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Virginia.
The legislature has appropriated $4,000 to
provide ex-cculederate citizens who lost them
in the service. with artificial limbs.
A new steamboat line to ply between Nor
fOlk and Pope's Creek, and to work in con-
junction with the B. and p r. R., is announced
as an early venture.
Leicester Vernon, grandson of the donor of
Vernon Gallery to England died in Richmond
recently. lie was graduate of an English
university and visited the State to buy land.
An unfinished brick building in Danville
erecting by W c. Robinson fell last week. A
negro was killed. and several employees, white
and colored, were injured by the fall.
Frank Tibbs, negro preacher of GordOns-
vile was fined 500 recently, for having per-
formed the marriage service ever a white wo-
man and a negro. The bride-elect was recog-
nized to appear before the grand jury.
A number of leading colored men of Rich
mond contemplate establishing an Industrial
school in that city for colored youth. The
plan is fully matured and it viii be entered
upon at once.
The skeleton Of Park Martin, q citizen Of
Caroline county, who mysteriously disappear
ed in the spring of 1866, was found in the
bushes at Reedy Mil, on the Mattaponi, two
weeks ago Martin, it is thought, was drown
ed while trying to cross the swollen river.
The Petersburg Ne,rs' correspondent says
neither Judge onld. Major Dooley nor Gen
JOS R Anderson will be candidates for re-
election to the General Assembly General
Bradley johnson aud Col. Darlington will both
run for Senator aud probably will succeed.
The Southern Baptist Convention meets in
Charleston, South Carolina, on the 9th of May
The Virginia Baptist Mission Board has APP
pointed Rev. Z J. Willis, of Winchester and
J R. Num-. Of Clarke county, as delegates
The Governor has appointed Alexander
Moseley Of New Kent Co., and H. S. D. Lewis
Of Clarke county, fish commissioners of Viz
GINA, vice General Fitz Lee, of Stafford, and
Z. NJ Tidbal, Of Winchester, resigned.
The Washington Republican says; "The
proposition of Ex-Governor, Walker Of Vir-
gaia, that the General Government shall as
sumo the debts of the Southern States is not
without earnest friends and supporters"
At the meeting of the Grand Lodge l. o. 0.
F. Of Virginia, in HarriSonburg, on Thursday,
Major A. r. Courtney of Richmond was I'M
animously elected grand master. This is an
unprecedented honor, it being his second year
in the body, he being elected from the floor
without having held an office before
The Shenandoah Valley says: " The recent
severe winter drove vast numbers of crows
from the North into this section of country.
Many Of our farmers have been compelled to
haul 10 uushucked corn without taking time
to husk it. They cover the country by thou
sauds, and, in the evening, as they return to
their roost ia the Massanutten, their number
dcfes counting AS an evidence of the straits
to which the winter drove them, hundreds have
persisted from starvation, while many Others
had their eyes picked out while yet alive"
The Thurmanites, or Adyentsts, failed to
ascend from Harrisonburg, Va, on Tuesday
night. After feet washing and lovefeast. in
which about sixty persons participated, they
quietly awaited the advent Of Christ until an
hour after midnight. when the meeting broke
up the believers going away sadly disappoint-
ed.
Valentines rccumbent figure Of Gen. Il. E.
Lee was received at Lexington, Va, on Mon
day. There was a general turnout of the citi-
zeus, and addresses were delivered by General
Jubal \. Euly, Ex-Governor Letcher and Col.
William Preston johnson.
The Rev JOS Carson, of Culpeper county,
Va died on Friday, aged ninety-one years.
He had been minister of the Methodist
Church over seventy years The Rev. A. II.
Spilman, a Baptist minister, residing in the
same county, started to one of his preaching
appointments last Friday, was taken sick on
the way, and died before reaching his destina-
ton.