Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-03-08
VIRGINIA NEWS.

to the pastorate OF the LeesDurg anu
North Fork Baptist churches.
DIR. E. F. Snead, a prominent ply
sician of L~ynchbuIg, died on Saturday
OF heart trouble. aged As years.
Friends of Hon. Claude A. Swar-
son, Congressman from the Fifth dis
trict, talk of urging his nomination as
the democratic candidate for governor.
The plant of Yost's Weekly was sold
at Staunton on Saturday at auction to
E. G. Newton & Co., of Washington,
for $500, about one-ffth of its original
cost.
Rev. E. H. Green, who was recently
called to the rectorship of Trinity
Church, Fredericksburg, oficiated yes
terday at both the morning and evening
services.
David Harrison, of Shenandoah
county, sold last week for shipment to
Baltimore twenty head of cattle, which
averaged 1,649 pounds. Seventeen of
these cattle averaged 1877 pounds.
Mr.. Levi w. Scoville, manager ofthe
Greenbrier White Sulphur Springs, is
in a hospital there, suffering from effu-
sion of the spine. He has lost the use
of his legs and arms. He is a very i'll
man, and it is feared that he will not
recover from this recent attack.
Mr.. George E. Paynter, secretary Of
the board of fire commissioners and
assistant superintendent of fire alarm
department of Richmond, died at the
Virginia Hospital on Saturday night,
while suffering from an operation for
appendicitis, performed on him Friday
night.
The wealthy Episcopal parish OF
Christ Church, Norfolk, has established
a useful charity in that city. 1t is a
day nursery, where mothers who work
away from their houses may leave their
infants TO be cared for in their absence.
The institution has been chartered at
$4,000.
j. NJ. Hamlin, vino disappeared from
his home, near Richmond, d week ago,
mas been found in Toledo, Ohio, his
old home. He left while suffering alb
erration of mind, due, it was thought,
to the effects of Il snake bite years ago,
he having these symptoms OF every Ia
niversary of the bite.
S. T. V. Dorset, aged sixty.nine,
J committed suicide with a razor, at his
home, in Powhatan, on Friday, while
suffering alteration of mind by disease.
His father was a minister, and Rev.
Watson Dorset, a we'll known minister,
is his son. The deceased was a Con-
frderate veteran.
1t is quite certain now that the Vir-
ginia Agricultural Society will not at
tempt another State exposition at Rich
mond. The debt is S6S,000, and, as
heretofore stated, the grounds will be
cold. The land will be cut up into
building lots and sold. 1t is expected
that $4,000 will be realized in this
way.
Captain Warren S. Lurty is authori.
ty for the statement that General Jas.
A. Walker will not run for governor.
The captain says the general has as
sured him hat he will not enter the
race. Captain Lurty, who is q candi-
date, says he has the support of Gen.
Walker and nearly all of the other
party leaders.
William H.. Benson, one of Rich
mond's aged and respected citizens,
died on Saturday, in the eighty-seventh
year Of his age. Mr.. Benson was born
in Baltimore and went to Richmond
sixty-fve years ago. He celebrated
his golden wedding six years ago, his
wife dying two months later. He was
an intimate friend of Edgar Allan Poe.
There promises to be q lively contest
for the position Of superintendent Of
schools for Stafford county. George
NJ. Weldon, the present incumbent, is
a candidate for reappointment. Other
candidates already announced are
Capt. Dan NJ. Lee, brother of General
Fifzhuch Lee, Justice R. G. Fitzhugh,
r. r. Grogan, and it is thought there
will be others.
The charters Of the following Roa-
noke social clubs were Cancelled on
Saturday by order of Judge Woods, of
the Hastings Court, On motion of Com.
monwealth's Attorney Lyle: Me-
chanics, Arlington, Magic City, Roa-
noke, Piedmont, Eureka, Home, ALE
ghany and Belmont Clubs. The war
on unlicensed Sunday drinking places
in that city, which began about two
years ago, is thus brought to a close.