Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1881-02-07
Atlantic, Mississippi e. Ohio X. X.

Tao announcement that an application has
b1sn made to jed 20 B,nd, Of the Uoited States
Circuit Cour:, to allow the Atauic. Missis,ipIi
u OHIO rsl'wly cjmpauy to pay ~ its arrcara
ges of lDtcrts. o. d resume cJptrol Ct that road
has sttrao:Cd god deal of Interest lhroughcu.
the Sfe.c. Gao. NJ ,hone, who has b,en il
New OTk inr The past lwJ weeks. reu9ed 10
Riohmoud t.lday, his visit TO iho former city
having b2en Tor the purpose Of Interesting CAPT
talsts snd stcurng the promise OF the Lcoessary
tuods to purchase the road 81 It's approaching
sale Oh Tlursday ptX'. Ii is stated that New
York capitalists. a: ino head OF when j, MIR.
Wm. L. Cylc. lave become Interested 10 The
road aud Will Furnish the necessary mears to
pey ~ the pas. dle interest on The boLds, pow
amounting 10 between Two md three million
dollars, aud restore tho load to he company, 70
DO operated 10 the in!crcst OF Vrpinia. Judge
Bod las appointed Tuesday, Two days be-
tcro tic tine appointed for The eso of the
road, iur hearing OF the nOti)n Tor its restora
tlon TO the c)mlaay, AID it Is understood j udse
Hughes Will hSa tit at the hearing. 1t ia no.
d:rstood that Mir. John CoIlit 10, who rep,e.
scent The E9ellsh bOndholdcrs. will RI sss this
melton TO bVe,t tine sale. Prominent Phila-
d,l 9h!i Iar!c' will also be en- bend, il is said,
Hho vii! l!ad their aid 10 This resistance with
the hep, OF btc,niog pulchss .rs Of the line at
tie sl4. Attic head Of this latter atcrest is
q Mr.. kim5slI. Of Philadelphia. President Of
the Shenandoah VALLEY CONSTRUCTION Com papy.
who IS probably Lc;iog as q representative of
tho Teas aad Pacific Interest, and. it is u:dsl-
Stood. is a;yCu5 10 get possession Of that part
CT Tic road w,s; Ct Salem, Roanoke ccuoty,
with the vi " OF reschiog Philadel phia through
the SnCUaEdoah aud Cu nberiaud valleys Gen.
T. h. Batter Is ,Xp,c.d 10 tske part 10 the
yr;c.edin2s.
A mec'iog Of tic Ncrfo k CITY Council wa7
held Saturday, a. which committee was ap-
pointed TO so to Nav York to confer With tho
representatives, Ut tho ci.i!s Of Petersburg aud
L7cchburz Tor iha purpose Of placing them
selves in dirco, communication with tho parry
or parties who hro d.sircus Of purchasing tho
road. The com nitce will meet 10 Richmond
on Wednesday Mex. At mse,iug of the
L7rchtufg C5urcll Frid y. Mr.. p. A. Krisc. a
bau&c., msdo 9 proposition to buy TIC 4l.lO
shares of stock cwDcd by the oorp,raion 10 the
road at $50 per shtr.. The Council a6joornsd
until nex! day without lioal actiop on the FIR.
THOMAS CARLYLE, whose des in Loadcn
was announced in Saturdays Gazette, was ore
of the mos! notably figures in modern English
literature. In thst se:iu led corner of London,
Cheyno Walk. Oho!s.s. he passed his latter
years, lonely man, wto had outlved nearly
sill his contemporaries. yet cheered by the oc.
casionsl visits of few friends 10 whom he was
especially endeared and welcoming with q
grabbed. but not ungenisl courtesy, pilgrims
from scross The Sea. VINO sought by thsir intro.
duction TO him 10 show their appreciation of his
writings and 10 GO honor to his genius. Thomas
Carlyle was born at Ecclestechsn. Scotland in
as D. and Educated 6. the University of Edin.
burgh. His elf, of Schiller was published in
1928 81. He translated Gosthe's Wilhelm
Meister," and wrote biographical essays on
Fich.e and J san Paul, and it was his labors
mainly which called the attention of the British
public 10 German literature. He married, in
1926 Jane Welch, a line.l descendent of John
Knox. he published in succession his "History
ct the French Revolution" s.Lifo of Oliver
CROMWELL" "Lif. Of John Sterling" and life
of Frederick the Great" BE became the rector
of Edinburgh University in 1866, but long be-
fore that time his reputation as author aud
historian had been firmly established. His com
plete works published in 1901, comprised
thirty volumes, besides which there are three
volumes Of translstions.