Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-02-28

Among the appointments BY the VI. II. Con-
ference, lately 10 session 10 Norfolk, were the
following: f. P Phelps, Presiding Elder,
Richmond Dlrtrict; Manassas: Wm: }. Bane;
Alexandria, James s. Boyer; Falls Church. Il.
A. Scott; Vienna, Charles ". Bal; Hender
son, Henry Clement; Lcc>burg, VIM. Fl. For
sythe; Hllsborough, J. b. North; Berryville
VIM T. Schonley; and Lodoun. to be supplied.
Rev. Charles King was transferred to Kansas
Conferences.
In the ncighbolho?d of Stephcusvc, in
King and Queen county eleven cases OF ccrc-
bro spinal meningitis DIETER known as spot
ted lcvcr) have occurred, ten ofwhich have re-
suited fatally Most Of the cases have been
very rapid-some lived only from eighteen to
twenty four hours-o,hcrs from tw.nty-tnur to
thirty-six.
John and James Smith, (col) were drowned
in the Rappahannock river on last Saturday,
near the town of Tappahannock. They went
out in the afternoon 10 small boat to nsf their
nets. After 6sEiug them they started to The
shore when Il squat struck them. cap>zing the
boat they We're In.
The Charlottesville Gaslight Company, since
the completion Of the Chesapeake and Ohio
Railroad, have made arrangements to use can
mel coal from the West 10y which they will be
enabled 10 furnish gas ut three dollars per
thousand feet, instead Of five dollars per thou
sand as heretofore.
A gentleman of Charlottesville proposes to
aid the University Of Virginia by being one of
four persons, each of whom shall take three of
the 81, 900 scholarships, or one OF SIX persons,
each OF whom shall take two of them, or one OF
twelve, each to take a scholarship.
The number of convicts on the rolls Of the
peptcntiary at this time is 79S of these 2G9
are employed 10 the Old Dominion granite
S works, 90 on the Chesapeake and Ohio rail
road and the remainder, 439, are in prison
Or the convicts 60 are females.
The Culpeper Observer sl!s that there arc
fourteen cases of sma pox i'll that vicinity
Two of the cases have died, two arc still very
ILL., and the rest are convalcSccnt. The fatal
aud severe cases had never been vaccinatcd.
1t is confined to the coored people.
Under the impression that The 22ud of Feb
ruary was legal holiday, the Bauk Of Berry
vile, as we'll as the banking institutions of
some of the other towns in Virginia: we're
closed on that day.
Mr.. VIM. Green, an employee OF the rail-
road living near Hawknstown, in Shenandoah
county, lost his house and all his household
goods, by fire, last Monday night about one
o'clock.
Mrs. Ann Logon, VIE of Lloyd Logan, ST.,
esq.,, of Winchester, died 10 that place on
Tuesday.
Gov. Walker has gone to Philadelphia on
brief visit
Six or eight young men of Shenandoah coun-
ty will leave on Monday next for Texas.
The Fredericksburg papers note the terrible
condition of the country roads IN that vlc0lty.
A FORTUNATE MIsFoRTUNE.-Our young
friend Mr.. Thomas Lupton, who left this place
few weeks ago to take up his residence IN
the State Of Texas, had the misfortune to lose
his pocket-book while travelling on the cars
from Cincinnati to New Orleans-a pick pocket
having relieved him Of it while asleep on the
train But to show the mysterious agency by
which one misfortune saves Us from another
and greater evil the loss of his pocket-book
delayed Mr. Lupton, and the boat he would
otherwise have taken to pass over the Gulf OF
Mexico to Texas was burnt at sea, and nearly |
all an boor3 ori shed - Clark. fIUnje.