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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-03-24
THE COCKPIT BREAKWATER.
WASHINGTON CITY, March "a, 1884


To the editor of the Alexandria Gazette:
would respectfully call your attention
to bill, introduced by the Hon. John S.
Barbour, NJ. c., and referred to the River
and Harbor Committee for their considera-
ton, to build brake water at or near Cock
pit point, on the Potomac river This most
important work has long been needed-as
we'll by the Government as by the private
vessels-as there is not single harbor of
safety for vessel to put into from the capes
of Virginia to the City of Washington.
In the winter and spring months, when the
ice gorge, breaks and decends down the
Potomac river, it comes down in large fields,
and with such force that nothing can with.
stand it, as il frequently runs at a rate of
four or five miles per hour, and woe to
those vessels caught therein. In The past
history of this river is shown great loss in
vessel property as we'll as valuable cargoes
and lives of the officers ana seamen, for the
want of safe and secure harbor where
vessel can be anchored in safety and free
from this ice damage. AS the Government
imposes large and heavy tonnage tax on
all vessels, that is collected through the
custom house, which has been collected for
nearly one hundred years, and amounts to
millions of dollars, it is the duty Of the
Government to build such harbors for the
protection of the property that they collect
the funds from. AS the United States Navy
is to be increased, the constant visits Of
vessels to the City of Washington and
Navy Yard makes it doubly necessary that
this work should be done Immediately to
protect Government property as we'll as the
property of Nothern and Eastern citizens
navigating this river.
Respectfully Yours, &c,
J. n. HARPER.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-03-24

SLEEPING ToGETHER.-Somebody has
said that more quarre]s occur between
brothers, between sisters, between hired
girls, between clerks in stores. between ap-
prentices in mechanics shops, between
hired men, between husbands and wives,
owing to electrical changes which their ner-
vous systems undergo by lodging together
night after night under the same bed clothes,
than by any other disturbing cause. There
is nothing, says the Scientific american, that
will so derange the nervous system of a
person who is elimininative in nervous force
than to lie all night in bed with another
person who is absorbent in nervous force.
The absorber will go to sleep and rest all
night; while the elimiDator will be tumb-
ling and tossing, restless and nervous, and
wake up in the morning tretful, peevish,
faultfnding and discouraged. No persons
no matter who they are, should habitually
sleep together. One will thrive and the
other will lose.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-03-24

RUNNING FOR TRAINs.-We have just
missed a train, and we missed it because we
would not run.
This experience suggests to us to offer a
few words Of advice, through our readers,
to the busy men OF America who are in q
chronicle state of running for trans.'
Even to one whose heart is sound, run
ming, when not accustomed to such hurried
movement, is certainly not beneficial to the
delicate cords and valves of the heart and
should this organ be diseased, it must prove
Injurious
We all know that violent and tumultuous
action is to be avoided when the heart is
weak, and we all know that running is not
the way to avoid it.
In our own experience we know several in
stances where men who had previously sup
posed themselves sound have run for trains,
and getting aboard have fallen exhausted in
to seats, from which they have been removed as
corpses and knowing such cases, we never run
for trains.
Better miss q train than run the risk of run
ming into the jaws Of death for this strain on
the heart cannot prove beneficial to one that is
sound, while it most positively will prove more or
less disastrous to one that is weak In this world
of unsupported physical pitfalls, it behooves lis to
make haste slowly. "-Medical and Surgical Reporter
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VIRGINIA NEWS.

State Senator C. z. Crumpler is dying at
his home, at Zuni, Isle Of Wight county.
Five hundred and seventy-two bills passed
the General Assembly at its late session.
Twenty eight persons were baptized in
the Baptist church at Lynchburg Wednes-
day.
Col. VIM. R. Denny, of Winchester, has
recently invested $780, 900 in Florida real
estate.
S. A. Campbell has purchased the Haines
farm, 1873 acres, near FarmWell, Loudoun
county, for $3.50 per acre.
The Richmond State has entered upon the
ninth year of its existence. 1t was never
more prosperous than at present.
Mr.. W. P. Conway. who died in Fredel
icksburg, last week, was the father of Mon
cure D. Conway, the well-known correspon-
dent.
A bureau ofcredits has been organized in
Richmond, with A. W. Ball as actuary. Most
Of the wholesale merchants of the city have
become subscribers
Washington county is fast becoming one
Of the leading tobacco growing counties in
the State. The crop this year alone will be
from $3.50, 900 to 100000.
The representatives. Of the Northern Meth
odist Church have purchased an eligible site
in Roanoke on which a female seminary, To
cost 10000, will be erected.
While letter from Miss Hunter states
that her father, Hon. K. NJ. It. Hunter, is
ont of danger, one of his neighbors writes
that he considers Mr.. Hunter as i'll.
A recent decision Of the Supreme Court
Of Of ba pntorSb, R,n
violent Mechanics Association from the
portant precedent.
The electoral boards chosen by the Gen
eral Assembly at its recent session must, lat
some time prior to the first day of April in
each year." select the registrars for their
counties and cities. This year, at the same
time, they must elect registrars.
J. B. Freeman, prominent citizen o.
Sussex county, died suddenly Saturday
night, aged seventy years. He represented
Sussex county several terms in the legsla
ture. He was man of fine literary attain
ments and widely known throughout the
State.
The elaborate preparations made by the
Flat Top Mining company to enter the
burning coal mine and search for the dead
miners had to be abandoned, as the fire il
not yet extinguished. TO facilitate the
work of filling the mine with water an en-
CINE has reached there, but it will take s
week to complete the flooding.
A Petersburg letter says that it is believed
that if the real sentiment of the colored PEG
pie of Virginia was taken as to their choice
for President it would be found in favor o.
Gen. Grant Next would come Blaine
But the negroes have never shown much in
dependence in politics, and have always beer
content to be led. Hence present indca
tons are that Virginia will send an Arthur
delegation to Chicago.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-03-24

CYCLONE SToRIEs.-Senator Vaudeville
said to me yesterday: "The people in Car
roll and adjoining counties are digging cy'
clone pits with something like system. The
time will come when no home in that Sec
ton will be without one" Some one re-
marked that many religious people refused
to take refuge in pits, quoting lady who
said: II will trust in the LORD and not flee
before His will" "That sort of faith," re-
piled her husband, 'will cover everything
except a cyclone"
sand yet" said Senator Vaudeville, 81
know ola case where the wife refused to 90
into the cellar when the cyclone was coming,
saying that if the Lord intended her to die
she would die whether she was in the cellar
or in the garrett Her husband, standing by
her, while he did not share her faith, gather
ed the children AMI awaited the shock
The house was swept away, but none Of the
family hurt, except small wound on the
side of the wife's face. On returning to the
site of the house they found the cellar full
of immense jagged timbers. "-Atianta Con-
stifutiOu
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-03-24
AN EASY CURE FOR HrccoUcH-Hic

AN EASY CURE FOR HIccoUGH.-Hic-
cough is conyulsiye contraction of the dia-
phragm 1t is only necessary to allow an ex-
ceedingly long and at the end, forcible ex.
piration to follow long and quiet inspira-
ton. The slow inspiration, especially when
it is chiefly performed by the wall Of the
chest, prevents the phrenic nerve from be-
ing too powerfully irritated, while the long
expiration gives this nerve time TO recover
from its over-irritation. A remedy which
the writer has tested many times without q
failure can always be used upon person
who has ''the hiccoughs" by some one
else, and generally by the sufferer himself
You say to your friend something like this ::
''See how close together you can hold the
tips of your forefngers without their touch
ing. No, keep your elbows out free
from your sides. You can get your
fingers closer than that. They are touching
now. There, now hold them 80, Steady"
By this time you can generally ask !:
NOW, why don't you hiccough?" The in.
voluntary tendency to breathe slowly and
steadily when the attention is fixed on per-
forming a delicate manipulation is here
what counteracts the convulsive action Of
the Diaphragm Popular Science Monthly.
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TO-DAY'S TELEGHAPHIC NEWS.

S. S. Rutsky, member of the New York
Mining and Petroleum Exchange announced
his suspension to-day. Liabilities small.
The German papers reproach Queen Vic
tora with parsimony for her intention to at
tend the marriage of her granddaughter the
Princess, only privately.
A son of Captain James Graham, at Ora
ham, N. c., while hunting was killed by
the accidental discharge of his gun. The
deceased was grandson of the Hon. VIM.
A. Graham, formerly Secretary of the Navy.
The Rotterdam Courier newspaper
demands that France, Germany, Amer
lea and Holland, intervene to defeat the
proposed treaty between England and Port.
ugal in regard to the Congo country and to
maintain the status quo.
Hon. Henry G.. Lord died at his residence
in Riverside, Ohio, last night. He was a
prominent citizen Of that State and was well
known in railroad circles His father, Ma
than Lord, was president of Dartmouth Col
ege from 1928 to 1868.
A dispatch from London says that the
Chinese ram Mankin, which was detained
10 the Tyne by the government while load
ing with Armstrong guns, pending an in
quiry as to whether its departure would be
breach of the laws of neutrality, has de-
parted under the German flag.
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MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL

VIRGINIA BoSDs.--J. 4. HambIetou & Co..
Baltimore financial circular OF Saturday last saws
The adjournment of the Legislature bad
good effect upon the market value of Virginia S..
curities. Consols sold at 4O7s ex-sl coupons
Tenfortes sold at 80. Old conso and 10 Az
coupons sold at 81. New consol coupons sd.
vanced to AZ and new 1O.4O coupons to AZ. Rid.
dleberger 3's advanced to ON. but when it was
known that the bill to buy Riddles did not affect
bonds now issued they fell OFF to 56l2 1910
coupons are in demand to attach to bonds which
accounts for the advance over consol coupons
NEW YORK, March 22--11:15 a. m.-The week
opened with heavy and lower market for stocks
Prices declined I. to 1la per cent, Pacific Mail
leading. After 1920 a. III. there was rally Of
1. to ,. per cent Pacific Mail being most prou
inent.
Noon-Stocks we're firm during the pas, hour
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-03-24
THE ASYLUM BOARDS.

On Saturday the Board of Public Works
met again in the Governors office and
finished eecting the boards of directors
for the lunatic asylums, as follows:
For the Western Lunatic Asylum Sam
uel +. Coleman, Cumberland Thomas W.
Waller, Spotsylvania; S. G. Gleavcs, Wythe;
w. l.. Bumgardner, Staunton; Henry {.
Allen, Shenandoah J. B. Russell, Freder-
ick; r. w. Burks, Staunton A. w. Har-
man, jr., Rockbrdge Robert Harnsbcrger,
Rockingham A. Broaddus Page W. c.
Pendleton, Smyth.
For the Eastern Lunatic Asylum-John
4. Thurman, Bedford r. J. Christian
Matthew's H. A. Atkinson, Richmond city;
Robert McCandlish, Middesex; w. j.
Leake, Richmond city; ID. G. Tyler, Charles
City Charles Millhiser, Richmond city J
H. Barlow, Williamsburg; B. S. Ewell
Williamsburg r. H. Booker, Hampton
V. Walden, New Kent.
Colonel Morton Marye, Auditor, was not satis.
fled with the appointments made by the Board
His slate differed in many respects with the list
but Treasurer Barksdae voted with the Governor
and the result was Col Marye was defeated. On
his slate for the Central Lunatc Asylum were the
following gentlemen who were rejected by the
Cameron Barksdale coalition: Major Mann Page
Prince George; K. L. Wilson, Petersburg; &. II
Short Chesterfield and the following colored men:
j. NJ. Dawson, straightout republican. and Irving
Story straightout democrat from Southampton.
Members of the Legislature have been appoint
ed on boards AS follows: Senators Thurman,
Christian and Atkinson on the Eastern Lunatc
Asylum; Senators Twyman, Meredith and Ed
munds on the Deaf Dumb and Blind Institute
Delegates Richardson and Graudsah tboth coali-
tionists on the Central Asylum. Sergeant at
Arms HILL of the House, is also member of this
last. First Assistant Clerk Waller, of the House,
is a member Of the Western Lnnatic Asylum
Board.
The Board of Directors Of the Deaf, Dumb and
Blind Institute, at Stauuton meets in Richmond the
LIST Of April for the purpose of elcctng Superin-
tendeut and officers for that institution and the
members of the other Boards meet on the 10th
of April for the purpose of eectng officers for thu
asyluns. Already number Of candidates are in
the field, and electioneering has commenced in
earnest
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-03-24

RAIDED.-The police force of Norfolk raided
two notorious negro gambling dens about two
o'clock Sunday morning. arresting about eighty
men and capturing the gambling appliances In
one of them about one hundred and twenty per.
sons were discovered gaming, and when the
police burst in, the CONSERVATION was terrific
Every window was thrown open and the crowd
commenced leapiug to the ground. Some drew
pistols to prevent the police from arresting them
and in their excitement discharged their weapons
and two persons were shot, The proprietors OF
the establishment and over forty other persons
were marched to the station house. A descent
was next made on similar place at the lower end
of Church street The police succeeded in cap
turing the proprietors and nearly everybody OH
the premises.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-03-24

In HIS speech on the Fitz-John Porter
bill, Mr.. Logan said
1T is perfectly natural that those who
have been engaged in rebellion against a
great government like this when they
failed of success and have themselves been
pardoned by the government, that they
should without the examination OF the
evidence in the case feel sympathy tor
those who during the war had been dis
missed the service Of the United States.
Why? Because they would naturally sym.
pathize with them and say, i have been
forgiven and therefore forgive everybody
else
Bot wouldn't it be just as natural and in
far better taste for one who after promoting
the rebellion and enlisting troops i'll its
cause, turned against it, to be equally as
sympathizing and torgivng, and to be
willing to agree with a court Of enquiry and
with the General Of the army, that he, as
well as they, might have been deceived
during the provocaion Of defeat. and to
right grievous wrong under when a
brave comrade has suffered for twenty odd
wears?
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-03-24

If a thing be right in itself, if its effects
ia the past have been advantageous, and if
The conditions for its beneticent action in
the future are favorable, there is every just
and patriotic motive to incite the democrats
in the t. :. House Of Representatives TO
vote for the Morrison bill No matter what
The Senate and the President may do with
il. let them show the people of the coun-
try that the national democratic party,
through It's accredited representatives III
Congress, is opposed to a larill that puts
double price on every necessary OF life, With
out increasing to the extent Of silver tie
price Of labor, and by which hundreds of
millions are eXacted from the people for
which there is no use, and which only lie
idle in the Treasury AS u constant incitive
to fraudulent and swindiiug schemes for lis
abstraction.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-03-24

A DRUMMER DEFEATED.-Talka about
pretty girls-but she was wild flower and
no mistake She got on the train to go
over to Meridian from Vicksburg, aud she
was all alone. There was sort of sidelong
movement among FIVE or six men, but a
drummer for Philadelphia saddlery house
got there first. He grabbed up his grip
and walked square up to her seat
and took possession of half Of it without
asking question, and in ten minutes he
seemed to be perfectly at home. She an
swered his questions briefly, and he had the
hardest kind of work to keep up converse
ton, bnt as the train approached Jackson
she suddenly asked:
81 want to telegraph papa from here.
Will you help me?"
ooh certainly I have a blank in my
pocket. Write your telegram and will run
into the Office with it,"
We missed him when the train started,
but by and by he was found in the smoking
car, his hat crushed down and his nerves all
on edge. When asked what had happened,
he drew forth the telegram which
the girl had requested him to hand in. 1t
read
Bring your shotgun with you to pop over
drummer who has dreadfully annoyed me.
Shoot to kill !"
"To thiuk," be gasped, "that one SO fair
could be so murderous Why, I'm all in a
sweat want some of you to stand by me ~
We got his grip from the seat, traded hats
and coats with him, and the way he slid
from the depot when the train reached Mer-
idian caused hotel porter to observe:
well, now, but that white face belongs
to an invalid aud them legs to deer What
sort of coon can he be-"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-03-24
ALEXANDRIA, Va.
MONDAY EVENING, MARCH "a.

The INDEPENDENT republicans Of Chicago
have adopted a resolution to the effect that
Republican victory at the next election de-
pends upon that element OF the party
which, by reason of its independence OF ac-
ton, and its patriotic motives, has IN lis
hands the party success at the polls. They
believe that it is essential this year TO nomi-
nate for the presidency and vice presidency,
men who are committed to the work of adj
ministrative reform, and the total removal
of the spoils system and 'bossism' from pub
lie lite, and they are convinced that the IN
dependent republicans will refuse to vote
for candidates whose records, characters
aul opinions, do not illustrate these princi-
piles" Should this resolution eInbody the
sentiments of the maj ority of the delegates
to the National Republican Convention,
Mr.. Arthur will stand a poor chance OF
obtaining the nomination of that conVen-
ton. for of all the men in this country, as
proven by his actions, none is more opposed
TO administrative reform and more IN favor
of bossisln than the man who drew the
presidential prize in the lottery Of assassina-
ton. But it is because he is so that many
people think no will be nominated.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-03-24

THE CHIEF argument that anomaly, the
protectionist democracy, urges against the
Morrison taritfbill is that reduction of the
tariff will reduce the price of labor. In view
of the fact that though the existing high
tariff has been in operation for nearly a
quarter of century the wages of labor
in the protected mining industries of Penn
sylvania are sixty FIVE cents a day, it would
seem that that argument should be abandon
ed as soon as possible.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-03-24

GENERAL MALONE intends to make the
testimony of Mr.. /. {. Fowler, recently a
wide mouthed, ultra and proscrptive dem
ocrat, but now the republican clerk of the
u. 5. Court at Abingdon, before the Dan
vile investigating committee, campaign
document for Northern consumption dur
ing the next Presidential contest. But thir-
ty of the leading reputable and most re-
spected citizens of Mr. Fowler's own town,
over their own signatures, declare that they
are prepared to prove, by their own oaths
and the oaths Of many Others, that his testi-
1nony referred to is false.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-03-24

THE democracy of the New York Uorld is
avouched by its support of tariff whose
protection in many instances reaches the
degree of prohibition, and by its opposition
to laws to prevent miscesenation. Such
democracy may suit the democrats of New
York, but it isn't the sort that gees with
the democrats of the States whose votes
make the election of democratic President
nnsaihlA
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-03-24

AS MR. RANDALL is on recent record as
saying that tariff simply for protection is
unconstitutional, and that he is opposed to
the imposition of the tax of such a tariff,
his opposition to the Morrison bill proves
him to be remarkably inconsistent, at least
on one important subject. The effects of
the Morrill, taiih, the one now in operation,
show that it is eminently a protective tariff,
while the Morrison bill is intended solely to
reduce the degree Of protection.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-03-24
ADVICE TO MOTHERS.

MRS WINsLow's SOOTHING SYRUP should al
WAYS be used when children are cutting teeth.
It relieves the little sufferer st 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 soothes
the child, softens the gums, alays all pain, re-
lieves wind, regulates the bowels, and is the best
known remedy for diarrhGa whether arising
from teething Or other causes. Twenty five cents
bottle. mT4M,W&S
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PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS TO-DAY
SENATE.

The chair laid before the Senate COM
munication from the Attorney General ask
ing for an appropriation ofslo,ooo to Dc
applied to the defense of the United states
in cases referred by Congress and the Exc
cutive departments to the Court of Claims
Mr.. Vance presented the views OF the
minority of the Committee on Foreign Re
lations, relative to the action and report OF
the Committee on the subject of the excIu'
sion of American meats from foreign coun-
tries.
A number of bills were reported iavorably
from committees and placed on the calendar.
HOUSE.
Mr.. Ellis, Of Louisiana, introduced joint
resolution appropriating $500, 900 to be i'm
mediately available, to be expended at the
discretion of the Secretary of War in pre-
veating the overflow Of the city of New
Orleans and the country adjacent thereto,
which after some debate was referred to the
Committee on Appropriations.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-03-24

ST. Nicholas for April has been received from its
publishers, The Century publishing Company,
New York. Under the head of Historic Boys
is an interesting account of Harry Of Monmouth,
the Boy General.
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possible.

THE DUTY on Peruvian bark and the tax
on alcohol are so great thata quinine manu-
fucturer of Philadelphia has removed part
of his plant to country where there is no
duty and where the tax is less. Accepting
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the protectionists own ground, false as it is,
that protection promotes manufactures, why
tax should be laid on raw material no dis
interested man can tell.