Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-30
VIRGINIA NEWS.

The postoffice at Hampton was rob-
bed on Sunday night.
Mr.. John Citation, of Spotsylvania
county, died at his home last Saturday
morning, aged so years.
The dwelling house and al its con.
tents of SIr. Robert Terrell on Hazel
river, Culpeper county, was burned last
week.
The twenty-third annual session OF
the Virginia State Dental Assoclat on
began at the Rockbridge Alum Springs
this morning.
First Lieutenant Charles B. Gate
wood, sixth u. S. cavalry, has been
ordered to Fort Custer, Mont, for ex-
animation for promotion.
A number of Mormon elders, who
have been proselyting in Hanover coun-
ty, were ordered to leave by u commit
tee appointed at an indignation meet
ing of the citizens.
The crops of corn in Culpeper have
not been materially injured by the late
dry spell, though the dry weather has
had the effect ofretarding the farmers
in following and preparing for seeding
their next wheat crops.
Some sections of King George county
have been without rain many weeks,
and, as consequence, all vegetation is
whitening and parching. The corn
yield will fall below an average, and
following for wheat is an impossibility.
The Shenandoah Baptist Association,
consisting of twenty churches, includ-
ing the territory from Elkton, in Rock
ingham county, Va, to Martinsburg,
W. Va, will meet in Luray on We'd
nesday and continue in session three
days.
Mrs. Lille Devereu1 Blake, presi-
dent of the New York Woman's Suf-
frage Association, yesterday addressed
large audience in Culpeper: subject
Woman, as Wife, Mother, and Citi-
zen." After the lecture a reception was
rendered Mrs. Blake at the residence OF
Col. Foxhall Daingerfeld.
The ordination and installation OF
the new pastor of the Lutheran church
at Charlottesville, the Rev. H. Preckel.
took place Sunday, Rev. John A.
Schwoy, of Alexandria, having charge
of the ceremonies. The new minister
is graduate of the Lutheran Theolog-
ical Seminary in st. Louis, and this is
his first charge.
Ex-Congressman James B. Richmond
left Richmond last night for Blue Ridge
Springs, where he will present 10 Gov.
Mckinney to-day numerouslysigned pc
titions praying his interposition to save
the neck of Talton Hall from the gal
lows next Friday. The petitions do not
ask for pardon, but that the death SEN
tence be committed to imprisonment for
life.
There was largely attended reunion
of Confederate veterans at Fishers Hill,
Shenandoah county, Saturday last.
The morning was spent in dancing,
swimming and boating, and old stories
were told and old songs were sung.
Then an abundant dinner was partaken
of. after which addresses were deliver
ed by Major Robert w. Hunter and
Cupl. JOiil =. w HlidiuS; VI hiucheo'Si'
The action of the Malone State COM
mittee in adopting at the recent meet
ing in Richmond resolutions notifying
the national leaders that tho present
organization compose the only consti-
tuted party authority, simply means
that Dir. Brady will not be treated
with in this campaign. A dispatch
was received in Richmond last night
stating that the conference between
the republican national committee and
the committee Of ten from Virginia
would take place in New York to-day.
Hon. T. II. Bayly Browne died at
his home, Drummondtown, Accomac
county, Saturday night, aged 40. Mr..
Browne was republican and repre-
sented the First district in the forty
ninth and fifty-frst congresses, defeat
ing Hon. Tom Croxton, the sitting
member, in 1856, and Mr.. Gilmer S.
Kendall, the democratic nominee, in
1883. He was defeated two years later
by w. A. Jones, his democratic competi-
tor. Just before retiring from Congress,
Mr.. Browne, while getting out of the
cars, struck his cheek against door,
and received an injury which gradually
developed into malignant cancer.