Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-06-21
VIRGINIA NEWS.

mond. died at his home there on sun
day, aged about 81 years.
The work of transferring the State
| t~rcasurer's office at Richmond into a
fire-proof and burglar-proof vault has
been practically finished.
A handsome monument was unveiled
to the Confederate dead of Clarke nj
Old Chapel, near Berryville, on Satur-
day. Col. r, H. Lee delivered the adj
dress.
Gen. Thomas L. Rosser has bought
the Scott property, in Charlottesville,
for $1,000. The property is in the
heart of the city, but the buildings are
of little value.
Bishop Randolph confirmed a promi-
nent Baptist minister from Abingdon,
in the Episcopal church in Warrenton
on Sunday who will shortly 60 into the
Episcopal ministry.
Delegates in favorof Mr.. c. a. Swan
| son. of Chatham, were elected Saturday
in all the districts of Pittsylvania coun-
ty to the fifth district democratic con-
gressional convention.
Rev. Samuel C. Clopton, who has
been pastor of the Clay Street Baptist
Church, in Richmond, since its organi-
cation, II years ago, has accepted a call
to the Parker Memorial Church in An
niston, Ala.
Mr.. w. w. Rollins and Miss Susan
| Cook and Mr.. Benjamin I. Henderson
and Miss Nettie NJ. Henderson, all OF
King George county, were married at
Mountain View Chapel, III that county
on the 18th.
Among the bills passed by the I. S.
Senate yesterday was the House bill to
authorize the Secretary Of the Treasury
to consent to the use of a portion of the
public grounds of the United States in
Abingdon.
The Governor yesterday refused to
pardon J. w. w. Bradley, convicted
during the November term, in 1889, in
the Loudoun County Court, for an as
sault with intent to kill and sent to the
penitentiary for a term of three years
and ten months.
Mrs, Ann Pyne Chandler, wife Of Mr..
T. K. Chandler, of Newport News, and
daughter of the late DR.. Benz. Ander-
son, of Caroline county, died on the 10th
in the sanitarium of DR.. Mason, at
Chatham, n. Y, whittier she had gone
for medical treatment.
Messrs. Moncure d. Conway and w.
F. Havemeyer, a banker, of New York,
were in Fredericksburg last week and
took the steamer Richmond for the low
er Rappahannock. The Lance says (:
"Mr. Conway is engaged in writing q
history of Virginia during the Colonial
times and has come here for the pur-
pose of getting data for same"
Yesterday the Virginia board ofsink-
ing-fund commissioners received two
packages of securities from the Olcott
people in New York, one of $4,000 i'll
coupons and the other 8 59,340in bonds.
1t is expected hat from II to two
packages will be received each day un-
til the total amount to be funded is in
hand. The board has invited bids for
printing the new bonds.
Armistead B. Curtis, q young man
prominently connected in Richmond,
committed suicide about ten miles from
that city yesterday morning by shoot
ing himself with a pistol. Young Cur
It's was walking through a field with
his mother, and when the latter asked
him to accompany her to the family
graveyard he pretended not to have
heard her and walked away. Several
hours later he was found lying across
the graves with a bullet hole in his
breast. He had been somewhat disap-
pointed in business recently.