Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-08-06
Virginia News Items.

IHSluId NEWS ltcMSs
Roanoke" the celebrated home of
John Randolph in Charlotte county, is
to be sold at public auction.
The Governor offers reward of 500
for the arrest of Lucien A. Dudley, alias
Arthur, charged in the county of Pulaski
with murder.
The warehouse of L. Lottier, in Rich
mond, used for the storage of leaf tobac-
co, caught fire. and the stock was DAM
aged to the extent of $4,000.
Lightning struck an outbuilding in
the yard of A. n. Aisquith, in Kappa,
hammock county, killing a colored child
and seriously injuring another.
An engineer corps has been employed
for the past five or six days in making
surveys for the Charlottesville and Rap
id Ann railroad.
The entire oat crop, about 600 bushels,
Of Mr.. Andrew Willis, near Orange
Courthouse was destroyed by fire. The
fire was communicated by spark from
q steam.thresher.
A youth named John w. Pebworth,
son of James n. Pebworth, q well-known
citizen of Norfolk, was accidentally shot
with a pistol by his elder brother and
died on the 1st inst.
The Piedmont News says that ION
Tuesday morning last the woodpeckers
made a raid On The steeples of the Epis-
copal and Baptist churches, through
which they pick holes, and thus destroy
the sound Of the bell.
Alexander r. Newman, of Frederick
county, Va, has been q Mason sixty
years, having been initiated October 10,
1918. He served in tho war of 1919, and
in the Confederate cavalry during the
late war. He is yet hale and hearty.
The Scottsville Courier says: The
perfect imprint of tree may he seen
upon the breast of Thomas Briggs, OF
Wellsburg, West Virginia, who was
struck by lightning an the 18Th day of
last July.
The Governor has offered a reward OF
500 for tbs apprehension of Jack Tuck.
er, alias Jack Lett (colored), who bru-
tally murdered a young woman in
Brunswick county, first knocking her
down with hoe-handle and then
thEoying her l1 in fire,
The Supreme Uouft OF Appeals has re-
viewed the decision of the Circuit Court
in the case of Washington county VS..
The Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio Rail-
road Company. This case was one in
volving the right of the county to tax
the railroad. The Supeeme Court de-
cides that the railroad cannot be taxed
by the county" The case his been in
court for good long tlme.-Rristo9
NeaUa.
A gentleman near BrOOksville, Albe-
marie county, had his attention arrested
some days since by the congregation OF
buzzards in field Astounding in Black
dew berries. They seemed to be busy
feeding ~ the berry-no doubt imPelled
by hunger, there Being scarcity Of an
imal food. He counted over two hun
dred-seventy or more on one tree
This is certainly an unusual circum-
stance.
The Chief Engineer of tine United
States army has awarded to G.. II. Jervis,
of baltimore, the contract of dredging
Aqua Greek, Va, at IT, cents per'cubic
yard. G. D. Hpaids, of Washington
city, has been awarded the contract for
dredging the Occoquan river, Va, att IL
cents per cubic yard. The contract for
dikes on the Rappahannock river, Va.
has been awarded to C. E. Degrew, OF
Fulton, N. Y, at $2.35 and So 25 per
fineal fool.
On last Wednesday, on the farm of
Mr.. Robert Kyle, near Greenwood De
pot, Albemarle county, Nat Clemens, a
colored man, shot and killed another
man named Bill Smith, the ball enter
ing the forehead and producing instant
death. Some parties were seeking an
interview with Clemens at the time
The ball that killed Smith passed by
the head of Mr.. Kyle, luckily, however,
missing hini. Clemens was lodrsd in
the Jail at Charlottesville.
A Teachers Institute will he held at
Manassas, beginning Monday, August
18th, al ?. NJ, and closing the follow
ing Saturday. This Institute will be
conducted by Prof. M. A. Newell, SUI
perintendeut of Public Instruction
State of Mary land, assisted by Prof. w,
B. McGilvray, principal Leigh School,
Richmond. The opening address on
Monday night will be delivered by Rev.
Harnas sears. y. D.. general agent OF
the Peabody Fund. His subject win be
"Public Schools"
Father Jansens, who has been Officiat-
ing az chief of the diocese of Richmond
since the appointment of Bishop Glib
bons to the Archbishopric of Baltimore,
on Thursday received telegram from
Father Keane, the newly-appointed
bishop of this diocese, informing him
that ne had received the Papal bull from
his Holiness the Pope creating him
BISHOP of Richmond. The telegram
further stated that he would be con-
secrated and duly installed in his new
I-,E1S ct hr,E ntI RI DsnI,
the 25th instant.
from Charlottesville under date of july
3ist, says; The colored stage. contractor
on The line from ltOrdOnsyilla to Stan
ardsville made an assault on Mrs. Pratt
last Saturday. She was q passenger on
his stage, and on q lonely part of the
road the negro left his seat and got inside
and attempted to commit the outrage,
but the resistance of the lady proved ef-
fect4aI until some white men captured
the ruffian. After his capture he was
carried to Jail in Green COUNTY. The
colored people became very much excit-
ed, declaring that he should not have
been carried to prison, but to the limb
of tree and hung till dead.
Under the heading of Fatal Encoun-
ter" the Piedmont NeaUs perpetrates the
following asi,siae joke. We are sure
moreover THAT the result of the encoun-
ter was not fatal for we saw A. Il. Lee,
on Yesterday as we'll and active as usual !:
ga. G. Anime living short distance
from town, was attacked on Saturday
last by A. F. Lea. The parties had for
some tiMe been occupying the same
room and bed, and it is claimed that the
letter has made several previous attacks
on the former. always, however, escap-
ing without injury until the occasion
named. when he received his death
blow. No further particulars obtsinatss.
Major Dangerfield Lewis, of Clarke
county, vino recently sold the Wash
insto1 relies to the United States, has
received the al2, ODl appropriation voted
therefor by Congress. At first Secretary
Sherman was inclined to withhold 81 600
of the appropriation until Major Lewis
could sufficiently establish the identity
of painting in the collection claimed
to be 8 portrait of Washington. Major
Lewis assuTe1 the secretary he could do
so, and would in TINS, and upon this
assurance he was paid the full amount.
II NAV be added that the painting in
disuute has no resemblance to whet is
generally accepted as likeness of Gen