Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1878-12-12
VIRGINIA News.


The residence of Gee. ". Bray, ir Ffeder'
icksb burg, vas burned lss. night.
Mr.. Alexander Vaughan, Ct Petersburg, w.
vas she, 10 TIC hsnd Monday evening by lie
accidental dischsrse ct bis pistol.
+. Carri7g:oa Csbell, Q we'll known Rich
noad Iawy,r. slipped AID fell on the pavement
Monday cyeuiog, fractprIDg one OF bis a1kses'
The hotel and Improvement DOW b. 1g erect
ed at the Fsuquier White Sulphur Springs,
to be ready by btx. ssasoD, VII COST
$50 Co.,
A party of six hunters from Albemlrle Co.,
On four days huot in the North mountains,
in Augusta Co., last week, succeeded . killing
ID r;eeu deer.
Rev. George G. Brooke oDe Of the oldest
add most estcem med ministers Of tho Baltimore
Cootereuca, NJ. E. church South, died sudden
ly as bis resdeoce 10 B=!r5viile, o. Sunday, OF
paralysis.
The Managers Of the narrow gauge road at
fredericksburg have pledges from cIizsns OF
Madison and Green counues to subscribe re-
spec,lvey fifty and thirty Thousand dollars 10
| no.ds towards building tie road to their coutt
house.
Anorg tie patents recently granted are thc
f.lowios: Wlioo +. Jeokils aDd Charles W
JsokiDs, Richmond. Va. pIows; Peter Il.
Mayo snd Thomss Atkinson, Richmond, Va.
removable covers fer show boxes; David SEsEz
| Woodstock, Va, bed bottoms.
TIE ceremonies OF dedcatipg the monumen
erected 10 Hollywood Cemetery, in Richmond
| 10 the memory Ct the late Dr.. John Dove
G7snd Secretary Of the Grand Lodge Of Ma
sous # the State, took place yesterday. The
Knights Ten pIar and all The Mssooio lodges
participated, and there was 90 immense Grove
at the cemetery. An address was delivered BY
Grand Master B. Wexford, jr.
At ar adjourned meeting of the stakeholder!
| of the Ri;hmord ADD Danvil,e Railroad, held
| 10 Richmond yesterday evening, ell of the ole
Ulcers Of the company were 70 electe3. Tbs
! total earnings CT the road aud its branches fo
rhe year e1ding September 80, 1878. were
| 81 474 4QS, AID !hs runOlug expenses 1855,
| Gil. Tue decreased earnings oVlr last yesr srt
| S94 0SG
The Virgi0ia Dental Assoc alton is 10 session
10 Richmond. Al yesterdays session there
was discu:sio es to o=lluloid compGred viii
| rubber. y report on dental literature, pre-.
s.rtcd By Dr.. ChsHrios, Of Baltimore, va
adopted. i report on dental pathology, bJ
VI, DuIRuaiiEf, hl IleEllsOupu!S, WAS IuiJ
discussed ty Dr.. Hunt aud Others, and fosll!
| adopted. Tine association will adjourn to day
The voters of Highland Co., last week, il
pubi!o N aeIl0g, adopted resolution declaring
that they he'd been nised by certain persons
eho pr"te>sed to speak By authority, iuto vot
icy $50. 600 subscription to the Washington
| Cincinnati. aud ST.. Louis Railroad Company
that the representations made haVo PROVED
false; ihgt they DOW consider that q Swiudlo ha
been prsc'i,ed upoa them, and that they fee
10 mural obligation res;iog upon them to pay
said subScGiptloc.
A sins GUAR accident occurred yesterday il
| Ches!e:f=Il county, near the coal PITS, b.
| which yGuag c0Icrad girl lost her life. ST.
| retired ra!hcE precjti ;atcly from dinner a
which rabbit; pic LAD been served, aud whel
t5uu;l shortly af:er ia uu aGi>ining room Wa
extended at full ienpht in CHAIR gHd Sa5 eu
ircly te!c:s 4 doctor Waa nevertheless sum
monee, EE1 pronounced her death Gua to diseas
| Of the hcarr. bu. as The body vas being mad
| ready FER burial i. was discovered tha. liz
! throa! had been cut by q sharp RABBIT bore
| whica proiruicd clear through the skin.