Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-13
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Mrs. John R. Spilman died at her
home in Warrenton yesterday.
The postoffice at Franklin was rob-
bed few nights ago of S512 in postage
stamps.
The city market building, on Market
Square, Norfolk, was partially consum-
cd by fire yesterday.
The Virginia State board of agrlcul-
ture will meet to-day at the Montsom-
cry White Sulphur Springs.
Mrs. Rose f. Mcdaniel, consort Of
Mr.. Chas Mcdaniel, died at her home,
Cherry Point" King George county,
Saturday last.
D. B. Snyder, who was shot by E. I.
Broyles at Luray last week, and who
was reported to have died from his
wound, was improving at last accounts.
Henry F. Bocock, prominent law
yer of Lynchburg, and brother of the
late Thomas S. Bocock. speaker Of the
confederate Congress, died very sud
denly yesterday.
On Thursday, "Waverly," the farm
of II. H. Spindle, in Rockingham coun-
ty, was sold in Harrisonburg by Com
missioners A. D. Payne and G. e. Sipc,
to NJ. E. Spindle for sll, $50.
The Strasburg Ncms says: captain
Luther R. Ashby, Of Richmond, passed
through Strasburg Tuesday, en- route
to Harper's Ferry with Valley belle,
supposed to be on matrimonial tour."
Mr.. Garland Waller, employed as a
salesman in Lynchburg while hunting
on Thursday in Amherst county acct
dentally fell, discharging the load in
his stomach and thigh. Mr.. Waller died
yesterday morning.
Mr.. w. R. Alexander of Winchester,
withdrew last night from the contest
for the congressional nomination in the
seventh district, in which he has been
engaged against Col. O'Ferral, the
present Representative.
a letter from King George county
says "Politics is quiet to this date.
| do not think the peoples party will
receive much vote in this county. The
farmers alliance seems TO have col
iapsel under the heavy weight Of pol
itics.
Mr.. William White, Grand Secretary
of the Independent Order Of Old Eel
lows for Kentucky, died in Louisville,
Monday, aged seventy-six years. He
was native of Spotsylvania county,
but went to Kentucky with his parents
when a boy.
1t is reported that the negro who as
saulted the young lady in Essex coun-
ty is in Gloucester, and is attempting to
make his way to New Kent county
across the York. He is receiving all
the aid that can be rendered him by the
negroes Of the section, who are doing
all in their power to save him from the
hands ofjustice.
G. c. Padgett, aged fty-fve years,
who was to have been tried this week
by commission of lunacy, was shot
and MORALLY wounded in Lynchburg
yesterday morning by Beauregard Fos-
ter, proprietor Of o saloon. Padgett
entered Fosters saloon and attacked
him with heavy stick without provo
eetalttfon, when Foster drew his pistol and
shot Padgett twice in the stomach.
A movement is on foot at Culpeper
looking to the removal ofthe Confed-
crate dead from their i'll protected
graves scattered over various battle
fields in that vicinity rs we'll as num-
Der who died in the Concord church
building used as hospital during the
wary and were buried in the neigh
borhood thereof. A lot has been do
mated by the Ivy Hill Cemetery Co, a
public collection has been taken in the
Episcopal church, and subscriptions are
being pledged towards fund to defray
the removal, and also to erect an APP
propriate monument to their mem
DRY i'll the cemetery.
The farmers State alliance meets in
Richmond on the 18th, and it is be-
lieved an effort WILDE made to commit it
to the support of the third party. Nearly
ifnot all of the State alliance officials
favor the third party. The president,
Major Mann Page, has already connect
ed himself with it. The State lecturer.
Brad. Beverly, has been stumping the
State in the interest of that side. Julian
Rutlln and other members of the exec
utive committee have publicly ranged
themselves OH the side of Weaver and
Field. President Loucks, of the ma
tional organization, who is a third
partyite, will be on the ground and
ready, no doubt to help along the cause
of the new political venture.