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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-01-24
Revolving OUTRAGE.

HAzLETON, Pa, January 24-An abomi-
nable outrage was committed recently at
Stockton, a mining village, two miles from
this place. The victim was Mary Jane
Collins, child not yet five years old. The
little girl was taken sick on the 9Th instant,
and it was soon found that she had been
subjected to most brutal assault and was
suffering from q loathsome disease. Tnves
tigation proved that David Jeavins, miner
was her assailant, whereupon the miscrean t
He1
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General Orders from the Adjutant-General.
Adjutant. General James Mcdonald ha


issued the following genera! orders:
l. The commander. in chief having receiv.
ed information that it is the desire of q
portion of the Virginia Volunteers to be
present in Washington city on the Alb oi
March next, for the purpose of participating
in the ceremonies attending the inaugura-
ton of the President. elect of the United
States, authority is hereby given to the
commanding officer of any company, bat.
talon or regiment. Of Virginia Voun
teers who may desire to do so, to take his
command beyond the limits of the State at
the time and for the purpose specified,
carrying with them all necessary or appro-
pirate arms and equipments.
2. Commandments of regiments, battal.
ions or separate companies who may pro-
pose to avail themselves Of this perrnis-
sion will at once report to Brigadier Gen
eral Fitzhugh Lee, commanding the Second
Brigade Virginia Volunteers, who will
take command of all the troops from
Virginia on the occasion stated, and will
assign them their quarters, position in
march, &c. Such commandants may re-
port either by letter or in person at brigade
headquarters, Alexandria.
3. The commander-in-chief has entire
confidence that the soldiers from Virginia
who may take part in the imposing observ-
ances of the day will, by their discipline and
uphold the traditional fame of
the State they represent.
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FROM WASHINGTON.
al Correspondents OF the Alexandra Gazette.


WASHINGTON. D. c.. Jan. "a. 1855.
President elect Cleveland will 60 to New
York city duling the first week in February.
He goes there for the purpose Of comforting
with the leading democrats of the country,
who fud it more convenient to meet him
there than at Albany. 1t was at first
thought that for the purpose indicated a
general invitation would be extended to all
the democratic members of Congress, but
as some of the leading democrats in that
body suggested that in that event the real
leaders Of the party would not accept the
invitation, and only the small men 60, that
idea was subordinated to the better one
that each congressional delegation shall
select one of its members who shall call
upon the President-elect and express to him
the views of the delegation upon such sub
jects rs he may need information. Mr..
Hewitt has gone to see Mr.. Cleveland, will
present the new plan to him, and thinks it
will be adopted. Should that be the case
it is understood that Mr.. Barbour will be
selected by the Virginia delegation, as he is
already personally acquainted with Mr..
Cleveland, and is prominently spoken of as
probable member of his Cabinet.
The chief topic Of conversation to-day at
the Capitol was the latest of the dyna-
miters WORK at London, and the expressed
opinion was unanimous that the time had
come when all such inhuman and mon
strous crimes should be suppressed, even if
the means by which that desirable consum-
nation could be accomplished were not
such as the suppression of less heinous
crimes would justify. A well. known demo.
cratic member of the House from New
York when informed of it by the GAzETrE's
correspondent, with the suggestion that no
building was safe now and that probably
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False! False ! False!

Four million of false teeth arc manufac-
tured in this country in year. This is a
true statement, and it is also true that the
decay of natural teeth has greatly increased
among people who do not take care Of
their stomachs. When your stomach is out
of order, and your digestive powers need
toning up, use Browns Iron Btters. There
are some preparations of iron which ipure
the teeth. but the doctors testify Browns
Iron Bt.ers is free from the objection.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-01-24
Burning of q Steamboat.

New YORK, Jan. 24.-The steamboat ST.
John, Of the peoples Line" Of through
boats to Albany, took fire while lying at
her.wharf here at an early hour this morning,
and burned almost to the waters edge. No
lives were lost.
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ICOMMVEICATED.

The LONGEST WoRD.-It has been said
that Observation-Disclosures" word of 81
letters, has no equal for length in the Eng
lish language. How is this? Stereotype
graphically, an adverb, has q letters, Ster-
e,sypagraphicalness is noun, Of % letters,
two more than Mr.. Pyle's noun, first above
given. See Treasury of hao.cledge" by
Samuel Maunder, nineteenth edition, Lon
don, 1851. SIS.
Owl Run P O., Fauquier CO., Va. Jan. %.
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HOUSE.

The Speaker laid before the House mes.
sage from the President transmitting a re.
port from the Secretary of State, asking an
appropriation to enable the Stete Depart
meut 10 cause preliminary search to be
made of the records of the French prize
court, in order to aid that department TO
carry out the provisions of the French spo.
liation act. Referred.
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CONGRESSIONAL.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Jan. "a, 1885.
SENATE.

Mr.. Edmunds introduced bill to prevent
and punish crimes by means of explosive
compounds. In introducing the bill Mr.
Edmunds said it was mere draft, drawn at
his request by another, but although imper.
feet, he submitted it in order that it may be
referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
for early consideration and perfection. 1t
was so referred.
The Senate at l2:45 p. m, went into exc.
cutiye session.
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IT WAS stated in the GAzErrE's Washing
ton correspondence yesterday that several U.
s. Senators had been interviewed that day
and that the general tenor of the interviews
was to the effect that the Senators were of the
opinion that the interstate commerce bill,
which has passed the House and is now be-
fore them, would interfere seriously with
the railroad interests, and that therefore it
would be better to provide for CON-
mission to examine the subject and prepare
a bill that will ameliorate the evils
the bill referred to is intended to correct,
but do 81 without infictiug unnecessary in
jury upon The railroads This is just what
was expt cted, and anticipated ever since
the interstate bill was introduced in Con-
gress. The House, which is composed of
representatives of the people, chosen by
them directly, and responsible to them at
short Intervals, expressed their will by pass
log the bill, but the Senate, composed of
members not elected directly by the people,
not responsible to them directly, and indi.
rectly only at intervals of six years, pays
only such regard to their will as it thinks
proper, and as most of its members are
largely interested in railroads, it is no won
der that with their practical immunity from
liability for their official acts, they should
protect their personal interests rather than
those Of the people.
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Gov. Cameron has appointed Col. Will.
liam Byrd, of Winchester, member of the
board of visitors 10 the University Of Vir-
giuia.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-01-24

COURT OF APPEALS YEsTERDAY.-Fra-
zier VS.. Frazier. Argued for appellees and
continued until Monday.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-01-24

Hostetter's Stomach
, Bitters is the article
for you; it stimulates
the failing energies.
in vigorates tho boz
and cheers the mind.
It enables the system
to throw OIL the De.
bilitatipg effects Of
undn. fatigue, glr'
renewed yigor to tho
organs of digestion
aronses the liver When
Inactive, .enews the
jailed appetite, and en-
couragrs beautiful re'
pose. Its ingredients
are safe, and lis ere
dentials, which con-
-serpeut of persons 81
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Just before the explosion occurred, a man
and woman, the latter carrying hand bag,
engaged cab outside of the Parliament
yard, and drove rapidly away giving no di.
rectons as to their destination.
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sist in the hearty endorsement Of peI''H'r n ~
everv class of society. are most convincing. foi
sale By all Druggists and Dealers generally.
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From the Fairfax Herald.
The ALEXANDRIA GAZETTE is credit to
the city in which it is published.
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ALEXANDRIA, VA.
SATURDAY EVENING. JANUARY "a.

soME VIRGINIA democrats seem 10 lm-
soine. and do prognosticate,u utter defeat anu
ruin to the democratic party IN the otale
unless the Blair educational bill become a
law Why they do so is difficult to TELL II
thew be we'll informed All the democrats
in the Virginia Congressional delegation ex-
cept one will support the bill. But un1or,
tunately, the Virginia delegation does not
now. as it did formerly, exercise control
ling influence in Congress The Dill Is
nrobablv Unconstitutional, but the GA
zErrE like many others, takes practical
view of it, and if it were 50 amended as 10
provide that all the money appropriated
nv il should be given to the States at one
time, and come out of the present surplus ID
the Treasury, and not necesstate, as IL does
in its present shape, continuation OF the
tariff for many years in order to raise the
money annually required by it, would sup
port it heartily. There is no use nor sense
in sticking for the shadow OF the Constitu'
ton when the substance has long since
uone. and as the nation freed the slaves
it should certainly help to educate them
especially as the South is too poor TO bear
the whole Of that expense, and for the
at .onger reason that there is now in the ma
tional treasury surplus Of over hundred
million dollars that will be squandered for
worse purposes if not spent by the bill with
the suggested amendment. But whether
the bill pass or not, it will have, even in
its present shape, the support of all the Vir-
ginia democratic Congressman but one, and
of nearly all the leading democrats IN Fir-
pipia. which shows that if left to the Vir-
ginia democracy the bill would become
law, and that it il no fault OF theirs II IL
do not; and why in the latter con-
tingency, the democratic party in Vir'
pinia should be defeated, no one can
give satisfactory explanation, that is II
the people of the State be reasonable, es-
pecially as while the bill has the support OF
q majority Of the democrats in Congress,
many of the oldest and truest among them
are opposed to it, and rs if their party be to
blame for them, the republican party is in
no better condition, as some Of its leaders
in Congress, Mr.. Hiscock for instance, take
precisely the same view Of it, and are as
much opposed to il ~ its NEST strenuous
democratic opponents. The success or defeat
OF the bill has no legitimate bearing upon
the next election in Virginia, nor should its
fate have the slightest effect upon that
election.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-09-17
The Dudes Revenge.

"Haw, haw." laughed Clarence Fitz-
gudgeon, going into The Queen City
loaferte. the other evening. i've had
such an experience on the street, don t
you know"
"Ah, indeed, inquired Capt john
son. lazily, what was it?"
why, my deah fellow, just as | was
coming in, fouah or five hoodlums suw-
wounded me and shouted 'Dood"
.Doodr .Doodt in a real threatening
mannah. don't you know.
did you knock any of them DOWN.
20, no,
..You didn'ts Well what did you
doe
"Why, my deah fellow. wan up the
steps veal wapidly, aud. when my |
weached the top. shook umbwella
at them. calculated w 50 and slam
med the doah in thelah faces with
great vigah. Merchant Trareler.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-09-17

Our ancestors did not live in the
days of ardent spirits, nor amid the
shameful multiplicity of the public
houses which Lord Cairns called gins
and traps of ruin. There are three
moments in the history of drink in
England One is the increase of
intemperance caused by our soldiers,
who in the reign of Queen Elizabeth
had learned the bad habit in the wars
of the Netherlands. Another is the
change in the character of public
houses. Intended for the lodging of
wayfaring people, they became, as they
are called in an act of Parliament of
the reign of James H., ''for entertain
ment and harboring of lewd and idle
people to spend their money and ktheir
time in a lewd and drunken manner" "
The third took place in the year 1924,
which is fixed upon by Mr.. Leaky as
the most momGntous in the eighteenth
century, because gin drinking was
then commonly introduced into Eng
land, and began to spread with all the
rapidity of an epidemic. If our
opponents desire to estimate the effects
Of these events upon the upper classes,
the lower classes and the army, | will
refer them to no temperance writer's,
but to standard works of English
literature. They will find the effects
of drink on statesmen and "the upper
ten thousand in a narrowing chapter
about the age of Gout" in Mr..
Trevelyan's Life of Fox" They
will read the horrors which began to
be produced among the masses in the
brilliant pages of Mr. Leaky. They
will see the difference between a drunk
en- and sober army portrayed by
many authorities notably in the letters
of Sir Fl. Havelock, and in Mr.. King
lakes History of the Crimean War.
la Sir John Hayes History of the
Indian Mutiny" they will see how on
one day of frightful peril the all but
universal drunkenness of our army
brought us within an inch of the total
loss of our Indian Empire. These
are but few of hundreds of proofs
that the conditions of modern times
are altered for the worse, and they may
serve to explain why some of US are
afraid that this iniquity, if we continue
to regard it with immoral acquiescence,
will sooner or later be our national
ruin.-.4rchdeacon Farrar, in The
NiHeteenty CeHtnrh.
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DISEASES or
| WOMEN.
Had a "DaisY."

Come out through the back way
and see my daisy!" he chuckled as he
rubbed his hands together,
what! gone into the funeral bust
ness on your own account? Yet, after
all, why no.? An undertaken might as
well furnish the flowers as the coffin. =
Come on. There how does that
strike you2"
That's a hearse-a new one,
but it's the daisy was speaking
Of Isn't she spic-span and shiny"
Very nice.
Il should smile. 1t lays over any
thing of the sort in this town, and
don t you forget it! Get in and lie down
and let me bob the springs to show
YOU how easy it rides.
NO, thank you.
you 90 on! There's points about
a hearse the public ought to know.
Get up on the drivers seat.
Excuse me, but prefer a family
carriage.
'.Oh, pshaw! but you are too thin
skinned. just notice those springs.
tell you it will be positive pleasure
to ride above EN-. The dish of those
wheels is absolutely perfect, and such
finish!"
Yes, very nice hearse.
You bet Say, it win be proud
hour in my life when hitch span OF
white horses to that vehicle and prance
around to the house of the lste de-
ceased. Landsi but won't the under
takers look bluei Say feel of these
curtains-pure silk
I'm take your word for it.
go on, now! Hang it, but when
an undertaken puts up his cash for a
regular daisy ike this you newspaper
fellows ought to encourage him. just
rememser the old-fashioned way
of carrying q body around in lumber
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HAPPIEST DAYS.

| said to the little children,
You are living your happiest days;
And their wide eyes opened wider
In innocent amaze;
For their happiness was so perfect,
They did not know it then.
"Oh, not' they said, ''there'll be happier
days,
When we are women and men,
said to the youth and the maiden,
You are living your happiest days;
And into their sparkling eyes there crept,
A dreamy far-off gaze,
And their hands sought one another,
And their cheeks flushed rosy red;
sob, no = they said, ''there'll be happier
days
For us when we are wed"
| said to the man and woman,
You are living your happlest days,
As they laughingly watched together,
Their baby's cunning ways.
These are days of labor;
They can hardly be our best;
There'll be happier days when the chill
dren are grown,
And we have earned our rest.
/ said to the aged couple,
You are living your happiest days;
Your children do you honor,
You have won success and praise.
With peaceful look they answered,
.'God is good to us, that's true;
But we think there'll be happier days foI
US
In the life We're going to-
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Anfmals and E.lectricftx.

The latest application Of electricity is
an invention made in the interest Of
Iion-ta1n5r-, which consists Of an appar-
a.u, Of great power. shaped like stick,
about three feet and a half in length.
ii. Rau~pach. the inventor is lion
tanner himself. who has been "a coed
deal worried. during long and sue
ccssiul professional career. lie has
already experimental W., upon the
dtuizcn$ of the cages Of ais menageric.
and relates the different effects upon
tie brute-. Three OF his lions receiv-
mo the shock immediately showed
signs of the greatest terror. They
were seized with trembling and growled
GtfuIly. Tho tiger WAS more quickly
Subdued Lacam" stupeiied, and
crouchcd iii corner Ct tn" cage.
Rruin was more refractory to electric
iIy. which seemed scarcely 10 affect
him He would growl and show his
teeth. and was subt,Gvd only after re
Pcated discharges.
The most astonishing effects, how
ever. Were perceptible IN the hoa con-
@trictor. On receiving the discharge
the specimen from Cayenne. nearly
twenty feet in length became ut once
paralyzcd, and remained motionle-s
Tor six hours afterwards. When he
recovered. he showed SIGNS Of numb
ness for three whole days. Finally,
the elephant on being electrified y. Il
touch ofthc stick upon the tip of his
trunk set up II series Of wild cries. and
became so strange that tine trainer
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. So
The Man with the Book.

He saw lady seated on the steps OF
an Oakland villa. He opened the gate
and walked in with an imposing mar
tial air. The lady eyed him with an
unfayorable look.
You are Mrs, Jenkinson?"
y am.
81 have here book
II don { want any books.
as there a Miss Jenkinson2'
There is.
rs she at home?"
Yes.
II have here Q. book"
Miss Jenxinson doesn't want any
books?"
'Tang it all, madam! I'm not book
agent Your daughter sweetheart in
New York asked me to deliver this
book to her, with his love. ! don't care
a darn whether She wants it or not.
Here it is. Good-day, madam. ~
san francisco Chronicie
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w0RLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION,
e03 Main Street, BUFFALO. N. x.

wagon and then gaze on this! just
notice how these rear doors open to
admit the cyffin.
Very handy.
Handy! Why, man, it's superb!
Have you noticed the glass in the
sides?''
Seems to be very good,
Good Why, it's the finest in the
world the very finest, | wanted some
thing to show off the coffin, and here
1t is. | tell you the late deceased
ought to feel proud to ride in such a
vehicle! You can say in your paper
that it knocks EN- all out. Say, how
are you on stylos2'
What styles?''
"Coffins and shrouds, Of course.
Come in a minute. I've got a new
thing in shrouds- something you are
bound to appreciate, and I'm after a
patent on coffin with an air-receiYer
in it. Say. do me a favor. Lea me
enclose you in my new coffin and see
how long the supply If air viii last
you. I'll bet a dol 10y
But the reporter had gone.
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The St. PauI National Bank
st. Paul Mimi, April 8, 1850.

col. James z. Darii9aa,
Manager TgIgyra springs SaHitqriuin Co.
Dear Sir.-f visited your Sanitarium
aud springs recently, and was very favor
ably impressed with the excellence 81 the
Tuiidind and improvements, and the
variety and number OF Estural mineral
springs. From information derived from
citizens who had long known the medicinal
virtues OF the springs, think they possess
excellent curative properties. FROM
drinking the waters there, and since.
know it to be most excellent, drinking
water. have used the Bethesda Spring
water. and am fully as well pleased with
the water from Zenobia's Fountain Spring
which am now using, as with Bethesda:
1 can commend it as "a most palatable and
wholesome drinking water, and believe 1t
will give satisfactory results 70 many VINO
NAV use it, Respectfully yours.
PETER BERKEg.
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half teaspoon of soda; mix quickly,
roll and bake. These require less heat
and more time in baking than when
white flour Is used
Jelly cake fritters Some stale
sponge or PLAIN cup cake,
cut into rounds with a cake cutter
Hot lard. Strawberry or other jam or
Jelly; little boiling milk. Cut the
cake carefully and fry nice brown.
Dip each slice for a second in bowl Of
boiling milk. draining this of on the
side Of the vessel; lay on hot dish and
spread thickly with strawberry jam,
peach jelly, or other delicate conserve.
Pile them neatly and send around hot
with cream to pour over them. This
is nice way Of using up stale cake
and makes q delicious dessert.
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observation-disclosures Item.

The widow Flapiack, who keeps a
fashionable boarding-house on Austin
avenue, is in the habit of giving her
boardcrs fried oysters for dinner Sun
day. but last Sunday. instead of getting
two oysters. one of the boarders only
got one.
How is This Mrs. Flapjack?" he
asked in wild dismay: Il usually get
two oysters, but | only find one on my
plate.
II reckon the cook forgot to cut the
oyster in two this time, responded
Mrs Flapjacll removing the oyster from
his plate with her fork That's what
he got for kicking. --1rhaHSor Iraret-
Cr.
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81. Paul, Mimi, April u, 1855.

sol. y H. Is"ftfso7.
Nv pear IoloneI:-I have been drinking
that water you sent me last winter since
my return froll New Orleans, and THINK II
- DOING Good. I shall want more very
soon ~ want to give it a fair trial. My
Iidnevs are bad. al.d 1t will be a wonderful
thing if the water can cure them. | have
been prescribing the Palmyra water, for
some of my patients, buJ tAey nave
difficulty to get it. Please let me know
where II will be kept constantly on sale,
s,nd send me a barrel of it within the next
ZEN tays. Yours truly,
ID. W. HAND,
1877 West Third St, St. Paul MINI.
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The following are reliable receipts.
for they have all been tried and have
met with success
Sponge cake -Four eggs,
one cup Of sugar fyolks and
sugar beaten till very light and whites
beaten separately, one cup of flour,
into which has been sifted one tea
spooful Of baking-powder. Flavor to
taste.
Chead ginger cookies One cup
OF molasses, one cup brown sugar
one cup Of warm water, one cup lard,
two tablespoons ginger, one teaspoon
soda dissolved in water one teaspoon
powdered alum, put in last. Mix soft,
bake quickly,
Graham cookies Two cups of
sugar, one cup cream, one