Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-12-23


ing eight lines fifty cents.
ROADS IN THE V.ALLEY-The Supervisors
OF Rockbridge have given notice to the Valley
Railroad Company Of their Intention to with
draw the county subscri ption ($525, ,O00) to said
road. This grows out of the refusal OF Baltimore
to pay her promised subscription 81 600 900.
The effect of this will be to arrest the construc-
ton of the Valley road beyond Staunton.
Says the Staunton Virginian:
In the meantime the Shenandoah Valley
Railroad Company are taking active steps to
push forward their Improvement to an inter-
section with the Chesapeake and Ohio road,
either at Fishersvie or Staunton, and thence
on to the Southwest, Mississippi Valley and the
Pacific. They have placed upon the records of
crossing mortgage for $3.50, ,O00 which con-
veys the road-bed, franchises and other effects
of the company to Edgar a. Thompson, Presi-
dent of the Pennsylvania Central railroad, to
secure the payment Of the amount mentioned
of the first mortgage bonds which will be
placed on the market to raise money to con-
struct and equip the road Thos. A. Scott is
Vice. President of the Pennsylvania Central
and President of the Shenandoah Valley road.
The present indications are that the Pennsyl-
vania Central company will take hold of the
Shenandoah Valley enterprise and push it for
ward with its proverbial energy to its connec-
ton with the Southern lines under its control,
which reach out into Texas, and look forward
to the Pacific at San Diego, California, along
the 32d parallel Of latitude. y
PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN VIRGINIA.-The annual
report of the Superintendent of Public Iustruc-
ton, (Rev. DR.. VIM H. Rutfner) has been
laid before the public.
1.-The number of pupils attending school
during the year has been l66, 81 +; number Of
pupils in average daily attendance 95,4
average cost of tuition per month, seven:
ty cents per pupil value of public. school
property, s3S7,672; number OF teachers in
public schools, 1858, average monthly salaries
of teachers, S29.Sl number of private prlm-
ary schools, 64S; number of private high
schools, lS7 number of colleges and technical
schools, 81 total number of private schools,
S56 total number of pupils in private schools,
20, 491 ; cost Of tuition per month N primary
schools, 81 90 !; cost of tuition per mouth in
high school, 81 81 cost of tuition per month
in colleges and technical schools, ST. The
whole number of public schools in 1871 was
3,O47, and in 1872, S,695, an increase of 64S.
In 1871 the whsle number of pupils enrolled
in public schools was Isl, ,OSS; IN 1872 1t was
l66, ,377. an increase of 30. .2S9.
The Superintendent says the public school
system is growing in efficiency and popular
favor. There has never been any violent op
position to the system, and the pre- ejudces
against it are rapidly disappearing. Dr. Ruff
ner says, 1T is pleasant to observe that our IN
telligent citizens are becoming more and more
favorable to the education of the negro.
ANrI-EGG NoG MOVEMENT The the move
ment against the use OF egg-nog, wines aud other
Intoxicating liquors during the Christmas and
New Years holidays is earnest. The City
Temperance Convention and the Young Mems
Christian Association have issued circular
on the subject as follows: You are respect
fully but earnestly requested to call the atten-
ton of your congregation on Sunday next to the
Dernicious practice of setting out egg nog,
wine, and other liquors during the Christmas
and New Years holidays, more especially be-
fore the young, and Of tempting and entlcllng
them to partahe thereof Urge them to dis,
couutenance this custom In every way possible.
As before stated mass meeting on the subject
will be held at Maryland Institute on Sunday
evening, at which a number of prominent
speakers are expected to be present. -BdH.
tSm.
Curious INvEsTIGATIoN.- interesting
as we'll as curious Investigations have Teen made
hy NJ. Dutour, as to the rate OF growth OF the
nails. Among the results thus arrived at ap-
Dears the fact that the nails of the little hn-
GERS grow more slowly than those of the other
fingers and thumbs, the difference being, about
one. ninth, The mean rate of fthese-excludlng
thc little fpgers-is about the hundredth part
ofap inch in ten days The rate of growth on
the thumbs is apparently greater than that on
the six longer fingers. The nails grow at about :.
the same rate on both hands. The rate OF
growth is not constant throughout the iepgth 1S
~ tbe nail it being greater near the base. The
enbstance of the nail advances equally through
ont it's BREADTH The rate OF nail growth 10 an
;ndividnal at intervals of several years sho"
sensible differences. 4
Coon REsoLUTIoNs.-Th are some SEN
s;hIa oirls down in Maine, and, if We were
yonng and unmarried, we think we should go
n that direction for wife In the hrst class
Of the high school in Portland, all the young
ladies, with only two exceptlons nave agleesu
to adopt for school dress PLAIN, suDsta9tial'
and not expensive material OverskHts, races
and yclvets are to be wholly dlscaroeo, anu
ribbons used only to limited extene. No
iewelry except plain pin and one plain ring
;s 70 be worn. The girls agree to wear no oth
or costume to school between this time ana
tbe;r graduation next June. Among other
things i they agree to discard all slang talk, and nd
to make their Engish as chaste and pure as as
their dress. Those young ladies' deseise 10 TO
have their names lettered 10 gold, anu Il tue 1,e
teacber Of that school will send them to us we
,eaIhs, u;II have e it done. State Journal
One of our exchanges notes the remarkable ao;
circumstance that every dime of aid 'assar Gol- no
lere has ever received has been from men IL lhe
only only gift ever received from woman was tbs a
contribution cont of hundred or two volumes to the ne
Gbrarv This is not as wonderful, after all; as as
it appears at first sight. It is nothing more tnan
PRACTICAL endorsement of the truth that = men me-
APPRECIATE women more than women DO tnea ae;d
selves. Lady Mary Wortey, Montafa Hasa sa'o, :,
the only thing that reconciied her 70 oerng srr1
woman was the fact that she cou'9n a. av;5en,ly 1
ONE If Vassar is to flourish, II IS e'lueuii'