Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-08-21
VIRGINIA NEWS

from each township as county committee, IN
conformity to the plan recommended by the
State Executlve.Committee, as follows Prov
idence township, rhos. Moore, Ira Williams;
| Falls Church, job G. MrFcigh, Z. L. Lee;
Accotink, r. L. Fowle, r. L. hewitt; Lee,
John Powell, l.. NJ Lowe; CcntrcyiIle, W. II.
MILAN, j. Y. Worthugtou. :
The Richmond Wing says BY some strange
blunder on the part of somebody a whole
colored prayer-meetiog deacons, con-
verts, ,penitents, brethren, and slsters-waS
arrested Sunday night and carried 10 the First
police station, on the charge OF disorder, &c.
The congregation could not be accommodated
in the cells, and Justice Crew was sent for, who
promptly discharged the lot with the admoni-
ton to Ego aud Sin no more.
Frank Smith, aged about 20 years, employed
at the Tredegar works, in Richmond. vas
swinging in one of the tall swings attached to
the trees in the grounds on Monday when the
swing being at Its greatest elevation he fell out,
descending to the earth with great velocity and
striking with violence on his back aud should
ers 1t is said that his back is broken and
that he caunOt recover.
The Richmond Dispatch says FROM the
lst day of Of January last to the lst day Of
July, sixty-four petitions of voluntary bankrupts
were filed 10 the office in Richmond, and sixty
eight from the lst of July to the present time
four more during the past seven weeks than
the whole of the previous halt-year; and four
from the st of July to date.
George n n. Porter, of Powhutan county,
died at his residence Friday last, after brief
illness. For many years Mr.. Porter practiced
law, and represented the county Que term 10 the
Legislature.
Messrs. Re K Trout, Commissioners, sold,
on last Tuesday, the Foundry property Of Alan
son Harris, on North River, about Six miles
from Stauuton, to Mr. Jacob Bosserlnan for
$l,265.OO
Col John B. Baldwin, of Augusta, made an
able, eloquent and convincing speech at Co.
luubus, Ohio, on the 18th, before very large
Liberal meeting.
The Staunlon Spectator say A recent visit
through portions of the western part OF Au
gusla county. revealed the fact that there will
be very fine crop Of corn produced this season.
SPEECH OF Mr. kINCHELoE.- The follow
ing are the remarks of Mr.. Kincheloe, oil Eau
auier, in scconding the nomination Of General
hunton
At the Conservative Convention held III Alex
andria, Va, on the 18th inst, for the purpose
of nominating candidate for the Sth tongreS-
sional district, characterized by the frauklless
and fairness OF its proceedings and the general
satisfaction at its result in the nomination OF
Gen Huntun, an eloquent al!usion was made
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tie of Gettysburg. When it was whispered in the
hall that General Hunton was not there.
Mr.. kincheloe an. old soldier and private
in the ranks Of Hutton 5 command, aud dele
gate from Fauquier county 10 the Convention,
said: Mr.. chulrman-The nomination of Gen.
Eppa Hunton having been made BY his peer
and seconded by subalterDs, as private In the
ranks of his former command, | would much
prefer to he characterized for my silence than
for anything | should say on the occasion OF his
nomination. But hearing it whispered IN rear
of me that Gen Hunton was not in person at
Gettysburg, | confess sir, that | would do vo
lence to my own feelings personally to observe
further silence For though mere whisper
it mes to my hearing voiced with the force of
: the wind that precurSes the approaching gale.
Gen Hunton not at Gettysburg Sir, when the
early guns OF your uci ghborng city the metropo
lis of the government tCcslned the INVASION OF his
native State and its laundering artillery shook
TO silence the workshops Of your city, and rcu.
dercd noiseless the trade wagons OF It's avenues,
Gen Hunton then on the streets OF Alexandria
early in 1861 addressed by one OF Its prominent
citizens in reference to the position he would
take in the impending crisis OF his country,
said with emphasis Sir / an Jor |Tg'n'G,
ul,raaS right | um tor Virginia dtUuJ$ right
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contested fields of sanguinary conflict that dot
the historical map of the past attest tor Gen.
Hunton the high order OF his devotion for Ilr-
giuia. am free to confess that By those AT
distance, he may have been but dlmy seen III
his we'll and worthily worn gray, at the head OF
his advancing column as II emerged from the
smoke of the incendiary fires that lit the uul-
versal desolation of the fair Valley of Virginia,
to be wrapped in the sul phuric flame OF the
terrific conflict OF carnage that rendered volca-
mic the heights Of Gettysburg. where IN the
murky smoke of contending armies he was
recognized by the fierce fash OF his cleaning
blade heading his advancing column 10 the
line of Pickett's Division of Virginia troops
and penetrating the formidable lines OF an exul-
tant enemy Hunton there too as everywhere,
evinced for Virginia the same high order OF his
heroic devotion, and attested with we'll recog
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early expressed language to the citizen of Alex
andria, Sir, Il am for Virginia, always right
| am for Virginia always, right or wrong. >
And to-day, either with or without the honor
of q successful nomination in this Conventlon
he stands ready with Virginia to clasp the hand
of Horace Greeley as the next President OF The
United States, extended to her in friendship
across that fearful chasm of blood.
THE AGE OF MEN.-Prof Farraday adopts
Fourin's physiological theory that the age of
man is one hundred yards The duration of life
he believes to be measured BY the time of
growth. When once the bones and epiphyses
are united, the body grows no more, and 1t Is at
twenty years this union is effectedin man. The
natural termination of life lis FIVE removes from
the several points. Man being twenty years in
growing, lives FIVE times twenty years, that Is
to say, one hundred years; the camel is eight
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