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lC?no. 306. ^ ^ Alexandria! va^htjbsday evening^ December 28, Lsi.' price 2 cts. _??-? g!-? MROlCitN ? I. Bf IT NE EDS STEAil. If there's no steam in a ~? fire-engine it won't do ^ its work. Heavier metal or larger wheels won't help it. It needs steam. It's the same when a man's strength is gone, he wants new life ? fresh vitality. It makes no difference how large his frame may be or how ! big the muscles on his legs; if the inner power and ife :s lacking he can't do his practically a sick man. You ke him well by feeding him . emulsions. There's no use in it. His proper weight will come gets well. The first thing he is strength, force, steam. i a year ago." says Mr. John Brooks, M ss., "I was taken with a bad settled on my lutiejs. The doctors : consumption and could not ?et :< emulsion of cod liver oil and it od- After taking it four months! l'ierce's Golden Medical Discovery, t i him for advice, i have taken this and it saved my life. I felt so sick to him I thought I would not live :.: ter through. morning I would raise an awful lot ill the time, with pains in rav chest ime. My bowels would not" move n once or twice a week ; my strength . a'.l gone; I could not do a whole Now my bowels are regular every : feel no more pains, iu my chest. I it deal stronger. I am working hard d v. driving a team in the woods; and ? thanks to Dr. Pierce's Golden Med i sc very. I know it saved my life. I praise it enough. I am. proud to tell my :r:.::...^ what cured me." The way this great remedy acts in nchial .aid lung diseases is more fully ribed ::i Dr. Pierce's great rooo-page v tninon Sense Medical Adviser, sent for 21 one-cent stamps to pay the ? mailing only. Address Dr. R. Y. 663 Main Street, Buffalo, N. Y. always ready to give free advice :h ynr. whether you continue thn ^n,-. ut. 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Cures 11-, Toup, bronchitis, and alltbroat .1 nag troubles. ..?>.: BRoMO-CiXEBY. Try this . ' roracdy for HMir.chsa. Naur*!?)"-. FLOUR. is made solely and exclu? sively of finest WINTER WfJKAT? grown on south? ern soil ?the kind our foro fathors lived on. ^ser-Orior a sactr and vou'll enjoy tho samo dc - 1 cious BroHd, Bolls, Cakes and Pies they had in "co? lonial t;mo?." YOUR GROCER SELLS IT. Capital Mills, 36th & Water 8treets. WASHINGTON. D. *\ ''GLOBE MILLS",' LEADS THE TRADE IN FLOUR. Xtua* I akin \ if you would have it v :r iiiinh, you should use none but gh grade "Piide Fttmr." For bread, cak s ro h or the family b^ing in the "Prdo Flour" will always be ? ?'delcious of flivor and nutritious in ty. It you want a treat maka your ? bread from "Fride Flour." J.NO. W. EMMERT & CO., Union street. >ues? Boll 29; Home 148._ SHIP YOUR. MM CALVES, BOGS AND LAMBS TO Swiffc & Company, 13-14 Centre Market, Washington, D. C. Highest prieo and quick returns. Bofrige rators aud ev^ry convenience for handling. SWIFT A, COMPANY, 13-14 Contre Market, Washington. D U. ' 1 *.?1H _- .. i 1 INGER ALE.?Imported and American vJT viinger Alo just received by __L? j.aMILBORN. "Our South' Flour. pububhu) daily a?d tei-wkekiy at Gaiette Building. 81o ft S12 Prinoe It TEEMS: Daily. j Tbi-Weekly. i Year.$5 00 i 1 Yoar.$3 6 Months. 2 50 3 Months. 1 25 1 Month. 43 1 Woek. 10 .$3 00 ? Months. 1 50 3 Months........ 75 1 Month. 25 Ail transient ad verlas smear* mart b? paid fog in advance. Oontract advertisers will not be allowed to ex? ceed their apace unless the excess is paid for at transient rates, and under no circum stances will they be allowod to advertise ctner than their legitimate business in the space contracted fox. Marriage and death notices must be paid for in advance. Eosolutious in memoriam, of thanks, tribute* of respect resolutions adopted by societies or persons, unleas of public concern, will only bo printed in this paper as advartis*. meats. The Gazette office is connected with the Telephone Exchanges. Advertisements, or dors f. ? the paper, news or any information or business can be sent by telephone. fEntersd at the Postoffiee Alexandria, Virgin, is. as second-class matter.] PICTURES OF MOSBY's RAID IN BERRYVILLE. Pau Francisco, Dec. 16,1899. Mr. John S. Russell, Herryville, Va.: Dear Johu :?I have mailed you a set of photographs of the Bt.rryviilo raid that made Sheridan retreat fifty miles down the valley to the plate where be started from. In 1867 Captain McAleer, of Baltimore, visited the eceae, tu-ide skeiclus, and procured photographs of many of our mer. Hf tbeu wont to Paris and had the picture pain ed by two distiugti'stied artist The pamiirigs were also photographed in Paris ; those I t-etui you are cophs made hen . Ben Palmer, of Richmond, L owns the original paintin??-. No. 1 represtn's the battalion just bs( j vve reached tbe east bank of the Sher - J j andoah?"tbe dauchter of the stars." j You are near me, listeniug iutenlly to l Ian order I am giving you?to cross! j ovr the river and bud out what was in \ froor. You returned uf or dark, wheu I wa* esleep ei joying a soldier's dream, "and the sentinel stars bad set tbeir watch in tbe sky," and told me that u long train heavily guarded was passing oo the pike. In a few minutes till were mounted and moving to the a - tack. i No. 2 lepresenfs th6 Berryville fight and stampede of the train guard. I am with Sam Chapman's company thai was kept in reserve with the howitz* j that is tiring while Richards' squadron ! rharged at one point on tbe line, and William Chapman and Giasscock with ilit-ir companies charged at another. Stockton Terry, of LyDcbtiurtr, is neai mc> with the battalion colors. A body of the/euemy formed behind a stone feoco; and made some resistance H'jra L-wis Ade, of Gtasscoek's com? pany, wus killed. I remember very well wheu Guy Broad water rode up and re? ported it to me in the midst of tbe figbf. All I said was, "I can't help it." H* was a fije hoy. Some of his family now live in California. Do you remember jow the yellow-jackets routed us, and were near spoiling all my plans tbat da\? Tbe howitzer came up at a gallop and was unlimbered oo a knoll tbat com? manded the pike. Tbe gun was put in Dosilion right over a nest of yellow - jackets. They were home rulers, like che Boers, atd instantly a swarm flew <>ut to repei tbe invasion of their teni cory. My men bud stood a volley from a body of infantry on the pike, but the sting of the yellow-jackets was too much for tbeir courage. The horses reared and pluugfd, the men ran away from the gun. Whether the scene was sublime or ridiculous depends upon one's point of view at tbe time. Mj tiorso was frantic, and I felt a good deal iike Hercules did when he put on bin shirt of tbe Centaur and couldn't pu'l it ofl We were on tbe verge of a patj ic?a fe*v mir Utes' delay would give tbe enemy time to recover from their em? prise. A shot from tbe howitz?r was to be tbe signal for tbe squadrons to charge. Tney were waiting. Butjust then one of the men?Babcock, I think it was?rushed forward, recaptured tbe howitzer, and dragged it oil Tbe yellow-jackets returned in triumph to their bole in the ground. Ina minute a shell burst among the wagons; it knocked c? tbe head of a mule; tbe <uard stampeded, while the braying of ide mules could be beard above tbe roar of the gun. The mules we captured supplied General Lae'a army with transportation, and the drove of fine oeeves was sent as a present and fur ui-bed beefsteaks for his soldiers. You will observe in the picture representing our return a figure ou horseback like a troubadour playing on a violin. It is Bob Ridley (Eistham) He got it from a headquarters wagon. Bob is p] yiog a tune to which he bad lanced?'Alalbrook bus gone to the ware." Our object was to iinptd Soeridan's maic!-. I was sorry I could not be w th you at tbe u .Veiling of the monument ti> our men at Freut Royal ; and I dissmi rom some historical statements in Alayor Richardis' addres*. I do not agree with him that our meu were ?>uog in compliance with General Grant's orders to Sueridao. They were not bung in obedience to the orders of a superior, but lrom reveuge. A man who acts from rev -nge simply obeys tiis owu impulses. Major Richards says the orders were "a dead letter" af er I retaliated ; which implies that they bad not been before. I see no evidence to support such a conclusion. Iu his letter in The Richmond Times Major Richards says that Sheridan's dispatches about hanging our meu were '?visionary," i. e., be uever hung any. If so, the order bad always been "a dead letter." No one ever beard of j his hangings uutil his dispatches were published a few years ago. Sheridan was then dead, but bis posthumous memoirs say nothing about hanging, although two pages are devoted to au account of the killiog of Meigs, and Cn-der's burniog dwelling houses in Rockiogham county in revenge. Meigs was not killed by my men ; we never went that far up the Valley. Sheridao, dispatches in the war records about the men be hung were not even a revelation to me, for they revealed nothing. They were . eitoply specters of imagiuat on, like the I dagger in the air that Macbeth saw. If Sheridan had commuuicated Grant's dispatch of August 16 to any to be *x. - cuted it would have been to Blazer, who commanded a picked corps that was specially detailed Jo look after us. In his report Blazer speaks of cipturing some of my men; ho never mentions banging any. Those be captured were certainly not hung, for I saw them when they came home after the close of the war. The following dispatches record the rise and lall of Blez r : "Cbarlestowu. August 20, 1864. Sheridan to Augur, Washington: "I have 100 men who will take the contract to clean out Moshy's gang. I want 100 Spencer rifles for them. Send them to me if they can be fjuud in Washington. P. H. Sheridan, "Major-General Commanding. (Indorsement): ' Approved: By order of inn Secretary of War. C.A.Dana, "Assistant Secretary." "Harper's Ferry, Nov. 15), 1864 Stevenson to Sheridan : "Two of Ciptain Bluz r'amen came in ibis morning?privaten Hairs and Johnson. They report that Mosby with 300 men attacked Blazer near Kable- j town yesterday about 11 o'clock. They say that the entire rommand, with the excep:ion of themselves, was captured or killed. I have ordere J Major Cong don with 300 Twelfth Pennsylvania Cavalry to Kabletowu to bury dead and take care ot wounded, if any, and re? port, a:l facts be can iearn. I shall im? mediately furnish report as soon as r? - ceived." Exit Blezer. Major Richards commanded in the Blozer fight; I was not pTse it. Wuen we sei t Blazer and Lis Oiud oi prison? ers to Richmond they wouid not have u'-mitted tha' I bey ever Lung anybody Albjor Ricbuids refers to Grant's order, to destroy subsistence for en army, so as to make the country unw nable by the Confederate*; aud pathetically de? scribes the conflagration. He ought to know mat there nad been t urning ol mills und wheat stacks in L udoun two years before Grant came to Virginia Grant's orders w*re no more directed against my ommautl than Early's. Augusta and R-jckiugbum were deso? lated, where we never bad been. But I can't, see the slightest confection be tweea burning foragu and provsions and hanging prisoners. Oue is permi. tt d by the codeof war, the other is no'. After General L-e's surrender I received a communication from General Hancock asking for mine. I declined to do so until I could bear whether Joe Johnston would surrender or continue the war. We hgreed on a five days armistice. When it expired nothing had been heard from Johnston. I met a flag of truce at Millwood, and bad proposed an extension of ten days, but received through Maj rr Ruesell a message frcm Hancock refusing it and informing me that unless I surrendered immediately be would proceed to de? vastate the country. The repiy I sen: by Russell was: 'Tell General Han? cock be is able to do it.'' Haucock then bad 40,000 men at Winchester. The next day I disbanded my battalion to save the country from being made a desert. If any one doubts this, let him read Hancock's report. If it was le? gitimate for Hancock to lay waste the country after I had suspended hostili? ties, surely it was equally so (or Grant to do it when I was doit g oil the dam? age in my power to his army. Stanton warned Hancock not to meet me in persou under a flag of truce, for fear I would treacherously kill him. Han? cock replied that he would send an of? ficer to meet me. He sent General Chapman. The attention Grant paid to us shows that we did him a great ?leal of harm. Keeping my men iu prison weakened us cs much as o hang them. Major Richarde* complains of the "debasing epithets" Sheridan ep plitd to us. I have read bis reports, correspondence and memoirs, but have never seen the epithets. Iu common with all northern and many southern people, he called us guerrillas. Al? though I have never adopted it I have never resented as an insult the term "guerrilla" when applied to me. Sheri? dan says that my battalion was "the most redoubtable" partisan body that he met. I certainly take no exception to that. Ho makes no charge of any aot of inhumanity against us. The highest compliment ever paid to the efficiency ol our command is the statement in Sheridan's Memoirs that while his army largely outnum? bered Early's, yet their Jino of battle strength was about equal on account of the detachments be was compelled to make to guard the border and his line of communication from partisan at? tacks. Ours was the only lorce behind niro. At that time the records show that in round numbers Early had 17,000 tireseot for duty, and Sheridan had 94 000. The word "guerrilla" is a di? minutive of the Spanish word "guerra" (wai), and simply means one engaged in tbe miuur operations of war. I had only five companies ol cavalry when Saeridao came in August, 1S64, to the Sh.-naodoah Valley. A sixth was organized in September. Two more companies joined me in April, 1S65, after the evacuation o! Richmond, l'ney came just in time to surrender. I .lou'c care a s:raw whether Custer was solely responsible for the hanging of our men, or jointly with others. It we oelieve tne reports of the generals none of tbem ever even heard of the hangioe of our met; they must have committed suicide. Contemporary evidence is against Custer. I wonder if he also de? nied burning dwelling houses around Berryville. Rostopcbin, the governor of Moscow, claimed the credit of tbe burning of it when it was thought to bave been the cause of Napoleon's re? treat, but after it became known that it was not the cause of it, to escape the odium he denied all responsibility for it and declared that it was done by incen diaries for plunder. I once called at the White House, in 1S76, to see Gen. Grant; sent him my card and was promptly admitted. When I came out of bis room one of the secretaries told me that Gen. Caster had called the day before but that Gen. Grant refused to see him. The incident is related in (he Life of Custer. A few weeks afterward Custer was killed in the Sitting Bull massacre. ' Our acta our angels are?for good or ill? Our fatal shadows that walk by us ?tili.', Major Richards further says that "ihere was scaicely a family in all that section that did not have some member, MEDICINAL. Strong Drink is Death DR. CHARCOT'S TONIC TABLETS are the only positively Ktmrantred remedy tor the Drink Habit, Nervousness one] ileiauehuircaua?l by stronc drink. WE GIARASTEE fOVtt IlOXKfl to euro any ejiso with a positive wrl it en gnuv* aut???> or refund the niotiey, and to destroy the appetite for Intoxicating liquors. THE TABLETS CAN BE GIVEN WITHOLT KNOWLEDGE OF THE PATIENT. STR0N6 DRINKandDe^^po^ne^ of *10.M> we win mail yon four m boxes and post. Uve written guarantee to eure or refrm* jour money. Single boxes $3.00. Chas. G. T.ouncn, Druggist, Solo Agent, Alexandria, Va. in Mosby's command." If that is true I must have commanded a larger army than Sheridan. I didn't kuow it. Ho des-ribes tLe pathos of the scenes thst might have been if the "se? vere and < rut 1 order" hud been executed to transfer the families from that region to Fort McHenry, and says it would have "paralyzad" my (omrnand. If so, tliat wool 1 bnve been a more humane way of getting rd of it than kilting the men. Now I have nevor consid? ered women and ebildreu necessary append? ages to an ai my ; on the contrary, I would ra'her ches them with what (a mr in his commentaries calls impediment)!. Hemei's herces wero i.ot panuvxed when Helen wa carrio.i oil' to Troy ; it only aroused their mattial ambition. > h'-ridxn knew tbxt if he did anything of the kind it would stimulate tho activity of my men, so he didn't try it. As for our lioutonant-coloui 1, who, as Major Bichxrds eajs, mirricd in that soction, I think that if Sheridan bad captured his wife and mothir-in 1 iw and sent tnem to prison, in:-tend of g-.iug int i mourning, he would bav.i felt a 1 the wrmh and imitated tho cx ani| la of tho ?eree Achilles when ho heaid tiiat Piitrocius. his friend, bad bcon killed and hia armor bad been captured. ''Now perish Troy ! ho said, and rushed to light." Very truly yours, John 9. Mosby. Millions Given Away. It is certainly gratilying to the pub? lic to know ot one concern in the laud who are not afraid to be generous to the needy and sutlering. The proprie? tors of Dr. Kitl?'d New Dir-covery for Consumption, Coughs and Colds, have given away over ton million trial bot? tles of this great medicine, and have the satisfaction of kuowiag it has abso? lutely cured thousands of hopelees cases. Asthma, Bronchi'is, Hoarseness and all diseases of the Throat, Chest and Lungs are surely cured by it. Call on E. B. Leadbeater & Sons, Druggists, and get a free trial bottle. Kegular sizes 50 cents and $1.00. Every bottle guaran? teed, or price reiuuded. FREE OF CHARGE. Any adult sutlering from a cold settled on the breast, bronchi,is, throat or lung troubles of any nature, who will call at the Drug Btores of Eruest L. Allen?Claude M. Leuuon?Warfield & Hall?Charles G. Lennon?W. F. Creighton & Co.,?or Richard Gibson will be presented with a sample bottle of Boschee's German Syrup free of charge. Only one bottle given to one person, and none to children without order from patents. No throat or lung remedy ever had such a aale at Boschee's German Syrup in all parts of the civilized woild. Twenty years ago millions of bottles were given away, and your druggie s will tell you its success was marvelous. It is really the only throat and Lung Remedy generally endorsed by physi? cians. Our 75 cent bottle will cure or prove its value. Sold by dealers in ail civilized countries. A SURE CUftE FOK CKOUP. Twenty-live Years' Constant Use with? out a r ail uro. The ti^st indication ol croup is hoarse? ness, and in a child subject to that die ease it may be taken as a sure sign of the approach of an attack. Following this hoarseness is a peculiar rough cough. If Cnamberlaiu'd Cough Rem? edy is given as soon as the child be? comes hoarse, or even after the croupy cough appears, it will prevent the at? tack. It is used in many thousands of homes in this broad land and never dis? appoints the anxious mothers. We have yet to learn of a single instance in which it has not proved effectual. No other preparation can show such a record?twenty five years' constant use without a failure. For sale by all druggists. L. T. Thirkfield, Health Inspector of Chi. cago, says, "Kodoi Dyspepsia Cure cannot be recommended too highly. It cured me of se? vere dyspepsia." It digests what you eat and cures indigestion, heartburn and all forma of dyspepsia._ Eilnrnte Your Bowel? With Casr-arels. Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forever . It ftfl.OL tk?* druggistsrotund money. _DRY^GOODS.^^_ McKnew's Strictly Keliable Qualities. Clearing Sale of COATS AND CAPES AT Genuine Bargain Prices, Those who rjceiye money for Christmas could not do better than invest it in a nico Wrap here, for we are clearing out all this season's Cloth Coats and Capes, Velvet Coats and Capes, and Children's Beefers and Cape Coat? at genuine bargain prices. Those embrace the swellost effects in La? dies' Fine Pebble Cheviot, Melton, Kersey and Broadcloth Coats. N. B.?Lot of 20 very desirable Coats loft from last season?worth $6.50, $8, $10, $15.50, $18.50, $20, $25 and $30?now soiling at $3? $5? $7-50 and $10. Free Deliveries to Alexandria Every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. Wm. H. McKnew, 933 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, Wanhingtou, D. C. CLOTHING. FURNISHINGS. &c. RESPECTS NEITHER Frostii 41 NEITHER * I II :Age nor Condition.:! _ < > < i Take time by the forelock and provide < t ? yourself and boys with one of our SUITS. 11 OVERCOATS or REEFERS. They aroj; |made in the beat of manner and at prices twithin the reach of a1]. Men's Suits, $5 to $15. % Boys' Suits, $1.25 to $10. Men's Overcoats, $4 up. t All the latest shades and styles in light T olorod Covert Overcoats from $7 to $15. x IN Roys' light colored Covert Overcoats, X >*rom $4.50 up. ? \ Roys' Reefers, with storm or velvet ? ?'?ollar. from $2.50 op. ? * Suits and Overcoats made to order, fit J Huaranteed, from $13.50 up. > A complete line of Gent's Furnishings 2 at lowest pricas. 4? ^ All goods marked in plain figures and ? Zgnaranteed as represented or money re- ? ?funded. !!R. Lee Fieldji i?One-Price Clothier and Furnisher,it <? NO. 304 KING 8TEEET. I > I N OBDEE TO MAKE BOOM FOB A SPE? CIAL DISPLAY IN O?B MERCHANT TAILOBING DEPABTMENT, wo have concluded to close out. our stock of Gents'Furnishing Goods at and below cost The late |Mr. Grimes having purchased a magnificent line of foreign and domestic woolen?, we aro prepared to make up Suits Overcoats and Trouserings to please the most fastidious. Entire satisfaction guaranteed. ROBT. T. GRIMES, Merchant Tailor and Men's Furnishings, 322 King street, Alexandria, Va. IS HERE and we sre prepared to supply you with ovorjthing needed to make your table at? tractive at Receptions, Card Parties, Teas and other functions. We ask your particular no? tice of tome fine valuee. DECORATED CANDLE SHADES from 5c up. DE'OBATED WAX CANDLES, special values, at 4c and 5c each. BRASS CANDLE SHADE HOLDERS 5c each. Also a splendid assortment of Punch Bowls and G.'a^ses, Decanters, Wine Glrsse?, Can? delabra and special values in Euchre Prizes. II Mir and Co., Importers of Earthenware. Kodaks ior Christmas ?AT? Carne's Bookstore 70S King Btnet, DRY GOODS. DRY GOODS. EICHBEM'S REDUCTION SALE. A sweeping reduction sale in every department throughout the house in anticipation of rebuilding our store. We are of? fering duriug this sale Lace Curtains and Tapestry Portiers. LOT 1. 75o LACE C?BTA1NS 49c. 2, $1 3, $1.25 4, $1.50 5, $1.75 6, $2, 7, $2.60 8, $2.75 9, $4 10, $6 11, $6.50 12, $8 76c. $1. $1.25. $1.50. $1,75. $2. $2.50. $3. $3.60, $4.50, $6. LOT 1, $3 TAPE8TBY POBTTJEBS $2.24. 2, $4.50 ? $8.50. 3, $7, u $5. 8ILK8 FOB WAISTS 25c UP. JtSr-VtB STILL GIVE TBADE DI800UNT COUPONP.-H ??-TEBM8 OF THISJSALE ABE^SPOT CA8H.-?$ ISAAC EICHBERG 4 SON. DRY GOODS. As we near the end ot ^our closing sale we find many things which, in the rush, we have failed to put to the front, and now that the holiday week is on we will place these spe? cials on our tables, and would advise those, who contem? plate making useful Xmas presents to call bet?re the rush comes on. Everything mentioned will be sold at less than present wholesale prices. This means a saving of about 33 cents on each dollar. 1st Lot: Ladies'Cotton Underwear?Night Gowns, Plain and Trimmed Corset Covers, Skirts and Drawers. The above are flno goods and worthy the attention of prospective boyors. 2d Lot: Consists of about 100 Ladies' Wrappers in Calico. Flannelette and Lawn. Thoso are nicoly trimmed, ruffled, fiounchod, ? Our 98c goo'is, all to bo sold at 75c. 3d Lot: 6 Ladies' Coat?, regular price $6 98. now $3.98 4th Lot: 0 Beautiful Capes, $6.98 goods, for $3.98. 5th Lot: 25 extra fine Black Satin Waists, $4.98 qualitv, for $3 75. 18 do. Silk do., $4.98 quality, $3.75. 11 " $3.98 " $2 75. 8 fatino $3.98 " $'2.75. 9 " $2.98 " $1.98. 8 Silk $2.98 " $1.98. 6th lot: 22 Fancy Table Covers, sizos 4 to 8 quarter. Those will make elegant Xmas presents, being fino goods and lovely stylos 7th Lot: All-wool ScarleOind BIuo Flan? nel 124c. 8th Lot: 20 doeen OhiHrm's Undershirts and Par.u, white and grey, 26c ttoods at 15c. 9th Lot: 10 pain roal Irish Point Curtains. Were cheap at 4.98. now $3.75. 10 pairs do., were $3 98 now $2.50. TOYS I TOYS! TOYS! DOLLS I DOLLS DOLLS! All go at a sacrifice. 1,000 yards 10-4 Sheeting at 15c. Today worth 25c. 1 lot Men's Undorwear, 50c qttalitv, for 25c. 1 lot Men's Working Shirti and Overalls, 50c quality for 37^c. 1 lot Manhattan ?-t ff Bosom Shirts (color? ed), $1.50 quality lor $1. Also a nice lot of Manhattm solt bosom Neel'gee Shirts, $1.50 quality foi $1. TOYSITOYal TOYS I DOLLS I DOLLS I DOLLS at a sacrifice. The last cbance to buy Domestic Dry Goods at 1 >sa than wholesale prices. c:s:^:p:]vn^:L\r's7 NO. 424 KING STREET. WHOLES ALE & RETAIL GROCERS TOJELN AHERN & CO., WHOLESALE AND RETAIL GROCERS AND DEALERS IN PURE WINES & LIQUORS We hold largely in U. 8. bonded warehouse! and carry in stock various brands of the best RUBE BYE AND MALT WHISKIES MADE. " ?. i? ?t?rn superior grades of Foreign and American WINES, ALES, BBOWN 8TO?T, &C. ^arSatisfaction Guaranteed as to Price and Quality. "^ES^ Corner Prince and Commerce Streets. J C. MILBUBN, duales ra FANCY AND STAPLE GROCERIES, la 3 North Royal Street, Alexandria, Va f roprietor of the Potomac Brand of Flour which is unexcelled. Co Ho ea Freshly Boasted at Store._ A JOHN80N & CO., w. WHOLESALE GROT ERA j SENESAL COMMISSION MERCHANTS, And Dealers In ALL KINDS OF LIQUORS, i&.re on hand Gibson's XX, XXX, XX YT and pure Old Ryo, Old Cabinet and Monogram Whiskies; also Baker's and Thompson's Pore Bye Whiskies, to which they invite the arten, tion of tho trade. Orders from che country for mercandlse ?hall receive prompt attention. Consignments of Flour, Grain and Country Produce solicited, for which they guarantee the highest market prices and prompt returns, N. E. corner Cameron and Royal streets. Suitable Presents FOR THE HOLIDAYS. WAVE CBEST WARE, beautiful inexpen? sive articles for ladies and gentlemen. C'JMBS, BBUs-HES. MIBEORs and other a i .eles in silver, ebonized and genuine ebony. CANDLESTICKS in solid brass and stiver plate PLATED and SOLID SILVEB FLAT and HOLLOW WARE. Ladies', Gents' and Boys' WATCHES. KINGS for babies, miBses, ladies and gents. CHAIN BRACELETT8, PINS and NOV? ELTIES. ?%rCa)l and Examine Goods and Pii-esTSs ??TA, Smdl Deposit will Secure any Article Until Wanted.-*^ HENRY W. WILDT, _106 N. ROYAL STREET._ KIDNEOIDS! KIDNEOIDS! For the cure of all Kidney Diseases Shattered Nerves and all diseases arising from thin, watery and impoverished blood. Price 50c For sale only by WARFIELD & HAT.T., FRESH ROLLED OATS for sale in pack sees and by the pound at J. & MILBUBN. _____MACHINEK?. J 4 H. ATT0HE80N, Practical Machinists and Engineers And Builders of MARINE AND STATIONARY ENGINES Blacdumithixig and Steam Fitting. En* finoen' and Machinists' Supplies, and all tortl it mill work and that connected with brick* work promptly executed. Repairing prompt* ry done. J. & H. ATTCHESON, mylO 116 King rt.. Alexandria, V?. .8. MOORE, Machinist, Iron and Brass Founder, SHLPfiMITH AND BLACKSMITH, 'OLD DOMIKIOW WOHJEB) 60UTH UNION STREET, ALEXANDRIA Will furaiih and repair all kinds of Machine? ry, Iron and Brass Castings, Wrought and Oast Iron Fences, Mill Work, Ship and Black? smithing, Edge Tools, Mill Picks, Facing Ham* men. ??:d all kinds of Mill Work made and re* paiied at tue shortest notice and at reasonable prices. MatT"The highest market pric? paid for Old Wrought and Cast Iron. Brass and Coppar. Xmas Goods -AT French's 417 & 419 King street. Don't Miss Our Holiday Display. Come in and ceo how satisfactory Christ? mas shopping can be made; how well we can fill your wants, and how far we can mako your money go. Fine Leather Gcods, Cutlery, Opera Glasses Fountain Pons, Desks, Ladies' Writing I ases in all the new leather;, Gold Pens and Pencils, Comb and Brush Ca see, Pocketbook?, Card r^ases and Traveling Bigs. Imported Novelties in Art Chins. These beautiful goods must bo seen to be appreciated. Toys, Children's Picture Books and Tree Ornaments in great variety. BIBLE3 PBAYEB BOOKS and HYMNALS and Miscellaneous Gift B^oks in beauti? ful bindings. XMAS CARDS, BOOKLETS AND CAL ENDABS. Robert W. French. N IOE CLEANED CURRANTS, loose, 80 per pound, at J. U MILBTJEJiU