Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-11-13
EDITORIAL NOTES,

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GINA, will be sold in Winchester on the LIST OF
December.
1t is estimated, from such census returns rs
have been published this year, that the popu-
lation OF the United States is about Is $50 900.
President Grant returned to washington
early Thursday morning, and during the day
called upon Vice President Wilson, in his room
at the Capitol.
Green tea drinkers may fud comfort 10 a
denial by a London firm of the previous state
ment by another firm Of tea importers, thar all
green tea is arti6cay colorcd
Competent persons have started to make an
examination Of the caves in the Ozark noun
taus, Phelps county, Mo-, containing vas,
quantities of human remains. apparently Of
great antiquity, possibly prehistoric
Custom in Massachusetts has long permitted
the discovercr OF bee tree to cut it down and
take the honey, aud Berkshire county is aston
lshed because a land owner has sued a man to
recover the value Of honey taken off bis
property.
The Prince of Wales has started Oh his six
months tour 10 India, taking, at Briudis, a
large troop ship, which has been fitted out as Ii
floating palace He is the first member of the
English royal family who has set foot 10 the
Eastern empire. The Prince has gone to hunt
tigers and see the elephant!'
The bankruptcy of Turkey has produced
quite hutter in the 6nancial circles of Europc
The Insecurity of the basis of Turkish loans is
now thoroughly exposed, but, ike many other
discoveries, 1t has been made at severe ex
pense. One might almost imagine that the
Sultan had taken lessons from some American
hnancler The resurrection 10 his country has
unsettled everything, and bu, for the balance
ot-power principle, good opportunity would
seem to offer the Gar of Russia to plant the
standard of the kremIin npon the shining min.
aret Of St. Sophia.
California papers are publishing the docket
OF Tuoumne county justice of the peace who
held Office 10 1850. The following is an ex-
tract from his minutes of case IN. B. Bar
Der the lawyer for George Work insolcntly told
me there were 10 law for me too rooI 50, I told
him | dido't care a d-u for his booklaw,
that Was the law myself He continued 10
jaw back told him to shut up but he wouldn't
l hned him $50 and committed him to goal for
days for contempt of court in bringing my
roollngs and dissions into disreputableuess and
as warning to unroOly persons not to contra
dict this court"
The French American Uuion Committee pro-
pose to erect, with the aid of subscriptions, 10
the city of New York, a colossal statue in men,
DRY of the ancient friendship between the two
nations. The statue is to be 10 copper, about
one hundred feet high, on pedestal of the
same height, aud is to represent liberty en-
Tightening the world. 1t is to be lighthouse
and colossus combined, and will be placed on
an island in the harbor of New York. Wash
lngton and Lafayette should figure on that
pedestal, aod the centennial year would seem
proper time to commemorate their united
struggles. Alas for liberty Alas for America
and France ! Alas that hundred years should
show that where they wooed a goddess, they
only clasped-a cloud
10 Americans Bismarck is known as the
successful diplomatist, and the founder of the
new German empire: but to the German cou-
mon man he is the founder of the new social
order-the leader of the emancipation party.
This party has obtained 10 the last ten years
tor Germany what was accomplished in France
by the revolution Of SO; what has existed in
England for centuries and has always been the
right ofthe free born American Thcs, achieve
ments, which have cost the Germans hard
Fighting and long parliamentary debates, con-
anof the emanci patton of the Individual from
".",atty restraint, the establishment of a mans
$50 go and come at will; to set himself up
..ss where and as he may see fl, and to
ms Dor to whoever will pay the highest
Da;u Tels arN correspondent Of the London
= a'es!at writeA to that Journal: There
Iua iiJololos 10 Ih police over the capture of
elol. scoa T Va, has lonr given item work
70 90. The tellaH hung asound tbs Inon.
iaa!roaa station az abon1, evening tme. On ca,cb.
Jug slgnt OF traVelle. who looked slnnIe he
MADE acquaintance ina lonely spot and Inya'a
riousiy offered to sell patent watch Chains ot
amazing beauty and incredible strength. "Trv
1t, said he; you re hae man, but even san
cant break my chain" So the chain " W.
twisted around the 6neman' 5 prist and snapped
to-. While he struggled with t the yeDder
would calml = lay him fat, take ar vaIuables,
and make eft. For years this ruf6au has been
playing this ingenious game, going son>time,
into the country. One night lately at the
Lyons railway, be found victim, chained h,u
up, pIundered him and ran away. But the
countrymaD CHANGED to be particularly strong
and swift He broke the handouts and be