Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-12-13
VIRGINIA NEWS.

| A severe rainstorm accompanied Dy
thunder and lightning passed over
Charlottesville and vicinity Tuesday
night.
Mr.. Clarence T. Boykin and Miss
Sadie Cullen Epps went from Rich
mond yesterday to Weldon, n. O., and
were married in that city.
Mr.. r. L. Jefferson and Miss Alice
Dyer and Mr. Addison Ingram, jr., and
Miss Mamie billiard. all OF Frederlcks-
burg, were married Monday night.
Rev. Geo. w. Carter, who was re-
Gently appointed pastor of Park View
NJ. e. Church. Portsmouth, preached
his first sermon there on Sunday to a
large congregation. His congregation
at Lynchburg was 10th to give him up.
Mr.. Frederick G. Dezendorf, a we'll
known young attorney of the Norfolk
bar and son of the late Congressman
Dezendorf, and Miss Sarah Emily Port
err, daughter of Mrs. Katherine A.
Porter, were married in Norfolk yester-
day evening.
The Weems Steamboat Company is
making arrangements for a daily line
of steamers between the Rappahan-
mock river and Cris6eld or Cape
Charles, in order that the surplus from
the Rappabannock trucking region
may be disposed of in northern mar
kets.
At Grace Episcopal Church, Peters
burg, to-day Bishop Randolph ordained
to deacon's orders Mr.. Frank Ridout,
the youthful brother of the rector OF the
church, and at the same time unveiled
the beautiful memorial window just
erected in memory of the late DR..
Churchill ]. Gibson, for over fifty years
the beloved rector of that church
The first shipment of oysters in
crates to England from Norfolk left
Newport News yesterday by the
steamship Shenandoah. Sixty-five
crates were consigned to o Liverpool
firm as an experimental shipment, and
if successful will open up large trade
and establish great series of packing
houses for European shipments.
DIR. A. S. McRae died at the Retreat
for the Sick, in Richmond, yesterday,
after an illness of month. DR.. Nc
Rae was formerly a prominent ply
stefan, represented Manchester district
in the State Senate, back in the seven
ties, and held departmental position
in Washington up to few years ago.
He was seventy-one years OF age and
leaves widow and four children.
John Densmore, of Waterford, Lou
doun county, on Wednesday killed 2
hogs that averaged 42S pounds. and J.
w. Mckinney, of the same place, kill
ed 8 that averaged 423 pounds. John
Hough about week ago butchered
one that turned the scales at 49S
pounds. So far II hogs have been
butchered in Waterford that weighed
over 400 pounds, and quite number
more that went between 800 and 400
pounds.
Yesterday evening in Richmond Jas.
Blackwell. aged nineteen, while play
ing with pistol, shot and killed almost
instantly companion, William Neace;
aged sixteen. The two boys were play
ing together, when Blackwell walked
up to Neace and snapped his pistol at
him once or twice.. The weapon ex-
ploded, the bullet taking effect in
Neace's right side. The shooting was
evidently unintentional, as the boys
were perfectly friendly toward each
other and had had no quarrel.
The executive committee of the I'm.
migration Association of Virginia,
through its president, Mr.. Joseph
Wallerstein, has addressed a letter to
the board of supervisors of the different
counties in This State, asking that they
cooperate with the committee in put
ting into execution as promptly and
effectively as possible various measures
adopted by the immigration convention
recently held in Richmond, under the
auspices of the Virginia Agricultural
and Mechanical Society, with a view to
securing immigration of anindustrious,
thrifty and law-abiding white popula-
ton to the State of Virginia for agricul-
tural purposes.
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