The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-06-21
VIRGINIA NEWS.

| -Ihe Progress says project is on foot
to establish an independent newspaper ir
Petersburg.
-Capt. Albert f. Stratton and Miss
Martha Il. Lane were married in Botetourt
county, on the 9th inst.
The Catholic fair in Staunton last weeI,
netted $3.50. A walking cane originally
costing sl3, brought $40.
The new hotel at Sewell's point was
opened yesterday, and the event celebrated
by grand ball in the evening.
A Sunday School scholar named
Charles Vernon, from Washington, was
drowned at Glymont on Wednesday.
The cornerstone of the new court
house at Amherst was laid on Wednesday.
The address was delivered by Capt. Thomas
Whitehead.
The first new wheat received in Fred
ericksburg sold at $2.10 per bushel. A
crop of $50 bushels white and red, was
sold at 1920.
Harvest commenced in Page county,
on the 9th. The wheat is of fine quality,
and the yield much better than was
expected,
The Board of Directors of the Western
Lunatic Asylum at Staunton, have finally
granted the right Of way to the Valley rail-
road through their grounds, and agreed to
sell two acres Of land for go, 500, on which
to builda depot. The company pays 81 900
damages for the right Of way.
The Staunton Vi1ginian saws: "We
are pleased to state that the Buffalo GAP
Iron and Steel Works have again COM
menced operations, and are now turning
out pig iron in considerable quantities.
These works have met with several disas-
ters, but the energy of the proprietors and
manager have been equal to all mishaps,
and the works are successfully in opera
ton. |H
The trial of John Cameron, for poison-
ing his wife, several months ago, was COM
menced in Harrisonburg, last Monday.
Great interest is manifested in the trial, and
the attendance on the opening of the trial
large. John Paul and T. A. Dangerfield
the Commonwealth, and Wood
son and Compton, and John L. Harris the
prisoner.
The Danvilc Register of Wednesday
has the following: "On yesterday the
Board of directors of the Planters Nation
al bank of Danvile held meeting for the
purposes Of perfecting the organization of
the Bank. A majority of the Richmond
directors were present. Mr.. John B. Davis.
of Richmond, was elected president of the
bank and Mr.. N. Talley, of this place,
cashier. The appointment of teller, will
be left to the CASHIER"
The extensive steam saw mill belong
ing to w. L. Doud & Co., near ElIenboro',
West Virginia, was totally destroyed by
fire few days since. All the machinery
for cutting pillow beams, cave troughs, and
almost everything cut out of timber, to-
gether with an immense amount of valua-
BILE lumber in the yard and the dwelling of
one of the owners were destroyed. The
loss exceeds $4,000. No insurance. The
fire was caused by the hot cinders thrown
from the locomotive of passing freight
train.
The Fredericksburg Ledger of this
date says: "The gold mines of Spotsyl-
vania are still worked to advantage.
ignorance and mismanagement,
gold mining in this section since the war
has not been followed in every instance
with good results. We learn that work is
prosecuted at the White Hall
mine, and at the Old Dominion four new
shafts have been sunk, each one hundred
feet in depth. New buildings and other
to the value of 500, 900 have
also been added, and the work now in
now employs forty hands. The
ore lately taken from this mine is said to be
very rich"
The Rockbridge Citizen says: "We
have recently paid visit to the country,
and are pleased to say that we found the
farmers cheerful and in good spirits over
the prospects for fair crop. Since the
late rains, the wheat, corn and grass crops,
have greatly improved, and it is now cer-
tain that we shall have far better wheat
crop that we had last year, both in quality
and quantity. There will be less straw,
but more grain. The grass will be better
than was expected. Corn looks well, and
is growing rapidly. Oats will be short
crop. Rye is looking very well, and the
crop will be full and fair one. In Rock
bridge our prospects are fair, for an average
CROP"
The VdVey Viyginiaa, published at
Staunton, one of the ablest Democratic pa
pers in the State, let's fly again in this
style: ''There would be as much propri-
ETY., aud great deal more policy, in en-
dorsing the nominee of the Philadelphia
Convention, as there would be in taking up
the nominee of the Cincinnati Convention,
being the man that he is. We honestly
believe the south would have more to lose
by Greeley's candidacy than by Grants.
There is no possibility Of electing the for
mer, and his adoption by the Conservatives
of Virginia and the south, merely because