Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1883-02-16
ALEXANDRIA, VA.
FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 1G.
EDITORIAL BRIEFS.


Sir Garnett Wolseley took his seat in
the British House Of Lords yesterday.
And the Washington and Western Rail
road is again to be sold 1t is so ordered.
baltimore is AZ sore as bile" oyer the
the loss Of the control of the V. NJ. r. W,
by the B. & o. R. r.
Only ,forty-one divorce cases were called
in Chicago court one day this week, and
it was rainy day, too
A dense fog prevailed to-day, in which
respect if in no other, Alexandria resembed
London for the time being only
The Loudoun County Agricultural So
ciety has been fined $500 for permitting
gaming tables, &C., on their grounds
Neither Judge Hughes, Judge Meade or
Judge Sangster held court to-day. What a
relief! Alexandria is nearly courted to
death
The Mahoncites have nominated IA
county ticket in Page. Now let the demo
Gratis of that old Tenth Legion county
beat it.
Bradlaugh was made at Trafalgar Square.
London, yesterday, after which Bradlaugh
took his old seat in the House Of Commons.
In the Senate yesterday amotion to in
crease the duty on iron ore from 80 cents 10
81 a ton was voted down, and in the House
motion to place sugar OH the free list was
also voted down.
George W. Michall, a boy, died in New
York day or two ago from injuries re-
ceived by being butt by goat 4 great
many older folks die daily from being az
gressors in the rencontre with the capricorn.
The Court Of Appeals has decided that
the practice ofjustices, which prevails ex-
tensively of cutting up debts into small
sums so as to reduce the amounts involved
to the jurisdiction fixed by law is unlawful.
In the French Chamber of Deputies
yesterday the proposal rendering the prin-
ces liable TO expulsion by the decree of the
President was adopted. They won't rest in
France till they have an empire Like the
Jews of old they must have king.
Rev. DIR. Armstrong. Of Richmond, has
taken upon himself the rather arduous task
of defending Judas. The Doctor is rather
late. The celebrated commentator, Adam
Clarke, half a century ago. pretty well ex-
hausted the subject.
About seven hundred and fifty consum-
ers pay for all the gas used in the city and
besides pay into the Treasury of the corpo-
ration about $4,000 annually. OF course
this is pro bono publico, but the pujIic ought
to bear some Of the burden.
A woman living in village near New
York became entirely blind recently while
conversing in Il neighbours house. Had the
unfortunate lady suddenly become speech
less the fact would doubtless have occasion.
ed some CONSERVATION in other places Of
the country rs well - in her immediate
neighborhood
Nordenskjod will make another Arctic
trip this year. Having successfully passed
from the Atlantic to the Pacific and thus
proven the existence of a northwest passage,
he had better "let we'll enough alone" or he
may end his career rs did Sir John Franklin,
Capt. Hall and other enthusiastic but head
strong men.
Hardly Il day that We don't hear of
grown persons falling down stairs in Phila-
delphia or New York and killing them
selves. Until recently il took the surveil-
ance of the household to keep young ones
from tumbing down the steps now it would
seem the older ones have. or ought, to be
watched.
Senator Ferry, Of Michigan, came near
being dropl in caucus OF his friends on
Wednesday. BY Il bare majority il was de.
cided TO hold OF TO him Il little while
longer, but his fate is sealed. Jay Hubbell,
il is said, has been using money 10 defeat
him, and Jay is fully capable of doing just
that thing. He is a Jay-birl.
Policy players" will be Interested in
knowing that It, II. "A" has come ont in
a New York office. The Herald says smiles
illuminated the emory faces OF walters and
colored men and women as they met on the
sidewalks exhibited 10 each other small
slips of paper and spoke in low tones of
gigs" Saddles" and "hits." The black
mans tavorte gig" 1, II, fl. had been re-
surrected
-"rempora mutantur. &c" During the
palmy days Of her husband, the ex- Empress
Eugene Was an invetcrate enemy Of Jerome
Napoleon because of the latter's opposition
to the temporal power Of the Pope but
yesterdays cable dispatches bring the
strange intelligence that the ex.Empress
has not only had cordial interview with
this Sanch Panza of imperialism but recog-
nizes him as chief of ali the Bonapartes."
A correspondent writing to Northern
paper complains bitterly of the fact that the
words, "In God we trust, have been omitted
from the new five cent pieces, and asks if
this is an instance of the Goddess spirit which
is creeping into our national institutions
1t being confidently believed that many of
than, 1yil1 ha traota5 IN alant rnfppa no h,