Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1883-02-12
EDITORIAL BRIEFS.

about as bad as we'll could be.
The Salt Lake papers that We receive
are entirely proper and not al all poIyga
NOUS.
The President is said to be 'sheayy
dog socially. If he is as heavy socially
as he is politically then he is weighty IN
deed
China and Japan buy our dried apples
freely, and, says an exchange, thus does
American industry help to swell the popula-
ton of the orient
There is 4 general cutlery against the
high price Of gas In Oh other cities re-
duction is demanded, why not have come
down hereabouts
We have received from Hon. J. r.
Tucker copy of his great speech on the
tariff, delivered in the House Of Representa-
tives on the 26th ofJanuary last
Many fellow made the weather an
excuse yesterday for not putting on clean
shirt and going to church as he should have
done-Oh, the ways of the wicked
The Washington society papers note
that Mrs Malone will not receirp during
Lent" Doubtless the General will-all lie
can get, especially from the republicans.
Marshall jewell Of Connecticut. is
dead. He had been Governor Of his State,
Minister to Russia. and was Chairman OF
the National Republican Committee. This
last straw broke the camel;s back.
A Boston firm is proGtably engaged in the
manufacture OF artificial honey. The comb
is moulded out Of paratline wax, and the
cells filed with glucose syrup, favored
with, or 10 resemble, genuine honey
The French Government iorbids the
sale Of all acid fruits or vegetables put up in
tin cans as death has been produced by the
poisonous compound formed from the ac-
ton oftne acids on the metal. A similar
prohibition should he enforced in this coun-
try
III j.; reported chat ex Governor Lrtcher
is snccuuhng to the rayages Of time and
has given way me"tally az we'll a. physi-
cally. Honest John" as he Was wont to
be called, and well deserved the az pellation
Virginia has cause to he proud of her war
Governor
w hat ever became of the committee APP
". K. H. tract; back into the city? and why
is the hiatus in the running OF the trains be-
tween / 10 4. n and l:%0 =. IN. permitted
to continue. Local traffic, at last, is what
makes railroad profitable.
In Pulaski county, few days since, We
read that Mr. David Smith, ir., and Miss
Lizzie King, II romantic couple, undertook
q rvnaway-match The elements sided with
the girls father, who captured the lovers,
took them home, and made them get mar
ricd in decent, prosaic style.
Plans for improving the channel lead
in. 10 the Navy Yard have been submitted
and layorahly reported upon. Now for the
appropriation 10 carry them ont and have
the mud dumped just below this city to
| flrher obSlruct navigation Better move
the navy yard to Jones Point and have no
more trouble about il.
Herr Most made characteristic, social
IS;c speech III Baltimore yesterday. There
ca@o Icwyrars ago. Many of them got
rich, and with property their ideas wholly
changed. They became Conservatives, and
now call Socialism ''iuternal nonsense y
And 50 it will be always those who have
nothing want Il division but in turn are al
ways unwilling to divide.
Lieut.. Phillip Pendleton Powell, t. s.
A., better known hereabouts as "Pent,' OF
LceSblrg, is soon TO be married TO Miss Kate
Hicks, Of New York, niece Of Col. Henry of
the Ninth Cavalry. Pent was y brave Con
felcra;e boy, enlisted in the Federal Army
after the war, for want Of something better
to do, had his political disabilities removed
through the influence of his brother in-law,
Hon. Ran Tucker, passed creditable ex-
animation, was commissioned as Second
Lieutenant and. lucky to the last, is now
going to join the Colonel's mess by marry.
ing his niece. Long life to him and many
happy returns.
Hon. Judah p. Benjamin whose retire
ment from the English bar on account of
failing health has been announced, was a
lawyern New Orleans, then member of
The United States Senate, afterwards Attor-
ney General, Secretary of War aud Secreta-
ry Of State Of the Coniederacy. When the
war closed he made his escape in an open
boat. and landed on the Bahamas, from
whence he afterwards reached England
After settling in London he was admitted TO
the bar He soon received 4 silk gown, or
the rank of Queens counsel, and was Of
iered 4 judgcship, but did not accept it, his
income being twenty times as great as that
position could have brought him. Mr.. Ben
Iamin was born in Bermuda in 1912.
What can't he done ION the square" is to
be attempted in 4 roundabout way. The
lessees of The Alexandria Canal, who are
''on the make" and who would see the bot
tom drop out Of the Aqueduct and Alex.
antlria Inhabited bv owls aud bats so that