Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1901-01-25
EMPRESS ILL
NEWS ITEMS.

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has been discovered in King Georg
county.
| The recent advance in peanuts il
worth FROM 100000 to $500, 900 t,
the Norfolk section.
There is famine in the PROVING,
of Shen 81, aud it is said that 5000,
600 are facing starvation.
Saturday last was the anniversar,
OF Gen. r. e. Lees birth and Tn,
day was observed generally through
out the South.
The United States is said to have
modified its warlike attitude in re.
gard to Venezuela. No battleshIps
will be sent there.
Rev. j. r. Thomas, of Colonial
Beach, has accepted call to tb,
passionate of Potomac Baptist church
King George county.
1t is practically certain that Great
Britain will accept the amend ents
of the United States Senate to the
Hay-Pauncefote treaty.
War Department officials do not
think the Supreme Court decision
will affect the continuance of United
States troops in Cuba.
G. p. Caldwell has been appointed
referee for the Second United States
District, which embraces Fredericks-
burg, the Northern Neck and the
Southside.
The Baptists of Virginia are hard
at work trying to raise the $50. 900
which will secure to them the addi-
tional subscription of $25, 900 offered
by John ID. Rockefeller.
!. Freeman Raisin, for Is wears
clerk of courts ia Baltimore. has
had to disgorge $4,000 which he
received, and personally appropriated,
rs interest on State monies which he
at various times invested.
Hugh Gordon Miller, of Norfolk
has been appointed attorney to sue
coed Mr.. j. II. Dejarnette, resigned.
This is the position for which Mr..
Malcolm Coles was spoken for.
In the West Point Military Acad-
envy hazing inquiry an instance was
told in which one "plebe" had
whipped 30 would-be-haze The
cadets have agreed to stop hazing.
The Faculty of Richmond Col
lege held meeting Saturday and
decided that there shall be no further
issue of Ola Podrida, the paper
printed under the auspices of the
College Athletic Association. The
paper will not appear again.
Newspapers throughout the conn
try are giving considerable space TO
the proposition TO hold an expositi ton
at Richmond in 1907, commemora.
tive of the 300th anniversary of the
settlement at jamestown and the
first landing of the English at what
is now Richmond.
A bill has been introduced in the
North Carolina Legislature to author
lie the penitentiary board to buy,
lease or build one or more fertilizer
factories and to manufacture COM
merclal fertilizers without license or
tax, the Agricultural Department to
name brands and see that they are
pure. Convicts are to do the work.
A human skeleton has just been
found in one of the deep mountain
gorges near Norton, Va. A pair of
gold spectacles, part of the clothing.
one glove, 55 cents in silver and a |
bottle of whiskey were found on the |
spot, but nothing to identify the
man. The bones indicate man of
medium size and ne had evidently
been dead from one to two years.
The Earl of Roseberry says a Great
Commercial Warfare is Being Waped
Against England. "The chief rivals
to be feared" said his Lordship.
ARE America and Germany. The
Americans, with their vast and al
most incalculable resources, their
lcnteness and enterprise and their
huge population, together with the
plan they have adopted for putting
accumulated wealth into great CO.
operative syndicates or trusts for the
purpose of carrying on this great
commercial warfare, are perhaps the
most formidable"
The Eastern Shore people have
ormed a potato trust, known as the
eastern Shore Produce Exchange.
With capital stock of $4,000. Its
membership is about fifteen hundred
I the most progressive and success
al farmers. It's main object is to
make the farmers pack their stock
etter, as they example every barrel
'efore it leaves the station or wharf
nd stamp on the barrel whether it is
'rimes, middle grade or culls. It's
econd object is not to overstock the
larkets in the Northern cities, in all /.
t which it has agents to look after .
8 business.
Mrs. John w. Beckwith died on I
anuary 10th at her home at Corners {
lille, Dorchester county, Nd, aged /,
8 years. She was MISS Henrietta I