National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1886-02-13
VIRGINIA STATE NEWS.

viii leave very soon for a cruise south.
Joshua Wilton, esq, has been elected
president OF the First National Bank Of
Harrisonburg, vice z. Bradley, resigned.
Thirty vessels entered and twenty-soven
| cleared from Newport News during the
month Of January, with total tonnage of
13,TS3.
Over 800 men IN the construction de-
partment Of the Norfolk navy yard were
discharged on Tuesday last owing, IL is said
to lack Of funds.
State Senator j. n. Stubs, OF Gloucester
county, II is said, has never In his life tasted
| liquor Of any kind. lie is strong advo.
cate Of locol option.
The Grand Lodge of tic Knights Of
| Pythas Of Virginia will meet in the
eighteenth annual session in the city,
Norfolk Tuesday, Feb. 10.
Another newspaper has been started at
Staunton-the Free Press. II will advocate
the cause Of temperance. The first issue
was made last Saturday.
The Richmond custom house cost $685.
01G, and the Norfolk custom house cost
S22S, sos. Both were erected prior to 1861,
and are built Of Virginia granite.
Mr.. Junius A. Coleman, deputy clerk of
the corporation and circuit courts of the
city Of Norfolk, Is keeping his minute book
Of the corporation In poetical form.
A tobacco factory is to be established
very soon at Wythevllle. This great In
dustry is growing rapidly throughout the
entire southwest section Of the state.
John B. Dickinson, Of Bath county, died
last Wednesday. IL was In Mr.. Dickinson's
| family that Lillian Madison resided prior to
| her Inflated trip to Richmond In March
last.
A handsome public hail. with a seating
capacity of about 400, has just been fin.
| ishCd and opened at Orange Court House.
| 1t was built by the Masons of that thriving
town.
The United States court will meet at
Richmond on the 23d day of February A
number of cases relating to violations of
the postal laws have been set for trial on
that day.
The sales Of tobacco at Lynchburg so far
this year exceed the same period of last
year by over $4,000 pounds, which is con
sidered a good outlook for the breaks Of
the whole year.
Capt. j. Cole Davis, q leading lawyer aud
large real estate owner at Helena, Ark,
died last week. lie was a native Of Rock
bridge county, Va, and commanded bat.
teiy Of artillery during the late war.
The Virginia Beach HOTEL distant seven
teen miles from Norfolk, which has been
open up to this time as a sanitarium for
northern visitors, closed on Wednesday
last and will not reopen until next May.
Mr. Silas Wyath, for many years mer-
| chant I'm Richmond, and who, for the past
twenty-five, was leading tobacco commits.
sion merchant in Charleston, 5. c., died at
| Waynesboro, Ca, last week, In the 10Th
| year Of his age.
The Savings Bank of Norfolk, newly
incorporated savings institution, began bus
mess on the 9th instant. 1t has capital of
$4,000, which can be increased to 100000.
w. W. Chnmbcrlaine Is president, and Geo.
Chamberlain cashier.
Judge Thomas S. Atkins, of Richmond,
has ordered n special grand jury to investi
| gate the Gallego Mills matter, and some
startling developments are expected. Mr..
). b. Watt, commemorative attorney, is
| preparing the papers in the case.
Much of the extraordinary growth of
Roanoke City is due to the splendid agricul-
tural development of the county of Roanoke,
| and IL is said that there is less worthless
land in that county than any other county
| in the state.
The New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk
| railroad will have new transfer steamer on
| the line from Norfolk to Cape Charles City
by the middle of next month. She will be
called the Old Point, and will be fitted out
with every appliance for speed and comfort
John Wilson, said to be a noted horse
thief, was captured few days ago near the
North Carolina line by party from Stokes
county, n. c., and Henry and Patrick
counties, Va. lie was taken to Henry
county, Va, and lynched by hanging to a
tree.
Bishop John c. Cranberry, of the NJ. L.
Church South, arrived in Norfolk on We'd
ncsday, where he will remain few days
The bishop is on his way TO Brazil in the
interest Of Methodist missions there, aud
will sail from Newport News some time next
week
Gen. G. w. Gusts Lee, president of
Washington and Lee University, has still
in his possession the family silverware be-
queathed by George Washington to his
adopted son, George Washington Park
Gusts, of Arlington, grandfather of Gen.
Gusts Lee.
At a meeting recently held at Charlottes.
vile the Alhemarle County Grape Growers
Association pledged themselves to cooper
ate with the grape growers of Ohio, New
York, and North Carolina In their efforts to
break up the practice Of adulteratlng do.
nestle wines.
The present session Of the University OF
Virginia will be more prosperous than the
last, owing to an increased appropriation
by the state, which has been expended In
much needed improvements. There are
ninety members in the law class siXty-foul
in medicine, eighteen in engineering, clever
in chemistry, and about one hundred and
twenty in the regular academic course.
Fredericksburg is said to have contrib
tN.,.l l..1s NJ, -. a
Richmond society than any other city oil
town IN the state, and has well maintained
its reputation for beautiful and graceful
ladies. Among those now visiting friends
in Richmond may be mentioned Miss
Mamie Forbes, Miss IIarkamp, Miss Car
michael, Miss Ellen Crutchneld, Miss Nellie
Forbes, Miss Little, and Miss Branton.
A number of gentlemen of enterprise ant
means residing in the counties of Spotsyl
wanna, Orange, Madison, and Culpepe
have asked for u charter to incorporate thu
Fredericksburg and Valley railroad. Tit
terminus of the road is to be lIarrlsonburg
in the county Of Rockingham. Frederlcks
burg is the natural outlet for the products
of THIS section, and many years ago had thu
control of the trade of all that section by
means OF wagons.
There is block of trap rock, two and
half feet long, two feet wide, at Port Re
public, Rockingham county, which is
historic one, as 1t is the block that wa
used as an "anvil block" for tilt hammer
in the blacksmith shop Of Selah lIolbrook
and on the anvil that was mortsed wit!
this block lIolbrook and his son, in 1913
made the sickle for Cyrus II. Mccormick
that was used In the first Mccormick rea
per That was ever manufactured.
The boycott which has been enforced 70
some time against A, \. Allen IL Co., hat
\ tiers, OF Petersburg, by the Knights Of La
Dor, Of that city, was removed on the lOtl
, instant, They were bOycotted becaus
they refused TO discontinue the sale Of hat
manufactured by John D. Stetson d. Co., o
Philadelphia, who had also been boycotted
Allen & Co. yield unreservedly to the de
mands Of the knights. The knights were