Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-02-01
VIRGINIA NEWS.

The figures of the Adjutant Generals
office show that of $500 men furnished
by Virginia for the Spanish War, only
446 are now in service.
AT an early hour Monday night the
general merchandise store of J. a. Self
& Co., at Hendeis on's Chapel, North
cumberland county, was destroyed by
fire, and but little was saved.
Dogs are playing havoc with sheep
in the upper part Of Loudoun county.
In the Round Hill and Snickersville
neighborhooi over q hundred sheep
have been killed or rendered useless.
1t is reported on what seems TO be
good authority that another steamship
line will be established to operate regu-
lary from Newport News to Havre.
This will be the only steamship line
running to French port from Newport
News.
The Chesapeake and Ohio Steamship
Company is making preparations to
handle large quantities of cotton from
Newport News to Liverpool and Lon
don. II has building in England
two mammoth vessels, which will be
fitted especially for cotton-carryiGg.
A dispatch from Richmond says:
The fiercest snow storm of the winter
prevailed all over Virginia and North
Carolina last night. Two inches Of
snow fell yesterday morning. Al three
o'clock the greater storm set in from
the northwest, with sweeping wind.
The Mormon conference at East Rad
ford during the past week closed on
Monday. The concluding features Of
the conference were the ratification OF
the election of twelve apostles aud the
election OF a priest and elder for that
charge, which has q membership of
only eight.
Mrs. Jane n. Hammer died in Lynch
burg yesterday. aged 81 years. She
was the daughter of Colonel Nimrod
Branbam, OF Charlottesville, and grand
daughter Of John Marshall, of Cnlpepsr.
| II 1874 she was married to DR.. w. A
Hammer, who was surgeon in the
| Confederate army.
Six cars of freight train jumped the
| q
burg on the Richmond, Fredericksburg
aud Potomac Railroad yesterday, block
aiding the main line and OBTAINING ST
Fredericksburg for about two hours
both the north and south-bouud mail
traius and the accommodation trains.
Mr.. a. B. Richards, of Winchester,
has taken the necessary steps to secure
for his nephews, Boyd, John and
Joseph Ross, the sum of $500, the
value OF boat destroyed during the
war on the Ohio river by soldiers. The
government has approved the claim
and the sum is now a@ei:ing the claim
ants.
Mr.. Glenn r. Watson has resigned
he place Of deputy collector of internal
revenue, under Collector J. B. Stovall,
vt Danvlle, to engage in private bust
9ess. Collector Agnew has accepted
nis resignation and in letter says: 81
trust that in tie new avenues of bust
ness you will find success awaiting your
endeayors."
DR.. Thomas Gibson, o prominent
physician of Montgomery county, left
home Monday morning in apparent
good health. Not returning: search
was instituted, and he was found dead
! in fence corner, with his feet hung in
the fence. It is supposed he was stricken
With heart disease while getting over
the feuce aud fell, breaking his neck.
The first class of the V. MI, with
| tie exception Of FIVE or six members,
nave reported for duty. They signed
the pledge prescribed by the Superin.
teudent, Gen. Shipp. 1t was in the
main q pledge to abstain from the use
of Intoxicating beverages until July l,
1899. The officers now appear in ranks
with riff issued them in lieu of swords.
Milton Dashiell, of Cambridge, Md,
and Miss Annie Jordan Gray, daugh
ter of the late DR.. e. V. Gray, were
married yesterday at st. Johns Epis-
copal church, Roanoke, by the former
rector, Rev. ". H Meade. DR.. J. New
ton Lewis was best man and Miss Cha
rinda Gray, sister of the bride, was
maid OF honor. Another fashionable,
wedding also took place in Roanoke,
when Mr.. Mark G. Price led the accom-
pIis1ed daughter OF Col. |. V. Johnson
to the altar. Rev. T. G. Carson oliicia-