Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-10-17

S. W. Gerhart, drygoods merchant o
Lynchburg, made an assignment yes
day.
Richmond's splendid hotel, the JET
f-rson, which cost about 81, zoo, 600 il
nearl. ready for occupancy.
Hon. Josiah Quincy was in Freder
ic<sburg yesterday making invcstiga
lions 10 the interest of New England
parties interested in industrial devel
opment in Fredericksburg.
Rev. Robert K. Msssie has beer
constrained to send in his resignation
as a member of the China mission
This is made necessary by the fact tina
his wife's physicians say that hel
health will not permit her to return Il
China.
The man who was found in an in
.nsible condition in car in Petersburg
Tuesday night and who died shortly
afterwards from the effects of his in
juries, was w. M. Wood, of Washing
ton. Three arrests were made yestei.
day in connection with the murder.
The immense number of colored con.
victs in the Virginia penitentiary is
used as an argument that the means Of
education has not tended to decrease
crime among that race in this State.
Governor O'Ferrell may discuss this
feature in his forthcoming message 10
the Legislature.
Information from the oyster region
of the lower Rappahannock is that the
demand for oysters is greater shan ever
before, and the unusual sight of thir.
teen schooners buying oysters at one
time was seen at Carter's creek last
Thursday. Oysters are very poor as
yet, owing to the excessively dry
summer.
Judge S. Basett French, of Manches-
ter, at one time private secretary to the
late Gen. Malone, was stricken with
paralysis yesterday while on visit to
Amelia county. Judge French was
elected corporation Judge of Manchester
by the readjuster legislature of 1881
'S2. He was an intimate personal
friend of the late Senator Malone and
associated with him during the read
juster movement. He is widely known
in this State.
Mr.. S. q Leszypsky, vice-president
and manager of the Virginia, Freder-
icksburg and Western Railroad Com
pany, and Hon. w. A. Little, jr., of
Fredericksburg, counsel for the road,
were in Richmond yesterday confer
ring with contractors in reference to
the construction of the road from Fred
ericksburg to the Chesapeake bay.
The gentlemen also conferred with the
Richmond, Fredericksburg and Po-
tomac Railroad Company touching
connections and traffic arrangements
with that road.
Something of stir was created at
Four-Mile Creek Baptist Church, in
Henrico county, on Saturday. by
a proposition for the southern mem.
bers of the congregation to with
draw. The proposition was the re-
suit of the submission to the congre-
CATION of letter containing charges
against Constable Samuels, one of its
members. Mr.. Samuels and a western
settler named Foster some time ago
engaged in difficulty. The church,
after lively discussion, acquitted Mr..
Samuels. As the meeting was about to
adjourn Mr.. Samuels got up and sub
mitted a motion to the effect that all
those of the congregation of southern
birth should withdraw and form an in
dependent congregation. The matter
was not acted upon, but as a goodly
proportion of the members are settlers
from northern and western States, the
proposed division has created consider
able feeling aud a rupture seems immi.
aent.