Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-10-10
VIRGINIA NEWS.

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meet in Richmond on the 18th instant
Immediately after the close of the i'm
migration convention.
Keeper Morris, of the colored ccme-
terry of Norfolk, was locked up yester-
day, charged with stealing collins out
of the graves he had charge of.
Mrs. Leroy Daingerfeld, nee Beard,
of Verona, Augusta county, died at the
residence offs. w. Anderson, near Hot
Springs, yesterday. Her remains were
taken to Staunton for interment.
Captain Lancelot Partlow died at his
home, in Spotsylvania county, yester
day, aged ninety-fve years. Captain
Partlow was Que of the. pngaa Der who
escorted General Lafayette from Chan
cellorsEiiie to Fredericksburg in 1924.
The marriage of Miss Elizabeth Fair
fax Gaines, daughter of Mrs. Will
liam H. Gaines, to Judge Thomas
Smith will be celebrated ia St. Jamess
Protestant Episcopal Church, Warren
ton, this evening, at half past eight
O'Clock.
A select company assembled at the
residence of DR.. Hunter Mcclure in
Richmond yesterday to witness the
wedding of Miss Mary Stuart Mcclure
and DR.. William Edward Mcclure.
Only the relatives and intimate friends
of the family were present. The
ceremony was performed by the Rev.
Robert Gibson, of Christ Church, Gin
cinnati, uncle of the bride.
Colonel Lauck, of Berryville, at
tempted to cross in front of a south
bound Baltimore and Ohio passenger
train yesterday near Summit Point, w.
Va, and was killed. His body was
caught by the pilot of the engine and
carried into the station, in full view of
the Mortified spectators. The engineer
was not aware that he had struck him
until he reached the station. His horse
was also killed.
The Sancti6ed Band still continues
services at its church, at Chincoteague,
and their ceremonies are more bolster
Gus than ever. Fellow Waterman"
of Leader Lynch, Sister Sadie Collins,
preached on Sunday in rafting vigor-
Gus style. The most interesting reve-
lation yet is that several of the female
members of the Sanctifed Band intend
deserving the church, because, to their
sorrow, they have learned what is
meant by fellow Waterman" with the
brethren.
The Virginia Exposition was formal
" opened at Richmond yesterday. I'm
mediately after the military parade
Governor O'Ferrall and his staff en-
tered the music hall of the exposition
building, where the opening exercises
occurred. Governor O'Ferrall made
the speech of the occasion and declared
the exposition open to the public. In
tho competitive drill between four mill
tary companies of this State, Company
B, of the Richmond Light Infantry
Blues, won the first prize. A Norfolk
company was second and the NIonti-
cello Guards, of Charlottesville, third.
Fire broke out in A. G. Fuller & Co.'s
tobacco factory on Spring street, Dan
Vile, about nine O'Clock last Light.
The factory and contents were totally
destroyed. Loss, $4,000; insurance,
$4,000. A high wind was raging at the
time, and when the factory had been
burned to the ground, and al further
danger was supposed to be over, flames
we're discovered in the upper story of
the Planters warehouse, hundred
yards distant, which is supposed to
have caught from sparks. The fire in
this building was distinguished, how
ever before much damage had been
dore. Fuller's frame factory and j.
NJ Meals brick tobacco factory were
the only buildings burned. Fuller's
loss is $4,000 and Meals 5000. Meals
factory had 10000 pounds OF scrap
tobacco on storage. Loss $1,000.