Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-03-12
VIRGINIA NEWS.
Fishing on small scale has com.
menced on the Rappahannock.

menced on the Rappahannock.
q. b. Downing has been appointed
receiver of the Front Royal & Riverton
Improvement Company.
George Vess, of Rockbridge county,
was killed yesterday by log rolling
over him while he was getting out saw
logs.
A thorough examination Of the fruit
trees in King George county shows that
they are uninjured up to this time and
in good condition.
MIR. Louis McCoy's fine stt ion,
Dexter Prince, was killed by aiC. & O.
train at Calverton yesterday. The stud
groom was seriously injured.
In Richmond last night Lac Camp
was presented with large oil painting
of the late Major Lewis Ginter, with a
portrait of Gen. n. b. Harris, the lat
ter of Mahone's division.
A decree of separation besween Mr..
and Mrs. r. Spicer Curlett, OF Lancaster
county, has recently been drawn up
and certified to by neighbor. Incom-
patibility of temper is the cause.
Capt. VIM. S. Bloodgood, of the tug
Edith Bloodgood, was drowned in the
Albemarle canal yesterday in an un.
successful effort to save the life OF VIM.
Harris, colored cook on the tug.
The plan of erecting retreat at Vir-
ginia Beach, wherein the fathers and
scholastics of the Jesuit Order of this
province might spend summer vaca-
tons, will probably be speedily consum-
mated.
Gen. Dabney II. Maury, veteran OF
the Mexican and civil wars, has writ
ten letter to Governor Tyler tender
ing his services in case Of war with
Spain. He is now nearly eighty years
of age and quite feeble.
Governor Tyler says he will not APP
point the labor commissioner for ten
days. He states that there is no truth
in the report that he has decided to
name Mr.. Archer P. Montague, OF
Richmond, for the place.
Mr.. John Kerfoot, son OF DR.. H. D.
Kerfoot, is very i'll at his home in
Berryvile with lockjaw, and but little
hopes are entertained of his recovery.
A severe blow received on the head is
said to have been the primary cause OF
his illness.
Ga Tuesday Miss Mary H. Armstrong,
of Warrenton, and Mr.. H. Scott Hack
lev, Of Gaines Cross Roads. were mar
ried at the home of the BRIDES uncle,
Mr. G. h. Mcintosh. The ceremony
was performed by the Rev. DR.. Gard
ner, of the NJ. E. Church South.
A large painting of ex-President JEFF
ftrson Davis waa yesterday afternoon
presented to the Confederate Museum, in
Richmond, by the ;'Solid South Room"
Capt. John Cus5ons made the present
alton speech and eX-Gov. O'Ferrall re-
sponded in behalf of the Confederate
Memorial and Literary Society.
Mr.. Gwin Harrison, son of DR.. Ben
amin Harrison, living near Wildwood,
Clarke county, met with very serious
accident on Wednesday while attend
ing fox hunt. In attempting to Jump
q high fence, his horse fell catching his
rider beneath him. Mr.. Harrison g
thigh was broken and he was other
wise badly injured.
| DIR. George Ross, the chairman OF the
I Davis memorial window committee, in
Richmond, has received letter from
NJ 5. Jefferson Davis, accepting the in
vitation to attend the unwilling cere-
monies of the window in memory OF
her husband in st. Paups Church
April II. Mrs. Davis will certainly be
present at that ceremony if nothing IN.
forseen should prevent, accompanied
by her niece, Miss Waller, daughter
of the late Capt. w. G. Waller, OF
Richmond. Miss Winnie Davis is in
Egypt and will not return to America
until the last of May, which fact alone
prevents her from coming with her
mother.