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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-08-31
A LEXANDRIA ACADEMY.
st. MARY'S ACADEMY,
NORTH FAIRFAX STREET,
A l. f y A n d RIA, VIRGINIA..
UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE SISTERS
OF HOLY CROSS

VIII reopen MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1892,
for Boarding and Day Pupils.
Inc Course of Study will BIZ thorough and cx
tenslve, embracing all the branches of 4 solid and
refined education.
Particular attention is paid to Vocal and Instru-
mental Music.
Plain Sewing and every variety of Fancy Work,
also the kudiments OF Vocal Music and Drawing,
are taught without additional charge.
Pupils Of all denominations received and while
great attention is given to the religious instruc-
ton OF Catholic students, there is 10 influence
used on those of different belief
Terms moderate. For further particulars ap-
PiE 10 lauslS-lm SISTER SUPERIOR
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-08-31
Drowned,

PERU, ND, Aug. 3l.-rwo boys, Lyman
Bcarrs and Saul Reynolds, while quarrel
ling i'll a boat fell into the water and were
drowned
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-08-31
AlryallQria Dasrttr
THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 81, 1Ss2.
LOCAL MATTERS.

WEATHER PROBABILITIES. Aug. II. 1882.
For the middle Atlantic States local rains
partly cloudy weather, southwesterly to
westerly winds no change in temperature
ana lower barometer.
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JNO. e. TACKETT, 100 King street.
EXCURSIONS, PICNICs, &c.
LOWER CEDAR POINT
(Washingtcn's Coney Island

lWashingtCn's Coney Island)
SELECT DAILY FAMILY EXCURSIONS.
The Palace Steamer JANE MOSELEY will make
excursions to this Popular Resort. commencinG
SUNDAY June 25, leaving wharf foot of Prince ST.,
DAILY, except Monday at 8 a. m, returning at
p. nj. The management reserve the right to
take up any tickets at boat and return money for
same Positively no improper characters allowed
families
Salt water bathing, fishing, dancing on waxed
moor, etc. etc, and "Shorc Dinner" Music by
Prof. Pistorio's Brass and String Band.
Tickets Ground trip .............. so cents
Hooe.
Special arrangements made with societies.
clubs and other organizations. ie22.1m
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-08-31

CANAL BOAT SUNK.-~A canal boat, bound
for this city with limestone, sunk in the log
wall level of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
yesterday. Navigation is in no wise imped
ed thereby, as the depth of the canal there
is very great
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-08-31

ESsEL TkAN5FER.--Th transfer Of the
schooner Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Fl.
Coleman TO Augustus Dean, for considera-
ton OF $50, was registered at the Custom
House in this city Yesterday morning.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-08-31

10 strengthen and build up the system, a
trial will convince you that Browns Iron
Bitters is the best medicine made.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-08-31
EDUCATIONAL.
POTOMAC Academy
ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA


ALEXANDRIA. VIRGINIA.
y BOARDING AND DAY SCHOOL FOR ROWS
nc Fourteenth Annual Session bar;ps se,,om
Der ~, 1852. Pupils prepared for CoIlaDe I'M
Iefslty or Business. Terms moderate I;mi,ad
nuuloer taken. No vacancies last session Eo-
Catalogue, giving full particulars, address
JOHN S. BLACKBURN, PrincipaI
aug1O-Ih&Stsep2O Alexandria, Virginia
SCHOOL FOR SMALL BOYS.
Mrs Taliaferro will open school for small, hors
at % South Royal street, on WEDNESD4V So
-eH.oet -"eI. -- aug1-Tu&S1m
M RS: FANNIE CARLIN WILL REOPEN HER
NJ SCHOOL FOR LITTLE GIRLS AMI PoVS
Monday, Sept. 18th, 1882, at her residence M
Zoo Cameron street, between Alfred and Urnrv
aug2S-td ""N ''e"''
M ISIS FANNY BRAGG AND MISS MARYT
W PEhCf, will open in Alexandria, Va ON
September 18th '"' vi
The ALEXANDRIA FEMALE SEMINARY
Boarding and Day School for young ladies and
lite girls Training thorough and terms mod.
crate ''''"' '''o"'
Refer to Rt. Rev. R. H. Wilmer, Mobile. Ala
Rev. Paul Whitehead, Farmville Va.
Rev. F. StringfellOw Subjects, 7, O.. Va,
rev Jno; 5. Hansbrough, Orange L. IT,, va,
rev J.. Carson Lynchburg, Va.
AIRS. Con WIN. II. +. Lee, Fairfax county, Va.
non; John W. Johnston, Abingdon, Va
FOR further reference or information, address
Miss FANNY BRAGG
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-08-31

M ISIS GEORGIA ARNOLD will resume the
WI, duties Of her school WEDNESDAY. Scptrm-
her !3, lSS2, over the German Banking Co.
KINDERGARTEN SYSTEM taught in thc
Primary Department.
Daily practice in CALISTIIENICS.
Terms moderate. Apply at No. 1O7 Queen ST.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-08-31

AH tNNtTrEN. DArGHTEE.-A great
disturbance. hcing heard in il house upper
ENG OF Kin" street. last night, police officer
Thomas liusrs went 10 the i,lacc, where he
found Eliza Todd engaged in the unnatural
pastlnc of hralim" her old father, Thomas
Todd, with heavy stick. The woman was
mad from Mhiskcy. ANA it was with Difficult
~ that tn" officer could prevent her from
seriously imiuiin@ The old man. She was
taken i" Tho station house and locked up
until this morning, when she had a hearing
hciCur tho Mayor who discharged her with
rclnImaui. tn" father of the girl stating
That he ild not wish her sent to the work
h"llNr ~ hr Was alone and had no one to
care i"f hjnl. Notwithstanding the prisoner
was \"nn4 clrl, h"r appearance indicated
That she had long been a slave to strong
drink and other slimulants. Upon the pri-
Soncrs box being unlocked the old man
took his daughter by the hand and led her
ont OF the Mayors Office
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-08-31

Police IIE}I,.-'rhe Mayor had before
him thi, morning Eliza Todd White, charged
with IN assault on her father. Thomas Todd !;
VIM. Davis. colorcd charged with cruelty to
Il cali, and ten parties charged with MAIN
tanning nuisanccs on their premises
Eliza Todd. 1t the request of her father
was discharged with Il reprimand.
VIM. Davis. who tied calf behind a
cart and hauled ii several squares. was fined
500 and costs.
The parties charged with creating and
maintaining nnisanccs on their premises,
were ordered TO have the said nuisances aba
ted ut once
John Brooks, colorcd, was arrested this
afternoon on suspicion Of robbng the hen
roost Of an old colored woman near the
Alexandria and Washington Railroad depot
Tuesday night
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-08-31

ANXIOUS GrNNERs. The cunning season
commences tomorrow, and the marshes sur
rounding the city are said TO be full of sora,
black birds and other game. The gunners
OF tins city have been patiently awaiting the
day when they could indulge in their favor
lie sport, and tomorrow, from early morn to
dcwy eve. there will he such tilsilade as has
not been heard III these parts loryear Guns
have been in readiness for weeks past, and all
fond OF the sport, including the small boy,
who can raise 4 weapon and a little powder
and Shot,WIll no doubt he out From now I'M
III Inc close OF the season accidents, such
rs the blowing out OF an eye. the blowing off
of Il finger or hand, or other small affairs of
the Kind, may be daily looked for To-mor-
row also begins the month for oyters, and
the owners Of vessels and others interested
are blsiIy engaged preparing for the trade.
The PEABODY SCHOLARSHIP-Thc cy-
animation for the Peabody Scholarship in
the Nashville, Tennessee, University which
has been IN progress in this city for the past
two days, conducted by School Superintend-
entS WIN. +. Carnc, of Alexandria VIM. A.
Cave, of Alexandria county: and Eugene
flcklin. o! Fairfax: was concluded last
night, the committee deciding to recon-
mendcd W. W.Mallon, Of Fairfax, and F. p.
Nichols of Louduun. 10 the officers of the
University. both OF them having come
mp to the required standard There were
number of applicants for examination, but
only the two young men named appeared.
The scholarship is worth 5000.
lie \. NJ RAILWAY.-Thc weekly ship
nent' q! stock over the Virginia Midland
Railway Is now Very heavy Over one hun
bred car loads uI cattle arrived here over
ihr road saturday last and preparations are
''rln& made for the transportation of rs
many next Saturday night. Indeed the
"h"'e business ot the road, freight and
l'''sNcAgrr Is h"avirr NON than il has been
Tor years. ana -: increase of facilities is de-
inan!"i When the Nirei.ia Midland ,,.ts
c"nti"I Of the North Carolina Railroad
Winch runs through Il section OF country
rich IN iii! kinds of minerals, it will be one of
lhe greatest of Southern lines.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-08-31

NTOfiCE-1 hereby forewurn all persons from
~ harhoring my wife, ELIZA HALL. as will
chlorce the law against any such offenders.
aus-'-''t" MILTON HALL.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-08-31

Mrs; laiaierro will open school for small bows
, 80 oousn hoyai street, OH WEDNESDAY, Sep
t Mr"S- t',tn. aug1 -Tu&S1m
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-12-19
THE DAYS NEWS.
Foreign and Domestic.

DUBLIN, Dec. 19.-In the police court
to-day West Gate was charged with partici-
patton in the Phoenix Park murders and
remanded at Longrea.
Yesterday number of laborers paraded
the streets demanding work or food and
declaring that they were starving. They
surrounded the residence of Bishop Dug
gan who distributed money to them.
Great distress prevails in the towns.
BERLIN, Dec. 19.-The preliminary
preparations for rendering the Weser naYi-
gable for sea going vessels from Bremen
haven to Bremen have been finished. The
work is estimated to cost thirty million
marks and viii occupy six weeks. When
completed it will give an immense. impetus
to trade between Bremen and New York
CORK, Dec. 19.-Parnell's reception was
lukewarm compared with the enthusiasm
exhibited on the occasion of his visit
year ago.
DUBLIN, Dec. 18.-A meeting was held
in Mulhgar last night for the purpose of
forming branch of the Irish Natl League
Harrington in a speech said the more pros
porous farmers must be told if they did
not throw themselves into the new move
ment they would have the full force of
the laborers, agitation directed against
them.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-12-19

fees are destroyed. L. Bakers grocery
store on the corner is now burning. The
water works are not finished and the fire
department is helpless. Considerable
goods were saved Bakers loss is so, 900
on stock; insured for $s,000 Morsted's
loss is 81 800.
The fire is now under control By hard
work Necht's bank was saved, Bakers
grocery being the last building burned.
The entire loss will approximate $780, 900
on stocks and buildings, about half COW
cred by insurance, though several lost
their entire possessions
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-12-19
STOCKS
GRAIN.
Chicago Market.

CHICAGO, Dec, 10.
STOCK.
HoGS-Receipts $4,000; light 6006 80; mixed
packing 60G6 20; heavy packing and shipping,
6 30d6 so.
CATTLE-Receipts 5000; good to choice ship
ping, 00GD6 90; common to fair, 9004 90;
butchers 1904 20 stoekers and feeders, 2600
10; Texans 40fl4 10
GRAIN.
WHEAT-Lower; regular 90 and 92h Dee ;
920921s JAN; 80 May; spring 92B winter "a
C0RN-Weak; 511z cash. 492s year and Dec
80 JAN; 531a May.
0ATS-Weak and lower except cash; 371z cash
3sh November SRA bid Dec; 369s year and Jan,
36@3625 May.
RYE-5S.
BARLEY.-S0.
WHISKEY-1 16.
PORK-Frmer; SIT IL cash and December;
$17 II January; SIT 80 February.
LARD-Strong and excited higher; $40 31Q
$40 81 cash $40 4751 Feb.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-12-19
THE STAR ROUTE LUDAs.
WHOLESOME TELEGRAPH LEeIsI ALTON.

Nothing new in the Dickson case to-
day.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-12-19
DISASTROUS FIRE.

GRAND FORKS, d. T., Dec. IA fire
broke out about midnight in Caswsll's
photograph gallery on Third street be-
tween Nilsson and Demers avenues. The
Ottawa saloon, Boston clothing store,
Mersted, Christopherson 81 Cos. clothing
store, Maloney's barber shop, DR.. Johnson's
dental office, M. Rueth's grocery store, the
Union drug store, and the two real estate
Offices of Webster d McGilway and Bur
rows 81 Burrows and ST. Julien Cox Of
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-12-19
MIssIssIPPI RIvER IMPRovEMENT.
CONGRESSIONAL.
HOUSE.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 19.-Butterworth re-
ported the army appropriation bill and will
ask its consideration after the postoffice
bill is disposed of. The Speaker presented
requests for leave of absence. Many OBJ
iections were raised but several were
granted. Brown thereupon denounced
yesterdays proceedings as farce.
SENATE.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 19.-The bill by Har-
ris pealing the tenth section of the act to
prevent the introduction of contagious dis
eases into the United States was referred
and the consideration of the Indian appro-
priation bill was resumed, Plumb object
ing to Sherman attempt to get the bonded
spirits bill up.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-12-19
New York Market.

NEW YORK. Dec. 10.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-12-19
ALLEGED BRIBERY NOT PROVEN.

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Dec. 19.-The legisla-
tive bribery cases were finally disposed of
to-day. Representative Wright was ac-
quilted and a noble pros was entered in the
case of Representative Block. The state
completely Droke down. These members
have been the victims of unfounded rumors
and speculations.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-12-19

Severel vessels and steam barges are ic
bound in the lake; no disasters reported
harbor full of ice
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-12-19
LAKE MARINE ICE BOUND.

Exposition ten thousand dollars annual
rental.
LAKE MARINE ICE BOUND.
Severel vessels and steam barges are ice
bound in the lake; no disasters reported;
harbor full of ice.
THE sCovILLE INFELICITY.
The case OF Mrs. Scovil1e adjudged in
sane recently and then granted a new trial,
has been stricken from the docket by agree
ment. 1t is reported that the; unhappy
couple have been reunited and it is hoped
this win end the domestic troubles of the
Scoville's in the courts.
RAILROAD MEN TRYING TO AGREE.
The general managers and general
passenger and freight agents of the
lately wal4ing northwestern roads
were busy arranging the details of the
eastbound business from Minneapolis and
St. Paul. Nothing has yet been accom-
pIished, and may not be to-day. The main
features of the agreement are understood
to have been fully stated in the recent au
thorized statement of Mr.. Cable. The
penalty for violation of the agreement is
seid to be from $500 to 81 900.
TEXAS sIF1 iNGs.
Corticana, Texas, special says: Loss by
fire, 100000 to 5000 900. Incendiary
work.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-12-19
WASHINGTON FACTS AND RUMoRs.
MEXICAN PENSIONERS


WASHINGTON, Dec. 1o.-The pensions
committee has agreed upon and VII report
q substitute for all pending Mexican service
pension bills
THE STAR ROUTE LUDAs.
Nothing new in the Dickson case to-
day.
WHOLESOME TELEGRAPH LEGISLATION.
Joyce in the house and Logan in the
Senate to-day introduced bill requiring
every telegraph and cable company to re-
ceive and forward the business of any 9th
er company whether relating to the bust
ness of the company offering it or not, and
making it misdemeanor loI any other
than the person transmitting to send and
examine the same.
MISSISSIPPI RIVER IMPROVEMENT.
The Mississippi river committee this
morning examined Henry Richardson,
state engineer otf Louisiana. He thought
that the levees prote tted the land
from overfiowing; had never considered
them as improving navigation, though
they might incidentally make an improve
ment.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-12-19
CHICAGO NEWS NOTES
EXPOSITION RENTAL.

CHICAGO, Dec. 19.-The city council
decided to charge the managers of the
Exposition ten thousand dollars annual
aI
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-12-19
CALL AND SEE

The immense stock of
Pianos and Organs, and
get our prices before pur-
chasing, If you wish to
save money. We have
something new to show
you for the Holiday trade
". ". kIMBALL'S Branch,
d. ROY BOWLBY, Manager.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-12-28
MiStletOe.

Apart from its real or mythical con-
nection with the Druids, and its practi-
cal use in modern Christmas festivities,
the mistletoe is undoubtedly a very
curious and interesting plant. 1t is a
naturally uncanny-looking thing; and,
no doubt, the uncanniness ofits appear
ance and mode of growth has had much
to do with the place it fills in popular
superstitions and folklore. The Dough.
''gltOd non SuG seminal GrbOs," is al
most the only good example of vege-
table parasite to be found in any north
ern climate: so that it has reasonably
enough attracted a great deal of atten-
ton from all northern peoples in every
age. Even when detached from the
trunk of its host a mistletoe bough is a
curious object, with its fiat opposite
pairs of succulent leaves. its jointed
green branches, its suspicious-looking
glaucous color, and its terminal twigs
abruptly ending in an unfinished knob.
Scientifically speaking, the mistletoe
has afforded an open battle field for in
Vulnerable systematists. The question
whether four little leaflets in the flower
were to be called petals or calyx pieces
in itself about as important as the
question. who was Hecuba's grand
mother-has often cruelty divided the
botanical world. We now know that
the mistletoe is really exactly what each
of the contending parties contradictorily
asserted it to be. Like most other par
asitic plants, the mistletoe derives its
origin from a family of climbers.
1t is closely connected with those
four-petaled flowers like the
cornell, dogwood, guelder-rose and
elder, which compose perfect network
of connecting links between many very
distinct groups of plants These types,
in fact, form a central station, as it
were, from which diverging branches
run out in every direction. Several of
the lines started from this interlacing
center have taken to climbing habits;
among them are ivy on the one hand
and h0neysuckle on the other (both of
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-12-28

He was dressed all in fur from his head TO his
foot,
And his clothes were all furnished with ashes
and SCOT
A bundle of toys he had flung on his back,
And he looked like a peddler just opening his
His eyes, how they twInkled! his dimples, how
His cheeks were like roses, his nose like
His drou little mouth was drawn up like a
bow,
And the beard ON his chin was as white as the
snow.
The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth,
And the smoke IL encircled his head like a
wreath.
He had broad face and little. round belly
That shook. when he laughed, like bowl full
He was Chubby and plump-a right jolly old
Aud laughed when Isaw him. in spite of my
self.
A wink of his eye. and twist of his head.
Soon gave me to know had nothing to dread.
He spoke not a word, but went straight to his
work,
And filled all the stocklng-then turned with
And laying his finger aside of his nose,
And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose.
He sprang TO his sleigh, to his team gave
And away they all flew like the down of a
But heard him exclaim. as he drove out of
" Happy Christmas to ALL and to all good
Clement C. Moore.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-12-28

stand. Birds eat the berries. and thus
carry the seeds from tree totree. Some
times, no doubt, the fruit simply clings
by its own sticky substance to their feet
or feathers and gets rubbed off when
they alight' on another bough; but in
other cases it is probably swallowed.
and the seed then passes. undigeSted,
through their bodies. In either event
the plant obtains its desired result, the
placing of its offspring securely in a
proper position for terminating and
fastening on the tissues of its host For
such purpose the glutinous pulp is OBJ
viously well adapted. Most parasites,
animal or vegetable, have to produce
enormous numbers of eggs or seeds,
which are simply turned loose anywhere,
on the chance that one or two among
them may happen to light upon its proper
prey. But the possession of a fruit in
the shape of an edible berry. provided
with natural gum to fasten the seed on
TO the branches of trees saves the mis-
tletoe from any such desperate shifts as
these. So successful has it been, in
deed. in getting its young well started
i'll life. that. like many other berrv-bear-
ers which trust to birds for dispersion, it
has actually been enabled to dispense
with some of its primitive quotum of
seeds.-PdlE-hGlE Gazette.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-12-28

blaze, an enemy's facet By Christmas
day. We do forgive himi If the injury
he has done us may admit of such COM
panionship, let him come here and take
his place. II otherwise. unhappily, let
him go hence, assured that we will nev-
er injure or accuse him.
The winter sun goes down over
town and village; on the sea it makes 3
rosy path. as Il the sacred tread were
fresh upon the water. A few more
moments and it sinks and night comes
on. and light begins to sparkle in the
prospect On the hillside beyond the
shapelessly diffused town, and the
quiet keeping of the trees that girale
the village steeple, remembrances are
cut in stone, planted in common flow
ers, growing in grass, entwined with
lowly brambles around many a mound
of earth.
In towns and villages there are doors
and windows closed against the wealth
er, there are flaming logs heaped high,
there are joyful faces, there is healthy
music of voices. Be all ungentleness
and harms excluded from the temples
of the household gods, but be those re-
membranes admitted with tender en-
enlargement They are of the time
and all its comforting and peaceful re-
assurances, and of history that reunited
even upon earth the living and the
dead; and of the broad benehcence and
goodness that too many men nave tried
to tear to narrow shreds. Chdr.es Dick
esRS.