Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-02-28
VIRGINIA NEWS.


a colored woman fell in the FIRE at the
Norfolk county almehouse yesterday anc
was fatally burned.
William G. Duer, who killed his wife and
was pronounced insane By the court of
Lunaiic Asylum at Williamsburg.
The Committee on Finance of the House
of Delegates have reported bill to estsb
lIsh bureau Of immigration, and to make
an appropriation of $4,000 therefor
The committee on general laws Of the
State Senate yesterday reported adversely
the House bill to abolish compulsory pilot
age on coastwise vessels in Virginia waters
The State Senate has passed the House
Bill requiring applicants for license to prac
tice medicine TO be examined by State
board The board is to be composed of five
10 embers.
The faculty of Washington and Lee Uni
yersity, Lexington adopted resolutions Of
respect to the n,cmory OF MIR. w. w. Corco-
ran. who was during his lifetime generous
benefactor of that institution.
The House n. Delegates has passed joint
resolution inst '..sting the Representatives
in Congress from this State to use their in
fuence and vote against any present reduc-
ton of the tariff duties on lumber.
The last payment on the Libby prison has
been made by the Chicago purchasers and
the deed put on record. Possession will be
given early in June, when the tearing down
will commence sud The material be removed
to Chicago.
During last week more leaf tobacco was
sold in Danville than was ever known to De
disposed Of in any one week in the history
of the market. The average price paid was
fraction over Sl3 psr hundred pounds, or
nearly 100000.
The kale season on the Eastern Shore is
nearly over, the larger part of the crop hav.
ing been shipped. During the last three
weeks from five hundred 10 one thousand
barrels per day were shipped from one large
truck farm alone.
Sir Thomas Henry Gattau Esmond,
member of the British House Of Commons
for the city Of Dublin, visited the Capitol at
Richmond yesterday, and the privileges OF
the floor of both houses of the General AS
ssmbly were accorded him.
An investigation ofthereports concerning
the fading Of large amount CT buried
treasure by Lorenzo D. Mears few days
ago in the lower part ofAccoplac county has
failed to establish the fact that any consid
erabe amount WAS found.
A man named Il. II. Ripley, haiing from
Hartford, Com, passed forged check on
]. L. Thompson, furniture dealer, of Lynch
burg, the other day. Ripley claimed that
hs wanted 10 buy largely and leo:ed 81 200
worth of furniture, and gave check On the
Hartford Bank for 81 800, which was casbed
by the First National Bank. telegram
from Hartford exposed the fraud. Ripley
quit the city and cannot be found.
The wife of Rev. j. McNabb, rector OF he
Episcopal church, died Sunday evening at
Accomac Court House after an illness OF sew
eral weeks from typhoid pneumonia. She
belonged to an old and prominent Virginia
family, being the daughter of John Dabney,
of Roanoke county She served for several
years as teacher in the Episcopal mission
at Cape Palmas, Africa, where she contract
ed African fever, from which she never fully
recovered She first met her husband in AZ
RIGA, where he was also O missionary. She
was about So years old, and leaves one
child.
Herman Coho, drummer who was put
ia Jail 10 Richmond county for selling with.
oli license Oh tender of State coupons,
Was brought before Judge Hughes of nor
folk yesterday on writ Of babea5 corpus
s.d discharged. The prisoner had rendered
genuine coupons cut from bonds of the State
10 payment for license to sell goods as
peddler in the State, but, to whom license,
after his making the tender, had been re
fused. The Supreme Court of the United
States had pronounced such tender of
such coupons payment Of the tax due from
a taxpayer,
Commodore Sam'i Barron, distinguished
officer Of the United States and Confederate
neyies, died on Sunday On his farm, in Essex
county, at the age OF so years. He was
post captain in the y. S. Navy and resigned
and entered the Confederate navy and was
commissioned commodore. He was assign.
ed as mis- first duty after leaving Richmond
to the command of Fort Hatteras, at Hat
teras Inlet, where he was captured with his
command, and sent to Fort Warren. Alter
one year in prison be was exchanged and
sent South. He then went to London and |
remained abroad the remainder of the war
in charge of the work of fitting out cruisers
for the Confederate government.