Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-09-29
VIRGINIA NEWS.

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ilary IDsli ue al Lexington.
Capt. Albert Mcdaniel, who was q
mejor on the staff of Gen. T. t. Mun-
ford during the civil war, died in B5d-
ford county, yesterday.
The governor has pardoned James
Overs .aet, who in April, OF last year,
was Convicted 10 the Beoiord County
Court of burglary and sentenced to sew
on years 10 the penitentiary.
DR.. James H Smont, who lives five
miles west OF Woodstock, and Miss
Nettie H. Mappis, youngest daughter
Old W. Msppis, prominent farmer OF
near Mount Olive, were married at
Manassas on Tuesday night.
Police Justice Tomlip, OF Norfolk =,
has declared unconstitutional the Vii
giuia law imposing tn annual Zee of s.
on al! vessels from other ; sle5 entering
Virginia ports, whether they require
the services OF the harbormas,er Or not.
A considerable frost fell at Norfolk
Wednesday night, the first during Sep
TENDER since 1878. The crops are re-
ported to be materially injured. There
was considerable frost also at Peters
turg yesterday morning, the first o!
the season.
Secretary Long has replied to the APP
plication Of the citizens OF Norfolk and
vicinity to have the Olympia sent to
Hampton Roads in company with the
North Atlantic squadron, declining TO
sanction the proposition. The Gym
pia is 10 90 out OF commission at the
Boston navy yard.
Owing to the inability of the w. R.
Trisg Shpbuilding Company, of Rich
mood, to secure from the Bethlehem
Iron Company the shaiting for the tor
pedo boat SDubrick on time, the launch
Jog of that vessel will not likely take
place in October, as expected, aud the
builders are entirely unable TO name
the dale.
Fire in Staunton yesterday original
ing in the drug store Of B. f. Hughes,
caused an $4,000 loss. Hughes's store
was completely Quilted, and its stock,
valued at $1,000 destroyed. Ander-
son and Bryant, grocers, adioinins, lost
81, 500 by smoke and water. +. B. Lips
comb, shoes, loss 81 900, and s., 800 will
cover lost on the three store rooms.
Charles Jones, the l6-year-old boy
who had been missing from his home
in Richmond for several days, turned
up yesterday. He got in an empty
freight car on the James river division
OF the Chesapeake and Ohio at the de-
pot in Richmond, and was locked TO-,
He was carried, the boy says, long
distance up the road before he could es.
cape.
A charter was granted by Judge A.
w. Wallace, in the Corporation Court
Of Fredericksburg yesterday, to the
Virginia Beet Sugar Company, and the
powers granted are the growing and
purchasing OF sugar beets and the
manufacture Of beet sugar. The capt.
tai is to be not less than 800 900 or
more than $500,0O0 The local incor-
porators are B. /. Spencer. .. G. Cox,
Fl. B. Tuttle, f. W. S!earns and W.
H. Richards, jr.
Al an early hour this morning the
immense joint deep water terminal Of
he Atlantic Coast Line ard Southern
Railway az Pinner's Point, Norfolk,
caught fire. The warehouses. five in
nun Der, are OF wood and were stored
with freight for export. The fire tugs
succeeded in conhning the flames to
No. warehouse, hicn, together with
the contents, was entirel Y destroyed.
The contents consisted in part Of wal
nut and other timber, cotton ard cot
ton waste, and 600 hogsheads OF tobac-
co. The destroyed building was 76l by
200 feet in Dimensions, and with COZ
.ents was valued at several hundred
thousand dollars. The loss is fully
covered by insurance. There were no
casualties. The loss will be $500 600.
The burned pier was ore OF the largest
freigha piers in the world ard entire
freight trains were housed under its
caves. Half dozen locomotives were
run almost into the flames by engineers
and pulled trains out OF the furnace.
One barge was burned.