Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-02-18
VIRGINIA NEWS.


bill before the Legislature to enlarge
the size of truck barrels.
The Governor has appointed DIR. j..
s. Hope quarantine officer for the port
of Norfolk aud Portsmouth.
The capacity of the Washington
Wooden Mills, at Fredericksburg, is be-
ing increased nearly one-half.
The only case heard by the Court OF
Appeals at Richmond yesterday Was
that of Nye VS.. Lovett, which was al
gued aud submitted.
East Hanover Presbytery yesterday
dissolved the pastoral relations between
Rev, DR.. A. P. Saunders and the Pres
byterian church at Fredericksburg.
"Mountain View the farm of the
late Joseph Nichols, in Loudoun coun-
ty, containing 800 acres, has been sold
by the heirs to Samuel N. Brown Tor
$1,000 cash.
The workmen in the iron mine near
Broad Run are now getting out some
very rich ore and will increase their
force next week, and they expect a
large output.
AT the recent wedding supper OF John
r. Ayers ham twenty-three years old
was served at Fredericksburg. The
hog was killed the day Mr.. Ayers was
bora and the ham had been kept TOR
his wedding feast.
The house of the custodian of the
Mary Washington Monument has re,
Gently beeo completed, and fund oil
$1,000 invested as permanent sum for
keeping the monument and grounds IN
order.
The Richmond common council has
made an appropriation of of SlO, OOO Tor
the entertainment of visitors to that
CITY on the occasion of the reunion OF
the Confederate Veterans, June 81 to
July , inclusive.
DR.. Richard Eppes, aged about
seventy-seven years, and one OF the
wealthiest and most prominent ply,
sicians of Prince George county, died
at his home near City Point yesterday
after brief illness.
The residence of Mr.. Alexander Sc
gar, who lives near Whitewater, Stat,
ford county, was burned to the ground
last Thursday night. Mr.. Segar man,
aged to save the most of his household
goods. He has the sympathy of that
community.
Miss Margaret Polk Logan, daughter
of General Thomas NJ. Logan, of New
York city aud Buckingham county,
and Mr.. J. Hartwell Cabell, formerly
of Virginia, but now lawyer of Gin
ciunali, were married at Wilmington,
Del, on yesterday.
The hog cholera is proving quite de-
strucive to swine in Clarke county
MIR. O. J. Hardesty has lost 80 hogs,
some of them large enough for butcher
ing, and his neighbors have lost about
| 40 head. Mr.. D. +. Meade has also
lost about so head.
TIE Governor yesterday appointed
Messrs. r. Tate Irving, of Big Stone
Gap Joseph Bryan, of Richmond; w;
B. McIlwaine, of Petersburg, and
Daniel Harmon, of Charlottesville,
members of the board of visitors to the
University of Virginia.
Mr.. Robert Beverly, jr., has sold and
is now shipping from his Blan6eld farm,
on the Rappahannock river, 10 Essex
county, $500 bushels of corn for seed to
90 to Germany. This special variety OF
corn is used there as seed for raising en-
ilage. and it is the custom to send to
this country for it every year.
The government has purchased q
tract of land about three miles south OF
the Norfolk navy-yard, on the south
ern branch of the Elizabeth river, for
the sum of $4,000, which it intends
utilizing as site for the erection of the
United States naval magazine when
Craney Island, the present magazine, is
abandoned.
Senator Stubs, chairman of the
special committee charged with the in
vestieation of Mr.. Randolph's charges
against the management OF the Deaf,
Dumb and Blind Institution, is absent
from Richmond with committee visit
ing schools and colleges. 1t is not
known when there will be another
meeting of the special committee.
Rev ]. K. Mason, DID,, will officiate
at St. James's Episcopal Church, Rich
mond. as its rector for the last time,
Sunday, April -. His resignation.
which was submitted to the yestry Of
st. James's Church Thursday night and
has been accepted, takes effect April 10,
when DR.. Mason will resume the rec.
torship of st. Andrews Church, Louis
vile, KY.
An increase of one thousand dollars
a dav over 1895 is the record that the
revenue service of the Western dis.
trict is making at present. For the
month of January the increase was
s26. 900, nearly one thousand dollars
dav. and since the first of February the
increase has been up to the one thous-
and mark every day. The gain since
the first of October has been at least
$91 900.
The first snow storm of the season
began at Norfolk about o'clock last
night. The weather all day had been
bitter cold, but moderated toward even
ing, when snow began to fall. At l a.
m. the snow was still falling, with no
sign of abatement, and the ground was
sheeted to the depth of several inches.
Snow is reported in other parts of the
State while the mercury dropped to
within few degrees of zero at several
places.
The following are the members of the
hoard of visitors of the Virginia Military
Institute: Messrs. S. 81. Letcher, of
Lexington Peter Henson, of Martins
vile. and G. Percy HAYES. of Rich