Jacob L. Moon (Scottsville, VA)

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VIRGINIA NEWS NOTES. Items Gathered Here and There and Everywhere Throughout the State. Cora Reese, aged twelve years, of Scott county, was married recently. The three-year-old daughter of A. S. Johnson, of Spotsylvania county, was burned to death Tuesday The flouring mill of S. E. Housenfluck and the barn of Jerry Bauserman, in Shenandoah county, were destroyed by fire Monday night. Jacob L. Moon, a banker at Scottsville, Albemarle county, has made an assignment. Liabilities, $12,000; assets, about the same, mostly in real estate. At Suffolk a house was destroyed by fire early Tuesday morning, and a colored woman and her two children were burned to death, and the husband and father badly burned. The store-house and contents of Arthur P. Kellam, merchant, at Belle Haven, Northampton county, were destroyed by fire last Saturday night. Cause of fire unknown. Loss, about $2,500; covered by insurance. The oldest lady in Louisa county is claimed to be Mrs. Delia Trice, living two miles east of Louisa. She is very hardy, and it is believed she will attain her one hundredth anniversary. Mrs. Arnett, living near her, is only a few years younger than Mrs. Trice, and 1S the only pensioner in the county of the war of 1812. A panic occurred in the county courtroom at Clintwood, Scott county, last Friday, by some one raising an alarm that the building was collapsing. People rushed for the door, jumped out of the windows, trampled upon each other, and at last it was discovered that there had been no cause whatever for the alarm. An overdose of laudanum came near terminating the life of Mr. John O'Neale, a young Alexandrian, Monday night. The remedies of Dr. William Smith, called in as soon as prompt who was prevented his condition was discovered, alone a fatal termination. Whether the laudanum was taken with suicidal intent or by accident is not known. William F. Anderson, the white boy who shot and killed the negro, Shaver, in February, at Salem, was indicted for murder by the grand jury Tuesday morning. In the afternoon he was arraigned, not guilty, and on account of the of material witnesses absence pleaded term. his trial was postponed until the April United States Deputy Marshal Thomas H. Cross, of Norfolk, sold at Newport News Tuesday the steamship Finance, of the United States and Brailian Mail Steamship Company, under four libels. She has been lately repaired by the Newport News Ship-Building Company, whose bill is $79,000. She was bought by Bernard H. Smith, of Brooklyn, N. Y., for $84,000. When the steamer Danville left West Point on Monday for Baltimore the town authorities were investigating the death of an infant, about three weeks old, whose body was brought to the surface by the wheels of some of the steamers which stop at that place. Around the neck of the child was a brick, which had been tied with a tape-measure. It is expected that there will be some arrests in connection with the affair. Major Mann Page, president of the Virginia Farmers' Alliance, says under be circumstances will he consent to no Third party candidate for Governor. he says, is a he and, as its the organiation, The Alliance, president, non-political himself could not consistently permit to be nominated for Governor. President Page expresses the opinion that that State party will place at the head of its ticket this year a silver Democrat. by fire at WedThe losses Martinsville were as follows: J. W. Tuggle, insurance, $4,300, I. & Son, dry goods, dry nesday Herner goods insurance loss $5,500; hard- $7,000, loss $10,000; W. M. Hundley & Co., ware and feed store, insurance $3,500, loss $6,000; R. M. Fox & Co., undertakers and crockery, insurance $1,900, loss $3,000: Thompson, Nunn & Co., groceries, insurance $1,000, loss $2,000. The Star Clothsaved their stock with a a $500. There were of offices above number ing loss Company of only the stores building quite in which everything was lost. The All was worth $30,000. insured for $18,000. told, the losses amount to about $60,000;