Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1871-06-01
VIRGINIA NEWS.

near the farm OF Mr.. EDWARD Co!cs: there Is
colored church. A few days ago as the result
of revival, between twenty and thirty persons
we're baptized After the baptismal service
the members all withdrew to the meeting house
to partake of the sacrament. 1t was then made
known that several of the newly baptized; had
voted the Conservative ticket during the recent
election whcreupOn they were not permitted
to commune with the rest
On Monday, Walker Brown, who was one of
the colored commissioners OF election in Char
lottesvillc, went around town and levied 'black
mail ON the colored people, requiring them
70 contribute for his services, that day. An old
man refused, whercupon Brown drew pistol.
the other caught hold Of it. when it went off
inhctnga wound in the thigh
DR. T. ?. TIoyt, having gone into the mining
business jsays the Wythcvillc Enterprise is
meeting with very encouraging success. He
brought to town on Friday last nugget OF zinc
ore for the purpose Of shipping it to Philadcl-
phia. which is certainly the largest and finest
specimen of ore OF the kind ever produced in
this country. ii moi in the world.
The Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Comla
ny are Just shipping two engines 10 Huntington.
the western terminus Of the road. on the Ohio
river. They 90 to ParkcrSburg by the Baltimore
and Ohio road, aud thence down the river
One hundred miles OF track from Huntington
eastward are tc be laid and in running order hy
| the end Of September.
The Norfolk Nirginian says that the GOOD
people Of Portsmouth intend getting up an i'll.
dgnation meeting to express their dSapproia-
ton and condemnation Of Mayor Thomas Oh
election day. Both. parties blame him Tor the
| blood she'd ON that day: rs several persons were
wounded in IN atfray hrough! about ty his
friends.
The ladies ri the AIcthoir:! Protestant Church
in Lynchburg recently presented teen. Early
with beautiful gold headed cane. Ii could
not have been presented by any t;;r1r or re-
ccivcd by any Drawer hand.
At the meeting of the Jefferson Literary so
cicty of the University Of Va. on the 9th ut.:
Mr. Howard H. Morton. Of Richmond was
unanimously elected to receive the "o!d medal
as the best dcbatcr.
At Norfolk Va. Mr.. Ann Newell. The odd
est woman in that city, died in her '.ti year.
Mrs Newell was married on Dccemb er Il,
| 1890 and has lived 10 500 i've generations OF
! her descendant
On Saturday night lat Mr.. L!ttl@b;riy Pitt
man, farmer OF S'urry county. VS. murdered
and his house robbed hy three men whH made
their escape.
The Porter faction IN Eichn.otii attrlbrl. The
Radical defeat in that city to the Vaccinations
and ill-adviScd measures oftha Custom hon*:
clique.
The four richest mcn i'll Virginia d. ,lld 10
be. Vim. T iSutkerlin Of Danvilic. James
| Thomas, Joseph +. Anderson md Franklin
Stcarn: Of Richmond.
The town Of fii!lsbornugl,. in l.3u.1i:n county.
having been incorporated Is th: lat Logisla
turc, proceeded on Thursday - eject it. NUM-
cipal officers.
The negotiations IN New l or. ia the com
pletion of the Fredericksburg and Gordonsville
r. R. have it i; said been completed and the
work of construction will be resumed this month.
D. j.. P Hoyt, an old southwestern Virginia
newspaper man, has quit 'lls Lusincs IN dis
newspapers not to be the dt'"g.
The county school tax has been voted for b.
every county in Virginia. twenty i'll number,
yet heard from.
On Sunday Ia:i over uuc hundred colorcd
persons Were hrpliscd iii the river nj Rich
| mond.
The Baptist General Association Of Irgnia
met in Petersburg yesterday.
Dr. K. ". Hurt. prominent physician Of
Petersburg. died on Monday afternoon.
STRANGE MANIFESTATIONS The Wooster
| CO.. Republican gives long account of the
| remarkable manner in which 4 family in that
city have been prosecuted through :amc I'M
explained agency. Mr. Hoffman, the head Of
the family, is i miller, and stands in good re-
putc The trouble commenced by his missing
s. from his pocket-book; he then hid his money.
| but he was unable to find it again it having
| disappcarcd in an unaccounlahIe manner. Ar
tclcs Of food and clothing began to leave III IN
equally mysterious way: crockcry ware fell from
shelves and was broken: stones. graycl. eggs.
and other things were thrown about IN the
house, apparently without human agency. the
Headquarters of the disturbance appearing t.
be in the cellar The family changed their
residence, bit the annoyanceS followed them.
and as yet no satisfactory evidence OF the pro
cccdings has been given. Clothing belonging
to the family has Disappeared. and then mystic
| riously returned cllt in pieces. Notes have
any reasonable explanation Of their presence.
head with red-hot stones Mr. Hoffman has
had clergymcn called in to pray, and has HIM
clfinduIacd in some vigorous profanity on the
subject: hut neither experiment resulted iii
queIling the disturbances. which at the lat ac-
counts continued source Of great terror and
wondernent TO the good people Of Woosterand
the REGION round about.
NtSnlHGToN ITEMS. The Bowen bieauy
case occupied lie whole Session Of the Criminal
Court Yesterday Before ;he argument 'onclu-
ded quite al "!:ritcmcnt was created bya state
ment from the assistant district attorney that
he had Just received 4 telegram from New
York and lad reason To believetha the record of
divorce relied on by Mr.. Bowen was forgery.
The President five horses We're carefully
conveyed to Long Branch "n Thursday per r:til
also his family carriage
Mother Mary Augustine Crary, known and re-.