Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-02-29
VIRGINIA NEWS.
The are 222 Ma.ouic lodges in this 5

: Tn Iynchburg yesterday morning ct 6
o'clock the thermometer registered eight
degrees above zero
Gen. Wickham haa introduced a bill in
the State State Senate imposing 6 license
tax on charters and certificates of incor.
poration.
T. NJ. Layton, oil Atlas, Ark. Union vet
eran. writes to the mayor OF Richmond. p:o-
testing against the removal of Libby Pf!son
to Chicago.
A news vender, named Edgar Haney was
found dead in Berkely, suburb OF Norfolk,
yesterday, and it i'd supposed he was robbed
and murdered.
Ex Gov John F. Lewis has thoroughly
recovered from the operation on his eyes.
and yesterday left Washington for Philadel-
pbia to visit friends.
A bill to authorize the United States gov,
erument to acquire title to lands at the
mouth of the Chesapeake bay for the pur-
pose of erecting coast defenses thereon mas
passed the State Senate.
An unsuccessful attempt was made 10 the
State Senate yesterday to pass the bill au.
thoriziDg the board Of public works to sell
the States interest in the Richmond, Freder-
icksburg and Potomac Railroad.
DR.. H. Il. Irwin was thrown from his
buggy near Woodstock yesterday evening
by one of the wheels running of the axle.
The horse stopped instantly, but stood on
the Doctors body, iDhicting severe internal
injuries.
The Senate committee On roads last night
heard the views Of number of gentlemen
on the State commerce bill recently passed
by he House. They expressed their oppo-
aition to the section prohibiting the issuing
of free passing.
The schooner Alfred E. Smyrk. Captain
E. w. Trayers, which sailed from Baltimore
last Thursday for Richmond with 100 tons
OF fertilizer, sprung leak and sank on the
Horseshoe, near Fortress Monroe, on Mon
day afternoon.
A general meeting of the life members of
the Virginia State Agricultural Society will
be held 10 Richmond on March to consider
the question of recognizing the society In
accordance with the act passed by the pres
ent General Assembly.
A Joint resolution WAS yesterday intro
duced in the House of Delegates providing
that in consequence of the prevalence of
pleuro pneumonia, any party handing
Western beef received in this State dead
shall he fined not less than 500 nor more
than $500
The joint resolution transferring to the
Mount Vernon Avenue Association the
claim ofthe State against the United States
for $4,000 was amended in the House OF
Delegates yesterday by striking out the Sec
ton contemplating the appointment of
special agent to collect claims against the
United States government.
A man named Frederick J. Grupy, who
was arrested last month in Richmond and
is now confned in the Jail there, on charge
of vagrancy. states that he is an accomplish
in the murder of the girl who was found
dead in March, 1887, at Railway, n. ].
While some of his statements have been
corroborated facts are wanting in some essen
tial particulars.
Mrs. Virginia Pegram, relict of the late.
James w. Pegram, died at the residence of
Gen. Joseph R. Anderson, In Richmond,
yesterday. Mrs. Pegram was daughter
of Col. William R. Johnson, and sister of
the late Marmaduke Johnson, of Richmond.
She was the mother of Gen. John Pegram
and OF Col. William J Pegram, both of whom
were killed in the late war of the Con-
federacy.