Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1883-03-08
EDITORIAL BRIEFS.


Help others and you relieve yourself"
Yes, and the others generally relieve you Of
everything they can lift.
The water that has no taste is purest;
the air that has no odor is freshest; and
the cheese that smells the loudest is gene
rally the best
The wrath Of God, says the Bible, is re-
veaed from heaven, against covenant
breakers. Then woe to the Mahoneites--n
Guiding the seven unjust judges
A heavy snow storm prevailed through
out Ontario yesterday. Virgins recognizes
1t MS the beginning of the great storm which
he predicts for tomorrow, or some other
time
The next number of the North lmericuA
Rcricw will contain an article by prom-
nent Canadian, giving the reasons for the
growing feeling in the Dominion in favor of
annexation TO the United States
Ex-Governor +. w. NJ Holiday is going
to Europe; and Lord Chief Justice of Eng
land, Lord Coleridge, has accepted an in
vitation to deliver an address at an annual
bar meeting at Albany, in September next.
An exchange says that when Justice
Beltord, of Colorado, who ran against Judge
Wylie, yesterday, emerged from the court
house he looked as if he had been run
through thrcshng machine
The flags were placed at half:mast, the
bells toled and the public offices closed in
Baltimore to-day as testimonial of respect
to the memory Of the late Alexander Steph-
eng, whose remains were inferred this after
noon.
Key. \. q. Lawson in recent discourse
in Brooklyn said muskrat knew more
| about what kind of weather we were going
10 have than all the Vennors in the uni
verse. lie didn't explain. or should the
ground hog become extinct We might have
bad this animals manGuvres to chronicle
A letter from Carriers Creek, Lancaster
county says that if Gov Cameron had start
ed his excursion in the fall of the year and
| X had produced the same salutary effect
which il did later in the season, he would
upon his spring picnic.
Maj. H. W. Hunter has sold a half i'll
| tercst IN the Winchester Times, and the pa
per Will hereafter be conducted in the name
of "'I'hc Winchester Times Co." Tho work
| and responsibility were TOO much for one
and the Major wasalways fond ofhis otium
cum MWitmi.
1t was formerly supposed that assasins
only fixed upon those for victims who were
powerful III the land, or who had achieved
envabIc notorc,y; but people who imagine
themselves safe because to fortune and fame
| unknown will become uneasy when they
learn THAI a soap pcddier was recently ire
moved" By IN ussassin's bullet in Albany.
! "A gentleman writing from Minnesota
says that after long experience in the west,
he believes Virginia is the best place in the
Union for men OF small capital ana for those
seeking good investments" and he might
have added for any thing else With all her
troubles and tribulatons she is the most
loved spot on the face of the earth
In Sarah Bernhardt's new play OF 'Fe
dora, " n'Pnris, the body of her Russian lov.
er, who has been killed by Nihilists, is
brought upon the stage, and she rushes over
to it and covers il with kisses of the sort that
in Brooklyn are called paroxysmal Many
admircs have begged to be permitted to per-
form the simple part of the dead lover.
--Windom-cX- Senator and ex-Secretary,
who is now "out in the cold"-writes: II
am looking forward TO the freedom OF pri-
vate life with pleasure. and ii any who call
themselves my enemies imagine an con-
sumed with grief on account Of the loss of
my position they are greatly mistaken"
Which is the surest evidence that he feels
exactly contrary to what he says.
Among the reccut awards for CARRYING
the mails are the following: From Aldie to
Haymarket,to John Landes, of Letcher, Va,
for Sl92.9G; From Arcola to l.oudoun, to VIM.
II. Smith, of Washington, for s2S7 From
Standardsville to EIkton. to G. A. Denham,
for S9G From IIarrisonburg 10 New Mark
Ell, TO John Landes, for 539l25 From Oak
Level to Wainsboro, to William Ellison for
SllS.99
-Rev. Dr.. Howard Crosby in his last
Sunday sermon in New York said theatres.
even the best OF them, arc but places of vice,
where the marriage VOW is made light of
and where most of the plays hinge upon
some filthy intrigue. The reverend gentle
man cannot speak from personal observa-
ton when he makes such sweeping charge
and has either been stuffed or allowed bis
prejudice to play sad havoc with his candor.
In scanning DER the columns of an un.
wieldly Glasgow paper, large enough for
horse blanket, we notice department do
voted to angling, in which the number of
fish hooked by different parties is given in
tiresomo detail. 1t is hoped this custom
may never leave Scotland-at any rate be
kept out of this country-as the insipid
reading with which American editors have
to deal in order TO pandcr 10 the whims and