Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-08-12
VlRG Ma NEWS.

A free mail delivery system will he
established iu Winchester on October j..
The Culpeper Colt and Horse Club
hold their Ut xt meeting on August 10th,
and 18th, at Montevisto Park, at Gull
pepper.
1t is reported that the Virginia-Caro.
lima Fertilizer Company has purchased
the four large plants of the Southern
Fertilizer Company in Georgia.
MIR. T. B Jones, of King Geors Q
county, has turkey hen with the re
markable record of laying lO4 eggs in
about the same number of days.
Mr.. Charles T. Brown, manager Of
the Robert Portner Brewing Company
in Richmond, who has been quite iii
with appendicitis, is greatly improved
Judge ]. NJ. Hobson, the father
Lieut.. Richmond P. Hobson, was yes
terday given an appointment by the
President as postmaster of Greenboro,
Ala.
Governor Tyler has granted pardon
to Morton Haines, convicted in Stafford
county of murder in the second degree
and sentenced to serve FIVE years in the
State prison.
Mr.. Richard Miles Cary, a prominent
educator and younger brother of Col.
John B. Cary, who died in Richmond
in January last, died in Pensacola, Fla,
| Wednesday night.
1t is understood that Gen. Edgar Alt
lap, of Richmond, will soon be appoin'-
ed United States attorney for the East
ern district of Virginia. Mr.. w. H
White, of Norfolk, gold democrat, "
is the district attorney at present.
A telegram was received in Win
chester yesterday announcing the death
Wednesday in Salt Lake City, Utah
of Howard B. Gather, formerly a prom
inent citizen OF Frederick county. Mr.
Gather had been in i'll health for some
time. He left wife and one son.
Attorney Montague has returned
to Richmond from Washington whittier
he had gone 10 confer with the official
of the War Department relative to The
recent disturbance at Camp Alger and
General Buffers severe condemnation
of the Third Virginia. Mr.. Montague
is confident that the searching investi-
cations promised by the authorize:
will show that great injustice has beer
done tire organization.
The fifteenth annual reunion of thu
survivors OF the Clarke Cavalry was hello
Wednesday by invitationat the residence
of its president, Mr. Thomas J. Russell
near Berlyville. The committee ap'
pointed for the purpose ofrsising funds
| for the erection OF a monument to the
memory of the cavalry dead reporle1
that about $500 had been subscribed
, and that the efforts 10 securing ad
ditional contributions were meeting
with much success.
The cases of the twenty-six trap fish
ermen indicted for fishing with traps in
the Potomac river during the months
of March, April and May without pay
ing the license tax prescribed by the
General Assembly of Virginia during
the last session, will come up at Heaths-
vile, Northumberland county, the first
Saturday in September The majority
of the fishermen are determined moi
to pay the tax, and will appeal the case
| if Judgment is against them.
A telegram from Philadelphia say;
there were more Grand Army men al
Washington Park yesterday than al
any time during the reunion of the
blue and the gray" Yet at the camp,
fire only 600 people were present, and
the park authorities say that only
1000 people passed the turnstiles du'
ring the afternoon. Mr.. Thompson
the proprietor of Washington Park, is
highly indignant at the failure OF the
Grand Army men to attend the reunion
and at the most meagre turnout in the
parade of Monday last.