Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-03-22
VIRGINIA NEWS.

The three-year-old daughter of A. 5.
Johnson, of Spotsylvania county, was
burned to death yesterday.
Miss Irene Todd and Mr.. John +.
Taylor, deputy treasurer of Augusta
county, were married near Staunton
yesterday.
Mr.. Dorsey Gibbons died near King
George Courthouse on Monday morn
ing, after nine days illness with bilious
dysentery.
The Touring mill of S. f. Housen-
huck and the barn of Jerry Bauserman,
in Shenandoah county, were destroyed
by fire Monday night.
The directors of the Rappahannock
Valley Agricultural Society indorsed
Col. s. Wexford Corbin for assistant
commissioner of agriculture.
A tower is to be put up on Watkins
Point to serve as range for oystermen
in Pocomoke sound to locate the Mary
land and Virginia boundary.
A fire at Martinsville, Henry county,
early Yesterday morning destroyed the
Southern Building and number OF
stores. Loss between $40, 600 and $40,
90.
Jacob i. Moon, banker at Scots
vile, Albemarle county, has made an
assignment. Liabilities, $4,000; as
sets about the same, mostly in real es-
tate.
A delegation of business men from
Norfolk ond Portsmouth yesterday in-
vitcd the President and Secretary Her
bert to witness the naval review in
Hampton Roads.
At Suffolk house was destroyed by
fire early yesterday morning, and a col
ored woman and her two children were
burned to death, and the husband and
father badly burned.
Mr.. Joseph H. Shepherd, of Rich,
mond, is an applicant for the position
of collector of internal revenue for the
Sixth district. Mr.. NJ. Morris, OF
Glade Spring, is also all applicant Tor
this position.
The City Council of North Danville
have decided to double the license tax
on liquor dealers, placing bar. room Ii
censes at 81 600 and wholesale and re-
tail at 81 800. This will in all probable
ity close up the only saloon in that
town.
DR.. Gustavus A. Kane, who was
known to nearly every person in the
theatrical profession in this country
during the last half century, died at his
home in Baltimore Yesterday afternoon
He was born in Prince George county
November Is, 1918.
Mr.. w. II. Downing, of Front Royal
candidate for U. S. Attorney for the
western district, announced in Wash,
ington yesterday to his competitors
that he would not be bound by the ac'
ton of the congressional delegation but
would fight it out on his own line.
United States Deputy Marshal Thos
III. Cross of Norfolk, sold at Newport
News yesterday the steamship Finance
of the United States and Brazilian Mai
Steamship Company. under four llbeis
She has been lately repaired by the
Newport News Shipbuilding Company
whose bill is $4,000. She was bought
by Bernard II. Smith, Of Brooklyn, n
y. for ssh, 900.
Front ROYAL is alive with ministers
and laymen, delegates to the confer
ence, which began there to-day. w
III. d. Harper, D. d., of Winchester
preached the annual sermon last night
Examinations of candidates for the
ministry also took place last night.
Bishop Key and council were in session
Yesterday, and already much work has
been accomplished.
When the steamer Danville left West
Point on Monday for Baltimore the
town authorities were investigating the
death of an infant, about three weeks
old, whose body was brought to the
surface by the wheels of some of the
steamers which stop at that place.
Around the neck of the child was a
brick, which had been tied with tape
measure. 1t is expected that there
will be some arrests in connection with
the affair.
Major Mann Page. President of the
Virginia Farmers Alliance, says under
no circumstances will he consent to be
the third party candidate for Governor;
The alliance, he says, is non-political
organization, and, as its president, he
could not consistently permit himself
to be nominated for Governor. Presi-
dent Page expresses the opinion that
that party will place at the head of its
State ticket this year silver democrat.
SARAH SIMoNDs' SCHoLARs.-A lit
girl who resides OF Long Island sent
the following story not long ago TO