Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1871-10-04
VIRGINIA NEWS.


Judgments were entered against the following
parties and their sureties for violation of inter-
nal revenue laws Phillip u. Jones, Slj3.233;
Lewis ". Landrum;. $500; Montgomery l.awIor'
$ljS0G: George w. Jameson, $g1.lG Eli
gene Brady, sl.G.S0 In the case of Vim. NJ.
keblinger, late postmaster at Charlottesville,
Va, the jury found verdict for $l.G0S1O. |
There will probably not be another riot,
shortly, in Danve. 1t was the arrest Of
colorcd man, on a charge Of theft said to be-
long to some secret society, which the colored
people resisted, and which resistance had to be
duelled by bayonet charge. 1t is said that
the most intelligent and respectable Of the
colored people united with the white people to
stop the disturbance.
Mr. John H. Strother died in Richmond on
Sunday Mr.. Strother was principal Of the
| University school of that city and one OF the
editors Of tn c Educational Journal He was
eminent US Il teacher, being most successful in
obtaining scholars and fitting them for the
| University.
The Lynchburg Nirgnian. that old, sterling
paper, appears with new and beautiful type.
| The Richmond Evening News, an excellent
paper, has new and handsome typographical
| suit
The Loundoun Enterprise says 1.-The lar
mers of Loudoun are getting through their
wheat seeding ut rapid rate tins fine
weather.
There will be 4 grand tournament at llaml-
ton, Loudoun county, on next Saturday, and
the prospects are that it will be ilne affair
Ex-Goy. Smith is to address the people OF
Green county on their next court day, the lth
| inst.
Judge Meredith, has declined the nomination
! for the House Of Delegates from Richmond.
There were twenty-eyht deaths reported in
Richmond last week.
ALEXANDRIA NA.-From Il letter i'll the
Loudoun Enterprise we make the following
extract:
'There is no town in all this world 10 which
| ain more attached than TO Alexandria, Some
Of the happiest and most halcyon hours Of my
youth were spent with its kind and hospitable
people-hours that leave glow aud light be-
hind them, which no after gloom or darkness
can obterate. L passed many familiar man.
sions to-day looking just as they did years ago
and out Of the windows Of one Of them, pair
Of blue eyes smiled at Inc through the msts
and the shadows Of the long ago just as they
did that bright May morning, when | looked
upon them for the last time in this world
Strangers live there now, as they do no doubt
in all the houses that knew, and met but
few 10 the streets who remembered me. but
the place is dear to NE, and not hing could
rive ne more pleasure than to sec II grow and
prosper.
hope that it will not be long before the
blot which the fire that destroyed the market
| L 1.p. Ill. 10, VIZ,
City Hotel and the Mansion House sule at
each other across the ruins, in the kindes
manner and if the bricks and the sheds and
ugly debris could be removed and handsome
little open square. with shade trees and IRON
seats for l0ungers. and fountain IN the midst
could he made there, the town would look bet
ter and feel better, and the triendllest relations
would always subslSt between ihe Two hotels.
| Build the new market house somewhere else
and leave this spot TO the grass and the trees
which would soon spring up about it, good peo'
pie Of Alexandria, and you will never regret it,
The old memorials and relics are gone any way.
Let the market house 60 too.
Alexandria is certainly improving. | noticed
many new buildings and blocks OF houses, in
different parts Of the town. They are putting
up corn exchange, and fine new (Sareptal
Hail. and when the authorities can make up
their minds to it, they will build 4 new market
house. much more comcly in appearance. no
doubt, than the old one visited the cotton
factory but as it wis Saturday, and the girls
were cleaning up. could not 20 through it,
much to my regret 1t is loinga fine business
woodworking I2j hands. and making $500
yards of cotton daily.
There is no reason why there should not be
q half dozen just such factories in Alexandria.
The pioneer mills are otl silent. 1t would he
great thing for the trade of Alexandria II
they could be started once more and be kept
going. Manufacturing enterprise Of all kinds
should be developed in Alexandria. This must
be the gret motive power ct It's future pros
perity
Commerce would soon follow ii. and crowd
its wharyes with tonnage, and its streets with
busy thousands IT has fine harbor, rch
back country 1raversed with railroads which
terminate here. and why should it not be
commercial city. 1t needs only energy, enter
prise and an intelligent use OF capital 70 make
it so.
have never known a more pleasant place
to live in than Alexandria, and more agreea-
merchants They are unusually gentlemanly,
pleasant and accommodating such men as it
seems to me will keep custom it they once at
tract it to their city.
Many things can be bought in Alexandria as
cheaply as they can in any city in the country,
and such things I should think, it would be to
the interest of the people from Loudoun to buy
hcre-groceries: lumber, etc. The building up
Of Alexandria would inevitably add TO the
wealth and prosperity of IIoudoun. 1t is |ir-
ginia city, and its people are Eirginian* in
sympathy and in interest,
In the last news from France We sec it Inen-
toned that Velour, the celebrated Palais Royal
re>ranrateur, the ouly formidable rival Of the
Trois Freres, has failed and his effects will be
sold He has lost, it is stated, nearly $500, 900,
and is declared to he bankrupt. He as"ribrs
his ruin directly and entirely to the Var. His
restaurant was great taYorlte with Aueri-
ems, who formed large part of his patrans,