Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1879-12-30
g.Stter from Richmond.

correspondence Of the Alexandria Gszette.
RICHMOND C % After al! the excite
nen. 10 other pa!ts Vi the couDry, it is sur
rr aOs that :" ltl' iarerost is tskrr 10 Genera!
Graut's movements, 50 la as tho r chmond
people are Q, ncerncr.
Not oue ptr.on in teu hero 10 day knew
Of the fac; that Geoe,al Grsut is tx-
pec.ed to 30 through Redmond, 10 Morrow
fhu uews w .uid have creelt little or nc ex-
element, Sc far as be people OF + uord are
c 1cotned. TIL v4ry fr.t talk CT demoJstrs.
.i9u was disc, uithranced. euj those gentlemen
W'n thGught u the sonemc soon saw that it
uld be failure. tho last plan waa that
some prom acnt q 20 would &C leas. tender
tao General 6 email reception. This nave
would have met with fsvvr. for tae most
pronreIt Ct our ID .mocrstlo citizeUs are will
ing, and, ladead. think il would be proper that
General Grant should De r.ated as auy dla-
tluA ulshed map would bu who visited Rich
:eoud. What vas d>srsd to 90 avoided was
that anything should DC done 10 the way OF gu
attot.pt at lrand ovation or anything that
ca0d DC Construed ia9o an ovation. No, sir
We Taut &c te polite, but to Richmond will
haiong ,be honor of not going oIezY over Gen.
Granr. jhe talk Of third term South will be
Gampcned bV the star. 10 Richmond, and It has
heer sid ''ai goes vi gina 80 goes the South. :"
The pcstnontmcrt OF he Generals trip until
Friday Mug be for two purposrs-one to give
| HIM Hn opportunity to sec lis friends 10 Wash
iag;on, snd the Other that his friends may get
up scne kind Of demonstration iu R!cbuoud.
Johr h1cCu|l9ugh. the actor, is billed tor the
! Richmond theatre tex week Tho bill board
With his rame IN big letters stands on Myin
| street. Az old couDtTymau pa.siGg by there
| TO dsy stepped aud read tho name. "McCul
; icueh, Mcl'u0uCh that Dcme is s0rter ia
miar. Oh ycs, he IS the naB al! this here
! fuss is abUu'. lie is The man thal's murdered
| So many widows snd orpha5s, uod ell that. tie
| ough; to say a~sS from here These reatjust
crs don't want roii,ing bcsor thau to get hold
OF him. Thar's going to De sore figbtns when
| they haDg."
Il rs whispered around that Gen. Mahoue
will b. candidate Tor Gcvt r1or in the next
oiec:lUn. The rumoI is no; without reason. |,
| vii! be noticed that 10 all thu talk alb, ut read
jlstcr Candidates that not one i'as been neu.
| uo1Cd in connection with the Office of Cover
| ror-not one. Psul, Fuikcrsop, Cameron,
frszior, Lacy-all have esger eyes looking
Congressman, but DC man says Governor.
Gen. Malone is we'll sWsrs that in Congress
Ills presence will DOT create eVeu ripple.
A WIFE TO BOoT.-fhe other day, says
tie n w5byport Herald, We were talking over
old times with q if. long scqaa;nGai CO, and be
gave Us INC history of pretty ser79ut Cir
who hsd ouc:! lost 60 sight and memory iol
! twenty i've years. The tale shows that there
are iucde2;s goiag on under Our noses which
| ar5 mere adventurous than Ihs stories of 6ctloI,
ana which wlu.d excite widespread comment il
| the characters were less cb.c cure.
Ii get ms that thu gil mad married work =
| maD employed Deur where she lived, and prem
lstt to have prosperous and respectable life,
but IL a year or two her husband died, and left
| her young aud handsome WIDOW She wss
| HcX; ltken by man OF some more mesGs than
| her bust ID had, FIRST as nous, keeper, and
| tEen as deputy wife, aud by tltD che had sew.
esa children. Such lite VAS not * city what
z wtman |Cuid atsr". and whoo, alter several
years, Mary had so ctIyr Of marriage. Sic told
! me Dau Of hr offer, auG gaVo him first choice.
| lie sid they mad better live on az they had
b2eu living. Oot sup. osiug that Mary would
have the the heart to leave him and her chill
| dren.
She vas determine TO get married, howev, :,
! and sue wss married 10 the lew sui!or With
| BIN ei moved do%0 or Plum Island river,
shc7c they had shsnty, and dug clans and
| sod run 10 d, Wn r!v0r excursion sts. After q
whic another nas C ime TO live with them, and
| when he had been there a shcrt time, Mary's
husband became diScontented, wanted to 70
eat West, aud offered to sell the establishments
for S25. The man said he would pay the sum
# the husband would throw in Mary to boot.
This strange bargain was agreed to, and, Dol
many mouths ago. Mary and the meu nigh,
De seen on the Ipswich a.ts, she with tn OK
cJwhIde boos, digging olams f:r subsistence.
she had lost the daicacy of her youthtui b ,auty
| By the viclssitudes with lwo husbands and two
meu who were not legally her husbands.
! The bXrANsE OF LoEDoN.-Of all the great
| cities, London, en- the whole contains the most
TO interest and instruct Americans. It has
doubled in population in the p'emory OF mon
| still young. Most resders ramon bar when Ma