Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-10-01
Editorial Notes.


Editorial Notes.
There will be FIVE Sundays in October.
Hunting for Charley Ross has cost already,
it is said, $4,000.
There is nearly s4l 900, 900 in fractional cur.
rency in circulation, over $l2, 000,0 900 of which
is in ten cent notes.
Of the entire population of London it is es-
timated that over one-foutb, or one million of
people, never attend church.
An unsuccessful attempt was made by three
white prisoners 10 escape from the Penitentiary
at Richmond on Wednesday night last.
Chicago will have ten thousand more dwell
ings the first of next year than she had the
first of this-if they don't have another fire.
There are twenty-six theatres in New York,
and new one is to be built on the east side OF
Union Square.
The Mayor of Wilmington, N. c., has mott
fed the police that if the now frequent rob.
berries there are not abated by the LIST Of Octo.
Der, he will discharge every man.
To Bell county, Texas, there is farm of
$500 acres, which is enclosed by one fence and
cultivated by thirty two owners every one of
whom is unmarried.
Yesterday was not only the Jewish New
Years Day, but the anniversary of the de-
struction of the Spanish Armada by the Eng
lish feet.
A. J. Seviaginzeff, Russian civil engineer,
is on tour of inspection OF the canals and rail
ways Of the United States and Canada for the
Russian government.
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue de-
cides that under the act of July ID, 1870, rail-
road corporations are liable to tax OF five in-
stead of two and ahalf per cent.
Mrs. Crashay writes to the London News
that her idea of employing gentlwomen 10 do.
nestle service is finding favor for beyond her
most sanguine expectations.
The annual meeting of the Synod of Virgin
ia, will be held in the Presbyterian Church in
Stanton, commencing on Wednesday, Octo-
Der Goth, at o'clock p. m.
A shocking account of the maltreatment Of
Jews comes from Bagdad. One Jew was burn-
ed alive by the populace. The excuse for these
barbarities was that the Jews had been guilty
Of blasphemy.
A Kansas judge has decided that man and
wife can 60 to any place of amusement on a
ticket that says admit one, as by law they
are considered "one' though they are fire.
quently separate ones.
Mayor Kelley and all the city officers and
employees OF Richmond have subscribed q
days pay each toward the erection of the prc-
posed equestrian statue of Lee 10 the Capitol
Square. Who next.
The City Hall rotuoday, in Baltimore, has
been completed and is one of the most striking
features of the new building. 1t is two hun
dred feet 10 height, and the marble and other
work is finished 10 the highest style of art
The assessments made by the Radical party
on the employees of the Baltimore Custom
house and PostOfhce, for means 10 carry 90 the
campaign in that State, has created considerable
feeling among those officials.
A member of the Texas Constitutional Con
ventlon has proposed clause forbidding judges,
prosecuting attorneys and jurors from oficiat-
ing while intoxicated. The provision might
With great propriety be extended.
The Princess Mercedes, the prabable finance
Of King AlfoDzo, is said to seem unaware of
the royal destiues that await her. She plays
croquet with her brother and sister, and COD
centrates her mind rather Oh getting through
hoop than mounting throne.
The immense volume of mail matter brought
to New York by the fast trains every morning
has Increased so rapidly that redoubIed exer-
tons 90 the part Of the Postofice officials are
required. % account of the many weekly and
semi-weeky newspapers published on Wednes-
day, the mails on that day are the heaviest of
the week.
A Buffalo physician, who has undergone the
operation which was so accurately described in
the case of Clara Morris, says it is absolutely
painless. Iron at white heat produces mere
~ tickling sensation on the fesh But az
tickling is uncomfortable by some people, it must
yet be very painful, and no Miss Morris thought,
from the account.
CLARKE COUNTY ITEMS. -Last Wednesday
John, ). Williams, trustee, sold the estate of
the late Michael Dearmont, containing 1854
acres. to Mrs. Washington Dearmont, at s25
per acre. On Saturday. Messrs. Conrad, Nc
Donald, Moore and Williams, special commits.
sloners, sold l27 acres of the land of Robt. W.
Briggs to Mr.. Smith, at $50 Is per acre.
The farmers of this county are engaged in
cutting off their corn. The crop Is, pefhsps.