Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1876-01-27
a,r5AeazErTE 6 VIRGINIA ADVERTISED

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The w. & 0. r. R.-A correspondent OF
the Richmond Dispatch, writing from Lees
burg says: 10 glancing over Phlladeiphia
daily the other day my eye was attracted by
notice of meeting of q number OF capitalists
in that city to consider the advisability of aid
inr 10 the extension Of the Washington aud
Ohio Railroad to the coal fields 10 Hampshire
county, W. Va. Not very long ago bad oc
casiou to go up as far as Round Hill, little
village about nine miles from the couuy-seat
aud the present terminus of the road, and
while there took the trouble to inquire ioto the
business of the road now as compared with
that of six mouths back. ln rcIly | was told
that the travel from that point was never SO
great as it hau been in the last few months,
and that the freight shipments We're heavier
and more encouraging than they had ever been
before. Since the extension OF the road TO
RouDd Hill the trade of Clarke aud part OF
Frederick also is added TO the business OF the
road.
The trains, I understood, also would soon be
running from the present terminus to point
three miles further up, Snckersvllle. village
situated immediately under the Blue Ridge
mountains. Here it will be likely to remain TOR
some time to come uuless aid IS gotten from
Northern capitalists or some other source.
Certainly no other road 10 the couu;ry has had
more difficulties to contend against than this
same Washington and Ohio, and it has only
been through the me st active aud determined
efforts of lis Presdcd,, Hon. Lewis McKepzle,
that it has been extended to lis present length,
and thereby prevented from being sold out and
turned over to foreign parties. Once over the
Blue Ridge mountains, and meaDs IS asaured
the company BY the counties OF Clarke and
Frederick to carry it anyhow as tar as the city
OF Winchester, and may be many miles be-
you'd.
Wby this road canuot command any amount
of pecuniary assistance cannot see, tor surely
no other stocks in the market cffer better in
ducements to spectators than the bonds OF this
company, paying ss they do, promptly, semi
aDnnally seven per cent (go!d) interest on all
investments. No; our people prefer to send
their money North to buy all kinds OF sEaky
and ursaft stocks because they are offered ten
and twelve per cent. on them. bave known
several instances, however, where neither prln
cipal nor interest has been heard OF since the
Investment Was made. ".
BEkcHER's IDEAs.-lu Rev. Henry Ward
Beecher's sermon, 10 Plymouth Church, last
Sunday, he said:
''They tell me that am fallen creature.
Fallen from what? | never was any better
than am now The ouly fall ever had was
the fall from woman womb. There was not
calf that did not know more than l did when
| came into the world, and was lot better able
10 care for itself There was not az inch be
tween me AID the brute. 1t is the bottom of
conceivable existence, and they tell me that l
fell; fell up! No. When 10 k out upon
the accua ulated facts that are patent, that
every mo.he knows, and that every sensible
man knows, that We begin at zero, that which
We get is by unfolding steps aud all are poor;
we are without goodness; We are without any
thug. We are an empty line, with noth!pg IN
the circle except mere poeDtlalltles, put, as
respects development, nothing. Then HE puts
before the zero and makes US ~, or puts 2
before it and makes US 20. We are born un-
trained and distempered IN every Way. What
we need is that there shall be God that loves
righteousness aud truth and knows humanity.
MIR. Beecher deprecated the idea OF God
who sits in the centre OF the universe, p~rtect
Himself, aud saying TO creatures whom lie has
made imreriect Man, now be like me or LII
damn you u!' He represented Christ as loving
men, net for what they are, but for what he
is; not because of what Is 10 us, but because VI
what is in Him. When one, he said, has such
Saviour, such an experience, the Saviour is
particularly precious. Such life beglns small
and spreads out as tree springs from seed,
anu spreads its branches out over b: earth.
Sometimes Christian experience d JWs with a
musical ripple and sometimes like lakes lar up
10 the mountains, surrounded by peaks that
shelter them and are not moved by winds or
storms.
The London Morning Post says that the ex-
treue ritualists are making overtures to the
Pope TO be received into the Catholic communl-
on on the condition that be will grant them
certain exemptions and indulgences 1t is rep
resented that 100 clergymcn, with a ,onstltu-
cucy of $4,000 meu aud l5O, 900 women, are en-
gagged ln tins movement, aud that they nave
sent memorial to Rome expressing their
wishes. They are willing TO recognize the rope
as the head of the Church, to accept the Vatl-
can decrees, TO conform in al! points OF doctrine
and worship; but they desire a dispensatlon for
such of their cergymen as are already married
to continue as priests, while cehbacy is to be
the rule for the uomarried, aud TO conduct
public worship in the veroacular, excepting
the mass.
memorial will be presented to Congress
asking an appropriation of 500, 900 Tor the ex-
tension of the g. 60. Canal from Cumber-
land t. Piedmont the heart Of he coal region.
The surveys tor this exclusion have already
been made. The matter will also be laid be-
fore the Maryland Legislature
The real sherry district occupies avery small
spot 10 the southwest corner of Spain, lying tor
the most part between the GuadalquiVir and
the Gaudalete The small triangle in which
the choicest wines are prolucedi is scarcely more
than ,weuty miles broad at its base.