National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-04-05
VIRGINIA NEWS.

All the Richmond police have been
vacinnated.
The United States Circuit Court, Judges
Hughes and Bond presiding, viii meet at Rich
mond to- day.
Rev. J. F. Cannon, of Leesburg. has &C
cepted call to the pastorate OF the Presbyterian
Church at Shelbyville, Tenn.
The Richmond and Allegheny Railroad
Company expect to run cars from Richmond TO
Lynchburg by the LIST of July.
Mrs. C. V. Abbott has purchased the
farm of the late N. C. Richardson in Warren
County $50 acres) for s10.65 per acre.
J. W. r. Moore has sold 1881 acres of
land on LinvilIe Creek, in Rockingham, to Isaiah
Allen at $50 per acTe-s10 000-equivalent to cash.
Mr.. Alfred A. Porter, one of the oldest
and most widely known citizens of Richmond.
died last Thursday in the seventy seventh year of
his age.
The death of Rev. F. D. Goodwin,
pastor of the Episcopal Church at Wytheyille, is
announced. He was in the seventy eighth year
of his age.
The Singhass farm, of 80 acres, sit
uated near Winchester on Abrams Creek, has
been purchased by Mr.. Charles H. Grim for 5000,
equivalent to cash.
Front Royal has been selected by W.
II. Ruffners superintendent of public instruction,
as the point for holding one Of the State normal
schools next summer.
Mr.. Thomas H. Cross, a Readjuster
member of the Virginia house ofdelegates is to be
the clerk TO Mr. Asa Rogers, jr., the new railroad
commissioner for Virginia.
Hon. John Randolph Tucker will lee
ture in Richmond in May for the benefit of the
Yorktown fund of the Governors Guard, First
Regiment Virginia Volunteers.
Captain George R. Davidson, who is
said 10 have fred the first gun at the first battle of
Manassas died recently at his home near Estill-
vile, Scott County, aged sixty-three years.
Hon. W. H. Barnum, General E. Burd
Grubb and other capitalists are in Lynchburg, and
will inspect the mineral deposits in that section
with the view of large investmen's.
Mr.. J. III. Alexander, attorney for
Joseph L. Rathie sold last week to Captain ]. w.
Foster tract of land lying on the L. and A. Turn
pike, half mile south of Leesburg, and contain
ing forty one acres, for 5000.
The residents of Charlottesville are
happy to know that the Mccormick telescope,
Vanderbilt observatory, and the endowment of the
chair of astronomy have been secured for the Uni
veTsity Of Virginia beyond doubt.
Major A. G. CARRIER, of Richmond, has
leased Corvallis cave, at Yorktown He is to pay
the owner $3.50 for the use of it during the cenen
NAL. The cave is one of the most noted land
marks of the siege of that place during reyolu-
tionary days.
Mr. John Carr, residing between The
Plains and Upperville, Fauquier County, met with
heavy loss on Monday last. His barn, stables,
carriage house, corp-hOuse, granary, servants
house, and large number of farming implements
were destroyed by FIRE. Loss. about 5000; noin-
surance.
The barn on the farm belonging to l..
W. S. Hough and b. C. Gist, near Broad Run. on
the Leesburg and Georgetown turnpike, known as
the Jones Farm, and occupied by Charles and
Webb Hutchinson, was consumed by fire one night
last week, together with about one hundred bar
rels of corn six eight tons of hay quantity Of
meal. bran, &c, and also variety Of farming i'm
plements
Peyton S. Coles, Grand Master of
Masons in Virginia, met in conference in Rich
brethren, including Pest Grand Masters the officers
of the Grand Lodge: and others. The result was
unanimous recommendation on their part that he
should make the laying OF the stone of the
Yorktown monument a ceremony worthy Of the
craft