The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-06-27
CHARLOTTESVILLE.

THE rrv,vERs,Ty COMMENCEMENT - WHEAT
UARyEsT-sUMMER yISTToRS-TuE EXCCR'
ENTHUSIASTICALLY YARD OF SCHOLAR
surp-DEATu OF NEWTON NJ. COOKE
SCHOOLS CLOSED.
,Correspondence OF the Richmond Dispatch.J
JUNE &c, 1879.
The exercises Mt the University will com.
mence on Sunday night, goth, with the de.
livery of the sermon before the Young
Mems Christian Association by DR.. K. I'll.
McKim. of New York, OF the Protestant
En;scopal Church. On Monday the annual
meeting OF the Board of Visitors will be
held. An adjourned meeting Of this Board
Will be held tomorrow (Frlday) for the pur-
pose OF electing the new professor of Natu-
raj History. In this connection it may he
well to mention that there arc before the
Board tue names OF Professor Comstock, OF
Cornell; Professor Hale. OF New York !;
Professor Kerr, Of North Carolina; Profess
sor Fontaine. OF West Virginia; and Dr..
James Z. Southall, of Virginia. There are,
perhaps, other applications.
AS stated previously, there will be no
celebration OF the Washington Literary So
cety. On Tuesday night the :'Jeff." So
ciety will hold their celebration, and he
addressed by Wyndham r. Meredith. of
Richmond, orator Of the occasion, and by
7. 4. Bruce, Of Charlotte county, the med
aist Of the Society. On Wednesday night,
the I'd, the Joint celebration OF the socie-
ties will rake place. when they will be adj
dressed by Hon. Samuel T. Hunt, Of Gin
cinnati. Ohio, on which occasion the medal
for the best article in the Magazine will be
yet been announced. On Thursday, which
is the "pubIic-day," the usual ceremonies
attending he comforting OF honorS will be
tine order of the day; after which the So
cety of Alumni will be addressed by Bishop
Thomas U. Dudley, of Kentucky. 1t is
pleasant to bear witness to the fact that stu
dents OF this session OF the University have
been distinguished for their sentlemanly
conduct, and their earnest, steady applica.
ton 10 their studies.
The wheat harvest is pretty we'll over in
this section, and everywhere we hear favor
able reports Of Its excellent quality. 1t is
said that many persons will realize more TO
the acre than last year, while the quality is
much superior. One of the best farmers
in the county has given it as his opinion
that on some of his land he will make thirty
bushels tothe acre.
Quite number of summer visitors have
arrived in Charlottesville and the vicinity,
and our beautiful section OF country is be-
coming very popular as u summer resort.
The excursion train which left bere yes.
terday for Richmond carried quite large
number OF our citizens to the metropolis.
They returned here safely this morning at
1 o'clock.
Rev.John William Jones, of Richmond,
is announced to preach in the Baptist
church on Sunday morning next.
The scholarship awarded by the Temper
ance Society at the University was won by
John E. Patton.
News reached here yesterday Of the death
by choke damp, in the mines in Pittsyl-
yania county, OF Newton NJ. Cooke, brother
in-law. OF Major r. F. Mason, and half
brother OF Captuin j.. N. Z. Stockton. OF
this county. 1t appears that an effort was
being made to put in service an old shaft
which had been previously abandoned, and
orders had been given for no one to go
down the shaft for several hours. A col
ored man, not, perhaps, being aware OF the
order, descended the shaft, and was down
but a few minutes when he fell, which
being noticed from above, young Cooke