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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-12-28

New YoRK, Dec. 2s.-Cotton easy; uplanls
!.16; Orleans 9Ss; futures steady. Flour
quiet and firm. Wheat higher. Corn better
Pork dull at $l1 S7lsa12 y. Lard firm st
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-12-28
BALTIMORE, Dec. 2S.-Virginia is, consoilst ID
3D.: do 1O-40s 10: do new 3s IS bid to-day.

BALTIMORE Dec. 2S-Virginia is, consolidated
ID; do 1O-4Os 10; ID new So SIS bid To-day.
ALEXANDRIA MARKET, December 2S.-Thc
receipts. of Flour have fallen off, and the markets
are llrm and fairly active. Wheat is steady, with
a hardening tendency while futures are shade
higher; there is no decided increase in the volume
of sales, and nothing sensational is being used to
cause speculative movement in either direction:
betttr foreign demand is however, reported,
and there is more friendly feeling along tho
entire list of Whats, with an active ipouirv far
prime milling samples at outside prices. Corn,
Rye and Oats arc strong. bus without material
change. Produce is weak, with moro liberal Of.
ferings.
BALTIMORE, December 28.-Cotton Grmcr:
middling 9l.. Flour steady and quiet. Wheat
Southern steady and quiet; Western iirmcr
Southern red 9Oa94; do amber 92a95 No Ma.
ryland 81 asked No Western winter red spot
9OAa9O2s ; Jan 90l4a90S! Feb 81 ha91a, May
ooasa9oNs. Corn-Southcrn steady: Western
steady and dull; Southern white 4Ia46 do vel.
low 44a4G Western mixed spot 46 asked for new:
Jan 46 asked; Feb 4Glha46a steamer liza
44Ss' Oats easier and fairly active Southern 81
abs; Western white 36a3S; do mixed :5ia35;
Pcnna 34a3S. Rye quiet at 56a59 Provisions
steady and quiet. Eggs easier at 27a2S. Coffee
higher; Rio cargocs ordinary to fair 1Ia1il,.
Whiskey quiet at 81 23a! d Other articles
unchanged.
CHICAGO, Dec. 2S.-11:15 a. m.-Tradins has
been active i'll all the speculative pits this morn.
ing May Pork opened Sc higher Mt $40 ",
rose to SD SO, and is now $l2 is. May Wheat
opened at ssh, advanced to S6ls. and is now
quoted at s57s. May Corn 43E.a43:ss May Oats
313s May Lard Sc 1913.
New York, Dec. 2s.-Cotton easy; uplanas
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-12-28

MY STOCK OF ALL Wool AND MERlNo
Nl Underwear is now full and complete those
who want good goois at low prices will find them
at my store. [ocSl AMOS B SLAYMAkER.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-12-28

TAST0RIEE! CAsTOElNE !-Baums ever
~ ready Castolinc, perfect oiler for Busgies
Wagons, Carts, &c. Never Gums; Never thiiis
For sale by lic3I w. F. CREIGHTON * co.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-12-28

DODGERS'S FINE TABLE CUTLERY, Weiss 5
LIZ celebrated Scissors, and Rogers Bros s Plated
Spoons and Forks, for sale low by
noY3 JAS F. CARITN & SONS.
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1886-08-13
ALL is FORGIVEN.
A Deliberate Man Who Didn't Object t
Being Called a Crank.

Being Called Crank.
A man from q sequestered township
of Washington County called, the other
day, on the president of the Arkansaw
Industrial University.
II have come ter see YER" said the
visitor, .'bercase l have learn that yer've
got er heep O. sense.n
The president bowed and the visitor
continued: 81 come ter AK yer er ques-
Ition that consarns me er good deal. Er
feller over in my neighborhood called
me crank. knowed it want much
NV er comperment but 1 lowed ter mer-
self that / wouldn't hit him till I found
out whut he ment. Whut did he
meanp"
According to Carlyle" said the
president. "a crank is a very headlong,
very positive, loud, dull and angry kind
of man. The A&erican signification of
the term, as employed by the newspa-
pers, is sort of fanatic, a semi-crazy
man."
"Then I recken he thinks that / am
erbout ha'f crazy"
Eyes, should think so. I"
"Wall, won't hit him eff that's all,
but at fust it made me powerful mad
fur lowed that he ment that want nc
ledge NV erhoss. "-ArkansaW Traveller.
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1886-08-13
PITH AND POINT.

.--H civilization continues its onward
march tae next century will see the
penalty for eating raw onions twice as
heavy as for Observation-Disclosures
Breeze.
! Says a recent writer: "Man is
romance to a woman" Does he mean
to insinuate that man is never true
Recent writer's should beware of gener-
alizations.-C Chicago Journal.
The Greek Statesman Papamichael-
opoulos declined to form make-shift
Ministry Naturally he wanted to stay
in Office long enough to write his name
on the page of history.-Sprtngfetd
Republican.
Dickens SAYS; s'No man hates him
self' And it may be added that he
doesn't need to. He will always lind
people-particularly those to whom he
has extended favors-ready to take that
lob off his hands. Boston Courier.
When you see man take off his hat
TO you it is q sign that he respects you,
but when he is seen divesting himself OF
his coat you can make up your mind
that he intends to try to make you re-
spect him.-Shoe and Leather Reporter
AS pa and ma were having a little
evening quarrel, their only child, little
Johnny, rushed in and exclaimed: ''Pa,
what does my teacher mean by saying
hesitated, but ma spontaneously replied
"She meant that you are your fathers
own boy" and then burst into tears
N. Y. Ledger.
SO Betsey Briggs has written book,
ehP Who is she, and what has she been
doingp Has she just got married, or has
she only been divorcedp or is it muir
der that she has been committingP Don't
remember ever having heard about her
before. Must be some mistake-the
wrong name probably. Tran.
script.
A blind man was sitting in COM
pany with some visitors when one o.
The company left the room. ''Wha
white teeth that lady has!" said th'
blind man. "Why,n said a friend, il
great surprise, chow can you tellP'
s.Because,S answered the blind man
'sfor the last hour she has done nothin.
but laugh. ."-Erchange.
--"Gawge, NAV boy, I've gloriou
news for you.'' 'sYaw don't saw
What is it Oscahp" "Collaws are to b
worn two inches highaw.'' ''The deuce
you say-that'll keep a fellah's hea
| from wobbling-when the whalebone i
| his cawsetts sticks into his wibs. Cleva
, continuance, Oscah; so weall
, Anglaisse, don't chew knowp"- Whit
| hall Times.
> We respectfully suggest to the len
( onade vendors that they purchase ne
: lemon this year. The cost will
A triiling, and the lemon will last the
9 for many generations. The lemo
2 which they have used for so many yeal
/ is, doubtless, valuable as historic
!, relic, and is fragrant with the aroma
old associations. But the present gel
v Grafton is thoughtless, unromantic, al
e tickle, and Graves for something new.-
l. Lynn Union.
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1886-08-13
THE VULGAR PENNY.

After Many Struggles 1t Has at Last |
Reached the Pacific Coast.
There has lately been introduced in |
several large retail houses on Kearney |
street an innovation regarding the pay
ment of change which may lead to inn
portant results for the general public.
tits no less than the payment of cents
when less than five-cent piece is due to
purchasers, and is simply an imitation
of the Eastern system. For many
years the ten-cent piece was the lowest
specimen of subsidiary coin that a Cali
fornian would design to notice. After
the mining times tive-cent pieces were
introduced, but were exceedingly scarce
and little used. Car fare in those days
was ten cents ride, and nothing of
any consequence could be obtained for
a five-cent coin. In 1876 the nicklc
piece was introduced in great quantities
in California. At first its circulation
was quite limited, but gradually it ex-
tended its influence, and is now a recog-
nized part of the system of exchange in
trade But California has never de-
scended below the nickel, and has for
years repudiated the cent piece. In the
East the cent piece has an extensive cir
culation, and has purchasing power
that would astonish native-born Cali
| fornian, who has always regarded the
| five-cent piece as the lowest denomina-
ton of money in the financial system of
| the United States.
A reporter called upon the proprietor
of a large dry-goods house which has in
troduced the small coin, and asked him
some questions regarding the innova-
ton, to which he replied:
'sIt is only question of time when
the eastern system of using cents in
trade will be followed on this coast.
The downward tendency of prices will
cause the introduction of one cent
pieces Of course the injustice of a
buyer paying two and a half cents more
than he owes is not recognized by the
seller for the reason that it is his advan-
tage. He will, therefore, object as long
as possible. But pennies are bound tC
come, as the nickels came. The banks
were the first, after the Government
offices, to adopt and recognize cents, be
cause their business requires the utmos
exactitude in accounts. Several stores
have followed in the wake of the bank
II own one of them-and have adopt
ed the Eastern system. l find the plal
works well, our customers are satisfied
and there is no trouble OF confusion
arising from giving exact change, in
stead of retaining part, as under the bi
system. San Francisco Chronicle.
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1886-08-13
AN INFANT SOVEREIGN.

Alfonso Leon Fernando Santiago Maria
Isidro Pascual de Bourbon, of Spain
The Prospect Before Him Not an En-
viabIe One.
On the 18th of May last, baby was
born in Madrid whose birth was an
nounced to the people of that city by
the firing of cannon. This child was
the little King of Spain, and his birth
rejoiced the loyal subjects of his late
father. In few hours the whole civ
ilized world knew that son had been
given to the widow of Alfonso XII,
and that this boy is the newborn King
of Span.
This little baby, SO helpless and in
nocent, has already caused great eX-
element in the country over which he
is expected to rule. The first thing
was to procure nurse, or nurses
rather, for him. Women came from
all parts of Spain to offer themselves
for this position. Two were selected
for the young King, each of the Others
receiving present of two hundred
dollars as an indemnity for her loss O
time and trouble in coming to Madrid
Among the refused candidates was tn,
wife of rich merchant, who did no
care for the good salary which is givel
to the nurse, but was very desirous 0
the honor of being nurse to the King
This baby, born in the magnificen
| palace of Charles ", one of the fines
| palaces in the world, has. besides tn
| TWO nurses named, a physician, SUI
| geon-dentist and the whole Spanis
court, composed of the noblest Eord
aud ladies, eager TO be his servants,
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1886-08-13
TURKISH BRIDES.
The Luxury with Which They Enter the
State of Earthly Bliss.

The Luxury with which They Enter the
State of Earthly Bliss.
The writer, being of the ruder sex,
has never been admitted as yet to adj
mire any bride in Turkey, but his own.
He is unable to say how the Turkish
bride looks and acts in her elegant
toilet, but, on veracious hearsay, he
undertakes to reproduce something of
the graphic and vivacious hilarities
and scenes of the ''home coming" of
the welded in this Oriental land. Let
the reader, therefore, enter in fancy
into the haremlik, where the writer
can not go. The room to which the
| bride Is taken is decorated with flowers
hung on the walls and on the ceiling.
| These are intermingled with silk stuf1s
of bright and variegated color. The
diyan is covered with a richly em-
broidered cloth. In one corner there
| is a special seat for the bride. 1t has
the appearance of a throne. Why not?
Is not the bride to be the queen here
until dethlonedp Next to this room is
the bridal chamber. II is shown to the
visitors. The bed is magnificently
made up with embroidered silk hang
ings and velvet coverlets, that would
make the old homemade quilts of our
grandmothers in America "crazy."
Every convenience to begin comfort
able housekeeping appears. On one
side of the couch are the might
gowns of the bride and bridegroom.
On the divan is the morning gown of
each. On the table there are two
, small vases. They contain Oriental
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1886-08-13
A YOUNG NIMROD.
The Adventure of a Fifteen -Year-Old Boy
with a Huge Mountain Lion.

with Huge Mountain Lion.
There is young Nimrod living on
ranch near Helena who is quite an ex-
pert with the rifle, and who has, in adj
dition to his expertness with powder
and ball, a very large amount of in
domitable pluck, endurance and good
sense. His name is Ole Synnes, and he
is just fifteen years old. On the 18th
of February last father and son were
out in the mountains near their ranch,
taking out timber for fencing. The
boy, who had been sent on short er-
rand, came running back, saying he
had seen the track of large mountain
lion and was going to follow out the
trail. Rcmonstrances from the father
were useless and in few moments the
plucky boy started out with d forty
four caliber Winchester rifle
to hunt the fiercest wild beast
in the Belt mountains After
following the trail for mile and half
the boy lost 1t at the entrance of
wood. When about to give up the
search he cast his eyes upward and be-
held the beast couched upon the limb of
large fir. The head of the creature
was hidden from sight, so the
boy aimed at its fore-shoulder
and fred The animal upon receiving
the fire sprang upward and climbed
still further up the tree, when from his
elevated perch he sent forth a series of
roars that made the mountains resound
with their echoes. Not in the least de-
TERED by such fierce expostulations on
the lions part, the boy fired again and
this time brought the beast crashing
down through the branches. He lay
for few minutes partially stunned
upon the ground, and the dog, which
had hitherto kept in the background, so
to speak-perhaps because he couldn't
climb q tree--now rushed forward and
attacked the wounded lion. A power
full blow with one of the immense paws
sent that dog on an excursion through
the atmosphere that had u wonderful
effect in cooling his enthusiasm. In a
moment the lion sprang to his feet and
was going up the nearest tree like a
rocket. He got on the loftiest limb and
endeavored to conceal his body behind
the friendly shelter but he left por-
ton of his head exposed, and the boy a
second later lodged bullet in his brain.
The father had heard the uproar from
where he>was working, and fastening
to the spot came upon the scene just in
time to be at the death. This big fellow
measured scant ten feet, and weighed
nearly three hundred pound.-W Keogl
| On. ~ Cor Boston Globe.
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1886-08-13
A Sermon on Funerals.

The "Gates Ajar,' the "Broken Pill
lar" the "Cross and Crown the
"Sheaf of Wheat and other hideous
invention of the funeral florist, the
"Vacant CHAIR were all there.
Enough money had been spent in these
useless and ostentatious things to keep
the dead mans family for several
months. His coffin was piled high with
..fioral emblems," and twenty-five car
riages waited around the corner to join
the regulation six which were per-
mitted to stand before the church door.
This was pleasing way of getting
ahead of the priest" who had wisely
forbidden that more carriages than the
half-dozen should attend any of his par
ish oners' funerals The next week
the friends of the deceased were en-
gagged in arranging collection for
the procuring of sewing machine for
SO the printed card of appeal sa;d-''a
starving family. "-Freemaa's journal.
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1886-08-13
A DIFFERENCE.

brhe play was done, and toward the stage
Impatient to be gone,
phe pleasure lovers turned their BACKS,
With many a smothered yawn.
rhe hour was late, and each man strove
i To make his exit through
rhe crowded door, with tooth ana nail,
AS well l-bred people do.
Nnd one, husband. as he pushed,
| Was aided in the strife
by her whom he had sometime made
His lawful, welded wife,
Whose zeal-a woman's zeal-outran
Her reason as she wrought,
Mho lost her husband in the crowd, f..
il Nor found him when she sought.
but he, all painting from the fray,
| Espied O slender form,
Arrayed in robes whose cost he knew;
He seized her by the arm,
'EAnd. being somewhat worsted in
The competition past,
fEWlth angry words ne greeted her,
il And grlpped her hard and fast
sShe answered not as some might do,
l But, with timld grace.
EShe lifted toward his Redeemed phiz
il A sweet, reproachfui face,
sgA face that made his conscience sting
i His manhood like a knife;
,E"Forgive my rudeness, miss" said he.
Al thought 1t was my wife"
Pittsburgh Dispatch.
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1886-08-13
MAGNOLIA MISSISSIPPI FRIDAY AUGUST 13 1886.

and she had fallen in love with him.
She had heard in vague sort of way
that he had been attentive to some
unknown girl not in society, but she did
not hold there was any definite engage
ment. Stephenson had been rather care
full about leaving her unenlightened on
that point. do not know whether it :
would have made any difference with
her if she had known. Her belief was
that any woman was entitled to a 'fel-
low'' if she could ''get" him. For her
own part, she did not despair of ''get-
ting" this particular one now. She was
clever enough to know what she was
about in suggesting his coming to the
Springs. The hourly propinquity OF
fashionable hotel at q country resort,
the horseback rides in common, the
rows, the moonlight saunterings they
were doing their accustomed work.
And Be1l-Bell at home in the hot
city with complaining Jessie and Tom,
who could ''get nothing to do" and all
the children-Bell with hollows deepen
ing under her sad eyes-was forgotten.
Miss Lawton's marriage to Vane
Stephenson was among the first of the
autumn weddings. 1t made quite q
ripple of excitement Lawton pere had
become reconciled, having had no al
Tentative left him. The artistic coterie
decided that .'Beauty" had done a good
thing for himself.
.Hang that fellows luck!'' said one
knight of the palette. 81 thought he
was engaged to some girl as poor as
himselt-waiting to make his fortune to
marry her."
"Oh-engaged! | don't think that.
Spooney, perhaps"
T And thus here, too, among his asso-
ciates, no one knew of Bell. Immedi-
ately after the wedding Mr.. and Mrs.
Stephenson had gone abroad. Vane had
seemed rather anxious to get away
from old scenes for time. When they
returned the following spring Vane one
his ring, his letters. his photographs
and his few little gifts to her had beer
sent back without word or line, j
was the first time any oneNbelonging tC
Bell had crossed Vane Stephenson
path. Tom was going to pass on. HI
was very shabby. Tom had always beer
more or less shiftless, and money in hi
Golfers had never been plenty, but Van
had not seen him look like this before
He stopped and put out his hand, pal
!, ing little. Tom did not seem to no
). tice the hand.
! "How-how is BellP" asked Vane, un
, comfortably.
Tom looked at him with sudde
, flame is his usually mild blue eyes.
: "What do you want to know for
She is nothing to you"
q "Look here. You may say what yo
I like to me. But / want--I want
I know if Bell is well and happy"
"Then you wont be gratiticd, sal
Tom, with bottomless contempt. "a
! to her being happy-if you mea
g whether she regrets you, i don't SUI
= pose she does. She knows what yo
!, are now, doesn't shep" He stoppe
= with sneer. "We're poorer than eve
" and she has to work harder. What
= it to youp You've put yourself in
y soft place, haven't you? Well, let BE
: alone!"
!. He went on up the street, the momel
70 e tary dignity of his anger collapsing al
= leaving him as limp and shuffling as b
y fore. Vane Stephenson stood a m
y ment motionless, lost in-what though
- - who shall pretend to sayP-M 7. NE
y cury.
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1886-08-13
Eight-Hour Farm Laws.

Young Man in Search of a Place
Do you need any hands, Mr.. Hayseedp
Farmer Hayseed- Need 'emP Ger
tainly do. Pull of your coat and pitch
right in.
.'How about the-er-eight-hour
rule? Do you believe in thatF"
"That's the rule on this farm, young
man. You go to work at four in tho
morning and knock off at noon. Then
you go on again at one o'slock and
work till nine. Eight hours at time
is enough forme, ] tell you. .n--PMledel
phia Call,
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1886-08-13
READING FOR THE YOUNG.
LITTLE SLEEPYHEAD.

Little Florence, practicing.
Her finger exercise,
Wonders why her mother says:
"Oh, dearl how fast time fiies!"
Thinks: "Ig could put mamma
AT the piano here,
She'd find an hour by grandpa's CLOCK,
Was most as longs year.
sOne and, two and, three and. four and
How my fingers achel
Iwonder if the piece is hard
That I'm a-going to take2
"One and two and-sakes alivei
Why don't the minutes go?
Three and, four and-theres rest.
/ must count that slow.
some and, two aud-oh, that fiyI
It's crawling ON my nose.
Three and, four"-two sleepy eyes
Drop softly, and then close.
At mothers voice: "what ails you,
dear?'
She wakens with start.
"lm practicing the rests, mamma,
I'm learning them by heart"
Golden Days.
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1886-08-13

An exquisitely dressed young gen.
tleman, after buying another seal to
dangle about his person, said to the jew
eler that he would-ah, like TO have
ah, something engraved on it to denote
what he was. Certainly, certainly"
said tho tradesmani al'll put = cipher
on it''
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1886-08-13

1t isn't quite the fair thing for a
man who can wait for an Office to
grumble at his wife if he has to wait a
few minutes over time for a meal. =
Kentucky State Journal,
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1886-05-02
WASHINGTON.


WkuHuaroa, NAY 1.-The Saint Con-
mission On the OEganixation Of the Bal-
enfiho Bofoaaa Of the Government has
been Ia session ell DAY. The members
kayo heen unable 10 geaoh any eonolu-
sion regarding several matters whieh
have been undsr consideration. and Il
has been dsleFmined that two o. mars
reports shall be made. TIE commission
4 divided with respect % The PROPOSE
lion q make the Weathsr BuEeau 3
branch Of the OWL Service, and three
mambsfs will report for and thfee
aaninst the propositions. Four mombera
81 she commission viii recommend thai
she coast survey Be retained as an indie
pendent bureau and Two favor is trans
FER 70 she Hydrorraphie Oilioa Of The
Navy Department. The commission
has also decided 20 recommend q mod
hoafiun Of the bill introduced in the
House last week By Herbert, relating 10
printing the reports FROM the Geological
Survey and requiring the sale Of ita le-
bofatoriea Tho modified bill viii au-
thoFizs the printing Of reports showing
the resalls Of The work Of the bureau
and will not require the sale OF the
laboratories.