Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-03-03
FOREIGN EIIS5S.

LONDON, March Q Statutes were fire on
Saturday IN several places on rcccipt Of the
news of the verdict in Che 1ichbornc case. At
Wardour, Wiltshire, a cannon cxpi,lcd and
several persons were killed and wounded.
Some democratic journals dcplnrr the verdict,
deucubce Chief Justice Cockbnrn f.. unfair
ness 10 the conduct Of the trial, aud quote
against him The criticisms of Caleb Gushing in
his recent book on the Geneva arbitration.
A conference of leading workingmen, repre-
scnting SO, 900 Of their class in he west Of Eng
land, was held at Bristol last night \ rcsolu-
ton was adopted iavOring settlement by arb-
tratiou Of all international disputes.
The Peabody trustees report that their OK
pcndtures for 1873 amounted to $4,000.
PARIS, March Il :dru Rollin has been
elected to the National Assembly FROM the de-
partmcnt of Vanclusc to fill vacancy. ilc
received wajority OF 5000 votes over his OPP.
poncnt.
Il is reported that the Count dc Chambord
is seriously i'll.
HAVANA, March A detachment Of 800
volunteers, the first mobizad since The Cap.alu
Generals DEGREES were issued, went to the
Ciuco Villas district to-day for active service
iu the field Two thousand more leave to- night
for Puerto Principe.
The Governor of Sagua LA Grandc aunouuc
cs the defeat and dispersion Of the in>urgcnt
force at Mulcacita, near Sauto Domingo, within
two days after It's appearance.
\ HUNDRED YEARS AGO Osc hundred
and ten years ago thare was not u single white
man 10 what is now * .ntucky Ohio, Indiana
or Illinois. Then, what is now the most -four
ishing part Of the Uulted States, was as little
known as the country in the heart OF Africa
itself. It was not till l77G that Boone left his
home 10 North Caloiua to became the first
settler in Kentucky. And the first pionccrs of
Ohio did not settle till twenty years later still.
\ hundred years ago Canada bclpng.d to
France, aud Washington Was Il modest Fir-
giua colonel, and the Uutcd States the most
loyal part Of the British Empire, aud scarcely
speck on the political horizon indicated the
struggle that in score OF years was Ia lay the
| Inuudation of the greatest Republic Of the
| world.
A hundred years ago there were but four
small newspapers in AmerlcI; steam cugiucs
had not been imagined, aud Iocomnivcs and
steamboats,, and railroads, aud tc!cgraphS, and
postal cards, and friction matches and reyoi-
| ycrs, and percussion caps, aud brc2cil-!Gailng
guns, aud stoves aud furnaces and gas for
dwellings,, aud ludia rubber shoes, and Spau,d
lug glue, aud sewing machines, and anthra-
cite coal, and photographs, and chrome paint
! Jugs, and kerosene OIL and the safety lamp,
and the compound bIowpipe, and tree schools,
and spring mattresses. aud wood engraving,
and Brussels carpets, and lever watches, ahd
greeubacks, and cotton and wuoilcn factories,
in anything like the present meaning Of these
terms were utterly unknown.
A hundred years ago the spinning wheel WIS
in almost every family, and clothing was spun
and woven, and made up in the household; and
the printing press was a cll:ubrOus machlnc,
worked by hand; aud nail, or brick, or ~
knit. or pair Of shears or scissors or rhZ y,
or woven pair Of stockings, or an axe, or h,c,
or shovel, or Il lock or key, or p ate of glass
of any size, was not made IN what Is BOW the
United States. Even Ia 100 there were only
seventy five postutfices in the country, and the
whole extent of our post routes was less than
nineteen hundred miles Cheap postage was
unheard OF, and had any pne suggested the
transmission Of messages with lightning speed
he would have been thought utterly insane
The microscope on the one hand aud the tcc-
scope on the other, were in their Infancy a. in
sruments of SCIENCE and genlogy and chcmis-
try were almost unknoWu. In Il word, it is
true that to the century passed have been al
lotied more Improvements, in their bearing on
the comfort and happiness of mankind than To
any other which has elapsed slice the creation
Of the world.
With all these wonderful improvements with
in the century, who Would allow such narrow
and contracted views az to obj CT 10 a suitable
Centennial celebration Of the marvellous pro-
grcss of the age? BuH In.cyIc,tu.