Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-05-08
VIRGINIA NEWS.


Winchester, died in Nashville, Tenn,
ION Saturday.
George w. Ehrhart, general foreman
of the car shops of the Roanoke Ma
chine Works, died suddenly OF heart
disease in Roanoke on Saturday. lie
was sixty years old.
The State Board of Education on Sat
urday appointed G. w. Grigsby super
intendent of schools of King George
county, and ]. B. McInturf, OF Shenan-
doah.
William Payne, the oldest citizen OF
Albemarle county, died on Saturday
last. He leaves Ill direct descendants,
children, grandchildren and great
grandchildren.
Colonel Theodore F. Lang, formerly
chief of the bookkeepers' division OF
the fourth auditors office of the Treas
ury Department, in Washington, on
Saturday turned his office over to his
successor, Mr.. Hoge, of Virginia.
The project of purchasing Hog Isl
and, in the Chesapeake bay. for quar-
antine station has been virtually aban-
doned by the government. 1t is prob
able the quarantine will be located, as
heretofore, at the mouth of the bay.
The commissioned officers of the
Second Virginia Infantry will meet at
Basic City Tuesday, May 16, to choose
successor to Col. Joseph A. Mutton,
deceased, and to fill other vacancies IN
the regimental staff.
DR.. George Williams, of Nashville,
Tenn, has received letter from his SIS
ter atFincastle that by the death OF their
uncle, Isaac Morgan, of that place, they
have fallen heir to fortune of s. 800
600 in stocks and bonds. Mr.. Morgan
was one hundred and nine years old nj
the time of his death.
The Richmond papers yesterday pub
lished an address prepared and lssuec
by the O'Ferrall organization at the re
cent conference there. This paper i:
nothing more than review OF the
Colonel's military, legislative and per
sonal record since his birth in 1910
No reference is made in the paper tt
O'Ferrall's attitude on the financial o.
other national issues. The addres:
closes with the declaration that th'
Congressman has made more politica
speeches than any other man in Vlr
ginia.
James Shiplett, the Nimrod ant
Izaak Walton of North River Gap, wh'
has for six weeks past been at the poin
of death from q shot received in a rem
contre with Samuel Todd, died Frida.
at the home of friends, to which place
he was carried shortly after the shoot
ing. The story goes that while Todt
was on his way home through thu
mountain gap about dusk he was &C
costed by Shiplett and quarrel ensued
Todd retreated and some distance furth
er he was attacked by Shiplett ant
choked, whercupon Todd drew his pls
tol and fired, wounding Shiplett in tn
vertebral column, from which woun'
Shiplett had been paralyzed ever since
To SETTLE VIRGINIA's DEBT.-Th
following official statement relative t
the distribution of new bonds in set
Element of the Virginia State debt wa
made by the bondholders' committe
in New York on Saturday.
The awards have been made by Mes
srs. Braithwaite, John Henry DAME
and the Hon. Edward ]. Phelps, tn
commission Of distribution, and apple
to the several classes of securities rep
resented by certificates of deposit
Fourth class. carrying coupons re
ceived for taxes, will receive 10 pc
cent. of par value in new bonds.
Third class l0-40 bonds will receiv
!: seventy per cent. ofvalue in new bonds
with deduction of S1.30 per $1,000
principal in new bonds on account o
!, each half-yearly coupon due since Jul,
LIST, 1890, which had not been deposited
with the bonds. Second class conso
bonds, rs per cent. par value in new
bonds, with deduction of 1925 Oh
; each 500 of principal in new bonds OF
, each coupon due since July list, 1880
which have MOI been deposited will
the bonds. First class, which include
: the principal of the old bonds, will re
ceive sixty per cent. of par value O
two-thirds in new bonds, and par Talu
of the remaining one-third in West Vir
gnia certificates.
The holders of 'pealer bonds" vii
receive sixty per cent. of their principa
in new bonds for par OF two-thirds o
interest on old bonds and par of inter
est on "pealer bonds y pro rata dis
tribution will be made of the balance o
the new bonds to be issued after. pro
viding for distribution according to the
above awards For the remaining
one-third of interest on cold bonds,
West Virginia certificates will be is
sued. These awards were made ii
London late Saturday night, and were
communicated by cable to the bond
holders, committee in this country by
Messrs. Brown, Shipley & Co. They
are subject to confirmation by mail to
the Central Trust Company of New
York, the depository in the United
States of the bonds.
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