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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-02-16
LETTER FROM FAIRFAX.

BUSH HILL, Feb. 15.-As most of our
people are aware the toll-gate, in West
End, which was in vogue some is
months since, was given up by the man
who did the collecting of tolls, mainly
for the reason that those who travelled
over the road leading into Alexandria
and vice versa, refused to pay their
yearly toll on account of the condition
it was then in, and they were justified
in so doing. Since that time it has grad
ually gotten worse, as many loose stones
which were in the way should have been
gathered up and put into the ruts made
bv the constant wear and travel over it.
Now the gentleman who is said to work
this road has made the travelling on this
same road in a most terrible condition
by working the same with a road
scraper in mid winter, throwing the
dirt to the centre of the road bed and
making it in worse condition than it
has ever been. The mud in some
places is perfectly awful and it will
be two months at least before
the much abused pike will be what
it ought to be. If the contractor had
put off his road scraping arrangement
until spring, after the winter rains had
ceased, he would have had the united
thanks of all who travel over it. No
doubt he meant to do we'll at the time.
1t gives us pleasure to state that our
young friend, MIR. Willie Crupper' who
for the past ten months or more during
his leisure hours had been taking les
sons in telegraphy with the day opera
tor at Mallow station has succeeded in
learning the same and has lately passed
an examination in Wilmington, Del,
proving himself efficient. He HIS
worked at several offices on the w. S.
r. r. since as an extra helper.
Mr.. James Lsnnon, in West End, is
at this time confined to his home on ac-
count of severe cold he had lately
taken-but we are sure with the care
full nursing of a devoted wife he will in
short time be able to be up and about
again as usual.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-02-16
TUESDAY EVENING. FEB. 16. 1897

A BILL. under the whip and spur of
the large republican majority in the
u. S. House of Representatives, was
forced through that body yesterday, as
stated in the GAZETTE of that day,
without allowing the democratic mi
nority to expose its gross extravaganza
and exhibit to the country the log roll
ing process by which fifty million of
the money exacted of the people by
taxes on what they are compelled to
buy, will be squandered, chiefly for
unnecessary objects, and that, too, at
time when the revenue of the country
is not sufficient to meet its current
expenses. The republicans are evil
IDENTITY possessed of the idea that after
them, the deluge. The Congress now
expiring, like the previous one in which
Mr.. Reed was Speaker, started with
the blare that it would be business
Congress. Well, it has been, but its
business has been of crooked char o.
ter Certainly no efficient and o. ,ccess.
full business corporation won a conduct
its affairs ia as wild nd reck,ess 8
manner as those O. the 6fty-fourth
Congress of tn, United States have
been condur' ed
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-02-16

w. 7. Jones, late assistant postmaster
of Mattoax. Amelia county, who stands
charged with robbing the mails, was
giving a preliminary hearing before
United States Commissioner Fleeen.
heimer in Richmond yesterday. Two
specific charges were preferred against
him. and on one of these he was sent
on to the grand jury, while the other
charge was dismissed. Jones was re-
leased on $500 bail.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-02-16
AMurdcrer Dciics Arrest

PADUcAH, KY Feb. l6.-Robert
McGill yesterday at Raeland. near
here, after 8 quarrel, seized rifle and
shot and killed his wife. He refused
to surrender or allow the neighbors to
approach the corpse. The couple had
three children. Six weeks ago the
husband became intensely jealous OF
his younger brother. If further blood ?
shed ensues before the murderer is
taken lynching may follow.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-02-16
RUcKLIN's ARNIcA sALyE

THE BEST SALvE in the world for
Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum,
Fever Sores, letter, Chapped Hands,
Chilblains, Corns and all Skin Erup-
ions, and positively cures Piles, or no
)ay required. 1t is guaranteed to give
perfect satisfaction or money refunded.
Price 25 cents per box. For sale by
Erpest J.. Allen
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-02-16
From Canton

CANTON, Ohio, Feb. 16.-D1ajor Nc
Kinley passed very com fortsble night,
and is feeling cheerful this morning.
The attending physician will not per-
NIT him to receive many callers, and he
will be unable to leave Canton for
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-02-16
FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS.
WASHINGTON. February 16.
SENATE.

The opening prayer to-day was offer
ed by Rev. w. ]. B. Brown, of London;
1t embraced the President-elect as we'll
as the President; and it asked that
those who desired permanent peace
between the two great English-speak-
ing nations may have their desire &C.
complished.
MIR. Sherman gave notice that he
would move to 60 into executive SEES
sion tomorrow on the arbitration
treaty, and that he hoped then to get
final action on it.
Mr.. Chandler addressed thu Senate
in support of his resolution declaring it
to be the sense of the Senate that the
United States should not permanently
acquiesce in the single-gold standard
He said that he earnestly favored the
resolution because he was an advocate
of bi-metallism and an opponent of
mono metallism-whether gold or sill
yer. He said sit was reserved to Sec
rotary Carlisle to announce that our
silver dollars were no longer real money,
like gold coin, but must be redecmable
| in gold coin. By that act, so far as he
could do so, Secretary Carlisle struck
out of existence as real money not only
our own $G00,000,000, but also the
worlds $4,000, 100000 OF coined silver;
transferred the whole burden of sns
tanning paper money to the worlds
stock of gold coin; increased the appre-
citation Of that gold; and gave the final
blow to silver as money meta!-the
effect of which is now making itself felt
throughout the business universe. From
that low depth bimetallism will soon,
at the demand OF the gIevously bur
dened people of the world, begin Its
toilsome movement to restoration"
Mr. Chandler pointed to the fact that
the worlds production of gold and sill
yer in 1896 was $215, OO0,0 900 of each
metal; and his comment upon that fact
was that it seemed as if providence, as
if nature, as if God himself, had inter
| posed to refute the prediction of those
| who had demanded the decentralization
of silver on the ground of its enormous
over production.
Mr.. Collin, alter an unllnpOrIah'
| question about the rules had been dis
| posed of, moved to pass over the Presl.
! dents veto the bill to pension at S3C
month the widow of Peter II. ALA
bach, a veteran of the Mexican war
VITO in the latter years of his life was
chief OF the Capitol police.
Mr.. Loud in antagonizing the pro
posed passage of the bill over the veto
declared his belief that it was futile tt
attempt to stop the House lin It's mao
career
He asserted that the services of the
deceased soldier were neither conspicu
Gus nor gallant.
The veto resulted: Yeas lis, nay:
10; two-thirds not voting in the aflir-
native, the bill failed to pass over the
veto.
The House then took up the bill to
regulate and makeI uniform the juris
diction of United States Circuit Courts
in cases brought for the Infringement
of letters patent. 1t gives jurisdiction
to the courts in the circuits where the
defendant lives, or where he may have
committed acts Of Infringement, or ha
established business.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-02-16
MEDICINAL.
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Athletes

Cleveland until Wednesday Or Thurs
day st the earliest. Ex-senator Warner
Miller, of New York, and Hon: Henry
White, formerly secretary OF the Lon
don legation, arrived here to-day by
appointment, but will not see Major
Mckinley until tomorrow. Mr.. Mil
ler's visit has some bearing upon. the
cabinet situation.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-02-16

1Hh khfob' .IcANs say their proposed
new 'aFin VI will protect the farmers of
TINS counVr 3 from foreign competition.
But II hS leaked out from the room of
the wa IS and means committee of the
u. 3. House of Representatives, 10
which the bill referred to is being
prepared, that among the new taxes it
will impose will be one of dollar and
half ton on plaster, which the farm
ers use as n fertilizer. The apparent
determination of the republicans is to
build .. tariff wall around this country
for the purpose of keeping out all for
eign products, and restricting its own,
to an already glutted market. How in
telligent farmers can support republi
can policy is difficult to understand
but if those of the North can stand it,
surely those of the South can.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-02-16
MARRIED.

On Monday, February 18th, at st. Paul's
Church, Baltimore by the rector Rev. J. s. B.
HODGES, D. d.. assisted by Rcvs w. B..
Brand. d. d i. and George w. Nelson, WILL
LIAM HERBERT ASSHETON, of 'Rock
SPRING" Fauquier county, Va, to JULIET
WILSON, youngest daughter Of the late
Jeremiah Whcelwright, esq. of Baltimore.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-02-16
COURT OF APPEALS.

Temples, admir-. VS.. Wright and
others; argued and submitted.
Ronald and others against Spindles
and others; Circuit Court of Moutgom'
cry county; appeal refused.
The court adjourned until the 9th OF
March.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-02-16
DIED.

Gu February 18th, at St. Agnes Hospital,
Baltimore, JOHN F. MASON, aged 80 Yeas,
His funeral took place this evening at 3
O'Clock from the chapel at the undertaking
establishment of VIM. Domaine s; Son. The
intermeLt was in ST. Paul's Cemetery.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-02-16

Chief Justice Mercer Beasley, OF the
sup, .eme court of New Jersey, is
thought to be dying. He has bronchial
pne umonia, and has been unconscious
sins q o'clock this morning.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-02-16


1HF PRESIDENT is clearly right in
nlS adverse criticism of the Southern
members of Congress for their abandon
ment of the effort to purge the pension
list, remove from it the names of the
hundreds of thousands who are not
Just entitled to pensions, and prevent
the addition of any more names to that
list except the few that should be on it,
and thereby save at least half the enor-
nous sum that is now expended in
pensions. The Southern Congressman
now are not such men as the people of
the South formerly sent to Congress.
There isn't ere of them who doesn't
know that the annual pension bill is =,
gigantic fraud, and yet they either ot,
Cor it, or allow it to pass without tbe;
opposition. They seem be conten
with their pay and perquisite5 and tn,
fear that they will be CALI d "rebels'
and traitors" in the Mort n if tbav oh
Ject to any sort of pensi ons. deters mo !.
of them from raisings hand against an,
pension bill that mo be introduced, nc
matter how appar cut the fraud may be
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-02-16
SOUTHERN B. & L. ASSOCIATION.

OOC II i-AeA' ~ ~ 40 4A'~'-N 80 = ~ ~
At an informal conference of the
Eastern stockholders Of the Southern
Building and Loan Association OF
Knoxville, Tenn, held on Tuesday, in
New York, VIM. Hepburn Russell made
report of the action taken by the
United States Court at Knoxville and
submitted the outlines of plan of
voluntary liquidation intended to pro-
tect the interests of stockholders and if
possible avoid permanent receivership.
The main feature of the plan is to ascer-
tain the actual net value of the assets
of the association and scale down the
stock accordingly.
This association is one of the largest
in the country. There is nearly $S7 600
900 subscribed stock 100000 of
which is paid in. There are about ten
thousand stockholders throughout the
courtry.
A meeting of the Washington stock
holders will be held in that city on Feb
ruary 81, at which Mr.. Russell will be
present At the home Offices in Knox
vile, Tenn, on March 4th, general
meeting of stock holders will be held to
consider the situation. the question of
the appointment of permanent receiv-
err coming up in court for decision four
days later.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-02-16

VNO THE STOCKHOLDERS OF TIE
Il ALEXANDRIA INSURANCE COM.
PANY.-Wc, the committee appointed to ex-
anime tho books and assets of the alexandria
Insurance Company. beg leave to report that
we have attended to that duty and that wo
find the same as reported to the meeting of
the stockholders by the secretary TO be correct.
GEORGE UHLER, coro
WILLIAM Fl. HELLMUTH,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-02-16
feb1G 3t

NOTICE Subscription to shares of stock
~ of the Fourth series of the Alexandria
Perpetual Building Fund Association will be
received at their office, 107 South Royal
street. Shares will be limited By order of
the Board of Directors
JUSTUS SCHNEIDER, Secretary.
- fob1
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-02-16
Train Rohbcr Canturcd.

KINGMAN, Ariz., Feb. l6.-Fcot-sore
and weary with mis- tramp of many
days through canyons and over noun
tains and deserts, and weakened by e
fast of fifty hours, James Parker, the
bandit who took part in the robbery of
the train near Nelson last Monday,
was captured yesterday near Peach
Springs.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1897-07-01

One of the most important things
about good farming that most of us
have TO learn is to avoid waste We pay
taxes on land that we do not farm; we
only half cultivate our fields. and so
waste both land and labor; we leave a
large percentage of the crop in the
field; we waste time and capital rails
ing inferior animals; we waste money
in buying what we should raise our
selves; we waste energy in trying TO do
more than any one man can do right;
we waste opportunities to improve our
condition by staying away from in
stitutes and neglecting to read papers;
we waste-in thousand and one ways,
and then we are ready to say that
farming don't pay" And it is no
wonder-Rural World.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1897-07-01
AGRICULTURAL HINTS.


1t might be well for you to change
the variety of your corn. Think of it.
broadcast sowing of ashes on plowed
ground, before planting, is a good way
of application.
Peas make an excellent green ma
nure, but we would advise growing peas
for the food they furnish.
In the new west, plant fruit trees and
shade trees, even if you fail to grow
them. 1t is worth the trial.
An advertiser who viii cheat news
paper on his advertising will cheat the
customer on the goods sold him.
Perhaps there is, under ordinary cir
cumstances, nothing better for pasture
than clover, red clover, timothy and
blue gr ISIS.
If you have a good farm and good
son, let him do the farming while you
rest A man who has developed both
a good farm and a good son deserves
rest.
Don't be afraid to buy a poor farm. if
you cannot buy a good one. Brains.
manure and management win make a
worn-out farm good.-Western Plow-
man.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1897-07-01
DON'T STOP TOBACCO.

How To Cure Yourself While Using it,
The tobacco habit grows on man
until his nervous system is seriousl,
affected, impairing health. comfort
and happiness. To quit suddenly is
too severe a shock to the system, as
tobacco to an inveterate user becomes
stimulant that his system continu-
ally Graves. "Baco-Curo" is scien-
tiiic cure for the tobacco habit, in all
its forms, carefully compounded after
the formula OF an eminent Berlin ply
stefan who has used it in his private
practice since 1872, without a failure.
1t is purely vegetable and guaranteed
perfectly harmless. You can use ell
the tobacco you want while taking
"Bacco-Curo. 1t will notify you
when to stop. We give written
guarantee 10 cure permanently any
case with three bottles or refund the
money with 10 per cent interest.
"Baco-Curon is not a substitute but a
scientific cure that cures without the
aid Of will power and with no incon-
venience. 1t leaves the system as
pure and free from nicotine as the
day YOU took your first chew.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1897-07-01
PIGS ALONG SHORE.
They Are Fed on Fresh Fish TO Il
Considerable Extent.

Figs like fish. and pigs raised along
shore owned by fishermen get plenty of
fish to eat. Sometimes fish is fed to the
fish to clear them of scurvy. Horseshoe
crabs are often fed to pigs, the crabs be-
ing cut clear of the shells so that the
pigs can get at them easily; the pigs
like horseshoes.
Often around salt water creeks min
nows are caught and dumped into pig
pens by the bushel. Many fish have
hard, sharp, projecting spines that
might stick in the pigs throat. When
fish of this sort are fed the spines are
first cut off, and only the bodies and
tails fed. One of the names of the
American sole is hog choker.
Other food is fed along with fish, and
fish is never fed to the pigs before kill
ing time; it would make the pork taste
fshy. Pigs will eat soft CLAIMS. Down
Bay of Fundy way pigs go out at low
tide and root up mussels. There, where
the tide rises 40 or so feet, and comes
in with great suddenness, it is neces-
sary for the pigs to be on the alert, and
they are They hear the first sound
of the coming tide wave and turn and
scamper for the shore, and even then
they get there none too soon, occa-
sionally.-N. Y. Sun.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1897-07-01
DIVERSIFIED FARMING.
Its General Introduction Is "A Matter
OF National Importance.


of National Importance.
The national Importance of the ques-
ton of growing our own sugar supply
is fast being realized. both by the farm
ers who will most directly benefit BY its
realization, and by the general public
who are beginning TO discern the extern
sive ramihcations of an industry which
will keep an immense amount OF money
at home which has hitherto been sent
abroad. 1t is feature-perhaps the
principal one-in a large scheme for
such widening of our agricultural
operations as will embrace the produc-
tion OF many articles now imported and
which can be profitable and successful
" raised al home. To-day we are inn
porting large quantities of tobacco
which might as well be grown here.
where our varied climatic conditions
are favorable for the many varieties OF
the fragrant weed There are also sew
eral vegetable tibers adapted for home
growth hut for which large sums are
annual. sent to other countries-such
as'hemp, fax. jute, etc That the home
growth of tobacco is capable of large
extension is evinced by the fact that,
for the year ending June last, over
$lS.50o,0oo was paid for foreign grown
and manufactured tobacco. To import
cotton. seems very like the proverbial
sending Goals 10 Newcastle" but 81.
100000 worth We're received during the
same period; while of vegetable iibres,
such as hemp, flax. iute, manila hemp.
etc. close on $4,000, 600 worth were i'm,
ported. including both raw and manu-
featured material Here are over S65.-
100000 paid ont for purely agricultural
products which, with our almost I'M
limited natural resources, can be raised
by our farmers. There may be some de-
auctions on account of brands of for
eign-grown tobacco necessary for GER
tain uses, and also for some descrip-
tions of cotton; but the bulk of the
large sum mentioned could certainly be
retained at home, and will be when our
farmers are more alive to their necessi-
ties. Corn and cotton are both impor-
tant factors in our agricultural eco
nomics. but it is possible and advisable
to have more than one or two crops to
rely on; and the more diversified the
farmers operations, the less is he like
" to suffer from an over-abUndance of
either cotton or corn Journal of Agri-
culture
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1897-07-01
HOMEMADE LAND RUBBER.

together, making the top ana bottom
present corrugated surfaces. Three
bolts are used to fasten the pieces to-
gether, which are made of five-eighths
inch round iron. One bolt is placed in
the center and the others one foot from
either end The outside bolts have an
eye instead of plain head, by means OF
which forl1ed chain is attached for
drawing the implement. The front
cutting edges Of the implement are pro-
tected and their efficiency aided by hay-
ing them bound with fat iron two
inches wide md one-quarter of an inch
thick This size rubber is found to be
heavy enough and well adapted for or
binary work when constructed of oak
wood, but if made of pine or any light
wood it will require weighting.-D
rector r. NJ. Miller, in Bulletin 46, Md.
EXP. Sta.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1897-07-01
INDIA SHAWLS.
Very Good limitations Are Made ii
France


Since the introduction of the Tibet
goat into France the cashmere shawl
has been initiated with such wonderful
eXactness that it is hard to detect the
imitation from the original, says the
Chautauquan. Experts say, however,
that the genuine India shawl can be
detected from its having a less even
~ woven web and also from it's brighter
colors. 1t is likewise said that the Dor
der of the real India cashmere shawl is
invariably woven in small pieces, which
are sewed together and the whole bor-
der is afterward sewed onto the center.
it is a mistake to think that the shawls
ere manufactured in India in the form
in which they are sold here. Generally
the borders and centers come out sep
arately and are put together in sizes
and often in patterns to suit the Gus
toners.
A number of shawls sold as 'real In
dia" are actually manufactured in
France. Persons familiar with both
articles say that the original is softer
than the imitation and that this soft
ness arises from the way the thread is
spun and partly also because the Tibet
goat deteriorates when removed from
its native hills.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1897-07-01

Things seldom turn out as we ex-
pect," remarked Mr.. Harkins, thought
fully when first went to the city
made up my mind that | would live in
q suburb and lead double life"
Sir" exclaimed the lady to whom
he was talking.
II merely meant that / would have
two suits of clothes. Iwould be a swell
in the city and a farmer in the village
And didn't this plan work?"
mot the way l expected it to. 1t
wasn't six weeks before acquired the
firm impression that l was farmer in
the city and swell in the country
Washington Star.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1897-07-01

Experiments in Florida and Louisi-
ana have shown that bamboo will grow
in those states almost as well as in the
hottest countries. Around Fort Myers
there are bamboos that have attained
to height OF 80 or 60 feet. They are of
a variety which usually grows to about
there is one clump Of bamboos, said to
be only ten years old, in which the
stalks have attained to the height of
s. feet, the stalks averaging - inches
in circumference. There are eighty
stalks in the clump. This particular
clump is Of variety from Bengal,
where the wood is used for building pur-
poses and for light spars for vessels.