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Year: 1866

ENOCH CRIMES,


having determined to resume his former business
in AleXnndria, respectfully announces to the
pubiic that he has opened lis establishment at


NO. 43, KING STREET,


below Fairfax, on the north side, where he is
prepared to furnish h the public, with every de-
scripton of articles in his line which may b.
wanted His assortment of GO o K l = G
STOVES, will embrace every variety, and Of
the best descriptions He would enImerate;
among them NOBLE Cook STOVE the best that
was ever in use, aud well des: rving its name
the LII! Y, the PALMETTO, and others.


His TIN WARE will be found equal: If not
superior to any ever offered for sale in Alexan-
ton Of ware Of that kind. which they may need
he invites an examnaiion Of his goods and
presents such selection rs cannot fail to please
: All kinds of ROOFING and SPOUTl Nc
executed in the best manner, and on the lowest
terms.


An experience of forty years in this business
enables him to claim that he has practical
knowledge of it, in all in his branches He Is
desirous of not only accommodating, but giving
satisfaction to his customers and to all purchas-
ers, and they may be assured that what he sells
them will be of the best materials and of the
best manufacture. He will warrant whatever
he sells 1t will be his object to secure patron
age by constant and personal attention to his
Establishment


With this announcement he will open his
Mandatory, willing to show by his efforts that
the patronage he asks, will rebound to the adj
vantage of those who buy, as well as Of him who
sells, and that the citizens Of Alexandria and
its vicinity, need not go elsewhere to purchase
what can be procured in their own city, from
one of their own people. jy l2-2awtt
Year: 1866

Boston correspondent says shoddy and
petroleum now hide their heads before the
surprising luxursnce of the bogus growth
Of wealth obtained from burgary-burglary
confessed, gloried in, unpunished. and law
ishly rewarded. We have in our vicinity
now two members Of this class Of wealthy
men. One is Charley Adams, the robber OF
Concord Bank, who after all the hubbub
made over bis detection, has settled down
for life. with an independent fortune, on the
snug farm which he made the bse of his
operations against the bank safe, and drives
d splendid span. with the bride WON his
speculation has enabled him to marry within
a month past. envied by all her poor ard
honest neghbors. The other is Horace An,
mis-, the hero of the still bolder operation,
which carried a million and half Of money
in broad day light from the counting-room
Of purblind New York broker, and who
has been here within the week, brazeu in
the security from arrest, which was one of
the terms Of bis bargain, and boasting to
the admiring detectives and sporting men
who are bis familiars of the cool hundred
thousand which he carries in bis pocket as
the result of his speculation.
Year: 1866

Have been used with the greatest success. Their
mission is not only to prevent disease, but to
cure. Thy search out the various malades by
which he patient is suffering, and re-invigorates
the failing system. To the aged and in6rm few
doses OF these valuable pills will prove to bc
Year: 1866

the Regency. What this means, for the old
world as well as for the new, L will not pause
to consider. My estimate might raise smiles
or provoke criticism among us, both of which
(gOod as they are in their right time and place J
L am anxious here to avoid.


Mr.. Hughes, in his endeavor to put his En-
glish couutrymen in sympathy with the spirit,
the heart, and the conscience Of our people,
concludes his article with these truly eloquent
words:


''Was ever truer, or braver, ring struck out
of the metal of which Notwithstanding men
are made? If so for one have yet to learn
when and where. And now when their tremen-
dous stOrm-clOud has broken up, and nothing
but,a lig Int streak or two Of vapor is to be seen
in their heavens, let us seize this precious mo-
Inent, never to rccur again in their or our his
tory, and, by graceful and loyal word and deed,
show them that We honor, as it deserves, the
work they have done for the world since the
election oflS6O, and can sympathze with their
high hopes for the future of their continent
with no jealousy or distrust, as brethren of the
same stock, and children Of the same Father -
Year: 1866

The Pithole region, where oil has been found
in large quantities, has lately been the scene
of extraordinary excitement The Record,
published at that place, says:


The whole ground seems saturated with OIL
One man dug a hole in the ground about a
foot deep, and in few minutes got pailful
of oil for his trouble. The ground is now be-
ing rlddled with shallow holes in which large
quantities of oil OOze up, and the scene torcibly
reminds US Of gold digging.


At one of the springs belonging to the Buff
talo House the proprietor had gathered four
barrels of oil with tin dipper and there are
many others who have been equally fortunate.


Ol was found i'll great many cellars yester-
day. Mr.. Bernand MOrahan filled large
washtub with oil from his water pipe; a mum
ber of others have done the same


well belonging to the Confer Hotel has
been found to have oil on it; another oil spring
has been found in the rear of Fifth street. SO
that we may presume that every man will be
able to dig his own oil before long.
Many ludicrous Incidents are narrated of the
manner in which some of them took their sud
den accession of fortune.


Yesterday morning, men, women and boys
could be seen with tin pals, teakettles, etc.
in their hands, vainly searching for pure wa
ter. Oil might bOi coffee and tea, but not
make it, so that urchns who had to be water
carriers appeared to think there might be toe
much Of good thing, even if it is oil Nol
are they alone in their grief, for a COW walkcC
up to her accustomed watering place, smell
the oil, and evidently thought petroleum woulc
make butter taste bad


At the first discovery of the wells the ex
citement began to increace, and man whC
has heard Of the the various fractions used il
the oil trade, offered to pump all day for one
thirty-seventh of the oil; others were NOR,
wanted half the OIL and were willing to tax,
the washerwoman into the bargain


An Irlshman who had small spring, wa
highly elated at the turn fortune was taking
Said he, . Yesterday, | wasn't worth a cint
and, be jabers, to-day I'm worth thousand
upon thousands.
Year: 1866

A QUESTION ANSWERED. The editor of the
it London Di$pateh, 9 has been asked tS decide
coffin is suspended in the air by the force Of
magnetic power gives his decision thus


"We decide in the negative positively as
serts, without fear of contradiction, that it is
suspended by the force of superstition If the
wagerers will go double or quits, We will ascer-
tain the precise weight and dimensions OF the
coffin, aud the exact degree of distance from
earth and from heaven in which Mahomets
coffin is suspended. We sadly suspect that as
the intellect is improved, the miraculous coffin
will get lower and lower and %"S a. 5a a't SF 1T w
sing in the nursery rhymes,


and down tumbes prophet and coffin and all"
Year: 1866

ROMANCE IN SENATOR LIFE.-Frazer' s
IBaga=jne tells the following story, but does
not mention the name Of its hero, who is Sena-
tor Lane Of Kansas:


A distinguished politician of Indiana, be-
coming interested in the movement for making
Kansas free State, left his wife and repaired
to that territory, intending to return sOon.-
Becoming, however, identified with the strug-
giles Of Kansas, the Senator stayed away very
long. His wife at length demanded his return.
He wrote back that it was impossible to return.
His wife waited a little, and then wrote declar-
ing that unless he returned by stated time,
she would sue for a divorce. The Senator
made no reply, but gave glowing account Of
the patriotic movement in which he bore Il con-
spicuous part The next letter he received
was from a clerk OF u court in Indiana, inform
ing him that his wife had filled "a BILL with an
other from lawyer offering to defend him
The Senator wrote back to the lawyer as fol-
lows - Dear Sir Yours to hand. My wife
says she will not stand my long absence. If |
were she | would not stand it either. | shall
not offer any opposition to her suit. Yours,
&c.,. Two years later when the divorce
had long been granted, this Senator returned
to Washington as Senator Of the free State
Of Kansas, visited his old home in Indiana, and
found his wife still blooming and handsome,
and surrounded by admirers. With the rest
he visited her from time to time, became pre-
sently the accepted lover, and was married to
her.
Year: 1866

REV. Dr. MASON.-The great DIR. Mason,
In his day, the most eloquent Of preachers i'll
the city of New York, was in the habit Of walk
ing every morning down the street to Washing
ton Market. A certain lawyer, Of no less cele-
brty In his line, was wont to take the same
walk, but, being earlier than the doctor, usually
came up the street as the parsOn went down.
One morning deep snow was on the ground,
and single path only was beaten by the few
who had been out before them The two gen
tlemen had often met i'll their walks, but new
er in private, and had not even a speaking &C
quaintance.


Now they met face to face, and, the morn
ing being cold, and neither of them in good
humOr, they stood waiting, the one for the 9TH
er to give way, by stepping out into the snow.
Presently the stalwart divine moved a step to-
ward the wall the lawyer came up to pass the
doctor returned too suddenly, and bringing his
shoulder into contact with the lawyer 5, tipped
him into the gutter. The discounted lawyer
picked himself up, and, as he brushed off the
snow, very coolly remarked:
| "YOu belong to the church militant, should
think"


Aye" said the doctor, as he strobe on
ward " and to the church Triumphant tool"


This was not very amiable in the reverend
gentleman, certainly and he was not so well
reputed for the soft graces as for pulpit elo-
quence, i'll which he was without peer. One
of his members left his church and became at
tached to one of the other rcongregationsin that
city. He had been absent more than a year,
when he chanced to meet the doctor in the
street, and attempted to make an apology for
having left. Said he:


suppose you have missed me from your
church the year pastY


No, l have not, J." replied the doctor, very
grufly.


Yes, have found an easier road to heaven
than the one you preach.


Easier road, is it? but you'll have a he'll of
a toll to pay said the doctor, as he pushed
BY, and left his quondam parishOner to digest
the answer.
Year: 1866

A MORMON DIFFICULTY has not
yet taken action upon any of the numerous
bills that have been introduced for abolishing
the system of pOlygamy in Utah. The fact is
the question is one more difficult to deal with
practically than some had supposed. The pas
sage of an act would of cOurse-or rather
should Of cOurse-imply its enforcement; but
it is here that the trouble begins The ques-
ton cannot be dealt with as Slavery was dealt
with. The slave was proclaimed free, and The
incident of freedom was realized universally
through the operations of war. But were
pOlygamy proclaimed as abolished tomorrow
the legal edict would have no force, and could
only be made effective by the officers Of gov
ernmcnt entering every house in Utah and
forcing the separations which the law had
made necessary.


We find in the Utah Fedcttc "a journal sup
ported by our soldiers and opposed to polyga-
my note of inquiry from woman who is .
| fourth wife in a pOlygamouS family. She
says:


Reading in your columns that in all proba-
| bility polygamy would be done away with, it
causes me to inquire what will become of all
the women that are situated like myself, the
fourth wife Of a labOring man, who supports
US in comfort by industry and economy, but
whose means would be nothing if divided be-
tween us all, without his daily income arising
from his work. Now what would become OF
a young woman of hardly twenty -four with five
children, the two youngest are twins six
months old and, although good housekeep-
er, am not sufficiently skilled in any one thing
to depend on as a means of livelihood And
must my poor children bear the stigma of lille
gitimacy, as they naturally will, if the tie that
binds me to their father is annulled? AND
how can l seek employment at the hands Of
those who are not SO situated, and who despise
me2 Please inform me what comfort or hap
piness you can see for me in the future.


Such cases are certainly hard but there are
thousands of them in Utah. We suppose,
whatever action is taken by Congress, these
cases will be taken into account.
Year: 1866

A DEAD HUSBAND Turns UP.-Another
case of the dead coming to life has just been
brought to light in the register office of this
county A citizen of Reading who enlisted in
the early part of the war, and from whom. no
information was had for some time, was given
nm for dead. His supposed widow, in order to
draw a certain legacy, which in the meantime
became payable to the husband, took out let
ters of administration on his estate, drew the
legacy. and was again married Immediately
thereupon. A few weeks afterwards the hus-
band-not dead, but living-called at the reg


ster' office, where he was informed that let
ters Of administration had been granted to his
supposed widow; whoreupon he instituted le.
cal proceedings against the administrative and
her surcties in order to recover back, not Ahe
wife, as he alleged, buttho legacy. This is the
second case of similar nature that has occur
red in the registers office of this county within
the last three months. .-ReGditg Gazette.
Year: 1866

u M -. THURSDAY, Dec. yl-P. ~


Gold early in the day sold at laii and closed at is2
and Arm Tho January payment Of interest In gold BY
the Government and bogus reports Of what is to DO done
BY Congress in selling gold, have been used with great
success in reducing thc premium At tho close Of bus
ness the disposition strong TO buy for On advance


Stocks opened dull and lower upon all descriptions
with disposition to press sales Goldbearing Govern
ment stocks were all cent lower and in 1SOs
decline Of iSi per cent shown. Railway mortgages
State stocks and Bank shares steady MaPoss Pre-
feed per cent The general speculative list shows


decline as compared with yesterday mornings OIL to
u Der cent The dealings large and the lowest prices
Year: 1866

John GlhOn agt. The Panama hailrOad 70


The plaintiff acts forth in his complaint that in
January he shipped board the defendants bark Golden
Rule then lying IN the port Of New York certain merchandise
20 transported Aspnwa thence the Panama Railroad
TO Panama there be delivered 10 the Pacific Steam Nav
guon Company 70 be carried by said company 10 Caao and
there 10 be delivered to Johp Gihon, jr


The plaintiff paid through freight and rimhge advance The
vessel Upon which the goods shipped captured by the
Alabama and the goods destroyed Tho goods having
been delivered the plaintiff brought suit to recover the money
40 Maid In advance, much money had and
received by tho defendants to the use Of the pania
The case when tried In the court below was
decided in favor tie plaintiff The deendats appealed and
the argument heard yesterday morning before The General
Term.


main questions that the trial were First
whether the defendants had the right to show that they received


portion Of the freight money agents and whether having
paid 1t their principals The Pacific Steam Navigation
COMPANY they released pro anto from liability and Sec
ond whether the payment by the Insurance company Of an
covering freight and charges 10 the plaintiff ought TO
inure TO the benefit OF the defendants.


On both these points the court below In excluding the ey
dence decided adversely 10 the defendant hence the appeal
hearing the argument Of counsel
took tho papers and reserved It's decision


Eaton Tailor for appellant; Smith Woodward for re-
spOndents
Year: 1866

"APPLEs OF GOLD IN PICTURES OF S1I.


vER."-The following extract from Presi.


dent JoHNsoE's address at the inauguration


Of the Soldiers and Sailors Fair in Wash
ington, is so beautiful in sentiment and Ian
guage that it is worthy of the characteriza-
tion given by SOLOMON of "a word ftly
spoken :"


We now rejoice that the land is no longer
to be drenched by fraternal blood. He
would not reopen the wounds and make
them bleed afresh; that was the work of
war, and contest, and struggle, growing out
OF mistaken apprehensions. Yours is the
work OF peace; TO pour the balm that heal
ing may take place, and what is more proper
to that end than TO take up the destitute or
phans and educate them


lie looked next on the other side, and
what did he see? A rebel soldier belong
ing TO such a regiment. The strife had
ended; the contest had ceased, and there
was peace. When they were in the field,
engaged in strife, it was war, now they
sleep IN alternate graves, while it is peace,
and let peace do its work. He trusted our
country and Government would be blessed
with peace, and that confidence and respect
for one another everywhere would be re-
stored that those warning and disturbing
elements which separated and divided us in
the past may pass away. He trusted, too,
that the asylum which it was proposed to
establish might be extensive enough to bless
all the orphans. We should not inquire
what made them orphans. Charity doth
thus behave-they are human beings, and
StructIOn.
Year: 1866

Said to he unsurpassed as a Reaper and Mower:
wholly of Iron and Steel, with double Driving
Wheels, Hinged Finger Bar, and Folding Cutting
Apparatus, and Is also highly commended. Also
or the
Year: 1866

They say-ahI well, suppose they do,
But can they prove the story truei
Suspicion may arise from nought
But malice, envy, want Of thought;
Why count yourself among the ''they;"
Who whisper what they dare not sayf
They say-but why the tale rehearse
And h-lpto make the matter worsel
Ne good can possibly accrue
From telling what may be untrue;
And is it not nobler plan


To speak all the lest you can2 -
They say--well, if it should be so.
Why need you tell the tale of woe?
Will it the bitter wrong redress,
Or make one parg of sorrow less?
VIII it the erring one restore,
Henceforth to ego and sin no more 20
They say-ohl pause and look within,
See how thine heart inclines to sin;
Watch, lest in dark temptations hour,
Thou, too, should'st sink beneath its power: :
Pity the frail, weep DER their fall,
But speak OF good or not at all. .
Year: 1866

The springs are different from any other
yet Invented. They are simple, strong,
durable, easy to sleep on and can be affixed
to any bed in few moments and at slight
expense or trouble,
Year: 1866

SOME years ago, gentleman of Nor
folk, Va, had a fine negro to whom he
gave the privilege of hiring himself out
and keeping one half his wages. One
day the negro came to his master to tell
him that the man for whom he had been
working, wished to buy him.


"Well,' replied the master "what of
that don't want to SELL"


"But you see, massa.' said Sam Else
had a bad cough for time, and spec L m
gwine into the Sumption. 1 don t spec
shall last more dan two years, and I'd
like to take that man in."
Year: 1866

Have been used with the greatest success,
Their mission is not only to prevent disease
but to cure. They search out the various
maladies by which the patient is suffering
and re-invigorate the falling system. To
the aged and infirm few doses of these val
liable PILLS will proYe to be
Year: 1866

A now kind Of harpoon for whale fishing
has jest been invented. 1t is no arranged
as to contain pound of powder. together
with wick which becomes ignited in about
ten seconds, and can thus destroy the
whale simultaneously without ceasing to re-
tain its hold This harpoon will be of i'm
mense use for the fisheries of the great
whales called sulphur bottom, which abound
in the neighborhood of Iceland and Spitz-
bourg. UP to tho present timo these
whales, have not been sought to be capiur-
ed for the reasohthas they sink to the
tom 81 the sea us soon as they are MORALLY
wounded.
Year: 1866




IN Notwithstanding what we have said
OF the profitable experience of those
who have practiced the four-feld sys.
tenn with clover, we should be tempted
to guard agarnst and risk of Ultimate
failure by a change in one point. We
should u.ake the four fields five, and
sowing timothy seed with clover, take
a crop OF, timothy hay, when we now
take wheat, and hf is follow imme.
diately after the shy. The year
devoted to clover t in this case, be
year OF pastura d thus allow n
considerable addit -, the stock. This
stock would, advantageously, consume
the large quantity of straw and corn
fodder, otherwise entirely lost except
tor manure, and thus bring large extra
item of profit. ito this stock the corn
be fed as it should be, the manure would
be greatly increased in value, and the
fertility of the soil proportionably i'm.
proved.


The only objections that could be
made to this change would be that the
additional year given to- grass might al.
low the native grasses to multiply to
the prejudice of the clover J and that 80
old q sod night be unsuitable to the,
growth OF wheat. These would be
very material objection should they be
realized in practice. The whole profit
OF the system is based upon the success
OF the clover, and that mist be made
secure at any rate; and the wheat crop
on the clover fallow Is the chief money
oroPiand deserves to be especially re.


AS to the effect upon the clover. we
think that well-set sod Of clover and
timothy would, during two years, so
completely hold possession ofihe ground
as to exclude entirely all intrnders, and
That the intermediate workings between
These and the, tnest sowing would be
sufficient to put the ground in good
state OF preparation. AS regards the
wheat, assuming, as said above, that the
clover and timothy will exclude native
grasses which might prove hurltul to 1t /;
and being well assured that the sod Of
timothy which would prevail when we
break the ground for wheat, IS very con.
genial to that crop, we apprebeud moth,
ing on this score. 1t is said, indeed. to
make a preparation for wheat, OILY in.
Terror to clover, and, in this case, the
good effects OF the clover growing of
the previuos year areadded tn the good
QUALITIES OF the timothy sod. Such
sod, IT has been asserted, is especially
advantageous on lands liable to heavinw
under the influence of frost. Wheat is
said to be under no circumstances so
secure against "winter-killing." No
soil in the world is 10 uncertain as that
OF the prairie on account of winter. killing.
Yet the early settler raises wheat on
the original tough sward with very uni
form success; SO it is maintained that
the sod of timothy is, i'm this respect,
very favorable to wheat. Under the
influence of these opinions we should be
temnted to seek the advantages offered
by the extra grass crop, and make at
least fair trial OF five fields instead of
ur."-Amerfcan Farmer.


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