The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-07-11
VIRGINIA NEWS.

-Fifty-seven persons died in this city
last week.
The painters of Petersburg have or
gained a Union.
Martin Whitlock, a young white man,
of laudanum administered by himself.
e. G.. Leigh, ESQ.,, secretary of the
State Agricultural society, will have the
premium list for the next annual fair ready
for distribution in a few days.
The smallpox still RACES in Marion,
as we learn from the Patriot, there being
one ease to every one hundred inhabitants,
but no deaths have occurred.
The Board of Directors of the Loudoun
National Bank, at Leesburg, has declared
n semi-annual dividend of five per cent,
payable on and after the 10th instant.
. For five days ending on Monday last,
the internal revenue collector at Danville
sold $60,630 worth of tobacco stamps re-
quired under the new law.
Hon. j. II. Platt has recently present.
ed a number Of valuable public documents
and other volumes to the Library Assocfa-
ton Of Petersburg.
The Norfolk journal says w. III.
Wade, of the Neos of this city, who is on
a visit to Norfolk, !" looks so happy and is
so handsome, that it is hard to realize that
he is an editor" 20.
The Loudoun Agricultural Society is
already making preparations for its twelfth
annual fair this fall at Leesburg. The goth,
Both and 31st days of October have been
fixed upon for the fair. 10 ss
"A farmer in Petersburg the other day
was robbed of the proceeds of the sale of
his tobacco crop by thieves, who offered to
show him where he could make the cheap
est purchases.
.g "A hail storm passed a few miles north
east from Danvillo, one evening last week,
and did considerable damage to the corn
blades and tobacco on the hill. They also
had hail in portions of Caswell county the
same day. l3 SIZE 2tG1E.
The Baptists of Virginia will hold, next
year, the s~emi-centennial anniversary of
their State Association, and propose to
commemorate the year by raising for
church purposes $500 900, as a memorial
fund. .gu.ls
A letter to this paper, from Orange
G. H., says: "Our farmers have finished
their wheat harvest, and they say they
have never seen a better yield. The oat
crop is a a failure. Corn is looking well
and promising. The weather is dry on the
ridge, but plenty Of rain above and below"
The young ladies of Danville have or
gained a memorial association for the
purpose of bestowing proper care upon the
graves of the Confederate dead. Miss
Bette Walters is president of the ~associa-
ton !; Miss Mamie Wiseman, vice presi-
den Miss Ella Yates, treasurer ; Miss
Alice Shelton, secretary.
The Leesburg Mirror has the following
ga gentleman of this county, living near
Waterford, owns sc acres of land, assessed
at $75 and has owned it for fourteen
years. He cultivates from twenty to
twenty-five acres in wheat, and about ff-
teen in corn, and keeps from twelve to
twenty cattle. He has had fourteen pay
ing crops of wheat and corn, and his cattle
have enabled him to make them paying.
He calls fifteen bushels of wheat to the
acre a paying crop, and the average price
has been s. .50 per bushel. He raises from
forty to fifty bushels of corn per acre, and
his average price has been sixty-five cents.
He has sold hay but once in fourteen years,
but he feeds it all in his barn yard, as he
does his straw and fodder. lie has never
sold any long food of any sort from his
farm, except as stated above. lie has
never used any fertilizer except barn yard
manure, and only one-half ton Of plaster,
until this spring.. His land cost him $50
per acre in 1858. His system enables him
to manure all his land once in three years."
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