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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-09-09
AGRICULTURAL.
JAARNIERS' GOODS.

4 EN"''"'' ~
SHEEP DIP, highly concentrated iinld Tor
washing Sheep and Lambs. One gallon Is sun
Gent for about one hundred Sheep; also used for
Washing Cattle Horses and other domestic animals
SULPHlTE OF CALCIUM for preserving cider
by arresting fermentation.
MACHINE OIL of various grades from Sperm
and Lard to the dark Lubricatug Petroleum.
READY MINED PAINTS Of all shades and o1
yarious uualitics also a new Paint Oil 10 he used
alone with earth paints for roofs barns, fences &c
Improved and Perfected Butter Colot, Window
Glass, Putty, &c. ,,,,,,
nngo6 E.S. LEADBEATEE & RRO.
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FERTILIZERS.

BRUNNER's FINE GROUND RAW BONE,
guaranteed pure.
BELLE HAVEN PHOSPHATE, 4 frst.class
Ammoniated Phosphate. >-,
DISSOLVED SOUTH CAROLINA rlOs-
PHATE, guaranteed equal to any i'll the market
We confidently offer the above sooiS To INC
Farmer beiuq assured that no better Fertilizers
are offered For sale low by
JAMESON & COCHRAN,
.uoo0-5tf 60 Cameron street.
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GRANTS SOUTHERN GRAIN CRADLES!
(y Rhoad's Celebrated Hay Rakes, English Grass
and Grain Scythes, and other goods in the same
10 Alexandria Va.
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Herbert Bryant,
NO. 25 KING STREET

NO 25 KING STREET,
Offers the CHAMPION BINDERS, SINGLE
REApERs, COMBINED DROPPERS and SIN
GLE MOWERS.
THOMAS HAY RAKES
MUDGETT HAY TEDDERS.
A full stock of REPAIRS, BINDER TWlNE,
SC, &c.
GRAIN CRADLES, GRASS SCYTHES, Sc., &c.
MALTA DOUBLE and SINGLE SHOVEL
PLOWS, MALTA WALKING CULTlVATORS,
IRON AGE CULTIVATCRS, the GlLFlN
SULKY PLOW.
WEBSTER FARM WAGONS for one two,
three and four horses. my9
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We beg to announce to our friends and custom
ers that our Buyer has been in New York during
the past week in attendance at the Assignecs
Great Auction Sale of Halstead, Haines & Co, fol
many years one Of the largest importing houses
in New York city, through Wlmcrding, Hoguct
& Co., Auctioncers.
Our purchases are now being packed for ship
meut, and will soon be placed on sale.
We shall also be in attendance on the conclud-
ing days of the sale and shall then announce in
detail the many bargains as fast as they are de-
livercd to us.
We have opened an elegant assortment of
G.I LADIES CLOTHS.
GILBERT'S STITiNGS.
DOMESTIC TRICOTS,
AMAZON CLOTHS and
FRENCH TRICOTS.
At considerably lower price than last scason.
We offer 100 dozen LADIES PURE LINEN
CAMBRIC HANDKERCHIEFs, HEMSTITCH-
ED. FANCY PRINTED BORDERS y. INCH
HEN, ONLY &c each or 6 for 50c
Guaranteeing these al-lincn rs VIC do, VIC feel
justified in calling attention TO them as cxlraor-
dinary value.
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arriages! Carriages !

OOOCH pEERI ,ESS ICE CREAM FREEZER,
II the hest in the market and lowest price.
Takes half the usual amount of ice ard always
gives perfect satisfaction. For sale at 81 King
corner of Royal streets by
;uT j l.. CRElGH1ON & SUN.
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EDw'D D. S. LEADBEATER. THOs LEADBEATEH.
u S. LEADBEATER & Bro

/
u s. LEADBEATER & BRO,
Nos. and 8. Fairfax st.,
Established 1892,
DEALERS IN
PURE DRUGS and MEDICINES, CHEMICALS,
| CINES. GARDEN SEEDS, SPICES,
AGRICULTURAL CHEMICALS,
FINE TOILET GOODS, &c.
Proprietors of Anodyne Pectoral, Lubricating
Linimcnt. Essence Jamaica Ginger and Cough
Syrup: and Agents fol Ayers Medicines, Ready
mixed and Tinted Gloss Paints, SC.
| Every effort will be made to maintain the high
| reputation Of our old establishment. mv3
i A. WAKEFIELD,
| ~. Successor to Janney & Co..
DEALER
DRUGS. PAINTS, OILS. GARDEN SEED,
WINDOW GLASS, SPICES,
Acids, Dye Stufs and Druggists Sundries.
Physicians prescriptions carefully compounded.
Orders aid Inquiries from the country promptly
NEW BUILDING,
scp1 No. 1872 King street.
SUMMERS & ALLEN
DRUGGISTS.
y. w. corner King and Royal streets;
DEALERS IN DRUGS, PATENT MEDICINES,
CHEMICALS, PERFUMERY,
BRUSHES, &C., &c.
| BOT'rLEtsS OF SODA WATER, SARSAPARlLLA
AND GINGER ALE.
Prescriptions carefully compounded. oct23
John T COLE & co.
Successors OF john Y. Gibson & Co..
No. 2O9 King ST. ALEXANDRIA. VA,
Peabody Building)
Dealers in
DRJ&'. MEDICINES. CHEMICALS, TOILET
ARTICLES, PERFUMERY, &c
Prescriptions carefully compounded. ap4
SAMUEL II. LUST,
DRUGGIST,
CORNER KING AND FAIRFAX STREETS,
Dealer r
DRUGS, CHEMICALS,
FANCY and TOILET ARTICLES,
PERFUMERY, BRUSH rs, SC, &C.
Physicians prescriptions carefully prepared ut
.ll hours, day and night. ap4
NJ +. CREIGHTON,
Wholesale and Retail Dealer ia
DRUGS, CHEMICALS, PAINTS PATENT
MEDICINES, OILS DYE STUFFS.
GARDEN SEEDS &C.. sc.
No. 50 King street. under Sarcpts HAIL.
ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA.
Physicians Prescriptions carefully compounded
Orders will receive prompt attention.
mh2t-,f
IOHN y. III. LUNT,
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DIR. Potter Thrashes Two
Cowboys.
From the Troy Telee ram

The Hon. James M. Woolworth,
Chancellor Of the Episcopal do
cese Of Nebraska, relates an inter
esting sequel to the modern MAJ
eppa romance published in the
Globe Democrats Omaha de-
spatches about June II. Presi-
dent Potter, of Hobart College,
who had just been elected bishop
of Nebraska, was making a tour of
the cattle country in August, in
company with Woolworth. At
Paxton Branch, on the Ogallala
Land at Cattle Company's range,
they heard that Wilson, the man
who tied Burbank on the broncho's
back and turned him adrift on the
prairies had been caught, and was
held prisoner at Blue Greek ranch,
sixty miles distant. Bishop Pot
ter drove over there the next day,
and learned that Wilson was to be
killed at shutdown. The bishop
implored the two cowboys who
were guarding the prisoner to re-
lease him, but they were relent-
less. After pleading and praying
with them for long time DR.. Pot
ter concluded they were past such
influence, and wound up by giving
them both a thrashing. This done,
he unbound Wilson, who straddled
pony and escaped The affair
made the bishop a hero among the
ranchmen, and he was induced to
write a detailed account of the
rescue to his friends in the East.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1884-10-11
A Way to Grow Wise.

After reading a book, or an ar
ticle, or an item of information
from any reliable source, before
turning your attention to other
things give two or three minutes
quiet thought to the subject that
has just been presented to your
mind; see how much you can re-
member concerning it; if there
were any new ideas, instructive
facts, or points of especial interest
that impressed you as you read,
force yourself to recall them. It
may be little troublesome at first
until your mind gets under con
troll and learns to obey your will,
but the very effort to think it all
out will engrave the facts deeply
upon the memory, SO deeply that
they will not be effaced by the
rushing in of a new and different
set of ideas; whereas, if the matter
be given no further consideration
at all, the impression you have re-
ceived will fade away SO entirely
that within few weeks you will
be totally unable to remember
more than a dim outline of them.
Form the good habit, then, of
always reviewing what has just
been read. It exercises and dis
ciplines the mental faculties,
strengthens the memory, and
teaches concentration of thought.
You will soon learn, in this way,
to think and reason intelligently,
to separate and classify different
kinds of information; and, in time,
the mind, instead of being a lum-
Der room, in which the varions
contents are thrown together in
careless confusion and disorder,
will become a store house where
each special class or item of know
ledge, neatly labelled, has it's own
particular place and is ready for
use the instant there is need of it.
martha Holmes Bates, in St.
Nicholas.
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Davenport News.

Samuel Mitchell hunted for one
of his own COWS for several hours
in a drenching rain, but suddenly
recollected that three weeks ago
he had sold her.
Farmer Mitchell was "away Off,
without doubt, vet he was hardly
as bad MS the Marlborough man,
who, on going home the other
night, put his wet umbrella in bed
and then went and stood all night
in the hall rack.
II was the late Charles Lamb,
the humorist, who, in fit of ab.
sent-mindedness, knocked at his
own door one day and asked for
"Mr. Lamb Not being recog-
nized and on being told that Mr.,
Lamb was out, he said, "Well, I'll
call again.
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Long Lived.

The longest lived fruit tree
known is the orange. It is report
ed to have attained the age of
three hundred years, and it is
known to have flourished aud
borne fruit for more than hun
dred years. No fruit tree will
flourish and produce a fruit SO
well under rough treatment. 1t
commences to bear the third or
fourth year after budding, and by
the fifth year it will produce an
abundant crop, but it's yield will
increase gradually under favorable
circumstances; as the years pass
it will become a very productive
tree. The early growth of the
orange is quite rapid, and by its
tenth year it will have increased
more than in the next fifty years,
SO far as breadth and heighth are
concerned, but it's age multiplies
its fruits stem greatly, and an old
tree will sometimes have several
thousand oranges.
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The Prairie Farmer we'll says
that if person would reach the
very best and highest success in
horticulture, he must love trees
and plants. Must love to look at
them, to walk among them and to
visit them as friends and compan-
ions. To inquire into their wants
and requirements, and to admin
lister to their wants as living things.
If a man loves tree for it's beauty,
for it's shade, for its fruit, and for
it's company, and loves to study
varieties of fruits and habits of
plants and trees, then he has the
first rudimentary qualifications OF
a tree and fruit raiser. and many
enter upon his work with positive
assurance of success. Such a
man will soon learn to do his own
observing.
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A QUEENS OPINIoN.-What a
peculiar feeling is experienced by
Americans the first time they gaze
upon royalty. Here, in this free
country, where every citizen is a
king and every mother queen, a
peep at royalty or titled princes and
potentates does not come very often.
Morbid curiosity often leads our Cit
liens to act in a manner unbecom-
ing their high estate. PERUNA is
fast making its way throughout the
land and is becoming known. Ev-
erywhere that it is used by the sick
and afflicted, it makes wonderful
cures, and is given all the praise for
its good work.
J. M. Green writes from Johns
town, w. Va, that he has been
sorely afflicted for several years, but
he was urged to try PERUNA, which
he did, and he now feels that he is
about over his trouble, and consid-
ers it the greatest medicine in the
world. He says he has to go or send
a distance of fifteen miles to obtain
PERUNA, but it will repay him for
this. Ask for it at the nearest drug
store.
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To Keep Tomatoes for Win
ter.


A winter correspondent sends
the Rural New Yorker the follow
ing: GAS tomatoe season is here
/ can contribute one way of
keeping them for winter use that
may be new to some Of your
readers. l ate them in February,
sliced and seasoned with sugar
and a little vinegar, that seemed
every way as nice as tomatoes
flesh from the vines. Dissolve a
teacupfull of salt in a gallon of
water, pick ripe tomatoes, but
not over ripe, leaving a little of
the stem on, the tomatoes must
be kept well covered with the
brine, and they will keep to
spring or longer.
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A Babe in the Woods.
Philadelphia Press.

Phlladelphla Press.
The village of Leesburg, Va,
was recently greatly excited over
the inhuman conduct of a man
and wife, in burying alive their
2-months' old child and leaving ii
to die of hunger and exposure
The discovery of the baby after it
had been entombed apparently
for several days, prevented the &C
complishment of the parents pur
pose. The discovery was made
by Joshua Lynn, a farmer, who
while clearing briars away from a
portion of a field heard the faint
cries ola child from a bit of woods,
close at hand. He proceeded to
the spot, and in a rocky piece of
ground found the child entombed
in q cavity of the rock. A bed OF
leaves had been made for it in a
hole betweentwo large stones, and
rocks had been piled around it in
such manner as to cover the
child without touching it. The
entire pile was covered with leaves.
The child was fearfully emaciated
from want Of nourishment and will
die. Footprints of a man and
woman were seen near the grave.
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How to Cook Water.

must tell you the old story of
how the late Charles Delmonico
used to talk about the new hot
water cure. He said the Delmon-
icos were first to recommend tito
guests who complained of having
no appetite. "Take a cup of hot
water and the lemon juice in it
will take away theinsipidity." For
this anti-bilous remedy the cater
ers charged the price Of a drink
Of their best liquors-twenty-fiv
cents or more-and it certainly
was wiser way to spend small
change than in alcohol. Sew
people know how to cook water"
Charles used to affirm. "The Sc
cret is in putting good, fresh wa
ter into q neat kettle, already quite
warm, and setting the water to
boiling quickly and then taking it
right off to use in tea, coffee or
other drinks, before it is spoiled
To let it steam and simmer and
evaporate until the good water is
all in the atmosphere and the
lime and iron and dregs only left
in the kettle-bah! that is what
makes great many people sick,
and is worse that no water at
ALL" Every lady who reads this
valuable recipe Of great and
careful cook should never forget
how to cook water.
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XIII The Late Weeds

The fight with the weeds in the
cornfeld should not stop with the
cultivator.
We have frequently seen farm
ers strive manfully against the
pests until midsummer, and then,
through negligence, subject them
selves to annoyance through the
next season. Some weeds have a
limited season of growth, and if
kept rooted out until midsummer,
will rarely come up again; others
continue growing until severe
frosts come. An old Illinois farm
or said a cockleburr would come up
in the morning grow until four,
in the afternoon. and mature seeds
before the frost could kill it that
night. This is All exaggeration,
yet the cockleburr must be fought
until there are heavy frosts. The
velvet loaf Unison, and rag-weeds,
will commence growth almost as
late. Weeds are very prolific, and
an occasional one gone to seed in
the cornfield, will insure good
crop the next season. Corn
should not be cultivated after it is
tasseled, but the weeds can be cut
out without disturbing the soil.
For the purpose we have seen a
short scythe used, but we much
prefer q sharpedge.- american
A griculturalist for August.
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SOME PLAIN FACTS FOR YOUNG MEN
AND WOMEN.
Our young women are cautioned
against marrying dissipated young
men; but, with equal, if not great
er propriety, may not young men
be cautioned against marrying idle
and extravagant young women p
for great many unhappy mar
riages are the result of the latter
as we'll as the former.
Foolish mothers think they act
affectionately by indulging their
daughters in their fondness in the
giddy pleasures of life, and allow
ing them to contract habits of in
dolence, not dreaming that they
are, therefore, untitled for the
stern realities of life which must
surely await them.
Let them marry wealth or pow
erty, they will be unable to sup
pOIb Gltu6I CUuuiblOu.
Let them remain single, and life
will become more and more burd-
ensome as it advances.
But once married wait, husband,
before you wonder audibly why
your wife don't get along with the
household responsibilities s'as your
mother did"
She is doing her best, and no
woman can endure that best to be
sighted.
Remember the long weary nights
she sat up with the little babe that
died.
Remember the love and care she
bestowed upon you when you had
that long fit of illness.
Do you think she is made. OF
cast iron
Wait-wait in silence and for
bearance, and the light will come
back to her eyes-the old light of
the old days.
Wait, wife, before you speak re-
proachfully to your husband when
he comes late and weary, and "out
of sorts"
He has worked hard for you all
day-perhaps far into the night.
He has wrestled hand in hand
with care, selfshness and greed and
all the demons that follow in the
train of money-making.
Let home be another atmos-
phere entirely.
Let him see that there is no
other place in the world where he
can find the peace, the quiet and
perfect love of life.
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To Farmers and Their
Wives.

Don't forget the root cellar. A
large one well stocked is the best
investment for the money and
work that can be made on farm.
1t has been the standby Of the
forehanded and thrifty husband
man for forty centuries. There's
nothing like it.
At the first intimation of frost,
all unripe melons, squashes, ETC.,
should be devoted to the pigs.
They should be thrown into the
hog lot in as great quantities as
the porkers will clean up, and in
conjunction with the new corn
will make growth and fat in the
most rapid manner.
Continue to cut and shock the
green corn. We have no hesiten-
cy in saying that more and bet
ter COW feed can be made in this
way than putting up hay for the
same amount of work. Those
farmers who have never tried it
and who are not afraid of little
muscular exertion, are earnestly
urged to give it an experiment.
The housewife should now see
to it that the head of the family
puts the cellar in apple pie order,
and puts into it bountiful sup
ply Of cabbages, pumpkins, pota-
toes, squashes, turnips, beets and
other vegetables that enter so
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Thought is deeper than all speech;
Feeling deeper than all thought;
Soul to soul can never teach
What unto themselves was taught.
christopher p. Cranch.
Yet / doubt not thro' the ages one in
creasing purpose runs,
And the thoughts of men are widen'd
with the process of the sun.
-Tennyson.
The more we live, more brief appears
Our life's succeeding stages;
A day to childhood seems year,
And years like passing ages.
Campbell.
No! no arresting the vast wheel OF
time,
That round and round still turns with
onward might,
Stern, dragging thousands to the dread
ed night
OF an unknown hereafter.
Charles Cowden Clarke.
To-morrow's fate, though thou be wise
Thou can'st not tell nor yet surmise;
Pass, therefore, not to-day in vain,
For it will never come again,
Omar Khayyam.
Old Time, in whose bank we deposit
our notes,
Is miser who always wants guineas
for greats;
He keeps all his customers still in ar
rearS,
BY lending them minutes and charging
them years. Holmes.
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Fruit Eating.

It is curious, says an exchange,
how few know the benefit of fruit
at breakfast time. A saucer of
berries, an orange or banana, pear
or apple at six in the morning,
will make the sky look brighter
and fill the world with sunshine
even on cloudy days; and yet many
people never think of fruit eating
in the morning.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1884-10-11

- liz AuihbSi VI hiNSHItttt~ thko
have been made during the past
fifty years is unprecedented IN the
history of the world. Inventions
of benefit to the human race have
been made in all ages since man
was created; but looking back for
half a hundred years, how many
more are crowded into the past
fifty than into any other fifty
since recorded in history. The
perfection OF the locomotive, and
the now world traversing steam
ships, the telegraph, the tele-
phone, the audiphone, the sewing
machine, the photograph, the cyl
inder printing press, chrome lith-
ograph printing press, the eleva-
tor for hotels and other many
stored buildings, the reaper, the
cotton gin and the spinning jen-
ny, the mower, the steam thresh-
er, the steam fire-engine, the i'm
proved process for making steel,
the application of ether and chic
reform to destroy sensibility in
painful surgery cases, and so on
through a long catalogue. Nor
are we yet done in the field of in
vention and discovery. The APP
plication of coal gas and petro-
lcum to heating and cooking oper-
ations only trembling on the verge
of successful experiment; the in
PRODUCTION Of the steam from q
great central reservoir to general
use for heating and cooking is
forshadowed as among the COM
ing events the artificial produce
ton of butter has already Great
ed a CONSERVATION among dairy
men; the navigation of the air by
some device akin to our present
balloon would also seem to be
prefigured, and the propulsion of
machinery by electricity is now
clearly indicated by the march of
experiment. There are some prob
lens which we have hitherto
deemed impossible Of solution, but
are the mysteries of ever the most
improbable of them more subtle
to grasp than that of the ocean
cable or that of the photograph
or the telephone? We talk by
cable with the ocean rolling be-
tween; we speak in our voices to
friends a hundred miles or more
from where we articulate before
the microphone. Under the blaz-
ing sun Of July we produce ice by
chemical means, rivaling the most
solid and crystalline productions
of nature. Our surgeons graft
the skin from one persons arm to
the face of another, and it adj
heres and becomes an intregal
portion of his body. We make a
mile of white printing paper and
send it on spool that perfect
ing printing press unwinds and
prints, and delivers to you fold
ed and counted, many thousands
per hour. OF a verify, this is the
age Of invention, nor has the
world reached a stopping-place
yet.
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ImlpOrtamf.

When you visi or leave New York
City, save baggaAs expressage and car
riage hire and stop at the Grand Union
Hotel, opposite Grand Central Depot. FL
egant rooms fitted up at cost of one
million dollars, reduced to ST. and up
wards FER day. European plan. Eleva-
tor. Restaurant supplied with the hest
Horse cars, stages and elevated railroad
to ali depots Families can live for less
money at the Grand Hotel than at any
other 6rst-class hotel in the city
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Shear Nonsense.
A woMAN's NAY.

wOMAN's. NAY.
No, Impudenee, you shan't have one,
How many times must Irefuse :
Away
| say
Or else you'll surely my friendship
lose.
/ cannot bear such forward fun,
So, quick, begone. II not, III run !
Why. now I'll have to be severe
No, not kiss to you I'll give
Take care
swear
I'll tell papa sure as live!
| never saw man so queer.
But are you certain no ones nears
sporting World.
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largely and kindly into plentiful
and economical living. The man
who fails to provide vegetables
for his own household is worse
than an infidel.
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Lie.
"Why," he pleaded, "our very
circumstances bind us together;
our similar tastes, our friendship,
long acquaintance
EYES," she replied, seyen age
could bind us together"
"What age, dearest ~ he asked.
IN u ilage,' she answered,
gloomy.
A minute later, as he paste up
and down the room alone. he real
lied that his failure was gumplete.
She neglects her heart who
studies her glass.