Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-11-30
VIRGINIA NEWS.

The Richmond correspondent Of the Peters
burg Index says 1t Is probable that all of
the Judges OF the Court of Appeals will not sit
10 the trial Of the case brought to test the CON
stitu,onality of the act Of the Gicucrai Assem-
bly, repeating that feature Of the iuniing bill
making coupons receivable in payment Tor taxes
and State dues One Of the Judges owns
State bonds, though 10 no col.s'drrab bic amount,
and feels some doubt and delieacy; in his own
mind as to whether it would DC the proper
thing for him to decide Il matter IN which he
is personally Interested.
About O'Clock Thursday morning, fire
broke out in the tobacco factory Of Mr.. Z. w.
Spicer, on Cross street, Petersburg, destroying
the building and its coutents. 1t appears that
the flames were first noticed 10 the part recent
ly added to the factory MrSpiccrs loss is
upwards of 500, 900, but We understand ne IS
insured for so, 900 or $4,000
The Richmond Granite Company, operating
quarry four miles from the city, have made
one of the largest blasts on record having sc
cured solid block Of stone sixty feet long,
fifty feet deep and for,y->ix feet wide; weight
about eleven thousand tons or twenty. three
million pounds In 1870 this company made
one blast Of piece OF eighteen million pounds
Willis Gordon, negro, aged about htty
years, has been convicted before the County
Court of Rockingham Of rape and sentenced to
twenty years in the Pcnlteutlary. The Rock
lugham Register says that the colorcd people
| were almost unanimously in favor OF visiting
upon this criminal the extreuc sentence vi the
law.
It is said that Mr.. Valentine o Brien . Con-
nor, deputy lieutenant of the city Of Dublin,
has claim Of 100000 against the United
States under the treaty of Washington, Tor a
| quantity Of tobacco owned by Conner which
was destroyed by Federal troops IN Richmond
over seven years ago.
The Warren Sentinel says that the horse
disease has at last made its appearance among
us. Nearly all the horses in our section have
it. No cases have as yet terminated fatally
| The owners, as general thing, have stopped
using them. 1t Is, to say the least most in
convenient.
Frank j. Bramhall has resigned the position
| of Assistant Assessor Of United States Internal
Revenue in the Sixth district Of this State,
which he has held for three years, to accept
that of Assistant Uuited States District Attur-
ney for the Western District OF Virginia
On last Monday morning Mr. Jameson
Beck, the overseer Of Mr. Oliver Terrell, OF
Orange county, had difficulty with enc OF the
farm hands, coIorcd mau, which resulted 10
the serious cutting Of the latter, and VIII end,
perhaps, in death.
Joseph Davis, for many years citizen OF
Winchester, died last Sunday afternoon at his
residence 10 that place. Mr.. Davis, for many
years prior to the war, was magistrate Tor the
county Of Frederick aud member OF the
| Common Council of Winchester
\ conference Of leading Radicals Of this
State is to be held 10 Richmond on the Eth Of
December being the day when the Grant
| and Wilson electors will assemble there to cast
their votes for President and Vice President.
The Page Courier says:-'oeveral large
droves of cattle have recently passed through
our town going east. Some we're for the city
markets, and others stock cattle for the Fled
mont region.
Nessrs. Hartman & Cos. Harrisonburg and
Stanton line of stages, which bad been sus-
pended for few days in consequence OF the
'epizooty' amongst the horses, Is again run
ming on time.
Sportsmen are killing = good deal Of game
| in Frederick county.