Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1871-07-26
VIRGINIA NEWS.

From July, 1870, to the lst of the present
month, the total shipments of flour from Rich
mond to Brazilian, ports amounted to GC,G44l
barrels, and large orders have been received
which are now. awaiting. fulfllment. We are
glad to see the trade with South America re-
Viving. Alexandria had once a regular and
brisk trade with the principal South American
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A letter from the Warm Springs, in Monroe
county, W. Va. ,,says Deer, wild turkeys,
pheasants, cartridges, and trout are quite abun-
dant within the confines OF this princely do
main of broad acres. = Mountaineers bring in
vension this morning, and We shall soon sec
the busy preparation by the annual huntsnlen-
guests who copgregate here to enjoy that sport.
The Supreme Council of the Friends of
Temperance, which has organizations in nearly
all the States of the, South, assembled in the
lecture-room Of Trinity church Richmond last
night The principal business done was the
initiation of delegates
The funeral OF COL D. Lee Powell took place
in Richmond yesterday from St. James Church,
Rev. Drs. Peterkin and Woodbridge and Mr..
Maury officiating. An unusually large con-
course Of persons attended.
Rev. j. B. Ramsey, for many years pastor
of the First Presbyterian Church in Lynchburg
and 4 leading clergyman of the Presbyterian
Church in this State, died on the Odd inst.
The amount of the State debt funded yes
terday was s252, 1885, making total of So
CPS, l77.42. There remains considerably over
Sal 600, 600 yet to be funded
The Knights of Pythias, Odd Fellows; and
the Band of the Thirteenth Virginia regiment
give all excursion from Fredericksburg to
Washington on the lst of August.
j. s. johnson has been arrested by theageuts
of the Revenue Service on q charge Of coun-
terftiting L. S. tobacco stamps, on 4 large
scale He is now in jail at Richmond.
The Secretary of the Commonwealth has
sent out 2000 copies, Of the. acts Of the last
General Assembly.
Mr.. Charles H. McCareI a respected citizen,
died suddenly, oil Friday last at Charlestown,
Jefferson Co., WA.
There were forty three deaths in Richmond
last week.
Several recent cases Of attempted suicide are
reported in Richmond.
The Governor yesterday appointed Henry
Jennings notary public for Shenandoah.
\ CASE SETTLED At the breaking out of
the late war Mr. Geo. G. Hutter, Of Virginia
was a paymaster in the United States army,
and being incapacitated by age from active
service resigned his position just after the State
of Virginia passed the secession ordinance.
He had at that time in his possession United
States funds to the amount of $4,000 in gold,
and Sc, 900 in currency. With view of saving
this money until the war should be over he
buried the gold in the ground and deposited
the currency in the banks in Lynchburg. At
later date the Confederate government COM
PEELED the banks under its jurisdiction to fund
all their deposits 10 eight per cent. Conted-
crate bonds. which absorbed the deposits Of
lIutter as we'll as Of all other persons having
money to their credit in the banking houses of
the South.
Mr.. Hutter was entirely impoverished by the
war, and some time subsequent to its termlna.
ton applied to the government to be relieved
from his responsibility by refunding the gold
still in his hands, the Confederate bonds held
by him being the only asset he could show for
the currency invountarily surrendered by him
at the mandate of the Confederate government.
IAllci luIl vi lIit ihuSiCit lHC
Treasury Department to-day compromised the
the case and settled the account as proposed
REQUESTS. The daughters of the late Hen
ry Morris, ofPhiladelphia, have, lately receiv-
ed legacy of bonds and stock shares amount
ing to $40 900 from Mr.. Horatio Ward, an
American long resident in London. The will
says: -" As these ladies are the grand daugh
tiers of the celebrated Robert Morris of the
Revolution, it will not be difficult to ascertain
their actual residence 1t will surprise them
to get legacy from person they never knew
and perhaps never heard of, therefore it seems
but proper they should be informed that the
beQuest is made through compassion for their
miStortunes, and in return for the kindnesscs
shown me by their father when 7 was boy;
and it may be as well that Miss Amelia Morris
should be informed that it was [ who sent some
money to her and her younger sister, under the
name of her fathers friend, few years, ago
Mr.. Ward also devised 500, 900 to the National
Soldiers Home, in State bonds. He also
gives 100000 in railroad and Southern city
shares to the various Soldiers Orphan Asy-
ums in the United States.
The reports Of the attempted. escape and
shooting of Santanta and Big Tree, the kiowa
Chiefs who we're arrested by the military au-
thorities in Texas, are now shown to be untrue.
Both have been condemned to death, but an
offnrt ia hainp. made IN have their sentences