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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-10-10

INDIAN sKELEToNs.-Mr. Gerard Fowke,
of the Bureau OF Ethnology, Smithsonian
lnstitute, opened en- Indisn mound on che
borders OF Woodstock recently and found q
Indian skeletons, Is Of which we're packed
closely In the middle Of the mound. From
their position 1t was evident that the ekele.
tons had bsen deposited Ii this place some
time sfses doath. They were covered With
several wagon losds OF limeetope rock, which
had evidently been brought from raylne
several hundred yards distant. The ONLY
relics found we're two slate goFget5 or neck
ornaments aud oUe bone needle ahcut SIX
inches In length. From the character of the
mound and the relics, 1t is supposed that this
mound was made By some of the six nations,
Very few mounds are found In thst section
of Virgins.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-10-10
ALEXANDRIA VA. SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER TO- 1891
TAX SALE.

- .;.Ea ~ 20 ".E 2 * NOa.PAIIENT
y OF CITY TAXES.
Under tho following resolution, passed by the
City Council, Tuesday, July 2S, 1891, we will e1-
pose at public auction on
MONDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1891,
In front of tho Market Building Royal street,
Alexandria, Va, the following
LOTS AND IMPROVEMENTS THEREON,
or as much thereof as may be necessary TO pay
and satisfy the taxes, assessments or charges due
to the City Council Of Alex ADdria on the same:
Rssoved, That the Collectors ofTaxes, under
tho supervision OF the City Auditor, be, and they
are hereby, directed TO proceed and soil at public
auction all real estate in tn, city of Aloxandris
on which taxes are due and unpaid 10 June 1,
1891 In conformity to the city charter, -eaid sale
to commence October 10. 1891.
The purchasers will be required to pay at the
time OF sale the taxes, assessments, charges and
expenses Of SALE The proprietor or pro prietors of
such lots his or their heirs, representatives or
agents, may, within two years from the day OF
sale pay to the purchaser thereof or to the Mayor
the money paid for such taxes, charges and ex-
penses as aforesaid with twelve per cent. per an
mum ss interest thereon, or make q tender Of the
same, In which event he shal be reinstated in his
original title. II no such payment OF tender be
made within two years next after the sac, the
purchaser will be required to pay the remainder
Of the purchase money into tho treasEry of the
City Council, where ir will remain subject to the
order Of the proprietor or his legal representatives
and the purchaser on the payment Of the whole
amount Of the purchase money, will receive
title to the said lot lots, or such parts thereof
In fee simple from the Mayor.
Tho sale will commence at 10 o'clock O. M, on
the day specified and If not completed on that day
will be continued from day 70 day and from time
to tins until completed.
P.F GORMAN, Col. North. Dist
A. E. cox, Col. South. Dist.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-10-10

APPEARED IN BIER GRAVE CLoTgEs.-It
is not often that person Is taken to the
psoisentiary In his or her grave clothes.
This was the case, Sheriff Price, OF Char.
lotte, n. @, thinks. in the case of the colored
WOMEN JackeoD. who recently escaped the
gallcws in that county. Her garments were
prepared for the sxeouiion, and che wes at
tired In them when the Communication came,
AS soon as the announcement reached the
sheriff OF the Governors action, she woman
wss buried to the prison.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-10-10
TAX SALE.

Nickens, John est house and lot 522 Gibbon st
90 10 so.
Parker, Msry ct ais house and lot 900 Alfred
st 80, ESQ.
Robinson, Isabella lot 615 Alfred st 80. 2.1O.
Smith, saml house 724 franklin st 80, 2.1O.
simmss, Mrs house and lot alley Columbus, Alfred,
Gibbon and Frsnklin SIS 80, 3.15.
Thomson, Jos house and lot 723 Washington
st 80, 263. e''--
Verdon's; John est house and lot eo3 Columbus
st go, 315.
Wilson, John house and lot 223 Commerce st go,
Webster, Jas ST house and lot VI cor Wolfe and
Alfred SITS 80, 2.63.
Wade, Mary house and lot 1917 Prince at 80,
1860
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-10-10
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Office O, York Enterprise.

Ho5kviile Sc, Au%. I9, ~.
Aasnsic Electropoise: Gentiemen-Fo or the past
c,.a .esrs nv wife hss hoen q sufferor from dys-
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ts,sy her iato nervous sp.sm, which would last
a. heurs Hodical skill fsiiod to bring any re-
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A-4va ,ye vore induced TO try tho Elect opoise.
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sss bses wonderful Hor nervous System has
Les, rnstorcA 20 ,t. slmost rorpel condition; her
Ss,stlen il wonderlcly improved she Is rapidly
ee;Ring in Ac,h sod, upon the whole, is making
q ,sp,d recovery, which speaks volumes FOR the
vonte,ful curative powers OF The Electropciss, as
beg sAec was considered hopeless. II any are
e tsntica or 1ho subject, lot them try the Electro
rnise and It's wonderful powers will quickly dis
ppoi all doubt. Yours truly, " M. PROPST.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-10-10
EoR oVER FIBTYYEARS.

Winslow's Soothing Syrup hes been used for over
Fifty Ycars by Mi0ssss of Mothers for their Chil-
dren WAis Teet&ssa, with Perfect Ssceess n Soohes
the Ch:9 Seftesa the Sum, AlGys all Pain; Cures
Hi':a Cs!i. and is the best remedy for DiarrAca.
Sold by Druggiste in every part of the world. Its
value is incalculsble. Be sure and ask for Mrs
R'nslotSs Soets'sg sSrap, and take no other kind
Twenty-Five csua . bottle
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-10-10
AB.C C.AltaratiVePIniiGStheB Blood
BueHrea,s Arnfca salve

TEE BEST sALv1 in the world for Cuts, Sruisss
sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheun, Fever Sores Tatter,
Chspped Hands, Caiiblains Corns sud ail Skin
Eruptions and positively cures Pilss, OF no pay
required. It Is guaranteed to give perfect satia-
faction, OK money refunded. Price 25 cents rsc
box For ssJa kv z. q Lsadbestar & Bro.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-10-10
AUCTION SALES.
DUBLIC SALE.
The subscriber will sell at public auction on
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1S,

/
The subscriber will sell at public auction on
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13,
at 10 o'clock g. NJ,
at NO. III south Henry street, the following
HOUSEHOLD GOODS, tho property Of Mrs. E. ].
get ~ pleces), Rockers, 1 Msrble-top Table, Ia
BILE and Stand, Stove and Zinc 1 Bric-a-Brac
and Stand, Parlor Lamp 3 Paintings, Wind
oW Curtains and Fixtures, 1 Looking Glass and
Table, Ball Carpet and Back, contents OF Bed
Room, Wa1drobes, contents of Back Room 8
Quilts (some very fne), 1 Bedstead, contents Of
Dining Room, 1 Sofa, Kitchen Furniture, etc.
Terms: Cash. No property tc be removed un-
til terms are complied with.
l. C. ONEAL, Admr.
1t the same time and place 1 will offer all the
INTEREBT Of W. T. Herrick in the HOUSE No.
III south Henry street. oct6 ts
TRUSTEES sALE.-By virtue Of a deed of
i trust, made by Charles W. Solomon, dated on
the 28th day Of October, 1885, and recorded in
the land records of the city Of Alexandria, Vir-
ginia, the subscribers as trustees in said deed,
will by tho order of the Board Of Directors Of
THE German Cooperative Building Association,
No. a, of Alexandra, Va" proceed to sell st pub
lilo auction
ON TUESDAY, THE 2OrH DAY OF
OCTOBER, 1891,
at II M, in front of the Market Building on
Royal street, in the city of Alexandria. Virginia.
the property thereby conveyed, to wit: A LOT
OF GROUND, with the improvements thereon,
on the west side of West street, between King and
Prince streets, in said city of Alexandria, in front
on West street 20 feet more or less, and In depth
1913 feet inches, with the right Of way over an
alley IL feet on the south. Terms of sale-Cash
JOSEPH KAUFMANE,
HENRY STRAUSS Trustees.
GEORGE ". FISHER,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-10-10
FOR SALE END RENT.

FoR SALE
THAT PRETTY COTTAGE.BUILT HOUSE
on north Columbus street, OF or 10 rooms ats-
BILE and carriage house. Lot 60 feet front. Plenty
OF fruit and flowers Possession given at once.
For price and terms call on
sep25 If 3. r. KNOX, 216 King street.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-10-10
oct3 eodts

VNRUsTEES' sALE.-By virtue OF deed of
i truat made By Willis Randolph and wife dat
cd on the 2Sth day OF March 1883, and recorded
in tho land records of tho city Of Alexandria, Viz
ginia, in deed-book No. 10, page 553, the sub
scrbers trustees in said deed will by the order
OF tho Board OF Directors of "The German Co
operative Building Association No. of Alexsn-
dris, Virginia," proceed to sell at public auction
ON TUESDAY THE Goth DAYOF
OCT OBER, 1891,
at 10 M, in front of the Market Builiing on
Roysl street in the city Of Alexandria, Virginia,
the property thereby conveyed to-wit:
A LOT OF GROUND
with the improvements thereon in the said city
Of Alexandria, Virginia, on the north side of
Franklin street between Alfred and Patrick
streets in front on franklin street 25 feet, and
In depth ia feet to an alley 12 feet z inches
wide, with all appurtensnces. Terms Of sale cash.
JOSEPH KAUFMAN, J
HENRY STRAUSS, Trustees.
GEORGE W. FISHER.
oct3 eodts
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-10-10
MEDICINAL.
Physicians I |

admit that there are certain
forms OF constitutional blood
diseases, which they cannot
cure, for such cases there is
only one certain remedy that
Is A. B. c. ALTERATlVE, your
doctor will not prescribe it
because it Is a "Patent Medl-
oine," but what do you care
about that soft cures you. We
have hundreds Of testimo-
niaIs IN ourpossession,prov-
ing that it has cured otherss
we believe twill cure you.
Read the testimonials and
see what you think Of 1t, they
are sent to any address free.
ABB ALTERNATIVE is. 'G'd CLIP, s psusq':ss g! :s
oss5. Sen, By Express Co roeeipt Of 9sios.
Address
A. B. c. CHEMICAL CO.,
P.o. BOX e21. RICHMOND, VA,
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-03-05
A LIVE COMMISSIONER.

Editors Drawer, Harpers Magazine for March.
Uncle Silas Brown is very much graf
flied over his election to the Office OF
School Commissioner in the town OF
s.. He asserted that when he as
sumed the duties of his position he
intended to go into it for all it was
worth, and make his influence felt. So
no one was surprised at the first meeting
of the new board to find him in a
pugnacious mood.
"I've heern lots O. complaints about
the lack of eddication about these parts,
he said, rising to his feet. "Now there
amt no excuse for this here state OF
affairs. There's plenty of eddication in
the world. More'n enough to go round
and our kids have got ter have it. So
move, Mr.. Chairman, that this committee
find out jest how many boys n gals there
are in town, m then get enough eddica-
tion to supply 'em all, whatever it costs.
I'd like to know whar we'd be eff we
hadn't got our full share of it. Give
the kids chancet."
1t is a pleasure to announce that
Uncle Silias's remarks were received
with applause, and that the "kids" got
quite as much education as most OF
them could stand.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-03-05
COLONEL 1NaERsoLL ON LIES.

The truth is the weakest thing in the
world. 1t always comes into the arena
naked, and there it meets healthy
young lie in complete armor, and the re-
suit is that the truth gets licked One
good, solid lie will knock out hundred
truths. The history of the whole world
is nothing but lies. Take the age ;of
chivalry, that has fed and inflamed the
imagination of mankind. That was the
age of cowardice. There is thousand
times more courage in the world to-day
than there was then, and yet the world
is still on its knees worshiping those
iron clad knights as if they were demi-
gods. There was not then the love for
human liberty that there is now. Those
are facts. If all the books in the world
except those that contained nothing but
facts were destroyed, there wouldn't be
anything left but dictionaries and works
on the multiplication table. The world
is full of lies. For instance, you know
as well as | do that pure Havana cigar
is lie.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-03-05
POETRY OF FARMING.

The poetry of farming exists chiefly
in the mind of him who looks on, rather
than in the toiler himself. There is poe
try in the summer scene where the clean
shaven meadow is thickly studded wi4h
green cones of hay and the ox-wagon
creaks under the weight of the fragrant
load; but it is prose of the baldest sort
to the perspiring farmer who is strain
ing every muscle to get in his crop be-
fore the shower comes up over the hill.
1t is the dollars in the hay, and not its
fragrance, that he is thinking about;nor
is it any discredit to his common sense
that he should be more occupied with
the money value involved than with
the picturesqueness of the situation
We must not expect a poem on the
golden rod from the man who spends
hours of hard work in attempting to
eXterminate it; nor can we look for from
him any expression of admiration for
the daisy when its presence in the grass
means pecuniary loss. To him the
SIlIlll CIy VI TIC ucu HdWh COufOJo UuG
one message, and that is that his chick
ems are in danger. The half articulated
gutteral of the young crow is merely
reminder of the corn-pulling and thiev-
ing propensities of that bird. The STAG
cato whistle of the woodchuck has no
charms for him, for it is promise that
his young apple trees shall be gnawed
and threat that his clover shall be trod-
den down to make paths for this lum-
bering freebooter to travel home in. He
loves the cuckoo only in times of drouth,
and sees beauty in the rainbow only
when his parched fields have quenched
their thirst His love for robins even
can never be unqualified, for do they
not peck at his cherries and steal his
early pears? The waving of ripening
grain and the rustic of the corn would
be pleasanter to see and sweeter to hear
were it not for his apprehension that the
rust would get into his wheat or the
frost cut short his crop.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-03-05
A THEORY AS TO RoAD-MAKING.

A THEORY AS TO ROAD-MAKING.
Philadelphia North American.
The State should pay for as many
miles of road as shall be constructed
and pronounced standard. To set apart
funds for the construction of good roads
without first getting the roads is simply
to offer premium for bad roads. The
State should pay for what it gets, not
for what it wants to get. Every road
district should procure stone crushing
machine, ,and road making should be del
egated to a responsible and expert con-
tractor, who will not fling the stones out
of the roadway, but crush and convert
them into a track. The State fund
should be paid out at the rate of so
much per mile of standard road. Proba-
bly, the fund could be made to defray
one-half of the cost, perhaps more; but
half the cost per mile would be a fair
average A law such as this would un-
doubtedly give the State more miles of
good roads than any scheme for distrib-
uting public moneys and trusting luck
for their proper application. About one
farmer in hundred can make a good
road.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-03-05
GRAINS OF GOLD.

The present is the golden moment of
life.
Beautiful bubbles are but gllttering
emptiness.
Loyalty to best convictions is an inn
portant duty.
When two quarrel, both are in the
the wrong.
Every day life--a blank to be inscrib-
ed with gentle thoughts.
The most welcome visitor is one who
knows when to take his leave.
The veil which covers the face of fu-
turity is woven by the hand mercy.
Prosperity is no just scale; adversely
is the only balance to weigh friends.
Don't tell people how you are; they
don't want to know even when they ask.
There is nothing like poverty to give
one deep theoretical knowledge Of hu-
man kindness.
Whatever you may be sure of, be sure
at least of this, that you are dreadfully
like other people.
To pray loudly is not a necessity of de-
votion; when we pray We must direct
our hearts toward heaven.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-03-05
PUBLIC OPINION.
HIS STYLE OF MEN.

The disgraceful affray at Columbus,
Monday, is striking Illustration of the
kind of men Gov. Campbell has put in
office. Levering, who was responsible,
as publisher, for the article that started
the Elliotts cunning, is a deputy oil in
spector, and his paper is understood to
stand very close to the Governor, while
P. J. Elliott was superintendent of the
Free Intelligence Bureau at Columbus,
an Office created by this Democratic
Legislature last winter and filed by ap-
pointment by the Governor. Such facts
make that disreputable affray more than
ever a disgrace to the whole State.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-03-05
CRIME NOT INCREASING.

New York Press.
The first census bulletin from the di-
vision of pauperism and crime shows a
satisfactory condition so far as the nuln-
ber of conviets in the penitentiaries are
concerned. The figures, when compar-
ed with the report of the census of 1880,
show an actual increase of 9,695 in the
number of penitentiary convicts. The
population of the country in 1880 was
50,155,7S3. The number of convicts in
penitentiaries at that date was 30,659,
or, including the leased prisoners, 35,-
53S. The ratio of convicts to the popu-
lation was 700 in each million. The
eleventh census shows the population to
be 81, 1922, ,250, and the number of con-
victs As, 5,233, the ratio of convicts to the
population being 722, an increase of on
ly Is to the million.
This growth is not necessarily alarm
ing. Further study may show that
crime of serious character is rather on
the decline in this country than on the
increase. In studying the nativity and
race of criminals we find that of 1927
penitentiary convicts whose birthplace
and parentage are known, the foreign
born element of the population furnish
ed 14,725; the colored population 1867,
and the native white population, which
probably outnumbers them both, only
1875. In other words, each of these
elements furnishes about one-third of
all the inmates of our State prisons and
penitentiaries. The number of leased
convicts in the Southern States has
about doubled in ten years. 1t is claim
ed by some that negroes are sent to the
penitentiary on trivial offenses, because
they are thus made source of profit to
the State. Let us hope this is not true;
but certainly the system is a bad one
and ought to be abolished.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-03-05
EDUCATION
IN THE ARGENTINE REPUBLIC.

IN THE ARGENTINE REPUBLIC.
Theodore Child, in Harpers Magazine for Maref
The apparatus of public instruction
seems to occupy the attention of tn,
government in becoming manner, ant
doubtless in course of time the citizen!
will be fairly educated. At present, a:
far as my experience goes, the young
Argentines are as ignorant and badly
Informed as they are badly behaved, and
that, too, not from want of intelligence
they are even precociously intelligent
but from lack of severe and logical
training. One is tempted to conclude
that there is a want of discipline and of
good pedagogic methods in the schools
and colleges, and one. can not believe
that the extreme license allowed to
boys of ten and twelve years of age,
such as liberty to smoke, and contract
premature habits of vice and immortality,
is compatible with good Intellectual
training. A more corrupt, rude, un-
licked, and irrepressible creature than
the average Argentine boy it would be
difficult to find in any other civilized
country. The girls. too, have an air of
effrontery and a liberty of language to
which the older civilizations of the
world have not accustomed us. The
educational statistics are, however, sat
iSfactOry, so far as mere registered
results are concerned. There are two
universities, one of Buenos Ayres and
one at Cordoba, which together counted
993 students in 1889, and delivered 234
diplomas, including 81 doctors of law,
IS doctors. of medicine, and IL civil
engineers. In the whole Republic there
are 10 national colleges, with teaching
corps of 464 professors, aud an attend
ance, in 1889, of 2,599 pupils. In the
capital and the provinces there are 35
normal schools, with 1904 pupils of
both sexes, who become professors and
teachers, chiefly for the primary schools.
In Buenos Ayres in 1889 there were 285
primary schools, directed by 1871 teach
ers, and attended by 54,50S children
In the provinces there were 2,719
primary schools, with teaching staff
of 1852, and attendance of 205,186 To
resume, the results obtained were 3,042
primary schools, 6,103 teachers, 259,695
pupils, and 2,373 primary school houses
in the whole Republic. OF those school
houses 485 are the property of the nation
or of the provinces, and 1888 private
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-03-05
TuE PRESS AND THE PLATFoRM

Robert j. Burdette, the humorist, says
he no longer does any newspaper work,
but gives all his time to the lecture plat
form. He says he made newspaper
publisher an offer lately, but he didn't
seem to see the advantage of it. 81 told
him. said Mr.. Burdette, that if he would
hire me to write an article and then pub
lish it every day, and pay me the price
of lecture every time he published it,
1 would give up the platform altogether.
He was inconsiderate enough to say that
he was afraid it might grow stale in the
course of year or so, but that is just
the difference between lecturing and
grinding out newspaper copy. The dear
public will stand almost anything from
the platform, but when they unfold
their paper they expect to find every
thing fresh every morning. And they
generally get it"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-03-05
MISTAKES OF JUDGE LYNCH

A lynching party in Colorado manag
ed to hang their man, but discovered
too late that they did not understand
the facts of the case, and that the lynch
ed man, instead of being thief, was in
fact protecting property from thief
That is the chief trouble with Judge
Lynch. When he administers justice
it is an accident, not the result of rea-
son applied to well ascertained facts.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-03-05
JERRY SIMPSON ON FINANCE.

Congressman-elect Jerry Simpson in
formed the House Coinage Committee
the other day that "the farmers of the
country demanded and would insist on
more money" and he therefore advo-
Gated free coinage. Suppose, for the
sake of argument, that we had free
coinade, and coined $40,000,000 of silver
per month, how would the farmers get
any more money? After it is coined
there are but three ways to get it: to
steal it, borrow it, or sell something for
it. The first way is barred out, of
course. 1t can not be borrowed because
the government is not and never will be
a loan Office. If something is sold for
it, that something must be sold accord
ing to the market price, and that can be
done now as well as if we had volume
of currency ten times its present size
The farmers could not be benefited by
an increase in the circulating medium.
If the government were at war and had
to maintain an immense army, paying
out millions of dollars daily, the money
coined or issued in paper promises would
be put in circulation at once. Everybody
could get some of it by selling something
for it. But, as in war times, it would
take two and half or three such dollars
to buy what one will buy now. This old
subject is threadbare with discussion.
But Rip Van Wrinkles are constantly
waking up from sleep of twenty or
thirty years and they must be informed
of what was going on during their
absence from active life. Cleoeland
Leader.