National Republican., 1883-06-08
OLD DOMINION DoINGs.
appointment OF school Superintendent
A Man InJured-The Oyster Pirate Case
"A Boy Droyvned-Rescued from tho Sen.

A boy Drowned--Rescucd from the Sen.
Special DisDdtoh
RICHMOND, June THE board of educa-
tion of Virginia, composed of the governor,
the attorney general, and the superintendent
of public instruction, met to-day and ap-
pointed the following school superintendents:
For Augusta county, H. s. Roller; Bruins
wick, w. +. Jones; Danville city, Rev. DIR. G.
W. Dame; Essex, b. G. Rennolds; Green's
villo John s. Spencer; Montgomery, f. ID.
Surface; Page, L. r. Broyles; Pittsylvania,
d. II. Pannill; Prince William, Samuel Mar
tyne; Roanoke, Marshall Frantz; Rocking
ham, A. p. Funkhouser surry, William Dill
lard Sussex, w. N. Blow.
The board passed by some counties and the
city of Lynchburg, and will meet again at an
early day to make other appoint ments. Pro-
vision was made for the running of school in
New Kent county for Indian children.
Henry Eanes, machinist at the Danville
shops in Manchester, was very seriously in
jured this morning. He was cutting steel,
when piece broke of, knocking his left eye
completely out.
Judge Fauntleroy of the supreme court of
appeals, to-day granted a supersedeas in the
cases known as the Mathews oyster pirate
cases." 1t will DO remembered that on the
b0VbuUecuIn OF SDTuuTy, lSSS, pOV. NiIl-
eron, at the head of part of the state militia,
captured about forty "oyster pirates" Off
Gwynn's island, i'll the Chesapeake bay, op-
posite Mathews county. They were tried,
convicted, and sent to the penitentiary. Sub
sequently they were pardoned by the gov
ernor. The vessels were seized and contis-
Gated by the state, and $4,000 realized. The
owners of the vessels brought suit to recover
the property and the court of Mathews
county decided in their favor The old SUI
preme court sustained the Judgment of the
lower court, and now the case will come up
before the present supreme court,
This morning a son of Mr. Il. X. Thompson,
u " ell known teamster of Richmond, was
drowned while bathing in the river near
MayO's bridge. He was drowned at place
where seven other boys in half as many years
were drowned while bathing.
cablegram from Paris received here to-
day says the contract for furnishing the
French government with tobacco has been
awarded to Il. o. Nolting & Co., of Richmond.
Five million pounds are to be furnished.
The American schooner Cumberland which
arrived here to-day from OrcLilu Island with
guano, picked up, Sunday morning at q
o'clock, far out in the gulf stream, II whaling
yawl boat containing q mate and five seamen
belonging TO the whaling brig Ik V. Hill, of
New Bedford, Mass. The drifting boat was
sighted by the vessel when she was some dis
tauce of, and the hardy mariners lost no
time in responding to the distress signal and
soon had their shipwrecked brethren of the
sea on deck. The rescued men stated that ON
the evening previous Saturday the mate
aud these seamen left the ii. V. Hill by
direction of the captain to carry letter to "A
barkontine sighted on her way to New York
After leaving the vessel they were unable
to make the barkentino understand the sig
nails aud night coming on, they got in the
gulf stream and drifted helpless all night
They were given up for lost by the II. v
Hill, and were so reported in New Bedford
kilograms were sent last night conveying the
gratifying intelligence of their rescue. Al,
though alone far out in the Atlantic the men
affirm that their only fear was of dying oil
thirst or starvation. They were confident oil
their ability to keep their small craft afoat
until seen by some passing vessel, Their
escape was a narrow one, They leave fol
home at once.
The approximate gross earnings of the
Norfolk and Western Railway company fol
May were $l9l,25l, being an increase o.
$s,0s3 us compared with the corresponding
month last year,