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married lady belonging to the highest circles of the aristocracy. The opera tor was so pleased with his job that he preserved the leg in Jar of spirits of wine and placed it on exhibition in his consulting room, label being fixed to the jar giving the patients name and the details concerning the circum- stances which had rendered the opera tion necessary. On hearing this the husband of the lady demanded an im- mediate discontlnuance of the exhibi- ton and the return of the severed mem Der, as being his property. To this the surgeon demurred. He admitted that the plaintiff had property rights in the leg while it formed part of his wife, but argued that the leg, in it's present condition, was the result of his (defen- dants) skill and the work of his own hands, and that he was clearly entitled to keep it. The court seemed rather staggered by this line of argument, and after taking a fortnight to con slider the question, has finally decided against the doctor and in favor of the husbands s claims to the possession of the amputated leg of his better half
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in any old affair and not be caught at 1t. In the glare of the car she can at once establish her husbands reputa- tion as a millionaire or a bankrupt by the magnificence of her appearance, Black velvet capes lined with ermine are as handsome as anything can be, and pussy cat does for lining. A bor- der at the throat of the real ermine wild make the trick safe from detection.
 A winter wrap of entirely novel cut is presented herewith and is the very newest combination of black velours and chinchilla fur. The jacket has a square pleated back and pointed fit ted fronts, hooking in the center. It is edged with fur all around, the cuffs showing three bands of the pelt. Sep arate jacket flaps of heavy jet cover the fronts, but the back remains plain A high Medici collar completes the gar ment. which is lined with lettuce green watered satin. A capote of velours trimmed heavily with jet and ostrich plumes accompanies the garment
 The display of muffs in the fur shop is large Some of them are almost as big as barrels and others are hardly more than little pockets for a pair of finger tips. One can take her choice, for the little ones cost as much as the big ones. Shop-keepers seem to think that the one idea of the modern wo- man is to spend as much money as she can, and they always fix it so that, no matter what she selects, she may not be put to the embarrassment of say ing anything. FL0RETTE.
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KTNDLING QUESTION.

The taxation of church property has not become a burning question in Con- necticut, though it is rather warm in Meriden. In Wisconsin it is a burning question and the flames are spreading rapidly. There are about $14,5OO,OOO worth of church property in that State, and if 1t were taxed it would produce $146,OOO for the State. A good many of the people want that amount of money added to the income of the State and they have no scruples about saying so They don't see why a church that owns a good deal of property shouldn't bear it's fair share of the tax burden. And they do not seem to think that the cause of religion or morality will be injured if the churches pay their way like other organizations. The city attorney of Milwaukee "has already decided that the Roman Catholic Archiepiscopal resi- dence in that city can be taxed. A strong protest has been made against this decision, not only by Catholics, but by Lutheran olergymen. The matter has had curious result. In the Catholic and Lutheran parochial schools of Milwaukee there are about 10000 children, whose education costs these churches at least s25 year each. In referring to this fact prominent Catho- lie of Milwaukee significantly remarked that if the State should decide to tax church property the Catholic and Lu- theran churches might see fit to close their parochial schools and throw all their pupils on the city to be edu- cated.
 The prominent clergymen of Milwau- kee have been given an opportunity to say what they think about taxing church property. Bishop Nicholson, Episcopal, is in favor of moderate tax on all church property except grave yards. The Rev. E. L. Eaton, Metho- dist, is in favor of the measure. The Rev. A. A. Kiehle. Presbyterian, would exempt strictly church property, such as church buildings and the ground they occupy. The Rev. Frederick Evans, Baptist thinks the proposal a piece of heathenism. It might be if the churches were poor and struggling and unable to pay the tax without injuring their power to do good In former times in this country it would have been a great hardship for most churches to pay taxes. Now many of them are so well off that they can afford to pay, and some of them have so much property that it doesn't seem fair to the rest of the people that it should continue to es- cape taxation.
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ELEPHANTS TENDING BABIEs.
Monsters that Take the Tenderest Care of
 the MahOut's Children.
[From the Pittsburg Dlspatoh.l

lfrom the Ptttsburg Dispatch.l
 Weakness appeals powerfully to the friendly protection of the strong, and even among brutes-at least the nobler kinds-the appeal Is not often in vain. Tn the curious relation between mons ter and midget we not infrequently see the fable of the lion and the mouse re- peated without words There is noth- ing by any means uncommon or incred- ible in the stories which have been re- ported about the children of a mahout being cared for by the mahout's ele- phant.
 The whole family of the mahout be- come as it were, parasites to the ele- phant, by whom they earn their living. l have seen a baby placed systematical- ly under the elephants care and within reach of it's trunk, while the mother went to fetch water or get wood or material to cook the family dinner No jackal or wolf would be lllxly to pick up and carry off a baby who was thus confded to the care of an elephant; but most people who have lived a life in the jungle know how very possible It is for jackal or wolf to carry off a baby when lying in hut when the mothers back Is turned.
 The children thus brought up in the companionshlp of an elephant become familiar with him, and take all kinds of liberty with him, which the elephant seems to endure on the principle that it does not hurt him, while 1t amuses the child. You see little naked black child, about two feet high, standing on the elephants bare back, and taking 1t down to the water to bathe, shouting all the time in the most unbecoming terms of native abusive language.
 On arriving at the water the ele- phant, ostensibly in obedience to the child's command. lies down and en- joys himself, just leaving small part of his body, like small island, above water, on which the small child stands and yells, and yells all the more if he has several companions of his own age, also in charge of their elephants, all wallowing in the water around him. If the child slips off his island, the ele- plants trunk promptly replaces him in safety, The little urchins, as they grow up, become first mates to mahouts, and eventually arrive at the dignity of be- ing mal1outs themselves.
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THE ,TURY FTYER.

The jury fixer" Is particularly per-
 nicious rascal, and 1t Is a good thing to
 have attention directed to him. There
 is little doubt that he is doing his dirty
 work right here in Connecticut, and
 there is good reason to think that he
 occasionally does job in New Haven.
 Only the other day Judge Hotchkiss
 gave the members of jury an oppor-
 tunity to say if they had seen him or
 been seen by him, but there was no re- sponse. Possibly he was at that time engaged in Dallas Texes, although mo- body seems to really know. There were, however, such signs of his presence and activity that Judge Clint, who presided at murder trial there, felt bound to go even farther than Judge Hotchkiss
 did in inquiring concerning him. After the jury had been tout" for nearly four days the judge received a note from the jury-room It informed him that one of the jurors had told the other eleven that he was "onto the whole shooting match" knew the man who was shot, knew him to be "a d--d scoundrel," knew several of the States witnesses to be ''d--d rascals,' etc, etc. It further informed him that the other jurors-or some of them-had thought it their duty to report these utterances to the court. Judge Clint notified the attor- neys, had the defendant brought in, sent for the jury, discharged them, and immediately afterward ordered all of them to appear before the grand jury the following Thursday On that day, at the special request of the grand jur- ors, he delivered a charge dealing with the unusual duty which he had imposed upon them. A part of what he said is as follows: Tn prosecuting your inquiry into these matters remember that as a rule jurymen at large are brought un-
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willingly from their homes, and that 1T they do err it is very apt to be because of some outside temptation, some mo- tive that was produced by some one in- terested in influencing a juryman. If on Inquiry you should find that any person has in any wise attempted to influence the juror, 1t should be made your special duty to diligently find out who such a person is and why he ap- preached and influenced the juror. As matter of public policy the law can better afford to release a hundred gull ty jurors than to let one jury-fxer es- cape. You might well afford to throw a mantle of charity over the shortcom- ings of a juror who is beguiled into wrong-doing, if such a course will bring to the bar of justice a man so aban- doned, depraved and dangerous as to tamper with our jury trials. For if such criminals are not detected and punished our jury system would be a farce and fraud, and the certainty of punishment myth.
 This is good advice, and we hope it will be taken. The jury fixer is hard to catch, but his tracks are so plain in many localities that some skillful and persistent hunter may succeed in run ming him down. If he cant be caught in Texas we hope that he can and will he In Connecticut
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THECARRlNGToN PUBLISHING co. l
Advertising Hates.

Situations, Wants, Rents and other small ad- vertisements, One Cent Word each inser- ton. Five cents word for Q full week Seven tmes),
 Display Advertisements-Per ,inoh one in- centsi one week, S3.20; one mouth S10; one year, $40.
 Obituary notices, in prose or verse; I5 cents per hne.' Notices of Births, Marriages Deaths and Funerals, b0 cents each. Local notices. l5 cents per line.
 Yearly advertisers are limited to their own immediate business Gall matter to be unobjeo- t1onablel, and their contracts do not include Wants, To Let, For Sale etc.
 Dsoounts-On two Inches or more, one or more, one month and over, l5 per cent.
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In an article on drinking water in malarial diseases the Secretary of the North Carolina Board of Health cites numerous cases where neighborhoods almost uninhabitable on account of malaria became healthy when artesian water was substituted for that from streams or surface wells. Many well Informed physicians are now convinced that drinking water is the chief agent of infection in malarial and many other diseases.
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 FASHION NOTES.
A New Cut of Jacket.

Letting dress suits to men has been an established industry for years, and now these costumers make a point of letting magnificent wraps for evening wear. An elegant wrap is desirable above all things to many women, es- pecially where large class of well-to- do folk use the cars instead of a car rfage to go to the theater in the even ing. This puts a woman on parade at
 Jnce, and she really dresses for the oc
 casion; whereas, in the seclusion of her carriage she may wrap herself warmly
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The culture of Boston is only equalled by the cheek that grows there, A Bos- ton man hires house for $35 month. 1n the past nine months he has not paid dollar to his landlord. Last week he asked for reduction of the rent.
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Notice.

We cannot accept anonymous or return re- 1ected communications. In all cases the name of the writer will be required, not for publica- non. put as guarantee of good faith.
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MT. Garrett P. Serviss writes in the Scientific American that on June l the snow around the south pole of Mars was 2,4OO miles across, but by July the diameter of the snow area had dimin- ished 1,5OO miles and by August the snow cap was only 800 miles across. By October l no snow was to be seen through the most powerful telescope, but it is thought that it still existed on the side of the planet not turned to the earth at that time.
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The death rate in New York city last vaar was the lowest recorded of any year since 1874, being 21.o5 to the 1'ooo' which compares with rate of 2S.52 last wear and 25.2S in 1SS8 A noteworthy feature of the statistics is that the de- cline was particularly marked in the tenement houses, for while the total number of deaths fell from 44,4S6 in 1853 to 41,212 in 1S94--a decrease of S,274-the ,,un,beY in the tenement houses fell off from 2s, ,s7S to 2s,149--a decrease of 2'224' Tbus the tenement houses, furnishing a little more than one-half the total rur,ber of deaths, contributed over swo-thirds of the decrease.
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The old Lincoln homestead, near Hodgenville, Larue county, Kentucky, where Abraham Lincoln was born, is to be purchased by an association of the citizens of Hodgenville and made into public park. The homestead is now known as the Creal farm and lies about two and a half miles south of Hodgenville. An electric railroad is to be built out to the farm and in gem eral way it is intended as another Mount Vernon.
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AZ English physician calls attentlon to way of keeping pneumonia coios' chiIls. and all the ailments that cola .vsa+her brings on, at distance. Deep aud forced respirations, he says, VIII keep the entire body in glow in the the coldest weather, no matter how thinly me may be clad. He was himself half 1rozen to death one night, and began +ot,,ne deep breaths and keeping the air in his lungs as long as possible The res,It was that he was thoroughly com sor+able in a few minutes. The deep lions he says, stimulate the ,,,ood current by direct muscular exer- tion. and cause the entire system to 0e- nome pervaded with the rapidly geher- ated heat.
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come lime ago the mongoose was lh- arodpced into the island Of Jamaioa to a4,ov +he rats which were doing much sauooge to the sugar cane. Hut the rr,rgston papers say its activity did not -4o, There. It destroyed snakes, toaos' ,..oo+,verous birds and other enen1'es
 4ha insect race, and as a result there ,,os heen a great increase in the number of ticks, grass lice, beetles flies ana otber small pests. Horses suffer sever e. k, and sometimes die, from the attacAS of +he ticks, which get into thelr ears'
 ost,ils and throats. As the mongoose ends the rats, snakes, toads ana craps ,5f.appearing, it attacks setting fowls ord carries off their eggs, ana klils
 o,,ng nigs, kids, lambs, calves pups .,,+tens poultry and game birds' de- ...ove fruit and vegetables and is sus- .,aoted of sucking sugar cane, eats meat p,d saIt provisions and catches fish,
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Belgium's Supreme court has just been oa1,ed mon to decide somewhat novel avtraordinary question of consid-
 ,u+orest to the medical profess ,on throughout the world. It seems 4pot one of the leading surgeons or Brussels had occasion about a year aro m to amputate the right leg of a young
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Alssa,,aria @azsttf,
FRIDAY EVENING, AUG. %, 49,
pRINoE oF WALEs 0 R


Explorers who recently returned to
Quebec from Hudson's bay have re-
vived interest in a hal~fforgetten bit of
history regarding the ruins at the
mouth of the Churchill river. The
ruins are the remains of the old Prince
of Wales fort, erected in the middle OF
the last century by the Hudson's Bay
Company. 1t took forty years to build
the fort, and the wall was constructed
of heavy blocks of dressed granite, pre-
pared by workmen brought from Eng
land for the purpose. On each of its
four sides the walls were 800 feet long,
and 20 feet high. At the base they
were 80 feet thick, tapsriDg to 20 feet
at the summit. Within were commo-
dious stone buildings containing large
supplies of goods and stores of every de-
scription, and large quantities of val
liable fnrs, gathered from every part OF
the Northwest, eyen from the shores of
the Polar Sea. Forty-two heavy cannon
defended the fort. On August s, 1882,
there advanced toward the fort three
French war ships, two of which carried
forty-two cannon each, and the third
seventy-four. AS there were only
thirty-nine men in the fort, the posi-
ton was yielded without fighting. All
the furs were taken to France, the
goods we're either removed OF destroy
ed, and an effort was made to demolish
the fort, but owing to the strength OF
the masonry the work of destruction
was not completed.
Much of the ruin, which is the largest
in North America, still remains. The
explorers report that the old cannon
are partly or wholly covered with the
great stones that have fallen or yer
thrown from the walls. The ancient
wells still contain water. The great
guns and large iron balls that lie around
are objects of interest to the skin-clad
Indians, who sometimes visit the for
saken fortress. England made France
pay well for the furs and the damage
done but the old stronghold has not
been rebuilt,
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A Tour to the North.

The Pennsylvania Railroad Company has
arranged to run a delightful tourt to the North.
Magnificent sceuery begins with the journey
and ends only with its completion. The
names of the places to be visited are familiar
TO all. No matter how much may be expect
cd, one cannot be disappointed in Watkins
Glen, Niagara Falls, Thousands Islands, Que
bee, Montreal, Au Sable Chasm, Lakes Cham
plain and George, Saratoga, or the Highlands
the Hudson The date azed for the de-
partufe or this tour is August 20, and the
round-trip rate Of 800 from Washington
will cover all necessary expenses. A beauti-
full descriptive itinerary can be procured from
the Broad Street Station, Philadelphia.
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Redpced Rates To Boston.

From August % to IS, inclusive. the Penn
sylvania Railroad Company will sell excur-
sion tickets to Boston, Mass, going and re-
turning by the same route, at a single fare for
the round trip, account Twenty sixth Trien-
nial Conclave of Knights Templsr, to be held
in Boston, August &c to 80. The tickets will
be good to return leaving Boston not later
than September 10, and must be used to des.
t~ination on Pennsylvania railroad not later
than midnight of September ii. Excursion
tickets, good going via one route and re-
turning via another, will be sold on the same
dates at a slight advance over the one-fars
rate for the round trip.
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THO THE DEMOCRATIC VOTERS OF
a THE FOURTEE NTH SENATORIAL
DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA.

DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA:
At a meeting of Democratic Senatorial Com.
mittee for the Fourteenth District of Virginia,
held In the city of Alexandria, on the 9th
day of July, 1895, the following resolutions
were adopted:
First. That a convention be held in said
city of Alexandria, on THURSDAY, Septem-
Der 18th, 1895, at u o'clock noon, for the
purpose of nominating q candidate for State
Senator from said district.
Second. That the basis of representation in
said convention be one delegate tor every one
hundred and fraction over fifty votes cast at
the last g~ubernatorial election.
J.B. T. THORNTON,
Chairman Dem. Com Prince William Co.
JAMES M. LOVE.
Chairman Dem. Com. Fairfax Co.
CURTIS B. GRAHAM,
Chairman Dem. Com. Alexandria Co.
JOHN T. SWEENEY,
Chairman Dem. Com, Alexandria City.
Democratic papers of the Fourteenth Sena.
torial District please copy.
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CANDIDATES.
no THE DEMOCRATIC VOTERS OF

TITO THE DEMOCRATIC VOTERS OF
"A THE 14TH SENATORIAL DISTRICT:
Il respectfully announce myself a candidate
for reelection to the State senate. My re-
cord in that body during the past four years
is before you like sn open book. I supported
or opposed men and measures according to my
conception of the hest interests of the people
I represented, and have no regrets ON that
score. Upon my return from a trip ueces-
sarily undertaken will make haste 10 render
an account to my constituents and confront
my critics if there be any.
GEORGE A. MUSHBACH.
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MEDICINAL.
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Wholesale Agents:
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GOUTHERN PATHWAY (PIEDMON'
y Schedule Effective May 10 1895. subject to chapl
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E. S. LEADBEATER & SONS,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DRUGGISTS
1o5 and lot south Fairfax street.

AOo ahu AOi Soutn raiIId& slfect,
Dealers in Drugs, Chemicals, Patent Medi-
cincs, Paints, OILS, Dye StutIs, Spices, Drug
gists' Fancy Goods and Specialties.
Wholesale agents in Northern Yirginia FOR
J. G. Ayers Medicines and John Lucas & Co.'s
Tinted Gloss and Prepared Paints, SC.
Manufacturers of Standard Pharmaceusicsf
Preparations.
We have made large additions to our stock
and are buying leading Proprietary Articles,
Chemicals, &c, direct from the manufacturers.
We are therefore enabled to supply the trade
with all goods usually carried By & well-ap.
pointed WHOLESALE DRUG HOUSE. at
in larger cities. ALI goods forwarded ny frst
freight or express after receipt Of osder.
Promptness IS our specially We guarantee
the purity of all drugs furnished. Ierre-
spondeuce invited.
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r AVN MOWERS, Window Screens and
IL Cream Freezers. To close out present
stock will sell at reduced prices. Call and
see US.
JAS. F. CARLINs SONS & CO..
Alexandria We
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wv PANY (LIMITED.l
FERRY SCHEDULE
On and after June 10th, 1895, and I'm.
til further notice the following ferry seized.
ule will be in force.
Leave Alexandria, foot Of King street,
at 6 90, z 80, 8 80, 8 80, 10 80 and IL 80
a. n, 10 80, 1 30, Q 80, 8 80, 4 80. s 30,
and 6 80 and 7 15 D. m.
Leave Washington, foot Of Seventh st.
at 6 15. z 30, 8 80, 9 80, 10 80 and II 80
a. m, - 80, 1 80, 3 80, 3 80, 4 80, s 80,
and s 80 and Z Is p. m.
NIB. Same schedule Sundays, commencing
8 80 p. j..
POTOMAC RIVER LANDINGs-sTEAM-
ER WAKEFIELD leaves Washington Mon
days at 90 a. m, and Alexandria at 8 90
q. m, for landings as far as Nomini and on
Wednesdays and Saturdays at same hours for
st. Clements Bay and Leonardtown.
G. ". RIDLEY, General Manager.
JOHN B. PADGETT, Agent.
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STEAMERS.
FERRY SCHEDULE

WASHINGTON STEAMBOAT COM.
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