Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-05-01

Capt. }. II. Semple, well-knoWn
contractor OF Portsmouth, is dead.
In the country about Roanoke are
many tramps moving toward Washing
ton.
Mrs. H. c. Wcolville, nee Lizzie
Duerson, died at her residence in
Orange county April 9th.
Mr.. Peyton Jones, of Stafford, died
at his home on Saturday. He was a
member of the Seventeenth Virginia
Regiment during the late war.
At the end of the current church
year Rev. DR.. Moses D. Hoge will have
been pastor of the Second Presbyterian
Church, Richmond, fifty years.
L. T. Myers, general superintendent
of the Seaboard and Roanoke Railroad,
has resigned to enter the service of the
Richmond and Fredericksburg Road.
Cards are out for the marriage of
Miss Mamie Faulkner, OF Culpeper,
and Lord Blake, OF England, to take
place at the home Of the bride on
May Is.
Rev. f. C. Mcconnell of Atlanta,
Ca, has accepted the call to the pastor
ate Of the First Baptist Church, Lynch
burg, made vacant by retirement of
Rev. DR.. Felix, and will assume the du-
ties on June |.
The Norfolk and Western Railroad
Company has acceded to the request of
the engineers, fremen, conductors,
brakemen and telegraphers for a resto-
ration of the 10 per cent. reduction in
their wages, to go into effect May l.
Hon. George d. Wise has written to
a friend in Richmond that the report
that he will not be candidate for re-
election to Congress is without founda-
ton. He will ask the democrats of
the Third district to return him for an
other term.
John Newcome, a farmer, residing
near Lakeville, Clarke county, while
returning home from Winchester on
Saturday night, fell from his wagon and
broke his neck. He was seventy years
of age, member of the G.. A. Il. and a
pensioner.
Mr.. Carlton Mccarthy, of Richmond,
secretary of Confederate Soldiers and
Sailors Monument Association, yester-
day received telegram from the Hen
~ Bonnard Bronze Company, of New
York, informing him that the statue
would be shipped tonight.
In Matthews county on Saturday last
Luther Ferguson, colored, aged 10
years, attempted an assault on q little
white girl of eight years. The accused
was arrested and sent on for trial at the
June term of the County Court and car
ried to Norfolk by the sheriff for safe
keeping.
j. Kemp Bartlett, trustee of the Val
ley Land and Improvement Company,
sold at public sale at Luray last week
the following real estate: The restau
rant tract, containing about four acres,
for $4,000; % acres lying between the
inn grounds and the town lots on Main
street, for $500; 10 acres, known rs
the Wilson tract, in the same vicinity.
for $50. Mr. William Green, of Phila-
delphia, president Of the Luray Caverns
Company, was the purchaser of all the
land mentioned
The hearing of the confidence man
who vctimized Mr.. John Arnold, of
Loudoun country, out of $1,000 last
Wednesday, was held before Justice
Orr in Leesburg yesterday afternoon.
The hearing was rather iiasco, as Mr.
Arnold failed utterly to identify the
prisoner as the man who had swindled
him, though he had fully done so on
two previous occasions. Others, how
ever, identified him as one of the men
seen coming from the spot where tie
act was consummated, and the Justice,
on their evidence, remanded the pris-
oner for the grand jury.