Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1879-12-13

WALKS ;,issa z'eEsss about EE5:sE.--Ae.9,
This is pleasant old city despite EuaDy
drawbacks. i buad.cd sad Thirty yeas. fl
tue: is its age as! July, las IT,. passed over i
withcu! leaving naby n anotl4ls Ct lis juruey.
Oae does not thick Ct il at i:tst. ou: over two
hurdred thousand ptorlo have, tiSi aid last,
spent q considerable pcrilan Ul tEcir lives here.
At le:s: thirty tlou)and people have G;1d aero.
Here x; cpitcmc has pass d ali that has passed
10 the whole world outside. From tho ta:c-
most man 10 all the files Of Time. whose life
lumcg tho path of civil z.iion, 20 tho tiny IN
known babo OF unknown narcnta tia. lived icn
nlAutC5 a1d tho Goroutr GsGCG up from the
slime OF maEsty Gralr, 10 guess ct, LIl0W II
mon to confess ignorance, and ouo man TO bury,
all ths phases of the worlds iiij have iuuUd
reflection htro-- seldom crime, Dcvtr virtue,
scarcely deed, which the aunaiS OF tina world
record that ~ not 10 measure parai!Ctd lmI'
tatca or EsrCl,ed wlthia tho marrow liluits OF
the little town We call home. We Iva just
where tho mountains alicr IOirG SURGE up1D
| surge OF great ctr,h wavcs oisi u, hi sni aoi,
low, mek3 1T tho great ia9ge OF hills to The
&cst Of US ihcir last attempt TO m2ct The clouds
| and come slrpiog down to kiss Tho waters that
lwlco day comc b:ck from tbs silt waves
| thst claim kirship with tbs ocean. Even somo-
times wien tho lopg. shiriog SUD Seals up the
fountains OF heaven, o!d cesar comes 10 tho
P0tCmic with his suit sea G6Yes-hc7e hc
st0pS-nG further than this ho goss, AID
here no meets, once or twlco i2 a oaoury, tbs
fresh waters that the mGuataiGs have held in
| their carerns 10 bless time OF driugbt P,orl
our Rharres be flies ct tho FIST thunder shower,
just then on the confines of sea and land; last
| too midway Of the equator hcnrt and the Attic
ooasstss shoWs-tcviDg sometimes q summer
larg)r that allows Us to appreciate tho shorts
| OF the OIonCco, acd somcinc0 chilli that
gives us c tasto of Arctic leo maive!s, but OF
| these touch only. and tho wind, ii it Comes
\ from tho north, leaves halt its bitterness, eud
| if from the south, oil its plaques behind, end
| brings US blessing only. IL that medium which
soitons IL things that man may enj,y them
and BIO healthy wo live. Let Us DO c1nteGt.
We sit to ct tho gale of tho Great capital
Lazarus ct tto gallo tf Dives sit? Even SO.
| They that want to tEke part with Dives may
Cross tic river and enter into all his enjoyrncrts
| for ten c>nts.
| By the way, speaking OF .sicE ever to
Washington. did you ever sit in tic cars CT 90
the seGmtoits and lisIca 10 tho oGd ilc;s with
which, passing Strangers regalo each other as
| they WbiEl along Henry stree! or pass co cur
| liver front:
That's Alexandra is il! Sleepy cd town !
lcs. but it had great trGdo 10 old tines? Oh
| yes vessels camo thero from all parts of tho
| world"
Whats lis population 2"
"D0nt know; guess five thousand"
Why DON 1t improve"
"Ol tUcrS'S no ebterrTiz i;a an nl.i rs,n-
skackln ptc nobody lives there that ca1 get
away"
'virsiuia like" said the FIRST ntcilocaicr
Where gro you from, sir. said sleepy
passenger lying 90 enc oil the loucgcs near ty.
From Phladcly' with evident rrida.)
well 1t tho tOdcril city had been placed at
Camden when Philadelphia WIS town Cf Iour
| thousand souls, ard you lived in Philadelphia
| now, you would have to be frog ttr ':would
| all Do marsh.
There's Thoio you ~ mistaken ;utr;hcrn CT.
terprlsa would havo KEEP! it ny; thtr.s 20 vim
south. When tho Yankoos hnifd O lawn thew
push, push, till it goes ahead"
Then shy Goa't they push Bath lie Maine,
! pdrtsDouth 10 New Hampshire, Naatrc;et in
Massachusetts,, Columbia in New York. and
hundreds ci olher Sleepy toSns. YCu tliak
| that Il Alexandria was north it would DC pushed
| ahead. New thtra nra five hlnxandria7 nrr;h
| "DA they 70 ahrat.2'
III never heard Ct thrm."
"Wcll you will hear CT them noH: Alexandria
| in New Hampshire with o population of | 80,
ln 1850 had only SO in 1870 A!txarl,is ia
New York had 3,I9G in $500 aaG only 3 QST in
1870. Alexandria 10 New jersey had 4 0lS in
1860 and only 33ll 10 1870. Alexandria 10
Pconsyivaril had Col 10 1850 eu;i only SIC in
1870. Alexandria in Oaio had $40 10 $50 and
only %C% ia 1870 Alexandria in VirAia:a, The
sleepy old town that wants Earkon cnrrsrtiz
to push it ahead, hail STAT in l,5n nnA l.: so
in 1870"
"Oh you're loo durGcl statistical, rai.i iha
lh'!a ioinhl.n, AID went i,rgairl 10 ieapcct
| Goose Egg Island aId SUGGEST that Ii that H..
land was north eomo provision SCu!:i bo ,ncd.
| ltr ha!chiaE The cgss and roa,iny rt inb,ra al
Congress-
lhn WashIpcton clrtspoHdtrt ii Tie Ca
2tttG mentioned an Instance lev da; agn
wtcro tho rniret"r 81 IN ore rCiucias ui!I
WHO had established his iIcitrg at Washington
whcIn GGnt, labor anh cost Of Transportation
Wru!i have been sarl had he brsua Isis tnsi-
hesa ~ Alexandra. ER7e his oulv reason, II
don't Want to live III Alexandra" ifor that
kind OF I01sonsn there is no cure. So1r ioka
have moral Blight sdis aSo that pniaaaa th.ir
whnlG nature.
Not long sine, Frclch tcacior vas advised
by tho clerk ol olc Of the WASHINGTON c1Grts
to tako up his reridcfc, 10 Alexandra, So
COM Portable home Of a man Ct iucdfrsic means.
'Sir," sold the Frct c',mau, w: Lacn il,
Alexandria, AID as to lclc d r. wcuiG ,noach
rrelair to ltto 10 he'll.
N. B.-lho rlau 10 roi lrsd SGT sn,t taa no.
Yet changed bis opinion. ~. l.. {.
A SAD ROMANCE. Ca the l3. h da? Gf D.
oomber, 1875. Miss Nettio ApGers. a school
teacher in the public schools Ct Ncwpnt, O.,
was married to Hctry Harvey. DOW walLto.
do MERCHANT Of Sh;rnap, Teyap At In, time