Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-05-19
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Tobacco planting IS In progress IN tne Sec
lions adjacent to Danyille.
The Baptists of Winchester will erect
church building to cost $1,000.
The Gem Iron Furnace at Mines is turn
ing out 100 tons of excellent iron daily.
DR.. s. S. Keeling, one of the most promi-
nent physicians of Norfolk, died Saturday.
Whvtheville is to vote next week on
proposed subscription of $50, 600 for water
works.
DR.. Robert M. Garrett, prominent citi.
zen of Williamsburg, died Saturday, aged II
years.
Capt ]. c. Langhorne has purchased the
Fort Lewis" farm, in Roanoke county, 600
acres, for sl1 300.
It is understood that the managers of the
Richmond and Allegheny Railroad have
agreed upon plan of reorganization.
The barn and contents Of DR.. Thomas
Ewing, in Warren county, were burnt
Monday; the loss is estimated at 81 O0O.
Rev. ]. K. AIoffett, of Orange county, has
accepted a call to the passionate of Beulah
and Shiloh churches, King William county.
Mr.. Fred. Wall. student of the Wash
inpton and Lee University, has received
an appointment to the signal corps, U. s. A.
John II. Pluukett, leading builder Of
Staunton, was thrown from q buggy on
Tuesday and received injuries which will
probably prove fatal.
A man calling himself Crawford was ar
esied in Richmond, yesterday, charged
with getting money under false pretenses by
claiming to represent the Dispatch.
The Southwest Virginia Agricultural As
ISOLATION has raised $4,000, the amount re-
uuisite for establishing fair, and opera
llous will at once be begun for giving an
| exhibition next fall at Wythevile.
The reign of terror reported in the Flat
Top coal region, Tazewell county, has no
| existence in fact. Numerous outrages oc-
| Cured there some time ago, but are beiev-
ed to have been the work of Molly Maguires
from Pennsylvania.
Last Saturday leslie Thacker and Joshua
Rdgeway (both white renewed an old fight
at Collins store, Halifax county. Ridge
way knocked Thacker down with an axe
helve. When Thacker recovered from the
blow he ran, Ridgeway following him
Thacker then shot and killed his pursuer.
The body of Robert Massingburg, of Sus.
sex county, who has been missing the pas,
two weeks has been found near his parents
| residence, q short distance from Waverly
Station, on the Norfolk and Western Rail
road. The supposition is that he was MUIR
dered. Most of the body had been eaten BY
dogs and buzzards. MassiDgburg's own dog
was feeding off the body when it was found
Massingburg when last seen was on his way
to visit his parents.
Gen. w. r. Terry, superintendent OF the
penitentiary, at Richmond, the father of the
young man who was lynched yesterday al
Liberty, Bedford county, is critically ill from
an attack of paralysis. He is utterly ignor.
ant of the Staying Of Jeter and the fearful
punishment visited upon bis son, and biz
medical attendants will not permit the
father to know of these calamities. Mrs
Terry left her son at midnight and knows
nothing of his fate. 1t was considered bes
not to inform her.
Joseph II. Martin, recently acquitted o
murder in the Albemarle County Court OF
the ground of insanity, whom the court, auo
subsequently the Circuit Court, insisted
should be confined in II lunatic asylum, ap'
piled at the Western Lunatic Asylum, al
already stated in the GAZETTE, aud was re
fused admittance because that institution
was full. The deputy sheriff took him back
to Albemarie, hut the jaior refused to re
ceve him. In the Circuit Court Monday q
satisfactory bond Of $4,000 for his safe keep
ing was given, and Martin was put in charge
| of his friends.