National Republican., 1881-09-15
VIRGINIA NEWS.

There is to bea Readjuster paper started
at Louisa Court House to-day.
Hon. G. G. Hill, of New Castle, Craig
County, died very suddenly on Sunday night
The land purchased by the Government
at Yorktown cost 81 600, and embraces six acres
The whole number of deaths in Rich
mond last week. exclusive OF still births,was forty.
The house of Thomas r. Walker was
burned at Vienna, Fairfax County, lastweek. Loss,
$1,000
The clerk of the Hastings Court at
Manchester has not issued q marriage license for
ten days.
1t is believed that the peanut crop of
Southampton and adjoining counties has been cut
short by the drouth fully two.thirds
The schooner Annie Tieball, recently
raised by Captain william H. French In the Mat
taponi River, has been towed into Norfolk.
The Richmond Shotgun Club was de-
fsated at Portsmouth last week by the seaboayd
Shooting Association In pgeon-shooting match.
Rev. o. S. Bunting, the rector of Ascen-
sion Church, Amherst County, has resigned the
reetorshp of that parish and will soon move else
Mrs. Annie Campbell, widow of the late
Charles Campbell, the historian, died at her home
in Fredericksburg on Sunday morning OF con-
sumption.
The public-spirited young men of Cor
donsyile are getting up series Of concerts, ihe
pavements for their native town.
A patent for the invention of a seam
gauge for sewing g.machnes has been issued tc
William P. Brosius, of Richmond, Va, assignor to
b. f. Brosius, Harpers Ferry, W. Va.
Tom Darlington, colored, of Pittsyl-
having nearly beaten to death and then brutally
outraged his fifteen year-o old daughter.
Last week 100 acres of woodland near
Glen Allen, on the line Of the Richmond, Freder-
icksburg and Potomac Railroad were destroyed
by fire. The fire originated from sparks from a
passing locomotive.
Mr. James ii. ID. Johnson, an employee
Of the Old Dominion Cotton Mills, at Richmond
had one OF his feet very painfully mashed by the
falling of a rock while at work in the milf race
near Mayo's bridge Saturday
The Richmond and Allegheny Railroad
Company has mado Its connection with the Vir.
ginia Midland on Jefferson street, Lynchburg, and
a freight and passenger depot was to be estab-
lished in the vicinity on Saturday last.
The copper mines near Linden, Fau-
quier, are panning out well. Captain Karsten has
taken out between eighty and one hundred tons
low the surface one block OF 233 pounds Of nearly
pure copper.
The Ettrick Cotton Mill, at Petersburg,
which forseveral weeks past has not been able to
run on full time by reason of the scarcity ofwater
started regularly TO work Monday morning, the
recent rains having supplied sufficient power for
this purpose
Professor III. r. Thornton. A. NJ. has
| wood High School, Lynchburg. Professor Thorn
ton is first honor man Of Hampden Sydney Col
| lege, and graduated with distinction at the Uni
vcrsity Of Virginia.
There will be meetings in the different
| wards of Manchester this week to elect delegates
| to the Readjuster convention which meets at
| Chesterfield Court House next Monday to nomi-
nate candidates for the house of delegates, TO be
voted for in the Chesterfield district at the coming
| election.
The Supreme Court Of Appeals met at
Stnunton Tuesday. Judge Christian presided,
Judge Moncurc being still detained at his home by
| ll-health. The other members of the court
Judges Staples, Anderson, and Burks-were pres
ent. The docket is larger one than usual and O
rather lengthy session is anticipated.
The wine-nearly twenty thousand gal.
| lons-from the burning. cellars OF the Monticello
Wine Company at Charlottesville, last week. aug
mented the flow of Schenck's branch to such de-
gree that Cochran's mill was enabled to grind
next day. Never before in this country has mill
wheel been turned bywine.
The tobacco men at Danville say oil
| one of the leading tobacconlsts of the Southern
States that he recently offered 100 per cent profit
on all the tobacco held by dealers in the leading
tobacco town of North Carolina, and that day OF
| two ago at q tobacco town in Virginia he paid
| down $40 per hundred for 100 hogsheads which
| did not cost more than "a per hundred. This TO.
| bacco man lives in North Carolina