The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-10-02
ANCIENT ALEXANDRIA.
interesting Court rroceeding--Politica
and Personal Items.

ana Personal Items.
AIrNANDnIA October T.. special Cor
rr-pOudrnce. The uitDd states District
Court began it, fan term here to-day.
judge Robert vs. llu.hr, presiding.
The ease OF W. ". PAGE. of hiI q
George. charged with robbme the mails.
wa. u0Nr UI0>rguied in lil six of thc ln-
dicmout-. The prisoner was discharged.
Il. Coleman Pitts. charged and indicted
for r0bblus the mail, boz King George c0un-
O.. WAS discharged from custody.
W.. Pitts b. remludcd to appear during
ihe january term of court.
Charlie Hill. ihe negro who shot his
sweetheart in the head "i0r fun. will Dee up
Tor trial tomorrow.
Severed minor ease, were PASSED over.
Judge HUGHES ~i-ued the papers directing
the commission f0 turn over tO Corporation
ATTORNEY Brent one half the amount left t0
hc distributed between the city and the old
canal stockholders Sl2.uOo a. was stated
iu the -pOndencr Yesterday. The claim
was for $1,000. and tine litigation Ia the
courts and damage te the city = business ia
tere-f- Dos ID. death has cost many more.
some people call this compromise. The
sale b. charged for to the tune Of Slf.Op.
The Republicans hold meeting ont az
the hrick1arl4 0n saturday. They will
then and there choose and Mr. X. i.
Lucas for delegate % the state House Of
Delegates.
Mr. Edmund Jennings LLOYD died to-day.
lie had been ill "a long time. He served in
the Oommi-~lry branch OF the Army Of
Northern Virginia durin. the War.
From thc ru-effc's Washington letter of
to-day:
"a private letter received here from Capt.
Asa Rogers. General Mah0ne'- secretary az
Petersburg. says the General j. sweeping
things in ihr southwest. and that politics
there are pretty much ali one way. 10 the
contrary. "a distinguished Republican from
the section of Virginia referred t0. here To-
day. well informed. reliable and respected
hy men Ol ail parties. ~ay' NahOnc'- trip 20
the southwest has been a dismal failure;
that Boz will NOT receive 80 per cent. Of the
Republican Vote of the state. and will Dee
defeated hl large majority
AN Ohio Republican at the BuiterwOrth
reception here last night said that Lang,tOn
when ont in his state recently said virginia
would go for Malone hl twenty thousand
bat that Dee -qulntcd Dbl, eye 30 when he
spoke l- 90 create "a doubt a- 10 whether he
did mot mean 10 would 20 against the Cen
orll hl that much majority
Judge John 4. Harris. of Virginia. Is in
the city to-day. lie SAYS the bottom has
nearly all the white men who left the Dem
ocralic party on the debt question have re-
turned fo their old fold. and that the origi-
nal Republicans don't pat much faith in
MahOnH'- kepuDlcanism. and think next
November will Dee Is good a time as any
other 90 get rid Of him.
some coiOred men headed by one Thomas
Andrew jackson IlemmOns met In the old
Quaker mociiug-hou,o this afternoon. Glenn.
mons i, respectable looking darky. but
has the kuack Of advertising himself as an
editor. and his paper the ".N0li0am Times.
published iu Alexandria. Va. and Wash
Malone and SAYS the Times l. the organ
Of the cOlorod independents Of Virginia. The
meeting Was held with closed doors and
was 90 begin at II NJ. was there al i:l5
and 'lemm0ns told mo that there was
eighteen delegates. | did not recognize
many AieNandrans in the fifteen standing
around there.
The funeral Of Mrs. Mary 4. Jackson.
whose death was mentioned in the TINES of
Yesterday, took place from II. Paul's Church
thi, morning. DR.. Norton ofliciaied. The
pall-bearcrs were Mr.. William II. Marbury.
Capt. h. kemper. Mai. ". W. Herbert.
Mr. John :. -. Thompson. Mr. John "
Burke, ana Or. Edward :. leadbeater.
The several Iloral offerings We're beautiful.
The remains We're taken Ia fredericksburg
and laid beside her husband.
Mr.. X. j. Drew, Of Richmond. and bride.
are spending portion OF their honeymoon
in Alexandria and Washington.