Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-07-08
VIRGINIA NEWS.

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J. Barron Hope has been unanimous.
ly reelected Mayor of Hampton by the
newly elected Council.
1t is again announced that Governor
Tyler will soon become candidate to
succeed Hon. Thomas s. Martin In the
United States Senate.
Mrs. l.. J. Triplett, of Leesburg
| dropped dead On Wednesday evening
on the street, in that town. She was
in the Ssh year of her age.
Company D, of Culpeper, desires the
pleasure OF entertaining the Survivors
of the 9th Cavalry (Confederates) at
Berryvllle, Clarke county, on August
% next.
Mr.. Martin Lambert, one of Peters
burg's moat popular young men both in
business and personally, while on q
private excursion last night fell over
board and was drowned.
The Secretary of War has advised
the commanding officer of Grimes's
Battery, Of Portsmouth, which recently
asked to be sent to the Philippines, to
the effect that the command could not
be accepted for service as an organiza
ton.
The board of public works has just
completed a statement showing the
asst ssed value of railroads and canals
in Virginia. There are 8 $50 miles of
railroads and canals, the total value OF
which is about fifty-6ve and half
millions. The total tax is $3.50 ,23S.l2
AT meeting of the Charley Rouss
Fire Company of Winchester held last
night letter was read from Mr..
Charles Broadway Rouss. the million
aire and philanthropist, enclosing his
check for $500, to pay for the new uni
forms recently adopted by the com.
pany.
The cities and towns of the Virginia
peninsula up to Richmond will soon be
connected by telephone. The Citizens
Company now has o line to Warwick
Courthouse from Richmond, and work
will be started at once on the line to
| Williamsburg, which is now without
! telephone communication.
The keel for the second OF the new
| Cromwell liners has just been laid at
Newport News The name of the ship
IS Proteus, and she is the last vessel OF
the six which were ordered at the close
Of the war by the Cromwell and Nor
gan lines to take the places OF the yes.
sells sold to the government and used as
auxiliary ships.
Henry Taylor was tried for assault in
the County Court at Lexington yester-
day and received sentence of twenty
years in the pententiary. Taylor as
F, saulted a child, Viola NJ. Williams,
| aged nine years, the evening of June
q, and was apprehended the following
Sunday, after being searched for by
hundreds of citizens.
Bishop c. c. Penick has rendered his
resignation as rector OF st. Mark s
Protestant Episcopal Church, Rich
mond, to accept call to Fairmont, w.
Va. He will leave his present charge
on the 18th of August. Bishop Penick
went to St. Marks Church about three
years ago. He had previously been en-
gagged ia missionary work in Africa,
when he filled the Office of Bishop.
e. P. Dalton, aged 80 years, drug
gist, whose home is 10 Danville, died at
! Ganzhorn's City Hotel, in Baltimore,
yesterday evening OF congestion of the
brain. He arrived at the hotel yester-
day morning, and came from Virginia
Beach, where in company with friend,
n. II. Galloway, he had spent few
| weeks. When be arrived in Baltimore
Mr.. Dalton was seriously ill, and his
friend, Mr.. Galloway, summoned DR..
Hill, who rendered all the aid medical
science could give.
The July term of the Clarke County
| Court convened on Tuesday. An in
dictment was returned against ]. n.
Laws for assault with intent to kill NJ
| T. Royston. Both Laws and Royston
are prominent citizens of Wildwood.
The indictment grows out of an alter.
cation between the parties over lot Of
land, which eliminated in Laws strk
ing Royston over the head with hoe
and cutting him severely. An indict-
ment was also found against George
Marpole, young white man of CASTLE
mans Ferry, for shooting George C.
Rcamore, Town Sergeant of Berry
vile, with intent to kill.
STEAMER OLD DOMINION DISABLED.
The Old Dominion Steamship Com.
pany's side. wheeler Old Dominion,
from Richmond and Norfolk, broke
down on her passage north, and was
taken in tow by the stea mer Jefferson,
OF the same line, bound from New
York for Norfolk, and towed to New
York yesterday. The Old Dominion
broke her center pin when of the
Northeast End Lightship about l
o'clock Thursday afternoon. During
the night the south-bound steamer JEFF
ferson, of the Old Dominion Line, hove
in sight, and on signal, passed a line to
the disabled steamer, and towed her to
the Sandy Hook Lightship, where she
WAS taken in charge by tugs. The JEFF.
ferson resumed her voyage south. The
Old Dominion had seven passengers.
At the office OF the line it was stated it
was expected that the Old Dominion
would be in service again within a
week.
A VACCINATION SUIT. D. Rainey,
a merchant, has given notice of novel
suit against the city of Danville, placing
his damages at So 600. HIS complaint
is that DIR. Trueman A. Parker, en-
ployed by the city TO vaccinate people