Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-08-22
VIRGINIA NEWS

and too poor to bring proper food. In the 9TH
er case the mother was in the habit of going
out day s work and leaving her one year old
son locked up in her room, neither giving it
proper care nor sufficient food
In the Fairfax County Court on Tuesday
the grand jury found true bills against John
Griffin, for larceny of horse: Henry Jones
attempt to murder; Richard " els, assault and
battery, and H., B. Bixler, selling liquor with
out license. About sixteen cases OF appIlca
| ton for reduction Of assessment OF lands were
considered and acted ou Henry Jones was
put Oh his trial, on indictment Tor attempt to
murder, and acquitted
The Lynchburg News Of yesterday, says =
Several colored men who have been at work on
the Chesapeake aud Ohio Railroad, arrived
here yesterday afternoon, and report that on
Friday last two pedders, whose names they
did not know, were found murdered on al OBJ
scure path in the Big Sewell mountain The
murdcrers had not been discovered.
The thirty-third uatioual convention of the
Beta Theta Psi college fraternity assembled in
Richmond yesterday A large number Of del.
egates were present from the South and West,
in which sections this fraternity takes leading
rank among college societies. The convention
exercises and festivities will continue during
| the week.
\ young man uamed Askew, lately employed
by the James River aud kanawha Canal Com
pany, suddenly and mysterlously disappeared
last week, and is believed to have met with
death.
The Shenandoah Herald says We had last
week one of the old time settled rains, the first
in fifteen months. Corn is looking fuely and
Shenandoah will have larger crop than she
has had for many years.
Messrs. II. S. G. Albert, George H. Or,
". G. Campbell and H. G. Magruder, have is
sued an address Ia the Democratic voters Of
Shenandoah county in behalf Of the Louisville
movement.
The proprietor Of the side show with Cole :
circus, was married to one Of his curio>ities-
the Cireassian Girl-in Woodstock on Monday
evening immediately after the close of the eX
hibitlun.
Mary Francis Robinson, colored Iunatlc,
was murdered at the colorcd Central Asylum.
near Richmond, last night, by Eliza Warren.
another colorcd patient, who chokcd her to
death They were kept in u roorn together.
The trains now run on the Chesapeake and
Ohio Railroad to Roncevertc. next station west
of the White Sulphur. This is the depot for
Lewi>burg.
\ little son Of Mrs Forsyth. living hear Hope
Meeting House, i'll Warren county, was injured
bv blow from horse hnnt on the TN Inst,
and died from the effects the following day.
Mrs. Martha H. Cox. wife of Judge James
II. Cox. died at Glover Hill, in Chesterfield
| h.., .-ty-
years OF aye,
An American bark, loaded with l.O0U tons
Of railroad iron for the Atlantic, Mississippi
aud Ohio Railroad. has arrived at City Point.
The new building which has recently been
erected for the bank in Front Royal, will soon
be completed
The ball and chain attached to the Court
House yard gate, in Fredericksburg, has been
stolen
The gas house at the Oll Sweet Springs
caught fire last Saturday, but the flames were
extluguished before much damage was done.
The whole number Of deaths reported in
Richmond last week. was torty-hve.
"THoMAs JEFFERSON As a SnRE-lEEAD.
Mr. Parton monthly chapter in the Atlantic
| on JEFFERSON, pears TIE nol very ccSdnl pl
pleasing title of Thomas Jefferson as a Sore
Head, the significance of which is derived
from the annoyance the Sage OF Monticello
derived from the attacks Of Some obscure member
OF the Virginia Legislature. Despite the title.
the chapter is perhaps the most striking that
Mr. Parton has written, and has touches Of the
pathetic aud the picturesque that by turns mal>t-
en- and CRAFTY the eye. The information con
tanned in it is well arranged, if not new and the
absurd names that Mr. Jefferson proposed for
the Western States. the antagonists he mani
tested toward the Society of the Cincinnati.
Chastellux visit to Monticello aud his own de-
parture for France. are all given with the pro-
Der perspective. The anguish Of Mr. .Jetfrr
son at the death of his wife is very tenderIy
depicted Mr. Parton says:
Before the Marquis dc ChaStellux had been
gone from Monticello many hours, the sixth
child of Thomas and Martha,J efferson was born
making the number Of their living children
three. It was death to the mother. She liu-
gercd four months, keeping her husband and
all the household in what he termed dreadful
suspense He took his turn with his sl<tc
and with her sister 10 sitting up at night.
With his own hands he administered her medl
cines and her drinks. For four months he was
either at her bedside or at work in little ROOM
His eldest daughter, little girl of ten but ma
turer than her years denoted, never lost the
vivid recollection of her father tendera SSiduity
during those months When the morning Of
September dawned, it was evident that the
mother had not many hours to live and all the
family gathered around her bed. Thirty years
after six of the female servants Of the house en-
,ioyed kind of honorable distinction at Mon
ticeo as the servants who We're in the room
when Mrs. Jefferson died such an impression
did the scene have upon the minds IT the little
secluded community. 1t was tradition among
the slaves, often related by these six eyewitness
es. that the dying lady gave her he<band many
directions about many things that she wanted
done: but that when she came TO speak of the
children she could not command herself for
some time. At last she said that she could not
die content if she thought her children would
ever have Sepmothel: and her husband hold
ing her hand, Eolemnly promised that he would
never marry again Towards noon as she was
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