Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-11-16
VIRGINIA NEWS.
The democrats of Front Royal Will
hold celebration tomorrow night.


hold q celebration tomorrow night.
Mr.. NJ. Glennan, of the Norfolk tir
giaiun. wants to be postmaster OF tina
city again.
Returns from So of the 100 countie
show that this State will give Clevelanf
5000 majority.
Mrs. Mary L. Waller, widow OF tn
late Logan Waller, died in Richmond
on the 10th inst, aged 10 years.
VIM. II. McCorkle, prominent ant
prosperous farmer Of Rockbridge coun
ty, died yesterday, aged seyenty-hV'
years.
Mr. C. C. Carmichael and Miss Lucy
D. Ashby. and Mr.. ]. D. Patterson ant
Miss Sadie Layton, were married il
Fredericksburg yesterday.
Rev. C. B. Bryan has declined the
call to the Episcopal church at Lees
burg. and will remain associate rector
of the Church of the Epiphany, Dan
vile.
Mr.. George Llewellyn Nicholson, Q
Washington, and Miss Alice Whitcomb
a daughter of Major II. D. Whitcomb
engineer of the James river improve
ment, were married in Richmond yes
terday.
1T. Clarke, charged with the killing
of Rev. J. r. Mofiett, was arranged be
fore Mayor Wooding III Danville yes
terday for preliminary trial. He walve'
axomination and was sent on to the
grand jury without bail.
Yesterday afternoon at Broad Creek
Norfolk county, negro entered th'
home of United States Deputy Marsha
Cross, choked and beat Mrs. Cross, ant
then robbed the house. Before assist
ance arrived the negro fled.
Thomas Clay, living near Benton
Vile, Warren county, recently while
crossing the river near that place in :
boat attempted to draw his gun TOWARD
him. The hammer caught under the
the seat of the boat, by which mean:
the gun was discharged, and the entire
load entered under Clay's right ear
killing him instantly.
The freight warehouse belonging tC
Messrs. J. b. Beverley & Bro, at Win
chester, was consumed by fire about
o'clock Yesterday morning. The house
contained twenty tons ofhay, eight hun
bred bushels of corn, agricultural i'm
plements, lot of lumber, &c, oil o
which was destroyed. Loss about
1000; partially insured.
The following postal changes have
been made iii Virginia Washington tC
Lynchburg, Richmond and Danyill'
Railroad, 174.04 miles; from November
II, 1892, embrace Nails, Culpeper coun
tv. on this route between Brandy Sta
ton and Remington. The postoilice al
Frontelo, Nelson county, has been dis
continued. Mail will be sent to Monte
bello.
Steamboat men report that they are
much annoyed by the presence of a
sunken schooner oil their wharf at Wa
terview, which interlcres considerably
with passing vessels. The schooner is
loaded with lumber, and is supposed to
be the Black Swan, which was bound
from the Rappahannock to Baltimore,
and was lost en- route several weeks
ago.
Kemp i. Lambeth and John Atkins,
two well-known railroad men, got into
quarrel at Charlottesville on Monday
and during fight which ensued Lam,
beth cut Atkins twice in tho left breast
and once in the hand with knife o.
some description. Lambeth was ar
rested and afterwards bailcd in the sum
of 81 600. Atkins, it is expected, will
be out in few days.
The republicans who acted AZ mar
shals and supervisors at the recent cleo
ton in this State are anxious to know
how they will get their pay for this
service. Some of them fear the demo
cratic House will not expedite matters
in making an appropriation for those
claims. After the Presidential election
of 1884 there was the same contention
and several suits were brought in Vir-
ginia against the government for these
claims.
Col. w. +. Wickham, commanding
the First Regiment Cavalry, Virginia
Volunteers, intends to take his regi-
ment to Washington on the occasion OF
the second Inauguration of Grover
Cleveland as President of the United
States. The Colonel will tender his
command, which will number probably
$50 to 800 mounted men, as special
escort Of honor to the President-elect
on that occasion. He hopes to make q
display which will be crcditable to
the regiment and be an honor to the
State.
Richmond is to have splendid up
town hotel at an early day. Negotia-
tons have been concluded by a syndi-
cate headed by Major Lewis Ginter, the
millionaire cigarette manufacturer. by
which the handsome property of Gen.
Joseph r. Anderson, which runs from
Franklin street to Main, has been Sc
cured for 5000. Upon this eligible
location an elegant hotel, costing up
ward of $500, 600 will be erected, and it
is proposed to commence work early
next spring. Franklin street is one of
the handsomest residence streets in the
country, and the new hotel will be in
the midst of the finest residences in
Richmond.
TIM RYAN's RARE WIT.-An anus
ing story of how United States Depu-
ty Marshal was duped and the demo
cratic majority in Queens county in
creased by one vote comes from Union
C,,r.o J';,,othx- p,on an ooal dam,