Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-03-19
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Il. NJ. Almond, or Iagc county: ono "a 'ne
Directors of the Washington, Cincinnati! and
St. Louis Narrow Gauge Railroad Company,
* now on the line OF that road securing deeds
of release from damages from persons lving
along tn, line. He expresses !h" "plmiun that
work will be commenced on the r:l,i his
snring From ILarrisonhurg to Point Pleasant
on the Ohio river, is about $50 miles.
The Lrudrun Enterprise says In I>oo
the population of L1uloun county WAS only
32lu: in 1910 it was S2o>: in 1870 I3.2i1: III
1910, %. 3r4; in 1850, 4U,OoO; i'll 1860 I'll. -;
and IN 1870 it hal reached 10Y l9''. Oar
readers will see that from 1850 tn $50 tn IN
crca,e was ahout 50 per CT. aud nearly rs
much as il had been FROM the date oi it, IN
dation ~ 1860.
On Monday the Central House. in Nor!'lk.
James Little proprietor, was d1magcd hy ii t.
T. fore the fire at The Crnfra! House waS >',b
ducd another alarm wis CAUSED by m" break
ing out of flames in the warehouse occn;l"d ~
Charles Reid e. Son Nader Bugs X Co., )
n Bell 4 Co., and Bradford x TaZ vel.
Considerable damage was Il II"
On Saturday night last, near MI. PtSg#h
Church. in Augusta county, in IN :lrlr'tlon
which occurred between Coo I. Sheets and
VIM. H. Pltcs Two Young men aged RESPECT,
lively nineteen and s:velteen- 'aic> stabbed
sheets with uckn'kniir, lhilirttng TIVE
wounds in the left SIDE, from the effects al
which Sheets died the next morning.
On Sunday night, at the Exchange Hotel,
Richmond, while Mrs. Drew Robertson. wife
Of Col. fl. II. Robertson, was lighting the Gas
in her ROOM with an open bottle 81 canpsiul
in her hand the camphor lgnltcd and hurti"'
her head and face severely, but, We are pleased
to learn, not so us TO d>Iigurc her
John White, alias George ". J"hu$on, coz.
yicted of horse-scllng and sentenced to the
penitentiary for f.urtc"n yeas by the Circuit
Court of Clarke, at the February llSGS) term
has been pardoned by the Governor, on thu
condition that The said White leave the State
never To return.
On Sunday morning lat the sparks from til
locomotive of the South bound lrcigh train on
The O.. A. L. NJ railroad. set fire to the pine,
ON the line of the road between l.ynchburg ard
Buriurd's. in Amherst, at three dtfcrcn'
points. The fire WAS however cXjlneul>hrd
before it had attained any Roadway.
Mr. JAS \. Cowardiu, the senior editor oi
the Richmond Dispatch, was recall Cd to Mary
land yesterday by the sad intelligence of TIE
death of his eldest daughter, Ms. Aic" Neal
who has for some months past been suffering
with consumption.
Daring quarrel at Fairfield tavern, In lie!:-
rico county, on Saturday night, between }. 3.
Grayius and W. G. Chandler, the fDrmcr was
stabbed, frcm the eff. cts Of which he deed on
Monday.
A fruit over Of Fairfax says ;hat his peach
buds arc Il | right Same have been destroyed
by the late c,|d weather but suili lent Tor a
good crop remain uninjurrd. Ills place Is neal
the river.
Twelve car load, of very superior cattle and
one car load of sheep were shipped from
Lynchburg to the Baltimore markc' Srniay
night by way Of the Orange and Alexandria
railroad
General Asa Rogers, Second Auditor Of the
Stale, is now in New York upon business con-
nccted with his official duties
Mr.. Williamson, aged about eighty years,
died at his residence in lIenrco county, about
Jour miles from Richmond, yesterday.
Work has been actively resumed above Pur
cell, lie upon the extension of the Washington
and Ohio railroad
\ lady committed suicide in Petersburg yes
tcrday.