Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-05-24
VirRinta Items.

Company. was held at the Court House in
fredericksburg on Wednesday. TIE reports
Of the President aud Secretary having been
read and received, r. B. Marye was unani-
mously elected President; Jas. McGuire, Sec
rotary aud Treasurer, and L!ndOn j. ll"ti-
man and Sanford Chancellor, directors. The
fredericksburg News says; From the re-
port of the President We learn that the debts
which hung over the Company at the time of
completing the road have 10 great measure
absorbed the current means, which might
otherwise have been applied to sustaining
better condition of repairs than has been
practicable under the continuing demands
upon the Company. Those debts having
been nearly paid, the Directory are of the
opinion that the Company may be able to
keep up the lower portion Ut the line Toe
tween the Junction and Fredericks 'urs,)
and the Branch Road, for some years TO come.
The Fredericksburg Recorder says
"Along the old mine road in this county, and
the line of the Rappahannock, in Caroline,
the ravages of Tuesdays storm are represen-
ted as fearful, being more terrible than those
Of Saturday. Messrs. Ben. Temple Hum
phries, A. Ii. Bernard and John l.. Marye
are said t. have lost their entire wheat aud
Oat crops--bessides sustaining other serious
injuries. Since Saturday morning not less
than seventy five or one hundred Thousand
dollars worth of property in this immediate
neighborhoyd has been destroyed by hail"
Mrs. Miller was tried 10 Albemar!e Court
last week for concealing stolen goods in her
house, Knowing them to be stolen, found
guilty, and sentenced to the Pcnitentiary
for one year. Many Of the citizens, believing
that she was merely the dupe Of another per-
son, and feeling great sympathy for her, have
cent petition to the Governor asking him TO
pardon her. 1t is a rare circumstance that
a white womau is sent to the Penitentiary IN
Virginia.
A dead child was discovered in quarry
on Mr.. Franklin JordOn's farm, about 8.
miles below Orange Court House, on Wednes-
day last. Suspicious rested upon woman,
belonging 20 MIR. Andrew Grymes. Tne
woman was scot for, and on being questioned
made full confession, stating that the child
was here, and that she bad thrown it 10 the
place where it was found. She is now con-
fined in Jail.
The Winchester Republican says Tho
negro boys poisoned with sugar Of lead, in
the same act that killed two cOlored women
of James Keenan,, have recovered from it's
effects The boy who administered the poison
was sold and scnt South, but not before he
confessed that he had been instigatcd by MS
father, free negro, still in this town
The matter seriously demands inseot'galon.
The Albemarle Circuit Court adjourned on
Tuesday last, after session Of only eight
days. But little civil business, If we except
the Chancery docket, was disposed of, the
business not being prepared. The same un'
prepared condition OF court business was
ID anitest at the late Circuit Court of Loui,a
and Fluvanns, where not single jury case
was decided during the whole term.
The Grafton before tho Columbian Society
at the University, on Wednesday, the lth
inst, (says the Charlottesville Jcffsrsonian,)
was delivered by Mr.. w. w. Bird. of Wash
ingtuu, d G. The whole tenor of this Grafton
was to impress upon tho minds OF bis fellow
students the necessity doing justice 10 them
selves and the University, by performing
their duties faithfully.
The Orange County Chronicle says:-."We
are pleased to notice that our village is brush.
ing up. The spirit of enterprise is abroad on
the retail or small order Better this than
nothing. During the asst few months quite
a number Of improvements have taken place
" hicb add greatly to the appearance OF the
localities in which they have been made"
1t is contemplated to have the Alexandria,
Laudoun and HAMPSHIRE Railroad completed
to Leesburg by next winter. The Romney
Argus rays this important work lis Justly
regarded as the great object OF accomplish
ment" in regard to the county interests OF
Hampshire, and the same may be said OF
every other county along the line Of the road.
At Dumfres, Va, on Thursday morning,
Charles, (about 6 years old) son of WIN. T..
Merchant, esq, while visiting bis cousins,
dressed himself in a booped skirt, and while
amusing himself with the little girls. the
skirts caught fire, and before 1t could be put
out the little fellow was 80 severely burned
that be died in few hours.
The dog catchers" were out at Richmond,
Va, on w ednesdsy. and succeeded 10 cap
turing an inuumersble number ofdog5. The
captives were taken to g suburban locality
known as "horse-heaven," about twilight,
and EXTERN in sted a Ia butcher style--striking
on the head With an axe.
The Msrtinsburg Republican SAYS: AT
the spring ter IN of the Circuit Court for this
county, James j. James obtained verdict
against the Mutual Insurance Company Of
Berkeley county, to the amount Of $3.50
and costs. The insurance was on property
destroyed by fire.
About two thousand dollars have been sui
scribed already for the erection Of a pew and
commodious African Methodist church in
Winchester; on the site of the present bull
ding, which lie much too small to accom-
MEDIATE its large and constantly increasing
congregation.
The following gentlemen have been sp-
pointed Directors, on the part Of the Stock
holders, for the Valley Bank at Leesburg for
the present year John Janney, William
Ii. Gray, Henry 7. Harrison, and Thomas
P. Knox.
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