Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-07-21
VIRGINIA NEWS.


Oscar Newman, of Virginia. a 81 200
clerk in the Interior Department in
Washington, died yesterday.
A fire in North Danville yesterday
destroyed four dwellings. Loss, Sl5,-
600; insurance 81 600.
Judge D. A. Grimsley, of Culpeper, is
prominently spoken of in connection
with the Court of Appeals.
1t is expected President Cleyeland's
appointments for Virginia will be an
nounced about the 9th of August.
Captain Joseph kennerly, we'll
known citizen OF Clarke, died at his
home, 'Greenway Court" yesterday.
On account of the dullness in the iron
trade, the furnaces at Lowmoor, Allie
ghany county, will blow out August l.
The board of visitors, University of
Virginia, have created Q chair of mer-
camille law and corporations, and have
elected Mir. Minor Lille, of Lynchburg,
professor.
Mrs. Susan Pellet died in Richmond
Wednesday. She was one Of the most
noted female educators in the State,
and was for many years Virginia regent
for Mt. Vernon.
The Confederate veterans of Abe
marie county celebrated to-day, the an
nivcrsary of the first battle of Manas-
sas. with Il barbecue at 'SunnyS!de,n
the residence of Col. Il. T. w. Duke.
Isaac jenkins, the negro who was
strung up in Nansemond county, but
escaped death by the rope breaking, is
still in jail in Norfolk, nothing further
having been heard from the Nanse-
mond authorities.
Miss Eugenia B. Hepdren, an ar
fist of ability, who recently won two
prizes offered by the New York Her
aid for designs for an Easter hat and
an outing costume, died in Norfolk yes
terday of heart disease.
A serious cutting scrape occurred at
Dry Fork, Pittsylvania county, yester-
day, engaged in by Alexander and
Tom Carter, uncle and nephew, re-
spectively. The uncle cut the nephew
seriously in the back, arm aud wrist.
Crabs are being caught in such large
quantities on the Potomac, oil King
George county, that the prices this
week hardly justify the catching.
Grabbing, however, still affords en-
ployment for great many men, and
it is also engaged in daily by many
ladies and gentlemen as very pleas
ant pastime.
A monument to the confederate dead
of Nottaway county was unveiled yes
terday afternoon at Nottoway Court
house. Gen. Fitzhugh Lee delivered
the address. The ex-governor was ac-
corded q perfect ovation and was loud
" cheered, and salute was fired on
his arrival at the Courthouse. The
monument was unveiled by Miss Sallie
Irby, of Ashland, daughter of Capt.
Richard Irby, gallant ex-confederate
officer. The monument was erected by
the Ladies' Memorial Association of
Nottoway county ut cost OF 81 600.
H. A. Hitchcock, prominent lum-
Der and commission merchant of Nor
folk, guest at the Hygeia Hotel, while
bathing at Old Point yesterday even
ing, made dive-from the end Of the
pier leading from the pavilion-into
what he thought was deep water. He
struck the bottom on his head with such
force as to break the vcrtebrir of the
neck and paralyze the entire body. He
Immediately arose to the surface UNI
conscious. Hitchcock is fully six feet
tall, and it being low tide at the time,
the water was not more than five feet
deem. His death is momentarily eX-
pected.
Gen. John George Walker, distin-
guished officer of the Confederate army,
died yesterday evening at his apart
ments in Washington. Gen Walker
WAS stricken with paralysis on Thurs
day of last week while conversing with
Gen. Lomax in Lafayette Square. 1t
t was the second attack he had suffered.
For the past fifteen years his home had
been in Winchester Before the war
he was captain of a company Of United
States cavalry, but in 1861 he resigned
and went South with the Contederates.
He became brigadier-general and ma
ior-general of Confederate forces, aud
was distinguished figure in the bat
ties of Sharpsburg, Manassas, and all
the fights around Richmond. He was
an accomplished linguist, and during
Mr.. Cleveland's first administration
served the government upon several
special missions in South America.
The continued case of Carter, alias
Lee Wallace, of Stafford county, charg-
ed with perjury, was heard before Z. S.
Commissioner Flegcnheimer in Rich
mond yesterday. The perjury, it is
claimed, consisted of false statements
as to the residence of the accused and
his never having hecn in the govern
ment service. This statement purport-
ed to be sworn to before T. w Frank
lin, a justice of the peace at Monteeth-
vile, Stafford county, September %,
1891. That official went on the stand
and swore that he did not sign the pa
per and that the signature purporting
to be his was forgery. The commits.
soner then dismissed the warrant
charging perjury, and issued another
charging the accused with forgery.
Upon this latter charge Wallace waiv-
ed an examination and was sent on to
the grand jury in default of bail for
$500.