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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-10-08

SLOW EATING.-The idea of rest and re.
creation and deliberation in eating no long
or occupies the thought of the American
boy, much less OF tho business man. Yet the
power Of ones life depends as much upon
this as upon any one conduct of life. The
relation of the chewing and the juices of the
mouth to the after digestion, all along the
digestive track. and to that assimilation
which is to give force and vigor to work, is
such that we cannot afford to forget the es.
sential relationship. The failure of this part
of the apparatus to do its part does not in
vove immediate loss Of power Or hedridden
sickness, but it is more frequent limitation
upon forceful life than any one disability. A
thorough digestion not only leaves the mind
clear and the nervous system placid, but so
provides the physical and mental machn-
cry with its propeling power as TO make
thought as. natural as il it were q physical
function. It is not difficult to see in the
work, as we'll as in the writings Of some
men, the traces of bad physical condition.
Emerson overstated the case when he stat
ed that the sick man is on the road to ras
cality, but, nevertheless, did indicate what
is true, that man in chronic state of en-
barrassed digestion if out Of gear with him.
self and the rest of mankind. We believe
that the foundation of many an incapacty
is laid in this want of quiet, deliberate eat
ing.-1ndependem.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-10-08

WHALE FISHING in small steamers off the
coast of New England is getting TO be a bus
mess Of some importance, four steamers
formerly catching menhaden) having been
steadily engaged during the past season.
They cruise Off tho Maine and Massachu-
setts shores as far south as Cape Cod. il
bomb lance, fired from gun held at the
shoulder is The weapon employed in killing
the whales, about fifty of which have been
taken this year. They will average GO feet
in length and % tons in weight. Each ono
yields about % barrels Of oil, 9 barrels Of
meat, S tons of dry chum, and 9 tons Of
bone, the value OF which amounts to about
$400. As the men become expert in the
capture the whales become shy and keep
more in deep water. This will be fatal to
the business as at present conducted, since
a dead whale usually sinks, and can hardly
be recovered from depth of more than
forty fathoms
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-10-08
ALEXANDRIA, VA.
ru1rBsDAy EVENING, OCTOBER 8.

AS ANTICIPATED, the probability now Is
th.t the Balkans trouble will be settieo
without war. The Same reason that pre-
wanted war between England and Russia
ona between Spain and Germany will, is
likely, be equally as effective in the case OF
Turkey and her revolving province Inc
rulers of Europe think they can't afford tho
risks of a war now. They fear that the
communists, anarchists and nihilists there
ara too numerous and formidable now 10 De
allowed such favorable opportunity ior
exhibiting their strength as war "oulo
afford. Still, as conflict with these classes
has to come, and as they are increasing IN
numbers and growing in strength every
day, it would seer, that they had better E be be-
mat now than later, when they shall be
moro efficiently organized
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-10-08
A REMARKABLE OpERArIoN.-Thc !

A REMARKABLE OPERATIoN.-TEc re-
sults of remarkable operation recently
performed by DR.. Roswell Park, Of Buffalo,
n. Y, were exhibited to the Medical Col
lege students Mt the General Hospital clinic
on Saturday morning. 1t consists of The
substitution Of q silver windpipe ard larynS
for ono eaten away by q cancer The opcI-
alton has only been performed successfully
twice before in this country. The patient
is man over sixty years old, and himself a
physician. A cancsr had destroyed the
windppe, including the larynx-the upper
part Of the windpipe containing tho vocal
cords. The whole pipe was cut away, ard
silver tube substituted, which supplies the
organs of speech partly-lhat is, he is able
to articuate as before, but all his speaking
will be in one tone, tho value of sound be.
ing always the same. a reed has been fix
ed in the windpipe tube by which these re-
suits are achieved. For six weeks tho ply
sicians have been at work getting The new
pipe to fit exactly in its place, and it is a
perfect success.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-10-08

DIPHTHERIA FROM GAIA back number Of
the Therapeutic Gazette had an article, speaking Of
the possibility of tho transmission Of diphthera
from fowls to children rice rerSn, which brought
to my mind an experience of my own. Some
years ago was called to see two cases OF diphthc-
ria of violent nature-indeed very malignant,
as they both died. The parents thought the dis
ease was contracted from cat. They said that
as one of the children was playing with the cat
sometime previous to their attack, it remarked
that the kitten had diphthcria. Upon cxamina.
ton the cat was found, to all appearances, to be
thus affected, having sore throat sweled neck,
and real mcmbranous exudations on the Mucous
membrane of its throat, and around the edge of
eyes and nostris. Tie cat died within short
time, and the children were violently taken with
the worse form of malignant diphtheria. write
this as being OF no snecia benefit, but simply to
show that such thing as the transmission Of
diphtheria from lower animals to the human is us
likely rs the transmission in the same way of
many other malignsnt diseases. -Josepa l.. Scott,
~ D.
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Murder.

HULING, Tex, Oct. S.-Two murders &C.
Cured in this vicinity yesterday. A farmer
named Spnks was shot and instantly killed
by John Patton one of his tenants. Patton
hired mule Of Spinks, which died natu-
raj death while in Patton's possession.
Spinks claimed payment for the mule and
attempted to prevent the delivery Of Pat.
toms cotton. They met, and Patton, pull
ing revolver, shot his landlord through
the heart. Patton was arrested.
About noon VIM. Hardenan, overseer of
the Walker plantation, shot and killed a
mulatto named Murde Stewart. Hearing
that Hardeman was going to discharge him
Stewart told the negroes that he would kill
Hardcman. AT this juncture Hardeman
came upon the negroes. He had overheard
Stewards threat, and bringing his shot gun
to his shoulder fired into Stewards breast.
After the mulatto had fallen, Hardeman
rode TO town and surrendered.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-10-08

FUNERAL REFoRM.-The Dean Of Canter-
bury has sent the following letter to the
Secretary of the Funeral and Mourning Re-
form Association: "What to do with the
dead is one Of the most anxious problems Of
our overcrowded times. Our present evil
customs, growing partly out of affection for
the dead, but even more out OF the helpless
ness Of the mourners, who shrink from CIV
ing orders, and leave all to the undertakers
make our funerals hdeous and expressive of
dark despair, instead Of that Christian
hope which renders our burial service so
bright and comforting. While, too, we
profess to be restoring earth to earth we
do our utmost to obstruct the bene6cent
action of nature by bricked graves
and solid collins, thus preventing tho
healthful separation OF our remains into
their component parts, and storing them
up to the injury of the living. But
there are signs of great Improvement,
and as for flowers, if the wreaths are the
gifts of friends, I DO not object to their null
Letters to the same effect have
also been received from the Bishops of Win
chester, Sodor and Man, and Nottingham,
and the Dean of Windsor.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-10-08
HEWS OF THE DAY.

Mr.. Parnell, it is said, is alarmed at the
extent to which boycotting has spread in
Ireland, and at the bitterness in the local
branches of the national leaguers.
The warlike attitude of Servia has COM
PEELED the Porte to call out more reserves
for service on the frontiers. An imperial
trade has been issued modifying the entire
army.
Democratic primaries were held in Balt-
more Yesterday to nominate candidates for
both branches OF the City Council, and to
elect delegates TO o convention TO nominate
a candidate for Mayor. Mr. Hodges had
no opposition. In some of the wards there
were lively contests for the Council nom
nations.
Mrs. Druse, who murdered her husband,
with the aid of her son, daughter and
nephew. in Warren, Herkimer county, n.
Y. last December, and cut up and buried
the remains, has been sentenced to be ex
ecutcd on Wednesday, November %. No
woman has been executed in Central New
York for over forty years.
The Sydney (Australia) Herald announce:
the marriage of Dion Boucicault to Miss
Louisa Thorndyke on September 8. Mis-:
Thorndyke is the daughter of Gen. Richard
Thorndyke, of tae British army, who was
an the staff of the Prince of Wales when the
latter visited India. She is twenty seven
wears old. Mr.. Boucicault is about sixty
eight years old. Miss Thorndyke, who had
been playing the leading juvenile lady il
travelling companies in the South and South
west, went to San Francisco with Bouci
cault, and put herself under his tuition fol
the part of the heroine in his play "All TO-
Love" He fell in love with his pupil, will
the above result.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-10-08

VIRGINIA shows q surprising increase in
values within the past five years. The re-
assessments for the real estate arc now all in
the Auditors office, and the enhancement
in real property which they show over the
assessment of 1880 is $50, 103, 1882. The
increase in personal property in the same
time is stated to be S2l $50, $50. 1t thus ap.
pears that the taxable values Of the CoIn
monwealth, real aud personal, have increas-
ell within the last five years S57 ,9SS, 1882,
or at the rate of over Sll ,000,O 00a year and
this at period Of general depression. Com
mentins on this exhibit, the Industrial
South, a partisan paper, with pardonable
pride, says: "None but a people of I'M
conquerable will and indomitabe energies
could have made ofa State SO tra!npled in
the dust as Virginia was twenty years ago
what she is to-day. She is putting on her
regal robes again. Look at her!"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-10-08

NEW DEVICE FOR STEAMsHIPs.-A novel
sight was witnessed by several hundred
people from the wharf Of thu Barge Office
yesterday afternoon. Capt. Dickinson and
number Of ladies and gentlemen boarded
the life boat Elizabeth, and locking them
selves in alright apartments were launched
from lighter into the river. The launch
was q success, and was followed by
q capsize that tumbled the occupants
about, but they remained perfectly dry.
Capt. Dickinson expects that the boat, of
which the Elizabeth is model, will before
long be adopted by many Of the large steam
ships and also the Government.-N. y.
Journal I'd.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-10-08

A prominent citizen of Jones county
Miss, who stood high in the church, made
a visit to Meridian recently, and upon his
return told his neighbors he had seen ice
manufactured in that town with the Their
mometer standing at 9So. It soon became a
settled fact in the minds of the members of
the church that brother Blank had degene-
rated into an able liar. Charges were pre-
ferred against him, and committee of
church members were appointed to visit
Meridian and convict the erring brother of
lying. They went. saw the ice manufac-
tured, and, returning home, so reported
to a meeting of all the church men,
bers. A look of establishment on the
faces of the assembled brethren gave way to
one of indignation, and brother Blank and
and the entire committee were incontinent-
" expelled from the church.-New Orleans
Times Democrat.
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NORFOLK ITEMS.
lcorrssnondenne of the Alexandria GAZETTE

Correspondence Of the Alexandria GAZETTE.
NORFOLK, Va, Oct. This has prob
ably been ono of the most healthy years
know for many in this city. With the ex-
ception of slight prevalence of scar
let fever during the past winter and
spring, there has been no epidemic of any
kind. Though there is very large. negro
population, who seem to live during the
summer principally on fish and melons, the
two negro doctors we have, have been able
to attend to most of the cases amongst them.
Indeed, doubt whether there is a more
healthy city in America than Norfolk, for
while the death rate is sometimes high, it is
chiefly among the negroes, whose improVi'
dence, imprudence and poverty arc as
provcrbal here rs in any other part of the
world.
There is no indication as yet of any
political excitement, not even among the
negroes-for their usual campaign prayer
meetings have not commenced is
usually the first indication of q political
fever.
The CumberIand-strce Baptist Church Of
this city was rent, some two years ago, by
internal dissentions, and large number
withdrew and attempted to organize an in
dependent church. During tho past week
wiser counsels prevailed amongst them, and
correspondence was opened between the
divided membership, which eliminated last
Sunday in hearty reunion at the mother
church, amidst a dense congregation, hun
dreds being unable to gain admission. DR..
T. G. Jones, the pastor, preached one of the
most appropriate and powerful sermons it
has ever been my fortune to hear, on the
occasion, and the whole affair was highly
gratifying and deeply impressive.
Indications of revival of business are
seen in the increased number of buildings
going up, the busy movements Of drays,
and the hoarse breathngs of the cotton
presses. HANOVER.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-10-08

The old idea that white labor was una
valuable in Southern cotton fields has gone
to take its place with other exploded thee
ries. Within the last quarter of a century
white labor has been gradually supplanting
colored labor in the fields. In recent dis.
cussion Of the question several South
ern journals agreed that nearly fifty per
cent. of colored labor has given way to
white industry. This may be accounted for
very easily. There is tendency among
the negroes TO drift to towns and cities.
The women stay at home and the children
are sent to school. All this cuts of an i'm
meuse percentage of field work. In some
sections of the South the climatic conditions
keep white men out of the cotton field. but
in the greater part of the planting districts
the whites have naturally adapted them.
selves to the new order of things. Even in
Texas it is estimated that three quarters of
the cotton crop is gathered and handled by
white men. This change in our labor sys.
is not to be regretted. On the contrary, it
is one of the most encouraging signs of the
atlanta (Ga.) Constitution.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-10-08
Affairs in Ireland.

DUBLIN, Oct. S.-The nationalist have
decided to contest every Irish Parliament
tary seat except twelve. The Roman Cath
Ole bishops of Ireland have passed reso.
luton condemning acts of violence and in.
timidation, and warning their respective
locks against INDUCING in illegal excess.
Such acts they say are certain to bring the
anger Of God upon the evildoers and their
families, besides disgracing the Irish people
in the eyes Of the civilized world.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-10-08

VIRGINIA NEWS.

The tobacco crop in the vicinity Of Dan
vile has been damaged By frost.
The Virginia State Dental Association is
in session at Richmond. There are about
thirty delegates present.
Mr.. David Dryden Tenant, of the TO-
bacco manufacturing firm of D. Z. Tenant
& Co., Petersburg, died at Newport, 4. l.,
Tuesday, of apopexy.
MI. Albert ] Best died at his home near
Hillsboro'. Loudoun county. on Sunday
morning last, after few weeks illness MIR.
B. was in about the nth year of his age.
The Governor has appointed Mr.. Joseph
FL. Budd, Of Petersburg, judge Of the Cor
poration Court of that city, to fil the va
cancy occasioned by the death CT Judge L.
Fl. Mann.
1t is stated by those who claim to know
that Gen. Malone has received $4,000 by
express from the North. It is understood
that this money was sent to Mahone to be
used in this campaign. gentleman who
has Just returned from the southwestern
part of the State says there are evidences
that Malone is using money in the close
counties for that section.
The President yesterday appointed Rev.
DR.. Jebez l.. NJ. Curry, Of Richmond. to be
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Pleoi-
potenliary to Spain, vice Foster, resigned:
Dr. Curry received letter September
offering him the position, which he formally
accepted. Yesterday he resigned his posi-,
ton of general agent Of the Peabody Fund,
which he has held for five years. He will
60 to Washington next week to formally
accept the mission and get his credentials,
and will sail for Madrid about November !.
Judge Bond, of the United States Circuit
Court, in Richmond, has issued rule
against S. G. Grecnhow, treasurer, and S.
G.. Tinsley, assistant treasurer Of the city Of
Richmond, to show cause why they should
not be arraigned for contempt in returning
rs delinquent the names of certain persons
who have rendered coupons in payment of
their State tax. Treasurer Greenhow states
that he simply returned the names OF the
taxpayers in question on memorandum to
the Auditor OF the State in order to account
TO that office for all the claims in his posses
sion. 1t was, therefore, really no return of
delinquency in the sense implied.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-10-08

The United Scrcicc for September has been
received from lis publisher, T. II. S. Ham
mersey, New York. This is monthly
magazine, devoted to the interests of the
military, naval and civil service of the
country. The contents of the present num-
number are: The Battles of Nashville, Rec
objections of 1861, The Torpedo Scare, In
dian Wars in Texas, National Encamp-
ments, New York at the Mercy of a Foe.
"Alas for the Love that Lives Away"
Rest in Peace, Notes on the Mounted OIL
GERS Dress, Samoa and the Samoans, One
of the Duanes, Life at the Naval Academy,
Editorial Notes, Book Reviews and Service
Literature.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-10-08

THE MEMBERS of the republican court OF
Alabama claims, and its bar have found
their business-that of distributing the tit
teen million dollars awarded by England
for the damage done Northern shipping by
the Confederate cruiser Alabama, for the
half of which there are no just claims-so
profitable, that, as the Government has re-
fused to pay any longer larger part OF the
expense of that court, they have agreed to
paw it themselves.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-10-08
Horrible Accident.

EVANSVILLE, Ind, Oct. S.-A horrible ac-
c'dcnt occurred ct the mine of the Warrck
and Evansville Consolidated Coal Company,
on the Air Line road, few miles from this
city, yesterday. A man employed as bumper
aud weigher got an empty Car Oh the open
side Of the shaft by mistake and was pre-
cipilated with it down the shaft, 10 feet,
and crushed into shapeess mass. He was
from Louisville. His name is unknown.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-10-08
Funeral of the Earl of Shaftesbury.

LONDON, Oct S.-The funeral Of the Earl
of Shaftesbury took place to-day. Reli-
gious services over the remains were con.
Quoted at Westminster Abbey. Hundreds
of poor people stood outside the Abbey in a
drenchng rain during the entire services,
being unable TO get into the sacred editice,
so dense was the crowd which had gathered
to pay their last mark ofrespect to the noble
phi'anthropst.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-10-08

AS THE protectionists in New York had
no other morning advocate than the New
York Tribune, whose South-hating charac'
teristic renders it impotent Tor the propaga-
ton of their selfish ideas in the South, they
have started new morning paper there, the
DaHy Telegraph, which, by protesting to be
more moderate and less sectional than It's
colaborer in the cause of high tariff, they
hone will be more effective.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-10-08
truculent.

THE PLATFORM adopted by the State
democratic convention Of New York ex'
presses the hope that sectional prcjudiccs and
iealousies will disappear and that the per-
vadng spirit of nationality will be revived.
which makes every citizen glory in the
prosperity and honor of q common country.
How different is this from the sectional hate
and party luminosity that Undue all the re-
solutions of all the State republican conven-
tons that have been held recently! 1t is so
plain now, that ouly tho Intentionally blind
can fail to see that the democratic party is
the only national and truly patriotic party
in tho country.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-10-08
Hog Cholera and Chambers in Horses.

YANEroN, OAK, Oct. S.-The ravages of
cholera among hogs in this county arc be-
coming alarming. With but few exceptions
al the farmers in The county have lost one
half Of their hogs.
TUsCoLA, ILL.,, Oct. S.-Glauders among
horses has made its appearancein this coun-
IT, The State veterinary surgeon made an
examination of the horses belonging 10
farmer and pronounced them affected with
that disease. All his horses were according
" shot
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-10-08
Appointments.

WASHINGTON, Oct. S.-The President to-
day appointed II. B. Plummer to be Naval
Officer Of Customs in the District OF Phila-
delphis, Pa, and Benz. r. Tate, Collector
of Customs for the District of New London,
Conn. The President also commissioned a
number of postmasters.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-10-08
Tarred and Feathered.

WooSsoCKET, Oak, Oct. S.-Clarence
Bonnet, who criminally assaulted woman
a few nights since was taken from the jail
by a party of masked men last night and
after being treated to q coat Of tar and
never to return under the penalty of lynch
inc
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-10-08
Kew England Potato Crop.

SPRINGFIELD, Mass, Oct. S.-E1haustiye
reports to the New England Homestead
from 700 correspondents indicate that the
potato crop of New England and New York
is fully one third below the average and a
trifle smaller than last year.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-10-08

Mr., WISE says no thinks his majority
will not be less than seven thousand, ana
will probably so to fifteen thousand. Gen
eral Malone, in 1880, said his majority
would be twenty five thousand. But every
body remembers tho disgusting pig into
whose anatomy that majority went While
the Generals ticket, all told, only received
thirty thousand votes. The Mahoneites
when talking about the results of future
elections express their hopes rather than
their expccations. 1t is Mr.. Wise's well
founded anticipation of an overwhelming
defeat that makes him SO quarrelsome and
tr,lculent
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-10-08
Monday.
Baltimore Mcyoralty.

BALTIMORE, Oct. S.-Jas. Hodges. Of
Hodges Bros, was unanimously nominated
to day by the convention as the democrat,
candidate for Mayor Hon. George VIM
Brown, Chief Judge of the Supreme Jourt
bench of Baltimore, has consented to be p
candidate of the independent democrats and
republicans.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-10-08
Cardinal McCloskey's Condition

New YORK, Oct Sit was stated at Car
dinal McCloskey's residence this morning
that his condition was unchanged, and that
there had been no rally ofthe patients vital
powers during the night.