Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1880-04-23
SszSGkTEf NEWS.

The fly is said to be playing baVcc With to-
bsc,o plants 10 soma sections OF tho State.
The Court Of Appeas will probably adj ,uru
Degt Friday, and will not resume its sessions 10
Richmond until the 5:h day Of November next.
Capt. l.. 3. Powell hes soli his dwelling
house and lot, at the west erd of Cornwall st.,
Leesburg, to VIM. Matthew. etq Of Hill 's5cro,
for 81 500.
A severe hail storm PISSED over the northern
norton Of L)udoun couoy ssi Friday night.
10 the Waterfcrl Deighb ,rhood consi 1erabls
damage was sus aimed by tho breaking of vic
dow glass, &c.
Tho trial OF Wood for tho murder Of Litc in
will be concluded at Harris ,nburg 10 day. The
cis, Of Patrick Reed, joioty charged and 10.
dlcted with Wood for the same offoEc,, will be
tried on Monday next
Charles B. B ling, c,lored, has been c>n
victcd 10 Hanover county of outrage upon q
white child of i've years. The jury, COZ sstipg
CT ten white and two colored mep, dc ded that
his punshme ut should be death.
Maj. Carter, whose death at Panama was an
bounced 10 yesterday Gtz,tte, died of fsver
| 90 the morriog of the 7lh lost. lilo was about
Gj years old, and seivad in the Confederate srmy
o. tho staff of Gen. Lee.
The minolalosst and gcoI'gist, J. r. NJ.
| lrby, bachelor of scieIcl 10 tho Lyrchburg
College, died on board of the steamer Ccqu;m
b.. On her last voyage South. He was 90 his
| way to Chill to explore tn, mineral fell OF
| that uotry.
James u. Carpenter. n merchant and pest
master ct Grove Ill., Page Co.. committed
| suicide a. an carly hour yesterday morning By
| hanging. lilo had beea depressed IN spnits
| f,r - =, - III ~
| mattor.
a few days ago dead horse was found 10 O
| pic OF woods several mil s from B.rryvillc,
| Clnke Co.. where it had hanged ittef. The
| animal had baen Fl S cned to a tree with slip.
noosr, and in going around the trco the moose
vas drawn about its nj OK IN tight "a to choke
it TO death.
| James johnson, q coored brakeman On the
York River and Chesapeake Railroad, while
standing m the top of freight Car at the
! depot, In Richmond. yesterday. was strrck by
tho crts beam of tho gate nod knock off. lle
knocked cut ADD his head badly cut and bruis
cd, but he escaped being runov,r by. the cars.
An Ex-Governor CT this State. whose name
Is household word throughout its lini s. is
said to have given orders Tor tho coustruc lon
OF handsome eraulte monument to bo erected
over the graves OF several of bis children who
lie luried 10 Hollywood Cemetery. Richmond.
| The stone cutters, it is stated. have ins!rCc
tons to cut the names Of thes, upon the front
OF tho pile, leaving black for that Ct the
father. TIE morument, when com, lotcd, will
DC - CT 80 feet 10 height, and is intended 10
commemorate children and sre.
Two mortgages, one c,u.airios 80 aud the
| 4 nfu2 hoo pSn nd, tnI 3,
record 10 the clerk ofi,c of Clarke Go. They
arc given by the Shenandoah Valley Railroad
| Company to the Fidelity InanraDce Trust snd
Safe Deposit Company OF Philad -phia. The
first Is dated April /, aud provides for issaing
81, $50 900 Of bonds-or SIS 600 per mle-to
retire the bonds Issued ulder previous mort
gage, AID the other. dated April 3 provides
| ter lsSuiog 81 COO 900 more OF bonds, and 10
td!iiion tbereto$l0 COO per milo for eEcl mile oil
single trsct aud $40 0)0 per mile fJr each mile
! OF double irscE. These mortgages will place
40 iudebtcdurss Of $35 600 per mile Of single
track on tho S. V. Il. r., which is indepen.
dent OF its stock subscriptions, amouotiog t
somstbiog like $4,000 per mile.
The large building in Richmond, t,rmerl5
occupied by Asa Snyder & 60. as foundry
but Of late used for storage Of hay. was burned
last night. snd with it large part f the largt
brick tobscc) warehouse of CaIrugtoo & Co.,
10 which was about th-ee hundred hogshead
of tCbsec,. which ct the lowest estimate wa
worth $4,000. Nearly all of this tobacoo wa
either wholly Destroyed or rendered we'll uigf
worthless. Some four or Eve horses we're burn
cd to death. The total loss was about $l20, 900
aud iasursnc, $47 1000. A dispatch frcn
Rchm md to day says: While the FIRE wbict
broke out 10 Snyder & Co.'S. foundry last nigh
was burlog, another oue started in j. G.
Smith four story Junk establishment. Oh Docl
street, spd at l:30 o'clock this morning va
sill burning, and will probably result in tb,