The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-09-05
VIRGINIA NEWS.

at Norfolk last Friday.
Commander Semmcs is now with the en-.
diets at the Alum Springs.
Work has been commenced on the new
Market-house at Alexandria.
A heavy storm passed over the Augusta
Valley on last Sunday evening.
A new Protestant Episcopal church is
soon to be erected at Christiansburg.
There are now three hundred visitors at
the Montgomery White Sulphur Springs.
The canal will be open between LYNCH
burg and Lexington by the 18th of Septem-
Der.
The circuit court for the county of Roam
oke commences on the 18th day of Sep
TENDER. -
There was heavy frost Thursday morn
ing at the Greenbrier White Sulphur
Springs.
Jubal Early and Jefferson Davis arrived
at the White Sulphur Springs on last
Thursday.
During the month of August there were
nlnety-fvc arrests in Lynchburg by the
city police.
A grand fancy ball is to be given at the
Aalleghany Springs, on Wednesday evening,
the 9Th inst.
Mr.. Edward Mason had his left foot very
badly mashed last week at Mason & Co.'S.
mill, in Scottsville.
The dry weather, in some portions of
King George county, has been very DANA
ging to the mill streams.
The Mayors court, in Petersburg, last
Saturday was mere matter of forin-not
single case was on the docket.
John j. Boyd sold his farm of 100 acres.
near Martinsburg, for $4,000 to Daniel
Poole, of Frederick county, Md.
Three thousand people went to see Rob-
inson's circus in Charlottesville on last
Tuesday. That beat Lynchbug.
Col. M. G. Hartman and A. A. Pitnan.
Esq, have purchased the National Hotel at
Lexington, for the sum of $17,300..
Mr.. l.. II. johnson, of Bristol, has been
appointed conductor on the sleeping car
line between Lynchburg and Mobile,
The people of Martinsburg are much
exercised about the supply of water. The
springs, wells and cisterns, are nearly all
dry.
A little daughter of Rev. j. III, Fox.
living near Scottsville, fell from porch one
day last week, sustaining very painful in
juries.
Mrs. Woodlord B. Henley, died near Mt.
Moriah, in Amherst county, on the Doth of
August. She was formerly Miss Magyar,
of this city.
The tobacco barn of Mr.. James H.
Hicks, In Bedford county, was burned to
the ground last week. 1t was half filled
with tobacco.
MIR. Wm.-H. Alden, of Petersburg, who |
has been very i'll for the past week, was
considered beyond the hope of recovery on.
Sunday night last.
On Friday last deer, weighing $50 |
pounds, was brought to Petersburg by Mr.. |
Butterworth, who killed it in Dinwiddie |
county the day before.
There was land slide on the O.. A. &
M. railroad last Wednesday, between Char
lottesville and Lynchburg, which delayed !
the train for several hours.
A fight with hatchets, took place in
Prince William county, last week. between
two men named Beavers and Pasey. in
which the latter was dangerously wounded.
Captain Robert Banks is lying so very
ill at his residence, near Petersburg, that
two of his most intimate friends were re-
fused the privilege of seeing him on last
Sunday.
Mr.. Benjamin Clement, an old citizen of
Campbell county, died at his residence.
near the courthouse, on Tuesday last. He
had reached the good old age of seventy
three years.
An United States soldier was stabbed
and dangerously wounded few days since,
at Pamplin's depot, by Southern gentle
man. The names of the parties have not
been ascertained.
In the letter of General Malone to Mr..
Brooks, read in the Council last Friday, at
Petersburg, the Generel announces his pur-
pose to remove to Petersburg and make his
home in that city.
A horse attached to a carriage dropped
dead last Sunday in Petersburg. Several
young men were in the carriage at the time
enjoying an evening ride. The horse be-
longed to Elijah Eli. n
Last Sunday Mrs. Sallie Moon, living
near Scottsville, fell from the top of flight
OF stairsteps to the bottom, her head heavi-
lly striking the floor. Mrs. Moon was walk
ing in her sleep at the time. IL
A woman dressed in mans clothes.
made her appearance in Portsmouth last
Wednesday, but, woman-like, she came
out with parasol raised over her and j
failed to notice the discrepancy.
There was no preaching in any of the
churches in Charlottesville last Sunday, ex< /,
cept the Methodist and Lutheran, the pas !
tors being absent taking little recreation
during the hot summer months. !
A dead infant was found in the canal at I
Lypchburg last Thursday in an old coffee
sack. The jury rendered verdict that
the infant came to its death at the hands of
some person or persons to them unknown.
One of the horses belonging to the city's
steam engines, at Petersburg, had the ]
honor of being ridden through the streets,
last Saturday, by one of the drivers, SO
drunk that he could hardly maintain his {
seat in the saddle.
Mr.. j. II. Crasan, an old gentleman re-
siding in Fairfax county, while crawling I
between the cars of freight train at Ma a
nassas, last week, struck his head against {