Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1869-04-28
VIRGINIA NEWS.

The Warren Sentinel, at Front Royal, says
that johnson Lake Of Warren county, has
| with only five dogs, since January last, caught
| ct red and gray foxes within space OF hvc
| miles square. On the 9Th inst, ne caught
| seven.
1t is said that naval commission is now at
Portsmouth, aud that it is contemplated to en-
large the Navy Yard and probably build an
additional Dry Dock.
We regret TO learn that Mrs. Lctcher, the
venerable mother Of Ex-Governor Letcher,
died in Lexington on SUNDAY last.
A. d. Hepburne has been appointed Sheriff
of Westmore!and county.
Ex-Mayor Townes of Petersburg, Va, died
on Monday.
Ex.Gov. Wisea health is said to be i'm
proving.
The Conservative State Committee is to
meet in Richmond to-day.
Letter from Prince William County.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette.
BRENTsvILLE, PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY.
VA,<zApril o. 1S69-A colored man named
VIM Tuell, living near the town of Dumtries in
this county attempted. yesterday, to kill his
father. 1t seems there had been some dispute
between William Tuell, jr., and another black
man, in which the father of the former also
named William Tuel, interfercd, and his son
took double barreled gun and shot him in the
top OF the shoulder near the collar bone. They
we're sitting at the supper table when the diff
Guilty occurred and the shot fired, and the
load is still in him. His recovery is generally
despaired of. as his wound is very severe one
and at last accounts was bleeding proiusely
The criminal was arrested BY Marshall Davis,
esq Deputy Sheriff, on warrant issued by
WA. Frazier. esq, and was this evening
brought to this place by Mr.. Davis and lodged
in jail. understand pistol and very long
knife were also found on Tuell's person.
This case will com: before the grand Jury at
our Circuit Court, the second Monday in next
mouth.
am informed this is not the first offence
OF Tuell, but that he stabbed white man some
time since, and shot at colored man but
short time before he attempted to kill his
father. TYRONE.
The n. I. Times Radical declares that the
politicians who control the conduct of the coun-
try by filing its Offices have become utterly de-
moraized, and look upon government only as
an agent Tor plunCerl0g the cOu0try IOr tnelr
own benefit 1t AYERS that that there are not
half dozen State Legislatures in the whole
Union which are not VIGOROUSLY open 10 the
basest and most degrading influences by which
human action can be controlled. And Con.
gress is rapidly falling into the same false
and fatal course"
"UNpLEAsANrNEss We learn from pas
sengers, who arrived this morning by the Dan
vile train, that difficulty occurred in Lynch
burg, Monday, between General ubal A. Ear
" and Mr.. r. II. Glass. The latter gentle
man approached the General, who was sitting
in the hotel reading a newspaper, giving hiT
the usual morning salutatiou, which the Gep err
al refused to return. Harsh words ensued and
fight was the result, in which Mr.. g. ass, it
is said came off second best.-Rtch Ne 10.
1t is said, the Mexican Congre' 3 has auth
orlzad President Juarez to recog ,Iiz, the Cuban
insurgents as belligerents Whenever be thinks
proper. Vessels bearing the Cuban flag are
admitted into tie ports of Mexico.
MIR. Butler, it is rumor ed, is to criticize Mr..
Summers Alabama elaiyns speech.