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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-03-17

In AN article in late number of British
periodical, Sir Lepel Griffin, who has re-
Gently been travelling in this country, ex-
presses pretty much the same opinion OF
the negroes that Governor Cameron did
before be succunbed to the influence OF
General Malone, which he had previously
truthfully described as ''malign." Sir Lepel
says:
without referring to the multiplied re-
searches Of the anthropologlcal society on
the capacity of the African races, it may
generally be asserted that the negro is as
lit for the franchise as the monkey he
closely resembles He has one or two good
qualities and many bad ones. He makes a
very. good waiter if in firm hands, but is
usually spoilt by American familiarity which
in his small mind breeds contempt, so that
the head waiter at restaurant gives
himself more airs than an English duke.
For any occupation requiring higher intel
lectuaI powers than blaCking boots or waiting
at table the vast majority of negroes are unit.
Since the war they have largely increased,
and now number some six millions OF un-
educated and uninprovable persons, as use
less for the purpose of civilization as If they
were still wandering naked through the
Jungle. Slavery is an accursed thing, but it
is rather as degrading the higher race o.!
shareholders than brutalizing the slaves that
it must be condemned"
The Governor, it will be remembered
said the negroes as citizens are failures, and
that they are only lit competitors with mon
keys for chestuuis Mr.. Wise, too, says he
receives them in his kitchen, aud that be
could not treat them otherwise than as he does
and maintain his social position in Virgin.
ia. The way the negroes continue to sup
port these high priests of MahoneiSm goes
no little way toward sustaining what Sir
i.epel BAYS Of them.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-03-17

Mr.. SPEAKER CARLISLE, in his speech at
the annual dinner of the Free Trade Club
of New York, last Saturday night, took the
plain, common sense view Of the tariff ques-
ton when he reasoned upon the ground
that if free trade between the different
States of the Union has resulted advantage
ously, as every body comedies it has, to all
those States. there is every thing to prove
that it should, aud nothing to prove that it
should not, increase the prosperity of the
Uaion if extended to the States of the Do
minion, or of Mexico, or to States across the
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-03-17
PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS TO-DAY


The Chair laid before the Senate a COM
muuication from the Secretary of the Treas
ury transmitting list of employees of the
Treasury Department.
Also communication from the Secretary
of the Interior transmitting information re-
latiug to the unauthorized fencing of public
lands.
A number Of petitions aud memorials
were presented and appropriately referred.
HOUSE.
Mr. Henley, of CAL, offered resolution
authorizing an investigation into the cir
cumstances attendant on the making of the
lease, dated August 3rd, 1870, by the U. IS. to
the Alaska Commercial Company also as to
the duties of that company to the United
States under the lease, and the power of
Congress 10 terminate the lease, which was
referred.
Mr.. Connolly, Of Pennsylvania. offered a
resolution of enquiry as to the manner of
constructing public buildings which was
referred.
Under the call of States, o number of bills,
ETC., were introduced and referred.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-03-17

The Manhattan Magazine for April has been re-
ceved from its publishers in New York. Among
Romauce; Literature and Science, by Matthew
Arnold; Rotbenburg in Bavaria; An Easter Egg
Ell Maidi to the Tribes Of the Soudau Recent
Tendencies in American Journalism, by E. V.
Smalley; One View of the Chaucerian Mania
Jasper Francis Cropsey, artist; Thinking Gym
balls Recent Literature, Town Talk, and szlma-
gundi.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-03-17
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THE PoCAHONTAs SUFFERERS.
fspecial dispatch TO the Alexandria GAZETTE

Especial Dispatch 70 tue IsNkluIIH UhIHttI'7
RICHMOND, Va, March 1.-THE House
of Delegates to-day passed the resolution
appropriatiug twenty-five hundred dollars
to the victims of the Pocahontas mine disas'
ter. The resolution failed to pass the Sen
ate, lacking FIVE votes of receiving the con-
stitulional vote In that body Messrs. Berry
and Gascoc, democrats, opposed the pas
sage of the bill on strictly constitutional
grounds.
Mr.. Newberry took strong grounds in ia
vor of the bill, which will come up again
tomorrow or vote to reconsider.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-03-17

At one OF the fashionable New York hotels
a magni6cently dressed and radiantly
healthy lady came down to the first table
with eleven Of her children, leaving the re-
naming eight younger ones to be brought
10 the second table by three nurses.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-03-17

The Atlantic Magazine for april has been re-
ceived from it, publishers, Houghton. Miifin &
Co., Boston. Among its contents are: Drifting
Down Lost Creek, Presidential Nominations, A
Roman Singer, The Red Sunsets, In War Time,
Night in New York, Madam de Longuevllc The
Return of Native, En- Province, Phillada and
Gordon, Annina, The Champs Elysees, General
Beauregard, Julians Political Recollectiors, Ee-
cent Travel, The Latest of THE Virgnians." The
Contributors Club. and Books of the Month
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-03-17
ADVICE TO MOTHERS.

MRs. WINsLow's SOOTHING SYRUP should al
ways be used when children are cutting teeth
1t relieves the little sufferer at once it produces
natural, quiet sleep by relieving the child from
pain. and the little cherub awakes "as bright as
button" 1t is very pleasant to taste. 1t sopthes
the child, softens the gums, allays all pain, re-
lievcs wind, regulates the bswels and is the best
known remedy for diarrhea. whether arising
from :eethng OF other causes. Twenty-Five cents 8
battle, ny4M,W&S
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-03-17

y NEGRO politician of Lynchburg says his
race will support Mr. John Wise, notwith.
standing the latter's assertion that he re-
ceives in his kitchen the negro legislators
who call upon him. Wr. Wise has been
selected as the judge of the dog show to be
held in Washington. If he be as good q
Judge of dogs as he is of negroes his awards
will be entirely satisfactory.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-03-17

On January II, 1867, Christina Kett, a
girl of IS years, was murdered at home in
Dayton, o., and no clue was ever discover
ed to the murderer. Saturday, her brother,
on his death bed, stated that his mother had
killed the girl, crushing in her skull with an
axe handle. The mother smeared the girl
face With gunpowder and successfully con-
c.aled her crime She died several years
afterwards.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-03-17

The North american Rerieu for April has been
received from its publishers in New York. It's
contents are: The Decline of American Shipping,
by N. Dingley jr., NJ. c. and John Goldman How
Shall Our Civilization be Preserved? BY Judge ].
A. jameson The Development of Religious
Freedom, by Rev. DR.. Philip schsf; Changes in
the Climate of North America, by Dr. Felix L.
Oswald A plea for Modern Languages, by Prof.
c. A. Eggert; Literature for Children, by Julian
Hawthorne, End Recent Criticisms of the Bible,
by Rev. A. G. Mortimer and Rev. DR.. R. H. Newton.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-03-17

"Why did you put that nickel With hole
in it in the contribution box?" asked ono
man of another. Because l couldn't put
the hole in without the nickel, and had to
put in something"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-03-17
MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL

New YORK, March II -10:3Oa m.-Tbe ,toct
market opened quiet and steady.
IL q. m.-Stocks opened irregular but strona
Pacific Mail was the feature, advancing from 53s
to $40. The advance in the remainder of ,hs
list was less marked-about 1saSs per cent.
Noon.-Stocks continue strong with Psc;so
Mail as the feature. The stock has sold un %
55hs.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-03-17
ICOMMUNICATED

In thicky settled neighborhood of the First
ward the citizens are greatly annoyed by the
singing and dancing of crowd of youths who
congregate on tho corners. Could the police not
suppress this at least on Sunday nights The po-
lice have frequently been notified, but to no pur-
pose. FIRST WARD
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-03-17

There is no fool like an old fool! Yes there is I.
1t is the young fool who knows every thing aud
persists in Altering with severe cold rather than
take wonderful remedy. DR.. Bulls Cough
Syrup.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-03-17

predicament. o'clock in the morning
sleet on the side baby got the Group. and
no DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup in the house.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-03-17

PHILADELPHIA CATTLE MARKET March. IL
Cattle.-Receipts 27OO; market dull; prime "a
IA good 6i9a6%s medium 524a64 common
4ha5i2. sheep.-Receipts 10000; marke. dull;
prime 6laa6&i; good 6a6A medium 5s5s..
common 4iha4a. Lambs 4taa5. Hogs.-Re
ceipts 5000: market dull Western 10alCai
country Sa1O.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-03-17
DIED..

On the 18th inst, at $50 o'clock, Mrs. MAR
GARET, widow of the late John l.. Davis Of
Charles county. Nd, but a resident of this city
for thirty years, in the S3d year Of her age.
o. my mother dear, art thou dead?
Hast thy life forever fed2
Hast thou bid adieu to earth?
And all its pleasures-little worth:
The color from thy check has fed
1t hath the paleness of the dead
Quiet and still dost thou lay;
Wake, mother, wake-see It's day
Mother, It's we, who are here
Thy children, to thee ever dear
Oh we call you. but in vain;
Will you never speak to US again?
Farewell, farewell, our mother dear;
Life is sad without thee here
Oh may we meet in heaven above,
Where all is peace and joy and love.
Gs~The funeral services will take place at her
late residence, on Wolfe street, at 5 o'clock this
afternoon. The friends of the family are invited
to attend. Her remains will be taken to Charles
county, Md tomorrow morning at o'clock, for
interment.-tWashin papers please copy.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-03-17
ALEXANDRIA, VA.
MONDAY EVENING, MARCH II.
MEETING OF THE STATE CENTRAL AND
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEES.
HEADQUARTERS DEN. EXE. Con-,
ALEXANDRIA, Va, March

ALEXANDRIA, Va March 3. J
A meeting of the State Central and Executive
Committees is called at this place for thursday
tho goth ms. at u N.
Jso s. BARBOUR Chairman.
H. SHEPHERD, Secretary.
Democratic papers please copy.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-03-17

| The receipts Of Flour have increased and the
demand is fair without change of note in dgures
the dealing is principally in high grades Whest
is in light eipt and there is no material change
in prices since our last report. There is still an
almost total absence OF prime milling grades
among the offerings; low grades, and those out OF
condition may be quoted hard to move at full ag-
ures. Corn is quiet with more liberal offerings.
Rye and Oats are firm and strong Eggs and Pc.
tatocs are in liberal receipt and lower. Butter
is active for choice, while low grades are very
dull Other produce is without change.
BALTIMORE, March Iva. IS defd = do con.
solidated =; do I'd series 40; do past due cou.
pous =; do new 10-4o's 331a do new IS 55s.
Flour steady, with fair jobbing trade demand ;
Howard street and Western super So 75a3 so; do
extra So 75a4 49, do family S. OOa6 90; City
Mills super 81 76a3 so; do extra 50 75a8 25 !: do
Rio Brands So 62a5 SO: Patapsco family ST so:
do superlative patent 81 co. Wheat Southern
quiet and steady; Western lower and dull South.
ern rod 112a1l4 do amber 115s117; No 1 Mary
land 114i4s1141a; No 2 Western winter red spot
1O8a1O Sl4 March 1O71aa1084 April 10STss
1Osi May 10lea11O9s June III As111as. Corn
Southern lower and fairly active; Western low.
er aud neglected at the close; Southern white s.
a6O; do yellow 57a59; Western mixed spot 5Ss
ssh; March 5s asked; April 5sa5sa4 May 59s.
ae0R; June 614a61ss; July 61l2 bid steamer
81 laa55. Oats steady and dull Southern 42a35;
Western white 43a44 do mixed 42a43; Penps
42a45. Rye quiet and steady at 65s70. Hay
firm prime to choice Penna and Maryland LA
SIS. Provisions steady mess Pork. old, SIS; now
$19. Observation-Disclosures and clear rib sides,
packed, Sa1Ol.. Bacon-shoulders Sa. clear
rib sidcs IL; hams 144aa15A Lard, refined.
1OA. Butter steady: Western packed 1922
creamery 25a3S. Eggs higher at 20. Coffee lower
Rio cargoes ordinary to fair 11a12. Sugar quiet
A soft 7l2 Whiskey quiet at 81 19a1 1915
New YORK, March 17.-Stocks strong Money
easy at l 1ea2. Cotton firm uplands II Orleans
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-03-17

New YORK, March 17.-Stocks strong. Money
easy at 1lea2. Cotton firm uplands II Orleans
114. Flour dull. Wheat haasc lower Corn
4a'bc lower
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1884-11-07

of the estate of George Little
deceased.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1884-11-07

People have gone wild over orange
culture, and other land has been
neglected. For this reason improved
farms can be bought here from forty to
one hundred dollars per acre.
If any one is doing well and has
health in Minnesota i should say
better not change for you might do
worse here, but for any one who
desires change on account OF climate
or other reason and is willing to take
things as they are and make the best
of them, l can see nothing to hinder
them from getting comfortable living
even on small capital, and certainly
as to the enjoymenis of life, there is
no comparison. The Minnesota farmer
is the most hurried and hard worked
man that ever saw, and their wives
are equally hard driven. The farmers
here have more leisure than in any
place have ever lived. If any one
has means and wants to enjoy life
know of no better place than southern
California. | fear that so many good
things will make people want to Give
Away"
/ believe that there will be dense
population in this country as its merits
become better known; and yet almost
every one is disappointed when they
first come, everything is so different
from what they expect.
1t is wonderful what u rapid growth
the trees make here. have seen the
Eucalyptus or gum tree seventy or
eighty feet high and Is inches through
and only nine or ten years old. These
trees can be cut down and they sprout
up again as good as ever; they make
good fire wood but must stop. If |
write again. shall be glad to give
tons, and will send circulars referring
to Los Angeles county to all who may
desire. Very truly yours,
r.. CASH.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1884-11-07
Stopped Off 1T Niagara Falls.


A man, seemingly about 60 years OF
age, was telling the people in the wait
ing rooms at the Third street depot
yesterday that he had been East to old
Massachusetts to see his sisters, and
that on the way back he stopped off at
Niagara Falls.
That's place l never saw" re-
marked a woman with poke-bonnet
on.
You didn't! Well, you've missed
the awfullest sight on earth! l was
jest stunned"
What is it likep" she asked.
"Well, there's a river, and the falls,
and lots OF hotels, and several Injuns,
and the bride veil, and land only
knows what else. If my old woman
had a-been along she'd have wilted
right down.
There's water there, l SUPPOSED"
''Oh. heaps of it. 1t pours and thun.
ders and roars and foams and humps
around in the terriblest manner. Yoy
have bit on shirt-button in piece OF
pie, haven't your"
mo. SIR"
''Well. the feeling was about the
same-kinder shivery. Why, the big
gest man that eS'er lived amt half as
big as Niagara Falls! Let him stand
thar and see that ere water tumbling
over them ere rocks and he can't help
but feel what miserable boss fly he
is. You've fallen out o bed haven't
youp"
mo, SIR"
"Well, it's about the same thing, you
wake up and find yourself on the floor,
and you feel as if you had been stealin'
sheep or Robin blind men,"
What portion of the falls did you
most admireP" she asked.
'The water, num-" he promptly re-
piled. "If you'd put 10000 kegs OF
beer on the roof of this building and
set them all running, they couldn't be-
gin with Niagara. It's the terriblest,
appaliingest thing ever patented.
Cost you much?' inquired a gentle
man.
Bout sixty-five cents. It's pooty
tight times, and sixty-five cents don't
grow on every bush, but l amt sorry.
It's sunthin' to talk about for twenty
years to come. There's chap in our
town who used to travel with circus,
but he'll have to take a back seat when
l git home. Flip-foppin' around in a
circus don't begin with Niagara Falls"
so, on the whole, you were pleased,
ehp"
Pleased! Why. was tickled half
to death! tell you, if had one on
my farm wouldn't sell it for no $50
in CASH. I've looked into field whar'
$50 fat hogs was waitin' to be sold for
solid money, but it was no SIGH sight as
the Falls. I've seen barns afire, and
eight hosses runnin' away, and the
Wabash River on tear. but for down.
right appalling grandeur of the terri
blest kind gim me one look at the Falls.
You all orter go thar. You can't hall
appreciate it till you've gazed on the
rumpus. "-Detrost Free Press.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1884-11-07
Continued from iast tceek.)
How Watch Cases are Made.

A plate of SOLID GOLD IA 2-10 karats
fine is soldered on each side of plate of
hard nickel composition metal, and the
three are then passed between polished
steel rollers. From this plate the various
parts ofthe cases-backs, centers, bezels, etc.
are cut and shaped by dies and formers.
The gold is thick enough to admit of all
kinds of chasing, engraving, and engine
turning. The composition metal gives it
needed strength, stiffness and sotidity, while
the ,critten guarantee of the manufacturers
uarranting each case to wear trenty years
proves that it contains all the gold that
can possibly be needed. This guarantee
is given from actual results, as many of
these cases have been worn perfectly smooth
by years of use without wearing through
the gold. Drnuouy, IA. Dec A. 1880
have used one Of your James Boss Gold Watch
Gases for seyentcCu years. bought it secondhand
and know OF its having been used before 1 got it,
but do not know how long. II looks good for ten
years longer. Did not SUSPECT it was filed case
until so informed by jeweer 4 short time since
most cheerfUly rccomucrd your cases to be all
they are represented 10 hc, and more.
o. MCCRAEEV, Dep. Col. I"t. Fer. 81 Dis. Iora.
Send cent stamp Erytane Watch Case FaetOre Phila
dsphia Pa Illustrated Pamphlet showing how
jaime. Has, and Keystone Watch Gases are made.
(To be Contiietted.)
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1884-11-07
A Strange Disease i'm Siberia.

A strange disease is met with in ST.
IBERIA, and is known to the Russians by
the name of Miryachit. The person
affected seems compelled to initiate
anything he hears or sees, and an in
teresting account is given of q steward
who was reduced to perfect state of
misery by his inability to avoid imitat-
ing everything he heard and saw. One
day the captain of the steamer, run
ming up to him. suddenly cIapping his
hands at the same time. accidentally
slipped, and fell hard on the deck,
without having been touched, the stew
ard instantly clapped his hands and
shouted; then. in helpless imitation,
he too fell us hard, and almost pre-
cisely in the same manner and posi-
ton as the captain. This disease has
been meet with in Java, where it is
known as lata In the case OF a female
servant who had the same irresistible
tendency to initiate nor mistress, the
latter, one day ut dessert, Wishing to
exhibit this peculiarly, and catching
the womans eye, suddenly reached
across The table. and selling large
French pluin, made prctcnse to swa.-
low it whole. The woman rushed at
the dish and put Il pam in her mouth,
and after severe choking and semi
asphI Mi, succeeded in swallowing it;
but mex mistress never tried the expert
meat am.in.-LOndOn .Hcdicuk Record
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1884-11-07
Russian Treatment of Women.

''Stenniak" thus writes in TODAY of
women in the Russian prisons: II
must nail to the pillory of European
opinion characteristic example of the
position of women in Siberia. 1t hap
pened to Olga Lioubatoyich, one of
the heroines of the trial of the fifty, ;
at Moscow, where the Socialist propa-
gandists gained to so remarkable an
extent the sympathy of the public.
The 30th of August, 1883, on passing
through Krasnolarsk on the way to
her destination in Eastern Siberia, she
was called before the .Ispravnik'
(Chief of the Police of an arrondisse-
ment, who told her she must exchange
her own clothes for Il convict dress.
But rs she was condemned to transpor-
tation by administrative order, and not
to hard labor, she was entitled to wear
her own clothes. This she tried to ex-
plain to the lspravnik. AT her first
words. however, he became furious,
and insisted that she must not only
change her dress, but do il there and
then in the bureau before everybody.
TO this unheard-of intimation Olga
Lioubatevich answered by catagori-
Cal refusal Then ut sign from the
police officer his subordinates seized
hold of the prisoner in order to undress
her by force. A barbarous struggle
ensued. This crowd of men began to
beat this woman, pull her hair, and
tear off her clothes. So long as she
kept her feet she defended herself as
best she could, but the Chief of Police
by violent kick, felied her TO the
earth. This is how she herself de-
scribes this infamy: 4 fell into kind
of stupor. l remember confusedly
how the heavy boot OF the lspravnik
struck my chest. Some one was pull
ing my hair, another was striking my
face with his fist; the rest We're tearing
off my clothes, and, at Last, naked,
crucified, on the floor, in the presence
of crowd of men, felt all the shame
and horror of woman violated.
Frightened ut their own deed, the
towards fed, and when l recovered
consciousness l saw around me only
my companions, pale as death, while
Fanny Moriness was writing in hysteri-
Cal commissions
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1884-11-07

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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1884-11-07

How can watch-no matter how
costly-be expected to run when the
handspring won't operate? How can
anyone be well when his stomach, liver
or kidneys are out of order? OF course
you say Gle cannot" Yet thousands
of people drag along miserably in that
condition; not sick abed, but not able
to work with comfort and energy.
How foolish when bottle or two Of
Parker's Tonic would set them all
right. Try it and get back your health
and spirits.