Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1878-01-07
Virginia News.

TIE report of Col. Thomas H. Carter, rail
rad com missioner CT the State, says: The
whole length Of main track Of railroad witblr
the borders of Virginia is l,625 57.l00 miles
The total cos: FIR road aud equipment, $50,
4O5 500 &c for 1872 63 100 miles laid; average
cost for road and equipments per mile, S55 060
Total amount Of capital stock DOW paid 10, lex
cusire of Winchester and Potomac, Suastu,a
and HsrrsoDburg, and Royal Llnd Company
narrow gauge raiIroads,) $40, l6S 602 90
Amou7. of fuoded debt due to the State and
Others By roads reporting, S57, 523 go b
Funded debt due to the State, 81, 5o3 $50.
Funded d=bt DOW due to Others than the State,
$50, 969, 954 70. Floating debt, S470l, $50 81.
Assuming that passenger earnings and passen
ger mllesge are correctly rep3rted, the average
rate per nile fer passengers Is q 100 c=n'S.
o. a similar assumption III freigh. earning;
AID freight mileage the Average rae per ton
per mile is s. 100 cents. Accidents: Io:a
passeugers killed, 3; total i1ju:ei, ,: ID pas
Eecgar killed by causes b=y0Dl bis or her COO:
troll Ooe temporarily ioiured By causes beyond
her control. Total employees killed, Il; total
Injured, 81; Others killed, l.; Others Injured,
To- grand total killed. Sc; grand total lojuret,
3d. grand total killed aud Injured, %.
The Warren:ou Index says During the
past month four children CT jackson Het;o
died at BaliVue Ct typhoid fever within two
weeks of each other The first was soo,aged
l9 years, the second, son Is YEARS old, and
the ether two ei'l:, aged respectively ao1 -
years. fine fever was Contracted on visit By
the father and his eldes: daughter to the
house of Ro5t. He6o, co Garter 5 Rug, 10
whose family the disea-e prevailed IN MID
form aud readily yielded to medica treatment.
The same paper says :-Mr. Beuj. +. Homer
and wife having purchased OF Judge hslth the
house and lot 10 which Col. Mos BY formerly re-
sided. on Homer S., have moved to Warreoton
With the intention of making this their future
home. Mr.. Horner is brother OF the late 10.
man Homer. aud had the honor OF holding the
Office Of lst Ii:u,euant 10 the first cavalry com
papy raised 10 this county after the war Of 1872.
His wife is near connection OF tie late Presl-
dent Monroe.
The revenues from the whskey registers at
LyDchburg far the three mouths endloR De.
ceuber 81 aggregated 81 906. or at the rate of
sll 647 per year. The receipts in Dan!lIIs for
last month we're sl.l95. The receipts 10 Eau
uuier county indicate that the revenue from
that county for the year will be s.. $50 1he
receipts ia kiog George county from No7em
Der 9th to January lst were Sl34 g.. The
receipts of those dealers 10 lcbmoDd who
were threatened with suspension of their H.
ceoses increased last month skiold.
-Four VESSELS cleared at Norfolk Saturday for
Liverpool. loaded with cotton amounting to
25 600 bales. valued at $500 900, the largest
shipment ever made 10 one day from any
Southern port. The ship Barring Brothers
takes on. $50 bales ofcotton, the largest cargo
ever shipped from that port or any other
Southern port.
The Rev. W. s. Jones. Of Grace Church.
Fauquir county, has declined the call to Pools
vile. Md.