Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1881-09-21
Falls Cllurci, WospitaIiiy.

FALLS CHURCH, Va, Sop! ~, lSSl.-D. Tur.
mar replies to my lttor OF August 23d by spe-
cIal plea of confession and avoidance. lilo docs
not altempt TO dony tho assertion that tho state
monts mado by him concerning the hospitality
OF tho people of Falls Church we.o unIruo, par.
lcusfly when quoted the invitation given 10
him by Captain Ripley to stop at his houso He
does not dony that he doclinod 10 accent the
hospitality OF Captain Ripley, nor can he truth.
vtstion OF Captain Ripley because no had been
Union officer. was Yankee and republican
III 30, why did ho not accept the invitation Of
Captain W. L. Graham: who was q Coniode
officer, n natigo VirglniAn and democrat :?
Surely no must ba hard TO please who having Tho
choice OF the platter ia yet unsuiLed.
~. turner says on tho evening Of the 10Th of
August not single pesson in that corporation
Of seven hundred oilered mo morse to est."
and yet ho had tho two Invitations above men.
Toned choking the falsity of his assertion down
his throat nj tho tins. Did no forget them when
he wroto2 Did ha forget Captain Grahsm's
assertion at that time that if ~ would spond tho
night with him he should have ns good bed as
no could find this side OF New York ? or WAS no
III tho time no wrote his lottor sill laboring I'm.
dor tho etlecss OF tho rdrrgoriC he mentions2 I
have seen man laborIng under tho influence OF
the same kind Of paregoric before. 1t sometimes
produces peculiar effects: mon under its intu.
ence hivo sometimes been unable TO find their
own homes, and . stranger under such circum.
STANCES might probably be ercu ,ed for failing to
hEd strange house in n strange town; but l
fail - see why the hCu'o shonld bo blslnad for
not being found,
Was he ashamed TO visit Captain Graham A.
tor having failed to secure his corporation in
sha fraud ho proposed to him to per patrAta?
II Captain kiploy and Captain Grshsm are 10
ha evod-and their word would 20 infinitely
further IN our community than that of u. Tur-
ner-ihen tho letters Of Turner arc false-inten
tionhly and IN ,li2iou}ly false, and tho alleged
Introduction BY Mayor Duncsn is too thin veil
10 fcraen him.
d. Turaer not only intended 10 make the most
no could cut OF tho people of Falls Church. but
ho also had his lt!le plans laid TO de(raud the
State cut Of the revenue he might lawfully be
called upon TO pay from the character of his pro.
pcsed enterprise, as he explained 10 more than
oGe.
hsva yet 10 learn the name, either by per.
sonhl inquiry, or from u. Turner Of q single per
son By whom no was invited to come TO Fails
Church. Every person spoken 10 has denied it.
AID Sc Ia sny admission Of the people of Falls
Church IS 10 their having made suy mistake in
Inc pcsrli3os tha only mistake admitted BIZ sn7
Of them is IN not having discovered the chsrac.
ter of tho man in time to have given him his
dseeIts while hero. he has neither the aymra
thy For respect Of any man in this community
cosniz Int Of oil the circumstances.
IL there 10 any one man in this town BIZ whom
Mr., y. Turner feels he has been agrieved, why
do6s he not coma to the front manlully and rsne
biz Why does he be.a.e an entire community
because 1.-THE sho:t comings of one man? We
may heye o low Of the impsCunious kind man.
toned By HIM, thu millennium hiss not arrived
and W. IRA not ali angels. tut this people want
10 know Tho They are, and ara not willing to be
generally st2ma!lzsd as inhospitsble becsu,e of
the ncelecs 81 one or two individuals.
j. q. DEPUrRoE.