Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-12-02
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Intensely cold weather is reported from
nearly every section of the country
Governor Allen, of Ohio, is suffering from
chills and fever.
The seven, twelve aud twenty-four cent
postage stamps are out of issue, and cannot
longer be had at the postofices.
Vice President Wilson is said to have left
an estate worth about $4,000. and his place in
Natick is valued at $4,000.
Speaking of new club with home COM
forts, an exchange asks, why not have
home with club comforts2'
The late Vice President has been buried at
last. His journey to the grave was longer than
some peoples journey through life
In the Judicial District of Lohr, in Bavaria,
a case was recently decided which has been in
the courts since the fifteenth century,
The salaries of the subordinates 10 the Gus
tom House at Norfolk have been reduced from
$500 to $500 per annum.
The 20 cent pieces have proved failure in
California. The San Francisco Post says
Nobody seems to want either to pass or to re-
ceive them Send them up this way.
Prof. Proctor is in his thirty-ninth year, has
written twenty three books, and has wife and
eleven children, pair of twins having been
born last week.
An Oswego family have issued invitations
for silver wedding, and ncosed little card
bearing the timely warning: "Please avoid
dollar stores"
An exchange says fashionable young people
are calling upon somebody to invent new
dance. Suppose somebody invents one where
in the young lady daLces around the house and
looks after everything.
Steel rails sixty feet in length have just been
cast at Plttsburg, Pa. They are tie first steel
rails OF this length ever cast 10 any part of the
world. They are said to cost no more by weight
than those Of the ordinary length.
A Kingston, Jamaica, dispatch says that a
Hindoo employed on plantation in that island
has beheaded FIVE children while in a religious
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about house.
The Russian Ministry of Justice has given
instructions that hencetorth corporal punish
ment shall be discontinued in its application to
females. Hitherto women have been punished
the same as men with knouts and rods
The Richmond Wing will have its joke, and
| fun fba h,,o :.
as the "WikeDagemote, or wise men, of
Virginia, as the ancient Anglo.Saxons called
those intrusted With the law making power.
Maj.Hunter, the genial editor of the Wiz
chester Times, went to the ST. Louis Conyen-
| ton, and not having been that lar away from
home for long time, he takes over TWO of the
long columns of his paper to tell about it..
Come down to town oftener.
AS winter is now upon us, and as it is likely
| to prove severe, it may be we'll Tor the various
relief societies to reorgauize for the work of the
| season. They have done great service in past
years. and the present winter seems likely to
call for their utmost energies.
The Richmond Enquirer states that Gen.
| Eppa Hunton has been brought out as can
| dldate for u. S. Senator. We amt certain,
but we thuk We might hazard the assertion
| that the General is very we'll contented where
he is, and only asks, in the language of some.
| body, Ito be let aloue.'
We have been at loss for the reason why
there should be such rush for Office, but here
it is, as given by the Richmond Wing =
There is such general poverty that positions
are now sought by gentlemen of culture and
high standing who, 10 the good days before the
war, would not have dreamed Of being caudi.
dates for them Humble places are now sought
! by very high people"