Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1871-04-07
VIRGINIA NEWS.

visiting Strasburg lew Gays ago We notced
two packag es;in the Express Office purporting
10 contain passable counterfeit money, upon
each of which ten dollars had been paid, ac-
companied by two C. 0. D. bills Of sos and
s95 From the size of the packages We pre-
sumo the consignee contemplates opening Il
branch Office. y = =,
The Shenandoah Democrat says Senator
Lewis is said to be so well pleased with Wash
ington city as residence that he has sold out
all his stock and farming implements, and has
leased his farm for three years, with view OF
remaining at the capital during that time ifno
longer.
The colored man who killed Mr.. George W.
Hunter, and was tried and found guilty at the
last term of the Monroe county (W Va Cir
cult Court, conftsses to committing the crime.
When sentence was about to be pronounced he
said that there wa mt nobody with ME when
I killed Mr. Hunter. struck the gentleman
to get his money, but / didn't intend to kill
him.
WIN. Chapman esq, Of Waynesboro, gen
tleman we'll known not only in Augusta county,
but throughout the State, died at his residence
on Sunday last aged 60 years lie was Strck-
en- down by paralysis, last week, and fingered
until Sunday when death ended his sufferngs.
Col. G. B. Luck, so long and favorably known
~ al associate in the management Of the ILL
fated Spottswood House, Richmond, amid
whose ruins he was so near being VICTIM mas
been engaged rs Superintendent Of the, White
Sulphur Springs the coming season. BY the
Mesars. Pcyton.
The Staunton Valley Iirgiuan says: - In
conversation the other day with one of the
LARGEST fruit growers in this vicinity, he inform
cd Us that very little damage had been as We.
realized by the fruit. "A few peach buds had
been killed, but none to affect 4 healthy CROP.
The pears have not suffered any whatever. The
aprocots have probably been killed. -.
The Norfolk Eirgnian states that in the ter
rifle gale which occurred Oh Thursday night OF
last week, in. the Chesapeake bay. five vessels
were driven from their moorings and sunk, two
of them proving a total loss, and three men be-
ing drowned -
The fifth annual meeting Of the Sunday
School Convention Of the Virginia Conference
ME-. Church South, commenced III Charlortcs-
Vile on the 4th instant
The fifty eighth annual meeting Of the Eir-
ginia Bible Society was held in Richmond on
Tuesday last.
THE Davis executive mansion at Richmond
is being fitted up for public school purposes By
the board of education. by whom 1t was pur-
chased. 80. ..- .,..'
The report that Maj. Walker, Of Madison,
has been appointed Adjutant General OF the
State, is eontradicted. ~
Detective Pat Woods was knocked down and
severely stabbed. a few nights ago. i'll an alley
in Richmond.
RocKINGH4AM COUNTY; "A col6red man
who was convicted more than Il year ago, OF
grand larceny, and made his escape from jail:
has recently succeeded in preventing his recap
ture-olce in Pennsylvania and once in Rock
ingham county. He fires into his assailaDts,
and then clears out-stealing horses as he goes.
The Il. S. District Court met in Harri son
burg on Wednesday morning. OF last week;
Judge Alexander Rves presiding The grand
jury was partially mixed one, four colored
men entering into its composition.
The new firm Of Mines 4 Houck, lussecS OF
the valuable Shenandoah Iron Works property,
are rebuilding, and nope to be making iron very
soon They are away above high water, mark
with their improvements, and will soon have a
Steam Forge in operation, which will be quite
curiosity in that region.
The farm lately owned by Levi Shaver, near
the Harrisonburg & Warm Springs Turnpike,
about q miles from Harrisonburg, and known
as the Clary property was sold BY the
Trustee on Thursday last for s3j per acre cash.
Purchaser, James White.
:. The scarlet fever prevails to some extent on
parts of Linvill's Greek. It has appeared in
the families of Christian Wine, David Cline,
Moses Mason, and others on the creek, and
in the family of Jacob Sanger in ':the Brush. "
This disease is not virulent. -,
We are panied to record the death of Mrs.
Ella Shacklett the wife of our friend and tel:
low citizen, Henry Shacklett, esq: Of Harri;
sonburg. This painful event occurred on Sun;
day afternoon last, after 4 brief but, painful
illness. Buckingham Register. %
LAND. CoNDEMNATIoN FOR County
PURPOSES. The case of the Board ofSupervi-
sors of the County of Culpeper was dec'
ded by the SupremeCourt Of Virginia, on Tues
day. As the case has: excited considerable in
terest in other counties, and involves some new
questions under out State CONSTITUTIONS we
give, in the language of the court, the iol.
lowing summing up of the doctrines settled -
+ |. That the Board of Supervisors Of the
county Of Culpcper have power under the Con;
stitutIon and laws of the State to acquire land
in the town of Culpeper for the erection there;
on of a court house. clerk 5 office, and Jail, and
to have the said land condemned for that pur-
pose in the mode prescribed by the Code, chap
for az sections to l6 ,,.I "a g.,
.. That the county court of said county pro-
perry overrulcd the motion Of Gerrell and 9th
ers. to be allowed to show cause and file excep-
tons to the report of the commissioners
appointed by the said court to ascertain a just
compensation 10 tic owners Of the land propo-
sed to be taken by the said Board of Supcrvi-
sors for the purpose aforesaid.
g. The circuit court had no authority to
award WIT of error and suppressed cas- to the
iudgment"o Of the county court, oondcmning the
said laad for the purpose aforesaid, and had nj
authority to entertain jurisdiction OF said writ OF
error.
! t. That prohibition is the proper remedy for
the plaintiffs in such case rs this, and that it