Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1865-1869, 1866-03-30
VIRGINIA NEWS.

The Gazette reports robberies very frequent
and bold in and about Lexington.
The wheat crop in Rockbridge is reported
improving, and large corn crOpis to beplanted.
The County Court of Frederick has adopted
the fence law.
Mr.. Samuel Plunket, of Lexington, aged
seyenty-two years, died last Wednesday. He
was a faithful soldier in the war of 1872.
General Henry A. Wise will be in Staunton,
April 4th, and deliver a speech before the
Valley Railroad Convention.
The Virginia Military Institute, Lexington,
is to be rebuilt very soon, all the arrangements
having been made by General Smith to secure
this desirable object.
The Rockingham Register states that the
White House, Washington, d. c., is supplied
with two hundred pounds of fresh Rockingham
butter every week.
Mr.. Franklin Stearns, member of the House
OF Delegates from HenricO, has resigned his
seat in that body. Hegives as a reason for ten
dering his resignation that he did not accom-
plish as much good as he expected.
The sum of three thousand dollars, raisedby
the ladies of the Lutheran Church, Winchester
by their fair in Baltimore, is to be equally di-
vided between the church and the Soldiers
Cemetery.
Boring for oil on Mr.. J. D. Alexanders land
is progressing. So says the Lynchburg Ne,cS.
\ depth Of between twenty-five and thirty feet
has been reached. The average depth that can
he bored in day is from four to six feet.
The ladies' of Warrenton, Virginia, gave
concert on Monday night, toad in raising funds
to enclose and ornament the cemetery of the
soldiers buried there during the war, and
hundred and fifty dollars were realized, in
creasing the fund on hand to four hundred dol
lars.
On the goth instant, two men, named Lam
bert and Blake, got into difficulty in Martins
burg, West Virginia. Lambert fired revolver
at Blake the ball, however, missed Blake and
struck c. S. Gephart, taking effect in the alb
domen, creating a wound which resulted in his
death the following evening.
The County Court of Fauquier, on Monday
last, rejected the fence law as ,ohole by a
vote of IA to IA; but adopted it as to sheep
and hogs, by vote of is to II. For portions of
the Weaverville and Baltimore district the whole
law was afterwards adopted by vote of IS to
10. Later in the day, some of the justices hav-
ing left, the last action was reconSidered and
rejected, by vote of Is to 10.
The President OF the Baptist General ASSO-
citation of Virginia has been requested to an
nounce a poStpOnement of the annual meet
ing of that body from the 3lst of May to the
18th of June, lS66, at four O'Clock, P. NJ. This
has been done in order to give those persons
who desire to attend the Southern Baptist Con-
ventiOn, which will be held in Russellville, Ken
lucky, on the 22d of May, sufficient time to re-
turn before the assembling of the General AS
sociation in this State
We are pleased to read such paragraph as
the following from the Rockingham (Va.) Reg
lister: An intelligent farmer residing near
HarriSOnburg, informs us that more land will be
plowed and put into cultivation in Rockingham
this spring than has ever before been titled
Our informant states that he has travelled over
the country pretty extensively, and believes,
from what he has SEEM that probably one-half
of the cleared land will be plowed up and
under cultivation.
Under the head of "The Tobacco Crop" the
Lvnchburg Ne,cS says "From all quarters of
the tobacco region of Virginia and North Caro-
lima we have assurances that great efforts will
be made TO plant a crop of this favOrite staple
The want of agricultural labor will be exhibit
edleSs we think in the production of tobacco
than in any other agricultural product
Whilst we do not contemplate the possibility of
the growth Of an average crop, and whilst we
know that few individuals will be able to put on
the market the large quantities which hereto
fore were not uncommOnly the product of one
farm, yet we believe the aggregate amount of
tobacco raised will be much greater than was
at one time believed to be possible. We
think, however, the quality of the article will
be greatly below an average"