Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1878-11-16
letter i"Oua Falls Church.

Utitc;'ouuchC3 U! tuC AcAanQfta UaZStte.
FALLS CHURCH, Va, Noy. l4.-What came
o tr he republican elemcrt 10 Falls Church
Dls!r!aE last week it would be hard to conjec
turc. That poll IS usually expected to 20 re.
publioaa politically, though every other poll in
county should stand 10 opposition, yet the repub.
liean congressional candidate failed TO receive
sioglc vote. John Calhoun Motter Induced a
score Of colo!ed 7Otor5 to vote for Carter, but
| an Informed he himself forgot to vote; how
that is, know not personally but presume.
If it ls SO, he adopted that line on the princi-
pie that doctors arc accused of praotclng 10
reference to their OWE physc. The Ignorance
OF the negroes IS tier great curse. both to
themselves, personally, and to the community
a. large, 10 rendering hem susceptible to the
arts and Establishments of the demagogue, and
Leading them to labor as willing tools for their
own injury; while their genuine friends are
Ignored, their advice disregarded, and the sio.
ceIl!y Of their motives questioned. However,
there is no remedy except in education, and, as
free education 10 Nir9oia is q myth as long as
tho present legislation and Court of Appeals
c0airol the power, 1t 10 not likely ely very
great Improvement can DO effected during the
| present generation.
DR.. N. i. Graham delivered the third lecture
| Il Jefferson destitute on the 18th inst. Our
| nnble qlartettc tbs! PROMISED such q concord
| OF sweet SQUADS as an accompaniment oil the
! literary pabulm, sauns to be composed OF
| Isaac NeWtOna, who, learning little, Ind so
much moro TO learn beyond. are llEely TO let
tie season 80 by without giving US q specimen
OF their talents. Their places, however, were
very acccptably filed by Mrs. Eastman. Miss
Annie Coo. Miss Carrie Pond and Me5srJ. S.
4. Goe aud K. d. Harrington. who sang a
| Tyrolean hymn, and, CAS- night comes o or
the pIain;" Miss Mary r. Parker read The
Advertisement Answered" DIR. Graham Ice
tured on "Somc Of the functions Of The brain, -
and, like a. his productions, it was good,
sound, square talk, presenting facts 10 az in
tarcsting and suggestive way, and calculated to
do much good il giving the people 4 clearer
! idea Of some cf The phenomena Of The brain,
add explaining some Of lts apparent ecoantri.
Cities The lecture, for metaphysical! one,
was impressive, FROM the manner Of its delig-
cry, the Doctor occasionally forgetting he was
lccturing popularity. and getting down to the
wjrk a. If he was facing bis class. put his points
ia az il Inc intended them to stick, and left no
| loop holes Tor uilsco1struc'ion. The lecture
was illustrated by some auat0m!cst diagrams
that helped to elucidatc the material working
| OF the brain and its comedian with the dis.
! taut portions nt the humau frame. lis asSer.
tion that the female brain was, as Iue, five
or six GuEc?s lighter than the male bfaln, sud
the iGcreacc popularity drawn ir0in that. that
it must, therefore, be less able in tie average,
caused quite hlttcr among the ladies. aod
some OF our blue stOckugs had quite shaking
CT heads over it. The different functions Of Tie
brain were explained sud classified, sad Illus
tracd by accounts OF remarkable cascs drawn
from facts recorded ia medical history.
Rev. D. Il. Riddle is announced to lecture
Tuesday evening November 26:b, subject:
"Grave and Gay"
The roads through the coulty arc getting III
to condition that promises to become impas.
stability before spriog, should we have az open
winter; who is to blame Tor II, it might be dill
cult to Indicate, but it is very evident that since
tho township method Of working the roads has
been discontinued, We have been going from
bad to worse until the roads are 10 almost as
bad condition as they were at the close OF the
war; when they had not been worked for sew.
era years. The tirkerDg. by the Legislature
OF our road laws, is enc Of tie principal causes
| of this; and, with BAD roads getting worse, aud
| no provision for education, the peregrinatlous
| Of Judge johnson IL ,arch Of immigrants, IS
not likely 10 be emlnently successful, II he
| luro!sh his auditors with o ,ruo statement OF
our condition aud prospects.