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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-08-14

BALTIMORE CATTLE MARKET. Aug. l3.-Sheep
and ami s.-Thcre arc no Sheep or Lambs
in the pens on sale, all of Mondays offerings hav-
ing been disposed of, with no fresh arrivals re-
corded. Prices unchanged Hogs.-The receipts
since Monday number 125 head, which, with
Mondays offerings, have been disposed OF at I'M
changed rates.
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A LOT OF SLIGHTLY sOLLED BRILLIANT
n Isle Thread Gloves for DC. pair.
ong2 tAMOS r. ST.ATMAKERS.
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Cattle Markets


QUEENSTOWN CATTLE MARKET. August 13.-A
Queenstown this week 60 head of Cattle offered
with sales at k.a51a cents per III. Some 1O2s
Sheep and Lsmhs offered Sheep sold at Bad y cts
and Lambs at 5 iba6 n cents per ID. Some Cow:
and Calves sold at $25a5O per head.
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TOUvIE'S BEST GENUINE KID GLOVES
y for 25 cents at
aug3 AMOS IT, SHAY MhkEho.
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Ill WOOL INDIGO BATHING FLANNEL
a at IS cts. yard, for sale by
WOO AMOS B. SLAYMAKER.
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T ARGE PLEASANT Rooms WITH BOARD,
| or board only, can be had by applying 10
Miss F. F. MASON, No. III Queen street. tour
doors below Washington. augl3-3taW lm
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NEW YORK CATTLE MARKET, Aug. 13.-Beevcs.
No trading in Beef Cattle dressed Beef steady at
Sac 1ac per ID for native sides and 7aS for Texas
60 Sheep Market steady for good Sheep; dull
and lower for Lambs sales at ;5a4H.r per ID for
Sheep AID llaaGk. for Lambs, 4 few choice state
and Maryland Lambs going to Gl2 Hogs nomi-
nally weak aud lower at 81 21a4 10 per 100 lbs.
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REM 0V AL

DURING ALTERATIONS
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-10-02
A Prophetic Speech.

The following is from a C~astroville,
Texas, exchanges: In the last cam
paign there were three or four candi-
dates for District Attorney. Ed. Hal
ton was n of them and w. r. Wal
lace was another. Wallace, who was
then holding the office, was a brilliant
fellow, n would have made a big
mark but for whisky. He couldn't
let the guzzle alone, and was in bad
shape on account of it. Halton, on
the other hand, was a sober, industri-
Gus young fellow. One night he was
in Castroyille making a speech, and in
telling of the kind of man who should
fill the responsible position of District
Attorney, said he should be sober at
al times, reliable, and OF good associa-
tons. This, Of course, was a hit at
Wallace, who happened to be present.
After Halton had got through we were
surprised to see Wallace get up.
Gentlemen of the jr-gen'lemen,"
he said, catching himself; sit is not
to take exception at what has been
said here that l rise."s Every one saw
thai he was under the influence. and
wondered what was coming. but kept
still, and Wallace continued: II have
no hard feelings against the amiable
young gentleman who has just spoken.
l like h;m-I like him, an l don't
want to see him get into trouble. 1t
rests with you, voters. whether this
young man will be saved. You all re-
member Perry Hunt, who was District
Attorney several years ago-he was
killed in a saloon row. And there
was Henry jackson, who succeeded
him-he was found dead with a whis-
Ky bottle by his side. And poor
Pinckney Jones-he died shortly after
being elected. A fatality hangs over
the office, gentlemen. Here am I N.Y.
self, who succeeded poor Pinckncy, a
wreck, gong to the devil fast, as you
all know. My dear friends, if you
have any respect for my worthy OPP
ponent, any care for his welfare, for
Gods sake do not elect him, for he
will surely go to the devil, too Wal
lace spoke with a greatdealof feeling,
and we didn't know whether 70 laugh
or cry. The strangest part of it was
that that speech seemed prophetic. 1t
was SO neatly done that it turned Che
tide in Wallace's favor, and he was
reelected. But a few mornings after
the election he was found dead on the
floor of his office.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-10-02
Paganini's Playing.

How did Paganini playp Now like ar
angel, now like a demon with his tail
in a closed door. He played like the very
devil himself-never like a mortal
man. Such sounds %assuredly have
never yet been drawn from a violin.
The only thing that sounded like them
was pulling a cat by the hind leg from
under an ash barrel. In fact. they
were no real violin sounds; they
sounded like the roaring of the storm,
like the surging of the sea, like a
chronic snorer with his nose longest
ed, like a brakeman on the Elevated
Railroad with n cold in his head, like
the ringing of the trombone, like the
thunder of fat man with a deep
voice whose %suspender button flew of,
like the chimes Of dinner bell, or the
sound of a bird, like the anguish and
despair of man, like moaning, and
singing, and whining and weeping.
And when the G string walled, then
tears come through the eyes from the
listening hearts Of men. tears of sad
ness and delight, real salt and water
tears as big as Texas pecan nuts
none of your artificial tears gotten up
to deceive the public.
His performance had the effect of
flashes of lightning in a dark night
He was as full of electricity as a black
cat that is rubbed the wrong way of
the fur. While he played, q nervous
tremor went through his whole frame.
shaking, thin and spectre-like as it
was, and from his gloomy eyes there
flashed a deeply-seated, raging fire,
such as is sometimes seer in the ewes
OF an editor on whom Il %barkeeper
showed off a bad quarter. With the
last stroke of the bow the player sank
completely exhausted upon his chair,
and whispered fecbly: .'Send for a
sour toddy.'
His technique was the purest chro-
matte roulades, his wonderfully clear
intonation, even in humorous bizar-
reries, excited the astonishment of
people who We're engaged in the
manufacture of bizarreries and knew
all about them. His broken accords
across all the four strings, from the
lowest depths up to the giddiest
heights, could not be distinguished
o the noise made by a boy running
a stick along a picket fence. His
rapid octave playing upon the G string,
his silvery chime Of bells, his forts,
slmo, which drownded the whole of
the orchestra, followed Immediately
by the sweetest, most charming
Planissimo, a only be compared to
the loud voice of a woman who is
scolding her boy for tearing his pants,
and suddenly hears the voice Of her
pastor at the door asking if she is in.
All this was uncomfortable and in
comprehensive, and, therefore, also
understandable. Even the best violin
lists OF Berlin shook their heads and
said: 1--WE do not comprehend it; that
is s%uperhuman. If we had not heard
n seen this performance, we should
not believe it." And yet Paganini died
a natural death. He was never even
shot at.-Tscas .Siiftin1s,
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-10-02
Kansas Historical Society.

VII. Harry Frost. of the .S~utuyiay
hte"lag Lance, has been making re-
searches IN the rooms of the Kansas
State Historical Society. and pives
that institution the follow,np apnrov-
ing words:
The State Historical Society's
rooms IN the west wing of the State
.iouse furnish a most enjoyable place
10 pass an afternoon, if YOU are inter.
ested IN inc history of Kansas and her
people. Within its walls are volumes
anu l'ofarles of unwrittcn history, COW
erlng every important epoch and every
incident IN the career of Kansas from
her earliest settlementdown to TODAY
~ career the like OF which has never
n"eh known IN the annals of States.
u aPers' books, pictures. letters, SOU
sehlrs' implements of war, relics. and
every other conceivable thing that mas
a story TO tell has been collected and
arranged here in such order that they
.ie " easy access, and of great value
~ the searcher for information.
yudge Adams, the secretary, assisted
ny ms two daughters, has established
such system of filing that it is the
Morh o. but a minute to find tones of
Information upon any subject you de-
SIRE ahdln finding this, the secretary
nan ms assistants are always happy to
lenaer what assistance is NECESSARY.
ime people OF Kansas can not now an
pioIlate the great value of this society's
WORK but in years to come its i'm
worth will be Impressed
upon ALL, pAosoo
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-10-02
A Friglltf,1l Case ofPoisoninr.

New York Evening Post.
A fatal accident has Just occurred at
the St, Louis Hospital, in Paris. Two
male patients, n OF whom was being
treated for Bright's disease and the
other for tuberculosis, We're ordered a,
spoonful each OF q certain mixture.
The principal attendant pupil in the
a~pothecary's department OF the hos
pltai made a mistaken preparing the
prescription, and, instead Of the re-
CURED mixture, sent up two doses OF
deadly poison to the ward nurse.
These were given to the two unfortu-
nate patients, who, after swallowing
the fatal draughts, fell back on their
pillows and died without utterine a
Iiurlnur or n mean. The. S5perinten-
lent of the hospital instantly held an
INQUIRY into the cause of the deaths
Ind summoned the chief apothecary
Q his assistance. The latter COM
nnnicated the result of his terrible
mistake to the attendant pupil, a.
goungg man who had passed a highly
;feditable examination in pharmacy
before entering the hospital three
months ago. The pupil became almost
deilfiQts with despair, and ATTEMPTED
to poison himself on the spot. He
was afterwards allowed provisional
liberty pAndiilngg his formal arrest BY
sthe police.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-10-02
Beer anu the British Laborer.

in the county of Herts l stopped to
talk with a farmer who was cutting
down his tall, handsome hav rick and
loading the hay for the London mark
ct. he was a lively, progressive sort
of a man, who had been an emierant
to Australia, and, after a long resi-
dence there, had again returned to the
home farm in England, and like many
others who had lived years away from
England, he had returned with many
broad IDEAS in his mind. Speaking
with hun OF the bad beer-drinking hab-
its OF the English l%aborers, he said the
great trouble was they would not use
the beer in moderation. A moderate
use OF beer he thought might be bene-
fetal tothem. Iasked him to tell me
what his idea OF moderation in this re-
gard was. He replied that in having
time, which in old rs in New England
is a period when the farm hand is ex-
pected to work unusually hard, Il la
boring man ought TO be able to ret
along on Il gallon of beer aaav. If
the men would put up with about that
quantity beer would not hurt them.
These very astonishing temper
ance views | afterward heard adj
vanced by other quite intelligent
English farmers. In giving the state
ment Of the vast number of arrests for
drunkenness that are annually made
in England, an American ought to re-
member that laws are probably more
strictly enforced in England than in
any other country on the face of the
earth. l found that many English
laborers seemed to live almost entire.
ly on beer. A very little bread and n
large moun of beer seemed to make
up their daily sustenunce. | remem.
Der seeing a English laborer, who
had himself abandoned its use, hold
ing up before me Il very small loaf of
bread-a loaf about the size of a coffee
cup-and exclaiming: '.See this, one
OF our hard workers will make IL DAVIS
food of this. if you will give him beer
enough to go with it, l used fire.
quently to see these beer-drinkers sit
ting in the taprooms at all times of
the day, but they were most in the
habit of swarming into these places
at night. 1t IS often the custom for n
little clique of British workmen to sit
down around the plain pine table in
the b%eer-nouse aud begin the evening
by ordering a quart pewter pot Of
beer between them. They pass this
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-10-02
Gum UlODS.

A wise mar may be pinched BY pow
erty; but only Il fool will let himself
be pinched by tight shoes.
When Il young lady hens banker
chiefs Tor Il rich bachelor, she proba-
b!v sews in order that she may reap.
1t is justly said of Il woman that she
divides mans sorrow aud doubles his
Joys. Fifty that she quadruples his ex.
penses.
Consolation: There is said to be
something consoling for every Ill in
this life. For instance, if a man ia
hair. 49,
What is the difference between an
ola bachelor and a pretty girl? A pref
ty girl steals the hearts of others, and
a horrid old bachelor sssteels" his
own. A
what's the world coming to? Sew
eral OF our most respected men and
women have lately taken the habit of
posing in almost any position for the
astonlsiicd gaze of Il crowd of specta-
tors. "At the rink
What is fashion? Dinners Mt n,bbt
:, - 1ue morning. what
- WIZ conversation that leads to
Droken heads aud enemies. What is
!oy! 10 count your money and know
lnae IL does not belong to your credit
one OF the saddest and most touch
ing sights IN life is that of a young
man who has spent six months in coax.
liS anu waxing Il mustache intolre-
spectacle size and shape, and them in
.se act OF Lighting u cigar with a slip
y purns and scorciIes the whole
ltstilul'on INTO an unrecognizable mass
y s!hged mar Chicngo Ledger.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-10-02
Current Coin.

1t is rumored that Sullivan, the slug
ger, will lever slug any human being
again in Il ring.
The only difference between going
a-tishing" and ''been fishing IS IN the
number of back-achcs and self denun-
Citations. r.
The man who intends to camp out
next month should begin to prepare
for it by sleeping in the back yard
and eating raw meats.
lone fool less was the general YER
dict over the fate OF the New York
jumper the other day. If such fellows
can stand it, the public can.
Some people are trying to make
themselves believe that "a cold May
means Il warm November That isn't
consolation enough to pay for a ton of
coal.
Forepaugh's elephants are SO used
to the railroad cars that every time
they hear a locomotive whistle they
begin to scrooch to clear the top of tho
door.
1t is rather curious that no one has
yet claimed to be the originator of the
phrase: painting the town red"
Perhapsit slipped in when nobody
vas looking.
You can have a star named after
you by handing any astronomer 1925
in cash. They have formed Il ring and
set their figures, and will pick you out
M without any flaws.
Joe Blossom, q Florida colored man,
left his boot-heel III an alligator's
mouth the other day, and he says a
reptile which can't calculate closer
than that ought to go hungry for u
mouth.
Mai. Burke, who retlres from tho
dictatorship of the Exposition, has
used his fortune and broken himself
down physically to carry through an
undertaking which appalled, all other
men.
A New York State dairy maid has
succeeded in milking nine cows in
twcnty-eight minutes, and that with
out being kicked once. She'd proba-
bly, go through her husbands wallet
in five seconds.
Carter Harrison may not reap a
cent from his libel suits, but he must
feel a bit proud over the figures. He
10 ShC ouiN ihdH Ill AtucIlCu WHO mas
ever had $500, 900 worth of fun before
him.
According to some scientists the
genuine man lived about 5000, 900
years ago. and the present generation
is composed of Il lot of leavings and
peelings not worthy of mention in a
first reader.
A package of 1928, 900, carelessly
wrapped up in an old newspaper,
knocked around in n passenger coach
on the Wabash Road all day, and a
porter finally took charge of it under
the belief that it was some drummer's
old coat.
81 want you to understand" said a
French Judge to n prisoner who seem
ed inclined to laugh, ''thut this charge
is serious-quite serious. Indeed. you
are suspected Of having poisoned six
people. and | can't look upon it as a
trlfilng matter-indced, | can't."-De-
troit Free Press.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-10-02

blow that would almost. if not quite,
knock down a man. saw lin after
wards. He carried his head in a
peculiar way. as if suffering from the
%toothache or neuralgia, and seemed to
have lost his voice and appetite"
did your neighbor say anything to
you about it?" asked the visitor.
mo, but in a few days he killed the
three himself and made a dinner of
them. l don't know whether he saw
me shooting at them or not, but rather
think that he or some of his family
did. Oh, If you want pleasant music
buy some guinea hens; they're worse
than fog-horns by a darned sight,
Pec6's SIM.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-10-02
stormy sights in the Lighthous.

stormy sights In the Lighthouse
Rockport (Mass.) Leeter to the Philadel
phia Times.
"Yes, we see and hear some curious
things said the lighthouse keeper
and as for monotony, its enough tc
drive II mad. Married menfareb bet.
ter, as, when women and children are
around, it isn't quite so lonesome; but
it's bad enough. My station for a
number OF years was a rock about tive
hundred feet long and one hundred feet
wide, and in a gale OF wind the house
stood right in the water, with the seas
rolling all around.
"Yes, it wasshaky. One night / cal
to mind especially. 1t had been blow.
ing q gale for two days; the sea was
making a clean breach over the ledge,
and every time it hit the house ii
would jump sixty or 100 feet into the
air and come down on the roof like
rocks. On the ledge were four or five
powders that must have weighed over
two tons, and the first thing we knew
- - - Nt1.s nAo 70 eiic uoot'
III " ~, a'lu ~ na = second we We're
81 sMin,nlnis stone couidn,t
81 ~ 1. Iuse SUCK mere, SO we TOOK
n;.., ssno gnu sew On tns sta,fs' and
mpa irone 10 ueath, an night. Me
aa: my nan TOOK turns In
ssua up every nan honr,
swung SO that you could hardly keep
wv a ! NN. more than once
M VI go over, put n didn't.
4hi.a e9a.lis y ullieteht rom 0 any
I'M tlts else' y 'ere IS a shakin and VI
~ enhs nn ehe lll'e, aho then when
Nj E;sss colhe you can ieel the
thn4ra,a siei,l9le anu qalvef' so
mn.a ~ y .i,ios1 .ose your 1eet.
.I .on,aa I'LL coht.nued the speaker,
al aH sI"n"a SOME fishermen got dow,
~hat - n;oLt anu came IN there, ana
sec I'LL. vas! Apo1o hiidhigiit
A,a oie sings 9.lo Inc amps out
49, : "s.s. sP VIZ rusted, a q
,,tas n';ah Vs. scareu 70 asten mn,
10y .ose agood many iives n
q foot - conla come within twenty
n. ~ ~ iouse before she struck.
,ajaaa 81, Ing ns wegoe up we lound the
RbaS fa,,i,a . ~ anu see sonletn'ne
a. ;.le cnlniliey, What
= ~ Vas. on neVerguess
~. was uiomine NJ 10 take the buttons
~ souf coae, pu1 some one a TO go
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-10-02
Boys Will Be Buoys.

Some Florida boys, who had q
swimming hole along the st. John
river, were often driven out of the
water by very large alligator who
came to sample them. AT last they
hit upon a little racket to get even
with him. They constructed a buoy
the exact size, shape and shade of an
ordinary boy, and filled it with nitro
glycerinc. and took a pole and pushed
it out a little way from shore. Pres
emily the alligator came up with his
mouth wide open like a steel trap, and
in one bite he took in over half the
buoy, who just at that juncture went
off and blew him tail first about three
miles up the river.
Moral-'Boys will be buoys."-
Life.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-10-02
A Valuable Hint.

"What are you buying nowP' asked
Ned Stevenson of Andrew Powell, on
meeting the latter in Bells jewelry
store.
81 am looking for some present to
give my wife on her birthday. l tell
you making presents costs a heap of
money!
WHY don't you do as 1 do? l have
never failed to make my wife a present
on her birthday every year for twenty
five years, and l am not out a cent
thus far"
slow do you manage it?"
at is very simple. After we were
married, when her birthday came
around l gave her a twenty dollar gold
piece. When my birthday came
around she gave the twenty dollar
piece back, and we have. kept that up
ever since. and neither of us are out
a cent. "-Teaas Sitlings.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-10-02
A Chinese Miners Luck.

Years ago John Manuel left home and
family in England and came to Iowa
Hill to seek his fortune. Every wear
he added to his pile, and when his
Oldest boy was grown he came to share
his labors. One snowy day IA mighty
cave from the North Star banks crush
ed out the lads life, and the father
followed him to the grave.
The next son came from England,
and they both worked in this same
mine till the father yielded up his
life under another avalanche of earth
and stone. 1t was known that he had
money buried somewhere, but, though
they dug and searched, no one could
find a clue to its hiding place. In a
couple of months the second son was
sacrificed in the same tanner and on
almost the same spot where his father
and brother had been killed, and
mother and family in England we're
bcreaved indeed.
The search for the money was given
up in despair, and the i'll fated men
and their story were all but forgotten.
when this week a couple of China
men, who speak good English, told
that last summer a Chinaman, work
ing on the night shift in the old Jami-
son diggings, saw a large box come
down with a I've On examination
he found thatit contained 81, 200 and
a sparkling ring. This was doubtless
Manuels money, for he was known to
have taken a diamond ring for a debt
of $50. 1t had been hidden under
the old Ladd house, owned by the
late MI. Carder, in which house Man
uel lived at the time of the accident.
The crafty heather told but one per-
son, a fellow. heather. swearing him to
secrecy till he should have departed
in safety. The finder is now in the
Flowery Kingdom, where he has
probably become a nabob or manda.
rim by this time.-Place1 Times.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-10-02

around from mouth to mouth win u
drink, mate" chatting the while.
When the mug is exhausted 1t Is.
..Here, missus, another pot OF beer
and SO they keep it up untll the even
ing is over. The quantity OF beer an
English workingman viii get away
with is certainly astonishing. a Bed
fordshirc man told me OF Il neighbor
of his who was what they there termed
II observation-disclosures carpenter. ora
..follow-the-field carpenter that is,
a carpenter who has no regular JOB OF
his own, but who did odd Jobs at his
trade out of doors; who made a regu-
lar practice of drinking ten quarts OF
beer a day. He would do THIS year in
and year out and keep steadily at his
work.-Boston Commercial Bulletin.