Kanawha Valley star. [volume] (Charleston, Va. [W. Va.]) 1856-1861, 1857-07-21
VIRGINIA ITEMS.

There are four hundred people &
Rockbridge Alum Springs.
Tomatoes are selling in NorfoIk, Va.
ats cents a piece. Isl
Col. David G. Shanks, of Roanoke
county. va, lost 5000 by tie damage
done his crops in thellateih hail storm.
Maj. VIM. d. Christian, a well known
citizen Of Lyhchburg, Virginia, died on
Friday last.
Thomas Long. ! d~raynan, was
drowned in the Ohio, at Wheelings Fri
day.
Movements in many Of the COUNTIES i'm
terested, are still going on in relation to
the extension of the Alexandria. Loudoun
and Hampshire Railroad!
The servant girl suspected of killing
Mrs. Hall, near Gordonsville, an account
of which was published IN our paper
has confessed the deed.
DIy1DENDs-The Bank of Virginia
and the Farmers Bank have each de-
elared q ~semi-annual dividend of four
and . qnarterper cent, subjeetto : de-
duetion of one quarter per cent bonus 70
the State.
John Watson, aged 8 years was
drowned in the Shenandoah river, Val
hear the island Of Virginius, on Tuesday
last. He fell, It is supposed, from the
bridge "a
Only ono hundred and sixty-seyen
young men have received the degree of
IA. NJ. from the University of Virginia
since its foundation. At the 1atet COM
mencement. only nine out of the seven
teen candidates for that honor we're suc-
cessful. ka
PosroFFroE AFrArRs-In Eirginia-
Establish an Office an C~ornwallis! Riteie
county, and appoint Abijah Cady post
master-on the Northwestern Virginia
Railroad. Eli Wood, postmaster at
Hawks Nest, Fayette county, vice JAS
B. Hamilton.
Advicess received contain the painful
intelligence that Geo W.\Clutter. ESQ
FIRST Auditor Of the State Of Virginia, is
exceedingly i'll, in WetEel county
whittier he had repaired in search Of
health, J with scarce the shadow of q
hope Of ultimate recovery.
Lee, the e,ducer Of Miss Stewart was
arrested in Richmond and brought back
T to Petersburg on q charge of theft pre-
ferred by G.. W. Royston, was Examined
On Thursday last, and committed to stand
his trial before the Hastings court some
2 time this month.
Al negro man employed as a hand on
the steamboat Virginia, at Ffederieks-
/ burg, was drowned at the wharf on Sun
J day evening last. He missed his foetng
in attempting to pass the gangwAy, He
! had been in the employ Of the boat only
4 week or two. His body was found that
! evening.
rI On the 10th, the ears on the Central
4 Railroad ran go miles West Of the pres
: ent terminus, and within 50 miles Of the.
2 White Sulphur Springs. The trayel
DYER this road has increased considerably
within the last two weeks All the
| Springs have quite q number Of visitors;
| the Rockbridge Alum has the largest
number
The Alexandria Gazette states that the
] Odd Fellows Of Potomac Lodge ase
making the necessary arrangements to
z establish . male and Eemale school in that
city. where The children of deceased
members are TO be educated free Of eK-
/ pence, This is certainlya Noble enter
n tPriss.
SAD ArFAIR,---The Parkersburg (Va,)
News says that among the killed by the
accident on the Marietta RailFoad, Was a
bride residing in Harmar, Va;s who bad
been married only three days. Her
Z husband is not expected 10 live. VIM.
!, Williams Of Harpers Ferry and Jacob
i Romer, Of Wheeling Va. were among
Z those slightly injured. Francis Pollard,
1 one Of the badly woundedk las sincefdied.
Il The magnificent estate Of the late Pres.
II ident Madison, known as Montpelier,
Was sold on Monday last 10 Thomas J.
: Carson, ESQ.,. formerly Of Baltimore. for
IS S37e50. or about s3e per acre. This
IL property hes near the foot of the Blue
Dr. Ridge, which is connected by railroad
with Richmond and Alexandris. The
mansion house is large and elegant. with
Ia front Of $50 feet, and the tract has on
il All the improvements and buildings nee
e essary 70 the operations ofs large farm
III la young man, named Joseph Haw.
thorn, came to his death on Friday last
q saws . correspondent Of the Dispatch,by
n drowning in North River. He was bath
ing, in company with others. in . deep
Y. eddy in the river. about two miles below
r. Lexington. and tits supposed that h
~ was4taksn with the crAnaP.
A free negro, by the name Of Harlil
iton, employed on the Norfolk Count.
. ferry boat, while unshippihg the RAIDER
he Tuesday afternoon, fell over board an,
e WAS drowned
A young maj by the name Of William
NJ ward was thrown. or fell, from his hors
y While ii 4 state Of ~intoIicati9n, near NJ
u Gordon Keister's, about six or eigf
miles east Of Wytheyille, on S9nda
night last. He WAS discovered lying
ths road about 1oIo'clock . tnight, IN
dyiag condition, and soon expired. =
la. had been sent after . physician by.
lon neighbor, and Was returning home WIZ