Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1871-08-30

OF the city nave lett II. many nl WHO'LL haFc
cmieratcd It. America.
The third auu,lal exhibition of the Maryland
State \ Agricultural and Mechanical Association
will confluence at Piulicn. near Baltimore. on
Tuesday, October :. 1871. and continue four
days
The Richuoud State Journal says :-Nirgn
III is the tenth State in the Mon in point OF
population according to the late census returns.
She woull be sixth, were West Virginia added.
-
We have received the September number Of
the National Medical Journal. published in
Washington
{. & 0. RAlLnoAp-The New York tx
press of last evening SAYS
The sales of the Chesapeake and OHIO Kali.
road per ccut. gold bouds have increase
rapidly of late, and within Il short space OF
time about 50, 600, 900 have been taken by IN
vestors The remaining balance Of the loan
has been reduced to $J.On0,ntM and Messrs.
Fisk Il Hatch, the financial agents of the Com
pany, have this day advanced the price TO 90
and accrued interest in accordance with the
following unte from the President
New YORK August 2Sth, 1871.
Messrs. Fisk 4 Hatch. Financial Agents, etc
Gentlemen. my return from Callor
MIA I notice that the sales Of the securities Of
the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Company
are much in advance Of the present wants OF
the Company, and as the Western Division,
from the Ohio river to the Falls Of hanawha,
niuety-fve miles, will be completed in October
and the work on the remainder OF the road IS
now so far advanced that there is no doubt Of
the completion Of the whole line in the summer
of 1872, when all these securities should readi-
ly bring par:
For the above reasons YOU will sell role Of
the Company bonds after this date a: less
than 90 and accrued interest, and make no
sales at that price fnr delivery subsequent to
the time of sale.
Truly yours, &. p HUNTINGTON. Pres t.
Many investors will avail themselves of the
present high prices Of Government bonds to
sell the same and invest i'll the Chesapeake
and Ohio bonds, which bear the same rate OF
interest and can be obtained at Il much lower
price The holders of Central Pacific bonds
have also been diSposing of the same and in
veSting in Chesapeake and Ohio bonds, as
both Companies are under the same financial
management The Chesapeake and Ohio Road
baby hc completed in the summer of ISL
This rUal will tnrn new trunk line from
Chesapeake Bay to the Great West. and open
,lp the immense coal and iron fields OF lrglna.
4 ROMANCE or REAL LIFE-A correspond
cnt of the CINCINNATI Commercial writes from
Newcastle, Ky:
Il write this letter in the house of an I'D lady
who is Il niece of that Rebecca Bryan who be-
came the wife Of Daniel Boone, and concerning
whose eyes the young hunter is said to have
mistaken them for those Of Il deer the pretty
backwoods romance is tolt.. The Indy is herself
also the widow of one Of Daniel Boone 5 own ne
phews, her second husband who assisted in bring
ing the great hunter back to Kentucky She
was born in one of the chief old pioneer sta
tons. her grandfather ). near Lexington, and,
although she is in her eighty-frst year. she is
active in body, busying herself with her flowers
and garden clear-sghted aud alert in spirit.
Recently she heard that one Of her middle
aged sons, absent over twenty years IN Calltor-.
mia, and presumed dead for more than half OF
that time was yet alive, and her JOY was great.
lie, too, had supposed his mother to be long
since dead.
The old ludy has ROMANCE connected with
her second marriage. 1t Is as follows: When
nef tnOlncl WAS SuuuS idul Solouel w !llldu
Boone the nephew of Daniel mentioned above,
was very much i'll love with her. and asked her
on one occasion tr marry him. She told him
she was engaged to Morgan Bryan, and that
they were to be married in few days. Colonel
Boone went away and married another young
woman Afterwards he, with his wife, visited
the young married couple when thor first child
inow in her fifth score of years. was but ii very
few DAYS old, and, and seeing the baby, he
laughed and said to her mother: Now, Alilly,
as you woulin have me yourself you'll give
me the girl for 10y second wife, won't YOU"
Whether any testing promise was made l am
not informed; but the baby grew up, and at
tweuty-seven she was married, had seven child
rem, became widow after nine years, and re.
manned one for i long time, when Colonel
Boone's first wife having died some years pre-
viously, she really became, in her own middle
life, the wife Of her mothers early lover, who
had claimed her in her cradle. The good old
and nieces, to speak Of it rs Zone Of the most
remarkable things that ever happened
think So too; and it is true story.
POPULATION OF THE t. S.-Total ropula
ton of the United States, 1856, oe3; com
posed ot:--natives, 80 9S9, 437; foreigners, y,
jG6, AGO.
The total population Of the United States
may also be made 70 appear under the follow
ing classification;
White 35 So 969
Soored.. iooO,OCJ
1ndlan... 81
Total. So $50 es8
Of the Indians aud Chinese the Territories
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