The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-09-04
News or the week.

Dispatches from the plains report
| hostile movements on tn part of the
Indians, and that war is inevitable.
After the 10Th OF October printed
matter is to be sent to Catalonia, by
the overland mails at newspaper rates.
Thr Canadian authorities have pro-
| hibited,the transportation OF cattle from
the United States.
A number Of children in Boston have
been made sick by eating castor oil
| beans.
a party Of Hungarian gypses were
mobbcdat Woolwich England, recently
being mistaken for Ably ssinian soldiers.
One of the new Judges for the English
bench just appointed by the Disraeli
government is Il Ro man Catholie-Mr.
Sergeant Hayes,
Fifty eolored bricklayers from Charls-
ton, S. G.. offered ther ten hoar service
mt the Master Masons meeting i'll n. y.
on Thursday.
The potato crop in Connecticut is be-
| ing seriously injured by a worm eating
not at the bottom, but at the top of the
plant.
a Cincinnati pa onr says tat fully
halt the burial permits issued in that c-
| ty are for children who die from cholera
| intantum.
A Democratic demonstration took
| place ut New Orlrans on Saturday, in
which according to the dispatch, a num-
Der of negro clubs participated.
Gen. Frank Blair has been invited TO
attend the Wisconsin State fair during
The last week in September, and has
promisedsto be present if possible.
The horse epedemic in Brooklyn, N
y. shows no signs of spreading but eX-
traordinary precautions rebeing taken
by the owners and stabiers.
| A meeting of the American TURF Con-
gress has been called to meet at Nash
Vile on the DIST of October. Many
points ofgleat importance are to be de-
cided.
| Missouri has more than four hundred
acres in indian corn this year than she
had last year. Other States have in
creased their production of the same ar
| ticle.
The boil worm is SAID to be ravish-
ing the cotton crop on the prairie and
river counties of Mississippi. Planters
IN Lee, Chickasaw, and adjoining coun-
ties lose half their crops.
On the Goth of August there were
about one thousand visitors ut the Vir-
ginia White Sulphur Springs, including
many, distinguished person lges from
the different sections of the Union.
| Rev. Henry Wendt, who was serving
iITteen years sentence in the Pennsyl-
vana penitentiary for having outraged
| anumber OF little girls whom he had I'M
| der his charge, has esca ped from prison
| aud it is thought gone to Europe.
The young girl named Mary Ann
| Russell whQ was run over and killed
| by Hudson River cars at Peek skin,
proved to have been violated by two
men and left on the track in an insen-
sible condition. The Williams are at
large.
In philadelphia yesterday, man
was kicked to death by three rufffans
in the street. Two of the murdelers
have been arrested. About the same
time three men were shot and badly
wounded in house of ill-fame in the
northern part of the city.
The question of the appointment OF
| Supervisors of Revenue is still inset
tied though overtures have been made
by Secretary McCulloch for confer
| ference between iiuself and Mr. Roll
| Inns to consider the nominations pend
ing. The Secretary hopes to effect
compromise.
1t is said that Senator Morgan who is
now in Washington, having conferred
| with various Radicals there, it has been
settled that he and Gen. Sehenck shall
meet in that city prior to the 21st of
| September, to finally determine the
subject OF session OF Congress at that
time.
In the Tennessee Senate, on Satur-
day, resolution was adopted appoint
lng-a committee to proceed at once to
! Washington to consult the President in
regard to sending troops to Tennessee.
This is considered as u hopeful indica-
ton against call NO out the MALTA. A
public meeting is TO be held in Nash
vile i'll order to aid in stopping the
"calling out ofthe malitia.'
| A terrible tragedy it is said has oc-
currd at Bell river a small station on
Great river in Canada. The saw ard
| grist mill of E. Van Ordcn was burned
and Van Orden, his wife, and nephew,
were burned. 1t is supposed they were
| robbed and murdered before the mills
were fired. Another mill in the vicini-
ty owned by Detroit parties was burn
ed, with one million feet of lumber.
At the inquest of the lying in hospi-
tai in Annuity street, New York, over
the body of the girl named Susnanah
Latten, it transpi'eG that there was
over two dozon families there and evil
dence was given showing that all the
infants born were given away to UNI
known parties. 1t is private concern
and is carried on by a DR.. &rindle and
his wife, who are saidIto be now in Wis
consn and the student examined stat
ed that the DR.. Informed him That the
place was patornized mostly by mar
iied ladies.
A gentleman in Fair Haven, Conn.,
whoa few months since senta draft forg,
$3.50 to Maryland, heard nothing from
1t and wrote to ascertain the cause. In
reply he was told tie draft had not been
received. An investigation was made |
and the draft was found in bank in |
New York, which had paid it on a for
ged endorsement, very much unlike the
signature of the payee. 1t was sup
posed it was stolen from the mailssby a
postmaster in Maryland, who had |
charge of The Office in a town adjoining
the one in which the payce lived, and |
who has since abscondcd OH account |
of u series of mail rooberies.
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