Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-10-29
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Prof. William A. Simmons, chief di
rec or of the public schools of Norfolk
died Saturday night, aged forty years
oftyphoid fever.
DIR. James Albin Templeman died al
his residence in Baltimore Saturday
DR.. Templeman was native of Vlr
ginia, where he was bornin 1889.
The farmers of the Fredericksburg
vicinity are feeling considerable un
easiness about strange disease thai
has carried away number of cattle
The next session of the Virginia Con.
ference, Methodist Episcopal Church
South, will be held in Charlottesville
beginning November Nth. Bishop
Haygood, of Georgia, will preside.
Sheriff Kennedy, of Stafford county
who went TO Cincinnati to bring Nor
garfield, the supposed train robber, to
Virginia, returned Saturday night with
out the prisoner, who is unable to
travel.
Sheriff Whitlock, of Culpeper, passed
through this city Saturday evening with
William Kildey, colored man, who is
wanted at Culpeper for abducting fif
teen year old colored girl from her
home. Kildey was captured at Hagers-
town, Md.
Prince Won Honenlohe -Shillinfurst
has accepted the Office of imperial
chancellor of Germany, and Herr Won
Koeller, under secretary of the interior
for the province of Alsace-Lorraine,
succeeds Count Botho zu Eulenburg as
Prussian minister of the interior.
A letter from King George county
says: "The oyster business is attracting
unusual attention this fall, and hun
dreds of farmers and laborer5 along the
Potomac and its principal tributaries
are arranging capacious outfits to en-
gage in the enterprise extensively. Re-
ports from some of the grounds indicate
an abundance of fair oysters, and very
profitable season is confidently ex-
pected."
Seventeen years ago William Bar
mittler, Swede, lost his wife and was
left with five little children on his
hands. As the father was very poor
citizens of Lynchburg secured home
for the children in the Miller Orphan
Asylum. Friday night Barmittler re.
turned from the West and claimed all
his children, the eldest girl being now
grown. There was most happy fami
ly reunion.
The first steamer for the new cargo
line between Norfolk and Liverpool
left Sunderland, where she was built
on Wednesday, on her maiden voyage
across the Atlantic. She is named
Lambert's Point, after the Norfolk and
Western Terminal, and is shapely
vessel of 5000 tons Commercial mer
in London believe there is a great flu
ture for this and similar local lines
for freight and cattle steamers, and
there is growing tendency to invest
money in them.
Mrs. Ysidora Couts Gray, of Califor.
MIA, has brought suit in Augusta county
for the appointment of receiver of bel
four-yeaI-old son, who was abducted by
his father in California and brought tc
Augusta. Mrs. Gray has also brought
suitin California for divorce from hel
husband, who she says is habitua
drunkard and does nothing to support
her or her son. Mrs. Gray is a rict
woman and as soon as she found thai
her husband had abduct ID her chile
she came straight 70 Augusta, the form
er home of her husband, and found the
child there. The boy is now in the
custody of the sheriff and Mrs. Gray
has room in the residence part of The
Jail with her son.