Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-10-31
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Three men were killed and four severely
Injured yesterday by the accident near Liz.
erty, on the Norfolk and Western railroad.
The Woman's Missionary Society of the
Virginia Conference, II. E. Church South.
met 10 annual session at Norfolk yesterday.
W. B. Settle, late editor OF the Guide at
Washington, Rsppahannock county, died OF
an enlargement of the liver, Wednesday
morning.
The straw stacks of Dr. David Stephenson
near Marshall, Fauquier county, were
burned Tuesday night, presumably by an
incendiary.
Cadet j. MoOouslin, of the corps of
cadets of the Virginia Military Institute,
while handling muaket Tuesday night was
painfully burned abont the face and head by
the accidental discharge of blank cart
ridge.
The old bar room st Thoroug hfare station,
says the Wsrrenton Virginian, has been
turned into house of worship and revival
has been going en- there for the past two
weeks under the auspices of the Methodist
church.
A Mary Washington Monument Associa.
ton was formed al Fredericksburg ye5ter'
day, composed of ladies, in response to the
one formed 10 Boston, Mass, the 26th inst,
and communicated to the mayor OF Ffeder.
icksburg.
A mortgage deed from the Richmond and
Danville Railroad Company to the Contra!
Trust Company of New York. to secure
bonds to the amount of 81 100000, was yes
terday filed for record il the clerks office
of the Chancery Court of Richmond.
The trial of Walter and Thomas Ball,
charged with forcing Bennett Barham 20
marry Miss Ball. daughter OF Walter Bail,
By threatening him with pistol, was con-
cluded at West Point Tuesday, With q yer
dict of acquttal. II is said Barham will
bring suit in the Circuit Court of New Kent
to have his marriage With Miss Ball declared
annulled.
The committee on grounds and buildings
of the Richmond City Council has decided
that hereafter the military shall have coz
troll of the regimen,ai armory, to De used
exclusively for military purposes, except on
special occasions when there are gatherings
which no other hail here will accommodate,
and then the committee will have authori.
ty to grant the uae Of the hall.
Samuel J. Mullins, son of the late Judge
Samuel ]. Mullins, of Martinsvi!!e, was shot
and fatally wounded while hunting yester
day near Spencer Station. He was riding
at the time. His horse SHE'D, the saddle
turned and in trying to recover his balance
the unfortunate young man accidentally
shot himself. The entire load passed through
his right arm and into his body.
Ia large body of woodland just below
Warrenton there are numerous hogs running
wild. Some of them would weigh FIVE bun
dred pounds They have been there, it is
said, for over 35 years. Every now end then
farmer, more venturesone than others,
takes his dogs in to run one down, but in.
variably the dogs are killed. Now and then
hog is killed by rifle ball entering vital
point but this is not often.
The acting Secretary of the Treasury has
made the following appointments and trans
fers in the lighthouse service in Virginia
Samuel S. Nelson, transferred, and appoint
ed keeper of tbs Grea. Wicomico river sta
ton; Joseph D. Farmer. appointed assistant
keeper at the Great Wicomico river station
Peter W. Jarvis, promoted, and appointed
frat. assistant keeper of the Smiths Point
station; George G. DArden, appointed u.s.
sistant keeper OF the Nensemond river sta.
ton; James B. Williams, promoted, and ap-
pointed keeper OF the Smiths Point light
station.