Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-12-09
y,G1AI, RREyATHES.


The weather turned cold to-day, with a high
wind
The work Of grading Oronoco street com
menccd this morning.
1t was showing at Leeshurg when the W.
& q. train lott there this morning.
Some colorod people wore naptlsed IN the
Potomac yesterday, at the usual place oil Bat
terry Rodgers
We are indebted to friend in King George
county, for the present OF a line swaIl Killed
last week on the lower Potomac.
The Town Clock for The new market house
stecpc has reached Norfolk from Boston, and
will arrive here by the steamer Indy OF the
Lake OH Wednesday, morning.
Twelve car loads Of shooks-the material of
which hogsheads is composed arrived here BY
the w. & O. r. R. on Saturday last Tor dircc.
shipment to Havana.
Falls Church is said to be growing more rap
idly than any village III the State. A number
of new houses have been built there lately and
rho foundations of several more are already
lid.
Washington detectives were here to-day
searching houses in "prtcrsburg" fJr colored
man named George Burnett, the brothtt ct
the man shot aud killed in Washington las:
week.
The locomotive No II, OF the local train be-
tween here and Washington, was run into by
another locomotive at the 9th street depot IN
Washington, early this morning, and &C 4sld"r-
ably damaged.
Since Saturday seven or eight cargoes OF
oysters have arrived, and there is now full
supply at the dock They sell at from fifty
cents to dollar and a-half per Lu 'hel, accord
ing to size and quality.
The Old Folks, Concert to be given at Sa
repta Hall tomorrow. night will, it is said by
those who know of what they speak be very
of tickets already sold be nunorouay at,
ended.
The cobber's shop of colorcd man named
Gus lumpkins, near the corner OF Cameron
and Washington streets, was broken Into be-
tween Saturday night and this morning and
robbed of some of its contents.
Laurel roots, in considerable quantities, are
now shipped from here to Philadelphia, where
they are manufactured into pipes, being better
for that purpose, it is said, tlan.thc ivy root.
1t is dug near this city, aud commands in Phil
adelphia from thirty to forty dollars PEI ton.
The Rotations here, last Friday night, by
Mr. Charles Whitney, mentioned in Saturday i
Gazette turned out to be very unsatisfactory
to the small audience, to the rector, and to
those to whom he was indebted for work
done"
A framed shanty on the corner of West and
Princes streets, occupied by colored people,
caught fire about three o'clock this afternoon,
but the neighborS soon tore it down and cxin-
eushed the flames before the arrival of the
fire department, which, however, was speedily
on the spot.
i. +. Miller, Superintendent of the u. S.
F.lc Department in this city during the war,
visited this place yesterday; took look at the
Hvd, aul:on, which was once under his charge,
d WAS surprised to see that it was drawn By
the same two horses that used to pr'! it when
he was here.
The funeral Of the late Martin Cunningham,
who belonged to tho 18th Virginia Infantry,
yesterday evening, was attended By large
Lumber of the friends and acquaintances OF
the deceased, among whom we're many OF his
old comrades in arms, and by the Catholic Ben.
efc;al Society, of which he was Il member.
Letters from Costa Rica state that ,lcssrs.
Dunn, Miner, Ball and Carter, from this place
have arrived out there all well. There has
been some little aguc and fever with these who
have been there for the last four months. One
or two Of the Alexandrians will probably return
home.