Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-02-12
FeHenraDhic Summary.


Sparta, Ca, who was waylaid while going home
from his store and struck with slung shot and
robbed of one huojrcd dollars aud a watch, has
since died.
Samuel Smith, farmer, was wsylsid and
robbed near Franklin, Ind, yesterday, by q
young man named John Cochrsne. Smiths
skull was broken, and he will probsbly die. A
scouting party is after Cochrsne
Mrs. Gottlieb Vogele Is years of age, was
horribly msngled by dogs while going to her
home, near Newport Ky, Saturday night. She
is not expected to live.
NJ. a. Kearney, Mayor of Wikesbarre, Pa,
died of pneumOlis last night.
REGULATIONS FOR LEST.-The following
regulations for Lent havo been published by
It, Rev. James Gibbons, Bishop of Richmond,
and Administrator Apostolic Of North Carolina:
l. Lent this year will commence on Ash We'd
ucsday, the 18th of February.
2 Every day Of Lent Sundays excepted) is q
fast day, binding on al not legitimatey dlspen-
Sod Only one full meal ito be taken after mid
day is allowed by law.
5. Flesh meat is allowed on Sundays at all
the meals and on week days at the principal
meal en- Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and
Saturdays, except the second and last Saturday,.
| A. TO those who fast custom allows in the
| morning cup Of coffee. or tea or chocolate,
also m evening collation., not TO exceed the
fourth part OF an ordinary meal. Those not
having control Of their times OF repast, and
| forced to take their meals at q late hour In the
afternoon, arc permitted TO transfer the collation.
| TO the morning.
| 5. Flesh mea! and fish arc not 10 be used DUR
| ing Lent at thu sa.uo meal.
g. Excluding flesh meats, if the proportion
customary be not exceeded, it is permitted 10
use at collation. the other articles of food. such
as fruit, butter, cheese, eggs and even hsh.
| 7. The preparation Of food with hGg's lard is
allowed.
| s. Being under twenty. one years of ago. old
| age, inirmity Of health, pregnancy, the nursing
OF infants at the bresst and hard labor, are good
causes Of disponsation from tho fast. But good
reasons for being exempted from the fast are not
| always reasons to be exempted from the abstl'
| neEco.
The Paacha time extends from the first Sunday
of Lent till Trinity Sunday during which time,
! Catholics who have attained the use OF reason arc
| bound, when approved by their coniessors, to
received Holy Communion. a child at the age
OF seven years is considered bound by the law
Of confession. Parents should take notice of this
| fact.
| SOCIALISM IN GERMANY. AT the 1irst eec.
tons to the German Eechs!ag in 1871 there were
IL, SO votes in al recorded for socialist candi-
dstures throughout tho empire. At the second
general elections in 1874 this total hsd gone up
to 35l.2i12, and great Was the perturbation in
official quarters at the discovery. At tho eiec
tons which arc just concluded, except so far as
the second ballots sre concerned, it is cscu ated
that the socialists have doubled, or trebled even
tho imposing figures the previous election
aud not only the government but tho national
liberal and other moderate parties are visited with
an apparent access Of fright, which reminds the
foreign observer very much Of ono OF those cold
fits OF Ia terrcur blanche which have so frequently
seized the middle and upper classes in France.
In reality there is some foundation for the ap.
prehensions Of tho authorities, considering the
relations in which German governments usually
stand to the governed. Accustomed to be 81.
ways interfering in the ordinary life Of the PEG.
pie TO d degree undreamed of in this country,
the German governments lind themselves con-
tronted by an organization which also claims to
interfere with every detsl of social life, but
in direction absolutely hostile to ali the pre-
sent bent CT public administration. A laissez
tnru government might philosophicaly shake
the head in mild depression of tho pretension;
Of Tie socialists. but agree that time snd com
mon sense would set most things tolersbly right
after sll but no words can express the discom.
fort, tho worrying irritation Of government
which, habituated TO settle everybody's bushes:
for him, sees the gradual increase Of an antago.
nstic party equally bent on arranging every
body's business in the contrary senso.-L0ndo'
Spectator.