Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-07-15

VIRGINIA NEWS.

A paper bag mandatory has commenced
operation in Lynchburg.
Robt! Garrett has been elected President OF
the Winchester and Strasburg railroad. :
Hon. John E. Massey, candidate for Con
gressman-at-large, will speake in Luray
Page county, Monday next
Mrs. Ann McIlhany, sister of Gen. Asa
Rogers, of Loudoun county, died last week,
aged 10 years.
Judge R. c. L. Moncurc, is, we are sorry
to learn, lying seriously i'll at his residence
in Stafford county
The democratic nominating convention
for the first Congressional district of Vir-
gnia, will be held at Tappahannoncll
August %.
Dallas Thornhill and wife have been i'll
dicted by the grand jury of Rappahannock
county, on the charge of attempting to
poison James Thornhill, brother of Dallas
Meredith Robson, of Rappahannock coun:
ty, young man of considerable popularity
was accidentally shot in the stomach with
pistol last Saturday, and died in ten
minutes.
a meeting of citizens of Rockingham
county will be held at Harrisonburg next
Monday to consider what course should be
pursued to secure a branch from the Shenan,
doah Valley railroad to Harrisonburg.
The Court of Appeals has unanimously
refused writ of error in the case Of young
Yeates, under sentence ofAdeath for the
murder of a citizen of PittsyIyania county
named Anderson. Ycates will be hung at
Chatham, the county seat, July 90
Reports show that the rainfall of Wednes
day night in Il portion of Fauquicr APP
preached waterspout in volume, and was
very destructive, the heavy freshets sweep.
ing away wheat shocks By wholesale
bridges, fences, &c The landwash in fields
and roads is unprecedented.
The Victoria Furnace Company have
constructed a chimney g215 feet in height on
the property lately purchased near the Colo
Sulphur Springs, in Rockbridge county
They have constructed houses for theil
workmen, of whom they will require 1.50(
when the works are in full operation. A rail
road eleven miles long is already built, con.
Meeting the works with the chesapeake and
Ohio road ut Goshen.
The report made to the Custom House at
Norfolk on Thursdayby a man represent
ing himself as w. G.. Johnston, master Of
the schooner John H. Morgan, alleged b,
him to have been sunk Oft the coast Of Della,
ware by the Aspinwall steamship John
Chauncey, is considered by subsequent
events false, and Johnston himself is be-
lieved to be a notorious swindler, who has
victmized the people of the towns along the
coast by similar stories several times during
the last seven years. He left Norfolk be-
fore the police authorities were appraised o.
his fraudulent acts and representations.
A dispatch from Richmond says: "In
stead OF the Associated Lines dissolving, as
was rumored few weeks ago, they are
more solid than ever On the LIST of August
Mr.. Sol Haas, who has filled the office oil
general freight agent of the Associated
Lines, will take charge as traffic manager
There will be general freight and genera
passenger agent under him, but the person
to fill these Offices has not yet been selected
The roads under the traffic manager will be
the Seaboard and Roanoke. Raleigh and
CASTOR, Raleigh and Augusta Air Line
Carolina Central, Richmondan Petersburg
Petersburg and Weldon, Wilmington anu
Weldon, Wilmington, Columbia and Au
gusta, Northeastern of South Carolina, South
Carolina Central, Cheraw and Darlington
Cheraw and Salisbury, Richmond and Dan
vile, Virginia Midland, Western NORTH
Carolina, Atlanta and Charlotte Air Line
Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Green.
vile and Columbia, Northeastern of Georgis
and Elberton Air Line"