The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-06-05
STATE NEWS.

Gently, was an Alexandrian.
Bishop Johns confirmed thirty-eight
candidates in Lynchburg on Sunday
last.
The Orange Alexandria and Manas-
sas Gap railroad will be completed to
Harrisonburg by the first of October.
Water was let into The new aqueduct
and through it. into the Alexandria Ca
nal On Thursday.
General Seholieid has issued an order
reinstating Mr.. j. II. McCully as SER
geant of Danville.
Capt. James Il. Bonnie yell died at
his residence on Pine street Suffolk on
Tuesday last. #...t.. 81.
The Montgomery White Sulphur
Springs, will not be opened to visitors
the coming season.
Right Rev. Bishop Magill confirmed
% persons Mt the Catholic church in
Lynchburg on Sunday.
| A negro man named Jacob King
hung himself from limb ofa tree near
Richmond on Tuesday.
Mrs. Sarah Glassell has sold her
dwelling house with ten acres of land
to the trustees Mrs. Augusta Scott for
| 1880.
A pottery will soon be established at
Whitmell, in pittsylyania county, at
| which will be manufactured all kinds
OF stoneware in general use.
An unsuccessful attempt was made
by the prisoners confined in the Fred
ericksburg Jail to break out on Sunday
night. =. ...-... -
At the last Prince Edward county
court, ten negroes were sent to the pen
itentiary for breaking into houses aud
stealing.
At Lynchburg on Tuesday, n negro
boy who had stolen watch, on being
holly pursued by the police, took to the
river and was drowned.
The ny has appeared in the wheat in
Rockingham county Virginia, and it is
feared the crop will not yield more than
one-third the usual amount.
A negro boy aged fourteen years cut
his mothers throat with a razor, at
Lynchburg, on Tuesday, because she
wanted to make him accompany her
home.
Fifty thousandwhitei from
the Gulf States, will come to Virginia,
If the land propriet tors, who own large
tracts, will donate to them portion
OF their surplus area. .I..,. ffzs7.#....r
The iron works i'm Preston county,
West Virginia known as Virginia, fur
mace, with 700 acres of mineral lands
have been sold for 10000, and will be
put in operation as. soon as practicable.
The hop culture has been commenc ed
near Fredericksburg. Several gentle
men have finished planting the root.
A Mr.. Beardsley will have twenty
five acres under cultivation. - "a
Its reported that General Rosseau
will be appointed to command Militia
ry District, No. l, i'm case Gen. Scho-
field should be confirmed Secretary of
War.
A Mr.. r. g. Burton, In digging a
post-hole near Alexandria, on Monday
unearthcd a key containing about IS
dollars in copper5coins most OF which
were of ancient date.
On Friday. $50 acres OF the Farm
known as the 'GrantwOod," situated
about two miles from Fredericksburg,
was sold to New York gentleman at
S45 per acre. a#s H.l a.Hi ~.
Grace church was sonsecrated by as
sistant Bishop Whittle, on Sunday
morning, and after the ceremonies the
rite of confirmation was administered
to three persons. aa .iaa
We are glad to hear from the South
west that the wheat in Montgomery,
Pulaski, Giles. Craig and FLOYD cotIil-
ties, is looking we'll, and promises
more abundant yield than for many
years past. .....-
The dwelling OF Mr.. Cyrus Snapp, al
few miles from Stanuton was acciden-
tally burned on the night of Wedncs-
day the 18th instant. But little was
saved. The loss was between three
and four thousand dollars. .=....
A young fellow in Richmond tried to |
kill himself with dose of cold poison |
because he heard his sweetheart tell a |
female companion he was n ssnincom-
poop and BOBBY" He proved the
truth of the woman's words.
On the night of the % the granary of
Col. A. W. Hartman, near Staunton was |
struck by lightning and consumed, to-
gether with about two hundred bushels |
of corn, oats, clover seed, farming I'M
plements &C., HH'." 9a'I
Mr.. Samuel A. Fairchild of Orange
N. j. has purchased one hundred and
twenty-nine acres of land within one
mile of Spotsylyania courthouse, the
OF John Peabody, for $1,000
cash.
MIR. W. B. Taylor met with serious
and it is feared, fatal accident, on Fri
lay last, by falling distance OF about
Ferty-two feet. From Tumbling Run
Bridge, near Strasburg, Manassas
The New York World very forcibly
ays F.: "lf Virginia is admitted thi.
'ear. she will have as perfect right 20
xcludc negroes from the ballot next
ear, as Ohio had to exclude them last
ear. ..r :af..##H# ....-.r t.
A very SHINY attended carpet-bag
district convention at Culpeper court
louise on Wednesday last. Whittlesey |
:. B. NJ, of the Alexandria State jour
al. was nominated for Congress, and
reedmen's Bureau captain named Nc
Julty for the Senate. ..Ur
. Two men, named Branton and AID
ms, had desperate encounter with
istols and knives, at Gu nberland G.
l., on Monday last Court day. Neil
her of the comb:.talttS was mortally
Two horses were shot dli- !
ing the melee. !,
A Mrs. Priest died in Licking coun- .
y Ohio at the advanced age of more o
han one hundred years. She was born :
4 Culpeper county, Va. and in moving
D the Muskingum Valley about twenty =
ears ago walked the entire distance :
about four hundred miles, carrying G
n infant child. ...= ......' .'..... y
RICHMOND, May 3l.-Jt is probable
lat the Jefferson Davis trial will be
ostponed until October, as the lead r
lg counsel on both sides agreed on that
me. The witnesses had been sum- t.
oned for next Wednesday. Mr.. Dat t.
IS has mot arrived here In view of the |