Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1878-07-29
Virginia News.

old pavilion has ben taken down, and in It's
stead, in few daye. the visitors eye will be
greeted with a new and airy structure. Work
has been already commenced on tho foundation
of the hotel, and before early frost its masonry
will BE- completed.
The Warrenton Index ys:-"Wo under
stand that groat numbers Of hogs arc dying of
chclara in upper Fauquier. The disease ex.
tends from tho neighborbood Of Orlean via Sa.
lem to M;ddleburg. Capt. Creel, G. 3. Coch.
ran, Jas. ii. Hstaway, Franklin Rector and
others have lost number"
Gen. lIunton has avowcd himself an ardent
rcadiuster, and is also an advocate OF an lniia.
ton Of the national currency. Lion. j. /. liar
ris has located himself upon similar PLATFORM
and says Gov. Holiday should not have vetoed
tho Barbour BILL
The Richmond State says:-In many places
10 Virginia the hot, dry weather is causing the
growing tobacco to prematurely "button" and
the lear to narrow, and become thin and sharp,
oil Of which signs arc said to presage small
and Indifferent crop.
The report of Commissioner Of tho Revenue
for Fredericksburg, for June, shows the follow.
ing tax as indicated by the Moffett register -
Alcoholic rs regsters) tax 1916 Is; Malt no
regstcrs) tax $40 %: Tex on 335 gallons by
retail 50. 81 Total tax $33S.69.
1t is proposed by the opponents Of the Dan.
vile and New River Railroad, 10 Henry county,
10 apply for an Injunction to prevent the su-
pervlsOrs from making tho county subscription.
A bass weighing six pounds, caught 10 the
Shenandoah by Mr. Lao p. Wheat, was. taken
to Winchester last week. It was the largest
ever seen there.
Thirty. seven thoroughbred COWS, the property
of the late j. L. Sayers, of Wylhe county, were
sold last week at an average OF 500. Nlne
thoroughbred bulls averaged $50 each.
The City Council of Danyille, has voted a
subscription OF $4,000 to the capital stock OF
the DanviIIo and New River Narrow Gauge
Railroad.
Hog cholera is prevailing to an alarming ex
tent 10 Henry county. Several gentlemen have
lost their entire stock Of bogs.
Joseph f., son of Senator John w. John
| ston, has been appointed to cadetshlp at West
Point.
On the Doguc Farm, 10 King George county,
Mr.. G. II. Laioc, lhreshcd twenty five bushels
Of wheat per acre. No fertilizer was used.
Lucien Dudley, seventeen years Of age. killed
an old colored man. in Wythe county, last week,
by fraculing his skull with cub
AIpheus Gordon, aged 10 years, was drowned
in the Shenandoah river. near Front Royal, last
week, whilo bathing.
Capt. Hewlett, one of the conductors OF the
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway. died Thursday,
in Richmond.
Roanoke county sends solid EImuudsou
delegation to the Congressional convention oil
the Ninth district.
Banquet 10 the PIenIpOtentinries.
The banquet to the English Penipotenlia-
ties given by the Carlton Club Of London on
Saturday night was attended by five hundred
peers and commoners. Ii Was held 10 the
Duke Of WeDgton's riding school.
Lord HeaoonsGtld. replying to toast,
awarded Lord Salisbury the greater share OF
and merit in tho abos ut Berlin. lie delend-
cd his conduct toward Greece. saying be had
ccunsccd Greece to abstention. and tho facts
proved that Grorcs obtained moro than the re.
vollcd priucpatics, which had Iavished blood
and treasure. lie passed great euogism on
the present Sultan, who throughout was dcsl'
rcus Of actingin conciIiatoly manner to Greece.
Lord BeauonsGell maintained that by the con
venlion with Turkey was diminished, not 10
crease! tho responsibilities. lie brought back
rom Berlin the conviction that neither the
Crimean nor tho last war would ever have &c
Cured if England had spoken out firmly. Re
pelling the assertion OF Mr.. Gladstone that the
Turkish Convention was an insane convention,
Lord Beacontield spoke of MIR. Gladstone as a
sophislical rhetorician. inebriated with the
cxubcrancc oil hi own vorbosly and egotislIdsl
imagination.
In his remarks relative TO tho Aug Turkish
convention Lord Beaoonsfie,d argued that 1t
The settlement of Europe had been limited to
the treaty Of Berlin. Russia would probably IN
few years again assai Turkey, when. what
ever British party might be in power, that
party would, even though no convention ex.
isted have felt bound after considerable and
perhaps fatal hesitation to detcud Asia Minor
lha convention with Turkey, by preventing
such hesitation, practically lessened England' }
responsibilities.
Lord Salisbury, in his speech, claimed that
her Ma tsty's Penipotentarles had tiled to
pick up the broken threads Of Englsud's m-
perial traditions He refused to believe that
the other Powers would display jealousy when
they saw that Eogand's object was meray to
establish peace and order.
Foreign Miscellany.
Austria is reported to have abandoned the
idea OF a convention with Turkey with regard