Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-12-14
ALEXANDRIA GAZETTE AND VIRGINIA ADVERTISER

RAILROAD Receipts. following are
among the receipts by the Orange, Alexandria
aud Manassas Railroad Tor this week :-Corn
1895 bushels, wheat 1895, rye 226, oats %,
corn meal 50, ear corn $50, chestnuts 40, wal
nuts 20, potatoes l6, beans 80, dried fruit 2I6
fax seed bbl, peas bag, onions bushels,
walnut keroals 10 lbs, ground sumac l26 bags,
ground bark $50 sacks. -four $50 bbs. and ~
sacks, lime 100 bills, dressed hogs $40, lard
frkins, hay 25S bales, fur package, whiskey
II bbl, fresh beef 1916 lbs. dressed poultry 81
bbls. and boxes leather As rolls, tobacco 4
boxes tallow bbl. game bundles, bacon 81
lbs, milk cans, elders bbls., apples lag bills,
sumac l22 sacks. sumas stems $50 sacks. fowls
3 coops, calves &c 40 head blooms 2SG OCT lbs,
eggs IA boxes, butter 26 b5ls. and 6rkins, hides
ll3 bundles pig irou 100, l20lbs. iron and bones
23.O72 lbs, bark cords, sheep skins 81, calf
skins 4, wood p cords, rags $40 lbs, lumber
Sc, 800 feet, cattle Il cars, sheep cars, cattle
and sheep car, lumber car.
The following are the receipts by the w. 4 ..
r. R.:-Wheat SASS bushels, corn PSI, oats
l69, meal lS ear corn SO bbls, nuts rs bags,
dried fruit = bags, -four l54 bbls, eggs bills
and boxes, butter Is bbls and kegs, poultry 81
bbls and boxes, apples IA bblS, vinegar 10 b6s,
calves II, pork 5S,OS6 lbs, fresh beef 300 lbs,
sumac 8, 400 lbs, leather Is rolls, hides II bun
dies. straw IS bales rags % bags, old iron anu
bones 900 lbs, saw dust car load, cattle
car loads, wood Is car loads, shook 70 Car loads.
De LUNATICo 1NQUGRENDO. j Justices
Beach, May aud Whitlesey, yesterday evening
made an examination of William Shields and u
colored mau uamed Elijah Stansell, confined IN
jail, pronounced them insane and recommended
that they be sent to the State Asyums.
Shields is the man who was taken from St.
Mary's Church few days ago. Ho has been
quite violent since he was put in Jail, hurt
prisoner in his paroxysms, and this morning
made au attack upon colorcd boy and nearly
scared him to death
CLAIMS DlsAlLowED.- Amoug the claims
disallowed by the Southern Claims Commls-
sion, from Nirginian, are the following: Henry
Fitzhugh, of Stafford; VIM. Fletcher, John
Fornshill, William Hatcher, Cassunllra Hicks,
Noah, John, Isaac and Michael Hoe man,
Geo. W. Jameson. John Jet, Wm jewell,
Horace l.. Kent. S. B. Il. Loving, Eliza Mar
stellrr, Pa OK. John and Peer Mulholland, +.
p. OStrander, B G. Shacklctt, Henry Sim
pcrs, Elizabeth Underwood and Peter Wise.
THE MARKET this morning was quite we'll
supplied. There is no change in the price
of butchers meats. Turkeys were sold at
from II to 20 cts per ID. Geese Slas ;25 a,
piece. Chickens, 81 l2aSl.25 per pair. Butter
35a4O per h. Eggs 36a40ctS per dozen. No
change in the prices of vegetables potatoes,
celery, &c, from our last weeks quotations.
Young country pork from 10 to Gets. per 10.
The fresh meats the butchers had were geuer-
ally very good, Rabbits 20a25 apiece
Ice CROP. The water in the Canal is now
four feet deep the ice upon which is about live
inches thick. MeSsrs Atwcll, Beach, Hol-
land, Baggett aud others will commence gath
erng their crop 90 Monday next, and for that
purpose will have about one Injured aud tiity
men at work there.
MAGAZINES. From the book aud periodical
store CT Mr. George f. French, 95 King street.
were received this morning Cooley 5 aud Peter
son Ladies' Magazines for January. They
both commence the new year With lpcreased
recommendations to public favor.