Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-07-24
VP9IEIA NEWS.

Shenandoah county has produced stalk
Of corn thirteen feet high.
Mr.. Peter Dowell has just erected an at
tiaetive residence near Rectortown.
According to the Danville Register the
outlook of the tobacco crop is not good.
A man in Manchester, armed with beer
bottle, captured burglar in his house
Thursday night.
Twelve miles Of the new railroad from
the Elizabeth river to the Nsnsemond river
has been completed.
VIM. McComb, successful farmer and
business man OF Augusta county, died Wed
ncsday, aged % years and months.
Seventeen negroes were before tho police
court in Richmond yesterday Oh all sorts Of
charge assault, abusive language, theft,
etc.
Hog cholera is raging 10 m alarming ex-
Some cases have been reported of farmers
losing ono hundred head in a week.
Aaron Barnes, crippled shoemaker, in
Warrenton, when the doctor approached
his bedside Tuesday, said, II am better
now" and died with the words on his lips.
Mr.. J. F.. B. Stuart, son Of the celebrated
Confederate cavalryman, General ]. Il. u.
Stuart, was married at Hampton, Wednes.
day, to Miss Joe Phillips, of Warwick
county. Their future home will be in Kan
sas.
M onday last l ,602 lambs were shipped
from Wytheville, for the New York mar
ket. The shipment was made by three
live stock dealers, and was the largest Of
| the kind ever made from Southwest Fir-
ginia.
A passenger train on the Atlantic and
Danville r. r., was thrown from the track
near Waverly yesterday, The baggage car
| was precipitated down an embankment and
a passenger coach thrown on its side, but no
one was seriously injured.
A large barn of DR.. John c. Bragg, in
Amelia county, was burned few days age
with all its contents, including DIR. Brasg's
entire crop of wheat raised this year, his
entire crop of last years tobacco, etc. The
| fire was communicated by sparks from a
| steam thresher.
| The Richmond Typographical Union
| have appointed new boycott CON mttee,
| and it is said the boycott against Baugh-
man Bros, tho stationers, is still to be push
ed This is to be done not openly, but, it
| is said sby what is called thu "slent boy
cott.' The Injunction issued by Judge
Bond enjoins the old committee from adver
| Using or publishing in any way the boycott
against this firm. Congressman John
S. Wise, the counsel for the Labor Herald,
will shortly apply to Judge Z ond to dissolve
the injunction against that paper.
A most remarkable case was tried in Dan.
vile yesterday, in the mayors court. A
negro. accused Il. i. Cohen, agent for Whites
Transfer Line, of offering him S25 to poison
horse belonging to N. W. Lumpkin, who
runs rival line. A detective worked up
the case, and claims that the negro walked
up to Cohen and apparently received
| package OF rat-poison, with which he was
| to poison the horse. On the trial il turned
| out that the negro had been frequently en-
poyed by detective agencies in other cities,
| and the case has every appearance Of a con-
| coctcd plan to iujure Cohen, though no clue
can be obtained as TO who put the negro up
| to his work. The case was dismissed By
the mayor. The feeling against the negro
and detective is intense, and fears were en-
tertaned at one time TINT they would be
roughly dealt with