Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1855-08-16
CITY AND sTiT2 DEPARTMENT.


linn pRieE roR roB,ee9 We learn that
Tohacco sold ii Friends Warehouse in this city
yesterday. for the high price of fifty .fro dollars
a hundred LyncIburg has equal in the
! country, a. a Tobiceo market aud planters who
consult their interest. viii avail themselves ct
its superior advantages.
Tur rEtFn AT PORTSMOUTH. The Por's-
mouth Transcript. which had been suspended
! for sevprafdays, re appeared on Saturday 1t
says;
| he number of doa,,ls by fever since Monday
have been ) fpilays: Tuesday o. Wednesday .,
Thursday = Friday :. The number of new
cases are not quite 80 numerous they have
been, aud we understand they seem 10 be ofa
mder form yielding mole readily 10 the treat
lneni Of physicians. large portion q the pop
ulation have left town, and others ars going
Great excitement preyailsi in consequence Of the
refusal Of the authorities at Old Point to permit
our ciiztns 10 land there TO provide for the safe
~ Of themselves and families, and if they persi At
in the course they have adopted, destruction ct
public properly has been threatened. Great IN
dignntinn exists account of u rumnr thai some
Of oar citizens, at Magnolia Springs have organ
ized theinselrcs Into a board Of health 10 prevent
others from stopping there. 1t is with great dd
lienlfv that person, can now get away,as some OF
the usual modes Of communication have been
cut off. aud many towns have taken measures To
prohibit persons fram cur community from coming
among them. The end of all this we unable
TO predict.
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Bulletin, ON account of the leaving Of the hands
in the office from apprehension Of fever, has sus-
pended its issues for the present, but promises to
re. commence soon.
SUDDEN DEATH.--Ihe Abingdon Democrat
states that Frank Wheel. :, worthy citizen Of
that place. died suddenly of paralysis last Mon
day
LJgERALurY.--A collection was taken up last
Sunday in the Washington street Methodist
Church, Petersburg, in behalf of the suffering OF
portsmout and Gosport, and fire hundred and
forty dollars raised
APPOINTED. Rev. w. d. Roetlell, of Pa, has
been appointed Principal of the W'ytheville Fe
male College.
DAILY MAIL TO CHARI.oTTEsyILIE.--The
Charlottesville Advocate says a petition for a
daily mail from that place to Lynchburg is in
circulation for signature The p ~ General
has established daily nail between Charlottes
Vile and Scottsville.
DELEGATES APPOINTED. The American
party of Albemarle have appointed Delegates
hot tbn Gfotn (t,R,,ooil vybo in Rich
laond on the 18th Thassday in this month, and to
the State Convention which meets in this city
the 18th September. They also intend holding
a ratification meeting ON the 18th Tuesday of this
month in Charlottesville.
THANKsGIvING.-The ministers at the various
religious denominations in Halifax county Oh
served last Thursday, us one of thanksgiving
and prayer for the manifold blessings of provi-
dences.
NEW 0FFicE.-The Board of Visitors of the
| University have it in contemplation to create II
new office 10 be called the Superintendent of the
Public Grounds, with salary not exceeding
| $l2eo per annum.
DEAp-Rev Thomas d. Hudson of the n.
| % lesHN lflldll cluICu, ultu III W inc county
on the 18th ult.
TiIANKs.--.Mr Zetell will accept our thanks
for Il fine water melon just from the ice, sup
! ply of what he has always on hand.
| CoMNENpABLE.-The Second Presbyterian
church of Wheeling has presented the county of
Ohio, library of ninety nine volumes, for the
the use of the prisoners in Jail,
| RELIGIOUS INSTRUMENTATION was pro-
| traete meeting at the Presbyterian Oh urch in
I.eesburg last week, at which Rev. +. II. Cump-
stone, of Prince Edward, delivered series of
sermons.
The CHRISTIAN ALBUM. This is the title Of n
monthly Magazine published in Richmond and
edited by Mrs. f. p. Elan, the 9TH number of
which has been issued. It's handsomely printed
and seems to he well conducted. We commend
ii as good family publication. Messrs. Payne
| q Christian are the agents for this city.
|
OBITUARY,
Died. on Thursday the 9th inst, at the resi-
dence of her husband, in Lovingston Nelson CO.,
in the 5lst year of her ago Mrs ELIZABETH S.,
wife of Orviile Loving Esq, and daughter of the
late Jesse Le.twich, decd of Bedford county.
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