Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-07-30

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A copy OF Galt's bust of ex-President
Davis has been placed in the State
library in Richmond.
The U. S. Senate yesterday confirm
ed the nomination of S. N. Iost as
postmaster at Staunton.
Talton Hall has been re-scntenced,
at Wise Court House, to hang Septem-
Der for the murder Of Hilton at Nor
ton.
Miss Lizzie Hall, an actress at the
Novelty, in Norfolk, while temporarily
insane from the heat, yesterday at
tempted to commit suicide by jumping
into the river.
A severe storm, amounting to n cy-
clone, swept over HarriscnburS last
night. Houses were unrooted and trees
uprooted. Among the houses unroofed
was that of Judge John Paul. No lives
were lost.
Mrs. Wren, the widow of the late de-
tective Jack Wren, who figured in the
Cluverius murder trial, was sent to
Jail in Richmond yesterday for one hour
by the Hastings Court and fined 500
for keeping disorderly house.
Mr.. John Paul, of Harrisonburg, has
compiled list of Virginia authors and
their works from Colonial times down
to the present day. 1t is intended to
secure copies of the works ofall ofthese,
so far as possible, for the Worlds Fair.
Colonel w. A. McCorkle, the demo-
cratic nominee for Governor of West
Virginia, is native of Rockingham
county, and n graduate of tho Virginia
Military Institute. He has many rela-
ativcs in the western portion of this
State. The Colonel lives in Charles
ton.
During the storm on Wednesday
night the store of II. c. dickinson, at
Remington, was set on fire by light
ming. The barn of. R. Tapp, near
Rixeyville, and of Lewis Nelson, near
Brandy, were also struck by lightning
and burned, together with their con-
tents.
The following changes have been
made in railroad mail service in Fir-
ginia: Washington to Lynchburg,
Richmond and Danville Railroad,
174.04 miles. From August l, 1892,
embrace Buena, Culpeper county, on
this route, between Mitchclls Station
and Rapidan.
The grasshoppers in tho region of
Middletown and Stephens City, Fred
erick county. are very destructive this
season, and in some localities amount al
most to plague. They attack vegeta-
ton. particularly corn, beans and other
vegetables, and leave nothing but the
bare stalks and vines.
The Peabody Normal Institute, col
ored, which has been in session in
Lynchburg, closed yesterday evening.
On Thursday night Rev. l. l.. Thomas,
presiding elder of the Alexandria dis
trict, of the Washington annual confer
ence, made an address upon the three
agencies now most effective in the lift
ing of the Afro-American, namely, the
pulpit, teacher and editor.
Complaints have been made to the
board of the Lee Camp Confederates Of
the Soldiers Home at Richmond by
fifty-one inmates of improper manage
ment of that institution by Gen. VIM.
Terry. The complaints arc that the
fare is not properly prepared and par
TALLY to some of the men. 1t is also
claimed that the physician of tho home
does not show proper attention to some
of the sick men.
Mrs. Martha Fristoe died in Wash
ington on Thursday. She WAS born in
Culpeper county, December Is, 1901,
and lived in Virginia till the close of
the war; when sho went to Washington.
She was the vito of the late Joseph
Fristoc, who was a grandson of the
celebrated Baptist minister Rev. Will
liam Fristoe. Mrs. Fristoe was the
mother of Prof Fristoc, of the Column
bian University.
Charles Jones and son, colored, wore
killed by lightning Wednesday even
ing near Amissville, in Culpeper
county. The bolt struck the top of the
house, ran down the chimney and melt
cd watch chain hanging on the wall.
Jones was sitting in lower room hold
ing the boy in his lap. His wife and
another son were up stairs and merely
stunned. The house was badly shat
tered. A hog was killed u feet from
the house. Mr.. A. w. Coons's large
cattle barn near Rixcyville. filled with
hay, was burned by lightning.