Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-07-08
VIRGINIA NEWS.


John ] Stranghan, of the Highland county
Record, of Virginia, died suddenly on Fri
day.
Roanoke College will have Japanese,
Mexican, and Choctaw students next ses
sion.
Daniel E. Hustled, we'll known mer-
chant Of Norfolk. died suddenly of heart
disease yesterday.
Last Monday Jeter Carr was kicked by q
horse at Spotsylvania Court House and died
on Friday morning.
Congress man Baily Browne WAS on the
train which was deraied on the Eastern
Shore on Thursday, but scaped unhurt.
Already $4,000 of the capital stock for
the establishment and operation of cotton
factory in Front Royal has been taken.
Col Thomas Evans, prominent lawyer
and Mr.Daniel K.Stewart, pro badly the rich
est man 10 Virginia, are critically Ill In Rich
mond.
MIC Miller, formerly of Botetourt county,
aged SO years, night clerk at the Lunsford
Hotel, Birmingham, Ala, committed suicide
on Saturday by taking morphine.
Appomattox and Nottoway counties have
elected delegates to the Virginia democratic
Col p. W. Mckinney for Governor.
Much of the wheat on the Shenandoah
River bottoms was so damaged By the high
water Of several weeks ago that it was not
worth cutting. and is left in the fields.
". W. Evans, editor Of the Virginia Ian.
Get, The organ ofthe colored people at Peters.
burg, was arrested last night on q warrant
sworn out by II. w. Weiss. of Hicksford,
charging him with criminal libel.
Thompson Wsnzer, colored, who for thir-
ty years carried the mail from the depot at
Warrenton 10 the postoffice, died Friday.
He was perhaps the oldest In the service
of any employee of the Virginia Midland rail.
road.
10 Stsunton on Saturday, in the case of
Stuart against Peyton, In the White Sulphur
Springs Company, the Court hell Peyton
liable for his contribution part of the liabil.
tiles as co-endorser with Stuart on the note
of the White Sulphur Springs Company.
Jordan and Robert Washington and Grant
Lewis, all colored, implicated in the killing
of Haywood Johnson and the stsbblng of
Lewis Scott in fracas at the depot at Fred.
ericksburg on the night of the 4lh, had q
hearing on Saturday and were sent on for
trial.
CO.. John A. McCaull, the comic opera i'm.
presario left New York on Friday, for his
brothers. home at Roanoke, for rest OF
several weeks. He is much improved In
health, and was much brighter and more
cheerful than when he first returned from
Europe. He has gained several pounds
slnce his return, and his physician hopes for
q steady recovery.
The case of DR.. Conrad, late superinten
dent of the Western Lunatic Asylum, was
before the grand jury of Staunton for some
days last week snd on Saturday the jury
adjourned without finding an indictment.
The jury was composed of six members, and
it is understood that they stood four for and
two against finding an Indictment. 1t re.
quired FIVE Affirmative Votes to bring in an
Indictment
10 accepting of the resignation of Gen.
F. II. Smith, as superintendent of the Vir.
ginia Military Institute, the Board of Visit.
ors passed the following: while thus yield
ing to the desire of Gen. Smith, the Board
cannot with due consideration to Itself. the
destitute, or to him, permit him to sever his
connection with the Virginia Military Insti-
tute, and therefore do hereby elect him EN-
eritus Professor of Mathematics and Moral
and Political Philosophy"
Wheat harvest iS over, ana some OF the |
Fauquer county farmers are very blue.
Wheat was badly washed while in bloom,
smooth wheat, and bad filings Is
the consequence. Cautious farmers estimate
the shortage at from one.ffth to one. fourth.
Hay is prime If it can be cured. Oats the
same. Corn is very promising. though not
generally we'll worked on account of too
much rain. Cattle grazing and feeding hav-
ing proved the bitterness of disappointment
TO many farmers, they are disposed to go
back TO sheep culture. Some seven hundred
have lately arrived by RAILROAD at Warren.
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