davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-01

To SHOW the utter disregard the re-
publicans have for the country and its
interests, in comparison with what they
conceive to be the interests of the re-
publican party, it is only necessary to
allude TO the fact, as stated in the GA
zErsrE that day, that on Saturday last
a republican member of the us. House
ofReprescntatives closed the govern
ment printing Office, and stopped other
important government work, by object
ing to a resolution continuing the APP
preparations therefor until the 18th in
slant, and was sustained in that ohjec-
ton by all the other members of his
party in the House.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-01

Mr.. GEORGE w. CABLE should have
seen the statement of the amount of
taxes paid by the negroes in Virginia
before he wrote the article on negro
education in the South, published in
last months number of the Forum.
According to that article the negro in
the South pays q large share of the pub
lie school fund. But the statementrefer-
red to shows that in Virginia the whole
amount of taxes for all purposes collect
ed from negroes does not pay even one
third of the cost of the negro schools.
But Dir. Cable is by no means reliable
in respect of what he says about the
South.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-01
The Satellites of Mars.

ROCHESTER, N. Y, Aug. 1.-Prof. d.
P. Todd, director of Amherst College
Observatory, who is q guest Of Prof.
Swift at the Warner Observatory, and
Prof. Swift last night observed both the
little satellites of Mars, with the 1f
inch telescope of that observatory
They are visible but during few weeks
in fifteen years. They were discovered
and last seen in 1877. This is the first
time they have ever been seen by any
telescope in the State of New York.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-01

IT IS printed that the difference be-
tween General Malone and eX-Con-
gresham Bowden has been settled
amicably, and that now the General is
once more in accord with all the eilec-
tive leaders of his party except Mr..
Brady, and will soon be with him.
There is no doubt that the republicans
in the State are coming together again,
and that they are induced to do so by
the hope that the third party may draw
off enough democratic votes 10 enable
them TO overcome the slight majority
by which Mr.. Cleveland carried Nir-
ginia four years ago. Let the men who
have heretofore voted the democratic
ticket think of this when they arc asked
10 join the third party.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-01
ABOUT PRINTERS, MARKs.-The il

ABOUT PRINTERS MARKs.-The in
terrogation mark or point" q was or
iginally 20" and an 49," the latter
placed under the former. They were
simply the first and last letters of the
Latin word ''questio." So, too, with
the sign of exclamation or intersection
C. In its original purity it was u COM
bination of ''i' and 30" the latter I'M
derneath as in the question mark. The
two stood for So" the Latin exclama-
ton of joy. The paragraph mark Cd is
a Greek ''p," the initial of the word
paragraph. The early printers employ
ed dagger(T to show that a word or
sentence was Objectionable and should
be cut out.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-01
A PERSIAN MODE OF PuN1suMENT.-A

A PERSIAN MODE OF PUNIsHMENT.-An
extraordinary punishment almost equal to
that of cutting of the nose, is now in vogue
in Persia 1t was introduced by the present
shah with view of putting stop to the
petty pilfering that had unbridled sway for
many years. 1t consists in taking tho cul-
prit through the following course ofsprouts,"
and is said to very effectual, especially when
it has been applied to one guilty of the third
offense: The first time man is caught in
the act of stealing he is 'bastinadoed" (beatcn
on the soles of the feet with an iron rod, and
made to sign a paper declaring that this vii
be his last offense. If he forgets this. When
the soles of his feet quit burning and tries it
again, the second offense calls for the amputa-
ton of the right hand. If he is still obdurate.
and goes at it left-handed, the third and of
course, last resort is decapitatiou,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-01
A Princess BED AFIRE.-Princes

A PRINCESS BED AFIRE.-Princess
Beatrice had Il narrow escape from
death by fire in the castle Of Heilgen-
berg on Saturday morning. Her maid
carrying n candle approached too near
Il mosquito net covering the bedstead,
setting fire to the net. Princess Be-
atrice, who was in bed, had no time to
dress, but ran out of the room and
alarmed the household. The whole
wing of the castle was destroyed
Princess Beatrice lost all of her jewels
and clothes.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-01

letters Southern Magazine, new
and excellent southern magazine, just
started in Louisville. contains i'll its first
number an article on Eroticism in Fic-
ton, which, tits hoped, may have at least
some effect in diminishing the quantity
of filth now issued from publishing
houses as modern fiction. Much of
this stuff is written by women, and is
eagerly devowed by young people OF
their own sex, and yet no wise woman,
aware Gifts character, would like her
son, let alone her daughther, to read it.
French novels used to be excluded from
reputable society, but American novels,
more immoral, because even more sug-
gestive, are now found in boudoirs in
which the infinitely less injurious Eng
lish works of Fielding and Smollett are
tabooed.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-01

No WONDER intelligent foreigners
laugh at American government when
they read that the affairs of nearly sew
enty million people are held in abey-
ance for weeks by the republican mi
nority in Congress, because majority
of the democrats in that body will not
vote to give five million dollars of the
peoples money to a sectional and parti-
san fair in Chicago.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-01

The August number Of the Rerior Of r..
rie,gs contains portraits OF Mr.. Cleveland
M. Stevenson, Mes,rs. William c. Whitney.
Bourkc Cochran, w. L. Wilson, Henry Wat
telson and Senator Villas; McSsrs. Weaver and
Field Bidwell and Cranfll; Mr.. Henry &
Frick, SIr. Andrew Carnegie Mr.. HUSH
ODonnell. and Governor pattison, in connec-
ton with q discussion of the labor troubles at
Homestead Hon. Edward Blake and the
Duke Of Abercon, in connection with the En-
glsh elections; Mrs. VI. Stanley and
Mrs. John A. Logan, in articles ON
English and American women in politics ;
Hon Andrew d. White, the new Minister 10
Russia Messrs. Carter and Harrity. the now
ly appointed chairmcn Of the national Rcpub
lican aud Democratic committees; and Priace
Ferdinand Of Bulgaria and his betrothcd, the
Princess Mary of Edinburgh. Also of the follow
ing prominent men who have recently died :
Mr.. Cyrus ". Field, the Rev. Dr. Chidlw,
Professor Theodore W. Dwight, and Mr. En-
mons Blaine.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-01

As rule, the attempt of the young
woman who marries a man to reform
him is failures and the young woman
finds to her sorrow that her labors OF
love was all in vain: The effort should
be on the part Of the man. He should
be willing to reform to secure the wo-
man. Any other arrangement is bound
to result disastrously.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-01

AN able electrical expert says that
the prospect Of moving ordinary trains
by electricity is about as good now as
the prospect of lighting cities by cleo
tricity was before the discovery that
electricity could generated by dy-
namo-electric machine. The radical
improvement looked for is the direct
generation of electricity from the en-
ergy of coal, without the Intervention
of boiler furnaces, the steam engine and
the dynamo.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-01
Trouble with the Indians.

SPOKANE, Wash, Aug. different
bands of Indians, near Rockford, are
engaging in dances which bode no good
for the squatters. The Indians are
greatly incensed at the failure of the
authorities to eject prospectors and all
are armed. Troops will be sent to the
scene, though the authorities do not
expect a serious outbreak.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-01

SENATORS DANIEL of Virginia, Vest
of Missouri, and White ofLouisiana de
serve the especial thanks Of the farmers
of the country for their successful eliot
to defeat the anti-option bill, which,
though nominaly intended TO help tie
farmers. would necessarily have injured
them more than any other class of peo-
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-01
ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA.
MONDAY EVENING, AUG. i, 1892.

The fact that the spectators at IA hti'
fight in Mexico last week cheered the
poor brute, which i'll defense of lis own
life had Killed two men, is looked upon
by some of the press of this country as
conclusive evidence of the barbarous
character of the people of Mexico,
But the same press saw nothing IN
the fact that Pinkcrtons at Home
Homestead were knocked down, kick
ed. cufled, cut and sIashed and bruised,
and had their cyeballs punched out, al
ter they had surrendered and given up
their arms on promise OF protection,
that would induce them to say that the
people of the town referred to are any
thing else than sadly abused members
of a highly civilized and ChriStianlzed
community Beams and notes. But
as it has been so from the beginning,
and will be so until the end, there is no
cause for any special wonder.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-01
A Little Girls Experience in a Light
house.

Mr.. and Mrs. Loren Prescott are keepers OF
the Government Lighthouse at Sand Beach,
Mich, and are blessed with daughter four
years old. Last April she was taken down
with Measles, followed with dreadful Cough
and turning into Foyer. Doctors at home
and at Detroit treated her, but in vain, she
grew worse rapidly, until she was r mere
handful of bones"-Then she tried Dr.
Kings New Discovery and after the use Of
two and half bottles, was completely cured
They say DR.. Kings New Discovery is worth
its weight in gold, yet you may get trial
bottle free at c, 6. Lemons Drugstore, GOA
King street,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-01

There promises to be big fight in the COM
ing Wisconsin democratic convention over the
eaestion of nominating candidate for United
States Senator Gen. Edward S. Bragg, it is
claimed, wants to take Mr., yilas's place with
excellent chances for nomination.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-01

IT IS said at Washington that Mr..
Watson, the farmers alliance leader
from Georgia, would be expelled from
Congress for his sweeping, disgracefnl
and unwarranted assault upon the
character of that body, but for the idea
that such action would be gratifying to
him, as it might show him, at home, in
the light of martyr, and thereby help
his reelection, the chance of which Is
now so faint rs to render him dcsper-
ate. No such idea should be effect
i've. Mr.. Watson has attempted to dis
grace his whole country by publicly
denouncing, in book, in newspapers,
and in words on the floor of Congress,
the representatives of the people as a
set of wild and reckless drunkards, and
he should be summarily and igno-
miniously expelled, irrespective of the
effect of such action upon himself
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-01
BRoWfI IRON BITTERS
cures Dyspepsia, In
digestion 6 Debility.

Don't make up your mind to die be-
cause you have Il cough. Invest -
cents in bottle Of Stonebraker's Couch
Syrup. You will not miss the % cents,
but you'll soon miss the cough.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-01

AT bowling alley at Ulm, Germany,
a player slipped, and in falling struck
with his chest one of the thick balls,
which broke one of his ribs. The
breakage made sharp point in the
bone which was turned inside by the
ball in SO unfortunate direction as to
cut into the heart, Death was almost
caused by the broken
L
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-01

A lazy wag being asked what was
the height of his ambition, replied:
"To marry a rich widow with Il bad
cough" ''Then you would get left
every time" said his friend, ''if that
widow used Stonebraker's Cough S;yr
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-01

IT IS by no means surprising that
nihilism should prevail in Russia when
it is known that the people of that
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-01
DIED.

On Sunday, July 81, 1892, at 9:55 p. m,
at the residence of her parents 145S s street
n. w. Washington, d. C., MARY VIRGINIA
daughter of Phil j. and Maggie T. Roche
(nec Harlow, aged thirteen months. Funeral
from her paleats residence Tuesday at 10a.
III. Intermci.t in st. Alary's Cemetery, Alex
andria.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-01

country are so denscly ignorant that
in the cholera districts thereof they or
ganize mobs to assail and murder tie
physicians who risk their own lives in
Efforts to afford relief TO those at
tac,,ed by the terrible scourge.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-01

HAyE YOU PAID YOUR DOG TAX?
L q Then you want DOG COLLAR. W.
have just received the handsomcst lot of dog
collars ever seen in this city
JAMES +. CARLTN & SONS,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-01

UAvE YOU SEEN THEM?-Betore buy
4 4 ing gun examine the NEW BAKER
tS25l, on which we are making special rum.
Satisfaction guaranteed by
JAS. +. CARLIN & son.
315 KIM street
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-01

DAINT YOUR OWN BUGGY-Just re
L ceived the following new line of Colors
Olive Foncc, Ponccau, Ecarlate, and Jet Coach
Black. Call for sample. For sale by
w. Z. CREIGHTON & co.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-01

A MEXICAN CLUB HOUSE CHEESE pa
IN up in jars, hermct;calIy sealed and rec
commended to all lovers of good old cheese. M
cxccllcd for the lunch table. excursions. hunt
ing parties, clubs, restaurants hotels. &c. Fol
sale by CARR q SWETNAM
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-01

OWEN AWAY with every cake of
VI COBBS' COMPLEXION SOAP a beauti-
ful Lithograph, 2ox2S. Price 25c per cake at
LUNT & ALIENS
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-01
t.ADrES

Necdin; a tonic, or children who want bald
Ing up. should take
BROWNS IltCN DfifEseS.
II |; Pheasant: cures Malaria, indig,s!n
Dlliousncss, Liver Complaints and Neur..is...
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-01

DiKRON PAINT for Wood, Willow Cane,
4 Wall Paper, &c, &c, - beautiful shades,
in bottles Mt 10 and 25c. Also Pillrou for
Glass to produce imitation stained glassed. 4
full supply just received by
L. S. LEADREATER- & SONS-
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-01

MoCKING BIRD FOOD, in bottles AID
WI boxes, 1T 25c
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-01

IF YOUR BIRD IS SICK, BISHOPS
Il HEALTH REST0RER will make it we'll
Price 25c. LUNT e ALLEN.
Corner King and Washington ST..
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-01

WIE WOULD CALL ATTENTION to our
w large assortmentment OF Gents Shirts
Laundered and Unlaundered, best quality for
the price at AMOS B. SLAYMAKER'S
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-01

LUNT 6, ALLEN,
Corner King and Washington SIS.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-01

MAXIMUM, Minimum, Clinical, Standard,
w Dairy and Brewers Thermometers,
Hydromctes, Aneroids, Barometers. &c. for
sale by f. S. LEADBEATER g. SONS.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-01

E'IDELITY CoCKROACH. BED-BUG and
4. RAT PASTE just received by
WAKEFIELD & HALL.
Corner Prince and F,irfav etrnotc
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1892-01-07
An Early start.

you did not run fast enough, "
said the station agent to the passen-
ger who missed the train. Il ran
fast enough. but did not start soon
enough" said the passenger as soon
as he could get breath enough to re-
ply. When we SEQ farmer dra wing
out manure while other farmers are
planting. planting while others are
hoeing. and killing weeds when TIE
grass is drying up in the field, or bar
vesting unripe corn after the frost has
killed the stover. we think that no
matter how hard he may have worked,
or how busy he may have kept since
he began the spring work. the trouble
Is that he did not start soon enough.
He should have had part Of his land
fall-plOwed, he should have had his
manure drawn to the field during the
fall and winter; he should have had
his seed and fertilizer at home before
the ground thawed, and the teams and
tools should have been in shape to
work right on without breakage or
hindrance from the first Then he
would not have been in position to
realize quite so fully the truth Of the
old proverb regarding the length and
almost hopelessness of the .stern
chase"
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1892-01-07

shop and get the tire set. Instead OF
doing that which is often damage to
the wheels, causing them to dish. il
they will get some linseed oil and hesf
it boiling hot and give the felloes all
the oil they can take. it will fill them
up to their usual size, tighten, and
keep them from shrinking and also
keep out the water. If you do not
wish to go to the trouble OF so heating
OIL you can heat the oil and tie rag
TO a stick and swab them over as long
as they will take oil. but the first way
is the better. 1t pays to keep little
oil on hand to oil fork handles. r;.kcs.
neck yokes whitfietree S. and any OF
the small tools on the farm that are
more or less exposed. -Coleman's Ru-
raj World.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1892-01-07
CALLED BACK.

Just lost, when / was saved;
Just heard the world go by
Just grit me for the onset with eternity,
When breath drew back,
And on the other side
l heard recede the disappointed tide.
Therefore, as one returned, / feel,
Odd secrets of the Line to tell
Some sailor skirting novel shores!
Some pale reporter" from tho awful
doors.
Before the Seal
Next time to stay!
Next time the things to sec
BY ear unheard,
Unscrutinized by eye!
Next time to tarry
While the ages steal,
Tramp the slow centuries
And the cycles wheel.
Emily dickinson.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1892-01-07
Fashion In Comets.

The fox that lost his tail in q trap
afterward explained to his brother
foxes that 1t was fashionable to 20
tailless, and he suggested that they
should follow his example. Some
thing like this appears to have nap
pened In the comet world Wnen
Biela's comet appeared in 1872 1t w
found to have been split in two and %
have lost its tail. Professor Barnard
OF the Lick observatory has now o's,
covered q tailless comet, which wouia
indicate that Biela's erratic travelel
has been more successful in setting
the fashion than was Esop's fox.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1892-01-07
Farm Notes.

Feeding corn at night will induce tn.
turkeys to come home.
AS long as poultry have good range
they will select a variety.
One advantage with Pekin ducks is that
they commence to lay early.
With very little trouble guineas can be
readily taught to roost in the house with
the other poultry.
One advantage with both ducks and
geese is that they are much freer from dis.
ease than other fowls.
Do not expect an incubator to do all the
work. Careful attention is necessary to
secure the best results.
The size at which a hog can be market.
ed depends largely upon the season and the
kind of food that is available.
So far as the other work will permit,
keep the manure hauled out Of the stables
sheds and feed lots during the winter
Sod land can often be plowed when 9th
er land would be too wet. Sod land should
be plowed as early in the season as posi-
BILE.
The objection to allowing all sizes of
pigs together, is that the small ones will
pile on top Of tie others and make them
TOO warm.
With both cattle and horses, all hay,
straw or fodder makes all belly. Some
grain Is necessary to secure a growth of
muscle and more even development.
The old ewes Of the flock, poor mixers,
shy breeders, slim wool producers and 9th.
ers that are Improbable, should be weed
ed out and sold to the butcher, as it will
not pay to keep such sheep.
1t Is getting to be very much the prac-
tice in England, SO it is said, to keep pen
of goats with other domestic stock to pro.
tect them from the germs, the bacilli or
bacteria Of infectious diseases Doubtless
this is done on the same principle that
leads the Florida cracker to wear bag of
sulphur around his neck to suppress by its
potent smell the contagion Of yellow fe.
YER and other maladies. Probably the
universal prevalence of goats is one prom.
inent reason for the healthiness of the
Nexicans.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1892-01-07

Seton-Carr. who passed some sum.
msrs exploring in Alaska ana u !.
Selkirk ranges OF Canada has gone y
Central Africa. He writes home Irou
one OF his camps on the way TO La ~
;Tanganyika tina. some people tola ni =,
In England that it would require .
least &25. 900 to fit out pleasure %.
petition to Lake Tanganyika he say
Ihe' would undertake to go i.v. .
England to that Central Africa 'aa'
and back for u. 900, and that the "a !,
pense could be still further reduceu :
there were more than one white ms'
IN the party to share the cost
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1892-01-07

There is said to be family in uIs:
son. KY. four children OF when ~
a remarkable resemblance 70 sn". .ss
Their heads are pointed AZ -
crown. eyes small and beady anu !,
Gated near the top. When exci.o1 -;,h
angry they run their tongues ous W..
CREST rapidity. exactly like q sns 40 ia
Their skin is scaly and sheds " 18Th
patches exactly the same time .',,
year." it is reported. The passu r.
show nothing uncommon In app
ance.