Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1878-01-25
The Arlington PnstOffice.
ARLINGTON, Va, Jan. %,


TO the editor ofths Alexandria Gazette:
SIR: An erroneous statement appeared 10
your paper of the 22d instant, which does
fragrant injustice to the postmaster at this place
A man who had been in the habit of getting
COL Windsor s mai! about once week, stopped
taking it. I repeatedly asked him and Others
to please inform Messrs. Windsor & Palmer
that mail matter to their address was rapids
aceumulatiog in this postofhce Not OILY was
the above named mail not called for as stated
but there has never been single instance Of
failure on my part to deliver all mail matter
when called tor by parties entitled to receive it,
1t the gentleman referred to 10 your article had
taken one.halt the pains to inform this Office
of bis cause for complaint that this Office has
often taken to inform persons of mail matter
remaining IN it to their address, he would prob
ably have saved himself the trouble of doing
very unkind act, at least, which [ hope va;
not Intentional. If you will please publish lbe
above correction IN your next tr.weekIy issue
you will be doing justice to this postofice, snd
greatly obllge, very respectfully. your obad.
ent servant, +. S. SoUIER, Post master.
I. 5. | can easily prove the facts as above
stated if necessary. Yours, &c., E. S. S.
DANCING. The paper read by the Rev. Mr..
Addison at the recent Church Congress on
"Christianity and Popular Anusements, c5n.
tains the following, az reported in the Church
Journal
81 have spoken Of the deposit 10 the soul Of
divine life through Christ. | have to speak OF
what [ may call another sacred deposit Iii.
not mental, Nor spiritual, DOR purely corporal.
1t is perhaps the hottest thing that has survived
the fall. 1t colors our earthly existence Its
full Of all tenderness and sweetness. The heart.
the imsgi nation sll the powers of our being. s:e
in its service. 1t is the inshirer and enchan,r:
9f human life. 1t transfgg:es the hard wor4.
1t is the magical mistress OF energy, poetry, sad
leroism. Shall call it love-th, :scred ALEC.
ton that glorifes the relationship CT man a2I
wife? 1t is 8 great mystery; SO the Holy
Ghost designated it. God created and blessed
in Eden. dc has thrown around il the shield
of law. Christ forbids violence to it even Oy
glance. All Scripture says: Keep i! sacred;
let not even the breath of ~ impure though.
touch it, 1t is yelled in the Utmost recesse: 0:
our being. Il is sort OF Holy Of Holes: 4.
the entrance of Gods voice all the enginecy Q:
Providential punishment. all the wrath Of com.
ing judgments, arc arrayed, forbidding the il.
trusion of impur:Ly as the very abomioa:io2 0.
desolation.'
II bring this charge against dancins-:hs. i:
is the desecrator Of this holy mystery. Tui: Is
serious charge and it be true. fatal to i: in.
nocence, constituting it sin, a monst-ou, :a.
Let me define the dancing Of the day. A W.
man. improperly dressed, pressed agsn:: the
person Of her partner, whirlng around room.
This is only a deanition cf the visibility, tie
outward aspect. 1t will Suffice for my prc;e1:
purpose. 1t is no reply to this to say i! i; te
criptive only of al excess. The excess is TOW
the fashion. and fashion is imperious. inezor,o,a
and irresistible. The square dance csnro. be
kept SQUARE Preach and moralize SIS We mav
it will be rounded off by the waltz Put the oh
modest style on the floor of the ball room to-day
and just as surely as the loosened rock Ct the
preclpice will fsll into the chssm below, will !.
fsl into the arms and bs pressed against the b.
som efthe German"