Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-09-25
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Large exports OF beef cattle are pe-
ing made fro N Lambert's Point.
Mrs. Hor;ense Hitchings was arrest
ed ia Norfolk on Saturday for abduct,
ing her Own child, which the court had
given into the custody OF the father.
Miss VIVA Taliaferro, Of Gloucester
county, u daughter of the late Gen
VIM. Taliaferro. will be married to MT.
Harry Sanders at the old Ware Church
Oh October 4.
William r. Lewis, farmer OF Acco-
mac county, on Saturday filed o petition
in bankruptcy. Liabilities. S25O,OO0;
assets nothing. He states that ne was
ruined by his sons.
Albert NJ. Young, q nephew of the
late Mai. Lewis Ginter, died on Satur-
day a; Westbrook, Maj Ginter's for
mer country home, near Richmond.
He was q years old.
The Monticello Guard Of Charlottes-
vile will be mustered into the State
service on Friday evening next, Sept
enber 90. The company now num-
bers about sixty EIGHT men.
The grain shipments from Newport
News last week broke all records
The total number of bushels was $685.
634, divided as follows: corn, 442,-
634 oats, 54l 600; wheat l6 900.
Emanuel Episcopal Church in Stann-
ton, was yesterday consecrated in the
presence of a large congregation,
by Bishop Gibson. Rev. J. ]. Lloyd,
OF Lynchburg, preached the sermon.
Mrs. Warren Owens, Of King
George, has been arrested and sent on
to the grand jury, charged with the
brrniug of the storehouse Of MIR. J. q.
Ninde, which occurred the latter part
OF last month.
STATE Senator G. W. LeCato, OF
Accomac, is now probably out of dan,
ger. He has been very i'll, but is
gradually recovering. He is hold
ever senator and takes leading part
10 sll legislation affecting the fish and
oyster Industry.
A Gus, or tunnel, 20 feet long is to be
made in the Luray Caverns, which will
opea to the public two new and beauti
ful chambers, which are now only
reached by difficult passages and re-
tracing OF steps, and, consequently, not
often seen by visitors.
The Confederate Museum at Rich.
mond has just been enriched by the
addition of TWO cases of relics, formerly
the property OF Jefferson Davis, the
president of the Confederacy. Some
have been given, others lent, by Mrs
Davis and Mrs. Hayes, and they form q
priceless collection.
Strssburg Junction is to have large
] cement plant at an early date. A rich
I deposit has been discovered Oh the
la1ds of Captain G. NJ. Borum, and hes
stood the severest tests and is pro-
| uounced as containing elements thai
| will make the verv best portland &C.
ment. It is reported that work will be
commenced at once on q plant to de
velop and that 800 men will be employ
ed.
The location has been selected al
fredericksburg for a sugar beet factory
but its erection will depend upon the
result of the investigation to be made
into the cultivation of beets and the op
GRAFTON OF factories in the west by Mr
B. T. Spencer, of "Snowden," neal
fredericksburg, and number of gen
tlemen Interested with him, who will
go on q western trip the latter part o
next week.
By recent opinion of the Court o
Appeals, in the decision of the Cor
poration Court of Charlottesville, in
the case OF the city of Charlottesville
Us. the Southern Railway, the railway
will have to give back to the city a
certain strip of land on Main street
upon which the Charlottesville and
Rapldan Railway, now part of the
Southern, had encroached, and put the
same in a satisfactory condition. To
10 this it is estimated that it will cost
the railway from $4,000 to $4,000.