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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-09-26

F1RE.-A frame house in Arlington dis
trict, in this county, belonging to and stu
ated near the residence Of Mr.. Benjamin
Austin, was burnt to the ground last night.
The fire, Mr.. Austin says, was undoubtedly
the work of an incendiary. The house was
valued at 500, and was partially insured.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-09-26

MOTION TO DIssoLvE.-In the case of
Thomas Virgins, alias Blind Tom" by
Charity Virgins, vs. James n. Bethune, a
notice was to-day served upon counsel for
compIainauts that a motion would be made
on the 9Th day of October next, in Rich
moud, before Judge Hughes. to dissolve the
Injunction heretofore awarded in the case.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-09-26

After sea diet, to prevent boils and erup-
tons, and assist acclimatiop, take Ayers
Sarsaparila.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-09-26
LOCAL NEWS.

Fair weather and stationary temperature will
n-avsil .da For Sunday fair weather, follow
Fl bv local rains, and stationary temperature are
r+irated,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-09-26

To PAY UP IN FULL Mr.. Benjamin Bar
ton, president of the old Alexandria Savings
Institution, gives notice in another column
of the GAZETTE that on and after O:!oaer
18th next, the balance due, including ac-
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-09-26

PROPOSALS.
PROPOSALS FOR CURLING AND PAVING.

l.
Sealed proposals will be received by the Super
intendent OF Police until MONDAY, September
2Sth, at 10 o'clock M, for SETTING CURE AND
PAVING GUTTER along the east side of Wash
ington street from Duke to Gibbon, and along the
west side of Washington from Gibbon TO Wilkes.
The work i, to bo done in the best workmanike
manner, under the supervision OF the SupcrlH-
tcndent of Police and subject to the approval of
the Committee on Streets. All the ditching and
grading, to give proper and secure foundation,
to be done by the contractors. Bids must'bc for
so much square yard, and good and sufficient
bond for the faithful performance of the contract
must be furnished to the city. TIE right to re.
ject any and all bids is reserved.
By order of the Committee on Streets:
sep24-3t VIM. DOBIE. Supt.. of Police.
SEALED PROPOSALS, addressed TO the under
- signed will be received at til: Auditors Office
until ~ o'clock No. WEDNESDAY,, the goth day
of September, 1885, for delivery Oh The order of
the Auditor, of
So Tons WHITE ASH EGG COAL.
33 STOVE "
10 NUT
moro or less, best quality, in such quantities
and ct such times AS may be desired.
go 40 ''' 90 ' JNo. W. PEAKE.
sep24-5t Chm. Joint Com. on Pub. PROXY.
HENRY BRENGLEs'
ICE CREAM NJ AN U IA CT DRY,
NO. 123 KING STREET,
Will enter upon the present season with a New
Departure Novelties in Freezing Methods and
and lessened cost in pure sugars and syrups, have
reduced the cost in making Ice Creams at whole
sale.
Mr.. Brengle has determined to give his CUSTOM
ers, of town and country, the advantage OF this
reduction which will enable him to furnish here
after the purcst of creams with the best hayors Mt
the following rates
PURE CREAMS, 81 % per gallon.
VARIGATED CREAMS in Fancy Moulds,
81 so per gallon.
ICECREAMSODA Fountain open night and
day He still furnishes cakes and confectionery,
and caters for families fairs, balls,
and social nartirs, apps
NOTICE TO CITY TAXPAYERs
CoIlcct,r's Office September 10. 1852
The attention OF all parties interested ID re-
spectfully called to the ioHo"ins cA'i"'o '''A
the Revenue Bill of the year 1850:
ION ali bills paid by the LIST day OF October,
,se5 they tho Tax Coilector5l shall allow dis.
count of i~c per cent, and or AL bills not paid On
the 1st day OF October, 1855, Y ere shall be as.
scssed and collected penalty OF ETc per cent.
upon the amount OF said bills and all bills re-
naming unpaid on the 1st day Of June. 1856,
damages ut the rate OF siz per ccntun FER annum
shall be paid
Office Room No 6, Royal street trout. Market
Building IT HILL, Col y. Dist.
sen15e2y S. X FIELD, Col. s. Dist.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-09-26

cr,.ed interest allowed by the board OF drec,
=, will be paid in full to depositors in
tl.t institution. The Alexandria Savings
Institution was organized here before the
war, which destroyed its business. After
some thirty years of existence it will be
brought to close, next month, by this pay
ment. Our venerable citizen, Mr.. Barton,
has lahored for this end through many ad-
verse surroundings, and has brought about
most creditable result.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-09-26

Police REpoGT.-Last night was clear
and cool, with ono prisoner and live dodgers
at the station house.
The Mayor this morning disposed CT the
following cases:
Dennis Carter. cclored boy, arrested by
Officer Hayes for throwing stones in the
street, was fined 50.
A white man charged with an assault on
a female neighhor had his case continued.
A white man, arrested by Capt. Webster,
charged with an assault on q companion,
was fined 81 and costs.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-09-26

IMPosTERs.-Eisht amateurs, styling
themselves the Bjou Theatre Company OF
New York, came here last night and grossly
imposed upon the largest paid audience
that ever assembled at the Opera House.
The play was Divorce" and it's attempted
rendition was ridiculously absurd. The
troupe came here we'll recommended, and
professed to be 6rst-class company, but
proved to be deficient in every respect.
They are announced 10 play at Culpeper
next week, during the fair, where they
should be met with q showtr of stale eggs
if the farmers Of thet county have any left
over from the last agricultural exhibition
The managers of the Opera House publish s
card in reference to this Company"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-09-26

INSPECTION Alexandria Light In
fantry were inspected and mustered at their
armory last night by Col. 10. Lane Stern,
Assistant Inspector General. Forty-four
officers and men answered to their names.
Ten were excused on account Of business
engagements, or for absence from the city.
The inspection appeared to be satisfactory
to Col. Stern. After the muster the CON-
pauy was put through drill and received
considerable applause from the spectators.
About two hundred people witnessed the
exercises, including many of Aiexandria's
fair daughters. Col. Stern stated that the
new arms for the company were on their
way from Richmond TO this city.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-09-26

The COUNTY COURT will meet in this city
on Monday next. This term being the
grand jury term indictments will be pre-
sented 10 tbs grand jury against James Il.
BaIar for tho murder of Samuel Johnston,
ooorad against Mary Carter for feloDiousy
assaultirg Amanda Lewis; against Frank
Thompson and Henry Fiddler for carrying
on the lottery business. The cases against
Eugene Murray, charged with horse steal
ing: Robert Hoffman and John Little for
maliciously ss.auting Harry 4. Brown and
several appeal cases from justices in the
cannty are set for trial.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-09-26

NEW YORK, Sept 26-Stocks quiet and firm.
Money easy at l. Cotton steady; up:ands 1O1-l6;
Orleans 10 3-16; futures dull. Flour quiet
and unchanged Wheat higher Corn better
Pork dull at 50 75a1O %. Lard weak al So l. y
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-09-26
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Having bougbt more heavily this Season thar
heretofore it is my intention to show and prove tt
the citizens of Alexandria, and surrounding coun
ties that
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-12-18
A Million In Diamonds.
louisville Courier-Journal.l


So little does Mrs Leland Stanford care
for ornaments that few know that she has
diamonds to the amount of 81 100000. She
has four entire set' which belonged to
Queen Isabella, Of Spain, the mother of
the present king. 1t will be remembered
that the queen at one time was in Paris in
such needy circumstances that she had to sell
her jewels and other valuablss Governor
Stanford bought the four complete sets at
that time. Each set has terras,
necklaces, brooches, earrings, bracelets, and
other ornaments. One set is called blue,
because the rays which are emitted are of a
violet hue. These are the rarest of all dia-
monds. Another set give out rose coloreI
flashes; another has yellow tints, and the
fourth pure white. The price paid for
these set. was 5000, 900.
Outside of these Mrs. Stanford has one
necklace which cost 100000, AMI the
pendant $50, 900. She also has many black
diamonds, and has sixty rings of great mag.
nifcence, and does not wear any. She has
emeralds pearls, and rubies in addition to a
million dollars of diamonis.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-12-18

Another Anecdcte OF John Mccullough.
Mccullough frequently told good stories
about himself but none of them were
better than that concerning an incident
which occurred at Richmond, Va. The
story has been published, but |; is forgot
ten now "The Lady of Ly 8" was the
play, and among the players was maiden
amateur who had the stage on the brain,
and had it bad She tore passion to tat
ters, and threw fire and fervor into her
love scenes which both amused a.d ex-
cited the audience. At times she fell from
thasublime to the ridiculous, and where
Claude Mcnotte, in the shape of McCul-
Tough, was describing his palace on the
lake of Como, repeating those tenderest
words of Bulwer, the maiden's bosom was
seen to ..eave, her eyes fill with fire, and,
when he closed with the tender sentence,
"Prithee, love, dost like the pictureY" she
threw herself in McCullough's arms, cry
ing cut in tones of superlative Affection
"Oh-h-h-h Claude" lingering sweetness
long drawn out. She then collapsed like
balloon, and hung, as Mccullough said,
like porous plaster to his form.
At this moment Disguised newsboy in
the gallery, in the same tones in which
she had uttered her last exclamation,
howled out; "Oh-h-h-h s-l-u-s-h"
The house came down. The audience
roared clapped, howled, and howled
again. Mccullough bArst into a ha, ha
himself, and nearly dropped the love-sick
maiden. The girl, however, showed no
signs of laughter. She carried out her
part, but the next moment, with caress-
ing gesture, thrust her fingers into Nc
Cullough's hair at the side away from the
audience, and, pulling a bunch. nearly out
by the roots, Kissed into his ear: How
dare you hugh, sir, at that vulgar re-
mark" The pain in his head brought the
tears to his eyes, and Mccullough re-
sumed his part in the scene of love-
Chicago Times
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-12-18


Many women have no politics at all.
When asked especially about election times,
IL they have read the papers, they reply
that they have not, and give as the reason
that the papers are SO full of politics that
no lady wants to read them. These women
consider politics matter for men only.
They are willing that the mon shall read
politics to their hearts content. But as for
themselves, give them something more in
teresting.
These women make a great mistake in
eschewing political reading. They may say
it is unnteresting but if so it is to great
extent because they have not acquainted
themselves with it. Although woman is not
as yet voter, she has much to do with in
fuencng the vote of husband, father and
brother. To keep informed on politics is to
be acquainted with the history of the coun-
try as it is being made. 1t is to learn his.
tory in it freshest and most sparkling con-
dition. 1t is to grow up with the country
instead of being kept to the rear in a
dwarfed condition and waiting until history
becomes so musty that it finds the way into
the history books
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-12-18

We mentioned little while ago about the
savings bank in Mr.. Higgins school in
Brooklyn. You would like to hear some
thing about how it is managed. 1t is like
this: Deposits of from one cent to ten cen
are received by the teacher from the pup
every Monday morning. The roll is CALI
When all is collected from the whole schc =
the money is deposited in real bank VIII n
a pupil deposits "a much as twenty-five Genus
he or she gets bank book just like a grown
person The principal of the school keeps
the book accounts of the children very care
fully. When pupils odd change amounts
to twenty-five cents the sum is put upon h S
bank book again The accounts are examined
once a month.
The principal has charge of all the bank
books. When pupil leaves the school his
book is returned to him, but he or his y are nts
cannot draw the money without the consent
of the principal. Sometimes bad and drunken
parents want to take their childrens saw mrs
away from them. Under this plan, in five
weeks time 400 pupils saved Sl?O.
Try it in your schools, boys aud girls
Your teachers will help you
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-12-18

Another curious hole which penetrated
to the other night is the restaurant which
is run for the benefit of The Tribune en-
ployes. The Tribune is one of the tallest
buildings in town, and the rod which rises
from its tower is on plane of imposing
ness with the spire of Trinity church
itself. The composing room of the news
paper is on the top, or ninth floor Just
off the composing room is the small and
vapor-flled stereotyping room. In the
wall of the stereotyping room about half
way to the ceiling is a small door, reached
by a short ladder, which leads to mar
row, iron spiral staircase.
Following this to the top you find your
self in the basement of the tower of The
Tribune building, and another short flight
of half a dozen steps brings you into the
restaurant, very comfortable appearing
room with door opening on the roof of
The Tribune building. A trip to The
Tribune restaurant is almost as tortuous
as the windings of the fugitive young
Charles III through fair Rosamond's
labyrinth at Woodstock with Cromwell's
soldiers on his heels; almost too tortuous
to please the common sense views of the
business men in the neighboring offices
who patronizcd it for awhile, but have
given it over to the compositors and re-
porters of The Tribune. The keeper and
his young wife live here in manner
curiously commingling the romantic with
the BADLY practical.-New York Cor
Kansas City Times.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-12-18
Nobility.

True worth is in being, not seeming;
In doing each day that goes by
Some little good thing-not in dreaming
or great things to do by and by.
For whatever men say in their blindness
And spite of the fancieS of youth,
There's nothing so kingly as kindness,
And nothing so royal as truth,
We get back our mete as we measure
We cannot do wrong and feel right,
Nor can we give pain and feel pleasure,
For justice avenges each slight,
The air for the wing of sparrow,
The bush for the robin or wren,
But always the path that is narrow
And straight for the children of men.
lis not in the pages of story
The heart of its ills to beguile,
Though he who makes courtship to glory
Gives all that he hath for a smile.
For when from her heights he has won her
Alas! it's only to prove,
There's nothing so loyal as honor,
And nothing so loyal as Lowell
We cannot make bargains for blisses
Nor catch them like fishes in nets;
And sometimes the thing our life misses
Helps more than the thing which it gets:
For good lieth not in pursuing,
Nor gaining of great or of small,
But just in the doing, and doing
As we would be done by, is all
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-12-18
lCor. Chicago News. |

Do our young girls have just introduc.
ton to lfe' Are they faithfully taught
duties and claims in preference to vanities
and unremitting pleasures AMI excitements 7
The average girl in America has at II an
all-absorbing passion Irritation" To &C.
complish this she trains herself to please the
eye by arts that she fondly believes will
enhance her charms in the eyes of all male
beholders. She burns her hair into un-
natural crimps and curls; rouges her fresh
young cheeks, powders, pencils and pads,
and all, for whata For the Staying Of the
innocence and sweetness of her g!rlhood.
Such practices can not fail to produce
certain and positive results. Anything I'M
natural or unreal is, not at first, practiced
with comfort. When a child first begins
"to powder" and "do her hair she blushes
under her rouge and trembles at her bangs,
but ere long boldness comes and a hard
look takes possession a loud laugh, coarse
stare, and a hungry gnawing for adventure,
a secret correspondence, q feast Of unholy
literature, and so on down, down. to mar.
riage. She-the girl-stands before the
altar clad in the garments Of purity, makes
her vows before God and man Of true wife
hood-vows whose real meaning can not be
known or comprehended, and which she
will rebel against in the very beginning
She has beea (as is our custom) allowed to
make a free selection of her life's compan.
ion, and, as a rule, nothing practical ha,
governed her in her choice
Nine times out Of ten the accepted sutton
is but moderately possessed of this worlds
goods. "She is in love-" and therein lies the
alpha and omega of the whole matter She
does not stop to question what love is, or
whether the idol she has set up is worthy of
her worship. This. to her thinking, would
be unmaidenly, and calculating, yet the
wedding bells will scarcely cease to chime
before the dew of such romance must perish
in the strong light Of life's real day and
practical facts-such as debts, small in.
come and actual bread and butter-will
stare the awakened drea mer in the face.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-12-18
The Influence OF Great Mans Name.

A few years ago Senator Lamar, finding
that he had a weak-looking Jersey bull
calf on his hands, decided to name it
Senator George G. Vest, thinking that
perhaps this great title would put life
blood into its veins. lie was not mistaken.
The poor ragged catliing, under the
influence of milk, Mississippi air, and
Vests name, grew rapidly, and in
time became goodly animal. 1t was
not of the purest breed, however, though
it had some good ancestors, and Senator
Lamar finally sold it to Senator Nc
Pherson, of New Jersey. The change of
climate helped the young bull, and in the
course of a year or two it became the
chief of McPherson's herd. The other
day it was taken to the state fair of New
Jersey and it has taken the first premium
of the Jersey cattle of that state,-Cleve-
land Leader.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-12-18
Hard Working European Women.


Hard Working European Women.
Foreign letter.
At Stockholm the debasement of women
Is perhaps more thorough and complete than
in any city of northern Europe. She here
practically supplants the beasts of burden
And l am not altogether unfamiliar with
womans work in Europe, have seen her
around the pit mouth, at the forge, and
barefooted in the brickpards of "Msrre
England" and filling blast furnaces AMI
tending coke ovens In "Sunny France"
l have sadly watched her bearing the
heat and burden Of the day in the
fields of "Fatherland," and in Austria
Hungary doing the work OF man
and beast on the farm and in the
mine. l have seen women emerge
from the coal pits of "Busy Belgium" where
little girls and young women graduate un.
foreground as hewers Of coal and drawers of
carts for it is no uncommon thing in Eu-
rope to hitch women and dogs together that
manufacturing may be don, cheaply. Agei,
bent and sunburned, have seen women,
with rope over shoulder, toiling on the
banks Of canals and dikes in picturesque
Holland.
Having witnessed all this, l was yet sur
prised to find in city so beautiful and
seeming so rich and prosperous as Stock
holm woman still more debased In Stock
holm she is almost exclusively employed as
hodcarrier and bricklayer's assistant. She
carries brick, mixes mortar, and, in short,
does all the heavy work about the building.
At the dinner hour you see groups Of women
sitting on the piles Of wood and stone eating
their frugal repast
Those engaged making mortar and tend
ing plasterers wore aprons They are paid
for day of hard work Of this toll lasting
twelve hours, the mun6cent sum of l
kroner equivalent to l shilling and pen ce).
Women sweep the streets, haul the rubbish,
drag hand-carts up the hills and over the
cobble-stones, unload bricks at the quays,
attend to the parks, do the gardening, and
row the numerous ferries which abound at
Stockholm.
The entire dairy business of the city is in
their hands, and here they take the places
of horses and dogs, carrying on their Shout
ders the heavy cans of milk from door to
door, While woman thus slaves in Stock.
holm, man parades. You will see him in q
sort of uniform i'll the market place, loung-
ing all day "for hire" to run errands or to
do light porterage. Whenever any light
work that pays fairly well is to be
done there is the genus man. On dress pa
rade you see him as a soldier, staggering
about beer gardens, loaing in the barrack
yard, or fishing on the outskirts Of the
town. IT'S pity some Of the snowy sol
diers of these little European powers conld
not be crystalizsd into expert hod-carrier;
or skillful mortar mixers, instead of weigh
ing women down under the yoke of double
burdens
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-12-18
BLACK NOTIFIED TRUMpETER

The legs are so heavily feathered that the
trumpeter looks to have no feet at all. The
creature has scarcely more brains than d
mosquito, apparently. Yet such strange
taste do men and women have that there
were those who quite raved over the re.
markable loneliness of this, too 1t was
owned in Ireland, was years old, and won
first prize and silver cup both Some OF
these same people who went wild over the
hideous pigeon probably would not have had
a word of praise for the prettiest baby in
Great Britain. 1t is all matter of fashion.
If these two varieties of pigeon should 90
out of style, how monstrous they would look,
to be- surel
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-12-18

park flares, goes out with a sizzle followc
by darkness which gives you the sen'n oi
having made an intellectual fasco. Yuu
are met by sweet or singing silence, as tha
case may be. Her eyes give you one blessed
or bitter look; but her lips betray her not.
Nobody ANSWERS back"
You are left beating the air with an idle
blade. You are Inundated, like man
whose challenge 10 unaccepted through
scorn. Your modification Is her victory
divinely noble or humanity mean, as chances
the spirit behind it. She is silent through
gent1ness or through spite. Either beats
In the one case you are ashamed of your
self; in the other you would not much mind
being ashamed Of her-but in either she has
struck you with a thrust which you can not
parry. You go down before tn, invisible
third in the visible duel; the strong spiritual
force which consists in not saying it.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-12-18

PHILADELPHIA Builetin.l

"When my wife engages child's nurse"
said a gentleman the other, "she never Sc
lects young woman OF very attractive
personal appearances; and I'll tell you why
1t is because nurses Of that Sort she found,
invariably neglect the children when they
take them out for walk They stop at the
corner grocery to chat with the grocer's
boy; they have joke with the police man
whose beat includes our block, and they not
infrequently pay more attention to the car
conductors and drivers with view to a
Irritation than they do to the children, who
are continually getting into the thousand
and one dangers that Turk in great city's
streets for unprotected little ones. Take it
all in all, have come to bolievs that my
wife is a very clever woman"