Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-04-12
VIRGINIA N Il W..

The Page County Courier says I'VE have
the proceedings Of the annual meeting OF the
stockholders of the Shenandoah Valley Rail
road Company, at Front Royal on the Sth IN
slant. It resulted in nothing definite beng
done and, so things stand for the present IN
statu quo ante bclIum.' For the present the
same officers and Board of Directors hold thelT
places, and will do So until some future action
takes place.
For some time sample merchants have been
allowed to sell goods by sample without any
license, because it was understood that the
State law levying the license was unconstltu-
toual. The Court Of Appeals of Virginia
however. has decided that the law is not IN con-
Aict with the Constitution of the United States,
and therefore may be enforced.
Fidelity division Sons Of Temperance, of
Richmond, has just received very large sup
py of temperance tracts from Vice President
Henry Wilson for distribution amohg the co"r-
cd people Of that city and state.
The Cu'pcpcr Observer learns that Capt.
Albert Thomas, Ct that county, was pulled
from his horse and robbed of $50, on Sunday
nivht last between his residence near Alum
Spriug Church and Stone House NJ, uutaln.
The farm belonging to the estate of the late
3, w. Harrison, situated near Nolaud's Ferry,
| in Lnuluuu county, containing 300 acres, was
p,lrclas d on Wednesday last by MIR. Powell
Harrison, for $40 per acre.
Rev. Robert J. Taylor, died at Bethesda
| parsonage, near Rockbridgc Baths, on Monday
morning last.
RECENT ELECTIONS results Of Mon.
DAYS election in Connecticut are somewhat
singular On the main questionable Govern
or aui State tckct--thc republicans have Suf-
| icred remarkable defeat, and they have mar
rnwy escaped the loss OF both houses OF the
Legislature while un the CGngrtSsuIen, three
out of four, they hold their owu There Is u
falling of III the aggregate popular vote OF THIS
year compared with that OF last year, oil nearly
twenty thousand, two-thirds ut the loss Falling
upon the republicans and one-thrd upon thu:
democrats. Here is something more OF i loss
To the party in power than that usually result
ing from general apathy the year next succeed
ing successful Presidential contest. There
have been dis$atistactoGs in the republican
columns in Connecticut. But how Is 1t that
while they lose their Governor by some iour
thousand majority for the other side they have
|
vrcs,mcn, by somc two thousand majority
| This is easily explained. The Connecticut Con
prcssmcn-thc whole four being Reelected
presented good record to their constituents.
They We're not mixed UP with those Credit
| Mubili,r shares or dividends, nor blackcned by
any other Of the uany diSrrputaLle uclurlouS
and scandaUus duings of the late Congress.
They kept well to the wiudward Of public sem
limcnt and so they have not been wrecked on
lee shore. Each of these members of Con-
press stood upon his own record, and the record
of each being good all are endorsed for another
term. On the other hand, Mr. Haven, the
republican candidate Tor Governor, represented
the party ring of the State, and stood before
the people as the champion Of this ring, and Of
all the ruling rings of his party at Washington
aud elsewhere, and Of their acts and measures,
and of their plans and policy, right or wrong.
Hence his inglorious defeat. Local grievances
and preudiccs will not account for it. The
| Connecticut people have struck, through him,
at those above him and beyond him, and this
defeat of Haven is a warning and 4 rcbukc to
the republican party Of the State aud the ma
| ton.
In the results Of other recent elections. in ST.
Louis, Cincinnati, Cleveland and elsewhere,
there arc evidences or indications not only Oh
general apathy in the republican camp, but OF
general INSTRUMENTATION. In the State elections
of September, October aud November next,
from present appearances, this republican, in
subordnaion against party rings and party
candidates will be very emphatcally made
manifest. The issues between the opposition
and the dominant party growing out of the
shortcomings and the corrupt doings of the late
Congress have hardly yet taken a definite
shape but in the Interval to the Fall elections
the republican budget OF bluuders at Washing
ton and that at Albany will be fully exposed
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