Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-03-05
VIRGINIA NEWS.

ODe-half OF the Vi!!sGe OF Oesp STeeh,
Norfolk county, was burned yesterday.
A layinsn of the ltimore Conference has
contributed $500 towards sending Rev. J. G.
C. Newton. of the Warrcnton Church, mis-
sionary to Japan.
Miss Sally Crumr, over 100 years old, was
burned 10 death in the confagration of her,
house where she lived alone, near Elk Run,
Fauquier county, Thursday night.
A boat in which were Captain Thomas
Pruitt and his two sons, of Tangler Island,
and two men, whose nemes are unknown,
was capsized eff the mouth of the Poto
mac river, and ali hands drowned.
Charles Pegg, brakeman on the Rich
mond, Fredericksburg and Potomac rail
road. Was killed at the company's shops ut
Boulton Saturday. He fell from shifting
engine was caught under the wheels and
instantly killed.
Franklin Plercs Radon, formerly Of War
renton and CON OF William Risdon, of the
Navy Department., while coupling cars 1t
Charlottesville Friday night caught his loot
In frog aud was crushed to death oy
| backing traiD. He was 80 years OLD, ana
leaves a wife and three children.
Saturday last Mayor Jarrett, Of Peters
/
Ioder Appea! for libel, putting the damages
$40 600 This is renewal of the libel suit
winch was partly tried in the last quarterly
term O! the Hastings Court, and non-snit
entered at the request of counsel for the
plaintiff.
It is reported that Charles Cook, in jail
on the charge of numbering Edgar Haney in
Berkeley, near Norfolk. has made confes
sion, acknowledging that he had difficulty
with Haney and beat him severely, which
bsatipg he thinks caused Haney's death.
He made the confession to prevent hls
mother from being committed to Jail az
witness
The truckers about Norfolk have now
flushed shipping kae A large quantity
was raised. and sometime the shipment 10
New York alone was 800 barrels day.
Spinach is now going forward at good prices
and the crop is twice as large as 1t was last
year. The truckers and farmers have fla
| ished planning Irish potatoes, nnda very
large crop has been put in.
Tae dwelling house on the farm OF 2. l..
Thomas, and occupied by W. A. Thomas,
about two miles from Culpeper G. H., took
FIRE Saturday night and was consumed with
i.s entire contents, as we'll az the outhonses.
The family had q very narrow escape from
death, escaping in their night clothes. In
surance 81 500; loss about s., SEQ. The fire
originated from defective due.
Geo. Cochran, OF Belleld, station on he
Petersburg and Weldon Railroad, had diff
ficulty on Saturday with negro man, who
struck him on the shoulder blade with
pick axe, iDflictipg a wound six inches in
depth and penetrating the lungs. Cochrsn's
death is expected He rep,imanded the ne
gro for not doing his work properly, when
the latter struck him with the pick. The
negro has been arrested and committed to
Jail.
Rails have been laid and cars are run
ming on the Atlantic and Danvlle railroad
to Franklin, in Southampton county, and 1t
is expected that trains will be running from
Norfolk to Hicksford By the first of Sep
TENDER. the A & d. company have our.
chased the Norfolk, Chesapeake and Caro-
lima Railroad, about twenty miles of which
is completed and in running order from
Hodges Ferry, on the western branch
OF the Elizabeth river, Into Nansemond
county.
The session OF the legislature expires to
night unless extended by vote of both
houses no. ez ceeding len dsys 3 th houses
| disagreed as to the manner Ia which the
surplus remaining is the treasury STALL be
invested. a cnmn,it,ee OF conference, APP
/ pointed by the Two hnuacs, recommended
that the suking fund commissioners be nu
tnorized 10 taeic discretion TO apply this
money 10 the purchape Ct Riddlebergers,
cop.ols, ueri-rs or United States bonds.
which was agreed to by the House, but re-
! iectsd BY the senate.