Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1865-1869, 1866-03-12
VIRGINIA NEWS

! OuI eACHdnRes lhTOuHnOut Tue Stdte BeueIail
represent the wheat crop as unpromising.
Cock fighting has recently become quite fashion
able among the sporting fraternity of Lynchburg.
Judge Critcher will hold the first term of his Cir
cult Court at Hanover Court House, on the 18th.
The offices of the National Express Company in
Charlottesville and Stanton have been closed.
It is thought that the Virginia tobacco crop will
be about one-third of what it was before the war.
Captain A. 7. Flagg has been appointed Provost
Judge for the city OF Norfolk, by General Terry
The majority for Hugh Latham for Mayor of Al
exandra, over Mckenzie, the Terrtoralist on Tues
day last, was 575.
Large quantities of cotton are arriving at Nor
folk from the distant South to he shipped TO Eu-
rope.
Rev. Mr.. DOnnelar, of Richmond, succeeds Rev.
j. Hogan in charge of the Catholic Church in
Fredericksburg. The lattG goes to Norfolk
Two fine horses, the property of Colonel ID. c.
/ Dunn, of Abingdon, walked into Captain White
mill-pond few days ago, and committed suicide.
Several business failures at Norfolk and Ports
mouth, Va IN consequence of high store rents, are
reported.
Colonel Byars the oldest inhabtant of Washing
ton county-nearlyi if not quite one hundred years
died recently after useful and honorable life.
The County Court of Appomattox, on Thursday
adopted the fence law recently passed By the Legis
lature.
DIR. 4. c. Byrne, of Alexandria, a surgeon in the
late Confederate army, whose property had been
taken from him. has had it restored
Colonel John Crenshaw, of Bedford county. died
Friday last of disease Of the lungs lie was about
seventy-twO years old and universally respected
The dwelling house of Mr.. Philip BrownIee, near
Fincastle, Va, was burned on Monday evening last.
The most of the furniture also was destroyed
The National Express Office in Bristol has been
discontinued account of not being able to obtain
transportation the Virginia and Tennessee rail
road.
few nights since, the smoke. house of Mr. J.
| Kirby residing New London, in Bedford
county, was broken into, and between twelve and
fifteen hundred pounds of bacon carried oil.
Chaplain Ferree, Superintendent of Freedmen in
LoudOun county, has been removed by General
Howard for lcvyng improper fees on citizens. \
parson, at that
The True SOutherner, a radical paper published in
the interest of the freedmen in Hampton, Virginia,
has been obliged to suspend its publication there for
want of adequate support.
The loss of property in Fredericksburg during the
war; was. in real estate over half million, and in
| personal property, considerably million
aggregating nearly ti?O millions loss, in population
OF five thousand.
destructive fire occurred in Stafford county,
last week. sweeping belt of land mile and a half
in width Mr.. John Pollock lost wood rails, young
from being destroyed.
On Wednesday, the 2Sth ultimo, at abOut three
O'clock, p. NJ. the residence OF Mr. John Click, near
| Mount Meridian, Augusta county, was consumed
with nearly all its contents. All the oubuildingS
on the premises were burned.
The dwelling house of Mr.. Il. r. Lavender, at
GOgginsvlle, in Franklin county, was entlely con-
sumed by fire on Sunday night last. The entire fur
nture of the house, with large quantity of groceries
of various kinds were also destroyed
An ARRAY occurred at Mt. Airy depot, Virginia
and Tennessee railroad, on Saturday last between
Dr. Hobson Clark and James \. Etter. Doctor &.
received several severe cutsrOm knife in the hands
| of Eter.
The dwelling house of Mr.. David Toomey, in
Wythevlle, was totally consumed by fire last Tues
day. Most of the furniture contained in the house
was saved, though in broken and damaged condi-
ton. Mr. Toomey's loss is about s3,OO0
Mr.. Brittenham, charged with numbering a negro,
has been found guilty of manslaugter in the second
degree and sentenced to three years Imprisonment
in the State Penitentiary by the court martial at
| Fortress Monroe.
The dwelling belonging to Mrs. Edith Saunders,
near Leesburg, LoudOun county, at the time occu-
pied by Mr.. Slas Simpson, burnt Thursday
night. Mr.. Simpson lost nearly all he had, and with
difficulty saved his children from the flames.
Mrs Rebccca Imboden, who lives a short distance
from Lexington, had her smOke-house broken open
on the night of the 9th ultmO and about two hun
dred pounds of bacon, some land and a barrel of
meal taken away. This is the fifth sixth time,
within few months, that this lady has been robbed.
Mr. Joseph Sanford, of Spotsylva1a Court House,
has disposed OF 600 or 200 acres Of his estate
to Joseph Robinson, Of Lancaster Pa, aud -
Shaw, at Philadeph for between Sll and Sl2 per
acre. Mr.. Sanford retains the hotel and over 300
acres of land.
The Lexington O'o.) Gazette has been consoli.
dated with the paper proposed to be started There to
he called the "SiORcirdH Banner" and will here
after he called the Gazette IL Banner, under pro.
prictorship of Mcssrs Samuel H. Letchcr, j. NJ.
Leech ana c. II. Burgess.
A fire in the woods was started on Tuesday, few
miles from Lecshurg, which soon became unma9agc-
able, and destroyed large quantity Of fencing, and
endangered several residences in the neighborhood.
Mr.. George L. Rust lost ahout four thousand rails.
Losses have also heeW sustained in the neghborhood
of MiddleBurg from Il similar cause.
The Charlottesville ChrOHicic publishes y oata.
lOgue of the students now at the University 0f ViI-
Simia, FROM which We ascertain that the whole num-
Der of students is 9jS-abaut the number present in
'I7-S or these, Virginia sends ltd; Maryland, 9;
| Alabama II; North Carolina, 10; Tennessee, (;
Louisiana. 6 West Virginia, q; South Carolina, b
Georgia 4 Texas, 3; Kentucky, 8; Missouri, ?;
Mississippi, .; California, /; New York l. New
Jersey, / Pennsylvania |; Delaware, |; Illinois,
/; District of Columbia, |.
The West Virginia Legislature having by a unan
imous vote, passed bill providing for the payment
of the cost in certain suit of Judge George W.
Thompson against Governor Pcirpont the Wheeling
| Register takes that body TO task the subject 1t
saws: "Why should West Virginia alone be COM.
pced to pay for an act done by him when this State
was an integral mart Of the old DominionH West
Virginia would better pay her own citizens the
amount Of the legal judgment they hold against her.
before paying for wrongs done by the Governor of
another State"
The original charter of the ancient city of Will
amsburg, granted in the reign Of George was lost
during the and surprising it 10 hc destroyed, it
was proposed % send to England for duplicate Of
the venelatGd and much pr2ed document, Through
the means OF the press, however, the lost document
has hcen heard from, and is now IN the hands of
Brigadicr- General William Il. Brown, late Colonel of
the One Hundred and SiXty-eigth Regiment New
York Volunteers. lie obtained it while on visit
to Williamsburg, in May, 1853 from mass Of rub
bish which was lying in the Office Of the Provost
Marshal The charter, he says, Is written in clear
hand on old paper, English water mark, in the time
of George |, 25th July, in the eighth year of his
reign, and signed = Alexander SpOtswOOd, and GER
tilted as follows: 'Truy recorded, and examined
with the original, by Joseph Davenport, Town
Clerk" ''
TUT latest rrom canada,
New YoRE, March 8, Mddight.-The ifmcs has
received the following special dispatch, dated Otta
wa, this evening:
Parliament has been called to meet April 10TH
Nova Scotia and New Brunswick will Immediately
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