Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-08-22
VIRGINIA NEWS.


Association is in progress.
DR.. William Grebe, well-known
German physician of Richmond, is
dead.
The local option fight in Roanoke
promises to be a spirited one. Rev.
Sam Jones will take part in it.
The union plumbers of Norfolk are
on strike against the employment OF
non-union men.
1t is reported Gov. Mckinney has
considerably modified his views on the
oyster question.
Mr.. A. G. Goodwin, prominent cit
izen of Caroline county, died Sunday
at his home, near Penola, aged seventy
five years.
The house of John Ashby, near Ex-
more, Accomas county, was struck by
lightning Sunday during squall and
badly damaged.
Two freight trains were in collision
yesterday afternoon at Crewe, on the
Norfolk and Western Railroad. One
locomotive was thrown down an EN-
bankment and several cars derailed.
The cattle house and adjoining build
ing belonging to Mr.. Thos. Henderson,
near Broad Run, Fauquicr county, to-
gether with q quantity of hay and feed,
were destroyed by fire Sunday evening.
At a convention of the peoples party
held in Chatham yesterday, I. Banks
dale. Deputy United States Marshal,
was chosen as candidate for floater-
Senator from Pittsylvania and Henry
counties.
There has been no rain in portions
of Accomac county to amount to any
thing for two months. 1t is the talk of
the best potatoe growers that the crop
is now short one-half Corn is literal
ly burned up.
Rev, A. p. Saunders, formerly of
Alexandria, principal of the Freder-
icksburg Collegiate Institute, was in
Richmond last week in the interest Of
the college. He reports as having met
with much success. He left for south
west Virginia.
DR.. James Barbour Newman, presi-
dent of the Fort Shaw Live Stock Co.,
and an honored member of the Mon
tana Medical Association, died Sunday,
the 18th instant, at his home in Great
Falls, Montana. The deceased was
born in Orange county, Feb. 2, 1916.
Governor Mckinney has issued n
commission TO State Senator John L..
Hurt, of Pittsylvania, rs n member of
the State board of agriculture from tie
fifth congressional district 10 fill the
vacancy occasioned by the death of
Major w. T. Suthcrlin, Of Danville.
The steam saw mill and planning
mills in Caroline county, belonging to
Hunter Brothers, were destroyed by
fire few days ago. A large quantity
of lumber was also consumed and much
valuable machinery ruined. The loss
is between So, 900 and 1000. No in
surance.
A call has been issued by George w.
Fremont, president of the Jefferson
democratic club of Virginia, to the
colored democrats and Independents Of
Virginia for county conventions to elect
delegates to State convention, TO be
held in Richmond, September p. The
purpose of the convention is to strength
en- the colored democracy in Virgin
ia, and have it take part in the fall
elections.
The seventeen days meeting of the
Virginia Chautauqua is now progress
ing satisfactorily at Assembly Park,
near Harrisonburg. The exercises will
continue until August IS. A SPLENDID
programme is arranged for each day,
consisting of music, sermons, lectures,
&c. Until the close Of the meeting
evangelists days will be held, when
Rev. George r. Stuart, Rev. Sam p.
Jones, Prof. L. o. Excel, and others
will speak.
A through east-bound freight train
on the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad
was wrecked at Lee Hall, near New
port News, yesterday morning at 3
o'clock. The trouble was caused by
the parting of the train. The wreck
took fire and several cars loaded with
leaf tobacco, hay and whisky were
consumed. Three tramps are known
to have been on the train, and as two
of them are unaccounted for they are
supposed to have been burned to
death.
'The Virginia Live Stock Show"
was organized in Staunton this week,
and comprises among its membership
many of the leading raisers of fine
horses, cattle, sheep and swine in the
counties of Rockingham, Augusta and
Rockbridge, Va. ,and Greenbrier, VIVA.
The new organization is preparing for
an exhibition on the Brew farm, on the
suburbs of Staunton, early in October.
The place is being equipped with sta
bles and race track for the purpose.
The compositors in the newspaper Of
fees of the Richmond Dispatch and
Times refused to 60 to work last night.
This course was decided at meeting of
the typographical union held in the
evening. The trouble grows out of a
disagreement over the scale of prices
on type-setting machines and shorter
hours between the Newspaper Publish
ers' Association and the typographical
union. The Times is now using type
setting machines and the Dispatch ex-
poets to have seven in operation in
few days.
Mr.. John Lang, of Petersburg, and
Miss Rosa Lee Eley, of Windsor, were
married Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock,
at Eureka church, Gates county, n. G.
The marriage followed an elopement.
Mr.. Lang holds position of foreman