Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-06-11
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Capt. E. P. Reeves, we'll known
druggist of Richmond, died in that city
yesterday.
The wire is being hung on the new
telephone line between Upperville and
Delaplane, which will soon be in
operation.
Rev DR.. Moses D. Hoge has gone
from Richmond to the White Sulphur
to spend a week, as the guest of DR..
Hunter Mcclure.
Mr.. Fitzhugh Gray, of New Balti-
more, who had been an invalid and a
great sufferer for more than q year,
died the afternoon of the eighth inst.
A call has been issued, signed by
Gen. Hunton, Gen, Payne and others
for the organization of a camp of Con-
federate Veterans in Fauquier county.
The Bank of Louisa has been estab-
lished at Louisa Courthouse and was
formally opened June 9th. 1t has q
capital of SIS 900 and has a branch at
Sulphur Mines in that county.
Rev. T. q. Lacy, evangelist of the
diocese Of Southern Virginia, has &C.
cepted call to the Episcopal Church
in South Boston, and will hereafter de-
vote only half of his time to eyangelistic
work.
Col. John P. Fitzgerald, one of the
most prominent lawyers of the State,
past grand master of the Knights of
Honor and well known Mason, died
at his home in Farmville yesterday
after a short illness. The deceased had
been in i'll health for some years past.
The Upperviile Colt Show, of which
Col. Richard h. Dulany is president
and z. S. Gochnauer, esq, secretary,
will be held at Grafton Hall, formerly
known as No. 6 farm, Wednesday and
Thursday, June Is and 16. Two thou
sand dollars will be distributed in pre-
miums.
An oil portrait Of Gen. Fitzhugh Lee,
painted from a photograph taken OF
him during the war in the uniform of a
major general of the Confederate
army, and a picture of the General In
the dress of consul of the United States
government, were presented last night
to Lee Camp, at Richmond. The pic
lures are the gift of the friends and
family of Gen. Fitzhugh Lee. Captain
W. Gordon McCabe made the presenta-
ton speech.
Mr.. E. G. Rosenzi, one of the proprie-
tors of the Riga Dalegold mine, in Or.
ange county, says that laboratory will
be constructed there at once, and an
expert assayist is coming to take charge
of it. Three thousand tons of ore have
already been dug out and is ready for
manipulation. The product increases
in richness as the work of digging for
! the precious metal daily progresses.
Eleven tests of the ore have been made
10 Philadelphia with highly satisfactory
results.
Great excitement was created at Fort
Monroe last night by the report
that mysterious feet of ten or
twelve vessels had been revealed
by the searchlight, about thirty
miles to seward, inside the Virginia
Capes. The troops went to quarters
ald every preparation was made to re-
ceive the enemy should it prove to be
a Spanish fleet. The operator at Cape
Henry reported that large German
merchantmen passed the capes inward
bound about that hour, aud it is
| thought the report of the Spanish feet
may be false alarm.
Col. 10 Lane Stern returned to Rich
mond from New York yesterday morn
ing. He went to that city to confer
with influential friends VINO are seek
ing to secure for him an appointment
in the inspecting department of the
army. The colonel received much en-
couragement. Colonel Stern was in
| charge of the adjutant-general's Office
yesterday. He received from the War
Department the blanks to be forwarded
to recruiting officers as soon as they re.
port their arrival at the places desig.
mated for them to open Offices. Capt.
Willard, at Fairfax Court House, and
Captain Rowe, at Fredericksburg, have
informed the acknowledgement that they
are ready for business, and blanks have
been sent to them.
The Petersburg, Va, Iron Works Company
has Just boon awarded another contract by
the United States government, this time for
three hundred and fifty 1.000-pound projec-
tiles The company has just made large
shipment OF immense iron bolts to Fort Mon
roe, to be used in strengthening the fort.