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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-03-17

And Dealers in
ALL KINDS OF LIQUORS,
Have ON hand GIBSON'S Xxx, xxx, XXnH,
and PURE OLD RYE, OLD CABINET e,nd
MONOGRAM WHISTLES; also BAKERS ana
THOmPSON'SP PURE RYE WHISTLES to w!ier
they invite the attention OF tho trade
Orders from the country for merchandise ,!.4,ll
receive prompt attention.
Corsignmcnts of Flour, Grain and Couatry Fro.
duce-solicited, for which they guarantee the high.
est market prices and prompt returns.
Northeast corner of Cameron and Royal streets
sep14 Alexandria. Va.
IIARLOW BROS.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-03-17

OUNs, PISTOLS, SHELLS, PRIMERS, &C.,
VI &C., at 328 King, corner of Royal street. We
have still on hand good assortment of Guns,
Pistols &c, of various quality, which ne are Of.
fering at low prices. Examine DAVIS 3. L.
GUNS" equal to the best at much lower prices.
oct27 J.T. CREIGHTON & SON.
NATURAL COLOR LAMBS WOOL SHIRTS
In and DRAWERS, soft as silk, and said not to
shrink in washing. Call snd gee them at
oct7 AMOS. B. .SLAYMAKER'S.
V1HURBERs SHREDDED oATs-A fresh lot
jss u'' ''''''''' sEo. Ma1uRNEy 8 soN
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-03-17
COMMISSIONERS SALE OF
VALUABLE REAL ESTATE.

By virtue OF 4 decree OF the Circuit Court OF
Fauquier county entered in the chancery causes
OF "Bastable VS.. Forbes and "Forbess executor
vs.. Bastable's executors, on the 18th day of Sep.
tember 1881 the undersigned, as commissioners
OF sale in said causes, will offer for sale at public
anction, at The front door Of the Court House at
Warrenton Va, on
MONDAY, the 2Sth day of May, 1883.
the following real estate, the property OF the late
A TRACT OF 1854 ACRES.
lying within mile of Warrcnton Junction and
catletts, stations on the Virginia Midland Rail.
road This tract is of very superior quality for
grass and grain, is highly improved, well watered
and timbered, has on it an EXCELLENT MAN
SION and all necessary outbuildings grist mill,
which, together with all water and race rights,
will be sold with said tract.
: A TRACT OF 20O ACRES
adjoining the above, of the same quality Of land.
lot Is y acres adjoining said aforementioned
lands, and q moiety os tract Of 624, acres also
adjoining said land. These tracts will be sold as
whole or in parcels as IN y be deemed desirable,
except the POO acre tract which will he offered
by itself The aforementioned lands are easily
divisible into several farms, and are rated among
tho most fertile and desirable tracts of land in
Fauquier county.
Terms of Sale 0ne-third of the purchase mon
ey in cash, and the remainder in three equal in
stslments payably in one, two and three years
from date of sale, TO be secured by the bonds OF
the purchaser with good personal security, bear.
ing interest from date payable annually, title to
the land to be retained as further security, with
power to resell for defanlt of payment of said
bonds at the ri.k and cost Of the purchaser.
The undersigned have also authority under
said decree to sell said tracts of land privately
JNO. MURRAY FORBES,
r. TAYLOR SCOTT, Commissioners
A. D. PAYNE.
The Osceola times. [volume] (Osceola, Ark.) 1870-current, 1888-07-21

float a heavily loaded jug-out. And
some of the boys said all amy one
had to do to get whisky was to go
under the Bavou bank aud turn a
faucet. Now Mr.. Editor, this was
right under citizens nose. and now
because Sheriff HAYES was out all
night and had half pint Of pure
good apple juice for his own sake un-
Ill he should reach the banner Jug
township, Citizen thinks hard of ii.
| am sorry for the minister of the
gospel, but ministers ought not tam
per with Frenchman Bayou politics
and conversation water. But new
re mind Brother Citizen, ON the Bird.
of September, we will make Democ-
racy ring from st. Thongs, to the
waters of Big Lake.
CARSON LAKE VILLAIN.
The Osceola times. [volume] (Osceola, Ark.) 1870-current, 1888-07-21

The workingmen Of Indiana are
determined that Harrison shall not
win if they can help 1t. They are
publishing broadcast his relations
with labor, which prove him to be
an aristocrat of the grinding-to-pov-
crty order. During the railroad
strike of 1887, he implored the Gov
ernor to order ous TIE troops and
shoot down the strikers. Gov. Will
Jams stoutly resisted his appeals,
claiming that the men were peace
able, and that there was no necessi-
tv for such action. At this he mus
tered up company OF his own and
drilled the men, so as to have them
in readiness in case of an cmcrgcn-
cy. Upon the same occasion he
made speech from which tho fol-
lowing is a verbatim and substan-
tiated by ailidavits; "Wrrc l the
Governor, I'd force those men back
to work ut the masters rate Of wa
ges." These are the views of the
Republican candidate for the Prcsi-
dency, and they show what he would
do as President if called upon to in
terfere between capital aud labor.
The Osceola times. [volume] (Osceola, Ark.) 1870-current, 1888-07-21
Democratic State Central
Committee.

At a meeting of the democratic
state central committee, held in Lit.
tie Rock ON last Tuesday morning,
the following resolutions were
adopted:
Resolved, That Col. J. p. Eagle
be, and is hereby requested to meet
Hon. {. Nj. Norwood at his appoint
ments, from now until such time as
the chairmaa and secretary of this
committee shall arrange for differ
ent joint canvass, il deemed advis-
able.
Resolved, BY the state central
committee, that the democratic
voters in each township in the state
of Arkansas, where clubs are not
already organized, are earnestly re-
quesIed to meet in their respective
voting presincts on Saturday the 2Sth
day Of July, 1888, at s o'clock p. m,
and organize democratic clubs by
the election of president vice
president and secretary, and the en-.
rollment of all names in said town
ship that become members of said
club.
That, Immediately upon each Or
ganization, the secretaries of said
clubs are requested to inform the
secretary of this state central com
mittee of the formation Of such clubs,
together with the postollice address
Of the secretary, in order that cam
paigh literature may be distributed
to the voters of the state.
That all newspapers friendly to
the cause Of democracy are request
ed to publish these resolutions to the
people and urge compliance there
with, and, in counties where no dem
ocratic papers are published, the
chairmen of the democratic county
central committee are requested to
communicate these resolutions to
the democratic voters Of their coun-
ties.
The Osceola times. [volume] (Osceola, Ark.) 1870-current, 1888-07-21

A very smart exchange says !:
awe don't go cent On the i'd ca OF
the Office hunting up the man. Just
imagine a good fat office turning it.
self loose on parties and chasing the
timid and frightened candidates all
over Gods country, lasso in hand,
and finally, on roping one of them,
to have the poor, wild, scared Great
ure almost choking itself to AN I'M
timely death in vain effort to es-
cape from the relentless hand Of the
cruel fate which would consign it to
a 81 900 or $500 office. How de-
plorable, and, by the way, how abb
surd and isinglassy! Let the man
hunt the office. If it is worth hav-
ing it is worth humping yourself for,
and the man who sits back--Micaw-
Der. likc-instead of taking the do
nestle quadruped by the bone front
al protuberanccs, and working like
II bcaycr for the desired prize,
doesn't deserve It,"
The Osceola times. [volume] (Osceola, Ark.) 1870-current, 1888-07-21

Often need some safe cathartic and
tonic to avert approaching sickness
or to- relieve collie, headache, sick
stomach, indigestion, dysentcry and
the complaints incident to childhood.
Let the children take Simmons Liv-
er Regulator and keep well. 1t is
purely vegetable, not unpleasant to
the taste and safe to take alone or
in connection with other medicine.
The Genuine has our Trade Mark
III" in red on front of wrapper. j
ii. Zeilin q Co., Philadelphia, Pa.
The Osceola times. [volume] (Osceola, Ark.) 1870-current, 1888-07-21

you,h to oIl age, now revealed to
his soul Che immortal light beyond
the land of darkness and the shadow
of death. In that last hour, the d.
vine promise, " Iou shall know The
truth, and the truth shall make you
free" was made good. ain thy light
We shall see light And 50, in the
full light OF Truth, the old soldier
of the cross cast of even the chains
of death, with as much ease ms Samp-
son did his green withes, and march
ed off to receive his pension in lIea, :
en-, according to the promises which
had been the guiding motive Of his
long and useful life.
The Osceola times. [volume] (Osceola, Ark.) 1870-current, 1888-07-21
BILIOUSNESS.

hss - siaap s fci ga rev, of Wrapper
>, d. 1ti.in \ Co., phi,aleirhl IA.
The Osceola times. [volume] (Osceola, Ark.) 1870-current, 1888-07-21

CARSON LAKE, July 10Th, 1883.
Ep,roR TINES, Dear Sir: As time
rolls on Carson Lake stays ON top
side Of mother earth, and as the pri-
mary election is over, you will find
us for the Democratic ticket ard re-
,renchment and reform. We arc safe
frr the September election, for the
turtle crop is good, blackberries are
getting ripe, roasting-cars are plen-
,llul, and by the time they are gone
'ruons will be fat and we can rough
il till the election. ! see IN your
Issue Of July llth., a communication
frcm Scott Township over the sigma
iurc Of Citizen, in which he draws
Sheriff HAYES over the Goals about
whisky at the polls oil the day Of the
primary election. | will sey to
Brother Citizen that Hayes never
carried the Jug Of red eye, as he
termed it: it was carried to the ban
ner jug township by a citizen of that
great temperance place; and not in
the interest of Hayes, butin that of
one Of the candidates for the Clerk
s'np.
/ was surprised at Citizen, your
correspondent, was o. TIE Bayou the
3tnh ff June. and there was soon
rcrsation watcl enough there to
The Osceola times. [volume] (Osceola, Ark.) 1870-current, 1888-07-21

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patronage of the travelling public.
Clean rooms, clean beds, and tables
supplied with the best the market
affords. Sample room for travelling
merchants. Terms, reasonable.
1t. j. Is. MICHELE.
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The Osceola times. [volume] (Osceola, Ark.) 1870-current, 1888-07-21
For SALE.

The Delorvin place at Golden
Lake is for sale on reasonable terms.
Address, PAUL DELoIvIN,
Fort Smith, Ark.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-06-28

she lives with all the comforts of .
parlor until she gets ready to retire
Then the scene changes. She lifts
up the writing-desk, turns on the spi-
got. and straightway has a porcelain
basin of the purest Potomac water.
She gives the red Turcoman curtain a
push, Ioosens the hook, and opens the
bed. It is already made, and its
springs are as soft as those of
millionaire. She sleeps like q child
and wakes as fresh as daisy. 1t costs
her but little, and she maintains the
appearance of having quarters which
would cost Congressman $50 or $75
month for SIS. She may cook her own
breakfast over a lamp, and she may
dine at a restaurant or at a place
where she gets only dinner for so
much per month. But the one thing
about which she is most particular is
her clothes. These must be good, and
she knows how to make a last years
bonnet look like that of Massachu-
sets average belle at one-tenth the
expense. / have known. however, of
girls who bought their dresses on the
installment plan, and who had worn
them shabby while yet paying for
them. Such cases are, however, few,
and the girls as a rule pay cash for
what they get. They do good with
their money, and number of them
keep whole families out of their
salaries. A number board nicely and
spend all they make. A few are
married and many are widows. ALI
told, they are as nice a class of women
as you will find.
Do you think the Government service
u good place for women?
1 don't know. The wages are good,
the hours are easy, and the position of
the women here, as elsewhere, is just
what she makes it. 1t is the same
with men, but a young fellow with any
snap in him had better begin by break
ing stones than accept a place in one of
these departments, which, if he sticks
to it, is sure to break him down.
Frank g. Carpenter, IN N. Y. World.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-06-28
sc MERRY . AND GAY.
a Good and Most Reliable Recipe for Pre-
longing Life.

longing Lie.
1t is tersely said that "all fools are
mad, though some are madden than
Others" and perhaps among the mad
dest of them it would be safe to reckon
those who having but one life to live
run through it in vain lamentation
over troubles which they can't avoid,
or, what is vainer, over those which
they can and which sometimes are 50
far in the future that they never come
to bother them. To ''take Time by the
forelOck'' is a very profitable grip to
hold on that slippery old fellow; but
Trouble is not so slippery, and We could
practice our haste and activity rather
in keeping out of her way as long as
possible-to build up wall of mirth,
as it were, between her and us, over
which her clumsy feet would never
venture to climb.
Gravity is a grave thing. 1t may be
appropriate at certain times and in GER
tain places, but as an everyday dish it
is tough and indigestible. A continual
diet of India rubber, would, perhaps,
be as favorable to the growth and
flourish of body and mind. There
fore, if we are wise as we'll as grave,
we can show our wisdom in no stronger
way than dropping our gravity and
playing the fool now and then"
Even Socrates himself knew the danger
of too much gravity, and frequently
took occasion to sink some of it in the
gay tide of merriment.
'Mirth' says an old writer, ''purgeth
the blood, confirms health, causeth a
fresh, pleasing and fine color, pro-
longs life, whets the wit, and maketh
the body young, lively and fit for any
manner of employment. And if we
need further proof of its life-giving
properties we can find it in the Bible,
spread forth in unequivocal and I'M
mistakable words: "a merry heart is
the life of the flesh" saith the Prov
cribs; and in Ecclesiastes we are told
that ''gladness prolongs mans days"
In the Flooding, matter-of-fact days
of the present, it seems, we have too
little time to think of much else than
business, serious business;" and, when
we come to think of it, it is a serious
business to have our lives shortened
with cares and labors-cares and labors
that would be great deal more pala-
table and far less death-dealing if
seasoned with little mirth and non
sense.
Let us reform this altogether and
take profitably to heart Shakespeare S
advice:
Frame your mind for mirth and merriment
Which bars thousand harms.
fable Talk.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-06-28
UNCLE SANS CLERKS.
The Life Of Department Employe
at Washington.
-Four Thousand Women Who Draw Salarie,
From tho Government-Pretty Money
. Counters and Prlnters-Reduced
Gentlewomen.

There are about 1000 women in the
Government departments and these
are scattered from the Treasury to the
Government Printing Office, and they
do all manner of work. Some of them
are stenographers and typewriters.
Some of them are printers. Some are
copyists and translators. Some have
to do with the legal questions of the
departments, and some of them receive
high salaries as special examiners in
the Patent Office. Now two women
clerks receive 81 800 a year, and some
of the most responsible business is
done by women. As q rule, however,
they get lower salaries than the men
for the same work, and it was thought
to be big thing when the first woman
received 81 600 year.
It was through Treasurer Spinner
that women got their first hold on the
Government, and the demand for clerks
was so great during the war that he
employed number. This was in 1862,
and women. then received 1920 a year
as copyists and money-counters in the
service, and they can count thousands
upon thousands of dollars without
making a mistake. Sitting at desk
they take up roll after roll made up of
hundreds OF dollars of greenbacks,
their fingers fly as though moved by
electricity, and their rosy lips touch
each other in counting at the rate of
hundreds of times per minute. 1t
makes me think of the small boy with
his nose pressed against the con-
fectioner's window when 1 watch these
girls thus earning SIS dollars a month
by counting hundreds of thousands of
dollars a week.
The fastest counter in the Govern
ment service is a woman, and women
are the best of counterfeit detectors.
They seem able to tell bad bill by in
tuition, and they have to count dirty
bills as well as clean. The money they
count is old as well as new, and it
comes from every part of the United
States. In the Redemption Bureau of
the Treasury the bills are counted in
packages of 100 bills each, and the
pretty Treasury counter moistens her
fingers on wet sponge as she goes
rapidly through these packages. If
she finds that a package is not right
she notifies the chief, and the bank
which sends the package has to make
ND the loss. If she makes a mistake
herself the money is taken out of her
salary, and this is true in respect to a
counterfeit as well as for an error in
counting. When bill is lost in one
of these rooms or in the Bureau of En-
craving and Printing the whole force
is kept in the building until it is found,
and not long ago there was big ex-
element in the Treasury over lost
Government bond.
The certificates of deposits of Ma
tional banks are presided over by a lit
tie withered-up anatomy who came
here as a clerk for Andrew jackson,
and who, surrounded by hundreds OF
millions of dollars, works for few dol
lars day. He is rather luxurious In
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-06-28
A Unique Telegraph System.

There has grown up among the
farmers of a county in Michigan tele-
graph system which might be gener-
ally extended throughout the rural
districts everywhere. Tho system be-
gan by two farmers connecting their
houses with a wire for their own con-
venience and operating their lines with
the ordinary Morse instruments. Grad
ually other farmers extended the line
to their houses, and after time the
wire was run into the neighboring viii
lage. Seven years ago the combined
farmers and few village merchants
organized themselves into company
and it has since been extended until
now it has sixty-five miles of wire and
ninety offices, two-thirds of the latter
being in farm houses, and nearly all
the rest in stores where these farmers
do their trading. One or two news
paper offices, as many more railroad
freight Offices, the county telephone
exchange and the larger post-offices
are all connected. Every farmer is
his own operator, battery man and line
repairer. OF course, any quantity OF
private communication is kept up be-
tween the stockholders of this indie
pendent system. There are two or
three Independent systems of these
lines in operation in the country, ar
ranged so that they can be connected
with each other at the intersecting
points, and the whole scheme Is being
worked very cheaply and successfully.
Chicago Times.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-06-28
THE FARMER.

With honest, onward manly toll
he plows and hoes the yielding soil,
WIN hopes OF gathering in the spoil
The farmer
He studies well the growth and yield;
Knows what TO plant in every field;
dis threadbare coat is not concealed
The farmer.
He grasps the plow in early morn,
And on he goes till sounding horn
Breaks up his dream Of golden corn
The farmer.
He views his fields of waving wheat,
Which aching arms and tired feet
Combined to make the work complete
The farmer.
He has his rye and other grain,
And need not murmur complain,
For harvest time will come again
The farmer.
Sweet odors from the clover lot
Make farm and home pleasant spot;
You seldom find perfect sot-
The farmer.
That times are hard he knows full well.
But to manage right and manage well,
Brings something round that he can sell
The farmer.
He labors hard from day to day,
And always has some bills to pay,
But seldom finds much time to play
The farmer.
Tho bank that is most safe and sure,
And one that always will endure,
Is made OF compost and manure
By the farmer.
He seldom asks for shipping rates,
But knows the fences and the gates
Are round the fields he cultivates--
The farmer.
You find him not a man of greed,
His hand is warm to those in need.
But sometimes takes the filthy weed
The farmer.
~Iou seldom find him at the inn,
Or slipping from cup OF gin,
But sharpers sometimes take him in
The farmer.
Who was it used to swing the
And guard his hut from lawless acts,
Who is it now that pays the tax?
The farmer.
Now his products fill the land.
His fields tho broad will still expand;
He feeds the world with bounteous hand
The farmer.
Now tell us.where they lived, or when,
= better class race of men,
And then perhaps you'll hear again
From farmer.
u W. Sage, in Ohio Farmer.