Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1878-08-05

CINCINNATI, Aug. 5.-Ihe boiler OF an en- |
CINE running o saw mill at enterprise, W. Va,
exploded on Saturday, killing Geo. Avery, |
John Parr and Frank Dilworth, and seriously |
wounding Dent Park and three others.
AMERICAN EDUCATIoN.-Ther must be-
something radically wrong in our educational
system, when youths are generally untitled for |
tho station wh!ch they are to occupy. or are
forced into professions for which they have no
natural fitness. The truth is, that the stuff
talked to boys and girls alike, about tanning
high" and the assurance given them lndlscrlm.
inateIy that they can DO anything that they
choose to become, arc essential nulsanoes Our
children all 60 to public schools; they are all
taught these things; they all 20 out into
the world with high notions, and lind 1t I'M
possible to content themselves with their
lot. They hoped to realize in lilo that
which had been promised them 10 school;
but all their dreams have faded. and left
them disappointed and unhappy. They envy
those whom they have been taught to COD.
slider above them, and learn to count their
own lives q failure. What we greatly
need in this country is the inculcaton Of sober
views of life Boys and girls arc bred to dis
content. Everybody is alter high place, and
nearly everybody fails to get one: aud failing,
loses heart, temper, and content. The multi.
tude dress beyond their means, aud live beyond
their necessities, to keep up show OF being
what thew are not. Humble omployments are
held in contempt, and humble powers are every.
where making high employments contemplate.
Our children need to be educated to I'LL, 10
Christian humility, tho subordinate offices or
life which they must fll, and taught to respect
humble calliugs, and to beautify and gloriy
them by lives of oontepted and of glad Industry.
When our public schools accomplish an end 80
desirable es this, they will fulfill their mission
and they will not before. | seriously doubt
whether one school 10 hundred public or pr'
vate, comprchends its duty in this particular
They fail to inoucatc the idea that the majority
of the Offices of life are humble; that tic pow.
ers of the majority of the youth which they
contain have relation to these offices; that no
man s respectable when he is out of his place;
and that half of the uuhapplnesS Of the world
grows out of the fact that, from distorted views
of life, men are 10 places where they DO not
belong. Let US have this altogether reformed.
DR.. j. G. Holland.
| call a complete and generous education
that which fits man to perform Justly, skill
fully and maguanimously all tho Offices, both
public and private, Of peace and War.-John
Milton.
A Personal AFFAIR For some days past
the limited number of persons here who were in
the secret had an idea that the lovers of excite
ment who wero disappointed at the refusal of
Columbus Alexander to give Mr.. hunton the
satisfaction due gentleman" would be graft
fed by meeting between two gentlemen who
do recognize q code, and have proved their cour-
age on the tented field. General Robertson, of
the Confederate army, who commanded dlVis.
ion in the battle which resulted in the defeat OF
Pope, was summoned as 8 witness before the
commission which has been reviewing the case
of Fitz John Porter. On his return to Wash
ington he in an Interview published IN one Oh
the city papers two weeks ago, reflected severely
on sn article reviewing Fitz John Porter's case
which had appeared in the Sunday Capital.
General Smith, disappointment clerk OF the
Treasury, and lately made an army psymaster
for life by President Hayes, and who figured IN
Porter from the military service Of the United
States, construed certain illusions of General
Robertson as rejecting on him. he requested
Colonel John S. Mosby to call on General HoD.
crtaon and inquire whether be was correct IN his
surmise. In case OF Al affirmative reply IT Ii
supposed that the usual demand on such occas
ions would have been made and acceded to- but
General Robertson promptly responded that no
did not have General Smith III his minds eye IN
the remarks he had made, and, this being ontire.
~ satisfactory to General Smith, the matter was
dropped Wash. cor. BAIT syn.
DESTRUCTIVE STORM, Friday afternoon a
terrific tornado surprising in fury any blow
known for years, passed over the Plymouth
section of North Carolina, accompanied by an
extraordinary fall of hail, causing great destluo
ton to various descri ptioos Of valuable proper.
~, Numerous frame houses and all sorts Of
fencing wero Frustrated, tho largest trees up.
rooted, valuable live stock killed and great
damage done to the growing corn and other
crops. 10 Plymouth q Baptist church was
blown down and other houses damaged. On
the large plantation of COL Asa johnson, just
outside OF the town, all tho negro quarters.
barns, stables and every variety Of oatbulIdiug
was swept away, and only tho strongest and
heaviest portions Of the stately mansion we're
left standing. All that section Of country 10
tho path of the tornado suffered similarly.
THE NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD
A party Of explorers, with military escort,
and headed by General Rosser, chief engineer
of the Northern Pacific Railroad, left Bismarck
On Thursday for Fort Keogh. The object ls to
ascertain The value of tho Northern Pacific
land grant between the Missouri and Yellow
stone rivers. Hon. Dorillius Morrison, of
Minneapolis, accompanying tho party, will
report on his return to certain New York capt.
talists, who think of building the road to the
Yellowstone and accepting from the Northern
Pacific Company 100000 acres Of land as
their consideration.
misunderstanding to letter Of the
Charleston Is. c. News and Courer's CORES.
pondent, who has recently returned from Lii.
IBERIA, the annual cost of governing that country,
which has $500 voters is $lOl.7S2. equal to
500 for each voter. There arc ll6 odiceholders,
besides host of magistrates and constables. 1t
cannot be said Liberia pays it's officers exorbl'
taut salaries, judged by the American standard.
The President gets So. 500. and the chlet Justice
5000, while tho treasurer has to content him
caf IN 81 000 The T,epjslature absOrbs