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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-04-10

January ...................225 31S.
February ...................."4.Si "a.
March to 10Th ...............5.53 200.
Let US see the weight of rain in actual fig
ures. Assuming the rainfall at any point
to be forty inches per annum, what quant-
ty in tons will be received by each acre
An acre is 1910 square yards multiply this
by 1896, the number of square inches in a
square yard, and we obtain 6,272, $40 IS the
number of square inches to the acre. Rain
falling to the depth of one inch thus gives
6,272, $40 cubic inches of water per acre, and
years rain, 30 inches, gives 250,905, 500
cubic inches per acre. The weight of LIPS
cubic inches Ia cubic FOOT of water being 621
pounds, we find the weight of $50 905. 800
cubic inches to be 9,0S07 $50 pounds or 1910
tons to the acre.
An intelligent writer on the physical phe-
nomena of the past year, draws the follow
ing conclusion THE ultimate effects upon
the earth Of increased thermal radiation
from the sun land that body has been very
active of late) must necessarily be an exces.
sive evaporation from all water surfaces, with
an excess of moisture in all the winds reach
ing US from the tropics, which cannot but
temper the coming seasons in the mid
die ATTITUDES. Ifany utiitarian application
can be made Of modern solar researches the
observations of the past twelve months now
foreshadow a moist but moderate spring,
rather early in point of temperature, though
agricultural operations may be somewhat
retarded by the profuse rains. Should this
prove to be the general character of the
spring, the summer Of 1884 would open
without the drawbacks to vegetation ofvery
chilly spells and incipient droughts, and we
might hope for a more fruitful season
than that of 1883. With the abatement of
the suns activity, which we now have rea-
son to look for, it is not wholly presumption
to count before long upon period of COM
paralive terrestrial repose."
1t would seem to the farmer, in prepar-
ing land for crop that the sub-soil plough
ought to come into requsition. By SUBJ
:oiling, if the weather continues wet, the
surface soil will be drained: if on the con-
;rary, it should he dry, the dampness below
will have a much better showing to reach
he surface. GEORGE MASON.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-04-10

ALL WINTER GOODS AT GREATLY BE-
n duced prices, at
feb7 AMOS b. SLAfMAkEhs.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-04-10
NoUNTY CONVENTION.
OccooUAN, PRINCE WN. Co., VA,
ITo.ok OEtL 1904 Z

OCCUQUAN, FRINGE WIN. Co, va,
March 25th, 1884.
Whereas the State Republican Convention will
be held in the city Of Richmond. on the 3Oth day
Of April next at ~ m, for the purpose of sp
pointing delegates TO the National Republic'n
Convention to be held in the city Of Chicago ILL.,.
on the Bird day Of June next, and for the furth-
er purpose of nominating an electoral ticket to
the said convention, ali those citizens Of Prince
William county, Va, who are in favor Of sending
delegates to the Richmond Convention, are TO-
in Occoquan. This call is made by ten or moro
Republicans in good standing. Nine of the ten
who signed the call for this meeting voted for
Abe Lincoln, at Occoquan in 1860.
mb27-wf1 0anr
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-04-10

COTTON SEED MEAL.-5O Tons Cotton Seed
~ Meal, just received.
feb27 e. 5. AYLOk. VI
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-04-10

Observe the rainfall, in inches, at Rich
mond, this season as compared with same
mnnths last wear:
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-04-10

EGGS.-3OO dozen Fresh Eggs, just received
IL for sale at lowest market rates by.
mill j. c. MILBURE.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-04-10

A BEAUTIFUL LOT OF DOUBLE WHITE
n Tube Rose Bulbs just received at
ap4 J D II LUNT'S.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-04-10

DED CROSS TOMATOES, selected, large sized
LII cans only 10c each, at
mhs J.C. MILBURN's.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-04-10

DED.CROSS TOMATOES-1SOO GLIB. Cans,
IL largest size, for sale, at loo. each, by
janis J. G. HILBURN'S, II n Royal st.
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D EMEMBEk THAT NO COTTON BAGS have
LIZ to be made for the Textile Filter Coffee Pot.
feb12 MCLEAN & UHLER, 80 King st.
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schr Robt Healey, lumber, Norfolk, to D
Smoot
Schr Franklin Baltimore, to w Smoot
& Co.
Schr Aery, Perth Amboy, to w A Smoot Il Co.
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THOSE WHO WANT SPECIAL BARGAINS
J. in Shirts, Underwear and Hose will lind
them at ffeb151 AMOS p. SLAYMAKER'S.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-04-10

NfACRAME CORD-White Cream and Colors
Vn At BROWN & CHAPMAN'S
jan17 1O2 King street
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-04-10

MARINE NEWS.
PORT OF ALEXANDRIA, APRIL 10. 1884.
sun rscs............ 5 80 Sur sets.......... 6 40
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-11-06
The Stampede From Bull Run.

From the '.Recolectons of Private
in the November Century, we quote the
following: THAT was the fault of the
officers who allowed the baggage
wagons to come to the front, instead of
being parked at Centreville. The STAN
pede and confusion began among them
first. Why, the men were so little
frightened when they began to fall back
in groups scattered through the fields
that saw them stop frequently to pick
biackberries. Frightened men don't
act in that way. At Cub Run, between
the Stone Bridge and Centrevelle. the
irresponsible transfers, with the bag
gage wagons, were all crowded together
near the bridge, and were in despcI-
ate hurry to cross. A Rebel battery
began dropping shell in among them,
and thus demolished some of the wagons
and blocked the way. The confusion
and hurry and excitement then began
The drivers on the south side, finding
they couldn't cross with their wagons,
now began to cut their traces and
mount their horses and hurry away.
Those who drove baggage wagons on
the safe side of Cub Run then began to
desert them and cut the traces and
gallop off. The infantry, seeing this
confusion and not understanding the
cause of it, quickened their pace. Soon
the narrow road became filled with fly
ing troops, horses, baggage wagons and
carriages. Then the volunteers began
to throw away their muskets and equip
ments SO as to stand an even chance i'm
the race. Here and there, all along the
route, abandoned wagons had been
overturned and were blocking the way.
One white-headed citizen, an old man.
looking very sorrowful, stood directing
the soldiers on their way to Washing
ton, saying: You'd better hurry on, or
the cavalry will cut off your retreatr
The houses all along the route were
filled with wounded men, while the
ambulances were filled with officers
Fastening to Washington. Soldiers
here and there marched in groups, and
sorrowfully discussed the situation and
its causes. The expression heard on
every side among them was: why
were not the reserves brought up from
Centreville to help us?' Why didn't
they bring up the troops from Fairfax
Court HouseP' it seems to
me, hard to answer, even if they did
come from private soldiers running
away from the field of Bull RUM
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-11-06
The Kinds OF Oil.

We trust our readers win not be dis
appointed when they find that the fol-
lowing extract from the Popular Science
Monthly makes no allusion to the kinds
of oil mentioned in previous numbers of
our local papers;
For moment let us glance at the
principal sources of animal and vegc-
table oil-supply. ere the fountains of
mineral oil were revealed for the use and
comfort of the human family.
First and foremost. of course. ranked
the fish-oils- well-known train Tor
drain)oil which drained from the blub-
Der OF the great Greenland whale Ga
large whale sometimes yielding fully
thirty tons of blubber-each ton repre-
senting nearly two hundred gallons of
oil. Though the cachalot, or sperm
whale, could never rival the Greenland
whale in the quantity of its contribu-
ton, it had at least the advantage of
quality and variety, since, besides or
binary bubber, it yields a large amount
of sperm-oil, and also OF spermaceti.
OF the latter valuable product, the head
alone often yields ten barrels.
Next among oil-yielding fish come
the grampus, or dolphin, the porpoise,
the shark, the seal, the cod, the herring,
and others.
OF animal fats are butter, tallow, lard,
goose-grease, neat's-foot oil (prepared
from the feet of oxen, and used by cur
riers in dressing leather, )and mares
grease Imported from Buenos Ayres
and Montevideo, where multitude of
horses are annually slaughtered for the
sake of their hides. tallow. and bones)
In Russia, especially at Moscow yolk-
of-egg oil is in great repute for making
soap and pomatum.
Vegetable oils form very important
item in our supplies, inasmuch as oil
seeds to the value of f5,500, 900 are
annually imported into Britain for
crushing purposes, and our exports of
oil are roughly valued al 1000, 900.
The export of seed-oii from London,
Hull, and Liverpool, in 1880, was A.
50S.000 gallons.
Under the head of seed-oils rank lin
seed, cotton-seed, and castor-oil. Cola
oil, also, is made from mustard, hemp,
radish, rape, turhip, and other seeds.
Then we have olive-oil and almond-oil.
From India comes poppy-seed oil; from
the Black Sea, oil of sunflower-seeds
From Ceylon and the Pacific isles comes
cocoanut-oil. From Western Africa
the palm-nut oil of the oil-palm, and
oil of ground-nuts, for use in fine
machinery. From Singapore and China
we receive kokum-oil and vegetable
tallow. About fourteen thousand tons
of croton-oil are annually imported for
the use of the wool-dressers of Britain.
Besides these, so familiar to ourselves,
almost every country has some speci-
atty in oils. Thus, in Southern Russia,
tobacco-oil is largely used; in Italy, oil
of grape-stones; in China, oil of tea
seed; in India. oil of nutmegs, of seeds
of the gamboge-tree, of custard-apple
seed, of cashew-nut, of cardamom, of
margoza, and many others. Brazil,
too, has large number of oils. both
animal and vegetable, peculiar to itself
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-11-06
Pouring Oil Upon Troubled Waters.

This heading of the following extract
from the same magazine is also very
applicable to the present state of feel
ings of part of our readers.
The time is fast approaching when
the now rising generation will wonder
at the folly of having ever neglected
such Il means of salvation; for the mass
of evidence on this subject which has
recently accumulated has now COM
PEELED attention from the most skepti-
cal. and the experiments so success
fully carried out on the stormy coast
of Aberdeenshire, at the harbor of
Peterhead, have borne fruit far and
near.
Some of the fishers who had witnessed
them remembered them to good pur-
pose when trying to enter the harbor
at Stonehaven, and warned of their
danger by the white-crested waves rag
ing on the bar. They had with them
only little colza-oil and little paraf-
fine for their lamps (Uegetoble and
mineral oils) so little that must men
would have deemed it mere folly to
cast such upon tempestuous waves.
But these men had proiited by their les
son. One man stood on either bow,
and, just as the boat approached the
raging surf, they slowly poured out
their offering to the waves, which, as if
by magic, ceased to break, and rolled
on in harmless green pillows, which
carried the boat safe into port. | have
also just heard from Cornwall that a
party of Cornish fishers who CHANGED
to be at Aberdeen at the time of the ex-
periments, and there witnessed the still
ling of the waves, returned to their own
granite-bound coast with the conviction
that they had seen something which
hereafter it may be well for them to
practice.
Now, thanks to the same large
hearted and energetic Scotchman who
planned and brought into practical
working the oil-breakwater ut Peter
head, the men of Kent can tell with
wonder of its application to their own
barbor of Folkestone, and are eye-wit-
nesses of how quickly, on very stormy
day, few gallons of oil have Gained
the breaking waves, and made the har-
Dor smooth and safe. The London
papers, in reporting on these expert
ments, have stated the general belief
that, by this simple use of oil. entrance
and egress to Folkestone Harbor may
henceforth be made absolutely secure in
the severest storms.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-11-06
To Our Readers.

There is in this city one Ed. Pollock
about whom we have had something TO
say, and our readers may have an in
distinct recollection of seeing his name
mentioned in one or two instances in
this paper. We feel that we owe our
readers an apology for it; and hope that
he has good sense enough not, by per-
sonal attacks in his paper. to provoke
us into making any further allusion to
him. We sincerely wish to avoid it, but
we are in such position that we can
make it decidedly warm for him, and
very humiliating to his friends, if by his
seemingly uncomfortable desire to be
ugly and mean he sees fit to provoke us
into making further illusions to him
and his public and private record Ex-
pressing the hope tina. we shall rot be
compelled again to refer to this dis
agreeable subject, we drop Pollock,
with kind assurance, which he will do
well to heed, that if he foolishly pro-
vokes us unto striking him, we shall not
do it by making vague hints, but will
strike from the shoulder; even though
in falling he should drag others, whose
feelings we wish TO spare, down with
him; and we warn him TOR The last time
that in this case little wise discretion
will prove 1.-THE better part of valor. -
And now, with an apology to our read
ers, we drop the subject.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-11-06
Not a Clear Idea of A Sharper.

He was such an innocent-looking old
man, and so very green in his ways,
that officer Button at the Central Depot
felt it duty to caution him against
pickpockets and sharpers.
20, you needn't be afeard of anybody
gittin the best of me-" was the reply.
''Jist come in here and lemme show
you suthin'
He sat down in one corner of the
waiting room and pulled off his boots.
in each one OF them he had SIS, and
about So in change in his pockets.
''ln order to git that money" he
said, as he pulled his boots on, 1--WE
got to be knocked down, walked on.
and them butes cut off my feet, and /
reckon nobody will undertake to sarve
me that way by daylight
''Well, take care of yourself.
80, you bet! I've fed on grass all
my life, but Pm not half as green as
you might suppose"
He went strolling around for an hour
or so and then came to Button with a
check in his hand and said:
"What street shall take to 60 to the
Marine Bank?n
There is no such bank here.'
We'll. where'll go to git this check
cashed?n
Great Scott! old man. but what have
you been doing2''
Lent q Teller $50 and took that
check of 800 for security. He said !
could draw the hull of it and keep $3.50
until he saw me again.
When told that il was worthless, and
that he had been made the victim of a
confidence man, the old fellow took a
long time to think and then replied:
well. why in lands name didn't
you explain what a sharper was? |
reckoned that so long as / didn't trade
horses or buy the county right of a
washin' machine no human hyena could
wallop me out o. them $50. Detroit
Free Press
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-11-06
Gold and Silver.

The Hon Horatio Burchard, Director
If the United States MINIS, was at the
Grand Pacific. and, speaking of his an
nual report. which is ready for Con-
gress, he said: "The amount of gold
which has come to the minis during the
present year, less the gold deposited for
coinage, is less than the previous year,
on account OF the Philadelphia Mint
being too much occupied IN strengthen
ing the supply of other coin, and so not
being able to coin gold or bullion.
There was deposited in all the minis
S46.000,000 in gold, including foreign
deposits. OF this S30,000,000 was
United States gold. There was also de-
posted S32 100000 in silver. The
United States Government coined
S1.000,000 of silver coin for the Hawa-
iian Government Twenty-Five mil
lions in gold bars was sent abroad.
Daring the last year the coin of the
country increased rs follows: Gold,
$4,000, 600; silver, 80, 900. 900. The
total amount of all kinds of money in
circulation approximates SLIGO. 000,-
600. The total amount in the National
banks and Treasury, together with that
in circulation, is 1880, 100000. This
is the largest amount of money in use
in the history of the country. Compar-
ing the deposits and exports for the first
eight months of last year, with a SINH
lar period this year, the indications are
that the decline in gold bullion will be
81 100000 and the increase of silver
3, zoo, 900"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-11-06
Majority Rule.

The great struggle through which the
people of this great Republic are called
to pass once in in every four years is
over, and the excitement necessarily
oai'.ea' - such q struggle, in which
millions 81 people on each side are en-
gagged, viii soon subside. The people
OF no othe Nation on earth could 90
through snch an exciting struggle for
the watrn' - q government and, ut its
-e 4a'e mrd .etcetuit settle down
~ rpiSril ri es"rs GaN life. He
aa allies uc ri4nt OF ;i,e majority To
rn.e i- no business living under a
naeaiic form of government. And
De ime may come, indeed it may
uoi be far distant, when, under our
detective system Of trying to get an ex-
preston of the will of the majority, a
terrible civil war may again desolate our
land. 1t is the part of wise statesman
ship to now, while there is yet time,
so perfect that system as to guard
against that terrible calamity. This
can only be done by such legislation as
will insure fair election and an honest
count in Mississippi and every other
State where corrupt and fraudulent
methods have been too long allowed to
prevail.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-11-06

Dodgeville Chronicle: Mrs. John
Tregalgus. of this village, went out into
the garden and gathered up some
apples from the ground, and upon re-
turning to the house, commenced to eat
one of .hem, but on taking the first bite
noticed q peculiar taste, and spit it out,
thinking there had been some dirt on
the apple that she had not noticed
She then wiped the apple off and took
a second bite. when she was seized
with vomiting and experienced pecu-
liar sensations throughout her system.
This. of course, aroused suspicion,
and upon close inspection was found
that the apple she had commenced to
eat, and number of the others, had
been loaded with arsenic and placed
in the garden. with the evident inten-
ton of murder, the matter has been
brought to the attention of the district
attorney. and, awaiting developments,
we withhold comment.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-11-06
CORPORAL Punishment,

"Do you believe in corporal punish
ment?" asked visitor in large gram
mar school out West.
"That depends" replied the lady
teacher, with a peculiar look, on the
size of the boy. If he is bigger than 1
am, / try moral suasion."
what if the moral suasion doesn't
persuaded
"In that case, have method which
never fails"
"What is that?"
Il hand the ferule to the refractory
pupil and compel him to give me as
many strokes with it as he thinks his
own punishment deserves"
How many times have you done
that?"
"Only twice within six years. So I
think the system good one"
Eyes, should think it was," and the
visitor went away, thoughtful.
The idea is by no means new. Every
boy and girl who has read Miss Alcott's
Little Men" will remember the case
of Father Baer and Emil. 1t must be
said, however, that such a system of
punishment might safely be followed
by lady teacher, when the result
would not always be as pleasant if a
gentleman should adopt it Youths
Companion.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-11-06

Never perhaps before in the history
of the country have the people been
wrought up to a higher pit h of excite
ment over struggle for party suprem-
acy than they have during the one
through which we have lust passed; nor
bavo partisan speakers an6 the partisan
press -bowu more magpnit, and venom
dnr,ns , political canvass, and those
candidates are indeed fortunate WHO
have escaped the abuse Of bitter and
malignant political workers for their
opponents. Now that tn election is
auG No -n ,srenety settle down
Eh 4-ahle dG,rs al ..yine he
utas 4H speaking pieasan, words Tor
e friends and neighbors. irrespective
Of their political affiliations, it is pleas
ant 10 reflect that we have not through
these columns been driven or coaxed
into any abuse of or reflections upon
the private character of any Of the can.
didates IN the onnosipg ,ioke,s IL ,h;s
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-11-06
MRS. FRENCH'S CROWN OF JOY.

The agent of this celebrated cure has
appointed Messrs. Stone Il Hassell and
W. B. Baxter, druggists, sole agents for
this now well-known remedy for Kid
ney, Liver and Dropsy complaints. Call
on them for circular and testimonials.
This celebrated medicine is compound
ed by most clearly process from herbs
gathered in Palestine and one is not re-
CURED to take half dozen bottles to
prove its usefulness. A single dose will
convince the sufferer of its curative
power. Manufactured in the great med
icine city of Rochester, N. Y, it has a
larger home patronage than all other
compounds combined in that city.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-11-06
Kitchen Garden.

The American Agriculturist gives the
following directions for preserving gar
den vegetables for the winter:
Beets and carrots should not be ex-
posed to hard frosts; parsnips and sal
sify are better for freezing and thawing.
Roots of all kinds may be stored in
trenches or in small quantities in boxes
or barrels in the cellar, covering them
with earth. Celery is to be stored in
trenches foot wide, and deep enough
to receive the'plants. or IN cool cellar
in long boxes, nine inches wide and as
deep as the plants are tall, placing earth
on the bottom of the boxes. Cabbages
are set on the ground. roots up. aud
covered with earth. For supply of
parsley in winter, take up the roots,
plant them in a box of soil which is to
be set in the kitchen window. Plants
of cabbage. cauliflower, and lettuce for
early spring planting, should be pricked
out into cold frames. DO not cover the
frames with their sashes until freezing
weather.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-11-06
Hold On To The Sheen.

The American Agriculturist advises
farmers TO persevere in keeping sheep.
The depressing tendency of the wool
market is apt to influence many sheep
raisers to get rid of their flocks al any
price and 90 out of the business. We
believe those who do this will miss it.
Every business has its low tide, but it
will surely rise again, and they who
hold on to their sheep will be gamers in
the end. The farmer or stock raiser
should not be tickle.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-11-06
DAUGHTERS, WIVES, MOTHERS.

We emphatically guarantee Doctor
Anarchists CATHoLICON, a Female Rem
edy, to cure Female Diseases, such as
Ovarian troubles, Inflammation and
liberation, Falling and Displacement
OF bearing down feeling. Irregularities,
Barrenness, Change of Life, Leucorhea,
besides many weaknesses springing from
the above, like Headache, Bloatine.
Spinal weakness, Sleeplessness, Ner-
vous debility, Palpitation of the heat,
&c. For sale by +. W. Bryan, Lancas-
ter. Price $1.00 and $3.50 per bottle.
Send to j. b. Marchisi, Utica, N. Y,
for Pamphlet, free. Sy1