Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1866-09-12

LETTER FROM LoupoUN COUNTY.

LEllbh E hom AOuOOuN OVoNA
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette
z. LEEsBURa, Va. Sept. 10, lS66-Our Court
met to day, and commenced the calling Of the
appeal docket, some of the cases on which had
teen standing since lS47. =,-r.-
This term will be devoted to Appeal and
Chancery cases, and all old rubbish will be
swept away. Several cases of appointment Of
guardians, and qualification of personal repre-
sentatives were made but none of public in
terest were on hand.
Forty-6ve deeds of all sorts were admitted to
record since August Court; this, however, en-
braces deeds of bargain end sale, deeds OF trust
and releases, and in this last article good deal
Of rubbish was removed from some titles, es-
pecially that from the property recently sold ny
Mr.. Nourse to Mr. Delaney, aud the Presby-
teran Parsonage lot;h ''manse" believed 1t
is called.
One deed of bargain and sale was from lieu.
ben e. Schoo!ey and wife to the colored people
of Waterford. suppose it was for Church or
School purposes.
am sorry to say that negro man, named
John Taylor, worthy, working man, was
robbed and shot one night last week, by some
men, with blackened faces, who, it is said, had
once before tobbed him. The only money got
this time was fifty cents Taylor died, and was
buried on Saturday. The people of the neigh
borhood of Mount Gilead, near which place the
murder occurred, ar3 much incensed at this
outrage. ..... ......... ....
At Silcott's Spring, it is said, that Landon
Lovett shot man named Manuel in the leg,
which member it's thought he will lose. One
story has it that Lovett was asleep in the
woods, and that the other attempted to rob
Elm, and Lovett waking up shot him; another
is that they were walking along together, both
under the influence of liquor, when some quar-
rel occurred and the shot was fired.
Again on Saturday, believe, four negroes
met at place called Rawlings Black Smith
Shop, and commenced playing cards; after
time, two Of them commenced quarreling, and
rushed out, and seized their guns, with which
they had been hunting, and one shot the other
with a load of shot, wounding him quite Sc
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vere y.
I suppose so many instances Of violence have
never occurred in Loudoun county in any month
for thirty years; hardly in any year. -.
heard a gentleman to-day complaining very
much about the high price of plaster from
your town. He said he would have to go to
Berlin, as he could get lump plaster there for
IS Der ton, while he had to pay 81 per ton for
ground plaster at Farmwell, and complained
that lump could not be had in Alexandria,
\ gentleman from your city told me the
names of at least five houses that sold lump
plas ter, and he thought it might be delivered at
Farmwell for less than So
My impression is that your people, in stretch
ing their eyes and their arms to the great
Southwest arc neglecting the trade with our
county, which has "hankering after Alex,
| andria.
Does not distance lend enchantment to
the view" in this matter, and are your people
going to let our people be forced to Baltimore,
whether they will ornot? Give more vitality to
your market, and tell my old friends Knox &
Wattles, Thomas Perry, Hooe & Wedderburn,
and others, whom I cannot name, not to shoot
so high as to leave our people out Of the "dan-
gerous space" In looking out for great things
let them not despse the small matters at their
door.
Our people. I think, will advance money and
take it out in freight, and [ suppose ''commu,
tation tickets Nigh be sold to limited extent
to advance the road to Leesburg; you can
not compete with Baltimore at Farmwel Sta
| ton. AL1QUls.