Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1877-11-27
Virginia News Items.

VA SAAAu NCWo ACCUSs
A house occupied by a colored woman
named Hester Ann Williams, near Tan.
der's Greek Cross Roads, Va. was de-
stroyed by fire Thursday. Three chill
dren, two aged four years, the other an
infant, were burned to death.
The Governor has commissioned Gen
eral William B. Taliaferro, Col. William
T. Robins, and Colonel William X. Der
rim military examiners for the district
of Gloucester.
The grand jury of Norfolk, on Nov.
2lst, found true bills in forty>nine cases
against about thirty whiskey dealers for
violation of the Moffett bell-punch
liquor law.
The Tazewell Nea0s says that Mr..
Abingdon Of Scott county few days
ago celebrated his centennial birthday
with rousing protracted meeting of his
relatives and friends, lasting several
days. Near a thousand persons, one
half of whom were kinsmen, attended
the old mans house-warming.
The Fredericksburg Star says that
while digging well in that place the
other day, John Morrissey fell in and
broke his neck. He was an industri-
GUS and respected citizen.
The Richmond volunteer soldiers,
who went to Columbia, South Carolina,
week before last, to take part in. the
competitive drill, are not pleased with
the hospitality they received.
The steam mill at Wolf Run Shoals,
in Fairfax county, owned by Mr.. Wild
boar, took fire and was burned to the
ground on Saturday night week, together
with all its contents. There was no in
surance on the mill. ~
The barn of George A. Wilson, treas
urer of Norfolk county, Va, was burned
by an incendiary Monday of last week.
Thirteen hundred barrels of corn were
consumed. Loss $500; no Insurance.
The Virginia Conferences of the M. E.
Church South has elected the following
delegates to the General Conference -
Clerical, w. w. Bennett, P. A. Peter
son, L. M. Lee, John D. Blackwell, r..
N. Sledd, L. S. Reed, John E. Edwards
and Paul Whitehead; lay, George M.
Balm, Thos. Branch, H. w. Murray,
Francis H. Smith, John R. Pace, T. w.
Mason, T. B. Hamlin and Richard Pol
lard.
Robert G. Ould, son of Judge Robert
Guild, of Richmond, who shot young
man named Saunders, in buckingham
county, several months ago, was tried
and convicted in the County Court of
that County week before last. The ver-
dict of the jury was twelve months con-
finement in the county Jail and fine
of $500.
The directors of the Irish Catholic
Colonization Society of Philadelphia
have just closed negotiations for secur-
ing tract of land at GAINESVILLE, Char
lotte county, Va, containing about sew
en- thousand acres. at $11 an acre and
on ten years time. There are on the
tract saw mill, grist mill, tannery,
about forty small dwellings and large
mansion, valued at several thousand
dollars. The society is negotiating for
the sale of the latter to religious or
ganization, which proposes to use it for
school purposes. The land is to be sold
to colonists on ten years time, att slight
advance, in tracts of twenty-five, fifty
and one hundred acres. Colonists in
tending to settle thereon next spring
are now enrolling.
Mr.. Frank, Williamson's store IN Es-
sex county, together with his entire
stock of goods, was destroyed by fire on
Wednesday night Of last week. The
stock of goods was partially insured.
The Abingdon Vwginiao says that
Mr.. Hanson Bryan of that place drop
ped dead in the dining room of the
Colonnade Hotel on last Tuesday even
ing, just before reaching his seat at the
supper table. Hewas about sixty-seven
years of age, and is supposed to have
died from apoplexy.
| twenty-five more oonvicts have been
sent to work on the Milton and Suther-
lin Narrow Gauge Railroad.
Rev. E. G. Gordon, of Savannah, Ga,
has declined the pastoral call recently
rendered him by the Presbyterian
church of Charlottesville
The I!ynchburg Nea0s says that a
distinguished Lynchburger," who de
serted his wife and children eleven
years ago, and is said to have family
in distant State, returned to that city
a few days ago, and was taken in charge
by the police and locked up for subse-
| quent examination.
Rev. Arthur S. Johns, son of the late
Bishop Johns, has accepted call from
st. Peters church, Smyrna, Delaware,
to become its rector.