Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1900-06-08
NEWS ITEMS.

line annual reunion or the Con-
federate Veterans Associations closed
this week at Louisville, Ky.
Superintendent Southall decides
that school trustees or superinten-
dents cannot hold Office as census emu
meratorS.
Rev. DR.. j. William Jones, of Vir-
ginia, has received call to the pas-
torate of the Baptist church at Chapel
Hill, n. 9. He will probably accept.
Miss Dora Wolfe, girl of 16, has
been sworn In to carry mail on horse
back between Ripley aud Sandyville,
a wild West Virginia section. She
will carry weapons to protect herself
and the L. s. mail.
The United States Coast Survey
steamer Bache, has made recon-
noissauce TO form general plan for
survey of the Chesapeake from Point
Lookout to the Capes and is to be
engaged upon that work until the
fall.
A race between the four-masted
schooners, Mary Adelaide Randall
and the Katherine ID. Perry, from
Bangor, Me-, to Baltimore, for II
purse of$500, was finished recently.
aud won by the Randall by twenty
two hours.
Gen. Davlla, commander of the
Venezuela government troops in the
victorious engagement recently with
Gen. Hernandez, which resulted in
the capture of the latter, has brought
the insurgert leader to Caracas, and
will exhibit him in the streets of the
capital.
United States District Attorney.
Il. Ii. Anderson, has announced his
opinion in regard to the endless chain
schemes holding that they come with
in the purview of the law prohibit
ing gift enterprises. 1t is expected
that projectors of the schemes will
be arrested and prosecuted.
Frank Reed, colored, Norfolk
barber, was on the street gazing at
the eclipse of the sun. During the
brief period of totality he was heard
to wish that God would never let the
sun shine again, as the white man
got the best of the light. At once
he fell to the ground and since that
time has not moved or spoken.
The Commissioner of Agriculture
has ordered his inspectors to seize
some lots of fertilizers that were
offered for sale to the farmers in
violation of the law. He has been
Informed that heretofore IN some
sections of the State, South Carolina
bone has been sold in bags branded
as dissolved animal bone, at $40 per
ton more than i. is worth, 10 the
farmers.
Sixteen hundred dollars were car
ried through the mails in an unreg-
istered envelope from an Illinois
banker to Bloomington merchant
last week. The common manila COW
ering Enclosed one one. Thousand dol
lar bill, one five hundred.dollar bill
and one one-hundred- dollar bill.
Postal officials say this is the largest
risk of which they have knowledge.
There was no check out of the COM
mon Oh the men who handled this
letter.
Charges are made that In the
Washington postoffice funds have
been improperly disbursed, numerous
favorites have been carried Oh the
pay rolls, and women who do no
work whatever have been drawing
comfortable salaries. Travelling ex-
penses of department officials who
were not on public business, and
trips for private citizens who are
only nominally connected with the
government service, have been paid
TO the extent of tens of thousands of
dollars out of funds strictly belong
ing to the Washington postofiice and
out of military postal fund.
The Cape Charles postoflice was
robbed 10y burglars Friday night, who
secured about $3.50 in stamps and
about $500 in money, six registered
letters, and package of valuable
papers, al of which was con tanned
in the safe. The burglars drilled a
hole through the safe and blew it
open. The robbers were captured
Monday night in Cris6eId. Md. They
were well armed with knives and
reyolvers, and had someof the money
and instruments used in opening the
Office in their possession. They went
to Crisfield in a canoe and set il
adrift after landing.
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