Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-10-23


burg correspondent of the Loudoun Enterprise
says: Among the road ases..before the last
term of the County Court was one pettioned
for to be opened from the Marble Quarry to
Carter's Mil-there connecting with the Aldie
and Leesburg Turnpike. This petition was
granted upon condition that the Marble Quarry
Company would contribute five hundred dollars
to the expenses of opening the road. The road
is to cost fifteen hundred doIlars. Several
facts, of great interest tv the whole people Of
houdoun, were brought out during the discus
sion of this subject. The lessees of this Com
pany have already spent in our county forty.
three thousand dollars, all of which has been
distributed among our people. 1t is confident
ly expected by the company that this Quarry
will ultimately be worth, for taxation, over
million of dollars The company have so much
faith IN this estimate, that 10 addition to the
$4,000 already spent they are still spending
their money freely to develope it. The road
peritioned for and granted by the Court, is in.
tended to give the lessees practicable outlet to
Ohio Railroad When it is completed they
can bring the marble to Leesburg, by teams,
without difficulty 1t is supposed that other val
liable Quarrries of marble will be discovered in
Loudoun.
THE New LORD CHANCELLOR OF ENGLAND.
The following is brief sketch of Sir Roundell
Palmer who has been elevated to the office Of
Lord Chancellor of England, and keeper of the
Great Seal, (the highest Office under the Brit
ish crown, in succession to Lord Hatherley:
He was born in the year 1872, and is, conse-
quently, sixty years of age His father was
clergyman of the Established Church, and his
mother Dorothea Richardson, the youngest
of Gladstone, county York. Sir Roundell
Palmer married in the year 1913, Lady Laura,
second daughter of William, eighth Earle of
Wadgrave. He was educated at Rugby, Win:
chester, and at Trinity College, Oxford, and
was Fellow of Magdalen College, He was
called to che English Bar in the year 1897,
was Queens Counsel in lS49, Solicitor General
lS6l-62 and Attorney General 1886. He
has represented, at different periods, Plymouth
and Richmond in the House of Commons, and
is a man of great learning, vast experience,
ready executive tact and much force OF express
sion, as was evidenced during the, time of his
attendance in Geneva at the tribunal arbltra-
ton of the Alabama claims. His title in the
pcerage will be Lord Selborne. of Selborne, in
the county of Hampshire
TEACH THE WOMEN TO SAvE.-There's the
secret A saving woman at the head OF the family
is the very best savings bank established-one
which receives deposits daily and hourly. with
no costly machinery to manage it. The idea OF
saving is pleasant one, and If the women
would imbbe it at once, they would cultivate
and adhere to it, and thus when they are not
aware of it would be laying the foundation OF
competent security 10 stormy time, and
shelter in rainy day. The woman who sees to
her own house, has large field to savein The
best way to make her comprehend it IS to keep
au account of all current expenses. Probably
not one women 10 ten has an idea how much
are the expenditures of herself and family.
Where from one to two thousand dollars are
expended annually, there is a chance to save
something if the effort is made. Let the house
wife take the idea, act upon it, and she will
save many doars-perhaps hundre eds-where
before she thought it impossible. This, is a
duty, yet not prompting Of avarice, but
moral obligation that rests upon the woman as
we'll as the man.
A BEAUTIFUL MANTLE ORNAMENT.-A very
tlo orn.mant NAV he obtained bV