The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-11-06
STATE NEWS.

1t is said that Randolph Macon Col
lege, is iii a tiovrishlng condition, with
an increasing list OF students.
General Lee was greeted on his APP
pearance at the Fair in Staunton with
great enthusiasm.
Judge Underwood has granted Il writ
of habeas corpus in the ease of Sallie
Anderson the negress, sentenced to be
hung for arson IN HenIico county.
The people or Jefferson county, w.
Va. did nobly at the election. 4 ey
elected their whole Conservative couu-
ty ticket.
The friends ofTenipefance held their
third State council In Stanton last
week, There are AZ councils in Virgin
la, and the order is said to be going on
steadily and successfully.
Mr.. A. G.. Belt, of Loudon county,
visited Frederick, Md, last week to at
tend the Agricultural Fair, and was
robbed ofhls pocketbook containg about
$3.50, in greehbacks.
A Delegation of railroad men are
now in Richmond consulting with the
Governor in regard to the railroad in
terests OF the State. The object Of the
conference is to favor the consolidation
measures of General Malone
On Wednesday week last, stack
yard on the farm of Mr.. w. II. Moore,
IN jeff rson county, consisting of four
ricks. aud three stacks of grain, was to-
tally destroyed by fire, involving loss
TO Mr.. Moore. of net less than eight
hun dred bushels of wheat.
There are now AS students in attend
ance at the University, ilclnding ~
from Mary land, Il 0 from Virginia, 3
from District of Columbia. from West
Virginia. u from G eoi gia. 80 from Ala
hama, 20 from Mississippi, IL from Ten
nessee, and others from different sec
tons Of the country.
Tine many friends ofDr. Latham will
be gralified to learn, that his little son
Henry who was hurt so grievously
the other day, is still doing we'll, and
the indications all point to his recovery
The skull is undoubtedly broken, but
the fracture is believed not to be Sc
we're one, and the consequences will
pr Gbably not he serious.
The Rockingham Old Commonwealth
says: 1--WE are glad to learn that cn-
terprising men OF capital are filling our
mountain sides with sheep. We can
care for million in or mountain slopes
and hills, and certainly there is no in
vestment in which there is more mon
ey than the purchase Of a few tho usand
acres of our fine mountain land, and the
raising of sheep"
Reuben Walton, E 50. living near
Newport. Page county, Va, has been
offered $4,000 dollars tor his orchard,
which was planted only five wears ago,
and contains IL acres and one thousand
trees. 1t seems to us that with the ia
cilties for market which the people of
the Valley now have, the cultivation of
fruit must become a leading enterprise,
1t will certainly pay Win. Times.
An elderly single gentleman of this
city. who. before the war had a comfort
able income was accosted in the street
q few days since by an acquaintan ce,
who had not met Will, him for Il long
time. 10 the inquiry where do you live
now ?' he received the reply. 'in tn
Aims House." He had lost all of his
property by the war, and was compell-
ed to take up his abode among the dis
consulate inmates OF the city Aims
House. Rich. Wing.
The first Agricultural Fair of Angus
ia county, awarded the first premium
for best smoking tobacco to the Lone
JAG brand of our friend Mr.. John w.
Carroll. A dispatch from stanton,
says ''Lone Jack is as ever ahead-so
say ALL" We are proud that the mer-
its of Mr.. Carroll's tobacco have again
been officially endorsed and rewarded.
We speak from personal experience in
saying that the Lone Jack brand has
no superior in the world for strength
and fragrance and such is the verdict
OF all who have tested it.
The Fredericksb urg Tei ala says that
DR.. NJ. Wallace ofKing George county
has exhibited to it what appears to be
an Indian image. taken from The lndi-
an Mound, in the vicinity of Marlboro
Point on the Potomac river. The i'm
age is carved on large shell. The eyes
are holes drilled through the she'll, and
the nose is raised by carving. The
contour of the face is neither human or
beast, but partakes OF both. Seven
years ago, it is said, copper and gold
were picked up at the mouth of the ifs
sure leading into the mound.