Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-09-29
Letter from Lpudoun County.

ICorrespondence Of the Alexandria Gazette.
LEEsBURG, Sept. 81 "Lougo post inter
yallo." greet you again. The noticeable i'm
proyemepts in our town this summer have been
mainly occasioned by pulling down, though
there are some buildings going up. The old
market house, one story building that once
and for fifty years stood on the northwest cor
ner of the court green, has disappeared, and
rendered much more prominent the Reamer
House, which fronts on the green sideways.
Now the old clerks Office which likewise mar
red the beauty of the lot, is 10 process OF demo
Ii,ion, and if you come up at the October court
YOU will fud all the debris cleared away, and
perhaps new fence put up like the remainder.
1t is designed also, | believe, to make more
walks within the green, and to have gates re-
yolying or opening on both sides like those at
the capitol in Richmond, though not so high.
The front of the lot on King street will be 30
feet, and on Market street 3l5; the Osborn
House fronting on Market street just opposite
the Court House. The Court House is nearly
in the centre of the lot and the building con-
tanning the two clerks Offices treasurer's Office,
sheriff Office and lawyer consulting room, or
Judges room fronts on Market street, aud is
detached from all other buildings A new no
| tel that will afford suites OF rooms would be
great acquisition to the place, and either OF the
hotel sites would afford ample room. One OF
them fronts on King y feet and runs through
APO feet to Church street, and lies alongside of
the court green for BIS feet of that depth. The
Osborn House fronts Oh Market street Ito and
| runs back $50 or 260 feet
So that it NAV be reckoned that Leesburg
has capabilities of being very pleasant place
for summer or permanent boarders who seek
healthy country, pleasant society, easy access
to the cities, and the choice among Episcopal,
PRESBYTERIAN and two Methodist churches.
There are good male and female schools.
Next year there will be built new academy
and teachers dwelling on the old lot northwest
of and partly in town, and | really can not see
why the schools should not be largely attended.
| The town is 81 miles from Washington and
Alexandria by rail- "a miles from Frederick
City, and Sc from Warrenton, with a possibility
of railroad from Frederick to Potomac City.
[ say possibility, tor in these high old times
what was certain becomes probable; the prob.
able possible, and the possible vanlshes Oft into
the mists of the extreme future.
'"There is nothing certain but death and
taxes" and no investment secure but U. 5.
bonds loans on real estate, or investments IN
real estate, and investments made IN Lou
doun lands at their present half value will
be certain to pay in five years, and probably
| 100 per ct. Among the most secure Of all the
railroad bonds it seems to me that those of the
w. & o. r. T. are to be numbered With
finished road of AZ miles, worth S25,OO0 per
mile, 81, ISL, 900; water front in Alexandria
that must be Very valuable, and rolling stock
worth SlOO, OOO;say in all 81, 300, 600, and coup.
lo1 nit th;c q ravanua NJ < IN uD0 nor mont h.
of the way through the finest country in Vir-
ginia, and there connecting with lines running
to the southwest, and by small detour in all
directions to the northwest, can not see why
it is not built 1t seems to me it will be found
to be as easy of solution as was the standing OF
the egg on end by Columbus, when onl y the
proper genius shall have solved the problem.
AuoUIS.