Virginia advocate. [volume] (Charlottesville, Va.) 1827-1860, 1830-08-20
WEEKLY SUMMARY.
OLD KENT'yrCKy

VII n ENIUCK!
me kentucky state election was holden
m u e gu ia aud 9TH insts. and, it appears
oy 'hs Kentucky Gacettc that il has resulted
o'ear majority of IA members favorable
70 the present administration In Fayette
county Mr. Clavsl the Clay ticket succeeded
Sy the small majority of about 90. In the
senate and H,isu.of Representatives, there
arc 10 Jacksonian and 62 Clay members.
UfALGiERS TAKEN.
capt Glrdner, of the Ship Leonidas, ar
rived ON Thursday evening from Gibraltar.
states that Moorish vessel arrived at thai
place on the 4th July, from Oran, bringing
intelligence that the French had taken AL.
gers tho latter part Of June.
Gold has been traced as far as the county
OF fluvanna, and brilliant hopes arc enter
eaihed of rich reward for the search and
working, in that direction. IL is said that
some tolerably cute psop lie have been attempt
ing TO trace the gold vein with a compass
rom Georgia to tho mines in Virginia-ihat
several leases have been taken of particular
tracts OF land, for ninety nine years, and re-
Movable forever--and that no little address
mas been exhibited by 'the cunning in me.
.ais I'm tracing the signs and obtaining the
ieases or purchases We learn of gentlemen
Oh 'ne most enterprisng spirit, and wlthal of
excellent sense, embarkng in the business
OF gold hunting and mine-workinr For
elSners have bden. on the trail-and several
shrewd persons from the '.north countrie"
have been ON u visit to the gold region.
Richmond Compiler
A newly invented machine for the washing
oil gold ms boon put in operation at Rich
mohd with complete success It's peculiar
advantages are the ready discovery OF gold in
the soli, and the separation of the precious
metal iron the earth with great rapidly, and
at little expense.
King William and his Fampy His ROYAL
Highness was united to the Princess Adelaide
Louisa Therese Caroline Amelia, eldes,
daughter of the late, aud sister of the rel rhn-
ing, Duke of SAKE Meinngen, llth of July
1918, when the Duke was in his sd wear .
and the Princess in her Goth The issue of
this marriage was the Princess Charlotte Au
gasta, born and died the 9th of March, 1919
ana the Princess Elizabeth Georgiana Ade-
land: born the 10Th of December, 1890, died
the 4th ot March in the following veal The
Earl OF Enrol, the Hon. John Erskine Ken
nedy (second son of Earl Cassilis.) Mr. Phil.
up sydney (thc member tor Eve and only son
OF Sir James Sydney, Bart and Lieut.. Co
lionel Charles Fox, of the 34th Regiment of
Foot, stand in tho relation of sons.in law
TO the illus,rous king, having married the
Misses Elizabeth, Augusta, Sophia, and Ma
ry FItzclarenco, his Royal Highness's daueh-
e"'S' Soipuct Ot lne Itn tuSl-
leers, married in 1921 lady Augusta Bowie.
daughter Of the Earl of Glasgow, and Colo
mel George FitzclarenLe is son-in.law to the
Earl of Egremont Captain AID ,lphus Fitz-
clarence, X. N. and the Rev. Augustus Fitz.
clarence, rector of Maple Durham is unmar-
ried.
The Kentucky Serpsnt.-An enormous
snake has been seen in the neighbourhpnd of
Lexington, Kentucky This m,nstrous rep
tile Is represented to be about twenty feet in
length, and as large around as an ordinary
stove pipe The Lexington Gazette men
tons that he Is committing terrible havoc"
among the horses, cows, and other cattle in
that neighbpurhood, and that his believing
had been distinctly heard, night or two be.
fore, at intervals through the whole night
80 formidable and so much apprehended is
tins extraordinary snake, that n reward OF five
hundred dollars has been offered To him who
shall Kill it, and several companies of the
kentucky militia had been ordered tn hold
themselves in readiness to go out against 1t.
The Liberia Herald, ofthe 9th of Nav and
the 9th OF June, has been received ut the Of
fee of the United States Gazette We OBJ
serve, with sincere concern, that tho acting
colonial agent, DIR John W. Anderson died
of fever, on the 18th of April His remains
were inferred with public honnurs His
death was followed, at no very distant inter
val, by that of Mr.. Garner, n German Mis-
slonary, who had been long i'll. Agricultural
prospects were encouraging. A new Sunday
School had been recently established Inter
nal improvements were in hand but road
int" the interior, from MilIsburg, on ST Panl's
river, about twenty miles north of Munrovia,
had been stopped by lack of money One of
the papers contains a republican nomna-
ton for the approaching election.