Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-05-09
VIRGINIA NEWS.


ter yesterday, aged eighty-two years.
Mr.. E. E. Seay, identified with the
tobacco trade of Danville, died OF con-
sumption yesterday.
Mr.. w. H. Clay and Miss Flora Ber-
nett were married in Lynchburg to-
day.
Effort will be made to put Fisher
mans Island, at the mouth OF the
Chesapeake bay, into condition for
quarantine station.
Civil service Commissioners Lyman,
Roosevelt and Johnston have completed
final arrangements for the CLASSIFICATION
of the postoffices at Alexandra anu
Norfolk.
Mr.. James NJ. Tyler, for many years
captain in the Richmond police and
later city sergeant, died in Richmond
suddenly yesterday. Deceased was
about fifty years ago.
Alexander Mcdonald, of Lynchburg,
who was commissioned minister to FER
STA. Saturday, took the oath OF office al
the State Department in Washington
yesterday.
Cadua Mears and Herbert Drummond,
two young merchants from Accomac
county, were nearly suffocated by gas
at boarding house in Baltimore yes
terday.
Mrs. II. C. Dovel, wife of the proprie-
tor of the Wilson Hotel, Mt. Jackson,
was found dead in her bed Sunday
morning. She was about fifty years
old.
At the request of Capt. Mushbach, OF
Alexandria, who represents an antl-Vice
society in the North, special session
of the grand jury was held IN Nor,
folk Yesterday to investigate policy
PLAYING in that city, with a view to
indicting offenders. The jury brought
in several indictments.
1t is said that the coast from Cape
Hatteras nearly up to Cape Henry is
literally lined with bluefish, and the
fishermen ashore and in the Staten Is
land fleet have had all they could dc
taking the "big blues" A popularity
about these large fish this season is that
they are generally poor.
The bonds 100000 at six per cent,
which were given by Page county to
the Shenandoah Valley Railroad in
1881. have been reduced by payments
to $50, 600, and been refunded at five
per cent, to run for twenty years. This
is saving of $500 year and Sl6,0OO
to the county.
Chris Wickam, aged fifteen years,
was caught in the act of robbing the
money drawer in Headley & Anderson's
store, in Edinburgh lost Saturday night.
He entered the store through q broken
window, and admitted that he had been
in the store eighteen times in all, tax
ing each time all the change that had
been left in the money drawer.
There were shipped from Culpeper
to the Baltimore market on Tuesday
last over two hundred hogs and
some cattle. Among them were seven
steers fed by Mr.. J. j. Tinsley, on
Crooked Run, that weighed in the ag-
CRATE |, 200 pounds, one ofwhich tipped
the beam at 2,0l0 pounds. These cat
tie were sold to Mr.. P. L. Yates.
At the Great Council of Red Men,
which meets in Norfolk tomorrow,
there will be an election Of five dele
gates from Virginia to the Great Coun-
ell of the United States. Heretofore
this State has only been entitled to
three representatives. At the State
+ Council there will be eight representa-
: tives and three Past Great Sachems,
and the Great Guard of the Wigwam.
On April % Carey Linkenhoger, OF
Botetourt county, aged seventy, had q
difficulty with his young wife and
struck her over the head with bar OF
iron. Surprising he had killed her, he
fled to Tinker Mountain and took
refuge in the cabin of Charles McCrae;
Here he drank everything he could
find in the way of medicine, including
eight spoonfuls of salt, five spoonfuls OF
turpentine and two ounces OF japanese
oil. He swore that he would never be
arrested and tried for his crime, and on
Friday night he died in great agony.
His wife rallied and is in fair way to
ranouor