Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-10-09
VIRGINIA NEWS.

came to Virginia in the second New Hamphlre
regiment, will be hanged tomorrow at Ports
mouth, for rape on Miss Ford. Benz. Jefcr-
sou, negro. who held the mother of the young
| girl while Perkins violated her daughter, anG
was also to have been hanged tomorrow, has had
his sentence committed TO imprisonment tor
lite bv the Governor. A negro has been SEN
fenced TO the penitentiary for two years, tor
attempting to violate the widow OF an ex-Con-
federate General in Southside, Virginia.
At the last session Of the .. S. District
Court in Richmond, the assets of the Bank OF
the Valley at Winchester were placed IN the
hands Of Fl. G. FAINT, as receiver. More than
million ofdollars of the bank noteswere found.
This money was ordered by the court to DC de,
stroved, It was brought to Richmond, and
Messrs. Mann R. Quarles, Richie Quarles and
| B. II. Hunter appointed to count and destroy
| if. There was found to be one million one
hundred thousand dollars. On Monday alter
| noon it was taken to furnace in the lower part
OF the city and burnt.
Additional circumstances have come to light
since the arrest of the negroes Gardner and hen-
| nedy, going still further to connect them With
the murder Of Baker and Mrs. Stewart, IN
| New Kent county, The gun found tied to Ba-
ker's body when he was taken from the water
has been identified by several additional persons
| as kennedys gun, and pair OF Baker s pants
have been found at Kennedy's house, filled
with grain.
Tie Irish citizens Of Richmond held rous-
ing meeting en- Tuesday night to consider
resolution about the purchase of homestead
for cx.Govcrncr Wise. Several speeches were
made, and committee appointed to confer
with the Germans and other citizens or hlcn,,
mond as to the proprety OF holding q grand
mass meeting to take the subject Into consoeF-
| alton.
Three Of the convicts that attempted to es-
cane from the cars on the Chesapeake and
| Ohio railroad on Tuesday, and who were
wounded and rccaptured, were brought down
in the cars Yesterday afternoon and returned to
| the nenitentiary at Richmond. Two of them
| are very seriously injured. 1t is said one OF
whc escaped has been captured in Gordons7llle
j. T. Redmon, Grand Master Of the Grand
Lodge of Virginia, Independent Order OF ODD
Fellows, and j. G. Smith, Past Grand Master,
both ofNorfolk are on an official visit to all the
lodges in the Valley and Western Virginia
| proper.
Jacob K. Shafcr, elected to Congress by the
Democrats Of Montana Territory, former
student of Washington College and student
law in the office of Governor Letcher. lie
is native of Rockingham county, Va.
At a fishery at Buckrow, near Old Point,
five hundred bushels of fish, embracing almost
every variety caught at this season in those
| waters, were the proceeds Of one days hauling
| few days ago.
Col. John Branncr, President Of the East
Tennessee and Virginia railroad, was found,
Tuesday morning, speeches. and unable to
| move, from stroke OF apopexy.
Bishop McGi confirmed sixty in st. Paul S
Church, Portsmouth, on Sunday. The mem
| bership of St. Paups numbers over 5000 per-
sons
| COL Gillian has sold his vineyard tract Of
| land, in Rockbrdgc county, containing ninety
! four acres, to Thomas NJ. Wade, for $4,000.
The residence Of Mr.. ". n. McVcigh, for
| merly of Alexandria, has recently has been
| robbed in Richmond, of clothes, chickens, &c.
The Conference of the Methodist Episcopal
Church South, will meet in Charlottesville, on
I the 18th of November.
The Grand Division Sons Of Temperance
meets in Petersburg, October 18th.
Beavers arc numerous in Nottaway county.
! WASHINGTON ITEMS. estcrday morning,
about four O clock, Mr.. John D. Morrison, a
| farmer from Montgomery county, while on his
wav to this city with a load of produce for mar
! ket, was suddenly assaulted by two negro men,
who were lying in wait on the side of the road
They knocked Mr. Morrison from his seat, and
both jumped upon his body, with rope,
for the purpose of tying him. The noise made,
had the effect of arouslng q friend OF Mr.. Nor
rison's, who was lying asleep in the wagon
| He Jumped out, and dealt one of the mlscre-
ants blow on the head, which had the effect
of causing both him and his companion to tai Ike
to their heels Mr.. Morrison was badly bruls-
! cd but not seriously wounded
| ond Ward Radical Club was held. Mr.. John
| L. Pfau, former member of the City Coun-
ellis, and clerk in the Treasury Department,
| presided. An election for officers was held,
when Mr.. Pau was deposed by the election Of
! Charles II. Peters, coIored man, as Presl-
! dent The feature Of the evenings perform
! ance was the enterance Of a company OF negro
soldiers knownas the Grant Rihemen, - They
| were armed with muskets, and created quite
sensation among the blacks, one OF whom dur
ing the meeting asked for contributions for the
support and assistance Of this armed BAND
Nat. IatclHQcnccr.
VIM j. King was few days ago arrested
for malicious mischief and committed to Jail
for three months by q justice of the peace
To-day Kiog was brought out on a writ OF
habeas corpus, and discharged by Judge Wyhe,
who decided that justice Of the peace had no
authority to commit prisoner to Jail as
punishment for the offence.
Among other bushes transacted at the SEES
sion of Potomac Presbytery here, was the
adoption of resolution appointing Rev. S.
D. Noyes to cite the members Of the First
Constitutional Church of Baltimore to appear
before meeting Of this Presbytery on the last
Monday Of this month, to show cause why
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