Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1880-03-09
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Peach trees gre 10 full bloom 10 epi ercurd
Richmond.
Tim Morris, ralive OF Richmond. and wi
known negro minstrel, died 10 Providence, IL.
l., Sunday night.
NJ. DulaDy Bal. U. S. collector Of customs
at Silka. Alaska, was Oh the floor Ct the House
OF Delegates yesterday.
A bill has been introduced 10 he Lapisla'ure
authorizing the exhaustion Of the Virginia Mid
land railroad into North Carolina.
The f-h 10 James River aro Liing freely at
hook and lice. md hundreds Of anglers daily
secure fee meas Of tic nicts! white perch.
Amoug tho corGrmatiops by the Senate last
Saturday was that of James b. Mitchell. 10 be
collector Of c1itoms iJr the district Of \ ok.
two.
Reports from various Counties in tic State
say that tho whrat crop which Mt ono hmo
| promised total failure, noW gives evidence Of
| an average Yield.
Rev. Dr. Jackson, OF Gree Episcopal Church
| in Richmond aud the beautiful daughter CT
MIR. James lac', tho millionaire ,obacoonist,
expect to ho married on April 2?h.
| I'r; tessors MnlIct and Schalc dc We're. Ct tho
University of Virgins. il ia Reported, have
been Of rcd moro Iuc;a'lVr POSITIONS elsewhere
= the former in Boslon and tho later AZ the
| University Of LouIsi.na.
| The following NireiniaUa sIadaatrd la tho
| medical department tt the University Ut Mary
lad last Saturday Charles b. Rronsugh,
Joseph =. Cnropton, s. Is. C,,.in. i. w.
Grove, =. f. KibIcr. w. 4. Smi,i, ". ID.
rurrcr and w. =. Whitmort.
ii. +. Renuelt, who gas arrested in Norfolk
| several dayn ago Oil Is charg9 81 blkamY. was
| taken tciorc Judge d. +. Goodwin Oh writ Of
hab;as corpus on Saturday. OSnH 20 the fail.
ure OF The prosecutions to rroauc any testimony
] eliminating The accused, Judge G0dHia ordered
| his released.
Tho R,chmabi and AlIes hat y Railroad Com
pauy. Ghl0h has purchased the franchises OF
| the alnca River AID kanawha Canal Company,
| has rrsatII.d with George W. bartholomew,
| Of Hartford. Conn, 81 president. lha road
between Buchanan aud Chtou FprGa il to I've
completed by July next.
| The Richmond municipal ,lecions will iukc
place 10 May. and tho following namea are
already mentioned 10 connection al!h the
Msyoraln: COL William &. Darlington, prascnt
incumbtu': William Lnvrnstciu. Of the House
Of Delegates; Cen e. Lindsey Walker. Alder"
man Ctarlca l.. Todd, ard Councilman Charles
i. TayIor.
| An attempt was mato near Frarklin Station
last Friday right, to throw SeabCard and
| Roanoke railroad freight train llOm tho track
| by placing several luadIrs Of laths upon the
rails near tho bridge. The purpose was TO
wreck the south bound freight, by thtowiog it
| from tho track. and mako wreck Of tho bridge
| by preopitaling tho train into the river below.
A girl, eleven years old, tho daughter of
John Webb, near Farmvic, was burned to
death on Sunday last 10y attempting to kirdlo
| fire with coal oil. There WAS no assistance
ncar, md the throw herself into mud nuddIe
10 tho yard, which proved intellectual. She was
nearly dead when her paropIs returned, arl cx
PRED alter four hours Of terrible agony.
| A destructive fir, occurred at MiIIwood
Clarke county, at = o'cGCct Saturday morning.
The fired commenced in tho grt cry and liquor
store Of Mr.. Paddock. whose loss is 50. 000
Lenucl Shoarer'5 wagon shop was also burned,
| with NtviIl's blacksmith shop aid shoe shop.
Total loss about Sc. COO and 90 insurance. except
5000 on the blacksmith shop. The fire is sup
posed 10 have been the work Of en- i5condiary
A dispatch from Norfolk to tho Baltimore
American says: Examination of statistics BY
an expert here warrants the prediction that tho
census OF 1880 will show that the taxable prop
erty Ct Virginia, real aud personal, will not e..
caed half tho amount legally exempt from
soizurc on execution. In other words. the
property each person mag hold under the OK
emplion law, multiplied by tho number of per-
Sons entitled 10 hold il, il they can got t. hold
it, will be doutlo the assessed valuo Of ali tho
taxable property Of the State"
A Paris telegram to tho New York Herald
says: Tho American colony here is voiy much
Interested III sui jet which recalls the days
when Frcpchmen fought side by side with
Washington and his Ia'li1s in tho war OF in
| dopoGdcr c., Ii is said that on tho ccutrunlsi
OF the surrender OF yorktown. in which crown
ing event OF the Revolutionary War such dI4
| llnquahrd representatives Of ltIalco as L4IA-
yrttr. kNc'ambcau and DO Gra.sa buro a
| pronrlncnt pari, the government here vii! he
officially itvtrd by the Washington Cabinet to
be repre- S ottd at the cah'hratior. The ovent
will occur un tho I9ih Of O,!uhcr, lSSl, AS
| sugatc:s hra given tina. . crack rceimcn; from
Tho French atuy and fact Ut our finest war
vrsacla will b" annt 20 Yorktown to do hon or TO
the tccn,ion.'
A special telcprain from F,oa, Royal gives
! brirl particulars # n !cIhta invulvlur two
| Ic;aius families add which i, nn.s hiia. iness-
| tis.trd. 1t .rpcfrs hat q irW days AGA tho
c)rpse ct a thrc weeks old irlAu. Wa iyuu,i in
q well on the premises III lra,iiag c,t2 Il, and
| rune a. s0,ia,rd The 'iinc rt;h - '.,tius lai,'
| who Was known ia hay: been IL IA d.c.so con
| dltlOn. EVldrrGt WIZ intrnAnc.ri SHOW lny that
| thI- v0ing pos IN VISIT. IL iicnd ard Wa siib
stqurnily prouruaccd by "a l.hy.ic.r 10 hn 1T
! IRON tn. lice ut nhiCfh!y, Foo oiiiI dis
| appeared, n,G IT. ia h,;q h'i.cv,h e. have hacn
! murdered Ia order 10 C'rGral tho mother r
| shame. H!@at tnirr"ai Is uiauiira;Ch IA The