Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1866-10-20
VIRGINIA NEWS

There is fight for "the spoils '-Ihe
Washington Star says: -' Messrs. SeWart ana
Riddle as counsel for General L. G. Baker, Il.
J. Conger, and L. B. Baker, have eutered
suit against Morgan Smith, Daugherty' ana
others, who received the Government reward
for the arrest Of the assassination conspfators'
The object Of this suit is that the parties IN
terestcd may come into court, and the equity
Of their claims to portions Of the reward OF
$50, 900 offered by the Corporation OF wash
ington may be determined on
THE Virginia and Tennessee Railroad has
Drepared fare tickets to issue in payment Tor
coupon interest," that is, the holder OF coupons
on which interest may be due will be furnished
with blank card, which will entlte INN to
travel so many miles at five cents a mile, the
Conductor to set down on the card the distance
travelled each time it is used.
The ladies' of the King George Memorial
Association intend giving i large dinner at
King George Court House, on the first thurs
day in November Governor Wise, Rev VIM.
Walker, of Wcslmorcand and Governor
Vance, Of North Carolina, have been invited
by the Society 10 deliver appropriate addresses
on the occasion.
The Lexington (Virginia) Gazette says 4
large number OF cadets and students for WASH
ington College and the Lexington Institute
have come III during the last week from all
parts Of the State and the South, and The num-
bcrs at both institutions are increasing daily.
The Dispatch states that the tobacco faclo
rics Of Richmond will all stop operations by the
lst of November. Some OF them will suspend
earlier, beginning with next week. We learn
that this suspension is on the ground that The
winter is unsiitcd to tobacco manufacturing
Gen Tochman it is said has purchased,
through the agency of Mcssrs. Minor Il Co.,
and McCrackon Il Bro, 3, 800 acres Of land i'll
Spotsylvania county, upon which will be 10
Gated about twenty families Of his countrymcn.
On and after the lst November next thclc
will Lc through tariff ut reduced rates be-
tween the Rchmcnd and Petersburg, Peters
burg and Weldon, Raleigh and CASTOR, and
the North Car0lina railroads to Charlotte, Nc
The old bell Of William and Mary College,
the oldest educational institution in Virginia,
which was recently forwarded North to be re-
cast, has been returned renewed The bell
was recast in Troy, New York.
Mr.. Augustus Hite, son Of Gabriel Elitc,
Esq, Of Augusta county, died in California on
the 18th ult He had been in that State for
about seventeen years, and had not visited his
home since he first went out.
Rev. S. D. Stuart, of Staunton, has returned
from England whittier he had gone to secure
contributions TO the Lee Endowment Fund OF
Washington College, His mission was, to
some extent successful.
The body of a man supposed to be that OF
r. J. Schanck,a German, has been found buried
in retired part of the grounds of citizen OF
Winchester. An investig cation into the matter
is going on.
The Culpcper Observer says, Charles W..
Rixey, E5q., lost by the late freshct some five
hundred barrels Of corn. 1t was very destruc-
tive to the crops throughout the country.
Bishop D. S. Doggctt, is now presiding
over the Kentucky Conference, which is hold
ing its session at E!izabcthtown, in that State.
The Conference Of the Methodist Protestant
| Church Of Virginia will meet in Lynchburg on
the lst Of November.
The Winchester News comes to Us this week
considerably enlarged. The News is an excel
| lent news paper.
The Lutheran Synod of Virginia met at
| Winchester yesterday.
The smallpox is said to be very prevalent
In Portsmouth, Va.