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, 1888-03-08
Bloody Battle With Bandits.

GALVESTON, Tex, March IA dis
patch from Matamoras, Mexico, says:
Advices from Lleva de Canales, the south
ern part of the state, say on the morning
OF the Sd ult., that place and Picacho
ranch were attacked by a party of twenty
bandits from E%scandon, commanded by
Brulio Cervantes. At both places a
bloody contest took place. The robbers
looted the town as far as they were able
to, Nine men and one girl of the people
attacked were killed. The bandits lost
two killed and had n number severely
wounded. Troops were ordered in pur-
suit and it is understood two or three of
the bandits have been captured.
, 1888-03-08
Lander's Flour MIL.


special Dispatch to The Leader.
LANDER, March 7.-C. A. Jones, of
Alma, Neb., is here negotiating for the
erection of Touring mill at this point.
This section has been greatly stirred up
on the subject and a bonus of So, 900 in
cash and wheat has been offered. Ar
engagements are definitely concluded for
the erection Of a roller process mill by
Jones. Under the terms of the contract
the mill must be completed in ninety days
after work has been commented.
, 1888-03-08
Forger and Blpnmist-

SAN Francisco, March Michael
Fox, alias James Foss, was arrested here
to-day and will be taken to Illinois to
answer the charge of forgery. 1t is
alleged hat Fox married Miss Fenton in
Durand, ILL.,, five years ago and soon after
fled, leaving notes claimed TO be forgeries
for $1,000. He came to California and
since arriving here.has married another
woman, and it is claimed the charge of
bigamy will also be made AGAINST him.
, 1888-03-08
An Able Pulpit Effort.

Country Minister Ito dcacon)-So you
think, Brother Jones, that my sermon
this morning was an ADLER effort than
that of last Sabbath?
Deacon-Yes, l do, dominic. Ye sec,
! timed EN- both, an today's was nigh
on to fifteen minutes shorter. Philip II.
Welch in The Epoch.
, 1888-03-08

An English traveller told n Balize
(Honduras) newspaper man that he had
eaten a ''scorpion pie" while in Mexico,
and that he liked it. The natives told
him that young scorpions were frequent
ly utilized for food for the lower classes,
who dig them from their nests in hun
dreds, remove the sting and make ONE
lets of them.-New York Evening
Wnrll
, 1888-03-08

Magnifying glasses seem to nave been
known in the time Of Confucius, the
great Chinese philosopher, who died 47S
u. c., for, he wrotei GAS we use q glass
to examine the forms of things, so must
w study antiquity to understand the
present. "-Arkansaw Traveller,
, 1888-03-08

Special Dispatch TO THE LEADER.
LANDER, March THE Sweetwater
Placer Mining company will be organized
here in a few days, The company has
located and will develop this summer nine
miles of good placer lying along the Up
per SWeetWater.
, 1888-03-08

The temperature necessary to melt
wrought iron lies between 1000 and
5000 degs. Fahrenheit, and even at that
tremendous neat wrought iron is only
rendered fluid by the addition of a small
amount OF aluminium Chicago Times.
, 1888-03-08
NON>N t flhn,
MAIL LETTINGS,
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS
Posi- OFFICE DEPARTMENT,
WASHINGTON, ID. c.,

II. u,
February |, 1888.
PROPOSALS will be received at the Com
tract Office OF this Department until 4 p.
III. of April 10, 1883, for carrying the mails
of the United States upon the routes, and
according to the schedule of arrival and
departure specified by the Department,
in the Territory of Wyoming from July
l., 1888, to June 80, 1890. Lists of
routes, with schedules of arrivals and de-
p~artures, instructions to bidders, with
forms for contracts and bonds, aud all
other necessary information, will be fur
nished upon application to the Second
Assistant Postmaster General.
Don NJ. DICKINSON,
Postmaster General.
, 1888-03-08

An adjourned meeting of Magic City
Legion No. |, S. K, A. o. w. u, at
Masonic Hall this evening at 8 o'clock.
Comrades arc requested to attend. By
order.
WIN. LLOYD, EDWARD KAPP,
Recorder. Cdr.
, 1888-03-08

Cant eat a thing" Hoods Sarsa.
parilla is a wonderful medicine for Great
ing. an appetite, regulating digestion, and
living strength.
, 1888-03-08

meteorological reports Ssceived at Cheyenne
on March 7, 1888, at s p. m. local time. Observn-
tons taken at the same moment OF time at all
stations.
, 1888-03-08
FATAL FIRE.
The Springfield, Mass, Union
Office Burned.
Number of the Employees Lose
Their Lives.
Serious Illness of Emperor
William.
FATAL FIRE.
Fire in a Printing Office.

SPRINGFIELD. Mass, March Fire
destroyed the Union office to day. The
flames spread SO rapidly that only a few
Of those IN the upper stories escaped.
Mrs. Fairly, the society editor, was in
stantly killed by jumping from a window.
The composing room was on the fifth
floor and the inmates were shut off from
escape. A dozen men ran to the windows
and hung suspended by their hands until
their strength gave out, when they
dropped to the sidewalk and were either
killed or fatally injured. There were
forty persons in the editorial room and
twenty, are missing, but it is hoped they
escaped.
, 1888-03-08
PLACE OF
V

Baromete corrected for temperature, eleva-
tion and gravity. L. B. OLNEY,
Sergeant Signal Corps. United States Army.
, 1888-03-08
ANOTHER ACCOUNT.


SPRINGFIELD, Mass. March The
new office of the Eueniag Unaon was
burned out this afternoon and the blaze
was attended with the most shocking hor.
ror every witnessed in this city, six of the
employes7meeting terrible death. most of
them caused by jumping from the fifth
story and being crushed into shapeless
masses below. Six Others were badly in.
jured. The fire was first discovered in
the mailing room and clouds of smoke
were pouring out of the lower story win
dows before the fifty souls on the upper
floor were aware of their danger. The
flames shot up the elevator, cutting off
escape by the stairway, and most of the
employees who escaped found their way to
the ground by way of the roof in the
rear.
The dead are as follows: Henry j.
Goulding, foreman of the Union compos
ing room, burned to death; Miss j..
Thompson, proof reader; Mrs. Frede.
rick Il. Farley, editorial department,
fell from a window and was killed;
Mr.. Camseon, Quebec, jumped and
killed; w. h. Hovey of Boston, fell to
the sidewalk; Mr.. Brown, a compositor.
The injured are: Thomas Donahue,
Timothy Dunn, Joseph Witty and S. f..
Ellsworth, all compoSitors. Their injuries
are very serious and they may die.
1t is thought the fire started among the
lumber in a closet on the ground floor.
The only available article for quenching
the flames in the office was an old water
can. A canvas sheet was stretched over
the sidewalk. Three men jumped on this
but broke through and fell on the pave
ment. A woman also fell through the
canvas and landed on the sidewalk in
sensible.
Jos. Landlord was standing on the side
walk at the end of the building ~furtherest
from the corner when Mrs. Farley fell.
lie stood his ground and reached out his
arms to catch her. She fell on his neck.
telling HIM to the ground senseless. Mrs.
Farley was killed instantly. Landlord
was soon restored to consciousness and is
not seriously hurt.
, 1888-03-08
Stocks and Cattle Markets.

NEW YORK. March THE stock
market was again more active to-day,
though the improvement in the amount
of business done was spasmodic and If.
regular, and while the list was strong in
the forenoon it gave way later and closed
at the lowest figures reached. Unfavor-
able advices about Emperor William and
the crown prince affected foreign traders,
and fresh strike news from Chicago had
its effect at home.
Governments dull but firm. Money .
@3 per cent. Mining shares active.
Copper-Market firm. Lake SIG. 80.
Petroleum opened excited at 81, closed
steady at 97s; highest, 81; lowest 965.
Sales 4, III 900 barrels.
Following are closing prices of stocks;
Pacific 6's. 100; American Express. l07;
Canada Pacific. 500; Canada Southern,
500: Central Pacific, 1871; Burlington,
l243; Delaware, Lackawanna. 1864; Den
yer & Rio Grande, 10; Erie, 233; Lake
Shore, 500; Louisville & Nashville. 539
Michigan Central, III; Kansas & Texas,
l33; New York Central, lO5; Northern
Pacific, 2l3; preferred, 434; Northwest,
ern, 1865; Oregon Improvement, At;
Navigation, 81; Transcontinental. 10:
Pacific Mail, "a; Reading, GLE; Rock
Ioiahu, III, ullWduhee ~ DU. 1aul,
75B; Panama, =; Texas Pacific, 233;
Union Pacific, SAT; United States Ex-
press, u; Fargo, 80; Western Union,
III.
CHICAGO, March 7.-Cattle-Receipts,
1000; market strong and 1Oc higher;
fancy, $5.25@5.5 so; steers, So. lO@5.lO;
stockers and feeders, 81. 2O93. So; Texas
cattle, 50. 75(94.O0.
Sheep-Receips, 5000; market strong
and 10 to Is cents higher; natives, $500
M5.60; Western, S5.lO@5.75; Texans,
s. 50@5.25.
Wheat-Market irmer, Cash, rs l5-
TO- April &c 5-16; May, so 1916.
Corn-Market firmer. Cash 4S}; May,
NON,A trihe with any Threat OF
Lung Disease. If you have
n Cough or Cold, or the children or.
threatened with Group or whooping Cough.
use Acker's English Remedy and proven.
further trouble. 1t is n positive cure.
and we guarantee it. Price 10 and 50c
DR.. w. ~. Hunt.
, 1888-03-08

The full support of the entire Brother.
hood Of Locomotive Engineers and Fire.
men has been pledged to their members
on any and all roads throughout the
United States who deem it necessary to
strike and formally decide to do so in
order TO uphold their brethren on the
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy. This in
formation was obtained this evening on
the best of authority and was verified
through another source.
, 1888-03-08

CHICAGO, March 7.-Cattle-Receipts
7,OOOi market strong and 1Oc higher;
fancy, $5.25(95.5 so; steers, So. 1OC65. 10;
stockers and feeders, 81. 2O93. So; Texas
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Durable and Ornamental.

There is new invention which will
be of great advantage to those who
wear rubber boots and shoes for pro-
lection, and may be means of making
these articles more valuable for orna-
mental use. The trouble has always
been to get a sole which would wear,
for the usual boot, when constantly
used, will not wear more than month.
They are not durable goods and are ex-
pensive to those who have to use them
constantly. The new invention pro-
vides a substantial sole, which will
wear as long as leather. The upper is
constructed in the usual manner, but,
while the rubber is still warm in the
mold, studs of metal are pressed into
the inner part of the sole and melted
rubber is poured around them SO as to
hold them firmly. This forms a smooth,
hard sole, preventing it from being
pierced by the metal, or allowing the
rubber to become enlarged or leaky.
The sole lasts as long as the metal
studs remain, and make rubber boot
as durable as leather. This is in the
line of improvement toward rubber
footwear for ornamental use.-St. Louis
Globe Democrat
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Canker Worm.

In answer to an Arkansas correspond
emit the Farm and Fircssde makes the
following reply:
Your troublesome insect is undoubt-
sdly the canker-worm (anfsopteryx
vernata), and in some sections of the
country, especially in some parts of
New England, it is the greatest pest
the apple-grower has to contend with:
yet II care be taken, with good iudg-
ment and knowledge of its habits, it
may surely be disposed of. The female
has no wings; she comes out of the
ground In the warm days during the
winter and early spring and climbs M
the trunk OF the tree, to lay her eggs
IN the leaves and blossoms. These
eggs Matching produce the worms
which do the damage, often leay-
ing the trees as bare as if
fire had run through them: how
ever, the worms pass to the mature
form, sometimes about the first of july.
the date varying according to the
climate, and the trees generally leaf
out again, and yet the shock is often
80 severe as to leave the trees very
weak. Now, taking advantage of the
TACT that the female has to climb I'M
the trunk, it is customary for the
orchardlst to put around each tree a
strlp Oh tarred paper about twelve
inches wide, and keep the same COW
cred with printers ink, or some mate
rial OF the same nature, from the first
Oh January until the moths stop climb
ing. care must be taken, however.
that the females do not form a BRIDGE
across the paper, and thus get up the
tree. Keep the ink fresh by renewal
curing warm days. when the offending
insects are caught and destroyed. A still
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Clover as an Egg Food.

Glover contains two elements Tint
are in demand by the hen nitrogsn
and lime. 1t is rich in the clemens
required for the white (albumen) aud
the shell, and if plenty of it be pro
vided for the hens no better food can
be given. Grain should only be pOs
ton of the diet of fowls, yet but fsr
flocks receive any thing but grain, all
as such food will not promote laying
it is not surprising that many wellkd
focks do not prove profitable. Subst
tute clover for grain, and the result
will be a larger number OF eggs al i
lower cost, and the flock will keep !
better condition,
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HERE AND THERE.

1t is safe to say that splendid
wheat crop is assured in KENTUCKY.
The peach, apple and plum trees are
loaded down with their luseicn
freight,
The strawberry season is about
over in Tennessee. The crop Icing
short, the prices held up better than
usual, and altogether the growers haEp
made money.
The cut worms and army worms
have been more destructive than usual
this season. The old-fashioned worn.
fences don't do a particle of good \
takes worm-ditches these days.
Governor Buckner of Kentucky has
appointed the following commissions
Of the Agricultural and Mechanie
College at Lexington, viz: Genefs
Don Carlos Buel, of Louisville; Hon
W. G. Ireland, of Boyd County; "
w. Tice, of Graves County, and Hon
Hart Gibson, of Fayette County.
1t is generally admitted by the
trade that the restrictions on 0leomaf
garine have increased the consumptien
OF genuine butter in all sections, anas
considerably larger quantity thaa
usual is needed to meet the wants
the consumers.
The MARBLES or punches on the
backs of the cattle may be killed D
puncturing them through the entrana
hole with an awl, or by Swinging u :
few drops of carbolic acid slightly o.
luted. If let alone, says contempg
rary, each grub will make anoth9
gadfiy to torment the cattle the nef
summer.
A cross COW in herd keeps tne
others always in perpetual fear, ana y
that manner lessons the milk from lns
others in quantity more than may y
sufficient to balance that given BY lAs
cross one. A cross or domineerlDg
cow should be got rid of.-Amer'cas
Breeder.
The dehorning talk is growing
monotonous, says a correspondent =
the Philadelphia Press. / have seeh
much of horn-amputation, and nesa
saw q dairyman who had deprived ns
herd of these ornaments wish 10 nss0
them replaced. The operation IS per-
fectly safe. 1t suppresses good aee
of insurrection and domestic violeps
in the barnyard.
The following, from a South Aas
tralian letter in an English papel'
sounds big to Old World farmers: ny y
are having a fine season here, ana
have already shorn 112, 900 sheep, aas
sent away 900 bales of secured wo0l
We hope to shear 100000. We na' ~
had good lambing-we have zoV,V@
lambs"
The bill charging the powers any,
duties of the Department. OF Agrican
ure, and making it an executive =.
partment with Cabinet officer ~ y,
head, passed the House by vote =
233 to Is. The Senate is the consefss,
tive body of Congress, but it is 10.
confidently expected that it will so0'
pass the bill.
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better remedy is to encircla j
with metallic troughs, and hss ~ ! y
filled with crude netro,a.. 'asa
other cheap oil. The first eos.
preventive is more than tba "
but it is more effectual, and ono W ~
is often enough for season. ss
method, if the worms get ahs.s 'ss Z
some growers use it in prefers,ss's A
ink or petroleum., is to sv,;,s s
trees with mixture of one na = y
Paris green to one hundred oslla. Az
water, just as the Larvae are b,..a,
out. One application is general. All. Y
ticient, unless followed immedi..ss,ss v Y
rain. Persian insect powder ~ !
directed for Paris green is yerv q
i've. 1t will destroy the larvs s
young, and will so paralyze tha -, IS
ones that they will drop to the r. ! Y
and may be kept from aseend;es IS
single application of ink as a.; y
above.
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Mutton Lambs.

Stephen Powers says the ra;sin.
selling of mutton lambs is suic;as' $ /
sheep raising. May be it i. T.. !
makes money for the men enpaosa !.
it. Theg do not complain & Fl IS
times, like wool growers do n ~ !
pays, it will be engaged in, ana ~
to be. 1t is the leading ipdnstyr - !
may parts of Tennessee, Peuus,l,.
MIA. Kentucky. New York and n u
Jersey. Some Michigan and Ohio y,
could thus keep from bs;.,
over stocked and squealing !
the time. It is one =
of diversifying sheep raising. Il sua
some farmers and some regions To-
"t-y-t.n Wool growing suits son
men and some regions, 80 all i
methods have their fitness. 4 4 u
lambs that go to market leave ptu
for the rest to fill proftably. 0gss
crowded focks, poor sheep, old ewes
weak lambs, mad fockmasters, Ii.
gusted sheep raisers. What sort i
sheep raising shall we call it? II
man strikes out in a new line that DAM
shall we call him crankp See L |
pays first. and Ftreside,
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He Had to See a Man.

Wife (returning from lecture halD-
well, John, how did you like the
speaker"
Very much, Indeed"
That's strange"
"Why?"
well, from the number of times you
vent out imagined you found the en-
tertainment very dry. "-Nebraska State
Journal
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Now, as you all have something S. so
| with the newspaper press, either in issu-
ing paper or in reading it, either as
producers or patrons, either as sellers or
purchasers of the printed sheet, l pro-
pose on this Sabbath morning, June IT,
1888, a treaty to be signed between the
Church and the printing press, treaty to
be ratified by millions of good people if
we rightly fashion it, a treaty promising
that we will help each other in our work
of trying to illumine and felicitate the
world, we by voice, you by pen, we by
speaking only that which is worth print
ing, you by printing only that which is fit to
speak. You help US and we will help you.
Side by side by these two potent agencies
until the judgment day, when we must
both be scrutinized for our work, health
full or blasting. The two worst off men
in that day will be the minister of relig.
ion and the editor. if they wasted their
opportunity. Both of us are the engineer
of long express trains of influence, and
we will run them into depot of light or
tumble them off the embankments.
What a useful life and what glorious
departure was that of the most famous of
all American printers, Benjamin Frank
lin, whom infdels in the penury of their
resources have often fraudulently
claimed for their own, but the
printer who moved that the Phila-
delphia convention be opened with
prayer, the resolution lost because ma
jority thought it unnecessary, and who
wrote at the time he was viciously at
tackled: "My rule is to go straight for
ward in doing what appears to me to be
right, leaving the consequences to Provi-
dence," and who wrote this quaint epitaph
showing his hope of resurrection, an cpl
taph that hundreds of times read while
living in Philadelphia.
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The man who lends a hand too
often frequently finds himself with
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The Body
of
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, PRINTER,
Like the cover of an o d book,
Its contents torn out,
And stripped of its lettering and gildingl
Lies here, food for worms.
Yet the work itself shall not be lost.
For it will (as he believed) appear once more
In new
And more beautiful edition,
Corrected and amended
BY
The Author
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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-04-04

NM a. JOHNSON & CO.,
WHOLESALE GROCERS,
GENERAL COMMISSION MERCHANTS
And Dealers in
ALL KINDS OF LIQUORS,
Have on hand GIBSON'S Xxx, xxx, XXXX,
and PURE OLD RYE, OLD CABINET and
MONOGRAM WHISTLES; also BAKERS and
THOMPSONS PURE RYE WHISTLES. to which
they invite the attention of the trade.
Orders from the country for merchandise shall
receive prompt attention.
Cocsignments of Flour, Grain and Country Pro.
duce solicited, for which they guarantee the high
est market prices and prompt returns
Northeast corner of Cameron and Royal streets
sep14 Alexandria, Va.
HARLOW Bros
GR0C ERs, GENERAL COMMJasI4
MERCHANTS AND
Dealers In
WINE AND LIQUORS.
FLOUR GRAIN AND COUNTRY PRODUCE
SOLICITED.
PROMPT RETURNS AND LIBERAL AD-
VANCES ON GOODS IN STORE.
AGENCY OF LAFLIN & RANDS SPORTING,
BLASTING AND MINING POWDER kfca
COTTON AND WATERPROOF FUSE.
N. w. cor. Cameron and Royal sts.
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AUCTION SALES.

CtITY TREAsURER's OFFICE,
~ Room No. . Market Building,
Alexandria, Va, March 5, 1887.
DELINQUENT STATE TAXPAYERS TAKE
NOTICE.
AT tho April term of the Corporation Court
at the front door Of the Corporation Court House
on Fairfax street, | will OFFER AT PUBLIC
SALE ALL THE REAL ESTATE belonging to
delinquent Taxpayers for the years 1885 and
1856, a description of which can bo seen at NV
office No. > Market Building, or Mt the Clerks
office Of tho Corporation Court
NJ. B. HARLOW,
mho City Treasurer
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AIezaudria 0azette.
pUBLJsHRD DAILY AND TIL WKKRLY By
GAR WIDEN,

4. TIE Gasette Buildine 80 and 312 Prince st