Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-05-14
VIRGINIA NEWS.
Thomas Brown was appointed post
master at Hamilton yesterday.

Lexington is to be formally accepted
with interesting ceremonies June 2.
Moses Scott died at his home in Up
| perville on Saturday. He was In
doubleday the Oldest citizen in the
community, being about ninety years
old.
The annual competition for the Boyl-
ston prizes for defamation at Harvard
College was held yesterday. w. T. D.
Williams, a7, of Wildwood, Va, Won a
second prize.
The committee appointed by the last
legislature to visit States in which there
are institutions for the cur of epilepsy,
yesterday visited Johns Hopkins Hos
pital, Baltimore.
The Richmond tobacco manufacturers
| in session at the Tobacco Exchange
| yesterday arranged for organized effort
against the proposed increased two per
! cent. tax on tobacco.
The railroad shops at Shenandoah
closed down last Saturday. ALI work
formerly done at Shenandoah has been
transferred to Roanoke. Only a small
| force is left in the roundhouse.
One of the three children of Mr.. Geo.
/ Tankard, of Northampton county, who
were bitten some weeks ago by a mad
/ dog, has been attacked by hydrophobia
and is suffering from commissions every
| hour.
The forty-eighth commencement OF
| the School of Medicine of GEORGETOWN
University was held last night. Among
the graduates were Raphael Augustine
| Edmunston and Samuel Booders Moore,
| of Virginia.
In the case of G. F. Muse VS.. the
Southern Railway in the Circuit Court
Of Charlottesville yesterday the jury
allowed damages amounting to $500, the
action for damages growing out of the
building of o trestle on the plaintiffs
lands.
Dispositions were taken at Stras-
burg yesterday in the case of the
Corporation VS.. the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Company. for failure to run
trains into that town. The case will be
| heard before the Court of Appeals at
Wytheville next month.
The Union, published at Luray, Page
county, says "Up to date there has
never been a better outlook for a big
wheat crop in this county than there is
this year. 1t is well advanced, has
strong and vigorous stalks, good color
| and gives every indication of a big
yield"
The trial of John w. Rosser at Camp
] bell Courthouse on the charge of par
I iicipating in an attempt to lynch the
negro William Clement resulted yester-
day in a hung jury, ten for acqnittal
aud two for conviction. The case Of
Ben. Terrill, colored, on the same
! charge. has been continued.
1t was announced in Newport News
| yesterday that Miss Lizzie Clark,
of that city, one Of Virginia's
most beautiful daughters, and Mr..
| Douglas Gordon, of Baltimore,
Gre to be married there June
80. Miss Clark was chosen to repre-
sent Virginia at the Confederate reunion
in Birmingham three years ago.
Judge Paul, of the United States
Court at Abingdon, yesterday set aside
the verdict against Colonel William
| Green, of Lee county, for m year in
The penitentiary for illicit distilling, and
committed him to Jail for three months.
Colonel Green commanded q regiment
in the Confederate army. The courts
leniency is very favorably commented
on.
Thomas J. Meyers, chief of police Of
Wytheville, was yesterday sentenced to
three months confinement in Jail, and
10 pay q fine of 800 for killing Tom
Johnson, q negro porter ola Wytheville
hotel, several months ago. The negro
resented rough treatment from Meyers
| while under arrest, and q fight ensued.
| While they were being separated by
the hotel proprietor, Meyers shot the
negro.
A dispatch from Richmond says Gen.
| Lees friends there do not think he
would accept the presidency Of the Uni
versity of Virginia for that would mean
his retirement from politics, whereas,
he has made up his mind fully to OPP
pose Mr.. Martin for the United States
Senate. 1t is said to be the height OF
the generals ambition to defeat MIR.
Martin and to become the head of the
University would hardly be sufficient
inducement for him to surrender this
cherished ambition.
The anniversary of the death of Gen.
"Stonewall" Jackson was celebrated at
Berryville on Monday. The exercises
were under the auspices of J. E. B.
Stuart Camp. Gen. Thos. T. Munford,
of Lynchburg, was the orator Of the
occasion. General Munford chose as
his subject 1.-THE Life of 'Stonewall'
Jackson" combining his remarks chiefly
to that portion of Jackson's life when
he was at the Virginia Military Insti-
tute and to his famous valley cam
paign. General Munford's intimate as
ISOLATION with Jackson, both in peace
and war, enabled him to present to his
audience phases of his character un-
known to them and as yet unwritten
in history, and his address was thor
oughly enjoyed by all present.
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