Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-02-04

Osborn (colored, )postal clerk, and B. H.
Craft, are seriously but not fatally hurt
Conductor Pinkney and Engineer Leake were
slightly hurt
An extra sessionsof the North Carolina
Legislature will probably be called by Gov.
Jarvis to consider the sale of the Cape Fear
and Yadkin Valley Railroad, propositions for
which were made some time ago by New
York company and accepted by the commits
eoners appointed by the Legislature. 1t il
desirable to settle the question of the sale sc
that work may begin without unnecessar,
delay.
P. M. Roulland, probate judge, and Messrs
| Germany and Shultz, commissioners Of
Chambers county, Alabama, who have been
in prison at Montgomery for about two
months, by order of United States Judge
Bruce, for alleged contempt of court in not
paying certain judgments obtained in his
court against Chambers county on railroad
bond coupons, were released, the Supreme
Court of the Uuited States having pronounced
the order of imprisonment void for want of
authority.
A bill passed til, Mississippi Senate author
izng the Governor to offer reward for the
apprehension of the murderer of General
Tucker. The bill to prevent the punish
prize-fghting in the state as passed provides
for fine of 81 900 and Imprisonment not
less than one year in county Jail for the
principals, and Imprisonment and fine of
half that time and amount for the seconds
and Stockholders, and if death results pen
alties now prescribed by law will be enforced
The orange statistics of Florida, prepared
for the census bureau, place the value of the
present orange crop at about one million dol
lars against $672, 176 for last years crop, an
increase of nearly forty per cent The jack
sonville Union has no doubt the present crop
will be worth considerable more than mil
lion dollars. Putnam county leads the list
with a production of over seven million
oranges, worth in cash $10S,000. This indus
try is yet in its infancy, but with a yearly
increase of forty per cent it will soon assume
immense proportions and become source of
great wealth to the Flower State.
The bill in which passed the South Caro-
lima Senate, imposing fine or a term of i'm
prisonment as penalty for failure to pay the
poll-tax, was rejected in the House of Dele
gates, upon an unfavorable report OF the COM
rnittee on the judiciary.
California flour is now competing with the
Illinois and Missouri mills in the Memphis
| (Tenn.) market This is regarded as an indi-
cation of the value of the Southern Pacific
and Texas Pacific line across the continent to
the Southern States, and inspires the expecta-
ton that the whole Southwest is hereafter to
carry on large trade with California.
A heavy cotton transaction is announced
from Houston, Texas, Mr.. VIM. D. Cleveland,
of that city, having purchased in one day, for
export direct, 5,125 bales, for which he paid
5000, 900. For on inland city this is certainly
heavy transaction.
A mysterious explosion occurred at Little
Rock. Ark, at the residence of the United
States district Judge, Fl. G. Caldwell. He was
sitting in his library near the fire, when he
took q small package containing white
powder, which he found on the mantel-p -pisce,
and tossed it into the fire. 1t exploded, throw
ing the judge violently across the room, rem
dering him insensible and tearing the flesh
from both arms up to the elbow.
Postal Clerk w. II. Burbridge, injured in
the collision on the Charleston and Savannah
railroad, died at Charleston. G. Z. Osborn,
assistant clerk, it is thought will die. 1t is
also believed that Mansfield and Croft are
more seriously hurt than at first reported.
A Pensacola, Fla, despatch reports the
loss of the steamer Valley City, from Tampa
for Pensacola The vessel encountered a
heavy gale, causing leak. She filed and
sunk forty miles from Pensacola, where the
crew arrived safely in boats.
new county has been formed by the South
Carolina legislature out of the island districts
of Charleston county, to be called Berkeley
county
The Southern Argus, Selma, Ala, weekly
journal, founded and edited by Robert Nc
Kee, has been purchased of it's overs, Messrs
Robbins and Cory, by Messrs. Glass and
Mckee, proprietors of the Daily Times, and
has been consolidated with the Weekly Times
under the name Of the Times-Argus.
A decision was rendered in the United
States Circuit Court at Memphis in the cele-
brated case of Lucinda Walb against the JUS
tees of Louderdale county, Tennessee. Mrs.
WulD iCOoNOiOu JuuSliShp h6oiiiSb tAc
county for $4,000 on bonds issued for the
benefit of the Old Memphis and Paducah
Railroad, which judgment was affirmed by
the Supreme Court of the United States. A
peremptory mandamus was issued to compel
the County Court to levy tax to satisfy the
judgment, but all the justices resigned in
order to avoid obeying the writ They were
arraigned for contempt, and Judge Hammond
has decided that under the Constitution of
Tennessee they had no power to vacate their
Offices until their successors were qualified.
Another mandamus was issued commanding
the levy of tax.
Washington.
The Senate Pension Committe has deter
mined to introduce bill into the Senate OF
the States, granting Mrs. Lincoln the sum OF
$4,000 to relieve her present necessity, and
increasing her pension to $4,000 per annum.
The President sent several important nomi-
nations to the Senate, among them being those