The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-07-15
Gssning State 9ournal.
VIRGINIA NEWS.

1--we BrtlSSlan SlllpS OIL war arc III tilt
Norfolk harbor. ..
A colorcd boy named George Quarles
was drowned in Holt's mill-pond, al Liher-
ty, Saturday evening.
"A young colored man named George
Pipkins, who resided in Portsmouth, but
was raised in Gloucester, was drowned in
the river at Norfolk yesterday.
The Rev. Mr.. Dearborn, while attempt
ing to get on the cars at Gordonsyille, Sat
urday, fell and the train passed over his
foot, cutting it off just below the instep.
E. A. Pollard has invited Horace
Greeley to a national handshaking across
Mason and Dixon's linc-3G degrees, 80
minntes-at Allegheny Springs.
The WaShingtoaiaR says large num-
bers OF people from the crowded cities are
- snmmcring" in LOudoun, at about hall
the prices charged at the fashionable water
ing places.
-Lecsburg voted upon Saturday upon
the proposition to levy a tax Of $l2 900 to
build a railroad to the marble qnarricS and
to further repair the Mud turnpike. We
have not learned the result.
The Anti-Sunday Law Association"
in Alexandra mustered Il meeting OF ten
persons on Friday night. These declared
that they didn't want to hold Il meeting,
and therefore adjourned. se
The question Of a public park is being
agitated in Alexandria. 1t is n question
of prime importance, and we trust no more
time than is necessary will be wasted in
about the matter. Erect the park
at once, good friends.
-NicsSrs. Faulkner and Craighill, drug
gists OF Iynchbnrg, will present a prize to
cost not less than $50 to the best drilled
company of volunteers of the S~tate-ap-
pcaring at the next Fair Of the Agricultu-
raj and Mechanical Society i'll that city.
The engineers of the Piedmont and po-
railroad company have completed
the surveys in the Aide division OF that
road, and are now locating a crossing point
in the Blue Ridge, near Thornton's Gap,
Isappahannock county. AS soon as the most
available point is found the construction Of
the tunnel will at once be commenced.
Arthur Cole, the colored man who was
so badly cut with a razor, at the picnic
near the brick yards on the AlcXandriaand
w Washington railroad, on Monday last, as
mentioned in these columns, is improving,
and his attending physicians have some
hopes of his ultimate recovery, notwith-
standing he was almost made mincc meat
Of !; his liver, stomach and intcStineS have
been exposed, as also the membrane cover
ing his lungs, to say nothing of the cuts
and gashes on other parts of the body.
The T~appahannock haaeG has the follow
inG. ''Judge Straughan at the Northnmbcr-
land court on Monday, decided the oyster
passed by the last Legislature TO be I'M
constitutional, being in violation of Section
2, Article 10 Of the Constitution. The tax
by the act is in its nature q license
lax, while the Constitution provides for a
lax on sales at a rate not exceeding the
rate of taxation imposed on any other spe-
cies of property"
john A. Parker, Of Tappahannock,
writes to the HdGr as follows: Certain
facts and circumstances, known to exist,
but which need notnow be published, induce
to believe, with confidence, that the
slaves cmancipated, will at no distant day
be paid for This, according toAlr. Parker,
is to be done, - first under the law of ma
second, under the decree Of the En-
peror Of Russia, as in the case of slaves
carried off by England j lSl2-'l5; and,
third, under the decisions of the Supreme
Court of the United States, which embrace
the principle" In view Of this lucky turn
in affairs, he recommends that commission
ers be immediately appointed i'll each
county to take evidence, i'll due form, to eS-
tablish the number of slaves owned by
each person at the time they were emancl-