Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-05-27

General Order NJ. 10
Hereafter all the employees of this company,
when on duty, will wear the regulation uni
form as follows:
President Pug hat, red band, red drawers,
blue socks, and will be more particularly known
by the company he keeps.
Superintendent Blue cap, gold band, spot
ted drawers, white star behiud, strictly sober
on the ID and Dist Of each mouth.
Geuera Ticket Agent-Plug hat, blue band,
blue drawers, aud paper collar consecutlvely
Gum bcred.
General Freight Agent-Plug hat, white
baud, varegated drawers, and diamond b on
both hauks.
Auditor-Straw hat, green band, no drawers,
white duck parts, aud toothpick.
Treasurcr-Straw hat, yellow drawers, paper
collar, and the letters n B. ccnspcuously dis
played on seat of pants.
Master Mechanic Plug hat, yellow band, no
drawers, no socks, but mustard plaster on
behind.
Rad Master Plug hat cavcd in on both
sides, red top boots and black eye.
Train Dispatcher duck is expected to
hold himself up as pattern for all train men,
and untiI further orders their uniform will be
blue cap, gold band. blue neck-tle, and red and
white star 90 each flank.
Cooductors--Blue cap, gold band aud blue
star on seat OF pants except when ruuning at
tor dark, when red star wi Il be shown.
Baggage and Train Men-Blue cap, white
band, no star but full moon painted on seat
of pants, which must be cousplcuously display
cd when on duty.
All employees of this Com pauy found on
duty without the unltorm will be shot.
By order of GENERAL MANAGER
BoBoLINKs "A writer in the Washington
Star says:
Just now, here, the fields aud meadows
abound with these interesting birds. They, the
autumnal rice birds Of the Potomac, the or,olan
OF Georgia, the butter. birds OF regions still
more southerly, aud-iu some localities, from
the smrcled white of the backs Of the males
skunk black birds, aud the bobonk OF the
North are uow making their vernal migration
to the Northern States. The sexes, 1t will be
generally known, are separated 10 this spring
passage into the temperate regions. Ihe re-
males now, have the same brlndle faded greeo
color that both sexes have 10 the autumn, when
their flight is southwark. In the tall they
haunt the river marshes; now the meadows.
This peculiar chromatic metamorphosis of plu-
mage OF the male birds the strange change OF
habit of both sexes, with the varying seasons
of the year, lead the mass of the people lnto
strange misconceptions of their identity. They
will stay with Us Just long enough to relieve
the visit of the furmality of mere call, :" and
to be observed, and will soon appear 10 the
vet higher atitudes. whittier their northward
flight will terminate 1t is no mere summer
vacation with them now 10 prospect, but
business" laying, incubation, and the rear
ng of reuforcemerts to the bobolnk tribe. "A
few days will fnd thcm IN northern ONO ano
Pennsylvania, aud all over New York aud the
L. h.,r tbn loo in
perfection Of their verpa pumage. will make
the meadows merry with their medley carols all
the summer NOR ungs."
THE BLACK EI ED PEA AS A FERTILIZER
alr. John B. Norris says ln an article 10 the
Virginia Patron, that-many farmers now poor
could be In .de rich, if they knew the power
aud value of this pea as fertilizer. Much OF
the old worn out lands, erroueously called,
would be restored to q primitive condition by
the proper use OF this pea.
MIR. Norris insists that these lands are not
worn out by cultivation, as is generally sup
posed, but their condtiGu is the result OF por-
Gus, gravelly substratum, which permits every
thing like plaut food to percolate through to
depth beyond the reach of the plow, or roots
of ordinary crops. There is he says, some
times an accumulation Of this plants Dutrl-
wcuts, six or eight feet below the surface,
which has been, from all time, accumulaliugin in
such large bodies, as to make 1t profitable to
reach it with the pick and shovel aDd cast 1t
out on the surface But nature can remove 1t
with far more economy aud rapldity with the
black eyed pea than with any implements OF
man. The root Of this particular pea seems to
have stronger instinct, and will do more to re-
uew its uouriShment than almost any other We
know Of It will pass down Tor several feet IT
the food it wants is there, aud 10 this way it
briggs to the surface this fertilizer. which 10
time, hy oug continued rains, will be carried
dowa aeaiu if it is not prevented.
THE SANDulLLERs AS We were passing
through the regions of the saDdhlers, 10 South
CaroIlua writes correspondent, SAID:
The ndhillers-what kind OF people are
they"
The sapdhillers are the queerest people we
have. and though poor, not unInterest'nr. lhey
live 10 this belt of country contiguous TO 20
lumbia, where the soil is pretty much bare saoo,
uniuvitiug to the eye, and scrubb'ly tlnoerco
with pine and small oak Their little plank cot
tages, almost black with their exposure to the
SUM- their small figures, almost ssuntrd 1t Woulo
seem, but capable OF great fatigue; their o~ari
cattle and docile character, make them sort
ofindcpendent peasantry, DOT uuhkc what IS
found in the old parts Of the uorth OF Europe
1t has even been guessed that they were OF Ice
landic or Nerwegian descent, immgrated ante
rlor to tn. historic period of Carolina. Their
straight black hair. nearly obque eyes OF an
almoud shape, and unam btu Gus, home habits
remained us of nuth,Dg else. The saudhllleTs
made some Of the very best soldiers. were easily
disciplined, obedent beyond any other sodlery'