Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-02-02
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Oaplalu AuUToW y. DuCtS, SUCCESS
full business men of Stanton, died yes
terday.
A bill is to be introduced in the legis.
lature providing that the msmbers
shall serve without pay.
Isadore Cohen, clothier, made an as
Segment at Staunton yesterday. The
liabilities are about So 500.
Nine prisoners, by the use of file,
broke out of the Norfolk county Jail
last night and escaped to the woods
Captain Robert Tyler Bland, for
years prominent in Virginia politics,
died at his home in Middlesex county
yesterday.
Major Flave Love, of Washington,
has purchased the DR.. German proper
ty, near Purcellville, a house and 40
acres of ground, for 81 900.
Rev. James NJ. Rawlings died sud-
denly at his home in Charlottesville
yesterday. He was born in Louisa
county 6fty.three years ago.
Miss Ida NJ. Glover and Mr.. II. Nc.
Kelden Smith were married yesterday
at the residence Of the brides mother,
Mrs. Eugenia Glover, at Berryville.
Just after o'clock yesterday even
ing fire was discovered issuing from
the roof of the Governors Mansion in
Richmond. The flames were soon put
out, and little damage was done. II
had its origin in one of the chimneys
of the mansion.
There is a mad.dog scare in many
parts of Spottsylvania county. Anum-
Der of dogs, sheep and cattle have been
bitten by rabid dogs in the Goodwin
neighborhood, and calf belonging to
Mr.. Hosie Carr manifests unmislakable
symptoms of hydrophobia.
Sheriff J. Il. Meade, of Russell
county, has written the Governor that
there is smallpox at Coburn, in Wise
county, and wants the town quaran-
tined. The Governor replied that the
local authorities had the right to de-
clare quarantine at any time, when, 10
their judgment, it was needed.
Harry Mitchell, alias Harry West, a
young white man employed in the bar
Der shop of A. w. Grossman, at Manas.
sas, was arrested in Warrenton yester-
day on warrant issued in Prince Will.
liam county, charging him with the
felony, of a kit OF barber's tools, belong
ing to Grossman and valued at S54.
Samuel Saunders, conductor on the
Newport News, Hampton and Old Point
Electric Railway, committed suicide
yesterday by taking ten grains of strych-
nine. He was found in his room at a
boarding house in commissions. He
had So, 900 in cash, and owned consid-
cradle real estate. Unrequited love
was the cause.
Judge o. B. Gwathmey, of the coun-
ty court of King William, has written
Gov. Tyler that he has asked for no in
crease of salary. and will be glad if he
will look carefully into the bill now
in his hands granting to the Board of
Supervisors the power to make such
Increase, as he thinks it may be inimical
to section % of article at the consti.
tuition.
Senator John W. Daniel will, during
the next season, devote himself to the
lecture platform when the Senate is
not in session. He last night in Wash
ington signed a contract with the
Southern Lycenm Bureau, of Louis
vile, KY, to deliver series of lectures
under its direction before the assem-
bling of Congress and after the close of
its session.
Col. Robert W. Eastman, who shot
Frank E. Thompson and is now serv-
ing q two-yesr sentence in the Tucker
county, W. Va, Jail, for involuntary
msnslaughter was stricken with paraly.
sis Sunday, and is unable to move or
speak. The physicians and his friends
are fearful as to the outcome. Colonel
Eastman has been a sufferer from
for some time.
The police department of Norfolk is
engaged in diligent search for Miss
Nessie Mundane, young lady of Eliz.
abeth City, N. c.. who has mysterious
" disappeared. Her friends are great
" alarmed about her and fear that she
has met with foul play. She left Eliza
beth City last Wednesday and from the
time she boarded the train for Norfolk
all trace of her disappeared. Her
friends, whom she was to visit in Nor
folk, could find no trace of her, and
there is absolutely no clew to her pres.
emit whereabouts.