Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-06-21
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ROCKINGHAM lTEMS.-Ne regret 10 learn
that 90 Tuesday night of last week, the
Southwestern portion of our county was
s;.;ted with terrible storm Of thunder and
LIGHTNING aud rain. Beaver Greek and sew
sral other smaller streams were very much
suolen. and the lowlands along the creeks
ware perfectly flooded. In several instances,
surb was the force of the water that it washed
away whole fields OF corn, soil and all, thus
t,,aly destroying the prospect for a crop of
rorn 10 the fields damaged as far as this sea-
son is concerned.
Among the principal sufferers were T. X.
Ful,on +. NJ IRVINE. Wm. Robinson. Mrs.
Croushorn, MIR. Keller, Reuben Sherry,
simon Harmon, Mrs. Whitmer and num-
her of Others. The water was SO high that
il ran through Mr.. Sherfy's DWELLING
Amongst other things he lost ninc svarms
Of bees, which were swept of.
North River was very high. We learn that
!, rose, in very short time, some eight or
nine feet The bridge at Mt. Crawford was
damaged to some extent, one Of the piers
having been carried away by the food.
A correspondent of the Register furnishes
mlI particulars Of the food in Beaver Creek.
lie says:
"Tbe rain commenced early 10 the night,
and by IL O'clock the creek was up to an
alarming heightb, sweeping fences, water
gaps. spring houses, hog pens, and every
small building that stood near the creek,
from the mountain down to its junction with
the river. 1t undermined and ruined
house owned by Mr.. Fulton, and occupied
By Mr.. Dunlap. Il was six inches deep in
the widow WhitmCr's dwelling house.
The damage is great much more than you
would suppose, on small stream like ours.
The farmers are damaged from three to five
hundred dollars u piece, except some two or
three farms. had about five acres of bot
tom in corn that was swept cloan as deep as
plowed in most places and in some places
much deeper.
We bad food about three years ago that
was said to have been the highest food in
this creek fer the last fifty years. This food
was more than two feet higher than that.
think am safe in saying that this food con-
tanned more water than any two former
floods that ever saw in Beaver Creek"
Mr.. Hugh n. Moore, q printer, and local
editor Of the Valley Democrat, died on Tues
day, the 18th inst.
The Sberifs of Rockingham, have return.
ed 1913 delinquent tax payers, for the year OF
1857. In 1856, the number was $685. there
being falling of of 236 within the last year.
A barn, belonging to Mrs. Julia Smith,
about two miles from lIarrisonburg was con-
sumed by fire Oh Wednesday night last
There was large quantity of hay and straw
10 the barn, which was also consumed. 1t
was undoubtedly, the work OF On inceudisry.
A boatman named Albert Monger, Of Page
county, was drowned in the Shenandoah riv-
err week before last.
Active operations are to be at once commenc-
ed on the Manasss Gap Railroad between
Woodstock and Mt jackson. The road will
be pushed to Mt. jackson as soon as an eth
cieDt force can do it. The cars are expected
to run to Mt. Jackson by the first Of Novem-
Der.
The Rev. V. Bolton, formerly pastor Of the
Lutheran Church 10 Harrisburg, and more
recently pastor of several churches 10 Au-
gusta county, has received and accepted
call to become the pastor Of church IN
Schagtccke, Rensselaer, county, near Troy
city, New York. Mr.. L. will leave Virginia
Cor his new field Of labor in few days.
Blankenship. recently sent to the Peni-
tertiary from Rockingham, for stealing, will
remain there for life, having twice before
been sent from other places to that institu'
ton.
Mr.. Samuel Driver, living on sMuddy
Creek, has a calf 10 mopths old, weighing
1913 pounds
MURDER IN SURRY observation-disclosures
was received in this city yesterday morn
Ing of the murder Of J. w. Watkins, esq,
gentleman we'll known and esteemed in
our community, which took place near bis
residence in Surry county ION the 10Th inst
A servant Of his family passed through our
cit7 Yesterday bearing the distressing intel.
ligence to the mother of deceased residing
in Amelia, and from the account which we
obtained from bin, 1t agTears that the de-
ceased left the house on the afternoon OF
Wednesday last for the purpose of inspect-
Ing bis farm, and bis failing to return III
time for tea uccasicued alarm to his taui-
ly, as he was usually remarkably punctual
in his attendance at meals.
A search was at once instituted, but with
out success that evening, but upon being
continued the next morning his body was
found in the ad joining woods, horribly bea-
ten and with a rope firmly tied around the
waist, which had evidently been used to drag
it to the place of concealmeut. There we're
no marks upon the body to show that any
other weapon besides tho cudgel had been
employed in committing the atrocious deed,
which led TO the superstition that it was the
work of negro, as 10 all probability
white man would have resorted to the use oil
some instrument with which his purpose
would have been more speedily accomplish
ed. MIR. Watkins is represented as having
been most indulgent and kind master to
bis servants, which tends to remove suspi'
ciOu that any of them were implicated IN
the murder. South Side Dem.
BRUTAL MURDER Preston 5. TuTley. once
highly respectable man, and minister OF
tie gospel, has been found guilty in Kanawha
county, Va, of the urder of bis wife
A correspondent of the Lynchburg Virgin
ian says:
1t was in proof that be got her out one
night. put a rope round her, neck and what
be lacked in choking her to death, be finish
cd with heavy club or stick. rope was
tied round her arms and body and stone
Of G9 lbs. confined to her and she thrown
into Coal River. The stone had evidently
been prepared by cutting a notch IN 1t Tor