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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1879-02-10

OTRiCTLY CHOICE NEW ORLEANS
- SUGAR received and for sale very cheap by
jan2l Il. w. AVERY, 226 King ct.
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Encouraging Matrimony.

There is in Cincinnati .'National
Association for the Promotion of Mar
riage." Its constitution says: 1--WE
have viewed with alarm and the deepest
concern the rapidly-growing tendency of
the people of the country, particularly
those living in the larger cities, to remain
unmarried-a condition unnatural and
pr judicial to the welfare, success and
happiness of the country therefore, to
correct this evil, we do establish and
organize society,"" The aim of the So
ciety is declared to be . in all honorable
ways to promote the marriage of citi-
zens; and to secure such an end this
society will, So far as in its tower, assist
and give material aid to young couples
in beginning married life, such as help
ing them to secure homes and the hus-
bands in getting employment, OF in any
other manner within the province of the
association" The society has not been
long enough in existence to afford the
means of judging of its practical value.
1t held a picnic recently, at which the
attraction was the marriage of three
couples; but it was not claimed that the
mating had been brought about in any
unusual way. Six thousand persons paid
twenty five cents each for admission, and
there was a great deal of dancing and
beer drinking The marriage ceremony
was performed on high platform, so
that all could see. The bridegrooms
We're an engraver, a painter and ped
dler, and the newspaper reporters gal
lantly described all the brides as beau
tiful
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her husband, asking for a separate mainte-
nance One Of the facts set up was that the
respondent was at times subject to fits of
great mental excitement, during which he
reeounted crimes which he said he had COM
mitted, and among them the instigation of
the murder OF one Fanny Layman, to whom
he was married clandestinely. An attempt
was thereupon made to revive the inquiry
into the murder, but Marft disappeared
from Richmond, and Seldom was placed IN
a lunatic asylum near Durham. Thence
he escaped in 1S47, and nothing was heard
of him for several weeks, until his remains
were found ON a heap of straw in an old
barn on Layman's farm.
Taking all the circumstances together,
there is no doubt that James Aubrey Sell
don and Miller were the same. Seldom had
returned from the continent and took a
fancy to stroll through the country toward
home. On his way he came to Layman's
and there saw Fanny. That was the at
traction that held him.
By some means his father, who was a
desperate and unprincipled man, learned
of his marriage, and a plan was devised to
remove her. In the first instance, it is sup
posed that the gypsies were to abduct her
and inveigle her into some situation which
would warrant divorce. Subsequently,
however, her death was resolved on,whether
with the sanction of the Seldons or not is
uncertain. The old woman who claimed
the girls body was doubtless one of the
gang of gypsies. The alleged sickness of
the elder Seldom must have been a lrumped-
up story to which it was not difficult to get
retainers to swear, especially when all the
authorities were anxious to cover up the
guilt OF the real culprits.
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1879-09-17
sunny ID avs.

Oh, sing OF sunny days, dear heart,
With hope and courage golden,
When all the treasures OF our lives
We're in the future holden.
Sweet days long gone!
I4iies shades draw on!
Hold fast my hand, we near the strand
Where our true hearts must sever,
But hooking backward DER the land
That we have trod together,
Wen sing a song OF the happy days
Whose sunshine streamed across our ways.
Yes, sing, old friend, of the sunny days;
Sing low, sweetheart, while cool the haze
Creeps upward from the misty river;
Sing softly OF the gladstone days,
Sing softly, love, forever.
Oh, sing of sunny days, dear heart,
Bright in the land before us,
Where, without cloud OF doubt between,
~ Co.'s smile warns ever DER us.
Sweet time TO be,
We welcome thee
While hand in hand we near the strand
Where our bleAt lives must sever.
ouf eyes are to the living land,
Our parting, not forever,
Our hearts sing glad of glorious days
Where love shall beam on all our ways;
Sing, friend, with me, of the sunny days;
Sing clear, sweetheart, while soft the haze
Watts DER us from the narrow river
Which parts us from the resttul days
Ot Gods undimmed forever
49,. i'.I Ella Furber, in Home Journal
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place of safety in a secluded part of
Belgium. Here, away from the world,
she could devote her life to good deeds
and religious meditation.
These were, however, soon disturbed
by her wicked father, who, melted BIZ
satan, as the legend relates, found his
daughter and caused her to be beheaded.
In dying she became saint, and has
since devoted herself to the restoration
of those who are mentally afflicted. The
story also informs us that the good
Father Gebufnus soon died, and was
buried beside the martyred girl. Hither
came the insane from far and near to be
healed by the influence of the blessed st.
Dympna. A chapel was erected and
subsequently, church $50 feet in length.
The case containing the stones of the
coffin of ST. Dympna is placed near the
extremity of the church. The stone floor
in the immediate vicinity is perceptibly
worn away by those who have made in
tercessions to the saint.
1t was formerly the custom to pre-
sent" all newly -arrived patients. There
was a religious offering lasting nine
days, during which the insane patient
was kept in house near the church in
the charge of two old women. A priest
said mass daily and read prayers. Three
times during the nine days it was neces-
sary to make a circuit of the church and
to pass under the case enclosing the
saints coffin, the procession being formed
of the patient OF patients, some children
and religious deEotees.
New arrivals are now taken to the
asylum and kept under the observation
Of the medical officer and sisters of
charity until the patients mental con-
dition is exactly understood. The period
varies from a few days to several weeks,
and the rule is to send them out to fam
lilies of the commune as soon as practical
BILE. The better class of patients are
provided for in the village, where the
accommodations are good, but nearly
all the houses are rigidly plain and lack
ing in comforts. The sleeping accom-
modations are often provided in garrets,
lofts and out of the way corners and
hooks, but for that matter patients and
peasants fare alike.
In the commune outside the village
both the insane and the families with
whom they live fare poorly. The ham
let's are low, dark and damp, destitute
of wooden floors and covered with
matched roofs. Nearly all the patients
labor in the fields with the party who
boards them, and it is no uncommon
thing to see men, women and children
working together. In some fields women
were seen harnessed to carts, the team
being made up of a small COW on one
side of the cart-pole and woman on the
other Boston Herald.
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1879-09-17
An Old Tragedy RECALLED.

The shooting of Rev. /. S. Kalloch,
workingmen's candidate for mayor of
San Francisco, by Charles De Young,
senior proprietor of the Chronicle of
that city, brings to the recollection of a
newspaper editor the nearly forgotten
killing of young Austin by Selfridge in
State street, Boston. in 1906. In that
instance son endea1ored to avenge po-
litical abuse of his father. The case is
noted in the law books, but their refer
ences to it do not disclose the circum-
stances out of which the shooting arose :;
these are, however, to be learned from
pamphlets of the time, now rare. The
city authorities had decided upon a
public semi-political dinner for the
Fourth of July. The committee, of
which Benjamin Austin, the father, was
chairman, employed a caterer named
Eager to supply the dinner. He did
so. The authorities and invited guests
ate it, and Chairman Austin then dis
puted the bill. A suit was brought on
behalf of Eager, and payment enforced.
torney, and some gossip arose to the
effect that Eager did not, in the first in
stance, apply to Selfridge, but that the
latter solicited the suit. Benjamin
Austin circulated this story pertina-
ciously. AS rules of professional ethics
then very stringently forbade such solic-
iting, and the two men were prominent
in the opposing parties, the charge made
Selfridge very indignant. Through a
friend he furnished Austin with proofs
which the latter accepted-that the
charge was unfounded; yet Austin
would not make satisfactory acknowl-
edgment. Thereupon Selfridge pub
lished in the newspapers a card chargin
Benjamin Austin with having circulated
an Infamous falsehood and refusing sat-
isfaction for it, and declaring him a
coward, liar and scoundrel. Austin
retaliated with q counter card. The
quarrel at this stage was taken up by
Charles Austin, a son of Benjamin, upon
his fathers behalf. He intercepted Se-
fridge, while walking in State street,
and made attack upon him with heavy
cane, upon which Selfridge drew pistol
and shot him fatally. On trial of Sci
fridge for murder the judge told the jury
that Selfridge was wholly unjustifiable
in publishing the card he did about the
elder Austin. To call a man coward,
liar and scoundrel,' in the public papers
is not .justifiable, as courts view such
matters, by any circumstances whatever.
But the abuse, bad as it was, could not
possibly justify young Austin in making
the street attack with the cane. No
words, however aggravating, no libel,
however scandalous, according to the
courts. can authorize son of the person
abused to resort to violence in retalia-
ton or revenge. A son may aid his
father, if beaten, and if the assailant is
killed the son will be excused; but
neither sor nor parent can justify re-
sorting to violence to avenge an injury
consisting in words, however opprobri-
Gus, or writings, however defamatory,
Austin's attack being thus legally I'M
justifable, iSelfridge was acquitted on
the ground of self-defence.
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The City of the Simple.

At the recent convention of the Con-
necticut State Medical Society, most
interesting paper on "The Insane Colony
at Gheel was read by DIR. A. M. Shew,
superintendent of the State Insane
Asylum, at Middletown. Tt is q descrip-
ton of a curious community, of which
even the name is scarcely known to the
world.
Gheel is cemetery the living
where from infancy to old age genera
ton after generation has vegetated and
dozed in a hopeless and unambitious
monotony, with no gift or aspiration
excepv to teed, lodge and care for imbe-
cility, idiocy and senility.
Before gong into a description of the
practical working of the system at
Gheel, DR.. Shew gave some particulars
regarding it's location and the found
ing of the colony, the result of OBJ
servation and inquiry during a recent
visit. At a distance of twenty-seyen
miles from Antwerp is a tract of low
country. originally barren, desolate and
unproductiye. which by draining, cult
walton and fertilization during eleven
centuries has become productive, thickly
populated, and even somewhat attrac-
tive. 1t is twelve miles square, and
contains 10000 inhabitants = Belgian
peasants, who are engaged in agricu1-
tuTe, the manufacture OF lace, ana TIE
care of the insane. The village of Gheel,
like all Belgian towns, is substantially
built OF brick and stone, with narrow
paved streets. A small hotel near the
public square furnishes accommodation
10 the few visitors who chance to find
their way to this peculiar place. There
are few small shops where wooden
shoes. pipes and tobacco, and various
trinkets are sold. The streets are nearly
always deserted, and to a visitor it
seems like walking about city of the
dead. OF a place depopulated by sudden
pestilence. DR.. Shew records that on
the occasion of his visit he saw in his
stroll about town only the hotel keeper,
two women, who were making thread
lace at the door of one of the houses, and
two imbeci'e boys, who were sitting on
the ground nodding to the sun, which
poured down upon their uncovered
heads.
The colony, which has developed
since the seventh century into great
system of governmental care of 1000 in
sane persons, had its origin in romance
and superstition. The story is an inter-
esting one. Some time during the CEN
tury named a beautiful Irish maiden
named Dympna was beloved by her own
father. Being of a religious temporal
ment, she was SO shocked that she re-
solved upon fight. Having obtained the
assistance and companionship of q rever-
end father named Coburnus, she sought
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1879-09-17
The Products of Indigestion.

Inability OF the stomach to act upon the food
is productive OF serious and speedy mischief to
the entire bodily economy. The circulation
languishes and grows poor; leanness. pallor
and loss OF muscular and organic power SUI
pervene; but, worse than this, the functions
associated with and dependent upon digestion
such as. evacuation and the secretion of bile
grow irregular, and the organs whose business
ii IS to discharge those functions become badly
dlsordered. This disastrous state OF things is
more readily and thoroughly rectified with
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters than any known
medicinal agent. The stomach being invigo-
rated the lite-giving principles of the blood
are increased, the system properly nourished
leanness and debility overcome and the
bowels and liver thoroughly and promptly
regulated.
Gaps made in the flesh by assesses and ul-
GERS speedily disappear without leaving q scar
when Henfy's Carbolic Salve is the agent en-
ployed to heal them. This standard article
cures the worst sores, eradicates cutaneous
eruptlons, releyes the pain of burns, banishes
plmples and blotches from the skin and has
proved TO be eminently successful in remedy
ing rheumatism and soreness of the throat and
chest Sold by all druggists.
A cough, cold or sore throat requires irnme-
date attention, as neglect oftentimes results
in some incurable lung disease. "Brown's
Bronchial Troches" win almost invariably give
relief twenty-five cents a box.
SI,SS5.ss Profits in 80 Days
Whas $40 has done in Wall street by legiti-
mate stock speculations. Pamphlets contain
ing two unerring rules for success mailed Tree
to any person upon application.
Address, A. SIMPSON & CO.,
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The paper had been folded along the
fourth line and then torn OF at the corner.
II was conveyed to Layman and kept by
him as likely to be of value There was
small doubt that Fanny was in the vehicle
which Layman overlook on his way home,
and that the screams which he heard were
her cries for help. Could it be that Miller
was at the bottom of the abduction? Lay
man remembered that Miller had frequently
written in an album belonging to Fanny,
and in comparing that writing with the
writing on the scrap Of paper they were
found to be identical. Layman made his
way TO York to consult a lawyer as to the
best means Of discovering his sister. When
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1879-09-17

why not make up your minds, at present, what hotel
you going to stop when you arrive New York
The Grand Central on Broadway is kept both
American plan at 81 so $780, and the European plan
at 81 90 and upward. per day.
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1879-09-17
Nudge for Yourself,


By sending thirty five cents, with age, height,
color OF eyes and hair, you will receive by re-
turn mail a correct photograph of your future
husband or wife, with name and date of mar
rage. Address W. Fox, 2. 0. Drawer 81.
Fultonville. N. Y.
If you are satisfied to have poor organ, or
ran the risk OF having poor one, take any
organ that is offered you. But il you desire to
be sure OF having the very best, insist on hay
ing a Mason & HaInlin, and do not be per.
suaded to take any other.
Insist ON ha1itan q GiIhort:. StnroI,nr
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1879-09-17

DIR. E. B. Foote'S Health Montllv AYERS
that :" it is now possible to reproduce
the vote, and the handwriting at great
distance by means of an electric wire
and suitable apparatus, and an instru-
ment is being perfected which will make
a photograph in Boston of a person sit
ting before a camera in New York;
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1879-09-17

It is wonder more life insurance
solicitors are not killed than we know
of-they're always taking SO many risks
baltimore EUery SATURDAY..
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1879-09-17

Insist ON having c. Gilhert's Starches.
ChewJackaolt's Best Sweet Navy Tohneco
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1879-09-17

Excursions to Lincoln, Nebraska,
Leave New York and New England the
Third Tuesday Ina every Month until De-
cember. Excursion No. ~ leaves N. Y.
Tuesday, Sept. I6, 20. Fare about half regular
Fast trains and drstcaSs accommodations guaran
For descriptive Land Circulars, Information about
Tickets, etc. send address Postal Gard 10 CHAs.
F.. BAILEY, BIT Broadway. New York.
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1879-09-17

The bishop of London has two houses
and $50,0o0 a year. He will soon. be
relieved one-halfof his labors without
decrease of salary.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-01-28
A MASKED BURGLAR.

On Sunday night burglar effected entrance TO
the residence of Joseph Lake. in Winfield, L. l.. by
climbing to the kitchen roof and prying open bed
room window. Mr. and Mrs Lake the only
cupants of the house. The thief collected quantity
clothing. which he threw out of the window, aud
the fact that they not all carried away leads
the conclusion that he alone in the operation.
An overcoat. pantaIoons and pair of shoes miss
ing Mr. Lake was awakened, but made much
morse getting out Of bed that the burglar became
alarmed and fled. lie leaped from tho roof TO tho
ground In full view Of Mr.. Lake. who had no Are
arms. A mask was found on the ground.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-01-28
JUDGMENT AGAINST THE CITY.

An Official statement has been transmitted to Mayor
Cooper by Comptroller Kelly in answer 10 o request
of the Mayor as to what Judgments obtained against
the city in 1878 remain unpaid Their aggre-
nate the Comptroller states at $254,6Og ~.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-01-28
Why the Removals Were Made
and Persisted In.
STRONG DENlALO AND A DIFFERENT COlORING
How investigations Were Made by the
Jay Commission.
DEFENCE TO A LONG TERN OF OFFICE.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 81, 1879.
The following is the text of Secretary Sherman 8
communication regarding the New York Custom
House nominations addressed to the Senate on the
18th inst, and General Arthur's reply therefor:
TREASURY DEPARTMENT Jan. 49, 1879.
Hon. WILLIAM ~ WHEELER, President or the united
States Senate
SIR have the honor. by direction of the Presi-
dent TO transmit to the Senate the enclosed official
reports to this department relating TO the abuses
and irregularities in the New York Custom House.
and bearing upon the nominations pending i'll the
Senate of Edwin A. Merritt for Collector OF Gus
toms the port of New York in place of Chester A.
Arthur suspended. and of Silas W. Burt as Naval
Officer at that port in place of Aonzo b. Cornell,
suspended. l beg to add fuller statement OF the
that led 10 these nominations and suspensions
than appears upon the public record
ABUSES COMPLAINED OF.
The management of the Customs service has for
several years been open to much criticism in Con-
gress in the press and in popular and business cir
cles, founded upon alleged arbitrary abuses by the
officers and upon differentiation and frauds.
When l entered this office l determined
to make full examination into these
allegations and into the existing methods
of conducting the customs business, with
but at every other port of the United States. The
President took great interest in the matter and
heartily supported the measure proposed. The ex-
aminations made mostly by committees of pri-
waite citizens and resulted in large saving and many
reforms. Naturally the port of New York, where
about seventy per cent of the duties on customs is
collected, attracted the chief interest 1t appeared
that for a series of years. from 1872 the receipts
from customs at that port have constantly dimin-
ished while the expenditures have with the excep-
ton of but single year. steadily increased is
shown by the following statement
Year. receipts. Expenditures
1872. $14S, 3Sl 446 $2.301, 94f
1873. 126.S24,9 800 2,373,30j
1874. 110,972,062 2.466, l22
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1879-06-16

At Buffalo Gap, d. t., Thursday
night, by sudden rise and overflow of
Beaver Creek, caused by water spout,
nine persons were drowned. Their
names were Mrs. Moore, Mrs. Rhodes.
Oliver Rhodes, Frank Reed, CLYDE
Rhodes, Cliff Rhodes, Maude Rhodes
tthe latter three childrenl-all emf
grants on their way to the Hills from
Mills county Iowa, and four men going
from the Hills to the railroad names
unknown. Two were team owners.
one passenger and a night herder.
Five minutes from the first alarm the
whole country was flooded, and the
water subsidized almost as suddenly as it
rose. Near the banks of, the creek
were camped party of nine persons
and Montgomery Bros. & Clark's freight
outfits, loaded with 10000 pounds.
principally Homestake machinery.
which was nearly all destroyed and
scattered for miles around. All the
wagons, with one exception, were also
destroyed, and only a few mules were
saved. No estimate can be made Of the
loss at this writing. Nine persons were
drowned, and four bodies have SO fan
been recovered. Fragments of wagons,
etc, were seen three to five miles from
the scene of the disaster All the
creeks in and around the Hills are un.
usually high.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1879-06-16

Da.niana Bitsers at f. Reinhart &
Cos.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1879-06-16

The House Committee on Public
Lands has authorized Representative
Nashburn of Minnesota to report to
Ma House, and recommend the passage
OF the bill amendatory of section 2, 297,
satle ~, OF the Revised Statutes, relat-
an TO homestead settlers. The propo-
zation is to add to the section a proyiso
granting a settler twelve months from
the tate of filing in which to commence
a4A.residence on Lands mentioned.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1879-06-16
ASSESSMENT NOTICE.
NUMA MINING COMPANY.

NUNA MINING COMPANY.
Location of principal place of business, Sam
Francisco, California
Location of works, Humboldt county, Nevada.
NOTICE. Is hereby given, thet at meeii ing
of the Directors, held on the 18th day
of June, 1879. an assessment No i, OF Three
Cents per share was levied upon the capital
stock OF the corporation, payable Immediately
n L. s. gold coin to the Secretary, at the Office
of the Company, 32s MONTGOMERY street, Room
q, san Francisco California.
Any stock upon which this assessment shall re-
ntin unpad on the 2lst DAY OF July,
1879, VIII be delinquent and advertised for s,'le at
public auction and uh'ess payment is make be-
fore, WI ne sold on MONDAY the ELEVENTH
Qlth) day of AUGUST. 1879, to pay the
delalqrent a sessment, together with cost of
advertising ahd e. .2enses OF > le.
DAVID WILDER, Secretary.
ofice:-32s Montgomery street, Boom n,
San Francisco California. jeB-td