Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1871-02-27
VIRGINIA NEWS.


day night, during the services at the Prcsby-
terrain church in that place, 4 colored man hay
ing had difficulty with two young men on
the morning, and supposing he saw one OF them
sitting in the church, hurled Il large stone
through one Of the windows, and striking a
young man named William Bodine on the head,
inflicted very severe and painful wound. The
colorcd man has been arrested.
At meeting of stockholders Of the Martins
burg and Potomac railroad, on the 18th instant,
Hon. C. j. Faulkner was reelected president.
The following gentlemen were elected directors:
James l.. Campbell, j. e.. \. Nadcnbousch,
VIM. n. Riddle, j. B. y. Nadenbousch, VIM.
r. Snodgrass, j. S. Haldcnlan, Barnet Cushwa,
Jacob Ropp and f. S. Troxell.
Mr. Barbour, the president Of the Lyhchburg
e. Danville Railroad, last week telegraphed to
its friends in Danville, Va, to have the county
subscription made at last court perfected, in
order that the entire line hi ght be put under
contract, at the meeting Of the board of di-
rectors which takes place on Tuesday. The
court ordered the subscription to be made.
A telegram dated Pittsylvania Court House,
February "A, says: John Jackson, colored,
convicted of the murder of Mr. Joseph f..
Anderson, Of this place, on the 4th Of July last,
was hanged here to-day-hls accOmpllce, Kit
Hubbard, having suffered the same penalty four
months ago.
Mr.. Samuel Lloyd died last Friday at his
residence near Round Hill in Loudoun county.
He was a native of Delaware He purchased
farm in Loudoun since the war, and was soon
known as an active and enterprising citizen.
William c. Bristow, arrested short time
since on the charge of robbing the mail on the
route between Sandy Bottom and Tappahan-
mock, Va, on which he was the mail carrier,
has been henoraby discharged.
On last Wednesday Mr.. Taylor Thornton of
Prince William county, while hunting bagged
l3 rabbits one pheasant and wild turkey
weighing twenty eight pounds.
The West Virginia Legislature has passed
an act establishing the county seat Of Jefferson
county at Charlestown.
Mr.. DIsRAEM lately made an animated
speech in the British House Of Commons COM
planning that the tone of the u. S. government
towards the government of England is different
from that used towards the government Of any
other country, and although he had once attrib-
uted it to ''the rude simplicity of republican
manners, it was not that, for nothing could be
more courteous than the American tone to the
Russian government. He referred also to
speeches in the House of Representatives and
said that if there is to be commission, ''it will
be good opportunity for us to come to clear
understanding on that point-that England
cannot be insuted or injured with impunity,
(cheers;) and, although | should look upon it as
the darkest hour in my life to support or even
to counsel in this House a war with the United
States, the United States must understand that
We will not permit ourselves to be treated differ
emily from other countries In the same
speech Mr.. Disraei denied that the cause of
the Southern States during our late civil war
was taken up by either party in England. Mr..
Gladstone, the premier in Il brief reply, cx-
pressed the opinion, which was received with
cheers, that our (their) best and safest course
is to trust to the judgment and good sense of
the mass Of the American nation.
The FRIENDS. ''-Rev. Dr. Cooper, rector
of the Episcopal Church in Mount Pleasant,
Iowa, on a recent Sunday, after morning pray
er, said My honored friend, Joseph A.
Dugdale, is in the house, and shall now con-
clude our service and invite him to this place,
where he will conduct service according to the
usages of the Religious Society of Friends, Il
body of people for whom have always had the
greatest respect The Quaker preacher came
forward and made an impressive address, in
which he urged greater unity amongC christians,
2 deeper devotion to truth, love, and justice
DR.. Cooper himself then made an appeal in
favor of the broadcast lberality and the utmost
liberation among Christian denominations, and |
thus closed a remarkable and, somewhat in
erestlng meeting Mr.: Dugdale is a preacher
among the Hicksite Friends -Balttmor Sun