Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1871-01-04
Alexandra Gazette
NEUROLOGY FOR lS70.-Giving precedence
to the Church, the first name on the lstas well


mentator. DR.. Rowland Williams of England.
one of the most brilliant writer's in the celcbra-
It'd essays and Reviews is another to be
mentioned; also Bishops Calvin Kingsley and
Edward Thomson, of the Methodist Church ;
Bishop Chase, of the Episcopal Church, and
Row. DR.. McClintock, Death has been more
busy among STATESMEN of all ranks, especially
in America; but among those of wide world
celebrity whom he has called away may be no
ticed Lord Clarendon, Anson Burlingame
Pierre Soule, Earl Mayo, the Count de Montal-
embert, the Duke de Broglie, A. I. Marie, Of
the French provisional government OF 1873, r.
j Banche, and President Salnave, of Hayti
Literature has sustained by far the heaviest
losses. Foremost stands the name Of Charles
Dickens, and next to it that Of Alexander Du-
mas Then follow those Of Jehn +. Reade
THE poet Mark Lemon (editor Of the London
Punch, f. T. Blanchard, Cyrus Redding,
John p. Kennedey (author Of Life of Writ,
Geo D. Prentice, VIM. Gilmore Sims, &c. In
the department Of art the world has lost Mrs
Anna Cora Mowatt Richie, (actress and auth
or, Michael W. .Balfe, Lefebere Wey, Straus
and De Beriot composers and musicians
Joseph Mozier and Robert E. Launitz the
sculptors and Daniel Machse, one ct the great
est of English painters. Mr.. Maclise was en-
psged to be married to Miss Fanny Hogarth
whose melancholy end (she dropped dead after
dinner) has been patheticay alluded to by the
great novelist.
The military service ut home and abroad also
mourns its losses 50 does the naval indeed
the mortality among the superior officers OF the
navy has been extraordinary The names Of
Admirals Dahlgren, Faragut.and Breese; OF
Commodores Champlin, Richie, Boyle, Madi-
gan, Carter and Gardner, and OF Captains
Meade, Robinson and Harrison, will occur to
every Oas. And in the army and the recent
military service there is to be recorded the loss
of Generals George H. Thomas Mcaroarty,
Granger, Mower, Liddell, Ripley, Hall Ham,
bin Seebacl, Leech, Brooks and Hitchcock, and
their adyersaries in arms, Generals Robert E.
Lee Lew. F. Brantly and j. ". Sanford The
mortality among distinguished foreign military
men hss also been considerable The list in
cludes the Prince of Salm-Salm, the Count de
Flahault, Sir de Lacy Evans, Marshals st.
Jean d Angely and Hess, Generals Lowestine,
Guyon, (of Hungarian fame. Chruletf and
Douay Offoreign naval men the only one
known by repute here in Captain Cowper Coles
the architect of the unfortunate turret-shlp
Captain who went down with that ilfated yes
sci off Cape Finisterre, on the night OF the
ninth Of September. - :,
The law has lost at least one distinguished
man in our own country, the late Justice Gner,
and two in England, viz Sir Frederick Pol-
and Lord Justice Giffard Medicine has to
mourn for Sir James Y. Simpson and Professor
syme, of Edinburg Sir James CLARK, Sir VIM.
G. Hood, Or. Bright and DR. Copeland Of Lon
don DR. Gabarrus, of Paris, and Won Graete,
the great oculist of Berlin. The stage lin ad-.
dition to Mrs. Ritchie) misses the gifted Leyas-
yer, Leigh Murray, Lemaitre and Marie
Taglioni. And of those who may be classed as
celebrities, without being great, may be named
Jerome NapoleonB Bonaparte OF Baltimore Baron
Nathaniel Rothschid of Paris, Richard latter
sail Of London, 1.-THE great horse dealer,
Rpderer, (the great dealer in champagne,
and Greene, 1.-THE English eronaut, lmmortallzed
AN INQUIsrrIvE TRAyELER.-A correspon-
dent relates the following rs his own personal
experience:
left New York for Albany in no, very plea
SAINT mood. Getting up for an early train is
neither customary nor agreeable with me the
coffee was muddy and the toast abominable.
rot into muss with hackman about my fare
to the depot, my finger was iammed in the car
door, and fat man stepped on my toe rs
moved to my seat. My face, know, looked
forbidding, and though the Car was full, the
seat beside me was not taken We had gone
past two or three stations whena tall, broad
shouldered farmer looking fellow got into the
car and without by your leave, or lis this
scat engaged?' down he sat by me: | gave
him severe look, that ought to have ami
hilsted him. and the car moved on. By-and-by
my attention WAS attracted by gentle touch.
Pleasant day.
| gave him, to understand, in curt way,
that didn't care if it was. After awhile he
reached his long neck out by Inc and said yawn-
Looks as ef we should hev some rain,
l let the remark pass without reply, deter
mined he should not draw me out. After some
miles he again spoke:
Killed q hog last night
well, what that to me p said, sharply.
Guess hev much it weighed. ;,
20, don't bother me-s1 hundred pounds.
Guess ag'n, after pause.
We'll say hundred pounds.
The challenge to guess had tri1e OF intctes'
in it, but in moment, ashamed of having
shown. any at all, thrust my head out of the
window Ewaiting my sturdy associates further
advances. He made none, and after riding ter
or fifteen minutes, looked around. He Wa
staring out of the window, apparently lost IL
reflection
"How much did your cussed hog weigh, an!
how?" Iasked, as surly IS could. =,
His face didn't change muscle, though
thought his eye looked little mischievous'
he replied
Don't know, we didn't weigh him:
Fortunately for my peace ofmind, he got on
at the next station. 54
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