The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-08-20
STATE NEWS.

Daniel Reynolds, colored, was kille
by railroad accident in Lynchburg 0
Sunday.
-Messrs. Hughes and Ramsdell are Q,
pected to speak in Warrenton on the 25t
J instant.
The Christiansburg Messenger say
" students are coming in quite rapidly
the agricultural college,"
Colonel Joe Scott of Petersburg, on
OF the gallant spirits quenched in the lat
war, IS to have a monument.
Alexandria has been visited by foo
OF no mean pretensions. Considerably
damage was done. Gs
| Major William Allan, of Claremont
offers to lease Kings Mill, a farm on whicl
during the war q severe engagement tool
place.
The Charlestown Free Press announce!
the death of Captain w. G. Sheerer of tina
place. Captain Sheerer wcs an officer ol
the old "Stonewall' brigade.
| The Gloucester Herald says thai
General w. b. Taliaferro has sold eigh
hundred and eight acres of land for two
thouTand dollars.'
! The Albemarlc Baptist association
meets at Harrisonburg on Thursday the
2lst instant, Rev. r. @. Baron, Of Lexing-
ton, preaching the opening sermon.
Edward Rogers, son of Hugh Rogers,
and Henry ID. Ayre, son of George S.
Ayre, have been appointed students from
Loudouu to the State agricultural college.
AT the clerks office of the county
| cou.t, last week, Mr.. Jonathan Balsey,
aged 73. was married to Miss Elizabeth
j. Mays, aged 4S.-Stdanton Vindicator.
Some famous lady amateur performers
from Norfolk, now on visit to kittrell
Springs, gave concert at that place on the
10th instant, for the benefit OF the Oxford
orphan home. y
Two wite men, confined in the Char
lotte Jail, attempted to cut through the wall
for the purpose Of escaping, which praise
worthy wish was frustrated by the guard.
So says The Observer.
There is q man in Bottetourt county
who refuses to be candidate for the legis-
lature, though ''many friends" have urged
it. He is known as Colonel j. G. Sperry,
and his name deserves place high up on
the scroll Of fame.
County school boards that have not
appointed state students to Blacksburg
college, or that have vacancies to fill,
should not neglect this duty much longer,
as all appointments to be valid must be
made before the 22d Of next month.
On last Monday night Julia Davis,
eighteen years fage, daughter of Mr.. VIM.
Davis, who resides about three miles from
Petersburg, in Dinwiddie county, dropped
dead, or rather died very suddenly, at her
fathers residence.
Colonel Robert Beverly, of Fauamer,
has sold to Messrs. Farland & Cauthorn,
of this place, oil the tie-timber on his
estate of Blandfield, in the upper part of
tfis county. The contract is very large,
acc, r. Lndsr, Tappahamock County.
IN the opinion of many Of his Conser-
vative friends, Major j. Horace Lacy, of
SpOtsylvania county, is lOng-winded
individual. The Ly nchburg Republican
asserts that /" Major Lacy consumed, by
the watch, ,'one-iourth of the sittings of the
Richmond convention"
The Lynchburg Republican sorrows as
one without hope because " q few malcon-
tents in Appomattox county are endeavor-
ing to place an independent candidate on
tho track against Major Joel Flood, the
nominated. Conservative candi-
date for the legislature"
The Laclede (MO.) Leader contains the
following announcement ''Died, at the
Laclede hotel, Lebanon, Mo-, on the 9th
instant, of congestive chills, G. A. Rob-
erts, aged % years. The deceased was
raised in Virginia, and emgrated to this
county about two years ago."
George Burton, colored, well known
in Fredericksburg, aud who made lis es-
cape from the corporation Jail year or
so ago, is now safely lodged in Baltimore
jail, charged with stealing a pocket-book
containing SAT. He is good for the pepi-
Tertiary for from five to six years.
On Wednesday last, James Funk, who
lives on Knob Fork in this county, was att
tackled by bull which he had been work.
ing and was attempting to unhitch. The
animal threw him, fractured three of his
ribs, and it is thought would have dis
of third party. GraysOn
Ensign.
--On Monday morning an unknown
colored man was struck by the mail tf0in
from Richmond, just below Milford sta
ton. The whistle was blown but the un-
fortunate man took no notice of it. He
ives thrown up on the pilot by the force of
the blow. AS. soon as the train could be
stopped he was taken up, and carried to
Milford station, where his injuries were
to. He was stranger in that
part of the country and from his injuries
was unable to give an account Of himself.
The Charlottesville Chronicle says
" We are glad to hear that our English
citizens have, SO many of them, fallen
heartily to work in our county, and have
Unidentified themselves thoroughly with all
the great interests of the county. Several
of the finest farms ofthe county have been
purchased by them /; and we learn from an
indomitable land agent, whose advertiser
circulates in Indiana, that many more
are coming soon." We hope they will
come hundred thousand strong, and help
us to make Virginia, what nature designed
she should be, the greatest state of the
American Union.
GENERAL ANDREW JACKsoN's
FIRST AND LAST MARRIAGE.-It is not
generally known that among the many
s..A1 . Al a