Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-01-10
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Lynchburg continues very much stirred
I'D on the local option question.
The roof of the Baptist church at Jefer-
sonton, Culpeper county, waa blown OF
Wednesday night.
Harry Hicks. an eleven y~ear-old white
hov. was run over in Norfolk yesterday and
instantly killed by a street car.
A charter has been granted to the 8. W.
Venable Tobacco Company of Petersburg.
The authoriZa ed capital is one million dollars.
Legislative committees visited the Vir.
GINA Normal and Collegiate Institute and
the Central Lynatic Asylum at Petersburg
yesterday.
Last Wednesday a little son of Mr.. Pila.
her. miller at Bastable's mill, In Fauquler
county, was caught 10 the gearing OF the
mill and killed, being horribly mangled.
An attempt Is to be made to reduce the
salary of the State Commissioner of Agrlcul-
ture to 81 500 per annum. COMMISSIONS
Whitehead is willing that his salary should
be reduced to what 1t formerly was.
aTbe Board of Education yesterday trans
mitted to the State Senate the list of public
school superintendent appointed Wednes'
day. but the envelope did not reach the
Lieutenant-Governor in time for action
thereon.
Fred s Stewart was arrested In Danville
last night on q charge of bigaWy, it having
been learned thai he has q wife living In 80
lem. Mass, while he was living presumably
with his wife in DanVille. When confronted
with the testimony Stewart confessed that
his lawful wife ia living in Salem, and the
Young woman he was living with here 10
Alice Murphy, late of Boston, Mass. Stew
art was fined $50 on a charge OF unlawful
| cohabitation.
In the House of Delegates 8 bill has been
introduced amending the law In relation to
giving aid to disabled Coufederates 30 as TO
give to soldiers who Lost eyes the same
amount ss those who lost limbs, and to give
soldiers who were not married, but were as
much disabled ss if they bad lost Limbs, the
sum of 500 instead of S15, and to give such
soldiers az from wounds are half as much
disabled as If they had lost limbs the sun OIL
$40 per annum.
In the House of Delegates yesterday the
bill to prevent the selling of unwholesome
meats in this State was ordered to its 81
grcssment. The bill provides that 1t sba'I
not be lawful to offer for sale within the
limits of the State any fresh meats which
shall have been slaughtered one hundred
miles or over from the place at which It II
offered for sale until 1t has been inspected
The Senate has passed the bill providing fol
teachers in the public schools of Virginls
without requiring average attendance @
pupils.
The Court OF Appeals has granted a new
trial to the negro Muscoe, who shot and
killed policeman G.. T. Seal, of Charlottes
Vile, 10 December, 1855. for which offence
he was tried and sentenced to be hung
The officer was in the act of arresting Mus
coe for a misdemeanor when the negro
drew a revolver and shot him, the wound
resulting in almost immediate death
Strong doubt is expressed as to whether
Muscoe can again be convicted. but fears
are expressed that the negro may be sum
marily dealt with.
Capt. James F. Cecil. commander o
Pickett Buchsnan Camp Of Confederate Vet
Grams, and general agent of the Norfolk and
Western Railroad at Norfolk, died in tina
city yesterday from the grippe" followed
By pneumonia. Capt. Cecil was formally
agent of the Atlantic and Mississippi r. B
He belonged to south west Virginia, was
gallant colder ia the Confederate army as
staff officer in the famous Stonewall brigade
He was q member of the Royal Arcanum
Knights of Honor, aud Ruth Lodge, A.. F
and a. M. He Was about Al years of age