Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-06-07
VIRGINIA NEWS.

| Another local.option election has
been ordered in Westmoreland count =
for June 80. and the campaign is al
ready warming up.
| Ernest Pates, of Spotsylvania, killed
Saturday OF his fathers farm, near
Zian Church, gray eagle measuring 6
feet inches from tip to tip.
Miss Mary Elizabeth Jordan, the &C.
complished daughter of Mrs. NJ. Kate
Jordan, of Washington, Rappahannock
county, and Rev. S. G. Ferguson We
married at noon yesterday in the Metc
dist Episcopal Church at that place.
Rev. Dr.. A. P. Saunders, President
of the Fredericksburg College, has &C.
copied the position rendered him sew
eral weeks ago as financial secretary OF
Central University at Richmond, KY
The present salary will be 81 800 and
all expenses.
Col. 10 Lane Stern, acting adjutant-
general, went from Richmond to New
YORK Sunday night to confer with some
friends who are urging his appointment
as an officer in the army with the duties
of inspector general. Col. Cowardin ii
acting acknowledgement.
Early peaches in Caroline, Spotsyl
vania and other counties in that section
are beginning to drop from the trees
and it. is feared that most of the croI
was damaged by the cold weather in the
early part Of the season, so that but
little, if any of it, will mature.
A dispatch from Richmond says
Rev. Frank Stringfelow, the famous
Confederate scout, who was recently
appointed chaplain of the Fourth Regi-
ment, arrived here last night and re-
ported to the Adjutant Generals office
and received his commission. He will
leave to day or tomorrow for Jackson.
vile.
The Business Mems Association OIL
fredericksburg, has arranged with the
Richmond, Fredericksburg and Poto
mac Railroad for one fare rates from al
stations on its line between Quanticc
aud Ashland to Fredericksburg on each
Wednesday of this month to enable the
citizens of the counties through which
the railroad passes to visit Fredericks-
burg at cheap rates to buy their sup.
plies.
Major VIM. II. Johnson, of the Sec
ond battalion of colored troops, write;
that all four of his companies are about
recruited to the maximum. Some otn
ers lack a few. Gov. Tyler has decided
to turn the colored battalion over to the
federal government, with their own Of
ficers. He will leave it TO the Wash
ington authorities to settle the question
as to whether or not these troops shall
have white or coored officers.
A letter received in Fredericksburg
| by Mr.. VIM. A. Little, counsel, from the
superintendent CT the construction com
pany which has been awarded the con-
tract for building the Virginia, Freder'
icksburg and Western Railroad, state;
that representative OF the contractors
will be in Fredericksburg in lew day:
and settle the unpaid bills of the com
pany which have caused 80 much com.
ment, and that work on the road vii!
then be pressed forward again.
Handsome stands of colors will bt
sent from Richmond in the next few
days for both the Third and Fourth Regi
ments, that for the former having beer
gotten up by Mrs. G. L. Boykin, and the
latter by Mis-. G. OBJ. Cowardin. A
party of Richmond people will accom-
pany Mrs. Boykin to Camp Alger
whore the colors are to be taken, anc
Col. John Cussons will make the
presentation. The colors for the Fourth
will be shipped to Jacksonville, to be-
presented through Maj. Gen. Filzhugf
Lee