Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1883-01-26
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Fairfax county, and vicinity
The Government postofiice and courthouse
building at Danville, is fast approaching
completion.
Col. D. H. Martz, of Rockingham county.
fell on the ice few days ago and broke his
right leg.
The public school house known as Claw
lers:" in Page county, was burned Tuesday
! last
The Mail, Il new democratic journal, is to
make Its appearance i'll Petersburg to-mor-
row morning.
Mr.. Edward Vaughn, OF Hanover county,
died suddenly on Wednesday night of heart
| disease.
1t is estimated that the estate of the late
General Odin G. Clay, who died in Lynch
burg, amounts i'll value to at least $3.50, 600
Abram Levy, native of Richmond died
recently i'll Rio de Janeiro Brazil, from in
jures received by the explosion OF a kero-
sene lamp.
Philadelphia aud Boston capitalists have
taken the S4O,0 900 of new stock recently is
sued BY the Charlottesville Wooden Mills
Company.
The Mcthodists have purchased a lot in
Berryville, nearly opposite the Presbyterian
church, where they expect in the near flu
ture to build handsome little church.
A report has reached Petersburg, of the
drowning of Henry Fans son of MIR. Il. Fl.
Fans well.known citizen Of Dinwiddic
county, by two colored youths, nj Clark's
Mill.
Mrs. Robert Taylor, matron OF the Nir.
gina Female Institute ut Staunton, fell on
the ice Tuesday of last week and received
injuries from which she died the following
Saturday.
The Staunton Spectator thinks that Judge
l1unsford l.. Lewis, of the Virginia Supreme
Court OF Appeals, is "the only one of the lot
who has judicial cast of mind and temper
ament."
The congregation of the NJ. +. Church at
Fairfax {. II. having purchased lot of Mr.
John II. Thomas, will soon commence the
erection of a house of worship thereon. A
considerable sum has already been subscri-
bed for the purpose.
Operations at the Bridgewater Mills, at
fredericksburg, have been suspended and
the closing is seriously felt in that commu-
NIFTY. An effort is being made to organize
joint stock company to take charge and run
the mills again.
a boy about l6 years of age, who, for the
past three years has lived with Mr.. Peter
Alagner near Fairfax G.. H., disappeared
from home on last court-day, and has not
since been heard FROM Fears are enter
tanned that something has happened to him.
Mr.. NJ. Struder, of Wildwood, Clarke coun-
= ty. left his meat house open the other night
and some of his meat walked out. He had
been out hunting the same day and killed
several fine rabbits, skinned them nicely.
intending to have fine breakfast, but hay
ing twenty-seVen cats, they ate his rab-
bits up.
The extension Of the Virginia Valley
Railroad to Lexington is to be completed
, by June ], if not sooner, and President
Samuel Spencer is pushing ahead with the
work. The Richmond and Allegheny is
constructing bridge across the North riv-
er at Lexington to make connection with
the Valley Road.
The national Agricultural Convention
! held two sessions in Washington Yesterday.
I The discussions were mainly concerned
with papers upon embarrassing and the pro
d'lcllon of butter The paper of most inter-
} est to caltle-growers of this section was one
5 by Col. Robt. Beverley, Of Loudoun county,
the leading cattle farmer of this section, up.
on breeding, feeding and selling cattle"
H.,
participated in the discussions.
f Griffith and Ferrill, the two cattle dealers
| ol russell county, whose lynching was an
tIclpated because of their swindling farmers
, out OF their cattle, arc out of the State
There is no further danger of lynchnr. II
has been developed that the two men after
being taken from Jail were, under threats
OF summary justice, forced to disgorgc about
$1,000 of the $4,000 they were charged with
stealing. They were then released. and
their whereabouts is not at present known.
Considerable interest is being shown in
Inc proposed reorganization Of the Fifth
Virginia Confederate Infantry. A large
meeting of former members of the regiment
was held in Staunton on Monday, a nerma
nent organization effected ,aud large num-
her Of names enrolled. 1t is proposed to
make an excursion to Niagara Falls in Nav
where The members Of the regiment will
hold reunion with the Twenty.eighth New
York Regiment. Nearly POO members cf
the Fifth have already sgnified their in.
tention ofparticipating in the excursion.
The funeral of Paul Brown who was kill
led last week by Hubert Taylor at Slate
Mills, Rappahannock county was largely at
tended. The evidence at the inquest devel-
opcd no new facts. 4 new warrant of ar
rest was issued, and Mr.. Taylor, father of
the young man who killed Brown, and his
son David, were again taken into custody on
Friday night and lodged in the county aiI
at little Washington. On Saturday they ap-
peared before Judge J. +. Strother, of the
County Court, on writ Of habeas corpus,
anu witnesses We're again examined on the
question of bail. The atTray was witnessed
by only one or two persons outside of the
tour pQrtlciDantS and the tnStim oEo;,a1
nothing important in addition to what has
already been published. Mr.. Tavlor and
son were baled in the sum of 81 900 each for
their appearance before the February grand
jury. Nothing is known of the Whereabouts
OF Hubert Taylor who fired the fatal shot
The DOORSTEP OF NEBuCHADNEzzAR,
In the Egyptian and Asyrian gallery at the
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