Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-10-27
EDITORIAL NOTES.

To do business man must have dollars and
sense.
Will Settle is the name of Wisconsin bank
rupt. Ills creditors hope he will.
The greater portion of the business part of
Austin, Miss, was burned yesterday
The first of feet of iron-clad vessels built
by the Chinese Government has been finish ID
Another Presbyterian Church is to be built
IN Stanton.
The next meeting of the Synod of Virginia
will be held in Norfolk.
The people of New Orleans contributed
nearly $4,000 for the relief Of the sufferers
from the floods 10 Texas.
Miss Bridget Ward, an attendant at the
Western Lunatio Asylum, died very suddenly
90 last Wednesday night.
There is now 20 doubt that the So 900 re-.
ported missing from the Treasury Department
has been stolen.
The Page Courier reports fall of snow 10
the mountains south OF Luray, on Friday last,
four or five inches deep
A poor girl committed suicide n Pawtucket
because, it is said, she could not bear to see
her sister welded to man whom she desired
to marry herself.
The postof6ce at Avoodale, N. j., has been
discontinued, the postmaster having increased
his salary from about 500 to over 81, 900 per
annum by selling stamps to be used in New
York and vicinity.
"Hump?' grumblcd cynical Individual as
he first caught sight Of ouc of the enbems in
the windows of church, that's we'll chosen
anyway-a small cross and big crown cor,
rect measure OF modern piety.'
The box of keys which was found 10 the
Thames river, and which was supposed to have
been intended to aid 10 the robbery of the
jewels and plate in Windsor Castle, turned out
to contain the keys Of Elton school, which had
been stolen by one Of the students.
And now come pouring 10 orders for copies
OF the Gazette containing the report of the
Examining Committee of the MONTPELIER lot
terry. What consolation that can afford
tlcket-boder is beyond our comprehension, but
hope springs eternal 10 the human breast.
The Richmond Dispatch Of yesterday printed
cut Of the statue OF Jackson, which shows
enterprise on the part of that paper but at a
FIRST glance 1t was taken for the representation
of FIJI islander, Hludoo deity, or target
for rifle team. The enterprise was commend
able, but the cut SHOCKING, as it appeared.
Mr.. D. W. Hates, of the Western Uuio,
Telegraph ofi;e in Richmond, has invented a
machine by which all the probable errors 10
transcriblDg telegraphic messages arc avoided
and which gives TO printers the greatest facility
IN putting the messages 10 type. We hope it
will be generally adopted.
The buyer at bankrupt sale needs to pay
especial heed to the maxim, Let the purchaser
beware! For Judge Bond, in the u. S. Cir
cult Court has just said that if the court lacks
jurisdiction either Of the subject or of the par
tics, or If the assignee's proceedings are not
duly approved by the court, the buyer will get
90 title.
A large number Of the survivors of the old
Seventeenth Regiment took part 10 the cerc-
monies at the unveing Of the Jackson statue,
In Richmond, yesterday. They we're under
command OF Capt. j. NJ Steuart, Gen. Corse
being on the staff of Gen Johnston. Gen.
Eppa Hunton was on foot, in the racks, With
the members of the l7th.
ln the new Constitution Of Alabama there is
provision that oil banks organized 10 that
State must have specie basis, and all their
notes must be redeemed 10 silver or gold. Sus.
pension of specie payments is forbidden, and
bank charters are granted only for twent,
years. The loanipg of the State or municipal
credit to individuals or corporations is pro-