Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-12-13
VIRGINIA NEWs.

Ground will be broken this week for
the Mary Washington Hospital at
Fredericksburg.
The G. NJ. West Company, station
ers, at Richmond, made an assignment
yesterday under State laws; liabilities,
IS, 900.
The work of mastering out the Sec
ond regiment will begin to-day, and in
a few days the men will be discharged
from the service.
Rev. Dr.J. G. Hiden, one of the lead
ing Baptist ministers of the South, has
rendered his resignation as pastor Of
Grove avenue Baptist Church, Rich
mond.
Mr.. George W. Koiner was yesterday
commissioned by Gov. Tyler as Com
! missioner of Agriculture for the term OF
two years from January l next, to sue
| coed Col. Thomas Whitehead.
Mr.. George E. Wise, young mem
Der of the Richmond bar, was fined 500
by Judge Wickham in the Henrico
county court yesterday for tardiness in
arriving for appearance as counsel Tor
Thomas Green, negro, charged with
stealing mule.
| Mr.. Joseph Moles, jr., brakeman OF
the Southern railway, running on
shifter, was struck by car in the
Southern railway yards, in Manchester,
yesterday and received injuries from
which he died three hours later at his
home in that city.
On Saturday, about midnight, Jacob
Hickman, a well.to-do Shenandoah
county farmer, living near Mount
| Olive, while returning from visit to
nearby farm, was held up and relieved
of small amount Of pocket money by
three masked men.
a large dwelling of A. G. Neff, stu
ated near Quicksburg, in Shenandoah
county, was destroyed by fire with all
OF its contents yesterday morning
about o'clock. The origin of the fire
| is q mystery The family barely es
capped with their lives. Loss, 81, 600;
insurance, $500.
In store at Virginia, Halifax coun-
reprimanded a colored youth for i'm
pudencc, and following an exchange of
hot words the negro was knocked
down. a row followed between the
whites and black during which eight,
and possibly more, of the negroes we're
wounded, but not seriously.
Yesterday was the first day of the
Circuit Court Of Fauquier, Judge G.
E. Nicol, presiding. Memorial services
were held in memory Of the late James
V. Brooke and Charles T. Green, mem
bers of the Warrenton bar. Addresses
were delivered by General William H..
Payne, Major G.. Dabney Gray, Of Cul.
pepper; Colonel Thomas W. Smith and
Gen. Eppa Hunton.
The charges against Walter Lee Ora
! ham, of Norfolk, who was arrested on
the eve of his marriage to Baltimore
young lady, have been dismissed. The
charge was seduction under promise Of
marriage, and the case was to have
come up before Mayor Baird, of Ports
mouth yesterday, but when it was call
I'd the attorneys for the Commonwealth
withdrew the charges.
The committee appointed by the
/
in Richmond, has conferred with the
federal authorities, and succeeded in
getting the federal cattle quarantine
regulations for Virginia suspended un-
til the 18th of September. 1t is practi
calIy settled that there shall be dip
ping vat at Lynchburg for cattle sus-
pected OF the Texas tick.
Eugene Barnes, book keeper for
John T. Powers, in Richmond,
is fugitive, with detectives
hunting for him. Mr. Powers
yesterday received notice that his bank
account was overchecked. His bank
book showed he had So, 900 to the crddit
of his bank account. The book-keeper,
it is charged, had made deposits with
out carrying his bank book, and re-
turned with deposit slips made out for
larger amounts than he deposited
pocketing the balance, and entering
the larger amount on the bank book
himself.