Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-07-11

ALEXASDRIA-The Alexandria Correspon
dent of the Loudoun Enterprise, under date o
9th inst writes:
Our city to-day is as lively as a beehive
The Market House is thronged with buyers aDG
sellers, and business on King street seems tc
be more than usually active. The workmen or
the new improvement say that the rails will be
laid aid the street cars from the depot to the
wharf will be running by the close OF the pres
eat week. This is great asd much needed
work and speaks voums for the energy enter
prise and public spirit Of our people. What
mistaken notions some folks entertain 10 regard
to this growing city
River Excursions are becoming more fashion
deepcns. They offer a very pleasant and cool
thoroughfares of the city, and where parties Of
ladies and gentlemen club together and charter
a vessel the expense Of such trips is too triiing
to be considered. The fact that there are SC
few old maids in Alexandria is due in mea
sure to the close aud frequent interviews of the
young Of both sexes. If a young lady in this
quarter is not married by the time she is six
teen, she is called pnssc, and if she is single at
eighteen the case is hopeless.
The 4th Of July was celebrated at Carn'
Springs by a splendid barbecue. There Was
plenty of ice cream and lemonade on hand, also
number of stirring speeches and thunder
ing turn out in the way of pan;alooDs and call
co from this city.
The closing exercises of all our schools and
semlnares OF learning are now over, and the
summer vacation has fairly set in. The boys
and girls, especially those who have done we'll
should now be permitted to enjoy themselves,
to their hearts content, and their joyous coun-
tenances will be expected at every place where
fun and frolic can be obtained. Since the com.
pletion of the Washington and Ohio R. r. TO
Hamilton We feel that the people Of old Lou
doun are nearer and dearer to US than ever.
THE TRAGEDY IN CLARKE CoUSrY.-In re-
gard to the causes that led TO this sad tradgedy
but little is known, as the family at the coro-
ner Inquest over The dead body of Clinton,
was careful to dlvulge ouly that which was the
immediate cause OF mis- DEATH.
Oscar and Lycurgus are DOW confined in the
county JAIL awaiting trial. They have resided
but little iD this State, having for number CT
years led sort Of nomadic life 10 Missouri,
California and elsewhere. They had been at
home but few days before this terrible affair
occurred Their father Franklin Little, was
abseut in Washington at the time he difficulty
happened, but he reached home on Saturday
night. He is not native of Virginia.
The room in which the tragedy was enacted
presented, it is said an awful sight after it was
all over. The flooring and walls we're red with
blood Clarke Courier.
ACCIDENT AT STAUSToN.- G.. & O.
Railroad Company are now constructing rouod
house at StauDton for the use of their engines.
There we're yesterday five workmen engaged 90
the roof, putting up the rafters, mostly Of iron:
After FIVE or six ratters we're up they swsyed
off and came downward with crash, fatally
woundiDg one man, it is supposed, aud Dinrlng
TWO others badly One of the men saved him
self BY cinging to a rope. The man supposed
to be fatally injured is VIM. Gallagher of
Richmond, Va One man was on the very
highest point of the rafter, about thirty feet,
and came down with it, and strange to say, was
uotiuiured at oil.