Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-09-19
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Fine rains are reported through the
Valley of Virginia from Harper's Ferry
to Lexington.
The One Hundred and Fourteenth
Regiment, New York Veterans, arrived
in Winche ster yesterday and will visit
the b~attlefelds in that vicinity.
P. G. G. John H. Alexander, of Lees
burg, having been elected a Supreme
Tribune by the Supreme Lodge OF
Knights of Pythias, has resigned his
position as Supreme Representative
from Virginia, and Grand Chancellor
E. p. Hulce has appointed P. G. G. ID.
c. Richardson, of Richmond, to fill the
vacancy.
In Richmond last night the visiting
members of the State Bankers Associ-
alton were handsomely entertained at
the Westmoreland Club by the Rich.
mond members. An elegant supper
was served, and hospitality was dis
pensed in an informal manner which
rendered the occasion thoroughly en-
joyable.
In the Circuit Court of Baltimore
county exceptions have been filed by S.
d. Schumacher, permanent trustee, in
the matter of the insolvent estate of j.
J. Nicholson & Sons, Directing to the
allowance of the full claims of the bank
of Clarke county, Va, and the Jeffer-
son Savings Bank, of Virginia, as petit
toned by those institutions.
At a meeting of the stockholders Of
the Piedmont Railroad held in Danville
yesterday the sale of that road, extend
ing from Danville to Greensboro, to the
Southern Railway Company was con-
firmed, and the property formally deed
ed. The Piedmont, which was a Con-
federate war road, has been operated as
a part of the Richmond and Danville
ever since the war.
The dead body ola man vas found
on Monday by a hunting party near
Sour Neck, Prince William county. In
vestigation showed that he had COM
mitted suicide, the ball from a thirty
two calibre revolver having penetrated
his temple. Papers in his pocket
proved the man to be Fl. McMayo, of
Tennallytown Md. Notes were found
on his person giving directions for
burial and requesting that his wife be
notified.
A report comes of q rich find of gold
at the Powhatan mine in the lower end
of Culpeper county. While drifting on
Saturday a rich deposit was struck
that in point of value per ton is I'M
questionably the richest gold ore eve
found in Virginia. Samples shown
carrying free gold in the sulphurette
appears nearly one half pure gold.
Contact dirt, washed, showed over $40
from three pans. The mine has been
developed by e1-Congressman George
w. Shoup, of Pennsylvania.
The case of R. B. Guard, charged
with shooting Miss Laura E. Martin on
April II, was called yesterday for the
second time in the corporation court of
Charlottesville. The prisoner was ar.
raigned, and through counsel pleaded
not guilty, and on their motion the
case was continued until November 81.
His counsel claimed that Miss Martins
evidence would be of material import
ance to their client. A large number
Of witnesses testified that Miss Martin
was physically and mentally unable to
appear at present.
A young mar by the name of F. E.
Shook, of New York, registered at the
Hotel Lexington in Richmond Friday,
September z. On the next day he got
MI. W. ]. Gardner, the chief clerk, to
cash a check on the Manufacturers
National Bank, of Baltimore, for $50.
He had been to Richmond before, and
MIR. Gardner regarded him as a reliable
gentleman. The check was returned
with notice that no such account was
kept at that bank. The paper was
made payable to F. E. Shook, and pur-
ported to be drawn by F. NJ. Shook,
who was supposed to be his father.
Before the check came back Shook had
departed for parts unknown.
POM mo, fail a Stv faat with q freicht eIe.