The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-02-10
PORT OF WEST POINT. FEB. o. 1898.
ARRIVED.
TIRGINIA NEWS NOTES.
Items Gathered Here and There and
Everywhere Throughout the State.

Items Gathered Here and There and
Everywhere Throughout the State.
A. J. Hoffman, proprietor OF the Cen
trail Hotel. Newmarket, is dead.
John b. Gardner, sheriff Of Warren
county for a number Of years, died last
week.
Mr.. Richard d. Claggett. OF Gathers
burg, Md, and Miss Leah Phillips were
married at Leesburg a few days since.
A Virginia oyster police steamer re-
Gently surprised a lot Of illegal dredgers
on the wrong side Of the line in the Po-
comoke.
The Governor has pardoned William
Gray, Of Westmoreland, convicted and
sentenced TO the penitentiary for three
years for attempted killing.
The Episcopal church in Onancock was
consecrated on Friday afternoon by Bish-
op Randolph and the Rev. Henry l..
Derby.
The Culpeper Milling Company. manu-
featuring -four and meal, started their
mills last week. The machinery has a
capacity OF at least one hundred barrels
per day.
Mrs Vernon Beidler, wife of Samuel
Beider. a well known farmer near Wood
stock. died very Unexpectedly Tuesday
morning while at breakfast. She was
without a moments warning. IaIalyzed
and died almost instantly. She was d
niece OF ex-State Senator II. J. Smoot
of Luray, Va.
No less than three gentlemen from AL
bemare county have amour ed them
selves as candidates for Congress from
the Seventh district before the next Dem
ocratic Convention-Captain Micajah
Perkins. 1t is not known whether Cen
eral Thomas l.. Rosser will be a candi-
date.
General Cook who shot w. ]. Clark,
at Hanover, Russell county, on the 81
Of October last Immediately made his
escape, and was arrested in Roane cOun-
~. w. Va. by NJ. c. Clark, a brother of
the murdered man. and j. G.. Davis. ar
rived at Graham, TaZewell county, Tues
day evening, en- route to Russell Clark
lived three months after being shot. The
prisoner escaped from his capturers Mon
day night by jumping through a win
dow OF the train, and after wadng Tug
river and being shot at several times was
recaptured.
A peculiar accident happened to the pro-
peller Norfolk on her trip up from Alex
andria. A little after daylight Sunday
il was noticed that there was "A hole stove
In her iron hull on the port bow, slightly
above the water line. Investigation was
at once instituted. The only thing re
vealed by the investigation is that the
craft was not much damaged. and that
the hole must have been made by a sharp
piece OF ice. The aperture was promptly
patched by the chief engineer of the COM
pany. Mr.. J. III. Trower.
IL is said that the reDorted purchase
Of 5000 acres OF land In Dinwddie county
for the settlement OF a 'arge Bohemian
colony has not yet been contaminated
but is still a matter Of negotiation
There is already a large Bohemian set
Element in Prince George county, and the
people are prosperous and well satisfied
4 representative of one Of he largest
chewing-gum factories in he country
told a Petersburg newspaper nan that
the sales Of chewing gum during the
rast year amounted % over $1,000, O0O
and that the habit OF chewing the manu-
featured gum is largely increasing each
GEOGRAPHICALLY among the ladies, he
said.