Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1871-06-03
VIRGINIA NEWS.

The Charlottesville Chronicle is to be pub
lshed after July lst daily on Il snail sheet
which, from the specimen Der, however,
will be we'll filed paper. The Chronicle Will
be also published tri-wceky and weekly. as
usual.
Samuel Ruth collector of the revenue Of the
second district of Virginia. lies dangerously i'll,
at his residence in Petersburg. from an attack
Of paralvsis with which he WAS stricken \ day
or two since
John Amber Smith. representative III the
last Senate Of Virginia from the county Of New
Kent was married on Thursday 1t the home
cf the BRIDE to Miss Mamie, daughter Of
John F. Lewis. one Of our /. ). Senators.
f. 0. Noting II Co.. Of Richmond have been
awarded one half Of the French tohar," con-
tract, 300 hogshcadS.
CS q. CANAL. The receipt, and slip
ments Of coal for the week ending last night
were as follows :-Receipts. 24,6l2 tons ship.
ments, % ,S9l tons, Of which the Consolidated
Coal Company received g, 40l tons, and shipped
| $50 tons Maryland Coal Company received
7,l07 and sent away 10! tons the Mldlo,
THAN Coal Company WAS i'll receipt OF ,, ~
tons and sent off =. Ia tons. The receipts ut
Agnew's Wharf were .. COO tons, and shipments
. 600 tons the Borden Mining and Coal Com
panv received $500 tons and sent away %.:iGO
tons.
The whole number Of boats reported nj the
Collector office for the week ending last night
was 2G1 of which 247 were coal laden. During
the same period there have arrived boats
with grain. - with red and limestone, and :,
with Ice. The whole number OF boats reported
for the month Of May, !, %, against l.o52 Tor
the month Of May 1870, making an excess
over the same month Of last year "I IL" ar-
rivals - GrorgcfO1rn LoHr'G'.
TINT or CULpEpER,- the close Ut
the war, it was small place. and was known
only us "Cupeper G. II. But 81 great has
been its improvement since the war. that it may
now be claSsed among the larger and more
prosperous towns Of the State. 1t has beau
tiful location, in rich farming country and IN
healthy and pleasant climate. louscs arc
Going up in every direction, and business i. all
| the time brisk The whole number Of inhabitants
is near 300. has five churches an EpiSco,
! pal Baptist. Presbyterian. and Methodist
church, with Il colored Baptist Church.
1t has a number Of good schools. with l
Masonic Lodge. Odd Fellows Lol &c and 4 t"un-
ell of the Friends Of Temperance. II ha; more
| than twenty stores. some Of them wholesale
and commission houses, two Hotels number
of workshops of different kinds. and business
| men Of different pursuits are numerous SlXty
new houses have been erected since the war.
SnghM' S"n.
WAsHINGToN ITEMS. -~ Yesterday the laborcrs
continued their strike In several instances.
h., .o4, -iolnp,n tb.y ,.,n,uall,.I II
cease work and Join them The presence ct
officers was needed more than once To prevent
rotiug. The strikers wer, violent Ill their Ian
guage. Gangs Of them were Going about, fore
ing the laborers On the streets 10 JOIN them. -
Five hundred OF them marched IL the Long
Bridge to compel the workmcn there l." stop
work, but they did not succeed
On Thursday night 4 fire brnkr OH III i row
of ten unnccupcd houses eight Of which We're
unfinished located in Wilson, between 4tfi and
18th streets west, near the city boundary. The
row belonged to I building association and was
totally destroyed.
CHANGES PROPOSED. 1t t.; !,tupr%rI to
make Il change nj All early day in the running
Of the trains ou the Great Northern AMI South
ern routes. When the proposed alteration is
made, the cars over the Danrile and Richmond
and Petersburg roads will rcacl: the city at )
u clock \. NJ, and the Richmond, Frederick $
burg and Potomac cars will leave at $40 \. VI:
BY this arrangement passengers from Richmond
will arrive at New York At ! p. III. on he day OF
leaving home Through passengers =oinE North
will take sleeping cars nj Wilmington. \. e.,
and remain in them until reaching Aqua creek,
while those going South will take them at the
last named place The proposed change is ne
cessitated by changes already made further
South Rich Eng
DREADrrI-- Some day; ago little boy
about five years Of age, SON ola Mr. Miller: "i
GrySon county. was killed by the bite Of rat
tlcsnakc The lite fellow had gone ont with
some other members Of the family 10 look for
eggs, and in his search hc cawled underneath
his fathers barn. After going some distance
Under the floor he screamed to his COMPANIONS
that something was killing him. They obtain
cd assistance and ripped up the planks nf the
floor, when to their horror they found Il Elrgc
Sna Ike had bitten him in several places Oh the
face and neck, and he was qnitr dead when tn,
ken up - JMrDu HcuM
CAMP MEETINGS IN VIRGINIA. Rich
m"nd district. Virginia Conference NJ. +.
Church: for Hampton, Norfolk, and Ports
mouth, near Old Point Comfort, July A.; for
Fairfax, Alexandria, &c, near Washington and
Ohm railroad, August f. Tor Hillsboro Cir
cuil. near Waterford. August II; for Prince
William Circlli. near Manassas August IS ; for
llcrndon Circuit. near Dnnesvile, August -,
All arr invited to attend
The Northern Radical papers take occasion to
use the late Speeches Of Mr. jefferson Davis,
in Georgia, in Il renewed effort 10 Fire North.
ern prejudice and feeling against the South
and the Southern people. They omit to state
that these speeches do not meet with l;rvnr in
the South itself: and that general regret is rx-
pressed that they were ever made.
DEEU.
At Ashland, on the night of Thursday. the
18th instant, in the 2ith year of her age, ELIZA
3, daughter Of tho late James VI. Quisrnhrrrv.
esq, of Glencoe, SpOtsylvania county
.ee