Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-05-16
VIRGINIA NEWS

Holt +. But, j., has been appolnteu
postmaster at PoIt,mouth.
Confederate Memorial Day was OBJ
served at Norfolk yesterday with sp'
proprists ceremonies.
Thomas Savage has been appointed
postmaster to succeed w. Il. Taylor, re-
signed, st Ashgrove, Fairfax county.
Judge R. G. Jackson of the fifteert tn
circuit will soon resign and will 60 TO
Tszewell and again enter into the prac'
tice OF law.
Mr.. H. B. Male, proprietor OF Roke-
by stock farm near Leesburg, SOLD on
Monday a splendid pair OF trotting ored
bays for 81 600. They went to Wash
ington.
The entire force, with the possible
exception OF dozen men. OF the De-
ford Tsnnery Company, OF Luray, went
on a strike yesterday demanding an ln-
crease In wages.
Contributions are being received by
Rev. DR.. MoncuTe 10 Richmond for
building a church near Whitewater,
Stafford county. Rev. E. B. Burrell Ia
the minister 10 charge.
General Epps Hutton has sold bis
residence in Warrenton to Mrs. Sarah
Hoge for ten thousand dollars, posses
sion to be given October 1st. This is
one OF the most desirable places in
Warrenton.
The trial of the first suit In Balti'
more OF Henry w. Jackson, OF Kes-
wick. Albemarie county, against Gill
bert Bros & Co, wholesale druggists.
for SOS, 900 damages for alleged loss oil
eyesight by drinking Jamaica ginger,
began yesterday.
The Standing Committee OF the
Episcopal Diocese OF Virginia has given
consent to the conservation OF Rev.
Henry Bond Restarick IS Missionary
Bishop OF Honolulu, and Rev. James
Heart Van Bruen Gs Missionary Bis6'
op of Porto Rico.
Mr.. Henry Fairfax of Loudoun went
to New York on Monday with si1
bsaut ful Hackney horses for the horse
sale. He won the handsome 5000 ELL
YER cup offered for the best display 81
the sale and his horses brought him on
az average 1862 each.
The election held yesterday In Front
Royal for or against authorizing the
town council to Issue bonds to the
amount OF $4,000 for the purpose OF
buying the Royal Waterworks resulted
10 q vote OF 139 for and % against. A
majority Of q OF the registered vote
The works we're built 10 1890 at cost
Of $4,000.
Major Charles Hine has sold to Bish
Cd Samuel A. Sanger, OF Rockingham
county, the old Sut.on-PAlmer farm, al
0akton, Fairfax county, containing 25t
acres. Bishop Sanger belongs to the
Dunksrd denomination, and ls the sec
ond member of that church that has
bought property 10 that vicioity
through the agency of Major Hine.
The Upper R4ppsbannook Telegraph
and Telephone Company was orgaL
Y d 10 Fredericksburg yesterday. The
capital has been subscribed and thu
line will be built at once from Freder
icksburg 10 Tappahsnnock, sixty
miles below on the Rappahannock
river, from which point 1t will com
municate with other eCtioDs OF lower
tideWater.
The thirty-eighih anniversary of tbs
ba, tie OF New Market, Va, in which
the Cadet Battsllon of the Virgins
MILITARY lost tata took An activg Datt
was observed at Lexington ystt 'rdsy
It the institute by a suspension of al
academic duties. Memorial exercise:
were cid IN the metery witnin the
grounds 10 the afternoon. The al
oiversary ald annual decoration o
tbe Confederate soldiers graves was
also observed ut Newmarket yesterday
by the Ladies' Memorial Society AND
Rice Nsf Camp Confederate Veterans