Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-10-14
EDITORIAL MOTIFS.

""Pou, VI tlIC -olil luhl.
The bath houses at the Hot Springs, iu this
State, have been burned.
Typhoid fever has made its appearance in
Spotsylvania.
President Grant spent yesterday in riding
about Chicago and receiving friends. He start
ed for Washington 10 the evening.
An old apple tree, just cut down at York,
Me-, was brought from England in a tub in
1929, and has borne fruit every year siucc.
a row Of locust trees is said to have saved
St. Helena, California, fran total destruction
during a recent couflgratoD.
The Michigan State law taxing the liquor
business has been decided by the Supreme
Court of that State to be constitutional.
The press Of the State is almost unanimous in
Its condemnation Of the summary action Of
Judge Bond relative to the Chesapeake and
Ohio Railroad
The remains of Gen. Pickett will be trans
TERED from Norfolk to Richmond on the 18th
when they will be inferred in Hollywood Gene
terry.
Torture will, it is said, be shortly abolished
10 the japanese courts. Long speeches-thc
torture, we suppose, referred to-shou!l be
| abolished III our courts ALSO
While tuunelng into the side Of Mount Nc
L"!lan, Colorado, recently, the explorers came
upon ground solidly frozen piuety feet from the
surface.
The Ray Of Hope the HarrisonIurg
temperance paper has been purchased BY DR..
W ~. }. Points, who will remove it TO Rich
mond On the lSt Of January.
There is on exhibition at the Oregon State
Fair mammoth OK, Weighing 5000 pouuds.
tie Is nineteen hands high, ADD is probably the
largest animal Of his kind iu the world
The epizootlc does not appear to be confined
to the cquiues. Numbers OF our citizens are
mpanng OF colds 10 the head sore threats,
etc. Tar is recommended.
The dissatisfied Conservatives of Richmond
have nominated ". G. Knight aud p. II.
Starke for the Senate. The opposition to Gen.
bradley /. JohnSon may not be strong, but it
is inteuse.
And still they come-lcttcrs from distance
! for the Gazette, containing the drawing of the
Montpelier Lottery, with any information
you may possess concerning il, p" of which, as
yet, We have none.
colored woman named Polly Parsons,
| whose age was said to be one huparcd and
twelve years, died on Monday, the 4th instant,
at her home in Richmond. While the death
is not to be discredted the age is doubtful
Z. II. johnson was convicted in the United
States District Court. in Batimora yesterday
OF sending scurrllous postal cards, and was
hned 5000 and costs, and in default Of the pay.
ment Of the imposed tiue, was committed TO
Jail.
After the 10th instant, under the law of this
State, partridge shooting will be permitted, and
1t Is reported by pcrsonsfrom the rural districts,
that they, the birds, abound 10 great numbers
AS do also tho sunnarS In fact it r,.ld BE-
dlffcuit to say which abound most.
Since last October more than eighteen HIM.
dred houses have been put up in Chicago all
OF orlcS, stone or lron-no wooden structures
beng permltted-and the amount Invested in
TINS way IS estimated at between sixteen and
eighteen millions ofdollars Evidently that's the
way to improve place.
Mrs. f. E. Sigourncy, an ACCOMPLISHED LADY
formerly well known 10 literary and musical cir
Giles (who has for the past few DAYS been wan
derlng about the streets of New York with her
child houseless and homeess,) made an at.
tempt to commit suicide by laying on the IIud-
son River Railroad track, on Eleventh avenue,
near the National Park, but was discovered in
time to be saved from being crushed by an
approaching train.
HE Z. y .. Il. R-The feeling 10 Rich
moud IS very bitter towards Judge Bond, in
reference to the appointment Of a receiver for
the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad.
y meeting between Governor kamDer. An
d.toI Taylor, and Treasurer Hunter Of the
Board Of Public Works, and Mcs,rs, Andrews
Chandler, aud Stcger, attorneys in the pro-
ceedines against the Chesapeake and Onio
hailroad Company, took place at the Govern
or ONCE IN the Capitol. on Friday, whcp Mr..
Ahurews ana his associates gave the members
u y the BOARD very considerable amount of in.
formation as to their purposes and as to whn1
mad already been done by them. They assert
ed that their chief desire was to protect the in
terests of the first mortgage bondhoders and
to prevent subordinate claimants from disman,
ling the road by Selling It's property under exc
cutlons and judgments They also honed to
put the financial affairs of the company 10 bet
ter condition, and the road IN such good order
that when 1t was offered for sale it could BE-
disposed of adVautageously and with prospects