The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-03-30
VIRGINIA NEWS.

The Salem Times records the death o.
BENZ. keagy, ESQ.,, of Roanoke.
"A white hare has been caught in BLAND
county. We can catch 'cm nearer home.
Mr.. w. II. Effinger, of the Harrison
burg Old Commonwealth, is about to re-
move to Portland, Oregon.
The Bristol Neps says the peach buds
have been entirely destroyed in that section
by the extremely cold weather.
The valuable property known al
Donald's mills, with 140 acres Of land, in
Bedford county, was sold to Mr.. John ii.
Booth, Monday for $40, 900 cash.
B. II. Jones, author of the "Sunny
South" and during the war colonel of the
Forty-fifth Virginia Regiment, died at
Charleston, W. Va, few days since.
The Loudoun Mirror says: Colonel
Douglas left an estate of about $40, ,0OO,
and died without will. His brother, Mr..
Arch. N. Douglas, of Albemarle county,
is his sole heir.
Sheldon Toomer, formerly citizen of
Portsmouth, died in Opelika, Alabama, on
Tuesday last, of consumption. He was
about 36 years of age. During the late
war he served in the Third Alabama Regi-
ment, and lost a leg in the seven days fight
around Richmond.
The Roanoke Times says that Rev.
DR.. Sears, the agent of the Peabody Edu-
cation Fund, has promised the town of
Salem $500 for the graded schools, which
will enable them to keep open until the ] st
of July. OF this sum $500 is for the
white, and 5000 for the colored schools.
The city council of Alexandria has
adopted aresolution inviting ex-Gov. Henry
A. Wise to deliver his lecture in that city.
Judge Underwood offered the resolution,
and before doing so, made the following re-
marks, as reported in the Gazette: Judge
Underwood said, with the permission of the
Board, he would make few remarks
touching on reciprocal relations which he
hoped soon to see brought about between
all parties in this State. TO build up
State, develop its resources and introduce
manufactures it was necessary to throw off
all harsh feelings which had been brought
on by politics, and both parties and both
races should unite in what would eventuate
in tho welfare of all. During the last year
or two, the speaker said the Office he
held had brought him in connection with
uuI. lieulJ a. Wise, WuOSS VIEWS III Tc-
gard to the manner in which the people of
the State should now act met with his
most hearty appreciation. The speaker
said it was an unfortunate fact that colored
people could not be made to believe or
understand that they had as warm friends
among the Conservatives as the Radicals
but force Of circumstances had made
them look upon their former masters with
distrust, fearing further oppression. This
was to be regretted. Mr.. Wise, he said,
in an address delivered in Washington some
time ago had counselled harmony between
the two races, advising them not to be en-
bittered against the white people of the
South, but cherish friendly feeling towards
all. He (Mr. Underwood) hoped the time
was not far distant when there would be no
division in the State when the members
of both political parties would vie in build
ing up our waste places when turmoil
and political squabbles would give way to
more worthy objects. 1t would be better
to forget the past, and commence anew.
Politics had been run entirely to high in
this State, although he had never been ac-
lively engaged in them himself.'