National Republican., 1881-08-30
VIRGINIA NEWS.
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Vee Shiloh Baptist Association meets at
New Salem, Cupeper County, to-day.
A colored man near Middleburg was
stabbed and killed last Saturday BY man
named Elgin.
Up to last Friday over $4,000 pounds of
Northern markets.
Eole, the noted Virginia race colt, bred
by Mr. X. J. Hancock, of Albemarle, has been sold
| to the Pelham stables
The work of making the preliminary
| survey for the new railroad from Norfolk to the
Hollcys was begun Saturday.
The Tobacco City Boat Club, at Lynch
burg, has determined to have regatta this fall,
following closely upon the one at Washington.
The controversy between the city of
Lynchburg and the Richmond and Allegheny
Railroad Company has been amicably adjusted.
The Ivy House, at the University of Vir-
| gina, owned by Mrs. Maria S. Smith, has been
burned down. Much of the furniture was also de-
stroyed
One of the teachers connected with the
Abingdon Normal Institute is Professor L. T.. Hoss.
A recent lecture Of his was on "The Successful
| Teacher
A large fleet of steamships has already
been chartered to parties In Norfolk to carry cotton
to Liverpool, and the first Is expected to arrive
| about ten days hence.
Captain William Garbrough, freight
conductor on the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad,
was thrown from his engine at Wiliamson's, Satur-
| day, and fatally injured.
1t has been sarcastically observed that
any Frenchman who happened to be at Yorktown
| hundred years ago VIII easily recognize the
| place. 1t hasn't changed much.
Friday night Lazarus Dicks, factory
negro, while In the act of robbing cornield q
| few miles from Danville, was shot and instantly
killed by Logan Yancy, negro living on the farm.
F. A. Park, ofTerry's Mill, Mecklenburg
| County, sold his tobacco last Thursday at Hem
derson, n. G., for $500 per hundred, this being the
second highest price ever paid for tobacco in that
| market.
There has been n decided advance in
Lynchburg and Danyillc In leaf tobacco especi-
| ally in lugs and common leaf This is attributed
TO the drought, which extends over almost the en-
tire fine tobacco region.
The freight business on the Shenandoah
| Valley Railroad is increasing very rapidly. One
day last week consign. lcnt of nineteen carloads
of cattle from the South Via the Chesapeake and
Ohio Railroad, destined for the New York and Phil
adelphia markets, passed over the road.
Captain Walter Bowen died at his resi-
dence, in Winchester, Sunday afternoon, after a
tedious illness, aged sixty years. He was gradu-
ate of the Virginia Military Institute and during
| the late war commanded company of cavalry
from Warren County in Ashby's brigade.
Captain NJ. l.. Spottswood, who is travel
ing through Virginia in the interest Of the yir-
ginia Industrial Exposition, which will be held in
| Richmond under the auspices of the First Regi-
| mcnt Virginia Volunteers from the 18th of OCto-
ber 10 the llth of November has met with q
gratifying degree OF success everywhere he has
visited.
The twenty-first exhibition of the Vir.
gina State Agricultural Society will be held al
the fair grounds In Richmond, Monday, October
IL, and continue to the 9th, inclusive. Occurring
| cOntemporaneously with the Yorktown celebra.
finer display than ever held In the State. Tho
amount Of premiums offered aggregates sll,2SO