Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-10-30
VIRGINIA NEWS.

The Dismal Swamp canal is already
becoming great artery for commerce.
Abraham Bachrach, for many years
merchant at Warrenton, died last
week.
A cheese factory has been establish.
ed al Mount Jackson, in Shenandoah
county.
The Hotel Salem, which was erected
at Salem, Roanoke county, during
boom times at cost of $50, 600, has
been purchased for the Lutheran Or
phanage Home.
Registration was held all over the
State on Saturday. Reports show that
very little interest was taken. Tne H.
dice!ions are that small vote will te
peeled at the coming election.
The Richmond Locomotive and
Machine Works have received an
order for three ten wheeled locomo-
tives, of American desigu, for one OF
the private railroads of Swt den.
In the County Court Of Bedford. Sat
urday, the jury returned q verdict OF
guilty in the case of Lula Smith, in
dicted for the murder of her husband,
Edward Smith, by poison about TWO
months ago.
Several hundred head Of cattle have
recently been token from King George
and upper Wes tnorelend by Piedmont
| drovers, and number of fatted young
steers and other beef cattle have been
shipped to market by the local dealers
| of that section.
Mrs. John Euders, ST.. died on Sat
urday in Richmond, aged twenty-five
years. Mrs. Eoders was daughter OF
Daniel Foster Birchett. of Petersburg.
During the war between the States
Mrs. Enders nursed great many sick
and wounded Confederate soldiers III
her home in Richmond.
Sheriff Barley, of Botetourt county,
| went to Indiana on Saturday for Mrs.
Belle Bryant, for whom there is war
| rant out, charging her with the poison,
ing of step-son, Sidney Bryant OF
Jennings Creek. Some weeks ago he
died under suspicious circumstances,
and many thought that he had met
with foul play.
As the outcome OF game of cards in
Albemarle on Saturday William Floyd,
prominent farmer of that county, is
dead by the hand of his friend, Henry
Aldridge, who is fugitive from JUS
tice. The men had met for social
game, but both were drinking, and e
slight misunderstanding concerning the
game caused Aldridge to stab Floyd.
A deed of trust was placed on record
in Petersburg on Saturday from the
S utheide Railway and Development
om,a y to the Richmond Trust End
+, Safe Deposit Company, to secure an Is.
sue of 81 900, 900 gold bonds, to run fifty
years. On the deed was $500 in revenue
stamps. The State tax on the deed was
! 81 .000
At meeting of the Richmond alumni
of the Virginia Military Institute on
Saturday afternoon it was determined
that the association would undertake
the work Of raising the funds needed
| to complete the battle and battalion
monument to be erected at the institute
10 the memory OF the men OF the corps
of cadets who participated in the battle
of New Market.
The smallpox that is reported in
South Boston aud other places in the
southwestern part of the State is OF q
most remarkable character, and some
doctors are inclined to believe that the
malady is some slight skin trouble not
in any way akin TO smallpox. In the
large majority of the cases. the disease
is so slight that the patients do not
have to 60 to bed, and there has not
been single fatally, or even, for that
matter, a single severe case.