Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-11-07
VIRGINIA, NEWS.

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T@l 80 VIRGINIA. NEWS. -
Mason Shelton, leading Radical in Stat
ford county, has reported" w. j. Lucas, Jas.
E. Towson, clerk of the county; Mr.. Biles OF
Georeia and James r. Sohooler, to General
Schofeld, for ''iDtimidating voters and express
ing contempt for Mr.. Shelton" They plead
guilty to the last charge. az
Deer are 10 Now Kent to greater extent this
| season thon has been known for many years.
A party of gentlemen residing in the vicinity OF
! the court house succeeded last week in killing
| FIVE. Among the number was noble buck
weighing l43 pounds. ~. . ~. - |EI.,.
A colored man, in Hampton, yesterday,
abused, insulted, and threatened some u S.
officers who were cunning near where he lived.
He was knocked down; and putt the county
Jail.
Public meetings arc called in Campbell aud
Appomattox counties to appoint delegates to u
Conservative Convention proposed to be held
! In Richmond on the | It'll Of December.
The first Agricultural Fair held in Virginia
| since the close of the war, is now open at Dan
vile Baltimore is largely represented by con
| tributions.
Last Thursday, there was series OF hou:e
breakings and robberies in Fredericksburg.
The Radical candidate of King George is
| about to quit the county.
| FOREIGN News European dispatches give
| further particulars of the battle OF 1'ivoi and
| captare of Garibaldi A Forenc: dispatch
says that on the morning Of the 4th Garibaldi,
| with.h thou sand men, moved for Tivoli to
Join Nicotra. The Papal Zouaves had taken
TivoI at the point of thehayonet Garibald1s
| fore.s did not know this, and were surprised
oy seven battahons Of The Papal army, SUI
an hour In the hottest moment Garibaldi
had to he dragged away from battle. His
| troops retrea ted toward Monte Rotondo, pur-
sued by the soldiers Of the Pope. Here the
| fight was renewed and continued for oyer Two
hours, when the Garibaldisn retreat became
an utter route On arriving at the Italian
| frontier Garibadi's forces surrendered their
arms to the Italian troops. The same dispatch
says that the revolutionary movement is broken
down all over the territory, aud there are III
nrprs in Florence that Garibaldi's mipd is af-
ft,cte1 Garibaldi and his two sons are impris-
onedE 10 one of the Piedmontese towers, and
the former claims that he is a citizen OF the
United States, an! dem lnds his rights as such!
The American Minister to Italy, MIR. Marsh,
yesterday left Florence to visit him. The
French and italian troops have been recalled
from Rome. The French are to stop at Civita
Of "a
A Paris dispatch says that call for a general
conference Of the European Powers will 5000
be issued BY France. From London we learn
that riots have broken out among the labor:
ing classes at Administer, where he premises
! of the corn dealers were burned. ~ :. goit..st
! OLD PARIS last vestige of one Of the
most characteristic remains Of old Paris has
| Just disappeared The last plank has been
carted away of those decrepid tumbled down
sheds which used to be nichcd in the obscure
corners of churches at the angles Of darksome
streets, aud wherein vegetated that halt educa-
| ted, dirty, heterogeneous, parsonage, the ecrt-
| cain public, the polite etterWriter of the un-
| lettered mass, the maker of verses to the in
habit,nts of lanes and alleys, and the con6dant
of thousand secrets The dark, dismal,
| wretched novels that grew like waits in the
dnnlast corners of the town had become day
by day more scare. Project Hausman's indie
tatigable broom has swept them off along with
many another picturesque but uosanltary rem
iniscences, beloved alike of antiquarians and Of
| King Cholera, and now the best specimen is
| gone. It was situated in the St. Victor quar-
ter, near the Mont St. Genevieye, Of dirtiest
reputation and inhabited by the very reverend
signor Of the class, who, once huisser, had
| fallen into the direst poverty. For more than
forty years not single day had Larroque been
missed from his post He was as weknown
in the quarter as the Pantheon itself. And
now the thing and person are but souuenir.
ANTIQUITIES. During the past month Capt.
Chaloner, R. N, proprietor of the Guisbo-
rough estate in Yorkshire, and of the remains
of Guisborough Abbey, in England, has been
employing number of Workmen in clearing
| away the accumulation OF rubbish that covers
the foundations and floors of these interesting
remains, and the discoveries that have already
been made in the choir Of the! church, which
since the dissolution in l540.had been entirely
buried, are of great historical interest The
London Herald describes them: sso;f
'Iesselated paVemeEts, heraldic tiles, paint.
ed glass, monuments, sepulchral slabs, mould
ings coins and other relics have been discover
ed about three feet beneath the present sward,
which did not correspond with the original
floor of the abbey church. At the time Of the
Reformation Guisboroueh was one of the
wealthiest, most magnificent and extensive
monastic institutions in the kingdom. The
choir of the abbey was larger than any other