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TLATTSMOUTII WEEKLY MEUALD, THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 1887. Washington Letter. From our regular correripundvut. Wahiiinoton, Juno 17, '87 Not the least iimnng the mlvuntagCH llmt tin: city of Washington enjoys, is its fcitu.ition on the I'titonuic river, anil it easy iicccHs to l)icon of historical interest, iiHwclliLS reHoits for iik-usure, along ita fcliores. Coinfoiihle oxcoursion stcamcra, lifter first juiHsing the hcuiitiful iirscnal grounds where m-vc-rul butteries of artillery are now unaltered, reach Alexandria, u port of entry seven miles below, with a popu lation between 10,000 ami 14,000. The river at this point ix u mile and a half wide, forming a harbor able to ac comodate the largest ships. At the opening of the civil war Alex andria wan in possession of the confeder ates; but on the 21th of May, 1SG1, it Was entered by union forces under Col. Kllmvorth, who was shot while hauling down a confederate Hag, Christ Church, where "Washington worshiped, and where also, Robert K.Lee, is the place of greatest interest to strangers, next to which m the ancient cemetary. Alexandria has this year taken a new lease of life, and a new era of prosperity has set in with the establishment of her iron ship building yard, where a lirst- fclasa iron steamer is now undergoing con struction. Eight miles below Alexandria is Mount Vernon, the home and burial place of (Jeorgc Washington. At the time of his decease the estate comprised several thou sand acres. The mansion is beautifully situated on a swelling height crowned with trees, and commanding a fine view up and down therever. The library and Washinton's bed room remain aa they were at the time of his death, and contain many articles of great interest. The other rooms have been furnished, as nearly as possible, to conform to the period in which he lived; and a number of states have assumed the care of a room each, producing the furniture and decor ations from their older famlies, thus8erv ing the double purpose of perpetuation of state as well as national souvenirs of the olden time. In 1858 the mansion and 200 acres of land were bought by the Ladies' Mount Vernon Association, who hold it in per petuity, aa a place of public resort and pilgrimage. Jay Gould, for the first time in his busy life found an opportunity last week to visit the tomb of the Father of his Country. His magnificent yacht Atlanta was anchored just off Mount Vernon when his party bethought them of a flying visit tohis city, and leaving the yacht at Oiesboro point below the arsenal wharf, they steamed up here in two of the smartest little steam launches ever seen in these waters, and employed an afternoon in driving about the city and surround ing country. Seventy miles from Washington is Colonial Beach, a noted salt water bath ing place. This beach has long borne the name of "Classic Shore" because three miles back, in the the county of West moreland, is Washington's birthplace; ruins of the old house still remain, and measures have been taken to place a mon ument on the site. llefore reaching Mount Vernon, on a sail down the river, forts Foote and Washington are passed, on the Maryland side and almost opposite to it is Marshall Hall, the old homestead of a branch of the first Chief Justice; it now affords a glimpse to modern eyes of the mode in which the wi lMo-do farmer or plantation owner lived in by-gone days. The place is wonderfully preserved and admirably kept at present as an excoursion ground. River View, a comparatively new re sort, Glyinont, Piney Point, Lower Cedar Point, Colton's and Blackiston's Island are the names of the charming places on both sides of the river sought by thous ends in this locality for relief from the summer's heat. Salt water begins about 40 miles below the city, but the real salt water air is not reached under some GO miles distant. The Petonif.c river from its source in the Alleghenies to mouth at the Chesa peake bay is 400 miles long. For nearly half that distance in passing through the mountain region north of this city, it is a comparatively narrow stream, but when ft reaches Alexandria, as I have said, it gradually expands until at its mouth it forms a broad estuary seven and a half miles wide, which is the width of the river from Point Lookout to Smith's Point where it empties into the Chesa peake bay. Wonderful Cures. W. D. Hoyt & Co., Wholesale and Re tail Druggists of Rome, Ga., say: We liavc been selling Dr. King's Xcw Dis covery, Electric Bitters and Bucklen's Arnica Salve for two years. Have never handled remedies that sell as well, or give such universal satisfaction. There have been some wonderful cures effected by these medicines in this city. Several cases of pronounced Consumption have been entirely cured by use of a few bot tles of Dr. King's New Discovery, taken in connection with Electric Bitters. We guarantee them always. Sold by (1) F. G. Fiuckk & Co. 1 Cood Newspaper Men. The most successful newspaper wi iters are gentlemen. Bad fellows sometime creep in, but you will also find them preaching the gospel, healing the halt pleading for justice, selling tape and op crating banks. There arc drunkards among the reporters, but the tiplcrs are never called to the front. Good news paper men do not find time to be couvi vial. Their duties require their constant uttention and their heads must be clear at all times. To allow their heads to be come muddled by drink would be their destruction. A reporter must be a geutc man if he hopes to succeed, lie must al so be modest, c haritable, honorable and truthful and experienced in the ways of the world. lie must go about his busi ness in a quiet manner and not like a roaring lion seeking whom he may de vour. Beware also of the reporter who snakes a great display of the note book and pencils sharpened at both ends. He is the "duffer" in the profession. As to the "dead beat" he has no place within, and we do not see him as frequently as formerly. This is right, for it is more of a crime for u newspaper man to be a dead beat than it is for a doctor, a clcik or a stone mason, because he possess a certain but silent process of intimidation not known to any other class. Exper ienced men with hardy constitutions and tough skins dislike to incur the ill will of any journalistic cat if they can avoid it. Instead of doing so the party witl the tenacious cuticle keeps his peace and thereby puts a premium on future vilifi cations and depredations. The honest newspaper man will not use his giant's power like a giant, and he will hasten to correct any mistake or misstatement ho has made. AWondorful Typesetter. From the St. I'aul lMoneer-Press. Minneapolis printers have in their midst what they consider a phenomenal typeset ter. The gentleman's name is Milan, and he hails from Sioux City. lie is known as the "Missouri River Rusher," but his experience until very recently was coufin ed wholly to country newspapers. lie was employed for a time on the Sioux City Journal, and subsequently went to Chicago. His first work on metropolitan papers was in Chicago. He is now em ployed in a Minneapolis paper. He was put on a case a week ago Friday night, and worked seven successive nights, put ting up a "string" of 101,000 em?. The work was on "straight matter," Miln hav ing very little "phat" and no bonuses dur ing the week. He can set 2,000 ems per hour with comparative ease. Minneapo lis printers are thinking of putting Miln against any printer in the country for a week's typesetting match. In the decline of life, infirmities be set us to which our youth and maturity were strangers, our kidneys and liver are subject to derangement, but nothing equals Dr. J. II. McLean's Liver and Kid ney Balm as a regulator of these organs. 8-m3 Mis3 Louise Imogen Guiney is about to bring out a new volume of poems. The Largest Circulation, What volume printed in the English lan guage has bad the largest circulation next to the Bible? Give it up? Well, it is Webster's spelling book. Something over 50,000,000 copies of this book have been published since it was first brought out in Hartford, and the royalties which old Noah Webster received on it were sufficient to support his family handsomely while ho waa compiling his big dictionary. It is an instructive volume, and we advise everybody to peruse it, although, as somebody said of the dictionary, the story is somewhat disconnected. Boston Herald. A Submarino Tunnel. Proposals havo been inado to the" Govern ments of Denmark and Sweden for construct ing a submarine tunnel for a railway under the Sound between Copenhagen and Alalmo. The tunnel, as planned, would havo a total length of between seven and eight miles. The ground to be worked is represented aa closely resembling that in the channel between England and Franco, and 19 said to offer no difficulty to the execution of the work. The total cost of construction, it is estimated, will not exceed $6,000,000. New York Sun. The Gypsies' Chariots. Prince William, the loader of a band of Gypsies now encamped near Hartford, has just received from a Fair Haven carriage maker two wagons costing about $1,000 apiece. Tho bodies are beautifully colored with gold bronze and fanciful sylvan scenes, the iron work is heavily plated with silver, and all the appurtenances are expensive. The wagons are for the special use of Prince William and family during the coming sum mer. New York Sun. Emory Starrs' Autographs. Young Storrs, son of the late Emory StoiTs, of Chicago, is disposing of his father's valuable collection of autographs. He is selling them singly instead of by auction or the collection as a whole. He recently sold an autograph letter of Napoleon Bonaparte when he was first consul for lo. The letter is said by autograph collectors to be worth hundreds of dollars. New York World. The Trailing: Arbutus. The chief industry of Rilbourn, Wis., Is the exportation of the trailing arbutus. The flowers are made np into bouquets, the stems being wrapped in moist cotton and tin foil. They are then placed in boxes and mailed to all parts of the United States, including the south and California, arriving there as fresh and fragrant as when gathered in the woods of Wisconsin. New York World. Kaltlm In California. California intends to beat the cheap labor of Spain in raisin growing by labor saving machinery, which shall stem, grade, pack in boxes and fan the fruit by steam power at one running. FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS. Origin of Koine of the Saying Which One Hears Ouutvtl Kvery liny. From Raton comes "Knowledge la power." Thomas Fkmtherno said that "Pity's akin to love." Dean Swift thought that "Ilrend Is tho stall of life." "All cry uud no wool" is found In But ler's "Hudibrns." Thomas Murgnn queried long ago "What will Mrs. Grundy say-" Edward Coke was of the opinion that "A man s house was bis ensile." Washington Irving coined the expres bion: "The almighty dollar." Goldsmith remarked: "Ask me noques lion and I'll toll you no libs." "JU an proposes but dod disposes," are the words of Thomas n Kempis. "When Greek joined Greek, then was the tuij of war," came from Nathaniel Lee. Charles Pinekney first said "Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute." "Variety is tho very spice of life," uud "Not much the worse for wear," como from Cowner. Edward Young asserts that "Death loves a shining mark," and "A fool at 40 Is a fool indeed." Macintosh gives, in 1791, the phrase often attributed to John Randolph: "Wise ami masterly Inactivity." "Of two evils I have chosen the least," and "The end must justify the means," are from Matthew Prior. The world is Indebted to Colley Cibber for the very agreeable intelligence that "Richard is himself again." To Milton is owed "The paradise of fools," "A wilderness of sweets" and "Moping melancholy and moonstruck madness." Dryden says: "None but the brave de serve the fair," "Men are but children of a larger growth," and "Ihrough thick nnd thin." Christopher Marlowe fjave forth the in vitation so often repeated by his brothers in a less public way: "Love me little, lovo me long." Thomas Tasser, n writer of the sixteenth century, first said: "Better late than never," "Look ere you leap." and "The stone that is rolling can gather no moss." "First in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of Ids fellow citizens" (not countrymen), appeared in tho resolutions presented to the house of representatives in December, 171)0, by Gen. Henry le. The rink Kycl mtsly. Scattered through the several country towns and villages of Rochester, Iree- town, Lakeville, Long Plain, Acushnet and Myricks is ft peculiar race of people that stick close to their native backwoods, but on rare occasions emerge from their self-chosen retirement to t lie neighboring more populous towns of Middleboro and Warehim, and sometimes are seen on tho streets of New Bedford, Taunton and Full River, the observed of nil beholders. The local appellation that follows them to all places is that of "Pink eyed Pitts leys." Their peculiarity is pink eyes and perfectly white hair. I his striking singu larity is said to have first made its appear ance in a family by the name of 1'ittsleys, in Freetown, n century or more ago, and spread through succeeding generations among the offspring of those who inter married w ith the members of the family, until many of the residents of this section of a variety of family names as well as that of Pittsley have members marked by this peculiarity of the eyes and hair and an accompanying facial expression that is odd in the extreme. The old man Merchant Pittsley was pink eyed, and he had nine children. All live of his sons had pink eyes and white hair, and one daughter was marked the same way; but the other three girls had as lino black eyes and dark hair as any girl in town. They married, all but one, and had children, and some of their chil dren had pink eyes and white hair, but not all. Brockton (Mass.,) Gazette. Tlte Streets of London. London newspapers are filled with com plaints of the condition of the streets, which are said to be in frightfully bad order. Rotten row, for instance, comes too near its name, the road bed being a quagmire of filth and mud six inches deep, while the wooden pavements on west end thoroughfares, including some of the most fashionable, are full of un comfortable ruts and dangerous holes. Then there are growls because the 'buses, which are twice as many and twice as big as ten or fifteen years ago, loiter ami crawl and block the waj. From all which it appears that we must not look .to London for ideas for the improvement or the relief of our liighways. Boston Transcript. A Funeral Picture. According to Tho Detroit Tribune the painting, "Last Hours of Mozart," lately purchased by Gen. Alger, of Michigan, is so realistic that it affects people to tears. Miss Alger says: "Lver since the picture has been in the house it has seemed like a funeral. I don't think anybody has smiled, nnd as for a hearty laugh, any thing of that kind would seem to be alto gether shocking and out of place. It seems as if the great Mozart is actually dying right hero in the house, and yet never really dies." It must be a cheerful sort of a picture to have about the house. Chicago Tribune. Hooks and Complexion. A popular society fad in New York is to have books bound in colors to harmonize with the complexion or dress of the reader. One wealthy belle has had Shakespeare bound in brilliant red because it adds to the richness of her brunette complexion, while a blue eyed damsel reads Tennyson from a becoming cover of blue and gold. Atlanta Constitution. James Lick's Estate. James Lick died in San Francisco ten years ago, leaving in the hands of trus tees an estate of about $3,000,000, to bo divided among various charitable and scientific societies. The estate is yet un settled, but the trustees have drawn over 100,000 in salaries and have paid out nearly $ 200, 000 in lawyers' fees. The Queen's First Doll. Recent additions to Mme. Tussaud's show in London are Queen Victoria's first doll, first shoes and first gloves, and vari ous other mementoes of the royal nursery; also a piece of her majesty's wedding cake. Bnt the report fails to state whether they are made of wax or not. Iron Tubular Cars. The Philadelphia and Reading Railroad company is having built at its shops 100 Iron tubular cars. These are said to weigh less than the wooden cars of the same dimensions, and to have a carrying capacity of 60,000 pounds. New Orleans Tkucs-Democi at. Miss Julia C. R. Dorr will hjhjuI the summer in England anil Scotland. THE CITIZENS :es nxr jesl 2 ri.ATT.SMOUril. - NKlSKA.MwA. CAPITAL STOCK TAID IN, - $50,000 Authorized Capital, $100,000. Ot Kl Kllri HANK CAKUL'ill. .JO.S. A. CONOI. rrcM.lent. VUe-l'ri-Mitlelit. W. 11. eUSIHNU. Ctliier. IllHKCKlKH Fr:iiik ( ailiiir, .1. A. Conior, I". It. Ciillniiaiiii, J. W. .l.iliiiKon, Henry liu ik,.l.(liii OKffe, V. 1. M ilium, Win. Wt-lei r;nni, W. .11. Cii.slilli);. Transact a Central I'.anklnj.' lliiflness. All w no u;iv any l'..m K 1 iik Ousliies to transact aro in v ilea to call. No iu;ttt r how 1 arize or fiiuill the liar,. -actum, it will receive our careful attention, and we promise always cour teous treatment. Issues Certificates of Oei o.tits bearing interest Buys tml .sells Foreign Kxchance, County and t'itv seem itiec. Bank Cass County LffCotner Alain and Sixth Streets, LATTSMOUTII IfcTIEIB .V. If. 1'AKMKl.K. l'resi.leiit, I 1 .J M. r-ATiHK.SUN. Cashier. ( Transacts a General Baniing Bnsiiicss1 HIUilEST CASH ritICE Paid for County and City Warrant?. COM-KCTIOXM .1IADK and liromntly remitted lor. lolUKCCTOKS : 'J. !!. l'ani.ele, J. M. l'atterson, Kied Corder, A. U. Smith. IC. H. Windham. M. Monisey. James Patterson. ,lr. JUUN KlTZilEltALI), S. 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Ask your Uruirclm forlleBselroth's Swed ish wineof Iron (Price f 1 per Bottle; olx bottles, $51, and Ilesselroth's Blood and I.iver fills (c. per box: live boxes, II), or send direct to UVVIILVCE UESSELEOTIL 107 Chicago AYcCMeaso. SELECTED SHORE Cheapest Eating on EartliA ASK Y0UK GS0C2S rOK THEM. TRASK'S": JASE THE ORIGINAL and CXLY GENUINE! ako no Other Brand. YOU can live at home and make more money at work for us than at any thing else in this world, ('apttal not reeded ; you are started iree. P.oth sexes : all ajres. Any one can do the work. Large earnings sure lriii first start. Costly outfits and enns free, isetter not ut lay. i.osis you noin- ins to send your address, and find out ; and il you are wise you will do so at once. Address II. IIallktt & co., foitlaud, Maine. SUv 3 fjfBFMACKERgJ f"3 Ufl lfaT, TIN THIS PAIL .Jk V2 E..G. DOVEY & SON. 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We invite inspection ot our differ ent Departments, assuring all that we offer our Goods AT LOWEST PlilCES. E. G. DOVEY & . SON. THIS BOOK STORES HJr SHERWOOD BLOCK ' Just opened witli Books, Fancy Goods, Ladies' Stationery, PERIODICALS, 5cC. FIFTH STREET, ONE DOOR FROM MAIN. MIXED - nrri rr ' l-JNI'EE olir Mixed Taints to do hotter work and give Letter satisfaction than the best Lead and Oil, and will forfeit the value of the paint and cost of applying if not found as represented. Can you ask any better Guar antee? We have sold these paints for two years, and every one who has used them pronounce them TO -:- BK -:- Tl-pt -:- KKST. They will cover one-third more surface than Lead and Oil and will wear longer and look hotter. Don't buy paints until yon see our samples. Will J. Wqiwicl'j. N. .: "We make bottom prices on Lead, Oil, Wall Taper, Varnish, Kalsomine, Brushes, ice. J. F. 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