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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-12-19
by the change,

MR. CULLoM OF Illinois, VINO has hereto
fore posed as sc-caled conservative re
publican, SAID, in speech he madein the U.
s. Senate yesterday, h5 knew the Force Dill
would produce diaorder in the South, cut
that hs would vote for it all the same. 1t
really eesras as if the tieot OF the northern
republicans is to create such condition of
affairs 10 tie South that the iphux OF north
ern capital into this ssotion mag be stopped,
and that to attain that Object they woolc
not hesitate TO make desola!tn and
waste of every southern State.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-12-19
TELEGRApEIC BPgyTTTPs

Hop. NJ. Il. Phelsn, who wes pror1ioe. .
In Catholic affairs, dropped dead on tbs side
walk in St. Louis lsss night.
Mrs. Jessie Higbeo, OF Brsndenbura, Kg
was taken in custody last night for poison.
ing her fur children Soc lie believed 70 Is
crszy.
The handsome rev Willard block 8.
Chu.chyil!e, n. Y, iuc!uaing tie % 81 eff +,
was destroyed By ice early this morning
loss S35 .0C0
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Suicide.

KoT SPRINGS. Ark, Dec. 19.-Mrs. VIII
lie Bell committed euicide yesterday By
takiog morphine. sba was about % years
O, age, tall and ysry handsome. Mrs. Bell,
it is said, was ruined by a prominent CT l.
z.n-a high official of this county. She sep
arated from Der husband lass GUNNER.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-12-19

Years have not seen end time sha ).
see," the people SGT down quietly to scter
pain, when enterprise caa ah1Td saos a
panaces as ga walton Oil.
The old saying Opposition is TIE LIE ct
business" has not been qUs aireG In ore il
stance at least. eincs the Introduction ei
DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup al oJhsi cough rev-
edies have been dead stock.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-12-19

National Patriotic and Typical Airs Of All
L,ndr, bg John Pnllp Sousa, Baud Msster,
U. S. Marine Corps, is the title OF rand
sJms volume. received from the publisher.
II. Coleman. Philadelphia. Il contains the
words and the music CT the national songs
of ali the countries Ia the world.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-12-19

s olsty As 1 Have Foundered 1t, by the
autho- of The Rock or tae Rye, hss been
received from the publishers, the Gossip
Printing Company. Mobile, Ala. 1t is q
satire upon Ward MoAIister's recent soce-
ty book, written in NJ. De Laon's clevefeet
avja
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-12-19
NHlLDREN's aRETCHENs,


Cbildr.n's Navy aud White Striped
Grotchecs. Sizs 3 years.
BE gulsr price, s. -
MARKED down to 81 60
Chjldren's Elmo Imported Gretoh9ns,
with cape Sizes 4 and 6 years.
Regular prices $12 and S13.-
Marked down to SO
MISSES JACgErS.-A "Broken Line
OF Misses jackets in
Myrtle Green Beavers,
BED Chevio,s, and
sizas II, ID and 16 years.
-Begu'ar prices, 81 so a. d 50 -
MARKED down to So 80 -
MISSES NEWMARgETS.-hiis
Dark Green Beaver Cloth Nos markets.
with cape and satin facings. siz) 1G
Regular price, $3.50.
Marked down to So
NEWMARKETS, &c.-Misses' All.yo5l
Mode siclian Repp Nowmarkcts. Sz'
IA and 16 years
Regular prices S3i snd $50 -
-Narked dowa to $50
Misses Fancy Striped Chcviot New
msrkets Sizes IL and 10 years.
Regular prices, $25 snt $26.50.--
-Na.ked down to SID
Misses Navy Cheviot Newmarket.
Size 6 years.
Regular prico. S25 -
-Markod down - $40
(Tnied fiior, 10:h st. eStens or.
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In the House to-day Mr Cuaming, d
New York, introduced q reHoiu In rtQats.
ing the Gar of Russia TO mcderate bis Ift,t
mept of the Jews.
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DIED.

On Thursday, December 18th, IDA, d lighter
of Warren and Helen Career, aged Zz years
r, s;dence. near III, Theological 60 nnary on sun
day afternoon at 3 o'cleck
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Doys' ovERCoATs
Boys Cvercoat in AD-wcol Chcv'o's.
Meltons. Chinchilla, &C. Sizss 6, 8, l3.
and IA years.
Regular prices, $3.50, SO AID $40
-Marke ed down to So
A broken Line OF Boys Imported CaPo
Overeoats, in the finest grades Of sll-wool
cheviots, in checks an plaids, with plain
and plaid Innings, ami S Tx sleeve lining.
Szei s to 10 years.
-BesuIar prices s12, $3.50, and
Sl3. >
Marked dow1 to so
(Third flor, 10Th st. extension
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-12-19

Mr. a tinaon presented toe conferences
repcrt on the bill coil :ni1g certain priv
leses nov possessed by the Baltimore & Pc
tcmsc R g. Co., in the d 5-rici Of Columbia.
The House decided TO consider The COB
ference report aud M,. a ki0soa immediate
~ demanded the-previous question.
The House refused to order the prsgicus
olestiop, end Mr.. Gsont, OF Vermont, 'ook
the q ,or in opposition 10 The report.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-10-04
THE AMERICAN NOMAD.
No Inducements are offered n Man t
Stay ut Home.

u
Stay ut Home.
A curious outgrowth of the rivalries
of American cities is the practice that
obtains so generally Of offering bonuses
and pecuniary inducements to manu-
facturers to move their plants. After
fire that burned down part of sewing
machine factory the other day the own
ers received so many proposals from
aspiring cities that wanted to take them
in that they were obliged to publish q
notice to the effect that only small
portion of their works had been burned,
and that they were not open to proposals
for adoption. Any factory or established
business employing labor can have its
choice nowadays from q long list Of
cities, new and old, any of which will
give it site for factory, pay the ex-
pensos of moving, and perhaps con-
tribute substantially toward the con-
struction of a new building. Peo-
pie who own land or are engaged
in business in cities realize that it
pays them to have their cities grow,
and they are willing to hire desira-
BILE inhabitants to come to them.
They rely upon getting their money
back in the increased value of land
or the general increase in business.
The result is that the migratory dispo-
sition already SO pronounced in these
days is intensified, and it has become a
familiar thing not merely for individu-
ais to move but for great aggregations
of workingmen to shift the scene of
their activities from one city to another,
sometimes thousands of miles away.
Time was when where the average
man found himself living there he con-
tinued to live, unless circumstances of
exceptional urgency impelled him to
change his residence. 1t is different
now. transportation has become so
cheap, and travel so easy, that the ties
of locality sit very lightly on the aver
age American, and the fact that you find
him settled this year in New York or
Pennsylvania affords you very uncer-
tain basis for expecting to find him next
year in the same place. When you hear
of him again, if he hasn't moved to
Texas, or Tacoma, or Southern Cali
fornia, or Maine, or North Dakota, you
feel that he must have had some eX-
ceptionally good reasons for staying at
home. Men used to wag their heads
and croak about the inability of rolling
stones to gather moss. We have changed |
all that. Moss is at discount and there |
is premium upon rolling.--From "Tho |
Point of View," in Scribner.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-10-04
ANIMAL PUNISHMENT.
Legal Absurdities Perpotrated in tho
"Good Old Times"

Legal Absurdlties Perpotrated I'm tho
"Good Old Times"
In the middle ages the lower animals
were frequently tried, convicted and
punished for various otfenses. Mr..
Baring-Gould has collected some curl.
GUS cases of this kind. In 1866 pig
was burnt at Neutrality-suspicious., near
Paris, for having eaten child. In 1886
| a judge at Falaise condemned a SOW to
be mutilated and hanged for q similar
offense. Three years later a horse was
solemnly tried before the magistrate
and condemned to death for having
killed man. During the fourteenth
century oxen and COWS might be legal
ly killed whenever taken in the act OF
marauding, and asses, for first offense,
had one ear cropped; for second of.
Tense, the other ear, and II after this
they were asses enough to commit
third offense, their lives became forfeit
to the crown. Criminal" animals fire.
quently expiated their offenses, like
other malefactors, on the gallows, but
subsequently they were summarily
killed without trial, and their owners
mulcted in heavy damages. In the
fifteenth century it was popularity be-
lieved that cocks were intimately asso-
ciated with witches; and they were
somewhat credited with the power of
laying accursed eggs, from which
sprang winge serpents. In 1874, at
Bale, cock was publicly accused of
having laid one of these dreadful
eggs. He was tried, sentenced
to death, and, together with
the egg, was burned by the executioner
in the market-place amid great con-
course of people. In 1904, during the
witch prosecutions in New England,
dog exhibited such strange symptoms
of aff1iction that he was believed to have
been ridden by a warlock, and he was
accordingly hanged. Snails, flies, mice,
ants, caterpillars and other obnoxious
creatures, have been similarly pro-
ceeded against and condemned to vari-
GUS punishments-mostly in ecclesiastic-
al courts. And, stranger still, mani
mate objects have suffered the same
fate. In 1885, when the Protestant
chapel at Rochelle was condemned to
be demolished, the bell thereof was
publicly whipped for having assisted
hCiooiSo WAN iGo eollS us. AIUor DelnR
whipped it was catechized, compelled
to recant, and then baptized and hung
up in a Roman Catholic place of
worship. Probably similar absurdities
may have been perpetrated in our own
country; for it must be remembered
that only in the present reign was the
law repealed which made cart-wheel,
tree or beast which had killed a man
forfeit to the State for the benefit of
the poor. 1t had been said that punish
ment is not likely to be efficacious un-
less it swiftly follows the offense.
This was improved on by a Barbary
Turk who, whenever he bought a fresh
Christian slave, had him hung up by
the heels and bastinadoed, on the
principle, it is supposed-though the
application is decidedly singular-that
prevention is better than cure.-All the
Year Round.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-10-04
GATHERINGS CRUELTY.
How a Czarina Punished Prince veritzin
for Smile.

for n Smile.
The Veritzins were mobiles of enor-
nous wealth and power. Paul held a
high Office in court. One night, glitter
ing with Jewels and orders, the young
Prince, who was one of tho handsomest
men in Russia, danced in q quadri lie
opposite the Empress.
AS she passed him in the dance she
fancied that his eyes scanned her gross
figure with covert amusement. After
the quadrille she beckoned to him, and
with a smile handed him her tiny ivory
tablets, containing seven pages, one for
each day in the week. On the first was
written:
1.-THE imperial Ballroom st. Peters
burg"
On the last:
1.-The mines, Siberia"
He read it; his face grew gray as that
of corpse; he bowed low, kissed her
hand, and withdrew, taking" says the
old chronicle, "his wife, the beautiful
Princess of Novgorod, with him." He
was heard to say as he leftthe ballroom:
"My minutes are numbered; let us not
lose one"
Flight or resistance was impossible.
The hold of Catherine on her victim was
inexorable as death. Prince Veritzin
was forced to remain passive in his pal.
ace while each day the power, the wealth
and the happiness that life had given
him were stripped from him.
First he was degraded from all his
offices at court; next his estates were
confiscated by the crown; his friends
were forbidden to hold any communica-
tion with him; his very name, one of
the noblest in Russia, was taken from
him, and he was given that of a serf.
Then his wife and children were driven
out of the palace to herd with beCA,rs.
"The last day." says the record, ~ aul
Veritzin, in rags and barefoot, chained
to convict, bade an eternal farewell to
his home, and departed to the dark and
icy north. He was seen of men no more"
CIattap
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-10-04
TREEp BY RATTLERs.
Tho Quandary of Connecticut Boy, and
HOW He Got Ont af IL.

Tho Quandary of Connecticut Boy, and
How He Got Out of 1t.
This season has been remarkable
one for snakes in Connecticut. Not
only are they unusually plentiful, but
they have behave queerly. A North
Stonington lad had q singular adventure
with rattlers the other day. He had
been out huckleberrying and climbed
an apple tree in pasture for fruit.
While eating an apple as he sat astride
OF low limb he saw two big rattlers
come up to the tree trunk, and it was
evident to the boy at once that they
wanted him. They couldn't climb the
tree, SO they camped out under it, and
now and then lifted their ugly heads,
crackled a little, and looked at him
menacingly. The inference was, so the
boy interpreted tho look, that they
had plenty of time and were going to
wait for him to come down.
Tho North Stonington boy sat on the
limb about half an hour, and in that
time hatched up plot that ne fancied
might circumvent the reptiles. He had
fish line in his trousers pocket and
sandwich in his jacket, and, batting the
hook attached to the line with piece
of the biscuit, he dropped the bait down
toward the biggest rattler, which, with
swollen neck and uplifted crest, was
prancing about directly beneath him.
With skillfull twist of tho wrist he
dropped the hook and biscuit squarely
into the serpent's NAV, and the big
snake instantly swallowed it. Then he
pulled the line in, so that the rattler
was left swinging about two feet from
the ground, tied the line to the tree
bough, and cut the string in two. To
the severed piece of string he hooked
on another hook, baited that, and began
to angle for the mate of the suspended
serpent. But that snake had reasoned
out the plan, and as soon as the boy
made his first cast he lodged out of the
way of the hook. Then instantly he be-
came very much alarmed, and, giving
his rattles farewell shake, turned and
glided quickly into the greenwood. The
boy Skinned down the tree moment
later and scurried off home, leaving
the hooked snake dangling from the
bough.
One of the largest rattlers killed in
the State in many years was slain by
Dwight Monroe. hired man on the Will
lam b. Smith farm in West Hart
ford, few days ago. Monroe was walk
Ing near the reservoir when huge
serpent suddenly reared up in front Of
him and shook out warning rattle.
Monroe hastily stepped back, then went
and cut stick, returned, and found the
serpent exactly in the same posture as
at the beginning Of the encounter.
With single stroke Monroe killed the
serpent, and then took him into Hart
ford. The reptile was three feet, ten
inches long, six inches in girt and wore
eleven rattles His color was rich
velvet brown, Monroe had taxider-
mist stuff him.
At Berlin, among the country hills,
M. R. Dunham's hired man killed rat
tie snake at the foot of Berlin noun
tain, a day or two ago, that had thirteen
rattles.-N. Y. Sun.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-10-04
REVENGE IN BuRMAH.
Terrible Vengeance of the Dacoits on tn
Friends of Their Enemies.

Terrible Vengeance of the Dacoits on the
Friends of Their Eneniies.
A headman informed me one day as
passed through his village of the where
abouts of well-known dacoit q few
miles off. On this information the man
was tracked and executed an hour or
two afterward. Some months later this
headman and his brother, both well dis
posed to our rule, were waylaid and MUIR
dered by the gang to which the above
mentioned dacoit chief had belonged.
In another case man who had been i'm
pressed to serve the dacoits as cook and
baggage-carrier escaped and took refuge
in well-defended post only, however,
to hear few days later that his old
mother, who was living in her native
village, had the night before been MUIR
dered. Some information on which one
or two dacoits were captured was given
by a man who himself lived in a large
town with military station, and was.
therefore, safe. His nearest relatives.
however, a mother, sister, wife, two
young children, and an infant q few
hours old, living in their own village,
were very shortly afterward all mur-
dered in one night. They were be-
headed and laid out in a row, from the
largest at one end to the baby at the
other. Such was the terrible vengeance
of the dacoits on the families of those
who were themselves out of reach.
Hundreds of similar instances might be
related all showing the same system,
and only differing one from another in
tho various methods by which the acts
of revenge were carried out.
Whenever tho dacoits believed that
they were in no danger of interruption
from our troops, elaborate tortures were
added to simple assassination; ii, how
ever, sudden alarm was raised, blow
of the dab from each of the gang in
succession made their vengeance sure.
1t is astonishing how accurate the in
formation of the dacoits frequently is,
and how carefully they watch the move
ments of every post. A district magis-
trate, accompanied by the officer COM
manding the military police and by q
district superintendent of civil police,
returning from village C. through viii
lage b. (where post was to be estab-
lished) TO village A., received intelli-
gence the day after their arrival of an
attack upon Ii. and the murder OF a
woman whose husband and brother had
both rendered us an important service.
Tho dacoits waited to perform this
outrage until the officers had passed
back through b. with baggage and per-
sonal escort, thus seizing the most Ia
vorable opportunity for their purpose.
as any conveys would have accompanied
the party to save escort and no patrol
was likely to pass directly after the pas
sage of considerable body OF TROOPS
National Review.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-10-04

"Wcll, by the pewers!" exclaimed she
young man; 'it's the stolen idoil"
YES" said /, land you are the thief,
Walter Goodale." a,,
A look Of blank dismay covered the
face of the young man. He admitted
that he was somnambulist, that it was
q family trait, and that even his aunt
was addicted to 1t.
or this latter fact 1 was we'll aware,
since she, too had been out tonight on
a walk, and was even now in Jessie's
room, where we found her later In the
girls bed, soundly sleeping.
The stolen idol had been tucked
under the carpet beneath Wslter's bed.
He had stolen the idol, but believe
Mrs Goodale had secreted her ring in
Jessie's trunk while on one of her noe
turnal jaunts.
Miss Darling never returned as Mrs.
Goodale's maid, but, some time later, as
the wife of the man who stole the Indian
idol.-Yankee Blade
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-10-04
AN INSECT PRECENTOR.
The Puss-Moth Caterpiliar's Place in thu
Orchestra of the Woods.

| The Puss- Moth Caterpiliar's Place in the
| Orchestra OF the Woods.
No orchestra is complete, of course,
without its leader. Even the "first
| fiddle" must observe the baton. And as
the insect world affords us veritable
| fiddler and harpist, as we'll as other
| instrumentalists, so too may we find
| our precentor close at hand, if our
eyes are only sharp enough. This group
of singing beetles upon the poplar
branch. 1 wonder if they are watching
him as they nod their squeaky trio?
For he is close at hand. Even among
these very leaves we are sure to find
him with little search. But IL they
are indeed observing him, he must be a
decidedly confusing leader, for no two
of the bobbing heads are keeping the
same time. All! here he is! perched
upon the midstem of an aspen leaf close
by. You have seen him perhaps a hun
dred times, and all his pompous pride
has been wasted on you, being doubtless
mistaken for part of withered or
curled leaf Our precentor is about an
inch and quarter long. The forepart
of his body is arched upward like
sphinx. He wears green vest and
fiat triangular hat, and white Dor.
dered brown mantle decorates his back.
And his baton? No wonder our beetle
trio were confused, for our precentor
wields two batons He is law unto
himself, has no score to follow, and,
what is more, if things don't go exactly
to suit him, he whips out from the tips
of his batons two long red whip lashes,
and makes things lively for few mo-
ments.
1t is difficult to understand the many
impetuous antics of our eccentric pre-
centor squirming from side to side,
circling his double baton about his
head as with hurrah, swapping his
whip on right and left without rhyme or
reason. Yes, as preceD tor 1T is diff
cult to understand his doings But
when we return to reason, and remem-
ber that he Is only an important puss-
moth caterpillar, it is not half so mys-
terous. If we watch and wait for n
moment or two, we shall doubtless wit
ness return of that buzzing tly-a par-
asite, perhaps-that has just been tick.
ling him.
The puss-moth caterpillar is quite
common upon young aspens, and will
be readily recognized from my descrip-
ti.on. 1t is an amusing insect, and, SO
far as i have seen, those peculiar rosy
whip-lashes concealed within the forked
tail. to be used when occasion demands,
are not described in the popular works
en- natural history. William Hamilton
Gibson, in Harper's Young People
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-10-04
THE TOBACCO HEART.
Many a Chiids Health Is Smoked Away
Before 1t In Born.


Before 1t In Born.
conditions of marked variety, particu-
larly as relates to the heart. Men use
tobacco all their lives without great ap.
parent damage to themselves sometimes,
but their sons will have decided mani
festations of tho tobacco heart If they
try to smoke, and their daughters are
nervous and historical. Statistics of
the examiners of volunteers for the army
show that one-third of all the applicants
who are rejected are ruled out because
of having a tobacco heart Many Of
them are to all appearances strong and
robust yet suffering from this constitu-
tional defect which makes them liible
to succumb to any unusual strain.
Everybody knows that there is a
growing number of young men and wo-
men who are good for nothing physi-
cally. Many men and women OF sixty
and soyenty are more hearty and vigor-
GUS than their children. 1t Is getting
to be almost fashionable to be an inya-
lid. The school children are pale and
puny. There are other causes, but to-
bacco must be held responsible for a
large share of this. The constitution or
many child is smoked away before it
Is born, and thousands and thousands
are suffering in various ways because
their fathers have squandored their
nervous energy and Vitality in the uso
OF tobacco. From lecture by j. Il.
Kellogg, M ID.