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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-07-11
The Markets,

BALTIMORE, July 11.-Virgnia is deferred -
no consolidated 80; do second series :35 past
due coupons 60; new 1O4Os 10 bid today
Cotton steady; middlings 127s. Flour unchanged
ana quiet. Wheat-Southern steady; Western
higher closing easier; Southern rcd 13Oa134 do
amber l"''al5S; No Western winter red spot
l33al3l July 12Sksa12SE; Aug 125a125i,
Sept l2oal224 Oct 12Ga12Gas. Corn-South.
ern steady and firm; Western neglected Southern
white 9': do yellow %; Western mixed spot
Sls! bid; July S4iaaS5t4 August S6ba87
Sept S!ti bid. Oats steady; Southern 61a65
new Western white G6a6S; do mixed GAGS ;
penna GOATS. Rye quiet and steady at 75aSO.
Hay unchanged. Coffee steady; Rio cargocs Or
binary to fair St4a9ta Sugar quiet A soft 9l,.
Whiskey firmcr at 81 15a1 16.
New York, July 11-Stocks active and gen.
orally steady: Money 21s. Cotton somewhat ir
regular and quiet; uplands ID Orleans 1874.
Flour firm and quiet Wheat opened 1k,a2c bet
ter; subsequently lost nearly all of advance.
Corn unsettled and 1,a1c lower.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-07-11
To-day's Congressional Proceedings.
sen ATE

Mr.. Morrill,, from the finance committee
reported tavorably the Senate bill repeating
so much dissection 1886 of the revised sta.
tutes as imposes charge upon export stamps
OH tobacco.
Mr.. Groome, from the committee on pen
sions, reported bill to prevent the payment
Of double pensions s@
A resolution offered by Mr. VanWyck,
directing the Secretary of the Interior to
withhold action in payment of a double pen
sion TO General Burnett until the bill,'just
reported is acted upon, was read and laid
over.
The conference report on the bank char
ter extension bill was presented and agreed
to.
A resolution to fix the daily hour of meet
ing at II O'Clock was discussed but post
poned until Monday next in Difference to the
wishes Of members of the appropriations
committee.
The consideration of the River and Har-
Dor bill was then resumed.
HOUSE.
immediately after the reading of the journal,
the House went into Committee of tho Whole on
the sundry civil appropriation bill.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-07-11

HURRICANE AND TIDAL WAvE-A ter
rible hurricane visited the Friendly Islands
on April %. At Van Van the bark Don
Guillcrmo went down at her anchors. The
captain, officers, and six seaman were
lost with her. Five boys were saved. The
hurricane was accompanied by tidal wave
fifteen feet high, which swept over the
island and did terrible damage All natives
houses and many of the Europeans houses
were carried away, and cocoanut trees were
SNAPPED OFT like pipc-stems. The island
presents scene Of widespread desolation
At Tongatea all the churches were DESTROY
ed and 1000 houses leveled, and the copra
houses. with their contents and everything
near, were swept away. A schooner was
carried inland, and the German bark Cassilis
foundered
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-07-11

The WASHINGTON AND OHIO RAILROAD,
''The title to the Washington and Ohio Rail-
road, which it was supposed was bought by
Mr.. W. j. Best for the Baltimore, Cincinnati
and Western Railroad Company, at the re-
cent sale at Alexandria, will be contested.
and the necessary papers will be filed next
week. = Mr.. Best is very wcllknown from his
connection with the reccvership of the
National Trust Company. the Mechanics
and Traders Savings Bank. the German
Savings Bank OF Morrisiana, the Pacific
National Bank of Boston. and for the past
fourteen years with various railway projects
in North Carolina"
We take the above from the Baltimore
american. but upon inquiry at the office of
the company here we learn that nothing is
known of such a suit, and that Mr.. Best
bought the road for himself and friends and
not for the B. c. & w. Company.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-07-11

lou may be told that the present federal
administration is friendly to Virginia, and
that this friendly disposition ought to be re-
ciprocatcd. No one will more fully appre-
ciatcfkindness than [, or more readily recip-
rocate kind acts. sd
But what has the republican party of the
North done for Virginia that places her I'M
der such obligations to it?
Are We to thank it for its protective tariff,
which imposes heavy tax Oh Virginians to
enrich northern manufacturers
Are we to admire it because it imposes a
heavy tax upon the tobacco and whskey
and brandy which are raised and manufac-
tured in Virginia?
I Shall We praise it for its odious internal
revenue system of taxation, which floods
the State with federal otfceholders to an
noy and veX our citizens and fatten upon
them?
We must be blind to both our interests
and our rights when we do.
LET no one infer from what I have said
that charge General Malone with having
special admiration or kind feeling for re-
publican He. cares not fig for either a re-
publican or democrat farther than he can
use him for his own benefit.
| If q man be Mahonee he needs 10 other rec.
4
office, whether he be democrat or republican
| II he he al Embellishments, il matters not how
| true, how honest, and how capable he may be- no
other charge is necessary to insure his removal
from office, though he may be filling it well
whether he be 4 democrat or a republican
| SelfiS the controlling considerations
! Under the lag Of democracy he is seeking tu
| march Virginia into the camp of stalwart ratli.
calism for his own benefit
Under the banner Of liberalism and opposition
To rings and cliqucs he has inaugurated the most
autocratc. rule; displaying more intolerance OF
other mems rights of thought, speech, and action
and required more servile submission to his will
and authority, than was ever before witnessed
among any free people. Under the popular cry OF
equal rights for all the people, and opposition to
monopolies, he SO shaped legislation that but for
the sagacity, the patriotism, the honesty aud the
independence of the noble Big Four" equal
| rights would now he but All empty name
and the very term Il mOckery and the aggregate
power OF all monopolies concentrated in his hands
"A bit in each mans mouth while he held the
rcins and the whip Are Virgnians ready for
such humiliation and wrong? ~.
You have fought and bled in defence of your
rights and your liberty. Will you now sit tanely
by and sec them taken from you without an effort
| to prevent it? Remember that peace hath her
victories no less than war;" grand but bloodless
victory is within your reach. Put forth your
hands and grasp it. ....
Your banner is now unfurlcd and floating proud
~ in the breeze. By the blessing of Him who
rules the nations it shall never trail in the dust
and never be furcd until victory pcrchcs upon il
Very respectfully, JOHN +. MASSEY.
!iSh LdTa, .iibcmdr'c county, Va, July 10, 1SS2.
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The Weather and Crops.

Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette
HEwLETTs July 1O.-For one who has RECENTLY
passed from this point through the peninsula to
and around Norfolk, and from Richmond to Fred
ercksburg, it is really encouraging to read in your
Saturdays issue of the prospects of fine crop of
corn, throughout the State for did not sec but
four respectable crops of corn in all that field of
observation, and they were suppose one month
later than usual. Unless the seasons are unusual
~ proptious, am sure the yield Of corn in the
sections alluded to will be much under the average
did not see single crop ofsprng oats which
promised half Il crop, and much of the surface
seeded in oats was almost entirely nude. The oat
crop is the most indifferent have ever seen.
The weather is exceedingly dry with us, and
the gardens arc suffering fearfuly and think the
same may be said of all the country traversed.
HANOVER
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-07-11

Cough, Cold or Sore Throat should be STONED
Neglect frequently results in an Inourable Lung
Disease or Consumption. BROWNS BRONCHIAL
TROCHES do not disorder the stomach like couch
syrupss and balslms but act directly on the In.
Asthma. Bronchitis, Coughs, Catarrh, and the
Throat Troubles which Singers and Public Speak.
ers are subject to- For thirty years Browns
Bronchial Troches have been recommended by
physicians, and have always given perfect salts
faction. Having been tested by wide and constant
use LOT nearly an entire generation they have at
tanned we'll merited rank among the few STAPLE
remedies Of the age. Sold at % cts. box every
where.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-07-11
ALEXANDRIA, VA.
TUESDAY EVENING, JULY II, 1882.

THE LONG expected war in Egypt has at
length commenced The bombardment OF
Alexandria by the English feet began this
morning, and again has that ancient city ex-
perienced the injuries and the horrors of q
hostile attack Alexandria will doubtless
soon be in possession of the English, but
whether that will end the war is
by no means so certain. Among the re,
gretable circumstances necessarily incident
to such an attack as is now inprogress upon
Alexandria, is the injury to, if not the com
plete destruction of, some Of the remaining
works of antiquity that still adorn that
historical city.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-07-11

Mr.. JOHNSTON in the Senate, rs Mr.. Ran
dali had previously dOnein the House, went
straight to the root of reform in the internal
revenue system by moving to abolish the
whole of that system, in order that the peo-
pie of the country may not be forced any
longer to pay tax on every thing they buy,
and that producers may be allowed to sell
their products to anybody who may want to
purchase them, without the present neces-
sity of license. No reasonable man can
tell why, when there is surplus Of one
hundred and fifty millions in the Treasury
there should be restrictions upon the sale OF
a Virginia farmers crop of tobacco when
there lis none upon that ofany other ofhis pro-
ducts The other Virginia Senator is not so
much opposed to the system, for he merely
moved that the tax on tobacco be reduced
to ten cents pound. But it must be re.
menbered that General Malone rcccir-
ed valuable assistance from the internal
revenue bureau during his last campaign
and slight reduction in the tax on tobacco
would not necessitatc any reduction in the
number of employees Of that bureau.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-07-11

THE L. S. SENATE at least is in favor OF
the reclamation Of the flats in the Potomac
of Washington, and Of appropriating half a
million Of dollars with which to commence
that work The estimated cost Of the pro-
posed improvement, when completed, is
three millions, but half million will bear
all the expense Of preparing the work and
putting it i'll progress. Should the House OF
Representatives concur in the Senate's ac-
ton the work of retaining the flats and
improving the harbor of Washington will be
commenced Immediately and prosecuted to
completion as soon as practicable. Unless
the proper precaution be taken the dminu-
ton of river surface By reason of the island
that is to be created will be equalized by
the submersion of the whole of the low
land on this side Of the Long Bridge.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-07-11

MIR. MASSEY always was a democrat, but
on State question which had no legitimate
connection with politics, he voted against
the regular nominees of his party. That
question having now been transferred to the
courts he is the same democrat he was be.
fore; but, because he avows that fact, the
organ of the "liberal' party in Virginia
says: We exult in the privilege of gibbting
him higher than Hannah and giving his car
rion TO the chains of ignominy." And yet
the organ referred to is a profound advocate
of the freedom of political opinion
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-07-11

FIoLAToRs OF VIRGINIA FISHERY LAWS.
On Friday last detachment of the PENN
sula Guard i'll charge ola non commissioned
officer, and accompanied by the deputy
sheriff of Elizabeth City county, left Hamp-
ton OH the tug Martha Helen, to cruise for
steamers illegally engaged in the Menhaden
fishery: On Saturday evening they return
ed to Hampton, having succeeded in captur-
ing the steamer: W. French. Captain over
ton, belonging to VIM. Pope, of Cumberland.
Md, engaged in fishing for the oil and guano
works at Great Wicomico The capture was
made between Smiths Island and Fisher.
mans Inlet. She was taken to Hampton.
where her crew, with the exception of the
cook and steward, were lodged in Jail.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-07-11

The sTALwART republicans in the U. S.
Senate propose TO reduce the duty on sugar,
which is right, but, at the same time, to in
crease the duty on hoop iron, which is
wrong. But sugar is the product of the
South, while hoop iron, which is chiefly
consumed i'll the same section, where it is
used to bind bales of cotton, is the product
of Pennsylvania. This is fair sample of
the treatment that is accorded the South by
the stalwart republicans, TO whose support,
for personal benefits received, Gen Malone
has promised to add the strength of Virgin
ia. Will white Eirginans permit him to
bargain their votes away to such party as
he does those of the negroes?
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-07-11

THE MAHoNEITEs assert that Judge Well
ford's recent decision of IL constitutional
question will gain them five thousand votes.
They were never more mistaken. Many
uniformed Northern people labor under
the delusion that Nirginians are fools. a
little acquaintance, however, soon shows
them how egrcgriously they have been de-
ceived. But this would not be the case were
the Mahonctcs correct The constitution
says mo State shall pass law impairing
the obligation of cOntracts,' and if five
thousand people were to vote against a par
ty simply because judge decides, what ev-
erybody knows, that the Legislature has
passed a bill which does impair the obliga-
ton of a contract, it would show that the
ill-informed Northern people, to whom ref
erence has been made, are not so ill-inform-
ed as they are supposed to be about the sill
illness of Firginians
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-07-11
Financial.

NEW YORK. July 1.-THE stock market opened
irregular but in the main 1sa1 l., per cent higber
than at yesterdays close. In the early trade a
general decline of LAS per cent took place, after
winch the market became strong aud sold up LA
IL per cent W. 4"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-07-11

Ladies and all sufferers from neuralgi
hysterla, and kindred complaints will find
without rival Browns Iron Bitters.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-07-11

A Norfolk dispatch says, orders were received
at the navy yard to-day to discharge at the end of
the month all writer's and clerks EMPLOYED hy IN,
Government
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-07-11

lfyou appreciate comfort, buy your Shoes
of D. Ruben s Co, 6S King st.
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DIED,

At 3 o'clock this morning, at his resid.nc. j.,
West End, John Cowling, aged cighty-two wears,
Iss" The funeral. which the friends and acanain
tances of the family are invited to attend will
take place from st. Johns Chapel on Thursday
evening 1T , o'clock
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-07-11
COMMERCIAL.

ALEXANDRIA, MARKET, july 11.-Prices are
unchanged since yesterday The receipts of
Wheat are increasing and to-day 413O bushels
sold at 10 for poor white. 123a125 for rul,z
and l26a12S for mixed, there being no Lancaster
offered. No Corn or Oats were offered and one lot
of Rye sold at So
BALTIMORE CATTLE MARKET July 1O.-Brcf
Cattle.-Prices Of Beef Cattle ranged rs follows;
BEST ,oaSS w; that generally rated first quail
ty 12aS7 25; medium or good fair quality
4 75aS6 90; ordinary thin Steers OXEN and
COWS 8 5lhS4 %. Extreme range of prices 3 jOa
30 W. Most Of the sales were from q las II
per loo lbs. Total receipts for the week iii
head; total sales for the week $40 head The
market to-day has been much more active than
1t was last week, and nearly or quite all the offer
ings were sold at rather an earlier hour than
usual The quality scarcely averages rs good rs i,
did last week, though there were some very fine
Cattle among to-days offerings, on the best O.!
whlch thercwas no change to notice. quality con-
sidercd Good butcher Cattle were Il little strong
err while medium and common were 1.a l,c higher
Sheep and LambS.-Thrrc has been compare.
lively q light run OF Sheep and Lambs this week
and with demand that took up over 2OOO for
Philadelphia and New York. trade was active and
stock mostly closed out: an early hour There
was good demand on the Part of home butchers
The quality of the offerings Vas not as good as il
was last week. We quote Sheep ut 3aJl, cents
and Lambs at la7 a cents per ID gross. Recent,
this week 4101 head
Hoss.-There is slight increase i'm the nuu
beers over last week, but the quality averages about
the same as it did then. Trade is only fair at IN.
advanced prices over last week We quote very
common Hogs at 1Os,a11k4 cts, and the better
grades IL t2a11I! cents, with few extra n II
cents per Id net Receipts this week 1877 head
MARINE NEWS
PORT OF ALEXANDRIA, JULY II, 1ss2.
Sun rises............ 4 AS Sun sets %
ARRIVED
Str T Arrowsmith, lower Potomac, to Polo.
mac Ferry Co.
Stmp Louisa, Philada by A Reed & Co.
Str George Leary, Norfolk, by Hooe.
Str Mattano, lower Potomac. by Lannon.
ARRIVED AT WASHINGTON.
Schrs Bengal, lumber Norfolk, Va: Mount
lin, and S Hudson, ice Kennebec.
MEMORANDA
Schr Maria Pierson, from Richmond at Nrw
York 10th "' ''"
Schr John McGuincss from Richmond FIR
Stanford passed through He'll Gate 10th.
ochr Ida Kennedy, from Portland TO load for
Richmond, at Bath 7th.
Schr South Shore, sailed from Bath for thi, port
18th. A'''' WI '"'' i'''
schr Jesse Hart, 3D. from South Gardiner. for
richmond at Vineyard Haven 9th.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-04-15
The Ares Before Ice,

What was done before ice came into
use. In Oriental countries the devices
were few and simple. A low tempera-
t,lre was attained by the evaporation of
water through porous jars, the articles
to be cooled being placed inside. The
waters of deep wells were eagerly sought
for, and are to-day as much in demand
as they were in the time of Christ. Aside
from these, there is but little comfort in
tropical countries where ice is yet un-
known; and the pious Mussulman resigns
himself to fate with much more philoso-
ply than n Christian shows under the
same circumstances Here, even at the
present day, in many parts of the coun-
try, the customs Of our forefathors are
followed. Articles to be preserved are
suspended half way down the wells, or
cellars are dug deep enough, with the
aid Of thick stone walls, to defy the heat.
When once mountain stream can be
diverted to supply the house and dairy,
ice can be dispensed with; but at the
present time, the large cities would be
almost as deserted and panic-strickcn,
should ice disappear, as they would with
failure of water. Ice is the glory Of
the summer; it Is January pitted against
July; an equilibrium of nature establish
ed by the genius, labor and foresight Of
man.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-04-15
Poisonous Scans,

Mothers and nurses cannot be too
careful about the soaps they use on the
little ones. Few but physicians know
how many of the so-callcd skin diseases
among children are caused blythe use of
adulterated soap. An analysis of several
cakes of the pretty and perfumed toilet
soaps that are sold on the streets showed
the presence of soluble glass, ground
glass, slick, pipe clay, rotten stone, boz
rax, plaster OF Paris, tin crystal, magne-
sin, pumice stone, oat meal and other
substances, which are added TO give the
soap weight, hardness, toughncss or
clearness. The common colorings are
vermilion. Venetian red and carminc,
ultramarino green, pot-pigmcnt green;
coppcras, Spanish brown, ultramarino
blues, yellow and scarlet anilnoc and
burnt lumber. Many of the pertaining
ingredients, though harmless in them.
selves, become chemically poisonous by
admiXture. Adding the dangers from
all these TO the rancid, diseased putrid
qualities of the grease used, and mothers
may well be appalled, ut the permanent
evils these neat looking, dclicately scent.
ed blocks Of toilet soap contain, ready
TO be released whenever mostcned and
applied 70 tho baby's body.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-04-15
Entertaining her Bis SISTERS Beau,


my sistcrll be down In a minute, and says
you're 20 wait n you please;
And says might stay I'LL she came, dprom-
iso her never 10 tease,
Nor speak I'LL you spokcio me nrst bnl thht .
nonsense. for how wonld you know
What she told me 10 say, II didnr Dontyou
really aud truly think soY
and then you'd feel strange here nlone And
you wouldn't know just where TO SIT;
For that chair isn't strong on its legs, ana we
never use II bit.
We keep II TO match with tho sofa But Jack
says II would be like YOU
To fiop yourself right down upon Il and knock
out the very last screw.
"s'pose you try' Iwont tell You're afraid
TO.
oil you're afraid they would think 1t was
mean,
WEI. then there's the album--thats pretty, IL
your fingers are clean.
For sister says sometimes daub II; but she
only says that when she's cross.
There's her picture. You know IL, It's like
her. But she amt as good-looking, of
course!
"This is me. It's the best of email Now, tell
me, you'd never have thought
That once | was little az Tint? It's the only ono
that could be bought
For that was the message 10 pa, from the pho
t0graph man where sat
That he wouldn't print of any more till he got
his money for that.
'What? Maybe yon'l @ tired OF waiting. Why
often she's longer than this
There's all her back hair TO doup and all Of her
front curls To fril,
but it's nice to be sitting here talking like
grown people just you and me-
DO you think you'Il he coming here often? On,
dol But don't come like Tom Lee.
''Tom Lee. Her last beau. Why, my good
ness! he used to DO hero day and night,
Till the folks thought he'd be her husband;
and Jack says that gave him fright.
You won't run away, then, rs he did2foryoure
not rich man, they say;
Pa says you are poor rs n church mouse. Now,
are you? And how poor are they2
"Ain't you glad that you mot me? Well, l nm
for | know now your hair isn't red
But what there is left OF it's mousy, and not
what that naughty Jack said.
But there! must GO Sisters coming; but
wish could wait, Just 90 500
II she ran up TO you and she kissed you in the
way that she used to kiss Lee"
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-04-15
Pain Cannot STAY Where
1t Is Used.

Ia cured by
THOMAS electric OIL.
lame back Of eight years standing was positive
ly cured by 80 cents worth of
TAoMAS ECLECTRIC OIL
Common sore throat Ia cured with one dose Of
THOMAS ECLECTRlC OIL.
Coughs ard colds are cured by
THOMAS ECLKCTRIC OIL.
All throat and lung diseases are cured by
THOMAS RCLECTRIC OIL.
Asthma Is cured by
THOMAS ECLECTRIC OIL.
Burns and frost bites are relieved at once by
THOMAS ECLECTRIC OIL.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-04-15

ChOlCfh az slphleu.
Ship fever prevented by
ila use.
In cases of death In the
house, II should al.
ways be used about
the ccrpsc-it will
preveut any unpless.
ant smell. An anti.
doto for amir al or veg.
etable poisons, stlngs,
&c.
Dangerous efilnvias Of
eick rooms and hospit.
als removed by its use
Yellow fever eradicatcd.