The Alexandria herald. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1811-1826, 1816-07-29
ALEXANDRIA, al<RAlD.
MONDAY, JuLy 80, 1916.

shoS lA0HIi"Hby abhOubCCu III TIC Al-
exandria Gazette of Saturday, we ca
gerly caught at it as containing matter
ofgreat national importance with which
the learned friend of the editor had
Furnished him and which had accession
cd him 10 give vent to his extatic
I" pleasure" in an editorial article OF
Eve lines--We were however unde-
eeived on reading the first paragraph,
which states the population of the town
according to the census taken this year
At s52!, and that there are 500 persons
who resided without the limits of the
town daily employed within i,-A cir.
cumstaDce which we are inclined TO
dispute. Important" however, as
this paragraph was to Us in The aggre.
gate, we we're disappointed in not find
ing the usual division of population
made out as to the age, color and sex,
as well as the free and slave population
The Second paragraph contains the diff,
ferent Census from l79l'to 1910. We
then had to proceed on to the third TO
discover the "imhortane" features of the
View" The town was laid out by an
act Of Mf Vrginia assembly in l749 :;
IN this it differs but little from all
other incorporated towns. "The river
runs due north and SOUTH" the
streets run with the riser and only Dary
ten degrees from the same course and
are all haraHei"-The number s. width
OF the streets are next described. "The
soWn runs westward .ferv feet short
of a mile" This omission is of the
precise distanceis much to be regret
ted, but the view is more erbucit as to
abe river boundary which is 84I4
feet or one and half miles, six hundred
and fourteen feet" "King street runs
east and west and meets the great'
western * other TRANSPORTATION roads,
which other transportation roads about
the same size; but we had always tho,
that Duke street, more Immediately
met this "sreat" western road, and
that King street only connected itself
with this " i!WsTrious" road, by mean,
OF diagonal streets. b" Washington
street is the centre street north and
south, and meets at its extremities the
great United States mail road" which
makes a great" piece OF business for
these two "great" roads cross each
other If The centre of the town"
If all the waters we're one fea,
And all the woods were one tree,
And that fhould fall into the fea,
What a lpij@ Jpia@ there would be.
Inns TAR surpAsses, in great
ness" our friead Duane's Sc
ven great roads to Moscow" with
out adding Great Hunting Greek 10
the list our dignity and importance
or the "t7yo maSonS' lodges" We
were also highly gratifisd to find that
the houses were generally" built Of
brick, it is an improvement which has
very lately taken place, and for which
we are much indebted to the writer OIL
this great statistical view" In hunt.
ing for its importance we thought
we discovered it in the 9TH ma.
ragraPh in quoting the price of build.
ing lots at from Is to 20 dollars he
front foot on paved streets unlmproy.
ed lots from 1000 to 1908 the question
immediately presented itseIf--Peyhah,
Shts gentleman has iots 10 sell /? The
View" concludes by lamenting The
a5sense of the fine arts and the higher
branches of education and the D1eehapi
cat arts. The former If which with 2
JsqO exceptions are confined to hrofss.
Sio7lGI men, the latter still more circun,.
Scribed. Our ladies are are said TO be
very comley and exceed the males a.
bout one in one hundred, all of which
pretty information about the ladies anC
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