29 August 1874
PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY ITEMS. [From the Manassas Gazette]
Only last week we published a letter from "our new city" (Potomac) to the effect that it was fast building up, and was going to have a bank, &c., and now we see the hotel keeper, Mr. Brick, advertises to sell out, and heads his advertisement, "being desirous of leaving the country," &c. This looks bad for "our new city," for its first hotel keeper to leave right in the midst of the season.
The colored man, Henry Johnson, who was arrested last week at Woodbridge Station, on the A. & F. R. R., and lodged in jail, has been released on account of not being the guilty one. The jailor and sheriff of Pittsylvania after seeing him, stated that he was not the man.The amendments to the Constitution in regard to changing the townships into Magisterial Districts, will meet with a hearty approval in this community, as the people generally are getting very much out with the township system, believing firmly that it will never work satisfactorily.
We expect the $5,000, which was appropriated by Congress last winter for the deepening of Occoquan creek, to be made use of very soon now, as the dredging machine will commence operations in a short time.
Our young friend, J. Frederick Tansil, son of our townsman, Col. Rob. Tansil, has joined a Government surveying party, and expects to leave for the West some time during the fall.
Major B. B. Douglas and Hon. James B. Sener, candidates for Congress for this District propose to address the people of Prince William at Brentsville, on Monday, September 7th, Court day.
Occoquan has been improved very much this summer, in the way of new buildings, and it still continues.
Occoquan is to be incorporated into a city before long, according to the act of the Legislature.
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