The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-02-14

A bridal pair in Detroit weigh five
hundred and fifty pounds. What an
amount of happiness U
A message has been sent from Cali
fornia to Ireland and back IN two mill
utes, actual time.
Forty-five ships are on the way with
IS, OOO, 900 pounds of tea from China to
England.
1t is stated that Edwin Booths re-
ceipts averaged $30OOa week during the
past year. .., s.l $500
Ohio proposes, after trial of usury
laws, to go back TO its former system of
free trade in money.
The "sugar wedding" occurring thir-
ty days alter marriage, is the last mat
rimonial novelty. .HHfs
Dickens, it isreported, has sent 81
900 to Mrs. GLENN, mother in-law of
Edgar A. Poe.
Somebody proposes death by electric
| ity as q substitute for hanging in capt.
sal punishment. 4 fol ~
Over one-sevcnth of the land in Miss
issippi. is advertised for sale under exc
| cutiOns. ~ -.
1t is said that there are three millions
| gallons ofwhisky in bonded warehouses
IN New York City.
The Constitution of Florida has been
completed and the Convention is about
| to adjourn. IrIs. ef gf,r
The argument in the Supreme Court
erparte McArdlc has been concluded
Decision reserved.
The impeachment gossip in Washing
ton is renewed and report says Is be-
coming serious. r9d b.n aH5b
The Worcester Mass city marshal
has set apart five streets upon which
boys may slide without molestation.
The Ashtabula (Ohio) Sentinel says
the snow at that place was almost
blackened by millions of small insects
| on the 18th and 18th January.
A voting woman in Bangor took ar
| senic for her complexion and succeed
ed in making of herself q beautiful
| corpse.
The experiment of stocking the Con-
| recticut with salmon, undertaken by
the New Hampshire commissioners OH
fisheries, is a sucsess.
A Paris actress fell near the footlight
but escaped injury from the circumstail-
ce that she had nothing OH which could
take fire. ut Hf io
| An Illinois man attempted to hang
himself the other day, but WAS cut
down by his wife, who beat him sound
| ly for his naughtiliess.
Two of the worlds wonders are get
ting out of joint. The Strasburg clock
| is giving ont, and the leaning town of
Pasa is in danger of falling to pieces.
Gen. Robert A anderson, A. Il. Stew
art and eX-Genernl Longstreet, were
recently poll-bearers at funeral in
Twentieth street, New York.
Mr.. Patrick Gibson, for number OF
years Cashier of the bank of Baltimore
died on Thursday al his residence on
Cathedral street.,
Ben Butler passed through Hartford
| on Tuesday and the same day the Times
| says woman made complaint to the
| police that she had just had her spoons
abstracted from her.
The Suffolk Sun says company OF
rowing gypsies are encamped Just out
| side of Suffolk on the Reeds ferry
road. a -f
Mr.. F. w. Brittingham, an old and
highly respected citizen of Elizabeth
City county. died at his residence on
Min Greek few days since.
A crowd of negroes in Petersburg,
Friday, assembled in body, and took
by force lot of wood provided in that
city for the poor whites.
A quarrel between a white boy and
a negro in Portsmouth, last Friday,
came near getting up a war ofraces.-
The police came up and stopped it.
Miss Maria Crockett, of wytheyille.
was severely burned tew days since,
by her clothing taking fire. Her inju-
ries are not thought to be dangerous.
| Last Saturday morning in Ports
mouth, the store of Charles Cabler, ba-
ker, was set oil fire by an incendiary,
but fortunately discovered in time to
prevent its destruction.
Lynchburg papers say the young la
dies are giving leap year parties, and
| thus have entered 'manfully" upon the
exercise OF the privileges to which this
year entities them. at
John Marshall, Esq, of Charlotte
county well-known throughout the
| State as high-toncdand talented gem
tlcmcn, died on the Sd instant, at the
advanced age of eighty-six years.
On Tuesday night the store of Mr..
Stevens, at Lovingston, Nelson county,
was broken opened and robbed, and
Mr.. 5. badly beaten. Two ofthe burg
lars were caught by the neighbors, and
turned out to be strangers. f 1f.i
A large meeting ofthe Conservatives
of Carroll county, was held on the Sd
instant. Speeches by Gen. Walker and
others. A friend informs us that there
is but one man in the county who will
acknowledge himself to be Radical
A few months ago their name was le-
gion. Roll OH the ball. -CzriStiansJury
Southwest.
A fire in Petersburg, Friday night,
destroyed the brick building on Syca-
more street, owned by Master Charles
Arthur johnson. grandson of Mr..
Charles Corling, and Jointly occupied
by Mr.. A. Miller. as dry goods store,
and Mrs. NJ. Il. Kull, as a millinery es-
Enlistment. The goods were insured
In Baltimore Office, and the building
in the Richmond Mutual
Travel on the solid ice of the Potomac
is now cOmmon-and sleds are used to
carry bulky articles from shore to shore.
People from the lower end of Charles
county in Maryland, and Fairfax coun-
ty, in Virginia, come up ia town and
return, OH the ice. The natives of AL
aska would, il they we're now here, find
the climate and the ice entirely congo
Nal. Alexandria Gazette.