Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-07-20
VIRGINIA NEWS.

City Point has been abandoned as a
freight landing for the Old Dominion
Steamship Company.
Maj r. NJ. S. Cauthorn and Mr.. VIM.
Wilson. prominent citizens Of Essex
county, died last week.
Captain Harry Wooding, of Danville,
has published card withdrawing from
the race for the democratic nomination
for Congress.
New postofficcs have been establish
ed AT Armel, Frederick county, John
I. Knight, postmaster; Embrey, Eau
quicr county, Hczekiah 7. Embrey,
postmaster.
Rev. w. E. Robertson, of Towson,
Nd, and Miss Rosa l.. Perry, of Or
ange, were married in the Orange Bap-
tist Church, in the presence of a large
crowd of friends.
Professor R. L. Garner, who sailed
last week for England, on his way to
Africa, where he goes to continue his
study of the monkey language, is Nir-
ginian, having been born in Abingdon
in 1913.
Miss Philippa Barbour, eldest daugh-
ter of E. p. and Harriet Barbour, and
granddaughter of Judge Philip p. Bar
bour, of the Court of Appeals, died at
Cleveland, King George county, on the
11th inst.
Three druggists were tried in the
Hastings court in Richmond yesterday
and convicted for having in their en-
ploy clerks who were not registered
according to the act regulating the
practice of pharmacy in Virginia. They
were each fined $25 and costs.
During a heavy thunder storm at
Fredericksburg yesterday evening light
ming struck both towers OF the large
Methodist Church, on Eighth street,
doing considerable damage TO the tow
crs and setting fire to the root. The
fire was put out before much damage
was done.
4 certified copy Of the will of George
Rhodes, of Loudom county. was re-
ceivcd at the registers Office in Wash
ington Yesterday. The will is dated
April 3, 1866, and disposes of IL large
estate. Two lots and houses i'll George
town are left 10 the testator's son, Geo.
Rhodes, jr.
The Richmond Locomotive and Ma
chine Works has received an order for
five 20x24 consolidated engines from
the Savannah. Americas and Montgom
cry railroad. These engines are TO be
similar in type to the large and heavy
locomotives used by the Richmond and
Danville Railroad.
4 venire of twenty-five men were
taken from Lynchburg on Monday to
Roanoke from which to select jury
for the trial of John Smith, charged
with the murder of Peter McAuliii' in
Roanoke. Judge DigSs, of Lynchburg,
will sit in the case on account of the
vacancy by the the resignation ofJudee
Robertson.
The mail between Roanoke and VIM
ston, n. c., is still carried by stage.
despite the fact that two passenger
trains run daily each way between these
points over the Roanoke and Southern
Railroad. So far the efforts of the bust
ness men of Roanoke to have he mat
ter rcmedicd by the postoficc authori-
ties have been unaVailing.
The Marine Hospital vessel Charles
Foster. now at New York, has been
ordered to the quarantine station near
Cape Charles, for the purpose of in
specting vessels entering Chesapeake
Bay, and OBTAINING those having any
infectious disease on board. She will
relieve the Woodward of that duty
and will be in charge of Passed Assis-
tant Surgeon Perry.
Robert Hogan, who. in 1873: was sent
to the pcnincntiary from Bedford
county for iifty-four years for horse
stealing, died in that Institution yester-
day. lie was pardoned by Gov. Lee in
1889, but went back from Montgomery
county for seventeen years for the same
crime. Hogan was a native Of Botc-
tourt, and belonged to a respectable
family.