Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-01-04
VIRGINIA NEWS.
The State treasurer paid out over
5000 900 in interest on State bonds yes

Mrs. II. A. Keith Murray, who
formerly resided in Albermarle county,
died in Edinburgh, Scotland county.
The operation of the cattle inspec-
ton, so far as Virginia is concerned,
has been suspended from January TO
February l.
| Mrs. Sarah Norris, an aged lady, liv-
ing near Millenbeck, in the vicinity
of Irvington, committed suicide Satur-
day by drowning.
A Junior United American Mechan-
les lodge was organized at King
George Court House last Friday night.
The lodge starts out with twenty MEM
bsrs.
Henry Edmunds, from Winchester,
died suddenly on the street in Lees
burg, yesterday, from heart disease.
Relatives in Washington have been
notified.
Fire yesterday destroyed the big
stables at Clemmer's distillery near
! Middlebrook. Four valuable horses
persisted. An employe smoked a pipe
about the stables.
E. E. Herring, leading merchant of
Winchester, operating the Bee Hive
stores, dry goods and notions, made an
assignment yesterday. The liabilities
are 81 ,2S5, and estimated assets So 900
The grand jury in Richmond yester-
day brought in four indictments against
Eugene Barnes, who is charged with
embezzling money from John Il. Pow
ers & Co., his former employers.
Rev. DIR. A. e. Dickinson, the widely
known Baptist minister and the editor
of the Religious Herald, of Richmond,
and Miss Bessie Bagby were married
Yesterday at Slevensville, in King and
Queen county.
A case OF smallpox was discovered in
Portsmouth, in house adjoining the
public school house in the Second dis
orict, and in consequence, the school
did not open yesterday. The patient
is negro boy.
Mrs. Molie Burnley Taylor, wife of
MIR. VIM. Robinson Taylor, of King
George, died at her home, mt. View"
that county, yesterday. She was the
only daughter of the late Harding
Burnley, of Louisiana.
Governor Tyler is overrun with ap'
plications from young ladies for ap'
pointments to place ia the culinary
and domestic school at Olead, Mass
That institution permits the Governor
to make one appointment.
In the counties surrounding Freder
icksburg the old popular sport OF fox
} hunting is being revived. There are
many ioe packs of hounds, and the
music of the voices in the chase can o.
ten be heard these frosty days.
! John NJ. Gay, large lumber manu-
faoturer ollie of Wight county, died
Yesterday at bis home near Windsor,
aged sixty.three years. MIR. Gay was
worth $4,000 exclusive OF life insur-
ance. He leaves eight children.
The six students of Richmond Col
lege who were implicated last week 10
the attempt to haze Mr.. Smith. one Of
the ministerials who did not go homs
for the holidays, were yesterday sus-
pended by the faculty for the period oil
week.
Turner Ashby Camp, Confederate
Veterans, of Winchester, on Monday
night passed resolutions opposing the
pas sage by Congress of the bill recent
ly introduced by Senator Butler for the
government to pension Confederate
soldiers and take charge of Confederate
cemeteries.
Oliver Arthur, of Clifton Forge, was
killed yesterday morning by freight
engine or the Chesapeake and Ohio
Railroad running over his head. He
was standing near the coal bins AID
thought the engine was moving for
ward, when it backed and ran him
down as he stepped on the track.
Near Midlothian Chesterfield county,
yesterday, F. A. Spain, of Dry Bridge,
was accidentally shot and killed while
hunting. His brothern-law, P. G..
Davis, of Manchester, was summoned
by telegraph, and left for the scene OF
the tragedy on the midday train. Mr..
Spain was forty years of age and leaves
wife and several children. He was
native of Petersburg.
Miss Josephine Nicholas FAINT died
at the residence of her aunt, Miss Kate
Crigler, in Culpeper, yesterday, after a
lingering and painful illness. Miss
FAINT was we'll known in Washington,
waere she conducted typewriting and
stenographic establishment. At the
time of her illness Miss FAINT was fol-
lowing her profession in the office OF
the Adjutant General. She was about
fifty years off age.
G. II. Dean and II. F. Ansen, two
well-known young men, who started
Sunday morning to walk from Rich
mond to Jacksonville in twenty-five
days, ale now confined to their homes
in Richmond nursing painful bruises.
While trsmping across a snow-covere0
trestle on the Atlantic Coast Line
south of Petersburg, they were over
taken by train and had to jump for
heir lives. Both men were painfully
hurt A dog with them was killed.
JOS Towsden, the young farmer from
Dinwddie who wasarrested in Rich
mond Monday on two warrants, charg-
ing him with abjucling and betraying
Miss Effie Gum, pretty young girl of
that county, was yesterday very con-
trite. He consented to marry the
young lady. Miss Gums father has
returned to Dinwiddie to procure a
marriage license. Towsden is still in
jail and may remain there until the
marriage is to be performed, which will
probably be to-day
IT WAS IoADED.-Tom Lee. q son OF
rev. Lee negro who sometimes breaches,
WAS killed by his sister few days ago ct her