Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-07-18

GINA.
Rev. Thos Hume. jr, Of PortSn 'ut;, in
troduced a resolution ulrccilng a committee
composed of Messrs. Mrkiu, Jones and CarDe
TO urcl are report for presentation al ne next
meeting Oh The relation Of religion t. e-ucA-
uou ip our secular schools. .
After an explanation froo, Rev. DIR. Mck'm,
the resolution was, on motion OF Rev. j. ".
Jones, of Richmond, laid on the table.
After some valed!c:ory remarks trou Pr"sl.
dent Black ford, and Prot. Hngg, Of Aiabana,
the Association adjourned.
The FUTURE OF FAIRFAX COUNTY. 1t
must be apparent 10 every carcu observer that
the county of Fairfax is destined, at no distant
day, to become one OF the WealthlcSt agrlcu-
tural couUtes OF the STATE; and where the pro-
duets of the farm will pay better than ALMOST
any other. Nothing i: more probable than that
within period of ten or twelve years troln this
time, all the lands, especially cast ot the Court
House and around it, will be taken up ard
cultivated as market tarms, n fruits and v"Ec-
tables, by which time lands will range from $50
to 500 per acre. because OF their proximity
to Washington city, Georgetown and Alexan-
dria, affording as these polOts do, the hneSt
market in the world for everything our soil will
facilities for reaching market arc even now uG-
qualed, and will, year by year, improve, from
the fact that all the eastern bprder Is sklrtcd by
the beautiful Potomac river, while the Interior
is traversed by three lines Of railroads, aud
others TO be built, it is to be hoped, ere long;
besides which We have about an equal number
OF turupikes, or, in other words, AlcAdamzeJ
roads, ruoung through the county; but what Is
more important hau all, Is that the farmers 10
all this section Il { Thin easy and practlcab"
distance of either aud ali these important MARS S.
which can be reached ny wagon IN lew hours
| drive and be back home he same day.
Washington, d. e., 10 1870 had a fixed pop
| uaion of l3l 100, To which IL we add, say,
| 1850, the aggregate population Of A!cXandrla
civ, we have total OF l45,27U aud by taking
the floating Increase during the session OF Con
gres.. the number of people to be supplied a.
these points, will average the year rounI, ijO,-
600, in addition to which ten thousand horses
aad other stock &c, have 10 be fed
The above es; innate is based on the census III
1870, aud when We com" to consider that the
population will have doubled Itself at the end
of Twelve or fifteen years from that date, at
which time there will be 100000 inhabItaE's,
and at least 2O,00J horses ana other stock to
be supplied aud CHI, fly by the farm products OF
the adjacent county, it will be pcrcelv-
ed at once the superior advantages Far
fax will possess over the remote parts
of the State in supplying this constant
AID ever Increasing demand 10 short,as Wash
ing, D. g., increases 10 wealth and population,
50 will the demaod for Fairfax lands Increase,
and iu the same ratio will the products OF the
iarms thereof give profitable return. They are,
even now, worked with handsome prob :. The
chief draw back 1T present Is the want I'll an at
equate aud regular supply OF trained iao"r,
| which, 10 a f@w years, will be overcome, eiIh'.i
| by the farmers doing their own work on the
small farm system or by Importing waat they
lack in the way Of farm hands. - fdUjur Mars.
! PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY. - FROM the
Manassas Gazette. The number Of horses
stolen, and the successful getting away with
the same has led Us TO believe there was an
organized band Of thieves operating 10 this
county for sometime past. Warrants were Is
sued last week and placed III the hands OF 9th
GERS, for the arrest of three brothers named
Atchison living 10 the Deghborhood OF BrentS-
ville and we'll known in the county The >us.
picous leading to this step wrle caused by the
description by Baltimore police officer, Of Two
men who delivered two hors,s iu that city,
stolen from the Messrs. Herndon Of this county
! TWO or three weeks ago, aud also the identtica-
ton of the saddles aud brides Iourd in Baltl-
more as the property Of the Atchlson 5, which
had been deposited at livery stable wiki the
horses. The officer and force of citZ"ns at
tempted to arrest the brothers at the house OF
their father on Saturday night last, but owing IL
the fact that they had wind Of the Intended ar
rest they gave the officer and his assistants the
Slip aud up to this tune the attempt to arrest
them has been futile. One hundred dyarS
reward is offered for the arrest of the thieves
that stole the Messrs llarndon'S horses.
Two large engines and bultrs have been un-
| loaded at the depot this week aud placed III
position where they are to do service hereafter.
| One forty horse power for Mr.. Geo. Trimmer,
for manufacturing purposes III the village, and
the other a tiflecn horse power, tur J.. Ci.
Prescott l. Son to be used 10 the manuactut-
| ing of spikes lumber &c, at their place about
three miles from town.
There will be an excursion from Alexandra
to Clifton on the % inst, giving by the Good
| Templars Of Alexandria and Fairfax L. Ii. The
day will be spent in the beautiful shade around
Clifton and very pleasant time may be ex-
pccted.
MIR. John Cannon, SOD of our fellow citizen
f. j. Cannon, and one Of the owners of our
splendid new hotel, wos elected collector and
Town Sergeant, for the corporation OF Alauas
sas, by the council on Saturday Dight last.
The camp meeting at Pitkln's Corners for
| Accotink circuit in this county will take place
on the 9th instead OF the l4tn OF August a.
stated in former issue.
DEATH OF WM T. EARLY. 1t is our pain
full duty this week to record in these columns
the death of another prominent citizen Of Char
lottesville, we'll known throughout the STATE.
VIM. 7. Early, e>q , died at his residence in
| this place on Wednesday evening last, after au
illness of about weeks duration. We have
not been able to ascertain the exact nature OF
the disease which resulted IN his death, but
learn that there was complication Of CON-
plants battling the skill of the best physicians.
Mr.. Early was native of Greene county. born
near the Albcmare line, an aumnns of the
University of Virginia, and man Of fac sense
and much information. A lawyer by profession
he naturally fell toto the line of politics, ard
figured somewhat prominently in the local at
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