Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1879-08-23


iron, Hooi, leather, sEGa. OF ether factories,
and my conviction IS tia! ia two years Fred.
er!c:sbrrs will BIS on tic highway TO prosper
IT'S. HANOVER.
Teachers Institute.
WARRENToN, Aug. -, 1S79.-Att,r IHy
letter had been mailed yesterday a!tcrao0o, the
judges OF Tho spelling contest rYadc their report
as follows:
Participating in the contes. sixty three. OF
these, niue spelled tho whole Of tho twenty
eight worfs siver; eight missed oue each; ten,
Two eacb; niDe, three esot; five, five each;
eight six each; three, seven each; two, eight
each; two, nine each; ouo. ter; Two, thirteen
cacb; two, fourteen eaot; one, slSsccu; and one,
seventeen. Ali were not teachers, everybody
| 10 tho hall being invited to compete. As there
| wero but eight prizes offered. tho contest be-
tween the nine who were perfect IVES renewed
OF II u. TO day, Superintendent Carno giving
| out twenty i've words, seccied from McGuI-
isy's Sixth Reader, with the following result ::
Misses Maggie Foley and Sa!lic Il. johnson
| of Prince WiIliam, Ellen ID. Brown of WerrcD,
aud Bessi NJ. Foster Of Acc2mlc, mis- led none !;
| MIR. A. j Bartenstein and Miss Martha
| Irenls Of Faululer, and Miss Flora ID. Brown
| OF Warren. missed ore eech; and Miss Alice
| icgh OF Eauquicr. i1ut, aad Miss Melissa
4. Piyuo OF FauquIer, missed five.
| The judges, Superintendent Roy Of Warren,
and Cooper oil Stafford, adjujg",i the prizes to
the eight first named.
Suu!c dissatisfaction VAS expressed by sem,
TT tho unsuccessful candidates ID ths frs. tiiaI,
ono lady declaring that ''sho Gould spell any
word III the English language, but ,ilas some
4 IlJ NH VII.
lica7eu, but Superintendent Carne was in@ 6.
orabls, declaring that The could rot go behind
The Returning Board, 60 she did not get q
prize. Other ladies', too, charged f7ani aud
coIiupl0E among the comralilura who, lhcy
say, were aided ir3m without, anu Ito charge
having been formally made 10 wilIiug, The nine
contestants we're to day scaled apart. The
gentleman who gave tho prizes waH not 4
Cove IS The printers made 1t from my prGr
chiography. but Mr.. john Core, Cnrc, tho
geutlnmauly agent of Van Antwerp, Bergs &
| Co., the great ClnolnssIi publishers, whcgu
books furnished the prizns.
! Gen. John. Eltor, u. s. Commissioner ii
Elrcailon. had promised to deliver an address
last night, but, t1om some unty. iaine.i cause.
1aIcd tu clmo. After waiting fer s0ric ;iu,y for
lbs arrival, tho last train being ia, ilaiGr
jed tlOlchklss, CT SiauGt0fi, filed his PLACE,
most acceptahly, with lcctufJ on the physical
geography ci Palestine, beautifully i!,ns'r.itd
80 nll that gentleman Il a3rurcs ale.
| This mornius. he and Mr.. NlctiiIviry eavo
/ their corcaGiag i1stuGiorS, the NJ tt klirg
| illustrated by . ske,ch c! tive phy:icl scoeTa-
| ply Of Prlrca William oGu1ty aul lr geology
| OF the Valley
This aitcruoon tho cy.MiGal;nu ci TIC Eau
| ruler teachers not iia7lag been co7cuied jg
| iiireo clock, The attendance ,s3s cnmra!at.veGy
small and Eh"rc were no regular cx..ciscs
Superintendent CaTGo end Roy tTi;d TO set M
dIscuS3lCn =: 10 Tic correctness III ;p santcaca
Il have cot doubt Of its being them" the
| l1rmer fonitnGlEc i0r change CT ''thc.n" into
they, hu; though opinions SacmGG to be
ALMOST equally divided ca the suEiaCt the teach.
cr5 seemed 10 thiak the argum.-ta on each sid.
sufficiently s!GCnG GDi GCcaed adding 20 them.
sup:rintcnlcnt Roy and hlr. Gsens, Of
tnncc W iiltanI, also gave sana li.Gs;r.;Gaa ia
graumIr.
| neglected TO Stale ia my laiirf of yestc,lay
| that Z resolution OF Thanks to Rev Z. ArboSas;
received maoy, perhaps majority Of negative
votes not because the tea2hers diSscnto,s rna;9.
| rally from Bis conclusions, but because many ct
them thought his address Cue oi' tso Giarkci
| q political character to be Introduced toto
meeting Tor educational purposes.
TO night Major llotctkiss viii. nj tila reolcst
| OF the citizen5 Of Wmrenion, iucIu.ling r:any
OF bis old coropanions 10 arms. deliver his
famous :ctufc on "JackSou $ Campaign in the
Fa|iey,,' "a!i which he saw, aud ply. CT which
no was
Zoo great praise Caboot be AWARDED. he ci,i
Zens Of Wsrreuton lar the generous manncr il
Tblch their hospitality Eas exercised towards
The teachers; Old FIrsia!a" il, evidently, lot
dead there yet.
Several Aexandrians, a;ncrg them Tic fltnily
ii j: L: Beckhau, csl.. arc spending tho SUN.
mer 10 WaIrcnton, chiefly at The Warren Green
Hotel which our Old friend Maddux knows how
to keep y TEACHER.