The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-08-02
STATE NEWS.

Jim Browns gallows is standing yet in
the jail-yard Of Suffolk.
Two Virginia newspapers are owned
and edited by Englishmen.
The people of Charlotte county, are
quaking from fear of cholera.
The New River railroad company has
been organized in Montgomery county.
Northern capitalists are prospecting
around Fincastle with view to settle
ment. A -
Michael Farrell, city collector of
Petersburg, died suddenly in that city
yesterday. Fm 4S
"A thousand bushels of new wheat
were sold in Staunton last week, at $3.50
per bushel.
-On the lst of September, Norfolk and
Portsmouth will have six letter-earriers
between them. WEB %
Colonel John A. McCaull represents
Salem township in the Richmond conyen-
tion August 9th. s s15s 81
The Culpeper Observer observes that
when man in that place can manage to
entrap ten cent note he is apt to put on
aristocratic airs.
Right Rev. Bishop Johns will visit
the Episcopal church Of Danville, on FRI
day, the 18th inst.
Mcdonald, of the Lynchburg Virgin
ian, is on his way home. He will set sail
from Glasgow on the 10Th instant, from
Vienna.
They say Judge Tourgee is improving
in many RESPECTS. We are gladto hear it
There was certainly room for improve.
ment.-Danville Times. 80
"a. w. Carter, a prominent and highly
esteemed citizen of Nelson county, died
suddenly Of heart disease, at his residence
near the Courthouse, Tuesday.
The settlement of Swedes in Richmond
county, near Shares wharf on the Kappa
hammock, is said to be prospering. They
are said to be decidedly superior class o.
men.
Some persons who have got money to
spend, think there is good opening for Q
newspaper in Williamsburg, Virginia. The
publication Of the "Cazetteo was COM
menced there in 1885,.
The Norfolk Journal alluding to the
Republican nominee for governor says
!" Undoubtedly Robert W. Hughes was
the best man in his party could put for
ward as its champion"
MIR. VIM. Bartlett, worthy and good
citizen of Nansemond county, fell dead in
his cotton field on Tuesday the oath ult.,
supposed to have been overcome by the
heat.-Rnal Messenger.
"A camp-meeting under the auspices ol
the M. E. Church South, will be held al
the Fauquier White Sulphur Springs, 81,
miles from Warrenton, commencing
August 2O,.. and continuing ten day.
j. N. Hall, of Smythe county, has in
possession the skin of a rattlesnalSe measur
ing six feet and one inch in length, an(
having twelve rattles. 1t was killed by .
woman and single woman at that.
The gasometre of the Virginia Military
| Institute exploded Wednesday, and tht
gasholder was thrown up fifty feet, but
fortunately without serious damage. TIL
occident occurred through the neglgenc
of an employee.
| Owing to the absence of certain minis
ters who were expected, the "protractet
meeting" at Providence, near Suffolk Virgin
| ia, which commenced last Sunday, didin'
'iprotract." "The harvest was plenteous
but the rearers were few"
| The Conservative gubernatorial con
vention will assemble in Richmond
August 9Th. In view of the conaictin
views held by many delegates, tn
| Petersburg Index is calling out loudl
/" let US have peace"
! "A telegram from Columbus, Ohio
states that Horace ID. Via, alias Shiflett
indicted in Albermarle for the murder q
Lindsay Shifett, last winter, is imprisone
in that city, and held subject to tn
requisition of Governor Walker.
| The secretary Of the Faculty of tn
University of Virginia says that more ap
plications have been made for new cata
logues, and more letters written inquirin
about the course, boarding, &C., than eve
before at this season since the war.
i The Shenandoah Valley says: Th
wheat crop in Page is said to be excellent
and the corn promises an enormous yielt
In Shenandoah the wheat crop is not NOR
than half good crop--but the prospect fc
corn is excellent-and this is the case j
Rockingham also.
II Our Valley exchanges contain thri
ling narratives of terrible adventures wit
snakes. We began to smell mice som
time ago, but we can see whole ten acl
fields full of them now since the Ware
Sentinel has had one killed at Buck
! Updike's distllery, on the Blue Ridge
monster rattlesnake six feet long, foot
E circumference, and had thirteen rattl'
and a button. Take our advice, gentl
linen, drink less water in your whisky, al
you won't have these fearful adventures
!, record.-Shenaadoah Democrat.