Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1883-12-18
VIRGINIA NEWS.
Lewis Litchenstein, prominent merchant
Of Richmond, died Friday.

Lewis Litchenstein, a appointment merchant
Of Richmond, died Friday.
Rev. J. l.. Carroll has resigned the pas
toraic Of tile Baptist Church at Orange Court
House.
Fruit drying, it is stated, promises TO be-
come il ieadn. industry iu the Piedmont
section OF the State il being superior fruit
growing region.
Rev. w. C. Biting, for three years last
pastor ef the Baptist Church at Luray, Page
county, has accepted a call to Mount Nor
ris Church, New York city.
John Jarvis, who was to have been hung
next Friday for the murder of Claudeus w.
Bonney. of Princess Ann, has been respited
till the lth Of January next.
On Friday morning Mr.. Il. Fl. Denton, of
Hanover CO., killed five wild turkeys and
wounded one nj one shot, and dropped the
seventh with the other barrel.
The trustees of the parsonage of the
Methodist Church in WarrentQn have paid
S672. the last of 4 debt which has been on
the property for fourteen years
Gen. Armstrong. superintendent of Hamp-
ton College for the education OF young col
ored men of the South, addressed large
meeting in New York Sunday night.
VIM Green, an English gentleman liv-
ns in Orange county, has gone to Eng
land for the purpose of purchasing a large
lot Of hlooded stock of various kinds.
Chas B. Harlesty, u Clarke county cattle
dealer has received from Chicago during the
last sixty days l 800 head Of cattle, of which
over 900 head were sold to Clarke county
farmers.
The barn and stable of Il. NJ. Honey, in
Stafford county, were burned Thursday
night, together with quantity of grain AND
agricultural implements. Loss $4,000; no
insurance.
1t is reported! that Lester Manor, the val
liable estate of Mr.. John b. Davis, near West
Point, has been sold for S2O,0oO to Con.
nrcticut gentleman, who will continue lis
canning establishment on an enlarged scale.
Some Of the members of the Fanqlier
county bar have signed an agreement that
they will neither advise suit nor bring SUIT
in any court to establish the genllineness or
rcceivahilty OF coupons rendered for taxes.
In an allray at Stauardsvillc, Green coun-
ty, the other day between James Paine and
Wilson Sims, the latter struck Paine on the
head with rock making severe wound,
from the effects of which he died a few
hours afterwarl. Sims was arrested and
sent to jail
The Richmond and Allegheny Railroad
Company has completed its connections
with the Valley Railroad, between the river
and Lexington, and all arrangements are
made for the joint use by the two companies
of that portion ofthe line between the Rich
mond and Allegheny Junction and the Lex.
ington depot.
Judge David j. Goodwin, Of the corporation
court of Norfolk has been served with no.
lice that Wednesday next, the nineteenth
instant, the committee on courts of justice
of the legislature will commence taking
testimony in the pending charges against
him of nIalfeasance and misleasance in office.
The testimony will be taken in the office of
the land register in Richmond
Recently gentleman Of Warren county,
with his little son, visited Washington and
called 10 sec President Arthur. what is
your name my little man?' inquired the
President. Robert Lee Rust" answered
the little fellow. 81 knew Gen. Lee" said
President Arthur, land you make as great
and good man as he your country will have
cause to be proud of YOU
The coalition county committee for Rock
ingham county met yesterday and passed
resolutions indorsing Mahone's address, de-
claring for a protective tariff, reiterated
their devotion to Il free ballot and an honest
count, expressed their antagonism to demo
cracy. and declared their indignation at the
attempt of the democratic majority IN the
| LEGISLATURE to unseat the two coalltionlsts,
and give their places to the legally elected
| democrats.
An election took place in Norfolk and
Princess Anne Yesterday for mem ber OF the
| House of Delegates at which W. H. Turner,
coalition candidate, received $50 votes.
| The democrats refrained from voting nor
did their Judges qualify as the Governor had
no right TO call an election without authority
of the legislature declaring a vacancy and
ordering said election. NJ. =. Rue, the Goa
lition candidate in the senatorial district OF
Portsmouth and Norfolk county also had no
onnosition from the democrats.
On Thursday died one Of the oldest and
most eminent ladies in the State in the per-
son of Mrs. Julia Waller, in the Slst year OF
her age Mrs. Waller was the relict OF Or.
Robert Waller, of Williamsburg, and was
Miss Mercer, being both by birth and mar
riage connected with many OF the oldest
and most distinguished families OF colonial
Virginia. II er remains were taken to VIII
liamsburg for iDterment in the old family
burving ground, where rest those of her
kindred of many generations.
That the gibbet is daily becoming more
potent in Illuminating the pathway to the