Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-11-29
VIRGINIA NEWS.

0du!t1 OldCh ulcu JcclClUoS az E'S
home in Stafford county, after lolg
illness.
Trains will be run over the Rich
mond, Petersburg and Carolina Rail
road by January 1.
Telephone girls at Newport News
have goue on strike because REQUEST
ed not to indulge in unnecessary talk
over the switchboard.
Hog cholera ia causing serious loss in
Louisa county, and has crossed the line
into Orange, playing havoc with the
swine herds. The loss to farmers will
be large.
Abner n. Harris died on Monday at
Cherry Grove, Spottsylvania county,
aged sixly-6ve years He was an e1-
Confederate soldier. A widow and
eight children survive him.
A movement has been started by the
leading bankers and business men OF
Richmond to test the constitutionalty
ofthe act of Congress imposing a tax
OF 10 per cent. upon the issue OF State
bank notes.
The Leo Shuliz Brewing Company at
Newport News yesterday made appll-
Gallon for charter. The concern Will
have capital stock of 100000, end
will build on the Chesapeake and Ohio
Railway near that city.
W. Scott Kenney, weIl.kuown
Young farmer living at Happy Creek.
Warren county, who was run over by
passenger train on the Southern Rail-
way at Linden, and had both of his
legs cut of few days since died yes
terday.
Officers of the Richmond, Fredericks-
burg and Potomac Railroad Company,
accompanied by Governor Tyler and
other State officers, made the annual
tour of inspection over the Richmond
Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad
yesterday.
On the invitation of the Secretary OF
the Navy Miss Maria TenEyck De-
catur Mayo, OF Norfolk, grand daughter
of Admiral Decatur, has consented to
act rs sponsor for the torpedo boat de-
stroyer Decatur, now urder coostruc-
ton at Richmond.
Coarles Loth was convicted 10 Rich
mo1d late last night OF abductiOg Oliva
B. Newton, and given seven years Ii
the penitentiary. Lotb, it is charged
carried the girl. VINO is sixteen years
old, 10 North Carolina for the evoWed
purpose of marrying her, and then re-
fused to do 80.
Mr.. Koiner, commissioner Of agricul-
ture, has received Inquiries from large
cattle raiser in the west, who wanted
TO know if be could secure sufficient
ground for the purpose of starting q
!, sheep rapch. He will have abou. 5000
head. Another letter was from farmer
10 Canada, who wants 10 procure a
farm in this State.
Mrs. Collis P. Huntington has given
Principal II. B. Frissell, oft Hampton
Normal and Agricultural Institute, g
check for 81, 500 for the establishment ci
d cooking and sewing school for colored
girls and a manual trairiDg school for
colored boys, in connection with the
public school system OF Rockets, the
colored section of Newport News.
Colonel" Gould P. Austin, OF Phoe-
bus, left last night for Washington
where he will report to Sir Julian Pun
cefote, British ambassador, by order OF
Lord Lansdown, of the British war of.
fee, to whom he made application to
join the British army in the Transvaal.
he received the order on Monday to re.
port to the British embassy at once.
Hon. VIM. L. Wilson, ex postmaster
general under President Cleveland, and
now president of Washington and Lee
University, at Lexington, has written e
letter to friend in Richmond stating
that his physician, DR.. Janeway, the
specialist, has ordered him TO cancel all
engagements, give up his work and 60
TO the arid plains of southern Arizona
for the winter.
Judge s. G. Whittle, who held Cir.
cult Court here last week, has been
appointed a member of special Court
of Appeals, which convenes at Rich
nond on the 18th of December, to hear
arguments in case in which three OF
the Supreme Court judges are interest
ed. Judge Walford, OF Richmond, and
Judge Blair, of Salem, OF the Circuit
Court are also appointed to sit in the
case.
The report of Rear Admiral End-
colt, chief OF the Bureau of Naval Yards
aud Docks, submits estimates for inn
provements amounting to S14, 756, 439.
Among the items recommended are a
rsw stone and concrete dry-dock at the
Norfolk navy yard, to cost 200 600.
Among the total estimates for Various
navy yards and stations is Norfolk,
81 ,649, 900, including $780, 900 to begin
new dock and 100000 for additional
land to increase scope of the yard.
Governor Tyler's message to the
legislature will devote no little space to
the subject of trusts add corporate inter-
ests. The governor will also recon-
mend the enactment ola .aw prohibiting
corporations from contributing to cam
paign fuDds, and imposing a penalty
for so doing. He recommends the en-
forcement Of election laws as intended,
senatorial primary, reorganization OF
military and supervisor of the oyster
inspectors. 1t is expected that the gov
ernor will suggest that the expenses of
the railroad commissioners Office either
be made charge upon the treasury or
the Office abolished, and he will recon-
mend an appropriation for the State
board of health.
RAILROADS.
The first step in the consoli dation Of
the seventeen railroads acquired within