Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1865-1869, 1866-03-14
STATE NEWS.

Coal has been discovered at the Roanoke Red
Sulpher Springs Of an excellent quality.
The Danville wooen factory with its machinery,
stock and appurtenances, has been leased to Bal
timOre firm,
The Quaker meeting. house in NanscmOnd county
was burnt on Monday night last it is supposed by
incendiarism.
Vacant stores are making their appearance in
Lynchburg. Merchants are tired of paying high
rents,
The vegetable gardens, near Norfolk promise
large crops, especially of early potatoes and toma-
toes
Company az" 9th United States Cavalry, has
been transferred from Washington to Winchester,
Virginia.
4 fire in Lynchburg Saturday morning destroyed
several thousand dollars worth of property the sui
ferers being MessrS. Thomas Smith, Edward Spencer
and Johnson q Dryden. There was no insurance
Mr.. Flint Paymaster Unitsl States navy, and
sub-edtor under Charles n. Butts Of the Norfolk
Old Dominion, logged in his office Saturday by
three men.
On Monday, the Goth ultimo, while Mr.. John II.
Moore was engaged in Mr.. Mc(iee's mill, in Char
lotte county, Va. he was caught between the spur
wheel and trundle head, and instantly crushed to
death.
The carpenters and blacksmiths in the employ of
the SOutl-Side Railroad Company ut the Petersburg
depot struck Saturday evening, and left their sit
nations The complaint which they make is that
the Company was in arrears to them for three
months wages
The Friend Of Temperance is the title of new
weekly paper soon to he commenced at Wythevile,
Va hy John w. Paulett. IT will be issued on II
large sheet neatly printed, at 50 per annum, and
will he the organ of the new temperance organiza-
ton.
The Petersburg Express says: The bones of many
snlders-nOt few of them Conference.-The bleach
ing on the lines southwest of the city. The late
heavy rains washed away the shallow covering of
earth that hid them from view aud skulls and other
homes of the dead lie scattered here and there. This
should not be. human bone is too sacred to be
thus thrown about the fields.
At a meeting of the standing committee Of the
diocese of Virginia, held March 3, the Rev. James
A. MITCHELL deacon, was recommended for priests
orders, and MeSsrS. Theodore NJ Carson and Isaac
Gibson, Gate ministers in the Methodist church,
were recommended for deacOns OrderS,-MeSsTs.
W. O. Hullhen David Bar and Benjamin E. Reed,
were recommended rs candidates for orders. Rev.
Edward T. Walker of South Carolina, has accepted
a call to Leeds Parish Fauquier county.
On Friday night an outhouse in the yard of Mr.
James L. Rddick, of NansemOnd county, caught
fire accidentally, and the wind caused the flames to
communicate with his dwelling house, and thence to
his smoke house, barn and stables, consuming them
ALL Mr.. Rddiok was in Portsmouth, and his wife
and children barely escaped with their lives loosing
everything besides-furniture. bacon, corn carriage
even sheep and poultry, which were locked up and
could not escape. During the war the dwelling
house of this gentlemen was burned by Federal
soldiers, while he was absent in the Confederate
army At that time he lost all his furniture and his
wife narrowly escaped with her life. In the fire of
Friday night he lost hundred barrels of corn and
about six thOusandpounds of bacon, in addition to
his furniture, stock, &c.