National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1882-01-31
VIRGINIA NEWS.

7. Mason Hirst, a we'll known citizen of Fau-
Tears.
Thomas Burton, aged 81 years and benjamin
hast week
The farm Off W. Allen & Co, $50 ncres, in Hen.
n.Go County has hcen bought by A. b. Hunt, OF
Michigan, for 1000.
Seventy ncrcs Of the estate Of the late w. A.
steliheu,On, mar Uprervillc. have been sold to
beorgc Frazier for $50 per acre.
Salem Roanoke County. win petition for the ex-
mpiion from inNaugn NJ all capital Ia cd in
heir midst TN manufacturing enterprises.
The following poslmastcTs have been commits
stoned. Duuicl &. Pumplin, LOwesville; Evan
der u. Drewry, Ivor; William o. SydnOr, Bremo
Bluff
There are now siSty.seven inmates in the Pc.
tersburg aims .housc--twenty. whites and
forty Coored. The expenses Of the institution for
The month were sos.
Captain ID. s. Cook Is Arranging for the erection
Of large blasi furnace uron his splendid property
mWil!toni Alleghany County, which win make the
Major a. T.. Richards n native Of Loudoun
County, and an officer In Mosby's command
Turing the late war, has been elected chairman of
We Kentucky Democratic State Central Commit
AZ Low Moore furnnce, Allegheny County, $50
lnborers ere employed, besides about $50 ut the
mines. They work night aud day. turning out
upward of 200 tons OF iron ore in the twenty four
hours
Or. S. p. c. Henkcl has sold his farm, 1853 acres,
near New Market, shenandoah County TO John
NOne. for $3.50 cash. John Jasper has sold his
farm in the same county to John Fahrney for
1900.
About one o'clock Saturday night the only col
Orcd Presbyterian church in Lynchburg was
totally destroyed by fire. The fire originated In n
mail shoe-shop contiguous to the church, and
was also destroyed.
II Is reported that another lnrge new tobacco
factory Is to be erected In Petersburg rs soon as
the weather opens, with all the new and improved
machinery now In use. There are now sixteen
factories In operation there.
\ number of young boys OF lyucnburg, vary
Ing ffOm ten 10 fifteen years of age, have organ
bed smokers league, the sole object of which is
70 afford its members extra facilities for smoking
and ample protection in the enjoyment Of that
holen right.
n the Hastings Court Saturday night afler n
ml days trial, the jury rendered verdict OF" not
guilty In the case Of the Commonwealth. VS.. Ed
ward Branch, ColOTCd, charged with burning a
houso belonging to his uncle, John I. Branch on
The 29th of last November.
; The local Opt on movement is meeting with some
success IN the counties, and papers are being
signed by the citizens generally asking the Legis-
hturc to pass n local option law. The various
Good Templar lodges are taking an active part in
p' iuttherance of the temperance reform.
'othing has yet been heard Of Charles O. Hill
dCl, an Euglishman, who taught school during
last year in Prince George County, who mysterl-
pusly disappeared on Christmas eve. II Is sup
posed by some of his friends that he has been muir
dercd, and by others thnt he has left the State.
He was about thirty three years Of age aud UNI
married.
The oyster war at the mouth Of the Rappahan-
ok River seems not to have subsidized. The
Oystcrmeu have recently applied to their repre-.
sentative, A. II. Evans, esq, TO supply them with
The necessary artillery ammunition To enable them
State authorities promptly furnished the desired
articles.