Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-12-18
Letter from Falls Church.

| Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazettr.
| Rails Curnru Va nan. 17.-Hnmr hroy
Brooke said, "Fas Church consists of three
hundred Solomons." do not know what his
usual beverage vas, but he evidently saw more
than double. There was gathering Of the
Soomons On Saturday evening, 18th instant
| legislative, executive judicial, educational
emotional, Board of Public Works, etc.. etc.,
ct hco genus omnia, and there was not half 60
many. They met at the call of some members
of Councl to discuss the sui ect Of nsructibg
the agent oil the town to Immediately make the
subscription OF $40 900 10 he stock of the W.
Z. Il St. l.. Il. r., voted by tic people last
May. They had been seven months making
up their minds to do it, {by the way it strikes
me as remarkable fact that the people who
are the longest making up their minds arc p. D.
orally the people who have the least mind to
make up, and 1t seemed Vcy near not being
done at this time After call to order the
before one Of the educational Solomons insisted
that Council should adjourn to permit school
mcetng Whereupon the Couuoll adjourned to
call, AID tho educational Solomons were invited
to take recess and practic. astronomy for q
while on the green. The green is not very
green, in TACT nobing shoots there but the
young idea, and be dout let any grass grow
under his feet. Excuut all but the educational
Solomons. Que of these rowing Soomons see
ing huge rope hanging in the vcstbule, in his
search for knowledge, gave it pull. Fearful
was the result. A deep sonorcu5 growl followed
by the most remarkable acrobatic teets of an ill.,
diVidual who turned out 10 be the ia-I came
very near writing j,ilor, which he might have
been from the threats that came from the midst
OF the perambulatiug gymnasium about locking
something up-nltor, aud who turned the bal.
ance OF the Solomons out. Great minds all run
10 the same channel, and the uniformity with
which several hundred Of these same gentlemen
all united in saying to each other that the
weather was very fine, TOO foe for the season,
only proves that they were great minds. The
educational Solomons could not have had a
freshet of ideas because they shortly adjourned
and the Council was called together agaio.-
While they were assembling | was glad to learn
that the educational Solomous had not occupied
any of their time 10 invcntng any new things
to put 10 the heads Of the youth. That would
have been unnecessary. They have enough in
their heads now. 10 fact have heard it darky
lntimated that some Of them have too many
things 10 their heads DOW. When the legislative
Solomons had finally become masters of the stu.
alton again, resolution Was offered covering
the ground of the olll, and it was unanimously
agreed that Hon. Henry w. Thomas, ac,iog as
agent for the town, be instructed to make the
to the railroad Immediately So
ends the first chapter. 1t has taken year to
get to the point of making the subscription. -
Let US hope that the recurrence of Christmas,
1878, may not find them with good grounds for
regretting having done so.
At SistersvilIe, W. Va, on Sunday, 10 an of. |
fray between Nathan Wright and Jack Spauld-
ng, the former was fatalyinjured. SpauIdipp
vas shot 10 the head by az officer, who arrested |
him, receiving probably fatal wound.
Henry Nickerson was killed, man named
WabbIe fatally Injured, and boy badly hurt
It Groversdae, Mass. Sunday evening By
unaway horse. All we're drunk.
The Supreme Court Of Iowa has decided that
legislation allowing city to vote tax 10 aid
If public corporations is constitutional.
The coal operators who are in session at New
ork had come to no conclusion about cstab.
Isblng prices up to 2 p. m. to day.
The music block at Brocktop, Mass, VA, Le.
troyed by fire yesterday.
Tolls, Holton Il Co.. of Cnciona,i, Lave
allied for 1925 900.
large party Of coloDi.ts from Dickerlogn.
|. D., started for Texas this morning..
number Of business houses on Broadway,
aducan, n.y., were burned Saturday night