ANCIENT VIRGINIA.
La Junta, Col.
What were the original boundaries of Virginia, and how did it get its name?
J. P. Granger.
Answer.—There is no good ground for dispute over the question as to how Virginia got its name. This name was given by Queen Elizabeth at the request of Sir Walter Raleigh to the region discovered in 1584 by persons sent out by him. It was applied to what is now North Carolina, and was extended, with the progress of exploration, over the country northward as far as the present city of Bangor, Me., or to the 45th degree of north latitude, and southward to the 34th parallel. One colony after another was carved out of the original Virginia until it was reduced to the boundaries it had at the time of the Revolutionary war. It claimed jurisdiction over all the Northwest territory by virtue of its first charter, made to the London company, and by conquest from Great Britain during the war; but it ceded all its rights to the Federal Government in 1787, reserving only 3,709,848 acres to reward Virginia troops.
AMERICAN TREATIES WITH CHINA.
Chebanse, Ill.
How long before the passage of our infamous anti-Chinese immigration law was it that our government forced its way into China at the cannon’s mouth?