Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-11-01
VIRGINIA NEWS.

The exhibition of the Old Dominion
Poultry and Pigeon Association of Lou
doun county begins to morrow at Ham
ilton.
Mr.. John Withers died Saturday
night at his home near Gsrrisonville,
Stafford county, of typhoid fever, aged
forty years. A widow and several
children survive him.
Governor Tyler yesterday refused to
grant executive clemency to Robert
Morton, the negro who is to be hanged
IN Petersburg next Friday for the muir
der of Tony West Moreland.
The two congregations of Beth Ahaba
and Beth Shalome, the former the lead.
ing Hebrew synagogue of Richmond
and the Oldest there, have about per-
fected plans for consolidation.
DR.. J.St. P. Gibson, one of the leading
physicians of Staunton, died yesterday
after a protracted illness, aged &c years.
He was a native of Culpeper county.
He leaves widow and one son.
Lafayette F. w. Lake, a well-known
farmer of Fauquier county, died at his
home, near Warrenton Sunday night
at very advanced age. He was q
member Of the Masonic Lodge there,
and was given masonic burial.
The smallpox situation at Norfolk
is regarded as serious, the fifteenth
case developing yesterday. In Nor
folk county sixly-iour cases are now in
the pest.house, new patients being
received at the rate of about four a
day.
There is now talk OF extending the
boundary lines OF Newport News south
TO Hampton Roads. At the present
time the city covers about twelve square
miles, and runs south only short dis
lance below the Chesapeake and Ohio
Railroad.
1t was definitely announced at the
| Civil Service Commission yesterday
| that the evidence taken in the recent
investigation of charges against the fed
eral officials at Richmond, Va, had
not been sustained, and no further &C
ton is probable.
Mr.. David Hirsh showed yesterday
nuggets of gold taken from the Kappa
hammock gold mine, in Stafford, amount
ing to $225. This gold was from sur
face washing. 1t is the result OF six
days work by Messrs. W. A. Wise and
DR.. Kuper, who are in charge of the
mine.
The fact that w. r. Trigg, of Rich
mond, who secured government con-
tract to build three torpedo boats and
two destroyers has no place at which to
build the boats, has been called to the
attention of the Navy Department at
! Washington. and 1t is believed there is
Juggling going on.
Mr.. L. r. Coates, of Baltimore, was
in fredericksburg yesterday examin-
ing quarry properties, pear the city. He
! was so pleased with the Bridgewater
quarries, just above the city on the
ppahannock, that he is negotiating
with the owners with the view of de.
veloping and working them.
Attorney General Montague has de-
c;ded to take an appeal tram the deci'
sion OF Judge Wexford directing the
auditor of puplic accounts of Virginia
to honor the warrant of the commits
sioner OF agriculture for $1,000. This
is friendly suit to determine who has
the right to certain funds received from
the ins oection of fertilizers.
a syndicate headed by Mr.. b. Val
entine, president of the Young Mems
Business Association, yesterday filed
with the receivers of the Haxall Mills
in Richmond, an offer to purchase that
historic plant. The price named is
S135, 900 and the receivers will ask the
court to accept it. The syndicate pro-
poses to establish large paper and
pulp mill, with abundant capital back
of it.
Marvin, seven-year-old son of Mr.
Lawrence Thrift, residing near Village,
Northumberland county, met with Sc
rious accident at his home on Sunday
afternoon. An older brother was at
tempting to place him behind buggy,
which was in motion, when Marvin's
leg became entangled in the wheel,
breaking the limb in several places be-
low the knee and tearing nearly all Of
the flesh from the leg His condition
is regarded as serious.