Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-11-19
EXPERIMENTS WITH TEE GATLINa GUN

UA Id anu SA1 ~ MA 1c, ht tFlNE DOLLARS
paR ANNUm, payable in advance.
EXPERIMENTS WITH TEE GATLMa GUN.
Fort Monroe. Nov. IA second series Of ex-
perimeuts with the Gating gun, for the pur
pose of testing its efficiency against regiment
of infantry advancing by column of company,
was tried here to-day; under the direction of
the former board Of officers, Of which Gen. Gil
more is president.
For this purpose ten targets. one hundred
feet in length, werc placed at distance Of fifty
feet apart, the first being one thousand yards
from the gun. ln the first trial six hundred
shots we're fred. of which FIVE hundred aud
twenty-six struck the targets, but the party who
was handling the guu did not have the proper
range, and second trial was had. 1u this, as
in the former, six huudred rounds were fired
with the following results: The first target was
struck three hundred and seven times; the
second, two hundred and forty-four; the third,
the fifth, one; the sixth, none; the seventh -four;
the eighth, three; aod the niuth, three; while
the teuth was not touched.
When it is stated that the targets were made
of inch pine boards, and the targets were struck
10 all six hundred and ninety-one times, the
tremendous destructive power of this modern
implement of war can be fully and really realized.
The time consumed 10 firing these six hundred
rounds was very short, and had il been in re-
ally regiment acknowledgement on the double
q1ck, the gun could have been worked with
such effect that scarcely a man would have
lived to reach it.
CARE FOR Cows.-An enterpri>ing farmer
of Western New \ ork communicated to us re-
Gently bis practice in the management IF his
COWS during the seasons when grass begins TO
tail. He says the great secret Of rearing and
feeding stock successfully, is to keep what you
get to save every pound of & ssh and fat that
is produced. The question l,iog still back of
this is how shall the fat and flesh be retained ?
What to do and how to do it, is the question.
Hitherto have always commenced feeding my
COWS with meal in October, and continued the re-
made more butter in one Of those autumn
months than 10 any other month of the grazing
season. | have pint cup with haring sides;
this holds, when dipped in and heaped up full
about two quarts Of good Indian corn aud oats,
Of equal parts, made OF the pure grain. | never
cob" my animals. [ am down on that cob
system of MANAGEMENT. With every fifteen
bushels of corn and oats minge, before it is
ground, about one bushel of faxseed. This
improves the quality of the feed for animals OF
any kind, as ground faxseed when mingled
with grain is far better for milch COWS, for hor-
ses, for fatteuing sheep, or for young stock of
any kind, than oil meal. [ SOW little haxseed
every year, for the express purpose of having
the seed to mipgle with the graio that is
ground into meal for my COWS and other stock.
thiuk this the true ~ayto make money-.--to
save all that is made without losing any portion.
The little losses abstract the profits.
A BACHELOR MADE HAPPY AT the recent
election in Illiuois there were thirty-four ladies'
running in thirty counties for the office OF
County Superintendent of Schools. That, at
least, may be called good start, under law
only eight mouths old. Iu Alexander and Mer
Ger counties, two ladies ran against each other
and In Cass county there were three eontestlog
the field, and the victor not only defeated the
other two, but two men also, who had not gal
iantry enough to withdraw and let the three
ladies have the 6eld to themselves. As an ln-
dication of the good time coming, the head
lines of the Aledo Democratic Banner, rubbish
ed in Mercer county, are significant. Under a
defiant rooster, with head and tail erect, occur
the following startling announcements: The
Whole Anti Monopoly Ticket Elected" Corn
stalks VIII Make Sugar" Miss Walker is de-
feated by Thir.y-one Votes" Miss Frazier
Elected" "A Certain Bachelor Happy This
tells the story eoquently, and leaves the reader
at liberty to imagine the joy of Miss Frazier
and the certain bachelor. and the correspond
ing discontinue of Miss Walker and the ''otber
feiler" Under the new reg me, the sewing
circles and evening meetings, and the Sunday
night viSitatiOnS OF young gentlemen 10 school
districts will no longer be the tame affairs they
have been. a new element enters the social
circle which will not disturb it, but heig ghteu
it's euioyments for the election 10 Mercer county
shows that "a certain bachelor is happy, not
withstanding the fact that Miss Frazier is
elected.
PRESIDENTIAL GLASSWARE. the Coru-
ing glass works set of glassware, destined for
the presidential mansion, has just been com
pleted 1t is described as follows by the Eli
mira Advertiser: II consists OF two dozen COB
lets, which are cut about halfway up the bowl,
the remainder of the bowl being richly en-.
graved, and prominent among it Is the United
States coat of arms. -Four dozen champagne
glasses and saucer bowls cut aud engraved as
the goblets; two dozen regular champagne
glasses. engraved as the others; Six dozen
cauary-colored hockglasses; seven dozen ruoy
bowl flint stem sautern glasses. These coloreo
glasses are very superior.
There are also four dozen caret, SIX dozen
sherry, and four dozen cordial glasses, two doz
en- 6oger- bowls, which are cut and engraved
With the coat OF arms; three dozen puucn-
glasses with handles; four dozen ice-cream
plates, cut and engraved as the glasses. The
value Of this glass is about s. 900. 1t is not
full SET, but ordered to make good the full set
Seot to the White House some time since. 1t
isaIl gotten up with the best of taste, and Of
the most exquisite pattern. The engraving is
perfect We uoticed, beside the above, large
number of entirely new and beautiful samples
preserve-dlshes, shell aud other forms; also
bottles, decanters, &C., which far surpass any
thing We have ever seen"
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