National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-03-28
VIRGINIA NEWS.

The Virginia Annual Conference will
meet at Danville May Is.
Efforts are being made for the erection
of commodious town hall at Harrisonburg
Two buoys in the Rappahannock above
Port Royal and on Spotswood Bar have been re-
! placed
Two hundred and twenty-five thousand
| pounds of tobacco were sold at Lynchburg last
| Thursday.
ganized permanent association for their mutual
| protection.
Seventy raccoons were found in one tree
in the lower end of Rappahannock County one
night last week.
The property known as Ellis Mills, in
Fauquier County, has been purchased by W. T. and
r. C. Embrey for 5000.
Colonel Augustine Leftwich, of Lynch
burg, died Thursday afternoon aged eighty-seyen
| years, after long illness,
Mrs. Elizabeth Lindsay Hilldrup, who
was born December o. 1900. died recently at her
late residence near Fredericksburg.
Maggie Lee Williams, from Culpeper
County, has been sentenced to the penitentiary to
| serve term of five Yeas for grand larceny.
Lewis Harmon, of Staunton, captain of
the packet supply boat John Hartley, was drowned
at Coleman's Falls, near Lynchburg, last Friday
Hanover County-the birthplace of
Henry Clay and Patrick Henry-is taking active
measures 10 De largely represented al tne YORKTOWN
celebration.
The Hebrew ladies of Petersburg are
organizing auxiliary society to the orphan asy-
lum of district No. of the Independent Order of
Bnai Birth,
A grand excursion of the merchants of
| the Shenandoah and Luray Valleys over the Ches-
| apeake and Ohio Railroad is talked of as one of
| the events Of April.
| Bishop Whittle, of Virginia, gets $1,000
salary and travelling expenses, and to meet that a
tax Of 81 is laid upon communicates of the Episeo
| pal Church in the State.
The Yorktown Centennial Celebration
| Association will next Thursday formally open
| their Office at the Exchange Hotel, Richmond
with imposing ceremonies.
The Shenandoah Valley Agricultural
Society has appointed committee to wait on
President Garfield and invite him to attend the fair
of the society in October next.
Major John d. Rogers, formerly of
LoudOun, has received the appointment of travel
ing and soliciting agent for freight department on
the Richmond and Allegheny Railroad.
The lodge of Knights of Pythias at
Staunton, which had been suffered to 90 down
has been re0rganiZed with number of new mem
bers and an infusion of much new material
The teachers of the State normal
schools will meet in July in the town of Abing-
don. in Southwest Virginia. The whole numbers
said to range from eight hundred to one thousand.
The iron furnace at Lynchburg, owned
by Pennsylvanians, has proved so profitable that
the owners have determined to build another fur
mace during the coming summer, and will increase
their capital stock of $4,000.
Property is said to be changing hands
at a large increase at Newport News Va, the pros
pective eastern and deep-water terminus OF the
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. Lands that a
month ago were held at $40 to So per acre now
held at $50 or $50.
Last Friday night H. j. Timberlake,
young man from the vicinity of Charlottesville
was run over by the passenger train on the Chess-
peake and Ohio Railway, and his right leg was
crushed between the knee and ankle He died
from the effects of his injuries.
Last Wednesday Captain w. n. Page,
representing an association of English capitalists
under the style of the Iron and Steel Works Asso-
-ciation of Virginia, made the purchase Of about
5000 acres of the valuable mineral property known
as the California and Mount Hope Furnace prop
critics, lying around the Rockbridge Alum Springs
and reaching to within five miles of Goshen depot
on the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. The COM
pany will at once commence the erection of large
furnace of about 1000 tons week capacity and
will build railroad eight miles in length to
Goshen depot.