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VIRGINIA NEWS. Brodie C. Nalle, of Culpeper county, has been elected captain of the University of Virginia baseball team of 1900. The report that the Vanderbilts are negotiating for the Albemarle and Chesapeake and Dismal Swamp canalsis decided Mr. Jesse Newton, of King George county, has killed the largest hog of the season 80 far. It weighed 425 pounds. The twenty-fourth annual communication of the Grand Lodge of Masons of Virginia (colored) will convene in Richmond this evening. It is proposed to amend the constitution S0 as to provide for the meeting of the legislature only once in four years, instead of biennially, as at present. Invitations are out for the marriage of Miss Bertie Tolson, formerly of Stafford county, but now of Washington, D. C., and Mr. Spindle, of Remington, Fauquier county. Mr. Paul M. Penick, receiver of the Commercial Bank, of Glasgow, filed a motion in the Circuit Court of Richmond yesterday in a suit for $1,500 against Fitzhugh Lee, subject to a credit of $535.21. The motion was contested. Interest in the McKay scandal continues unabated in Newport News. It is reported that the Second Baptist Church will bring suit against the parties who have been circulating the reports reflecting upon the clergyman's good name, The chapter of Daughters of the Confederacy, of Washington, Rappahannock county, is raising funds to erect a monument to the soldiers of the Confederacy from Rappahannock county. They hope to erect the monument nextspring. There may still be hope for Alexander Tate, the condemned murderer, awaiting execution Friday in the Portemouth jail. Governor Tyler advised Sheriff Cromwall, of Norfolk county, that he had best pospone preparations for the hanging for B few days. Mrs. Mary A. Titus, widow of Tunis Titus, of Woodburn, Loudoun county, died suddenly Sunday morning as she entered her dining-room for breakfast. She was eighty-five years old, and leaves six children, thirty grandchildren and several great grandchildren. Mrs. Mary Gertrude Lipscomb died at her home, in Richmond, on Sunday. Upon returning from church, she took some medicine for headache, and expired in a few moments. It was feared she had been poisoned. The coroner, however, is of the opinion that death resulted from apoplexy. The Richmond Locomotive Works yesterday received ao order from the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway for twenty-five consolidated locomotives. The contract requires a delivery beginning next August. This order makes a to. tal of sixty-six engines received at the locomotive works within the past week. A. J. Simpson, H. A. Thompson and others, of Loudoun county, are preparing to erect a telephone line from Round Hill to Leesburg via Hamilton. The line will be an extension of the Round Hill and Snickersville line and in the spring it will be extended from Snickersville to the Mountain House on the Blue Ridge, Representatives of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company have been summoned to appear before Railroad Commissioner Hill at his office in Richmond on December 15 to show cause why their road should not connect with Southern Railway trains at Strasburg and Harrisonburg, the Southern operating link between the two places. A telegram was received by Governor Tyler last night from Governor MoMillan, of Tennessee, stating that he and Attorney General Pickle, of that State, would like to meet him and Attorney General Montague in Wasaington on the 18th instant to discuss the Virginia-Tennessee boundry line case, soon to be heard in the United States Supreme Court. Mr. Henry T. Garnett, member of the legislature from Stafford and King George counties, and Mr. T. Jesse Gouldman, member of the Legislature from Westmoreland, are in conference with the Representatives from St. Mary's and Charles counties, Maryland, in reference to the interests of Maryland and Virginia oystermen. They are laboring to have beneficial concurrent legislation passed. Mr. Whitehead, of Lee county, proposes to endeavor to break up by law the custom[of carrying concealed weapons. He will present a bill in the legislature which will authorize magistrates to search all suspected persons. Should a pistol be found upon the person, the accused is to be fined $30 and imprisoned in jail for thirty days. If this offence is committed on election day, the punishment is to be a fine of $50 and two years imprisonment in the penitentiary. The twenty-third annual report of the railroad commissioner shows the total miles of new railroad for the year 22 Th of persons
