Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-07-15
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Tue summer law course at the University
OF Virginia opened on the 18th inst. large
number of students from different States
are already present, and others are expected
this week.
The democratic primary held in Stanton
on Saturday sent solid delegation of Har.
ris men to the State convention. The de.
feated candidate was Mr.. Richard Bierne, of
Richmond.
Attorney General Miller on Saturday,
appointed David F. Baily, of Abingdon, Va,
to be assistant district attorney for the Yves.
tern district of Virginia, in place OF Heer-
mans, who declined the position.
George W. Madison, of Caroline county.
employed on the Richmond, Fredericks-
burg and Potomac railroad, was seriously
injured by falling off hand-car and being
run over near Fredericksburg. on Saturday.
In Richmond on Saturday night Charles
Runge, Is years DID, was instantly killed By
Charles Henry Furgusou. The latter was
practicing in shooting gallery, and the ball
went through crack, striking Runge in the
heart. Furguson is under arrest.
The Williamsburg Gazette, established in
1929 and the first paper in which the Decla-
ration of Independence was printed, will
suspend publication with this weeks issue.
This paper after some years of suspension,
was re-established at williamsburg in 1884
by Mr.. Ben Long, of Liverpool, England.
Ia the Corporation Court of Lynchburg
on Saturday G. T. Plunkett, a broker, was
| fined $4,000 for carrying on the business OF
coupon broker without license. a mo.
ton was made for new trial, which the
court overrued, and judgment was entered
up for the amount. This fine is to the full
extent of the law. 1t is understood the
case will be carried to the Court of APP
peals.
Gen. V. D. GToner, chairman of the anti
| Malone fiction Of the republican party,
says he will issue call for q meeting of his
associates in few days. 1t is known that
the can e's" expect reply to their commu-
nication addressed to the Malone people,
proposing harmonious settlement OF diti
cvlties. and the call will be issued as sooD
| as reply is received, which 1t is thought,
will be fn the next few days.
H. NJ. Sloan, late inspector of engines at
| the Norfolk and Western round house at
Roanoke, was arrested on Saturday at the
Union Prel by terrain Sunday School on q
warrant charging him with circulating
counterfeit money. None was found on
his person, but at his preliminary trial nu.
merous counterfeit fifty cent pieces, which
he had passed Off on parties, we're produced,
and no was sent on to the grand jury.
A wind storm which assumed almost the
proportion of cyclone passed over Dinwid-
die county Friday, and did an immense
amount of damage. Trees we're uprooted
and barns and fences leveled to the ground
The storm was accompanied by heavy
fall of rain and hail, and the crops suffered
terribly, especially from the hail, which cut
to pieces oats, wheat, corn, and vegetation.
The storm was also severe in Sussex county,
in the neighborbood of Waverly station, Oh
the Norfolk and Western railroad, where
one boy was killed and another probably ia
tally injured by falling tree. The cat
crop was ruined.
A letter from Lexington says: "The para
graphs going the rounds of the press an
nouncing that Governor Ftz Lee would &C
cept the post of Superintendent of the Vir-
gnia Military Institute in January next,
when General Smith retires, would indicate
that General Lee at one time would not &C.
cept the place. For six months it has been
known here that ne would accept the place,
having 30 expressed himself, fact we'll
known here for months. he will be elected
to succeed General Smith, and notified Jan.
uary 1, 1890, the day he goes out as Cover.
nor, and will at once take charge ofthe Vir-
gina Military Institute.