Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-10-22
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Richmond.
This is seed time and harvest combined for
Richmond
Pullman's palace cars have reached into
Rome.
An effort is making to abolish lotteries 10
Wyoming
A royal decree convoking the Spanish Cortes
is to be issued Immediately.
There are said to be signs of break in the
coal combination. Good news, if true.
1t is difficult in some places to do anything
without making much ado about nothing.
Potatoes are selling at IS cents bushel in
Ohio and parts of Pennsylvania -notwilhstaDd-
ing the bugs.
Gen. Sherman said recently that he did not
propose to answer any of the critics of bis
Memoirs. Maybe he can't.
The Court of Appeals, which has been in
session in Stanton, adjourned on Saturday last
for the term.
The corps of cadets from the Virginia Mill
tary Institute will visit Richmond next week
and take part 10 the Jackson ceremonies.
Gov. Walkers name is again being promi-
nenty mentioned 10 connection with the Speak
ership Of the next House of Representatives.
BY the failure of the Charlottesville National
Bank We learn that the Treasurer of the State
loses 900 State funds deposited there
The Presbyterian Synod of Virginia CON-
menccd its session in the Presbyterian Church,
in Staunton, on Wednesday night. DR.. Mar
tin, of Danvillc, delivered the opening sermon.
A supposed sea serpent which lately came
with head and tail erect before uortheaster,
into Jacksonville, Fla, was killed, aud proved
to be a rattesnakc.
A Montreal compoundcr Of liquors has beer
sentenced to imprisonment for counterteitug a
gin trade mark. Better imprisou for coun-
terfeitiug the gin.
The cornerstone of new Reformed Episco-
pal Church, 10 Baltimore, 10 be koown as the
Church of the Redcemer, was laid with appro-
pirate ceremonies yesterday afternoon.
DIR. W. Is. Is. Price has announced himself
an independent candidate for the House of
Delegates in kiug George county, in opposi.
ton to Mr.. Thackcr Rogers, the regular Culr
servatlve nominee.
ln Paris the sales of paintings average
forty millions Of francs per anuum, equal, by
reason Of the difference of values, to yearly
twice that sum in the United States. The nun
Der of artists 10 the city is over 5000
A Merden co., lager beer saloon keeper,
the town having voted mo license" attempted
to commit suicide, fearing to come to want
What became of his customers, who certainly
wanted
The Society of Surgeons of the Army and
Navy OF the Confederate States, which has
been 10 session, in Richmond, elected officers
for the ensuing year on Wednesday and then
adjourned sine die.
"Deylls dust is pithy epithet employed
IN India to designate the sizing frauduleutiy
used to Increase the weight of Manchester cot
ton goods. There is a quantity of 1.-THE same"
used Tor other purposes.
The St. Paul Pioneer says that Minnesota
will have 22,00O,O00 bushels of wheat for cx-
port, aud estimates that the seasons crops will
bring $50, OOO, 900, or more than $50 for every
man, woman and child in the State.
The United States army as now organized
consists of %. 900 men. The ordinary estimate
is that each soldier costs about 81 900 year
to maintain him, which would aggregate
twenty-five millions annually. A good situa-
ton in time of peace.
1t appears that China is troubled with
rings. At the time of the recent diff Guilty
with Japan, number of forls we're erected for
the new eighteen-ton cannon. Already the
works have crumbled to the ground, and mill
tary officers refuse to test the cannon.
Germany, with population of $4,000, 900,
last year graduated six hundred and sixty ply
slclans, rejecting one hundred and eight appIi-
cants. ln the same time the United States,
with a population of 4O,OOO,oOO, graduated
three thousand physicians
One of the points 10 late United States
Circuit Court decision was that national banks
have the right to take chattel mortgages for
loans made at the time the security is taken.
1t has been previously ruled that they can hold
real estate mortgage only to secure loans al
ready existent.
1t appears from the will of the late Hans
Christian Andersen that the total amount of
his property does not amount to $4,000 ster-
ling. The bulk of his property is left to M.
Collin, a relation OF his first benefactor, to
whom Andersen owed his success, and by
whose side he now lies 10 the family vault.
IRON ORE. Speed on the Washington and
Ohio Railroad through the mountain into the
Valley of Virginia where such mines of wealth
are awaiting Development. The iron ore backs
upon the west side of the Shenandoah in Clarke,
are likely to prove exceedingly rich There is
not an inch Of territory through which the line
OF the Washington and Ohio railroad extends
westward that will not be able to contribute to
the trade of the ad.-Loudoum Enterprise