Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-06-26
Local HreVitieS.

The union PRAYER meeting will be held IN tht
Second PRESBYTERIAN Church to night at
o'clock.
| RI. Rev. f. Nj. White confirmed s'xtcet
nersons in St. Pauls Church last night, auu
| preached sermon.
| Attention is called to the adVertSemeot o.
the excursion of the Orpheus Octeltc C'uo' II
will be grand affair.
In the u. S. District Court 10 kchmond
Yesterday, &. w. L. Smith, the assignee was
| ordered TO make deed TO the purchaser o.
| real estate at Brandy Station, Culpeper county,
MIR. John II. Parrot says that the statcmen!
| that himself and Elder Ramsay have with
drawn from the membership OF the SECOND
| PRESBYTERIAN Church is entirely incorrect.
The regular meeting OF the City Council VIII
he held TO night The Revenue aud hppro:
priation bills are TO b, considered by the BOARD
If Aldermen. and OF her business OF importance
will probably be introduced.
DR.. W. S. Stevens, SOD of Mr.. }. NJ. Stevens
formerly the partner OF MIR. heury reel 10 inc
drup business in this city, who had lately grad
uatrd in medicine died 10 Brooklyn yesterday
from the effects OF 4 slight cut upon hs
iioger while disseciug dead body.
Omnih6,es will leave Entwise' book STORE
a. q and 10 Il. n. to morrow, Thursday aun
FRIDAY for The Sc,niraty TO convey th"s" per
SONS who wish to he prcasnt at the exercises
,brre, The larc will be GniJ % cents. The lpal
exercises al The Episcopal High SchG" VII
take J. acc TO night.
Mr. Campbell, the cihoIcnt engineer Of inf
Columbia Fire Gompauy, got up steam III his
rneiu. this morning III the remarkably short
finn If three minutes and fifteen seconds by
means u! a patent lire kinder presented to the
crmrauy by Mr.. L. r. Wetn,orr, nov of
this city.
DIX, II. Y. REpYIElp writes al interesting
letter on the effects Of the European war ic the
South. lie found Georgia planter OF the first
magnitude Disguised beyond measures because
corn sul! -four had gone up 80 per cent and
c,ttnn had rcne iowo % Per cent. 10 CoIum.
L,a. s. e., lie encountered & phlos0phle aud
matrlialstic old negro who worked about 90
odd iybLs, made from 80 10 Is cents day and
had tn support himself ADD family out OF that,
With ntai At 80 ccnts-lt had been 4O-~a peck.
Cora Bead apd cheap nola5sas, tie salu, was
ali lil, TODD ut mauY coItied lamlllcA. tic dld
DOT want his iamll7 back III slavery, but n he
could get back to the patcrna' rule OF bis Ola
IJlSIGr Wnniu prefer DOUuapt ~ ilccuouii VIA
cufn meal 1T 50 ceuts peck, Under the lnStl,
,uti.,u, hr said mourniulIy, he never heard Of
WARS dor the price Of corn meal, but the master
always had plenty Himself he had the pAunch
Of an Alderman, and the mules were SO tat that
wiltn he tried to tide them he Wonid roll OF.
He dsill not STE the return OF slavery, but bis
Children would be forced back lnto 1t BY hunger.
\ young muIatlo lisscncd from the sad sagha
opioIun, aud held that the yonng colored people
would die before they surrendered their Tree
don. Dr.. Rcdhed iuveigh5 OF ibe costly er-
ror, repeated this year III spite Of the advice
and appeals Of the press, ol planting Gotten aud
not fo1.i or fodder, aud contrasts strikIngly the
case ii III IeOur-scr planter whom be met aud
iouDI II i0iclns in he possession OF 5Ul'sc
inid Of corn, rcprescnloga crop CT 10000 bush
els. that at the war price Of Is cents was q Tor
tuur. "Ycs," concludes the correspondent
yves, East Tennessee will be largely benefited
Tor i, lsa com growing seation, and has the great
Southrin market immediately 1T haud. Bat
the South, a. L section, will ba hunt. lie ben
eft If a;n,,s here and there where corn 10 grown
il la,ilcIuAtc compensation tor the inJnry
t.luu.ht upon the planters auil Iah1rcrs n' the
cotton States