Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1870-06-10
VIRGINIA NEWS.

The merchants OF Norfolk held meeting Oh
Tuesday las: and resolved to petition the COun.
ell to order . VOC Of the cliz!n4 upon the
nropositinn to subscribe on behalf of the or
poration, 81 900 0oJ TO the Norfolk and Great
| Western railroad. A substitute opposing the
substitution WA rejected unanimously.
The charlottesville Chronicle says --"llast
court day Tie people were III ,rc belIicose than
We have ever known thr;n. Besides the fights
alluded to in our Tuesdays issue, there were
some lour or five hard onea fought during
Monday night, in which the combatnnt5 "ere'
some OF them badly used IN.
1....,,o N1caIulin made IL speech mt nom.
| go,ncry court Monday, in advocacy al his
own election to Congress from that district
We learn he expressed his willingness to sub
NIT his claims to y conventional IN ms opMt0N,
it should be fairly constituted.
The Charlottesville Chronicle, commenting
upon the different issues about which Tie Po'
| tical parties OF the State arc now dl9ldcd,
| argues in favor Of Conservative State Con
| vcntiGn, to consider all questions OF political
| interest.
The u. S. Government, after occupying the
jeff Davis mansion far five years and damaging
it, has proposed to the Richmond City Council
TO rruuuish it il they are first relieved OF all
responsibility for rent "or any other claim
whatever.
n terrific storm OF wind and rain, accompa-
nicl with severe thunder and lightning, passed
over the northwestern part Of Bed ford county
on Tuesday night.
Ryan and brother. who stole two horses from
Mc:srs Minor & Tinsley, in Charlottesville,
were tried on Tuesday, and sentenced to the
ncnitculary for five years.
The consolidationists OF Norfolk and Peters
burg and Bristol had great rcjoicings on Tues
day night, over the passage Of the consolida
ton bill.
COOP WoRDs.-lt is too warm for quar-
rcliug. TO keep cool should be the first object
Of every man at this season of the year, no
matter what his color, or his politics, or the
special scheme Of legislation which he may
favor or oppose 10 get into sweat in the
month OF June is o very disagreeable thing.
aud every nan OF right feeling will avoid it, ex-
ccpt in casts Of absolute necessity. The hot
headed should put ice ION the brain" to escape
avcnging sunstrokes, and those who arc given
to warm words should cool their tongues in
some allaying beverage. Why should anybody
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overhead? Let us all think and speak only
such things as will! abate our own heat and that |
of those around us Let US put all our good
things on ieo, aud create about Us grateful
atmosphere that will promote our own comfort |
and that of everybody else. As in the physical |
world, so is there in the intellectual and moral |
height where there Is perpetual GOODNESS |
We must rise to that altitude, and look with |
pity on those who tug and tussic in the Leaf |
and dust below us.-PttersJurg Courier.
Il TOUCHING SCENE.-A touching scene is
related by gentlemen as having occurred Gu
ring tho decoration ceremonies yesterday. A |
little girl entered the cemetery carrying wreaths
OF beautiful flowers, and FASTENED to the side
where tho Confederate dead lay, and proceeded |
to place 4 wreath on each grave. A friend of
hers approached her, saying. But, Susie,
those arc the rebels graves" She replied,
Eyes, | l,aow it. but my pa was 4 soldier, and |.
died 10 Libby prison, and is buried down s)uth
| so much hope some little girls there will strew
flowers on his grave. | thought would bring
these and put them on the rebels graves. Nav
be some OF them have little girls at home, YOU
know. '-La Fayettc (h) Dis.
PEAS AND BEANS. The scarcity OF peas and
beans in cur market this season is noticeable
TACT Not since the war We believe has there
been such 4 dearth. Frequent enquiry has
been made for stock peas to be sowed for
green CROP but ending in all cases 10 disap-
poinmcnt. Time was when VIC have seen
hundreds, or rather thousands of bushels ttfer
cd for sale and the grower we'll satisfied to get
a dollar busheI. Now they would readily
command two and half dollars PsterJmo
Indcr
The bouquets thrown to Patti at her last Paris
anpeara filled eight carriages