Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1881-03-11
VIRGINIA. NEWS.
Ncrfolk truckers arc planting potatoes.


Abingdon has cigar factory, Charlottesville
hss broom factory. Lynchburg iron works.
Alexandria should have all ard mere.
A bear weighing 2lS pounds Vas shot pear
Rawley Springs last Monday. Bruin had to
DO smoked out Of his hole before being shot.
Dr.. Thomas NJ. Sherman. ono of The most
prominent oitz,ns Of Green county, and form.
orly member Of tho Legislature, died last
week.
In SIX months and eight days there have been
received at Norfolk Col, 9S2 bales of cotton, 40
excess of 1855 bales over the corresponding
period of last year.
Hon. John T.. Harris has resumed the prsc.
tce of the law in RoekinebaE, God adjoining
counties, his term of service in tho House of
Representatives having expired.
James Mod. Richardson hes been convicted
Of murder 10 tho second degree in the Hust.
ings Court Of Lynchburg, and sentenced to the
psnitentiery for ten years.
The mandate from the Supreme Court of the
U1ited States in the celebrated case CT Hart
man va. Greenhow, treasurer, Involving the
| right CT the Stale to tax COUPONS, was received
in the Court of Appeals of Virginia yesterday,
catered of record. and mandamus awarded
A Dew pOstofioo will bo established 10 few
days at "Profit,' Abemsre county, on the
railroad between Alexandria and Lynchbury
With James a. Profit as postmaster. VIM. s.
Huuton hos been appointed postmaster at
Bethel Academy, Fauquicr cjunty, vice H. s.
Hutton deceased.
Mr. j. A. II. st. Andrew, of the Fdrmville
Mercury. who has returned from an extended
trip through England Gnd Ireland, represents
that tho English holders of Virginia bonds
teel comparatively comfortable since tho deci
sion of tho U. 8. Supreme Court touching tho
constlu:lonality of ttxlug Virginia coupols.-
he thinks that thu foreign bondhoders will
Insist upon full! liquidation of their claims.
l. is slated that Mr.. Koiner. chairman of the
Cots1rV State Central Committee, Intends
to appoint committee to draft o platform
which will DO submitted 10 tho Stale Conv;n-
ton when it assemblies ntxs August. The
orr C: of this ia to pace before that body q
carefully and we'll digeSted plan for tho guidance
or Tho party 10 tho cJmlng canvass. The debt
question will cf course DO the pIiocipal ISSUE to
bo considered by the committee.
| NATURAL Gas. -Brsdford, Pennsylvania aud
noishboriog places, arc Lighted and heated By
natural gas IL 1875 an oil company vas tiuk,
iag i we'll ca high bill west Of Bradford. Al
tic depth CT several Euadred feet they struck 8
von OF esS. No Gil IVES fcurd. Tho foEco oil
tie ees vas tuch that when it vas ignited 8
plII4r OF 1:c mere han fifty feet high was form
cd. TIE resi- Ct he 2ss ocu!d be heard for O
milo CT mere.
This burned f6r months. rbn hest vas such
that the sr8sa AID foliage glcW il the depth Of
Winter ~ iuxuranly for huudrots ct fee
around it az it did in the Sumner. SraWbcr.
: :iss rpsned near this we'll 10 February. Tho
vel! had been turning for long lime before
tue feasibility ct utilizing it was tuooght Of A
bett Ct dry territory, but yisldiog vast volumes
OF Ras. was subsf openly found 10 exist io the
vicinity Of The original gas we'll
A compa7g vss formed 10 car:y tho eos iGto
the city, Il is Tow distributed all over the
place by inis. A eas pipc, with .is attached
is ruu into pGlor ard kitchen stoves. The
supply Of Gas is controlled by stop cock ca the
pipe. Whca fire is wanted lighted match i:
thrown into the steve aud tho gas turrcd CD.
The Ere is started ct cnc,. Ths gas possesses
great heating q lslitos. ard apartments orc
warmed ss quickly and as veil by il as by COAL
Gs5 !or lluuira'iug purposes is conducted
lLto tho houses tho Same ls artificial gas is
taken 10. At Il 81 tao light was not brilliant
and steady, owing to impurities Processes for
J refniog it wefe Invented, and now the natural
} liuminatOr is unsurpassed ty The f0est manu-
j featured gss. Ii is SO cheap that people seldom
turn Gu. their lights l. burH day and night 10
stor!s. hotels. private houses and Streets. Goa
sumcls Day by the month ils,cad of By the
thousand.
Gas wells La7o cope to b, more va uabls than
oil wells aod tho III :don and phenomenal ap-
} pearaDcs of oil in some Of tho principal wells 10
the gas belt has created Consideration among
owners eud consumers. For years the gas has
loved from tho we'll in uuremittiug volume,
bad been oouclusivoy settled.
few days ago one of tho wells caased in its
gas supply. 1t Was found TO be half full of ell.
Fifteen barrels CT exoslIept Grade oil were
pumped cut AID the gas flowed again. Ooe OF
two osthe gas wells exhibited the same pie
ntm ,non. |: is necessary to pump the oil out
daily before the gas will flow. Tho sudden
appearance of oil IL territory that was copsid-
cred dry has not yet been satisfactorily cx-
planned.
HARoUN ALRAsCHID. -Hsrcuu stood TO his
curt 10 omsthug of the relation which Loren.
q do Medici held toward the morn of tho Now
learning. Lko the Magrifoo be was a grace
fal scholar and genuine admirer of letters, but
q: Bagdsd in tho eighth, es at Florence in the
fifteenth century, it was the setting of the royal
gem aud not tho jsWel ilsslf that gave forth tho
lustrs which has ever enciIcled like 40 aureole
the names of Harouu aud Lorerz). The Dor
trait of Haroun Alraschid Involves picture of
the Mohammedsn world at tho climax of iIs
greatness. Never had tho empire of the Arabs
extended 50 fer towsrd the four quarters of the
globe; never had their rule been 80 powerfully
impressed upon tho distant provircss. always
apt for rebellion; never lad the will of one man
received such urquestonlrg obedience over 30
vast an area, CT that obedience boon tested by
micro uncertain or carricious will. Aud while
Africa fron. the Straits 10 the Red Sen, and Asia
from the Mediterranean to ito IoduS, waited
a1xlously on the unpredic.ato wbims and turns
of fancy ef one changesblo mind, the man on
whom this burden of government lay was ever
seeking to drown the horror of death BY an end.
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