Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-12-30
VIRGINIA NEWS.


Mr.. Daniel Randlett. a we'll known bust.
ness man of Norfolk, died Saturday.
The truckers of Norfolk county are now
complaining that The dry weather is ruiuipg
the cabbage crop.
Mrs. Mile Eimuads, mother of Con-
gresham Paul q. Edmunds, died in Rich
mond Saturday evening.
David H. Berry, of Richmond, and for
fifty years connected with the Gallego Mile,
died suddenly Saturday of paralysis.
The Hampton and Old Point Electric
Railroad Company have decided to push
ahead with the construction OF the road in
January.
Whilst hunting 10 Sussex county Friday
last Mr.. Roper Davis, of Petersburg, was SO
badly injured by the accidental discharge OF
his gun as to require the amputation of lis
left arm.
There are forty cases of Russian grippe on
the receiving ship Ffanklin and Il number
in the marine barracks at the Norfolk navy
yard. In Norfolk and Portsmouth it lie esti
mated that there are over 300 people suffer.
ing with the grippe.
Q1ite a number of oystermen of Norfolk
aud vicinity have been obtaining their oys
iers this season from the rocks in Pam!ico
and Cove sounds, N. G. Toe oysters are
ciught by the North Carolina ovsterman
and sold to the Norfolk vessels al % and 30
cents a bushel.
The property assessment in Richmond,
just completed, shows an aggregate OF
$50. 095 .002, an increase of over IS. 900 900
within the past year. The gain on toe Stale
tax alone over the previous year is about
500. 900. The cost of the new buildings
erected and improvements to old ones dur
ing the year was nearly 81 900 900.
Saturday morning, three Children Of Ed
mund Sanford, living in New Mill creek,
Norfolk county, went into the swamp to cut
straw. The eldest boy carried q shotgun,
and in raising the hammer to shoot a rabbit
il slipped from his hand and exploded the
qua, the whole charge taking effect in the
forehead of the youngest child, a boy eight
years of age, killing him instantly.
Mrs. Rebeccs Key Tyson. wife OF the late
DR.. Alexander II. Tyson, of Baltimore, died
in the 81st year of her age on Saturday
morning at the residence of her daughter,
Mrs. Merry Lloyd Tucker, near Winchester.
Mrs. Tyson several weeks ago went on a
visit to Mrs. Tucker and contracted pneu
monia, of which she died. She was the
daughter of the late Philip Barton Key.
Ben Webster, a negro man, wound up his
Christmas holiday in Lynchburg on Friday
last by accidently killing himself. He had
in his pocket a dynamite cartridge with
which he thought to give his family and
friends a partiog salute, and, putting the
cartridge in a hollow stump, touched the
fuse with q match. Unfortunately the fuse
was too short, and a premature explosion
took place and Ben was instantly killed.
At Montross, Westmoreland county, on
Friday night, Grandson Snyder, convicted
of murder. broke Jail and made his escape.
He was employed on an oyster dredger last
spring and went ashore WITH g fourteen year
old coIored boy, who was employed On the
dredge with him. A few days afterward
the boys body was found 1oatipgin Nomini
Creek. Snyder was arrested, tried and
found guilty of the murder ard sentenced 10
six years in the penitentiary. Snyder was
last seen going toward Alexandria.
Deputy Sheriff ]. w. Wheeler, of Hamp-
ton, at Wilmington, n. c., has Identified the
man who was arrested about a week ago as
VIM. II. Bouaparte, who escaped from The
Hampton Jail on October 81. Bonaparte
was confined at Hampton while waiting to
be transferred to the Richmond pe%nitentiary
to serve q FIVE years. sentence for ab6uctirg
a white girl, aged thirteen years. He is d
mulatto, very Intelligent and was formerly
a Boston journalist. He will be brought
back as soon as the rsquisilion papers are
secured.