Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-08-01
VIRGINIA NEWS.

a tanEery Is 10 DO eetnpho''o0 "' ~
burg.
The postofice at Soudan, Mecklenburg
county, has been discontinued.
Inner registered sack exchange has been
established between Abingdon and Lynch.
burg.
Mr.. Blaine sailed from Liverpool for New
York to-day on the new Inman steamer
City of New York.
Elk Judge John R. Mcdaniel, OF Campbell
county. died at his home near Rustburg
Monday night after briefillness, aged about
76 years.
Sheriff Bunting, of Norfolk county, carried
ak convicts to the penitentary yesterday,
the result of ten.days term of the County
Court of that county.
General Malone expresses entire conf
dencs in the ability of the republicans TO
carry Virginia next fall aud to elect seven
or eight congressman.
Mrs W. ]. Disharoon, wife OF North
Danville merchant, was committed to jail
Yesterday violently insane. She tried TO
kill her children and herself.
Representatives of the Wise faction of the
republican party met at Hampton yesterday
and decided to issue call for congreasion-
al convention 10 nominate candidate Tor
Congress-.
On the farm of Miss Mamie B. King,
known as "Ringold," in Stafford county,
was reaped this season four hundred and
thirty one bushels of wheat from thirty-three
bushels seeded.
Capt. H. Shepherd, Collector Of Internal
Revenue, has appointed Mrs. Laura Belle
I.anghorne 10 a clerkship in his office in
Lynch burg, to succeed Mr.. NJ. NJ. Fletcher,
who has been promoted.
The Fauquier county democrats will hold
precinct meetings on the 18th to select dele
gates to the district convention. which meets
on the 5.h of September in this city, to nom
mate candidate for Congress-
The Malone conference met in Peters.
bnig last night, and it is said that every
county 10 the Fourth district was represent.
ed. The General is annoyed that his last
circular should have been published.
The meteorological station at the UniVer.
sity of Virginia has been closed, the appro-
pristions for that purpose having given cut.
Mr.. James Wearmouth has been stationed
there for several yenrs taking observations.
Samuel Fitzgerald, who was shot through
the stomach while asleep by Brjstow Hap.
per, at Wallaceton, on the Dismal Swamp
| Canal, is dead. The murder grew out of q
case of jealousy. Happier is concealed in
the swamp.
An old landmark, a frame building which
! had stood alone on the southeast corner Of
Davis and East streets, Culpeper, was de-
stroyed by fire yesterday nj l o'clock. 1t
was occupied by a coored man as an eating
house. The cause of the fire is unknown.
The directors of the Norfolk aud Western
Railroad met in Philadelphia yesterday and
appointed committee 10 meet committee
from the directors of the Richmond Term-
nal Company to decide upon the transfer of
the control of the East Tennessee, Virginia
and Georgia road to the Norfolk and West
| erD.
Charles r. Shepherd, 30 years old, who
had been on spree for several days, tried
| to shoot himself through the heart yester-
day afternoon in North Danvile. The ball
entered the abdomen, inficting wound
from which he is expected to die. He said
be tried 70 shoot his heart out, but held the
pistol too low.
Judge jefferson Randolph Mason, of San
Antonio, Tex died at Alta" King George
county, on Sunday, sged 38 years. He was
son of the late Charles Mason, of Virginia,
and was graduate ofthe University, where
he studied law He settled 10 San Antonio
after completing bis Unis ersity career, and
in the course of few years was elevated to
| the bench.
There are over seventy women prisoners
in the State penitentiary, of which there are
three white. About $50 Of the male con-
victs are out at work on railroads. The big
shoe-shop completed several weeks since is
now being filled with machinery. About
the middle of August work will be resumed.
There has not been death there for over
three months among its thousand and more
inmates.
William E. Brook way, the notorious count
erfeiter, was found acting suspiciously on
Wall street in New York on Tuesday by
Detective Kush, and was arrested. He YVES
taken before Justice Ford at the Jefferson
Market Court. Detective Kush explained
the circumstances of the arrest, and Justice
Ford discharged Brockway with the caution
to keep away from the money centre of the
metropolis.