Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1871-09-20
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Judge John NJ Herndon Judge Of the
lluNng's Court Of Fredericksburg and OF
the County Court Of Spottsy lvanla. died in
Frederick Sburg yesterday evening. Judge II.
was formerly Secretary Of the Commonwealth
He was q gentleman OF sound Judgment tamll
lar with his profession and Of exalted moral
worth He was Ct years Of age.
In July last the Tredcgar Iron Works Of
Richmond. Va, employed 500 hands there
arc now over 200 employed, mostly on rail-
way material and equipment, filling orders for
the Duchess and Columbia IN. ~ railroad,
the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad, and mum
bers of roads in the South and Southwest.
The Raleigh On. c. Sentinel charges i'm
proper means availcd Of to procure the leasing
of the North Caroliua railroad to the Richmond
and Danyille Railroad Company, at rate equal
to about six per CT, per annum.
Annie Warden, 4 married woman, but Tor
some time deserted by her husband, who is Of
dissolutc habits, committed suicide Yesterday
in Richmond, by taking laudanum.
\ colorel man who was intoxicated and lying
on the track Of the Richmond and Danvlllc
Railroad, near Burkesve was run over by a
train and killed yesterday.
Among the applications filed in bankruptcy
in Richmond, is one from B. c. Burnett OF
Caroline county.
Thirty-sevcn deaths reported in Richmond
last weeks.
DR.. W. D. Quesenbcrry has been nominated
for the State Senate from the Hanover district.
TIE Milk BUSINESS. Sc New York Dairy
man amongst us, )" publishes in the Liberal
Citizen" the following
The Milk Question along and in the vicinity
of the 0. A. 4 NJ. r. r: \ few facts to think
and act upon:
The Railroad Company express willingness
to facilitate this new enterprise Tor Virginia,
by running train, for the milk accommoda-
ton, through in the night, to deliver in Wash
ington before five o'clock in the morning.
They will probably soon publish such notice of
their doing this-about the lst of March.
The milk business is both profitable and
feasible.
1t has elsewhere proven, and will here, when
inaugurated fully, the best paying business we
can give our attention to.
- qrts. milk will pay 43c delv'd at R. r. DC
- - & average ID. butter, say soc.
Net gain selling milk over making butter, dc
Expense of cans and carting, in cool OF the
evening, to the stations along the road, about
the same as of churns, churning, pails pans, &C.
The morning s milk, strained, into cans, and
in warm weather. thus set in springs or a
cool cellar, till evening milking then the day
milk can be run leisurely to the stations, from
, to miles out. along each side the road. One
man having charge at each station, paid bya
small per centage on the gallon, can attend to
the same
Let the farmers look at this crude statement,
act together and profit by it.
LORD SIIAFTEsBURY' JoKE.-Lo Shaftes-
bury, in speech at Glasgow on mission chapcls,
city buildings, and civilization generally, told
story to illustrate the difficulty of housing the
people we'll. ''Ihere was an abominablc dis.
trict in London, he said. He selected house
and persuaded the inmates to allow him, at
some expense, to whtewash the walls, and
make the place as tidy and comfortable as pos
sible. They consented. n short time after
grimed than the appearance of the house, more
could not conceive He said, What on Garth tIi
is this 2 and the reply was, Please your honor,
the house looked so cold and uncomfortable
that sent for the sweep, and axed him to
give us a few warm touches s"
y bean TowN.-Bevcrly Mass. says cor
respondent, is known as ''Bean Town. No,
virtuous citizen Of that place thinks of passing
Sunday morning without baked pork and beans
for breakfast. Formerly they went to the dif-
tercnt bakeries Saturday nights, each man with
his bcan-pot Each pot was numbered with
CHECK as received and the number given to the
ow ncr, and crowds would gather around the ba-
kerry door Sunday morning, each man calling
his number and receiving his pot. But now
they have pottery in the town. and each
householder has had his bean-pot made to or
der, with his name or initials baked into the
side, and the plan works beautifully. The ba-
kers charge six cents for baking beans; and it is
no mean source of revenue.