Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-07-21

suddenly his mercuriaI and impu'sive friend of
Aud lang syne rose from his seat and ex,
claimed: Look here, MIR. Clay; if you will
really save the u DION. We will all forgive you
gain, Intrigue, and management. Shut
your mouth = exclaimed Mr. Clay, in response;
shut your mouth, Tom Ritchie you know
perfect well that there never was word ul
truth in that charge Every well, very well, y
smilingIy responded Mr.. Richie, II say to
you now, in hearing Of this gooIly company,
that if you succeed in reScuing the Republic
from ruin, and | should surviveyou, Tom Rltchle
will planta sprig of laurel upon your grave
| shoald not omit to mention here that MIR.
Clay, few minutes after this pleasant bad
image between, himself and Mr. Richie, in
very solemn and torma manner, addressed
the company at the table substantially as
follows: "GenllemeD, feel it to be due to
such an occasion as the present one to make
Il frank Confession. Though | have never
doubted the propriety OF my own conduct IN
voting for Mr. Adams myself in 1925 and adj
vsing my friends to vote for him, yet, were |
to live this part of my public life over again,
should pot deem it judclous TO accept at his
hands The Secretaryship of State. BY doing
so injured both him aud myself; | placed my,
self in false position before the country, and
often have painfully felt that had seriously
impaired my own capacity for public useful
ness T..
The MURDER IN WEST CHESTER, PENSsYL-
WANNA The plot ofhs Goss Insurance case,
which eliminated in the murder OF the man
who feigued to be dead is being gradually un.
ravcl'ed 1t has been ascertained that w. + S.
Goss, Of whose death in February, 1872 twelve
Jurors in the Z. S. Circuit Court were con-
WINGED, few weeks since, was concealed at
Cooperstown, Delaware county, Pennsylvania,
from June, 1872, to December Of the same
year. A Campbell Guss, brother to VIM. $.
Goss, and one ofthe principal witnesses 10 the
insurance case, was arrested yesterday, upon
warrant sworn out by Mr.. A. K. Carter, Sollci
tor of the Continental Insurance Company,
charging him with consriring with Wm. f.
Undertook. W. f. S. Goss and others lo de-
fraud the Continental. New York Mutual, the
knckerbocker and the Travellers Accident ln-
surance Companies. lie was brought before
Justice Hagerty, and, at the suggestion OF his
counsel, an examination was waived, and he
fixed his bail at So, 900 (the sun named in the
with the consent of the States Attorney, who
was not present.
FAUoUlER County ITEMs.- From the
Warrenton Index. -Messrs. Fl. D. l. II. r
Garden, for the commissioners in Horror vs..
Horner, have sold the Little farm Of luman
Horncr' estate, containing about 800 acres OF
land, to q. w. Gratfiin, Of Baltimore, for
$500. The same gentlemen have sold for h.
+. Kloman. esq, his farm Of about l42 acres,
to Messrs Hayes and Owerer, of England, for
4,500 These buyers have added TO the
kloman purchase the mill lot of Oakwood
from y. D. Payne for $500 Capt. II. L
Garden has sold the farm of Il II, Sears, in
Rappahannock county, about 22O acres, to Jno.
S. Browning Hamilton S. Fletcher and Jno. T.
Fletcher for $35 3 per acre. Mr. Erasmus Helm
has sold his store house property in the town
of Ware ntou, at private salexto VIM +. Hill
leary for 900.
Gen. VIM. H. Payne is accredited to the
State Conservative Convention at Richmond
from Centre township; B. F. Rixey from
Marshall; f. Kincheloe from Scott JAS.
A. Caskie from Rappahannock. In Cedar
Run township no election was held.
A private letter iDfDrms us that Edward T..
Marshall, of Fauquier, has been appointed to
clerkship 10 the Posttoffice Department If
true all we have to say is that an appointment
could not be bestowed on a worther man,
CREOLE WOMEN The Creole woman is
prettier than the French woman. There is a
climatic Influence in America which re6nes
features and gives delicacy to the complexion.
This is especially the case in Louisiana, where
finely formed women are often found to be the
descendants of gnobe-ooklng ancestors. The
light olive tint of the woman seems to have
been painted over ground color of blushng
lake, and this pinkish creaminess Of the skin
saves it from dulness and saloWness. ln a
word, there is something Of that transparency
for which painters are always seeking She
inherits from her mother over the sea the
physical characteristics of round limbs and deli
cate extremities, with figure something slight
er-another effect Of climate, also that sense of
art with which people are born, but can never
entirely acquire. From the same source come
her, coquetry and her grace Of speech and &C
ton, but modified. She does not wear crude
colors or awry shapes; nor does she express
herself with unseemly gesture or discordant
tones. Her dress is rather somber than gay
and her carriage simple and conventional-for
they all walk alike Smoothness and graceful
proprety are hers In word there is an alb
seuce ofangles in her general conduct. Gdlury.
FAIRFAX G. H.-The courthouse here has
come out this week with new roof, which has
added to the looks, as we'll as to the condition
of the building. The repairs recently made. Cd
the Clerk Office and County Treasurer Office,
with lightning rods put up to them all, and
the young trees set out over the grounds of the
public square, have greatly beaut6ed the whole
and brought the County property, within the
Courthouse lot, back nearly to what il was be-
fore the war-PuIjuc Nctrs
OBITUARY..
The LATE PROVINCE Automatically the
death Of Province Mccormick, ST.. which occur
red at his residence, near Berryvlle ON Friday.
the llth instant Clarke county. has lost one OF
its best and most prominent citizens. de had