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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-10-11
WHEELER a. WILSON
SEWING MACHINE ES.

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SEWING MACHINES.
Awarded the Highest Premium over Eighty
two Compet!tors, Paris Exposition, 1867.
Also at American Institute, \. T.; Mechanics
Institute, BALTIC; Mechanics Association,
Boston; Mechanics Association, Cincn-
natl; franklin Institute, Phila.; Me-
chanica Association, st. Louis;
Kentucky Institute, Louis
vile; Mechanics lnstt.,
San Francesca; Met
Mecs Institute,
Washington,
d. G.
At the State Fairs of Maine, New York, Fir-
cina. Ohio, Tennessee, Vermont, New Jer-
scy, Mississippi, Indiana, Illinois, Con-
nectcut, Pennsylvania, Missouri,
Iowa, kentucky, Michigan,
Wisconsin, California, and
at hundreds of coun-
ty fairs.
1850. 1861 1862. 1863
Paris Liverpool
Paris London Linz.
Manchester. Warwick Korngsburg.
Ashton. Cornwall. liverpool.
Lancashire.
lS6l-Dantzic, Agram, krems. lo63rDubhn
Stcttin, Cologne Wismar, Dunedin.
This Machine makes the LOCK-STlICH, and
no human testimony could be clearer or more
uncquiyocal and emphatic than that which ac-
cords the superiority Of EXCELLENCEt tn this
Machine over all others for family use and gen.
eral manufacturing purposes. w
The qualities which recommend the heeler
s. Wilson Machine are: 49,
|. Beauty and excellence of stitch alike on
both sides of the fabric scwcd.
2. Strength, hrmness ana ournoliity VI seaih
that will not ravel.
2 Economy of thread
q. Its attachments and wide range Of appica-
ton tc purposes and material.
5. Compuctness and elegance of model ana
finish.
&. Simplicity and thoroughness OF construc-
ton. .
7. Speed, case of operation and management
and quetncss of movement.
Sold on easy monthly payments or at q re,
duced price for cash, at GREENS No11oN
HOUSE, IS King street, Alexandr:ai ,aon4
WV. E. WOOD s CO.,
Proprietors of
COLDS AUTOMATIC Low STEAM AND
HOT WATER HEATER, and
IAWSOS,S S,SCELEBRATED HOT AIR UR-
MACE.
Inventors and Patentees of the
PARLOR. sun AND LIGHTNING FIRE
PLACE HEATERS AND PARIS
RANGES.
Dcalers in all kinds of HEAT and COOK
STOVES. KITCHEN WARE, CRATES
SLATE MANTELS, etc, etc; .Speelsl care
taken with PLUMBING and sll kinds OF Steam
and Water Piping, repairs for Steam heaters,
Furnaces Ranges Stoves, etc.
''' WM. L. WOOD & CO.,
w. cor. Baltimore and Eu'aw sts,
sep SIN Baltimore, Maryland
NOW Is THE TINE TO save 25 per Ct by
IN purchasing your stoves at the old prices, Us
desire to close out my last years stock, con-
sisting of about one hundred FIRST CLASS
STOVES, FIRE PLACE HEATERS and
RANGES. f. II. CLARkSON,
aug lU-tr - South Royal ST.
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THOMAS E. COBBS, assignee, will resell on
the premises, July l3, n tract of land in
Pittsylvania county.
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HIGH PRICEs.-The high prices of the
products of the soil, which prevail in the
Richmond markets, are the subject of gen.
eral remark and unfayorable contrast with
other cities Of the country. The assump-
ton is that Richmond wants population.
She wants mechanics and skilled laborers,
to make fruitful the capital which is being
invested in the various manufacturing en-
terprses springing up here. Let it go forth
that Richmond is an expensive place to live
in, as Il is, and she will want in vain.
Rents are high, and very few habitations to
be procured at any price, and all descrip-
tons of provisions are held at enormous
rates. This should not be, and the
authorities, and citizens of means and
influence, who have the power to reg
ulate these matters, should see to
it that the best interests of the city arc
not sacrificed to an unworthy spirit of
righteousness. There are too many mid
dlemen. The ordinance giving huckstcrs
full control of our markets should be re-
pealed, and regulations for the protection
of our people against the wiles of sharp
ers of every description, adopted by
the council in its place. We hope the new
council, when it takes up the questions Of
vital concern, will not overlook this. We
want to pay the producer fair price, but
we should not be requrd, through the fault
of our city fathers, to support an army of
inscriptions vampires known as huck-
sters. e- aa
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POLITICAL NOTES.

F. .
The Augusta (Ga.) Coa,st,tutioaalist is
now strong for Greeley, but says: s If
we were to select for the head of our col
umns the name that would come nearest
being the exponent of our opinions, we
would place there Jefferson Davis. ~ be
The Wilmington Commercial express
ses the firm conviction that Greeley's nomi-
nation as the Democratic candidate at Bal
timore will give Delaware to Grant provided
the Republican canvass is conducted with a
moderate share of prudence, firmness and
common sense. @ ENg
SO far as we have seen, not single
Republican newspaper in Massachusetts
has spoken in approval of Senator Sum
ner's bitter and unjust attack on President
Grant. The New Bedford Mercury believes
that he will find it to be the most egregous
blunder of his life.
-0he member Of the Delaware Demo-
cratic State Convention loudly asserted
that he would be Democrat as long as he
had tongue to wag, an arm to lift, or a
dollar to spend, but that it Greeley was
nominated at Baltimore, his head should be
taken from his body before he would vote
for him. 6t
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FROM WASHINGTON.
A Revolutionary Widow-She is Dependen
on Her Mother for support.

A Revolutionary Widow-She is Dependent
on Her Mother for support.
Washington, July 3.-Some time since
the Pension Bureau sent out circulars in
quiring if certain widows of Revolutionary
soldiers were still alive, and if so, their con-
dition of life. The lady postmaster at Ac-
comac courthouse, Virginia, in reply to
such inquiries replied that one widow there,
Mrs. Mary Ann Snead, was very feeble,
and was dependent on her mother" and
others for support.
L As to Sarah Ann Stewart, the widow of
Thomas Lewis, who was also Revolu-
tionary soldier. the same lady stated that
she was subject to fits, and lived with her
father, who was upward of one hundred
years of age.
Mr.. Babson, chief of division, Pension
Bureau, will soon send out more of these
circulars for information. 1t is the inten-
ton of Mr.. Babson to arrange an alpha
betical list of the names of all surviving
widows to January |, 1870, and to keep
up their histories from that date onward to
the time of their death. 1t is fact that
there are living two widows of revolution
airy soldiers who are under forty years of
age, and the oldest surviving widow is 115
wears old,
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EXCLAMATION OF ABANDONED WO-
MEN.-Last evening at Grace Street Pres
byterian Church, an adjourned meeting in
behalf of the movement for the reclama-
ton of abandoned women was held, Rev.
DR.. peterkin presiding. The meeting was
opened with prayer by the chairman, after
which DR.. w. w. Parker, chairman of the
committee appointed at last meeting, report
ed progress. lie said that he had made no
direct effort as yet to obtain subscriptions
for the establishment Of the proposed home
and relormatory, because he first wished
to lay the matter before the public in a
publication in one or more of the daily
papers. which should contain facts and fig
ures that would convince the most skeptical
OF the propriety and necessity for the move
ment. In the meantime, however, he had
sounded some gentlemen on the subject,
and the very first one he approached agreed
to give five hundred dollars, and he had
reason to believe that five others would
give like amount each, and another as
much as one thousand dollars.
After some further discussion of the
plans and objects of the proposed home, it
was agreed to adjourn, to meet at the same
place next Tuesday night at 81 o'clock,
when it is expected that the committee will
have secured subscriptions to the amount
OF $1,000 or $4,000. The Association will
be then organized, a building committee
appointed and the plans put in process of
practical execution. .,.......-. -.
During the discussion, it appeared that a
gentleman from Norfolk was in the city, to
confer with gentlemen here in regard to the
reformatory, which is intended for the aban-
doncd women of Richmond, Norfolk, Pc
tersburg and Lynchburg. After the erec-
ton of the home, it is expected that the
corporate authorities of each of the places
named will contribute to its support, in adj
dition to private annual subscription. 1t
may now be safely said that we will GER
tainly have the reformatofy in operation
among us before this year closes. 1t is in
the right hands, and is bound to succeed.
1t has our best wishes.
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THE JUBILEE.
The Audience Still Enthusiastic

Coliseum, Boston, July 2.-The cool
weather rendered attendance upon the Jubi-
lee concert this afternoon somewhat less of
a task, and the audience was proportion
ately more numerous and enthusiastic.
The Irish band, which improved in its
execution over yesterday, was kept on the
stage more than half an hour.
Madame Peschker Leutner sang an aria
from "Martha," with military band ac-
compartment. and, on an encore, 1.-THE Star
Spangled Banner" with magnificent effect.
Herr Strauss, the Cornet Quartette, and
the French band (the latter giving selec-
ton from ''Robert lie Diable'D were re-
ceived with marked demonstrations and
eacored. The Comets responded with the
air, "When the Swallows Homeward Fly"
Madame Leutner received an elegant flo
raj tribute.
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ACCIDENT AT THE TUNNEL. just
where the open cut of the Chesapeake and
Ohio railroad extension ends on Nineteenth
street, and where the tunnel under the hill
there was begun, there occurred day before
Yesterday frightful caving in of the i'm
mense mass of earth at the beginning of
the subterranean excavation, which ex-
tended about twenty feet into the hill. For
tunately, the workrnen had just gone to
dinner, and nobody was hurt. Precautions
had been taken against an accident of this
kind, by placing strong tlmbers, &C., to
support the earth until it could be arclied,
but these proved insufficient, the ponder
Gus avalanche crushing them to fragments.
The debris was removed, however, and
new barricades erected preparatory toput-
ting in the more substantial arches, and the
work ofcycavation proceeded as usual until
about half past eleven O'Clock last night,
when the Garth broke loose again,
crushing the timbers and covering up three
colored men. There were eight men at
work at the time, and all but three escaped
unhurt. The unfortunate men were taken
out as quickly as possible, when it vas
found that two of them were badly injured,
though perhaps not fatally. They were
taken to their homes. We are assured that
this is the extent of the disaster, all rumers
to the contrary Notwithstanding.
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POLICE COURT. = Edward Gilman,
charged with being drunk and unable to
take care of himself, was sent to Jail to get
sober.
G. G. McMurray /, charged on search
warrant with having in his possession one
coat belonging to Alexander Smith. Nc
Murray is junk shop keeper, and he was
fined ten dollars under the city ordinance.
Susan Morton was fined five dollars for
assaulting and tearing the clothes of Robert
Gordon.
George Williams, charged with breaking
and entering the tobacco factory of DR..
Blair Burwell, was discharged, but was
committed on the charge of being an es-
capped convict.
Several cases were dismissed on payment
of costs.
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LOST CHILDREN.-Thes traying away
from home of small children naturally
causes great distress of mind to parents,
which nothing short of the restoration of
the darlings can alleviate. Ifpeople would
pursue one simple course Of procedure,
under such distressing circumstances, there
would be the least possible delay in pro-
curing the safe return of the truant little
ones. Immediately after discovering
that your child is lost, place your
name, residence, and full description of
the child in the hands of the officers in
charge of the various police stations. A
child cannot be lost very long before a
policeman finds it, and he at once takes it
to the nearest police station, unless he hap
pens to know where the child belongs, in
which case it is restored at once.
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SPECIAL COURT OF APPEALs.-Ten
more cases of the docket were called in the
special court Of Appeals this morning, as
follows: Noble ct at., Us. Harris dal., sub
mitted and argued by Tazwell Taylor, Of
Norfolk; Stokes ct al, rs. Oliver; Hudson
ct al, IS. Burrell, administrator, ct
a., submitted !; Whitehurst ct al, us.
Whitehurst ct al, submitted; Sandford,
Guardian, &C., Us. Edmunds et al; Howard
Us. KEELING and Burrows; New York Life
Insurance Company Us. Whites admins
tratrix ; Harvey Us. Robertson's executors
e al; Peterson et al, rs. Herbert ct al;
Gibbs rs. Tieruan.
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PERSONAL INTELLIaENcE.- re-
greet TO state that Major J. j. White, Police
Justice, is still too unwell to attend to the
duties of his official position, which have
been discharged for two days past by VIM.
Hall Crew, magistrate in Marshall ward.
w. ID. Chesterman, city editor of the
Enquirer, who has been in bad health for
some time, will leave tomorrow for the
White Sulphur Springs, where he will rest
for spell.
Ernest Wilt, Esq, will return to the
White Sulphur Springs on Saturday.
Hon. Charles Ii. Porter passed through
this city to-day.
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AUCTION SALES.
AssIGNEE,s SALE
E.l Of e
VALUABLE REAL ESTATE IN GREENS
WILLIE COUNTY, VIRGINIA.


BY virtue of orders of the United States Dis
trct Court for the Eastern District of Virginia,
entered in the matter of Charles w. Spratley,
e. w. Spratley and William w. Spratley, bank
rupts, will sell at public auction, in front of
the court house door at Hiclsesford, Greensville
county, Virginia, on
MONDAY. THE 9TH DAY OF AUGUST, 1s72,
at IL O'Clock M, that valuable Real Estate sur.
rendered by said bankrupts.
,esi ACRES on the Petersburg Railroad, three
miles south of Hickesford
426 ACRES adjoining the same
l6S ACRES near Pleasant Shade, eight miles
west of Hickesford.
ONE-HALF OF 800 ACRES called Bottoms
tract" four miles east of Hickesford
IS ACRES adjoining Hekesford, Va, with good
buildings ON the same.
ONE HOUSE AND LOT in the village of
Hiokesford two-story dwelling house, kitchen
and office, all in good repair.
TERMS OF SALE-One- fourth cash balance
on credit of 6, 10 and is months, bonds,
with interest from day of sale, being required
for the deferred payments, with good security,
and the title to be retained by the assignee I'M
til the whole purchase money is fully paid.
June %, 1872 JOHN r. CIIAMBLfSS,
Je 29-2aw3w Assignee.
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Six Dollars Per Year. D
Three Cents Per Copy.
Gve,,i,so state Sa,trnal.
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Governor Jacob has declared himself ar
independent candidate for the governorshir
Of West Virginia. ~"
A flue of the steamboat Hope col
lapsed near Martinsville W. Va, Mon
day. One man was fatally, and three or
four seriously scalded.
DIR. John b. Radford died suddenly at
his residence in Montgomery county, near
Central Depot, on Sunday last, OF rheuma-
tism of the heart. fes5.. ~ 7st-
AT the closing exercises Of Roanoke
College, the coveted prize, the "Orator's
Medal, ;, was won by Mr.. j. w. Stephen
son, of Highland county.
The Republicans of Augusta passed
the following resolution on the oath "Ihat
we regard Horace Greeley as bolter from
the Republican party, and q tool OF dlsap-
pointed office seekers, and large portion
of the Democratic party; and that his cleo
ton would be a victory for the enemies of
the country" ss4 - trIT ##
On Monday, when the western-bound
passenger train on the Chesapeake and
Ohio railroad was about halfa mile west
of the University of Virginia, James Trib-
BILE, in the employ Of S. ID. Gooch, con-
tractor on the Chesapeake and Ohio rail-
road, fell from the platform OF the car, and
was instantly killed by the fall.
The Alexandria Gazette has the follow
ing: " Governor Roger G. Weightman, of
Washington, whose serious illness is mem
toned in another column, was born in this
place in January, 1885, and is therefore in
his sSth year. He served his time as a
printer, with Mr.. Duane, who then publish
ed paper in Washington. In early life he
was quite successful in business" 81 4
of the Peabody educational fund for
Virginia, SO 500 have been distributed in
Richmond, So 900 in Petersburg, Norfolk,
81 800; Winchester, sl,500; Staunton,
1880: Lynchburg, $4,000; Alexandra,
81 900; Poi tsmouth, 81 900; Manchester,
81 900; Wythevlle, 5000; Hanisonburg,
$500; Lynchburg, $3.50; Danville, 5000;
Floyd Courthouse, $3.50; twenty-one other
places, $500 each and four others 5000.
The Hampton colored normal school re-
ceives $500, and the normal department Of
Hollins Institute for young ladies' $500, in
the same manner as last year. For the
Journal Of Education 5000 have been con-
tributed, and conditional appropriation of
81 900 has been made. for the Teachers
Institutes. ,sJ ssaEsrF
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ANNUAL MEETING OF THE CORN
ExCHANGE.--The annual meeting of the
members of the Richmond Corn and Flour
Exchange was held yesterday in the Ex-
change. Vim. S. Register was called to the
chair, and P. G. Coghlan was appointed
secretary. The following ticket was elected
unanimously president, l.. d. Crenshaw ;
first vice-president, Jordan II. Martin !;
second yice-president, w. 7. Staples !;
directors, VIM. B. Warwick, c. l.. Todd,
Coleman Wortham, p. A. Sublett, G. b.
Stacy, R. B. Somerville, l.. L. Bass, I'll.
Wallerstein, w. d. Tompkins, and VIM.
II. Tyler. The secretary and treasurer
are elected by the board of directors.
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Haraea, July 3.-The burning of the
steamer Fannie, the killing of Peralta, who
commanded the expedition, and the capture
OF the stores, which she landed, are fully
confirmed. 1t is supposed that part of
the Fallnle's cargo was transferred to two
sloops and landed on the northern coast.
The fate of the Fannie's crew is unknown,
but it is supposed they joined the fillibus-
ters. 1t is asserted, however, they took to
their boats for Jamaica.
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/. POSTPONED Queen City Circus
has postponed its visit to Richmond until
Monday, the sth inst. Of the performances
of this circus, the Norfolk Vuyiaian says:
E. 1.-THE Queen City Circus gave two per-
formances yesterday afternoon and even
ing and ON both occasions the canvass was
well filed. We have before stated that
the performance was in every respect first
class, and we have seen nothing since to
cause us to retract our verdict. The exhi-
bition is the best which has been in this
city since the war;
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TRIAL OF DIR. HUSTON Captain G..
f. Johnston, music and news dealer, has
furnished us with pamphlet copy of the
evidence in the celebrated Huston trial, in
Baltimore, The suppressed testimony is
published in full. The trial is one of the
sensations of the day, and the evidence will
attract general attention. Johnston has also
supplied us with Hnper's Weekly for the
18th. tits, as usual, finely illustrated, and
contains several political cartoons.
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1883
rUIHIS is TO GIVE NoTICE-Thut on the

THIS is TO GIVE N0TICE-Thut on the
i Goth day of June, A. D., 1872, a warrant in
bankruptcy was issued out OF The District Court
of the United States for the Eastern District of
Virginia, against the estate of VIM. H. Tyler, of
Henrico county and State of Virginia who has
been adjudged bankrupt ON his own petition;
That the payment of any debts, and the deliv-
cry. of any property belonging to said bankrupt,
to him or for his use, and the transfer of any
property by him, are forbidden by law; That
q meeting of the creditors of said bankrupt,
to prove their debts and choose one or more
assignees of his estate, will be held at a court
of bankruptcy, to be holden at Richmond, Va.
before w. W. Forbes, Esq, Register, on the
10th day of July, A. D. 1872, at 10 o'clock A. M.
tfT I'll a8 DAVID b. PARKER,
= jy 3-W2w a 81 U.S. Marshal.
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TN THE DISTRICT COURT OF TIE
L UNITED STATES for the Eastern District of

Virginia
In the matter of John w Num-, bankrupt
in bankruptcy.
At Richmond, on the 1st day of July, 1872.
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN
Please to take notice hereby, that a petition
has been, to wit on the LIST day of July, 1872
filed in said District Court by John w Num-
of Louisa county, in said district, who has
been heretofore duly declared bankrupt UNI
der the act Of Congress entitled AAn act to estab.
fish more uniform system of bankruptcy
throughout the United States approved March
3D. 1867, for q discharge and certificate thereof,
from ali bis debts and other claims provable UNI
der said act and that the 18th day of July, 1879,
at 10 O'Clock A. M, before w. w Forbes, QUE OF
the registers of said court in Bankruptcy at his
office in Richmond, in said district, is the time
and place assigned fer the hearing of the same ;
when and Where you may attend and show cause,
if any you have, why the prayer of the said petit
ton should not be granted.
You are also hereby notified, that the second
and third meetings of the creditors of the said
bankrupt will be held at the same time and place.
w. w. FORBES,
Register in Bankruptcy for the
jy 3-W2w Sd Con'l Dist. of Va.
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Work OF THE VIRGINIA BIBLE
SOCIETY. The following shows the amount
of work performed by the agent in this
city of the Virginia Bible Society, his field
of operations. being that portion,of the city
lying west of Fourteenth street: Number
of families visited, white and black, &, 1852 !;
number of families found destitute Of the
Bible, 955; number of families supplied
with the Bible, 52l number of families un-
able to read, principally colored, 300 num-
Der of families destitute of the Bible, but
able to buy, "a; number of families refus-
ing the Bible, Al; value of Bibles donated,
$20S. 40. go
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The Case of the Rev. Thompson

Cincinnati, July 2.-Thomas L. Bond.
who made murderous attack on the Rev.
d. j. Thompson, was brought before the
police court this forenoon. Mr.. Thompson
having so far recovered as to appear, made
brief statement, in which he said he did
not know who struck him, and, in reply to
o question from the court, SAID that nothing
improper had occurred between Mrs. Shil-
gledecker and himself. The defendant waiy-
cd examination, and was committed in de-
fault of $4,000 bail.
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WILLIAM j. ANABLE.-The case of
w. j. Anable was called this morning in
the Henrico County court, ON the motion of
the Commonwealth's attorney for his re-
moval from office for malfeasance. The
defendant was represented by Robert How
ard and W. f. Worthington as counsel.
On motion, after argument, the case was
continued until after the criminal prosecu-
ton should be disposed of. aiL