Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-11-23
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Tull, esq., near Pitts Wharf, Accomac coun-
ty Va, tenanted by colored family, was des-
troyed by fire on Monday, the 10th inst; but
the most melancholy and heartrending circum-
stance CONNECTED with this accident was the
roasting alive of four children, aged, respec-
lively, one, four, six and eight years. The
mother Of the children was from home at the
| time.
On Saturday morning the body Of Wm. E.
Burton. white man, who had been in the
employment of the Chesapeake and Ohio rail
road company for some time past as brakeman
on a freight train, was found by two colored
women near Gordonsvillc, bearing the marks
of having been most louly murdered. His
body was bruised from head to foot, and his
2kull fractured on The right ii lie just behind
the ear.
Eighty head of beet cattle were shipped via
the Orange Road to Baltimore Saturday.
These beeves we're the property Of Mr.. Crock
EFT of Wythe county, and are beyond question
the finest and latest cattle that have been
brought through the city this season.
After many recent changes in the Lynchburg
News, that paper has come into the hands of
Messrs. A. Waddill & Co.. and will hereafter
be edited. as formerly, by Col. Il. Il. WltherS
and Mr. j. G. Perry. We welcome the old
editors.
Col j. d. Weed, who has filed the office of
Assistant District Attorney, presented his
resignation to the United States Circuit Court,
in Richmond on Saturday.
DIR. John Mayo, an old and highly respect
ed resident Of New Kent county, died in
Richmond. on Saturday morning.
LIFE AND FASHIONS IN New ToRK.-Indi-
cations that the coming winter will be unusual.
lyshard on the working classes are already visl-
bic. Rents were never so high as they have
been since May, provisions are still exorbitant-
ly dear, coal has gone up to $40 per ton, and
will probably be nigher-and to make every
thing worse, money is soarcer than ever among
the poor. The labor strikes OF last summer
kept at least two million dollars out OF the
pockets of the working men, and the want OF
this will be kecnly telt when the cold weather
sets In, and men have to knock oil work IN the
streets and on buildings. The practical phllan
thropistS will certainly have their hands full
about January, and the relief committees will
have even more to do than they had last win
ter, when soup kitchens were opened in most
of the wards and the station houses were
crowded with applicants for free lodgings. The
strikes were as unfortunate as they were unsuc-
cesstul, for the men who stopped work spent
their savings while they were idle, and are now
much worse off than they were this time last
year. The present prospect is that restitution
will be unusually prevalent IN all the large
cities during the winter, and people who can
afford to relieve it may Us we'll make up their
minds at once that the relief committees will
soon be after them. The Vanderbilts, Stewards
and Astors may as we'll get their check, books
ready, though | think neither OF the three
gentlemen named will ruin himself by gener
oSity. The world Of fashion will not, now
ever, be bit the less gay on account OF hard
times among the poor. In fact the season
promises to eclipse all preceding ones in bril-
liancy. Why should the world of fashion
bother itself about poor wretches down 10 the
novels of the Fourth Ward? It's mission Is to
enjoy itself and to kill time and it pursues this
mission with perseverance and the utmost dis
regard for expense 1.-THE missionaries should
begin another campaign against John Allen,
who has become wickeder than ever since he
went back to the bagno business, the world of
fashion might go down and help them, for
there would be some sensation about that but
when there is nothing more exciting on hand
than putting poor soup into empty stomachs,
OF course society cannot be expected to take
hold of the lade or become interested in the
matter at all Instead OF demeaning itself by
becoming a good Samaritan, society will put
forth its energies to make everything brilliant
in Fifth avenue, and lay snares for young men
with good prospects, who do the agreeable to
its manageable daughters. This is another
mission Of the world of fashion, which is pur
sued with relentless mercy. There will be balls
and sociablcs, and boxes at Pixies and the
French Theatre, and fashionable weddings, |
and afternoon receptions, and a list of various
amusemcnts and eDjoyments that will stretch
along to the first of April, when society will
begin to get ready for another season at the
springs and the watering places. But this is
society's own business, and perhaps L have no
right to bo gossipng about it.-Letter from
NcO York.
500, 600 STOLEN AND RECOVERED ESCAPE
OF TIE THEVEs.-A bold attem pit was made |
this morning to rob the Third Avenue Central
Park Savings Bank.
On Monday last gentlemanly appearing |
man, about twentysix years of age, giving the
name Of } Joseph Howell, went to the bank and |
deposited $50, saying that he wished to be- |
come regular depositor. On the next day he |
returned to the bank with $500 20 United |
States bond, and said to the cashier, Anthony |
E!is, that he wanted to leave it as special |
deposit, as he was going to Boston that day
and would not return until to-day. About
oIoUor clocl- this morninr he went Tn he hank