The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-05-09
VIRGINIA NEWS.

- Hon. John X. Edwards died at h
residence in Halifax county, yesterda
mo- mig, in the CID year of his age.
| The Roanoke Times understands ths
General Malone will Immediately orde
the construction of new depot at Salem
to take the place of the present shed.
-Messrs. Gideon Shiery and W. G
Campbell propose starting a daily paper i
Stanton about the first of June. 1t viii
be independent in politics.
= DIR. Samuel Selden has been selecte,
by the Norfolk association to deliver al
address of welcome ON the occasion of tn,
meeting of the State medical association il
that city next fall.
The Pearisburg Gazette says: "Wt
are proud to state that not a drop o.
liquor can be bought from anybody
authorized to sell it, in Giles county. There
was but one place last year, and it. was
closed some time ago. What is more,
public sentiment is against the traffic, and
we hope to pass through the year in the
present happy state of affairs"
The city council of Staunton Tues.
day night instructed the finance committee
to negotiate loan from the banks oil
Staunton for the sum of SS, 800 at 90 or
100 days, 8 per cent. per annum, to pay
the Judgment Of condemnation of the land
for the use of the Chesapeake and Ohio
railroad workshops.
The colored man who had the small
pox in Lexington. died Saturday. Up to
Tuesday no new cases had occurred. The
case reported created considerable excite
ment and induced general attention to
vaccination among the citizens. The Citl-
zen reports that DR.. Morrison had vacci-
mated ITS persons; another physician 200,
and another 30, leaving two or three ply
sicians to hear from.
The Jeffersonian Republicans of
Charlottesville, has the following: "Mile-
tus Jarman, esq, informed us on
Monday last that he had found the
sword which his son captured during
the late civil contest. This sword
was presented to the late General Meade,
Of the United States army, for gallant con-
duct and meritorious services during the
Mexican war. The family of General
Meade, by addressing letter to the
mayor of this place, W. L. Cochran, esq.,,
can have the sword returned to their direc-
tion."
-Attorney-General Taylor, in recent
letter to citizen of Charlottesville, says:
!" All lawful acts of the notary public,
done within the four months, next after the
passage of the act, will be Valid. Nota-
ries, in commission at the time of the pas
sage of the act, have four months after its
passage in which to execute new bonds
upon doing so, their terms of Office will
continue for four years from the date of the
passage of the act, without new commits
sion. Should they fail to execute the bond
as required by the act, their terms Of office
will expire at the end of four months from
the date of the passage of the act the act
bears date March sth, 1873"
The Petersburg Appeal says the ex-
ecutive committee of the Farmers coun-
ell Of Virginia and North Carolina" have
appointed the following gentlemen as dele |
gates to the ''National agricultural con-
gress," to be held at Indianapolis, Indiana,
on the 2Sth instant-viz: Major r. V.
Gaines, of Charlotte county, and Mr.. e.
L. Dromgoole, of Brunswick county, Vir-
ginia, principals and Colonel S. s. Brad |
ford, of Culpepper county, and Captain j.
H. Prince, of Southampton county, Virgin
ia, alternates. DR.. L. w. Bachelor, of
Halifax county, and Mr.. VIM. Burnett, of
Warren county, North Carolina. princi-
pals and Mr.. M. p. Pannill, of Halifax
county, and Mr.. W. White, Of Warren
county, North Carolina, alternates.
The following from the London Times
Of April %, may be interesting to many of |
our Loudoun county readers:
The petition of the Countess of Loudoun,
recently presented to the Queen, praying |
that her Majesty would be graciously |
pleased to terminate in her favor the abey-
ance at present existing in the Baronies of
Montacute Q299, Monthermer, Montacute |
1850, and Montagu, came on Saturday |
last under the consideration of the attor-
ney-general, to whom it had been referred |
TO make the preliminary inquiries usual in |
such cases. The attorney-general decided
that sufficient evidence had been laid before |
him to justify his reporting to the Queen
hat the petition might properly be referred
10 the House of Lords for adjudication if |
Her Majesty should be graciously pleased
so to do. The Scotch titles, dating from
1901, now held by the Countess Tin her
own right devolved upon her by the death,
without leaving issue, of her brother, the |
late Marquis of Hastings and had origin
ally been brought into the family by
in 1904, of her grandfather,
Francis, Marquis of Hastings, the cele-
brated governor-general of India, with
Flora Mure Campbell, then the Countess of
Loudoun.