Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-12-18

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Tor notices over four lines
Lee Monumental Association.
OFFICE BOARD OF MANAGERS,
LEE MONUMENTAL ASSOCIATION
RICHMOND Va, Dee. 6, 1875
To the Southern Press:
ine General Assembly of Virginia incor-
porated this Association with view to the
erection, at Richmond ''of monument in
memory of General Robert E. Lee" and the
corporators have entrusted the execution of
this trust to Board of Managers, composed Of
the Governor Of Virginia, the Treasurer of II e
Commonwealth, and the Auditor OF Public Ac-
counts.
1t is the desire OF the Board that every
Southern family shal! be visited, and it is be-
lie Ved that the 10th of January next, the au-
nivcrsary of General Eee's birth, will be the
most suitable day for the general canvass to
take place; and circular letters have been pre-
pared requesting ordinaries, judges of counties
and mayors OF towns 10 the Southern States TO
lay OF their respective counties and towns in-
to numerous aud convenient divisions, and ap-
point cauvassers for each, who, upon official
notice given, shall, Oh that day, make the DOM
lcllary visits, and solicit generous Contributions
1t Is right and proper that all the Southern
people, and every admirer of General Lee,
should take part 10 this display Of gratitude
and affection; and there is no doubt that if ap.
piled to personally, they will literally respond
according to their ability. 1t may be, however,
that some county or toWo may be overlooked,
or that some official may decioe or neglect to
respond to the wishes of the Board.
Therefore, the earnest co operation of every
newspaper in the Southern States, religious
and secular, Is respectfully Invoked.
/. 10 give timely notice that it is the pur-
pose OF the Board, as far as ii can be done, to
canvass thoroughly 90 General Lees birthday
every county and town in the South.
q That every official who may fail to receive
the circular above referred to, being hereby
advised, is requested to execute the same
3. That where an official neglects or declines
to act, leading citizens OF such localities are So
lcited to undertake the canvass thereof
4. That all returns shall be made to the
Hon. Il. NJ. L. Hunter the Treasurer of the
Com monWealth, who is also the treasurer OF
the Board
Lastly. To give such other and further
aid as will tend to make this present effort
eminently successful
On behalf of the Board
S. BAssETT FRENCH, Secretary.
SATURDAY NIeHT.-How many kiss has
been given, how many curse, how many
caress, how many looks of hate, how many a
promise has been broken, how many heart
has been wrecked, bow many loved one has
been lowered to the barrow chamber, how many
q babe has gone forth from earth to heaven,
how many crib or cradle stands silent now,
which last Saturday night held the fairest of
the treasures OF the heart A week is a life.
A week is history. "A week marks events of
lodi h,oh IL
10 home, heart erriDg wauderer. Go home
to the cheer that awaits you. wronged waif, on
lte's breakers. 60 home to your family, man
of business Go home to those you love, man
OF toll, and give one night to the joys and com
forts fast flying by. Leave your books with
complexed figures leave everything-your
dirty shops, your busy store. Rest with those
you love; for God alone knows what next Sat.
urday night will bring you. Forget the world
Of care, the battles Of life which have furrowed
the week. Draw close around the family hearth.
Saturday night has awaited your comiDgin sad
pess, iD tears, 10 silence. Go home to those
you love, and as you bask in the loved presence
aUd meet to return to the loved embrace of
your hearts pet, strive ta be better man, and
to bless God for giving his weary children so
dear stone, marking progress on the river OF
life, as Saturday night.
CHARITY.-We don't mean aims giving A
man may give money to every beggar he
meets. He may subscribe and pay to all the
benevolent objects of the day, he may build
churches and send fuel to the widow, and cdu:
cate the orphan, and yet not be charitable in
the true sense Of the word. Much good is
done, by even bad men, to show off, Pride
prompts some to give what stingioess would
until hnlH NJ, l.
Thousand dollar benefaction, and parsimony
would scratch out the name if it had good
chance. Charity means honest love for man
because he Is mau, irrespective Of all sur
roundings. 1t is not charity whcn gift of one
hundred dollars may Abe the price to get the
name of being charitable. He who does not
give tor the love of God and man, need not
give at all, so far as the giver is concerned, for
the glver will not be twice blessed and hard
iy once. He who gives good advice in the right
spirit has charity. Some really good people
cxhort the sinful n so domiueering STYLE,
that anger is the result instead Of penitence.
Others again rebuke so strongly on the i am
holler than thou principle, that the person re-
buked, dcspalrlng OF ever becoming 80 sanity
as the censor, in despair becomes greater Of
fender than ever.
10 Culpeper many persons are Sinking the
responsibility of paying their debts, by saying
they lost so much by the failure Of the Cul-
pepper Bank, wheo, in fact, they never had
dollar in the bank or got one out Of it. This
Is the old old story.
Mr.. John Y. Foster Newark editor, struck
fame iu one day by writing letter to Mr..
Blaine, advising him to join an anti Catholic
order. Unless Mr.. Blaine rides the goat"
be cannot count upon New jersey anyhow.
Foster says so.
The average retail price in New York of
lamp chimney is ten cents yet they are said to
be bought at wholesale by steamboats, at quar-
ter OF q cent each.
The dam of the two lion cnhs lately Uttered