Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1879-10-21
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Virginia News. E
The barn of Mr.. G. w. Robertson, of
Chesterfield county, was destroyed by
fire on last Thursday night.
Preparations are being made to smelt
zinc ore near Wythevllle. The ore is
said to be very rich, yielding 40 per.
cent of pure metal.
Mr.. Erskin MAYO Ross, formerly of
Richmond, has just been elected one of
the associate judges of the Court of APP
peals of California.
James Smallwood, of Berkeley coun-
| ty, fell from an apple tree last week,
and received injuries from which he
died in few hours.
DIR. Charles J. Winfree, of Richmond
was found dead Wednesday on the rail-
road track near Columbus, Ohio, where
he had gone to sell some property.
The Monticello Wine Company, of
Charlottesville, shipped last week to
Catelina, Spain. 10000 grape seeds of
the variety known as Norton's Virginia
Seeding.
| John Cox, colored, abrother of Chas-
tine Cox, the New York murderer, has
been nominated by the Chesterfield re-
adjusters as candidate for the House
of Delegate.
| Booker Robertson, colored, tried for
the killing of Robt. Stevens, colored,
near New London, q few weeks ago,
was acquitted in the Campbell County
Court last Wednesday.
Louisa County Jail now contains four
alleged murderers-three to be tried,
and two of this number having been
tried once and the juries failing to agree
and one condemned murdered.
A little son of Mr.. Simpson, an en-
ployee of the Virginia Midland Rail-
road, was knocked down in Charlottes-
vile, last Monday, by wagon, near
the depot, and had his cOllar-bone bad
ly fractured.
A company of Pennsylvania capital
lists are inspecting the proposed rout of
the Shenandoah Valley railroad, with
a view to advancing the requisite
amount of money to complete that road
should the prospect be favorable.
Among the patents issue 18th instant
we've the following to citizens of Vir-
ginia Norman V. Randolph, Richmond
pill box Jackson M. Rose, Abingdon.
extension body for wagons A. J.
Truxell, Big Lick, portable fence.
The remains of the late Chas c. Cur
tbs, who was killed in Richmond, Va,
have been removed from ShOckOe Hill
Cemetery to Hollywood. A haudsom ne
monument to his memory will be put
up in few days.
The colored republican "funders," of
Petersburg, Va, held large meeting
last week when speeches favorable to
settlement of the State debt as offered
by the MeCulloch bill were made by J.
Lawrence Thompson, Edward Masford
and other colored speakers.
Three prisoners broke Jail at Lynch
burg Wednesday morning at daylight
and are still at large-Henry johnson,
sentenced to seven years in the peni-
Tertiary for grand larceny; William
johnson. five years for HOUSEKEEPING,
and Isaac Otey, under indictment for
bigamy.
/ The annual reunion and banquet of
the Association of the Army of North
ern Virginia Virginia division) will
take place Wednesday October 29th
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee will deliver the ad i.
dress. Subject: charlottesville" 1t
is expected that the attendance will be
very large.
Last week the large double barn of
Chas. R. Hamlet. in Lynchburg coun-
ty, Va, was destroyed by fire, with his
entire crop of tobacco and wheat, and
the barn Of Thomas Murdoch, an En-
glish Mariner, in the same county, was
nearly destroyed by fire, with large
quantity of tobacco. Both fires were
accidental.
Last Thursday night Gen. Peyton
Wise and Judge James Neeson were ar
rested and bound over to eep the peace
on the complaint Of Policeman Brooks.
1t seems that the two gentlemen were
in the Theatre and had an alteration
about sea. The language used was of
a decidedly belligerent nature, and lead
the officer who heard it to belive that
the gentleman would do each other
bodily harm. They were bound over to
keep the peace by Justice Crutchfield.
Mr.. Samuel B. Witt going security for
Gen. Wise and Postmaster Forbes Sc
curity for Judge Neeson.
THE STATES REvENUE.-Day by day
the props fall from under the cause of
the Agitators. We are about to pull
down one more of them. The Conserva-
tive State Central Committee, in their
address of August 9Th, estimated the an
nual revenue of the Commonwealth at
So, 564, S54 %. Again and again did the
central Malone organ show that the
committee had made too high an est.
mate. Well, the fiscal year 1S78'79 has
ended, and we are now able to state
what the revenue of the State for that
period was. Omitting both the balance
in the treasury October l, 1873, and the
balance in the treasury October l, 1879,
and emitting also the amount borrowed
during the year, the revenue of the State
was $2,672, 8O2 OIL. This includes about
SAC. 900 overpaid by the treasurers, we
learn. Subtract that sum, and the reve.
nue. of the Common wealth has exceed
ed by the sum of over $751;, 900 the esti.
mate of the State Central Committee.
Under the McCulloch bill. when it
goes fully into operation, the whole
amount to be paid for interest will be say
$3.50, 900. So here it is demonstrated that
if the McCulloch bill had been III opera
ton last year, there would now be in the
treasury several hundred thousand dol
lars. We have not statement of the
amount paid for interest during the year
jus; ended, but we suppose it was not
less than $1.215, 900 the amount paid
last year. Estimating it at that sum,
we see by the above figures that if the
State had last year the benefit of the
McCulloch bill, she would now have in
her treasury over $232, 600 saved money!
~ What next will the Agitators say p
Rich Dispatch.