Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-05-06
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Mrs. Elisha Morgan, an old and re-
spected lady, died at Riverton on Mon
day night.
The Lynchburg Fair Association has
decided to hold fair this fall on the
18th, 18th, l4th, and 18th of October.
Governor O'Ferrall returned to Rich
mond yesterday from tour of inspec-
ton over the natural oyster grounds
belonging to Virginia in Chesapeake
Bay.
Virginia and North Carolina tobacco
manufacturers are considerably upset
over the increase of the tax on tobacco,
from 6 to s cents, as proposed in the
new Senate tariff bill.
Judge William Jefferson Jones, OF
Galveston, Texs., died yesterday. He
was born in Caroline county, in 1910.
and went to Texas in 1880 and mad re-
sided in that State continuously since.
Thirty. seven marble stones are being
prepared to mark the graves of Confed-
crate soldiers who fell in the battle Of
New Market May Is, 1864, and are
buried in st. Matthew Lutheran grave.
yard.
Mrs. John Stephens, of Hoboken, n.
j., was married on last Wednesday, in
New York, to Mr.. Lewis Hyde, prom
inent lawyer. Mrs. Stephens was
formerly Miss Mary Mcclure, of Clarke
county.
At Stanton yesterday in Emmanuel
Episcopal Church, Mrs. Eliza DANGER
field Fisher, daughter of Captain Leroy
Daingerfeld, of that city, was married
to Rev. John S. Alfriend, rector of the
churches at Saltville and Marion.
Hon. Taylor Ellyson hos no idea Of
resigning the craftsmanship of the State
Democratic Committee, as some of his
opponents think he should do because
of his candidacy for Governor. He in
tends, however, to take no advantage
from his craftsmanship.
The trustees of the Virginia Union
University have indorsed the project
of moving Wayland Seminary, colored
from Washington 10 Richmond. The
board purchased five acres of additional
land on the Brook road, near Richmond,
making site of twenty-four acres in all.
Work on the new buildings will begin
his summer.
Nearly three thousand bluefsh have
been brought into port by the coast fish
ing vessels and shipped away. The blue
fish season is over here now, The fish
having gone further north on the coast.
The smacks will follow, so that there
will soon be no more arrivals here.
Green turtles are reported abundant in
the waters between the two capes.
George E. Crawford, the real estate
agent and broker, who was arrested in
Richmond Tuesday night for the en-
bezzlement of SO, 800 intrusted to him
by Mrs. Catherine Peyonnet, was re-
fused bail by the Police Justice yester-
day, but was taken on writ of habeas
corpus before Judge Witt, of the Hus-
tings Court, who agreed to release
Crawford on 5000 bond.
The Virginia Company, corporation
once connected with the Norfolk and
Western Railway Company and own
ing much valuable property in South
west Virginia, will, it is said, soon wind
up its affairs. As this will necessitate
the sale or transfer of Hotel Roanoke,
Maple Shade Inn at Pulaski, Bluefeld
Inn at Blue6eld. w. Va, and other
very valuable property in the Roanoke
section, much interest is felt there in the
matter.
Judge James Keith. president of the
Court of Appeals, and Mr.. W. W. Scott,
the State Librarian, met Col. John Muir
ply and Mr.. G. Roddy Tenser al
Murphy's Hotel in Richmond Tuesday
night and played game of whist to de
ternine which pair were the better
players. The game resulted in favor of
Messrs. Murphy and Tenser. There
were twenty boards played and the
score was 10 to in their favor, The
victory was. consequently, II points.
A letter from Richmond says: The
constitutional convention appears to
have been lost sight of in the agitation
of more attractive questions. Just what
will be the fate of the proposition to call
a convention no one can with any degree
of certainty predict. While it would
appear upon the surface that the scheme
is almost certain of defeat,- the reverse
result need not surprise any one. The
vote is going to be small one and but
comparatively few republicans are like.
ly to 60 to the polls for in many coun-
ties they have no candidates,