Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-10-24

ton RepuDllcan from rallS Cnurcn says.
Our little village is growing beyond all ex-
humber of houses are in course of erection.
Messrs. Hollidge, Roberts, Fills Wells, Dr.
Lloyd, Forbes, kinsey, Major Brown, Dar
ling, Pogul, Hubbe, Crossman and others are
erecting 6ne residences, while MIR. Geo. Man
kin has just completed large and commod
Gus building for store, and our genial post
master, Edward Birch, has just completed a
large building to be used for store purposes
and the postof6ce.
jefferson Institute is destined to be one of
the fuest Institutions Of learning in this section,
it not 10 the State Accommodations for one
hundred and fifty scholars are provided, with
their teachers, and the prospect now is that
We shall soon have to provide more room and
employ more teachers.
Thomas Jefferson described this locality as
one of the healthest in the United States,
which, together with the fact that our citizens
are strictly of moral and religious class makes
it desirable for the citizens of Washington,
Georgetown, Alexandria and the surrounding
country to send their children here to be edu-
Gated.
Many of our citizens possess fne literary
tastes, and for its development course OF
lone lectures has been established. The Sec
ond entertainment of the series took place
Wednesday evening The beautiful audience
room of the Presbyterian church was brilliant
ly lighted, and the exercises werc opened by
Nlessrs Sargent and Brown and Misses Hogan
and Sargent, who rendered the quartete,
Come, Holy Spirit, very finely, Mrs. Z. II:
Buxton was then introduced to the large and
intelligent audience, who read Tennyson'
May Queen with surprising rhetorical effect
which drew forth marked expression OF JOY,
alternating with sorrow, as she carried her au,
dlence on, step by step, through this beautiful
poem.
The lecturer of the evening was Dr. j. j.
Moran. His subject was 'Mental Culture,
and the main portion of his discourse was dl-
rected to the young people of our comm unity.
A writer says: "The Spauiards have mode
Of preserving which is quite peculiar to them
selves A slice being cut off from one end oil
large melon, the seeds and soft parts of the
flesh are removed, aud into the hollow thus
formed luscious heterogeneous crowd OF april
cots, nectarineS and peaches, of oranges, both
sweet and bitter, OF slices of pineapples, of
strawberries, of raspberrles, is pressed and
closely packed; then all is stepped 10 the pre-
serving sprup, the slice is restored to the end
of the melon, reunited by the sickness OF the
sugar How long it remains under treatment,
how often the syrup may be made to simmer,
are details unknown to US; what we do know is
that the foaI result is altogether the supremest
form OF preserved fruit.
1t is estimated that of IL, 100000 of women
10 America, 100000 wear calico dresses,
more or less; that the spirit of economy has,
during the past year, induced them to forego one
dress apiece from their usual outlay; that the
average calico dress contains eleven yards, and
that, consequently, there has been loss to the
trade by this retrenchment of III 900, 900 yards
This is nearly the entire product of all the mills
OF Massachusetts for year.