The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-03-08
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VIRGINIA NEWS.

! There is talk of erecting large thea
tire in Portsmouth.
Gen. G. w. @. Lee, President 0
Washington and Lee University, has de
parted for New Orleans, to look after tht
large legacy of $40, 00O.recently left to tha
institution by the late Gen. Bailey.
Captain John Gatewood, formerly ed
itor of the Tenth Legion, published at
Woodstock, and moro recently Of the IIal-
risonburg Old Commonwealth, has put-
chased half interest in the So,ahclB Pa
t1ot, at Marion, Va, and will hereafter be
one of its editors.
The Republicans of Spotsylvania met
on Tuesday and selected j. y. Sener as
delegate to the State Convention which
meets in this city on the 18th of April, and
A. Wilcox alternate. The convention de-
clared for Grant and Lewis as its choice
for President and vice President.
On Tuesday, the 9Th instant, the resi-
dence OF Samuel c. Bradshaw, near Rice's
depot, in Prince Edward county, was en-
tlrely consumed by fire. There was no.
thing sayed-house, furniture, provisions
and clothing were all burnt, the family only
escaping. There was no insurance.
Capt. Rufus Gray, of the schooner
y. 5. Lee" (now lying aground on the
flats opposite the Naval Hospital, Norfolk
died shortly after midnight yesterday mofn-
ing from the effects of an overdose of
laudanum administered by himself. 1t is
supposed the Captain took the laudanum
with the intention of committing suicide.
lie resided at Marion, Mass, where he.
leaves a wife and eight children.
: The Clinch Valley Nescs says coal
fied, unparalleled in the extent Of its area.
skirts the entire northern boundary of
lazeWeil county from east to west. This
Is a portion of the great continuous coal
Held OF Pennsylvania, Virginia and Ohio,
which extends from the northern borders
OF Pennsylvania, as far South as Hunts |
vile, Alabama and according to Prof. Ii. |
D. Rodgers, is the most extensive known
to geologists.
The Staunton ETHiginsaB gives an ac-
count of the transactions in Natchoz, Miss.
ot swindler and impostor calling himself |
J. 2. lmboden, NJ. D., of Stanton, Va,
md claiming to bea brother Of General j.
D. lmboden, of this city. lie exhibited
letters of recommendation from
eadlng citizens of Virginia, and SO far
ngraciated himself with the people Of
Natchez as to procure partnership in
he drug house of DR.. A. 7. Bowie, OF that
'ity. He soon left, however, on the pre-
ext of business, and is denounced in
published card by DR.. Bowie as. a sWindler
md impostor.
The Farmville Commonwealth saws the
'oard Of supervisors of Prince Edward
ounty has decided not to turn over for the
resent, the old G. II. property to the heirs
t W. l.. Venable, who, many years ago,
ave the land to the county upon condition
hat it revert to his heirs whenever the
ounty ceased to use it, but that the ques-
ion of ownership in this property after the
ounty ceases to use it for courthouse
prposes, shall be adjudicated upon the re-
ord testimony, before any judge of the
tate other than Judges Dickinson and
Watkins, who are Taxpayers" and hence
Interested. The same question was raised
efore the war, says the Commonwealth, [
nth regard to the old clerks office and the
and attached, when the county ceased to
Sc it, and without one word Of hesitancy. i
he Commonwealth's attorney announced |
is opinion that the property reverted, and s
ne Court requested the clerk to notify the s
eir that it passed into his possession.