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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1881-02-01

brought H. aud ono lot Of 100 bushels of white
Corn cold at 81. No Rye CT O.ts reported
BALTIMORE CATTLE MARKET, January 81 -
Prices this week for Beef Cattle ranged as fol.
lows
pest 20 ~
GENERALLY rated first quality ..........4 50 5 25
Medium or good fair quality........3 - q 4 81
Ordinary thin Stoors, Oxon and CoWs2 50 3 -
Extreme range OF prices. 50 q 70
Most OF the sales waro from .........4 81 8 rs
Receipts for the week 1893 hesd sales 1862
Trade was rather slow at the beginning TO-
dsy, as buyers generally held fl for some time
after the opening, tn. finally meeting the views
OF sellers the market became fairly active al the
prices ruling last week, quslity considered. We
observed in the yards larger number of fine
tops than for several weeks past, snd though our
quotations arc a considerable fraction higher
Gc) than last Monday, tho difference is almost,
If not entirely, due 10 tho superior quality Of the
offerings TO Gay.
Milcn CoWs-Trade continues dull. We quote
at 26s$4) per head, as TO quality.
Sheep he receipts are comparatively lipht
this week, bu! little moro than half the number
OF last week The quality is about tho same.
The market 10 tomeWaat mere active, most of
the stock having been cold rather early, owing
TO The rather limited tif.rings. We toto at "a a
&c per ID grosa, but few ceiling q! tho latter
price. Arrivals thi3 week 1925 head.
Hogs-Ihe receipts in numbers slightly *.
coed the offerings OF last week, and there is little
difference ia thu quality. Prices arc fraction
higher thar; last week. and the market is quite
steady. We quote at les; per ID net. Arrivals
this week 1922 head.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1881-02-01

TIE SN0W.-Sao@ oJmmcrc,d fuliiog last
nisht about h,lf past ven o'clock. cod this
Dorrirg. the first OF february, tho earth was
aRsio clothed 10 garment Of white. With the
t4s'huy likes still coming from the heavens.
Fhe eunw ct LccshurI early til, morniog was
.hrui four ldches deep, Wills 10 this city at ten
o'u3vk 1t vas not more than two and half 1t
IS 10 be hop:d MIR Venno1's rredic ion that,
the u,l'd spell Ct January wi c,olicu, we'll
Toto tbs Ionth. ulth the exception OF day CT
Two. u to lha l2:h of tho month, with balmg
spring like ~eahar prevailing IN many parts,
ADD soow r;iiiIy disappearing" will provo 10
BE- c1rrcct, aud that the snow CT to doy is The
exception alluded to.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1881-02-01

E'LCUk! FLUUHl b. Fi.kleu y Sol s.
a Sfidgewattr Pa."n. Process. Tho bcs, il
The msrhe! for sI.re hy
jsnl2 CusS. S TAYLOR. Jr.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1881-02-01

TIE INTERPRETATIONS BETWEEN Al,
FXaNDRIA AND WASHINGTON RESUMED
lDo loo blockade between this city and Wash
iDgton has at last becD broker. and the ferry
bosts conmepcod regular trims between the two
cities at half past seven o'clock this moruirg z,
cobtnuiog them o dsy with very little diff
Guilty.
Tho st:apl lug Potomac. Capt. Bail. left here
yes eddy evening and proceeded as far as Fort
FOotc ard returned. Captain Boil says the ics
blow this city is very hcary. but he is sat;si ID
mat the Tug eonli have mnde her way through
ilv;L Tho luz, if The weather ia favorable,
vii! start dtwo tho river to morrow. Tho Joe
is reported 10 b, running at Iodian Hoaj.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1881-02-01

CT. JACOBS Oil, tie great German Reno.
~ dy for man and beast Zee advertisement in
another column. For sio By
dtc$O II. S LEaDBEATER s. BRO.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1881-02-01

TOLGGNE AND TOILET gOTTLBS-t
~ largo assortment; also Hair Brushes, FiIt
Toilet Sos1s. Ln6in's Extracts, &C., for sale ty
declS +. s. LEAUBEATER & BRO,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1881-02-01
TOR SALE.

Tho valuable property. corner OF Fairfax aud
Queen sttetta. known SO
klSHEiLL'S planning MILL and SASH
and DOOR FACTORY.
Also large stock of READY MADE WORK.
Also The THREE STORY MANSARD
ROOF HOUSE, No. 80 Washington street be.
tween judge Slusrts residence and the jewish
Synagogue.
The above property will be- offered st private
Gale until the FIRST OF MARCH. If not dIs.
ed OF By tina! time, will sell a. public suc.
ton. Parties desiring 10 purchase can eco me II
my factory.
feb!-ln THOS. V. RISHEILI,
HAMBUkG EDGINGS and INSERT.
AZ lNG5. a choice assortment ju,t opened
Prices from CTS 10 $l.25 per yard
janl9-6t G. Al. ADAMS. 90 Kingtt
NJANTEE-A FIRST GLASS COOK with
w god references. Apply st30 N. Rnva
street jan5l- -"
NAINSO0k and SWISS EMBROIDE
~ ri ES, Sumo beautiful patterns
jsr29G. q. n. ADAMS. 81 Kiul st.
4 IOOKING and TABLE BUTTER for SAL,
" by [dsc22] j. y. MILBURN.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1881-02-01

SGG LBS VERY BRIGHT DRIED
wv APPLE5 and choice Driod Peaches
jus! received and for sale by
14Ul2 j. G. MIT,RlIRN
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1881-02-01

4 IOOKING and TABLE BUTTER for sale
" by [dec22] j. q. MILBURN.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1881-02-01

5tRACKED COKN and CORN BRAN and
W PRAIRIE Hay in store and for ss!o by
jnnl1 CHAS. ). TAYLOR, Jr,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1881-02-01

WyANTED-A FIRST GLASS COOK with
w god references. Apply at 80 N. ROYAL
atreet ;,n31
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1881-02-01

pED SYA'SINDIAN HERB POWDERS
&c and Doctor 1tlAYEEIS LIVER POW.
DERS for ss!o hy jANNEY s. 60.
decl1 - and 1872 KING Stree
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1881-02-01

H1OLU, ROCK AND RYE, tho new remedy
E f)r Coughs ard Colds alao an excellent
Tonic and Appetizer, just received and for sale
by [dtCIl .ANNEY s. co
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-07-30
Pistols.
Elkton Register.

We scarcely read an exchange
that we do not notice the shooting
or killing of some one, and which
might not have occurred had it not
been for the habit of carrying con-
cealed deadly weapon. This habit
has grown to such an extent that it
executors were becoming more
vigilant. The idea that prevails
with some officers and with our ju-
ries that certain parties should not
be arrested or convicted OF this Of
fense, because they are nice people
or stand we'll i'm the community,
and it would never do to put them
in Jail, is a sentimentality that
ought to be gotten rid of. The
roughs and rowdies can never be
broke of this habit until the law is
impartially enforced. 1t makes no
difference how genteel a man Is or
what his standing in society, IL he
is guilty of violating law in carry
ing concealed deadly weapon, he
should receive no more clemency
from jury or from the executive
than the most common rough or
rowdy. The offence can never be
suppressed until the law is enforced
indiscriminately. There have been
so many accidents and children
shot with what is known as the '4toy
pistol" that we hope our next legis-
lature will pass AN act making it
high misdemeanor for any one in
the state to sell or expose for sale
toy pistol.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-07-30
An EpIaem.c % Dam..

s. S. Cox writes from Amsterdam:
"He led us around the cupOla,
and there we had clear view OF
Holland. That, said he, pointing
westward to two towers on the hO-
rizon, that Is Haarlem-H Haarlem
of the famous siegeY sWe, too
remarked, shave our Harlem, but it
is not so old or quiet, or, perhaps, so
courageous as yours. We, said /,
thinking with pride of Harden
berghs, Van Arsdales, Van Cort-
lands, GansevOorts, Verplancks,
Schhylers, et id OHlne genus we were
once Meme Amsterdam. You beat
us ON the dams, but we are ahead in
population, If not in canals. It
was with chagrin that we were
transferred to the British yoke from
Hollandische. We remained with
our step-mOther till our dams got
too frequent, and then we set up for
ourselves
"Yes, he said with a melancholy
CLEAN of fun, Everybody vat kOmes
here talks Of everything being dams
and they laughs To which ! re-
sponded inquiringly, How many
0dLlAS ttaNC g0u XVI NhJ INV
/" 'Dere's Amsterdam and ROtter-
dam
"'Yes, we know them; these
dams are household words with
usP
"And Schurdam, and Monnek-
dam, and Eidam, and Oosdam, and
Zandam, and Schiedam.'
"'Ohl yes interrupted,
'Schnapps-
"'Yah yah Everything is dam
"Any more?' / asked anxiOusly.
"'Opigenddm, and Winnend0m,
and WitddDl, and DergerIdD1.'
"'My wife here became horrihed,
that she believed came
to this country on purpose to do
with immunity, for ] had
the old Adam in me. / reconciied
her by the gentle remark that she
herself was my own dame where
at the royal custodian, pointing
down to the one fons et OrigO of all
dams, again remarked
"'Everythicg is dam, ocmq,
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-07-30
Pastoral visiting.

/ must return my thanks, Mr..
Editor, for the article On Pastoral
Visiting" 1t is really refreshing
to read something on that subject
now and then that has some sense
in it.
Your candy-drop pastors are in
great demand by certain class OF
people, but they are accomplishing
nothing, never have accomplished
anything, never can accomplish
anything. Your solemn brother
who can spend half-hour with a
good sister asking about JOe's stone
bruise or Toms splinter that he
stuck i'm his foot week or two ago,
or old Aunt Nancy's pains that sne
has been having off and on for fifty
years, or old Uncle Jacobs rheu-
Inatism, or Miss Sophronia James
cold that she caught at the dance
may imagine that he is doing some
thing wonderful, but it is all i'm
agination.
The saddest sight in the ranks of
the Christian ministry is a man past
fifty who has spent his young man
hood and maturer manhood in bow
ing and smiling and Scraping up
and down the country in towns and
cities and in circuits, and has reach
ed point Whe.e he can't laugh SO
loud or so often, where his blood
does not flow SO freely as 1t once
did, where, in short, he finds him
self without social capital to go ON
and carrying about on his shoulders
a head as barren of ideas as a mar
tin gourd. i know some who are
right at the point now and Others
who are on the way there.
Poor preaching is the poorest
thing that can be gotten up on this
earth, and nothing is so humilia-
ting to the better class of men than
to go to church on Sunday and be
bored by something that hasn't the |
slightest flavor of brains about it |
from a man who has been racking |
about all the week to keep his good |
people from considering themselves
Overlooked"
The pastoral department is not to |
be ignored, but it is not to be first |
in Importance. Brains before legs
every time; brains on good legs
would be better.
LCCO was u IdNOIAtC WOI0 with
our Savior, and those who are try
ing to grow are crying to be fed.
One preacher goes and the people
(the candy class) say, 1--WE will
never get as clever a man again,
one who will make himself as
much at home with u.s." Another
preacher goes and the people (not
the candy class say, "We will
miss that man unless they send US
preacher who knows how to ex-
plain the scriptures ard lead US TO
Christ"
/ have yet to see a preacher of the
latter type who has Outlived his
usefulness. Less legs and more
brains brethren, unless you can
give US both. HEARER.
The Chronicle is requested to
publish the above clipping for the
benefit of Jafter's Bro. Mack, and
the enlightenment of Jafter.
CLIPPER.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-07-30
The Editor OF scrIbner


Josiah Gilbert Holland was born
in BelchertOwn, Mass, July a, IS
10. His father was willing but un-
able to help his ambitious son to
rise above his own humble lot In
life. After many struggles, how
ever, he graduated with honor from
the Berkshire Medical College, in
Pittsfield, in 1874. He showed a
talent for writing at an early age,
and in 1847 founded the Bay State
Courier, which he gave up at the
end of six months, and passed a
year at Vicksburg, Miss, as Super
intendent of Public Schools. In
1S49 he accepted the position as as
sistant editor on the Springfield Re-
publican. and two years later he be-
came one of its prOprietors. In the
columns of this paper first appeared
the "History OF Western Massachu-
setts." In 1868 he went to Europe
for two years, and during hIs trip
he conceived the idea OF Scribneiss
Monthly, which was carried into
effect upon his return to America.
In November, 1870, the first num-
ber appeared. Doctor Holland Is
widely known as lecturer. He
resides i'm New York city, and
spends the summer at his place call
ed" Bonnicastle," on one of the
Thousand Isles.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-07-30

The following nice little disserta
| tion on s''The FIy' was written b,
Bill Nye, hut, as we have just beeI
entertained by one OF these littl,
contempt-breeding, familiar cusses
/ who has been exourting around OF
the sparsely timbered plateau o
our classical caput for an hour ol
more, Begging as to puff him, We
willtlos SO by seconding Mr.. Nye's
very complimentary notice:
Much has been said of the fly ol
the period, but few write about him
who are bald headed.
Hence we gay a word. 1t is of no
use any more to deny the horrible
truth. Although beautiful as a
peri in other ways, our tresses top
nave suecumbed TO the inclemency
of the weather, and our massive
brow is slowly creeping over to-
ward the back of our neck. Ma
ture makes all things even. IF a
man be possessed of such ravishing
beauty and such winning ways
that his power might become dam
gerous, she makes him bald head
ed.
That is our fix.
When we have our hat on and go
chasing down the street with that
camel glide Of ours, every one asks
who that noble looking Apollo with
the melancholy eye is; but when
we are at the office with our hat
hung up on the French walnut side
board, aud the sun comes softly In
through the rosewood shutters and
lights up the shelac polish on our
intellectual dome, we are not so
pretty.
Then it is that the fly, with gem
tie tread and seductive song, comes
and prospects around on our bump
of self esteem, and tickles us and
makes us mad.
When we get where forbearanee
ceases to be a virtue, we haul off
and slap the place where he was,
while he goes over to the inkstand
and smokers at us. After he has
waded around in the carmine ink a
while he goes back to the bump of
spirituality and makes some red
marks over it.
Having laid off his claim under
the new mining law be proceeds
t0 sink ON 1T.
Ii we write anything bitter these
days; if we say aught of our fellow
man that is disagreeabIe or unjust,
and for which we afterward get
lick ed, ii is because at times we get |
and are not response
bic. p0
If the fly were large and weighed |
200 pounds, and came in here and |
told us that if we did not take back |
what we had said about him he
would knock out the window with |
Dur remains and let us fall hun
lred feet into the busy street, it
would not worry US so much, be-
,ause we could strangle him with
)ne hand while we wrote a column
EDITORIAL on Conkling with the 9TH
,r. We do that frequently. But
ragile insect, with no home and no
and only four or five mill
on brothers and sisters, gains our
and then tickles our
ealp till we have to write with
heet of tar roofing over our head.
Then he comes in and helps us
cad our proof. We do not want
i'm to help. but he insists on max
ng corrections and putting punct-
ations in the wrong place, and put
ing full stops where they knock the
ense all out of the paragraph.
If the fly could be removed from
ur pathway, we would march
long in our journey to the tomb in
way that would be the envy and
of the civilized world.
Is it is, we feel that we are not
laking very handsome record.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-07-30
Cotton asales at ths Battle or New
Orleans.


FAYETTEVILLE, TENN. Julv H.
lS8l.-In October, 1851, / was a can.
didate for the Confederate Congrese
Going from Columbia to Newber0'
IN Lewis county, stayed all night
with Col. William Cooper, Clerk Of
the Circuit Court Of the latter conn
", who was brother OF Matthew
u. Cooper, father OF Hon. William
+. Cooper, of the Supreme Court ~
tennessee. Col. Cooper was man
OF high naoral character, and fog
truth and integrity equal TO arlv
man In the county. Upon that oe.
casion Col. Cooper told me that la
was In the battle of New Orleans on
the Sth OF january 1915, that ho
nelped To make the breastwOrzs az
that battle; that there was a picket
from the river to the swamD. that
the breastw0rks were made against
that picket-fence, with sand or sand
bags and dirt; that there wis NOT y
single bale OF cotton in that emban6-
1hent or DreastwOrks; that the only
cotton bales used upon that occasion,
were few bales that were used up-
on each end OF the breastwOrks. as
em Drasul'es Tor the pieces ofartilery;
that certainly not bale was In the
emDankment. During the battle
he said one of the bales caught on
fire, behind the breastworks that
had been thrown up to make step
upon which the men could stand
and fire over the breastworks and
then step down and load their guns
step up and fire over the TOP OF the
embankment and so continue
through the battle. The day after
the battle he said was a rainy day.
which made the step behind the
breastworks quite muddy. The
burning bale of cotton, was put out.
torn in pieces, and the cotton, was
spread upon that slip behind the
embankment, for the men to sit
down on, all of which / was and
still am confident was correct. NY
attention was called to the subject,
by reading in the american of YES
terday the letter of Alexander VIII
ker to VIM. g Terrell upon the
subject of the cotton bales.
q w JONES.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-07-30
,rhe James Gang Again at Work.

The James Gang Again at Work.
The following dispatch gives the
particulars of one of the sboldest and
most daring train robberies on rec
ord, which occurred at WinslGw, a
station on the Chicago Rock Island
and Pacific Railroad, in Iowa last.
Saturday: -i,i
Information has been received
here by an incoming c., r. /. & P.
train of a regularly planned and
successful train robbery, which oc-
Cured at WinslOW, a station on the
r. l., short distance west of Cam
erOn. The robbers, six in number,
are supposed to be under the leader
ship of Jessie James. The men
boarded the train, which leaves this
city at 6:30 p. M, at Cameron. At
Winslow, where the train stopped,
they stood up in the aisle of the car
with drawn revOlvers. One of the
bandits, a man with heavy black
whiskers, advanced with a revolver
in e%ch hand toward VIM Westfall,
the conductor, and ordered him to
throw up his hands. The conduc-
tor was Slow in complying with the
demand and was shot through the
heart by the desparado. One OF
the other men then shot John Me-
Cullough, stone-cutter of Wilton
Junction, Iowa, who turned out
ward in his.seat, through the head.
The men then went through the
train to the express ear and over
powered Uuited States Express
Messenger Charles Murray, of this
city, who was intimidated into
the safe, from which $1,000
was taken. The despeadoes then
went to the engine and told the en-
gineer to start his train. This he
could not do, on account of the au-
tolnatic brake, and he was at once
utilized as target by the robbers.
The engineer put out the lights in
the cab and crawled along the foot
board to the pilot, extlnguished the
headlight and lay down on the pi-
lot. The robbers made no search
for him, but departed. No attempt
was made to rob the passengers.
The pOpulace about Winslow rose
up en- masse, and armed men are
now industriously seeking the des-
peradoes.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-07-30
rhe Sea shore wardrobe.
Buffalo Courier.

Ny lady's sea shore wardrobe, to
be satisfactory, should be on a foun-
dation of flannel. Whatever else
she puts into her trunk it must at
best contain two flannel costumes,
one of navy blue for morning and
rough wear, and Il creamy
white flannel for evening and dress
up occasions. Ladies living away
from the salt air do not realize its
disasterous effect upon colOred silks
and satins and diaphanous dresses
of muslins and lace and cumber
their trunks with finery that is not
improved by being squeezed into
the small compass OF II hat-trunk or
tray, and which prove only so
much superhuous luggage, except
at ultra fashionable hotels. No
woman ever yet spent a week at
the sea shore without flannel dress
who die not realize that half her
pleasure was destroyed by the de-
structible nature of her dress that
would not permit her to sit down
on rocks and in yachts without mo-
mentary fear OF salt water stains.
Besides what is prettier than a blue
flannel gaily trimmed with awning
cloth, or white braid, with bright
under petticoat of different mate
rial? The picturesque possibilities
of such a dress strike the behOlder
dumb with admiration as one sees
from the steamers deck the bellies
of Mount Desert fiocking down TO
the landing to welcome the arrival
of the Portland boat at IL a. m. of a
hot July day.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-07-30

WE are assured by the New York
Mail that the good feeling express
ed by Southern Journals for the
President will be appreciated by
him, and that "his generous nature
will be inspired by it and that his
restored energies will be devoted TO
the whole country, no one who
knows him is permitted to doubt"
We hope this may prove true.
The spectacle of a Republican Presi-
dent devOting himself to the whole
country and not exclusively to his
party machinery viii be something
unusual and certainly gratifying
C0urieT JooHdt. 'gyi
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-07-30

THE rage for office-seeking and
factional zeal have had no little 10
do with the recent Washington
shooting. Thousands OF people are
possessed with a mania for Office.
A little office-holding and briefau-
thority unfit them for other occupa-
tions. Party exlgencies, not the ne
cessities of the country, have Great
ed the vast number Of offices now
at the disposal Of the President.
The product is an army Of men who
become professional Office-seekeEs.
II disappointed, they seek revenge
in one way or another. The Of
fice-seeking and Office. holding ell
ement in their present proportions
constitute unsafe elements OF our
population. The fact Is certainly
one worthy OF consideration. The
corrupt proceedings at Albany du-
ring the last few weeks illustrate
the tendency OF selfish factionalism.
Il Courier. Journal.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-07-30
BE wise ana Happy

If you will stop all your extrava-
CANT and wrong notions in doctor
ing yourself and families with ex-
pensive doctors or humbug cure
alis, that do harm always, and use
only natures simple remedies for
all your ailments-you will be wise,
well and happy, and save great ex-
pense. The greatest remedy for
this, the great, wise and good will
tell you, is Hop Bitters. s.-Press.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-07-30

A foreign dispatch brings the
sad intelligence that Sfax has fallen.
This is sad news However it was
slot, entirely unexpected to us.
"Alas, how are the mighty fallen"
Since we come to think, where the
deuce is Sfax.a
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-07-30

Miss BLOOD, daughter of Mrs.
Victoria Blood, nee Woodruff, is
TO be married to Sir Colin Camp
bell, the youngest son of the Duke
of Argyle, and brother to the Mar
quis of Lorne. Vie says Blood will
tell in any country.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-07-30

THE first Tuesday in August the
electors of North Carolina will en-
dorse or reject the law passed by
the legislature of that state last
winter, prohibiting the emanufacture
or sale Of Intoxicating liquors in
that state. The contest is reported
to be quite spirited, and party lines
nearly obliterated.