Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1870-09-03

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And by sorrows overcast;
Would enshroud the brightest future
With sad mem'ries of the past.
Alexandria, Sept. l, 1870. HAROLD.
To the editor of the Alerandria Gazette
Please announce me as q candidate for Con-
gress at our November election subject to the
judgment of q Conservative Convention. The
necessity of holding such q convention is pal
psbleto all, and the claims of all candidates
should be cheerfully submitted to ths. arbitrs'
ment. Al.
Warrenton. aug S-tf
Sa Col. GEO. w. BRENT, whose qualities
tions and abilities are we'll known and appre-
cisted, will be proposed to the Conservative
Convention which will be held next fall, cop-
posed of delegates from the Conservatives IN
which Alexandria will form a part, as a csndi-
date for Congress- vou,ns
rs Seventh Congressional District Of Vir-
ginia-We are requested to announce that, in
obedience to the solicitation of many friends in
several of the counties comprising the Seventh
THOMAS will be a candidate to represent the
Seventh Congressional District Of Virginia in
the next Congress of the United States, subject
to the action of q convention of the Conserv-
one shall be held.
Falls Church, Va, " s-eo1w&lawtf
the Voters of the Seventh Congressaon-
al District of Nrgsnia.-The name OF our es.
teemed telloW-citizen q. o. CLAUGHToN, esq,
ID presented to thu. voters of the Seventh Con-
gressionsl District Of Virginia as a suitable can.
didate to represent the said District in the next
Congress. It is needless to say anything OF his
qualifications for she position, in our communl'
ty where he is 50 we'll known, but to the voters
Of othefportions Of the field we can cordially
endorse him as entitled to their confidence and
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man as we'll as for his abilities to discharge the
0j js is@ ptssa'ns " 'D"' MANY VOTERS.
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