Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1870-10-22
VIRGINIA NEWS.

MIR. II. r. Harrison and others have been
authorized to proceed to the organization Of
the "Loudoun County National Bank" at
Leesburg, Va. with authority to increase the
capital stock to one hundred and fifty thousand
dollars. The Bank will be organized forthwith,
the necessary amount, $4,000 having been
subscribed.
The Fredericksburg Herald says: "AtStaf,
| ford Court House Maj f. NJ. BTazton, the
candidate of the Conservative party, made
very able speech Of an hour and a.half. His
| audience were enthusiastic and much pleased
with his address. The Conservative party of
Stafford votes as one man for Braxton'
Mr.. s. 0. Moon. merchant from Abemare
county, Va, died at the Howard House in
Baltimore, Thursday evening. Deceased was
about ID years OF age. and had been mer.
chant for 4 number OF years. He possessed
considerable wealth.
Nathaniel Macon Martin. Of the firm of ".
K. Martin & Co., died in Richmond On We'd
nesday, after an illness of some weeks, in the
thirty.iourth year of his age. Mr.. Martin,
| though young man, gave promise oil becoming
an eminent and successful merchant.
Mr.. John Brimmer, an old employee of the
O., A. & NJ. r. R., who fell through culvert
near Madison Run Station lew weeks ago,
and was reported to Us at the time as having
been killed. is not dead, and is RECOVERING
Mr.. II. f. Gouldman, agent of the Alabama
& Chattanooga Railroad shipped iorty coored
men on Wednesday, from Lynchburg, and ex
poets 10 send off twenty five more this evening,
to work on the line Of the above road.
Major E. NJ. Brazton, the Conservative can
ddate for Congress tor this district vii! speak
at Orange Court House, on Saturday the 29th
instant
A New INSECT DESTROYER. M Clotz,
who is engaged at the gald,n OF the Paris Mu
scum, has invented what he considers com
pIete annhilator for plant lice and other small
insects. This discovery is given IN the Revue
Iortco!e, with the Endorsement OF its dIstln-
guishcd editor, L, Nj. CarIere: 10 reduce
NJ. CIocz's preparation to our measures. 1t
will be sufficiently accurate to say, take three
and halt ounces of quassia chips and i've
drains OF stavesacro seeds, powdered. These
are to put in seven pints Of water and boiled
until reduced to five pnts When the LIQUID
is cool strain it and use with watering pot or
syringe, as may be most convenient. We are
assured that this preparation has been most
! efi,acious in France Years ago they we're
much used for an Insect that found its home in
the human head, but, as that has fortunately
gone out of fashion, it may be that the seeds
arc less obtainablc than formerly. The sta
vesacre seeds contain delphino. which ls one
of the must active poisons known, and we have
DO doubt that very small share OF it would
prove fatal to Insects - Scientific american.
CONDITION OF THE Caops.-Thc Depart
ment Of gricuture has prepared digest Of
the reports upon tho condition OF the crops,
from which the following is extracted
The wheat crop of 1870 in majority OF the
States, and especially in those in which this
cereal is prominent ls materially less IN guam
lity than the crop of 1859 This reduction, as
averaged from our local returns, appears to be
about II per ct, but the average quality OF
the cropis better than that Of 1869. The Pacific
Coast reports are variable.
The corn crop of 1870, unlike those OF the
two years preceding, is tu! one, the best OF
the past ten years. The States of the corn
region, including those bordering on the great
Lakes and on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers,
have, without exception, made either full or
large CROP Intelligent men estimate total
product of $50, 900, 900 bushels in Illinois.
YELLOW FEVER IN BosroN.-Thc Boston
Traveller admits that yellow fever IS IN that
city, having been imported from the West
Indies -Four negroes have died OF it in a
boarding house, and two women who visited
tho house, have caught the disease.
Nevertheless, the Board OF Health Of Bos
ton, while admitting the fact OF the presence
OF the terrible fever, say that it is destitute of
the malignant characteristics it usually devel-
opes in Southern latitudes. -NoyoM Journal.
The grand jury Of Kinds county, Mississippi,
composed of az equal number OF whites and
blacks, have found bills for mansaughter
against both Colonel f. Yerger, who killed
Colonel Crane, and Sizor, who killed the marsh,
al OF Jackson. A strong effort was made to
procure the finding OF indictments for murder,
but tailed in both cases.