Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-11-25
VIRGINIA NEWS.


terday of consumption.
| VIM. R. Hillyard has purchased the
| Greenwood farm, Frederick county.
The price paid was S11.05 per acre. 1t
will be devoted to peach growing.
Mr.. Robert Chew has sold his farm,
known as Hermitage" containing $50
acres, for $50 per acre, to Mrs. +. G.
Wilson. 1t is located three miles from
| Charlestown and is considered very
valuable place.
| Lieutenant w. D. Richardson, of
Fredericksburg, an officer in the Sixth
Virginia infantry, has been promoted to
quartermaster OF that regiment, with
the rank of first lieutenant, and pay of
a captain.
A dispatch from Butte, Montana,
says that Mr. w. G. Conrad will sue
coed Mr. Lee Mantle as q S. Senator
from that State. Mr.. Conrad is ma
tive of Clarke county and has many
friends in the valley.
Mayor Thomas z McCorkle, of Lex
ington, has received the news of the
death of his only child, Mrs. Sadie
Alexander Boppell, wife of Rev. Chas.
J. Boppell, at Angom, in West Africa,
where she had gone as missionary.
George w. Koiner, former member
OF the House of delegates from Augusta,
will be appointed com missioner of agrl-
culture to succeed Colonel Thomas
Whitehead. The colonel's term expires
January 1st He has filed the position
about twelve years.
Lieutenant. Governor Edwa I'd Echols
is said TO have his eye on the governor
ship. He is 10 the prime of life is, am
bilious and has money. MIR. Echols
few years ago married a beautiful young
wife who. it is said would like TO reign
in the Executive Mansion.
Charges have been preferred before
the interstate commerce commission
against the coal and fuel depart ment o.
the Chesapeake anG o 10 railway an
superintendent w Hopkins has been
summoned to appear before the com
mission on the rs b ofthis month.
Governor Tyler yesterday pardoGed
Charles Swami, recently convicted l.
the Hastings Court of Manchester, OF
bigamy. Swami obtained legal separa-
ton from the first wife eight years ago,
and was advised FIVE years later by a
lawyer that he had legal right to mar
ry again.
A range looking object was brought
to Warrenton one day last week in Int
form of bull, but about the size OF
shepherd dog. 1t came from North
Carolina and had horns which showed
that.it was three or four years old. l.
. could be bsrhecued and put or a dish
that would hold an ordinary shoat.
Judge Robert W. Hughes, late OF the
United States district court, is spending
his time at his farm near Abingdon.
He writes that his health is very much
improved. The judge spends much OF
his time reading and writing. He Das
been away from hcme only once this
: year and that was TO visit his sons at
Norfolk.
After years trial OF the Curfew law,
. the New Market town council has de
7 cided to continue it, The measure,
which requires children to quit the
streets at p. m. in winter and p. m.
in summer, has given general satisfac-
co-operated with Sergeant Rice in max
ing the children conform with the law.
L. ]. Peudleton, of Lynchburg,
member Of Company i, Second Vir-
ginia regiment, now quartered in Ports
mouth, was arrested yesterday upon
the charge of stealing SIC cash, rail
road ticket to Richmond and return,
r and a handkerchief from a United
States sailor, with whom he slept at
boarding house Wednesday nighS.
Peudleton denies the charge.
; A brilliant event was the chrysanthe-
mum wedding in Fredericksburg yes
terday evening of Miss Mary Beaie
Barney, daughter OF Captain J. N. Bar
ney, formerly of the United States
navy, and afterwards of the Confeder
ate navy, to Mr.. John Colt White, son
, of Col. E V. White, president of the
PEOPLES National Bank at Leesburg.
The Presbyterian Church, in which the
event occurred, was crowded with
friends of the bride and groom.
Capt. Clarence a. Wyatt, in charge
of the recruiting detail sent to Rich
mond from Savannah to enlist men 70
fill up the Fourth regiment, received
telegram from General Lee last night
directing him to proceed with the work
of recuiting at once. This is the result
of Governor TyIer's conference with
Secretary Alger Wednesday. Captain
WYATT and his associates will begin
work to-day and anticipate no
trouble getting the needed three hun
dred men.
VIM. Donaldson, sr., aged 81 years,
one of the most highly respected oti-
zens of Woodstock, died yesterday
morning from la grippe after en- illness
of five days. Mr.. Donaldson went to
Woodstock from Baltimore, Nd, when
he was but years old. At the age of
- he carried the mail from Woodstock
to Moorefeld, w. Va, through the
mountains, distance of 40 miles. In
1884 he began work at Woodstock at
his trade, that of coppersmithing, and
followed that and timing up to the
time of his illness.
WILL SAVE TEETH FROM DECAY
Tho theories advanced by DIR. Arch G.
Hart, of San Francisco, before the Den
tai Society, of Chicago, on the subject
of dentistry, are likely to raise tenn
pest among the members of that pro-
fes ion. DR.. Hart claims, to put the