Kanawha Valley star. [volume] (Charleston, Va. [W. Va.]) 1856-1861, 1857-08-18
VIRGINIA ITEMS.

AAOuSC vi DOtCSdhCo w. hSh0TE AONA
1845 to l849, died on the 9th.
John e. Mcleod, formerly of Win
chester, Va, died in Washington last
weeks He was to have been married in
a few days, and was buried in his we'd
ding suit. L
The Commissioners of the Sinking
Fund Of the State of Virginia advertise
that they will pay off S184,000 Of the
State funded debt on the 31st of October
next from which tinleethe interest win
cease.
The large and valuable Manufacturing
MftQfDr. Henry Lewis. located near
L~hyyenceville, in Brunswick. was de-
stqyed BY fire on the night of the 29th
dat.s y
y "A little child belonging TO a family
named Warner, in Warren county, was
recently killed by-a window falling upon
We understand Alexander R. Hol-
liday, Esq, has consented to deliver the
annual address before the State Agficuf-
tural Society Of Virginia, IN the 2sth of
October next.
THE GRAND ENcAMPMEET OF VIRGINIA
IlIO. O.. f. held It's annual session in
Hampton. Virginia, on Wednesday last.
at DR.. "a. L.. Peters, of Halifax county,
was elected Grand Senior Warden; Maj.
IIsrael Robinson, of Danyille, Grand
Treasurer. u ii E
A man named Henry Jordan, residing
lin Richmond, ended his existence last
week, by swallowing a dose of laudanum
He was a married man about 40 years Of
lage.
Capt. Clutter, the lata First Auditor of
Eshe State, was only 80 years FIVE months
and one~day old when he died. Many
persons supposed bim'to be much older.
The official vote for Judge in the
EEighth Judicial Circuit has been pub
.Fiished. Richard Coleman. Esq, of Car
E6line, beats his competitor, Mr.. Marge,
HOS votes.
The excitement at Williamsburg as to
gthe yellow fever has been somewhat all
Eiayed By DIR. Wade, who attended the de-
iceased person, and says there is no rea-
son to suppose thathe died of that dis
ease. :
Bruce H. Canadian, of Wheeling, had
his ann crushed and received other iu-
%iuries by falling from a train of cars on
1.-The Northwestern Virginia Railroad on
Friday week. He died on Sunday last.
IA free negro woman was sentenced to
1.-Two wears imprisonment in the p~enitentia-
ry, in Staunton, on the 18th inst, for
flbreakipg into a car at Waynesboro De-
pot, and stealing several articles there
from.
81 No PAUPERs-Ehzabeth City county
! contains nearly 5000 inhabitants. There
Ills not a single family compelled from pow
erty to dependso on public charity for sup
port--a fact which speaks loudly IN fa-
Sor Of the industry Of the Pseple
Il tavern at King George Court House.
| MAS destroyed by fire early en- Tuesday
/ morning last, together with the furniture.
) Kitchen, ice-house, &c4 Three or four
linen had a narrow escape
: violent storm a ram 6ceonpel11d
: by M. passed Over eezIst5Ri RockI1
3 ham county Val 81 NEs11esda0ret1 is.
keak. II All thd Streams WSe ofelG pNefi
sweeping OF she efoPs timbsrshoeA .
About two hundred Individuals have
If enlisted inthe u United States Army at the
Il ~recruitins station which has been located
Min Richmond for the past SIX or e4ghl
!. months. Most. if not all ofthese recruits
L have been sent on Immediately after en-
Z Iisstment to the far West, where they have
been regularly enrolled in the mounted
/ regiment.
\ The Mount Carmel Church, IN Alex
p andria county, Va, where young AustiI
4 killed young Berch not long since. wa
/. u Saturday night last, pulled down By
Y Bang Of rufian rowdies IN that vicinity
n The building was mere log shell, OF NJ
value, which, however, does not lesser
Il the criminality Of the act. 1t was til,
Y property of the Episcopal persuatiop
A Al Coon ApPorsrNESr-The Jefer
II ~senyille Advocate states that John Ow
chs. of Tazewell county, an old WAGNER
HIS been appointed by the War Depart
n ment, Wagon Master, in the expedition
against the Modern Sodom. Il is a mos
excellent appointment and although Nj
Owens is near so years old, he seems
lock TO the tramp as a labor of small mo
ment. The salary is $500 per annum
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