Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1871-11-22
VIRGINIA NEWS.


has made the fifth apportionucut Of school funds
for the year lS70-'7I at the rate of five cents
for every person in the counties and cities be-
tween five and tw4ntynne years OF age, and
the second apportonnent Of funds for the year
| lS7l-72 at the rate Of twenty-five ceuts for
every person OF school age. neutrality-suspicious.
mcnt of both funds will be made as soon as
money enough is received into the Treasury to
justify it.
COL Marmaduke johnson died in Richmond
on the 10Th inst, His death, though sud-
den, had long been thought near. and the de-
ceased for months past had anticipated with
camness speedy release from the power OF
disease. He was distinguished lawyer, and
had flied various Offices of trust aud honor
Entering the Confederate army as captain,
he rose to the rank OF colonel, and the South
had few better soldiers than he
The grand annual communication Of tie
A., F. and A. Masons Of Virginia will be h i'd
in Richmond on Monday. December | 18th. The
Grand Cummandcry Of Knights Tcmpiar
will meet in Richmond on Thursday, Dccember
the 18th, and the Grand Chapter Of Royal
| Arch Masons ut the same place on the same
day.
Joseph Scgar and G. c. Willard, former
pruprictors OF the HySeia hotel, at Fortress
Monroe, which was pulled down by military
der during the late WAL. have been granted per
mission by the Secretary OF War TO rebuild 1t,
and the work Of reconstruction vii! soon COLL
IuenEe.
The Court of Appeals yesterday denied the
petition Of Alfred j. Hall Tor writ Of error to
Judgment of the Circuit Court Of Warren
county, whereby the petitioner WAS sentenced
to be confined in the pcllentlary tour years
tuI horse stealing.
We learn from the Shenandoah Herald that
the initiatory steps towards the establishment
of a Bank iu Woodstock have been taken. 1t
says that stock to the amount Of $4,000 has
been subscribed.
The case Of DR.. Strccker, in Richmond, ac-
cused of being concerned in abortion, has
been dismissed. The persons who made the
charge fled the city.
The large new hotel just erected at Glade
Springs by A. B. Echols & Brother was de-
stroyed by fire Monday night. Loss, $4,000.
The fire was the work of an incendlary.
Governor Walker has appointed Thomas \.
Green notary public for the county OF Lou
dOun.
The people Of Leesburg were highly p eased
with Miss Patterson reading. y very large
! audience was present
\ Tribe of the Order % Red Men has been
organized at Hamilton, Louioun county. Va.
TIE hU KLUX ORuANIZATlON. cores
pDndeut accrcditedsby the New York Herald,
has spent several weeks past i'll the South
Carolina counties where the writ Of haueas
corpus is suspended investigating the truth OF
The 50 called ku kIux organization, or ''Broth-
erhool Of the Invisible Empire. as it is term
ed His report, which is minute, occupies
eight columns Of the Herald, OF Thursday last.
The organization was first ormed in consequent
&C of the almost nightly barn hurnngs, roiber-
les, &C., and for these atrocities nobody was
punished The people were Wrought to mad
ness, at rho prostitution Of justice, and inetfi
cheney to punish. In one county that Of York,
there were thirteen incendiary fires in one
| week
The correspondent who has posted himself
thoroughly says that frequently: i'll his opinion
outraees were committed by blacks and white
scaawags in disguise. and the blame vas laid
upon the Ku-Kiux. The correspondent writes
''Of the existence of bogus ku-kIux there
is not a shadow of doubt There lies iii Jail
here man who voted the Radical ticket with
marked regularity When the present trou
|
simon pure Ku- Kux, and in having them ar
rested The zeal he displayed against them
was remarkable. One day. to the surprise OF
everybody, he was himself arrested rs ku-
Kiux, charged with murder and various other
crimes The evidence against this man is SAID
to be overwhelming. At the head of u gang
of scoundrels, he pcrpctrated some of the
worst outrages committed in the country
Wreaking his vengeance upon his personal enc
mics, nearly all of whom we're Radicals, he
did not even hesitate at murder, for well he
knew that his atrocities would be laid upon
the Democrats.
TEA CULTURE IN TIE u. S.-Thc following
letter, just received by the Bureau OF Statistics:
has been referred by DIR. Young to the COM
missioner Of Agriculture for consideration
KENT, ENGLAND, Nov. 6, 1871.
! To the Minister Statistical Department, WISH
mgton d. g..
SIR: am induced to ask if there is any
hope of the cultivation of tea being undertaken
by the Government Of the United States Ill
California; Carolina or elsewhere, and II so, at
what period.
Machinery is now employed reducing to
great extent the labor required IN the mauuiac-
ture, and the cultivation would be most lnl-
portant addition to American industry
am now very QcS!rOuS 10 eHll!Ttlte W t1!lel-
ica; and, as am tea planter in fact, | beg to
inc ose my testimonials asking you to kindly
represent my claims should the opportunity
arise have more information relating to ten
in MSS than most. Certainly more than has yet
been published, which should be glad to pub
fish if encouraged to do so.
am, sir, yours obed;ently,
JAMES MCPHERSON.
1t appears from the testimonials iuclosed with
the letter that Mr. Mcpherson was formerly
employed in the famous Kew Gardens, near
London, and has subsequently had the charge
of an extensive tea plantation near Madras, IN
the East Indies, where he took the prizes of
the Agri- Horticultural Society for three years
for the best samples of India and China teas.