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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-02-11

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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-02-11

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Milford chronicle., 1885-09-11
Insnnitr m the limited States.

The increase of insanity in the
United States during recent years is
quite amazing. One is inclined to
doubt whether the figures given can
possibly be correct; but they are offici-
ally authenticated. Statistics show
that in 1865 the number Of insane
people in the States was 24,042, a
small percentage. In five years the
number reached 37,432, and in 1880
the figures had grown to the surpris-
ing total of 1853. In all probability
the authorities have had until lately a
careless system of investigation, and
many lunatics have escaped enumera-
ton. Even allowing liberal margin
for this, however, there seems reason
to believe that insanity has claimed
and is claiming an increasing number
of victims. The race of life is run at
a greater pace than it was, and the
pressure is greater in consequence.
Many organizations give way under
the strain. It is said that the increase
has been most rapid in the Western
States, but no reason is suggested, and
it would be deeply interesting to know
why, for the causes which are in force
there are doubtless in force elsewhere.
The increase in insanity during the
ten years from 1870 to 1880 was near
ly $50 per cent, it is stated. From
1865 it is still greater, and, though
this is far from subject of jest, it
may be wondered whether, if the pro-
portion is maintained, it will not soon
be necessary to calculate the small
percentage Of inhabitants of the West
ern States who retain their sanity
London Standard.
Milford chronicle., 1885-09-11
PetriflctlOns.

Fortified mummies' eyes are the lat
est craze for watch char
A human body, buried in Bristol
IN. II. cemetery nine years ago, was
removed and found to be petriHed.
A petrifed snake was recently dis
covered in sandstone rock at Ports
mouth, Ohio.
A petrihed hickory log, four feet
long and nine inches in diameter, was
found lately about eleven feet below
the surface, by workmen making an
excavation in Greensboro, S. G.
Four petrihed sharks teeth, from
one-fourth to one-half an inch long,
were brought up recently from the
Americas (Ga. artesian well, which
is down some nine hundred odd feet,
and has not yet reached a supply OF
good water.
The petrifed wood found in the
Rocky Mountain regions is rapidly
becoming utilized. In San Francisco
there is factory for cutting and
polishing the petrifactions into man
tel pieces, tiles, tablets and other
architectural parts for which marble
OF slab is commonly used. Petrisa'
wood is said to be susceptible OF
finer polish than marble or even onyx
the latter Of which it is driving from
the market.
Milford chronicle., 1885-09-11
Comfort.

Comfort.
Hast thou Ger the clear heaven Of thy so"
Hast thou watchd all the hopes thou ouldss
have won
Fade, one by one
Wait till the clouds are past, Zen raise thine
To bluer skies !
Hast thou gone sadly through dreary night
And found no lighti
No guide, no star, to cheer thee through the
plain
No friend, save pain
Wait, and thy soul shall see, when most for
lOrn,
Rise new morn.
Hast thou beneath another's stern control
Bent thy sad soul,
And wasted sacred hopes and precious Tears
Yet calm thy fears,
For thou canst gain even from the bItterest
A stronger heart
Has Fate Overwhelmed thee with some sudden
blow
Let thy tears flows
But know when storms are past, the heavens
appear
More pure, more clears
And hope, when farthest from their shining
For brighter days.
Hast thou found life a cheat, and worn in vair
It's iron chain
Hast thy soul bent beneath earth's heavy bondt
Look thou beyond;
IF is bitter there forever shine
Hopes more divine
Art thou alone! and does thy soul complain
1t lives in vain
Not vainly does he live who can endure
o be thou sure,
That he who hopes and suffers here can earn
A sure return.
Hast thou found nought within thy troubled Ill
Save inward strife
| Hast thou found all she Promised thee, Decen
And hope cheat?
Endure, and there shall dawn within tn
breast
Eternal rest.
Milford chronicle., 1885-09-11
Sornent and Fiddler.

Uncle Billy Adams was furnishing
the music for a gathering at the resi-
dence of well-knOwn planter in
Dooley county, given in honor OF a
visiting young lady from Augusta.
The night was warm, and the win
dows were thrown open. Miss Alice,
weary of dancing, noticed the bird
cage hanging among the vines which
grew over the veranda, the inmate Of
which was aroused to its sweetest
strains of song by Uncle Billy's fiddle.
Tapping her finger lightly upon
cage. Miss Alice felt the v'Twear.
playing about her hand. ~
exclaimed one of the dancers Va
looked toward the girl, "look IL
shrek from Miss Alice, and
to the door. AS she fell hui lates
was seen circling down her ar
the cage across her shoulders,
she lay PROSTATE gathered itsS
huge coil upon her bosom. clal
mouth wide open, its fangs l
pressing its head closely by Il
cheek, the moment was one of
excitement. The ominous raft
heard when Uncle Billy's fiddle
forth one of its liveliest airs, and
reptile quickly crawled of, wrigg
its way toward the music and out
the house. 81 dess knowed dat
fotch UNI" said Uncle Billy, as J
caressed his instrument. docs creep
in creeturs is a might fond of music
The reptile was followed and killed
when it was found to measure eigh
feet.-Globe Democrat.
Milford chronicle., 1885-09-11

There had been a discussion IN tho
parlor car on the uselessness Of mosque
toes. This particular parlor car was
running through the State Of Aiichi-
gan, where August mosquitoes are not
noted either for their modesty or their
smalIness. After everybody else had
given his opinion young man accom-
panied by a young lady was invited to
express his convictions on the momen-
tous question. This young man was
engaged in watching the face Of the
Young woman, who was so sweetly
sleeping upon his shoulder, breathing
through her mouth instead Of her nose.
He was so vigilant in his guard
against mosquitoes lighting upon the
face Of this fair one, evidently his own
little tiredy bridey WHEY that his own
neck and face we're exposed to the as
saults of the enemy
"Do think mosquitoes are Of any
use in this worldg" he said. with Sc
we're slaps and scratches. Eyes, I
think they are. 1t is their slap mis-
sion to remind a teller that (slap and
scratch) this isn't heaven, after all
euss sm" Chicago Herald
Milford chronicle., 1885-09-11
And 50. between hysterIoaI sObs md

And so, between hysterical sobs and
smiles, and everybody talking at once
and asking questions that no one
dreamed of answering, they went In
under the bower Of roses and honey
suckle, and presently John hobbled
from the field on orutches, and the
story was told all over again.
And when Mary slipped out into
the kitchen to get an early supper. old
Mr. Brown followed here and there,
and she was folded tight in her faith
ers arms again, while the tears
streamed downed both their faces. 1t
was as if she had been raised from the
dead.
"My child" whispered the old man,
hain't been the best Of fathers to
I ha' shut my eyes and my heart
" en- fought to ha' been the one to
help We; never ye mind bout that
money; don't ye say one word bout it,
and we'll knock this old rattletrap
down tomorrow, and I'll show ye
how to build a housed
And so he did, and very comforta-
bic house it was, where John did not
have to stoop when he went in and
out of doors. And would you believe
it? The letter, all the more harsh fol
being so brief. never did reach its des
tination. Old Mr.. Browns chiro'
graphy was of a very inferior sort
and the postmaster couldn't puzzle ou
the address, much as he desired so tC
do: then the letter was forwarded tt
the Dead Letter Office at Washington
and in due time was returned to Mr.
Brown, who quietly and satisfactorily
consigned it to the flames.
Milford chronicle., 1885-09-11
A Menther Pronhet.

It is possible, according to French
authority, to foretell the weather,
sometimes ten or twenty hours in adj
vance, by observing and comparing
the sounds emitted by a telephone
connected by leads with two iron bars
stuck into the ground few yards
apart. In case of a thunderstorm es-
especially, a noise like that of shiyer-
ing leaves increases until a fash of
lightning occurs, when the sound
fnstembIss that Of rain or hail falling
olfegrasR
Milford chronicle., 1885-09-11
Novel Corn Planting.

The means used in planting corn IN
the semi arid Kansas belt enables that
region to raise good crops of the great
fattening grain of the United States
It is by means of the listing plow,
which throws the soil into high ridges,
the middles being deeply pulverized in
addition. In the trenches the corn is
planted down in the permanently
moist soil of the trenches, these being
filed up in the process of cultivation.
This trench, as plowed, is V-shaped,
and sixteen inches deep. Until the
corn gets strong, an inverted trough
covers the rows as the cultivator pass
es, preventing the plows from rolling
the soil over the plants. When the
corn is ready for the second cultiva-
ton the trough is laid aside. The
shovels are set to throw the earth to
the corn plants, now strong and two
feet tall, and they are also set to take
the ground deeply. This cultivation
throws almost all the earth into the
trench that the lister threw out. The
weeds are deeply buried. The surface
of the field is level. The main roots
of the complaints are at least ten
inches below the surface of the ground
and how much further they have sunk
into the rich, damp, underlying ground
no one knows. But now no ordinary
drought affects the plants. The no
southwest winds can blow, the mercu
~ can rise until the integrity Of thu
thermometer is threatened, the SUI
can course across a cloudless sky TO
weeks, but the corn leaves do not roll
The plants thrive, and, if a soaking
rain falls between the middle of jun
and the middle of July, the listed corr
will make a full crop.-NesC York San
Milford chronicle., 1885-09-11

AZ don't never waste words" said
old Mr.. Brown, in a hard, driving
voice, "and 1 hain't good at letter
writin', but I reckon this'n will cut|
ats a pity you writ it so hard,
father" said his young daughter
trembling; 9TH hurt her to the heart;
she didn't never mean to borry that
$500 and then cheat you out o it"
"she didn't, Ell? Then why hain't
the money back in mg,pocket, safe
and soundl It's a year last Chris tmas
since she pestered me bout it, and 1
hain't seen hide nor hair ont yet; if
that hain't a clear case o cheatin',
Fanny, I'll like to know what ye call
i'll"
The girl stopped churning a mo-
ment, and wiped a surreptitious tear
from her eyelid before she answered;
"Call it nothing, father, but bad
luck; when Sister Mary borryed that
money to lift the mortgage, she ex-
pected to pay it back; but you know
as how Brother John he was took
with the rheumatics, and the overflow
came, and the crop was ruint and then
she couldn't pay; that's all, and God
knows it's enough!
"Twasn't my fault" snapped her
father, fiercely, as he pounded on the
kitchen table to give vent to his an
ger. ~ never put it in the agree
ment to low for overhows, and rheu
MATES, and SIGH like, and never
would ha' lent her the $500 if it hadn'
been for your sniflin' and pesterin'
And now ye hear gal, not anuthe.
dime O my earnins shall they eve
smell, and I'll never forgive"
The girl sprang up from the churn
crying, "No, father, don't say it
don't, don't say it, father; you'll be sor
ry some day when it's too late; be
sides you're church member, you
| know
''You're right bout that" said MI
Brown, perversely; I'm a churc
member, and don't owe nary a perso
a red cent, and the Bible says, ian ey
for an eye, and a tooth for tooth
!
and I'm a going to have it!'
He pounded the table again wit
his fists, after a fashion he had @
wanting to pound something or some
body when he felt particularly aggrei
siye But the sound of his voice ha
scarcely died away, when there cam
a knock at the door, and one of tho'
ominous, yellow envelopes, marke
with the impress of the Western VI
ion Telegram Company, was hande
in. Mr.. Brown took it, and looked
over in helpless kind of fashion b,
fore breaking the seal "How muC
to pay" he asked the boy, and passs
over to him the change with trent
, ling hand; though it was characteri
tic of the man that even then, wit
the knowledge that the telegram mu
contain terrible news, he was caref
! to count the dimes as they dro
ped back into his pocket. Oh, tho
cruel kilograms! Do the company g
er remorsefully count the breakiI
hearts that are left in the wake
their messengers? Mr.. Brown was
ID hard man, and loved his mongolia
over well, but somewhere beneath &
rough outward crusts there was
d, abiding affection Tor his children tn
c needed something like the stirring
or the soil around the violet-beds, to loo
en- the selfish bonds, and give /
II love a human voice. And when
e' lead these words, "Mary died Il
evening; come at once" a great, su
den anguish filled his breast, and
lently handing the dispatch to Fanr
he walked from the kitchen and sh
himself up in his own room, whs
years before death had made sund
Milford chronicle., 1885-09-11

A traveller describes anatural bridge,
almost as interesting as the Virginia
curiosity, spanning a cannon, about
twenty miles north of the point where
the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad
crosses the boundary between New
Mexico and Arizona. This bridge is
sixty-fve feet long and fifteen feet
wide at the narrowest point. 1t con
sists of tough grit rock, underneath
which the softer sandstOnes have been
worn away to a depth of twenty-five
to forty feet beneath the arch. Near
by is petrifed forest. The stone tree
trunks lie just beneath the soil, or
half exposed, fallen in all directions.
This point had never before been Wis
tied by a white man.
Milford chronicle., 1885-09-11

lowing a precedent established some
years ago in this State. The anala-
pous question has also been raised IN
criminal cases. But there it has been
held that a prisoner cannot be COM
pelled to submit to an examination OF
his person when such examination
may afford evidence against himself
1t may be interesting to our readers
to know where the bodies Of our Pres
idents lie. Of the twenty-five that
have occupied the chair from 1889 to
date. but three are living, rutherford
B. Hayes, Chester A. Arthur and
Grover Cleveland. the others are in
TERED of follows: George Washing
ton at Mount Vernon, Va; John and
John Quincy Adams, at Quincy, Mass;
Thomas jefferson, at Monticello, Val
James Madison, at Montpelier, Va;
James Monroe, at Richmond, Va; An
drew Jackson, at his old Hermitage
home, eleven miles from Nashville
Tenn: Martin Van Buren,, at Kinder
hook, N. y; William Henry Harrison,
at North Bend, Ohio; John Tyler, at
Richmond, Va; James X. Polk, at
Nashville, Tenn; Zachary Taylor, at
Frankfort Ky, Willard Fillmore, at
Buffalo, n. Y; Franklin Pierce, at
Concord, N. H.; James Buchanan, at
Lancaster, Pa; Abraham Lincoln, at
Springfield, ILL.,; Andrew Johnson,
GreenviIle, Tenn; James A. Garfield,
at Cleveland, Ohio, and Ulysses S
Grant in Riverside Park, New York
City.
Milford chronicle., 1885-09-11

One curious revelation Of the last
census was the growth Of the female
population Of the large cities. 1t was
shown that New York contains about
$4,000 more women than men; Boston
has a surplus of $4,000 women; in
Baltimore there are 1900 more
women than men, and so on in several
others of the large Eastern cities
Fifty years ago it was the men who
came to the cities to pursue their
careers, while the women stayed at
home; but more recently, women,
both in this country and in Europe,
have been crowding to the business
centres.
Milford chronicle., 1885-09-11
@. ". SUPPLE,
CENTRAL HOTEL,
wlILoUHBv sTINE. Proprietor

wIILOUHBY slime. Proprietor
This hotel has been recently purchased' "a anu y
has been newly furnished thr9ngho9gsS;; tioD n
ne honse ss soon as the weather will permit
an viii endeavor to give the people Of MIL
ford hotel managed On irstelass prlnelptte esS
The present hotel Formerly Union ho as,1
viii be torn down next fall when new ' sro
frst-casa building will be erected. byerylihl,ng
that can add to the comfort OF guests, ot sil
room. will be carefully attended to as long
experience in the hotel business has enaplee
nc to cater to the wants Of hotel guests a
free hack will run TO and from the depot LOT
ihe accommodation Of guests.
For permanent or monthly hearaprt races
Apply q Tie ofsea,
Milford chronicle., 1885-09-11

The "Big Woods" of Minnesota well
deserve the name, for they cover 5000
square miles, or 100000 acres of sur
face. These woods contain only hard
wood growths, including white and
black oak, maple, hickory, Eastwood,
elm, cottonwood, tamarack, and enough
other varieties to make an aggregate
of over fifty different kinds. The hard
wood tract extends in a belt across the
middle of the state, and surrounding
its northeastern corner is an immense
pine region covering 2l,0OO square
miles, OF 13,440,O0O acres.
Milford chronicle., 1885-09-11

A movement is on foot to erect a
monument over the tomb Of ex-Presi-
dent William Henry Harrison at
North Bend, o. 1t is on natural
mound in the midst of a pasture lot,
and it overlooks the Ohio River. A
dilapidated board fence, enclosing a
space fifty feet square, separates the
burial place from the pasture field.
Within the enclosure are two or three
old cedar trees. The tomb itself is a
structure Of brick, all underground
except the gables, and it is covered
with a roof of shingles, that are now
dilapitated and rotten. Even the
brick walls that show above the
ground are covered with a green
mould. A sloping cellar door covers
the steps which descend to the vault,
and even these doors of iron, exposed
to the summer rains and winter
SHOWS. are eaten through with rust.
Milford chronicle., 1885-09-11

Getting into debt in Mexico is a Sc
rious business. If debtor is unable
to pay on the day his debt is due he is
arrested and chained to a post for five
days. Then an officer looks at him to
see if his punishment has enabled him
to pay his debt. OF course it hasn't,
and so the debtors labor is sold to the
government for forty cents day until
the obligation is discharged. The
government sends him with a gang OF
felons to a silver mine, and he does
not see the light again until the debt
is discharged.
Milford chronicle., 1885-09-11

The Supreme courts in several Of
the Northwestern States have recently
rendered opinions which are likely to
work an important change in the trial
of actions to recover damages for per
sonal injuries. BY the general prac-
tice heretofore followed the existence,
nature and extent Of the injuries al
legged have been determined mainly by
the evidence of the complainant and
his own medical witnesses. But in
the opinions to which we have referred
the principle has been affirmed that
the plaintiff may be required to sub
nit to a personal examination by
bhyaicians chosen by the defence OF
Hesignated by the Court. Decisions to
this effect have lately been rendered
10 iowa, Wisconsin and Nebraska fol.
Milford chronicle., 1885-09-11

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Hi Id age, and we will mail you free royal,
HTHI valuable sample box Of goods that VIII
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That all who want work may test me BUSINESS MI
vel satisfied We will send 81 to pay for the trouble
~ writing MS Full particulars, directions, etc;t
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WHO start at once. Don't delay. Address SrINsoS
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Milford chronicle., 1885-09-11

No. 2.

No. 9.
In the absence Of any instruction, we will
make rs above. In ordering give full descrip-
ton of what you want leave nothing to be
Parties unknown to us, ordering goods, will
he required to remit us one-third the value
before we ship them, the balance to be paid on
delivery.
Send for price list.
BALTIMORE TwINE AND NET Co.
VIM. y. Hooper ~ son,
SIS. CALVERT ST., BALTIMORE, MD.
CMention this paper.)
Milford chronicle., 1885-09-11
TIMELY TOPICS

In France there is hardly any
growth of population; and the French
50 far from approaching this condi'
ton, are doing their best to alter 1t.
They in fact put "bOunty" on large
families by causing seventh children
to be supported by the State.
Milford chronicle., 1885-09-11

The present population Of the city
of Buenos Ayres is estimated at AGO.
900. One of the local newspapers
predicts that in a few years it will be
the New York of the southern hemi-
sphere. Emigrants are arriving in
steady stream, and if the proportion
of the first six months of the year is
kept up, their number will be l5OOOO
before the 1st of January next. ltal
lans form the great majority Of the
ineomers.
Milford chronicle., 1885-09-11

The remedy for corpulence, accord
ing to the Lancet, is in the method OF
eating and drinking. If we only ate
more deliberately, it says, we should
ind half Of our accustomed quantity
of food sufficient to satisfy the most
eager cravings of hunger. Let men
Of all classes who lead healthy lives
resolve to eat and drink slowly
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-03-26
Sailor Ward in China.
[Cor. Chicago Tribune.l


Eistory-I am reminded by this SOudan
bI-ine5s-iS a pack of lies uutil time sifts out
the truth Without wishing to cast aspar-
on on the dead, but simply in justice to the
living, here are some facts about the late
Chimes Gordon which are said to be well
knOwa TO members of the Unitei States
army, both hors and abroad, and are not
me Il toned in the London clubs without Il
frOwning re eminent A common sailor
named Ward. haiing from Rochester, n.
y. went to China, and, after loafing for
time on the shores Of the vastly deep. pro-
posed to 4 neiGhboring mandarin, or CHEZ,
for the sake OF an adventure, that il h
would give him a troop OF 250 beach comb
ers' he would capture for him tia wallet
town of Foo Chow-I think it was Foo
Chow. The beach-combers were runaway
sailors of all nationalties, confined by the
mandarin for misdameanors. They were in
for anything for fun.
Ward assaulted the tOwn; the garrison and
inhabitants. numbering several THOUSAND
fed, AMI the mandarin was so tickiei that
he gave Ward his daughter to wed. The
victorious army grew to be the "ever victa-
riou' , a British officer Wa put in command
by tie authorities and gained some sue
cessc3, AMI then came Gen. Gordon ana got
tine glory, and all England and all the world
ra-ounded with his praises. The sailor
Ward disappeared-qaietly made way with,
so it was hiut3l-and the grieving mandarin
and his Gesolate daughter erected to the
memory of the 90 cure American seamen a
superb mo .um Mt he only one of its kind
ever reared GA Chinese soil 10 commemorate
a foreigner