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The record-union., 1891-05-19
interstate Commerce Commission

WASHINGTON, May 18.-Interstate Com
merce Commissioners Morrison, Bragg,
Veasey and Knapp will make circuit to
the Pacific Coast and return, and hear
cases and make investigations at various
points on the route. The Commissioners
will be at the following places: Spokane
Falls, May Goth until May Both; Tacoma
May 3lst until June Sd; Portland, the
4th and 9Th of June; San Francisco, June
18th until the 9Th, then to Salt Lake City
and Denver
The record-union., 1891-05-19

Horseshoes are now made out of paper
that has been soaked in turpentine and
subjected TO hydraulic pressure. The shoe
is said to wear well and is always rough,
being thereby adapted TO smooth pave
mentS,
The record-union., 1891-05-19

Hanchett's Whereabouts.
CHICAGO, May lS.-There is little doubt
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-07-06
Health is w ealth

DE-. E. C. VESTS NERVE AND BRn1N Treat
yENr. s guaranteed specific for Hysteria, Dizzl-
moss, Convu sious, Fits Nervons Neorslgia, Hesd,
ache, Eorvous ProstrEtion caused by the use OF
sIcobol or tobscco. Wakcf,Dess. Mental Depress-
ion. sof.eniug of the Brain resulting in insanity
and leading to misery, 6ecSy and deash, Preraa-
ture Old Age, Barrennoss, Los CT Power
In either aex. Involuntary Losses end Spermator-
rhna used by ovcr-eEertion Of the biain, self
shuso or oy7r induleeace. ,ch hog coDtains one
months treatment 81 Oo tox or siz boxes for
$500. Sent by mail prepaia on recoipt Of priee.
yaE GUARANTEE SIX BOXES
1o cr-. ,.,,v case With each order rtcsivUd by Us
for six box.s. accompanied with $500. we will
send the purchasel written sosis1te9 20 re-
fund the money il the treatment doe1 iot checS 8
cure Guarantees issued only by
CHARLES e. LEsxGN.
Druggist, Goa King street.
ac7eral agent. alevOa1.i4 Va
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INADEN OF RATrLERs.-A Wolyeripe

INA DEN OF RATTLERs.-A Wolverine.
(Mioh. J dispatch describes as follows the ad-
venture of John Foster, who was out 10 the
woods near Rondo with two companions,
al drunk. They knew that certsin rock
pass, known as the DEVILS Kitchen, Just
teemed With rattlesnakes. Foster vowed be
was going down to kill some snakes spd
went despite the advice OF hls companions.
He reached the bottom OF the hole safely,
but no sooner did so than rattlers glided
out on all sides. The sight partially sober
ed him and for half an hour he fought like
g. demon. laying about him with q strong
club and usiog his knife de1terously with
his left baud. His companions were too
much frightened to help him and be fought
until the last one of the rsttlers we're dead
around him. He vas scared sobsr aud
rushed off to camp 20 al up on whisky.
Yesterday he came uto R,ndo and brought
with him nineteen dead enakes. He was
bitten 10 several places, and says that moth.
ing but bis hip rubber boots and gag aaVed
him,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-07-06

A MOTHER SUPPLY OF POTOMAC FLOUR
"A received to-day by
dec2Q J. Z. AlLBORN.
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NOTICE.
aILBURN'S POSITIVE CURE
p0R cssTE.E.s. FEVER AND
3TAE.AEsEA

viii positively BREAK Up chils aad Fever IN
AIDE OF 1w eNTY FOUR HOURS.
These capsules scs directly upon tha liver and
will create appetite
Csu be obtained OF tire following dIuggiots IN
klexandria. Va. at Soc per box or of Lewis c.
N hurn, sole manufacturer, 7O1 9th street n. W..
washington. u. C., or solt By mail upou receipt
of price: Warfield ,& Hall, f. S. Lesdbeater &;
Bro, Ernest l. Allen, JOHN D. II. Lunt, L. stabler
& Co, w. d Hudson, C;,ss. G. Lennon and w L.
Smith feb14 6m
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-07-06
AUCTION SALES.
COMMISSIONERS SALE OF VALUABLE
v REAL ESTATE
IN ALEXANDRIA AND FAIRFAX COUNT les,

In ALE AANDb1A AMI tA1hE - COONllEc
VIRGINIA.
By virtue of decree of the Circuit Court Of
Alexardria county, Va, entered in the chancery
Cause of s. g. Burdett vs.. Frederick Welker ct als.
the undersigned, special commissioner, will sell
et public auction on
MONDAY, JULY 6. 1891,
at IL CLOCK noon, In front OF the Court House,
Columbus street, Alexandra, Va, the following
property; 10 wit:
LOTS ore ard two in block six OF Curtis q Bur.
dett's subdivision of Carlin's springs, alexandria
county, Virginia. These lois improved by
HANDSOME COTTAGES in good order and
nearly new.
And o: 12 o'clock noon on
MONDAY. JULY 20, 1891,
We will cell at public auction in front CT the
Court House st Fsi.fsx C, e.. Va. the following
property to wit
ALL THAT TRACT OF LAND in Fairfax
county, Virginia, c'ntaining 130 acres, on Iur-
key Geek run, bounced by the Back Lick road
and the lands of F. Beattie, Ennis Jackson and
Willism Ford, and described by metes and bounds
in the deed from Emma B. Carter and Iandon
Carter to Frederick Welker, dated October oath,
1885, and recorded in liber J. No. 3, page 364,
one Of The land records for Fairfax county, Va.
Terms of sale: One-third Of the purchase mon.
ey in cash, aud the resdueCin three equal install
ments at six, twelve and eighteen months from
day of sale tbs purchasers 10 give their notes for
the deferred payments, which sre to bear interest
from tie day OF sale at six per cent. All convey.
ancug at The cost of purchaser and title to be re-
tsined until the whole Of the purchase money is
paid.
]. NJ. JOH IsON,
w. W. DOUGLASS, Gems of Sale.
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soR OYER FIFTY FEARS.

An OLD AND WkLL.TRIED REMEDY.-1rs.
Winslow's Soothing Syrup has been used Tor over
FIfty Years by E;lsess OF Mothers for their Chi
dres Rhae Teething with Perfect Success II sootses
the Child, Setteps tho Gum. Auays all Pain; Cures
Wiad Csl;c and is the best remedy for Didrrhea.
Sold by Druggists in every part Of the world. Its
value is incalculable. Be sure and ask for Mrs.
Winslo,os Soothing Spxp, and take no other kind.
Twenty. fYa cants q bottle,
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nAINT YOUR OWN BUGaY-Justrecsiyed the
following new line Of Colors :-olive Fonce,
Poncesu Ecarlate, and Jet Coach Black Call fof
sample mp f0' 'A- " W F. CREIGHTON SEQ
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DRUsTEEs' SALE.

TRUSTEES SALE.
By virture OF deed OF trust frcm William a..
Wheaty and wife to the trustees of the Mechan-
ics' Building Association M. 2, Of Alexandria,
Va, dated January IT. 1880, and by order of the
Board of Directors of said Association, the under
signed will sell at public auction in front Of the
west entrance to tho Market Building III said city,
at twelve o'clock noon, on,
SATURDAY, the 11th, day Of July 1881,
the following property:
ALL THAT LOT OF GROUND WITH THE
1MPROvEM ENTS thereon in the city Of Alex
andris, Va, bounded as follows; viz:-Beginning
at point on the west side of Fayette street, one
hundred and thirty feet south Of Prince street
and running thence south on Fayette street
twenty feet; thence west parallel with Prince
street, one hundred feet to court or alley, forty.
six feet ten inches wide; thence north parallel
with Fayette street, twenty fOet, and thence east
in straight line to the beginning. with all the
appurtenances to the same belonging or in any
wise appertaining-being the estate Of A. ] Mich
olson, decd Terms of sale: Cash.
I'D. q. LUNT,
F. E. CORBETC, T. ustees.
je24 ts NJ. B. HARLOW,
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ALEXANDRIA Va MONDAY EVENING JULY g. 1891
MEDICINAL.
Wnke Ub.

If you wake up in the
morning with a bitter or
bad taste in your mouth,
Languor, Dull Headache,
Dependency, Constipa-
tion, take Simmons Liver
Regulator. 1t corrects
the bilious stom ach,
sweetens the breath and
cleanses thefurred tongue.
Children as well as adults
sometimes eat something
that does not digest well,
producing Sour Stomach,
Heartburn, Restlessness,
or Sleeplessness-a good
dose of Regulator will
give relief. So perfectly
harmless is this remedy
that it can be taken by
the youngest infant or
the most delicate person
without injury, no matter
what the condition Of the
system may be. 1t can
do no harm if it does no
good, but its reputation
for 40 years proves it
never fails in doing good.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-07-06

DEsT LIMEADE IN THE CITY Sc gla.s at
b ie22 ERNEST L. ALIENS.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-07-06

A BE THERE ANY FLIES in your house while
Il you eat? The Fowler Fly Fans and tn.
Howe Metallic Window Screens will keep them
of snd make eating luxury.
je1O JAS. F. CARLIN & SONS.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-07-06

WHITE WASH BRUSHES of superior quail.
w ty and cheaper grades for sale wholesale
and retail sr 32S King street. Call and examine
sp21 1T. CREIGHTON & SON.
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CORPORATION NOTICES.
)TICE TO CITY TAX PAYERS.

~
Collie tors Office, July i, 1891.
Notice ia hereby given that the tax bills for
1891 are now in the hands Of the Collectors. The
attention of all parties interested is respectfully
called to the following extract from the revenue
bill OF that year:
Upon all bills paid in full by the 10th day Of
July, 1891, the Collectors Of Taxes shall allow a
discount of ten per cent aud on all bills paid by
the 10th day of September, 1891 they shall allow
discount of five per cent, and on all bills not
paid on the LIST day of December, 1891 there shall
be assessed and collected penalty of five per
cent. upon the amount Of said bills, and on ali
bills remaining unpaid on the 1st day of June,
1892 damages at the rate of six per centum per
annum shall be paid.
Office Room No. 9. Cameron street side Mar,
ket Building. P F. GORMAN,
Collector Northern District.
A. F. cox,
jy1 lot Collector Southern District.
CITY LICENSES
All persons carrying on any business reqriring
license will make application for the same; to
wit: All Liquor Dealers, Com mission Merchants,
Fertilizer Agents, Land Agents. Insurance Agents,
Agents for Renting Houses, Brokers and Bankers,
Private Entertainment, Boarding Houses, Eating
Houses, Public Rooms, Theatres Shows, Circuses,
Flying Horses Attorneys at Law, Physicians and
Agents, Livery stsble., Dealers in Merchandise,
Coal and Wood, Bill Posters, Shooting Ga leries.
Vehicles Of every description. Hearses, Fish Deal
rs, Oyster Dealers and all other classes and sub
jects embraced in the corporation ordinances and
laws OF the State. GEO. DUFFEY,
Com. Rev room Market Building,
ie1 or No. 324 King street.
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bottom, and which are often eight inches
thick and eight or ten feet long. These
leaves start up from the ground around a
green cone, which is O foot at the base
and which ends in point as sharp as a
needle. 1t takes about ten years for this
cone to grow to its proper size, and if it
is left flower grows upon it and the
plant after blossoming dies.
Just before blossoming, however, it is
ready for pulque making. This is done
by cutting the cone out of the plant, and
this leaves q great bowl in the plant
about as large as q two-gallon crock.
Into this bowl the sap of the leaves run
in streams, and each plant Will produce
from eight to fifteen quarts OF juice per
day. It continues to yield this amount
for six months, and one plant will pro-
ducc barrels and sometimes hogsheads of
liquor: This liquor is natural beer. 1t
flows into the bowl as sweet as sugar and
clear as crystal.
After twcnty-four hours, however, its
color has changed to that OF
skinned milk. 1t has begun to fern ent
and it tastes like butter milk. It begins
to smell and its odor and strength in
crcases as it grows older, SO that for
block around pulque shop you have the
smell of limburger cheese factory and
you can shut your eyes and find tho
saloons by your nose.
This pulque is raised in big planta-
tions. There are tens of thousands of
acres of the plants growing near Mexico
City and one railroad receives a thousand
dollars day for carrying pulque into
the capital. travelled for miles through
these pulque plantations and 1 saw the
Indian poems gathering the liquor. Each
man had bag of untanned pigskin on
his back and the juice was drawn FROM
the plant into this by means of o long
gourd, which acted as siphon.
The Indian would poke one end Of
this gourd into the hole in the plant and
suck the Dir and the juice out and then
turn it into this dirty pigskin bag. These
bags were made of the hide of whole
hog and some of them looked rs though
they were not more than two or three
days old. The legs and mouth OF the
skin were sewed up, and when the bag
was full of the liquor these wobbled
about, making the bag look like live
animal. The pulque ferments in these
bags. In them it is carried into the
city and it is served either from them o.:
| from barrels.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-09-30

There is in Detroit at present an equire
thoroughbred which is pronounced not
only the handsomest, but one OF the
largest horses in existence. He Is in
truth giant, and the veriest novice in
horseaesh could not but view his size
and beauty without certain feeling OF
awe. This colossal animal is five years
old, and is twenty-one hands high,
weighing 1866 pounds. An ordinary
sized man cuts but small figure beside
him. He is dark chestnut in color,
with superb name aud tail. He is owned
by Richard Tregaskis, and can trot IN
four minutes.
1t seems pity that there will be none
of his progeny. He was imported from
France by Kentucky horse breeder,
who paid $4,000 for him. When put in
the stud the animal became veritab!e
fiend. He would kick and bite on the
slightest provocation, and no one could
do anything with him. He soon killed
one attendant, and short time after
another man fell victim to the vicious
brute. The death of these two men
caused the owner to change the animal
into gelding, and with good effect his
temper being greatly improved.--Detr0't
Free Press.
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comes from. the maguey plant. The
leaves of this plant contain thousands of
tibres and these make the strongest kind
OF bagging and ropes, which are equal in
strength to linen.
Before came to Mexico I was told
that would find nothing good to eat in
the country. Every one said that the
hotels were horrible and my friends
patted their stomachs and looked at me
with commiserating eyes. They said that
everything Mexican was a mixture of red
pepper and grease and that the only
good hotels in the country were those
kept by the Americans who had gone
down there. I ventured into the land
with fear and trembling and at fist pat
ronized the American hotels. found
them dear and nasty. The cooking was
abominable and the service was worse. /
then tried Mexican hotel and found it
excellent. Some of the best meals have
ever had I have eaten in Mexico, and I
shall not soon forget dinner at Toluca,
where pretty Mexican boy gave me a
dinner of ten courses and where the
cuisine was equal to that of good Paris
restaurant.
Throughout Southern Mexico I found
splendid hotels. They we're often kept
in old monasteries, and at Zacatecas I
slept in big room off a cloister where
the door was four inches thick and the
key weighed a pound. One end of my
room opened out on q garden, which
constituted the center of the building,
and every night could walk around this
in the moonlight and see it soften the
outlines of the great Moorish dome of
the monastery which looked down upon
me. The cooking here was good and
the same was the case at Guanahuato.
The Mexicans serve their meals one dish
at time in table d'hote style, and they
begin dinner with soup and end it with
beans. The waiter at the hotel brings a
bowl of soup TO you and you ladle out as
much as you want. .,
After soup you have half dozen diff
ferent kinds of meat and vegetables
served separately and you close with
dessert and coffee. Mexican frijoles
always form part of the meals. These
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And then, fraulein-even then you
would minister to me, as you did when
lay ut your mercy?" he asked. eagerly.
With a startled cry she drew back and
gazed half-fea'.eully into his eyes. linen,
as he made movement to approach her,
she waved him back.
You should not speak so to me, she
said turning away.
In moment he was beside her.
You must not 60, ne said, You must
not leave me like this. / know have Of
Tended and wounded you. How could it be
otherwise? But you must sayyou forgive
me-that you do not despise me. Had l
been able to bear your contempt should
have broken my parole, think, and skunk
away, bearing my secret with me; but the
fear of your contempt held me. And now
have spoken.
She stood very still, but did not answer
him; and he could not see her face, for it
was turned away.
"Fraulein, he murmured. Ayou are not
angry with me? might have known it
could not be otherwise, you are 80 beauti-
full. But you yourself have said, Why
should we be enemies?' Will you not let
me kiss your hand, frauiein?"
No, monsieur, cannot.
Then you do not forgive me? You,
who showed such divine mercy when I
had committed offenses against your coun-
try, cannot forgive now that have COM
mitted an offense against your"
In moment her hand was extended.
He took it and kissed it, then it was
hastily withdrawn; and before he could
utter another word the girl had left him,
and was fastening with rapid steps to-
ward the chateau.
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A Musing on Longevity.

The oldest man probably since Mathus-
elah was Tyrolese peasant, who was
born in the seventeenth century, and
survived the stormiug of the bastile and
the downfall of the French monarchy
A visit which he made to Paris is de-
scribed by Carlyle in his history of thet
French revolution.
He was granted almost as striking AMI
ovation as was Voltaire on his last visit,
to Paris.
How checkered the experience of al
centenarian. If compiled, what al
volume they would make! What 81
blending of smiles and tears! what al
tumble of tragic and comic scenes! what
a mixture of pathos and pleasantly!
But greater still the manifold exper-
fences of man who lived nine hundred
and sixty and nine years. Is the scripJ
tural chronology at fault9 If we rememI
Der that the Hebrew writers had neither|
Arabic nor Roman numerals, we see how.
mistakes might have occurred.
We may form some idea OF the I'M
mense longevity of Mathuselah, II we
compare his age with that of the British
empire. The old Hebrew patriarch.
mis- ght have fought at Hastings in lO66,.
and lived on until the last Plantsgenet,
was entombed at Westminster. He
would have been in the prime OF Life
during the War of the Roses, and might
have witnessed the funeral obsequies OF
Elizabeth, the last of the Tudor line.
He would have been but little past mid.
die life when Marlborough fought and
won at Blenheim, and when Anne or
Denmark, the last of the Stuarts, gave
way to the house of Hanover-aud thus
on and on until now he would be some
what gray and wrinkled, and yet in q
fair way to see the close of the twentieth
century. .
The brain reels under the weight OF
such a computation, and we are DIS
posed to thank the gracious One that
now fixes four score years as the limit OF
a mans life-pilgrimage.-Atlanta Con-
ststution. i
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are pronounced freeholies and they are
Mexican black beans. They are superior
to the Boston baked beans and every one
eats them. They are never eaten on the
day they are cooked and they are always
served IN great abundance. They close
the meal as rice closes dinner in Japan,
and suppose the idea is that the men
who has not enough of other things can
fill up on beans.
Only the better classes Of Mexicans
eat meat, and one of the great fields of
American investment is in the packing
interests of Mexico. Fam and beef
bring high prices and the meat business
of the city is managed by monopolies.
Good beeves are worth from S25 to $50
a head, and there is more mutton eaten
than beef. A great deal of the beef
comes from Guanahuato AID the meat
wagons of this city are mules. Take
one of the greasiest, dirtiest mules you
can find and fasten frame work of
hooks to saddle on his back. Let this
framework extend about a foot above
the mule and on the hooks hang the
halves and quarters of beeves 80 that
the blood drlps from them on the ground
and so that where the mules are small
the meat almost touches the ground and
YOU have the Mexican butcher cart OF
the mountains. The butcher or meat
peddler wears great blanket about his
head and his feet are bare. If you buy
a quarter of beef he will carry it into
your house on his head, and if you want
a slice he will hack off piece for you
and charge you about the same for the
neck as the loin.
The Mexicans sell every part of the
animal, and in every market you will
find little cook shops in which shreds of
beef are fried and offered for sale. These
are for the Indian customers, who stand
about and eat the greasy morscl with
their fingers and without the use of
knife, fork or plate. In Mexico City the
butchering is more carefully done and
beef is comparatively cheap. You can
get roast for eighteen cents a pound,
but pork is more expensive. The por6
business Of Mexico City is controlled by
Mexican, who has made millions out OF
it, and he is now putting up one of the
biggest packing houses in the world. He
has his agents all over the city, and he
imports his hogs from Kansas.
Mexico is the land of the fry. Nearly
every kind of meat is cooked in lard and
the consequence is that lard is very high
priced. 1t costs thirty-one cents q
pound, and il largely takes the place OF