Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-09-16
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Messrs. Owens, Spencer 4 Co., clothiers,
OF Richmond, have failed with liabilities es-
timated at $4,000.
1t is said that the attention of the grand
jury Of the Hastings Court of Richmond
viii soon DE called TO the bnycotters in that
city.
James Faulkner, an employee OF the city
Of Lynchburg, fell from bis back porch last
night on a pile Of brick and crushed his
skull.
Preparations are being made for the i'm.
mediate rebuilding Of the tannery and bark
mills of A. d. Shotwell x Co., burned in
Manchester last Sunday morning
Entries for the State fair, which begins in
Richmond on the Goth prox., are being
made, and it is said that the cattle, horse,
swine, sheep aud poultry departments will
he very full
Hammond, the bigamist, who married q
wife in Richmond and another in Campbell
county, was tried yesterday ut Campbell
Court House and sentenced to two years in
the penitentary.
Julian G. Keith, A. II. Shepherd and W.
Worthlngton Hilleary, three young business
men Of Warrenton, have gone to Birmiug.
ham, Ala, with q view of making that city
their future homo.
Chesapeake Presbytery, which met in
Warrcnton last Saturday, with Rev. H. b.
White as moderator, adjourned Tuesday
evening to meet at Culpeper tho second Fri
day OF next April.
Tine will of the late John Otey Taylor, OF
Lynchburg, was admitted TO probate ycster-
day. The estate, valued at $50, coo, is di-
ylGpI hat yBaaD ,rn ,ritb thn
Of 4 single item of $780,
At q conference of republicans ut Rich
mond last night it was decided to be the
proper policy of the party to nominate a
candidate for Congress in that district. The
district committee was requested to meet on
Saturday to consider tho matter. John
which he declared that he would not be
candidate for Congress, but desired to be
made chairman of the campaign committee.
Col. Marshall Parks, of Norfolk, was yes.
terlay nominated for Congress by Tho dem
ocratic convention, which met at Hampton
on the third ballot. Col. Parks,
Capt. Il. G. Marshall Of Portsmouth, DR.. j.
+. Bryant, Of Southampton, and Capt John
ii. Wright, OF Nansemond, were placed in
nomination. Resolutions were adopted in
uoiSibfs SlSFCIoilO
ing confidence in the Hon. John Goode, ex-
pressing sympathy with labor in its efforts
to make industrial and moral worth and
not money the standard of individual and
national greatness, tavoring speedy and lib.
eral appropriations for rebuilding the navy,
and opposing indiscriminste Chinese immi-
grafton.
The crimina! trial OF the officers and d.
rectors Of the defunct Exchange National
Bank of Norfolk was begun in the L. S.
District Court, before Judges Bond and
Hughes, in that city yesterday. The court
room was crowded. Major Leigh Page,
counsel for Geo. NJ. Balm, cashier, presented
a petition for a change Of venue, asking
that the case be removed to an adjoining
court, where an impartial trial might be
had. The petition was denied by Judge
Bond. The indictments were then attacked
as being faulty, Mr.. Richard Walko demur-
ring to the first indictment and to each of
its counts, thirty in number. Mr.. Leigh
Page and Judge Crump argued in support
OF tho demurrer, and District Attorney Cat.
lett Gibson and Assistant District Attorney
James Lyons against. At the conclusion of
Judge Crump5 argum ent the court ad orlrn-
cd till to-day.