The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-09-13
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STATE NEWS.

The theatrical season opens in Nor
folk Monday night.
"A good many Of the Virginia farmers
are already seeding their next years. wheat
The trial and execution Of David Cog
gin (colored), of Franklin county, cost thu
state $358.S0.
The Virginia agricultural and me,
chanical college, at Blacksburg, starts of
with 1872 students. a
| -Goyorner Fayette McMullin has made
| another speech. This time it was Wythe.
vile that was blessed.
Martha Washington college, at Abing-
don, will open on the 18th with good pros
poets for the session.
Judge John j. Allen has been nomi-
mated by the Conservative party in Bote-
tourt for the legislature.
The mayor of Alexandria is loudly
called OH by the papers Of that city to fix
one Of the public pump handles.
Sarah M. Allen, charged with poison
ing her husband Charles w. Allen, near
Staunton recently, has been admitted to
bail.
w. j. Cooke, graduate of Richmond
college, was ordained minister Of the
Gospel at the Baptist church in Liberty on
Thursday night last.
Colonel Beard will address the people
in Charlottesville, on politics, on the night
of the 23d instant. at the Conservative
meeting.
Large numbers of southern merchants
are now passing east over the A., NJ. and
o. and w. C. v. M. and G. s. railroads,
in quest of fall and winter stocks.
The Senatorial convention of the 2Sth
district, met at Floyd Courthouse on Tues
day last. Colonel John Il. Penn was
unanimously elected as the Conservative
nominee.
"A little colored boy named Slaughter,
about ten years old, living on the farm Of
Mr.. Robert Standard, near Orange Court
house, was bitten by copper-head snake
on Monday last and died the next day.
Major John Fl. Lee, refined and cul
tiyated gentleman, aged seventy, died sud-
denly Wednesday, at his residence in
Orange county. Before the war he repre-
sented his district in the Virginia senate.
Norfolk is one of the most prosperous
cities in the state. 1t has oysters and salt
water free, and Billy Foster is trying his
level best to afford his fellow citizens a
chance to mix fresh water with their corn
whisky
The Milton Chronicle suggests petit
ton to congress for an appropriation of
fifty or hundred thousand dollars for the
improvement of the Dan river from Milton
to Danville.
-Turnbull Bros, Of Baltimore, have
contracted with Rev. |. w. X. Handy, d.
d., OF Augusta county, for the publica-
ton of his interesting work on prison life
during the war, by subscription.
The Lynchburg virginian publishes
cisco, from which we infer that the en-
Virginia is to stay at home and work out
their own fortunes.
A Mattapo oni farm, belonging to John
I b. Coates, containing 934 acres, half q
mile from Milford, along the Mattaponi
river, was knocked down on Monday at
&c. so per acre. An cid citizen present told
us he present on one occasion, years ago,
ago, when the farm sold for $50 per acre. =
fredericksburg Herald. ..
We want it distinctly understood thai
we are printing The Times for the sole
object Of supporting two orphan children
G. M. Webber & Brother. Therefore we
intend to charge for everything we do.
We are not after glory, and it don't make
US at all proud to call ns editor. .-Roan-
oke Times. Y
We heard an Old School Baptist frisnd
tell pretty good story on couple of
his brethren, the other day, which we
think good enough to be enjoyed by our
readers, many Of whom belong to this de-
nomination and for whom we have pro-
found regard. He said upon a certain oc-
casion, just preceding the assembling of
their association, two OF the brethren
happened to meet, and the subject Of pro-
viding for the wants of the brethren was
brought up. Brother A. asked brother b.
what provision he had made to entertain
the association, brother b. replied that he
had bought ten gallons Of whiskey. s'Ten
gallons" said brother A. "why you are
Just as able to support the gospel as | am,
and have bought barrel. p Warren
Sentinel.
The following is an extract from a will
which was the subject of suit lately de-
pending in one of the courts of the Bed
ford judicial circuit: 81 will to my
nephew, James Madison Mt+*f, every
thing may have after my just debts are
paid, with condition that after | am buried
he is to have marble head and foot stone
put to my grave, to be seven feet long and
| four inches thick. want the following
inscription cut upon both ends Of each
slab: Henry M+f*, born December
10th, 1906; died . He was great
turkey hunter and q tolerably good fiddler.
He desired the above to be placed on this
slab. Peace to his ashes.' | want the
| foot and head stone or slab of marble five
feet in the ground and two out. 1t must
be eighteen inches wide. My name is to
be on the end in the ground as well as the
| end that is out.' a
Fall of Water in Fairfax County.