Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-11-13
VIRGINIA laEWS.

Mr.. Fleming Broadheaa, wei-known
citizen of Albemarle county, has been
stricken with paralysis.
There were but eight cattle killed by the
railroad accident at Rectortown on Tues.
day, and not eighty as published.
An effort is being made 70 establish
a hospital at Charlottesville, at which the
poor can receive proper medical care in
sickness.
The argument in the sui. of Baughman
Bros. against the Richmond Typogrspbical
Union for $50, 900 for boycotting them was
concluded in the Richmond Circuit Court
yesterday. The court took time to consider
the case.
walter +. Hoge, young man about 25
years old, bookkeeper for real estate agent
IN Richmond, recently confessed that he had
taken thirteen or fourteen hundred dollars
from his employer. 1t is believed he has left
the city.
Alexandria has now telephone connec-
tlons between the counties Of Fairfax, Prince
William, Loudoun, FauGuier, Culpeper and
kappahannock. a band playing in the tele
phone room of Little Georgetown. Fauauier
county, few nights since was distinctly
heard in this city.
A petition is to be submitted to the Gov
ernor asking that he will either pardon or
commute the sentence of W. r. Smith,
clerk in the Auditors office, who is sen.
fenced to two years in the peniteutary. The
petition will set forth that in the opinion Of
physicians Imprisonment in that institution
will be fatal to the prisoner
Judge Hinton, of the Court Of Appeals,
the only member Of that tribunal who dis
sented from the opinion of his associates in
confirming the judgment of the lower court
in the Cluverius case, will, it is said, soon
write out his views and reasons for his posi-
ton. This will be done before the 10th of
December, the day fixed for the execution
of the prisoner.
A dispatch from Pocahontas Gays: "R.
A. Miller, owner of Miller's Hotel which
was burned several weeks ago, when the
business portion of the town was swept
away. was arrested yesterday by detectives
On charge of firing his own house and
causing the conhagration. He waived ex-
animation, and was bailed in $1,000"
In LyDchburg yesterday the jury in the
case of Wilson Steptoe, colored, charged
with the murder of Lizzie Wilson, white,
were unable to agree. and were discharged
for the third time. The jury was divided
on the color line-blacks for acquittal aud
whites for conviction. The evidence was
strong as to the accused having first out
ragged and then murdered the young girl.
Gen. R. D. Lilly, who was stricken with
paralysis Tuesday night while addressing
the Presbyterian Synod of Virginia, at Rich
mond, died yesterday, aged about As. The
deceased had been for number of years
financial agent ofthe Washington and Lee
University, at Lexington, and had served
CALAMITY in the Confederate army, and was
| the youngest brigadier.g general in the SER
vice.
Yesterday morning about O'Clock Lacy
Lester, youth living on Church Hill, Rich.
mond, hearing noise in the lower part of the
house, seized gun loaded with buckshot,
| and going down saw man with light. The
youth made slight noise, and the burglar
seeing him, advanced on him with Ratchet
and knife. The boy aimed at the intruder's
| head and fred, whereupon the man turned
and ran. He was evidently wounded, as he
was tracked a mile by blood stains.
In the Presbyterian Synod at Richmond
Yesterday Norfolk was selected as the next
place of meeting, the tirno to be hereafter
determined. The following report, was
| adopted: "1n view of the earnest and con-
tnued Efforts now making to excite odium
| against our late general assembly on &C.
count of its deiverance respecting the by.
Pothesis of evolution and its dissemination in
ouE church, the Synod Of Virginia feels it
proper to declare its hearty concurrence in
that deiverance"