The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-06-14
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Edgar Snowden, Sr., of the Alexandri,
Gazette, is seriously i'll.
--Wm. III. Kinkle. promising young mar
of Lynchburg, died in that city on Wed
nesday afternoon.
Rents are going up in Alexandria. A
store on King street that rented for $95(
last year, rents this year for 81 200.
Hunters old ship yard and foundry
at Alexandria, are to he taken in hand BY
northern capitalists and put in operation.
The supervisors of Rockbridge have
adopted the chain-gang law, the fence law
as to hogs, the dog law, and refused to
levy the railroad tax for this year.
The grist and saw mills on Narrow
Passage creek, Shenandoah county, be-
longing to Captain McGinnis, were totally
destroyed by fire on Saturday morning Of
last week. No insurance.
The Court of Appeals convened in
Wytheyille on Monday last, all the judges,
except Moncure, being present. Judge
Moncure took his seat ON Tuesday morn
ing, his arrival having been delayed by the
sickness of his wife. The decision of the
court in the homestead case will be pro.
mulgated during the present term.
The Rockbridge Citizen says :-"A
Mrs. johnson, residing in the upper end of
this county, attempted to commit suicide
one day last week. She cut her throat
with knife, making deep and dangerous
cash, reaching the windppe, but Fortunate
ly not severing any of the larger blood YES
sells, so there is hope of her recovery. She
was laboring under a mental abboration
when she attempted the deed.
The Staunton Vrgmian makes this
emphatic declaration: ave certainly will
never support Greeley for President. That
is fact as well settled as anything can be.
We honestly believe him to be unfit for the
position. lie has not the first qualification
forit, and we do not mean to stultify our
conscience by saying he has. Whether this
be popular or not, it is our belief, and we
intend to maintain it by all fair means and
arguments at our command, and to impress
our convictions upon the minds of as many
of Our readers as we possibly can."
The Fredericksburg Herald has the
following: Gen. Daniel Ruggles re-
turned to Fredericksburg last week, from
protracted visit to Texas, where he was
looking after large landed interest. We
are pledScu W ledIIl Illlt TIC ueleTal mas aC-
complished all that he went for. When in
the United States army, some years before
the war, he purchased large Spanish
claim. This has been verified and title
fully sustained. By it General Ruggles
becomes the proprietor of some three hum
dred thousand acres of land in Texas, COM
prising within its bounds some of the finest
cotton lands in the world. The General is
now the largest living land owner in
Texas"
The Christiansburg Messenger says:
The Board of Supervisors, at an adjourned
meeting on Tuesday, decided upon plan
for making the subscription of $4,000,
voted by the people, in aid of the
Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical
College at Blacksburg. The subscrip-
ton is to be made the lst of July,
and is to be paid in eight annual
of 81 500 each. The first pay
ment, for which a levy has already been
laid, will be made in warrants on the coun-
ty treasurer, payable the 1st of next JAN
uary. For the other payments, bonds of
the denomination Of $50, 500, and 5000,
will be issued, and turned over to the col
lege directors, when they meet on the 18th
of july,