The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-06-08
VIRGINIA NEWS.

| Robert T.. Mitchell, an old citizen OF
Bedford county, died on Wednesday last.
james S. Allen, young merchant OF
jackson, Botetourt county, died on Sunday
last of apeplexy.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Entwisle had a
golden wedding in Alexandra on Thursday
night, on which occasion they entertained
about $50 guests.
Capt. James Mcbride, of Brownsburg,
was thrown from his horse, in that town,
on Tuesday last, and so badly injured that
he died on Thusday following.
The storm of last week blew down
the tobacco barns ofDr. L. G. Broaddus
and Charles w. Collins, of Caroline county,
the latter of whom had on hand crop of
tobacco which was greatly damaged.
The Danville Times says : "Mr. j.
@. Wall, of Rockingham, N. c., with two
hands and one horse, raised 5,644 pounds
of tobacco, which was sold in the Danville
market on the 9th instant for 81 1884 So"
"A survey of new railroad between
Washington city and Alexandra ION the
Maryland side of the Potomac) has Just
been made. The distance is seven and
one-third miles, heaviest grade sixty-one
feet.
Major Thomas A. Ball, formerly a
merchant in Fredericksburg, but now a
resident of California, has been elected
President of the California Mutual Life
Insurance Company, the capital stock of
which is 1896, 900.
The Wytheville Dispatch of Wednesday
says: 'We are glad to learn that Mr..
Christopher King who was seriously, and
it was thought at the time, fatally injured
about two weeks ago, is improving very
hope and belief that he will be able before
long to 90 about again, although it may be
sometime before he entirely RECEIVERS.
The Staunton Vaginian, Democratic,)
says: Whenever a delegation lat Balti-
morel purporting to represent the Conserva-
tive party of Virginia, shall dare to commit
that party to a vile political incendiary-
the bitterest enemy Virginia and the South
ever had, and now the baldest hypocrite
that ever abashed the moral sense of an
epoch-[Greeleyl will assume the re-
sponsiblity of splitting the Democratic par
ty into fragments, and turning the State
over to the Republican party. 1t will be
most insuferable and inexcusable presump-
ton, which the people will not tolerate"
Greeley is the rock upon which the
Democracy of Spottsylvana have split at
the outset. They can't endorse Greeley.
Resolutions of Endorsement were in
troduced in the meeting on Monday,
and threw the camp into such utter confu-
sion, that they were withdrawn as sudden
lv nc ono would draw his head from fiarv
furnace. Lieutenant Governor Marye,
however, came out square for Greeley, and
set fire to the bridge, as the Eredercksburg
Herald says, which carried him over from
conservatism to what the Liberal Republi-
cans have set up. OF the delegates chosen
to the State convention one is for Greeley,
one doubtful, and two avowed enemies of
the philosopher.
The Leesburg Mirror says that on
Monday next the Lloyd poisoning case will
be laid before the grand jury. Should an
indictment follow, it is thought that Mrs.
Loyd's counsel will move for a transfer of
the case to the circuit court, which meets
in October. The object, adds the Mirror,
which the experts had in the late exhuma-
ton of the children, was to secure other por-
tions of the bodies of the two little girls,
for the double purpose of more fully salts
flying themselves of the presence of poison,
and to supply any omission that might be
supposed to exist in the chain of testimony,
occasioned by the death of Recorder Bent
ley, who had charge of the stomach of
Maud from the time of the inquest by the
jury until it was placed in the hands OF
Prof. Tonry.