Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-08-23
VIRGINIA NEWS.

The first bale of new cotton was received
at Norfolk yesterday from Bennettsville,
S. c.
It has been estimated that the number of
boarders 10 Warrenton this summer is four
hundred
Col. VIM. Kilgour has accepted an invi-
taton to deliver the address at the State
tournment at the Warrenton Springs on the
18th instant.
Track laying on the Lynchburg and Dur
ham railroad is progressing as rapidly as
possible and up to date about seven miles
have been completed.
The storage room of the Morattock cotton
mills at Danville was destroyed by fire yes
terday. together with 300 bales of cotton.
Loss, SIS 600; covered by insurance.
The health authorities of Norfolk assert
that there has not been even the semblance
of yellow fever case there this season, and
that every precaution against the disease has
been taken.
Mr.. A. B. Fizsr, proprietor Of the Sudley
Mills, Prince William county, which were
burned few weeks ego, will rebuild the
came on an improved plan and put in roller
machinery in the near future.
The name of Mr. Conway R. Sands is the
one most prominently mentioned for the
vacancy in the State senatorship from Rich.
mond and HeDrico, occasioned by the resig
nation of Mayor ]. Taylor Ellyson, of Rich
mond.
The two colored men who were thought
to have been fatally wounded at Orlean,
Fauquier county, week or 30 ago. an &C
count of which was published in the Ga
10 unpfp
They have been placed in Jail to await trial.
The committee for the reorganization of
the hesepeake and O6io Railroad Compa
ny and the Richmond and Allegheny Rail
road Company have agreed that the respec-
tive lines shall be operated in close connec.
lion under one management.
Governor Scales, of North Carolina, has
made e rcousitiou upon the Governor of
Virginia for Jesse Phillips and Lindsay
Grem, who are charged with having COM
| mitted burglary in Davidson county, Au
gust 81. They will be tried for their lives.
Gov. Lee has received numerous invita-
| tons to speak in different parts Of the State
during the present campaign. He will
probably make two speeches-one at Mar
tinsviIle Henry county, and the other at
some point in the southwest. The Gov
ernor, however, does not propose to enter
the canvass.
Yesterday while little colored boy and
girl were playing about whisky barrel
in Norfolk, the boy dropped lighted match
in the vent hole in the barrel. loud ex-
plosion followed, the boy being seriously
burned and the girl also injured. One OF
the heads of the barrel was blown to the
distance OF over hundred yards.
The Ladies' Memorial Association of Fair
fax having in charge the fair and picnic to
aid in the erection of monument to The
Confederate dead OF Fairfax, held fair yes
terday when large crowd was present.
Speeches appropriate to the occasion were
delivered by Senators Colquitt, of Georgia,
and Daniel, of this State, aud Gen. w. b. +.
Lee ard others.
George Brooksbaw, an Englishman en-
plo, ed in the Roanoke machine works,
made desperate attempt to kill himself
last night. He had lost his mouths wages
and had been drinking, aud in the frenzy
of the moment drew a revolver from bis
pocket and fred shot into his mouth. As
be fell to the ground he fred again, but
without effect He lies in a critical condi-
| ton.