Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-10-15
Virginia News Items.

On Tuesday night last an attempt
was made to rob the postoffice at Old
Point.
President Hayes is to visit Montpe-
lier, in Orange county, the home Of
President Madison, on the 9th of Octo.
Der.
The University of Virginia opened
with two hundred and fifty students
which is considerably in excess of the
number enrolled on the same day last
session.
Among the cadet engineers appointed
al the Naval academy, having passed q
satisfactory examination for admission
to that corps, are James III. Fits and
Robert w. Gatewood, of Virginia.
The trial of VIM. Hawkins, aged 10,
charged with the murder of Willie Tur--
ner, aged 10, in June last, closed at Gull
pepper Courthouse last week with a
verdict of aCquittal. There were thirty
witnesses, including young lady to
whom the accused is engaged.
Mr.. James Morrow, formerly of Alex
andria, but of late residing in Washing
ton, died suddenly in that city on Sat
urday evening of paralysis. The de-
ceased was about 81 years of age, and
leaves a wife and five children. During
the war he was a sergeant in Kemper's
Battery, and gallant soldier.
A vote of the citizens of Warrenton
is to be taken on the 18th inst, on the
question of sinking an artesian well
and erecting works to supply the town
with water. The project is strongly
supported by many leading citizens Of
the town aud will doubtless be carried
by large majority.
Warrenton linden Mr.. Lindsay, Rec
tor of st. James Episcopal church, has
received this week check for one hun
dred dollars from Cavalry officer in
the Union Army to be devoted to the
restoration of st. Stephens church in
this neighborhood, and destroyed dur
ing the late war.
Iron has been laid on the Shenando-
all Valley railroad to the Clarke ine.-
Nearly the entire portion of the road
upon which the track is laid has been
ballasted, and the work at the crossing
of the Main Stem of the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad, near Duffield's depot, is
nearly ready for the iron and track-lay-
ing toward Shephsrdstown.
Under the new law of Congress, pro-
viding for reduction in the amount
paid for carrying the mails, the compen-
sation of the line from Washington to
Richmond is reduced 81, 697 per annum !;
from Alexandria to Lynchburg on the
Virginia Midland, $1,527 per annum !;
from Alexandria to Round Hill on the
Washington and Ohio, $151.S9.
President Barbour, of the Virginia
Midland Railroad, has rendered spe-
cial car to President Hayes for his pro-
posed visit to Montpelier, the home of
President James Madison, in Orange
county, on the 9th of October. tits un-
derstood the President will be accompa-
MED on his trip by Judge Henry w.
Thomas, Col. John S. Mosby, and other
Virginians.
Mr.. j. H. Gray, of Fairfax county.
as administrator Of the estate of Walter
Fl. Erwin, deceased, has had for the
past two years considerable trouble with
one William Gorham, tenant in pos
session of tenement belonging to the
estate. He finally succeeded in getting
him elected from the premises short
time since. On Monday night last the
house was destroyed by incendiarism.
President Johnston has 400 convicts
at work on the canal, and the Lynch.
burg NeaOs says: He believes that the
line between Lynchburg and Licking
ton will be again in thorough repair BY
the 18th of November, and to Buchan-
an by the 18th of February, excepting
the 10Th of February, excepting the
completion of repairs to the Quarry
Falls dam, which cannot be finished
before spring or early summer, on &C
count of the heavy volume of water to
be contended with at that point