Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-08-17

Mrs. Carroll, mother of George and Lewis
Carroll, Of Smyth county, is an hundred years
| old, has nine living children, nineteen grand
I children, and many more grandchildren.
Gov. Kemper has offered reward of 500
| for the apprehension of Joe Clark, charged
| with murder aud who escaped from the Jail at
! Pittsylvania Courthouse few days SINCE
In Scott county, on the It'll instant, Henry
Frazier, mere youth, was murdered by JOS
D. White. A reward of 500 is offered tor
4 Whites arrest.
| The Radical Congressional Convention of the
first District has been postponed from the 9th
of August to tho oath of September.
! Township Meetings.
! At meeting of the Conservative voters OF
Robertson Township, Madison county, held at
! Criglersville on the Sth day of August, the fol
| lowing delegates were chosen to represent said
township in the Congressional Nominating Con-
yention, which meets in Alexandria on the Goth
instant, viz: NJ. G. Stricken, +. 2. Smith, DR..
| M. Ritnour, and E. +. Blankenbeker. The
following resolutions were adopted:
Resolued, That the delegates elected to rep
4 resent Robertson Township in the convention,
which assemblies 10 the city of Alexandria on
the 26th instant, for the purpose OF nominating
| a candidate to represent the Eighth District 10
1 the Congress of the United States be, and
they are hereby, instructed to cast their votes
for the Hon. James Barbour, Of Culpeper.
| Resohed, That should the Hon. James Bar.
! bour not be the choice of the convention, then
| the delegates representing this township are al
I ;har tbairy thew
| A. N. FINKs, Chairman.
N. w. CRIsLER, Secretary.
AT meeting of the Conservative party, held
at the Plains, for Scott Township, DR.. Z. s.
Clark, District Superintendent, opened the
meeting and stated its object.
Upon motion of r. L. Lake. E G. Turner
was called to the chair aud Alfred Glasscock
appointed secretary.
! MIR. L. F. w. Lake moved that all members
OF this meeting bind themselves to support the
nominee of the Conservative party, to be held
| in Alexandria on the Goth inst, which was car.
ried unanimously.
On motion Of R. E. Lake, the following
delegates and alternates were elected, viz
For Upperville, Alfred Glasscock; Rector
town, L. F. W. Lake; The Plains, E. G. Tur-
ner; Landmark, r.. w. Ovens Paris, I. f.
Wilson, delegates. UpperviIle, John NJ. Scott;
Rectortown, Harry Hatcher; Landmark, b.
| NJ Byme; The Plains, w. +. Dowel; Paris,
| Dr. Thomas Settle, alternates.
On motion. count of the members of the
meeting was taken, and it was ascertalned thai
there were forty four present.
Mr.. r. +. Lake moved that the proceedings
| of this meeting be published in the Warrenton
l Tpdav ,p6 nd rio t1ayptta
1t was also moved that the next township
meeting of the Conservatives Of this township
| be held at RectortoWD.
On motion, the meeting then adjoured.
+. G. TURNER, Chairman.
ALFRED GLAsscoCK, Secretary.
Pursuant to call of the County Superinten
dent, large and respectable meeting of the
| Conservative party Of Scott Township, FauQuiel
county, was held at The Plains, on Saturday
the 10th instant to send delegates to the Alex
andra Congressional Convention, to be held or
the 26th instant.
On motion, the meeting was organized BY
calling R. F. Brawner to the chair and L. b.
Hutchinson as secretary.
Whercupon the following persons were nomi
mated and unanimously elected as delegates
and alternates to said convention, VIZ
Paris Precinct, r. I. Brawner delegate and
Wm Kendall alternate.
Uppervie Precinct, A. ]. Skinner delegate
and Dr.. A. P. Brown alternate.
Rectortown Precinct James Pruit delegate
and J. w. KincheIoe alternate.
The Plains Precinct, Thos Henderson dele.
gate and I. B. Hutchinson alternate.
Landmark Precnct c. W. Simpson delegate
and Robert Whitacre alternate.
% motion, it was moved and carried that
the proceedings of this meeting be published
in the True Index and Alexandria Gazette
On motion the meeting adjourned.
R. +. BRAwNER, Chairman.
I. B. HUTCHINSON, Secretary.
At the township meetings 10 Culpeper county
to send delegates to The Congressional Conven-
ton, which meets 10 this city 90 the 10th, all
Of the delegates chosen are said to be in favor
of the nomination of Mr.. Jas. Barbour of that
county.
! A dispatch received at this Office, to. day,
from Leesburg, says that the delegation to the
Congressional Convention, appointed in Loud
oun on Saturday, is decidedly 10 favor of Gen.
Eppa Hunton for denomination.
THRILLING SCENE = Saturday morning,
about 6 clock, Oh Broad street, white man
had stopped 10 the centre Of the railroad track
to measure milk to colored boy, both being
in stopping position. Just then a locomotive
was moving slowly up Broad, and before the
man aud boy we're aware of their danger, it was
close to them. The spectators expected to see
them both mangled, but in the nick of time
they bounded from the track, leaving the milk
can to its fate. The engineer, whose attention
| had been directed rearward to some coaches to
be moved, was made aware of the peril ahead
! 10 time to stop the engine just IS it touched
the can. Lookers-on heaved long sigh of re-
lief when the mau and boy escaped from the
Jaws of death. Rich. Wing.
SERIOUSLY INJURED.-Mr. John T. Ed
wards, prominent resident of Amherst, and
Sheriff of the county, was painfully Injured Oh
Friday By being kicked in the face by an infu-