National Republican., 1881-09-07
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VIRGINIA NEWS,

Last Sunday was amonth sinceany rain
has fallen In Loudoun County.
The public schools of Loudoun County
opened Monday, the 9Th instant,
A large beaver was killed in Haden &
Brnggs mill-pond, Campbell County, Friday.
There are numbers OF these animals In atregion,
IL Is said.
The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Com
pnny have purchased the steam tug Grace Mead,
and she win be used for towing vessels loaded
with brick until 100000 have been delivered at
Newport News.
A colored man, named John Aldridge,
alias John tho Baptist" stole two horses from
Messrs. Myers q Arnold. The horses have been
recovered and tho man of water is in Jail. All of
Loudoun County. No cards.
The British brigatine Zircon, CAPTAIN
J. l.. Francis, cleared from the Richmond CUSTOM
house Monday for Rio Grande do Sui, with n cargo
OF 2,3ll barrels OF Hour, shipped by the Haxall-
Crenshaw Company, valued at SlS2S3.
The rails will be down and connections
made for the passage of trains over the Richmond
and Allegheny Road from Richmond to William
sons on Saturday night next On the ID OF Sep
ember ISL the first train on this road ran to the
| Three Mile locks
The engineers of the railroad extension
| from Keysyile to Carksvlle have finished theil
survey and made estimates OF the cost of the work
The p9Pers were submitted to the directors Of thC
| ing of that body held yesterday.
Suits against the city of Richmond fol
damages resulting from defective sewerage hav,
| been instituted as follows: Thomas F. Boyle
| damages, 500; William Simpson, 500; ]. A. Meth
erland, $500; Samuel Michaels $500; w. W
Parker, trustee, for Sarah t. Ragland $780, Michae
Sweeney, $500; Luther L. Sale, $500; Maria Smith
| $500
Ex-Mayor Clarke, of Manchester, hai
an old clock which was the property of his grand
| father and which Is now about one hundred ant
five years old. For more than n century
kept good time. and II was only few weeks ag
that II stopped running. Mr.. Clarke, who, by tn
way, is one OF the few remaining classmates O
Edgar Allen Poe, has had the clock In his posses
sion more than half century.
The will of the late Robert b. Lyme, o
Richmond has been probated There were specia
legacles 70 two sisters ofsl 900 each and to an OLE
servant (Mole Parsons), 500; and oil the remain
der ofthe estate, after the payment OF debts, wa
bequeathed to his wife and children. His wifi
being dead, II all now goes TO the children. From
the testimony taken yesterday itappeared that TIN
assessed value of the estate was about Sl5000O; tn
life insurance $4,000 more.
No less than two thousand hands il
Richmond and Manchester have been temporaril
| thrown out of employment, directly or indirectly
by the scarcity of water In the river. GALLEY
Mills, the Trcdegar Works, Whitehurst & owen,
sash and blind factory the Manchester cotton fac
tories. Dunlop u McCances flour mills, the pape
mills of Richmond and Manchester, and man,
other smaller establishments which arc run
water, are working only half force, and some nc
that
Alta meeting ofthe Republicans of Noun
Vernon district, held at Green Springs September
| 1881, j. NJ. Troth was chosen chairman and Edw
o. Belts secretary. The resolutions passed by tn
1881, were adopted as the platform of the Republi
cans of that district. Stacy Ii. Snowden, John
Troth, Sandy Alexander, George NJ. Humphriei
and y. d. Troth were elected delegates and ]
o. Bets, and Lovelace Brown alternates to tn
convention TO be held at Fairfax Court House Sep
tomber s, 1881.