Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1883-12-29
VIRGINIA NEWS.
,e balance remaining in the State Treas

The balance remaining in the State Treas
ury yesterday was 81 ,GS4, SSS.S7.
Gen. William r. Terry, Superintendent
elect Of the PeniteDtiary, has submitted his
bond to the Governor.
The State will have ample funds in her
Treasury to pay the interest on the Riddle.
berger bonds falling due January |, 1854.
Over $4,000 has been paid out of the
State Treasury within the past ten days Tor
coupons under judgments of the courts.
+, w. Coleman at Ionia, Va. %. E. Cleve-
land, Annex, Va. and Robert Green, Greers,
Va, were Yesterday commissioned postmas-
ters
Charles Hayden, colord, was lodged in the
Norfolk county Jail yesterday for crushing
his wirc's skull and breaking herarms while
drunk
A son of John i. Prnden, of Scaboard De-
pot. on the Seaboard and Roanoke Railroad
died in Norfolk Thursday from the effects of
Il riile-shot wound received on Christmas.
The bari; Jennie r. Diverty, from Rich
mond for Rio Grande Do Sui, has become
Il total wreck ut the latter port. The crew
and part of her cargo were saved.
Peter X. Morgan, one Of the oldest men
in the State, died in Richmond Thursday
morning in the ninety -nlnth year OF his age.
The deceased was a pensoner OF the war OF
1872 in which he served as Il soldier in one
of the Virginia companies.
Severa! German citizens of Richmond Wis
tied Governor Cameron yesterday for the
purpose Of presenting him with a came.
The Governor was suffering with painful
attack Of toothache, and at his suggestion
the presentation was deferred till Monday.
The attorneys for the Home Savings Bank
of Norfolk. have filed Il credtors's bill in
equity against Mary A. Bohn and other
heirs flaw of Cosimer Bohn to satisfy a
judgement against the latter fer 81 ,l1G. Ii OBJ
tanned when he was conducting the business
of the Norfolk News Company at Norfolk.
The other day, at the Western Lnnatic
ASYLUM at Staunton one of the female pa
tienls in IL paroSysm rushed toa window
i'm the third story of the female ward, climb
ed up over the grating and leaped out She
fell upon the brick walk below and was ter
ribly crushed, and died in few minutes.
The patient had been regarded almost well
enough To be discharged.
The government, through Mr.. Edmund
Waddell, ir, United States attorney, has in
t stituted suit in the United States Circuit
bacco in Richmond and elsewhere to recov-
er tax on export bonds given to secure the
government the amount of tax on tobacco
exported. The bonds are Cancelled by a
clearance certificate from the collector Of
customs at the place of export, but in these
instances no such certificate has been re-
ceivet by the collector Of internal revenue
at Richmond.
Among the bills now in the hands Of the
Senate Finance Committee, arc three bills
offered by Senator Glasgow, Of Botetourt.
The first is for the sale of al! the property
held by the State not required for public use,
payable in RiddIebcrser bonds, for the ben
eft of the Sinking Fund. The second pro-
vides for,placing to the credit of the Sinking
Fund he stock of the Richmond, Fredericks-
burg and Potomac railroad held by the
State, and the third is to relieve the bonds
issued under the Riddleberger act from tax
for ten years. The object of this bill is to
encourage the funding of the old bonds