National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1882-05-24
VIRGINIA NEW S.

Very little tobacco has been planted owing to
the inability OF the farmers TO prepare the ground
on account OF the late spring.
Postmasters have been commissioned as follows
Leonidas X. Tucker Rough Creek William Cou-
sins, Callands James w. Millner. Hairston. Pitt
sylvania County,
d. II. Snnder formerly Justice of the peace Of
Russell county, stole mule of Robert Mason, but
was caught near the North Carolina line. brought
| back and lodged In jail.
A young white boy named William Arlington,
while skating ut tho rink i'll the Norfolk Opera
| House building, Saturday evening, had the mis-
fortune TO full on one OF his wrists, breaking 1t
| badly.
Mr. L. A. Stands, late of the firm of Paul, Stands
| & Paul, having gone into the practice of the law
ON his own account, the Hon John Paul will in
| future be associated only with his brother, Mr.
| Rockingham Paul.
correspondent writes to the Halifax Record
that some Of the best people III the county ARE NC
tuGly suffering for the neceSsaries of life. The
faiuio of last years crops depryes them Of the
means of retrieving themselyes this year.
franklin Gaseite: Judge Ford on Monday, May ID,
| county-Judge Hugh Nelson, Mr.. j. Asa Dupuy,
and Mr. Charles l.. Powell-and appointed in their
stead Mcssrs. James q. Saunders, A. T. billiard,
| and Bowling G. Brown.
Saturday nights mail train from Washington ran
| into u coal car OH side track near the Richmond
Fair Grounds The end o. the postal &C., car was
| clerks, cut about the head and shoulders Mr.,
Thompson another mail clerk, was also injured,
Saturday morning about o'clock, colored boy
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| miles south OF Burkevile, on the Richmond aud
DauYillo Railroad. by a freight train, He was sent
out TO watch herd OF cattle, aud went sound
asleep with his legs dangling across the truck.
| His body was taken 10 Burkovie for interment.
| young man named Burt Grubbs and COM
| panion living near Front Royal, went fishing Sat
| urday night the 18TH and as II was very dark they
set fre W an old tree standing behind them OH the
bank Of the river, After some time the tree
| burned In two and fell, striking Grubbs on the
back of the head and killing him almost instantly.
Walter Hamilton Yeats, or Ham Yeats, as he is
called was convicted OF murder IN the first degree
| in the county court Of Piusylyania Friday. His
| crime was the unprovoked and altogether brutal
| murder of Mr.. Presley Il. Atkinson, Mt Sycamore
| Station, last February. The jury was out only
| twenty minutes. The next day motion loi anew
| trial was overruled, ana Yeats was sentenced 10
| be hanged July "a next
| The Album the little college paper published by
| the young ladies of the GoTdonsYille Female In.
stitute says; lowing TO the appointment Of DR.. w.
r. Vaughan to the office Of principal Of the Deaf,
| Dumb and Blind Institution, at Slaunton, he has
resigned his place as one Of the board OF visitors
| OF the University Of Virginia. DIR. Vaughan has
done much for the education OF the female youth
| OF the South, who Will greatly miss in him an
| earnest and Jealous worker in their cause In our
| loss however, those to whom he Is TO go have
gained friend who viii work energeucally and
| untiringly in their behalf.
The trial of DR.. ], F. Hartgroye for the killing of
| MILFORD Chambers at Harpors Ferry, W, Va, on
December "a, 1881, has begun ~ Charleston, Judge
g. j.. Faulkner, presiding Clo9n Moore, esq,
Richmond district Of Virginia. for the prosecution;
| Hon James ID. Butt, Hon. ID, Il. Lucas aud Captain
George Baylor for the defense. Ater the empan
neling oftho Jury, which consumed considerable
time, the case was opened for the State by Cleon
| Moore esq, followed for the defense by Hon.
| James d, Butt who made an able statement In be-
half Of his client. II Is thought the trial Will con-
sumo about ten days or two weeks, as both State
and defense seem determined upon hard fight,
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