Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-03-15
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THURSDAY, MARCH 15. 1877.
miscellaneous Items.

miscellaneous Items.
The Missouri Legislature has passed bill
making it misdemsauor to pay for lobbying.
There are 99l lighthouse keepers employed
: Eby the United States, at cost of 1884, 600 per
annum. ..r ...
Out Of fifty five samples Of so-called wines
sent from Hamburg to England, twenty.four
proved to be no wine at all.
M. Decroix, as president Of the French so.
ciety for discouraging the excessive use of
tobacco, offers three prizes for essays on the
subject. -.
Anderson NJ. Waddeli, of Nashville, gave
SIS, 900 to the widow of the man whom be had
! killed. He had been acquitted on charge Of
murder,
ed States Il ,922, 1851, nearly 100000 are in
about onc-third. or 100000, are colored
Baptists
A circus performer, who had daily permitted
himself to be boosted out of a cannon by light
discharge, was shot through netting and
Friendship, N. Y. He was badly hurt, and has
given up such exploits.
The Railway Age gives list of eighty.six
railroads that were either sold under fore
closure, were placed 10 tho hands Of receivers,
or defaultcd in this country 10 1876. They had
a mileage of a. ITO miles and represented cap
ital amounting to $9I2, ,GO9, OG0. This is nearly
one-ffth of both tho mileage and the capital OF
the railway Interest in the United States.
The new American Episcopal church. St.
| noble building. 10 an admirable location. 1t is
built in Lombardo. Venetian gothic. Of brick
| and stone, With tower l42 feet high, and seats
| for about eight hundred persons. 1t cost $685.
000 The tower COST SIT 900. and was the gilt
of Miss C. L. Wolfe, of New York. The Rev.
| Robert Nevin is the rector.
A Dublin paper prints letter addressed by
| 80 Irishmau in New York to board Of town
councillors in the former city, petitioning them
to dissuade all intending emigraots from leaving
Ireland for America in these times lie claims
to know scores of his counrymen to be starv-
ing hero at present who had never needed the
necessaries of life in their DatiVc land; that
trade was hopelessly slagnaDt, aad the public
confidence destroyed.
Cardinal Manning has given notice to bis
clergy that 20 music taken or adapted from the
theatre, the opera or concerts, or which has
become familiar through secular usage, shall
be sung at mass or beneiiction. or used as vol
uutares or interudes. and that the music used
shall be as congregational as possible. He has
also banishcd ladies from his cholrs so thorough
Iy that not female voice is heard 10 any of
the churches under his jurisdiction.
10 the Harvard examinations for women the
first and preliminary certificate will be given to
| those young ladies Of not less than seventeen
years Of age who shall pass a successful ex
animation in regularly prescribed course Of
study. The second or advanced certificate will
be granted TO those young ladies who, having
attained the age of at least eighteen years,
have passed the preliminary examination, and
also thorough examination in special elective
studies that are required by them 10 their par
| ticular branches
Jobn Quin:y Adams was perhaps the most
cultured president of which the Uoited States
eau boast. Like Guizot, be was student of
Shakespeare, sod belonged TO tina! class OF states
men who "do the State most service. lie
commenced the study Of Shakespeare when
| eight years Of age. Late 10 life he said: Il
have read Shakespeare as a teacher OF morals,
as student of human nature, as painter OF
life and manners, as an anatomlc dlssecIer OF
the passions, as au arll6cer Of Imaginable worlds.
as at once the sublimeSt aud MOST philosophical
OF POETS.
A womap iu French village who was quite
| i'll and coutiDed to her bed, one evening in her
husbaud abseuce, Was shocked by the sudden
appearance Of a uasked burg lar at her bedside.
He demanded her money, aud threatened TO
kill her if she cried out. She said: You see
I am unable to move, am SO i'll; but the
money is 10 the cellar. lu the cellar )or you
will fDd movable stone, raise it, and under.
meath ia bag Of money The robber de-
| scendcd ioto the cellar without hesitation, while
she, spriuging from her bed, shut to the bolt
| of the door and gave the alarm. The neigh
| bors rushed 10 and the man was secured
Edhem Pacha, the late Turkish Ambassador
| to Berlin formed the acqalntaoce Of a bakers
pretty daughter, who had much talent tor mu.
sic. The Ambassador frequently visited her,
| listened to her playing aud singing, and made
her handsome presents Before Leaving, he
| asked her if she would become au ornament TO
bis harem aud. 10 joking mood, she coosent-
ed. 10 her surprise she received 10 fortnight
an Invitation to Constaotnope accompanied by
Turkish passport, and SUN Of money TO de-
frav the expenses of the journey. Notwith.
standing the opposition Of her family the young
girl seemed disposed to 60, aud one evening was
| found missing She had evidently taken her
| departure.
Miss Cora Dickson. young girl Of %, ar,
rived 10 Paris the other day from South Amer.
lea. Her life has thus far been chcckered
one. At the age OF Is, tired of the monotoDy
Of home, she ran away from her father house
with large sum of money. She cut her hair
short and donned boys garb. After be-
coming 10 succession cabin boy clerk and
horse dealer, she turned up 10 Buenos Ayres,
where she entered the army, still disguised:
She distinguished herself 10 tho service, and
became a coloocl Some mouths ago, at
meeting of officers, she quarreed with one OF
those present. duel followed and she killed
her adversary. On examining the dead mar,s
papers, she found that she had killed her eids
est brother, who had lett home when she, was
two years Of age. Horror 'str ken, she thIe"
herself at the bishops feet, who PROMISED 10
iDtercede with her father.