Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1878-03-18
virginia News.

Governor Holiday arrived at Winchester
Saturday evening. Many citizens, together
with the military, met him at the depot
and welcomed him. amid great enhus.
asm. An address was made By mayor Clarke
to which the Governor replied, declaring that
he had never been so much touched in his lltc
lie was escorted to bis home by a large COZ.
course of citizens. and was greeted with vel
comes from these 10 the streets and the ladies,
who filled the balconies and windows alcrg the
route,
Judge O'Ferra is very indignant as arc
also all the better class Of cltiz>ns Of Rocking
ham, OF the late Iyoching 10 that county
About thirty witnesses have been summoned
before the Grand Jury of the county, to testify
their knowledge OF the lynchinr, aud other &C.
tive measures are being taken By the county
authorities to discover the murderers. 1t Is
extremely doubtful however, whether any Of
them will ever be brought to justice.
A Richmond correspondent of the Cincinnati
Enquirer says: Mrs. Phcbe Cors.ley, lady OF
great personal beauty aud Of powerful physique,
has been indicted by the grand Jury Ct Chester
field county for knocking down Andrew Con-
drcy.
Tho colorcd republican voters OF Campbell
county pray for the removal Of j. II. RlVes,
Collector Of Revenue for that district, upon the
ground that he helped to sustain the democratic
party last year.
Mrs. Henry Tyler aud her little boy were
lhrown from her phcatoD, 10 Richmond, last
Saturday, by collision with a runaway horse,
but neither was much hurt.
Tho hocks OF sheep belonging to Mcssrs.
Eusticc Jetfrics aud Joseph Blackwell, Of Eau
quicr county, were more than dccimalcd last
week by dogs.
Sally Gay, the woman who lowered her child
from q moving railroad car, has been acquitted,
and the child restored to her possession.
Fix Mayor Kelley, of Richmond, delivered
40 able lecture on Daniel O'CoDnel, in Batl-
more, last night.
Major =. Is. Stanard, who was chief CT ar.il-
ery 10 Lieut.. Gen. Il. 7. Hills corps, died in
Rockbrdge couoty, few days since.
The Richmond Dispatch notices the death,
on Saturday last, of the old horse rode by DR..
Dorsey Cullen all through the late civil war.
The city of Lynchburg has just sold SCI 900
Of her per ccot. bonds to run 81 years at &c
cents on the dollar.
Major James K. Purcell, Of Prizes William
county. announces himself candidate for Con.
gress from the lst district.
Mr.. Prdemore will not be candidate Tor re.
election frOm the 9Th district.
There arc now one hundred and forty students
at the BIacksburg College.
JosuUA's PHILOSOPHY REvIvED.-A dis.
patch from Richmond says Rev. John Jasper,
colored, preached yesterday evening to 40 i'm
mense congregation. hundreds Of negroes stand
ing 10 the squares around the church. lie
preached to show that the SUI moves and said
if he did not show from Bible authority that
the sun moves be would never preach again,
and challenged any one TO answer his argu>
ments lie argued that Joshua told the sun
to stand still. How could it stand still if it had
not been moving? David SAYS, The rising
and going down Of the SUM- Would any
grammaran say that rising" meant 'standiog
still, or that anything could 20 down that was
standing still all the time? Isaiah SAID God
turned the sun back ten degrees Could it be
turned back if it had not been moving? He
urged his congregation not to believe the words
of philosophers that the earth revolves around
The sun. The thing was impossible. What
would become of tho ocean ? Would it not all
be spilled over the land? Would not this
church building which stands here now be q
thousand miles away tomorrow if the Garth
turned around the sun lie urged his con.
gregation to believe 10 the Bible, which says
The sun moves. and not the philosophers,
who say it don't. He told them to stand
up for the Bible against the men who could
not answer single argument be advanced.
Philosophers say it will rain tomorrow and yet |
when tomorrow comes it is clear, he said, sllud.
ing to the weather people in Washington. The |
philosopher Gays there are only nine stars and |
yet the Bible says there are millions. This is |
The substance of the sermon which was de-
livered with great esrnestness and received with |
applause by the congregation. At the end he
said, all you who do believe that the sun moves
hold up your right hand. Every hand in the |
congregation was raised Jasper is the pastor
Of the largest colored Baptist Church in the city
Coal Mining.
WILKEsBARRE, Pa, March lS.-Work Was
:esumed this morning by tho Lehigh and
Wikesbarre Coal Company, eleven collierics
IN, kr1n kbono,o6 MN,