Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-12-24
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Inc tulEu dEuuaL oAUlUltlOu VI tuc
Shenandoah Valley Poultry and Pigeon
Association will be held in Berryville
on January Is, 10 and 20.
All of the ice. houses in the Fredericks-
burg section have been filed with fine
ice. The ice harvest occurred earlier
this winter that for ten years past.
The case Of J. Penrose Carter, on
trial in Henrico county for the murder
of Charles Fox Moore, was given to
the jury in Richmond yesterday even
ing.
The Pennsylvania Railroad is at
tempting to secure the absolute con-
troll of the New York, Philadelphia
and Norfolk Railway by means Of re-
organization.
Mr.. J. Eugene Updike, of Warren
county, and Miss Rosa Undike, OF
Charlottesville, were married at the
residence of Mr.. r. L. Updike, in Char.
lottesville, yesterday.
MIR. T. F. Proctor, jr., former mem
Der of Company K, Third Virginia reg
iment, had portion of his right hand
cut off yesterday while at work at the
Southern Foundry and Machine Works
in Fredericksburg.
Mr.. John It. Reynolds. of Spottsyl-
vania county, and Miss Lucy f. Smith,
of Bowling Green, were married on
Thursday at Calvary Baptist Church in
the latter place, Rev. Andrew Broad
dus, jr., officiating.
Col. W. H. Chapman, revenue agent
for this district, and stationed st
Lynchburg, has been transferred 10
Atlanta, Ga. He has been succeeded
in Lynchburg by Mr.. W. L. Pitts, who
has been transferred from Greensboro
The sta bles and barns belonging to
Mr.. B. F. Armentrout, in Orange coun-
ty, near Rapidsn, were destroyed by
fire few nights ago, together with five
head of horses, quantity of feed, etc.
The fire is supposed to have been OF in
cendiary origin.
About two months ago Common
wealth's Attorney J. P. Jeffries, OF
Fauquier, had two valuable horses
stolen from his farm. Two horse
thieves on trial at Fairfax Court House
Monday confessed that they had taken
them and turned them loose at Bruins.
wick, Md.
Adiutant General Male has as yet
formulated no plan whatever for the
reorganization of the Virginia military.
He has been very busy recently get
ting the papers of his Office in shape
He will not attempt any reorganization
Of Virginia volunteers until Congress
has enacted laws regarding State
troops.
Governor Tyler yesterday pardoned
Webster Snodgrass, young man OF
we'll family in Wise county,
who had served six years of an eighteen
years. sentence for murder in the sec
ond degree. He shot and killed Nor
gan Thscker, at Norton, on July 4
1890. Governor O'Ferrall refused tO
pardon him in 1895.
Governor Tyler has commissioned
Messrs. Lloyd T. Smith, Of Northum'
berland; E W. Saunders, of Franklin
and w. T. Shields, of Lexington, as
members of the board of visitors of the
Virginia Military Institute, to serve
three years from January 1, 1899. Mr.
Smith succeeds Col. Percy Halves, o.
Richmond.
Gen. Scott Ship, superintendent o.
the Virginia Military Institute, has dis
missed two cadets for bad treatment O.
| new cadets. Gen. Ship has just beer
informed that friends and alumni O
the institute residing in Richmond
have presented the V. M. L. library
with set of thirty volumes of War
ner's Library Of Literature.
VIM. R. Alexander, member OF the
Winchester bar, died at his home there
yesterday. The cause of his death was
due to a pulmonary trouble, from
which he had suffered for nearly two
years. He was a candidate for the at
torney generalship of the State agains,
the present incumbent, Hon. A. J
| Montague, and was taken i'll when at.
tending the Roanoke convention, il
August, 1897. He had been candi
date for Congress on several occasions
Mr.. Alexander was born in Clarke
county in 1S49 He was prominent in
Masonic and Knights of Pythias circles
What promised to be joyful re.
union was turned into mourning by
the death, early yesterday morning, in
Richmond, of Mr.. Albert Small, Of
Kagerstown, Nd. He was the father
of Mrs. Bierne Blair, whose husband is
prominent bank officer in Richmond
and of Mr.. A. Gushing Small, who re.
Gently married Miss Adele Talbot
Archer, of Richmond, and located
there. 1t was the intention of the pa
rents to spend the holidays with their
children, and they left Hagerstown
Wednesday morning for Richmond
Shortly before reaching that city Mr..
Small was stricken with an attack OIL
| heart trouble, and 80 serious was his
condition that be was taken direct to
the Virginia Hospital for treatment
His malady was recognized as being
probably fatal, and heroic measure:
were resorted to. Though he rallied
for time, the fatal issue could not be
warded off for long.
AFLAG RAISING IN THE PACIFIC.
The government has determined to
hoist the flag over another island far
out in the Pacific Ocean, and orders
were sent out late yesterday afternoon
to the commander of the Bennington,
Captain Taussig, to proceed at once to
take Dossessicn in the name of the