Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-02-01
VIRGINIA NEWS.

The Suffolk and Carolina Railroad h..
been completed to a few hundred yards nj
the Chowan river.
Mr.. G. R. Walker of Uppervile, and Ma
Salie E. KiEzel, of Winchester, were mar.
ried at he residence of the brides paren,s
on the 25th of January.
A company has been chartered in Rich.
mond, with capital of S150,000 for the
manufacture of mems underwear. The in.
corporators are well known business men.
Over half million pounds of mapufsc
tured tobacco were shipped from Danylls
during January, and more than quarter Of
million pounds of old leaf were sold there
yesterday.
A three story frame building in Norf,k
owned by Wm. Stevens and used as a
liquor and cigar store with the upper s,ory
as meeting rooms for coored societies va,
destroyed by fire yesterday.
The State Senate has adopted resolution
iDquiring into the expediency Of adopting
measures to increase the revenues from liz
oyster interest. The resolution also directs
the inquiry to be made whether the present
police system adopted for the protection Of
the oyster interest should not be abolished
A bill has been introduced in the Hous.
of Delegates to establish board ofimmipig.
ton. 1t is proposed that his shat! be CON.
posed of the Governor. the Commissioner of
Agriculture, and the Attorney General. The
bill provides for an annual appropriation Of
$4,000, to be used in pay of agents, print
ing, travelling and other necessary expenses.
By the fire at the Richmond penitenliary
Sestel day the State lest $4,000. on which
there was no insurance. The State is under
contract to give the Joseph Davis Company
building, machinery aud hands for max.
ing shoes, and it is understood that the com.
pany will offer to rebuild the burnt build.
ings, advance the money for the same, aui
reimburse themselves cut of the hires.
The House of Delegates yesterday adopt.
ed resolution providing for the a. point.
ment of q committee to investigate Il pun.
lished statements that PAR, the republican
member from Patrick county, had used the
passes of Spencer and Dickey, two repub.
Can delegates, in carrying two of his friends
to Washington. Parr, the accused member,
favored the Investigation, and frankly ad.
mitted the truth oflhe published statement,
referred to.
A resolution has been adopted by the
Legislature providing for an investigation
and report of the cause of the fire at the
penitentary tho extent Of the damage
done, etc., and recommended proper &C
ton to be taken. In the Senate resolution
was adopted iuslructing The finance commit.
tee to inquire into the expediency of selling
the penitentiary grounds with view TO 10
cate the institution at some other more suit
able point in the State.
The syndicate of Northern capitalists who
have been negotiating FOR some months past
for the Upper Appomattox Canal, have pur-
chased controlling interest in the property
and took charge to-day. This canal runs
from Petersburg to Farmville, distance OF
over forty miles, and is the most valuable
property Of the kind in the State. 1t In
cludes two grst and flour mills located at
Petersburg. The syndicate viii shortly
erect number of factories at different
points on the canal, to cost over half a mil
lion dollars.