Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-11-06
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Rev. George s Somerville, rector OF
ST. Paul's Episco pal Church, at Hay
market, has res .gned to accept q call o
the parish at Falls Church.
Virginia Conference Methodist Epi5
copal Church South, will meet In
Petersburg November Is Bishop A.
w. Wilson, of Baltimore will preside.
Trap fishing along the Rappahannock
is nearly at an end. The ruo of trout
has ceased entirely, and butterfsh are
now the only fish caught. Within q
month all the traps will be taken up.
The Court of Appeals will meet in
Richmond on Wednesday next for the
fall term. The term was 10 begin on
Tuesday, but on account of election
| day the court will not meet until Wed
nesdsy.
Mr.. E. E. Garrett, as counsel, has
sold the farm of the Fletcher heirs,
| about four miles south of Leesburg,
near Sycolin church. to Mr.. J. s. Nc
Donald, of Fauquier, for $4,000 cash
Il contains 1873 acres.
Mr. George M. Baker we'll known
resident OF Frederick county, died At
The home OF his brother-in-law, Mr..
John S. Miller, 90 Saturday afternoon
after long illness. He was forty
years of age and was unmarried.
The legislature will convene withi'
a month and it is practically settled
that none of the State officers will have
opposition except superintendent oil
Public Printing O'Bannon. L. +
Lookabill, of Roanoke, is running
against him.
Alfred Smith, popular young man
of Middleburg neighborhood, died Cd
Tuesday. He was injured by being
struck by tree he was telling, aud
never recuperate1. An uncle of hi
was killed in the same manner several
years ago.
Mr.. John ]. Johnson, an aged and
honored Confederate veteran, died al
his home in Fluvanns, on Thursday,
October 26. Mr.. Johnson was one Of
the litter-bearer5 who removed Gene
raj Jackson when he was mortally
wounded at Charlottesville, May 3
1868. There Mr.. johnson lost an arm
The oyster planters of the Kappa
hammock are beginning to see the ad-
vantage of planting the small seed oys
ters, which are bought in James river a.
a small price and planted in these wa
ters. More have been bought this year
aud planted in the Rappahannock river
and it's tributaries than for several
years past.
A movement is being projected il
Staunton by the business men of the
city to have the board of visitors of the
Virginia Military Institute transfer the
!, school to that place for the remainder
of the session. 1t is thought many o.
Lhe pupils will be unwilling 10 return
to Lexington at the expiration of the
30-days furlough on account of typhoic
fever there.
Three tramps were taken from
Fredericksburg to Manassas on Sa UT,
day and locked up in the county Jail
They are charged with having choked
a fellow tramp to death near Quantico
in the lower part of the county, after
which, it is said, they threw his body
into the Potomac river. The only
witness to the killing is Frenchman
who is unable to speak English.
Mayor Moss, of Newport News, has
prepared detailed charges with the
police commissioners against Chief oil
Police s. ]. Harwood, The mayor
charges that the chief charged fees fol
officers services outside of the city,
when the officers were paid by tho city
that he charged four cents mile in
stead of three when away on official
business; that be has pets on the force
who get reward cases, &c.
10 Richmond this morning the shaft
OF The Confederate ironcad ram Virgin.
ia (Merrimac) was presented to the
Confederate Museum. A meeting Of
the ladies of the Confederate Memorial
Association was held on Saturday and
resolutions were passed condemning the
southern press for not publishing the
| ram by her right name, the Virginia,
instead of the Merimsc, the original
name of the vessel before she was con-
verted by Admiral Buchanan into al
Ionclad.
On October %, by Rev. M. Smith,
Mr.. r. Braxton Horner, son of R. Little
Horner, esq and great-grandson of the
late DR.. Gustavus Brown Horner, Of
Warrenton, was married to Miss Alice
Fitzhugh, third daughter of Col. S. W.
Russell, of the G.. A. R. of Salem, N.
Y, rand.daughter of Mrs. Dixon, OF
North Wales" ard niece of Mrs.
Alice Fitzhugh Payne, of Warrenton.
After brief sojourn at the home OF
Col Russell, Mr.. and Mrs. Horner left
for Warrenton.