National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-03-07
VIRGINIA NEWS,

Charlottesville is to have a hook-and-
ladder company.
Mr.. James Kern, one of the oldest
citizens of Winchester, is dead.
James Saunders an old citizen of Nor
folk, died from paralysis last week.
There are 1900 men employed at the
Tredegar Iron Works, in Richmond.
Sixteen Indians have arrived at Hamp-
ton, to be educated at the Normal High School.
Captain James T. Gibbs, of the steamer
Breakwater of the Old Dominion Line, is dead.
Granville Dawson, master of the sloop
Wainwright was drowned at Dutch Gap last Fri
day.
The District Grange of Northern Vir-
ginia will hold its next session in Alexandria on
March2. ,
A handsome sum has been raised at the
University of Virginia in behalf of the Poe memo
rial fund.
Mr.. Thomas I'll. Clagett, Of the Loudoun
bookstore, has been paralyzed and rendered
speeches..
Mr.. Samuel B. Witt has been appointed
commonwealth attorney of Richmond, vice Hon.
George ID. Wise.
Ex-Governor James L. Kemper has
been suffering from the effects of his wound re-
eeiyed at Gettysburg.
The fruit growers of Clarke County say
that the peach plum, apricot, and cherry crops
have been winter killed.
At Williamson's last Friday a white
barkeeper named Pugh shot and instantly killeda
eoiofed barber named Burrell.
The State Agricultural Society will hold
grand fair on the fair grounds near Richmond
during the Yorktown Centennial.
Virginia members of Congress are send
ing large quantities of cotton to the planters
OF the south-side counties of that State.
J. Q. Bass, Henry County planter,
sold l. AS pounds ofleaf tobacco in Danyile few
days ago, at an average of s41 per hundred.
The Methodists at Leesburg are having
very spicy controversy overthe ownership GER
tain property, said to belong to the church.
The Rev. William n. Ward, one of the
oldest of the Episcopal clergy of Virginia. died at
his home in Richmond County on Friday last.
Miss Alice Astrop, of Lee County,
seventeen years of age, having been betrayed, COM
mitted suicide last week by drowning herself in
the river
In the United States court at Rich
mond the jury in the case of the indicted judges
of election in Manchester failed to agree and were
discharged
1t is said the counsel for the trustees
in the Atlantic, Mississippi, and Ohio Railroad
case will receive fee of $4,000 and the master of
the court $4,000.
The rush of freight at Norfolk is re-
ported to be greater than has been known for
years. the rows of trucks waiting to deliver goods
extending at times for two miles.
General Roger A. Pryor has accepted
the invitation from the literary societies of Rich
mond College TO deliverthe address at their cele
bration at the close of the session.
The quantity of iron-ore arriving at
Lynchburg for shipment per the Virginia Midland
Railroad is now SO great that It is impossible to
provide the necessary transportation for it.
The wife of Wilson Fowlkes (colored)
has been sentenced to be hanged in Lunenburg
County, Virginia, for numbering her husband.
She Drained him with an axe while he was asleep.
John Williamson, janitor of the court
house at Petersburg, has been arrested, charged
with the theft of a number of cancelled coupon
bonds, amounting to about $1,000. stolen from the
auditors Office.
The big "porker," bred and owned by
Mr. James Dugan of Berkeley County, is the largest
hog in the United States, and is a real curiosity.
1t will weigh 200 pounds and is about the size of
an Attorney COW.
Frank Trigg, jr., worthy and intelli-
gent colOred man. has been appointed principal
of the Polk-street colored school, at Lynchburg to
succeed Miss Fanny Harvey (white), who has been
promoted to the Jackson street school.