Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-05-11
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Mr.. Chancellor Barley came near
drowning one night last week while at.
tempting to ford a stream near Fred.
cricksburg.
A new postoflice has been established
at Sowego, Fauquier county, three
miles northeast of Bristersburg. with
Horatio C. Ashby postmaster.
Rev. Thomas Carter Page, of VII.
liamsburg, has been called to the rec.
torship of Christ P. E. Church, Cam.
bridge, Md.
Secretary Carlisle said yesterday that
he hardly thought the appointment
of collector of revenue of this district
would be made before the 1st of July.
Acknowledgement Scott has given an
opinion to the commissioner of Eau.
ouier in which he holds that the salary
of n United States Senator is not sub
ject to the income tax law of Virginia.
Confederate Memorial Day was oh.
served at Staunton and Richmond YES.
terday. At Staunton Congressman J.
NJ. MARSHALL delivered the address and
at Richmond Gen. Fitzhugh Lee and
Col. Tazewell Elicit spoke.
A handsome granite monument
erected to the memory of the late
James Barron Hope, was unveiled at
Norfolk yesterday The Confederate
camps of that section and the Typo.
graphical Union attended in body.
Capt. J. B. Baylor, who was detailed
last summer by the government to
make survey Of the oyster grounds OF
Virginia, will resume his work as soon
as a United States steamer can DO
placed at his disposal.
Since the subsistence OF high water
five bodies-three white and two col.
ored-have been found in the drifts in
! New river, near Bluefeld Junction.
One has been identified as a miner
named Baker. 1t is thought some of
the men were murdered.
Capt. George Desreaux, of Stafford
county. and Miss Fannie E. Waller, Of
Fredericksburg, were married yester-
day at the home of the bride. The
groom is II years old and his bride is
about so. Captain DesreauX is . native
of the Island of Jersey, but has lived in
this State for the past 20 years.
Prof. Carter J. Harris, who resigned
the chair of Latin at the Washington
and Lee University on account i'll.
health, has been made emeritus pro-
fessor of Latin in charge of the post.
graduate department, with an adequate
provision for support by the board of
trustees of the University.
Virginia's new oyster law has been in
operation seven months, and the audit
or's books show that the receipts from
Oct. to May l were $27 $685. and the
disbursements were Sl0,96S.O5. leaving
net income of SIC, 40l 50, while for the
entire year preceding the receipts were
only $4,000 and the disbursements,
including the purchase of two vessels,
$4,000.
An underground passage Of rare
beauty and wonderful adoption to use
has been discovered near the Natural
Bridge. By it one may enter at the side
of Cedar creek and come out in the
plalnS dUOfe. SlcPS duu liShto ar W
ing put in, and it will be formally open
ed as "The Isabella Stairway" on Sat
urday, May -, with appropriate cere-
monies.
j. Hampton Hoge, Of Montgomery
county has been been appointed Con-
sui to Annoy, China. This position was
rendered him by Mr. Quincy, in lieu OF
the Hong Kong consulate, for which
he was an applicant. The position
pays straight salary of $500 per
year and there are unofficial fees that
will swell the annual compensation to
something like $1,000 additional.
George Drier, who killed old Mrs.
Fanny McFadden at Cape Charles City
nearly two years ago, was sentenced on
Tuesday by Judge Kendall, Of North
ampton County Court, to be hanged on
the 18th of June. After being convict.
ed in the County Court Drier appealed
to the Circuit Court for new trial,
which was refused. His case was then
taken to the Court of Appeals, with
like result. His execution will be the
first on the Eastern Shore of Virginia
for nearly 80 years.