Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1871-10-07


secure what little money they have, by personal
solicitation. One other person, we will mention,
who WAS asked to contribute, did 80, remarklng
that he had intended handing Mr.. Robinson
the money There are doubtless others, and
many others who intend contributing, but the
school needs the funds now Those who are de-
voting their time to this enterprise are men OF
business, who have not the time to call on all
our citizens, If it were proper to expect them to
do 50. Let the money come, therefore, freely
and promptly to sustain tins school tor our
working boys.
RAILROAD RECEIPTS. The following are the
receipts by the W. & o. r. R. this week:
Wheat. 1896 bushels; corn, LIZA; oats, $50;
-four "a bbIs. eggs. lSbbls. and boxes; butter,
! bbls. and kegs; fruit. 342 bbls and boxes;
cider, bills and kegs; fowls, 2G coops; Cal YES
~ sumac, 1900 lbs; hides, &c, %: stock, >
car loads; furniture, | car load cooper stuff, |
car load wood, lG car loads; hay, &c bales; lum-
Der, car load; rags, GOO lbs; milk, 40 gallons
During the same time there were received by
the O., A. l. NJ. r. R.:-Corn, 1923 bushels;
wheat, 6544; rye, 2SG; oats, 3,3OS: lax seed,
Sc potatoes, l3S; beans, 3; corn meal 60;
onions 80; mill otfal, $50; tobacco seed, boxes;
other seed, 6 boxes; -four. 81 bbls. ground
>umac PAS bags; sumac, 1872 sacks; butter
Il bbs. and frkins; eggs, 81 bbls. and boxes;
apples, 1872 bbls. country soap, $50 lbs; fowls,
u coops; hides, $ bundles; manufactured to-
bacco, 462 boxes; hay, 22S bales; leather 40
rolls; bark, u cords; WOOL > sacks; bacon, 400
lbs; lard, bbls and kegs; feathers, sack;
tal!ow, $50 lbs; dried fruit, l6 bags; lime, 40
bbls.; ounces, 2bbls; spar, bbls.; broom corn.
bale; cabbagcs, $50; fish, 5 bbls.; honey, can;
nuts bag COWS, calves, &C., IS head; shingles,
80; lumber, oak aud pine, 81, $50 feet; posts,
100; lead, % lbs; | car loads OF cattle horses,
sheep and hogs.
THIRD WARD RADlcALs.-G. A. Lump
kins, John Fields, W. L. Penn, L. J. Edelin,
and Charles Jackson, members of the commit
tee of the Third Ward Radicals appointed to
take a census of the Radical voters in that
ward met last night in the shoe shop of G. a.
Lumpkins, colored, on Cameron street, near
tho corner of Washington, and organized by
the election of q. A. Lumpkins colored, chair
man, and John Fields, colored, Secretary.
Two Of the members j. T. Burnett and Sam
ue HefHebower were absent. The ward was
divided into seven sections, and member Of
the committee assigned to duty in each.
Speeches were made by the chairman and by
Messrs Edelin, and Penn.
EDUCATIONAL MEErlNG.-Au educational
meeting was recently held at Falls Church, ut
which the county superintendent of public
schools, Mr.. McChicheSter, was present and
spoke Other addresses were made by Messrs
&. H. Buxton, Schuyler Duryee, Benz. Shrievc
and Job McFeigh. The second lecture Of the
course was delivered by L. S. Abbott, ESQ.,, ON
Wednesday evening last The third will be
delived on the evening ofth 18th inst, by S.
e. Arnold, of Mount Pleasant, y. {.
Socr,,nv Mosnr,
VIM. Kilgour, from the State Union, and NJ.
B. Harlow, of the Alexandria Society," both of
this city; Mr.. NJ. Glennau, of Norfolk, Mr.. ?.
O'Conner, OF Portsmouth, and MIR. L. Nc
Cracker, of Fredericksburg, will leave here to
attend the session of the Convention of the
Catholic Beneficial Society of the United States
which will meet in that city on the ! tn instant
DISCRETION AND THEFr--A man named
Lawrence Lewis, one of the crew of the
schooner Carrie Heyer, stole the yawl boat of
that vessel and deserted last night, and has
not since been heard from. The captain of the
schooner started the police on his track, but
had to buy another boat this morning and to
sail without the deserter.
EpucArIoNALlt appears from circular
just issued from the office of the State Super
intendent of Public instruction, that the school
population of Alexandria city is 1880, and of
the county 922. The apportionment for the
city, 1901, was SlGG50 and for the county,
SAC. 10; for lS7l-72, for the city, 5000, and
for the county, $23O.50.
ILLICIT DIsTILLERs.- L. 5. Marshal
L.I.O'Neale lett here yesterday evening, on
the Leesburg train, with warrant for the ar
rest of two men alleged to be engaged in illicit
distilling in the businesses of the Blue Ridge
mountains, in Loudoun county.
GENERAL +. B. IVAN buren,, cousin OF
President Van Buren,, died at Iierdon, Va,
on Thursday morning, in the eighty year
of his age. His remains have been taken to
New York
Low TIDE.-In consequence Of the late pre-
vailing Northwest wind, the tides in the Poto-
mac are now very low. -...