Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-07-30
VIRGINIA NEWS.

The Portsmouth Insurance and Bank
ing Company has gone into liquidation
The Merritt Wrecking Company ex-
petition to Santiago left Portsmouth
yesterday afternoon on the German
steamer Senior.
Yesterday Miss Maggie Chinault
daughter of Mr.. T. A. Chinault, died al
her home near Guinea's, in Caroline
county, aged 10 years.
The Potomac Baptist Association
meets with Remington Church next
Thursday, August 4th, and will con-
tinue in session three days.
The Blue Ridge Hunt Club have an.
nounced that they will hold their sec
ond meet of this season at Carter Hall
Grove, Clarke county, on August IL.
Mr.. Wellington Johnston, promi-
nent young man of Spottsylvania
county, died yesterday at the home OF
his brother, near New Store, of typhoid
fever.
Mr.. John Burkholder, a prominent
citizen of Rockingham county, died on
Wednesday, in his S9th year, at his res
idence, Fort Lynne" about three
miles from Harrisonburg.
The Old Dominion Steamship Com
pany closed g contract yesterday with
the Merritt Wrecking Company to
raise the burned stesme' Northampton,
which is sunk in the Eastern Branch
near Norfolk.
President Ingalls,, OF the Chesapeake
and Ohio Railroad, says that the
changes in the freight department al
Richmond by the removal of q part OF
the force to Cincinnati will not prove
detrimental to the business interests OF
Richmond.
The Front Royal and Winchester
turnpike, which runs between Win
chester and Front Royal, a distance of
% miles, was sold yesterday to the
county of Frederick. The considera
ton was $500. No tolls will be charged
in the future on this road.
I'D. Fauntleroy and three assistants,
recruiting officers of the Third Reei
ment United States Volunteer Eugi'
neers, were in Bedford county last
week making al effort to secure men.
Their trip, however, was not very sue
cessful, as no one expressed willing
ness to go.
The acting adjutant general has re-
ceived an inlimation from the War De-
partment authorities at Washington
that the money advanced by Governor
TYLER for the purchase Of shoes for Vir-
GINA troops before their departure from
the State camp at Richmond and other
similar claims will be paid by the gov
eminent.
Several questionsi of minor interest
arose in connection with the recent
work of the State board of education.
A representative of the American Book
Company appealed to the Governor as
a member of the board to reopen the
question of continuing the McGufey
readers furnished by that company.
The Governor, however, felt that all
parties in interest had been afforded the
ampliest hearing during the three
weeks sitting of the board and was not
willing to consent to reopening of any
case.
The First district republican Congressional
committee have selected Tappahannock as the
place and September 13 as the time for hold
ing the convention of the party to nominate
candidate for Congress. Those whose names
will probably be placed before the convention
are Judge F. l.. Taylor, of Gloucester county;
Elliott DeJarnette, of Caroline county j. P.
Bristow, of Middlesex county; I. Spicer Cur
lett, of Lancaster county, ana :. u. Lee, the
we'll knowa coiored politician OF Gloucester
county.
Mr.. Edgar Allan declines to he candidate
for Congress from the Richmond district.
This leaves Mr.. Otis II. RUSSELL as the only
republican candidate. he is the most popu-
lar and the strongest man they can run.