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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-11-02

LYscHBURa MARKET, Nov. Receipts of To.
becco are light and principally of inferior grades
Flour quiet Grain in light receipt and quota.
tions are unchanged.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-11-02

CHICAGO, Nov. ., II a. m.-Dec Wheat is now
quoted al ia bid; May 1155ss115a! Nov Corn
397s May Oats 2STss29; Jan Pork S14 GOA
II 81 II; Jan Lard So 10; Jan short ribs 81 40.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-11-02
CATTLE MARKus

BALTIMORE CATTLE MARKET, Nov. 1.-Prces
of Beef Cattle this week ranged as follows:
Best .......................S4 % a450
Generally rated first quality. 3 so AGO
Medium or good fair quality. 90 a325
Ordinary thin Steers, Oxen and
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-11-02

iobbers are holding of, owing to the easy feeling
in Wheat. Wheat is weak, and futures for sever
al days have been fuctuating very much in favor
OF sellers, showing loss OF from 31a to &c; ordi
nary lots and speculative grades are in full sym.
pstby, but choice milling samples do not show
quite 60 much decline; sales are made at from 79
to no Corn is steady at 90 to SO for old white
40 to 49 for new. and so to SO for yellow. Rye
81 to So. Oats 80 to 80. Eggs ara wanted. But
ter Potatoes and other produce are very dull, the
warm weather depressing prices.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-11-02

FREDERICKSBURG MARKET, Nov. There Is
no change whatever noted in the maj ket, and
quotations are nominally as reported last week.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-11-02

New YORK, Nov. Cotton quiet uplands
8 1916; Orleans 8 10 16; futures firm. Flour
quiet and easier. Wheat unsettled and lower.
Corn dull and higher Pork quiet and strong at
$16a16 So Lard dull and steady at 50 CO.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-11-02

BALTIMORE, Nov. 2-Cotton quiet; midd!lng
95sa9at. Flour dull and unchanged. Wheat
Southern active Fultz 110s116: longberry 112s
116; Western quiet; No 9 winter red spot and
Nov 1858; Dec 071aa107as; Jan 109a4a1l0.
Co-n-southern scarce and firm; white 52s54
yellow 5is53; Western firm; mixed spot 40 +
year 45ai s4G; Jan 44Aa45 Feb 44a.s4 Oats
3la33 do mixed 27a29; graded No 2 white 81
bid. Rye dull at 64a65 Hay dull; prime to
choice Western $16asl6.5O Provisions un.
changed Butter firm and unchanged. Eggs
scarce and firm at "a. Coffee very firm Rio car
es fair at 15A. Sugar quiet; A soft ~: small
lots 7ss Whisky steady; round lots 81 %; job
bling 81 2Ga1.28
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-11-02

NEW YORK CATTLE MARKEr Nov. Beeg.,
No market for Beeves; dressed Beef in limi.,
demand native sides sold at Case prime Ia
choice do. at StsS sc Texas sides 4a5c, and Co..
orado do. i2a6lac per ID. Sheep aud Luni,
market heavy; common to good Sheep sold If
81 50a4 60 per 100 It's and do. Lambs at 81 81.
SO % per 100 lbs. Hogs-msrket nomins y
steady Tor live Hogs at So s5a6 10 per 100 NJ.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-11-02

I'VE OFFER special Inducements IN GuNa
w PISTOLS. SHELLS, &c, and other goods 10
that line Cali s0d see at 80 King, corner o
Royal street.
sep27 J. T. CREIGHTON < SO&
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-11-02

CHICAGO CATTLE MARKET, Nov l.-Catr.-
market steady beeves So 20s5 "a steers stors
ers and feeders 81 70a3 80: mixed 81 25s2 =
Texas Cattle 81 25a3 and Western rangers - 90
al o5; Hogs-maTket strong and zoe ti.ter.
IS 25a5 60; skips 50 50a5 J .. Sheep ma rket
steady natives So Western $3a;} so: Tex4,.
81 60s3 Is, and Lambs $is5 % per 100 lbs
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-11-02

WE HAVE Just received the greatest bargain
w in WHITE SHIRTS pxtent stays IN bscs
and sleeves; double front and back weigh .
ounces, at SOC.
cct1o AMOS B. sLAYMAKER
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-11-02

GUNS, PISTOLS. CAPS. WADs, SHELLS s.
VI Just opened at 32S King street corner o
Royal aud for sale at reduced p,icss
oc,23 J. r. CRkIGBHON & son
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-11-02

DoMEsTIC SEWING MACHINES, AZ this tiu.o
~ the leading machine. Prices the ssmo
usual. Old machines OF any kind taken in part
payment Please call aud examine.
mis- f. S. LEADBEATER & BRO.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-11-02

NEW JAMs-2O dozen eros & Blackwell
~ Jams, consisting of Raspberry, Strawberry,
Raspberry and Cuirant Red Cu:rant, Gooi-
oct22 GEO McBURNEY & son.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-11-02

Brother Jonathan.
fJohn Bull.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-11-02

7 AIDES, TRY DOCTOR WARMERS BRIGHT
Ia ON CORSET warranted all bone the hes
5O.cent. Corset in the market.
j. z. CHAPMAN Agent,
octS 424 King stss5t
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-11-02

NEW PATENT ADJUSTABLE IRON
IN PLAN ES-'rhe subscribers have received
lot OF the above Planes as samples, 10 which they
invite attention at the southeast corner Of Eing
and Royal streets, AZ IoT prices Cali aud examine
sug16 ] T. CREIGHTON x son
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-11-02

DOMEsTIC DRY GOODS IS cheap ssthe chea'
~ est at
oct7 AMOS B. LAYMAkERh.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-11-02
DERRY.s HARNESS GIL SOAP.

Three sizes-sl, 90 and zoe sizes tas finest
article in the world for harness. For sale by
feb27 W F. Creighton Z co.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-11-02

nUFFY'S MALT and q. o. TAYLOR WIS.
~ KIES, in cases. Just received.
oct9 GEO McBURNEY & son.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-11-02

NTcBURNEY has just received Masga Grape
WI Cape Cod Cranberries, New Layer Figs ana
Fresh Cocoauuts oct9
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-11-02

DANES CELERY COMPOUND-A true nerve
l. tonic and an sctive Alternative II restores
strength, renews vitality, pyriiie. the blood, aud
regulates the kidneys, liver aud bowels For -ale
by WARFItLD * HALL,
ie16 Corner Prince and FAirfax SIS.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-11-02

Another supply of CROWN CARRIAGE GLOSS
PAINT; rosdy for use; only one Goa; necessary
For sale by
sep6 W. +. CREIGHTON & 90.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-11-02

SMITH's BILE BEANS, the new roiular rene
y dy for Biliousness, Sick Headache, sc; also
PAINE'S CELERY COMPOUND. 80 well sdver-
tised on the first page of the GAZETTE, axe TO-
sale by
aug17 E.. LEADREATER < BRO
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-11-02

DUNHAMS CONCENTRATED CCC0ANUT
oct22 GEO. McBURNEY & son.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-11-02

uAvE YOU SEEN PEACH PIE TOBACCO r.
II II not, ask for it, Chew Peach Pic rotscco
aud you wont use any other. The largest cake Of
Tobacco in the market for 10 cents IS Peach Pie
Ask for it chew 1t and be happy.
apis CHAS. KING 4 son. Wholesale Agts
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-09-05
PROPHEsY OF THE FUTURE.-In speak

PROPHEsY OF THE FUTURE.-In speak
ing of the exhaustion Of the coal fields,
our source of power, the author gives a
striking picture of the fair green England
of 300 years ago as compared with its pres
ent smoky skies and SCOT blackened sur
face, where the whole island throbs with
the coal driven engine, and the waters are
churned by the swift steamer; and then,
in the role of prophet, he unfolds the future
of a few hundred years, when almost GER
tainly the "all beholding sun" will send
his beams "through rents in the ivy grown
walls of deserted factories, upon silent en-
gines brown with rust, while the mill
hand has gone to other lands, the rivers
are clean again, the harbors show only
white sails, and England's BLACK country
is green once more! TO America, too,
such time may come, though at greatly
longer distance" And one chapter closes
with the following striking paragraph:
"Future ages may see the seat of empire
transferred to regions of the earth now bar
rem. and desciated under intense solar
heat-countries, which, for that very cause,
will not improbably become the seat of
mechanical and thence of political power.
Whoever finds the way to make industri-
ally useful the vast sun power now wasted
on the deserts of North Africa or the shores
of the Red sea, will effect greater change
in mems affairs than any conquerOr in
history has done; for he will once more
people those waste places with the life
that swarmed there in the best days of
Carthage and of old Egypt, but under
another civilization, where man no longer
shall worship the sun as a god, but shall
have learned to make it his Servant."-
Review of "Hhe New Astronomy"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-09-05
THE PRnSPERING SOIlTH.

The indications for season of great
activity in the trade and manufacturing
interests of the South are exceedingly ia
vorable. Rarely, if ever before, has the
prospect been more promising. The corn
and cotton crops of 1887 were the largest
ever produced in the South, and, as good
prices were realized, the farmers found
themselves at the beginning of 1888 in a
much better financial condition than for
many years. Blessed as the farmers of
the South were last year with abundant
crops, present indications point to a sea-
son of still greater agricultural prosperity.
The yield of fruit and vegetables has been
unprecedentedly heavy, and the ship
ments north have taxed the carrying ca
pacity of the railroads. The yield Of
wheat in most of the Southern States, es-
pecialy in those in which it is leading
crop, such as Maryland, Virginia, Ten
nessee, &C., has been phenomenally large,
and the aggregate yield for the South will
doubtless be the greatest on record.
Moreover the shortage in the Western
wheat crop has enhanced values, and
Southern farmers are obtaining much bet
ter prices than year ago. The acreage
of corn and cotton is unusually heavy,
greater even than in 1887, when the larg-
est crops ever raised in the South were
produced, and so far in the season the in
dications point to larger yields also than
last year. The corn crop is almost made
and this year the Southern farmers will
have less Western corn to buy than for
many years. In fact, the South will
almost be self-supporting in the corn line.
While the corn crop has many dangers
yet to meet, it's condition up to the present
is almost all that could be asked, and it is
only reasonable to look for for a good crop,
with a strong probability Of yield equal
ling even the splendid outturn OF 1887.
The cotton manufacturing interests of the
entire world are in such flourshiDg con-
dition that the heavy crop Of 1887 has
been absorbed at good prices and stocks
are smaller than even year ago. Under
these circumstances it is but fair to look for
a continued active demand and profitable
will produce this year, even if we should
again have 100000 bale crop.
The prosperous condition Of the agri-
cultural interests is, however, only one of
the features of the brilliant promise of the
South. Two years ago millions of dollars
were invested in the building of new
furnaces, founderies, rolling mills and
kindred enterprises. Many of these great
enterprises have been under construction,
yielding no profits, but virtually locking
up all the money thus invested. Now
they are all getting into operation, and
before 1888 ends there will be such an
enormous production of manufactures in
the South as would have seemed impos-
sible five years ago. From mines and fur
naces, rolling mills and founderies, car
works and pipe works, cotton mills, wood
working establishments and industrial
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-09-05
from among the contents of the volcano.
Not wishing to take too manv of them into

from among the contents of the volcano.
Not wishing to take too many ofthem into
certain destruction, I ignored all except
the smallest one, and shaking my cane at
him with an assumed courage which did
not exactly feel, threatened him with in
slant destruction entirely disconnected
with volcanoes if he did not follow out the
terms of the contract.
We were soon at the best point from
which to view the great drama of fire that
was going on beneath. Flames sent their
ruddy glow upon the swelling clouds Of
vapor that constantly pushed their way
into the air. Now and then came sob
from the breast of the cruel mountain, as
if it were mourning for the thousands it
had murdered. The sulphur fumes made
me feel as if the volcano were reaching out
its long white fingers and clutching me by
the throat. A half grating and half hiss
ing sound was followed by an explosion
like the voice of cannon, and long stone
wall went stretching up into the air in
iragmental sections, between me and that
invisible locality where the sky was sup
posed to be. 1 soon began to persuade
myself that it was unjust to expose the
guide to peril any longer, and to set
good example, scampered out of the way
ahead of him with as much agility as 1S5
pounds avoirdupois would allow.-[Will
Carleton in New York Star.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-09-05

enterprises of almost every variety, mil
lions of dollars worth of manufactured
goods are being turned out to swell the
tide of Southern prosperity. All of this
is creating a vast amount of profitable
employment for laborers, and the South is
rapidly becoming a hive of industry.
Heretofore thousands and tens of thou
sands were idle for a greater part of the
year, because there was no work for them
to do; employment could not be had.
Now there is work for all in many parts
of the South, and the Industrial develop
ment now in prgress is rapidly fastening
the day when no man need be idle because
of the lack of work. The combination
Of great agricultural prosperity--great at
least as compared with any other since
the war-and vast manufacturing and
railroad interests, bringing wealth to the
laborer and the capitalist alike, is rapidly
making the whole South rich. And un-
less all signs fail, or some wide disaster
overtakes the cotton crop during the COM
ing month, we may look for season of
such business activity as the south has
never known before.-[ Manufacturers
Record.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-09-05
THE CRATER OF VESUVIUS.

We stood at the great gulf in the noun
tain top-at the crater Of the most active
volcano in the world. From the great
abyss before us came great clouds Of thick,
sulphurous vapor, with sound sometimes
as if thunder storms were being manufac-
tured within, and again as if the hosts OF
hades were down there, battling furiously
with each other. We could readily be-
lieve-What we are told by scientists-that
volcano is constant war between the
ocean of water that is always not far away
and the ocean of fire that RACES inside the
earth. Now and then great fiocks OF stones
went flying hundreds of feet into the air,
and at the end of their return journey
alighted as near US as we cared to have
them.
Wishing to get another view Of the era
ter, engaged two extra guides, who, for
the modest sum of 81 extra, contracted to
show me everything additional that one
could witness, and yet hope to descend the
mountain on the outside, and take dinner
in the evening with his friends. After ex-
hbiting several points upon their anatomy
where bones had been broken by falling
rocks (all of which seemed to have healed
remarkably they led me straight into the
thick sulphury steam, which was about as
sitting as anything I ever undertook to
breathe, and made the physical interior
feel as if it were being treated to sudden
attack of spontaneous combustion. We
descended into a crater valley, which was
full of vapor breathing crevices, and weird
enough to form one of the most interest
ing districts of Dante's "Inferno." Sud-
denly my guides made break for fresh
air and the outer edge of the crater, and |,
supposing that some tremendous new his
torical convulsion of nature was at hand,
used about second and half in follow
ing them-so as to get a good look at 1T
from safe point.
"Great dangero! shouted the sWarthy
villain who had my five francs. 1T
blows, this the wind a wrong way! Half
the hour ago, all it was different! But we
must now 90 it back"
The average Yankee, however coward
ly, had rather lose his life fairly than be
sWindled out of a dollar; and besides, l
had been told of this trick by friend who
ascended the volcano the day before. So,
hiding all my trembling fears, | insisted
on the whole trip to the edge of 1.-THE new
crater"
"It is death with only two guides" said
the sWarthy villain. 1.-TWO more guides
you must haf, that they shall warn and
keep the falling stones from killing you"
At this point new guides began to spring
up around me, as if they had been elected
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-09-05
THE VALUE OF GOOD ROADS.

The following extract is taken from a
paper read before the Connecticut State
Agricultural Society by Professor w. H.
Brewer on "The Carrying of Farm Pro-
ducts, ,"and published in the annual report
of the State Board. "Good roads are one
of the first essentials fora high civilization.
It has been so in all ages, it is so now.
There can be no great nation unless it has
means of intercourse between its parts, and
the very fact that railroads now offer easy
means of travel and transportation for
great distances gives new importance to
the local highways that lie between the
farm and the railway, or the farm and the
town.
"The Romans built great roads as they
extended their empire and their dOmin-
ion. They were military necessity, but
they had their other uses and were great
factor in civilizing the peoples they con-
uuered. And when Rome fell the roads
became poorer, and this was one of the
causes as we'll as one Of the effects of the
dark ages which followed. Macaulay and
other historians have told US how bad the
roads were in Great Britain in the last and
in previous centuries. How that farm
products had to be carried on the backs of
pack horses, except cattle which might be
driven on foot, and how slow travel was
generally. When the highland Agricul-
tural society came into existence in 1884,
it found the great obstacle to improvement
on farms to be the want of means Of inter-
nal communication. "The defects of the
public roads then in existence operated
most preiudicially to the farmers who sent
their produce to market. It limited the
production and prevented the replacing,
by manure, of the elements of fertility
which were distracted. The turnpike act
went into effect about 1760 or 1865, but 1T
was not until we'll into the present century
that good roads became common enough
to allow English and Scotch agriculture to
take the high stand the middle of this
century found it. A prize essay on the
fifty wears, published in 1910, in the Far
mers' Magazine, brings this out most
strikingly, how the improvement in roads
led to progress in agriculture.
"Most countries of Continental Europe
have built roads for military purposes,
which became great factors in the develop
ment and progress of the countries in times
of peace. Napoleon had the first wagon
road built across the Alps, that cannon and
armies might move the easier. Now that
four tunnels pierce the Alps for railroads,
for peaceful traffic, the country finds great
er need than ever for good local roads.
military roads have been built by every
civilized education on earth, think, and
in the end the roads proved of more
Importance to the arts of peace than they
did even to war. The great National
Road built by our general government
from Baltimore westward across the noun
tains to Wheeling, thence to Cincinnati
and st. Louis, was a great aid in build
ing up the West, and was for long time
a great route of travel and inland traffic.
So long as western outposts were discon-
nected with each other and with the outer
world by roads, they could not grow"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-09-05

$40 WRITE 4 PRETTY NOTE. ."-Ruled
paper is never used for notes or CORES
pondence. 1t is considered inelegant and
questionable.
Square cards are employed for giving or
answering invitations and the square en-
velope, sealed with wax, accompanies
them.
Authorizations are almost entirely avoid
ed in ceremonious notes, as they SAVIOR of
haste, and are hardly respectful.
note" seems to be somewhat of a gift,
while others find it hard task. The lat
ter will be helped by approaching the du-
ty in business like manner.
First try to arrange your idea and know
what meaning you want to convey; then
concentrate the mind upon expressing
your thoughts intelligibly, briefly and
gracefully.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-09-05
4 WOyDERFrL SCIENTIFIC CALCuLA ATIOy

In the course of lecture in connection
with the London Society for the Extension
of University Teaching, Sir James Paget
said science would supply the natural life
of man with wonders uncounted. He re-
membered once hearing Mile. Jonatha
play a presto by Mendelssohn, and he
counted the notes and the time occupied.
She played 5,595 notes in minutes and 3
seconds. Itseemed startling, bullet them
look at it in the fair amount ofits wonder.
Every one of those notes involved certain
movements of a finger, at least two, and
many of them involved an additional
movement laterally as we'll as those up
and down. They also involved repeated
altogether probably not less than one
movement for each note. AS there were
tWenty-four notes per second, and each Of
those notes involved three distinct music
al movements, that amounted to seventy
two movements in each second. More
over, each of those notes was determined
by the will to chosen place, with a GER
tain force, at certain time, and with a
certain duration. Therefore there were
four distinct qualities in each Of the sew
enty-tWo movements in each second.
Such were the transrnissions outward.
And all those were conditional on con-
sciousness of the position of each hand and
each finger before it was moved, and,
while moving it, the sound of each note
and the force of each touch. Therefore,
there were three conscious sensations Tor
every note. There were seventy-two
transmissions per second, 144 to and fro,
and those with constant change of quality.
Let them imagine it in telegraph wires.
And then, added to that, all the time the
memory was remembering each note in
it's due time and place, and was exercised
in the comparison of it with others that
came before. So that it would be fair to
say that there were not less than 200 trans
missions of nerve force to and from the
brain outward and inward every second,
and during the whole of that time judg-
ment was being exercised as to whether
the music was being played worse or bet
ter than before, and the mind was con-
scious of some of the emotions which the
music was intended to impress.-[P Pail
Mall CIaZette
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-09-05

A VERY PAINFUL "BREAKING OUT"
The England deacon of the olden times
was gifted with good sense, piety and an
epigrammatic way of speaking: In the
TRADITIONS of the Bellows Family men
tion is made of Deacon Foster, of Wal
pole, who proposed to an aged widow by
offering "to 20 the rest of the way to heaV-
en- with her" The offer was accepted. =.
One morning he rode up to the door OF
a lady in great haste, and told her that
neighbor, Mrs. Carter, was in sore trouble,
as She had been violently taken with
serious and painful breaking outabout the
mouth"
The lady at once went to the neighbor's
house, and found Mrs. Carter going about
her duties and nothing unusual on her
face. Surprised, she told her of the dea-
cons message.
"Well," answered Mrs. Carter, 81 know
what he meant. When he came here this
morning, l was giving Ben Carter piece
of my mind for his carelessness, and the
good deacon thought my temper made my
speech little unscriptural. ply Youths
Companion.