Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1869-12-11

the new years exhibit.
WASHINGTON ITEMS. The Washington
| Chronicle says that beautiful and accom-
| plishcd daughter OF citizen OF Baltimore lelt
| her home for the purpose OF visiting relative
| in Virginia. After an absence OF some weeks,
information reached her father that she had
| absconded with an unprncipcd scoundrcl, and
was at present in vile den in Washington. -
The matter was given into the hands OF detcc-
| tives, who, after search. found the girl. The
| father was sent Tor, and the interview between
| the two was heart rendlng, as the girl positively
refused TO return home aud lead once more an
| exemplary lie. She was taken 10 Baltimore
on Thursday, with view of being sent to n
! reiormatory institution.
1t is reported that an adjourned meeting Of
the citz.ns was held at Wormley's yester-
day, to;consider the pending conflict between
the corporation and the Baltimore and OHIO
railroad in reference TO the grades OF the
streets Atcr interchange Of snntinr"nte "l
| eycept Mr. Randolph sustained the action oil
! the MAYOR a resolution was adopted recon-.
mending that the course of the road be changed
from any point outside the city limits so as to
connect with the Metropolitan or Point OF
| Rocks branch. On IN examination OF a map
of the country, feasible route was pointed out,
and COL Randolph produced plat OF survey
|
| Washington branch OF point near Bladens'
| burg. the cost Of which will be about 100000.
The proposition is to DO away with the road at
! present in the city limits and connect the Wash
| inpton branch with the Point OF Rocks branch,
| which enters the city by First street east, and
| thence bv Delaware avenue to the present de-
not at a point beyond the city limits and the
| Point of Rocks branch being on the grade,
there will be no further conflicts.
On Thursday night, during the jubilee ser
vices now in progress at Trinity Church, In
Georgetown, some one attempted TO steal the
poor box, containing al the contributions
made lor the poor since the Jubilee was COM
mencod Fortunately, the fastcnlngs prevent
cd the base design.
The steamer W. W. Colt, OF Baltimore,
which during the past summer has been plying
between this city and Norfolk, will leave TO day
for Norwich, Conn where she will be thorough
ly overhaued and repaired
Extensive preparations are being made here
for the Grand National Convention OF the
Woman Suflragsts, to come of on the 18th
proximo. Ali the blOomers and cacklers OF
the country are expected to be here, and lively
times are anticipated by the untecvera and
goddess young men OF the city.
A young lady named Mary o. Bricn, about
seventeen years OF age, resident OF the Fourth
ward, dropped dead in her parlor, on Tuesday
night, Of heart disease.
I The Board of Police, at their meeting yes
tcrlay rejected the application of thirty five
restaurant keepers for licenses. The contuma-
cious knights of the bar room refused to pledge
themselves to sell drinks to coloIed people.
The colored peoples association to establish
an educational institution for colored youth as
u monument to Abraham Lincoln has turned
over the one thousand dollars or thoreabouts
| toI 10 ha In IN
Howard University, in trust to cndow scholar
| ships Tor advanced scholars from the District
of Columbia. The most of this money was
collected in 1867 al the meeting which was
held on the 4th OF July OF that year. After
four years, and no more collections, the mana
gers felt Obliged to abandon the memorial I'm.
dcrtaknr.
| PHILADELPHIA AND BALTIMORE r. R.
The Media pa American of this week says
The Philadelphia, Wilmington and Balti-
more railroad Co, it is sad, has for many years
sustained a loss in freight and passengers be.
tween Philadeph and Chester because Of the
fact that the road lays mainly in low and
| marshy lands fronting the rivera route which
| is not and never can be thckly peopled, and
| which subjects the road TO danger from floods,
| and entails much cost 10 keeping up draw
| bridges.
a change OF route has long been in contem
| plation, but now survey is being made for
| the construction between the points named.
and which may eventually extend to Baltimore
-vacating all the low lands. The new route
is to cross the SchuylkilI at Grays Ferry, in
cline northwest, pass south of and along the
Darby TOAD to Knowles creek: thence north
of Darby road and north OF the White Horse
Hotel TO Leiperville. into Chester, resu ming
the cd road at Lamoken Junction.
Frederick G. Skinner, Agricultural Editor
of the Turf Field and Farm, strongly recon-
mends the employment of Chinese laborers in
the cultivation OF tobacco and urges the tobac-
co planters Of Virginia and Maryland to try
them