Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1869-12-09

WASuINGToN ITEMS. Measures are being
taken here to Orgarize a Homestead Associa
tl,n. ~ meeting WAS held on Saturday night
ard number OF citizens appointed 10 secure
subscriptions a constitution and by laws we're
also adopted.
The meeting OF the Universal franchise
Association" on Saturday night was a most
i>gracelul affair altogether, the audience be-
having 30 mobbishly as to prevent anybody
IRON speaking. The male and female advocates
present, after vainly attempting for an hour
md halt to secure semblance of order, ad-
lurned the meeting and shut off the gas.
la the National CoOred Labor Convention
on Monday night, committees were appointed
10 report upon all subjects coming within the
scope Of the meeting. An address of welcome
was delivered by Mayor Bowen, OF Washing
'1n. Alr. Clapp, Congressional Printer, also
delivered an address, in which he was very Sc
we're upon the Typographical UuiOns At yes
rerday's session the platform of the Convention
was read.
Some time ago the city councils passed bill
prohibiting the use of springoalance scales, and
thc result has been that the Butchers Union
Association of this city has iled iu the Equity
Court bill against the corporation, asking
that the cty be prohibited for the present from
rgorCing the law.
u
rested on Saturday last by the captain OF the
watch at the Treasury Department, on the
charge ot palming himself off as a government
detective,
The houses Of the city arc to be renumber
"A, in accordance with plan recently adopted
by the city councils.
Paul Gsraud, brother-in law of the Portu-
cu.>c minister and a Frenchman of cultivation
aul means, was yesterday married TO Marie Is.
Nurmley, a c0lored girl, niece OF Wormley,
the restaurant keeper. Some newspapers have
iu, reports OF the marriage ceremonies.
Corn SuUCKs BE ore the war MIR. G. b
Stacy, an Engli,hman, aud one OF our most
O., spectacle citizens, undertook 70 manufacture
~hucks into a material for cushion stufilng and
mattresses. He resumed the business at the
coSe Of the war in partnership with his two
sous, AMI has now conducted it to very con-
siderable success. Hts Is the largest establish
mcUt OF the kind IN Virginia, though there are
others engaged IN it.
Before this demand sprang up shuckS were
used only as hay, and were thought so inferior
hat they rarely Commanded more than halt as
much 10 price: now they arc worth almost as
much in the interior as hay is in the interior
ct New York, and the probability is, that when
ts further use as very superior paper stock
Is established, it will increase in value
The proportion OF shuck to ear varies Of course,
with the size OF the ear, n small or stunted
Gar not having as much shuck as large one
On on average it may be taken at about sixty
rounds to the barrel, or 800 pounds to the acre
10 a six-barrel crop, which may be assumed,
approximately, to bring about three dollars.
more or less 1t will be readily seen that it
tears very considerable proportion OF the ex
venso of making the crop. The amount paid
for shuckS last year was, We suppose, about
l0 600 dollars, and the product was worth 10
Virginia not less than 100 600 dollars for the
NleSsrs. Stacy & Sons work up at home in
their upholstery establishment all they can find
sale tor iu that way, and, OF course, keep that
much money at home.
Here again there is d field OF labor well suited
10 old men, women and children. in an article
wh,cA can b" made to pay its own way.-Rich
m0Ad EaQujrcr.