Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1869-01-06
VIRGINIA NEWS.


Plains thinking to surprise the natives win
| big Christmas gun on the morning OF the Z2th
ult.. loaded up a large hickory log with powder
and sat down asride it, to set it off, it went off,
and 50 did he. The family on looking out oil
the window saw Master Hubert descending
from considerable and sudden elevation i'll
the world. He was very much bruised, put
| the only serious injury was sustained by his
| Christmas clothes which were torn all to
pieces.
Mr. Hunnicult appears to have been revlv!-
fed and is conducting the canvass ior seat III
Congress with great activity. lie has had
several meetings at his hail. IN hchmo4G,
| latnIv and two or three on the Square. tie
| had meeting on Monday afternoon at which
thousand or fifteen hundred blacks were pre-
sent He made long speech, IN the course
of which he paid his respects to the Central
| Executive Committee IN manner which was
not complimentary, by any means.
A number of black men came into Mr. Sub
let's store, in Powhatan county, on Saturday
night last, demanding liquor when. upon beng eII
refused one Of them assaulted Mr.. .. Inc
| latter struck his assailant with piece OF IRON
and killed him, The blacks then attempted 70
seize and kill Mr. S., but they were llnally
driven from his store.
A slight row occurred in Staunton on Christ
mas day, between the blacks and whites, In
| which the blacks came out second best. Some
half dozen blacks were knocked down and Sc
verely handled. No one was badly injured. =
| It threatened to become row OF considerable
proportions, but was queed by the energetic
action of the regular and special police.
The door of cattle car on the Virginia and
Tennessee railroad by some means got open
between Christiansburg and Dublin, on Satur-
dav, and seven of the cattle in it quietly stepped
out while the train was moving at It's regular
speed, and, strange to say, not one OF them was
| at all injured.
Strider, proprietor OF a cloak and mantle
store on Broad street. Richmond eloped on
Monday night with young woman who has
| been employed for some time past as an assist
ant in his store Tic leaves behind him wife,
| to whom he has been married Tor twenty years,
| unprOvlded Tor.
| The Fredericksburg Ledger says "Mcssrs
Taliaferro & Ruggles, real estate brokers, have
| sold to Il. A. Dunlop, esq, OF Massachusetts,,
| a portion of John ii. SuttIes farm, near Stat
| ford Courthouse, for 81. so per acre, cash.
| The land is In wood, and without improve
mcntS.
It will be remembered that co0red man
named James Hickman was arrested and sent
on for Indictment q few days since, tor attempt
| ing to commit an outrage on Miss Snead, 10
| llenrico county. On his way to the county
iail he confessed his guilt to Constable Talley.
A drunken coIored man raised a row IN Mr..
Anderson's store. in Port Royal, Caroline
county, on the 3lst ultimo, which came very
near ending seriously. There was general
fight, which was quelIed by the peace officers
Just as firearms were beginning to be used.
A. fl. H. Stuart gives notice to the gentle
men who were appointed, at the late conference
held in Richmond, committee to 90 to Wash
ingtOn, that they are requested to assemble at
The National Hotel in Washington, on Friday,
the Sth instant, at o'clock p. IN.
The auditor Of Richmond had issued war
rants, up to last night, to the amount OF
$4,000, in payment of the interest ON the city
debt. The whole amount to be paid Is $4,000.
and the auditor is prepared to pay the rest
on demand.
The officers of the State Treasury and Second
Auditors departments are busy engaged pay
irg the July interest on the State debt. On
Saturday they paid out about $4,000, and on
Monday about the same amount.
The barn of Mr. L. II. Kemp, near Rich
mond, together with all the crop of corn and
tobacco, and number Of agricultural nipple
ments. was fired by an incendiary few days
since, and totally destroyed.
Mr. Wellington Goddin yesterday sold at
auction iorty-two acres of land, the property of
Mr.. b. W. Green, on the Richmond and Fred
ericksburg railroad, in Ilenrico county, at Sl5
per acre.
Those in Richmond who have enjoyed such
fat pckings by their connection with the bank
mpt office, are especially anxious to have their
"tenure Of Office continued.
Sixteen car loads of superior cattle, from
Southwestern Virginia were shipped North
over the Orange railroad, Monday evening.
A proposition is pending in the Petersburg
council to light the city with kerosene instead
of gas, which is now used.
Rev. William W. Murkland, Of Amelia, has
been chosen pastor of the Third Presbyterian
Church of Richmond.
Rev. T. n. Arnold, OF Frankfort, Ky, has
accepted the pastorate of the Sycamore Church
of Richmond,
We suppose that there is hardly an editor
in the country, who has been engaged Tor any
length Of time in his business, VINO has not
the same experience Of the ways OF the
world, in The matter referred to, as the Bal
timore American That journal says 'Scar
cely day elapses that we are not called upon
to take up the cudgels for the correction of
some real or imaginary grievance. The parties
themselves decline to allow the use of their
own names to sustain the charge, but wish the
editor to make the publication on his own re-
sponsibility. They seem to regard it as his
duty, as public journalist to stand in the
breach, and are greatly offended if an unwll-
lingness is evinced to fight every ones battles.
These same parties, if in the ury-box, would
regard the technicaities of tho law sufficient
to sustain an award Of damages against the
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