Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-10-14
VIRGINIA NEWS.

VIRGINIA NEWS.
The chestnut crop this years is immense
Virginia has the heaviest mast crop known
for years.
Cotton is now arriving at Norfolk at the
rate of over 1000 bales day.
Several farmers of Halifax have had their
tobacco crops destroyed by fire.
The farmers of Northampton and Acco-
mac are importing white laborers.
The tobacco crop in Appomattox is said
to be the finest ever grown in that section.
Virginia pays S2,O67,67S State taxes and
S6,0G3, l03 taxes to the United States Gov
eminent il
-Four hundred and sixty three head of
cattle have been in pasture near Wash
ington, Rappahannock county, for several
days
The pelsimmon crop in Rappahannock
county this year is abundant, which, accord
ing to the doctrine of the old people is sure
sign for cold, hard winter.
4 difficulty occurred at Front ROYAL Tues
day between. Messrs. Uriah Byrne and
Reuben Triplctt, in which the former
stabbed the latter with knife fonr times.
Jas. Y. Brooke, jr, will leave Warrenton
next Monday, for Dakota with the view of
casting his lot with the growing population
of that far OIL territory.
Mr.. Powhatan Robertson, son of the late
Judge Robertson, of Richmond, died at his
residence III Mathews county Thursday
morning
Charlie Jones, Bill Crockett and Chas.
Peoples, the Wythc county murdcrers, are
still at,laiSc, no tidings of a definite charac-
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them.
On aud after Sunday, the 18th instant,
trains on the Virginia Midland Railway will
stop at Culpeper for passengers to take sup
per. Heretofore they have been stopping
at Manassas.
Mrs. Emma Tut Cagett the beautiful
and accomplished daughter of the late Ed
win Bowen, Of Warren county, died at her
residence in Washington, d. c., last week
Of malarial fever.
MIR. ". \. Wise has sold to Mr.. c.. B.
Payne his farm Of l20 acres, situated on the
railroad, halfway between Culpeper and.
Brandy Station, together with all his stock,
farming implements, g., for $1,000.
No more bodies have been recovered from
the Grove shaft in the Midlothian mines
The Workmen are busy newly timbering
and otherwise repairing the shaft to the
point where the bodies of the unfortunate
mlnerSWerc recovered
Deputy Sheriff McCord has arrived in
Iowa with jim Bailey, the alleged cattle
thief, whom he captured after u desperate
hand-to-hand fight on General Means stock
farm, an account of which was published in
Yesterdays GAZETTE
Ihcaction of the Tredegar works employ
ces ut Richmond who struck because one of
Their number Was'dismissed for what they
considered an unjust cause, it is said, will 90
hard with some of the families ofthestrikers
who are in destitute condition.
The bird season is rapidly approaching,
anu soon the sportsmen will be securing the
| country in request of patridges. This year
the Hooks are said to be unusually plentiful
and full Some sections have been posted
and this prevents the depredations of pot
hunters.
The Norfolk and Western Railroad Com
pany have not yet commenced the trans
portation of coal from the beds along the
New River road. This delay has been
caused by the heavy tunnel work on the
road which will not be completed for some
time TO come.
Mr.. l.. S. w. Hough has recently pur.
chased of Messrs. j. w. Wildman and w.
Js. Harrison eleven acres of land adjoining
Lcesburg and fronting on the Edwards ferry
road. For nine acres he paid 5000 per acre.
and for the two acres running to the road
he paid 1920 per acre.
Capt James B. Jones, one of the best
known citizens of Chesterfield, and a son of
the late Hon. John Winston Jones, who for
many years represented the Chesterfield
district in the Congress of the United States,
and who was at one time Speaker of the
House of Representatives, died at his home,
at Drewrys Bluff, Wednesday,
Six hundred and thirty head of stock
cattle, purchased in Tennessee by Messrs.
Taylor, Owen & Co., of Fauquier county, for
themselves and ncighbors, were unloaded |
at Culpeper last Saturday There were
shipped from that depot on Saturday last
one hundred and ten head of fat cattle,
three cows and calves, and fifteen veal
calves: and from Brady Station on the
same day one hundred and twenty head of I
f:t cattle.
Clara Louise Kellogg is to receive $4,000
for singing twenty nights in Paris,-S6OO a |