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Virginia Notes. The Lee battery, light artillery, of Petersburg, has disbanded. It was organized in 1885. In the United States circuit court at Norfolk Judge Bond issued an order empowering the receivers of the Atlantic and Danville railroad to borrow $250,000 for improvements and extensions. A school of whales have been sporting along the Virginia coast for a week. A summer encampment of the southern branch of the Y.M.C.A. has been located permanently on the grounds of the Old Point Villa Company, opposite the capes or Chesapeake bay, and $40,000 will be spent in improvements. The First National Bank in Suffolk has discontinued business. It is solvent and will pay off its creditors and then be managed as a state bank. Washington Fields, the burglar who cut Dr. and Mrs. W.A. Wheeler in Norfolk while burglarizing their home, has been sent to the penitentiary for twenty-three years. At the recent meeting of the board of visitors of the Virginia Military Institute, Col. E. W. Nichols. the present professor of applied mathematics, was elected professor of the new joint chair of pure and applied mathematics. The chairs of mineralogy and geology and natural history are vacant and will be filled at the meeting of the board in June. The tin discovered at Millwood, Clarke county, is said to be the richest in the United States, and the development and working of the mines will be vigorously pushed. The rehearing of the case of the resale of the Abingdon estate between this city and Alexandria, the petition for which has been granted by the Virginia court of appeals, will take place at the March term of that court. A corps of the professors of the University of Virginia are addressing the farmers' institutes being held throughout the state under the auspices of the state agricultural department.