Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1869-02-04
Miscellaneous Items.

red by officers and soldiers of the Uolon army,
! in favor of the rebuilding of the Charleston
Orphan Asylum, which was destroyed during
the bombardment of that city by the Federal
forces. This appeal is made in behalf OF Fhe
Sisters of Mercy, to whom the asylum belonged
According to the Augusta Chronicle, the
present cotton crop of Georgia will yield from
| $50, 900, 900 to SAC, 900, 900 in gold. Mr. For
new, who is making Southern tour, writes
from Raleigh: 1.-THE estimated value OF the
cotton crop for the last year, including the re
cent advance in price, is over two hundred ana
| fifty millions of dollars.
Horse Flesh is rising 10 estimation in Berlin
as an article of food. La 1868 the number OF
horses killed for this purpose was no less than
4,O44. The blood is purchased by manuiac-
! turer, who uses it as dye. A Berlin restau-
rant intends shortly to open an establlshm
! flesh will be served,
The New York employing printers propose
to protect themselves against strikes by EN-,
ployng girls to set type. They have established
| scale of prices Susan B. Anthony thinks the
strikes NAV have been of providenta occur
| renee tor the benefit of women needing employ
| ment.
Miss. Anna Swan, the Nova Scotia giant
lady, has taken passage tor England In the
steamer Columbia, which sails next Saturday.
Miss Swan has the happiness of presenting
greater altitude than any lady living, measur-
| inp, as she does, some feet in height, although
she is but 81 years of age.
| Twenty nine fashionable balls are said to
have come off in New York last week, at which
over fifteen thousand people were in attendance.
TIE expenditure OF money on these little
| omusomnnta Ia estimated at Soi5. 600
There is a large colony of beavers on the APP
pomattox river, Virginia, just above Battersea
dam They have cut down great quantities OF
shrubbery and young trees, and eaten Oft the
skin and tender branches.
The Committee of the Georgia Legislature
| to whom the charges against Gov. Bullock
were referred admit that he has acted with
firm integrity. They have yet however no
opinion as to his discretion.
1t is reported that the Gov. of New York
has pardoned young Ketcham, the forger, now
in the penitentiary.
The Bricklaycrs Union of Baltimore have
had the good sense TO rescind their rule about
apprentices.
| How THEY Treat RACE HORSE. - An
exchange paper makes the following statement
regarding the treatment OF the celebrated
| horse Dexter:
At six every morning Dexter has all the
water he wants, and two quarts OF oats After
| eating he is walked" for half an hour or
more, then cleaned off, and at nine has two
quarts more OF oats II no drive is on the
card for afternoon, he is given half to three
quarters Of an hour Of gentle exercise. At one
o'clock he has oats again, before, limited to
two quarts.
From to 4 he is driven twelve to fifteen
| miles, after which he is cleaned of and rubbed
thoroughly dry.
He has bare swallow Ct water on return
| from drive, but is allowed free access to his
only feed of hay Of which he consumes from
| five to six pounds.
| IF the drive has been a particularly sharp
one, he is treated, as soon as he gets in, to
quart or two OF oatmeal grue and when
thoroughly cooled, has halt a pail OF water and
three quarts of oats, with two quarts OF bran
moistened with hot water.
Before any specially hard days work or
| trial of speed, his allowance OF water is still
| more reduced
NEEDS RECONSTRUCTION The Cincinnati
Enquirer says, highway robbery has become an.
institution of portentOus proportions in the
snburbs Of that CITY. No man is safe who
masses bevond the city limits after dark. The
| S;nc;nn,ti Gazette nnhlishes q letter from
Hamilton Ohio which represents that civ to
he SO infested with incendiaries and robbers
| that neither life nor nropertv IS safe In ad.
dt;on 70 rho citv noI;ce nrivate Guards have
benn organizcd Init the incendiaries were found
10 nn4erore for them-overnowere them
uno optns tba n;;1ens Is called
to organize a vigilance committee to take the
law into their own hands and administer swift
| justice The danger is that the out laws may
be the greater cumberland may subject the
vigilance committee to the pains and penalties
prepared for themselves
| This would seem to constitute ut case for