National Republican., 1880-09-23
VIRGINTi NEUS.

w. Wnstcd was drowned from vessel in
Cone river last Friday.
The American Union Telegraph company Is
extending its lines to Ddnyilc.
Mr.. Powhaltan Jones Of Buckingham county
died last week, aged eghty-ninc years.
Mr.. John b. Cough is announced to lecture
this fall in several OF the cities of tho state.
The Charlottesville 6 Rapidau railroad will
be opened to travel about the 1st Of October.
The prcsbytery of Virginia met at Ebc-
nczer, Roclbridge county, on Friday, the nth
instant.
A. J. Ridpewav has purchased s D. Timber.
lakes farm, embracing 17j or $50 acres, for
$1,000, near Winchester.
The grand lodge Of oolored Good Tgmplars
will meet in annual session in Richmond on
Monday, October 4, proN.
The Shenandoah Valley Railroad company
has arranged for q free excursion of merchants
along its line to Philadelphia.
Colonel Thomas II. Webb agent of the Old
Dominion steamship line, died at his resi-.
dcnco in Norfolk last Tuesday.
The North Carolina Midland is the name Of
the projected extension of the Virginia Mid
land railroad from Dauvllc to Charlotte.
On Wednesday Of last week Mrs. Burroughs
and DR.. J. b. Burroughs Of Rappahanuock
station were severely burned by cooking.
stove.
In Carvon's cove, in Bototourt county,
poor man, his wife and children gathered 100
bushels Of whortebcrrcs aud sold them for
$l.20 per bushel.
Mr.. J. o. Dunlap, cashier aud chief clerk of
the Ore Knob mines, died suddenly on
Wednesday night the s,h instant, Of neu.
ralga Of the heart.
The Richmond & Allegheny road Is running
trains, with passengers and freight, regularly
to Maidem's Adventure dam, about thirty
miles above Richmond.
John G. Moorman of Botetourt has shipped
south twenty-five carloads of canned corn aud
tomatoes aud ten carloads north Of whOrtle-
berries, blackberrics, etc.
Tho residence Of J. d. Anderson county
treasurer Of Rockbridge, was destroyed by fire
last week. Insured for S2,i00 in the Lynch
burg Fire Insurance company.
Daring the month Of August last Lynch
burg paid I9j,0G).l0 Internal revenue tax,
which was e32,3g9 &c moro than was collected
during the same time in Richmond.
j. b. II. Armstrong, editor anl proprietor of
the Brdgcwttcr JJUtol, Rockingham county,
died at his brothers residence in Luay on
Tuesday evening last, at about o'clock.
Right Rav. Bishop pouck of tho diocese Of
! Western Africa WAS IN Richmond last week,
the guest Of Mr. EHard B. Bentley. lie
preached in st. Paui's church on Sunday.
Tho stockholders of the Norfolk cotton and
knitting mills, recently destroyed by fire.
will increase the capital stock Of ho cor.
porltion to 100000 and rebuild inmedi-
utuiy.
The fredericksburg Recorder, heretofore a
regular democratic newspaper, has come out
for the rcadiustcr electoral and congressional
ticket, which it thinks is tho most effective
way TO secure the vote Of Virginia for the
democrats
Officer Henry Butt of tho Norfolk police
force, aud who was in charge Of the cplorod
| chuin-gang conyic,s, was tried Wednesday in
the corporation couIt for shooting aud killing
Wilson L1ufo, colored chain-gtug convict, in
June last, aud acquitted
The death is announced in Sussex Of Mr..
Jonathan Hooper, the oldest iuhIbitant Of the
county, agcd unety-nimG years five months
aud seventeen days. lie was q soldier in the
war of 1912 and was II pcnsioncr of the
government to the time of his death.
The receipts OF sumac in Petersburg for
some time past have been extraordinarily large
and each year the husues, is increasing. Over
the Atlantic Mississippi & Ohio road alone the
receipts last week were 100000 pounds, while
by other means Of transit this quantity was
| perhaps doubled.