Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-02-14
VIRGINIA NEWS.

E. Lee Battery. Company re" Viz,
GINA Volunteers, of Petersburg, disoanded
last night.
Three recruiting officers are in Front
ROYAL, where they expect to sDend s month
es!istinq men for she regular o s. Army.
Tie First National Bank Of Suffolk closed
its doors yesterday. IL s said the bank
will psy the full amount to the deposItors.
Wash Fields, colored, was sentenced at
Norfolk to twenty-three years in the peni.
Tertiary for assaulting and cutting Dr.. and
Mis-. VIM. a. Wheeler.
Mr.. Samuel G. Euebanks, one CT the most
prominent citizens of Lancaster, died in that
county yesterday morning after protraot.
ed il!ness of paralysis. aged about sixty
seven years.
Representative Bowden yesterday intro
duced bill in the House directing the Sec
rotary OF War to cause en- examination 81 d
survey to he made, and the estimated cost
of in provsment reported for breskWater
To form g harder of safety aud refuge in
Lynn Haven bay, near Cape Henry, at tt
foot of Chesapeake bag.
The N ,rfolk grand jury has brought in
a report citing IS an open Vlolator OF the
Sunday laE one of the SWEETEST social clubs
in The South, the Virginia Club, of that city /.
Judge D. Tu .ker Brooke says he is undecided
whether to revoke it's license now or wait
until Nav, and refuse to grant 1t license
again. COL Walter H. Taylor i5 president
of the club.
William A. Strand, OF Norfolk, was cor :
victed in Nav York yesterday OF mar
slaughter In tbs second degree. Strand
stabbed snd killed Mitchell J,rGop, negro
porter of the Palace Hotel, on AuGust 4,
1890 after be had been knocked down anu
klcked by him repeatedly. The jury re-
commended Strand 10 the mercy OF tue court
and he was remanded.
Commander Joseph B. Seth, OF the Mary :
land State of Fishery Force, bas invited tie
Governor OF Virginia and the United States
Fish Commissioner TO cooperate with him
ia an inspection and survey of the Chess
peake oyster grounds, with view to their
Improvement. Governor Mckinney says he
m,l, be esd to unite in an inspection Of the
Msry land. oyster beds during the spring or
| fall.
Gov. Nc Kinney has declined to grant the
! request Of Mrs. Justice Field, Mrs. Dixon.
: of Rhcds Island end Mrs. King, Of New
YORK, for permission to have taken cast oil
me H0u00n Statue OF WasnlBSCcu AT rsiCu-
mend. There ladies are committee OF the
Washington Statue Association, and their
! offset lie trying to procure cast was to
! have statue made for presentation to the
French government.
AT Newport News Thursday night there
rse bloody row between Ralph Whiting,
JohD Morrison and Jackson Harper on one
de, and 81. a. 3. Gaines and Aimistesd
| Nelson, all colo;ei. On the other. GaiLe.
WEE shot one iGch bslow the heart and can
not lYs. Nsson @ss killed on lhs spot.
Gaines and NeIenU were watching coal, and
be row wss said to be about stealing cca
The sheriff made number of arreste.
a. TIE State convention Of the Young
Mems Christian Association 10 Lynchtut2
yesterday SAFE Secretary q. O. Williams
| submitted his snunei report of york done by
the association during ths year. Thirteen
new organ zations have been sddfd during
the year end ten discontinued. There ars
64 aasocisiioos In thu sta!e. employing 40
men ss secretaries, librarians snd physical
directors. The releiocs york had pro
creased remarkably.