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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-08-20

ARRIvED.-As stated yesterday, the
steamer i. G. knight, from New York for
this city, which was disabled at sea, arrived
here yesterday evening, shortly after four
O'Clock, in tow of the tug f. c. Hartley. AZ
Ter delivering that portion of her cargo
which belonged here the steamer was tow.
ell OH to Washington. The disabling of the
Knight was caused by the breaking Of her
cylinder, and the necessary repairs will be
made in Washington, Immediately on the
completion Of which the steamer will re-
sumo her trips. In the meantime the
steamer John Gibson will continue her trips
on the route and make as many extra ones
az possible,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-08-20

ESCORT. Commandcry, No. :,
at its meeting on Wednesday night, resolved
to tender an escort to Grand Commander r.
A. Reed, of this city, to ST. Louis at the 23d
irienpial of the Grand Encampment OF the
United States, which assemblies in that city
on the Olaf day of September. They have
arranged for accommodation for all Tenn
plars that will accompany them. So far as
learned No. 2 is the only oommandery in
Virginia that will go as commandery, and
they extend cordial invitation to oil
Knights Templar in the State to join with
them and fall in their line of march.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-08-20

DURE SPICES, whole and ground for sale by
i aug19 ]. G. MILBURN,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-08-20

CHICAGO. Aug 2O.-sept Wheat 70 BIG Sept
Corn AZ 9 16. Sept Oats 2Iai Sept Fork
50 1913. Sept Lard 81 10
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-08-20

Vault DooRs.-Messrs. Farrell q Co.,
" Philadelphia, have just placed in in,
" the Citizens National Bank one Of
'uelr celebrated turglar-proof doors and yes
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-08-20
AIeyagdrIa 6axetfe.
6
FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 20.
LOCAL NEWS.

Fur Virginia fair weather. easierly winds,
nearly stationary temperature.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-08-20

AN OLD MAN ON HIS MUsCLE.-A we'll
known citizen upwards of seventy years old,
yesterday went to Washington to see man
who owed him some money and try to col
lect it. He went to the mans house but the
delinquent was not there but his brother
was. The brother on being told the reason
for the visit became abusive and undertook
to put the old man out of the house, when
the latter struck him and rs he says, "By
nv precious, knocked him clear through
another ROOM" cry for the police was
then set up, whereupon the Alexandrian
thinking that discretion was the better part
of valor, jumped over the back fence and
never stopped till he reached the Long
bridge, over which he crossed and walked
all the way back to this city.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-08-20

EXCITING RUNAwAY.-A horse attached
to dayton, belonging to Mr.. G. A. Orrlson,
in which were three boys, two white and one
colored, took fright on Cameron street this
morning aud dashed off down the street at
break neck speed. When the old City Ho-
lei was reached the horse ran into an old
wagon which was standing there, upsetting
the dayton and throwing the boys out. The
horse ran short distance further when he
stopped. The dayton was badly wrecked
and two of the boys, Ernest Hurdle and
Bob Hicks, the latter colored, were consid
erably scratched but not badly hurt. Gard
ner Orrisou, son of Mr.. Samuel Orrison, the
other boy, was not hurt. The runaway
created considerable excitement.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-08-20

LITTLE CAMERON STREET.-The work of
paying Cameron street, between Washing
ton aud Columbus streets, is now completed,
and it is one Of the smoothest specimens OF
cobbe stone work ever constructed here.
The portion of the street now paved differs
from all the other streets of the city in this,
that tho corporation owns not only the right
of way over the ground, but owns the
ground itself in fee simple. BY singular
condemnation of circumstances the city paid
twice for this street, once for the right OF
way and afterward for the ground. In 1876
John Wise gave the city the right of way
over this portion of the street in considera,
ton of grant to occupy other ground, and
in 1853 the city bought from John West Mi
nor, for a 600, the ground from the west
line of Washington street to the east line OF
Columbus street. The street here is only
forty feet wide, the sidewalks are eight feet
wide aud steps and porches are limited to
three feet.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-08-20

Eeo5,GHT BACK.-Mr. S. II. Lunt went TO
EXON, Md, yesterday morning and identi-
I'll IN, man arrested there on Wednesday
m,,b, on suspicion Of horse-stealing as the
icon who hired horse and buggy from
,,hs Chatham livery stable in this city last
W,nday. He also identified the team and
mid Deputy Sheriff Harvey Mackey the $50
award offered for its recovery. The prison
~ ave his name as j. w. Baker, and con.
santed TO accompany Detective McDevitt, of
Wa,hir gton, to this city without requisi-
lion The team vas driven from this city
IN E.ktcn in less than as hours, aud Baker
nnu,1 j. .ur sale soon after he reached
here. l,:t, I:!av the horse and buggy were
shinrci 10 Washington and were this morn.
i,y driven 10 this city, arriving here safely.
Detective MrDevi:t brought Bakert to Wash
np,on Ias! night ami locked him up till this
morning, when, accompanied by Mr.. Lunt,
he hl ought him to this city and locked him
M in the station house for an examination.
Baker on bis arriva! here had little to say
lint il believed to be an expert horse thief.
He il fully 60 ears old and while in Wash.
jpg'on was recognized by Mr.. Mcfarland
q. The man who stole horse and buggy
from him in 1883. When he left here on
Monday he drove over the Aqueduct bridge,
went through Badensburg, passed within
few miles of Baltimore and is believed to
have been on his way to Philadelphia when
capured. Detective McDevitt has been
conpimented on the capture and Mr.. Lunt
saws he was determined to catch the thief at
any cost.
This evening Baker was taken before act
iug Mayor D,wnham and waving an ex.
animation was committed to Jail to await
tho action Of the grand jury.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-08-20

DEATH OF Miss JULIA A. BERKLEY.-
Miss Ju'iaA. Berkeley died ut the home OF her
sister. Mrs. Maria Monroe, at Fairfax =. d..
on Wednesday last, after a brief illness.
She was The sister of Mr.. VIM. N. Berkeley
of this city, and had four sisters living In
Fairfax. She enjoyed through life the re-,
spect of all who knew her. Her funeral
took place from the NJ. E. Church South, ut
the Court House on Thursday, and the body
was inferred in the cemetery at that place.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-08-20

PERsoNAL.-Mr. J. S. Grimes and wife
have gone to Virginia Beach.
Mr.. r. L. Monroe has gone to Loudoun on
ashort visit.
Col. Arthur Herbert has returned from
'he White Sulehur Springs.
Mr.. Lewis Mckenzie yesterday returned
l'om pleasant visit to many of the north
ern Watering p.: ces.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-08-20

ELoPEMENT.-On Wednesday night about
nine O'Clock Miss Nora Birch and Mr.. James
B. Dove were married by Rev. r. t. Brown,
Of the P. E. Church, at Rockville, Md. The
bride and groom were from near Farmwell,
Loudoun county, and as the young ladys
family objected to the marriage she took &C.
casion to visit her friends near Rockville,
where arrangements were made and the
marriage ceremony performed. The parties
are well known in Loudoun county.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-08-20

FREDERICKSBURG MARKET. Aug. 19.-The
market remains quiet and receipts of produce
light. Wheat 75aS5, as t, quality. Corn dSa5O.
Rye and Oats nominal. Flour in good supply but
limited demand.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-12-25
JAPANESE. BATHS.

How tho Natives r~rboal Themselves fol
the Sake Of fsealth.
Being charged with iron and sulphats
OF Soda and hence serving as a specific
for str.mach disorders that are common
n sng the upper and middle classes in
Japan, the water Of Ikaois much price
I for its medicinal properties. But, aftel
all. it is in the bathing that chiefly at
tracts hree-fourths Of those who come
here. Il you explore the little town
you find an all-pervading presence o.
hot water. Its steam is everywhere
Go where you will you hear its rusi
and trickle, and the splashing and chat
ter of happy bathers immersed to Their
chins in q rusty fluid at the high tenn
perature-only pleasantly warm to a
J~apaaese-of one hundred and seven.
teen degrees Fahrenheit. Wooden or
bamboo pipes lead it all over the place
and supply a constant stream through
every bath.
Each large hotel has several such
baths-roomy wooden tanks. three or
four feet deep. Here the sexes bath
separately. But in the public baths
men and women Of the lower order
often bath together, in half
open sheds at the street SIDES, yet
with a degree of modesty and decorum
and . quiet about each
others presence or the stray glances Of
passers-by, which are absolutely in
comprehensive to those who have not
witnessed the habit as still practiced in
a few parts of Japan.
Cleanliness before all things"
seems, however. to be a cardinal maxim
with the Japanese. You see this in the
everlasting scrubbing, pumice-stoning
and Tubing In the lighthouses, which
from dawn until far into the night,
know hardly a moments rest. You
see it also in the scrupulous cleanliness
of their houses, and in their careful
provision for light and ventilation, all
Of which are 8 g~rievously wanting in
unsavory dwellings of the flowcry
land. Hence ever the most crowded
second-class inns. where the guests may
be counted at literally one
per mat of six feet by three feet, can
show spotless-would that we could
say flealess-foors and walls. -Iko0
Cor. London Times.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-12-25
THE PRETTY n

How This Beautiful Flower Was Intro
dneed Into Northern Countries.
There is a pretty story told of the in.
PRODUCTION Of the fuchsia. One day.
many years ago, a London florist was
walking along a street in one of the
suburbs of that monster city, when he
happened to see wonderfully beautiful
flower in the window of q dwelling.
We have a right to presume that the
florist was enthusiastic upon the sub.
jcct of rare plants, and, granting this,
We can easily imagine him making an
entrance to the house, and possibly re.
strain ng himself with the utmost diff
Guilty from Selling the wonderful
flower and marching triumph.
antly off with it. However, having
the Englishman's natural reverence
for law. and Judging by past experience,
moreover, that a golden sovereign
would probably be the most potent in.
huence which he could bring to bear,
the gentleman offered the posscssor of
it, a lady, that amount in good English
gold. 1t was firmly and bravely re.
fused. He doubled the sum, and again,
and finally it was refused. The lady
said her husband was a sea-captain who
sailed the Mediterranean. He had
brought this plant home to her, ard
she would not part with it; however,
beng possessed with that other notable
English characteristic, generosity, she
gave the florist some slips Of the plant.
From this PLAN, says ch~ronicler,
have sprung all the Engl sh end Ameri-
can fuchsias. Detroit Free Press.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-12-25
The Clergy Of Russia.

In the majority Of eases the Russa
priest is the son of = priest; sometins
he comes from the small shop.keephs
class or from the peasantry. He psss
six years at the Diocesan Seminar,
where he is taught theology, tt
Scriptures and a very little Greek ADJ
Latin. Those only who satisfy the e1
aminers are ordained as priests, I'D
remainder receiving the inferior di
grees of deacon and psalm st. 1d
members generally Of the Russia
clergy form a class apart. and are nerd
invited either to the castle or the hous|
of their middle-class par shioners 81
cept for official purposes. In mont1
matters they r exact ng. Ono Of them
q very honest man, and in int0Iigena
above the average, said recently: '1S1
year has been a bad one for me; them
were few births and marriages. Ths1
were plenty of intermcnts. but peop1
ray more cheerfully to be married th'1
they do for burials." So rmenf
sometimes are refused to dying persod
whose friends can not afford to pay "
usual fees.--Cor N Y. Star.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-12-25
Making Children Happy.

There is no better test in the world to
apply to q household than that oil
whether the children in 1t are truly
happy-happy in their association with
their parents, and happy with any
chance company under the roof. The
household in which this 10 not the case
is a melancholy, a fairly tragic failure.
Perhaps the highest achievement Of
civ. lization, refinement. education,
and religion is a home in which
an at once loving and rever.
entail re alton subs sts between children
and their fathers and mothers, children
and the familiar and welcome guests Of
the house. --Boston Herald
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-12-25

see q Preside far away;
count each dear, accustomed chair,
The gentle glance. the face gay
i see II all, and would be there.
The children climb their fathers knees;
The mother strokes her baby's hair;
In happy groups Of twos and threes
They laugh and chat. would were there
The lamp It's mellow radiance sheds;
The freight fickers softly where
Two little brown Int golden heads
Are lowly bent at evening prayer.
What Of the lonely leagues between!
l see 1t piain-l see IL fair!
1see, who am myself unseen
DOr eli, my homesick heart is there!
ANNE y. Burnham in Good Housekeeping,
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-12-25
grindstones, with a man crouched be-

grindstones, with a man crouched be-
fore each one apparently in o most un'
comfortable position, but often singing
contentedly to the music before him.
though his very small wages is the
cause Of the cheap price of polished
agates. The ''real agate" marbF 4
which you buy for ten cents, would sos,
ten times as much il cut in An erica,
The fine polish is done on WOO den and
metal cylinders Sc. D. Walkcr. Il
Golden Days.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-12-25
An Oregon paper tells OF an

An Oregon paper tells Of an a'
country couple who concluded, ai'a
living together for forty years, th,
their tempers were incompat be, ~
each applied for . divorce. The M
owned a wagon and team lie u
gagged Tom Tongue 10 prosecute Y
case. The woman owned sis cow
She retained Tom Handley as her l1
yer. After the cases had hung tire
the courts for two years or % . dlvoN
was refused, but BY that .ime lonf,|
owned the team and wagon md h'"1
Icy Tie cattle.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-12-25
THE YEAR OF MICE,

An Interesting Account Of . Remarkable
Plague In Georgia.
In Patterson's History Of the County
OF Pictou." after speaking Of the high
prices which had ruled during the war
Of 1925. and the distress caused the
farmers by the sudden peace. tho author
proceeds. +,
1.-THE rural population were especially
discouraged by two calamities that
came upon the county at this period in
successive years (lSl5-l6). which We
hall now notice. The former year was
long dist nguished in this, US well ~ in
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-12-25

the neighboring counties ., c.,.l
and Antigon'sh, as the yea, I =,
This was . most destructive ,,., ais'
from which this portion Of ~, ts'''ds
suffered from these seemiu. ;,s soaas
cant animals. During the insight, nsss'
season they did not appear in p ,ss
usual numbers. But at tho a.. ny "
ter they were 80 numerous q, to t,. W..
the sugar.makers by foulns N'sSs
trough' for gathering sap, and s' asa
planting was over the woods AND 's :
alike swarmed with them. Ths. Aea
OF the large species of field mouss s veg
sometimes seen in the coun,r, 10y
which has never since been so nu,ns,, vs.
They are very destructive and s","'a
fierce II pursued, when hard pnsh.y
they would stand at bay, risin p4 'as.l
their hind legs. setting their tes'h ,'po,
squesking tiercely. A farmer r" aug
whom I could rely. told me alter I 1.'
ing planted and put out som. aa''
to dry in the sun before his don, '','e1
little while saw it covered with ha'
He left the cat out among Them ''s 70.
they actually turned upon her ' v'|
fought her. The late.sown rr,i, aae|
the seed potatoes suffered from t,s s'
A man in Merigomish had made !, o ssa
ing out at Piedmont in the woods y
carried out four bushels Of oats 10 S., ~
On commencing, they came in sv,,,'.
eating the grains as he sowed Il ls''
continuing awhile, he threw the vhs,'
to them in disgust, and returned ho..
But it was when tho grain be,aO :.
ripen that their drunkenness bee,.'
especially manifest. Tiey then :.
tackled it in such numbers that i,
means were u~navail;ng to arrest A..
ravages' lhey have bscn known N
cut down an acre in three days, 50 M
whole fields were destroyed in a sh,s
time. One would MP a stalk off A h.
tie above the ground, and if. instead !
falling over, the end sank IN d.
ground. leaving it still upright !
would bite it off further up. until !
either fell over or the ear came will.
his reach, when he would dcyour all a.
grain. Over acres on acres they left mn,
stalk standing, not a grain Of whea,,
reward the labors of the farmer. Tn,
burrowed in tho ground and consuma
the potatoes. Cats, dogs and martsu
gorged themselves to rcpletion via
them, but with little seeming dimiDn
ton of their numbers. Trenche, ve,
dug and filed with water, but ,b.,
formed but a slight barrier 10 the.r pro.
ress.
They passed away as rapidly as ths
came. In the autumn, as the wealth.
grew colder, they became lapcud.
scarcely able to crawl. One coulddvu.
pie them under his foot, and tnsllytkr
died in hundreds, SO that they c. nd h
gathered in heaps and Their p%utrifyn,
carcasses might be found in some plax
in such numbers as to faint the ali. A
Cape George they went to the water add
here died, forming a ridge like ~
weeds on the edge Of the sea, and COD
ish were caught of the eoagt with cv-
in their maws."
The histo. ian ~vouchsafes no explain.
ion of this curious visitation, nor han
We seen any that satisfactorily accoms
or 1t. 1t mas been thought that grs
Tres in the woods which occurred ,t
rear may have driven tho mice into u
ields, but it has first to be cxplaina
low they came to be in the woods-
I 0nstitution.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-12-25

OF several weeks in special ovens. This
treatment improves eve the most beau.
tiful stones, and the plain ones that
seemed worthless become handsomely
striped.
When the bands are black and white
alternating, the agate Is called ''onyx,"
and when brown or red and white, it is
'~'sardonyx." Either form is valuable
to the cameo-worker, who carves his
design in the white layer so that it
stands out upon the dark background.
Red agates are ''carnelian."
When the agate is colored. the grind
or fastens it with wax on the end Of a
short stick, lies on a low stool, stretch
ing out on his chest with his feet braced
against a board, and presses it against
a huge grindstone until it is smoothed
into the desired shape. The stone re-
wolves slowly, and a stream of water,
into which IL .urns, prevents overhead
ing. As the agate is ground. it glows
with brilliant phosphoresccnt light,
shining even in daytime as If it were
red-hot. Enter one of the mills, and
you see a long row OF these immense
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1886-09-24
Blind Benedicts.

"Let him marry, then," was the
crusty reply of an old bachelor on be.
ing told that friend had gone blind.
"Let him marry, and if that doesn't
open his eyes, then his case is indeed
hopeless" To this sneer q contempo.
rary replies.
This has been contuted by the expe.
rience ofscores OF blind scholars, whose
wives have been eyes to them. Huber,
the great authority on bees, was blind
from his seventeenth year, and con-
Quoted the observations which gave
him the facts for his studies through
the eyes OF his wife. He declared that
he should be miserable were he to re.
gain his eyesight, adding: II should
not know to what extent person in
my situation could be beloved; be-
sides, my wife is always young, fresh
and pretty, which isno light matter. /"
Blind Henry Fawcett became profes-
sor OF political economy at Cambridge,
an effective debater in parliament and
a most successful postmaster general
by using the eyes OF his cultured wife.
The crusty old bachelors sneer tails
flat when it encounters such wives as
these-and they are but two out of
many who have made their husbands
men of good repute.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1886-09-24
Tn. Minpe.polis Esnosltion.

Hyou have not as yet visited the Min
neapolis exposition you should do so at
once. 1t is n grand show and well worth a
visit. Among the other exhibits is one in
the southwest corner of the third floor OF
peculiar interest; it is the display OF work
done by the pupils OF St. Joseph's academy,
st. Paul. In cases are shown some beauti.
ful specimens OF table covers, wall banners,
designs OF chair seats and backs all en-
broidered In the most skillful manner, and
choicest patterns by the young ladies
whose names appear on the cards attached
to the different articles. There is charm
ing set OF furniture, each article having
choice designs embroidered on the seats
and backs; there are cushions, silk bags,
articles for the toilet each moro beautiful
than the other; and on the wall behind the
exhibit are some fifty pictures in oil or
crayon, copies OF celebrated paintings or
original work. A crowd is always around
this display. and the universal verdict is
that no school in the Northwest conld turn
out finer work. 1t is alike creditabe to
the sisters and their pupils, and the rela-
tives OF the young ladies experience special
pleasure and qualification when they hear
how warmly every one praises the school
where their children are receiving such q
thorough and complete education.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1886-09-24
FooG for A.efiection.

Henry Watterson's last letter from
Europe sketches the life OF Able Liszt,
and draws from its immoralities these
truths: In Europe, and particularly
in France, the fight between nature
and art has been hard. It is over, and
art has won it. Everywhere her tri.
umpns are visible. And they are very
beautiful. Even that which is most
venerable derives some added charm
from the tracings OF modern grace,
which, like the trail OF serpent, is
over it all. and, as if typical ofhuman
life, may be seen upon crumbling bac-
Elements, the rich foliage OF feudal
times locked in close embrace with the
rank luxur:ance of our own, the one
seeming to feed and fatten on the 9TH
er. The great old abbe that is gone
knows how it is now, and it he could
come back to ba forgiven, might put
some Finishing touches on those Rhap-
sodies Hongroiss Of his, which neither
he nor the gypsies who first chanted
them, rocked OF in this world. Mean
while, we should be content in Ameri-
ca with less art, and more resolved
than ever to stick to the decalogue.
After all, old ways are best. Music is
mighty and noble mistress, but
even the love of music may be carried
to point of ecstacy which makes the
homlier virtuee and duties OF life unen-
durable