Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1881-12-17
VIRGINIA MOTIFS.

James B. Jenkins has been appointed
inspector of tobacco, snuff and cigars,
for the Fifth district of Virginia.
The General Assembly of Virginia
met last week in biennial session.
In the Senate, Lieutenant Governor
Walker presiding, the following officers
were elected: Charles H. Causey, of
Nansemond, clerk William A. French,
of Giles, sergeant-at-arms Peter J.
Carter (colored,) of Northampton, door
keeper. General Wyatt NJ. Elliott, of
Appomattox, was elected president pro
tenn. The House organized by the
election of the following officers J. G.
Fowler, of Washington county, speaker
P. II. McCaull, Of Pulaski, clerk; W.
F. Humphrey, of Hanover, sergeant-at-
arms G. H. l.. Harris (colored,) of
Norfolk city, first doorkeeper; j. W.
Southland, of Henrico, second door
keeper. Both houses having perfected
their organization, joint committee
was appointed to notify the governor of
the fact. Subsequently Governor uolli-
day sent in his message, which was read
and extra copies ordered to be printed.
The Norfolk and Western railroad
has ordered two thousand additional
freight cars to accomm odate its in
creasing business.
A hunting party from Albemarle
county killed thirteen deer, besides
smaller game in large quantities, in the
mountains of West Augusta last week.
When through connection is made
between Norfolk and Newport News, it
is said that the time between Richmond
and Norfolk will be only three hours
Professor Il. A Freeman, the eminent
English historian, expects to spend
Christmas with his son in Orange
county. He will return to England in
January.
During the month of November the
nine warehouses at Danville sold 2, $685.
$50 pounds of tobacco, which brought
S241, 1889, 60, being an average of $12.31
per hundred pounds.
A Colonization society, with capital
of $3, 100000, has been formed in New
York city to take up the yinelands OF
Virginia and North Carolina, and assist
French immigrants to settle on them.
The president of the New York and
HAVE steamship company, Mr.. De
Bibion, is now in the South making
arrangements for carrying out the plans
of the company.
The militia are still on duty in Coal
Valley, Kananwa county, but there have
been no new outbreaks at the mines.
George Weir pleaded guilty at Wheel
ing, VIVA, of murder in the second de-
gree in killing Sterling Riggs, Christ
mas, 1880, at st. Clairsville. Ohio, and
was sentenced to life Imprisonment in
the Ohio Penitentiary
It is confidently stated that Governor
Jackson has his eyes fixed on Senator
Davis senatorial shoes.
Farmers generally unite in ying that
the growing wheat of the state never
looked better at this season of the year
than it does at the present time.
Bishop George w. Peterkin, of the
Episcopal diocese of this state, has been
instrumental in the building of fifteen
new churches since he took charge of
the diocease.
Mr.. r.. s. Bliss last week delivered on
Mud river, two miles below Hamlinr
Lincoln county, a walnut tree trunk,
fifty eight feet long, seven feet diamete,
at the but, and three feet eleven inches
at the top.
No application will be made at the
December term of the Berkeley county
court for the issue of the county bonds
for the extension of the railroad tn Win.
chester but it is probable that the
court will be asked to fix some day in
January for a special term to consider
the matter.
Governor Jackson has appointed W.
+. Butler to the position of adjutant-
general and State librarian made vacant
by the resignation of e. L. Wood.
Fredericksburg papers complain that
it affords less material for their local
columns than any outside village in the
state Nothing ever happens there, and
it is the same staid, quiet, respectable,
sleepy headed old borough that it
always was. 1t never experiences what
a real sensation is.
The bill to establish the Central
Lunatic Asylum for colored people at
Petersburg, which failed for lack of the
requisite two thirds vote at the last ses-
sion, will be revived at an early period
of the present legislature, with a pros
pect of its speedy passage.