Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-10-13
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Inc Wncat seeding IN the Valley will he
about completed this week A large crop is
being put in.
The fall term of the Circuit Court of Lou
donn county, Judge Keith presiding, will
commence on Monday next.
The board of directors of the Bank of
Clarke County has declared dividend of
four per cent for the last six months.
On Wednesday evening in st. James
Church, Warrenton, Mr. Robt. w. Neil
son and Miss Margaret Keith were married.
DR.. Jno. II. Moore, who for the past twelve
years, has practiced medicine.in Waterford,
Loudoun county, and vicinity has gone to
Omaha, Nebraska
Mr.. F.. p. G. Lewis formerly of Clarke
county, Va, but now wealthy resident of
Hoboken, has been elected colonel of the
Ninth New Jersey Volunteer Regiment.
The rayages ofdiphtheria in Pittsylvania
county, have become alarming, nearly POO
deaths having occurred within sixty days.
Twenty pupils Of one school district have
died
Diphthcria is prevailing in 4 most malig-
nant form in the neighborhood of Pin Hook
Franklin county. One man recently buried
three children in one day who had died of
this disease.
Intelligence was received in Norfolk Mon
day that large lumber laden three masted
schooner lad been passed about twenty-five
miles OFT the bar of Wilmington. n c. She
had her sails furled and was abandoned.
The Baker Salvage Company expected to
send aid TO the distressed vessel.
On Monday, 9Si acres of land, lying near
MorrlsOnvillc, Loudoun county, and belong
Ing 10 the estate of the late Margaret Shu
maker, were sold to Samuel Grim for $40
per acre. Commissioners in the case of
Jackson VS.. Paxton, also sold Is acres OF
land near Lccsburg, for $50 per acre, to G.
Il. Paxton.
The grand jury on Monday found true
bill against the Loudoun Agricultural Socie-
tv. for permitting on their grounds during
the late Fair, a gaming table, &C. The game
alluded to was what is known rs q wheel Of
Fortune. The court awarded summons
against the Society, ret,lrnablc on the first
day of the next term
Mr.. W. j. Burgess, proprietor of the Gull
pepper iron foundry, met with Il painful acct
dent on Tuesday. He was rcmovinga lump
of waist iron weighing about 200 pounds,
which had run out from the furnace at the
last cast, when the arm by which he was
lifting it broke and let fall the whole piece
on his foot crushing the instep bone.
The north bound freight train, over the
Virginia Midland Railway Saturday morn
ing, while coming through cut on Mai. f.
b, Hills farm, about four miles south of Cul-
pepper, ran into flock of sheep, belonging
to that gentleman, which happened to be
in the cut, and killed sixty -four of them,
there being Jog in the flock.
The "0ld Commonwealth" gives an ac-
count OF horrible wrong perpetrated in
the neighborhood of Mill Creek, Rocking
ham county, by Abe Hartman upon his
niece, from which her death ensued and
that OF an unborn infant She was living
in his family, and finding the girl about to
become mother, he procured medicine to
produce an abortion, with the result above
stated. Hartman is in jail. He has a wife
and six children.
y serious accident occurred recently on
the farm of Mr. James B. Jackson, near Ce-
dar creek. in Shenandoah county. Mr..
VIM. l.. Windle was engaged in cutting
corn-fodder and in drawing stalk that
bound the stack toward him it suddenly
broke and cut out his eye, the pupil drop
ping on the ground. The misfortune was
the greater from the fact that his other eve
had been destroyed when he was child.
LIE is in the twenty-frst year of his age and
in perfect health.
A meeting of the creditors of the White
Sulphur Springs Company was held in Rich
mond yesterday. Three-fourths of the cred
itors were represented. The company sub
mitted a proposition for the creditors to take
charge ofando operate the property for five
years in which 10 secure themselves for
debts due them. 1t was taken under con-
sidcration, and a committee of seven of the
creditors appointed to investigate the finan-
cial condition ofthc company and report
the result at the next meeting of the credi-
tors. The White Sulphur Springs property
is now i'll the hands ola receiver appointed
by dgeJackson, ofthe United States Court
of West Virginia.
Il move" said Il delegate in a Virginia