Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-08-19
VIRGINIA NEWS
In letter from Middleburg to the Pc

burg Index, the writer says II saw yester-
day the territory of the great cattle king Of this
section, Colonel Robert Beverly, territory
which would delight the hearts of your Agri-
cultural Convention, He tells me, he is ship
ping one hundred and fifty head per week Of
fat bulocks at good prices, has been doing so
for weeks. and there still remains on hand the
small lot of | 300 head .
The Harrisonburg Enterprise says - Therc
have been several refreshing showers of rain
this week. But still the streams and wells are
very low, and there is considerable anxiety as
to the water supply" and the same paper
says: Good butter is very scarce in this
market, although it commands a good price.
The dry weather is said TO be the cause OF this
scarcity.
Captain Waller r. Preston, Of Montgomery
county, Va, whose death has been mentioned,
was killed at Bremond, Texas, on the lst inst,
by man named Robinson. The parties had
some words in the street, when Preston placed
his hand on Robinson, who stabbed him in the
breast. Preston calculated, Il am 4 dead
man" and expired in fifteen minutes.
The Radical othcehodcrs of Richmond have
been requested to contribute TO the cause Of
Grant and Wilson 10 this State and while Miss
Van Lew Postmistress, and u. S. Marshall
Parker have responded to the amount of
$500, others holding equally profitable places
have put down their names Tor $50 or $25.
The Bedford Sentinel says. ''Mr. }. p.
Garter, Of this county, informs us that he SOW
ed last Fall II bushels of wheat and that it
yielded him 2OG bushels. He also sowed
bushel on small lot from which he reapcd -
bushels.
II. n. Fletcher has been appointed by Judge
Smith, Clerk of the County Court of Faupulcr,
till the lst of next January, when the clerk
elected in November, to fill the unexplrcd term
of VIM. NJ Hume, deceased, will be duly III
stalled.
A petition has been very numerousy signed
in Richmond praying Judge Gngon to appoint
r. r. Daniel CONFERENCE.-The Attorney, IN
the event of the election of MIR. Geo. u. Wise,
| the present incumbent, to Congress
Tue I.yuchburg News Of Saturday says -
"We have been blessed with u glorious rain.
For the last thrty-Slx hours it has been falling
pretty steadily, just right to be OF most be"etl'
to the crops.
4 week or two since Mr. VIM }. Jctcr, Of
the county of I.uncnburg, was attacked by Il
mule which he was leading and had his arm
manecd from the elbow 10 the wrist, by bites
Of the nturiated animal.
A Convention has been called Tor the 18th o!
September to meet in Suffolk, to nominate a
Conservative candidate Tor Congress in the
Second District. Platt is the Radical candidate.
4 heavy land slide occurred on the Chcsa-
pcake and Ohio Railroad, near the White Sui
phur Springs, on Friday, causing detention OF
the trains.
In Norfolk, on Wednesday, a little daughter
of Major Charles Pickett, while playing in the
yard, fell into the cistcrn, and Was drowned be-
fore her situation was discovered
An Investigation into the affairs Of the mu-
nicpsal offices of Richmond has resulted in the
removal of the Inspector and Clerk OF the gas
works, charged with maltcasancc
The proposition to put the Pcuitcntary con-
victs to manufacturing fertilizers Is received
with favor
Mrs. Wingfeld, wife of Rev. De. Wingfel1,
pastor of ST. Paups Church, in Petersburg,
died in that city on Friday.
The stockholders of the Liberty and Rocky
Mount Railroad Company are to meet III Llbcr-
ty on the 2lst inst. to organize.
A mass meeting Of the Conservatives Page
county will be held near Luray, on the 18th Of
September.
Montgomery Simms, esq, Of Greene county,
has announced himself as the radical candidate
for Congress from the Staunton district.
\ gentleman living in Wythe county,
sold seven baskets of peaches, by the dozen, Tor
| the snug sum of fity-eight dollars.
Peter Eversole, well known cattle dealer Of
Rockingham county, Va, died in Poeahontas
West Va, last week.
Mr.. Frank Thornton, an old citizen of
Lynchburg Va, has been sent to the lunatlc
asylum at Stanton
The Lynchburg Republican has adopted
'the cash in advance system.
A schooner lying at the dock in Richmond,
was struck by lightning on Saturday afternoon