Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-08-28
VTRG}NTA NEWS.

weeks ago, the wife of Mr. Chas. s. Miller, OF
Bath Co., was bitten on the leg by rattlesnake
The inside bark Of the white walnut tree
was applied TO the leg above the place bitten,
and when taken off the bark was marked and
spotted just Ike the rattlesnake. This Is the
testimony of Rev. Mr. Houston and DR.. Hop
kins, of the Warm Springs, and other persons.
Remedies we're administered by physicians,
and the woman recovered The walnut bark
had been applied before the physicians arrived.
A party Of armed negroes one night last
week went to the house Of q Mr.. Johnson, near
Christiansburg, dragged from his bed colored
man in the employ of Mr. johnson, and taking
him short distance from the house, inflicted
on him hundred and forty-four lashes because
he refused to join their League. As he could
not be subdued by punishment, he was ordered
to leave the county in less than six hours on
pain Of being murdered if found longer IN it.
General Schofeld last week ordered Com
mission of Magistrates in Hanover county to
investigate whether coored military organi
cation existed. The investigation showed a
secret military organization OF formidable
strength among he blacks, which is believed to
extend throughout the State. The TACT created
some alarm among the whites, who have neither
organization nor arms.
A meeting of the Hunnicutt Radicals was
held in Richmond on Monday night at Hunnl-
cult headquarters to devise some means to
keen the "New Nation" newspaper from ey-
piring. After much talking, it was determined
to call on each colored voter to subscribe TWEEN
ty-fve cents a week to keep the paper going.
Those present agreed to pay the sum required.
Mr.. Wm. B. Smith, night Waterman on the
o. & A. Railroad, was run oyer and instantly
killed, by the Northward bound passenger
train, on Saturday night, some three miles
from Charlottesville Mr.. Smith being man
| of steady habits, it is supposed that he Tell
asleep on the track, as hia lamp was burning
by his 81 le.
Titus Paine, of Luray, Page county, OF un-
crossed African descent, and very worthy
! colored man, who commenced to turn white IN
| 1862, is still undergoing the process OF trans
formation. One-tenth of his whole body is
now white, and the change continues to go on
every day.
Ia the language of a citizen OF Rockingham
county, who has the faculty OF using express
sive terms, Gov. Pierpoint, 'exploded his ex-
patterments" in the Courthouse at Stanton
on Monday. He did not assail, az at Harris
| onburg, the institutions Of learning in the
| State.
Over five hundred thousand dollars have
been subscribed By Virginia counties TO the
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. The county
of Greenbrier has voted two hundred and fifty
| thousand dollars.
The Governor has appointed William h. NJ.
| Word, ESD, Of Botetourt county, member OF
the Board of Visitors of the University Of lr-
gna, vice Chales L. Mosby, resigned
The Charlottesville Chronicle says: I'VE
are glad to hear that the prospects OF the UNI
yersity for the next session are very fattering.
4 meeting Of exoflicer5, soldiers and sailors
OF the e. s., has adopted call for Con-
venton to meet at Richmond, September D.