Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-05-15
VIRGINIA NEWS.

The County Court of Fauquier has
made the Middleburg and Plain Turn
pike a county road; nc tolls are collect
ed now.
Mr.. c. S. Sherwood, president of the
Portsmouth city council, has resigned
and Vice President John ]. King has
elected to the vacancy.
The wheat crop is the best in Orange
county for years. A much larger acre.
age was planted last fall than usual
and the stand is very vigorous.
The Virginia Cress Company is the
name of the Q corporation chartered
in Roanoke. The business of the cor
poration Is to cultivate and sell water
cress.
Henry Dawson, colored, alias Dor
sey, was arraigned in Norfolk yester-
day IN the charge of criminally as.
saulting a t~en-year-old daughter of
Moses Peterson.
The farm of A. s. Jones, near Rapi.
dan station, was sold at public auction
Wednesday, by John G. Williams,
trustee. H. T. Holiday purchaser, at
S3S.75 per acre.
The Confederate Memo rial Day cele-
bration in Portsmouth yesterday was
large and imposing, the military com.
panies and Confederate camps turning
out with full ranks, headed by the
Naval Post Band. Capt. J. J. Bur-
roughs, of Norfolk, delivered the ora
ton. Rear Admiral George Brown
and other naval officers were present.
Dismissal from the army is the SEN
tence of the court martial in the case of
Capt. Henry Romeyn, but this is &C.
companied by q recommendation for
mercy. The offense of which the dough-
ty captain vas convicted was that of
knocking down First Lieut.. M. j.
O'Brien on the parade ground at Fort
Mcpherson, Georgia, in the presence of
the soldiers.
The Riga Creek Gold Mining Com
pany has been incorporated in Orange
county, with E. G. Rosenzie, of Phila.
delphia, as president. The company
has commenced operations on the farm
of L. L. Coleman, near Unionville.
Mr.. Rosenzie has also purchased the
farms of w. Preston Sanders and Chas.
j.. Young in Orange county, which are
said to have rich gold beds or them.
Capt. VIM. Watson Tayleure, q Con-
federate veteren, died on Wednesday
at his home in Brooklyn, aged seventy
three years. He fought in a Virginia
regiment all through the civil war and
was twice wounded. He was brother
of the late Clifton Tayleure, the play.
wright. For several years he had been
the manager of Alfred T. Whites
model tenement houses in Brooklyn.
! A bowling dog in q field several
miles below Richmond belonging to
George Boltz, a well-known Main
street confectioner, attracted the atten-
ton of a passer-by yesterday and he
found the dead body of Mr.. Boltz lying
in the clover. The confectioner occa-
sionally spent several days at a time at
| his farm and had not been missed. The
coroner's jury decided that death,
which occurred two days ago, was due
to apoplexy.
In the United States Circuit Court in
Richmond yesterday, Judge Simonton
sitting, the jury brought in a verdict in
favor of the defendant in the case of
D. A. Gregory, of the Kelley Cure es-
adjustment, of Ashland, against the
National Insurance Company. This
| verdict vas rendered in accordance
with instructions from the court. A
motion for q new trial was taken under
advissment by Judge Simonton. This
case was argued yesterday by able
counsel from Baltimore and Richmond.
An order was entered in the Law
and Equity Court in Richmond yester-
day finally disposing of the famous
suit of Seldom and Rosenbaum, grow
ing out of the purchase Of futures in
| Richmond and Danville stock. This
case vas recently decided by the Su-
preme Court of Appeals in favor of the
| Seldom administrators. Execution was
Yesterday given for 500, 15S.S4, which
was paid by defendant. Since this liti-
CATION began q dozen years ago both of
the principals have died and all of the
leading counsel originally employed
in the case. The money goes to MIR.
Seddon's administrator.
Ezra Leslie, q young man from
Franklin county, met with q peculiar
experience at Roanoke Thursday night.
He was on a visit to his aunt, Mrs.
Jane Leslie, and about midnight was
awakened by a sharp burning sensa-
ton in his foot. He bore the pain I'M
til morning, when on examination he
found his foot much swollen and with
a bullet wound just below the ankle.
Upon looking around the room he dis
covered a hole in the window-pane
made by a pistol ball, showing plainly
that the shot had been fired from a hill
Just across the street from the resi-
dence. Whether the object of the
shooter was murder is not known.
A SUBSTITUTE TARIFF BILL.
There is some difference of opinion
arono tba ~damocratio m of the