The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-06-24
Ghe l}irginia State Sournal
TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE "a, 1873
STATE NEWS.

expects his wheat crop to yield 5000
bushels.
A fire in Staunton, Saturday after
noon, destroyed carpenter shop and
churn factory.
Colonel J. p. Hill, brother OF Gene
raj A. P. Hill, died suddenly, at Culpep-
per Courthouse, on the 22d instant.
Judge Joseph IL. Sherrard, of Win
chester, has celebrated his Golden we'd
ding" the fiftieth anniversary OF his mar
rage.
The Norfolk markets are supplied
with neW fruit, called pears, which are
retailing at twenty-five cents per quart.
So says The Virginian.
The Lynchburg Press says Colonel
Mosby's influence with the Republican
party of Virginia will be found to amount
to nothing, whether for or against Wise or
ANY other man."
The Manassas Gazette says: "We
have been in eight counties of this state, in
the past two weeks, and the best grass
and wheat we have seen are in Prince Will
liam county.
johnnie, son of Joseph T. Logan, of
Harrisonburg, was instantly killed, while
in the street, by being struck with a frag-
ment of rock from a blast on the Valley
railroad. H.
The Republicans Of Campbell county
will convene at the Courthouse on the 10Th
of July next to select delegates to the state
convention and organize the county COM
mittee.
The Republicans of Essex met on the
10th instant, and elected f. M. Sandy and
Aaron Commodore delegates to the state
convention, with j. j. Mcdonald and III.
Brockenborough alternates.
The Lynchburg News says tobacco
was much higher Friday than for several
days past, and breaks were unusually
large. Shipping tobacco is unusually high
and in great demand, commanding at least
81 more in the hundred than it did week
ago.
Two young ladies from Chesterfield
county, Misses j. and NJ +. Lundri, at
tending the lecture of DR., Duncan, in
Petersburg, on Sunday last, while return
ing home were thrown from the buggy
and severely bruised, but fortunately no
bones were broken.
The county superintendent is in receipt
of check of $3.50 from the Peabody trus-
tees, to be paid to the teachers of graded
public schools in Warrenton. This sum,
with the $500 previously received, swells
the Peabody contribution to $S50.-W Var
rentOn Index.
The Culpepper Observer says: "A
considerable revival has been going on in
Antioch Baptist church (colored) in this
place, for the last two or three weeks, and
on Sunday last the Rev. Harrison Blair
baptized in Mountain Run ninety-five men,
women and children.
The Charlottesville Jeflersonian, refer
ring to the rumor of the appointment of
Judge Alexander Rives to the supreme
court, says: T" Ii it will not be any dispar.
agement to his success, we say, in our Opt
mon, Judge Rives is well qualified to dis
charge the duties Of the Office, and we wish
he may be appointed to fill it. Indepen-
dent of his politics, he is as pure a man as
can be found in the nation"
George Washington Parke Gusts, the
father of Mrs. Robert L. Lee, died at his
Arlington estate in 1857. In his will he
placed an obligation that all the slaves be-
longing to his estate should be set free at
the expiration of five years. The time of
right in the very height of the war. Gene
al Robert e. Lee, as the executor of the
will, summoned these slaves together at a
convenient point within his lines, and gave
them their free papers and passes through
the Confederate lines to 90 whittier they
would.-Piedmom Tiiyiniaa.
The Virginia Military Institute, at
Lexington, has its commencement
on the Fourth of July. The ora
tor of the occasion is j. b. Jelfries, of
Virginia, and the yaledictorian Il. l.. Coch-
ran, of Alabama. The Washington and Lee
University, at Lexington, also has its COM
mencement on the 26th Thursday, when
Hon. John Goode, of Virginia, will adj
dress the literary societies. In the evening
the Alumni association will be addressed
by Hon. j. II. Jamison, of Tennessee. A
meeting Of the alumni of the Institute
will be held July Sd. The annual address
will be delivered by Colonel Joseph Mayo,
state treasurer.
The prospect for tobacco crop in some
sections of our county is dubious, there
having been no favorable season for plant
ing since plants have reached proper size.
The Louisville Courier Journal says "a
very enterprising miner has discovered
wonderful mine in Virginia, which for va
rety of deposits beats anything hitherto
known in geology. 1t contains mica, sill
Yer and assafetida, with some indications
OF petroleum, etc. A few more strokes of
that miners pick will develop rich depos-
its of ice-cream, ostrich feathers, point lace
and Old Bourbon" That mine is situated
on the Lynchburg and Danville road, near
this city. True as preaching. -LynchbHg
Repubhcan.