Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-05-21
Virginia News.
Page, Russell, Highland and Giles
counties have no drinking saloons.

| Page, Russell, Highland and Giles
| counties have no drinking saloons.
Giles county has now three newspa-
pers, the Banner, Flag and Virginian.
The narrow gauge railroad that con-
meets Fredericksburg with Orange Court
| House has been sold by the Royal Land
Company to the Potomac, F'federicks-
burg and Piedmont Railroad Company.
Reuben III. Sayre, postmaster at New
Martinsville, w. Va, has been arrested
on charge of embezzling $500 from the
money order departmental that office.
Two children of sarf4h Jones, colored,
OF Sussex county, Va, aged respectively
fsiX years and three months, were burn
ed to death few days ago during the
temporary absence of the mother.
The featuring tour of Rev. John Jas
per, the colored preacher of Richmond,
VINO maintains that the sun revolves
around the earth has come to an untime-
~ end. 1t was decided failure.
The Hebrew ladies of Richmond, Va,
VIII observe the ed as memorial day for
the dead of their people who fell in the
confederate cause, and will decorate
their graves in the Hebrew Cemetery.
Patents have been issued so George
w; GOODWIN. ofPetersburg, coffee-pots
Jonn MafshaI McCue, of Augusta arti-
hclal lords or dams Madison G. Thomas,
Lafayette, Va, horse detachers.
4 The Mobile Register, says: Virginia
schoiars have attracted much attention
at home and abroad of late. Glider
SInHNp fNyyyIO Drsa
| valentine and many others have made
regulations at once solid and brilliant.
A Jockey Club is Being organized at
richmond, Va, under favorable aus
pices. A committee has been appoint
ed to attend the coming race meeting at
Baltimore for the purpose of calling the
attention of turfmen of other States to
the efforts of the Richmond club and to
invoke their support.
Mr.. John Robin Mcdaniel, for many
years prominent citizen of Lynchburg,
Va, but for some months past residing
in Washington city, died suddenly
Tuesday night of heart disease at his
+. residence in the latter city, No. Ala
Sixth street northwest. He was one of
? the leading Masons in the United States,
being Lieutenant Grand Commander of
the supreme council and next in rank to
I, Commander Albert Pike. He was III
the seventy-seeond year of his age.
The Conservative primary election at
+ Alexandria on the 10th inst, resulted in
: the nomination of nearly all of the old
incumbents. A larger vote was polled
4 than at any primary election since the
: war, and the excitement ran high. The
Alexandria Gazette says Taken alto
gether there was greater depth of feel
ing manifested in the election than in
e any since the war; K. Kemper was
e nominated for Mayor. and S. J. Brent
\ for Commonwealth Attorney.
A colored convict laborer on the James
River and Kanawha canal escaped from
. his guard last week and took refuge in
K the kitchen of Mr.. Cheatwood, who was
+ absent from home, in Bedford county,
j, Va. Mrs. Cheatwood, happening in
: the kitchen shortly afterward, discover
q ed the convict, and drawing toy pistol
i on him threatened to blow his brains
}. out if he did not remain quiet. A color
- ed man was then called in, who kept
= guard over the convict until next day,
10 when lie was febHrDad to the camp from
& which he escaped, and Mrs. Cheatwood
q received the reward. of SIS offered for his
: arrest.