Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1880-05-24
The Virginia Midland Sale.

VI ElW, hnu, On Lie Contrary, II conveys tho
Very reverse CT what he did say.
The Virginia Midland Sale.
We have heard 60 many irquirics IS to tho
meabiog and intention Of tho suspension Of tho
sale OF this road. that wo have put ourselves
to somo trouble to ascertain tho pith of the
matter.
Prtc icllIy tho people Of the countics and
| cities on the route, arc only interested that the
road shall be in tho best possible ordor, with
tho greatest nuabcr oFtrsirs. on time. conveni-
| oDt TO their travel aud trade.
Like all other Southern and many Norhcru
| railroads, tho private or common stock has lorg
| ceased 70 have real valuc--c,rtainIy otter the
road wss placid 10 tho hands of receiver
1t did, therefore, appear to US that my or
| raugcmtnt by which the rosd could ho re-
o!gcn!zcd and rcaGustcl wbioh would place it
| 10 the hands OF tho stockholders (although VIC
small oucs might DO frtz,n Cul) and give the
management tho opportunity and power to ap.
ply Its net cerLlngs TO extending its line, To-
| creaslng its branches aud developing the min
| erals OF the State ia reach of the line, would BIO
CT lncalcrlatle advantage to the State, to its
cities and toWrs. certainly to Altxandlia, Char.
louisville, Lynch burg aud Danvio.
10 cur opinion it is clearly litigation 10 the
interest Of conflicting railroads. fight put up
between moTtgagees--a kind of o bull nud bear
broker contest. One party claims that the read
should be scld in its original sections srd the
proceeds OF each 81 c;ion applied to the morte-
ages h'st On each section. Tho rel ult of this
WOnlu \ hn l.
the old read, built by tbrce-flths from the
State, and tho State paid back by tho earnings
OF Tho whole line, especially the L2Lchbure cx-
tension, would get their bonds 10 full and oil
the rest, thcsa who built tho extensions and
branches. would get nothing. and the proposed
works oil tXtcDsicn AID lateral branches so ne
ccsEary Just now to tho State would be NJ s,s
poned. Perhaps iDdtti1itely
1t MAY DO this Is shrcwd movo TO knock
down the pricc Of bonds, that interested PARTIES
may buy low aud be IN q condition to Ii / Of n
luluro sao 90 such low priced bonds. lu all
tins. neither the corporate nor individual stock
holders arc interested; nor con The people ho
honchdGd either 10 transportation or travel. Mr..
Barbour, ns president. hes with less money.
QUILT more, and moro valuable Ito tho country
railroads tEan any man connected with our great
lats. The execution to Lynohburg was built
upon naked charter, without tho help of tho
State, by the ex4rtiOa of tho board, through
tho hllr o! cities. counties aad private ind!yid.
ua's.
This rnnd paid TO tho Safo what it owed, ona
but Tor the crisis which broke Gil tho railroads,
this road coming out Of tho war literally torn TO
pieces, would have woathered the storm.
lie people OF the State, aud certaioly of this
city md section, arc Interested in having re-
organization OF this company, and tho su<pon.
scn OF tho sale c1nnnt but bo detrimental to
our cry aud poople.-LynchbWy Aavancc.
GRANTS PosIrIoN.-The Gslena Gazst.e
whose editor ia personal friend of Oenersi
drhnl' and knows whereof no asserts, publishes
Iho following: An item has been going the
ROUNDS OF Tho press asserting that George w,
ChlIds, OF tho Philadelphia Lodrcr. has st.tod
mat General Grant would order his name with
ufa~h from Inc contest at the national conyop-
ton IN Chicago. Neither George w. (,bi,da nov
any ono ol5e has authority for making sncS an
assertion General Grants name hss nover n,nn
before tho public as q candidate for tho "a
derc5 by any word or act OF bis own. and ho
most ccrtainly will net order his mama Win
drawn; very largo class of American poops
have chosen TO make him their candidat, and if
Tho republican national convention nj Ghic.oo
FOES iii to tender him the nomination he will moi
decline H. This we know 10 be fact, and wa
publish 1t because il is woll that the repu bica no
OF the country should cease to hold tho matter
in doubt"
BIoaRiruY.-A gentleman of litsrary celeb. |
rity was once asked, IF all books, ancient and
modern, with two exceptions, wero to be deg
troyed which he would wish 10 havo saved from
the general min" He Answered. THE Bible
and Plu!arch's Lives." BY which he meant to |
convey tho idea that the histories of the lives Of
eminent mon would convey lessons of wi. dom,
atinu 'ato TO virtue and detsr from vice. Pom
ms also sald: Tho proper study of mankind is
1idh Indeed, sketch Of lives of emma,
men may DO compared to chart which points
CUT TO youth all tho dangers which .urrcuod
him how he may avoid the shos,u
and quicksands which arc thickly scattered over
The sea OF life, and buoys out the channel which
conducts TO horo and vi1tue. 'oA
BURNED TO DEATH -Earv Eri3,r |