Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-07-10
VIRGINIA NEWS,

Mr.. VIM. Wake, of Norfolk, died Satur
day last aged sc.
Mr.. William Ayre has sold his house and
twenty acres of land, near Fairfax Court
House, to Mr.. F.. w. Richardson, for 81 $50.
The Supreme Court of Appeals convened |
at Wytheville to-day This will be the last
sitting Of the present court at that place. |
The docket this summer is rather smaller
than usual.
Recently the Chesapeake and Ohio Rail
way Company have purchased number OF
coal cars made by the Tredegar Company.
These cars are said to be Of better quality
than those made in the North and used on
the same road
| Two farms near Midland Station, Oh the
Va. Midland Ry., have recently been sold,
one containing 230 acres to Mr.. Armstrong,
of Highland county, and one of 120 acres to
Mr.. Oliver Hiner, of Pendleton. W. Va.
Mr. W. G.. Elan, editor of the Richmond
Wing and Secretary of the Commonwealth,
declines to permit the use of his name in
connection with the nomination for Con-
gresham from the Richmond district.
4 State official who has just returned to
Richmond from Russell county, thinks that
Fulkcrson's chances for getting the read
ulster nomination in that district are very
good His friends are cnergeticallyat work
all over the district.
A. Fl. Morehead is making preparations
to start spool factory, grist mill and lum-
Der yard at The Plains, Fauquier county.
Dog wood is the timber used for the manu-
facture Of spUols, and the woods Of Pied
mont abound with it.
Near Warrenton, on Saturday afternoon,
, Meredith Robinson, manager for James
Gates, while loading wagon with old iron,
threw piece OH u jacket in the wagon. 1t
: struck pistol in the pocket of the jacket,
explodiug;it the ball entering Robinson's
. stomach, killing him almost instantly.
: The Peninsular Guards of Hampton, act
l ing under orders Of Governor Cameron, cap
tured Saturday an oyster vessel dredging in
:. Chesapeake Bay. The vessel is said to be
!. from some Northern port, and the first
:. foreign prize taken in Virginia waters
n The name is unknown and there are nc
), details. - ...
n Major 4. f. Richards, prominent lawyer
l. of Louisville, has been nominated for judge
'i of the Superior Court for the second district
: Of Kentucky, embracing37 counties. Major
I Richards is native Of Ioudoun county
/, Va, and was one of the bravest and mos
l. dashing in Col Mosby's Confederate com
/ mand during the late war.
From the 1st of October to the 1st of Jul!
1929 ,Sl3 pounds Of leaf tobacco have beer
sold at Petersburg, the average price bein!
Ill $50 per 100 pounds, against 3,6l3,93
IL pounds the previous year at $3.50 per lO
pounds. Reports from various sections Q
m the State represent that not more than hal
-. the tobacco crop is yet planted, and the in
~ dications are that the crop will be late.
We Judge Wexford, in the Richmond Circui
ed Court Saturday, granted all injunction i
~ the case of CAN'T against the State of Vii
=. ginia, restraining the alleged misappropria
-, ton of the proceeds Of the sale Of the State
u interest in the Atlantic, Mississippi an
NJ Ohio Railroad, $500OO0, of which none
he 100000 was appropriated by an act of tn
Of last legislature for the establishment of
;; colored normal school, the remainder to b
VI used i'll refunding to the public free schoo
lg a portion of the money heretofore diverte
tn therefrom. The court also ordered til
he, State Treasurer to take possession Of sal
IT. rs provided in the act of March 1871. know
~ as the funding act, for the settlement of II
lie, State debt. The case will be taken to III
II, supreme Court of Appeals.