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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-01-05
The Tin Tariff,

Mr.. & .yner, OF Maryland proposes to H.
trotuce bill 10 the House. OF Representa-
lives TO reduce tbs duty on tln-plate to one
ce0t per pound, Sc provided FOR 10 the Mills
oil, instead If Two aud two-.enths cents per
pound, according to the Mckinley bill.
There is q general demand from The canned
goods trade for change in the present rate
and 1t is claimed as probable majority 10
both House and Senate may be willing 70
suthorias the change, in view Of The fact
that the American msnufaciuters Of tin-
plate have not commenced to make enough
TO supply the demand.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-01-05
Communicated.
The Train Dispatcher by Cne.

The duties OF train Gispalcher are nothing,
People often think,
They take life easy draw their salary,
Live in luxury with plenty to drink.
This is one side of the question,
As suppose you all we'll know,
so if you'll listen to me momenr,
Only moment, then you may go.
There he is, you see him yonGer
Sitting there high in his chair.
He seems wrapped up in meditation
Watching the clock as he pulls his hair.
Now you see he looks excited
As he quickly grssps the Icy"
calling" Jonesvile gu OK as lightning
To issue ''orders" for No. "3."
~. g." 81. 3d." whore in thunder can th.t
Rascal now be gone
Upon my word he is the 'slowest"
Man I've seen since was born.
Oh, wish that were near him,
would arouse him mighty quick;
He would learn to attend 10 business
And never more to play off sick.
But now be stops to think 8 moment
Bracfi,ld breaks" in, here goes No. q ~
They've orders to meet 3 atJonesville,
So what in the thunder ca l do"
Just.then on the wire there's another commo
ton,
Jonesville ealing with all his might,
Tells me something, takes but second,
40. 70" has iun by my red light"
Then you should see the train dispatcher
AS he walks and 3 ks the q or,
His herr is jun. ing, brsin whirliog,
He thinKe he hears the engines roar.
But lis 10 use the thing has happered,
he tries so hard 10 act Ih5 brave.
Be Of course ia "f1ed, /" "blsck listed"
And will fill psuper's grave.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-01-05

BooMs IN Virginia aud other southern
States have proved any thing else than adj
yantaseous to them. Indeed, the fact that
the ratio of business failures in this section
last year was esester than shat IL either tne
North or West shows that they we're serl-
ously Injurious. end not DOLLY hnrt those vine
nut money ia ihsn, DuL sieo those in their
localities who were wise enough to let them
alone. a SLOW but steady advance, such IS
that Of Alexandria, is always preferable and
more abiding than sudden jerks.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-01-05

NOTHING COULD Quake the Ill effects Of
high tariff upon this country more patent
than tbe fact that ite exports to Eogland
during the year just closed were thirty mil
lion lees than they were ten years ego. AZ
most of the exports consist Of farm products,
the msjor portion of this decrease was oil
course in such PFC ducts, and the loss, there
fore. upon the farmers. And yet there are
farmers, and Virginia farmers at that, who
sey that free silver coinage is what they
stand most In need OF, aud they cay this,
though the rich owners of the silver mines,
and not farmers. would be the only beoe'
fioisries Of such coinsge, and in face OF the
fact that II there Wers twice S. many silver
dollars in the treasury as theirs now are
no farmer could get one OF them unless ip
exchange for LABOR or ioE come thing else he
had to sell.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-01-05
eRnM WAsRIR eVOR.

rs,se;s: Correspondence Of tic Alexandria G0setso]
WAssINecos. Z. c.. Jan. 8, 1892
The battle of the Farmville poetcfise has
reonened With fire and vigor. Geu. Meoous
IA no5 here, bat Hon. B &. Hooper arrived
last NIGHT, aud wiii represent IN person tne
iotarests of his half.orosheFs, James l. and
Georqe Richardson. In tne fight. These
nrothers. b.go CT whom have st one time OF
onothsr received MslOne'v endorsement for
,,ostmos,e. &c FaImyille, tad the misfor.
fnne. it will ne reco.isoted, to get Little
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-01-05

CHILL IS supposed by meny ill-insotmed
neople. who vainly imagine that this is the
only civilized couptry CT be American con.
tiasat. to be seni.harbGrcu cut it hes al
ready abolished the medals worn by its
soldiers to distinguish them ifom those who
foroht under the Iete deposed President OF
that country. All wiss governments, from
she rsmotest times, have sought to abolish
every sign and emblem of internecine war,
ont the government OF the United states
fosters and promotes ai such signs end en-
blems, and perpstustes shem in its statute
books, 10 order. os the ex-.epnolican leader
of the Senate, Mr.. Edmuuda, says, TO show
which side was right"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-01-05
Disorderly Strikers

FAN NroNIo, Jan. 5.-The frsr account OF de-
struction and violence on the part OF the IAN
Antonio and AIk4ns,s railroad strk efs was COM
mitted last night at Yokum. Tex.s whore tho
division shops are located. The night Waterman
at the rouni house WAS held 10 by the mob Of
strikers who then proceeded to dismantle fl teen
engines and 90 other damage
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-01-05

Thate are two fnrms of chronic rheums-
tiam: one ~ which the joints are swollen
aud res without fever; in tina other the
jJin.s srs only stiff and painful. In either
form Salvation OH may be relied on TO effect
q cure. l. kills pain. 25 cents.
PopNiar Gisc.lnination in fsgor of DR.
Bars Cough Syrup Lss given il e larger
sale thso Sc. 0th.r remedy OF It's oiasa.
Price % cents.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-01-05
DIED.

At the residence Of It's brother, John NJ. Young,
on aouth Alfred street in this city, en- January
4th, at o'clock a. NJ, GEORGE d. YOUNG, of
Boston, aged SO yesrs.-[ Boston and San Fran.
cisco papera please copy.
Fell IS eop. after long ilness, on the 81 of
January, 1892 at the home Of her bu' band, in
Garrett county, Md, JEAN KERR, wife Of VIM,
4 D, ~, snt second daughter OF the late ". n.
aud NJ j .n.e-so,., OF Fairfax county, Virginia,
[soalhern ChuIchm N please copy.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-01-05

People call it backsohe and DO nothing
for it uutil the doctor is called, aDd be pso-
nounces 1t rheumatiam. II they had used
Salvation Oh In time, the Doctors bill could
have bsen saved.
Don't catch cold. but If you do, nothing
sill meet the rsquiremects Of the osse so
we'll az d.. Bui's Cough Syrup. Price Is
nanfa
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-01-05
Change in the Weather Bulletin

WASHINGTON, Jan. g. Che weather bureau ia.
suos the following ststement Hereafter the
omission Of forecasts # temper ,ture will bs con-
siderei to m al that thn temperature is expected
to remai near'y staff nary or that the "a hour
change will not exceed four degrees, from April
to o. tober, or SIX deg ees from Noveubr to
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-01-05

HOLIDAYS OF go Nearly eli the natl, n
al holidays OF 1892 fail on MoDday-Febru-
ary 22ud, May 30 b, aod july 4 h-Cbrist-
mas falls co sundsy. and OF course will be
celebrated Monday. Tue 10 OF January,
Gsrers l. sc birthday. is holiday through
Gu this State, and fslls on Tuesday.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-01-05

AT 8 LCCSuu LUG NUOp uoOtASh - N'>'
York one OF the most eppleuded speakers
said:
81 think that nearly ell of rs were glad In
'S4 and 'SS. and wond be gsd in '92 to vote
for Grover Cleveland. but Clsvelandism and
democracy ere two distinct things OF the
first ,~Oieveisndism. re. the members Of the
new party, want as much as We can get. "
the second, demootecg, we have become 80
distrustiul that we want to leave 1t to blow
it's own horn"
Unfortunately for Mr.. Cleveland, many
democrats In every State, and large ma
iorisy of them Ia hs own, agree with the
mugwump speaker referred to, that C'eve-
tandem and democracy are Two distinct
thing, aud the fact that they do, whether
their belief b. right or wrong, induces wise
democrats to doubt Mr.. C!eseland's avaia-
bity as their leader in their next national
contest
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-01-05

THE NUMBER CT nranks In New YorE is
bv no means restricted 10 these whc use the
sctuai. material dynamite. They can be
5onnd even in the pulpits Of that city, and
are ever more dangerous. and certainty
more criminal, thsn he poor, haif-deEnenteo
stretches who throw bombs. One OF them
last Sunday, R5v. Thomas Dizop' dofina
the sermon be preached, said the recea'
railrosd disaster "was one OF the most ptulai
nerformanoes within the annala OF 'rsilreao
crimes Ityou say thst Mr.. Depsw is not
responsible for thsse murders, then who isf
The New York Central officials should be
sent to the penitentlary." and ye5the man
vso rsved go recklessly is preacher, in
good standing in bis charch, and has large
congregation. But THAI DC sccuts the teach
,pgs Of TBS fource. Of bits religion is plain to
bs seen. lis suot men who increase the
number of those who agree with Mr.. lngei-
soll, and who deny the faith which Mr. DIX
on processes.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-01-05

Communicated.
FIRE, F1RE, F1RE!-The people of south henry
street are famishing for water. No hydrants and
no chance of getting any pump broke. Cannot
soma one DO something for us?
FOURTH WARD.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-01-05
ruEsnLg Eg Eels. ?. JANUARY 5.

JUDGE COOLEY, who resigned ME pos''ioo
aa chief of the interstate commerce ccmm'5'
sion. pronounced the interstate commerce
law failure. And yet that Law vas DE-
yised by SONS of the wiHest men OF tns hs,,
t,on and was executed by dlsinterested ana
nnnreiudiced men, trained in equities. l.
law made and executed By such men prove
q signal fsiIure, as 1t has done. how can 1t
Ia exuected chat one made and ezsonted ny
less wise and lees trained men in Virginia
osn auccead? AZ the shoemaker nust Sick
70 his last, SO every ether man wcnic DO
we'll TO follow bis own trade, and railroad
business is not the trnde of men who were
born and reared, and ell their lives have
lived en- farms and been farmers. Better
let Railroad men attend to railroad bnsiness.
And az ali good raiirosd men know that 'ne
more facilities they afford the pubic, the
greater will bs their business, and ~conse-
ouentIy the greater their prof.s, it Ia onl5
natural to suppose that they will increase
those facilities to the utmost possible limit
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-01-05

AT A recent mugwump meeting in New
York one OF the most epplauded speakers
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-11-12
supply of Emerald. peoreosInr.

Emeralds are said to be steadily dis
appearing. In the sos and '60s emer-
aids were the favorite jewel, and were
worn strung on thread like pearls
Such string of emeraldS was exhibited
in a jewelers. window in Inter den
Linden, and was estimated to be worth
twelve thousand marks Now emeralds
are no longer polished into round
form, but are polished like diamonds.
Faultless stones of a deep and good
color have always been as valuable as
diamonds. The reason of the scarcity
of emeralds is the decrease in produc-
tion in the Ural mountains Emeralds
were first discovered ON the right bank
of the Tokowoier, near Katharineburg,
in 1880, and in the first years the har-
vest wasa rich one. Now the decrease,
both in quantity and quality, hardly
repays the labor The harvest of en-
eralds in Labachthal in the Salzburger
Alps, has also proved disappointing, so
that emeralds are now only to be had
from Australia and from Muse, near
Santa Fe de Bogota, in Colombia, in
any appreciable quantity. The latter
spot has been noted for its emeralds
since the sixteenth century. Queen.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-11-12
THE VENDETTA IN CORSICA.
A Cross Drawn Oh Mans Door Is a
Warning of Death.

A Cross Drawn Oh Mans Door Is a
Warning of Death.
The cross is threat of death, and The
Corsican who finds it drawn upon his
door knows that ne must look for no
quarter. In DEGREES forbidding the car
rying of arms in certain districts, ex-
ception is officially made in the case of
persons notoriously en- etdt Ginimitte
The vendetta neither sleeps nor knows
where it may stop. 1t is not confined
to two persons. The quarrels of indi-
viduals are taken up by whole families.
Not even collateral branches are eX-
empt, and women must take their
chances with the men. Indeed, revenge
is more artistically complete when the
blow falls upon the beautiful and
gifted. In 1856 one Joseph Antoine in
jured a girl named Sanfranchi Thirty
years passed and the story was forgot
ten, but on August A. 1886, the nephew
of Sanfranchi encountered Antoine on
perhaps the first occasion he had ven
tured far from his house. He shot the
man down like dog.
Threatened persons remain shut up
for months, or even years, in their
houses, built, as all Corsican houses are,
like fortress. If they wish to go out
for moment to breathe the fresh air
on the threshold, a scout goes before
and reconnoiters. In the district of
Sartene bands of armed men are some
times met within the road. 1t is a man
en- infinite travelling from one village to
another. The vendetta between the
Rocchini and the Tafan resulted in the
death of eleven persons and the execu-
ton of one of the principal criminals.
In this extraordinary case two entire
families took to the maQuts and waged
n guerrilla war upon each other; each
in turn was assiated by gendarmerie,
who had made disgraceful alliance with
bandits in order to effect their arrests
Contrary to custom, some of these
bandits became brigands. As rule
persons outside their quarrel are never
molested by them. They are merely
outlaws. The Rocchini who wns gull.
lotined in 1888 (the first execution for
many years. boasted that he was only
twenty-five and had killed seven per
sons -Nith his own hand. Confident cf
reprieve, he continued to regard him
self as hero until the day of his execu-
ton. When all hope was gone he sank
into the most abject state of cowardice,
which lasted until the end-Natione.l
Review
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-11-12
CONVERSATION OF CROWS.
They Warn Each Other of Danger, Max,
Love and Chatter.

They Warn Each Other of Danger, Make
Love and Chatter.
good many days spent in berrying,
gardening, loating and such like profit
able employments in the country have
convinced the listener of the perfect
truth of the theory that crows have a
complete language of their own-or at
least an elaborate code of signals, in
which one sort of sound always stands
for one thing and another sound for
another thing and so on.
Whenever a crow, flying over a wood,
sees man somewhere below, he
always utters a peculiar and particu-
larly cultural cry, which is answered
in the same tone by other crows within
hearing. This cry means: "a man
down here!' as plainly as anything
could mean it. You will never hear
exactly the same word under any other
circumstances.
The Indians often detected an am
bush, or became aware that solitary
enemy or pursued person lurked in a
certain spot, through this tell-tale cry
of the crows. The crows have certain
other words which you will learn to
distinguish perfectly if you hear them
often enough.
There is certain short, sharp, high,
very explosive "Ha! Ha! Hal" which
the listener would say meant ''play,"
because it is oftenest heard when the
crows seem to be gyrating about in the
air for mere pleasure. You hear one fell
low, sitting in the dead top of a hem
lock tree, call out his "Ha! Ha! Hal"
Another answers "Ha! Nal Hal" from
some upland pasture, and in minute
they are swinging playfally together
away up in the air.
Take lot of them together in a
tree, and they chatter and squawk and
cluck and babble in way entirely
suggestive of continuous and free con-
versation. And their love-making
notes are simply irresistible. Boston
Transcript.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-11-12
HEzEklAH HAYElELD, sR.

My neighbors, Peter Tompkins an Ebonezer
Brown,
Hev sold their farms an fxns an are movin'
on to town.
They're gettin' tired o. farmin' an they want to
rest, guess,
I'll bet you they are sick o. town in thirty days
er less,
Ef they can stan it, but 1 think it's hard TO
see
How they can live shut up in town the way
There's houses on both sides OF eu an neigh
bors oil around;
Can't hardly raise no garden truck they'll hev
so little ground.
Can't keep no pigs or chickens or their neigh
bors they'll complaint
Won't hev no eggs to SELL nor cheese, nor butter,
stock or grain.
They'll hev to git some once, or fall back on
An do sight o. mowin' in their meader Of ex.
pense.
Its alters been puzzle what so many town
folks do
To make livin'; yet somehow they seem "
worry through,
But there's nothin' like the country OF it's com.
fort thet you want;
Where the prairie chickens muster an the rab-
bits hev their haunt
Where the larks is UP an singin in the morniu'
fore it's light,
A n the katydids is drummin' at their orchestra
all night.
Where the choir at the fish pond run sort o.
music race
with whatever else is sngin' bringin' in their
bullfrog bass.
An the moonlights sort o. mellow, an the
evenin' wind is soft
An the barn is full Of perfume from the new
hay in the loft.
Where the apples in the orchard, throwin'
kisses at the sun,
Git to blushin' an explainin' that they meant
ii all in fun.
Then the watermelons chuckle, an the yeller
pumpkins grin,
An the sweet potaters giggle while the holly.
hooks chime in.
Where the turkeys strut and gobble, an the
guineas run and screech,
An the roosters pitch their CROWN jest ez high
c2 they can reach
Where you see the hogs a.fat'nin', an the cattle
looliin' sleek,
An the geese a.grown feathers ez they waddle
up the creek
An the prairie dogs a-barkin', ez they Law
round in the sun;
An a blue streak cross the meader-some lack
rabbit on the run.
Where you live on homemade cookin', hev old
fashioned buttermilk,
Buccotash an apple dumplin roastin' ears Jest
in the silk;
Pancakes smothered in molasses, with very
temptin' look;
Ham an eggs an baked potaters like your
mother used to cook
oh, there's nothir like the country fer content
n-ent an fer health
An there's nothin like sodhouse fer domestic
peace an wealth.
An there's nothin' like the prairies VIII ere the
air is pure an free,
One good Kansas Quartersection-that is lest
the stuff fer me
Harry Mills in Chicago Advance
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-11-12
WHAT is A GIRL eAcHELoRq
Definitions Given Lady of the Old School
Who Wanted to Know.

Definitions Given n Lady of the Old School
Who Wanted to Know.
What" said the lady of the old
school, looking up from her magazine
''what is the girl bachelor?"
The only example of that type of fem
ininity present said promptly:
"a woman who earns her living and
spends it as she chooses"
The male bachelor said unpleasantly:
"The sort of woman who insists
upon paying her own car fares in the
sight of all the passengers, and always
waves you to one side while she bar
gains with cabmen and trunk carriers" "
"She is woman" remarked the en-
broiderer, sententiously, ''who sends
her skirts to the seamstress for fresh
braids and her stockings to q profes-
sional mender for darning."
''She goes to the theater alone and
sits in the top gallery" if she feels like
It," said the chaperoned grill
"She's tremendously bright" averred
the sub-freshman, who still cherished
youthful liking for intellect.
"She's horribly self-sufficient," said
the vain woman.
shes thoroughly kind and sensible"
said the mother of five small children,
being in position to appreciate those
qualities,
Then the lady of the old schoo
thanked her informants with old school
courtesy and asked where she could see
one OF the class, evidently still laboring
under the delusion that the girl bach.
elor was curiosity.-N. Y. World.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-11-12

wife and the little 'un would have beet
in bad fix"
"Oh, hushandw shrieked Mrs. Fen
grove, Aiuglng herself into his arms
milo York has saved our lives!"
81 amt altogether sartin about that, y
added Mile, but l guess I've saved
your money and valuables."
But how came you here?" ques'
toned DR.. Fengrove.
~ was a-sleepin' out in the barn."
said Milo. "She told me 1 could. iShc
give me a blanket and food and drink
when was most ready to drop. God
bless herl And / heered their foot
steps just arter you had gone out and
Gsuspicioned as all wasn't right. So
Just got up and crept arter 'em, and
here they is" with a nod toward the
two captives on the floor. "And if
you'll just lend a hand, doctor, we'll
hist 'em out in the hall, where they
won't interfere with folks, and then
I'll gH over to the village for the con-
stable and the handouts"
"HoT can ever reward you for this,
Milo?" raid Dr. Fengrove, in tones
stifed by grateful emotion.
81 don'S want no reward, said Milo,
stoutly. sd "a done more nor that
for her, with switch of his hand to.
ward Mrs. Fcugrovo. "Ah, sir, you
don't know the sort o. feelin' man has
for the only person Sn the world as
holds out helpia' hand when he's
ready to drop with hunger and faint.
ness! And now," mcre briskly, "Tll
60"
Dolly" said the doctar, as the hon.
est fellow vanished, what would have
become of us all this night if you had
not been more merciful Nnd tender
hearted than 1! God be praised that
your sweet woman-nature gtined the
victory"
That was the last midnight alarm
that our doctors family ever sustained
The two burglars, discovered to be old
and experienc ed hands at the business,
were safely lodged in state prison for
the longest practicable term; the gang
was effectually broken up, and the
neighborhood was at peace again.
And Milo York is an obiectless,
despised tramp no longer. He is DR..
Fengrove's 'hired man" now, as much
friend as a servant, and you may see
him, any sunny day, at work in the
garden, with the baby playing around
him.
"All I wanted was chance" Milo
York says. Amy Randolph, in N. Y.
Tedpar
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-11-12

the summons. Presently, she came
back.
Its Milo York, DOCTOR" said she.
"Milo York, eh?" Dr. Fengrove' S
countenance darkened as he spoke.
"Didn't tell Milo York never to dark
en- my door again?"
But he's hungry, my DEAR" pleaded
the gentlehearted woman, land home.
less. Mr., Evarton has turned him away,
and -"
IL don't blame Mr.. Evarton!" tartly
interrupted her husband. "A miser-
able, drunken loafer, who"
II don't think he has been drinking
tonight, DOCTOR" said Mrs. Fengrove.
-'IIc looks pale and tired. He says he
has had nothing to eat since noon, and
has no place u sleep"
That's no affair of mine!' retorted
DR. Fengrove, who, though free
hearted and Hospitality inclined in gem
eral, had hardened his heart like a flint
against this particular instance of hu-
manity
Mrs Fengrove still hesitated
-'What shall / tell him?" asked She
''Tell him TO go about his business"
returned the doctor, energetically stir
ring the fire until red stream of
sparks flew up the chimney
Mrs Feugrove closed the door, and
went back to the kitchen porch.
Milo, said she, my husband will
lave nothing to say to you"
~ don't blame him much.' dejectedly
responded Milo York, who was, in
deed AZ unpromising-lookinG subject