Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1870-10-21

mort Mr.. Daniel was waited upon by y com.
| mittce, appeared, and IN sensible speech &C
cepted the nomination.
VIRGINIA NEWS.
The case OF the Com, OF Virginia vs.. OK
Mayor Chahoor, of Richmond, was resumed
in the Hastings Court of that city on Wednes-
day. A Jury was sworn and some witnesses
were examined who sworc that the signature
| 10 the alleged will of llauntcn was 4 forgery.
The prisoner was lc lsod bail and Was commit.
ted TO jail pending the trial.
The following queer nup.ia notice appears
in the Wythevillc Enterprise: Married, on
Wednesday, tie 5th instant, in the streets OF
Seldom, Bland county. Va, sitting on their
horses, by Rev. J. II. Hoge, MIR. a. W. Kidd
and Miss Rcbccca Kidd, both OF Bland county,
| Virgins.
Robert Hal. coorcd, says the Clarke Cou-
rier, few days ago purchased, at public sale,
| 81 acres of land adjoining the Toll gate on the
BerryviIlc and Wildwood Turnpike. Robert
represents SO colorcd familics who design MEX
settlement there.
Danel Niscwandcr, Of Dayton, in Rocking
ham county, who had been Magistrate in
| his district under military authority, for some
time, was committed to Jail in llarrisonburg on
Saturday morning asst charged with horse
| stealing.
| Capt. David S. Jones, Mayor OF Harrison
burg, died at the residence OF his son ln-laW,
| Il. T.. Paul, in that place, on Wednesday
| morning.
Two men named Wick ana larl .ngton,
have been arrested charged With robblnE the
United States mails in Scott county, Va.
The Lynchburg News sayS:-Ihe Orange
railroad is now receiving and transporting
freight in very great quantities..
PUBLIC SPEAKING IN CULpEpER COUNTY
| Monday the ball was opened By MIR. Mckenzie.
! He claimed that he had been kind to the PEG
pie. but that when the people turned up their
nose at him, some things had been said that
ought not to have been s2ii. lie said he was
surprised that Bank had not been established
at Culpepcr. He complained that nc was at
tackled by County Court Lawyers lie was an
old Tippacanoc man. lie said the people CT
| Virginia instructed him to vote Tor tho 18th
Amendment, and it Was the only objection to
him and that it was 'SqueakingIg' made. lie
had voted for all who had majority on con.
grcssional contested elections but two. lie had
been the friend Of coorCd men Tor many years,
|
Vised them TO save their money get 4 home and
avoid whiskcy. lie then asked what could
| Mai. Brayton do il he was elected to Congress?
| He recounted the elections recently held and
his argument followed that il was useless to
elect an opposition candidatc. lie referred 10
the public works and intimated that cid could
only be gotten through the Republican party.
At the close of his remarks, Dir. John NJ. For
bcs .ook the stand and said at had pleased
the gentlemen to call him his old friend and
that the lawyers were 1uibbcrs. that they had
| no common sense, and because he was a lawyer
he had no interest in the country. What Is
the contrast? Had Mr.. Mckenzie brought
his record for tho last two years. his record
that shows he voted with Butler? Give me
! his record, listen TO Lewis MchcuzlG on his
oath, not said in the heat Of debate but DELHI
eratcly on his oath. Hero Dir. Forbes read
| his record before the reconstruction committee.
| Mr.. Forbes concluded in powerful argument,
and closed with an eloquent euIory on Elliott
NJ. Braxton. -Culpcprr Adran"'.
WASHINGTON ITEMs.-Two young men
have been arrested charged with being the in.
J cendiares who burnt MIR. Myers carpenters
shop.
The census returns Tor the District OF Colum.
|
| 10 the District is $50 223. 023 personal estate
So, 253 O75-totaI, $G2, 47G 09S. That the
public debt OF Washington Ter which bonds
have been issued is 81 .107, 924, and all other
Indebtedness 1856 9Gl-total, S2:3G3 $50.
VIM. Howard, an apprentice IN the New
Era office, was arrested yesterday on Il charge
of appropriating to his own use the amount OF
| check for SIT 80 entrusted to him the other
| day to get cashed. The lad alter obtaining
| the money took buggy ride and trip to
Baltimore, during which he scattered his .lnds
with pc ''cct IOoScncSs
CoMpaoMsE.-For somo months past The
Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac rail-
road and the Richmond and YORK River rail.
road and Powhatan Steamboat Company have
! been running competing lines for DasSeDg
and ircight-the first. named com Dany by way
| of their lower Potomac route, and the two lat
ter companies by way of the Richmond and
| York River railroad and James river-by which
the rates of passage and treights have been
restricted to q very low point. The authorl-
| tics Of the respective companies have made
compromise by which the Richmond and ork
River line withdraws as competitor tor
through travel, and tho Richmond, Frcdercks.
burg, and Potomac railroad ceases to compete
lor lTclgRtS, Inc price Vi pissaSo anu iiciS"t
| on tho respective lines being fixed by mutual
| agreement at such rates as will be rcmuncra
| tive to the sevcrr lines.-R;h. Dis.
Last week the labors of the persons
who had been boring for the last eighteen
! months in Lincoln, the capital city OF No
braska, Tor salt water, were crowned with sue
cess At the depth of s;x hundred feet below
| the surface, in stratum of sandstone. lead
of the great subterranean sea OF salt water was
struck, a. the briny current came struggling
I'D around the augur and shot into the air
some eight or ten iect- 1t has since flowed
strongly and steadily, and with great force and
increasing strength, forming brlny rlTuct
1t is believed by the experts who have seen the
flow that when the augr- is Withdrawn and