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Last week, Maggie, the little six year old daughter of Robert Stover, a miller in Fauquier county, Va., fell into her father's mill race and was drowned. Only a year ago her little brother had been drowned at the same place. Three lawyers who commenced the practice of law at the Wytheville bar over fifty years ago, still living there-Isaac J. Leftwich, President of the Farmer's Bank, aged 85; Ex-Judge Andrew S. Fulton, 84, and Col. Thomas J. Boyd, 81. All three walk the streets with activity. On Saturday, Second Auditor Ruffin took in $471,345 of old Virginia bonds, giving $341 488 of the new Virginia 3's for them. The old bonds were funded by Robt. Garrett & Sons of Baltimore: Bishop Henry W. Warren of the M. E. church, and one of the finest looking men in America, recently married Mrs. Iliff, the millionaire widow of Colorado. The widow, as a token of gratitude, has just given $100.000 to establish a department of divinity in the Colorado University. Bishop Simpson, who died last week, was the oldest bishop of the M. E. Church, North. Rev. J. H. Riddick, of Washington City, has been appointed by the Washington Annual Conference of colored preachers, to attend the bishop's funeral, on their behalf. Maj. John F. Lee, a native of Surry county, Va., who in 1862 was Judge-Advocate General of the U. S. Army, died the other day in St. Louis, aged 71 years. Everybody will be glad to hear that the plucky and generous James R. Keene is making such arrangements with s creditors as will set him going again. It is thought the 2d regiment, U. S. Artillery, now stationed at Washington, will go into summer camp at the Fauquier White Sulphur. Mrs. Sallie Patterson, aged ninety years, died in Wytheville last week of measles. Previous to having this disease, she was in perfect health, and could do the usual labor of woman of fifty. Ex-Justice Swayne of the U.S Supreme Court, who died in New York, was a native of Culpeper county, Va., and studied law at Warrenton with John Scott and L. P. Brooke. He early went to Ohio from which State President Lincoln appointed him. In the contested election cases in the House of Representatives, the Elections Committee has agreed to give Massey and Wise $3,500 each for expenses. At Mr. Moody's services in the Temple Gardens, London, June 15th, Lord Wolsley, the Earl of Aberdeen, the Duke of Abercorn, the Rothschild family of London, and any number of members of Parliament were present. The basket realized $1,300. Rev. Geo. Anderson, a minister of Winchester, Va,, has perfectly recovered his lost hearing by using eel-oil. The eel must be split, washed, dried, and held up before a fire until the oil drips from it. A teaspoonful warmed is to be poured into the ear and the ear stopped with cotton, is the way to use it. Last Thursday night at Minneapolis, Minn., Wood Benson, a veteran actor, seventy years old, appeared on the stage in a comic character, and died next day at 11 o'clock, of dropsy. The Charlottesville Woolen Mills have made a contract with the U. S. government for 15,000 yards of army cloth. In Fairfax county, Va., last week, one stroke of lightning killed thirty-six out of forty-five sheep under a tree. They were owned by Wm. A. Moore. Bishop Peterkin, Episcopal Bishop of West Virginia, was married a few days since to Miss Marion M. Stewart, daughter of John Stewart, one of the wealthiest men in Virginia, residing near Richmond. The State Bank of West Virginia, located at Charleston, Kanawha, a heavy lender to the coal mining interest, has suspended. Mary E. Hughes, of Lincoln, Va., took the degree of Bachelor of Arts at Swathmore College, near Philadelphia, last week. John Luster, a well-known Virginia hotel keeper of other days, and once owner of the Natural Bridge, died at Fincastle last week, aged ninety. For fun, a crowd of Bridgeport, Ct. boys persuaded an eight-year old companion to take hold of the ends of an electric wire. He did so, and was shocked dead. Emperor William has sent to Charles Gibson, a member of the St. Louis bar, who was Solicitor General under President Lincoln, the decoration of the second class Crown Order, in recognition of his German sympathies and his efforts for the relief of the victims of the Rhine floods.
