Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-04-17
VIRGINIA NEWS.

VIRGINIA NEWS.
Foot ball on skates is now Norfolk di
version.
The next State fair will be- held at Rich
mond, October 81, %, and 3d.
| Marmaduke Longus, aged Il, was drown
| ed in the James river near Richmond yes
terday.
The Lynchbnrg Ne,Us thinks more dairy
enterprise is one of the things most needed
il Virginia.
Frank Rhodes, the sheriff who WAS killed
in Texas last Monday by horse thieves, was
native Of Page county.
Charles Bushong, a youth of about 1t
wears, was found dead in his bed, in Clarke
county, on Monday morning.
On Friday night last Addison Witbers
was run over and killed by train on the
Valley road at Timber Ridge.
Mrs. Mary A. Blake, widow Of Comma
dore George S. Blake, and daughter of The
late Commodore Barron, Of this State, died
recently in London.
Nineteen persons connected themselves
with the Presbyterian Church at Lexington
last Sunday. Thirty six joined the Abing.
don Presbyterian Church The same day.
Messrs. James L. Powell aud J. F. Lums-
den have sold for the sum of $4,000, the
| Mitchell Gold Niue. in Orange county, near
the Spotsylvauia line. A Chicago company
were the purchasers.
Capt. w. l.. Fernald, internal revenue
collector for the Danville district for a long
period, died at ST. Elizabeth Hospital, Wash
ipgton, last week, Of softening of the brain
He married Miss Graveley, of Henry county.
A commission as postmaster was sent yes
terlay 10 SiIas G. Conduit, jr., Hylton,
FLOYD county William Cook is designated
andoah county, vice j. G.. Caden, resigned.
The wife of Mr.. James B. Hudson, of Lu.
ray, heard chicken thief at work in her
yard night or two ago, and procuring a
pistol discharged three shots at the thief,
who decamped from the premises in a
hurry.
Rev. Thomas Spencer, q colored Baptist
minister Of Norfolk, was convicted in the
Hastings Court, in that city, yesterday af-
ternoon of house breaking. He pleaded
guilty, and was sentenced to five years i'm
prisonment in the penitentiary. Spencer is
widely known.
The negro man, John Jordan, who was
arrested some months ago for the murder OF
Jane Harris, in the Blue Ridge. mountains,
near the junction of the counties of Angus
ia, AlbenlarIe aud Nelson, and who was
taken to the latter county for trial was &C
Quilted at the last Nelson County Court,
the testimony of physicians going to prove
that the woman died of apopIexy.
Mr.. Frank Stonesifer, living at Gordons-
Vile, states that upon q farm bought by him
some time ago was on old ice-house, caved
in, and which for thirty years had been in
d;suse. Upon removing the debris, with a
view to repairing the iEe.house, he found
near the bottom large chunks of solid ice,
although, as stated above, the house had
not been filled for thirty years. Of course,
the SUI er incumbent earth had etfectually
excluded the air.
Last Sunday morning Mr.. Henry Micey,
one of the engineers at the Luray tannery,
and his little six year old son, Louis. were
at work in the room where be spent" bark
is carried and dumped in the furnaces be-
meath. By misstep the little fellow STUN
bled and fell through one of the pits into
the blazing fire beneath. Quick rs thought
his father snatched him, as it were, from a
fiery grave, but rot before he had been Sc
verely burned about the breast and other
parts Of the body.
Mr.. Judson Kuicely, sou of Mr.. Harvey
kncely, aged about % years, who was
working in n new ground for Mr.. Harvey
Evers, at Spring creek, Tuesday, while on
his way to water his horses was thrown and
dragged about a hundred yards his foot be
coming entangled in the harness, receiv.
ing injuries from which he died in about
half au hour. The animal became frighten-
ed at water can which young Knicely
tried to take from u friend riding another
horse by his side. He was horribly dis
| figured his face and side being very much
| torn.
The Farmers Convention which had been
in session in Richmond during the past few
days, adjourned sine die last night A reso-
luton which elected much applause was CT
fered and referred. requesting the next legis.
lature to pass general fence law, requiring
all persons to fence in their own stock and
keep them on their own premises. A reso.
luton was also adopted asking the legisla-
ture to pass a bill. forcing owners of dogs 10
either keep them confined at night or be
held responsible by law for their depreda-
tons. The annual meeting of the conven
ton will be held in Richmond on the Tues
day after the second Monday in August.
A TRAGEDY IN PARIs-A horrible trag-