Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-09-25
VIRGINIA NEWS.

The announcement of the failure of Captain
V. J. Clutter, the Richmond builder, was re-
ceived With establishment and regret by his
friends. He had just completed and delivered
to the owners the Atlantic Hotel, of Norfolk,
and his embarrassments have grown out OF los
ses On his contract The entire sum agreed to
be paid him has been received and expended,
and his unpaid liabilities will probably reach
$25, 600, about ST., 900 OF which falls on hloh-
mond mechani and lumber men, and the rest
on Norfolk mechanics.
The Booker will case recently tried at
Hampton has attracted considerable attention.
Ey.Gov. Wise and Judge Crump, Judge Scar
borough, Of Norfolk, and Messrs. Thomas
Tabb, William R. Willis, and G. K. Mallory,
were the counsel employed. On the fourth day
of the session of the court compromise was
agreed upon The title to some OF the hnesI
LANDS in all that region Of country was involved
in this controversy.
Two attempts we're made last week to burn
the White Sulphur Springs Property. Three
Of the Cottages were entirely consumed, and
but for the timely assistance rendered by the
visitors much of this valuable property might
have been destroyed Two blacks were aries
ted in Covington, Va, suspected OF the crime
Mr.. J. G. Newly, of Warrenton, offers
hundred dollars reward for the apprehension
and conviction of the person or persons that
entered his carriage house on Saturday. night,
September 10Th, 1868, and cut his carriage to
ncces, and turned his COWS out OF the pen into
his corn lot.
Fifty convicts from the Virginia Penitc ntiary
were brought to Covington by Capt. G. Il.
Mason to work on the G. & 0. r. r. at Jerry S
Run, and fifty moro will be brought out. Some
of them, since coming to the mountains, have
exhibited rather rcbellouS spirit.
Alta meeting Of the Directory of the Real
Estate Savings Bank, Of Lynchburg, held On
Yesterday, Robert j. Davis, was elected Presl-
dent of the Institution, in place OF VIM, D.
Hart of Albemarle, resigned.
Wardwell, the keeper of the Penitentiary at
Richmond, is accused ofcarrying convict to o
place where the convict had buried some sto-
len money, digging it up, and going OFT with It,
He denies the charge.
The ''fearful accident" story in the Charlos-
tesville Chronicle, about the running OF OF
train of cars at the High Bridge on the Orange
road, if intended as joke, was not good one.
The horticultural Fair in Richmond, is
we'll attended, and although the display is not
SO large as was anticipated, visitors still lind
much to admire.
Mr., George Hairless, residing in Giles county,
came upon a den of rattlesnakes in Knob
Mountain, few days since, and killed twenty
five of the reptiles.
The Libby Prison in Richmond has been
leased by a company, and will be fitted up as
mandatory OF fertilizers.
According to the quotationsin the Richmond
News the prices of vegetablesin the Richmond
market, are lower then they are in Alexandria.
A free bridge, across the James River, from
Richmond to Manchester is talked Otto be
constructed Of iron. .......
The mountains West Of Staunton are full OF
game this season. Ola hunters say they have
never known it so plentiful. ...