Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-10-21
EDITORIAL NOTES.

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Bank closed its doors on the 10th. No parti-
culars
The present population Of the United States
Is etimated at over As, 00000 with 81, 900, 900
in 1880.
Among those who called on Secretary Chand
Ter yesterday was Colonel John S. MOsby.
What you doin' dar?
Sixty-scven journals are now published III
Rome, Of which only five are religious. Before
1870 only two we're published.
The number Of American colleges is reported
by the National Commissioner Of Education to
be 1913; male students attending the same,
25,00O; female students, 2,349.
10 less than two weeks the election for mem
bcrs Of the Legislature will be upon US. Grid
up your loins aud be ready for the fight yc
Conservatives and the victory is yours.
1t is said and believed that Mr. Jno. S. Wise
is the ''Old Fashioned Man. who has been
writing such scathing articles in the Richmond
Wing against Gen. Bradley L. Johnson.
Witnesses have been before the grand jury
at Washington the past day or two to testify
10 the Urtowski timber fraud case, by which
the Treasury was recently swindled out of about
$4,000.
The statement that Mr.. Revcrdy Johnson
had withdrawn his offer to the Baltimore Am
erican to plead its cause in the forthcoming
suit Of Gov. Groomc and Comptroller Wool
ford is positively denied.
Russia leather mutfs will be among the nov
elites of winter. They arc Of Vienna work
mauship, and come in black, brown and lead
color and arc lined with tur or lambs wool
Large bows ornament tho ends.
The proceedings OF the Court of Commits
sioners of Alabama Claims were somewhat en-
ivened recently, by the appearance Of an in,
sane man, who claimed the whole British
award, of sl5 900, 900, as his own.
France has l23 900 industrial establishments,
giving work to about | 800 900 mon. Manu-
facturerS make country. Oh that somc Gu
terprising individual or individuals would start
half dozen or 50 here. What town this
would be in little while
Africa annually consumes IOO 900 bottles oil
champagne, Spain 500 O0O Belgium 10000,
Italy 100000, Holland 600 900, Germany
| 500 900. England 100000, Russia 1000,
00O, France 2,O00,0O0. and North America
10000 900. Draw the chanoagne mildly.
The New York Times says that Chandler
has the reputation of being frrt rate story
teller and an amusing man to sit up with of
night, but beyond this it does not know that he
has any better recommendation for the position
of Secretary Of the Interior.
Judging from the published lis; of the dele
gates in attendance upon the convention of
physicians and surgeons Of the Confederate
Army and Navy, 10 session in Richmond, near
ly all the survivors must live 10 that city. The
fact is that physicians in full practice dou't
have time to be attending conventions
The following from the Stanton Spectator
Is applicable in many quarters Of the State :
There is DO virtue in voting simply for can
ddates of our personal choice, for in that case
there is no conhict between inclination and
duty, but when, through sense of duty, we
vote tor candidates who are not our personal
choice we perform a virtuous act. :"
Dead OIL" the rcsiduary product Of the
manufacture Of illuminating gas, very deadly
compound, having the combnd odors Of pc
troleum and creosotc, will instantly destroy the
little tufts Of grass which insist on growing on
carriage ways. 1t costs only few cents gal
lon, and is very easily applied. OF course this
is intended for next spring
On Monday last at Amherst &. H., Mr.
Coleman, the independent candidate for the
Legislature, met Mr.. Il. Il. Ccghill, the Con-
servative nominee, in discussion and was
handled without gloves" whercupon Cole
man drew knife Oh Coghill, and for time
there was a prospect of somebody's getting
hurt, and il future coroncr's inquest strongly
Infatuated. The difficulty, however, Was final
y settled. The atmosphere down in that sec
ton appears to be imprcgnated with fight.
Burning Of II Court House.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette. |
PRINCETON, MURcER COUNTY, w. VA,
Oct. IA very great calamity bcfcl our
town and county on the night of the 18th inst
The County Court had begun its session on