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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-05-17
DIED.

At his residence, in this city, this morning, az
ter q long illness, CHARLES CALVERT SHOOT,
in the 5Sth year of his age. day~The funeral
will take place from his late residence, on Wilkes
street, between Royal and Pitt, on Monday after
noon, at 4 O'CLOCK
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-05-17
PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS TO-DAY.

PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS TO-DAY.
SENATE.
The Senate was not in session to-day,
having adjourned on Thursday till Monday.
HOUSE.
On motion of Mr.. Ellis, Of Louisiana, the
Senate amendments to the Indian appro.
priation bill were non-concurred in.
BY previous order of the House this
day was set apart for the consideration of
bills presented By the Committee on the
Judiciary, and Mr.. Tucker, of Virginia,
reported from that committee bill to regu.
late the effect of judgments and DEGREES Of
the United States courts 10 the several
States. Placed on House calendar.
On motion Of Mr.. Tucker, bills were
passed removing the political disabilities of
Henry Newman. VIM. H. Parker and Robt.
d. Thurhon, of Virginia.
The House went into Committee of the
Whole on the Senate bill extending until
December 3lst, 1854, the duration of the
court Of commissioners of Alabama claims.
The bill was finally passed.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-05-17

which makes Hostetter's Stomach Bitters SO effec
tive as 81 invigorant. For sale by all Druggist's
and Dealers generally.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-05-17
LIST OF LETTERS.

The following is list of the letters remaining in
the Alexandria, Virginia postoffce May IL
Persons calling FOX letters will say they adver
tised and give the date of the list.
If not called for within thirty days, they will be
sent o The dnad LETTER Office in We shinntor
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-05-17

Lucas, Mrs Mary
Lewis, Mrs John
McGovern, Jno
Montgomery, Valentine
Payne, Mr.
Peters, Mrs Harriet
Powell, Miss Lou
Richards, VIM H
Sheltou, Mrs Lizzie
Sheof & Co,
ShuIzaberger, John
Suthcrlan, Mrs Rachael
Wade, Miss Julia Ann
Wood. Mrs Ida
Wciscger, John T
D. A. WINDSOR, P. II.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-05-17

Burnett, Henry
Brooks, NJ c
Bell, Mrs jennie
Ball, Miss Julia
Brown James
Coats, Mrs Lizzie A
Davis, Miss S
Fisher. Edward
Cant, AIRS Margaret
Gibson. G i
Hunter * Co, J B
Jackson, Miss Annie
Johnson, ] II
Jasper. Miss Hattie
Jackson, Lucy
Jackson. Mrs Mildred
1t
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-05-17
TELEGRAPHlC BREVIrIES.

Wheat rust has set in, in some portions
ofTexas, by reason Of recent heavy rains,
and cotton cultivation will be retarded
from two to four weeks.
There was heavy frost throughout Lam
caster county Pa, last night. 1t is feared
that considerable damage has been done to
the young tobacco plants.
Monroe Grey shot dead William Deitch
and Mrs. Grey at Columbia ILL.,, yesterday
morning, finding them in bed together.
Grey surrendered himseft to the authorities.
Intelligence has been received at Port Jer-
Wis, \ T., of a murder committed last night
by tramp at Turner's who was robbing a
farm house. The farmer made resistance
and the tramp drew revolver and shot at
him. The ball missed the farmer but killed
his wife, He then dubbed the farmer and
escaped with $500.
Two freight trains on the New York Cen
trail railroad collided at Chittenango station,
n. Y, this morning. A locomotive and fif
teen cars wera-derailed and badly broken up
and large quantity Of merchandise was de.
stroyed. Two car loads Of sheep were kill.
cd. Engineer George Finley, of Albany
was killed, and brakeman was badly in
jured.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-07-05
Pickles Colored BY Copper.

Dr.. Cyrus Edison, Of th> New 1ofk
Sanitary Bureau, recently produced
samples Of bright green pickles, bottled
by FIVE firms, had them analysed BY the
department chemist, Professor Waner,
to ascertain how much metallic copper
was used in ooloring them. The resuis
was given to the Board OF Health.
It said:
1.-THE pickles contained q much larger
proportion Of copper than the liquid sur
rounding them, a fact which ~controverts
the idea that copper can be removed
from pickles by soaking them in water
or weak vinegar"
When more than one part In 1OO,OOO
in preserved vegetables consists OF cop
per there is proof of artificial colorlnS
with copper. OF the samples some con
tanned more than three parts to the
100, 900 and one had sever parts. DR..
Edison did not think that they contained
enough copper to poison a person, but
the Board concluded to give . mild
warning to the manufacturers
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-07-05
I A GENTLE HAND.
The One Touch Of Nature That Makes tho
Whole World Kin.

They were moving; not the ordinary
and regular routine of May l, when dis
tressed families flock from one cramped
and iDccnvenient dwelling into another
of the same type, but this was a going
"Out Of the old house into the new"
And the mothers face was serious, for
there was one of the little flock missing,
not lost, but gone before into the new
home, in the city whose walls lie four.
square.
Thus it happened that one little room
was left to the lost and as a rough work.
mar laid his hand on the door and
pushed it open, the mother cried out a
if he had struck her a blow:
"Oh, not there! Not there I will
move those things myself. You cannot
touch them I"
That was baby Grace's room and she
died in that little bed" said one of the
older children.
The rough workman stayed his foot
on the threshold. Then he touched his
hat. and his tone was husky as be said;
IF We please, ma'am, I'll handle them
things gently. I've a little one Of my
own in glory-the heavens be her bed
and it's myself will e them not q bill
damaged. and III settle it beyond With
YOU"
I, was the zone touch Of nature" thai
makes the whole word kin."-Detroi
Free Press.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-07-05
An Old Field Weed.

The old ueld Mullen has been a seeming out
cast for many years but now it has suddenly
attracted the attention Of the medical world
whs now recognize it to be the best lung medi-
cine vet discovered, when mad into a tea and
comb ned with the Sweet Gum presents in Tay-
lor's Cherokee Remedy Of Sweet Gum and Null
lein q pleasant and effective cure for Group,
Whooping Cough, Cold and Consumption.
Price 25cts and $1.00. This with DR.. Biggers'
edy for Cramp-Colic, Diarrhea, Dysentery,
and children suffering from the Effects OF
teething presents = little MEDICINE CHEST nc
household should be without, for the speedy re-
lief Of sudden ard dangerous attacks of thu
lungs and bowels. Ask your druggist for them
Ga, proprietor Tayor's Premium Cologne.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-07-05

education to An alert and intelligent AMI
NAL. Then there Is another kind OF
horse that may be intelligent enough,
but which will never suit nae, and that
is q vicious beast
"Some years ago among the best
known American equestrians was Mr.
Levi J. North. I think he is living In
retirement in New York State now. BE
was breaking q cream-colored stallion in
the ring one morning while I was saknd-
ing outside chewing q straw and talking
to some oil. the boys. The beast was
handsome and quick enough, but it was
~ vicious a q hyena. and that morning
something had disturbed 1t in the stable,
80 that when it danced into the ring its
little black eyes glittered like q snakes.
/ expected trouble, but North knew his
business, and the rest OF us contented
ourselves with looking on. I had turned
my head to say something to one OF the
boys when I heard q shrek. I wheeled
around, and there was North whirling
around that stations head as q boy
whirls q basket. The beast had caught
him with its teeth by n wrist, and
after q couple of whirls it sent him crash
ing through the ropes on the other side
Of the ring. His wrist was broken, and
ne is crippled to this day. No, I thank
you; no vicious stallion for me.
"Now, in teaching an animal to pick
up q handkerchief, for instance, let me
show you how the apple works. That
act is pretty we'll along-m the Sixth
Reader say; but my beginner here will
do it for you this once"
The trainer broke q small russell apple
in two pieces, and wrapped one of the
pieces in his handkerchief. This he
placed to the horses nose long enough
for it to get the scent Of the apple, and
then, walking to the other side of the
ring, he placed the handkerchief and
apple together on the sawdust- there.
The alert animal watched him like cat,
and no sooner was the handkerchief on
the ground than he trotted to it, picked
it up, and shook it until the apple be-
came disengaged from its folds.
"Horses are taught to fire pistols in
precisely the same way. An apple is
fastened to the end OF a line attached to
a pistols trigger. The animal tugs at
the line to get the apple, and fires the
charge. In the course of time the apple
is discontinued; but tugging at the line
has become second nature with the
horse, and he pulls it as a matter OF
course"
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-07-05

THERE are 100. 900 deaths yearly in
London, and al the bodies are buried in
the surface soil around the city ; that is
IN thirty years 100000 bodies. In
twenty years, says Sir Spencer Wells, a
body becomes clay. and London has,
therefore. always 2 900. coo bodies under
going harmful decay"
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-07-05

"THERn is one thing I want you to re-
member while you are on your travels"
said Rollo's father, as he babe his son
goodbye. "And what is that Z" asked
Rollo. Remember the waiter, replied
his father, with q hooking laugh.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-07-05

leo YoUSa.-A Chicago hotel keeper
who has just been sued for breach OF
promise Of marriage. puts IL the extraor-
d;nary defence that the plaintiff de-
oeived him by telling him she was
;hirty-nine years old, whereas she is
only twenty-nine. he AYERS that, being
q niddle-aged man, he wanted a wife Of
corresponding years
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-07-05

TIN Whitehall Times Observes: "At
twenty man theories, at forty he phil
osophize%, and at sixty he realizes"
Also, at twenty he scru.inizes-the
syoung ladies; at twenty-five he idolizes
the sister OF some other fellow; .,
twen:y-four he paralyzes-the old man
by asking for her hand in marriage, and
.. twenty-six he jeopardizes-his neck
BY staying out with the boysounhl mid
s1ight. In fact, his life is full OF 'izes."
-Norrixtotcn Herald
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-07-05
AFTER TWENTY YEARS.
Venerable Man who Goes to See his
Son Married.

When a man is first called "pa," by o
little one that he hos a half interest in,
says Peck, of the Milwaukee Sun, he
puts his thumbs in his vest, smiles a
two o .a-quarter emile, and thinks he is
smart. He wonders if ever a man as
young and green-looking as he is was
called "pa" before, and he puts on style,
and thinks that he is a thoroughbred.
But twenty years later, when the afore-
said infant, grown to a great strapping
fellow. big enough to take his "pa,"
down at a wrestle 'square-hold," stands
before a minister and promises to love,
honor and obey a girl for all that is out,
and the girl turns and calls the old gen.
tleman ''pa" then the smarty of twenty
years ago begins to think hat he is get
ting old enough to turn out to grass
and he looks Mt himself in the mirror and
says, "Those are gray hairs, sure
enough, and the clearing on that head
indicates badness that is not premature"
1 suppose a man who has eighteen or
nineteen sons getting married along at
intervals, gets used to it, aud does not
notice it SO much, but my experience is
that the first time a man has a son mar
ried it makes him feel about ninety
years old, with his teeth gone. Well,
the big kid IS married, and may God
bless him and the little girl he has
chosen, and may they live happily to see
little ones grow up around them-Oh,
gosh, l can't write it. 1 can stand it to
be called pa by all the children in the
wide world, but that grand word, i,
seems to me would make me feel like a
veteran of 1912. The little en-
old kid Of the family wanted to get mar
ried, too, but he was talked out of it.
after a while. He thought he ought to
have as good q show In the necessaries
of life as his big brother, but finally
compromised on having the humps.
Mumps are bad enough at home, when
Il can do his bowling at his family, but
to have mumps in a great New York
hotel, where everybody wonders why
you didn't wait till you got home t
have them, is a bad scheme, but tie.
little boss has promised that it shall no,
occur again.
VERY BCsY.-Au old man who owns
two or three dozen houses that are rentef
was asked by one Of his sons why b.
didn't invest his money in some business
SO his heirs could earn a living hv work
when he died. The old man said. That.
what | keep these houses for, TO make
you earn a living. Ii you don't ilnt
you get exercise enough collecting thu
rent, and have all the business you want
thea / am mistaken" The boy though
maybe the old gentleman was more tia,
half right
TIE LARaEN.-Though the mai,
building of the Worlds Exposition i,
New Orleans is the largest evcr erecte,
In this country, being 1875 feet by 900
yet 1t Is now thought necessary to con
struct another immense building. l.OD
feet by 400, for the Government, Stat.
and agricultural exhibits.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-07-05
She Says She Won't

"When she will she will, and whom
she won't she won't, and there's an end
ont" This grim old adage was verified
in the Surrogate's Court in New York
in q disputed will case. Miss Rebecca
Jones, q spinster Of so. took the stand
and the oath was read, but she neither
kissed nor otherwise touched the Bible.
When asked, says the Mail and Ezpress,
If she understood that she had been
sworn she said her name was Rebecca
Jones and should always be. After
some discussion the witness said she
would tell the truth In three words, and
The court considered her sworn. Coun-
eel asked il she had known Mr.. Ham
ersIy alive. 'Now," asserted Miss
Jones, jumping up excitedly, II am go
Ing to do just what Mr.. Gordon Ham
ersley and his son would tell me to do il
they were alive. They would say
Becky, keep STILL I am not going to
answer any question. I respect the
dead and I say I viii not answer. It is
no use Of asking me another question,
for I will not speak" The lawyer was
about to put another question, when
Miss Jones screamed out, II told you !
will not say anything" Her counsel
advised her to answer, but she declared
that she would not, and when he re-
marked to the court that he thought she
was laboring under q delusion, she
yelled out, 'It is no delusion. I have
told you all I have to say" And there
she stopped and said they might send
her to Jail il they wished to do 80.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-07-05
past year.

It is truly wonderful to see how the name OF
Mrs. Pinkham is a household word among the
wives and mothers Of our land. Alike in the
luxurious homes Of our great cities and in the
humble cabins Of the remote frontier one wo-
mans deeds have borne their kindly fruit in
health for others.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-07-05
DRIFTWOOD.

D1l1l UOODs
TIE latest use devised for paper Is the
making OF carpets.
A PLUMBER was fined $3.50 IN New
York for q poor job.
AUSTRALIA could furnish 45O, 900 men
capable Of bearing arms.
In Philadelphia there Is a funeral every
half hour the year round
'ISsAsE" murderers always select the
smartest lawyers to defend them.
A CAR containing LOG, Csc. 900 tooth
picks left Di1feld, Me-, for Ohio.
A YOUNG Lowell, Mass, ~housekeeper
feeds seven people well on sos a month.
THERE is q movement on foot to
de~>pp the oil felds of Canada this year.
GARDENING Is practically taught in
more than 0,0OO primary schools in
France.
A SAXON sun-dial has been found un-
der the porch of a church near Ciren-
cester.
HAMPTON, Va, boasts the Oldest
church in the .country-St. Johns, built
in 1884.
THOUSANDS of pounds of dynamite are
carted through the streets of Chicago
every day.
THE postmis tress at Phoenix, Mich,
is the first white person born on Lake
Superior.
THERE are twelve teeth factories in the
United States, which make 10, 600, 600
teeth a year.
A cIRcUs in the west advertises ''the
only coal-black sacred elephant ever seen
in captivity"
THE bankers, butchers and grocers in
New York number 1924 against 10000
liquor dealers.
FREDERICKSBURG, Va, is urged as an
eligible site for the proposed Confeder-
ate Soldiers Home.
THERE are fourteen American exhib-
its at the Calcutta Worlds Fair, and
six of these are patent medicines.
A NUMBER of Frenchwomen have dis
tinguished themselves az architects and
house-decorators.
In India the natives have boarded q
billion dollars in gold which cannot be
got into circulation.
The anthony exported from New
South Wales in 1881 was / ,103 tons, of a
value of nearly $780, 900.
The courts of Massachusetts have de-
cided that when a man is naturalized his
wife is also naturalized.
The Senate of Massachusetts has re-
jected the proposition to hold q conven.
ton to revise the Constitution of the
State.
THERE are 55,578 scholars in the
public schools of Boston, this being 6
slight increase over the number last
year.
TIE Queen of Tahiti, while visiting
lately a Paris institution for deaf mutes
said that in her island the infirmity wat
unknown.
A DRUG journal gives two formulas fol
"butter %colors." They contain annatto
!, tumeric, saffron, caustic potash, borax
and alcohol.
MIR. LABoUCHRRE consoles MI. Yate
with the assurance that the regular hour
-. and moderate diet of the prison will pro
= long his life many years.
The Boston's Women's Educationa
8 and Industrial Union has o PROTECTIVE
1 Department whose object is to recove
Q wages unjustly withheld from working
q women.
THERE is said 10 be a man in Georgi
r who had thirty-six nephews in the lat
war, all of whom, except three, wer
It killed. Fifteen of them belonged to tn
same company.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-07-05

In FLoRmA.-Floridians claim that
5000 Northerners have passed the sea-
son in their State, and that the popula-
ton of the State has been increased by
5000 permanent settlers during the
past Year.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-07-05

TIE most ~eficacious and inexpensive
method in whichto rid a house of rats is
to rent it for a few months to a Chinese
boarding-h house keeper.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-07-05
KINDNESS AND APPLES
30 GOOD WAY TOWARD TEACHING
CIRCUS HORSES CURIOUS

Fiat II t. Say II tho Teacher Knows His
Basiness. and has the DisDositfon to At
sOnd to Is.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-07-05

b ancienn were acquainted with the vir-
tue OF petroleum Herodotus refers to It and
speaks OF wells being found in Zante Now
ednyS everybody has heard OF it through Car
boline, the great Natural Hair Restorer.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-07-05

IT Is the feeblest moustache, - ven n
the eickhest child. that gets the mos,
oondlin1
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-07-05

ON OF the most difficult things to &C.
complain In this world is TO get . fat
young Lady N . platform scale.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-07-05
His 2On,a Adyfc0.

I have been troubled for over twelve years
with a weaknessof the kidneys and bladder,
which the doctors said was diabetes. l could
not at times stand up, and would have to con-
tlnually use the urfnal both day and night,
with intense pains in@my back and sides;
there was brick-dust deposits in my water; l
could not rest well or lie easily in bed in any
posture was at that time employed by the
Maine Central railroad. and had to give up
work for Q time. Fearing that it would
sooner or later turn to that dreaded Brighta
disease, I called in my son in lewiston, who
is in the drug busintss, n after consulting
witt him as to my case, he advised me to usc
Hunts Remedy, as he knew of SO man, sue
cessful cures that it had made in Lewiston
and vicinity. l at once commenced using it,
and began to improve. l had less pain in my
back and sides, my water was passed natu-
rally with less color and no pain, and after
using several bottles found that my pains
were all gone and the weakness Of the kidneys
and bladder were cured, and I ave no trouble
with them now and can attend to my bust.
ness; and for ono Of my years I am enjoying
good health, and thanks to Hunts Remedy
for it, and I consider it duty n pleasure to
recommend so good q medicine az Hunts
Remedy, and l hav taken pains to recon-.
mend it to others in this vicinity.
You are at liberty to publish this acknowl
edgment. hoping it may be the means Of help.
ing suffering humanity.
Z. b. CLARK, Furniture Dealer,
Formerly with Maine Central railroad
N1wpORr Ma Nav II. 1899
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-07-05

BEr1 In the immortality Of the soul
appears almost universally in the earliest
records of human thought
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-07-05
A euro OF Pneumonia,

Mr.. D. H Barnaby, Of Owego, IL,
T., says that his daughter was taken Will
a violent cold which terminated with pneu
monia, and all the best physicians gave tn,
case up and said she could live but a fev
hours at most. She was In this corditi :,
when a friend recommended DR.. WIN
Halls Balsam for the Lungs, and advised he
to try it. She acoepted it as a last resort
and was surprised to find tina. it produced
marked change for the better, and by per
severing in its use q CURE was effected.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-07-05

BETS are offered that when the North
Pole is reached, an American newspaper
reporter will be found there with an
elaborate description of the place already
written up, waiting to take the FIRST boat
for homA
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-07-05

Headache Ii Immediately relieved BY the n.
OF Pisos Remedy for Casarrh.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-07-05

THE Unconstitutional the main
building of the Worlds Exposition in
New Orleans is the largest ever erected
In this country, being 1875 feet by 900.
yet it is now thought necessary to con-
struct another immense building. 1000
feet by 400, for the Government. State
and agricultural exhibits.