Virginia items.
Petersburg.
A colored tournament and ball took place in the suburbs of Petersburg on Thursday, which was "largely enjoyed by the colored population," and, says the Express, "witnessed with evident interest by a large number of whites of both sexes."One hundred and seventy-two bales of cotton, fifty-one hogsheads of tobacco, and some wheat, corn, potatoes, &c., were brought into Petersburg on the Southern railroad, Thursday.
The Petersburgers are buying beef for nine and ten cents, and pork for fifteen and sixteen, the country people bringing these articles into the city in abundance.
Some "nameless" person has presented the Express man with "half a dozen Southampton hams." Lucky fellow!
We hear of more weddings about to come off than ever were known before. We bid the chief operators God-speed. It helps the clerk of the court, does the parson no damage, and gives a new impetus to trade of every kind.--Express.
At a late hour last night we received information of Dr. R. E. Robinson's death. His remains will reach this city by the early train from City Point.--Index
Robert M. Dunlop, Esq., who, for the past three years, has discharged the duties of Superintendent of the Petersburg railroad, resigned his position yesterday, and will leave the city this morning, on his way to Europe.--Ib
The song of the New Temperance Order is — Coming through the Rye.-- lb
Major-General Pickett, of the late Confederate army, was in the city yesterday.-- Ib
Charlottesville.
A negro man, named Dick, was arrested in Louisa county on Friday last. Mr. James Fitz, Jr., it seems, had two horses stolen from him on Thursday night, and the next morning started in pursuit. He found his horses at Mr. Davis's in the possession of Dick, who also had with him another horse, taken in the neighborhood. Dick has been engaged in a regular business of this sort for a considerable time, and it is probable that he is only one of an organization who have been carrying horses off from this county. He is known to have passed down on the Three-Chop road repeatedly in the past three months with horses. He is now in jail in this place, and we hope will get his deserts.--Chronicle.The evening trains on the Orange railroad have been discontinued.
Danville.
The Danville Lycenm met last Friday night. There was a large attendance. The labor question was under discussion. Besides the regular members who spoke, the audience was addressed by Messrs. W. T. Sutherlin, George W. Read, S. S. Bryant and Colonel R. E. Withers.-- Danville Times.Mr. Wilkins Bruce has paid thirty thousand dollars in gold for a tract of land near Danville.
Mr. William Mosely has been selected as Judge of the Freedmen's Court at Danville.
Lynchburg.
Governor Johnson, of Georgia, arrived in Lynchburg on Tuesday morning, by the Orange and Alexandria railroad. Next morning he went westward on the Virginia and Tennessee road.The remains of the late Doctor A. Russell Meem have been brought from their place of temporary interment, at Harrisonburg, to this city, and will be buried at the Presbyterian cemetery to-day.--Virginian
Loudoun county.
The December Court assembled on Monday last — Newton Keene presiding. Mathers, charged with feloniously taking a horse, was sent on for trial.A. H. Settle, of Fauquier, entertained an audience, on Monday night, with an essay on the manners and customs of the present day.
A squad of Federal soldiers have been engaged the past few days in burying the dead on Ball's Bluff battle-field. They completed their task on Monday night.
The house and lot in Leesburg known as the Gilmore property was sold on Tuesday for seven hundred and seventy dollars--George R. Head purchaser.
A revival of religion has been going on in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, of Leesburg, for the last ten days.--Loudoun Mirror.
Alexandria.
The remains of the late Colonel S. Wilson Prestman, who was killed on the Danville road by an accident, last winter, were brought to this place on Saturday last, and interred in Christ Church Cemetery.Bryant Hall, who was tried by a court-martial in this city last summer and sentenced to one year's confinement in Fort Whipple for shooting a negro, in Fairfax county, has been released.
Ex-Governor William Smith passed through this city yesterday morning on his way from Warrenton. Hon. J. M. Botts has been on a visit to this place.
Mr. Charles Piere has been appointed baggage agent at Gordonsville for the Orange and Alexandria Railroad Company.
The steamer James Guy was sold yesterday to George Olney for about six thousand dollars, and will, we understand, be taken South.--Gazette
Fredericksburg.
Re-appointment of Judge Moncure--We are satisfied, from information derived from Richmond, that this eminent jurist will be re-appointed to the Court of Appeals. This action of Governor Peirpoint will, we are satisfied, give universal satisfaction.We regret to learn that a horse, attached to a carryall, in which was Mr. Elzey Payne, ran away on, Wednesday last, causing a fracture of his leg.--Herald.
