Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-01-06
VIRGINIA NEWS.
A new cotton mills TO be established
at Roanoke.

ct Roanoke.
Mr.. Robert b. Burr,lss, of Orange,
died Of heart failure and paralysis on
Wednesday in his 10Th year.
James Bankhead Guest. son of the
late George Guest, who up to the
breaking out OF the war resided at Al
toona," in Spottsylvania county, died
in New York on Saturday, December
oath.
Thomas Nelson, the Ascending
Mayor Of Cape Charles City returned
there Yesterday and surrendered to the
authorities. He did not deny the fact
that he had squandered church and
trust funds in his possession and that
he had lived beyond his means.
Mrs. Jane Mcclure Turner. wife of
Mr.. George Turner, jr., of Port Conway,
KIM George county, died ut her resi-
dence on Christmas morning. of heart
trouble. She leaves eight children,
ranging in age from sixteen years to
one month. Mrs. Turner was the
daughter of the late Rev. Edward c.
Mcclure.
On Monday next the Virginia mem
bers OF the Electoral College will meet
at the Capitol building, in Rich
mond, when the Executive OF the State
will hand to the electors duplicates OF
the certificates of election. Il copy OF
which has already been sub
mitted to the Secretary of State of the
United States, rs prescribed by the
Federal law. They will organize by
electing president of the college and
a secretary, and then proceed to vote
for the democratic candidates for Pres
ident and Vicc-Presidcnt by separate
and distinct ballots.
The list of persons invited to the
democratic banquet to be held in Rich
mond includes many distinguished
men, among them being Mr.. Cleveland
and Mr.. Stevenson, Representative w.
p. C. Breckenridge, Mr.. Thomas f.
Bayard, of Delaware; Senator Calvin 5.
Brice, Speaker Crisp. Senator Carlisle,
Ex-Governor Campbell, of Ohio; Chief
Justice Melville w. Fuller and Justice
Field. of the United States Supreme
Court; Mr.. Hugh r. Garden, Chairman
Harrity, Senator David Is. Hill, Justice
Lamar, Senator German, Governor Nc
Kinney. Ex-Governor Lee and all the
Virginia Senator's and Representatives.
.Adiutant General Mcdonald has is
sued his report for 1892. The State
military tax of per cent. derived from
all revenues except the school fund
LAST wear produced S12.054.19. The
sum to the credit of the military fund
October of last year was 81, 1920.
The report shows that with one excep-
ton the leading States of the Union
make larger appropriations per capita
for their volunteer soldiers than Nir-
gia. The adjutant general states that
if all males in Virginia between the
ages of eighteen and forty-five years
not in the military service were re-
quired to pay tax Of twenty-five cents
year it would produce fund ofSl5,-
600 annually.
Mr.. Rudolph Rogers, of King George
county, says that man came to his
house Tuesday night and asked him to
assist him with his brokendown vehi-
Gle, which was down in the road. He
went with him, and after getting away
from the house the man drewa pistol and
told him to hold up his hands. Then
three or four other men rushed from
the bushes, and, throwing him down.
threw something over his head and
took him to the woods, where he was
asked if he ever intended again to use
disrespectful language, and then whip
ped him most severely. He says that
the men were masked with the excep-
ton Of the one who coaxed him out and
away from the house, and that all were
unknown to him.