Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-03-23
VIRGINIA NEWS.

William G.. Ho9sett, a Confederate
veteran, died in Rockbridge county
yesterday.
The new Methodist Episcopal Church
South, at Winchester, will be dedicated
April 16 by Bishop Granbery.
The Grand Council Royal Arcanum
has decided to meet in Richmond April
is and 10, instead of Newport News.
The steamships FL Alba and Ell Dia,
two Of the four Morgan liners build
ing at Newport News, will be launched
about April 10.
The board of visitors of the Univer-
sity of Virginia will meet March IS to
elect a successor to the late Professor
Walter D. Dabney, of the law depart
ment of that institution.
The State photographers association
met at Lynchburg yesterday. Presi-
dent w. E. Eutsler, of Dsnville, presid-
ed and submitted his annual report.
The list of prizes was announced.
Large numbers of young beef cattle
have Just beer received in the Mount
Jackson neigh borhood. and farmers are
entering upon the cattle raising indus
try more extensively than heretofore.
DR.. J. Lawrence Whtlock and Miss
Mamie Ritter, q well known young
couple of Frederick county, were mar
ried yesterday afternoon at the resi-
dence of the groom's uncle, DR.. W. j.
Wbitlock, who is also stepfather to the
bride.
Prof. Trentanove, the Washington
sculptor, has informed the Governor
that he has made bust of Gen. Fl
Lee of Carara marble. He wants to
exhibit it in the capitol and has been
granted permission to place it in one Of
the inches in the rotunda.
The receipts OF the Fredericksburg
postoffice for the fiscal year ending o.
April 10, 1893, will be more than $4,000,
which sum under the present law err
titles the city to free delivery system,
with two or three carriers. 1t may Be
several months, however, before the
system is put in operation.
Rev. Charles r. Hyde, pastor of the
Third Presbyterian church, of Rcf =
mond, will, beginning on the 18th
April, for six months devote his ene:-
gies to raising funds for the Presbyte-
rian General | Assembly's Home ant
school for children of deceased Presby
terrain ministers at Fredericksburg.
1t is reported that Adjutant General
Male is in state of nervous prostra'
ton bordering on collapse. He is a
his home in Culpeper Recently b.
lost g son, with whom he had sat u
days and nights. Another child is il!
The general is thoroughly broker
down, and it will be some time before
he will be able to do any work.
Mrs. James Cowger, living near Ed
inburg, Shenandoah county, gave birth
on Saturday to male child without
legs or arms. The thighs and should
ers are neatly rounded eff, and the
infant is healthy. Several months
since the mother doctored chicken
whose legs and wings had been eater
away by rats. The Cowgers' other
children are perfectly formed.
Mr.. Henry Warden, late of Yves
Virginia, who recently purchased th'
Bernard farm, in Spottsylysnia county
and has located in Fredericks
burg, received yesterday by freight
j twenty-five blooded mares for
breeding purposes. Mr.. WGrde'
is now having erected on hi.
property modern barns and othel
buildings, which, when completed, vii
make his establishment model stock
farm.
The State board of fisheries was il
session in Richmond yesterday, With
all the members present. Matters
regarding the oyster inspectors were
under consideration. Captain Thomas
B. Smith, of Accomac, appeared before
the board and asked that body to pro-
vide police boat for the seaside OF
Accomac and Northampton, where
Marylanders, it is asserted, are depre
dating upon the oyster grounds.
The board promised TO consider the
matter,
Judge Waddill, in the United States
District Court, in Richmond in the
case of NJ. r. Strang, jr., against
the Richmond, Petersburg and Caro-
lima Railroad, yesterday denied the IN
junction prayed for and dismissed the
compliments bill at his cost. Strane
claimed that he had contract with the
railroad company to build the road and
that he was to take pay for the work in
in the bonds of the company; that they
violated the contract and gavethe work
to others.
Maj. James F. Milligan, veteran OF
the Mexican and civil wars, died at his
home in Norfolk yesterday, aged
seventy years. He had for number
of years held newspaper and govern
ment positions, having been local in
spector of steamboats, in 1S90-94
During the Mexican war he was mid
shipmsn and acting lieutenant on the old
frigate Cumberland. At the beginning
of the civil war he resigned his COM
mission in the United States navy, and
espoused the cause of the Confederacy
He was commissioned major and acted
as chief signal officer, serving the
Southern cause with great ability.