc case, and are constantly being car
ried nearer to the surare and the vital organs by
the lfecurrent throbping increasingly through
the veins, there is no longer any doubt; and
unless something be done to check the
progression in All early stage, one should make up
his mind that the worst will follow sooner or
laer. To conquer the disease 1t Is OF the utmost
inheritance that rational met.od be adopte1;
and that method alone rs rational which has ior
its main object the seeking o,t ana expe ling the
poison from the const tuition. Neither mineral
powders nor local applications will acc0mnl 81
the desired result; but medicine which works
slowly, but surely. which does not exchange one
injury for another, and which, while it pulls
down morbid growths, helps tn build up a tissue
of health and strength. will alone bring relief
Such medicine is VEGETINE, the natural remedy
for all taint and corruption in the system.
There is not a med cine in tins county at the
pres mt day prescribed hy physsians. or what are
known as remedies for SCROFULA. that is SO effect
nal in its cures as VEGETiNE-a medicine 10 corn.
bat with SCRoFULA In all its various forms Of
this disease, TO show so many positive cures OF
pes ms IN all the rious walks of life, 1t must be
good medicine VEGETISE has done it; is doing
| it; the very best of testimony proves it,
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-02
Miss Dudu Fletcher, who will shortly

Miss Dudu Fletcher, who will shortly
be Lady Wentworth and in the future
Countess Lovelace, is the granddaughter
of the late eminent divine, DR.. Caesar
Malan, of Geneva, Switzerland, and Oh
her fathers side belongs to the family of
that wise and beautiful Grace Fletcher,
who was Daniel Websters first wife. AS
a child Miss Fletcher was exceedingly
clever and studious devouring books aud
being charmed with Pope's translation of
Homer when only seven years old. She
was SO interesting that while still little
girl she was put into an Atlantic story
by Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spofford. When
thirteen years old, Miss Fletcher wrote a
charming poem, which was published in
The Galaxy. With all her ina ination,
she was not dreamy, but healthy and
sprightly little maiden, fond of swim
ming, riding and skating. The Chicago
Tribune mentions that Miss Fletcher's
education was conducted in Boston, New
York, New Haven, Andover and Swift
zerand-the young girl having in all
these places the best teachers
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-02
The Conservative Yankee.
Horace White.1

It must be accounted one of the
notable facts in the history of the Anglo
Saxon race, and likewise in the annals of
representative institutions that the Gov
ernment of the United States, formed
originally for the needs and exigencies
of 100000 Of people, inhabiting mar
low strip of seaboard, has remained
without any material change for nearly
a century, and is found to work as well
for a nation now fifteen times as numer-
Gus, occupying territory fifty times
greater. Indeed it may truthfully be
said to work with less friction and more
general satisfaction now than then.
Its infancy was embroiled with contro-
yersics, respecting the Interpretation of
the Constitution, 80 fierce that the Union
was more than once in real danger before
it had come Of are. Some of tile States
had to be dragged into the Federal COM
pact, and oilers were threatening to go
out long before the institution OF slavery
became a rock of offense between North
and South. The task of craftsmanship
during the first quarter of century was
not 10 much to make it work we'll as to
make it work at all. At the present
time nobody looks upon separation OF
the States as possible, and none desire it
except few struggling adherents OF the
lost cause, whose voice is as Intellectual
and unheeded in the general movement
as that of the irate Tory at the creation
Of the world, who demanded that chaos
be pre- erved.
| How far this contentedness with exist
ing institutions is to be ascribed 10 mate.
| rial prosperity, how far to the excellence
of the institutions themselves, and how
| far to the inherited conservatism of the
race, 1t would be futile to inquire. The
country has advancedin wealth with grea'
rapidity, notwithstanding temporary
checks, during the whole period Of the
National existence; and few people desire
to change their condition when they art
we'll off. Apart from this, the Americans
are at heart, and perhaps without know
ing it themselves, among the most con
servative peoples in the world. Although
nobody is reader than tile Yankee TO de
wise and adopt new modes OF doini
things, and while the earth does not con
tain more ubiquitous traveller or daring
speculator, nobody offers more sngr...
resistance to anything in the nature o
organic change. =,
The wicked persecution of the Aboli
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-02
last when not only she herself, but all
her friends as well, have no money left :"

last when not only she herself, but all
her friends as well, have no money ieft"
A new fabric brought into favor since
lustrous goods have become fashionable
is called satin cashmere. 1t is twilled
fabric with all the gloss of the finest
satin, yet has cashmere wool for its foun-
dation. At present it is shown only in
black, and is very expensive.
The bridal dress of the Archduchess
Marie Christine is of cloth of silver, with
wreaths of white bead embroidery as
brilliant as diamonds, in pattern of
myrtle and orange blossoms combined
with lilies; the veil, which is a present
from the Queen of Belgium, is of Brus-
sells point, and the escutcheOns of all the
princes of Spain are introduced in the
pattern.
A Paris letter saws fashion admits of
much tinseIgold colored beads, jet and
many bright colors-but all these mere
ly as accessories, and always on founda-
ton of neuter tint or very faded color.
This combination is the rule in every
thing appertaining to dress. The founda-
ton, the mass of color, is of soft, faded
tint, while the detail, on the contrary,
is of bright, sometimes conspicuous,
color.
A great novelty which can at present
only be obtained at one Partisan house
is the cuirass Veronese. This cuirass is
of silk elastic material, manufactured ex-
pressly for this purpose, and having the
appearance of heavy faile or glaee silk.
The secret of this waist is that it fits in
to the figure over. the bust and hips with
out crease. 1t is worn without belt.
This is most beautiful style, and will
likely soon be in general favor.
Among the designs for dinner plates
submitted to the New York Society OF
Decorative Art was set in Walter
Crane colors representing girl picking
beans from a trelli.; another girl pairing
potatoos; squashes, corn, cabbages and
caulihowers were the objects of interest
on the other plates. Another set repre-.
sented fish, with border of coral and
cat tails; Holsters surrounded by lily
pads, and a pointer in border of par
fridge berries and leaves.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-02

tionists during quarter OF century
was part and parcel of the National ten
dency to cling to whatever is, for not one
in twenty of the Northern people who
participated in it and voted with the
Shareholders had any pecuniary interest
in slavery, direct or indirect The up
rising in behalf of the Union was a con-
servative rather than an anti-slavery up
rising. President Lincoln uttered the
voice of the majority of the Nation when
he said that if he could save the Union
by freeing all the slaves, he would do
that, and if he could save it by freeing
none. he would do that, and if he could
save it by freeing some and not freeing
others, he would do that. Catholic
emancipation was carried in England half
a century ago. 1t was not carried in the
State of New Hampshire until a few
years since, if, indeed, it has been fully
effected even yet.
The laws of Rhode Island regulating
the right of suffrage were, until recent
period, as fantastic as those Of England
before the Reform bill, and the States of
Vermont and Connecticut are full of rot
ten boroughs to this day-each town
electing one member Of the Legislature
without regard to population. 1t may
be said that national vanity is accounta-
BILE for this fxedness of attachment to the
national institutions. IT is immaterial
what name it is called by. The conserv-
atism of one country is most commonly
vanity in the eyes of another. The Eng
lish fondness for titles and aState Church
is preposterous vanity to Amer cans.
and the rock-ribbed conservatism Of China
is vanity to all the world else. 1t makes
no difference what name is given To the
set of ideas which cause people to
cling tenacious to their own fashions.
1t remains q fact that the Americans are
an extremely conservative people, while
not desiring to be considered 50.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-02
ScrOfula, ScrOful0us HumOr.
The Watchmaker's Report.
EVANSVILLE, IND, Dec. "a, 1876.

EVANSVILLE. IND. Dec. "a, 1876
DIR. Fl. R. STEVENS:
I have suffered with Scrofula and Scrofula
Iumofs ever since could remember. II has been
in our family for years before was born. inner
tied it. have tried all kinds OF medicines. After
having used great many other patent medicines,
after having pid many larged ctor,' bills, heard
from ueishbor that VEGETiNE had cured him.
had good faith. because saw IL, and SO went to
the Duddenhansen Eagle Drug Store to purchase
bottle of the VEGErINE ! kent taking the VEGE'
TINE, and In fact / became better and better.
When had taken seve al bott es all Serofula
Sores and marks were gone; my health very
good II is the best blood purifier eve tried II
will cure Scrofula. 1t took the sores and 'umors
off my face; it gave me Gle skin. Eyetbody
who has got ScrOfula Hnmors should try 1t.
FERDINAND SCHNICK,
Matchmaker. Main street.
know the above to be true.
DR. CHAS M. DUDDENHAUSEN,
Apothecary, 519 Main street.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-02

Neither FILLING teeth. nor the peeping
wrinkles of time, so forcibly tell of advnnc-
ing years, MS your gray hair. Ayers Vigor
restores its color and makes your appear
ance more agreeable to others. as well as
Yourself. With fresh. luxnrant hair, the
intirmties of age are far less nuticeable.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-02
The Reason Why.

The tonic effect of Kidney Wort is pro-
duced by its cleansing and puri fving action
ON the blood Where there is gravtlly
deposit in the urine. or milky, ropy urine
from disordered kidneys, it cures without
fail. Constipation and piles readily yield
to its catbartic and healing power.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-02
SCROFULA.
G o IN pletely Cured Me.

NEWPORT. KY, Feb. 26, 1877.
Mr. H. r. SrEvENs-Dear Sir: l write to say tha
seven bottles of your VEG TINE have completely
cured me from very severe case OF ScRoFULA OF
many years standing, after irving many medi
cines and doctoring great deal. ! am now free
from all so es and can work as we'll as ever, and
think the VEGErIN N is u godsind. and no one
ought to do without 1t. ..... ...,....
remain respectfully yours
j. A, PATRICK,
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-02

The 6 :0s a. m. train connects for Portsmouth via
Chillcothe The SOB n, m. and 9:03 p. m. trains
connect for Jackson and Portsmouth,. VIA Hamdcn,
BALTIMORE OHIO VA Park ERBuRs. ..
Depot, Pearl and Plum.
Baltimore Ey daily q n
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OHIO / MiasrssIPff.
Depot, Mill and Front
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-02
Hon. John Cessna,

Under date March 3d, rs, writes:
I'm the space of twelve hours my rheu-
matism was gone, having taken three doses
of Durang's Rheumatic Remedy. My broth
er, J. B. Cessna, of Bedford, Pennsy ylvania,
was cured by similar amount.
JOHN CESSNA,
"Member of Congress from Pennsylvania" P"
1t cures the worst case in the shortest
time. Sold by all retail and wholesale
druggists in Cincinnati. Write to X. X.
Hell phenstine, Washington D. e., for his
40 page pamphlet.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-10-22
PEpslA, AND SICK HEADACHE.
SYMPTOMS OF A DISEASED LIVER.

Pain In the right side, under the edge Of The ribs,
acreases Oh prcssure sometimes the paints IN the
eft side the patient is rarely able to lie on the left
side; sometimes the pain Is felt under The shoulder
blade and 1t frequently extends TO the top OF the
shoulder, and is sometimes mistaken for rheuma-
tism in the arm The stomach is affected with loss
Of appetite aud sickness; the bowels In general are
cos,iye sometimes alternative with lax the head Is
troubled with pain, accompanied with dull, heavy
sensation in the lack part There is generally
considerable loss of memory, accompanied with
painful sensation of having left undone something
which ought to have been done. A snsnr, drycoueh
Is sometimes an attendant. The patient complains
Of WEAKNESS ard debility; he s easily startled his
feet are cold or burning, and be complains Of a
pricky sensation of the skin his spirits are low
and although he Is satisfied that exercise would be
beneficial TO. him, yet be can scarcely summon up
fort.tude enough to try it Ia fact, he dstrusts every
remedy. Several of the above symptoms attend the
disease, but cases have occurred where few Of
them existed, yet examination of the body after
death has shown the LIVER to have beer extensive
lv Geranged. .r."
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-10-22


at a meeting of the Board OF Directors OF
the Southern Bible Society and Pilgrims
Depository held at the office of the Virginia
Bible Society, Kicbmond, Va, on the Goth
day OF October, 1870, the following resoIu-
tions were unanimously adopted:
Whereas an impression prevails that the
association known as the Southern Bible So
ciety and Pilgrims Depository is antago-
nistlc TO the Virginia Bible Society and
seeks to occupy the ground already occrl-
pied by the latter Society; therefore
RESOLVED, l. That the efficiency and ac-
tiyity OF the Virginia Bible Society is rccog-
nized to be such as to render any other Or
ganizaion for such purpose unnecessary.
2. That it is far from the purpose Of this
Association to undertake the work already
carried on by the Virginia Bible Society, OF
TO antagonize that Society in any manner
whatever.
8. That copy OF these resolutions be pub
lished in tue Richmond Dispatch.
W. n. SCOTT, Chairman.
E.. j. Bosher, Secretary.