Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-12-09
VIRGINIA NEWS.

VIRGINIA NEWS.
At a meeting of the Board Of Supervisors OF
Rockbridge county, on Monday last, az ordl-
nance was passed directing the clerk OF the
board to notify the president and directors OF
the Valley Railroad Company to show cause at
their annual meeting on the 23d OF Decemoer,
why the county of Rock bridge should not with
draw her subscription of 1928, 900 to SAID road.
Stephen II Henderson. while on his way
from Richmond to his home near Tunsts"s
station, on the York River Railroad, was
Knocked in the head with slung-shot by a
notorious thief aud ex convict, named Jack
Champion, and robbed. Champion was arrest
ed, identified aud committed.
The Abingdon FirgiDian reports that quite
respectable shock of an earthquake was felt
in that place and vicinity on Saturday week,
about 0 clock in the evening. The shock 1t
says, was accompanied by loud report
maybe the report occasioncd the shock.
a two story brick house, owned and occupied
as dwelling and grocery store By slr. Elias
Roller, in Fredericksburg, vas burned, on
Thursday night House and stock insured for
s., 1000. Loss estimated at $500 to 5000 above
insurance.
The Fredericksburg, Orange and Charlottcs-
vile Railroad have recorded in the clerk 8 Of
fee of the County Court CT Albemarle county,
mortgage of seven hundred thousand dollars
for the completion of the road from Orange
Court house to Charlottesville.
4 religious revival is going on in the NJ. Il.
Church South, at Stanton, under the charge
of DR.. Rosser. Upwards of $50 persons have
sought conversion, and twenty-four have
Joined the church.
The Governor has offered reward OF fifty
dollars for the apprehension Of John Ii. SuIll-
van, convicted of grand larceny, but who made
his escape from the Stafford county Jail short
time since.
Mrs. Sidney Mason, Miss c. NJ. Tyler aud
Miss L =. Marshall, were registered at the
Hotel Westminster Paris, on the 10Th of No
vember, and left on the Goth for Alexandria,
Egypt.
Mr.. Green James, a lawyer of Fincastle, was
severely burned few days ago by the e1plo-
sion of some powder which had been thrown
into stove with handful Of waste paper.
The Mayor of Warrenton has ordered an
eleCLlOO
instant for Recorder, to fill the vacancy occa-
stoned by the resignation of JAS. Y. Chill 'aol
Messrs. Abram Young, of Loudoun, and
William NJ. Embrcy, of Stafford county, have
recently been declared banFrupts by the y. 5.
District Court.
The "Old Dominion Coal Company" has
been chartered by the Judge of the Richmond
Circuit Court The company is to mine coal
in Powhatan county.
The woman recently arrested in Richmond
for shop lifting, proves to be a genuine klepto-
maniac and she will probably be sent to an
asylum for treatment
A young man died very suddenly few days
ago, near Buffalo Gap, in Augusta county,
from the excessive drinking of whlskey.
The Petersburg Ice Company has been char
tered with capital of not less than $4,000 nor
more than $4,000
Large quantities of wood and railroad ties
are being shipped from Tappahannock to Phil,
adelphia.
A little boy, in Richmond, was painfully in
jured on Friday by the explosion Of some pow
der with which he was playing.
Mr.. John F.eeland, aged / years, highly
esteemed citizen of Richmond, died on Satur,
day.
A man 10 diving suit, met his death from
suffocation while engaged in diving at one of
the docks at Norfolk, one day last week.
The Grand Lodge of Masons meets in Rich
mond tomorrow.
The tobacco trade of Lynchburg has greatly
improved within the past few days.
Prof John G. Frey of Roanoke College,
died on the 4th inst.
The material of the Loudoun Republican
newspaper, at Leesburg, is offered for sale.
ALEXANDRIA ITEMS The Alexandria cor
respondence of the Washington Chronicle says:
In mentioning our manufactures on Wcdnes
day forgot to add spoke factory, two sumac
mills, and one or two stave and barrel factories.
We have thirty-two private schools most of
which are we'll attended, and sixteen public
ones. 1t proposed to turn the Court House
into a school as soon as thu new courtroom is
finished, if the county s interest can be bought
at anything like reasonable price. The Pub
lie School Board has about 500 at their
command with which to build school-houses.
This year they received 81, 800 from the Pea
body Fund The Washington free school was
supported by bequest to the city of Aexan-
dra by General Washington, but is now in
Guided among the public schools.
The Baltimore and Potomac Railroad will
improve the turnpike between our two cities as
soon as the double track is completed.
Sheriff O'Neal will leave for Richmond on
Wednesday with two prisoners, (both colored,
one sentenced for eighteen years and one tor
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