Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-09-20
VIRGINIA NEWS.

ing the Supreme court of the United States
between Louis L. Armistead, of Lynch
burg and W. F. Blackwell of North Caroliua
has been fully and amicably settled and ar
ranged, BY the agreement now entered into,
Mr.. Blackwell becomes entitled to the tull
ownership and use of the Durham trademarks
and name and Mr.. Armistead retains the full
use and ownership of the compound patented
by Mr.. w. A. Wright, 7th February, 1871,
and by him assigned to Mr.. Armistcad.
At Gordonsvlc, on Tuesday night. Gree
ley and Brown club was formed with DIR. }. d.
Pendleton president, and Messrs. p. p. Bar
bour, w. w. Scott, and b. }. Fauconcr, vice
president; j. NJ. Murphy, secretary; b; Il.
Partlow, corresponding secretary; and +. ii:
Cowherd, treasurer. Delegates were appointed
to the Central Committee. The meeting was
addressed by T. p Wallace, Of Orange
Colonel R. f. Withers spoke on Wednesday
at Stafford Court House, and the meeting was
also addressed by Messrs Sener (Radical) and
Braxton Conservative candidates for Congress
in the First District. A large crowd was in
attendance and the speeches, which occupied
five hours, were listened to with unfagglng
interest.
There arc now in Virginia seventeen sumac
mills, located in Winchester, Alexandria, Cul-
pepper, Louisa, Richmond, fredericksburg.
Petersburg, and King and Queen. Last year
these mills groun d about G,OoO ton, on which
they realized an average OF $50 per ton. or
$500, QUO for the whole.
A man by the name Of Capt. Fitz, formerly
conductor on the Chesapeake and Ohio rail
road, fell from the accommodation train OF that
| road. near louisa Court House, on "Wednesday
morning, and had both legs cut OFT, buSldcs be-
ing otherwise terribly maug led. He died al
| most instantly.
A letter from Louisa Court House says
''rhe drought has very greatly damaged the
corn and tobacco crops in this Scction but
| more will BIZ made than WAS OF one time anti
cipated.
The Conservatives of Spotsy lvauia propose
holding an od-fashoned Virginia barbecue at
the Court House during the month of October.
Many distinguished speakers will be present,
and "a feast Of good thugs will be spread.
Lewis Latane, the colored man arrested in
Essex county, upon charge OF firing DR.. Gar
nett's barn, has been convicted Of inccndiarlsm
in the County Court of that county,and sent TO
the Pcntentlary for five years
The amount of leaf tobacco sold at the Ware
houses in Danvillc for the six months ending
3lst of August, 1872 was S.S10,50O pounds, ut
an average Of $l35S per hundred.
The Shenandoah Herald says that Mr.. Wat
kins James was painfully. though not seriously
hurt, on Thursday, by fall from his buggy,
caused by its becoming uncoup!cd.
The sale Of the Fredericksburg Wooden Mills
to have taken place on Wednesday has been
Indefinitely postponed. The property was bid
in at $40 200.
DIR. Larkin }. IIundIey, died at Rose Ill.,
Essex county, ut the residence Of }. Harvey
IIundley, esq, on Monday last, at the good old
age of four score years.
A severe storm of wind and hail visited a
portion of Dale township, in Chesterfield coun-
~, on last Tuesday night. The crops along its
course were badly damaged.
Two car loads of sheep were shipped to the
Baltimore market yesterday over the Orange
and Alexandria railroad for Lynchburg.
The United States District Court will COM
mencc its next session in IIarrisonburg on the
18th of October.
Gen. Kcmper is to speak in Woodstock next
court day.
SUSPICIOUS CAsE-it will be remembered
by our readers that some five or six weeks since
a man named John Bryant, gangsnan en-
ployed on the Orange and Alexandria Railroad
between Glasgow Station and Amherst Court
house, was found on the track in badly mutla-
ted condition, soon after the passage OF the
South bound night passenger train, and died in
few minutes after he was first discovered. 1t
was then supposed that he was Intoxicated, and
had fallen asleep on the track, and been run
over by the cars. The wounded man was too
badly hurt to be able to speak aud give any ac-
count as to how he received his Injuries, but
| there we're some circumstances connected with
the affair which induced some person cogoizant
of the facts, to suspect that he had been toully
dealt with. 1t was known that a man named
James Spencer, night-watclman on the section
| on which Bryant worked, had Tor some time
been on intimate terms with the deceaaeds
| wife, who is represented to be very hand.
| some young woman, and since the death OF
| Bryant this intimacy had become so open and
| public, as to occasion much talk in the nelghbor-
hood where the parties lived, On Monday
night, Spencer and Mrs. Bryant eloped for parts
unknown, taking the Orange train going North,
and have not since been heard from. As watch
man, it was Spencer duty to pass over his
UcdI JuSI pllOl W pao"o6S VI viz u eAiA, o'o
had he done so it would have been almost i'm
possible for him to fail to see Bryant, who when
found, was in shallow ditch which crosses the
track near Buffalo Bridge. A colered man,
who lives in the immediate neighborhood was
the first to reach Bryant, after the train passed,
being attracted by his groans and found him on
bis hands and keees in this ditch, unable to
speak or move. He hurried to the section
house half mile off, for assistance, but W hen
he returned death had cnsued. Spencer, it is
said, claims not to have been on the track that
night There are other circumstances connect
ed with this affair, which give it very suspi-
cious complexion and which taken altogether,
would appear to afford strong circumstantia
grounds for the belief that Bryant was killed
and placed on the track to hide all traces Of the
murder -LynchJurg News.
STATE CONSERVATIVE COMMITTEE
meeting of the State Conservative Committee,
I :. L. IL.