Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-03-17
VIRGINIA NEWS.

L
ton, died suddenly n ear that city on Satur-
day, aged &c years.
John M. Langston has been formally an.
nouuced az candidate for Congress in the
Petersburg district.
General Malone was to have addressed
the Manufacturers Club in Philadelphia to.
night, but was prevented by illness.
Peter G. Morgan, an ex.member of the
Virginia Legislature from Petersburg. and
an IL fuential colored politician, is dead.
The white republicans of Richmond have
endorsed MIR. Geo. D. Wise against Mr..
Waddill in the atter's contested election
case.
a body found in the eastern branch at
Washington is believed to be that of B. a.
Jones, the missing paymaster's clerk who
disappeared at Christmas.
The bill to establish harbor lights at the
entrance of Cape Charles harbor has been
reported favorably In Congress with the sp.
preparation reduced to 81 600.
A bill has been reported from the House
committee regulating elections of members
of Congress, 1t embodies the main features
of the Australian ballot system.
Judge NJ. B. Wood, of Bristol, has sold
ten lots in Big Stone Gap for S25 600. Judge
Wood bought these ten lots not long ago for
little over S27 for the whole ten.
General Francis Il. Smih, for SO many
years Superintendent of the Virginia Mill.
tary Institute, was paralyzed at Leesburg
on Saturday. He is n years old.
J.H. Burch6eld, of Ocala, Fla. on satur
day chastised his fifteen ear-old son, and
was about to shoot his wife. when the
boy drew pistol and shot his father dead.
Five men were dashed from yawlboat
at York Spit lighthouse in the Chesapeake
bay on Saturday and drowned. They be
longed to an unknown schooner which had
gone ashore.
C,pt. VIM. L. Day, one of the wealthiest
and most prominent farmers Of Stafford
county, was married last Wednesday to Miss
Fannie Andrews, the accomplished daughter
of the late John Andrews.
The work OF taking up the bodies of the
Confederate soldiers who died in the prison
pens at Newport News and their removal to
vault built to receive them at Woodlawn
Cemetery will be completed within few
| days.
A large meeting of citiz,ns of Rappahan
|
the tender of free sight of way through
that county for the proposed extension of
the Chesapeake and Ohio road from Crozet
to Washington.
| Messrs. Hay, of Madison. Flood, of APP
pomattox, aud Downing, OF Warren, are the
committee to investigate the criminal e1-
penses Of the State and the d tferent depart
ments of the government during the Legisla.
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A Mathews letter to the West Point Star
saws: friend informs US that there are in
the neighborhood of Fitchet's three sweet,
pretty, accomplished and attractive girls,
who will marry any honest and respectable
men who will take them to the worlds fair
at Chicago.
Mrs. Nellie Curtis, widow of John Curtis,
died in Stafford county on Saturday at the
residence of her son inlaw, Peter Jett, 10
the eightieth year Of her age. She was the
mother of thirteen children, the grand
mother of sixty, and the great~gvand-mo
of fifteen children.
Geo. P. Goodloe writes 10 the Fredericks
purg Free Lance There is hstDow in pos
session of worthy colored man in this sec
ton which is said TO have been worn by
Gen ]. E. B. Stuart on the day he fell NOR
tally wounded near Yellow Tavern 10 May,
1864. The hat is OF English make and s in
fair state of preservation,
Mrs. L. A. Payne's dwelling near Selone,
| Fsuquier county, was burned to the ground
| Wednesday. II is supposed to have caught
| from broom with which Mrs Payne had
swept the hearth before leaving the house
that morning. She lost everything she had
in the way OF furniture. meat, chickens, etc.
Estimated loss 500. No insurance.
Arrangements have been made to hold an
art exhibition n Norfolk beginning April
oh, under the auspices of the Young Mems
Christian Association. The pictures to be
shown will be selected only from the works
of the most prominent professional artists
of the day, and neither labor nor expense
will be spared to make the exhibition sue
cess.