Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-11-13
VIRGINIA NEWS.

commenced It's session IN hlcnm0nu yesterday
In the absence Of District Attorney Beach,
Mr.. Weed appeared for the y. s., and gave
natice that on Monday next the trial docket
would be called, and that the cases of property
libelIed fer violation Of the revenue laws, will
be Immediately brought for trial. The petit
Jurors have been summoned to be present on
that day.
The habeas corpus case oil G.. 7. Griffin, in
yolviug the question of the validity OF the recent
amendment of the Constitution, was called up
Yesterday, at Richmond, in the Circuit Court
of the u. S.. and by consent OF counsel the case
was continued until Tuesday next. Z. 5. Bun
dy appeared for the petitioner and Attorney
General BoWden represented the State OF
Virginia.
The feature OF the day at the last Caroline
Court consisted Of Radical speeches from
two coored men, candidates for the Legislature
Crockett, who halls from Tennessee, and a
coored man. o blacksmith, who formerly be-
longed to VIM. l. Dickinson. Crockett gave
notice that Gov. Wells and Gen. Wiekham
would make speeches there on Saturday.
The Fredericksburg Herald says: Several
parties in Rocklaad, Maine, have sent COM
pany Of young men to Virginia to cut ship
timber the coming winter The ship-timber
living along the Potomac and Rappahannock
| rivers, is among the most valuable III the world,
and proprietors of the soil should see to 1t that
some Of the profits reach their own pockets.
Mrs. Virginia Goodwin, respectable widow
lady in Amherst county, committed suicide on
Tuesday, by taking audanum For some time
Mrs. G. had been in i'll health, and this cause,
combined with circumstances OF domestic
character, is supposed to have led her to the
commission Of the rash deed
The Norfolk VrginiaD says: 1.-The bays and
sounds are covered with ducks, and the can
vass backs are more numerous than they have
been in our waters, for the last twenty years.
A single sportsman killed seventy brace OF all
varieties in single day during the past week.
The Shenandoah Herald says: "We learn
from a resident Of Cedar Greek Valley, that
the wolves are becoming very numerous, as
we'll as troublesome 1t is almost impossible
to protect the sheep from their depredations. "
A true bill has been found by the grand jury
of Shenandoah, on last Monday, against John
Murphy, charged with the murder of Conner.
! The particulars Of the horrible affair were no
ticed some time ago.
1t is reported that the two coored men who
were tried on Wednesday before Judge Chris
! tan at New Kent G. H., for the murder OF a
half breed Indian, named Baker, have con-
fessed their guilt.
The Supreme Lodge of the knights of Pyth-
las adjourned their annual session at Whining
ton, Del, Tuesday evening, to meet again in
the city of Richmond, Va, on the second Tues
day in March.
We hear that one or more persons IN Louisa
county are engaged in packing Sumac By means
of tobacco presses: destined for the Liverpool
market. This is considered risky move.
The Earthquake in San Francisco.
A San Francisco lady thus describes her
recent earthquake experience in a letter to the
Cleveland Leader: Sitting quietly in the
dining room on Wednesday morning before
breakfast, some OF the family with me- and
others yet in their rooms, there came that I'M
mistakable roar which | knew from past eXper-
fence, accompanied by violent shaking OF the
building, rafting of windows, cracking and
| groanng Of timbers, the motion so violent that
we instinctive!y rushed for the yard. 1t was
| difficult to keep our feet. thought verify
| it was the end of time for US, and went out in
sort of blind terror, expecting the house to
crush me before | could reach an open space
| After the shock was over | passed from the
yard into the street, and there the scene was
| indescribable Many vehicles, huggies with
gentlemen on their way to their places OF bust
ness, wagons and loaded drays, arrested as if by
magc-the street as far as the eye could see was
crowded with men, women, and children, pale
Nu,th Won n N
| fallen from Il two-story house to the ground,
brick hitting some one, who was being car
ried into house and still nearer lady IN
| fanting fit was being attended to on the side
walk. This was the tableau presented TO me
at the first glance. After few moments, our
earth seeming TO be terra frn1G once more, and
my nerves a little quieter. | went into the
| house, aud sat down at the breakfast table,
| but had scarcely tasted food before there came
another slight shock, and away | went for the
street. and then back again three times before
| | could make q meal There were five slight
| tremblings, at but fifteen or twenty minutes
| between. In the street we heard the widest
rumors OF runaways, falling buildings, gas
| houses down, men crushed. Of course there
were many incidents OF people fleeing from
| their houses in scant costume, or in none, and
| in hotel lady told me of seeing three gen
| tlemen in the door OF 4 room, standing In wild
alright each one tightly eveloped in sheet,
and of a lady returning from the street in her
night dress, endeavoring vainly to pull the
crimping pins out of her hair. From house
on one Of the streets there issued a woman
with her hoopskirt over her night dress, and
as she stepped out she caught her foot In it
and fell four other women, following, fell
upon her, the last one exclaiming, as she went
down, 30, Lord, please don't swallow me yet.
THE WEST INDIES. -The New York papers
have late advices from Hayti, Jamaica and the
British Antilles The bombardment of Jere-
ME by Salnave was commenced without giving
any time to non-combatants to remove and
without any regard to the wishes Of the u. S.
and other foreign Consuls that foreign proprer
ty should be respected. The English gunboat
Dart and the steam ram Niobe are charged to
watch that the Potion, Sauave's war steamer,