Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-11-26
Virginia news Items.

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| q The West Virginia hatchery is noy
ready to distribute California salmon.
The new zinc mines in Wythe count
are to be developed by Northern CAPT
talists, who have bought them.
Mr.. John U. Terrill, of Jefferson
county, w. Va, a Confederate soldie
during the late war, died of consump
ton last week.
The vinegar manufacturing firm O
Cary Thompson & Co., of Harper's Fer
ry, will shortly remove their establish
ment to Alexandria.
General Joseph E. Johnson will assis
in the ceremonies of laying the corner
stone of the Lee monument, at Licking
ton, on the, 28th of November.
An Englishman named William A
Parsons, cashier Of the Peoples Goa
Company of Norfolk, has absconde,
with all the available funds of the con
Germ. f.s
'Brookfield," in Henrico county
once the property of the Prossers, ant
; the plantation upon which Gabriel
Insurrection" broke out, has been de
stroyed by fire. ~
| The track of the main stem of tn
Shenandoah Valley railroad is to b.
laid through Shepherdstown to the Pc
tomac river this fall, in order to affort
an immediate connection with the Ches
apeake and Ohio canal at that place.
| Mr.. Caleb Dooley, who resides twt
miles west of Liberty, had the misfor
tune 10 have his dwelling house and it,
entire contents destroyed by fire OF
Thursday night, 14th infant. Nothing
OF any consequence was saved. No in
rance.-.Bedtord Star. .'aas7os
Hampton Monitor. Sheriff Haas hal
been applied to by two colored men o.
this county, who desire to officiate al
the execution of John Bird (coloredD Oh
the 9Th of December next Each one
wants the refusal, and they offer to do il
without compensation or reward. n
| Danville Ncs0s.: The Virginia Mid
land railroad company has just com
pleted an elegant bridge across Stauntor
river and the passenger trains crossed
over it yesterday. 1t is built partly OF
iron and partly of wood, has three
spans of 100 feet each, and cost about
$4,000. raslas u ,s 81 -
| Mr.. Thomas S. Watson, of Louisa
county, Va, in letter published in the
New York Tribune, says that at his pre-
cinct, where the colored votes largely
| predOminated, solid vote was cast fol
General Joseph E.. johnson, the con-
sentative candidate for Congress, the
colored men voting with unanimity for
the Confederate general against his
greenbaek opponent. - o. =
| A. J. Burks, white man, was tried
at Amherst Courthouse Tuesday for in
termarrying with a negress. On the
trial she was proven to have some
white blood, but was manifestly of ne
gro parentage, and had always passed
| for a negress. Burks was convicted. and
was sentenced to pay fine of 500 and
to be imprisoned for twelve months in
the county jail.-4naherst Enterprise. ;
Washington Rice, well known as
a good man and worthy citizen OF
brunswick county, while hunting a
night or two since caught a remarkable
animal-~a snow white raccoon. This is
the first Albino "coon" of which we
have ever heard. The white squirrel
we have seen; and read of the white
doe" In romance; but the cunning
"eoon" in spotless raiment is not in our
vocabulary. If the captor had taken
the creature alive we imagine some
lnenagerie would have bought it at O
good Brasnse0ick Advocdte.
| The Bick Lick Nears says: The funer-
al of Miss Irene Waskey, daughter of
Mr.. William @. Waskey, took place
| Tuesday. This Is the fourth death in
Mr.. Waskey's family in about three
months, all dying of similar causes and
symptoms, which seem beyond the
reach of the most skilled physicians. A
post mOrtena examination of the body
was proposed for the purpose of discov-
ering the cause of the singular fatality
which appears to exist, but it was found
TO be impracticable in consequence OF
decomposition having set in.
8 A family reunion was recently held
at the house of Mr.. Willis Gravely. in
Henry county, at which there were pres
ent Mr.. Willis Gravely. who was in his
seveEty-ninth- year Captain George
Gravely, his brother, who was in his
ninetieth year; and Mr.. Louis Gravely,
who was III his eighty second year,
Mr.. Edmund Gravely, twin brother
of Captain George Grayeiy, was invited
10 attend, but was not present, After
dinner the party had shooting match
with Maynard rifles, the shot delivered
off band at target distant forty steps,
and Mr.. Willis Gravely twice cut the
edge Of tne target, which was about the
size Of trade dollar E&
Portsmouth Times: We learn that 81
the thirteen new life-saving stations,
under contract to be built by Messrs. J.
III. Calrow and A. A. Mccullough, of this
city, seven are already completed, and
the others are being pushed forward as
rapidly as possible. They are located
in such positions that the average dis
tance between the stations from Cape
| Henry to Hatteras will be about five
miles, distance easily patrolled, and
rendering the stations within easy dis
| lance Of each other i'll case assistance
| should be needed. All of them will be
completed and in running order by the
middle of December. 7a esG.2 -