The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-01-13
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Old Specs Hodges has been arrested ant
Sbailed for his appearance at court. rs,4
The clerks Office was, closed this morn
ing-Mr. Garrett being removed, and hi
successor not being sworn in.-Charlottes
viAe Chronicle. zl - ~. !. H I.
On last Friday General stoneman sp
pointed David Fultz, Esq, attorney for ths
Commonwealth. We understand that Mr.
Fultz declines to accept.-Staanton Spec
tator. ~ ueq p -srs.
The GUILLoT1NE AT WORK AMONGST U.s.
We understand that military order wal
received at Campbell Courthouse Saturday
afternoon removing from Office John D
Alexander, Esq, for a long series Of years
the popular and efficient clerk of the cir
Quit court of Campbell. His successor wa
not designated in the order, and as far al
we are informed, none has yet been sp
pointed.-Lynchbstrg Neaos.
ANOTHER HEAD OFF.-That old AND
highly efficient clerk Philip H. Fry, O
Orange county, who, if not born in the
Office, reached it OF very early age there
after, and was an ornament to the position
has been removed by General Stoneman
He is succeeded by New Yorker named
Higgings, who removed to the county since
the war.-Ffedericksburg Herald.
PosToFFIcEs IN YIRGINIA.-C. A. Davis
postmaster st Peytonsburg, Pittsylvanis
county, Va, pice J. W. Clark, resigned
Mrs. Susan Mason, postnistress at Locus,
Grove, Orange county, Va, uice Mrs, E. D
To al Toh
master at Whitlock, Halifax county, Va.
uice John Wooster, failed to bond.
iscontinued.-Painter's Fairfax county
Va. papers now 60 to Fairfax Courthouse
Swords Creek, Russell county, Va. !; papers
now 90 to New Garden. --a...
REPATRIATION OF A CITIZEN OF VIRGI.
NIA.-An incident occurred few days age
which was probably the first of the kind
that has taken place in this State since the
time of the original John Smith. Mr..
Charles Harris, one Of our oldest citizens
born and raised on the soil of Virginia, in
this city, voluntarily expatriated himself
from citizenship in this State, according to
the mode and manner prescribed by the
laws of the State, (see Code OF Virginia,
page ~ by putting on the records Of the
court his declaration to that effect.
Mr.. Harris is one of the old original BE-
cessionists, and is so thoroughly disgusted
with the present state of affairs and the
likely "status" of our people in future
that, having an abundance of this worlds
goods to enable him to enjoy q good time in
any quarter of the globe, he has deter
mined to leave US plebeians and take up his
quarters in the more aristocratic circles of
Great Britain as he designs shortly to
wend his way to that little island in the
ocean, and say to its authorities that in the
year Of our Lord l776 his ancestors in Vir-
ginia were fools enough to form a league
with certain New England Yankees for the
purpose Of rebelling, and did rebel, against
the mild and benign government of Great
Britain and in expiation Of this great
sin he comes to them to offer himself as an
applicant for citizenship of their great
Government, in hopes that they will re-
ceive him as such and restore him to the
rights and privileges that the folly of his
ancestors forfeited by their. rebellion
NorJolk Day Book.