Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-06-13
VIRGINIA NEWS.


The Norfolk, Virginia Beach and
Southern Railroad has secured a deep
water terminal in Norfolk.
Ethan Muire was run over and kill
ed on the tracks of the Richmond Rail-
way Company Saturday night.
The relatives OF the late Gen. Jubal
A. Early have erected handsome
monument over his grave, in Spring
Hill Cemetery. near Lynchburg.
The residence of MIR. Howard Hans
brougb, near Batna, Culpeper county,
was destroyed by fire few days ago,
together with most of the furniture.
John G. Barnard, of the Warrenton
Hunt Club, is with the troops at Tampa.
He enlisted at New Orleans as q pri.
vate and is g member OF Company z, of
the Rough Riders"
Mr.. George L. Pearce has sold his
fine farm "Roxbury," in Spotsylvauia
county, containing 1000 acres, for $l0,-
600, to gentleman from Wiconsin,
who, with his family, will reside there.
Among the marriages which will take
place in the autumn, will be that of
Mr.. Arthur Lee, of Richmond, and
Miss Grace Davis, youngest daughter Of
ex Senator Davis, of West Virginia.
Mrs. Henry Roberts died at her
home, near Spotsylvania Court House,
Tuesday, of paralysis, aged eighty
years. She was native of England,
but had lived in this country fifty
years.
Mr.. G. Gray, of Caroline county, who
has in cultivation about twenty. i've
acres of strawberries. has sold this sea-
son more than $1,000 worth of that
crop. Most of the shipments we're
made to Pittsburg, Pa.
Governor Tyler has appointed ex-
Governor P. II. Mckinney and Mr.. O.
L. Stearnes, OF Salem, members of the
board of visitors of the State Female
Normal School, at Fsrmville. The
former succeeds the late Col. ]. P. FiiZ-
gerald, and the latter Gen. George P.
Hundley, made judge.
At Suffolk, on Saturday night, in q
pistol duel between Joe Wooten and
Police Officer w. L. Hubbard, the
former was shot three times and killed
instantly. The officer was trying to
arrest Wooten on the charge of cruelty
preferred by his daughter. Wooten
resisted and fred point blank at Hub
bard, but missed.
Father Patrick Donahoe. pastor of
St. Patrick's Church, Richmond, died
Saturday night after two days i'll
ness. He was native of Ireland and
fifty years old. He had been in Vir-
glnia since 1872, having filed pastor
ates at Lynchburg, Walkerton and
Richmond. He had been at St.
Patrick's twelve years. The funeral
took place this morning.
The PRECEDENT will send to the Senate
the nominations Of two hundred second
lieutenants of the regular army. Honor
graduates of State military colleges
will be among those nominated. Among
them these from Virginia D. F. Mar
tin, Virginia Agricultural and Mechani-
cal College, Backsburg M. E. Mills,
Virginia Military Institute, Lexington !;
J. V. Milton, Danville Military lnsti-
tute, Danville.
Yesterday afternoon the Young
Mems Christian Association Hall, at
the University Of Virginia, which is in
the northwest wing of the rotunda,
was dedicated, Rev. DR.. ]. William
Jones delivering the address. Last
night the annual sermon before the
Young Mems Christian Association was
preached by Right Rev. Thomas U.
Dudley, of Louisville, KY. This SER
vice was held in the new auditorium.
Miss Nellie Rogers died on Saturday
at the home of her mother in Richmond,
from meningitis, after several weeks
illness. She was widely known as a
singer and her beautiful clear soprano
voice was the leading attraction in
many musicals in Virginia. She was q
beautiful young woman, and as much
noted for her fine character and per-
sonal loneliness as for her remarkable
voice. She was member of the noted
quartet of All Saints Church.
The will of the late Col. James
H. Skinner was probated in Staunton
on Saturday. 1t leaves the income of
his estate to his sister, Miss Fannie
Skinner, for life, and at her death the
whole fund to be applied to the estat-
lishment and maintenance at the Uni
versity of Virginia of as many scholar
ships at $3.50 per annum each as such
income will provide for, the same to be
filled by appointments made by the
Protestant Episcopal Educational So
ciety of Virginia, of white male per-
sons, who propose to be clergymen of
that church in the United States, and
not otherwise able to obtain such edu.
cation. Other things being equal, sons
of clergymen are to be preferred. The
estate is valued at $4,000.
PAY AS MOUNTED OFFICERs.-The
army regulations have been amended
so as to provide that the following