The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-08-11
VIRGINIA NEWS.

OF all the dogs in Alexandra, only 400
wear the proper badges.
The people of Alexandra are talking of
erecting a new market-house.
There is colored woman in the aims
house at Petersburg over one hundred years
old.
Gosport and Newton have organized a
boat club. There are thirty-six names on
the roll.
John Robnson's circus will be in Lynch
burg by the last of this month. Now for
some tall rejoicing.
The Mayor of Alexandria issued war;
rants for the arrest of sixty persons,
charged with keeping dogs without license.
A colored man named Beverly Henry has
been appointed postmaster at Elk Run,
Fanquier county, vice Thomas M. Cassell,
resigned.
A gentleman living in Alexandra has a
antam hen which is said to have Matched
brood of terrapins from the eggs of an
animal Of that species.
The sleeping car that was formerly at
tached to the trains that ran through from
Baltimore to Lynchbupg has been taken off
the route by the B. & 0. r. r.
There was fight in Portsmouth last
Tuesday between a white man and negro.
The negro accused the white man of steal
ing, and got knocked down for it.
The old bell at Alexandria of the Second
Presbyterian church, cast in Boston in
1910, was taken down last Tuesday to be
sent to Troy, N. Y, to be recast.
The remains of johnson, one of the Friend
muderers, were taken through Petersburg,
in charge of his brother, on last Tuesday.
They are to be re-interred in Washington.
The soldiers at Fort Whipple, Virginia,
belonging to the United States signal SER
vice, are having religious revival at that
camp in the open air, which is largely at
tended. t't
The contract for building the city water
works at Norfolk, has been awarded
Messrs. w. II. Allen & Co., of Baltimore,
whose bid was $44s,s75, payment to be
made in city bonds at par.
VIM. II. Miller, charged with the MUIR
der of Maurice O. Thomas, was acquitted
on last Tuesday. The case was given to
the jury at o'clock, who, after retire.
ment of an hour and halt, returned YER
dict Of "not guilty."
The city watch-house at Portsmouth is a
nuisance to the neighborhood where it is
located. The constant yelling and cursing
of drunken men who are confined there
alarms the neighbors at all hours of the
night, and is peculiarly dsagreeable.
A poor bull was tied by the neck to a
truck, and with one Of his hind legs.loopedin
rope, was dragged through the streets Of
Norfolk amid the shouts of laughter from
a foolish and silly crowd Of lookers-on.
Brutes enjoying the torture of their own
species.
A colored man named James Davenport,
while tearing down one-story brick house
in Norfolk, stepped on the cornice, which
gave way and precipitated him to the
around. Three ribs and the jaw-bone
were broken. The man is thought to be
fatally injured.
Considerable commotion was caused in
Leesburg last Sunday, by the announce
ment that Mary, daughter of Mr.. Thomas
GARRISON, accidentally shot and killed her
sister Caroline, while carrying a gun up
stairs. The jury rendered verdict that
Caroline Clarkson, deceased, came to her
death by reason Of gun-shot wound in
ficted by her sister, Mary Clarkson, and
that the shooting is believed to have been
accidental.