Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1876-09-09
MANASSAS, Sept. 8:h, Is

MANASSAS, Sept. S;h, 1876.
TO tie editor of the Alexandria Gazette:
SlR:-Iou many farmer readers in this Sec
ton of country will be glad to learn that the
Virginia Midland Railroad MANAGEMENT are
now Offering them golden opportunity to i'm
prove their thin, aud partially exhausted lands,
by the use of the best fertilizer offered for sale,
(lime) which can uow be shipped from River
ton Station, where it is loaded in the cars for
six cents bushe. AID shipped to Manassas for
S5 a car load of 500 bushels, making the net
cost cents bushcl. To properly fertilize the
land In this section about seventy hVe bushels
should be used to the acre, costing S5.25, not
counting the cost of hauling from the depot to
the fsrm At this rate it is far the cheapest
iertiiz II our farmers caD use, as the hrst cost
is much less than the best patent fertilizer,
which will ouly last Que year, while the lime
will show its good effects for ten years or more.
Poor land upon which lime has been applied 10
this section as above, but at cost OF nearly
double, is DOW yiediog abundant crops, and
has doubled itself in value, Notwithstanding the
depreciation 10 the general price OF lands IN
Virginia. Now is the time for our farmers to
improve their lands. PRINCE WILLIAM.
In letter from Paris Moncure D. Conway
thus speaks of Victor Hugo's family: "He
bad four children, two sons audit daughters
and they we're all remarkable for talent and
culture, and the daughters for beauty. Both
OF the sons were literary, and if they had not
been overshadowed by their fathers lustre,
would have becu much more distinguished
However, even that has not been able to aim
the fame which Francis Hugo has lett by reason
o! his admirable translation OF otShakspcare-the
best in the French language. One daughter
alone Iivrs, the wife of an Eoglish cthccr. The
other daughter died under strange clrcums.an-
cc> She had just been married to NJ. Vac
queric (brother of one of the editors OF the
k.pl el aud was waking with her husband be
side the sea in Guernsey. Suddenly huge
wave eapcd up on the shore and swept ber
away; her husband plunged after her, but could
Dot save her; the Two bodies were found after
ward claSp,d together 10 a last embrace, and SO
they were buried.
TuE STATE FAIR AND CATTLE SHOW
Colonel Knight, president of the State Agrl-
cultural Society, has issued the following clrcu-
lar, iar,e uumbers o! which will be distributed
on the Centennial grounds daily from Septem-
Der b 10 Ono5er Is:
The attention OF exhibitors aud visitors at
th' Centennial Exposition is called to the au
nna! lair aud cattle show of the State Agricul-
IA Society of Virginia, which commences at
the Soclctv's grounds, at Richmond. October
81. y he Philadelphia Exhibition Is expect
Cd TO close soon after this date, it is hoped that
oregn exhibitors aud visitors. and citizens
iVom remote sections of our own extended
country, will not return to their homes without
aav,>lt TO the Old Dominion, and her State
Far will afford favorable opportunity to learn
Something of her people and her resources.
APPOINTMENTS --GeDeral James u. Field.
democratic elcctor for this district, has 90
noaoccl the following appointments to address
the paope:
Washington. Rapphannock couoty, Mon
uay, >estHmber llth.
Front R,y.l, Warren county, Monday, Sep
telnbgr lSth.
Warrcutoo Fauqaier county, Monday, Sep.
temtrr 18th
Alexandria, "Wednesday. September 9th.
fredericksburg, Friday night, 10Th.
Appointments for October will be announced
hcrca,trr.