Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-10-20
EDITORIAL NOTES.
The matrimonial newspapers 10 London are
to be suppressed.

The New York Herald calls Conkhng, OF
New York, the blonde Senator
The Governor of Bagdad denies that Jew
has been burned at the stake 10 that city.
Rhode Island has only 480 paupers out of
$685. people, and $49,OO0,0OO in savings
banks.
The consumption of crabs is so great in
France that there is danger of the supply be-
coming extinct
The Wisconsin Indians prophecy mild win
ter. because the bears arc not seeking tier
winter sleeping places.
A man eighty years old has applied for ad-
mission to the German orruau asylum 10 Bal
timore, saying he is an orphan.
China has APPEARED in the British iron mar
ket as buyer of rails. and Chinese agents are
10 Vienna trying to buy caunon.
A bunch Of grapes weighing twenty six and
quarter pounds Was shown recently at the
great fruit show at Edinburgh, Scotland
The London News says that 10 other nation
spends so much upon the clothing OF its army
as Great Britain except in Washington.
Indications are that the re.assessuent OF
lands, now going on all over the State, will end
in very large reduction Of taxable values.
The three months ending with the current
one contained fourteen Sundays, somewhat
unusual thing for three successive months to
have.
General Lougstreet has purchased half in
terest in hotel in Gainesville GA, and it will
| now be seen whether he knows how to keep
hotel"
The sale of American patent medicines has
been forbidden 10 Turin because somebody
took an overdose and was unable to tell whal
the effect was.
Trlumphal arches are to be erected in Rich
mond along the route of the procession which
Is to take place on the occasion Of the unvei
ing of the Jackson statue.
According to the Assessors return Us for 1875
there are in the county OF Rockingham 3,62:
dogs, 494 male. and l3S female. Wha
bellies the females must be
MIR. Reverdy johnson has withdrawn his Of
| Ter to the Baltimore American to plead it.
cause 10 the forthcoming suit Of Gov Groome
and Comptroller Wooltord
If Dir. Z4chariah Chandler, when he was :
Senator, sat on one baby, how many will he sci
90, now that he is Secretary of the Interior is
the problem COL Don Piatt wishes solved.
r..= reduction by the Secretary of the Treas
uFy IN the amount Of drawback allowed On ex
portatlon of retioed sugar pleases the Cana
dams as much as it dispeases the American
trade
Miss Eleanor Anderson died 10 Richmond
on Monday, in the ninety fifth year of her age,
Mrs. Susan A. Obod died in Lynchburg, on
Sunday last, 10 tue ninety fourth year of he,
age.
The Onlted States steamer Hartford, which
arrived at Fortress Monroe on Saturday, is 8
t"o-thousand-ton ship, carrying eighteen guns
and has been absent from the United State.
thlrty-seVeD months.
The new Secretary Of the Interior, ex-Sena-
tor FAC. Chandler, is duly 'slauded to the
skies by the Washington radical organs. |,
Ism everybody that entertains such exalted
opinions Of Mr.. Chandler.
A gentleman from Russia has come to this
country to discover how Americans make such
hne butter and cheese If he gets hold OF
some like We occasionally come across he will
90 home very much Disguised
The famous charge at Balaklava is to be cele
brated In London by the survivors of the .sSix
Hundred on the 25th inst, its anniversary
About fifty live in London, and "a others who
reside IN the country have been heard from.
at the quarterly meeting of the Board OF
Visitors OF the Institution for the Deaf and
Dumb and the Blind, on Thursday last, DR..
a. NJ. tauntleroy was elected physician, Mr..
JAS. +. Patterson Secretary of the Board, and
Mr.. Thomas S. Doyle monitor for the bliud
boys
Indian Commissioner Smith says that in a
disbursement of over ooe million and quarter
Tor period extending over two years, the loss
to the Government 90 fraudulent claims has not
been over seven thousand dollars. That's what
Commissioner Smith says. Others say differ
ently-,ery.
A Dane has invented an arrangement to take
tie place of crutches, by which the cripple can
90 fast or slow, and up or down stairs without
touching his feet to the ground or working but
one arm. We once knew cripple who never
used arms or legs in coming down stairs. He
always slid down.
"Brevities' of the Richmond Enquirer is no
respector of professions. Hear what be saws
OF the doctors: "a very Interesting meeting
OF next week will be that of the Venerable
Saw bones of the Army" The soldiers had
more fear of them than of the euemy's bullets;
OF which they were usually the natural comple-