Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-10-19
EDITORIAL. NOTES..

about to be issued.
The London Times considers that "the coull-
try is recovering slowly from great commercial
depression. y So mote it be-
Emperor William, of Germany, is seventy.
eight years old. He Is Continually on the move
and bears the fatigue OF travel remarkably we'll.
BY the census Of Louisiana just completed
it appears that The whites number 4l4 GIG, and
the colored people 450,Gll.
The Cincinnati Enquirer estimates loss OF
$4,000 votes to the Allen ticket in consequence
of the issue made on the school question.
The Cuban iusurrectiou has now lasted seven
years, with fair prospect for further con-
tinuancc.
The number of deaths Of colored persons 10
Washington during the last week was nearly
double the mortality Of the whites for the same
period.
A paper has just been started at the western
extremity Of Lake Superior all of whose name
up to the present is the kamiuisliquia Prram-
buator and Thunder Bay Prototype.
An excursion of editors from West Virginia
reached Philadelphia last night. They leave to-
pight for the West. Wonder how many boua
hde editors there are 10 the party?
The Attorney General is of opinion that
cigar boxes cannot lawfully be made of any
material incapable of being branded with hot
iron.
"Greeubacks' and tie backs" are the most
popular inventions of the day, yet it is geDer-
ally conceded that both need Expansion, 1"
says Little, of the fredericksburg News, and
he ought to know
1t is reported that number of Fredcricks-
burgers made investments 10 the MONTPELIER
lottery, and the Herald thinks so from the
elonga,ion Of some faces il saw two days alter
the drawing.
Instead of being defaulter, as published
Geo. W. Eidridge, late deputy collector, fourth
district, Va, had overpaid his dues to the Gov
ernment by the amount of one cent, which Was
duly and formally RENTED to him.
A Kansas Baptist Association have resolved:
That ln our opiuiou the most betting part
which the Bap,ists Of Kansas should take in
the Centennial movement would be Que con
centrated effort to pay their church debts
Mr.. Gladstone is given to chopping down
trees for exercise. He Was lately observed
working IN true woodman fashion, with his
braces thrown off behind him, aud his shir,
collar untastcucd.'
The Washington Republican of to-day pub
fishes serentecn columns Of report on the Red
Cloud, Indian, Agency, 10 small type. |. the
Republican insane or does it take its readers
for lunatics?
Major John W. Daniel, of Lynchburg, will
deliver the annual address before the Virginia
Association Of the Army of Northern Virginia,
at Richmond, on the 18th instant. There are
few more finished orators in the State or out Of
it than Major Daniel
And now statue is TO be erected 90 an
island 10 New York bay by Franco American
union formed in Paris to commemorate the
brotherhood BARNS of France and the United
States during the Revolution The year 1876
is chosen as the time for erecting this memo
rlal-it the scheme succeeds.
The announcement that Russia will be len
resented at the Philadelphia Centennial thrills
and delights the Northern heart. The love
existing between the treest'' and the most
despotlc' governments on earth is wonderful
and only to be accounted for on the hypothesis
that we always love our oppositcs.
MIR. Riley, the State cntomoogist of Mis-
souri,, is endeavorng, but with little success
to Introduce ocusts as a species of food John
the Baptist is said to have lived long time on
locusts and wild honey but Mr.. Riley does not
propose the addition Of wild honey; and, be-
sides, were John the Baptist's locusis insects
or not