The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-12-18
VIRGINIA NEWS.

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--Ihe snow which Tell at Alexandra on
rrioay mas alleauy disappeared.
nlce, TWO lhcnes thick, was gathered In
PittsylVanla, curing the last cola snap.
The citizens of West Point have had
meeting to organize building association.
On the 4th ultimo, the thermometer,
in Carroll county, stood two degrees below
zero.
--Alessrs. w. b. Williams & Co.. OF
Bristol, were paying $40 gross for pork
last week. eds, s'Ia..
A drove of hogs. from Wythe. reached
Danyille last week. by rail. and are now
offered at SO per hundred. nett.
Mr.. J. K. Taylor, postmaster at Ham
iton, Loudoun county, has been removed,
and Mr.. Hiram Tavener appointed.
Ice was gathered from the scat pond. ,,
near Lvnchburp. on Friday last. which
was between three and four inches thick.
There was only a slight fall of snow in
T,vnchbursr on Friday. If she il not sotis-
fed with the quantity. we can snare her n
little. .iTsi
Mrs. Parks. of Danville. recently
saved a little son of an English resident.
from drowning. who had fallen into the
canal and had sunk twice.
"A full regiment of United States IN.
fantry recently passed through Lynchburp
en- roufe to some point in Texas. One half
of the REGIMENT WINS colored ii
NJ spoht n p.+touso ofpo,l,h, Ia,
ootbarad 70 hnsha,s l ns n,,n A o9r so
:ss,,rad ooro of bottn,u Iand and T. s,,ro ~ :
he had at least five acres as good as the
acre measured.
IT, ;;,,oor &C ,ho n a. hu.oh &c
Tho conSoI;d Inc ~ haSo mp t the G
snryev Of tbe line ' from tho Car viz Iones.
villa ~ Est;lv;,la and ora now bat,vean the
,atter ro;nt and i,r;stoi 40" 1870" ~ az -
or =.
-Ihe Lynchpurg t1yn'dR Is sorry
ueorge rye mas ocen thrown overheard py
the caucas. "hy II should be, we are at
loss 10 Know, as the Democrallc party y
satisiieo, ne has been suiiicientlY rewarded
ior his treachery.
"A man in Rockingham has in his pos
session cnicken, one OF whose iee e Il
shapea exactiy iike the human nahu; ihere |,
are lllieers ana mans al compiete' tne manu-
OF ioot oeiDe SNORT anu neshy, anu a..o.
getnef uiierent from any oener chic aFa'f 100
that mas ever oeen seen before.
Major j. w. Goodwin, for many years
connected with the Virginia and Tennessee
railroad, together with his family, left
Lynchburg on Saturday, for their new
home in Houston, Texas. He goes to ac1
as agent IN Iexas Tor the chicago bflage
company at large salary. success &c
aim.
The Danyille Times is urging, as one o.
the great needs of that place, the building O.
houses that can be rented at reasonable
rates. Our fix exactly, and if capitalists
would quit shaving paper and speculate il
stocks, the prosperity of the State would
be materially increased.
Within the past twelve months q
dwelling-houses, Z store-houses, II tobacco
factories, 2 box factories, zone run BY
steam,) prize-houses, large additions to
warehouses, African church, ! new hall
lAfrican,) have been built. This will d.
very well for Danville. We like to Sc
such spirit of improvement.
The number of pounds of tobacco
manufactured in the town of Danville, dur
ing the last twelve months. ending Decem
Der I5. 1871 amounts to two million thre
hundred and fifty-one thousand and ninety
seven pounds; in the county Of Pittsyl
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