Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-04-06

COMMUNICATED.
Street Beggars.


Nh. EDITOR: Many OF your readers were
greatly obliged to you for the recommendation
you made in Fridays paper, about juvenile
street beggars. The nuisance is becoming in
tolerable, and the consequences OF Its contluu-
ance are likely to be very serious; for children
brought up to street begging, are not likely TO
prove useful members of the community, when
they grow up, even if they do not Jas it Is like.
~ they will, J become thieves or prostitutes.
A gentleman connected with the educational
interests of the city, recently noticed TWO hoys,
decently dressed, in a certain Sunday School,
and on asking them whether they went to day
school, was told that they had no father, and
that their mother was too poor to pay tor their
education. He, Immediately, told them to call
on him the next day, and he would provide for
their education.
The week passed, but no boys called. On
the Friday evening following, the same gentle
man was accosted by a baretooted, ragged boy,
on the street, and asked for aims. lie did not
recognize his young friend Of the Sunday School,
but, thinking he did, the boy began to explain
that he had not called to see about going to
school, because his mother was sick and could
not work, and he and his brother were forced to
be out all day begging. The gentleman, distrast-
ing the story refused to give him anything, but
promised to make enquiries into his mother
condition, and have her relieved He, accord
ingly, reported the case to a charitable assOcla-
ton, when he was informed that the parties
we're %well-known to many of the members, and
that the mother was a very unworthy person
who employed her children in begging to sup
port her in idleness and dissipation. This Is but
q single case, but, &c unO disco OnlneS.
T.: that Al,, 80. y-,r nttAr8A tod tn
if there is real distress among US, there IS, also,
charity, and the really unfortunate will be, as
they have ever been, welcome to share the last
dollar With their more fortunate neighbors; but
this imposition is q fraud on charity, and takes
what belongs to the deserving for the use OF the
idle and the vicious. Worse than this, it is
training up d generation Of bad citizens, who
will be a curse to the community in the future,
and will fill our poor houses, our jails, and our
penitentiaries.
Could not an association for the relief OF the
poor, on the plan of the one which has worked
so we'll in Baltimore, for many years, be organl-
zed here? | think it could, and then lnVestl
CATION could be made into the real wants OF all
applicants, and our officials would feel at libcr-
ty to arrest all persons found begging n the
streets. o.
WASHINGTON lTEMs.-An unmarried woman
named Sarah Kurtz poisoned herself and her
lover, a mar named John Glasgow, at the re,
sidence Of the former, in the first ward, Oh
Friday night. The mans life was saved by the
administration of antldotcs, but the woman e2-
PRED at eleven o'clock on Saturday hight
Before her death she made a statement to Jus
tice MorselI, and affidavit to the truth OF her
statement, acknowledging that her purpose
was to poison herself and Glasgow, alleging
that he had deceived and disgraced her, under
the pretence that he was an unmarried man,
when in truth be had a wife living.
The ministers and attaches OF a number Of
the foreign legations on Satu, day at the Piuey
Branch race course, INDUCED IN the sport Ut
pigeon shooting. England, France, Prussia,
turkey, Italy, aud several Of the Gcrman
States were represented.
Considerable amusement was created on Sat
urday, during the discussion OF the order OF
Senator Sherman suspending the ticket sys.
tenn, by the amendment Of Mr.. Davis that
blacks should give up their seats to white per-
sons. 1t is certain th.t II the order Is SUSPECT
ded the idle b acks who form so large q proper
ton Of the population here, will monopoIIze Il
majority of the seats.