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ALEXANDRIA, VA. MONDAY EVENING, DEC. 18, 1882. The report about the proposed movement to reorganize the republican party in Virginia on a straightout republican basis is substantiated by recent intelligence derived from republican sources in various parts of the State. This intelligence is to the effect that the alliance between the republicans and the Mahoneites was only to last till the election, and having done all it was possible for it to accomplish is now at an end that the republican party swallowed the Mahoneites, not the Mahoneites the republican party, and that the republicans will no longer consent to be mere figure heads.

There is no doubt about the fact that the republicans have supplied the Mahoneites with all the really effective strength they ever exhibited, but whether they can induce the Administration to realize that fact and act accordingly is by no means so certain, though from present indications such action on its part would not be surprising. According to the bill prepared by the tariff commission and that so far is agreed upon by the Ways and Means Committee of the House and the Finance Committee of the Senate, the duty on coal will be reduced 33 per cent. This reduction, it is said by the coal men, will permit the admission of Nova Scotia and other British coal into this country, and they are fighting against it. The duty on coal is now To cts. a ton the proposed duty will be 50 and most people will think that that protection ought to be sufficient to enable the''infant industry" to compete with foreign coal.

Gen. Denny. U. S. Consul General to China, who is now in this country, it is understood, says that the anti-Chinese spirit here, as manifested by the Chinese bill passed at the last session of Congress, is evidently evoking a feeling of retaliation not only with the Government hut among all classes of people in China.

This is by no means surprising, but still, as Senator Jones of Nevada says, this is and must he a white man's country, and the whiiu people are increasing so rapidly that the resources of the country are being strained for their support. The EVIDENT animus of the foreman of the star route jury as exhibited by his remarks the day the jury was completed, the continued bold or ill-concealed support the swindlers receive from a portion of the press of Washington, and the attempt to destroy the documentary evidence of their guilt by burning the office of Mr. Merrick, all tend to induce the belief that the Government will find it as hard to secure a verdict in the socomljjas in the first trial of thfsc monumental robbers. Because Judge Bond, for once in his life, at least, has rendered a jnst decision, for which tha people of South Carolina were so grcatfu! that their Legislature gave hiiu a public reception, a correspondent of General Mahone's Washington organ denounces him, attributes his decision to the fear of Senator Butler's threat of impeachment, aid says he is "trimming his sails for future possibility." But the General is in favor of letting by-gones be by-gones. Why certainly! In view of the fact that District Attorney Wise persistently refuses to summon, witnesses to Richmond who have personal knowledge "of the frauds committed by the Mahoneites at the recent election, and confines his subptt'iins to those who can only give hearsay evidence on that subject, most people would like to know, you know, what has become of that famous "manly daie Capt.

Wise has given the flinders." The Executive Committee of the Virginia l'ress Association have established a parlor and reading room, in Richmond, for the exclusive use of members of the Association. Chase or a Anna Stuart, of Vincennes, has for several weeks been making the life of Charles M. Wetzel, a young lawyer, a burden to him. Wetzel is engaged to and expects soon to marry Miss Maggie Beck, a school teacher, but Miss Stuart says he has promised to and must marry her. Several times she has "waylaid him as ho approached his lady love's residence, and at the muzzle of a pistol compelled him to accompany her to her own home.

On Friday, escorted by her father, Miss Stuart went to Lawrenceville, procured papers licensing the marriage of herself and Wetsel. Father and daughter then went to the residence of a justice at the Illinois end of the toll bridge, and sent Wetzel word that he was wanted there to acknowledge the execution of a deed. He responded unsuspectingly, but when confronted by the girl he made a break for liberty. The girl followed with a revolver. Wetzel ran up the levee and crossed the raiload bridge, pursued for half a mile by the infatuated girl.

She finally lost the trail, and had to go home. Wetzel's friends urge him to leave town, but he refuses to Mrs. Barbara ictoria Wallis, wife of Dr. George B. Wallis, for many years managing editor of the New York Herald, died in that city Wednesday night last.

Mrs. Wallis, who was a native of Prince William county, was a lady of many accomplishments and a sister of Mr. Thomas A. Moore, the veteran clerk of the county court of Jefferson country, W. Va.

Dr. Wallis is a native of Frederick county, Va. R. T. Martin has been'elected teller ofthe Bank of Albemarle, in Charlottesville.

FEOM WASHINGTON Corrcapondcnce of tlie Alexandria December The Supreme Court of the I nited states, as anticipated in this correspondence, to affirmed the decision of the lower Couri of New York which convicted Gen. Curtis under the statute prohibiting employees of the (iovernment from collecting money for political purposes from fellow employees. Judge Bradly, the famous to Judge, dissented, as he did in the recent just decision in the Arlington case. Mr. K.

E. White, formerly of Alexandria, but now consular agent at at the Treasury Department to-day, looking after his application for a more lucrative Geo. D. Wise, who started from here on Saturday night for Richmond to attend the funeral of the late Judge Ould, got as for as Orange C. but to delay and a failure to connect with the C.

O. train had to return to this city without accomplishing his wish. The Senate on Saturday remained in session until 0 o'clock in consequence of the desire to force through the civil service reform bill. In the debute that occurred upon a motion to adjourn Mr. Cockrell, democrat from Missouri, provoked much laughter by reading from the journals of previous sessions lie motions made bv Pope Edmunds, as he called him, and other republican reformers for early adjournments and for adjourn from Thursdays until Mondays.

He punctured the bladder of republican reform by showing the insincerity of its present j-upporters, and did it so completely that there was a collapse of it tit I least for that day. The House Committee on Commerce today agreed to the bill prepared by the joint committee 011 American Shipping. It provides for the removal of various restrictions upon American shipping, but not for free ships. The Senate to-day at an early hour took up the Indian Appropriation bill, it being generally understood that the Civil Service reform bill would be laid aside until after the Christmas holidays. The Ways and Means Committee of the House were still engaged to-day 011 the metal schedule of the proposed new tariff bill.

They got through with the sections 'on iron and sleel rails and saws, in which they made no change in the recommendations of the tarifl'commission. The Finance Committee of the Senate today instructed Mr. Sherman to report a bill prepared at the Treasury Department for extending for two years the time during which whiskey can be kept in bond without paying the tax upon it. Mr. Garrison on Saturday last presented in the House a claim of John I'underwood, of Occoquan, ex-U.

S. Marshal for the District of Kastern Virginia. It was referred to the Committee on Claims. Intelligence here from Lynchburg to-day is t-hat Judge Latham, of the Hustings Court of that city, who has been very ill, rapidly It is understood here that there is more truth than poetry in the rumor that the late righteous decision of Judge Bond, in South Carolina, is the result of a threat of impeachment that is hanging over him. The Judge is not 011 as good terms with some or the leaning rt-piiMic-nris of that Stale now as he used to be, and it is the revealed secrets of that former intimacy which he has most to dread.

One of his former republican friends of that State, but who is now at outs with him on account of certain railroad matters, recently wrote I him a most iiii-ulting letter in which allul siuii "was made to bis proposed impeachment and to the attainable evidence that would sustain it. Nu matter what induced the late righteous decision referred to, every right-thinking man is glad it was rendered and is not anxious to investigate 1 too deeply into its cause. Mr. New, assistant Secretary of theTrea Miry, in talking with a friend this morning about the ce.mmifsionership oft he District of Columbia, said that if the President, as was now possible, determined to appoint a democrat, he would either reappoint Major Morgan, or appoint Mr. PcaVec lvlingle, and that if the place is to be given to a republican.he thought Mr.

Olmstcad would have it. Ii is by others that Major Morgan will be retained until next June when the new term will begin, and that them the place will be given to Mr. Neale, the present chairman 01 tiic House District of Columbia Committee, who was defeated at the last election, and who intend- to remove here from Ohio. In the House to-day Mr. Butlerworth wanted to lake up a resolution to tlie elled that iftho tobacco lax should be removed or reduced there shall ba a rebate.

Mr. Kellcy objected, stating that after the appropriation bills were passed the whole tobacco business woidd be considered. The House them considered a resolution to take a holiday recess from the 22d instant to the 3rd proximo, upon which there was a spirited debate. Judge Ilhea of the Virginia district who made such a good record in the last campaign is in the city to-day. He says the reason Bowcn carried that district was solely because of the total lack of organization of the democrats in that consequence of which not half the democratic vote was polled.

He, like all the other Virginia democrats who come here, is in favor of an early reorganization of the party. Learn to be visits, long stories, long explanations ami long prayers seldom profit those who have to do with them. Life is short Time is short. Moments arc precious. Learn to condense, abridge and intensify.

Wc can endure many an ache and ill if it is soon over, while even pleasures grow insipid, and pain intolerable, if they are protracted beyond the limits of reason and convenience. Learn to be brief. Lop oil' the branches: stick to the main facts in ycur case. If you pray, ask for what you would receive and be through: if you speak, tell your messageand then hold your tongue: boil down two words into one, uud three into two. Learn to be brief.

Virginia Military Board of Visitors of this institution met in Richmond on Saturday. The superintendent's report was read and adopted on all esseutial points. The treasurer's report was read, showing that $31,800 of the lloating debt due July 1st had been paid without creating any new debts, the treasurer paying monthly salaries and for all purchases. This reduces the floating indebtedness to $73,000. $50,000 of which are bills payable.

Steps were taken looking to the immediate payment of $5,000 more. The Board adjourned to meet June 20th at Lexington. The office of Mr. R. T.

Merrick, on street, Washington, was found to be ou fire Saturday night. The fire burned out a hall room in part of the library in the second story, entailing a damage or $600. The report that the fire was the work of emissariesofthe star routers is denied by Mr. Merrick. NEWS or THE DAY Whittier the poet, was 7-j years of age yesterday.

M. De Lesseps says the Panama Canal will be opened in 1SSS. Epizooty has broken cut among the horses of. the Camden Transfer Company, in Philadelphia. The gross receipts at the Globe Theatre, Boston, during Mrs.

Langtry's two weeks' engagement, which terminated Saturday night, were $20,748. The Sultan of Turkey proposes to establish a bureau for the purpose of supplying representatives of the press at Constantinople with news. Rev. F. II.

Kcerfoot.of EutawPlace Baptist Church, Baltimore, well known iu Virginia has been called to Stroug Place Church, Brooklyn. The investigation of the relations existing between the detectives and the thieves of Washington, it is said, will be enlarged to include the Chief of Police and other high officials. It is well understood iu financial circles that Gen. Gordon's trip to Europe, so far as placing bonds of the CJeorgia Pacific Kailroad is concerned, was a failure, lie did not dispose of a single bond. Hon.

Godlove S. Orth, member of Congress from the ninth district of Indiana, died at his home at Lafayette, Indiana, on Saturday night, from blood-poisoning, super induced by cancer. Letters have been received at the home office in London threatening that the government officers are to be blown up in revenge for the execution of the three men at Gal way on Friday. Mr. A.

Bitner, general manager of the Lancaster Watch Company, proposes to tuing charges against Col. II. C. Corbin, United States conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman during the late Garfield Monument Fair. The committee from the New England Manufacturers' and Mechanics' Institute which has visited the South and Southwest to secure exhibits from the several States and leading railroads at the fair to be held next autumn, has returned to Boston, and reports having had a very successful trip.

A colored man entered the store of John Wright, near Memphis, on Saturday, and demanded of Mrs. Wright, who was temporarily in charge of the money that was in the drawer. She refused to give it up, and the robber thereupon shot her, robbed the store and made his escape. Gen. Sherman would retire from the army under the compulsory retirement act in the spring of 1SS4, but it is his intention to give up thcactive command of the army in the fall of next year, after he has made his annual report for the fiscal year and otherwise closcd up his affairs.

At a banquet given at Cork yesterday to Mr. Parnell while tho toasts were being stranger present proposed the health of the Queen of the Belgians. An attempt was made to eject him, whereupon he drew a revolver. The weapon was wrested from him and he was given into custody. An entertainment by the Gospel Temperance and Literary Association of the Western M.

10. Church, Philadelphia, a lew evenings was made the oocasion of a reception to Governor-elect Robert 10. Pallison. Mr.John Wannamakcr madca pleasant welcoming address, to which Mr. Pattison responded.

One ol'the addenda of the late Garfield monument lair Is a petty imbroglio about five watch movements which were furnished by a Western firm. Watch movements without vases were furnished, and these watch movements were exchanged for watches with cases, and no mention was made of the donors of the watch movements. Dr. J. Forsyth Meigs died in Philadelphia on Saturday evening of pneumonia.

He war born 1820, graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in ISiS, and for a number of years was a physician at the hospital, lie wars particularly skillful in diseases peculiar to children, and wrote a medical work entitled "A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of Children." The only ambassador present at the funeral of Louis Blanc was the American minister, Mr. Morton, lie was at the house, accompanied the procession in a carriage and was present at the grave. From first to last there was no semblance of religious rites. Buried though he was at the expense of the State, there was no ceremony in a church, no priest at either house or grave. Alfred Jenkins, the owner of a small farm in Stokes county.

N. recently moved away, after sclliutr his wife for to Noah Glidewell, a neighbor, and disposing of his farm. The transfer of the wife from one man to another was done as though the men had simply swapped horses. The original "owner" and Glidewell werencighi bors. Jenkins in a conversation said he wanted to move away and was not able to take his wife.

Glidewell said lie was himself tired of living alone, and was willing to buy her if Jenkins would be willing to sell her. The latter named $u00, and after further conversation the transfer wasagrced upon. Mrs. Senkins was consulted, and cheerfully agreed to the sale. The prominent feature of Saturday's proceedings in the House of Representatives was the debale on an amendment to the postofficc appropriation bill providing $600,000 for "special mail The last Congress, with a view of expediting the mail service, appropriated $000,000 for special mail facilities, the idea being that this sum would be used in forwarding fast mailsonthe various East and West trunk lines.

But it came out in the late report of the Postmaster-General that of this sum only $200,000 was expended, and this on the New York Central and its connections. The proposition to restore this appropriation of which had been ommittcd in the bill reported by tho postofiice committee was lost by a vote of 29 to 91. How Flies interesting facts on tlie above subject were lately con-' tributed to the Berlin Society of Natural History by Herr H. Dewitz, which go far to prove that the feet of Hies cannot possess the sucking properties ascribed to them, for they are hard, and destitute of muscles. A long time ago Blackwell contradicted this! theory, and maintained that the power of adherence was due to a sticky matter secrc- ted from the foot hairs of the fly.

This the- ory was pronounced not proven. Dewitz after careful experiments, shows that Black-; well was right. He watched the exudation of the sticky matter from the feet of the fly, by fastening one to the under side ofa i piece of glass and examining it with a mi- croscope. A perfectly clear liquid was seen I to flow from the ends of the foot hairs, and to attach the foot to the" glass. When the foot was lifted up to be put down in another 1 place the drops of sticky matter were left on the glass exactly on the spot where the foot hairs rested.

Leydig discovered cer- tain glands in the folds of the foot in i and from them the adhesive fluid appears to flow down through the hollow of the hair, A similar adhesive fluid appears to be pos- i sessed by bug-5, many larv.v. and probably by all insects which climb the under i leaves oi' t.rc-5 and and VIRGINIA NEWS. Louisa Court-House is to have a Young Men's Christian Association. L.Carroll, of Lexington, has accepted a call to the pastorate of the Orange and Gordonsville Baptist Churches. Ebenezer Grubb has purchased the farm of the late Curtis Grubb, 130 acres, in Loudoun for $30 per acre.

Col. James O. Broadhead, who has been elected to Congress from St. Louis, is a native of Albeuiarle county. A colored woman named Emily Falloway was struck by an engine, near Danville, Friday, audkilled.

Large leases of mineral land are being made in all parts of Roanoke by Northern capitalists. An Ohio company is now engaged in shipping manganese from mines in Augusta county. The British steamship Tower Hill cleared at Norfolk on Saturday for Europe with 10,500 bales of cotton. In the last two or three days upwards of 8300,000 have beeu paid into the State Auditor's Office on account of the revenue for 18S2. Over 6,000 acres of land have recently been sold to colonists at C'laremont, on the James river.

The colonists have already organized a school, church and Sunday school. James G. Cannon, late readjuster State Senator from King and Queen county, has been indicted on the charge of issuing and using fradulent tax receipts in the late election. Cannon is now superintendent of I schools. Miss Maggio Campbell, who has been visiting in this city for the past few for her home in Lexington this morning, carrying with her the regrets at her departure of he large number of friends she made while here.

The Richmond Diputch says: "The agitation of the tobacco-tax question in Congress has had a frightful cflect upon the factories here. In the uncertainty prevailing manufacturers do not know what to do. Most of them have suspended The New Cock Robin. Who fought Aruhi? "1," said John Bull; "my pur.se was so full; 1 fought Arabi." Who mado him fight? saiil the Turk; "'twas my handiwork; I made Sim fight." Who vexed tho Turk? said the Greek; "his land I did seek I vexed the Turk." Who was blamed said Will "that culprit whs me; I played i the Greek's game." Who'll be a peer? "Oi," said Sir Garnet; "me jayuius did urn it; Oi'U be a peer." Who waited to see? tho Powers; "what's John Hull's is ours; we waited to see." Who ought to pay for it? said the daily; "my fibs sold so guyly; 1 ought to pay ftfr it." A citizen of the Quaker F. Freed, living at 122 Viue recently spoke as follows "Being afflicted with a distressing cough, I)r.

Bull's Cough Syrup was recommended to me for relief. I am happy to say that a few doses not only gave me instant relief, hut effected a complete cure." DlsriuuiNc Judge Otild's death, the Richmond iays: "Aftwr 0 liinminn lie called upou his wife to let him sit up a little. They pluccd him in a chair and rolled it toward the lire, where lie seemed to he comfortable, hut very weak. A sip of brandy was given to stimulate liiin. Soon afterward a mortal sickness fell upon him.

lie raised his hand towards his breast, said 'Softly, and with a look toward his wife half of wonder and half of love, peacefully died at a little before 10 o'clock." "The Bcstin tho World." Asiieville, N. Aug. 8, 1881. H. If.

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Holiday Excursions. It has for many years been the custom of the Pennsylvania Railroad to make reduced rates for round-trip tickets extending over the Holidays, and it is announced by the Passenger Department that the will bo observed this year on not ouly the Pennsylvania Railroad but on the Baltimore and Potomac. Reduced rate round-trip tickets will be sold on December 23d, 24th and 25th good to return until the 2d of January, and on the 30th and 31st of December and the 1st of January, good to return until the 2d ofJanuary. Mr. W.

W. Massey, Richmond, says: "Brown'sIron Bitters completely cured me of an attack of yellow jaundice." Mothers! Are you disturbed at night and brokeu of your rest by a siek child suffering and crying with the excruciating pain of cutting teeth? If so, go at once and get a bottle of Mrs. WlNSLOWS SOOTHING SYRUP. It will relievo the poor little sufferer upon it there is no mistake about it. There is not a mother on earth who has ever used it, who will not tell you at once that it will regulate the bowels, and give rest to the mother, and relief and health to the child, operating like magic.

It is perfectly safe to use in all cases, and pleasant to the taste, and is the prescription of one of the oldest and best female physicians and nurses in the. United States. Sold everywhere, iio emits a bottle. SEWING have on hand a full supplv of the celebrated LIGHT-RUNNING DOMESTIC SEWING MACHINES, with all the modern attachments, which we offer at lowest prices for cash, or on the most accommodating terms. Old machines also taken iu excliauge.

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The condition of Mr. Fawcett, the British i Postmaster-General, continues to improve. Josiah King, of the Pittsburg, mcrcial Gazelle died this morning. The Very Rev. Francis Close, D.

Dean of Carlisle, is dead. Gunton Hall, in Norwich, the scat of the Earl ofSuffield, has boon destroyed by fire. A heavy gale was prevailing to-day in the east of Scotland. Kusiiu, has called the attention of China to the plundering of Russian subjects on the border. Twenty-five hundred persons are iu danger of starving in Carrick, county Donegal, Ireland.

Edward Keen an, aged 22 years, living in Brooklyn, fell uuder a Central Railroad train last night at Elizabeth port aud had his leg cut oil', lie died at the hospital. James MeCuhcy, aged 12 years, employed at the Fairmount Colliery, was killed this morning by being drawn into the elevator gearing. News from Madagascar is to the effect that a growiug hostility is manifest toward Europeans, one of whom has been murdered. James Allen, colored, was fatally shot in Paris, on Saturday night by John H. Davis also colored.

The trouble was about a girl. George Stevens, Daniel Simpson and David M. Edinc, three respected citizens of Newport, Oretron, were drowned yesterday while crossing Vaquina bay in a small boat. Objection is made in England to the appointment of Lord Derby to the Indian office because of certain opinions expressed by him in regard to the Egyptian question. The attack by mountaineers upon the Chinese troops recently marching against the French has caused a general uprising in Vun-Nan.

CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. SENATE. Several petitions were presented asking prompt action in relation to the reduction of the tobacco tax. A substitute for the bill providing for the entry of distilled spirits in distilled warehouses was introduced, which was laid over until to-morrow. HOUSE.

The death of Mr. Orth, of Indiana, was referred to by the Chaplain in a few touching remarks. A resolution was introduced reciting the fact that the agitation of the question of reducing the tax on tobacco was demoralizii that industry, and providing for the adjustment of the diflicultv, which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means. A resolution providing for a holiday rei cess from December 22 to December 2(5 and from December 30 to January 2, was referj red to the Committee on Ways and Means. The Markets." P.ai.tsmork, Dec.

Us defd do consolidated secoml past coupons do new 10-40's bid today. Cotton quiet: middlings lOty. Flour Howard street and Western super 15a 3 05; do extra S3 75a-l 50; do family $4 G2 ao City Mills super $3 50a4 00; do extra $4 25a5 do Kio Brands 85 50; Patapsco family do superlative extra S7 00. quiet and easy; Western steady; Southern red 103alll); do amber lOOallo; No 1 Maryland No 2 Western wiuter red spot December January com-Southern easier Western lower and active; Southern white 50aG3; do yellow 50a03: Western mixed spot new i year bid January February GO 'tj March Oats ilull and nominally steady; Southern 45a50; Western white 48 a4l); do mix? 15al7; Penna 45a50. Rye dull at 64aG5.

lay steady; prime to choice Pennaaud Md $14al5. Coffee linn; Rio cargoes ordinary to fiiir Sugar quiet; A soft Whiskey firmer at $1 J8aI New York. Dec. moderately active. Money4V Cotton dull and easy; uplands Orleans lo 0-10.

Flour dull and heavy. Wheat dull and lower. Corn opened lower; subsequently recovered. To-Day's Baltimore Cattlo Market. the Sontliern Telegraph Company to Baltimore.

Dec. market was fairly active, especially for tops. Sales were made at per lb for fat and 7c for Christmas Cattle; medium and common light and demand fair, with sales at from with a few extra at Hops-Demand moderate with a fair supply and sales at Philadelphia Cattle Market. Dec'r. active sales 3000; prime good medium 5a534 common active; sales prime medium common Lambs Calves TalOc.

fair; sales 4.riOO; prime good medium common 8c. A Cow Robert Jennings, of Louisa county, who was employed on the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway in 1853, says during that year a passenger train while going at full speed ran into a cow, cutting the animal in half, the fore quarj ters falling on oue side of the railroad track and the bind quarters on the other side. The cow was with calf at the time, and wonderful to say I the calf was left 011 the outside of the road-bed in its natural bag, alive and kicking. A Mr. Slaughter, who lived near the railroad and who owned the cow, had the calf taken from the and raised it.

The calf was a female and proved to be a valuable cow, and in course of time gave birth to calves which were raised, and from them other calves were raised which in time became cows. Captain Anderson, a conductor on the road, says he has drank milk which cauic from the cow that was taken from the railroad and raised, and Mr. Slaughter says the same cow, strange to say, was killed by the ears near the spot her mother was killed in 1853, and Mr. Jennings, who is a gentleman of unquestionable veracity, will vouch for the truthfulness of the statements here Richmond IVhitj. The proceedings in the civil suit for damages instituted Mrs.

Slayback have been attended with continual vrangling between the-opposing attorneys, Messrs. Glover and Bowman, and on last Wednesday, according to the published accounts, they were made still livelier by Mr. Glover's choking Mr. Bowman for some supposed discourtesy. Oa Thursday Mr.

Bowman called Mr. Glover as a witness, and as he took the s'and Mr. Glover took out a large knife and calmly but significantly commenced paring his nails. Mr. Bowman placed his hand in his breast pocket, and thus the examination proceeded, one attorney grasping a knife and the other, it is supposed, holding a revolver ready for use at a moment's notice.

Under the circumstances both gentlemen were as polite as dancing-masters, and treated each other with the utmost deferenc. The way to produce a smile on the face of a man, suffering with a racking cough, is to make bitn a present of a bottle of Dr. Bull's Cough try it and you will be astouished at the result. VISITING CARDS! VISITING CARDS! The nicest Xmas engraved plate and 50 Pcries Visiting Cards, only $1.75. Call examine samples.

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MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL. New York, Dec. stock market opened activc but at a decliue from Saturday's closing prices of per ct. Immediately after the opening there was a fractional decline and recovery after which the market became weak and fell oil' JaU per cent. Northern Pacific preferred being most conspicuous in the downward movemeut.

At 11 o'clock there was a general improvement of per cent. Virginia. A. Hiiwbletou Baltimore financial circular of Saturday last "There was a fair amount of business transacted i in Virginia bonds but the fluctuations in were small. Consols sold from 03 down to i and wore offered quite freely at the close.

T. I forties are steady at about The new dleberger 3 per cent bonds aro not apparently appreciated by investors as they have dot-lined from I 50 to and it is doubtful whether matt could bo sold above 40." Wholesale Priccs of Produce. in Alexandra Flour, fine 00 3 25 Superfine 3 75 (d -l (Hi Extra 4 75 (5i 5 Family 5 25 5 50 Faucy brands 0 75 Wheat, Longberry 104 1 Fultz 101 Mixed 1 00 1 Fair Wheat 0 95 (a) lim Damp and tougb 0 85 01)5 Corn, white 0 52 kC 0 50 Yellow 0 52 fjj 0 58 Corn Meal 0 05 0 70 Rye 0 GO () 05 Oats 0 48 fat 0 Butter, prime t) 28 fid 0 30 Common to 0 20 fa) 0 25 Eggs 0 35 (5) 0 30 Chickens dressed per doz 3 (X) (ji) 4 Dressed Turkeys 01-1 Potatoes, per bushel 0 80 0 85 Onions per bushel 1 00 (it) 1 25 Dressed Pork 0 8 Apples, per bbl 3 50 5 00 Dried Apples, per lb 0 5 Do. Peaches, peeled 0 13 0') 0 1 i Do. unpeolcd 0 5 Dried Cherries 015 0 17 country 013 fiii Oil Best sugar cured 015 (oi Butchers' Hams 013 Oil Sides 013 0 1 11 Shoulders Oil Lard 012 0 13 Veal Calves 0 -1 (ti.

Herring, Eastern, per 4 50 Oti 0 5o Potomac 0 50 fit! 7 On Family roe 10 00 fa) 10 50 Do. half barrels 5 50 0 00 Plaster, ground, per ton 4 50 (ai 5 on Ground in bags 5 75 Lump 3 00 (n? 0 no Clover Seed GOO 50 Timothy 2 35 2 A. (Liverpool) 0 90 Fine 150 (a) 1 Ou Turk's Island 0 50 (ai 0 00 unwashed 0 20 Or, 0 27 Washed 0 30 0 Merino, unwashed 0 24 0 25 Do. Washed 0 30 Oy 0 37 Sunutc 0 75 (tt) 0 00 Hay 15 (X) 17 00 Cut do 18 00 20 00 Wheat Bran 10 00 20 OO Brown Middlings 25 00 27 00 White Middlings 27 00 20 On Cotton Seed Meal 29 00 31 Oa Cotton Seed Oil, per gal 0 G5 (5?) 75 Flour remains unchanged aud is fairly active. Wheat is fiim and strong and sells readily at ctitside prices for all good dry milling lots: 90n bushels sold at 98al03 for Fultz, 103 for mixed and 100 for Lancaster.

Corn is quiet and lower with sales of 1300 bushels at 50a55. Kye and Oats in very light receipt and in -ictive demand. All kinds of produce is wanted at full market quotations. MAEINE NEWS. PORT OF ALEXAN Dill DECEMBER IS.

1SS2. Sun rises 7 11 Sun seta -1 ARRIVED. Str Sue, Haiti more, to Broders Co. Str Lady of the Luke. Norf k.

to A Reed Co. Str Mattano, lower Potomac, to John Lannon. Str Arrowsmith, lower Potomac, to Potomac Ferry Co. Schr Maggie, Baltimoro to A Sinoot. SAILED.

Str Sue, Baltimore, by Broders Co. Str Lady of tbe Lake, Norf k. by A Reed Co. Str Mattano, lower Potomac, by Lannon. Str Arrowsmith, lower Potomac, by Poto mac Ferry Co.

MEMORANDA. Schr Isaac A Clark, from Georgetown for New York, with coal, went ashoro on 17th, on tliu point of Sandy Hook. She was got off at noon and towed to New York. Schr James Jones, from Philadelphia, for tliis port, returned to Philadelphia on tho loth with loss of sails, Will refit and procced. Schr Win Hood, for this port, sailed from Providence loth.

A1 ILL HEADS, NOTE AND LETTER HEADS, CIRCULARS, CARDS, Neatly oxecuted at tho GAZETTE JOB PRINTING OFFICE, Gazette Building. GUE CURE. TRY LUNT'S AGUE CURE. Will euro Chills and Fevers. Prepared by sepS J.

D. II. LUNT. STATIONERY! STATIONERY in want of any kind of Stationery should examine our stock before purchasing. Our prices are the lowest and wo guarantee satisfaction.

Hjitrl ROBERT BELL'S WE ARE DAILY RECEIVING CONSIGN ments of dressed Beef, Pork, Butter, Eggs Poultry and Game to which we invito the attention of buyers. fdcc81 W. A. JOHNSON CO. CIOTTON SEED barrels Cotton I Oil received this day and for sale by CHAS.

S. TAYLOR, nov21 21 King street. AN ELEGANT ASSORTMENT OF SILK Linen Haudkerchiefs just received fori Holidays at decl SLAYMAK EIt's OATS! OATS OATS bushels i.f Oats to arrive and for sale by. CHAS. S.

TAYLOR, novlG No. 21 King street, Doll carriages i doll carriages We have a full line of Doll Carriage. s'i and examine. McLEAN 7G King SLEIGH BASKETS 3, 3'? and I foot, Runners all i-izcs, Sleigh Bells, i full stock at AS. F.

CARLIN SONS', decG 63 King street. pOLE CORNICES TENNESSON CO novll 114 King street. WARNER KIDNEY and LIVER CURE, Debutes Cure, Nervine and Pills, a large on hand. nov9 E. S.

LEADBEATEK LOOK CATTLE POWDKi: in 6 lb boxes, can be purchased for one dolh.i per box at W. F. CREIGHTON feb4 85 King street. PAIRS LADIES' PEBBLE BGTfoM Boots at $1.00. They are far any sold heretofore.

deco JOS. BUILDERS' Hinges, Bolts, wholesale and retail I AS. F. CARLIN SONS. decG G3 King HOT WATER BAGS, ma'c of Gutta Pcrcha.

very useful in cases of sick headache, local pains, for sale by declo E. S. LEADBEATER Rl'1 JUST RECEIVED a new supply of German Silver Chains, 50 and 75 cents, at HENRY WILDT'S. dee7 No. 10 North Royal strwt.

CHRISTMAS GOODS of all kinds at dec7 AMOS B. SLAYMAKEK S. EW BUCKWHEAT FLOUR just received by uovl4 W. A. JOHNSON CO..