The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1901-03-02
VIRGINIA NEWS.

\ mil Tor manufacture OF potato nOuI
is to be located at Norfolk.
The run of shad is making its appear
all along the Western Bay shore.
An automobile factory is one Of the
probabilities for Richmond in the near
future.
Staunton was visited this week by the
worst fire in this city's history. Much
property was burned.
The Governors staff will not go to
Washington as a body, but several mem
bers may attend the inauguration rs in
dividuals.
Mrs. Hatch, of Louisa county, who
was recently operated on at the Virginia
Hospital, Richmond has recovered and
returned home.
\ patent for roller screen has been ~
sued To Maurice +. Hutchinson. a ssignor
of one-half to Rudolph Charles Eichburg,
Vienna, Fairfax county.
The Confederate Memorial Literary So
ciety in Richmond decided to offer place
in the Museum grounds for the monu-
ment to Dr. Hunter Mcclure
The Department OF Educa ton is still
receiving applications for appointments
to teach in the Summer NOrmals OF the
State, but the appointments have all
been made.
Several deaths have occurred this
week among the colored people in the
ueighborhood OF Recdville, Northumbcr-
land county. from smallpox. MI cases
are quarantined.
The committee in charge OF selecting n
site for the proposed Methodist Orphan
age. at Richmond, is considering four
sites The matter will not be decided
until the middle Of March.
Some excitement has been created IN
the neighbOrhOOd of BarbOursyille,
Orange county, by the supposed dis
covery of sulphur pyrites mines, about
three miles north of that place,
Rev. A. b. Mitchell, OF the Episcopal
church. who has been at work at Min
eral City, has been transferred to West
Point. where he will take charge of West
Point church. and st. DAVID at Ayletts.
The first annual meeting of the Sunday
Observance League, held in Richmond
Thursday night, was marked byarather
bold criticism of the courts and officials
for not enforcing the laws against Sab
bath violations.
1t is said that about twenty-five big
lumber mills in Virginia will be in the
combine which is now taking shape in
the States of Maryland and Virginia and
North Carolina, and that prices OF lumber
will be advanced.
The L. $ officials have taken steps to
hold Gus b. Ford. the man who was found
badly wounded in aschOolhouse in Chest
erfeld county Sunday. They are con
fdent that he is man who has robbed
pOstOtfices in Virginia.
Mrs. Milton Sydnor, Of Warsaw. Rich
mond county, is very sick at the residence
of her mother. Mrs. George Smith.
Miss Alberta Newman, of Essex county,
is visiting friends and relatives in High
land Park.-Rich. News.
Judge r. II. Tibbs, of tile County Court
has ordered local option election To be
held in Ieesburg District on Tuesday,
April 2nd. There isno legal sale of liquor
now in any part Of Loudoun. and a.
usual. a strong effort will I've made to
continue Leesburg dry.
Three hundred was bid fOrR.. F& Poem
mon stock Wednesday. This il an advance
of about thirty points since the General
Assembly repealed the bill incorporating
the Richmond and Washington Air Line
and the bill authorizing the sale of the
States stock in the road.
]. Tyler Jackson, Dr., of Charlottesville,
was seriously injured Tuesday. He IL a
new student at the Medical College OF
Virginia, and becoming sick in the dis
secting room. started out At the top OF
the stairs he tainted and fell to the bot
tom. He is in a serious condition.
The dwelling of Mr. Floyd. near Wheal- !
ton. Lancaster county, was destroyed |
by fire Saturday Only little furniture /
was saved. No insurance. Loss $500. On |
the same day a dwelling belonging To |
Lucius Tomlin. cOlored, near Millenbeck, |
was burned. Loss 800 No insurance.
The Warrenton Virginian says: "Col. |
John 5. Mosby is in WarrentOn visiting |
his daughter on his way from San Fran |
cisco to New York. When the deeds of /
Col MOsby have received the glamour Of /
more distant past, his name will he |
mentioned with Prince Rupert and Henry
Of Navarro.
Joseph d. Nicholson. who was serving |
a sentence OF twelve months in the Madi- |
son county jail for attempted criminal 4
assault, sawed out OF jail Tuesday night.
The Jail is new one. Ii cost the cOun
ty $4,000, and several prisoners have !
made their escape in the short time it |
has been built.
Eight Virginia companies will attend /
the Inauguration in Washington next |
week the Richmond Howitzers, five |
Richmond companies and the Alexandria |
and fredericksburg companies of the 10th /
regiment. The Virginia soldiers will /
wear their regulation blue uniforms on .
the trip. but will carry their suits Of .
Confederate gray, and if the weather is /
propitious will parade in the latter. The /
inauguration authorities have declared /
this will be entirely agreeable.
Judge Garnett opened Middlesex court.
Wednesday. After an unimportant and
short session the Judge vacated the
bench. and a mass-meeting was held in the
courthouse. Suitable resolutions were
adopted relative to the death of the Hon.
Robert Mechanism, late member Of the
bar there. Hon. A. j. Montague, At
torney- General and very near relative
of the wife of the deceased, addressed the
meeting in a touching discourse. Hepaid
high tribute to the legal talent and char
acter of the deceased. The courthouse
was packed with ladies and gentlemen.