The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1901-03-12
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Judge Fleet presided over the King ana
Queen county court Friday, for the first
time.
An effort is being made To organize n
military company at leesburg, Loudoun
county.
Talbot" farm in LOudOun county, has
been sold to an Ohio man for $l4 ,OOO;
over 500 per acre.
The young people of Cape Charles will
present drama. The Deacon i'll four
acts, on April 18th.
Ii il reported at Old Point that the
Chamberln and the Hygeia hotels there
will he consolidated.
4 tenement house on the farm of DR..
4 &. Grinnan, in Madison county, was
destroyed 10y fire few days ago.
The barn and stables on the premises
occupied by Mr.. Nichols, in Accomac
county. were burned last week. No in
| surance.
4 house IN Church Neck in Northamp-
ton county. caught ON fire last week,
and burned to death three small colored
children.
According to the change in the oyster
| law for Northampton county the closed
season begins April 18th and ends Sep
tember LIST.
The President has nominated Ornond
| Stone of Charlottesville. to bea member
of the Board of Visitors To the Naval
Observatory.
George X. Campbell. agent for Ramapo
Lumber Mills of New York, has been IN
Prince William county, looking up tim
Der for ship building.
Mr.. 4. &. Mammalian, of Cape Charles
| CITY has been elected a Councilman oi
| that place. To till the vacancy caused 10y
| the resignation of Mr. W. b. Wilson.
Mr.. W. l.. Keyser of Rappahannock,
| has been appointed by Gov. Tyler
member of the Board of Visitors Of the
Deaf. Dumb and Blind Asylum ut Staun-
| ton.
The Rev. =. H. Pernell. pastor OF the
| Baptist church mt Eastville, Northamp-
| ton county, has received u call to an
other charge. but has reached no decision
as yet.
The Business Mems Association. of
| Newport News. inaugurated a movement
/ having for its purpose the presentation
of a silver service to the new battleship
Virginia.
The State's. stock legislature declined
r. Rn,' has gone bounding up the ladder
and is now quoted at $500 per share
with no offers of sales.
In spite of the unpropitious weather
| the truckers. of Northampton county. are
well under way with the planting OF
their spring crop of Irish potatoes and
bedding of sweet potatoes.
Mr.. G.. b. Rouss. of New York. has
/ given SO. 900 for the erection of n NOR
| tuary chapel in Mount Hebron Cemetery,
Winchester, Va The cemetery company
| will give a similar amount.
On April LIST all the employees Of the
offices Of the Cincinnati, Portsmouth and
Virginia Railway, recently purchased by
the Norfolk and Western, will he removed
/ from Cincinnati to Roanoke.
Mr.. HOtchkiss, manager Of the Stand
ard Picking Company at lrbanna, Mid
dlesex county, will visit Northampton
county this week to perfect the necessary
arrangements for the establishment of
sailing houses in the county
Negotiations for the purchase Of pOr-
ton of the mill lot by the Orange Horse
mans Association are about completed.
| II the purchase is made the Horse Show
will he held there this summer.
The Ministers, Deacons and Laymen's
meeting of the Second District of the
Rappahannoek Association, will meet at
Clarks Neck Baptist church, Saluda
Middlesex county, on March 20 30 and
81.
The statement Of the LoudOun Ma
tional Bank of Leesburg. shows the
deposits to he the largest since its Organi-
cation, being 1878, 1907 ,O6. This is a
gain during the last year Of over 800
10000.
Culpeper was represented on Monday
last in the inaugural procession by Dick
Coleman. cOlOred, who drove the Presi-
dents carriage, he being regularly EN-
ployed as cOachman at the White House.
-Culpeper Exponent.
Mr.. NJ. q. Field cashier of the National
Bank of Orange, returned Monday from
a pleasant sOjOurn in Colorado. Mr.. |
James Watson, of this county, has been |
on recent visit TO relatives in Fredericks- |
burg.-Orange Observer.
A suit for $1,000 damages has been
instituted in the Circuit Court OF Eau
quier county by Robert Mitchell against |
John W. MOuntjoy, for damages sus-
tanned in an assault by Mountjoy ON the |
person of Mitchell last summer.
A number of students and professors
from the Polytechnic Institute at Blacks
burg, will visit Richmond on the 10Th
instant, for the purpose of making n tour
of inspection Of the various factories,
fOundries and other institutions.
Mr. Grin Hudgins'andsMiss Evai Hurst,
of Mathews county, both in their teens,
walked four miles to catch the Baltimore
steamer for Baltimore, to get married,
but they were just fifteen minutes late,
when the mothers of the two intended
clippers appeared and advised them to
retrace their steps homeward.
There are Indications that three and
possibly four industrial plants of i'm
portance will be located in Richmond
within a short while These include a
pulp mill, employing three hundred
men; a cocoa fibre mating factory, to
employ three hundred men; a carpet
factory and broom factory.
Lieutenant ]. Monroe Love, of the
Thirty second Infantry, has been appoint
ID treasurer of the province of Pam
Philippine Islands, and Sergeant
Major Vanca az tho Fort first limited |