Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1871-06-12

LAND SALEs.-The following sales arc re-
ported by the Charlestown (W. Ea.) Courier
to have recently taken place in the counties
traversed by the line of the Chesapeake and
Ohio railroad:
"a tract of valuable coal land on Loup creek,
Fayctte county. containing $1,000 acres, mas
been purchased by 4 party OF Baltimore and
New Jersey capitalists. This Is part; OF the
Wilson survey, and lies Immediately on the
Kanawha river and Chesapeake and Ohio rail
road \ tract containing 10000 acres: lying
between Gaulcv and New River, and near their
confluence in Fayette and Nicholas counties,
has been recently purchased by Baltimore par
ties Several tracts. containing IN the aggre-
gate $1,000 acres of land, situated i'll Faycttc
and Greenbrier counties, have been purchased
bv Howell, Fisher, and others, OF PennSylva-
MIA \ tract containing 1000 acres IN Nlciio-
las county. has been purchased by George W.
Norris, of Baltimore. Several tracts OF valti-
able coal land on the great kanawha, contain
ing G,Uu0 acres, have lately been purchased by
g. T. Huntington, Of New York. from the
heirs Of James G Paxton, deceased. The
Courier adds: These purchases show what
the Chcsapeke and Ohio railroad is doing Tor
this portion of West Virginia. The prices ct
the above lands range from s.; to lD per acre.
LOVE MATcH.-Thc steamer Scotia, which
arrived at this port on the Goth Of April last
brought from London the future husband Of
that charming songstress Miss Christine Nils
son. The modest young gentleman arrived on
the day of the first performance of the late sea-
son of Italian opera, which he attended On the
next iav he set ont for the West in search OF
Miss Nilsson, and found her in Chicago The
gentleman name is \. Rouzand. lie was re-
Gently engaged in commercial business in Lon
don. In future he will try his fortune in the
commercial mart of this city.
Mr.. Rouzand is accompanied to this country
bv Col. Snow an English gentleman, formerly.
iinot now of the British army Mr. Rouzand
is about twenty eight years DID, of good presence,
rather fine looking, and is an accomplished gen
tleman, and socially very pleasant. 10 make
long story short this little affair between Miss
Nilsson and Rouzand is genuine love match.
This fact will explain the recent operations OF
Miss Nilsson in real estate, in Peoria, ILL.,, and
Boston. When the happy couple are to be
made one is not within our knowledge Soor,
it is presumably }. Pap~.
THE LONGEST FALL ON RECORD. Il.
Boyd of Speedwe Wythe county, sends the
following strange story to the Norfolk Journal;
"A party in Allegheny county, n. G., had
Gathered on what is called Stone Mountain, ON
Wednesday last, for the purpose OF taking
view of the surrounding country. Mr.. Atkins
and wife, desirous to ascend for the purpose OF
getting a more perfect view, were crossing
small drain of water on a sloping rock which
WAS very sleek and steep, at which point both
lost foothod and went sliding down the rock
for about one hundred yards, holding. to each
other all the while At length they lost hoh
of each other, Sided about another tltty yards )
the wife foremost, with such velocity as to 1aii
clear over the trce-tops at the end OF the rocH'
followed by the husband, who tell IN among
the tops of the timber, both being literally
maneled to pieces before they reached the
,.ronnd which was about two hundred and fifty
or three hundred feet from the top OF the rock.
The wife, it is said, had not whole bone IN
her BODY when found The husband was stu
alive up to Friday, but OF course is not expect
ed to live.
The CRY OF FHUNTINGToN.-Wc understand
from Mai Mcmahon, one OF the contractors
on the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad eXten,
sion. that general attention is being attracted
to This embryo CITY. This young city has been
laid off five miles square, with streets anu
avenues, &C., to correspond with its extensive
dimensions. 4 Levee of two miles length, on
the Ohio River has been laid of-one portion
for coal exclusively and another for merchandise:
The contractors for the building of the Railroad
workshops, Mcssrs. Snow l. Co., otPaltlmorc,
have already commenced their works
A few lots have been sold on the Lerec,
several of which have been purchased by our
E euterprlsing countyman Capt ThoS. D..
Burke, and Il number of others have been dis
rosed Of away from what is intended to be the
fashionable portion Of the new city.
The thing looks pretty on piper. We must
await developments for the facts of the case
Valley TUvnam.
IMpUpENcE REBUKED.--A Washington
snecial of eth instant, to Baltimore Sun, says
The collectorship Of the port of Georgetown,
D G., is quite bone of contention. and every
Jo, ;s tho Secretary of the Treasury besleged