Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-02-06
VIRGINIA NEWS

Cspt P. McCarrick. one Ct The oldest
steemboatmen of Norfolk died ofpneunonia
Friday night.
The .. s. internal revenue collections
from the Petersburg District for the past
week wsre Sll ,sQ5 CT.
Contagious p eurc- pneumonia has bEoken
out smoDg be cattle OF tho farm of the
Hampton Normal School, and Atty seven
head of imported ztock will have to be killed.
a State penci factory at O9erton Station,
Virginia Mid and Railroad, requires 600 pa.
per bcxss egrry day for packing, and has
put in operation factory for their manufao-
ture
BY e Gre In Petersburg yesterday the fur
nifu,e wsrerooms of 8 s. Elliott and The
sta ionery store of T. S Beckwi.b & Co.
we're damaged to the extent of several thcus'
and dollars.
The truck RS of Norflk county are ship
ping lsrg- quantities of kale ju-t now to the
Nor nera markets. the price being ST 30 per
barrel. Spinach Is aso sent forward LII lin
led quantiiie Al IS per busbel.
The S ate convention of the YOUNG Men s
Christian Association will begin In Peters.
burg on Thursday, and will be in session for
sumo days. The body will be composed of
about three hundred delegates.
At an early hour Sunday morning the
jewelry stors Of Chapman 4 Gale. on Main
street, Norfolk, was entered by burglars an
thu safe blown open and robbed OF lot OF
watches and other valuable jewelry.
] Y. Davis, dealer In general merchen.
disc at Woodstock, MADE an assignment to
R ] Walker, trustee, on Saturday. The
liabilities will reach $4,000; assets un.
known. His creditors are principally Balti-
more firms.
Preliminary steps for the formation Of
a corporation in Chicago, whose object Is
ths purchase and removal to that city of the
famous Libby prison of Richmond, were TIA
ken Saturday the building to be used as q
museum for war reiics.
In Isle Outright county. last Friday night,
buggy in which was seated Mrs. Sarah
Williams was run into by buggy occupied
By two men, and Mrs. Williams was struck
in the neck by the shaft of the buggy and
instantly killed, the point going through her
neck.
The mental condition Of William G. Duer,
confined in Northampton Jail for killing his
wife, grows steadily worse. Several nights
ago he managed to slip his manacles and
break up everything in his cell. His case
will come up in Northamptio County Court
on the 18th inst, when he will be sent to one
of the insane asylums in the State.
In the State Senate on Saturday Mr.. Cor
don introduced bill to forfeit and repeal all
charters ofnternal improvement companies
chartered prior to Jan. LIST, 1883, where
work under such charters has not actually
been commenced, and in the House OF Dele
gates Mr.. Simpson presented one to amend
the law providing for working the public
roads of Fairfax county.
United States District Attorney Gibson
has forwarded to the attorney general of the
United States an official statement of Deputy
United States Marshal Sullivan being thrown
off the British merchant steamship North
Erin in Chesapeake Bay last Thursday, when
the Marshal attempted to board her with
papers from Judge Hughes, Of the United
States court, attaching her. Nothing has
been heard om the ship since she sailed out
of the capes.
Ridsnour, convicted of The murder ofyoung
Broy, was sentenced in Winchester on Sat-
urday to be hanged Friday, March 30;h.
Replying to the question of the clerk as to
WuhI 10 uhu W rhJ nuS cOheCnIo ohou'.i AiNe
he pronounced, Ridenour remarked: 81 have
pleaded not guilty; have made my state
ment; that is all have to say The conn
sci for the prisoner has seventy bills OF ez-
cepions and will apply to the Court OF Ap
peals at once for writ of error.
T. a. Palmer, on trial before the Corpor
alton Court of Petersburg on the charge OF
having forged the signature of I. Crowder
to negotiable uo.e for 500. and also with
having Endorsed he signature of T. Crowder
thereon, was acquitted Saturday on e teohDi
caIty, bat 8 warrant was at once istusd
for Palmer to answer another Indictment to
be E ed agaiust him for the same alleged for
gerry Palmer was accordingly carried be-
fore a '-rice of the peace and bailed in the
sum OF 5000 TO appear at the April term of
The court Palmer has carried on business
In Petersburg fer years. Crowder, the party
whose nsmo lie alleged to have been forged,
ID go ex member of the city council.