Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1880-04-16
s-Fk GsEF.7 VIEWS.

The tpiiag term OF the Circuit Court for
Loudouu. Judge Keith pre- siding, will cp,n 10
Lee burg ueZt Monday week, April &c h.
John L. Goeere il ab(ui to send car load Ct
ioa ore--isksn toT his farm 10 Wsrreu ceua.
iY-to tie smelling furrac: Is 10 Harrisburg, Pa.
The Clarke Courier says 1t is believed
III st tho sum ner fruits, sucl Ia IclcEcs, pears,
cherries, 81. have been destroyed hy tue lutc
fIe,Zos.
A sen Of Mr.. Frauk Cl, vsnscf. aged about G
years., Was drowned in he dan at Mr.. Jackson
mill, on tho Orcq loa. Ia Ere lrrci Co., about
ten days ago.
The r,orion Of bias. firnsc. has beer c1m
mel d 10 L7nch5urg bY tho LlIclburg Man
ut.ctu,iog and MiniaG Coupany, of which
General Grutbs. OF Pennss lVaDIa, il president.
The les Ia the Dismal Swamp. caused b7
the dry weather, are increaslng, ard consider
able DINA 20 to i.ncing, cord wood snd stand,
lag limb ,r is rapeftol a!oag the Saaboari rail
road
The Conservative txCcu iva Committee of
CLARKE cIuniy have issued q eli Tor o oonpcu-
ticn TO be held 10 BnrsvIll, on Monday. The
l0ib of May, Tor the purpcs, Of apIoi1ti *
delegates 10 the State convention.
Cap. Thomas Whitehead is TO retire from
the editorship Of the Lynchburg News, to be
succ ,sdod by Mr.. Alrx. Hdor McDooald, OF tho
Vrginian. Capt. Whitehead is 10 establish g
new paper under tho title OF The AdvaIc,.
Extensive forts. fires 10 tho Wilderness 70
giou. in SpotsyIvaoia AID Vicinity have destroy
ed much teCciug ard many i5iDs, and seriously
Injured valuable timber lands. Dlought has
caused 40 almost ohtlr5 suspension OF planting
and ploWing.
The Bluo Ridge mountbia, about tbroo
miles north Of Suckers Gap, has been on FIRE
ever site, Sunday molniop. Sunday ind
Monday nights it presented g.aod smc.sc,e.
Large quantities. CT timber were 10 doubt de-
stroyed. as the wind wss high.
A fire broke cut in the largu woods near
WLitc Post, Clarke Co., belonging to the ken
nerIy estate, Saturday las:, which cius,d The dc
s1uc ion OF Cot sideratls fencing, timber, &c.
The fire spread TO 'ho woods adjoining that Of
CAPTAIN David Meade, who Is tho principal
sufferer.
At the apnusl m,etrg cf The stockholders of
the Loudoun Mutual Fire IasuraLcs Co., 10
Waterford. on the 5th lost. all the members oil
the old board OF dire c.ors were re. elected with
one exceplon-that of VIM. B. Steer, who
having resigned, Edward N ciols, OF Loosnurg,
was substituted III MS place.
A tract Ct land belonging to Augrs us s.
EVerhcart's estate. two miles from Harper's
Ferry, oontslniog ll6 acres, was sold on Mon
day 10 VIM, II. Atwtl for $40 per acre. The
OSclr Carey lot Of len tees, near Lincoln, 10
Loud0un Co., was sold 10 Peter Buckuer for
SOS per acre. MIR. Il. H.. Taylor has sold his
foundry, near Lipcolo. With about four acres Of
grouod attached. TO Mr. james II. Jewett for
1000.
Qnite lively fight tock plsc, 10 Dsnviils
yesterday morniog between Revenue Coli cor
VII. Fetnali and ex Deputy Collector Capt.
James Wood, prominent republican of Dan.
vile, but the intervention Of friends prevented
any serious results. Both parties nspired to
represent the township 10 the republican caucus
at Chatham. hoping thereby to reach the .na.
tional republican convention at Chicago, 10 Or
der to exert their iLfluer co-the former 10 re,
tain the Office ct collector and the latter to suo-
coed him it the Administration changes.
The Court of Appeals yesterday reversed the
Judgment of the County Court Of Patrick in
the cas-, of Lee RaynolCs. The negro Convicted
of murder 10 the sec,nd degree 10 killing
While man in that county. about eighteen
months sgo. whom the accused alleges, was
pushing his brother. When Lee iote1fsred
deceased attacked him, and 10 SELF defense,
prisoners claims, he killed deceased. He was
COW c:ed Of murder AID Sentenced to be hang
ed, tu, counsel appealed and got new iisl,
upon which Reynolds was Convicted of murder
in the 81 c)nd degree and sentenced to the pen,
itentlary. Before tho sentence was Carried into
effect prisoner c,uasel complained to Judge
Riges of the U. 8. District Court that The
Patrick jadge failed to put negroes On the Jury
which tried Reynolds, AID the county Judge
WI S indicted. This was one of the cases iovcig-
ed 10 the recent decision OF the u. s. Supreme
Court iu the matter OF c)lorcd iurcs,