Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-05-28

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RAILROAD FUN.
From the Dayton Democrat.
The following take of on recent general
order issued by Superintendent Howard, Of the
{, 5. and e. (Saudusky) railroad, has been
ro>tcd, and creates quite furry in railroad
circles
HEADQUARTERS G. S. AND c..
February TO- 1875.
General Order No. 10
Hereafter all the employees Of this company,
when on duty, will wear the regulation uoi-
form a follows:
Prcsldeut-Plug hat, red band, red drawers,
blue socks, aud will be more particularly knowo
by the company he keeps.
Superintendent Blue cap, gold band, spot
ted drawers, white star behind, strictly sober
on the 81 aud Dist of each mouth.
Geaera Ticket Agent-Piug hat, blue band,
blue drawers, aud paper collar consecutlvcly
numbered.
General Freight Ageut-Plug hat, white
band, varlcgated drawers, aud diamond on
both hauks.
Auditor-Strav hat green band, no drawers,
white duck partS, and toothpck.
Treasurer-Straw hat yellow drawers, paper
collar, aud the letters Y B. conspicuousy dis
Played ON seat of pants.
Master Mechanic Plug hat, yellow band, no
drawers, no socks, but mustard plaster GU
behind
Rad Master Plug hat caved in on both
sides, red top boots, and black eye.
Train Dispatcher-This duck is expected to
hold himself up as pattern tor all tralo men,
and urtil further orders their uniform will be
blue cap, gold band blue neck-tie, and red and
white star on each flank.
Couductors--Blue cap, gold band, and blue
star on seat of pants except when rubulng al
ter dark, when red star will be shown.
Baggage and Train Meu-Blue cap, white
baud no star but full moon painted on seat
of rants, Which must be consplcuously display
ed when on duty.
All employees Of this Company found on
duty without the uniform will be shot.
Nv order of GENERAL MANAGER
BoBo1INKs.-A writer in the Washington
Star says:
Just now, here, the fields and meadows
abound with these interesting birds. They, the
autuuual rice birds OF the Potomac, the or,olau
of Georgia, the butter. birds OF regions still
more southerly, and-D some localities, from
the smirched white of the backs OF the males
-skuuk blackbird and the boboluk OF the
North are now making their verual migration
to the Northern States. The sexes, it will be
generally known, are separated 10 this spring
passage into the temperate regions. The te-
males now, have the same blinde faded green
color that both sexes have IN the autumu,Wh
their flight is southwark. ln the fall they
haunt the river marshes; DOW the meadows
This peculiar chromatc metamOrphoss OF plu-
mage OF the male birds the strange change OF
habit of both sexes, with the varying seasons
of the year, lead the mass of the people into
strange misconceptions of their identity. They
will stay with Us just long enough to relieve
the visit of the formality Of a mere call, and
to be observed, and will soon appear IN the
vet higher attitudes whittier their northWard
flight will terminate It is no mere summer
vacation" with them now in prospect, but
business" laying, incubation, and the rear
ug of reinforcements to the bObohnk tribe. A
few days will find them ID northern ONO and
PENNSYLVANIA, and all over New York ADD the
New England States, where the males, 10 the
perfection of their vernal :piunlage. will make
the meadows merry with their medley carols all
the summer mornings.
THE BLACK EYED PEA AS FERTILIZER
Mr.. John B. Norris says in an article IN the
Virginia Patron, that many farmers now poor
could be III .dc rich if they knew the power
aud value of this pea as fertilizer. Much OF
the old worn out lands, enormously called,
would be restored to a primitive condition oy
the proper use of this pea.
Mr.. Norris insists that these lands are not
worn out by cultivation, as is generally sup
posed. but their condition is the result OF por-
GUS, gravclly substratum, which permits every
thing like plant food to percoIatc through to a
&t1nh beyond the reach of the pillow, or roots
of ordinary crops. There IS, he says, some
times an accumulation OF this plants nutrl-
mcut>, six or eight feet below the surface,
which has been, from all time, accumulaung 10
such large bodies, as to make 1t prohtaole 70
reach it with the pick and shovel, and cast 1t
out on the surface. But nature can remove 1t
with far more economy and rapidity with the
black eyed pea than with any implements OF
man. The root Of this particular pea seems to
have stronger Instinct, and will do more to re-
ncw its nourshment than almost any other we
know of. |, will pass down for several feet II
tn" food it wants is there, and 10 this way 1t
btiugS to the surface this fertilizer: which In
time, by loug Continued rains, will be carried
down again If it is not prevented.
The SANDHlLLERs As we were passing
through the regions of the .sandblllers, 10 South
Carolina, writes correspondent, SAID:
The saudhillers kind OF people are
they"
The sandhillers are the queercst people We
have, aud though poor, not unluterestlny. 11ey
live 10 this belt OF country contiguous to Co
lumbia, where the soil is pretty much bare sand
unluvltng to the eye, aud scrubb,ly numbered
with pine and small oak Their little plank cot
'ases, almost black with their exposure to the
SUI; their small figures, almost Stunted 1t would
srru, but capable of great fatigue; their dwarf
cattle, and dcce character, make them SORT
ciindepeudent peasantry, not unlike what is
found in the old parts Of the north Of Europe.