Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1878-03-16
virginia News.

HE Charlottesville Chronicle 10 lis account
Of Sally Gay, the woman who threw her child
from the railroad car, says she adnitted to her
mother that she had dropped the infant from
The lower sep # the rear car, near house,
With the hope that it would be picked up and
cared for. She reached home Saturday and
told her mother, (wbo had heard of her mis-
hap,) that she bad left the child with friends,
but subsequently admitted that she had drop.
ped it from The traio. The parents OF the
young woman We're present at the examination
and seemed much affected. They testified that
their daughters mind had been seriously I'M
paired since she had spell OF scarlet fever 10
early youth. and other witnesses coDcurred IN
the opinion that she was weak minded and
easily persuaded to wrong doing.
The Piedmont News says:-Whist convey.
log The lunalic BssseIl Doggett from the Cul.
pepper Jail to the Eastern Lunatic Asylum at
Williamsburg last week, the prisoner, with 10.
sane might, broke the cords with which he had
been bouod. ConccaliDg his freedom until a
faYorable moment, he seized the sheriff, Mr..
Benjamin PulIism, by the throat. aud with his
great power crushed him 10 the floor. But for
the timely arrival Of Mr.. Curtis, one Of the
guards, Mr. Pulliam might have been severely
Injured. The affair occurred % board steam.
err below Richmond.
The Governor has offered reward of 500
each for the capture of the ynchers of the ne
gro woman Charlotte Harris, in Rockingham
county, On the 9th tf March, 10 his procla
nation the Governor denouncc5 the act of out
lawry as Il Migrant breach OF the Laws Of the
Commonwealth.
Andrew Jackson, COL, OF LouiouD county, has
been received at the pcnltCutiary To serve out
term # seven years-threc Tor burglary and
larceny, and four Tor setting fire to the jail oil
IIoud0un county.
The frs! circuit Of the Methodist Episcopal
Church IN The United States was formed in the
counii2s of Dinwiddie and Brunswick, in l7I4
through The agency Of Robert Williams, lhe
pioneer Of Nethodism 10 America.
Daniel Higgins, an cmploye at the Richmond
gas work, has become heir TO large and valu
able estate in Sydney, Australia, valued at
nearly 100000.
1. B. Buchanan, IF Fauquier county, was
shot in the arm, last Wednesday, by a negro
named Charles Slaughter, whom lie was at
| tempting to arrest, but who escaped.
The New York Herald says Virginia has
thirty nine living cx.members Of Congress, who
are waiting for the ground TO break up so thai
they may dig bait.
Hot Mountain, in RappahaDnock county
containing about 800 acres, belonging 10 I'D
ward Burgess, has been bought by Rev. i. s
Atkins.
Captain WeStar Wallace is q candidate fol-
re election to the Office Of Commonwealth - At
torney ior Spotisy vania.
Il. b. Dtrry aud T.. Armat are among tht
candidates fer Mayor OF Fredericksburg, anc
e. W. Lexington for Sergeant.
| William Robinson bias bccu sentenced 10 ht
huug at Bowling Green on the 81 Of May, io
the murder CT Ellen Roy, both colorcl
Col. Il. II. Dulany is to creo. handsome
new residence on his estate 10 Loud0un county.
J. w. D.shman of Ess,x county, died last
Thursday.
Nlordecai Buckncr, seventy years OIL con
mittcd suicide, in Green county, last week.