Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-01-04

VIRGINIA NEWS.

VlkGlNlA NEWS.
Major J. B. Bordley died at bis resi-.
dence 10 Petersburg yesterday after q
brief illness.
DR.. r. H. Willis, principal of the
Episcopal school at Chatham, died
Monday of pneumonia.
A bill will be introducedin the legisla.
ture providing for the reorganization Of
the Bureau OF Agriculture.
Jno. B. Cook, q leading citizen of War.
wick county, and Thomas K. Borland
q leading lawyer OF Norfolk, are dead.
Mr.. Frank Thompson has sold one Of
bis farms containing 3O2 acres neal
Beslton, Fauquier county. to Mr.. Wei
sel for IS. $50.
The memory of FatheriRyap, poet
laureate OF the Southern Confederacy
is to be honored by monument to Be
erected 10 his native city, Norfolk.
Mr.. Westley Edwards died at biz
home near Warrenton on Monday
Had be lived until the 23rd day o.
March he would have been SO years old
Rev. w. A. Query, chaplain of the
University of the South, at Sewanne
will probably be called to the rector.
ship of st. Pauls Episcopal Church,
Richmond.
William L. Wilson. president OIL
Washington and Lee University, will
leave Lexington today for the Arizona
Hot Springs. near Ph1uix, where he
will spend several months.
Charles FOLLY, 16 years old, of Bu-
ohanan, accidentally killed himself
while cunning yesterday. He jumped
on brush-heap to scare out q rabbit,
when the gun he carried was discharg-
ed.
The VIM. Beasley tract of land, COL
tanning 1900 acres in Spotsylvania ad-
joining the White Hall gold mine, was
sold at Fredericksburg on Tuesday to
Mr.. G. B. Holiday, of Richmond, for
So, 1855.
Mrs. Huntington yesterday organized
the training school for colored girls, for
the establishment of which she recently
sent her check for 81, 500 to Principal
Frizzell, Of the Hampton Normal Insti
tuition.
Keeper Saunders, the sleepy death
watch at the Portsmouth Jail, whose
slumbers permitted the condemned nj :
gro murderer, Walter Cotton, to escape
last week, has been fined $3.50 for ne
elect Of duty.
The Epps "Jim Crow" car bill and
the Folkes measure to require ell cleo
trio wires in cities of more than 20, 1000
population to be placed under ground,
will be considered by the house com
mittees, in Richmond, on Saturday.
There is a movement on foot to amend
the fertilizer law, recently passed, SO as
to make the members of the board Of
agriculture and the officers of the de-
partment elective by the General As
sembly, instead of appointive by the
Governor, as now.
Two daughters OF Mr.. and Mrs. Fred
Myers we're married in Richmond yes
terday, The ceremonies were perform.
ed at Beth Ahaba Synagogue. Rev.
Edward Cilisch off!ciated. Miss Stella
Myers became the vile of Mr.. Frank S.
Loeb, of Plttsburg, and Miss Florence
Myers welded Mr., Joseph B. Hecht, of
New York.
The Algoma Central Railway Com
pany telegraphed to Richmond yester-
day to the William r. Trigg Shipbuild-
ing Company, to know il they could
build two first. class freight and passen-
ger steamers TO run on the lakes. Ow-
log to pressure OF work the company
declined to consider the offer to build
the steamers.
The destruction of the car record
Office of the Chesapeake and Ohio r. r.
10 Richmond on Tuesday, viii incon-
venience every large railroad system 10
the country. Here we're kept the rec
ords not only of the compsny's rolling
stock, but q history of every car from
other roads that came on its lines.
These records are total loss.