Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-12-14
VIRGINIA SEsSS.

Shenandoah V alley Railroad placed upon the
records Of Page county Court, few days since,
Il mortgage for 80, 1jO, 900, which conveys the
road bed, franchises, and other effects of the
company to Edgar \. Thompson, trustee, to
secure the payment of the above amount OF
Erst mortgage bonds to the company, which
will be put on the market to raise money to
equip the road
The Richmond Slate Journal says =" At the
annual meeting for choice of directors Of the
Alexandria and Fredericksburg Railroad, re-
Gently. Colonel n e. Ordway, Sergeant-at-
Arms United States House of Representatives
was elected one Of the directors in the corpora
ton, and it is understood that Col. Ordway and
some Eastern gentlemen contemplate taking
hold Of some important improvements in Vir-
! gla.
! A woman, 10 Richmond, named Margaret
, Doyle, aged sixty, committed suicide on Wed.
uesday night by jumping in the river, at the
wharf of the Povhatan Steamboat Company
Efforts we're made to save her, but without
avail. The deceased lived unhappily with her
husband, and probably resolved upon self de-
>trucion in fit Of anger, caused by his unklnd
| treatment
The Norfolk Journal reports the defalcation
of Capt. Robert T. Guion, ex collector Of tina,
city, to an amount varying from twenty to forty
thousand dollars. Capt. I left Norfolk on the
| 27ln Of November last, giving out that he was
going to Washington to secure on Office, but 1t
is supposed that he has either gone to Cuba
or California.
f. b. Newbcrn, formerly Of Richmond, fo1
whose arrest the Governor recently made re-
QUESTION upon the authorities of the State OF
New York, appeared in the police court OF
Richmond. yesterday morning and voluntarily
surrendered himself, and is now in custody.
The specific charge against him is the stealing
of 800 from the person. of \. r. Holiday.
The Amherst Enterprise says john H.
Christian, on the sunny face of SCOTS noun
tain, has just sold his wheat for sl70 per
'u>hcl He made 2lS bushels from Is bushcl.
>owcd Last year he made 10 bushels, and
the year before 226 bushels, from the same
sowing OF Is bushels per annum.
Tie Legislative Committee, appointed for
the purpose, have written to the States of New
York, New jersey. Massachusetts, Ohio, Penn
>ylvania, Illinois and Tennessee, for intor.
nation, as to the results Of the leasing out OF
| Tue pcllltculldIlcS III lllUSc CldtcS-
Col. Rucker, proprietor Of the Orange
House, at Lynchburg. recently burned there,
has erected tent in front Of the Orange rail
road ticket office, and will in few days be
prepared to accommodate the public with re.
| trcShmrDts.
The store house occupied by Mr. j. W.
Bunch, at Mediums River, in Albemare
county, was accidentally fired and entirely con-
Sumed on Monday night, destroying Mr.. b. 5
entire stock of goods, valued at 50. 600. No To-
! Surance.
1t is estimated that the large steam Touring
mill. now being erected at the depot in Win
chester, by the Baker Brothers, will have cost,
! when completed, between $40, 900 and $50 900.
1t will soon be under root.
The State Bank of Virginia, at Richmond,
will lose but little BY the late defacation of its
teller j. VI. GoddiD. the cashier, has resigned
| his situation. and VIM. VI. Hill been elected
cashier in his place.
The President Of the Senate has issued his
writ for Spccis! election 10 Fauquier and
! Rappahauuock counties, on the 9th inst. to
| fill the vacancy in the Senate, occasioned by
the resignation OF Thos \. Latham, esq.
The Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical
College, at Blacssburg Montgomery county,
has clghty,cight Students aud the number i,
rapidly Increasing, no less than ten new students
having arrived last week
Two dccrs were killed in the Massanutton
mountains on last Thursday, before breakfast,
by MeSsls Smith and Miller The mountains
west OF Luray abound in this valuable game.
Seven car loads OF cattle were shipped to the
Northern markets on Thursday, from Lynch
burg, by way of the Orange and Alexandria
railroad.
Jonathan T. Cowherd one of the best known
citizens of Louisa county, died suddenly last
Saturday morning of congestion of the lungs at
the age OF sevcnty-six
Some inccndary, several nights since, fired
the fodder stack of Mr.. Abr Liskey, near
Harrisonburg, by which his whole supply of
rough feed WaH consumed.
4 Convention of the farmers off Southwest
Virginia, to embrace Lynchburg, and all of the
counties west, is called to meet in Wytheville
on Thursday, the 23d Of January, 1873
The horse malndy is disappearing from
Orange county. There were agood many cases,
but no deaths.
The McCaw warehouse at the depot, in Win
chester, has been sold to Mr.. Snoutfer for 81
300, equivalent to cash.
The Wythesiile Enterprise says the dogs
have fairly iuaugurated the winter campaign
in the matter of sheep-kllllug
The shafts Of Church Hill tunnel, in Rich
mond. were united yesterday, and there is now
daylight through the tunnel.
Religious revivals continue at Norfolk, Stauu-
ton, and other places 10 Virginia.
Richmond is crowded with strangers.