Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-03-03
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Mr.. Richmond f. Pegram died in
Norfolk yesterday.
Colonel John W. Richardson, who
has been le~gislated out of the position
of register OF the land Office, will be APP
pointed to q clerkship in the Office OF
the secretary of the commonwealth.
Mr.. Robert Skidmore, an aged and
highly esteemed citizen Of Stafford, died
at his home near Lance, that county,
yesterday, aged about se~venty-tive. a
wife and several children survive him.
The indications are that Mr.. John
w. CAST, Of Portsmouth, will be reap
pointed to his former office of super
vising Inspector of boilers and hrlls for
the Norfolk district, which includes
Baltimore.
John P. Clayton, a well known dry
goods merchant Of Bedford City, wa
found dead in his bed yesterday morn
ing at his home there. Mr.. Clayton re-
tired in apparent good health. He was
SO years of age and single.
Mr.. Ernest S. Strayer, of Harrison
burg, the clerk to the Attorney Gene
raj, resigned yesterday because the leg
stature reduced the salary Of his Office
to 5000. Mr.. d. A. Richie, of Rich
mond, succeeds Mr.. Strayer.
The stained, glass window to be
placed in St. Paul's Church, Richmond,
to the memory of President Jefferson
Davis is to be unveiled with interesting
exercises on Easter Sunday. Some
distinguished dlvines will be invited to
preach, and an appropriate musical pre-
gramne will be rendered by the vested
choir.
A dipatch from Richmond says "The
expenses of the trip of Hon. Joseph
w. Bailey to Richmond when he
addressed the legislature for three hours
on the silver question will be paid by
the State, the Legislature having decid.
ed by its refusal to adopt a resolution
to the country that such action would
be proper"
In the Maryland House of Delegates
yesterday Mr.. Gould introduced q bill
granting the Herndon and Aide Rail-
road Company the right to build,
equip and operate q railroad from a
point on the Potomac river in Mont
gomery county to the main stem of the
Baltimore and Ohio and to bridge the
Potomac at u point west Of the District
of Columbia and east of Great Falls.
William Felty, q prosperous farmer,
who recently became insane, and who
was taken from Bristol to the asylum
at Marion, Wednesday night, jumped
from a third -5tory window Of the asy-
lum building yesterday and was in.
stantly killed. His insanity was due
to religious excitement. He leaves q
wife and six children.
Ia the fifth annual tourney Of the
Fairweather Gymnastic Association at
the University Of Virginia yesterday
evening the championship and all
around medal was awarded to w. L..
Powell, of Winchester, with r. w.
Durrett, of Albemarle, second. La the
fence vault Wallace, center rush on the
university football eleven, broke the
record, clearing the pole at seven feet
two inches.
Mr.. Bowden, the republican national
committeeman of Virginia, yesterday
presented to the President the papers
of Edmund Waddill, jr., of Richmond,
for federal judge to succeed Judge
Robt. Hughes, who will retire on the
18th of March. The application is sign
ed by Yirginians of all parties and
classes, and it is claimed that there is
no doubt that Mr.. Waddill will receive
the nomination.
Active preparations are in progress
among those in the lower counties who
engage in trap fishing. 1t is said that
the business of catching fish by this
method will begin earlier this year
than usual. The catching Of cells will
probably be a new enterprise in the
fishing line along the creeks this
spring. A northern party recently
captured SIS worth of eels from the
bottom of shallow creek by drawing
them out of holes by means of a spear.
The work was accomplished in q few
hours.
George W. Flanagan, of King George
county, an ex-Confederate soldier, was
taken suddenly i'll early yesterday
morning, at the home of DR.. T. T. Ar
mold, near King George Court House,
and ia q few moments was apparently
dead. He was laid out, his coffin order
ed, and preparations were being made
for the funeral, when he showed signs
of life. He had been in a trance, and is
now alive and well. Mr.. Flanagan felt
none the worse after his recovery and
expresses himself as deYoutly thankful
that the trance did not last longer.