Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1879-07-25
Virginia. VIEWS.

lnucU RUCu Will
Mr.. VIM Green, OF Rich1l0pd, who has been !
dangerously ill for the past fur or five days Is
still critically sick.
The forest fires ia Dinwiddie nnd Prince
George couGtics are sill burning, but it Is
hoped they will be txsingulshct by the rains.
Several refugees from Memphis, who gre tl5,
Ing from that plague stricken city arc expected
10 Richmond in few days.
The negroes Of Chesterfield speak Of bringing
John Cox, the brother OF Mrs. llul's murder
or, out as n candidate FIR the House Of Dele
gates tLis fall.
On Monday lost. Mr.. Henry Saunders, uadcr
| appointment of Judge Ball, qualified as coL-
stable 10 Lecsburg District. executing bond
therefor 10 tic sum OF 500.
Richmond Ccmmandery, No. ,, Knights
Templar, arc 10 mako pilgrimage 10 FERRIES
Monroe, next week and go into camp Gu the
site Of the old uygtia Hotel for few days.
! Reports have gooc abroad hat case Of yell
low fever is 10 Petersburg, but the president OF
the Beard of Health of that city authorizes thsc
statement that these reports are totally Without
foundation.
The rcfuDdiog of the State debt is going or
| all right aDd Auditor Taylor as vel! az bankers
are satisfied that eight million dollars or more
will be funded before tic meeting OF The Garc'
ral Assembly.
4 considerable fro ragged OF the Blus
Ridge mountain, South Ct the Soickcr7 Jap
turnpike road, o. Sunday last. The hro was
txtiDgui:hcd after destroying qu1otiy CT weed
cod tIl15cr.
Ia the Trial CT Hcckmao Tor the murder CT
Foster 10 Warren county. testimony for The
Commonwealth clts:d last lTchiag. SD the
wngcsses for tho defense were exsmiocd. ar
euncnt Vas commenced to day.
The board az directors OF tn, Wcs:ern lu
ra!:o Asylum, ct Ssuutou, GA Friday evening
last, elected to tho position CT maron CT that
Institution Mrs. Sac l.. Henry Of Washington
cJuDly, Pa
The Clarke Courier says ttGt Mr.. p. McC0r
mick last week thTeshed 1912 bushels OF wheat,
machine measure. from 5Uaoreo held, which
il a5ont 81 bushels to the acre. Had the wheat
all stoud up we'll it is believed the field would
have yielded 80 bushels to The acre.
| While carpenter, named RyIspd Eppa, IVES
throwing some old timbcrs from the roof CT z
tobacco factory in Richmond, yesterday, he vas
dragged of by na ia plank ca:clDg 10 his
shirt aud preoipitated nearly sixty ieet to the
ground, receiving serious aud perhaps fatal IT,
ternal Injuries.
| In the Richmond Police Court yesterday
Marion MGr!io, colorcd, Was called UP IL Az
swcr the serious charge Of seduciog D3tcla
Green, colored maiden, under promise OF
marriage Martin said that he was willing to
fulfill his promise if the court would allow him.
The Justice consented, Uh:rcupon the couple
we're married.
Mr.. Hugh L. Holmes, OF L)uioun county,
sustained severe iniurics one day last Wock from
tho kick Of horse. Tho animal being seized
with playful freak, jumped around and let fly
with both hind feet, breaking his owners right
arm 10 Two places, ard relieving him Of his
upper and lower front teeth. The Injuries,
while paicful, orc not serious, and the uNtcrtu'
nate man is getting along well.
! A meeting of citizscs who orc ia favor CT
liberal laws 10 relation to tho sale OF liquors Oh
Sunday was held 10 Richmond last night, about
Is persons being present. n permaCcnt Or
gauiza!ion was effected, with Gen. L. Lindsay
Walker ss president. The object Of tho move
the present laws prohibiting the sale OF Equor
on Sunday by the next Legislature. This ISSUE
will bu made 10 The approaching canvass Tor
members Of the General Assembly from tho city
The cclorci people residing 10 the ncishbor.
hood OF B1w,rs' Hill, Norfolk county, have
been excited $1,000 last Monday over the suld,p
Disappearance Of Maxey Gordon, colored, who
resided on o truck farm as a foreman, near
Bowers Hill. On Tuesday morning. in low
marshy place on tho farm, the body CT the
murdered man was found partly buried. The
feet and hands were sticking out from tho Garth,
and about thirty feet up the bank tho torn up
earth and blood spots on the ground plainly in
dicatcd the spot Where the death struggle had
taken place Suspicion having been directed
Two PERSONS as the authors Ct the crime, the
wife of tho murdered mau, Barbara Gordon,
and coorcd man namcd Miles Whitehurst,
were taken 10 custody, clrriod to Portsmouth,
and placed 10 the county jail. Whitchurst and
the woman. il is alleged. has been living on
terms Of intimacy for s0mo time, add tho sus'
picion is that the husband was murdered to get
him out Of tho way.
A MAYNARD GIRL.-This morniug ks;ie
Page, pretty little girl aged about fifteen,
was before The Police C3utt 90 tho charge Of
stealing $75 worth of clothing, ieTcIry, &C.,
from the house Of Mr.. Thomas Duke. Sho has
been before Tho Polioo Court repeatedly for
similar offences, aud has bacn looked upon by
| tho police as lucorrslb.o.
| Tho les! time sho was up Tor similar o."
| Tense, and on account Of her youth as well as
for the sake of her family she was let of by
tho Justice on condition that her mother
| would send her from the city.
She was brought in c0u!s this ncrairg, and
wns accompanied by her mother, who stated
thgt she had tried 10 van TO send her daughter
from the city, but did not krcw where to send
her. Justice White seid be could not let the
| litto girl oil this time, and be would be com
PEELED to send her to jill. The mother Of tee
Iayward girl stated that she would endeavor 10
scud tho eirl to tho House of Correction in
Baltimore
M!. Duke SAID no would psy tic railroad
fare 10 whatever place The gill is scDt. Justice
| White committed her to iii Until she could be
takeu away from the city. 4 bcaytrcrdns
aoeuc then occurred in tic court r0om. The
| hrckcn,bea-tcd mother sTooncd several tincs
aud wa5 taken aEly ia ] carriage. The way