Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1876-09-08
ALEXANDRIA VA, FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 8, 1876.

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! fit this section great deal. There is Jnlo
stock company formed here, known as L n'
Fauquer White Sulphur Springs Company,
the said company intends buying this Wlntel
the
FAUQUIER SULPHUR SPRINGS.
The plans and programme are: Inc com
pauy will issue >, 200 shares OF stock al SoO PEI
share, makiDg cash capital OF SlOO,OOU. Iht
present building will be pulled down and IT.
material 10 part be used to aid 10 constructing
a large hotel With the immense number o.
bricks left sound after the DESTRUCTION OF two
large edifces in 1862, Mr.. Srillman the con
tractor agrees to erect large size hotel OF three
stories 10 height for $4,000. The cottages
will all be placed 10 perfect order, and porch
added to each-the walks, bath houses, g's
house and fountain will be thoroughly repaired,
and 10 fact everything will be placed on the
same footing as before the war when, next to
the Greenbrler, the Fauquier White, was the
first watering place 10 Virginia. The accom-
n odations will be strictly first class. aud 800
guests can be accommodated. The BOARD VIII
be extremely moderate, only $50 per month
| The object of the company wlli be to have a
cheap place of resort for families from the
| A~'e'
more, aud the tidewater section of Virginia
| The price to be paid for the snrings IS 100000
! of which Sl6,O is cash and $1,000 iu stock.
Many shares will be taken 10 aot around
Warrenton, and the balance thrown upon the
market at an early day. The company are
active moneyed men aud are pushing the thing
| through, and they design opening the springs
| early next summer.
With all the great advantages of this resort
it must prove success, but 10 be prosperous
it must have a good table and choice bar; on
these two depend the veal or woe OF water
| ing place; feed man we'll and give him good
| LIQUOR and he is of the most perfectly salts
fed being 10 the world; cram him with badly
cooked food dose him with vile drinks, and he
becomes a demnition brute, as sNlr. MautallDl
would observe, and leaves by the next train.
Ii they could induce Mr.. Maddux to leave
the Warren Green and take charge OF the
| Springs it would be paving Investment.
! The Virginia Medical Mon'hly, for Septcm
| Der, speaks in very high terms of the article,
writteD by DR.. j. W. Mcllhaney, OF Warren
ton, calling the attention of the medical 'rater-
nity 10 the wonderful effects of using "Nalcn-
t 1c's meat juice aud gyccriDe" in cholera lu-
| ia .tum. Iu the treatment of this dreaded dis
| ease, the Doctor has met with uoprcced antcd
success A surgeon, in Richmoud, WAS so
struck with this discovery that he ordered TWO
hundred copies of the Medical Monthly for
distribution among his friends.
There is little or ~ immigration 10
CULPEpER.
Though it is superb grazing couutry-Iand
is very cheap here also. 4 case 10 point 0c-
Cured here during the last month. The Will
SOD farm, about two miles from the village,
which sold before the war for $50 per acre, was
disposed of 10 1866 for $40 per acre. Many
improvements were added, and few days ago
this same farm was sold under deed of trust
for $l2 per acre. Another iarm, about the
same distance from the Court House, OF 800
acres, which went Oft at S3l per acre few
years since, was sold very recently at 50 per
acre. Also the BraxtoD farm, hree miles
from the Court House, sold for so per acre.
1t will be seen by these sales that real estate
has touched its bottom figure, and when public
attention is directed to this act there will be
steady immigration comlog IN. Around
BRANDY STATION
are some of the first places 10 Virginia, and
vista of fine farms stretches away III the Tar dis
tauce, as far as the eye can reach. Lapds are
held 10 this immediate section at trom SO 10
S35 per acre. Such is the outlook, and II IS so
favorable that | really believe it needs but
the plain facts to be set before the people OF
the North and West, and also 10 Europe,to in
duce steady stream of settlers to seek homes
10 our midst.
saw Col. Holiday, one Of the State Flee
tors, on the cars, and in the active canvass he
is carrying on, he bas universal facilities tor
Judging Of the political fcellog IN the State and
he reports that, while there Is no enthusiasm,
yet there is sober determination among tn"
masses to do their duty. The COL thinks there
will be an exceedingly heavy democratic vote
polled in the coming ecc'lon.
The irrcpressible Mosby is as crratic
10 his movements as he ever was dur.
ing the war, appearing and disappear
ing iu the most rcmarkabic Manner
This much is certain, he has no followers II TINS
section, though hear he HIS some misguided
disciples in your ancient city. 1t cannot be de-
MED that Virginia will voto solid again t the
dominant party which stigmatizas the Sou. .hern
people ss rebels, traitors, liars, and apples to
them every epthet that msignant hate can
suggest. For a Southern man TO vote the Re-
publican ticket, in the way the canvass ls CON
Quoted by the radicals Is. to my mind, like KISS
| ing the hand that wields the lasn. Still some
natives will do so. A Slight change III the old
| French prov"rh will suit them:
"Hnnor is potent,
But money is omnipotent"
Having nothing to do, l interviewed that
| ubiquitous chsracter,
THE RAILROAD NEWS VENDER
Stopping just here, l cannot help saying that
J this we'll known parsonage rests under cloud.
He is the fair sport of every scrlbber who IN
dites his maidon letter to the New own Week
w." and it has become the fashion to vituperate
him, The "vender'' Is public benetsclor.
| What would we do without our Gazette our
Sun, our Wild Osts-1 mean our Christian
! Weekly-and Sunday Home? and how cou
we exist without the juicy grape and luscious
pear? 1t is trade, one told me- on the cars,
and is AS full of points AS any other profession.
Send two men through crowded trsin-one. q
veteran in his business. will reap harvest; the
other, a tyro, will not make i've cents, The
wsy do, said a veteran seller, Is to go through
| tho train with the morning papers, weekeS and
novels. lfs man refuses me-, never nsk him
twice, but fling the books around his vicinity,
and if catch his eye have him certs n
| What kind buy the readlost ASKED
| Any gentleman who is conveying n party OF