Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1883-01-25
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Douioih, VI Sudflotlc county, is ueaQ.
The Winchester Gas Company has reduc.
ed the price of gas to $3.50 net per 900
feet.
ExGov. Holiday. of Winchester. suffer
ed severely from 4 fall on the ice a few DAYS
ago.
The two new cotton factories at nanyille
are receiving their machinery and will soon
he in operation.
Had George Washington survived till the
next 22d of February he would have been
one hundred and tifty-one years DID,
Mr.. i. C. Gray jr., and Miss Maria F.
Walker daughter Of Gen. lindsay Walker
were married in Richmond Yesterday.
Cornelius Holloway, of Manchester, shot
and it is feared fatally wounded Washington
G. Blackburn in u house Of i'll repute in
Richmond last night.
On Saturday two colored men while walk
ing across Hyco creek, near Hyco postofiice
in Halifax county fell into the water and
were drowned.
\ three year-old daughter of Vim. Page,
| OF Clarke county, was burned TO death Sun
day evening by her clothes accidentally
taking fire.
Mr.. William Clendennng. worthy and
successful farmer of Loudoun county, died
at his home near Hillsboroush last week.
about the I'D year of age.
In Louisa county. near Frederick's Hall.
| lives all old colored woman who is known
to be one hundred and six years old, who re-
tains all Of her faculties except her sight.
The country all around Bealeton Fauquier
county, is improving very rapidly. Comfor-
table houses, we'll filled barns and substan-
tial fences greet the eye at every turn.
1t is reported that Mr. Horace Dodd was
| frozen 10 death near his home at Doddsville
in Fauquer county, last Wednesday. Mr..
Dodd was widely and we'll known gentle
man.
On last Friday night the Staunton Ar
tillcry, under command Of Lieutenant
Shuey, fired round Of salutes in commem-
Grafton of the birthday Of Gen Robert Z.
Lee.
The Charlottesville Woollen Mills have
been completed the machinery, of double
the former capacity, has been put in, and
the mills expect to commence operations
this week.
John Alderman, of Carol county, who
served term of twoyea in the pententi-
AIRY for stealing, has been restored to citizen.
ship by the removal of his political ,llsabili-
ties by the Governor.
VIM. Beanner, the colored boy convicted
in the Circuit Court of I.oudoun county for
a criminal assault upon Il little ten-year old
white girl, has been sentenced by Judge
Keith to be hung on Friday, the 30th day of
March, between the hours of & and a. m.
Because of a similar case now before the
United States Supreme Court from Alabama,
and which must first be decided, that of
John {. Tinsley, the colored man convicted
under the Virginia state law of miscegena-
ton, was yesterday, BY consent ofthe appel
lee, dismissed with costs.
4 farmer in Madison has gone into the
peanut business. He planted last spring
one-fourh of an acre, from which he dug
eighty seven bushelS and after fattening six
hogs had twenty bushels left He sent the
twenty bushels to mill, had them ground
and boited, and says the meal makes the
most delicious batter cakes he ever ate.
W. II. Garrett, of Petersburg. charged
with assaulting young lady living in the
western part of that city, was lodged in Jail
yesterday to await examination before the
mayor on Monday. Garrett is !, married
man with three children The punishment
for such crimes under the State laws is death
or from ten to twenty years Imprisonment
i'll the penilentiary.
The Chesapeake and old Ohio Railroad
Company contemplate the laying of a
double track on that road the cost of which,
with the sdings, Sc, it is estimated will be
about Sl0,000,0OO Work has been COM
menced at three points of the eastern divis-
ion aud at four points on the West Virginia
division and at such places as the double
track can, until the whole be finished, be
best utilized for passing and storage oftrains
and cars.
The unprecedented cold weather has pro.
dnced widespread destitution among the
poorer classes in Lynchburg, and especially
. among the negroes hundreds Of whom are
out of employment in consequence of the
suspension of work in the tobacco factories.
Mayor Pettigrew reports that he has never
known so many applications for assistance,
and il taxes the energies Of the authorities
anu benevolent associations to ameliorate
The suffering of the poor.
In Shenandoah county, last week, fine
buck deer made his appearance in field
near the dwelling Of George Ryman, where
il was seized by a dog Two daughters of
Mr.. Ryman went 10 the scene of the rray,
the eldest sister attacking it with a club,
While The other ran back to the house for a
6utcher-kniie. When she returned with
the knife the deer was dead, the sister hay
ing killed it by striking it on the head a
number of heavy blows with the club.
The l. :. census bulletin of statistics Of
manufactures in the various States and
Territories of the United States shows that
Virginia in 1880 had $40 manufacturing
establishments, with S26, $685. 800 capital in.
vested. Average number Of hands employ
ed-males above sixteen years, 2S,779;
females above fifteen years, CHG; children
and youths. 5,26l: total amount paid in
wages, 81 ,425, POI; value OF material, $50
SSo,93"; value ofproducts, 81, 7sO992.
\ druggist in New Richmond, O., Mr.. F.
j.. Donham, writes us the following Il con-
slder DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup one of the