Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1879-11-15
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4 oiv2 factory is IL 10 s:ia:;cj:. Il. uait;aot. |
jl4;s.
Mai. j. &. Hi, VIM hiss Dron icr four sns |
sions tho efficient ard popular Sergeant At |
Arms Of the HOUSE IF Delegates. will ba 4 car. |
dida,o for re-olcciou.
III c serioua ilncss Of Butler Malone. SOD of
General Mahona. Is ANNOUNCED in the Rich
| mona pareIs For several nnssicnl be has been
q student CT the University.
a suit fer damages 10 tho U.s. District Court
| in Norfolk. for IL uries in otlliAion batWeen
tho sloop Elizabeth Kate and tho forry steam
or MNnhassct, has resulted in verdict Of 81 500
| for tho sloup.
! Tho Virginia annual conference of tho
| Methodist Episcopal Church South will as'
seEjlo in Norfolk. tho 10th, Bishop William
Nj. Wightmnn. D. d., ct South Carolina,
| presiding.
1t is claimed that cave has been discovered
ou The the land of Reuben Zirkla, about four
miles soutLcas! OF Now Market, Shenandoah
county. moro extensive than the Luray cave,
though not as easy Of acotss.
Two negro youths. Ferguson and Hunter,
studentS at Hampton Normal School, have
beer arrested, charged with setting fro to
Academic Hall, Which was entirely destroyed
examination before Hampton magistrates.
| Last Tuesday there wcro shipped at Scoop
depot. in Augusta county, l49 hoad OF short.
horn Durham cattle, tErco gears DID, owned by
Francis Bell. of PulBsk which had btou grGz
cd on his form in Augusta. They averaged
$40 pounds, and wcro destined for Europe.
East Hanover presbytery held IN adjourned
meeting in Portsmouth yesterday, and Lioenr
4 Jn IN l., Of iob
to tho ministry. Rev. DR.. Armstrong presided;
Row. }. L. Smith, OF fredericksburg, doliver-
Cd the sormoD, and Ruv. ". n Scott, Of Rich
mond, tho charge.
! In the Augusta Circuit Court GA Thursday.
a ohartor Of incorporation WAS granted TO the
Central Iron Company of Virginia With CAPT
fol stock of $500 600, tho said company 10 hold
real estate not to exceed 100000 acras, tho
principal Offices of said company to DO located
and its chief business transacted ia tho uity oil
S!auptoD, ard at their works.
Ga Thursday of last week Mr.. Allen Seal,
who lives near Madison &. H., attempted to take
bis own lilo by thru5liog dagger into his left
sido and would, 60 doubt hnvo succeeded but
for the Interference of lis Wlo WHO saw tho act
through an open window and iushcd from tho
yard into ihc house before he could Stab him.
soil second time.
A Farmers convention, 10 which the South
side Counties will bo folly repre- sonttd. is to be
held In Pntcrsburg, cjmmeneiDg on the 25th
for the purpose of considering somu important
) roasures for the future interest Of tho State.
Hon. Thomas L. Baysra OF Delaware, hos been
: invited to deliver an address on the Goth on
, Tho Duties of Citizen.
y The I,osburg Waahiugtonian of to CAV SAYS:
, in this section tho streams arc unusually low,
and tho springs arc falling. Rain is much
a neoded-aud nhould tho winter sot in without
cOpicus water fall. We will have much trouble.
! The Potomac rlvtr is lower than it has boon f,l
a long timo, 10 sono places it is with difficulty
tho terry boats can be used.
The Fredericksburg Star Ionrns that fly has
t appeared to an alarming extent in some of the
wheat fields 10 Stafford, lying along tho Rap
] pahannoek. Per s0ntra, farmers in Spotsgl
, vanla. who lave seeded within tho last thrUo
weeks. report that the wheat has corno up boau
tliully. despite tho iact that clouds OF dust fol
lowed tho drill and harrow during tho seeding,
. and that not drop oil rain las fallen on tho
ground ainCo the wheat was put 10.
Elizabeth Victoria, aged II Years, DAUGHTER
of Samuel McCaughty, OF Norfolk, WAC sant
by her mother, yesterday, to kindlo n fire 10 on
upper room. The fro burning slowly. sho took
can Of Kerosene. saturaing the kiutlinp,
when the liquid fired, exploding tho uan, nGG
covering tho child with burning oil. Before The
moth'r Ganld render uSfHlaaGon she inhaled
: tho flame. aud her flash was burned to a oripp
d from head to tact. Hhn fingered four hGura
and died.
Rohert Is. Raldwio. superintendent cf the
. Wcattra Lnnatie Asylum, died in Staunton
yesterday. DIR. Baldwin was native at Win
chtHer, Ann of DR.. Stuart Baldwin, ord WAS
an eminent physician. About three yaara ago
no waH elected superintendent of the Asy Inn,
Q to succeed DIR. Stribling. and had already dcvo
> lopod wonderful capacity for tho duties Of tho
, position. Ills vile, who was dGughtnr of the
lato Her. Rohard w. Bbrion. of Frederick
county, dird only few months ugo. de. Bald
win dlnd OF cancer Of tho brain.
Tho Board OF Public lotcrcsta of Richmond
haVo endorsed proposition recommending
the City Council to submit TO tho qualified
voters Of tho city tia question OF subscribing
s75O,O0O to tho stock OF the James River and
kanaWha Canal Company for tha purpose Of
soaring tho speedy construction of rniiroad
from tho city to Clifton Forge, 90 tho follow
ing conditions: That suoh negotiations
s shall DO effected as will relieve tho canal line
proper t:0m dObt, and that consolidation OF
tho mnn limo and tho Buchanan and Clifton
= Forge railway BIZ effected. and that appropriate
legislation b, had satisfactory to tho cnunci.
NfaOt by sacr Child.
CINCINNATI, Ohio. November Is, 1S70.-
I A Marietta spooial to The E.Q1irer
reports that Mrs. Emily Smacy. widow
OF soldier was shot through the huart by her
ton year old son. She had drawn pension of
800. had dep: sitcd 81 900 in tho bank and
kept $500, and for fear of being robbed on tho
way to her homo, in Lowell, had bought O 70.
qoivcr which she laid on tho tablo on arriving
there: Her little boy picked it up and whilo
handling II ono chamber was discharged with
tho above result.