The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-07-12
VIRGINIA NEWS.

The mosquetoes are making the Alex
andrians hop around lively.
"A Grant and Wilson ratification meet
ing was held at I~Iarrisonburg last Satur-
day. a a
1t is said that fresh fish abound in the
Potomac at this time. The water is brack-
ish up to Indian Head.
AN election has been ordered by the
Town Council of Martinsburg to decide the
question of the proposed extention of the
corporate limits.
caroline Wilmer recovered $500 dam
ages from William N. Reed, for breach of
promise, in a suit Just concluded in the
Circuit court of Frederick county. 81.
"A man named Jack Hairston, contrac-
tor on the Lynchburg and Danvillc railroad,
who had the back of his skull crushed into
the brain several weeks ago, has, strange to
say, recovered, and will resume his duties
in a short time.
On Wednesday of last week, q sort of
whirlwind passed over portions of Rock
bridge county, tearing up trees, blowing
down fences, and injuring crops. Some of
the doors of the Virginia Military Institute
were wrenched from their hinges. So q Y
the Gazette.
Charles, an idiot son of William Grubs,
residing near Howellsville, Warren county.
wandered from his home some DAYS ago.
and after several days search his body was
found several miles below Howellsyille, in
the mill dam Of the Warren mills. =.
In a suit brought by the Shenandoah
Valley Agricultural Society against James
II. Kemp, to recover the amount subscribed
by him to the capital stock of the society,
judgment was rendered in favor of the plain
tiff. Several similar cases have been await
ing the result of this suit.
1.-The Fredericksburg Ledger SAYS:
Aaron Cliain, colored, one Of the employees
Of the Hope Foundry, fell dead suddenly in
the street in Liberty town, on Tuesday night.
He was taken with profuse hemorrage from
the ears, nostrils, and mouth, near Abert's
shop, and died before he had walked half a
square,"
Father Meurer, Catholic priest at
Wytheville, left his pocket-book containing
about 500 in the seat he had occupied in a
car on the railroad between Mount Airy
and Wytheville. On discovering his loss he
telegraphed to the conductor of the train,
who fortunately had found the wallet and
returned it to the owner.
The Winchester Times says : "There
is trouble between the Cumberland Valley
and the Martinsburg and Potomac railroad
in reference to the height of the bridge
across the Potomac. The Pennsylvanians
want the abutment lowered about five feet.
which would compel the Martinsburg and
Potomac road to lower its grade for about
a thousand feet through solid rock"
The Marion Herald says that a few
days ago a negro man in the employ of
Mr.. George w. Palmer, of Saltville, while
driving Mr.. Palmer's bull "Duke of Salt
%ville," out of a field, was attacked by the
animal and dangerously hurt. lie had his
collar-bone and three ribs broken, and was
gored through the heshy part of the arm.
The animal was shot two or three times by
the bystanders, in their attempts to drive
him away from the negro.
The Republicans of King and Queen
county held a large and enthusiastic Grant
and Wilson ratification meeting at New
Mount Zion church on the 4th. An able
and eloquent speech was made by A. A.
Rice, Esq, who has been a Democrat for
forty-odd years, and expects to die one, but
who prefers Grant to Greeley. The meet
ing unanimously declared in favor of the
nomination of Colonel j.. b. Sener for Con-
gress, as we have before announced. The
hosts Of friends of this gentleman in King
and Queen will be gratified to learn of his
enthusiastic nomination by the convention
at Fredericksburg.
A letter from Dublin, Southwest Vir-
ginia, to the Wytheville Enterprise, con-
tains the following: "One thing struck us
on our ride the desirableness Of this coun-
try and its advantages over other portions
of our state for cattle raising. Richmond
surely ought to offer inducements to this
section for its trade. Instead of south
western Virginia's fine lot of cattle being
shipped North, the growth of your city
should call for them. Every year shows
improvement in stock, and farmers arc
gradually getting their farms well erased.
County agricultural societies are springing
up, and tend TO excite a spirit of inquiry
and improvement amoug the people,"
Some time during the month of April
last, MIR. Mahoncy, who hives near Daw-
sonvllle, in the county of Greene, request.
ed his daughter, Margaret Ann Mahoney,
who is about fifteen years old, to catch
and tie up a dog belonging to him, as he
had been wandering away from the house
for several days. In attempting this, the
unfortunate girl was badly bitten in foul
places on her right hand. On Friday last,
symptoms of ~hydrophobia became apparent,
and now when water is presented to her
she snaps her teeth, foams at the mouth,
and is thrown into raging commissions.
Mrs. Mahoney, the mother Of this girl, who
attempted to administer some remedy to 0
hog, bitten by this same dog, shows evident
symptoms of the same terrible disease,
The physicians, Doctors Newman anG
Jennings, pronounce the girls case hope
less, and hourly expect her death. A little
boy of the same unfortunate family has
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