The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-08-16
evening State 5uurisat,
VIRGINIA NEWS.

| SlllCt.
Gen. Eppa Hunton was ycsterda,
nominated for Congress by the Greele,
party Of the sth district.
| Carroll county is erecting new court
house. The building will probably b,
rooied by the first of September.
| Some of our State exchanges, of the
Greeley persuasion, are estimating the value
of the "victory" in North Carolina.
Col. Mosby, in note to j. b. Sener
ESQ.,, promises to speak in Fredericksburg
some time during the present canvass. ia
ID. @. Miller, superintendent Of public
schools in Smythe county, will hold ,
teachers institute in Marion on the 29tf
instant.
The difficulty between the City Coun
| Gil of Staunton and the fire company, is ir
fair way Of settlement upon the basis o
the reorganization of the old company.
Between eighty and hundred Wash
ington city Odd Fellows made a fraterna
visit to Alexandra, and were handsomely
entertained by the brethren of the latter
city.
Alta meeting of the Agricultural Society
of Petersburg yesterday it was unanimous.
ly determined to hold fair at the grounds
in that city this fall, commencing on the
22d day of October.
| "A Teachers Institute, for Highland
county, will be held in Monterey, com
| mencipg on the Goth inst, and one for Bath
county, at Windy Cove School-house, com.
mencing on the evening of August Goth, at
81 o'clock.
Rev. @. L. Clausen, Commissioner Of
| Immigration for the Agricultural and I'M
migration Society of the Northern Neck,
has gone to the State of Iowa to arrange
his affairs preparatory to removing his fam
lily to Milton Hall, Richmond county.
JAS. McDanel's barn, near PURCELL
vile, Loudoun county, was struck by light
ming during the storm Of the evening of the
18th inst, and totally destroyed, with his
entire crop of wheat thrashed and stored,
also his farming implements. Loss sup
posed to be from 81, 800 to "a, 900.
| The Lynchburg Neaos says that gen.
tleman who has recently travelled extern
sively in the southwest, declares that the
! crops of corn in all section are really mag
| nificent, and if no unforeseen accident oc-
ours the yield of corn this season will be
sufficient for the next two years.
An old Chocktaw Indian, whose hunt
| ing ground, many years ago, was in Carroll
and adjoining counties, is now on q visit to
that locality. He says he has visited the
home ef his childhood thirty-two times in
| search of gold mine believed to have been
known to his fathers, and claims to have
served as interpreter to General jackson in
the war of 1872. The Marion Patriot and
| Herald says he is o Greeley Indian, and is
the sole owner of Greeley club.
| Mr.. Riddlebarger, editor of the Shen-
andodh Democrat, had the temerty to
assert in his paper that "al the errors of
| the past are not chargeable to one party !"
| and further, that "the leaders Of the Dem
ocratic party, with headquarters in New
| York, are as corrupt as those of the Repub-
lican party at Washington" and he has
| got his immaculate partisans of the Valley
| about his ears, who threaten to kick the
unfortunate quill-driver out of the Greeley
ranks.
! AS Lynchburg is about to build new
market-house, correspondent of the "a
| gninfmakes the following novel sugges-
ton: Do not buy property at exorbitant
rates and do not build, but 10 this: Tunnel
courthouse bill from the engine house to
the foot of Mr.. Mosby's garden. Arch
your tunnel with brick, illumine with gas,
and you will have market house for all
| time that will beat the world. Cool in
summer and warm in winter, it would be
a paradise of market-house. 1t ought to
be 20 feet high and 60 feet wide.o
An exchange says Virginia Is en-
gagged in selling land on a peculiar system.
| Thousands of acres have gone untaxed since
| 1865, because the Assessors could find no
| owner, and-strange TO say---no claimant.
The Registrar of the Land Office is now
| selling these farms, giving tax-titles there
! for, with some provision entirely invalidat-
| ing them if the real owner turns up within
reasonable number of years. Ofcourse,
| the buyers run considerable risk, but, on
the other hand, the land is sold for 81 an
acre. In 1871, 20, 900 acres were disposed
of, and it is said only one owner has APP
peared for any part of the land thus OBJ
tanned, and that his property contained less
than l50 acres.
The Danville Register has the follow
| ing: As rather singular phenomenon,
we mention that some of the wells in town
have gone dry or nearly SO. They are wells
too which seldom fail of supply of water.
| We are at loss to account for this, con-
sidering that our particular locality has
suffered but little this summer from drouth.
We also hear that in other parts of the sur
rounding country, there is a like scarcity
of water 1t has been noticed at Chatham,
and we heard delegate to the convention
last week say that there was but one well
at Rocky Mount from which drinking
water could be had, and this supplied the
whole village. Consequently the water
supply there was very limited.
Colonel John, Taylor, late of King
George, has become associated with A. j.
Stofer in the publication Of the Cupeper
Observer. BY the way, the Obserro takes
us to task for admitting to our columns a
communication which characterized a
quiet citizen " of that town as :" bread
and butter carpet-bagger," when, the o.
serrer says, he was born there, lives there,
owns property there. and will inevitably die
there" As it is a matter of no concern
to us where this ''quiet citizen" was born,
being none the better or worse in any case,
and the Observer admitting that he belonged
to the bread and butter brigade, let us
have peace. ;"
The Newmarket Valley relates tho
following snake story +" As little son