Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-04-25
VIRGINIA NEWS.

GSSiH
ing for some Office CONGRESSMAN, or something
else, made speech at Hampton the other day,
in which he made remarks of an offensive per-
sonal character to Maj. Putnam, the military
commissioner, present He was called on to
explain, which he would not do satisfactorily,
whereupon Mai. Putnam aforesaid, pulled his
nose and kicked him soundly.
The residence of Capt Chas. M. Blackrord,
on Diamond Hill, Lynchburg, was entered on
Wednesday night, and trunk, which was in
his passage, packed in anticipation of q journey
| next morning, rifed of its contents. The thief
was discriminating in his operations, combining
| himself to the finest articles of wearing apparel
and jewelry, aggregating some $500.
A county convention to nominate candidates
for the Legislature, for Loudouu county, to be
| voted for at the election to be held on the I'd
day of June next, will be held in Leesburg, on
Monday, the 18th day Of May, being Court
day. All the districts Of the county are re-
questcd to appoint delegates to attend said con-
| ventlon.
The Moorefeld Advertiser of Friday last
states that that large numbers of cattle sent to
the Allegheny Mountains to Craze, have died in
consequence Of the incement weather tor the
last ten days, it being impossible to get any
thing to eat.
The venerable Lindsay Shoemaker died in
Lynchburg yesterday He was eighty-tour
years of age, and was one of the guests at Mr.:
Patrick Matthews "Old Men Dinner party,
on the 1st day Of January last.
Rev. A. NJ. Poindexter, agent for Richmond
College, has obtained about $4,000 OF bonds
| and pledges for the endowment fund OF that
institution. 1000 more are wanted.
Two persons named Mortimer Cox and -
Putzel, and two others whose names are not
given, all residents of Richmond, were drowned
in James river, on Wednesday night.
Mrs Cherryholmes, of Rockingham county,
whilst laboring under temporary arrangement,
committed suicide last week, by cutting her
throat with a razor.
Horse theving is still going on in the Valley
of Virginia. Several new leases" have recent
ly occurred.
The Culpeper Observer says that the revival
at the Baptist Church at Culpeper Court
House, still continues
A Radical meeting Of three hundred blacks,
in Richmond. yesterday, was addressed by
| Hunnicutt.
| A PARTISAN ROMANCE. "A young married
couple in Paris, extremely wealthy and ador-
| ing one another, after six months of rapture,
found themselves invalids. At first they con-
ceaed from each other their suferiues, but
their maladies continued to increase. The
physician who was called in found that the
puurre ct c}tarn,ante 1ea1lc femme had symp-
| toms of rhthisis, while the husband suffered
from complication of disorders of the heart
| and blood 1t was serious matter The decl-
sion was that the climate of the South was ne
cessary for The young wife, and that of a cold
er climate for the husband. The sun of Nice,
orange trees and the blue Mediterranean for
the one, and long journeys through the snowy
| plains foods and mountains Of Norway for the
| other. Thus spoke the doctor.
Atimmense expense the spirit OF his decree
was carried out, while the letter was evaded.
Two houses we're built in Paris, one of which
was miniature Siberia, full of currents Of air,
in every respect cold and dry, where, by dint OF
| taking violent exercise in every Imaginable
| way, and hardening his system, the husband
| endcavored to recover his health; while 10
the adaccnt building everything was warm,
| luxurious, soothing and tropical The latter
was the home of the young wife. The pair were
perfectly happy living, as it were, as though
| thousand miles apart-thc one amid his fres
Goes representing iccbergs and rondeer-thc
lady 10 a constant scene Of flowers and lemon
| trees.
1t would be pleasant to add that both recov-
cred, but such unfortunately was not the case
| This fairy life lasted three years, when the one
and the other died. While they lived they
we're, however, happy.