The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1865-07-25
VIRGINIA ITEMS.


gives, upon the authority of former
member of the Confederate Signal Corps,
the particulars of horrible affair that
occurred near williamsburg last Wednes-
day, Two Irishmen, who had been
mowingh hay near the town, We're return
ing home late in the evening, with their
scythes over their shoulders, when, on
crossing creek, one of them saw a large
fish in the water, and thinking to secure
it by happening it with the handle of
blow downwards with that instrument,
forgetting, apparently, the existence of
the keen and deadly blade, which de-
scended with fatal effect, looping off his
head with the clean cut of a guillotine
and at the same time shaving off the
right ear and a portion of the jaw of his
CINNAMON. who had drawn near to wit
ness the harpooning process. The severed
head rolled down the bank into the
stream, the eyes winking and swapping
and the face wearing a ludicrOusly
mingled expression of surprise and an
guish. The man who had suffered the
loss of only an ear and part of his face
set up such roar of murder" "help,"
&C., as soon attracted a number of peo-
pie to his aid, when he was carried into
Williamsburg and his wounds properly
dressed.
A SOLDIER SHOT.-Persons living on
the suburbs and beyond the limits of
Richmond have been much annoyed by
depredati0ns upon their gardens. The
military authorities seem determined,
however, to put a stop to it. On We'd
nesday night, a soldier was caught in
the act of stealing potatoes from field
belonging to Mr.. Fendall Griffin, who
resides on the Brook turnpike, near the
first toll-gate. The patrol guard fired
upon him, killing him almost instantly.
A ball entered his left arm and passed
through his body.
A correspondent writing to the Rich.
mond Republic from Louisa county
under date Of the 18th inst, says:
"Those who returned from the wars
too late to put in crops are very busy
washing gold from the branches an6
mines. suppose there are two thous'
and miners at work getting gold in
Goochiand and Louisa countless they
averaging two pennyweight day t
working in Buckingham, Culpeper, Flu
mines have never been fully developed
The quartz veins are large and very
rich, and would pay we'll. But not 6
single quartz mill is working in the gold
districts. In a few places some arc
working with stone and iron mortars
and in that rude way doing very well
There will be brighter day dawn upor
the mining interests of Virginia before
fall.
The auction sale of captured and aban
doned property took place in Richmond
on Saturday at the Government ware
house, corner of Main and Twenty
seventh streets. The attendance was
large, and the bidding very Spirited
Fifty thousand pounds of rags were solo
at u cents per pound; seven Thousand
pounds of old copper at Is to 20 cents
per pound; eight thousand pounds O
old brass at Is to l6 cents; five thousant
pound old lead at 81 cents one hundred
and fifty tons of new bar, and wrough
and cast scrap iron at $25 to $50 per ton
A large lot of miscellaneous articles wa.
also disposed of at satisfactory prices.-
Another sale will take place in few
days.
The Diocesan Council of the Episco
pal Church in Virginia will meet in st
Pauls Church, Richmond, on Wednes
day, September Goth. This will be al
important meeting, as it will have Il
consider the subject of return to tn,
jurisdiction of the General Convention
of the Church or the maintenance of .
separate ecclesiastical organization. Tht
only Southern diocese which has taker
any action thus far is Texas, and tina
has cordially and unreservedly PLACED
itself under the control of the Genera
Convention.
A descent was made on the gambling
houses in Richmond on Saturday night
last, in pursuance of General Grants or
der prohibiting gambling in places un.
der military rule. A great number o.
the profession" were arrested and theil
tools and machinery captured. They
were released the following morning by
order ofthe Provost Marshal. Gambling,
however, will be visited with the heav.
lest penalty. ,t"
The Republic learns from parties who
arrived in Richmond Sunday night that
it was reported in Farmville on Satur-
day that bridge on the Southside road,
few miles this side of Lynchburg,
gave way with the up train last Thurs
day, carrying down the entire train and
killing four persons outright, including
the conductor and engineer, and wound
ing nearly every passenger on the train.
The repairs to the Southside Railroad
are progressing rapidly, and the bridges
all along the route are being speedily re-
built, and there is every prospect of it
being in running order shortly, so as to
connect with Knoxville. The Rich
mond people also expect soon to be put
within six hours time of Washington
by way of the Fredericksburg and Po-
tomac Railroad.
The first iron column erected in Rich.
mond since its evacuation was put up on
Saturday morning last at the large new
of the Messrs. Harvey, on
Thirteenth and Cary streets. This col
umn was cast at the Union Manufacture
ing Works of Richmond, and is very
neat piece of casting.
The Republic says that two negro re-
giments, recently on duty at Point
Lookout, where they are no longer
have been ordered to report for
duty at headquarters in Richmond, and
ire in camp at Manchester, opposittehe
,ity.
Mr.. Charles Palmer, an old citizen of
who was strong Union