Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1870-11-02
VIRGINIA NEWS.

The State Fair opened at Richmond yeser
day. and the President, Major W. II. Suther-
liz, made short address OF welcome, in which
be congratulated the audience upon the pre-
sance of ST. many visitors from the North anl
be said that Virginia would welcome them as
settlers within her borders. Jefferson Davis,
being present and loudly called for, made d
bIiel Address. lie alluded to the fact that
when lie was last on the grounds 1t was mill
tary camp, and now it presented a very dltfa-
rent scene lie said he was always glad to
meet the citizens of Richmond city bound to
his mcmory by many ties. He was pleased to
have an opportunity OF meeting the sons OF
Virginia, the sons of Those who had made the
State great, and who themselves had contrbu-
ted to It's greatness He thought, however,
that it would he maniIestly inappropriate for
him to say more than to thank them Tor their
call upon him. The attendance and exhibition
we've good.
On Monday night Mr.. Lewis Mckenzie
spoke in Fredericksburg. Mcssrs Chandler,
Of Richmond Pnrham I'll the House OF Dele
gates, and Dr.. Thomas, III Washington city,
also spoke
Robert Garrett, has accepted the position
OF President of the Virginia Valley Railroad
Company.
DEATH OF A DISTINGUISHED MINISTER.
Rev. Richard Hugh Bagby, D. D., one of the
most eminent Baptist ministers In the South,
died in this city about midnight Saturday last.
Or. Bagby was horn 10 King and Queen coun-
ty June % 1920, was educated at the Virginia
Baptist Seminary and at Columbian College,
graduating at the latter institution 10 1897.
Ho was licensed as minister IN lS4l was
ordained in 1912, and elected pastor OF Bruing
yphi bo
until the LIST of July last, when, at the call of
the Baptist General Association of Virginia,
ho accepted the office of associate correspond
ing secretary Of that body. DR.. Bagby arriv.
ed in this city on the Goth inst. from Alexan
dra, was stricken down with typhoid fever,
and although he received all the attention
which affecionate friends and the most skilfu
physicians could bcstow, he died alter q briet
illness of nine days. Retaining his conscious
ness to he last, he gave minute directions as
to the disposition OF his body, that it should
be buried atiBruington, with this inscription
on his tomb -"Remember the words which
I spake unto you while | was yet with you
and that Rev. Andrew Broaddus, of Caroline,
should he requested to preach his funeral ser
mon.
DR.. Baghy was one of the most distinguish
cd and useful ministers of his denomination in
Virginia. His remains were yesterday taken
to King and Queen via. Richmond and York
River Railroad, under an escort appointed
from all the Baptist churches OF this city.
Richmond Dispatch.
GRAMMAR GrcenvilIc, Alabama,
"professor" lad labored with the youth OF
that people, and taught them to dote on gram
mar according to "Morris's" system. During
one of the lectures the sentence, MARY mllks
the COW" was given out 10 be parsed. Each
word had been parsed save one, which Tell to
Bob l., a sixteen year old, near the foot
of the class, who commenced thus Cow is
a noun, feminine gender, singular number,
third person, and stands for Mary '-"Stands
Tor Mary - said tho excited professor. "How
do YOU make that out 7"-"Becausc, an
swered the noble pupil, IF the COW didn't
stand for Mary, how could Mary milk her Z
Htuper's Mag
The extension OF the right Of suffrage to the
colored men of Virginia has resulted in i use
OF their power that can be approved no where
by intelligent men. They have been banded
i'll solid voting organizations, and determine to
vote their solid power for such persons as
few white men-gencrally mere adventurers-
instruct them to vote. The separate indiVidu
al will Of the colored voters is rarely exercised
at all. The colored men are congregated under
such circumstances that their will bceorn es
completely subordinate to the will of the de
signing men who undertake to rule them, and
through them to rule the masses Of the people
of Virginia. Richmond Enquirer.
ELEcTIoN.-On November Sth, be ing the
first Tuesday after the Grst Monday in Novem
Der, elections will be held in nineteen States
for members of Congress ana State officers.
These States are Alabama. Arkansas, Della
ware, Florida, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky,
Massachusetts. Michigan, Maryland Mjnneso-
ia, Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey, New York,
Rhode Island Tennessee, Virginia and Wis
consin. Iu Louisiana the election will tie held
nm Monday. November 1th