Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-07-10
YIRGINIA NEWS.

Bennett Tuck, the most suecessful
farmer in Essex county, died suddenly
on Thursday.
Bishop Randolph and family have
left Warrenton and gone 10 their SUM
mer home, Eastern View.
The barn and grain crop OF Z. NJ.
Bushong, near Noodstock, were ue-
stroyed by fire on Saturday evening.
Mayor ]. Taylor E!lyson, of Rich
mond, is prominently mentioned IN
connection with the nomination lor
Lieut-Governor.
Rev. DIR. Moses D. Hoge, of Rich
mond, who is spending his vacation IN
Baltimore, preached there Yesterday
morning and evening at the Associate
Reformed Church.
A fine vein of kaolin and che OF cap
stone have been discovered near
Robey's station, on the Richmond,
Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad,
about six miles from Fredericksburg
Col. ]. Barry, King, a prominent citi-
zen and Mason, of Norfolk, died on
Saturday from Bright's disease, aged
tifty-four years. He was formerly
quartermaster in the Confederate army.
The steamer Pollman arrived at
AQUA creek ON Saturday, having on
board d large Quantity ofmachinery for
operating the valuable sandstone guar,
ries about one mile above the railroad
bridge on that creek.
The corn crop throughout the
Northern Neck is very promising. The
season has been fine thus far, the rains
of last week coming just in time to
head off q drought in the upper end of
the Rapl al; mock valley.
Miss Elizabeth J. Southall Clarke, of
Newport News, has been selected to rep
resent the State of Virginia in the tab
leaux of the States in connection with
the reunion of Confederate veterans at
Birmingham, Ala, in September. Miss
Clarke is descendant of the old South
all family, and is a connection of the
late President Tyler.
Peaches are being shipped in large
quantities to Baltimore by steamers
from along the Rappahannock. The
crop is large one, though in some To-
calities about one-third of the fruit is de-
caying on the trees and dropping to
the ground. There is also full crop
of apricots throughout that section, the
first time for number of years.
Ross Martin, the notorious outlaw,
was arrested at Norton, Wise county,
on Saturday and Immediately turned
over to the authorities of Russell coun-
tv, for the murder of George Steele, in
that county last year. He was imme-
diately taken to Lebanon, but it is
feared he will be lynched, as Il very bit
ter feeling has prevailed against him
since the murder.
Among the recent promotions of Vir-
ginians in the pension office in Wash
ington are Thomas A. Broadus, from
81 400 to $1,000; H. S. McCandlish,
81 500 to $1,000; w. f. Still, 81 400 to
$500, and C. A. Grosclose, 81, 200 to
81 800. Geo. Pickett has been promo
ted from a 81 900 to 81 200 position in
the office of Indian affairs, aud E. B.
Wyatt has been appointed painter in
the pension Office.
In Richmond on Saturday night A.
Gallagher, foreman of the Roanoke
Wood Novelty Works, came across
Sergeant Griffin and asked to be made
prisoner, saying: Il have killed
Newton Brown, with whose family my
daughter is boarding" Gallagher was
locked up aud an investigation reveal
ed that he met his daughter and Brown
going to market. This angered him
and a quarrel ensued, in which Gala
CHER was felled to the ground with a
stick by Brown. He fastened to his
boarding house, procured a pistol, hid
in shrubbery, and when Brown and the
girl returned shot at him, the ball tax
ing effect in the mouth, knocking out
several teeth. Brown fell and Gala
CHER, supposing he had killed him,
surrendered.