The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-08-11
STATE NEWS.

county, died suddenly last Tuesday, aged
So years. 4ses 80
Mr.. p. H. Boisseau has been appoint
ed deputy clerk in the United States district
and circuit courts at Danville.
The dwelling-house of Mr.. George
Clarke, Of Madison, was destroyed by fire
on Saturday last. .4. u
The Abingdon Virginian has some
thing about " Radical molasses." Hope the
fellow will make it stick.
Miss Virginia Marbury, of Petersburg,
was killed by the disaster on board the
Wawasett on'the Potomac river.
One hundred thousand pounds of man
ufactured tobacco vas shipped last week by
rail from Liberty.
Judge Mahood, of Giles, has granted
o new trial to James Littrell, of Roanoke,
charged with burning the barn of Captain
j. o. Miller. 5'
The International union Of the Jour-
Canada assembled in convention in Norfolk
to-day.
MIR. ii. L. Bein fell out of q four
story window in Charlottesville the other
day, and was only a little bruised and
stunned by the concussion. a
The Harrsonburg Old Commonwealth
says that Colonel Deneale stated to several
gentlemen in that place this week that he
wouldn't support Colonel Hughes.
The property formerly known as
Balls Mill.' in Loudoun county, has
been purchased by Messrs. j. 4. Megeath
and j. w. johnson for $4,000.
The Norfolk Virginian announces the
death, Of Mr.. James Abdell Of that city,
but for several years connected whith John
Robinson's circus, on Wednesday last at
Omaha, Kansas.
Rev. Vim. A. Jackson. colored,
formerly pastor of the Free-wll Baptist
Church, Of Berryville. Clarke county, died
few weeks ago in South Carolina, where
he had charge of congregation Of colored
people.
w. G. Hardesty, III. l.. d. Lewis and
William A. Bradford, are announced in the
Clarke Courier as candidates for the House
Of Delegates, and Carter M Louthan and
Marshall Mccormick for the position of
commonwealths attorney.
The secretary of the faculty of the
University of Virginia says that more APP
plications have been made for new cata-
logues, and more letters written inquiring
about the course, boarding, &C.. than ever
before at this season since the war.
A rural Virginia paper pathetically
observes: Harvest is over, and many of
our subscribers are still in arrears for their
paper. We hope those to whom we have
been lenient will show their appreciation.
after threshing their wheat, by coming in
and settling up with u.s."
Michael Aker, who lived near At
kins' tank, in Smyth county, died on Sat-
nTday last, in the 96th year of his age.
I'D led on the same day, in the same
neighborhood, Mrs. Elizabeth Snider, sis. :.
ter of Mr.. Aker, in the S1st year of her
age.
The crops in Prince George and other
counties contiguous, are suffering severely
from the effects of the drouth, and If
speedy rescue does not come, must perish.
In Greenville and other counties lower
down, the promise of favorable crop is
unusually bright.
On Saturday last, at the residence Of
Washington Boyd, white woman by the
name of Ann Bowman, was married to q
negro by the name of Henry Booker. We
understand that Booker procured the liz
cense at Abingdon and the ceremony was
performed by Parson Goffey. y.--Montgomery
Messenger.
The Potomac Baptist association will
hold its eighteenth annual session with the
Alexandria church ON the 18th of the pre-
sent month. 1t is one o. the largest district
associations in Virginia, comprising fifty
churches, twenty-five ordained and sixteen
licensed ministers and nearly four thousand
members.
The oldest person in our county is
Mr.. John Henderson, who resides near
Ellisville, some twelve miles southeast OF
this place. He is now in the one hundredth
year of his age, with an unclouded mind,
and is yet able to make his daily walks
over his large plantation. He is native of
of the Old North State, but has resided in
this county for the last seventy-fiye or
eighty years.-Piedmom Vuginian.
The Charlottesville Chronicle records
the death of j. w. Payne, an highly es-
teemsd citizen of that town, and adds !:
ss He was connected with one of our
banking institutions and was identified
with some Of our leading manufacturing
enterprises, possessing the confidence of
our entire community. His funeral was
attended by the Masonic fraternity, of
which he was a worthy member
The Fincastte Herald says: "Some
time ago frolicing party of young gentle-
men from Lynchburg came up the canal in
boat to Buchanan, and the railroad fever
being at blood heat, they played practi-
cal Joke ON the people down there. They
Represented themselves as engineers sent
.ont to survey the road, and were received
accordingly. A crowd gathered, the COM
mhAee met, the (bogus) engineers were
ysVan the free use Of the bridge,
atreated," and toasted, and all
went merry. This thing was enjoyed
for while by the Lynchburg boys. and
then like the Arabs, they quietly stole
away. When light dawned upon Buch-
anan, the vocabulary of our language failed
to express the feelings of the people.
Some of the numerous fools who
abound in Lynchburg. as in other places,
have taken to the explosion Qor amuse-
ment) of Internal machines, of which the
Virginian furnishes the following descrip.
:tion: A heavy beer or ale bottle is filled
with gunpowder. 1t is then wrapped
tightly with strips of cotton cloth over
tslsis txine is tightly coiled. then quantity
of paper is wrapped around it, and another
complete covering of stout hemp twine is
put around very compactly. Ii
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