Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-06-08
VIRGINIA NEWS.

The Midland Railroad Company have de-
cided to build new freight depot at Lynch
burg.
: Bedford county is swarmipg with detec-
tives who are endeavoring to get the names
of the lynchers of Hairston Terry.
The storm of Friday afternoon did no
Charlottesville. In southern Albemarle the
storm was accompanied by hail.
MI. Jefferson NJ. Levy, the owner of Mon
ticello, near Charlottesville, is candidate
for Congress in New York, to fill the va
cancy caused by the resignation OF hon. ,.
S. Cox.
The contract of the city of Lynchturg
with the electric light company will 60 into
operation in few days. The company is
now experimenting with ground glass
globes.
The real estate assessment in Lynchburg
Just completed shows an aggregate OF 80,
3SS,171. This does not include railroad
property, to the amount of S2OO,ooO, IN
cluded in the last assessment, and not IN Inc
present.
The grand Jury of Roanoke has found
true bill against Wilson Steptoe and Louis
Watkins, charged with the murder OF MISS
Lizzie Wilson, a white lady, November +
1884. The trial will be had the July term
of the Corporation Court.
The great rush of tobacco at Lynchburg
has ended, most of the sales of tobacco last
week being that brought on the railroads.
The total sales amounted to l,366, ooo
pounds q decrease of 100000 pounds as
compared with the sales of the previous
week.
DR.. John n. McChesney, of the health
department of New York, died OF consump-
tion Friday at his home in Staunton, Where
he was spending six months leave OF ao'
sence allowed him. He is the fourth physl-
clan who has succumbed to overwork and
exposure within not much more than ayear
The Monticello Guard, which Governor
Cameron recently ordered Col. Wertenbaker
to disband if within sixty days from the
date of tho order it had not recruited the
minimum number of members required by
the new law, having now the necessary
membership is in no danger of going out oil
existence.
A hurricane, accompanied by water
SPOUT, struck Woodstock, Shenandoah Co.,
Yesterday, unroofing the Methodist church
and blowing down fences and trees. The
streets were flooded by the rain. No such
storm has Deen known mere III Iue ueuoiy
of the oldest citizen. At least $4,000 dam
age was done in the town.
Judge Atkins will, to day, give his deci
sion in the Cluverius case, Gil the motion
of the defence to set aside the verdict and
to grant new trial. If the decision is ad
verse to the prisoner, there will be no delay
in pronouncing the judgment of the court
and in naming of a day for the execution.
The prisoner can appeal from Judge At
kins' decision and sentence.
Several prominent lawyers and news
paper in Lynchburg have received letters
purporting to be written by the secretaries
of vigilantes associations of one hundred, in
Amherst, Bedford and Rockbridge counties,
warning them against defending criminals
or publishing anything about the late lynch
ing in Bedford, under penalty of like fate.
The members Of these associations profess
to be upholders of the law in place of in.
efficient courts and jurors, but are believed
to be members of the mob that iynched
young Terry, who are trying by threats to
| prevent an investigation.