Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-03-21
VIRGINIA NEWS.

uC - -. SeHsitO NcStciudy Cobuiiu-
ed the nomination Of F. j. Norris to be
postmaster at Leesburg.
Mrs. Mary cambridge May, widow of
Maj John Pegram May, of Petersburg,
died at Ashland last night.
Rev. William H. Milton, of Amelia
county, has been called to Henshaw
Memorial Protestant Episcopal Church,
Baltimore.
The Governor has refused to pardon
Thomas Lewis, sentenced March, 1893,
in the County Court Of Loudoun to two
years for assault.
H. Silverthorn, the oldest jewelry
house in Lynchburg, made an assign
ment yesterday. The liabilities are
placed at $4,000.
Representative Swanson, of Virginia,
an active advocate of the repeal OF
the tax on State banks, thinks that re-
peal is doomed to defeat.
Mr.. S. A. Grover sold at public auc-
ton on Saturday last in Waterford, 50
acres Of land to Burr W. Paxson, for
S44.99 per acre, situated adjourning
the town.
John NJ. Robinson, leading whole
sale dry goods merchant of Louisville,
KY, is dead. He was born near Win
chester, Va, in 1924, but had resided
in Louisville over fifty years.
The State Board of Pharmacy is in
session in Richmond examining candi-
dates for the practice OF pharmacy.
There are quite number of applicants.
The examinations will occupy day or
two.
Lizzie Walters and Virgil Walton,
who have been imprisoned in the Hen
rico Jail for the past two months on the
charge of having murdered, by poison
ing, Solomon B. Jenkins, were yester-
day set free.
A large batch of executions aggrega-
ting about $4,000 are in the hands Of
the Sheriff of Fauquier county, issued
by the Circuit Court of Roanoke,
against sundry citizens of Warrenton
holding stock in the South Salem Land
Co.
The Tangier oystermen are seeking
the removal Of Captain Read, com.
mander of the State oyster police
steamer Tangier, alleging that he is
negligent in the discharge of his duties.
The Governor will give the matter his
attention.
The largest shipment of kale and
spinach ever made from the Norfolk
county truck fields went forward last
week. Prices, however, hardly pay
for shipping. The green peas are nearly
ready to bloom, and the area cultivated
is about as large as usual. There is
always money for the truckers in peas
and berries.
Capt. James B. Peasants, the white
haired, veteran commanding officer of
the first Richmond police district, was
married at Chase City yesterday, great
ly to the surprise of his friends and
even the men under him. His bride
was Miss Sarah Shackleford, who has
been the captains housekeeper since
the death of his wife several years ago.
A lively fight occurred in one of the
corridors of the Chamber of Commerce
building in Richmond yesterday be-
tween John B. Tillar, manager of the
Equity Building and Loan Association,
and J. P. Mullen, who is connected
with the Fidelity Loan and Invest
ment Company. Tillar, who got the
worst of the fight, had Mullen arrested.
A verdict for $1,000 was rendered in
the United States Court in Lynchburg
yesterday against the Lynchburg Street
Railway Company in favor of Minnie
Ewers's administrator Minnie Ewers,
a little girl Of ten years, was run over
about two years ago and killed by
car of the company in that city, and
her father sued for $4,000, with the
above result.