Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-09-10
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virginia News Items.

Virginia News Items.
Charlottesville was Uksited by the
most severe thunder storm Of the year
on last Tuesday night.
A heavy thunder storm visited Pc
tersburg on last Sunday night. The
rain fell in torrents and the roads were
badly washed.
Mr.. G. P. Norvell, of the New Orle-
ans Democrat, and his wife, Mrs. Mat
tie Norvell, both natives Of Lynchburg,
have fallen victims to the yellow fever.
The Moffett register in Danville yield
$904.96. The Danvilleites must have
been thirsty during the "dog-days."
Nat Hackett, the negro man who re-
Gently shot his friend near Greenwo cd,
Albemarle county, by mistake, was
tried at the last term of the count Of
that county and acquitted.
Benjamin G. Boyd is appointed post.
master at Ionia, Dinwiddie county, Va,
vice David Sharpe. Nathaniel T. Har.
ris is appointed postmaster at b oreb
Bedford county, Va, vice George II.
Trent, resigned.
Maj. J. w. Daniel writes to the Rich
mond Dispatch denying that he will
bolt the Conservative conventions, and
saying that if Hon. J. Randolph Tucker
is the nominee of that body he Will vote
for him.
The people of Charlottesville and vi
cinity, through committees appointed
for that purpose, raised last week ovel
six hundred dollars for the aid and re-
lief of sufferers from the yellow fever
in the South.
Among the names mentioned for the
Professorship of Natural History, Uni
: versity Of Virginia, is that Of Professor
Dawson, of Toronto. We learn that
the emoluments of the position arr
|. S., 600 year and house.-Ch0rlottes-
ollie Jefersoraan.
Mr.. John B. Webster, the father O
Capt. James F. Webster, chief Of police
of Alexandra, Va, died last Tuesday
, of paralysis. Mr.. Webster was SO year
> of age, and served as soldier in the
Surratt, who was executed with thu
+ Lincoln conspirators.
!, Mrs. Anna G. Seigfried, aged eighty
+ nine years, q native of Prussia and s
! sister of the late Prof. Geo. Bl@ttermar
VI Luo Ou1toISAUy VI VASAA4os uASN q
I her residence in Charlottesville on las
Monday week. She had lived in this
: country about fifty years.
List of patents granted to residents O.
? Virginia: Maris Chambers, Bentivoglio
Va. tobacco flavoring; Joshua P; Nc
:, Cook, Richmond, plug tobacco machines
: forms; William NJ. stecKlay, King will.
r liam Court-house, elastic afmor fol
Q ships.
We learn from the Charlottesville
: ChrAnfcle, that opr former University
6sa Sssa seDobted ts. ASS Raytahs
+ Miller School Of AlbemaFIe. We knew
Mr.. Baylor we'll when a student at the
: University, and can commend his stu
= dious habits and mental requirements
Q He graduated at the University as 9
Bachelor OF Literature, and is well
' qualified for the position to which ne
has been appei4tpai
| iesl Society of Virginia will convene IL
hfchmoDd at 7:SQ o'clock, Tuesday
night, the 2Snd Of Hext month. Among
the distinguished gentleman expected
to he nresei.. are Drs. J. Marion Eimi
faS msT Batt te 81 Rome, Ga; Dr. Geo
I q. Harrison, Of the Woman's Hosplta
Of the State of New York, and others
DR.. John Herbert Claiborne OF Peters
burg, is President of the Society.
J.V. Reddy, ESQ.,, editor of the A. O
I II. Journal, Of Richmond, (the nstiona
organ of the Ancient Order of Hiber
mans in this country,) has been ap
= pointed delegate Of the Catholic Bench
cisl Society to the 9th annual Cenven
> ton of the Irish Catholic Benevolen
Union, of the United States and Cana
Y da, which will convene on the 25th in
!. slant at Worcester, Massachusetts. Hon
!, A. M. Kelley, of Richmond, is presi
! dent of this Union, which has 1000
: members in the United States.
Orville Grant, the ex-President'I