Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-06-03
r,u BR,rlSH REVIEW FOR MAY

\,p,u BRIrISH REVIEW FOR May
.,;sw Of the first volume OF Masson's
r,.,o and His Times. gives US what is
If the poets life, in connection with
-, ~n,I;,ical, ecclesiastical, and literary his
=, his time, and more especially dwell
or,n his prose writings. A biographi-
~" .ls,ch of the late Douglas Jerrold is
,I,,.an,ly illustrative OF modern literary
r. sn,l out with much personal detail and
.,,,, Mrs. Sehimmelpenninck's Select
,m,irs Of Port-Royal, forms the text Of a
,,l.r account of the history of Port Royal
',;, inmates. Two other articles meriting
.,l ~,.rusal are a Sketch of the History
~, n.,.lopmento of Socinianism, and a re-
.m ofS Sir W. Hamilton's Lectures on Met
,h,s;c and Logic. Miss Procter's Legends
Il lyrics are favorably reviewed. The
IN Birds has some instructive observa-
ns on the relative sizes and geographical
;, ,-;butiou Of the feathered race, as well as
rri,hic anatomy. The British Press
:. irwin. liberty. and power, Indian Col
,;,,,i,,. and the Public Life of Lord Broug-
ham are all treated at considerable length
r.published by Leonard Scott & Co., "a Gold
S,rs.t. New York. who also reprint the Lon
dim Quarterly, Westminster, and Edinburgh
reviews, and Blackwood's Magazine, at 50 a
,.,r sinply, or so a year for the whole five
Periodicals.. Robt. Bell, Agent, Alexandria.
4 Fgrxcm VERDICT OF DAaAGEs.-The
psri. correspondent of the Boston Traveller.
r.lo,es the following: Among the coarse wo-
man # the Central Markets. was a person
r~rnwuos Ia mere Michel. She was absolute
IT, uulc,tered. being able neither to read nor
mr;,c She kept no 'books,"-an account
an, costs money. She came to Paris i'll 1882
without a sou in her pocket, or shoes to her
feet, and her first place was rs servant to q
market, woman. Scanty as her wages were,
she saved something out Of them, and in the
r,,,rse of time opened a market-stall OF her
own for the sale of green groceries. She ra-
r;dIy extended her trade. and at the time OF
her death, she had for years annually par-
chased $500 o worth of fruit and forced We,
r.,shles from market gardeners in the neigh
Iorhood of Paris. and received even larger
values Of green groceries from the southern
provinces. She sold every year S5O,O00
worth of fruit and forced vegetables to distll-
lers, confectioners. restam,ateurs, ETC., and as
large a sun again to private families, and she
cleared every year 5000. She had amassed
a fortune ofS54,000, which she had invested
in real estate. government securities, and
mortgages. aud while forming this capital,
she gave her son the best education she could
could procure for him in Paris. regretting
most bitterly. 40 she said. her own neglected
education, which had proved so great an i'm
pediment to her progress in life. She was
cut of untimely by the accident on the st.
Germain Railway last year. Her family
claimed S24, 900 damages from the Company;
they argued she was on 50 years old-would
probably have carried on her business eight
wears longer-would probably have made
$40, 900, besides selling her business and
stand for n large sum of money. The
Court allowed the family $4,000.