The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-07-29
STATE NEWS.

SIAAE NEWS.
Colonel Robt. W. Hughes is in Lynch
burg.
The village of Clarksvile has com
pany of Thespians. FsFF-
English purchasers are enquiring for
land in the regions of Warrenton.
Fredericksburg appropriates $1,000
for her public schools next year.
Chatham Lodge No. "a, X. Of p,
has been instituted at Pittsylvania Court
The grocery and commission house of
e. l.. Tolson, of Alexandra, has suspend
ed payment.
In Fanquier four hundred bushels of
wheat belonging to Extra Billy Smith, have
been destroyed by lightning.
Dawson Anderson has been appointed
postmaster at Stafford Store, Stafford coun-
ty, vice John J. Anderson, resigned.
John w. Harvey has been appointed
postmaster at Baynesville, Westmorland
county, vice VIM. X. Davis. failed to
qualify.
Ella Lyles aged four, daughter of
George II. Lyles of Alexandria, was run
over by street-car yesterday, and Instant
ly killed. s3tr
In the neighborhood of Scottsville the
people have the promise Of the best crop of
corn, oats, hay and tobacco that they have
had for ten years.
in Mecklenburg county G. w. Young
and Ross Hamilton, have been nominated
by the Republicans as candidates for the
house Of delegates.
Judge A. Howison is announced as a
candidate for the legislature in Prince
William county, subject to the action of
the Conservative convention.
The Lynchburg Home Guard accu-
mulates the admiring plaudits of the peo-
pie there when in parades. Home Guards
were not popular during the war.
A new postoffice is established at Rox-
burg, Essex county, on the route from
Fredericksburg to Tappahannock, with
Francis P. Mundic as postmaster.
| Mrs. General Armistead L. Long
adyertises to open q select school for
young ladies at Charlottesville, Virginia,
the first session beginning October l
1878.
j On the 22d of July, the Republicans
of King George county, chose James b
Senor and w. Mcdaniel, jr., delegates te
the gubernatoral convention which meet
in Lynchburg July 80. .@
Mr.. Hauxhurst, of Alexandria, is build
ing steam scow at Richland station, OF
the Potomac river to transport lumbe
from the different mills on the Potoma
!, to Alexandra and Washington.
Orange county was visited by hail
storm, on Monday last, accompanied wit
fine showers of rain. The hail did som
: damage to the corn, but the good done b.
7 the fine showers was more than an equiva
lent. . aaua
"A horse attached to sewing machin
wagon, in Danville, became frightened
few days ago, and ran away. A negr
woman was struck by the wagon and $
8 seriously injured that is thought she car
not recover.
Mr.. S. Walter Washington. son of /
!, B. Washington, of Jefferson, West Virgil
ia. graduated with distinction at the lat
T commencement of the Virginia Military Ii
Q stitute, and has been appointed an assis
l. ant professor Of that institution.
III A Republican convention, compose
! of delegates from King George, Westmo
. land and Richmond counties, will be he
% at Warsaw, Richmond county, on Satu
e day, the 9th of August, to nominate ca
e didate for the state senate from that dl
" trict.
AT the late fire in Baltimore, a deleg
80 ton from the Hydaulion company, of Ale
III andria, Va, came over and did good sc
Il vice, and the city council of Baltimore,
al meeting held on Saturday, passed res
" luton of thanks to Alexandria for the prt
fer of the use Of steam fire engine duri
the conhagration. sa
70 "A bachelors club has been formed
OF Orange Courthouse to promote matrimon
ry The ngliest men are put forward first
al candidates and the ladies' are compelled
% except them, being unwilling to wait for
81 handsome young men with their hair pa
us ed in the middle, who are to be rallied
nd at auction in 1876. ST E
or An extract from letter dated Wa
ill Springs, Bath county, July "a, say
he "Mrs. General Robert e. Lee and her t
nieces, Miss Williams and Miss Jen
Snowden, are here. Mrs. Lee is ve
pie fat old lady; she wears her hair in lit
in curls on each side of her face. She
Did very pretty hair perfectly yellow, and
A soft and silky as child's. You can
aid she was very pretty when she was young
III The Conservatives of Hanover '
ing hold convention at their courthouse
the Sd Wednesday in August, for the p
pose of organizing the party for the
preaching campaign. saa