Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-01-26
VIRGINIA NEWS.

A fire Thursday evening at Bristoe
Station destroyed the residence of Mr..
Patrick Lynch.
Mr.. John F. Slaughter, one of the
best known citizens of Lynchburg, died
yesterday of softening of the brain.
Mr.. Charles A. English, of Leesburg,
was married to Mrs. Mamie Claiborne
Lightfoot, of Petersburg yesterday.
Miss Hennie Harrison, of Fauquier
county, and Mr. Herndon w. Barrett,
of Richmond. were married in Peters
burg yesterday.
The application for license to sell
liquor at Orlean, was refused by the
County Court and an appeal was taken
to the Circuit Court of Fauquier.
At UpperviIle on Sunday morning
house belonging to the estate of +: /;
Laws rented by Robt. Nickens and Ned
George, caught fire and was entirely
destroyed. a
rector of the Episcopal church at Tap
pahanock, mas accepted the call recent
iy rendered him by the yestry OF st.
James church, f4eesburg, and will as
sumo his duties rs rector of that church
the first Sunday in April.
During the past year the Monticello
Wine Company at Charlottesville clear
ed p per cent on its capital stock. In
the vintage of 1892 the company made
sixty thousand gallons of wine and one
thousand gallons OF brandy. A divi-
dend of per cent. was declared.
A. J. Rauh, treasurer and assistant
secretary of the Richmond and West
Point Terminal Railway and Ware
house Company, died yesterday of con-
sumption at Las Vegas Hot Springs, in
New Mexico. Mr.. Rauh was born in
Virginia and went to New York city
when the Richmond and Danville Rail
road Company opened offices there,
some ten years ago.
The board of agriculture to-day
adopted plan whereby more farmers
institutes will be held and at less cost
than heretofore. 1t is proposed to hold
them in each congressional district on
the application of 100 farmers, and the
expense of each is to be limited to 500.
The committee appointed to report on
the ACCESSIBILITY of establishing eXper-
mental farms was discharged.
Congressman-elect Claude A. Swan
son has decided to settle the question
of the postmastership of Danville by
means OF a primary election, and has
written letter TO the chairman OF the
democratic executive committee re-
auesting him to hold primary cleo
ton to obtain the wishes of the demo-
Gratis in the matter. There are half a
dozen candidates for the position, and
the primary election will doubtless be Il
lively affair.
The Catholic orphan asylum at Roam
ole will be opened on the lst of Febru-
ary. The building is of brick, go feet
square, and is located on a beautiful
knoll near the Roanoke Catholic
Church. 1t will accommodate 80 boys,
and be in charge of Sisters of Charity,
who will also conduct a day school in
it for BOYS and girls of the city. The
building is heated by steam, lighted
| with gas anu furnished WIFI ail olhei
modern conyeniences.
A white man, the father of grown
daughters, was arrested in Norfolk
Tuesday night, charged with attempt
ing to make a criminal assault on a lit
tic white girl seven years ofage. The
father of the child went to the police
station and secured Il warrant for tie
arrest of the offender. When the Of
licer arrived at his house the mother
of the child had the man behind door
giving him severe thrashing with 4
cowhide. His face was badly cut and
bruised, and the eXasperated woman
would have killed him had not the Of
licer reached the scene in time to pre-
vent her using a shotgun, which she
was holding in reserve.