Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-08-04
VIRGINIA NEWS

Mr. Massey will meet Mr.. Wise at Apo.
mattoX c. III. on the 10th inst.
DR.. ]. n Gordon, of Harrisonburg, died
on Thursday week, aged SO. :,
The, United States government is arrang-
ing for the establishment of a hatchery
near Wythevile.
The State Normal Colored Institute con-
vened in Petersburg yesterday The num-
Der of teachers in attendance is about sew
enty-fve.
The Blue Ridge Echo, formerly published
at Washington, Rappahannock county, is to
be revived, the first number to appear next
week.
The Virginia Midland Railway is about to
erect q fine new depot building and extend
their yards at the junction with the Chesa-
peake and Ohio Railroad, near Charlottes-
vile.
Judge Hughes says he knows of no action
to be taken in his court by the owners with
reference to the oyster fleet captured and
confiscated last spring.
The schooner Jefferson Borden, Captain
Peterson, at Norfolk, is the noted vessel on
which occurred, a few years ago, the mu-
tiny that created such an excitement at the
time.
Lawrence Taliaferro, of King George
county, recently appointed postmaster at
| Fredericksburg, took charge of the office
Tuesday. John W. Brown and John L..
Talaicro are his assistants.
| The increase Of the revenue of the Chesa-
peake and Ohio forthe first three weeks of
July, is put down at $63,574 The Virgil
MIA Midland increase is said to be about 40
per cent. over this season Of last year
The Government lightships stationed in
Chesapeake Bay have had their bottoms
covered with oysters and other shellfsh.
The bottoms of the vessels will hereafter be
covered with copper, which prevents the
oysters from taking hold. ~. +
The population of the cities of Norfolk
and Petersburg is about the same 1t may
be mentioned as a somewhat singular coin
cidcnce that the number of deaths in each
of the two cities last month was exactly the
same, viz: ffty-two.
MIR. Philip Spotswood, of Orange county
attempted to commit suicide last Saturday
evening by cutting his throat with knife
He succeeded in wounding himself very
seriously, For some years past he has
been subject to periodical alterations Of the
mind.
Mr., John Saunders and his wife Mrs
saunders, an aged couple residingin the up.
er part of Richmond county died last Mon
day week. They had often expressed the
hope that they might both die at the same
time and this wish was gratified, both dying
on the same day aud within Il few hours Of
each other.
W. H. Yeats, of Pittsylvania, was to have
been hung to day for the murder Of j. P
Addison in that county some time ago
The Governor granted respite in the case
for one week which expired to-day. The
Governor says that after mature reflection
he failed TO see sufficient reasons for further
interference with the sentence of the court
The through tonnage of the Chesapeake
and Ohio railway from New York to the
West has grown so greatly in the last week
that the company has not enough cars tc
move it promptly without working nigh
and day. Three steamers week will not
bring the goods Offering, and last week ar
extra steamer WAS required to remove ac
cumulated freights from New York. The
company is building new cars rs rapidly a.
possible at their shops in Richmond.