Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-01-02
VIRGINIA NEWS.

A heavy suowstorm visited the valley and
Southwest Virginia Saturday
The January term of the Court Of Appeals
will commence on Thursday next at Rich.
mond.
A vestibue train To be run on the Atlantic
Coast Line between Nav York ard Jackson
Vile will be started to day.
Eleven cotton steamships cleared from
Norfolk for Europe during the month ofDe-
cember. carrying cargoe. OF cotton valued
at S2.449,024.
Mr.. Henry n Richards and Miss Gustavis
Williams, daughter Of the late DR.. A. g..
Willisms we're married in Front Royal on
the Goth ult.
A wealthy capitalist of New York has
been to Petersburg for the past few days
prospecting. with view of starting large
elk factory there.
A proposal from New York company to
furnish Warrenton with an abundant water
supply and syetem of electric lights was
laid before the town council Saturday night.
Gov. Lee has accepted the resignation of
Rev. J. William Jones as chaplain of the
First Battalion of Virginia Artillery, and
also as curator of the Hampton Normal
School.
General Williams G. Wickham, receiver of
the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Com
pany, has appointed Major VIM. N. 8.
Dunn consulting engineer, with Office in
Richmond.
The total amount of leaf tobacco sold in
Danville for the month of December was two
million seven hundred thousand pounds,
and for three months ended Saturday eight
million pounds.
The construction train on the W. & o. Z.
R has been busy for some time in the vioin-
ity of Hamilton. All the tracks about that
place have been repaired and furnished
with new ties.
Cards are out for the marriage of MIR.
Bedford Glasscock, of Fauquier, and Misc
Lulu Cochran Richards, daughter of Burr
a. Richards of Baltimore, but formerly q
citizen of Loudoun.
The new Academy of Music in Petersburg
will be formally opened on the 9th of next
month. The Governor OF Virginia and the
Governor of North Carolina have been in
vited to be present
Second Auditor Ruf1in said on Saturday
that up TO that date about $500 600 Of Vir
einia securities had been funded under the
hlQQleD6TReT Dtli. IutI0 10 uOb ilh0IJ W 10
rush in funding after to-day, as the hold
ers of the bonds will not save anything by it.
Mr.. John Mclean Lipscomb, of Virginia,
has been appointed clerk ct salary of ST.
400 in the Office of the Secretary of the In
terror, by transfer under civil service rules
from the Surgeon. Generals Office, War de-
partment. Thomas III. Wade, of Virginia,
has been appointed to class l 10 the office
of the Sixth Auditor of the Treasury.
A syndicate of New York and Boston cap.
itaists, who have been negotiating for the
purchase of the Upper Appomattox canal
property, have taken charge of the same.
This canal extends from Petersburg to a
point within few miles of Farmville, dis
lance of nearly fifty miles, and is considered
the most valuable water power in the State
The Chesapeake and Ohio railway for
warded from Newport News on Friday four
teen cars of dry goods, and at Richmond
added three cars, making one solid train Of
seventeen full cars, consigned to firm in
st. Paul, MINI. Shipments were from Bos
ton, New York and Philadelphia, and
reached the Chesapeake and Ohio by their
water connections NJ. and NJ. T. Co.,
Old Dominion Steamship Company and
Clyde Line, all of which lines are part of
the Kanawba Dispatch operating over the
Chesapeake and Ohio.