Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-03-14
VIRGINIA NEWS.


Few cattle are in the neighborhood of
Delapane, Fauquier county.
Mr.. Hiram N. Tavenner, an old citizen of
Loudoun county, died Wednesday, aged So
years.
A Fredericksburger recently bought one
of his own notes, given during the war, as
souvenir.
There is talk of williamsburg memorable
ing Congress to build monument to Pey.
ton Randolph.
A son of Mr.. j.. s. Mason, of Fauquier
county, has gone to Birmingham, Ala, to
engage in buainesss
AS heretofore stated, Armour & Co. will
test before the Federal Court the dressed
meat inspection bill passed by the Legisla
ture.
Col. Burgwyn telegraphs from Paris to
Richmond, that he has accepted Mercle's
statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee, and that it ls
magnificent.
Mrs. Elizabeth Coakley, relic of the
late John Coakley, died at her residence in
Fredericksburg on Tuesday, in the S0th
year Of her age.
Judge Diggs has made no appointment of
meat inspector for Lyncbburg. but has
about made up his mind to await the testing
of the legality Of the act under proceedings
expected to be introduced by Armour q Co.
The Episcopal Church at Aide, in Lou
doun county, is now completed. 1t was
built last year at the cost of 81 600. When
the seats are finished, and the furniture for
the chaucel is gotten, 1t will be ready for
| use.
At Lexington yesterday verdict of &C
uuittaI was rendered in the case of James
Miller charged with the murder of Mrs. DR..
" J. Walker in the Brownsburg homicide,
November s, 1889. The verdict was re-
ceived with applause.
A colored man calling himself Robert
Mercer, hailing from New York, and well
attired in Prince Albert coat, silk hat and
wearing green goggles, was arrested In
Lynchburg yesterday for passing counter
felt silver money, with which he seemed to
be we'll stocked.
Mr.. W. J. Mann, who lives at Bowling
brooke. Fauquier county, got FIVE loads Office
last Saturday an inch and quarter thick.
Having gotten some ice during the freeze in
January, he has bis houses two thirds full
while many people have never gotten par
ticle this whole winter.
The residence of Charles Sullivan, in Stat
ford county, was burned to the ground on
Tuesday, and everything in the house was
O total loas Mr.. and Mrs. Sullivan were
away from home when twelve year old
son came in from school, lighted a torch and
went up stairs to find q pair of boots. A
pile of broom straw caught fire, the boy be
came frightened and ran away to inform his
father without making any effort to extln
guish the flames.
Mr. Sol Haas, traffic manager OF the South
ern Associated Railways, has resigned in or
der to give his entire time to the Richmond
and Danville lines. He will remove his Of
flee from the associated lnes' building to
the Richmond and Danville building, IL
Richmond. Mr.. R. d. Carpenter, who has
been MIR. Haas chief clerk, has been ap
pointed the head of the traffic office of the
associated railways, with the title of COM
missioner. The associated railways will not
he dissolved. These changes will 60 into
effect about the lat of April.
4 A terrible accident occurred in the upper
end of Spottsylvania county yesterday even
ing, which resulted in the burning TO death
of the fourteen year old daughter of Mrs.
Emma Graves, and the fatal burning of her
grandmother, Mrs. Hugh Dickinson. The
chid's dress caught fire from the fireplace,
and in her frenzy she threw herself upon
her grandmother. There was no one but
the two present at the time. and Mrs. Dick
iuson being an invalid could not give an
alarm. Later when Mrs. Graves returned
home she found her daughter dead and her
mother dying.