Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-10-09
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Inc Virginia State fair at Richmond
will open tomorrow.
Mr.. Jacob II. Houser and Mr.. Jas. D.
Maddox, aged and respected citizens OF
Warren county. died recently.
The State Board of Pharmacy will
meet in Lynchburg on October % to
examine applicants for certificates.
The grand jury of the city of Roanoke
has found indictments against seven
persons for participating in the recent
riot there
The democrats of Stafford and King
George counties met on Saturday and
renominated Mr.. John E. Mason for the
Legislature.
4 large meeting of colored voters in
Dinwiddie county on Saturday resolved
to support the democratic State and
legislative tickets.
The people OF Culpeper are in state
of excitement over another incendiary
attempt to burn out what is known as
the wharf section of that town.
The marriage of Miss Helen Patter-
son. daughter Capt. z. 4. Patterson,
and Rev. Samuel l.. Irving, OF Coopers-
town, took place in Culpeper on We'd
neSday last.
Mrs. F. F. Bigelow, OF Richmond, who
had been visiting her nephew, in Abe
marie county, fell down stairs on Thurs
day, receiving injuries that resulted IN
her death on Saturday.
Governor Mckinney has refused to
pardon William Poole, who was con-
victed in the Culpeper county court in
April. 1890, OF housebreaking and SEN
fenced to eight yeals in the penitenti-
airy.
The sensational trial of Warren Ellis,
11-year-old boy of Pulaski City, 70:
betrayal, was concluded on Saturday.
The jury found him guilty, and fixed
his punishment at two years in the pen
itentiary.
Mr.. Thornton S. Jones, OF Louisa
county, and Miss Ophelia Broaddus,
daughter of Mr.. G. w. Broaddus, OF
Carolina county, were married We'd
nesday in the Baptist Church at Bowl
ing Green.
Mrs. Catharine Harrison, widow Of
the late William S. Harrison, died at
her residence in Frederick county, Nd.
on September 22nd. 1893, in the 10Th
year OF her age. Mrs. Harrison was a
native of Loudoun county.
A meeting of the bar of the Fifth ju-
dial district was held at Lynchburg on
Saturday and Judge John d. Horsley, OF
Nelson county, was endorsed for the
Court of Appeals .judgeship to be elect
ed by the next Legislature.
Gen. Thomas L. Rosser, of Abe
marie, has announced his determine
ton to become populist candidate for
Congress in the seventh district. But
this be cannot well do until Colonel
O'Ferrall shall have rendered his resig-
nation.
R. 5. Burton, of Lynchburg, a mail
agent on the Norfolk and Western Rail
road, was convicted in the United
States court at Abingdon last week OF
robbiug the mail and sentenced to
three years in the peniteDtiary. An
eight-months- sold son died within few
hours OF Burton's conviction.
The old Mary Washington monu
ment at Fredericksburg was pulled
down Saturday afternoon and the box
in the cornerstone turned over to the
officers of the Monument Association Of
that city. The box was filled with wa
ter and confused mass ofpulp. None
of the objects could be distinguished.
The stone of the old monument will be
used in the foundation for the new
monument about to be erected and the
same cornerstone will be used.
II. F. Loving, the defaulting Roam
oke bank teller, registered at the Met
ropolitan Hotel in Washington Friday
morning. He was in the hotel only a
few minutes before he left, not to re-
turn until evening, when he came in
again, this time considerably under the
influence Of liquor. He remained at
the Metropolitan Friday night and left
there Saturday morning on reading an
account of his default in the morning
papers. He registered at the hotel un-
der his own name, and when he left,
told the clerk he was going to Ohio.
There was dramatic scene at Hen
rico courthouse on Thursday when Mrs
Mills went on the stand to testify
against Philip Nicholas, who is charged
with the murder OF her husband and.
Judson Wilkinson. Mrs. Mills is very
homely woman and has scarcely any
education. 1t was with the greatest
effort that the lawyers could induce
her to tell her story. Several times the
witness broke down and wept bitterly,
and at times she would scream out sob
Lord have mercy on me-" She ad-
mitted that she and Nicholas had been
unduly intimate, and that the accused
had several times asked herif she would
live with him if her old man were out
of the way. The witness testified that
Nicholas had tried to poison her hus-
band. Her evidence was in the main
the same as she gave at the coroner's
inquest.