Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-12-22
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Mrs Mary L. waller, daughter Of OK. Gov.
Tazewell, of Virginia, died in Norfolk Mon.
day night.
Mrs. Coriana B. Deane, widow OF the late
Francis B. Deane, of Lynchburg, died Sat.
urday, aged 50 years.
Samuel Watson of Petersburg, for MANY
years merchant Of high standing. died
Sunday, aged 72 years.
james A. Shepherd has been commission
cd postmaster at Columbia and Abner O..
Purcell at Hillsborough.
Major James II. Dooley, of Richmond, has
been elected second vice-president of the
Richmond and Danville Railroad.
James W. Hunter, son of DR.. Hunter, of
King George county, died in williamsburg
on Thursday last in the 42d year OF his age.
Seven hundred and forty.four acres of
gold bearing" land in lower Fauquier was
sold last week at 81 30 per acre-including
the gold.
The vestry of st. Johns Episcopal Church
petersburg, have extended call to the Rev,
+. G. Scott, of Orange county, to become
their rector.
John Scott, the Wealthiest colorcd farmer
OF Louisa county, was found dead in the
public road Thursday. 1t is supposed be
died from heart disease
Senator Malone yesterday introduced a
bill TO erect lighthouse at Newport News.
Many petitions have been presented to Con-
gress asking for lighthouse there.
a year old son of a colored man named
Whitehurst, of Norfolk, was so terribly
burned by an accident yesterday that it
lived only five minutes afterward.
Roger A. Pryor, jr., of Danvile, was mar
rled In Norfolk yesterday evening to Miss
l-Sallie q. Balm, of Portsmouth, daughter OF
George NJ. Balm, cashier of the late Elk
change Bank.
a Northern company, it is said, will in a
few days open an extensive granite quarry
at Rockfeld two miles above Manchester,
on the Richmond and Danylle Railroad. II
is expected that this work will give employ.
ment to several hundred hands.
A daughter Of John Woodhouse, who
lives near Nimmo's Church, in Princess
Anne county, only years Of age, overturn-
ed tea-kettle full of boiling water upon
herself on Monday, ntlicting such injuries
that she died from their effects in great
agony.
L. A. Ritenour, suspected of the murder
OF Andrew Bray, near Winchester, was not
| brought out on habeas corpus yesterday az
expected. The grand jury summoned for
January will investigate the matter. Rite
nour told the officers that took him to Jail
that he was willing TO so TO Jail, aud that
under the excitement prevailing it was the
best place for him, rs he would be safe
| The present term of tho Hastings Court
OF Manchester is the last that will be held
by Judge S. Basselt French, his term ex
piring on the 1st Of January next. The
people of Manchester will long remember
his able and upright service as a Judge, and
be will carry with him in his retirement
from the Bench the warmest good wishes of
She people of that place and this city for
his future happiness and prosperity.
Judge r. W. Hughes, ofthe United States
Circuit Court, yesterday decided three cases
of interest to coupon litigants. Two of
these cases were from Fauquier and the
other from Loudoun county. The effect of
the decision is to require those who tender
coupons In payment of taxes to deliver the
same to the clerk of the United States Cir
cult Court. Heretofore those preferrDp to
use coupons for this purpose merely made
| the tender to the collecting officer. If he re-
| fused them, the taxpayer retained them and
| contented himself with the tender az legal
payment of the demand. 1t ia probable
| that counsel for the boudholders, will Ell.
deavor to get a rehearing of these cases be-
| fore Judge Bond.
The report published this morning that
Judge Bond, in the United States Court
at Petersburg yesterday granted the .reasu.
rer OF that city writ OF mandamus against
the State Treasurer and Auditor to require
| them to receive from the treasurer of that
city the coupons received by him for State
taxes, which the State officers have refused
10 do, was incorrect. The motion was made
in Richmond but Judge Hughes stated that
be was too much indisposod to hear the
motion; and beside, as Judge Bond, who
was not present, had granted the sule, he
did not want to hear it until he could sit
with him. 1t was agreed that the motion
| should be argued before Judgde Bond in Bal
| timore on the Goth Of this month.
OWNERSHIP OF CoUpoNs.-The following
proceedings relative to the ownership Of