The Countryside Transformed:

VIRGINIA GAME SANCTUARIES

Natural resources -- Conservation - GameTourists and sportsmen -- Field sports - Hunting : Bird

VIRGINIA will soon have a system of game sanctuaries, if the plans of Commissioner of Game and Inland Fisheries, F. Nash Bilisoly, are carried out, the result of which will keep the state well stored without danger of depleting the supply of birds.

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Professionals -- Doctors

Dr. E. T. Mason, this county, and Dr. W. L. Dalby, Northampton, received certificates last week, from the Medical Board of Examiners, Richmond,, to practice their profession.

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Transportation -- Water - Wrecks

The schooner Seth and Ishmael, owned by Capt. Wm. J. Marshall, bound from New York to West Point, Va., and loaded with coal, was sunk off Chincoteague several days ago. No lives were lost.

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Transportation -- Railroad - Corporate

The annual meeting of the stockholders of the New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk railroad will be held in Cape Charles [City] on the 17th of March.

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Farmers -- Farmers' organizations

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reprinted from Cape Charles Headlight, October 7.Mental illness

Mr. Calvin Duer, an inmate of the lunatic asylum at Williamsburg, returned to that institution yesterday, his leave of absence having expired.

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Infrastructure -- Commercial - Newspapers

Captain Wise's Son Deficient.

[New York Letter. 22,]

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Infrastructure -- Public - Government : TaxationInfrastructure -- Commercial - Real estate

The increase in taxes in the Lee and Pungoteague districts, this year, will be $1084,86, due to the increase in the value of the property in the said districts.