Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-02-17
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Hugh Mcleod, of Richmond, has
been appointed cadet at West Point.
Mountjoy Bayly died in Loudoun
county last week, aged ninety-seven
years.
Mrs. Rebecca Armistead, mother OF
United States Naval Constructor Sam
uel w. Armistead, died in Portsmouth
yesterday.
Harriet, the four ycar-old-daughter
of State Senator Thomas w. Harrison,
died Wednesday night of diphtheria, in
Winchester.
State Senator w. A. Little, of Fred
ericksburg, will probably be q candi-
date for attorney general of the Com
monwealth.
A little grandson of Mr.. Stapleton
Jet, of Stafford county, had his eye
ball bitten out last Wednesday by a
dog, from which the little boy had
taken piece of bread the dog was eat
ing at the time.
In Washington yesterday Justice Cox
directed decree Of divorce in the case
of Sallie G.. Rollins against Edgar T.
Rollins. They were married in King
George county, February ., 1887, and
she charged desertion.
Mr.. Thomas Salladc has sold his
farm in Stafford, Little Falls" to Mr..
Jas. Stern, of Williamsport, Pa. This is
one of the best farms on the Rappahan-
mock. and was for years previous to the
war the home of the late DR.. Hugh
Morson.
The losses by the fire in Culpeper on
Wednesday night are about as follows ::
f. l.. Yancey, on stock and house,
50, 800, 81. 200 insurance w. A. Morris,
carriage shop and tools, $500, no insur-
ance Judge Jeflries, on house and
machinery, 81 800, no insurance i. P.
Nelson, houses, 300, insured. Public
sentiment is about evenly divided as
TO whether the fire was accidental or
incendiary.
Mrs. Margaret Stuart Hunter, wife of
Major Robert w. Hunter, of Winches-
ter, died yesterday of pneumonia. Mrs.
Hunter had been sick about a week,
and was not considered dangerously
i'll until Sunday evening, since which
time she gradually grew worse until her
death. She had large family connec-
ton throughout the State and was
formerly Miss Stuart, daughter Of the
late DR.. r. II. Stuart, of King George
county.
Col. X. Y. CHARTERS, of Spotsylvania
county. died on Wednesday night at his
home near Fredericksburg. of consump
ton, aged fifty years. Col. CHARTERS
was for several terms worthy master of
the national grange, and at the time of
his death was master of the State
grange. He leaves widow and one
child, Mrs. John a. Alsop. The funer-
al took place from his late residence to-
day, and his body was laid at rest in the
burying ground at Charlottesville.
The store and dwelling of w. w.
Letcllier, at Burnley's, station on the
Richmond and Danville Railroad, north
of Charlottesville, was burned at 8
o'clock Wednesday morning, and Mrs.
Letcllier received injuries which will
probably prove fatal, while one of the
children was painfully burned. Mrs.
Letellier attempted to escape from the
second-story of the burning building by
way of the stairway, but as that had
burned away she and the child she was
carrying fell through to the first floor
The door was beaten in and the mother
and child rescued, but not before both
were injured, the former probably fatal
". The night before tramp had ap-
piled at Letellier's for supper and lodg
ing, and when refused had grown abu
siye, and threatened to get even by
burning his store and dwelling, which
are in the same building. 1t is believed
that he applied the torch. He was
seen in the neighborhood Tuesday.