Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1878-10-05
virginia News.

NOW6s
Col. William Edward Eakin, q prominent
merchant of Fincastle, died Tuesday.
Three vessels cleared at Richmond yesterday
loaded With -four for Brazil
Col. Andrew +. GraysoD, of Page county,
died last Sunday.
Company T of the First Virginia Regiment
will visit Washington next Friday.
The Court Of Appeals having closed it's ses-
sion at Stanton will reasonable at Richmond
on the lst proylmo.
Rev. W. W. Walker has resigned the rec
torship Of the Episcopal Church at Amherst
Court House.
Capt. Richard L. Coviagtou, highly re.
Spected citizen of Essex county, died on the
25;h uto. in the Is year of his age.
The Virginia Medical College at Richmond
is expected to open with larger number of
students than ever before.
Mr.. Herbert Barbee, the sculptor, has re.
turoed to this country from Florence, and is
visiting bis relatives 10 Virginia.
Sewel Hathaway, Of Fauquier county, has
been received at the pententiary for one year
for malicious cutting.
| Mrs Harrison accidentally fell from the porch
of her brother in law, Mr. 3. G. Macoy, at
Culpeper Court House, last Tuesday, and
broke her hip bone
| The dead body of young visitor from the
| West, named White, with the top of the head
| blown almost of, was found 10 the woods near
Culpeper Court House last Wed nesday.
| A new postof6ce is established at Porter's
Store, Wes,uorelaud county, Vs., on the route
between Nonioi Grove and Warsaw, with
VIM. Il. Porter as postmaster.
The work upon the thirteen new life saving
stations on the coasts Ct Virginia and North
Carolina is being pushed forward rapidly, and
they will be completed by the middle OF mex,
| mouth.
The Richmond Wing says: w. w. McFar.
land, ESQ.,, Of New YORK, was 10 the city Sat
urday, presumably on business connected With
the rumored intention to obtain 90 order tor
the sale Of the Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio
Rsiiroad az soon as possible.
Deao Stanley spent yesterday in Richmond
quietly. He took luoch at the residence OF
Rev DR.. Minuegerode. and had an Informal
reception at Col. Archer Aoderson's in the
afteroonn. He left there to day direct for
| New York, where be has an engagement to
preach Sunday. The Dean did not preach 10
Richmond, although invited to do so.
A TRIBUTE TO NORTHERN BENEyoLENCE.
At the meeting of the trustees Of the Pea.
body educational fund,ia New York, Thursday,
they considered the subject of distributing me.
da!s in the common schools 10 the South, con.
cludipg that there should be moro general
distribution
! Gen. Richard Taylor presented the following
memorial, signed by himself, Hon. A. Fl. Il.
Stuart, OF Virginia; H. R. Jackson, of Georgia;
VIM. Aiken, of South Carolina, and Geo. W.
Riggs, of the District of Columbia, which was
ordered to be placed on the minutes:
THE pestilenco now affecting many districts 10
the South has measure OF compensation 10
the opportunity aLorded to the generous be.
nevoence of the North-a benevoleucs only
limited by the supposed necesstie, of the suf
ferers. The trustees from the southern States
connected With this trust, established by son
of Massachusetts for the benefit OF southern
children, have witnessed an interest manifested
in its administration by the eminent citizens OF
the northern States with whom they have been
associated, and can feel DO surprise that porth.
err charity reaches the furthest boundaries OF
our country, and that the tender kindness OF
northern hearts is above the influence of the
apostles of sectional hate. These facts will be
recognized and appreciated by the people oil
the South, and, great as has been the lnhu
euce of the Peabody fund, We confidently *
pect higher estimate of the lab0r5 OF this
board and its efforts to advance the cause OF
education 10 the South will be accom- panied
aud elevated by the spirit of brotbery love 80
widely exhibited"
SOCIETY GIRLS Only society girl" you
say, with an air of having characterized and
| bounded the limits of her womanhood in that