Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-10-14
VIRGINIA NEWS.

the second TIME on Monday last, charged with
embezzling between five and six thousand dol
lars of public funds, was on Saturday morning
acquitted. Mr.. Tallcy has already paid $1,000
of his Indebtedness and has returned about
$500 of delinquent bills. aud, it is said, will
soon make good the whole Of his deficiency.
The Lynchburg News says:-"rhe frost in all
this section Friday night was very heavy, and
fears were felt that the tobacco crop had suffer
ed from it. We are glad to be able to state that
the crop generally escaped damage, having
been already cut and housed. Some little, how
ever. was still standing in the fields, in some
localities, and this of course was badly injured.
In the U. S. Circuit Court, in Richmond on
Saturday, the suits of Wills Lucas and wife vs.
the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Company,
and Sarah b. Richards against the same COM
pany were compromised, the company paying
$500 and damages 10 each case.
Three or four Richmond parties have put in
bids for furnishing the United States govern
ment with head stones for the graves OF Fcde
raj soldiers in National Cemeteries. Three
hundred thousand of these stones will be re
qured.
The Farmers Club Of Pulaski county have
authorized their secretary to make the ncces-
sary arrangements for holding a convention OF
the farmers OF the whole STATE. in Rlchnloud,
at the tue Of the State Far
\ meeting Of packers and others interested
in the oyster business was held IN Norfolk
on Friday last to create a uniformity III the
trade as to the price 10 DC chaged Tor oysters
Yankee" Allan, who was lately pardoncd
out of the Prince Edward Jail, is now reported
to be canvassing that county as Candidate Tor
the office of Commonwealth 5 attorney
Augustus A. Hughes, Esq. attorney at law,
died in Richmond Friday night in the 6Oth
year of his age He had been connected with
the Richmond bar for a number years.
Mr.. Austin NJ. Trbble, of Lynchburg, Il Da.
tive of Essex county, ana at one time Il mcm-
Der Of the State Senate. died on Saturday night
after protractcd illness
The Loudoun Farmers Club, passed reso-
luton at its last meeting urging an earnest
support of the Loudoun Fair. This is wise.
Rev. H. q. Crews, Of Springfield, Ky, has
been called to the pastoral care OF the Fulton
Baptist church, Of Richmond.
The Court of Appeals meets tomorrow at
Winchester 1t meets in Richmond "n the
lotn VI -NOScuDCE.
ROMANCE IN REAL LIFE.-The National
CAPITAL bids fair to become famous Tor its bits
of romance 10 real life, and for the second time
We are called upon to record secret marriage
pcrpetrated by parties connected with our
fashionable circles The startling effect of the
McMurly affair had scarcely died out before
the social world was called upon to be scnsa.
tioniZed by the secret marriage of Doctor Ralph
Y. Aulck, son of Com. Aullck, and brother
n-law of Mrs. Robson. The Doctor. whom 40
onc--uot his most intimate trlends-k knew had
committed matrImuny, was suddenly Str'kcn
down by paralysis and died almost Immediately.
when the fact came out that he had been mar
ried some twenty-five months to lady OF the
Treasury. Miss -, Il beautiful and accom-
pi>hed woman.
Mrs Ralph Y. Auck went, as was her Gus
tom, to her work in the Treasury, where one nj
her associates read aloud the announcement OF
her husbands death This was the first inti-
nation that she had even OF his sickness. The
shock was so great that, to the establishment Of
the other ladies in the room Mrs. Aulick faint
ed. Then, of cours:, the facts came out, and
the afflicted family of the AuIckS not ouly
learned that heir lost member had been mar
ricd but thar he had left Il will bequcs,hng
some thirty thousand dollars OF property to his
beloved wife.
The family at first refused TO recognize the
unknown wife, bat the proof was too strong
and 10 all the matters pertaining to the last
ceremonies they gave way to the heart
stricken and youthful widow. 1t is said how
ever that the will is to be contested As the
Doctor left no children, it is considered hard
by the relatives that the property OF the family
should go to stranger. As the Doctor, how
ever, had the legal right to bcqueath his prop
erty to any one he pleased and as the young
and beautiful widow has the sympathy OF the
community, it is not likely that the contest vii:
amount to much. Washington Capitm
r. NJ. T. HUNTER on FINANCE Mr., r.
NJ. r. Hunter, who was for a number Of years
the chairman of the committee 90 huancc IN
the United States Senate, in answer to letter
of Augustus SchelI, Of New York has written
a letter opposing the financial schemes of the
administration, in which he takes ground that
it is inexpedient to attempt to pay off the pub
lie debt by cxorbitaDt taxation By the present
generation, but that it ought to be divided
with posterity, when it can be more easily met
by double our present population and an in
creased prosperity. He attacks the protective
tariff system, and attributes to it a decline in
the shipping interest, and declares that the
policy of the Radical party in proposing rem
cdy for this in bounty to American vessels Is
impracicable and insufficient. His own remedy
is abolition of the protective tariff, which, be
says, will increase every department of bust
ness and enable return to a specie basis.
La reference to the decline of the shipping
interest, Mr.. Hunter says 1.-The American
shipping engaged in the foreign trade has con.
tiuued to decrease since the disappearance of
the cruisers from the seas Says the Secre-
tary Of the Treasury, in the year 1860 under
the tariff of 1857 nearly Il per cent. Of the
foreign commerce of this country was 10 the
hands OF American ships in 1864 it had fallen
to 46 per cent; in 1868 to - per cent: in 1871
it is reported at less than 81 per cent 10
what can this be due but the monstrous and
ill-devised tariff under which we are trading?'
FAIRFAX County ITEMS II From the Fair
fax News. IA Greeley and Brown Club was
fully organized at Centrevll!e on the I'd, y; 4.
Chandler being chosen president, W. r: Mil
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