Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-11-20
Virginia News.

The directors Of the Irish Catholic C0onlza.
,iau Society CT philadelphia nave just secured
! lrsct 0! lsod at Barucsviile, Charlotte county,
coutairinc about seven ,housard acres at sll
al acre and on ten years time. There are Cd
the tract saw mill, erist mill, tanDery' aocut
forty small dwellings and large mansion, val
ued at several thousand dollars. The society Is
negotiating for the sale oil the latter to reflgl'
Gus Organization. which proposes to use 1t ior
school purposes The land is to be sofa 10 col
o,fis:s CD fen years time, at shgnt ADVANCE,
in tracts of twenty FIVE, fifty asd one buudred
ceres. Coionists intending 10 settle thereon
next spFipg are now enrclug
The Virginia Conference of The NJ. =. Church
South has elected the f)llowlDg delegates to
the General Conference :-Clercal-Rev. w.
". Bennett, ID. D., Rev. Leroy NJ: Lee, u. D.,
Rev. P. a. Peterson, Rev. john p. Edwards,
D. D., Rev. J. D. Blackwell, Rev. K. n: Sledd,
d. D., Rev. L. s. Reed, aud Rev. Paul White
head. Rescrves-Rev. J. G. Granbery, ID. d I,
Rev. Z. ?. Wilson, aud Rev. A. i. Brown, D..
Branch, csq., Prot. +. II. Smith, University Of
Virginia, lion. II. w. Murray, Jas. r. Pace,
esq =, i. W. Hamlin, esq, r. w. Mason, ESQ.,,
and Richard Pollard, ESQ., Observation-Disclosures.
T. w. Garrett, j. N. Wilkinson. r. W. Pea
tIUsS, duu LIZ OOSheieH'
Harvey Lulholz is tho third party arrested
for throwing the train off the Is. y Y. K. K.
! track hear Cowan's Station, last Saturday.
Powell was ioduced to leave bis home IN Mary
lard under representations by Ettlpger that he
could obtain good situation in the Valley. The
boy is supposed to be innocent, With the ex
caption of guilty knowledge, but the evidence
against Ettinger and Ludholtz is very concu'
sivc Both hcve told contradictory stories as
to their whereabouts at the time of the wreck.
ing.
Rev T. IT, Baird, D. D.. has appealed from
| the Judgment Of the Synod of Virginia IN the
judicial case from East Hanover Presbytcry, in
which he was appellant, to the General Assem-
bly, of the Presbyterian Church 10 the United
States to meet at Knoxville, Tenn., on the
third Thursday Of May, 1878.
Capt. r. G. Lee, who had bis watch stolen
by pickpockcts at the Richmond fair, has re-
covered it from pawnbrowker in Baltimore,
who had advanced on it the moderate sum Of
$l.l5.
The Stale Treasury will be repenished be-
fire the lst Of December, by one hundred thou.
sand dollars to be paid by the Chesapeake and
Ohio Railroad Company on account OF taxes.
The son Of MIR. r. G. Ould has been con.
sctcd by the County Court of Buckingham Of
shooting with attempt to kill, aud sentenced 10
enc year 10 Jail and to pay fine Of $780,
The Richmond volunteer soldiers, who went
TO Columbia S. G., last week, to take part in
the competitive drill arc not pleased with the
hospitality they received.
| Il cbmond has free mcnagcrie. The animals
belonging too Brian show are wintering there,
and thousands Of people of the city and sur.
rounding country visit them daily.
About fifty members Of the oolorod Baptist
Church in Lexington, were dropped from the
roll at their church meeting on Tuesday night
for attending circus.
a partridge, with white wings, breast and
| TAIL and light browo head and back, was killed.,
| 10 Hanover, last week.
Gen. James, who has charge Of . 900 Texas
troops, is Gen. Fleming James, o son of the
late Henry James, of Richmond, Va.
Mrs. Louisa Bailey, q widow lady, formerly
of Virginia, was found dead 10 her bed 10
Baltimore yesterday.
Mr. John P. Tabb, of Amelia, died Sunday
! morning at the residence Of his brother, DR.. II.
Cabcll Tabb, IN Richmond.