Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-06-24


be showed aside and be allowed to perish and
tester in shame and obscuriy
We still have the choppers, that like ''Sher
man S march TO the sea, leave ruin aud DESC
laion along their tracks, but their ravages are
very much exaggerated; in truth there are not
more than half dozen counties 10 which the
destruction is complete and the people are in a
state of des,lution. In some instances small
norton and in others Que half of a county may
be destroyed whilst the remaining portion or
half is 10 a prosperous condition. lu some
cases portion Of farm will be covered with
choppers" and the remainder entirely free
from them, and persons who suffer imagiue
the whole State to be in the same condition:
hence the extravagaut reports heralded over
he country. They are reported now as ieav
ing the State and the farmers can rcplant, aud
with good season can make fair crops. But
the crops throughout the State, believe, will
be as good as they were last year, and some
thiuk better. j.
RoBBERY. James McGreevy, an English
man, who came here about Two months ago,
was Induced las, Saturday night to 20 into the
! Varieties Hall, at the corner Of Broad and
! Ninth streets, to witness the performance.
There he fell in with one of the singing and
dancing women, named Emma Minetta. She
invited him to treat, and he accordingly
went with her into the bar, behind the stage.
While standing at the counter Minetta, he rep
reseuts, put her arms arouod him. When he
came to look for his pocket book, which con-
tained SAP, all the money he had with him,
he found it gouc. He very promptly accused
Minetta Of the theft, ard she as strcnuously
and Indignantly denied it.
Mr.. McGrecyy made every possible effort to
recover his money by persuasion, but failing in
| this, he swOrc out warrant which Sergeant
! Hall proceeded TO execute, when 1t was dis
covered that Miss Mluetla was nowhere to be
found, she having drawn irom the pr0prle.
tor of the Varieties, Sll which was due her,
and left town. Richmond Wig.
LoUDoUN COUNTY LEVY. The Board of
Supervisors, for this county, held their last
meeting for the present fiscal year, on Monday,
at which time they made the necessary levy
for the ensuing year The following is the gross
levy for the COUNTY
80 cts. 90 1000 ththes $1,000 90
l2A per CT on $1,000 licenses S15 %
II per ct. on $1,000, State revenue 1900 90
Tutal. levy $lOG75 0O
including the support of the poor last year
licved by-the townships.
Gross levy last year excluding poor as
above Sl4775 %
Less than last year $4l0O 90
Bur for the levy for the poor the decrease
would have been about IS, 300.
Tho levy is up 10 date, and besides 1t the
county owes not one dollar -Lou1om Mirror
MADISON CoUNTY.-Last week we made a
trip by way OF Orange Court House, across the
Rapid Ann river into Madison. All aloug our
route the corn Looked very we'll and the wheat
crop was good. This was particularly true from
Orange Court House into and across the Rapi.
dan Valley In this section the wheat is splen-
did, Indeed we know OF no section of couutry
where the lands are better or more judiciously
farmed than on the Rapidan river, in Madison,
Culpepcr and Orange counties. We attended
sale in Madison, on the Rapidan, OF Major
James ". Walkers land The tract was couI-
posed OF G27 acres of very superior land, assess
ed al $22 per acre. 1t was sold in several par
cells: One parcel of 300 acres sold at $50 per
acre; another parcel Of 232 acres sold for $50 OF,
and the third of about 95 acres was taken in
at $24 10. The TWO parcels sold were bought
by residents Of Madison county. Indeed all of
| the bidders were residents of that couoty.--
Charlottesville JcGersonian.
| Never dccaut coffee. Whatever else you may
do about it, bripg it to the table in the vessel in
which ii was made A handsome urn CT gor-
geous coffee pot is the grave of good coffee.
When hot coffee is cmptcd from one vessel to
auothcr, the kitchen ceiling generally receives
the cscence-Iaden vapor which should have
found its way iuto the cups Of the breakfast
table. Aud one word about these cups. When
the coffee enters them it should tiud the milk or
cream already there.
The Maryland Independent says that the
cut worm has made its appearance in nauy Of
the corn fields in that vicinity.