Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1878-09-02
VirgIni8 News.

DR.. Thomas, professional dead beat, has
been sentenced to the whipping post ia
Staunton.
Capt. w. Y. Sheppard, tho Old aud we'll
known tobacco aucloncer, III Eichmoud died
there Friday.
Thomas Wine, aged Is. and Jane Tinmons,
aged 20, were married at Stafford Court House
last Tuesday,
Henry &. Harrison aud john }. ThOmkins,
Of Norfolk, have volunteered as yellow fever
aurses, and gone to Memphis.
Gee. II. Belan has been appointed post
master at HaWkinstown, Shenandoah county,
vice Mrs. Julia Jones, resigned.
FiIteen boys from an orphan asylum IN New
7 ok. have arrived 10 Charlottesville aud been
provided with homes in AlbemarIc county.
Senator Withers has purchased the former
home cr DIR. a. d. Gage, known az "Cheery
Grove" aud moved upon the place with his
family.
Amnng these who We're adiudged bankrups
in Richmond, last Saturday night, We're j.
Green Miller and John +. Iackett, of Freder-
ioksburg, a. W. Utterback, Ct Fauquitr. and
Ihomsa r. Hill, Of CulpepeT.
Tie Richmond State says "shoull Col.
n osby conclude to 90 10 China, the Two wan
icriog Virginia republicans can occasionally 90
up TO Bherlng Straits, and look longing across
the icy chasm at each other
The Leesburg aahingtouian says: The mill
property owned by the late James &. Jannoy,
Of HiIlaborough, was sold en- Thursday, tho
22i Instant, to Mr.. s. Smith Moore, for S..
$50. Seven lots on the Woodgrove road We're
sold at prices from s5025 to 1857.
Il. r. l.l IL, (
Gen. MeGm, in Shenandoah county, last Wed.
nesday, sig hundred persons were present aud
81 900 were reazoG. Two hundred and ten lne
improved CottsTod and SouthdoWn sheep were
sold at prices ranging from 50 to SIS per head;
the FL sold at en- average Of S2l per head.
The Warrenton IudeX says: Sunday cven-
iug, the 25!h last, about sunset o number ct
young persons he'd assembled at MIR. q. j.
Sampsell' s, in Reoertown, several OF whom were
seated upon the ratings Of tho porch, when
one gave way, upon which Miss BERTHE Rector
was sitting, precipitatipg her to the ground,
about ten feet, seriously injuring her.
La its notice of the death Of the late DR..
Pnyton Grymes, Of Orange county, the Pied
mont Viraioian says: "lle was brother Of
the late John Il. Grymcs. the celebrated law,
yer CT New Orleans. DR.. Grymes, we think,
was a native Of WestmorcIand county, in this
State, but camo to this county to reside s,mo
seventy years ago. Duriug the war of 1912 he
77as surgeon, attached, If We mistake not, to
tho staff cf Gen. LawreDco I. Dade, Of this
county
The Washington Herald says: 1T will DO
rccocotcd that the long disputed rival claims
of Tie Marylandcrs add Virginians for The priv
ilccc oil fishing in The waters of tho Potomac
were recently settled in favor Of Maryland aud
she was conceded entire jurisdiction and control
Of the liver to the Virginia shore. Notwih.
standing this law numerous parties on the Fir-
pinia side are hauling seiues and conveying the
Iish thus caught to vats, provided Oh the York
and Rappabarnock rivers at places contiguous
thereto and converting them into fertilizers,
which compost they dispose Of 10 the farmers as
an article of merchandise.