Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-12-21
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Loudoun county, had torch light procession
on last Tuesday night, which was largely at
tended, and passed eff to the sa isfacton Of all
present. Addresses were delivered by the Rev.
Mr. Willis, OF Alexandria. the Rev. Benton
Shepherd. Of Charlestown, and Mr.. James +.
Divine, Of Lsesburg
Ministers and delegates represe ,,ing u por.
ton Of the Metbo1i:t Protestant Church in
Southwestern Virginia, East Tennessee and
w estern North Carolina. met at Russellv lille,
Tenn, on Friday the 9th inst., for the pur-
pos4 Of organizing new Conference District OF
the NJ thoaist P,o, Church The orgsniza
ton took place. &gi -
81 Last week there was fox hunt ar Rapid
an Station. 4 car bad OF !ox-hounds and
horses, accompanied by their owners, came up
from Louisa, and thesport lasted nearly week
during which time thu whole party were the
recipients of til, hos oitality of Phil. Jones, Jr.
This is like Cd Virginia! SO
: The Petersburg Express says: sour young
men are daily leaving their native State to elk
their fortunes in other localities. Mr.. james
Cowles, nof THO Rev. H B CowleS, LEFT
this city yesterday for Texas, via Lynch burg
where be will be Joined by others.
q. The Richmond Dispatch says:-We have the
highest authority for stating that no per diem
will be paid to members Of the Convention
during the 10 terim caused by the adjournment
of that body for the holidays; neither will they
be allowed miIeage.
: The Lynchburg papers call one Of the dele.
gates from that city to the convention, Violet
Williamson. Sumo aIlusion to COW IS inten-
de to be conveyed. We d not know what
the story H. Perhaps the member may call for
an investigating committee?
The sect was over half an incl! over the
streets in Richmond yesterday. No business
doing. The Freedmcn's Bureau was issuing
5000 rations from the soup houses to the d"s-
titute white and colored, yesterday.
The Baltimore boats which formerly touched
at Aqua Greek, and by which large portion
of the freight for Fredericksburg was brought
to thst point, have been withdrawn for the
winter.
Mr.. John E. Baker, merchant 10 Freiercks-
Iurg, died in Baltimore, of pneumonia, on
Tuesday last. MIR. B. was formerly Of King
George county, and at one time was connected
with one of the Montgomery (Ala.) Railroads.
Arrangements are making for Radical pa
per to be issued in Richmond on the lst of
January by COL A. W. Sheldon, of Keokuk,
Iowa. Hunnicutt and the New Nation don't
answer, we presume
Thirty six head OF cattle We're shipp i frJm
Orange Court House on Wednesday last by
Lewis D. Crenshaw. They were bound for
Baltimore. Orange is celebrated for its good
beef r-
A bell weighing six hundred pounds has
been presented to the Catholic Church at
WythevilIe by Captain John H. Gibbony. The,
tones Of the bell can be heard twelve miles.
THEATRICAL "-Y esterday coorcd man
applied at the box office Of the National Thea
tire for tickets for two reserved seat. in the
dress circle at the performance last evening,
and it being customary for colored men to be
sent for tickets, they were sold to him without
hesitation Last night two colored men. said
to be brothers, mined Wallace, present ed tick
e.s to the door keeper, which he hurriedly took
without looking az them, and the men passed
into the parquette circle and took seats Very
soon considerable excitement was manifested,
and some cries were heard Of ''ni ggers in the
pit-put EN- out" Offers Of the house went
to the men and informed them that they were
in the wrong part Of the theatre; that there we're
seats especially for the accommodation of col
ored people in the upper gallery. I hey said
that they had paid for seats where they were,
continued until the close OF the third act
OF the play Forrest as Metamora, when some
threats were made, and the attaches of the thea
tire, fearing trouble, again attempted to induce
the men to leave Finally they offered to 60 if
their money was refunded to them. This was
done at once, and they left the theatre. - Wash.
Star.
FArrEN1NG PoULTRY.-The poultry yard is
a source of profit to the farmer, which is great
Iy essened or increased according 70 the skill
and care with which the business is managed.
One branch in which much improvement may
be made by most farm rs is that of fat'ening
the pouitrv for market a'ter it is nearly or quite
grown. The coop 10 keep them in should be
mad, to hold one dom, and it, size is as IoI-
lows: Length three fe', wild h two, heipht
two and half The sides and ends are com
posed Of bars placed three inches apart, and
the bot ON of round polls. 1t is eevared
about two feet from the ground by means of
legs The teding troughs are ong the sides
on be outside The coop shou be placed in
a barn or some place sheltered from storm and
wind, and if sightly darkened so much the bet
ter. By judicious feeding fowls can he tho
roughly fattened in twenty days. -Moore's Ru-
raj New Yorker.
miscellaneous News.
James Graham, formerly a ticket agent of
Buffalo, was convicted yesterday of forgery,
committed In 1865. He ante dated accident