Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-11-25
VIRGINIA NEWS.


week ending the 22d, were ,, Il3 bales.
Shucks have been decided by Judge Minor
of llenrico county to be long forage.
There is now only an unfinished gap Of %
miles on the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad,
between Richmond and Huntington
| DR.. John n. Brooks, formerly practicing
physician of Richmond died on Saturday. He
was formerly physician of the States prison.
1t is rumored that Mr.. John Iarmer Gilmer
wisI be appointed successor to Gen. Wells as
L. 5. District Attorney
The constitutiouality of the action of the last
Legislature, in reference to the Funding bill,
is nos before the Court of Appeals.
II is stated that the wheat crop in the
Eall-y Of Virginia this year will reach three
iIlJuS of bushels.
The secondary symptom of the horse d.
sca>e, the dropsy, has developed itself amongst
| the horses i'll Norfolk.
.Mr. Peter Craven, citizen Of Albemnrle
county, was killed few days ago near Kan
awha Falls, by falling from cliff
The Catholics Of Richmond have contracted
Tor tic erection OF fine parochial school build
! Ing at the corner Of 9th and Marshall streets,
at Il cost Of about SIS 900.
Six Cur loads Of cattlc were shipped to the
! Northern markets on Friday evening from
| Lyuchburg BY way Of the Orange and Alexan
! drla railroad
4 negro man, for breaking into the Ehinger
! House, in Harrisonburg aud stealing bottle
| OF whlskey has been sentenced to the Peniten-
tiary for five years.
1t is understood that Gov. Walker will re-
commend to the General Assembly III his forth.
coming annual message, that measures be taken
for the codiicatoa Of the laws
The brig L. H. Todd cleared at Richmond
Tor Trieste, Austria, on Saturday, with three
hundred aud fifty hogsheads OF Virginia leaf
| tobacco.
Judge Guigon, of Richmond, has decided that
the business of prize candy man" is in vio-
!atlon Of the statute against lotteries, games OF
chance, &c
Visitors to the Pruitentlary are charged an
admission Of - cts, which goes to the sup
port Of the preacher who laborS among the
| conycts.
Mrs. Martha \. Spicc!y. the widow Of a
| Revolutionary soldier, lives in Richmond.-
Her house was recently destroyed by fire, and
an effort is being made u provide another
! home for her.
The Liberty News tells Of restaurant keep
or Of that place who bought eight pounds Of
nice looking butter: which, upon being cut,
was found to be simply mass OF corn dough
covered with thin coating OF butter.
\ telegram from London has been received
IL 4 IL, ~, N..p1 H. !
Great Western railroad company have nego
tiatcd loan of fifteen millions Of dollars,
with which to construct the road.
Gov Walker has issued his proclamation
Offering q reward Of one hundred dollars for
the apprehension of Dan Mammalian, who is
charged with the murder and robbery Of ".
}. Davenport, at brakes Branch, Charlotte
county, on the 18th OF last mouth.
The Southern Association for the benefit of
the widows and orphans of the Southern
States, has generously RENTED 500 to the
Female Orphan Asylum of Petersburg and
800 to the Ladies Memorial Aid Association,
! Portsmouth.
The Wythcyille Dispatch says many fat hogs
have recently died in the immediate vicinity of
| Wythevillc, some Of which were cut open, and
blood was found about the heart When at
tackled with the disease the hogs appeared to
be very sick. aud death ensued in few hours.
The Auditor Of Public Accounts, ID Auditor
aud Treasurer Of the Commonwealth, a CON-
mittrc to revise the Revenue laws Of the State
have prepared an interesting report, which will
be laid before the General Assembly early in
the session.
The Manassas Agricultural Society holds an
adjourned meeting on the evening Of the 18th
instant at the Methodist Church, and will have
under consideration the question of shade and
ornamental trees. The various kinds, and the
proper time for trausplauting the same, is to
| be discussed.
The Manassas Gazette says Mrs NJ. H.
Bolne, who resides near this place, pulled
from her garden during this week beet of
the yellow sugar variety, which measured
! twenty.thrcc and a.half inches in clrcumter
euce aud weighed plue and u quarter pounds y
George e. Langhorne, Of Botetourt county,
who was convicted at the last term of the
L. S. court ut Lynchburg, Of robbing the
mails, and sentenced to ten years imprisonment
in the Albany penitcntlary, died in the Jail OF
Lynchburg last Saturday night. The deceased
had been in very feeble health since his incar
ccration i'll May last.
In the Court Of Appeals, sitting at Rich
mond, on Saturday, the case Of &. NJ Adkis-
son Il Co. VS.. Thos. johnson was argued
This case Is one OF u novel character, and re-
quires that the third section of the act passed
March 3, 1866, commonly known as the "act
for scaling Confederate debts, =" should be con.
| srucd bv this court
1t is reported in Richmond that a PROPOSE
ton will be made at the annual meeting of the
stockholders Of the Richmond and Petersburg
Railroad Company, which takes place there on
the 26th instant, for the practical consolidation,
under one management, of the Richmond and
Petersburg aud Petersburg and Weldon Rail
road Companies.
The Ilarrisonburg Enterprise says that an
agent from Washington firm was busily en-
gagged on Monday last 10 taking the &C
counts Of losses by the citizens by the Federal