The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-08-14
News Of the week

Rev. Mr.. Preston of Lexington, has
accepted q call to the Presbyterian
church at Salem.
Sweet potatoes have been in the Pc
tersburg market for several days, and
sell readily at 20 cents per quart.
During the freshet last week, Mr..
owens saw mill. at Rocky point. on
James river, washed away,
General Joe johnson has been made
Doctor of Laws by the College of
William and Mary.
The work of extending tho Alexan-
dria, London and Hampshire railroad
to MERGERS six miles beyond Leesburg
will be commenced this Morning and
prosecuted until completed.
Mr.. John Wharton prominent citi-
zen of Culpeper county, died as his res
idence there on Saturday las aged
about seventy years.
Dr.. f. Horner. ir., has left at the In
dex office for general inspection spec
linen of barytes taken from the quarry
on MIR. kinclieloe's farm.
A farm ofeighty acres, in Northamp-
ton county, on the Eastern shore OF Vir-
glnia, sold few days since for $4,000
in currency.
The prosperity of the Masonic LoGg-
es III hlchnond is without a parallel
since their first establishment in Rich
mond. There are nightly new mem
beers added to most all the Lodges.
The prospect tor large number of
Students ut Washington College, are
very promising, better than they have
ever been at any previous period of its
history.
1t is said that Mr.. j. Randolph Tuck
err on recent trip to the North. was
didclled out of s72, by IA confidence MANI
riding with him In the cars.
General Lee is at the WarmSprlnss with
his family.
Gen. Halpine, (Miles O'Rcilly) who
recently committed suicide in New
York was the author OF the lines, pub
lished in the New York Tribune some
years ago, commencing Clear down
the haunting lie"
! The most furious rain-storm of the
season swept over Richmond on Thurs
day afternoon. The streets were flood
ed, the cutters ran torrents, gardens
| injured, and many fine dresses and bon
nets were injured.
"a lot OF tobacco" was sold in Dan
| vile last Thursday, at one hundred and
| sixty-five- collars hundred, and on
| Friday "a lot Of tobacco was sold in
| Lynchburg at five hundred dollars per
hundred. allow much is "a lot of tobac-
co 2" ~ aa8
A the Virginia Military Institute
there will be about 275 students mex.
term and If the barracks were entirely
| finished and accommodations be had,
there would not be less than 400, as the
applications for appointments are nu-
| merouS. .
! Robberies in the country are becoin-
| ing very frequent occurrences-in some
| sections almost nightly. Barns pig
| stys, hen-roosts, are plundcred, and the
| depredators are in most instances too
sharp to be caught.
Seven convicts, the last of batch of
twelve colored men who were sent to
| I.ynchburg some two weeks since to
| work on the canal near that city, made
| their escape on Sunday last and are
still at large.
The machinery of the Denmead dis
| tillcry was sold at public auction We'd
nesday morning for three thousand four
| hundred dollars Mr.. John y. Har-
vcy being the purchaser. This machi-
merry cost seventeen thousand dollars,
says the Richmond News.
Two drunken soldiers on Sunday
| drove a buggy over precipice on Lib
| bys hill, Richmond, about forty feet high
| The vehicle was demolished and one of
| the men awakened from his drunken
slumber, but the other slept on, the horse
| was unhurt.
The Radical committe meetingin Rich
mond yesterday. determined to buy the
New Nation newspaper, and establish
an organ and also to hold a Grant rat
iflcation meeting on the Goth Instant
| They are much dissatisfied with the nom
removal of office-holders under the four
teenth article.
The freedmen of Lexington held an
| indignation meeting last week in rela-
ton to the conduct of the troops station
ed there, and petition was gotten up
asking for their removal, and that some
other company be sent here, who would
be more friendly to them and their in
| terests.
The Committees of the Virginia and
| Tennessee. the Southside, and the Nor
folk and Petersburg Railroad compa-
mics appointed by the stockholders to
propose n plan of consolidation with
the three roads, will meet at the Vel
low Sulphur Springs the latter part of
| this month.
| The editor of one our Michigan ex-
changes threatens to Ku Klux his de-
| linquent subscribers. Hear him -
| ssSome of our subscribers forgot to pay
up this spring. The secret serpent has
Kissed! Pay up Bloody bill The
yaler coffin grns Pay your subscrip-
| tions promptly The frizzled cat news
Death to traitors ! Two dollars year!
Your doom is sealed K Tx ~ XIII!
If the American people fail to elect
a Democratic Presidentthey know they
wantonly leave their place among ma
tions and plunge beneath the. level OF
| the most iniqiiitious of the medieval
powers, from which position they can
never rise, but must continue to sink
until every vestage of their former glo-
ry is obscured in misery, despotism and
infamy-an object for the derision and
| contempt of the whole world. -Eranli-
ner and Enquirer. s ~ s.
What the North made out of the
South before the late war may be learn
ed from a Northern writer, who speak
ing of the few years before 1861. says:
ave sent South yearly, of domestic
goods, $240,000,000 of imported goods,
slO6, 100000. We charged her as inter-
est and brokerage, $4,000, 900, and we
were in receipt of money from Southern
travellers, s63,360, 900 She gave us IN
return bills on Europe for cotton ship
ped, and also for raw cotton. S265.560,
900 per year other produce. 100000
000."
Tie New York Round Table, litera
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