Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1883-01-16
VIRGINIA NEWS

The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Com
pany have concluded to run refrigerator
car through from Cincinnati to Newport
News. thereby greatly facilitating the trans
portatiou of beer, beef, &C., from points west
TO the sea coast.
The prevalence of small poX throughout
Spotsylvania county is causing considerable
excitement, and the authorities, assisted by
the people generally, are inauguratng and
putting into operation every means to keep
it from spreading and to crush it out.
Valentine the Richmond sculptor. is en-
gagged modelling the statue Of John c. Breck-
inrldge, which is to be erected at Lexington
KY. This artist is also at work on bust of
HayDe, and his recumbent figure of Gen.
Robt. +. Lee is TO be unveiled at Washing
ton and Lee University next Summer.
a switch engine got across the track of
the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac
road, at Hanover Junction. Saturday even
ing, and delayed the trains for considera-
bic time. Arrangements were made with
the Chesapeake and Ohio road, and the
passenger and mail train went to Richmond
| over that line.
The United States Circuit Court met in
Richmond yesterday and adjourned untilto-
day. Judge Hughes was present and Judge
Bond is expected to reach the city this even
ing. The first cases fixed arc those of Mr..
Munlord and deputies, of Richmond, char
ged with illegal issue Of supplemental as
sessment lists to whites and with making
determinations against blacks.
Emily Lane, alias Washington, "a coored
servant in the household Of Mr.. Charles NJ.
Smith, Of Baltimore, stole lot of clothing
| frop "a fan, i1v - L
for safe keeping and future use. A silk
wedding gown was among the things stolen.
A detective went to Essex and recovered the
clothing. The servant pleaded guilty and
was sentenced to three years in the Mary
land penitentiary.
The Appomattox river has been frozen
and unnavigable since Thursday night.
The ice broke yesterday, and the tug Edith,
plying between Petersburg and Norfolk and
Richmond, anchored in the harbor, struck
i'll twelve feet of water The Edith orici-
nally cost 5000. The ice blockade in the
James river was broken yesterday, and
great quantities OF ice are now floating down
the stream.
In the House Representatives yesterday
Mr.. Wise, of Virginia. from the Committee
| VA 'ot Nltiih', hONcll W suspend the rules
and pass the bill for the relief of VIM. B,
lSaacs and Co., following the petition of the
claimants, as successors Of certain hunks of
Virginia for gold seized during the warto be
referred to the Court of Claims for aluai-
cation Negatved-yeas 81. nays l2S.
Air. Wise made Il fine impression by his
speech, during the delivery of which demo
Gratis and Republicans left their seats and
crowded around him listenin with eager
attention.
Considerable excitement was created in
Norfolk yesterday by report that man had
been murdered and his body thrown into
richardson's paint shop, few yards from
Main street. The painters going to work
had discovered the body ola dead man H.
ing with one of his legs bent under him in
4 long box, and his head resting against u
barrel. A coroner's jury ascertained that
the mans name was Abe Griggs, who had
been staying at 4 sailor boarding house
close by that he came there OH Thursday
night intoxicated from Elizabeth City, n. c.:
that he was a sailor and wanted TO shin,
The jury decided that Griggs came to his
death from violence of some sort unknown
to the jury. The general belief is that
murder has been committed.