Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-05-29
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Peaches are passing through Lynchburg
already from the south.
a government force is said to be securing
the mountains ofGrayson for illicit distillers
There will be fewer agricultural Fairs in
this State this Fall than ever known before
The General Baptist Association of Vir-
glnla convenes in Warrcnton on Wcdnes-
day.
Strawberries are becoming plentiful. They
were selling in Richmond at 10 centsa quart
Saturday
I. 7. Pendlcton has been appointed SUI
pcrintcndent of the Charleston and Berry
vile Turnpike
The Central Lunatc Asylum has now
three hundred and ninety-nine inmates, of
which two hundred ann nineteen are fe-
males.
Hon. John Randolph Tucker has &C
copied an invitation to make the Com
mencement Address of the Shenandoah
Valley Academy in Winchester.
The increase of purchase by the mer-
chants of Petersburg as shown by the COM
missioner's returns for the license year 1882
'S3 over lSSl-'S2 amounts ia $Sl5,0OO.
The monthly statement of the Norfolk
and Western Railroad shows the net earn
ings to have been S66,Sl271. The gross
earnings for four months, ending April, Both
were S664 1886, and the expenses S41O, IA
80, leaving as net earnings S254,O492
which compared with last year, is decrease
Of $50, 6l945.
Prof. Fontane says that there is a better
prospect of finding gold in large qualities in
Southwest Virginia than in California in the
early days. Parties are now washing out
from $S to $50 per day, and, the Professor
says, ALI the washings come from Pilot noun
tain, which, he thinks, is full of gold which
can be obtained by capital and the proper
machinery to crush the quartz.
Carter P. Johnson. formerly of Staunton,
and graduate of the Virginia Military In
stitute had been promoted from the rank of
Sergeant in Company F., Sd Cavalry, Uni
ted States Army, to that Of I'd Lieutenant
in the 4th regiment U. S. Infantry. Last
week his old comrades presented him, as a
Keepsake in remembrance ofthem, a beauti-
tul dress sword and belt costing $50.
The residence of the late Mrs. Louisa G.
Allen, at the corner Of 9Th and Maine SITS,
Richmond, is advertised for sale on June
9Th. This was the home of the adopted
father of Edgar Allen Poe The poet spent
a short time under this roof just before his
death. The house is a large old-hshioned
brick structure with large porticoes and
presents an air of comfort
On Wednesday last at the residence OF
Maj. Arch. Taylor, near Keczletown, Rock
ingham county, an outrage was perpetra-
ted on young ladynam Ada Black, aged
about eighteen years Whose father was VIC
lently killed few years ago., the particulars
of which are as follows Two men and Il
woman, supposed to be Gypsies, visited Mai
Taylor's, the two men going inside and the
woman remaining on the outside ofthe dwell
ling While the diaboical act was committed
one Of wretches held the victim. There was
none of Maj. Taylor's family at home, md
no one near enough to givethe alarm. Miss
Black describes the men as dark complicated
youthful appearance, one with nous
tache and the other clean shaved. She was
struck in the side and head and PARTIAL,
disabled before the hellish act was commit
ted. Tie country around kcezlctown, is
ablaze with indignant people who are on the
search for the criminals, and whom if caught
VIII he very apt to meet with swift retribu.
ton. The Governor on Saturday offered u
reward of 800 for the arrest of the two men
and the woman