The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-10-11

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young minister of the Methodist Churt
South, died in Smyth county, few da,
since. -------- --------
| flAGeorge w. Burwell, sr., died on SUI
day last at his residence, "Carter Hall,
near Millwood, in Clarke county, in Ii
10th year of his age.
Charles Saunders, colored, has bee
convicted in the circuit court of Smytb, {
the murder of James III. Fewell, and ser
fenced to the penitentiary for nine years.
The Wytheville Enterprise says tina
the mail pouch was forcibly taken from tn
carrier between Max Meadows and Ora
hams Forge, last week. The robbers ar
still at large. h4
Oregon Wilson, young artist of con
siderable reputation, died at Santa Barba
ra, California, of typhoid fever, on tn
9th ult. Mr.. Wilson was born at Freder
icksburg, Virginia. , ia
T Last week, as Mrs. Elizabeth Smith
widow, living in New Creek, West Vir
ginia, was walking down the railroad, {
freight train struck and killed her instantly
She stepped off the track to avoid the train
west, and while watching it was struck by
the eastern bound train. sst i'2 S.N
Austin d. Covington, of Virginia, has
been examined and passed successfully as
a candidate for cadetship in the United
States naval academy. - Charles P. Lums.
den and Edward d. Meredith, of Virginia,
have been reported as permitted candidates
for the class of cadet engineers.
"A church under the charge of the
general conference of the colored M. e.
Church, South, has been organized in
Farmville, with the Rev. Charles Brown as
pastor. Mr.. Brown was regularly
ord9ined some three years since by Bishop
d. s. Dogget, end was for some time
engaged IN preaching in the state of
Tennessee.
From an advertisement signed by
Messrs. Reuben Raglaud, s. A. Plummer,
W.. r. Mallory, and dated Petersburg,
October 6, it appears that to .close part
nership pursuant to articles" they will
sell at public auction, in New York, on the
29th instant, in one.mass, ten thousand six
hundred shares of the capital stock of the
Petersburg railroad company. Terms in
clude $3.50, 900 1st August, 1876, with
interest at rate Of six per cent. per annum.
Robert Sinclair, who was arrested in
Staunton for horse stealing and carried to
Liberty, Bedford county, for trial, has re-
ceived the following sentences there: 10
year for one case and six additional, he
having once served term in the state
prison; Is years for another case and Is
added by thejudge, and IA years for another
case and s added by the judge, makiGg IS
years imprisonment in all. There were
two more cases against him in which the
commemorative attorney entered nolle
prosequi.
The Columbus, Ohio, Gazette of the
3d instant, in paragraph about the ar
rest of Dunlap at Staunton recently, says:
Later accounts of the arrest of Dunlap
DO not give the credit to Detective Knox,
as heretofore stated. John Wren, subor-
iinate, is said to have made the arrest;
but it seems from letter received at the
governors office on Wednesday, that still
another claims the reward. His name ID
John .. Blackley. He states that Wren
handed him the pistol and that he Black
ey) pursued the fugitive half a mile and
captured him. This quarrel will be set
led in the future. One thousand five h1n-
ired dollars is the reward offered-one
thousand to be paid on the arrest, and five
after conviction. "