Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-09-21

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receive from abroad We find that Great Bri-
meats with 100000 pounds Of pepper.
while we imported more than millions Of
black and red pepper, and kept more than
| nine millions of it for our own use. In
/ England there is 4 great penchant for cur
rants in pudding and cake. hence the CON
I sumption Of the little dried berries from the
isles of Greece" reach in British statistics,
/ for ISIS. the enormous sum of IS. 453, loo
pounds. The Malaga and other grape grow
| Ing and curing countries are laid under con-
! tributIon for nearly twenty-sx millions
! pounds raisins, while Sicily and other semi
| tropic and tropic lands furnish almost a mil
| lion bushels of oranges and lemons. During
our last financial year we did not import
! one-twclfth rs many currants rs Great Bri-
tain. but we received from Southern Europe
| only two millions pounds raisins less than
| the English. As TO oranges. lemons, and
4 lines we purchased for our consumption to
! the amount of 500, 1877, which turned into
bushels, would probably make us refresh
ourselves with more than five times rs many
bushels of this fruit as were imported into
the United Kingdom last year. Thousands
of barrels of oranges are also grown in our
own South, and those which we receive at
Memphis generally come in barrels instead
of boxes.
In regard to smoking snuffing, and chew
ing the Englishman is supposed to do the
first, the Scotchman and Irshman the Sec
ond and the American all three, with an in
tensity, in comparison with an "old country
man" rs one to four. In 1858 there passed
through ller Maiesty's Custom House near
| ly fifteen millions Of pounds of ''stemmed
| tobacco" and more than nineteen millions
''uustcmmcd." We imported from Havana
and elsewhere for our own smoking, nearly
| three hundred million Of cigars: brought
from abroad nearly ten tons Of snuff and of
foreign tobacco, in other shapes 10 the amount
of about six millions pounds. After export
my, III the leaf and manufactured, nearly
twenty millions dollars worth of tobacco, we
must have retained. at the least calculation,
more than fifty millions pounds for the pur-
pose of wrcathing into smoke exciting the
stcrnitatory organs, and of believing the
decks of steamboats,, the floors of railroad
ears, hotels. and of the Capitol ut Washing
ton. with saliva.
Last year the United Kingdom, with an
area of not quite 10000 square miles, en-.
riched her lands with 3,54l tons of guano.
| The nitcd States, with nm area of nearly
| three million square miles, did not employ
one-half that quantity. Engand's largest
customers in 1888, were:
lst. India exclusive of Ceylon and Sin
gapore) who bought 10 the amount
10. S21lo
81. The United states ................... liOl3,Oa3
ID Australia l0l6i lYS
The greatest purchasers from the United
! States in the last financial year, were:
| l>t The United Kingdom of Great I'ri-
tain exclusive al Colonial pUpmln-
ton ,io3s1o
al. Franc" proper "2I4l9i7
81. Cuba li.l33l9l
| The fiscal year of the Tvs" countries which
We have compared begin six months apart
therefore the comparison is not as fair Us
| could be wished. 1858 of the United States
commenced July /, 1851, and includes the
most disastrous crisis Of that year The ef-
lects of the crisis can be seen from the Eng
| ish reports Of trade which state that the
| purchases from the United States alone fell
of more than twenty millions of dollars.
Many are in the habit of voting the Off
cial reports of the various Departmental Of our
government "borcs," but let any one exam
Inc them carefully and they will find much
| food for reflection, and no small degree of
interest We are led over the whole globe;
and no one can ar ise from an investigation
of the single report known rs the book of
Commerce and Navigation. without having
| learned new lessons in political economy and
physical geography. Memphis Eng.
| TIE STEWART MURDER CASE ~ WHEEL
ING.-The Coroner's jury rendered n verdict
| that flames Stewart came to his death by
wound inflicted by some sharp instrument
in the hands of his brother William Stew
art" From the evidence Of Mercer and
others, who saw the alteration between the
brothers. the jury had no difficulty in arriv-
| Ing nj this conclusion. James Stewart had
been rather dssipatcd for some time and the
brothers had fallen out about some business
matters. They were both intoxicated ON
Thursday. and had had difficulty during
| the dav about some money which James had
taken or attempted To take from the safe in
the store. In the evening, as is supposed.
rs James was going into the warehouse,
William met him at the door and tricd
10 push him out. \ struggle cnsued, du-
ring which the fatal stab was given. The
Stewart brothers have always borne the rep
utation of peaceful, upright citizens, and
this late shocking affair has caused much re-
sret among their friends. Wheeling h,telt-
gencrr
At the United States Fair, ut Chicago, the
fine herds of Hereford, Attorney and Devon
stock exhibited by MessrS. John Merryman
and }. Howard Mcllenry, of Md, and by
Col. Capron, now of Illinois, but whose
herd belong to the Patterson stock, of Mary
land were among the greatest attractions on
the ground In the distributions of awards
the twenty-nine head Of stock exhibited by
MesSrS. Merryman and Mcllenry took TWEEN
ty-thrcc premiums. Mr. Merrymun received
all the single first prizes for Hereford stock;
Mr.. McIlcnry took the premium Tor tho best
herd of Attorneys. in competition with the
stock exhibited from Iowa and Ohio. The
premiums awarded 70 Maryland exhibitors
amounted to 81 ,ouh.
A New LocK.-The imposSibility of rem
dering stronghold entirely safe against
theft by means Of skeleton keys, has led a
locksmith in Frankiort-on-the-Ma Main To hit
upon the ingenious idea If constructing a
strong box without any key hole, at all, and
which even the owner himself cannot open.
Why, what's the use Of such box: you will
ask But observe, inside is Il clockwork,
the hand Of which the owner places at the
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