Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-11-22
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Mrs. Taliaferro, near Orange Court
house, few days since, fell sixteen
feet down flight of steps and broke
her arm in two places and was other
wise injured.
Col. o. w. Dudley, of Governor
O'Ferrall's staff, was married in Dan,
Vile yesterday 10 Miss Lucie Howard
Estes. Among those present were Gov.
O'Ferrall and his staff.
Thomas S. Kerr was arrested in Bal
timore yesterday by Detectives Bar.
ranger and Hussey, at the request OF
the authorities of Culpeper county,
where he is charged with felony.
Rev. J. Green Shackelford, formerly
rector of Trinity Church in Fre6ericks-
burg, but now of Fremont, o., has ac-
cepted call to st. Johns Church, at
Houston, Halifax county.
W. F. Jackson, major of the Second
Battalion, Colored Volunteers, of Vir-
ginia, and one of the most prominent
colored men il the State, died quite
suddenly at his home, in Petersburg,
late yesterday evening.
While attempting to cross Moore's
creek bridge yesterday at the Charlottes-
vile Wooden Mills, Moses Ferguson, an
old colored man, was struck by engine
drawing train No. on the Chesapeake
and Ohio Railroad and instantly killed.
The annual meeting of the stockhold-
ers of the Richmond, Fredericksburg
and Potomac Railroad was held in
Richmond yesterday. A dividend of 3
per cent. for the six months ended
June 80 was declared. The old officers
were all re- elected.
The cadet football team of the Nir-
GINA Military Institute shut out the
Roanoke college eleven, of Salem, at
Lexington Yesterday afternoon. Score,
16 to O. A number of fine plays were
made on both sides, but the cadets did
the more scientific work.
James G. Blaine, jr., has defeated a
son of United States Senator Francis
NJ. Cockrell, of Missouri, for the position
of centre on the University of Virginia
football eleven. Both will be with the
team on Thanksgiving Day in Rich
mond, Cockell as substitute.
Rev. Josiah r. Ellis, rector of the
Episcopal churches at Gordonsville
and Louisa Courthouse, and Miss Lilly
Archer Warren, of Richmond, daughter
of City Auditor E. ]. Warren, were
married at Grace Episcopal Church, in
that city, yesterday at noon, Bishop
Whittle officiated.
George Beatty, of Baltimore, an
oyster shucker, was shot in the side and
fatally wounded at Lewisetta, on Hog
Island. He was taken to Baltimore
where he died yesterday. Last Tues
day quarrel occurred between nun
Der of white men and the colored men
employed in the Lewisetta oyster house,
and ended in a fight at night. Beatty
walked out on the pier, near the oyster
house, and while standing there color
ed man, whom he did not know, shot
him in the side.
A barn and stable belonging to G. S.
Hutter were burned yesterday near
Forest Depot, near Lynchburg. The
barn was on the old estate of Poplar
Forest, at one time the property OF
Thomas Jefferson, and now owned by
MIR. Hutter. Nine valuable horses and
ten head of cattle persisted. The fire
is supposed to have been of incendiary
origin. The gentlemen who lost horses
| in the fire were Samuel Withers, Capt.
Charles M. Blackford, R. Pollard, W..
n. Brown and E. B. Estes.
Horace NJ. Cottrell, young man
about twenty-three years old, q
ministerial student at Richmond Col
lege, who created sensation in a
fashionable resident portion of that
city by heartrending cries for protec-
ton, was adjudged insane at the city
jail Tuesday evening. Cottrell had a
severe attack of typhoid fever some
time ago. Since then he has studied
very hard, and it is though this i'm
paired his mind. He was regarded as
one of the brightest young men at Rich
mond College. Edward Seapark, a
student at Richmond College, was yes
terday afternoon bereft of his reason,
making two cases of insanity at that
institution during the last twenty-four
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