Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-01-22
VIRGINIA NEWS.

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Gary's tobacco factory in Manchester was
destroyed by fire last night.
The mammoth ship yard at Newport
News is rapidly approaching completion.
The lifs.sizs portrait of Gov. Fi'zhugh
Lee. by Mr.. Coz, has been hung in the Cap
itol. at Richmond.
Ex County Treasurer John Edward Ham
iiton, of Augusta, died suddenly OF paralysis
at his home, near Stanton, yesterday.
The election of electoral boards for the
counties and cities of the Commonwealth
will probably take place in the early part OF
next week.
A special committee of Richmond clergy
men, representing the different Protestant
Church bodies, has adopted 3 report or
funeral reform.
One thousand tons Of coal ere to be
brought from the Pocahontss mines to the
Norfolk navy yard to give the new 13g5hip
Baltimore her first coaling.
The contract for the double tracking Of
the Norfolk aud Western Railroad between
Lynchbnrg and Radford has been awarded,
and work will at once begin.
The first through passenger train on the
new extension of the Chesapeake AID OHIO
road over the military reservation arrived
at Fortress Monroe yesterday.
The Bonsack Cigarette Machine Com
pany met at Lynchburg yesterday and in
| creased the stock IS per cent. by declaring
a dividend OF the same amount. The stock
is now quoted at 224.
J. Fred s. Good, of Newmarket, who had
baen employed in Baltimore for the past
two months ss bookkeeper, was struck and
Instantly killed by an engine on tha Bait
more aud Ohio Railroad at a crossing in that
city yesterday.
1t has been ascertGined that an English
nan named Prof. Walter II. Russell, who
has been choir-master at St. Luke's Cathe-
dral at Atlanta, Ga, is really Prof. Carl
Summers, whose mysterious disappearance
from Manchester FIVE years ago created a
sensation.
Patents we're issued to V!rginians yester-
day as follows Jas. w. Brook, Lynch
burg, trough for the manufacture of ice
Melcnor Chumard, Richmond, lifting jack
]. W. aud @. W. Grim, New Market, roof
ing tool Fl. A. and ]. w. Ebert, Rural Re
treat, fertilizer distributor.
Yesterday q contract for q merchandise
pier $50 feet long by 140 feet wide at Lam
bert's Point WAS given out by the Norfolk
and Western Railroad Company. A ware
house will cover the entire pier, which will
be ircnolad, and will have double tracks
running is entire length. The new coal
pier at the aeme place IL 10 have ir0a piles
and ia to be constructed Immediately.
The Richmond correspondent Of the Now
York Times writes Gov. Hill wants the
vote of the Virginia delegation ct the demo-
A: -. O0D H. Iattnrrn IN,
the support Of FitZhugh Lse would secure
it and also cid him in securing votes from
other southern States. acting on this be-
lief. through the aforesaid agents, he delib
erately p,oflsred to Gov. Lee the position
of Secretary Of War liz bis Cabinet, in the
event Of hi9 nomination and election re
PRECEDENT. Governor Lee declined to com
nit himself to any arrangement Of the sort
proposed"
A correspondent Of Dumfries writing to
he Fredericksburg Star ssye: Mr.. Frank
Forbes, of Fredericksburg. sold 81 valuable
tract of land, pear Dumfries, to Mr.. Win
slit, of Washington, q few days ago. Mr..
Wimsitt will put several mills on the land
10 cut up the timber for Washington mar
ket. This timber will have to be hauled to
The Potomao-a distance Of five miles
owing to the filing NJ of the canal at DUN
fries. We are hopeful OF getting an appro
%priation from this Congress to dredge out
The canal at this place. The cleaning out
of the canal st Tbs head Of QGaatico creek
would greatly benefit the OLD town. as well
as 40 square miles of territory tributary.
Toe advantage to commerce and the bene
frs TO the adjacent country, if Congress
would do this york, wculd be incaicuia5le.
Owing to the sickness Of Mr. John III,
Griffin, one of the jurors in the Mary Wash
iuston monument libel suit, the argument
which began in Fredericksburg on Monday,
and was to have been concluded yesterday,
Yves postponed until to day, when it will be
completed by consent of COUNSEL with the
remaining %eIeven, provided Mr.. Griffin is
not present. The suit for breach of con-
tract, placing damages at $50. 900, which
was entered Big Messrs. Colbert and Kiftiey
against Mr.. G.. w. Shepherd, and which
grew out Of the same operation and pro
posed sale, vas yesterday thrown out OF
court, and the costs put upon Messrs. Col
bert and Kirtley. The defendant creved
oyer OF the writ aud demurred to the dec
ls.ation fled 10 the Case which the court
sustained.
THE RACE AROUND THE WoRLD.-Miss
Elizabeth Bislaud, who is making al at
tempt to go around the world in seventy
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