Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1878-07-20

Letter ftOnl fauGuief.
Correspondence Of the Alexandria Gazette
MARKHAM. Va, July "a tournament
was held at Markham on Thursday, the 18th
inst, for tho benefit Of Turner Ashby Lodge,
No. 232, A. +. and A. NJ. Gen. l.. j. Lomax
acted as Chief marshal. Tho knights we're }.
NJ. Douthart, Knight Of Avon; L5ws Coleman,
Knight Of suunyside; Fielding Jones, Knight
of Ivenhoe; Jaqueliuo Amber, Knight Of Cliff
ton; D. Preston Payne, Knight of LauuceloI;
John Slroher, Knight Of Blue Wave; William
Marshall, Knight Of AIva; Walker Armistead,
Knight of Free leland; j. A. Marshall, Knight
of Sherwood; Lloyd Gould, Knight Of st.
Uelcna. Russell Richards, knight Of Warren;
John Marshall Knight OF Bergen; Edward
Amber, Knight of Markham; Edmund s.
Edmopds, Knight of Piedmont; James Keith
Marshall, Knight of tho Blue Ridge; j. q.
Buob, Knight of the Lone Star: Keith Nor
ton. Knight Before Last; Il. NJ. StIibllng,
KNIGHT Of Hurtands; 9. w. Dorsey. Knight
Of The Golden Horse Shoe. The Knight OF
Piedmont crowued as Queen Miss Agnes Jones;
the knight of Launcelot crowned as first Maid
of Honor Miss Lizzie Marshall; the Knight Of
Warren cIowned as second Maid OF Honor Miss
Carrie Slribline; the Knight OF the Lono Star
crowned e third Maid OF Honor Miss Lizzie
Strbling. The charge to the knights was de-
livered by Louis f. Payne, Of Alexandria, and
the coronation address by Col. Chapman Little,
of Eauuuer. Tho tilting OF tho knights was
followed by dinner and other festivities, and
the dancing was kept up till three o'clock IN
tho morning. Where there was so much love
Illness and grace it is impossible to parlicularize
without Injustice to some. The rare beauty Of
the Misses G. II. and Al. G. Norton, Of Alex
sndria; Mai Ashby, oil Piedmont Maud Cole.
man, tf Sunnyside; Carrie Stribling, OF Hart.
lands; Lizzie Marshall, Of Mount Blank, and
Louise Foster, Of the Plains, rendered them
tho cyDasurc of all eyes and attracted the Ut
most attention.
Miss Ashby is one Of those rare and radiant
beings the poet Poo might rave about, while
the starit eyes and winning graoes OF Miss
Virpie Welsh, of Delaplane. would make an
angel forget his hymn. and valiant heights
SILVER a lance for every glance,
Of Virgie With the violet eyes.
The utmost good order was observed during
the entire occasion everything passed off ex.
celently we'll, and the receipts cqualled expeco:
talion. The horsemanship Of the Knight Of
FreezcIand was particularly noticeable.
Politics 10 this neighborhood are as warm as
the weather. Everything you hear is "Nea'o
and Hutton" or "Hunton and Neale." Your
young and talented townsman is much
stronger hero than you may suppose. The
Hunton Alexander controversy comes In TOR
full share of comment. Gen. Uunton's friends
claim that tho General has completely vindcated
himself from the alleged misrepresen ation, Of
Mr.. Alexander. But can be vindicato in the
same manner, or otherwise, his opposition TO
the payment of Southern claims. his advocacy
of the oppressive tax law for the District OF
Columbia, and his failure to break up that To-
fernal monopoly. tho hqueduct Bridge Com
many, who'll EFFORTS forty five cents toll from
every farmer in the Sth district who passes
that way from the counties of Fairfax and
Alexandria to the markets Of Washington and
Georgetown, with two horsed team and last,
but not least, can he vlndlcate 10 that or any
other manner his connection with the Electoral
Commis.ion-a commission which should be
held 10 everlasting execralion u commission
which seated huzzard upon an eagles nest ! q
commission which bartered and sold the rights
Of American ffcemen; commission which com
promised with o party DO better than Mercury,
the God of Thieves, who robbed NEPTUNE of his
trident Venus of her girdle, Mars Of his sword
and Jupiter oil his sceptre-and O commission
which General Hunton could have broken and
destroyed by resiguing and Withdrawing there.
from, and thereby have saved American politics
from being byword and rfproech in the
estimation of all fair minded people.
FAUOUIER,