Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-02-25
LETTER FROM FAIRFAX.

Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette.
DRANEsvILLE, Fairfax Co., Va, Feb. "a.
Times up here are exceedingly dull, mon
ey scarce, and bnt for our county court
(mseisterial) which meets monthly, we
would hardly have anything to break the
monotony Court day, last Saturday, was
field day for the sovereigns-a general
turnout. The public school house was filed
to overfowing, amoug the number being
some of the most important personages of
the whole district. Thero was the stately
man of medicine, standing fully six feet
and four inches in the clear, playing the
noble and dignfied part of a disinterested
SPECTATOR. There was the Aldio brother
in the profession, with his fund of anec.
dote-sometimes pathetic, sometimes wick
cd: the village blacksmith an attentive lis
teuer, and always ready TO give an opinion.
There was the old Irish farmer, accompanied
by his wife and his wits, and badly pre-
pared case The Justices sat behind a rick
e!y table, with proper circumspecton and
great delihcralion. When case was call
ed. piaintit and defendent aud a score of
witnesses would surround the Court, and all
| talk at once, and their eXhaustless energy
and tenacity Tor maintaining their side was
| wonderful, and how tho Court could arrive
at auY conclusion is marvellous. There WAS
| a perfect babel OF sounds in the court room.
| The venerable constable Whose sympaihet-
| ic nature always runs iu the direction Of the
COURT was entirely powerless 10 keep order;
| it reminds one OF old times, only Il little
| more go. Plenty pine top" or bug
Juice" On hand Local option here is q fall
| ure. The temperance cause mas been i'm
paired by injuGicious. men and meth
ods; there has been a steady, and we
Judge :. permanent decline III the order. 1t
| is sad to witness its deplorablc condition,
| and this b. mcu who have aspired to sg-
| srandizc themselves, TO the iueyitable ruin
Of the order. They imagine they are the
Judges Of men on earth, and will be foremcn
of the grand juries on Judgment day. The
| great LIT. General OF Temperance here, nj
| Wednesday night, with big speech He
prauced upon The arena like i; spawned
nightmare upon the track Of o beautiful
dream II great brandishing Of arms, Il pose
and II tremendous war-hoop, and much rs
though picture Of the Deerleld massacre
had stepped out from tno pages of our early
history. He went for delinquents, he went
for tho unfortunate, the erring ones in fact
he smots right and left, high aud low, show
ed no mercy, swinging the great hroadaxe
OF his logic high in the air. The citizens OF
the village lifted mp their ears and listened
with terrified awe. Some started for the
scerr, but on learning the cause they quiet
! ly returned 10 their homes as they could
distinctly hear many rods away. 1t was
the great 1t. General, delivering the vale
dictorr of the dying lodge.
DR.. J. h. Dulany, cur minister, in charge
Of this circuit, viii preach his last sermon
here %txt Sunday. We regret to give DR..
.. up. He is au able expounder of the word
and an efficient worker in his Masters vine
yard--a COED man.
| Mr. &. i. Rowzee's store was entered
Saturday night hy thieves and his money
drawer robbed of ten dollars, and about
twenty dollars worth Of dry goods taken.
Tue thieves entered by the rear door. ].