Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-06-28
VIRGINIA NEWS.

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The customs officers in Norfolk yes
ferday captured lot of goods SNUG
glcd from the q. S. S. Newark.
Rev. J. w. Baker and Miss Lizzie
Asher, OF Brokne!l, Campbell county,
were married at that place on Mon
day.
At the cabinet meeting yesterday the
silver question was discussed, but no
action looking to an early session of
Congress was taken.
The Board of Public Works have
com o1eted their Inspection ofthe rail-
roads in the State, and on Saturday the
assessments will begin.
The new handle factoi,y at Front
Royal was destroyed by fire last night.
Loss about ten Thousand dollars. In
sured for half that amount.
D. Richards Taylor, formerly Of Rich
mond, and q partner Of the late Senator
Hearst, Of California, died yesterday in
San Francisco, in that State.
Mr.. Henry J. Abrahams, gallant
W nv u Oc-hcpS
the war as member of the Lynchburg
Home Guard, died at Lynchburg Mon
day night, aged ii y-eight yea.
Mrs. Jennie Harrison Gelretle, OF
New York, 4 relative Of eX-Presidcnt
Harrison, was married in that city ye3-
terday to John Lyttleton Lyon, son of
the late Rev. William Lyon, Of Rich
mond.
Within the last few months at least
six persons have been murdered in and
around Richmond. Most CT these
climss were committed in adjoining
counties. but two of the Victims were
slain in the city.
Senator Daniel has retul ned from
w: shington to his summer residence,
near Lynchburg, and has begun the
preparation of his speech for Virginia
Day at the Chicago Exposition, which
will doubtless sustain his reput .tion as
on orator.
VIM. Foreman, colo~ed, who was re-
leased f'om the penitentiary three
months ago, stabbed and instantly kill
ed colored woman named Carrie Car
l.ngton in Portsmouth, yesterday. He
fled TO the ountry, but returned to his
home and was arrested.
1t is stated that there is not q single
applicant for the postmastership ofFal-
mouth, village Of three or four hum
dred inhabitants, about one mile from
Fredericksburg on the opposite side o!
the RapT ahannock, in, Stafford county.
The salary amounts to about 800.
The mercantile fever has proven so
contagious in the Northern Neck that
the little county of King George
has fifty stores in operation, and pres
ent prospects indicate that halfas many
more Will be opened along the Potomac
and Rappahannock during the present
year.
Three steam vessels were dis; overed
fishing in the East river, Matthews
county, Saturday. The crew of one OF
them, the Lizzie Colburn, were can
turcd and will be tried for illegal fish,
ing. This vessel was caught in Lam
c ster county Saturday right and taken
to Williams wharf. where she is now
lyiug.
w. r. Bradley commit, / suicide on
Sunday in his stable, near Wnitmell,
Pitttsylvania county. He placed the
muzzle of a shotsIn in his mouth and
pulled the TRIGGER With his toe. His
head was torn int fragments. He was
an industrious farmer and served sc n
Confederate soldier. He leaveI wife
and several children. No reason is
know for the suicide.
Mr.. Marshall Mccormick, of Clarke,
who few years ago was in the State
Senate, will, it is said, be a candidate
for the house o. delegates next fall. He
is warm ic.'iend of Circuit Judge R. H..
Turner, who will be oppo.jed for re-
election by STATE Senator Thomas w.
Harrison, of Winchester. and it is pre-
sumed that Mr.. Mccormick IS DESTROYS
of election especially to help the
Judge through.
The board of trustees of the General
Assembly of the Presbyterian Church
for the home and school to be estab-
Iished in Fredericksburg have decided
to purchase the Chew property, which,
together with two small pieces which
were also acquired, embraces an entire
square. This property is an admirable
site for the purpose for which it is in
tended, and together with the asylum
property already controlled by the
board will afford every facility for the
home and school.