Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-12-01

Oscar +. Lowe, sewing machine agent, who
married sister of Julia Dean, the actress, at
tempted to commit suicide 10 st. Louis by
shooting himself. on Wednesday night.
The venerable Nathaniel Green, postmaster
of Boston from 1929 to lS4l, died yesterday IN
Boston, aged eighty. He was one OF the touo'
ders of the Boston Stateman.
James S. Key, of Baltimore, son of the late
Philip Barton Key, has given up the law Tor the
stage.
Senator Blaine has started from Augusta,
Maine, for Washington.
The National Grange adjourned at Clucln'
natl yesterday to meet next year at Richmond.
Virginia News.
The Grand Lodge of Good Templars. which
met this week in Staunton. is composed Of 1856
lodges and $500 members. The following 9Th.
GERS were elected for the ensuing year Chief
Templar, DR.. W. S. Christian; Counsellor, lie
Der Ker; Vice Templar, Mrs. Susan DIE; SEQ.
rotary, Geo. w. HaWxhurst; Treasurer, Mrs
Fanny Bowu au. Dr.. VIM. s. Christian, Maj.
j. N. Stubs, and Robert McCandlish were ap-
pointed delegates to the Grand Lodge OF the
World, which meets in Minneapolis 10 May.
A dispatch from Moorefeld. Hardy county,
W. Va, says that the destruction by the Hood
10 that equity alone will reach $500, 900. There
are not thousand shocks of corn 10 the valley
of the south branch Of the Potomac. Farms
have been washed completely away, and land
that was worth 500 an acre is now utterly
without value. The suffering among the cattle
is very great, and hundreds of farmers are ruin
ed. The torrent reached from mountain to
mountain and was twenty feet deep.
The Danville News says: Mr.. j. l.. Cain, Of
East Tennessee. is 10 our city. MIR. Cain wac
on bis way to Warrenton with foe lot Of
stock cattle, about eighty in number. to SELL
but owing to the damaged condition Of the Vir
eiuia Midland r.ilroad the trains are unable IT,
run, and be had to stop here until the road is
repaired.
Ia the Supreme Court Of Appeals Of the
State, yesterday, Coleman's administrator vs.
the Piedmont and Arlington Life Insurance
Co. Argued by John Howard, esq, for the
plaintiff 10 error, and by JAS Necson and Col.
ii. G. Cabel for the defendant in error, und
submitted.
The Lynchburg News says Mr.. Fore. on
Stanton liver. lost by the food tour hun.
dred barrels of corn and four tobacco barOs,
with their contents. He saw no less than TWEEN
~ five tobacco barns pass bis place, the loss OF
which is necessarily severe upon the owners.
The watch maintained along the beach north
of the spot on which the i'll fated Huron went
ashore has led to the recovery of at least fifty
bodies Of the victims of that calamity. Among
those recovered yesterday was that of Captain
Ryan.
James B. Violet and Miss Kate Goss was
married 10 Winchester last Wednesday even.
:no ~ ho
and festivities, the bride was taken suddenly i'll
and was corpse at O clock in the morning.
Among the sufferers by the late food 10 Rap
pahannock county were j. Y. Menifee. j: b.
and j. w. Fletcher, MIR. johnson, Fl. l.. Mem
fee. B. It. Sedwick, John Palmer. and MIR.
Browp.
Two hundred and fifty Of the Virgioia peOi-
Tertiary copvicts have already been put to work
Oh the repairs to the James River and kana-
wha canal.
The receiver Of the c. & o. r. Il. has paid 10
the Auditor sos, 4S7.97, due by that company
to the State for arrears of taxes.
Col. VIM. Fl. Terrell died 10 Charestown,
90 Wednesday night last, at thu advanced age
of more than II years.
Major W. H. Jarvis. well known citizen of
Danville, formerly Of Petersburg, died Thurs
day.
The number of prisoners 10 tho psuientiary
October lst was 1,2l2.
Richmond talks of the erection Of new city
hall.
Henry w. Jones. formerly deputy sheriff Of
Orange county. died few days ago.
Capt John E. Edgar, we'll known citizen
of Portsmouth, died last Thursday.
Snow fell all Thursday night at Petersburg.
Why CoLoRs OAN NEVER BE PHOTOGRAPH
RD-It is now universally admitted by chemists
and physicists that natural coIors can never be
reproduced by the process of photography.
There is broad philosophical reason for this
belief Color has no objective existence. It
is simply the brains Interpretation of the rapid
ty with which the waves Of the raw of light beat
against the retina Beats more rapid produce the
sensation of the mind known as violet; beats
less rapid, that known az red. The violet and
the red are nothing but the vibrations of the
ether until they reach the optic nerve ard COM
muncate to that the vibrations which the brain
translates Until collodion, or some other SEN
stive agent, can be made to vibrate like the
optic nerve. and can be endowed with intelii
gence like the brain, the undulstions that fall
upon it in ray of light will remain undulations
and nothing more. In other words, it is IS i'm
possible to photograph color as it is to photo.
graph sound.-N. 7. SIN.