Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-01-30
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Elk Gov. Kemper is in poor health, ana
has been confined to his home ut Madison
Court House for some time.
General James Longstreet, OF Georgia, ar
rived in Petersburg yesterday and was met
| by General Malone, whose guest he IS.
Gov. Lee has received letter from Aus.
trslis asking for information concerning
Francis Kendall who died in 1920 or 1871
and left large landed estates.
| Col. John 3. Cary has rendered his resig-
nation a. Superintendent Of the Public
schools of the city Of Richmond. to take
effect February 18th.
This is the latest Virginia "slate :" For
Cover uor, Phil. w. Mckinney, OF Prince
Edward; Lieutenant. Governor, John i.
Harris, If Rockingham; Attorney General
Rufus Ayers, of Scott. J"
! A duck was killed in Spottsglvania coun-
tv last waek, aud a nai was found two
inches i'll length, protrpd;ng through Inc
gizzard into the entrails. ING duck was az
'ilivey as a cricket before it was KILLED.
lanes Harrison and John Wilson were
convicted in Orange County Conrt yesteF-
day ofstealjns. two horses from Il. Z. John
SON. near Barbo, .rsvile, and sentenced to
term of six years o. oh in the penltentlary.
William Il. Miller, t>t Baltinore, propre-
tor of the Peaks oil Otter property, 10 Bed
ford county, has recently purchased "
| Nicholas Horsey his farm at ne loot OF the
Peaks, incu ling the famous Fiat Top"
mountain.
It is said that State Chemist Tsy lor, in
Richmond, HIS discovered poison in the
stomach OF VIM. Taylor, whose wife is now
confined in Acconac county Jail on the
charge Of killing her husband by adminls-
| tering stryChniue in medicine.
| James Rouutree, of Manchester, received
II telegram yesterday from Hamilton, Cant,
da. where his brother Willie, who eloped
recently with Minnie Griffith, young LAZY
of Richmond is dying Of pneumonia. lie
had to sell his winter clothing to buy iood
for himself and wife.
A man named Beverly Staples, resident
of Lynchburg, was picked up yesterday
morning by mateIi al train crew near Mot
Lewis station on The Virginia Midland road,
with his skull badly crushed. 1t il thought
he WAS stealing ride on freight train anu
fell between the care. lie cannot recover.
The preliminary examination in the cases
of NIessrs Belvin, Smith and Cottrell,
charged with obstrncting and delaying Vot-
ing in the recent election, In Richmond, was
concluded in that city Yesterday and they
were all sent on the United Ststes grand
Jury. There are thirteen other similar cases.
It. is said in Richmond that Mr.. Barbour's
successor as chairman OF the democratic
State committee will Ia either Mr.. Tom.
Martin. OF Aibemerle, or Major Il Tyson, of
Richmond Mr. +. g. Venable, who has
been mentioned in connection with The posi-
ton, says that he could not accept, on ac-
count of his pressing duties in the fourth
district.
But little Importance is attached in Rich
mond to the snit to forfeit the charter of the
Richmond and West Point Terminal Com
pany. 1t is now predicted the Richmond
Terminal stock will soon sell as high as it
ever sold General Thomas is quoted as
saving: I'VE voted for the consolidation OF
the Georgia Central and Richmond Termi-
nal to free The railroad situation ia the
| South from the building Of competitive llnes.
| General Bouengec, who is stirring France,
| is well remembered in Richmond. having
| figured there as the commissioner from the
| French government to attend The Yorktown
centennial ceremonies in the autumn OF
| 1881. At the French pail at the CID Allan
manson-the Eigar Allan Poe houe-
General Boulanger, in his snowy uniform,
was considered the most stylish and grace
| full of the half dozen other foreign dignita.
ries present. But be was somewhat reserved
and only when he met fluent taker in his
yernacuIar, did he carry on conversation.
The late Capt. s.. George Mason, Of the
French army but native of Virginia, was
q member of the embassy on that occasion,
and be and Boulanger, about the same age
both young men-were boon companions