Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-05-10
Letter from Leesburg.

ICOrres pO0Qeuce OF Tue hle8auufla UiZetttl
LEEsBURd, Va, May s.-lhc L,udoun Cir
cult Court has just adjourned. About $50 de-
crees were entered Of which heavyweight were
final. They cover eighty-seven pages Of the
record book. The following order was made a
rule of the court: "No sale shall be confirmed
unless the sale be reported in open court and
its confirmation asked for from the bar Of the
court, and unless the report OF the commission
ers of sale is accompanied by the certificate OF
the clerk of the court that the commSsloncrs,
or the one who acts, have given the bond re-
ouired by the decree of SALE Only one sale
IS set aside and that upou an upset bid OF
about Is per cent upon the price obtained at
the crying of the laod which, however, mad
been advanced upon by the bidder about Is
per cent. The party making the upset bid de-
| posted with the commissioners OF sale 1916
and gave his bond in the penalty Of Sl,U0U
with security that the land should bring he
| upset bid of IS 25 The debtor in 1865 was
offered $50 per acre for this land, but taking
the advice OF itjudicous frleudS, refused to sell
it.. The policy of the court is to confirm all
sales uole5s the price offered b. grossly made
uuate one, and, as several hnc farms viii be
offered parties should attend our commission
e:s' sales where bargains may be anticipated.
Small farms sell, as is evidenced by the lol-
loving sales made by J. NJ. Conard, executor
of L. Roller: The appraisers rated - acres al
$35 1t sold in parcels of about 81 acres each
at S27. 25 and S37 % Seven aud half acres
| of almost inaccessible mounfaln land, rated DIT
81 80, brought 81 50, aud 624 acres, rated at
S4S, sold in parcels of 4O3 aud 223 acres at
$50 The last parcels were available land.
The whole realized So 4Ol 81 against an APP
praised valuation of S3.2Sl 25 aud al assessed
value Of 1851.
1t is now, p. m, oppre-sivey warm; Their
moueter scoring 10, aud on Sunday 1t reached
So.
The gentleman al Mddlcburg vino moved to
divide the vote was Mr.. +. l. Fred
Sunday-Dr. VIM. Cross, an eminent and
the senior physician n this place, died about
II noon, aged about Y years, OF which he had
practiced about 40 ALlQUls.
CIVIL RIGHTS. On Monday night Mrs,
Aun Stribliug (colored), last trom Boston, was
put out of the passenger Whiting ROOM at the
Chesa peake and Ohio depot by the wa:chuan,
Mr.. NJ Doom, who said the company did not
allow coored persons. except nurses, III there.
The woman Went to HarrlsoDburg De&t day.
where the United States court Is 10 session, AID
went before the grand jury and made campalo.
| Her statement Is that she was sent TO Boston to
learn the hardressing business byhcr Old master
Mr.. Beirne, of West Virginia. and on her re-
turn home, stopped iu Staunton to pay visit;
that she was going back to West Virginia Alon-
day night when the watchuau violently put her
out of the room. The watchman says he was
acting under orders aud used 20 more force
thon was necessary to carry out his duty
Stanton FMdtcator.
THE DESIGN of the medal struck off at the
Philadelphia mint to commemorate the Neck
| lcnburg declaration of independence, is de-
nest, which is typical of the announce ment by
the kings officers that Mcckleuburg was a hor-
nets nest of rebels On the same side is also
liberty cap surrounded by the rays of the ris-
ing sun. Beneath are two clasped hands, which
are typical of the united North ami South at
the close OF the last war. On the reverse side,
within circle, are the inscriptions: May
Goth, l775 and May 10Th, 1915 -Mecklenturg
Declaration of Independence. The executive
committee OF the centennial ordered Two thous-
and silver medals and large number Of copper
impressions The silver medals are of the Valne
of fifty cents.
A STRANGE PHENOMENON There is how
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markabe exempIi6catioD of the story so often
told that man ) hair will sometimes turn gay
10 single night. This case is peculiar in this
that 10 the cases of this kind usually reported
the parties are uoder the iutiueoce OF somc
powerful excitement, but in this instance there
was 20 mental agitation the gentleman having
retired at night in his usual frame OF mind, to
wake up uext morning and 6nd his hair which
before had only heen sreaked with gray,
snowy white. - Tde,0nter Index.
Governor John NJ. Thaycr, of Wyoming, left
| Omaha on Saturday iu company with the depu-
tation Of Sioux now on their way to Washing
ton to negotiate for the cesSon Of the Black
Hills. A party of miners who escaped from
Red Cloud Agency about the 18th uIt., going
iu the direction of the Black Hills, had been
| ovcrhaued and brought back.
The Maryland and Virginia Boundary Line
| Commission meets at Washington to-day.
MARRIED..