Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-09-07
ALEXANDRIA, GAZETTE AND VIRGINIA ADVERTISER SEPTEMBER T. 1853

last, about l o'clock, he nsighborhoOd Of
Gordonsville, Orange county, was visited
with one of the most terrific storms e1pe,
ricnced for years.
The storm commenced with o very heavy
fall Of rain, and was followed by q hurri-
can ACCOMPANIED with hail. At Gordons-
Vile, the car house Of the Orange and Alex
andria Railroad Company, in which were
four passenger and a baggage car, was only
saved from total destruction By the support
afforded by the cars within which prevented
its prostration. Piles Of two inch plank
were hurled into the air and carried to a
great distance. A dwelling bali a mile dis.
tant, in course of erection, and belonging 10
Mr.. Morgan Bsale, was blown down, and
completely destroyed. Trees, fences ard
everything in the course Of the storm, we're
swept before its fury. Toe full extent of the
damage done has not yet been learned, but
the effects of the storm will not soon be FIR
gotten by the citizens of G1rdonsvllle.
CrAL RECEIPTS We gave in yesterdays
Gazette, the aggregate receipts Of Coal via
the Alexandria Canal, for the month Of Ar-
gust-to-day, we give the amount received
by each Com papy, as follows:
From Ions.
Cumberland Coal and Iron Company. lI.4s5 Is
Hoffman Mining Company. .........S y U
Borden Mining Company OF
AIiegaany MIrnng Company ........52lS -
AmeIlcal Coal and Iron Company "A GA IS
Frostburs Coal CompoEy ........2.O II
Elna Coal Company. "
.4O.o"O 10
The greatest receipts OF any pre-.
vious month, since The commence
ment OF tie Coal trade on the Canal,
were in October, 1897, when they
amounted 10. 1880 w
Thus showing DIN increase over that
month |53 Is
WARRINGTON ITEMs.-TuE CHESAPEAKE
AND OHio CANAL trade for the week past,
gives a return Of one hundred and eleven ar.
rivals at the collection office, o! which fifteen
were with various cargo, aud the remaining
ninety.six with coal, being upwards Of 10
600 tons. TIE weeks receipts were 80 l3I,
OF which S3,2l6 belongs to the month OF SIP
TENDER. Reports from above are entirely Ia
vorabie, except from the first. or Cumberland
level, which Tor twenty miles has suffered
from low water; it is TO be hoped, however,
that the recent rains have rcmedied that, and
so rendered the navigation g)ud throughout.
DEATH BY DRowNING.-Wa learn that a
pleasure party of some eighteen young men
who left this city very early yesterday morn
lag, in g -loor, TO spend the day at the White
House, dJwn the river, was suddenly co1yeT-
ted toto a party Of mourners by the meIan-
cboly and unfortunate death Of oGe Of their
uumber. Son after reaching the White
House, at about II o'clock, whilst Mr.. Sam
uel Hoffman was bathing, he sunk to rise no
more. When his ~perilous condition was dis
covered, every effort was made by bis com
paLions to save him, butln vain. They thea
sIent several hours 10 ~irultless efforts TO re-
cover his body, which are to be renewed this
mCr.ing. Tie deceased was from % to u
years Of age, aud was II brlckiayer by trade.
demonstrating the curve around the
circle IL the First Ward, where large gas.pipes
are in progress of laying, tic cutting AID the
heapcd earth occnIy very much Of the road,
and at night traselIers even on foot have to
exercise great caution. On Saturday night.
a carriage and horseS fell 10 at his spot -
Happily, they were rescued without serious
irjury. la Georgetown, last week, a po'r
cOuntryman, with his market team, coming
into town at night, had The misfortune to
fall into one of the excavations there; it re-
suited 10 breaking the ieg oi one OF his horses
and causing him severe loss besides.--Nat
Int.
FUyERAL.--The remains of lombard Wal
ter, were Ol!,wed to their last resting place,
in the cemc,e y OF the Methodist Protestant
Churc b, on Sunday afternoon last, by tho
German Benevolent Association, Of which he