Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-01-19
VIRGINIA NEWS.

\ large force of workmen have arrived at
Manchester, opposite Richmond, who are to be
employed in the granite quarries Of Chester
field. They are hired by Ordway & Co., who
have a contract to furnish about six millions
dollars worth Of granite for the new State De-
partment buildings at Washington. 10 till this
contract it will be found necessary to import
about four hundred skilled stone masons from
the North.
For the present, the Rev. Father Thomas
Mulvey, of Petersburg, Vicar-G General of the
Diocese, is in charge of the duties of the
Church lately discharged by Bishop McGill.
Several names are mentioned in connection
with the vacant bishopric. and there is also a
rumor that the dioceses of Virginia and North
Carolina will be consolidated and put under
the charge of Bishop Gibbons, of the last
named State.
The Taylors Springs property. located about
miles southeast from Harrisonburg, has been
purchased by a company composed OF MIR. Jno.
r. Lewis, Dr. Chrisman, and others, and is to
be much improved.
WASHINGTON ITEMS. The public evening
reception by President Grant at the Executive
Mansion last evening was largely attended by
citizens and strangers together with officers of
the Cabinet and army and navy, several mem.
bers of the Diplomatic Corps and members Of
both Houses of Congress.
Sir Edward and Lady Thornton gave their
first reception Of the season last night which
was attended by the foreign Ministers, Cabinet
officers, Justices Of the Supreme Court the
Vice President of the United States, and various
members of Congress.
Speaker Blaine left the chair yesterday sta
ting that the extreme illness of member of
his family rendered it impossible for him to
remain in the House. He called Mr.. Dawes
to the chair, naming him as Speaker pro tenn.
for to-day The Speakers child little boy
three years old, is critically i'll with brain fever
The monitor Mahopac at the Navy Yard has
on board her officers and crew with steam up
Though she has been lying here for five years.
her machinery and gun plvots work as smooth
ly as when she was in active service.
A TOUCHING SToRY.-The New Y erik Times
tells a touching story Of lad eleven years Of
age, living at Binghamton, who being sent
out on an errand, clambered into freight car,
attracted by some loose corn on the floor, which
he proceeded to pick up for his chickens.
While so engaged the doors were closed and
the car-one Of train-started off to its desti
nation. Cries and skrieks were of no avail,
and for thirty miles the poor lad was thrown
violently from side to side, having nothing to
hold on to, until he was severely bruised and
cut and his flesh filled with splinters At the end
of the journey the car was switched off and
the boy discovered. Being brutally treated by
the trackman who took him from the car, he
was afraid to ask for assistance, actually walk
ed all the way back to Binghamton, eating
raw corn to stop the cravings of hunger, and
sleeping in hay-stack where the mice ran
over his face and where his feet were frozen.
The distress of the parents at his loss and their
JOY at his recovery may he more easily una
yined than described.