Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-10-19
VIRGINIA NEWS.

John S. Scroggins, popular citizen
of Front Royal, died last week.
Mrs. Harriet Ruffner died at her
country home, near Lexington, yester-
day.
A high grade of manganese ore has
been found in Rye valley, Smythe
county.
Victoria furnace, at Goshen. has
gone into blast again after shutdown
of several years.
1t is reported that Rev. E. s. Kinks,
of the Upperville Episcopal Church, has
accepted a call to Wildwood.
The fair of the Rappahannock Val
ley Agricultural Society will open at
Fredericksburg Tuesday next.
The Fourth Virginia Regiment will
leave Portsmouth for Atlanta this even
ing, via the Seaboard Air Line.
1t is said that the pacing horses John
r. Gentry and Joe Patchen will race at
the Danville fair on the 31st for 81 500.
The democrats of Rappahannock
county have nominated John B. Miller
to succeed himself in the next House Of
Delegates.
1t is said the contract for the con-
struction of the Virginia, Fredericks-
burg and Western Railroad will be
Let next week.
On Tuesday Mr.. David Scott died at
his home near huntsville, Essex
county, aged 81 years. He was ma
tive of Westmoreland.
1t was the schooner Daylight that
sunk the schooner Murray Vandiver
near Norfolk recently. The captain of
the Daylight says he will pay all dam
ages.
Mrs. Mary Pearson, wife of Mr.. Geo.
w. Pearson, OF Loudoun county, died
at the residence of Mr.. M. F. Brown,
near Leesburg on Thursday week, in
about the 47th year of her age.
The Richmond Light Infantry Blues
have decided not to accompany the
Governor to the Atlanta exposition on
Sunday. They could not raise the
money necessary for the expenses of
the trip.
Fire in Richmond yesterday damag-
ed the building on east Main street &C.
cupied by the E. B. Taylor Company
as storage quarters for chinaware,
crockery, children's toys, etc. Loss
$4,000.
Miss Nellie Plummer, the soubrette
of the Manhattan Opera Company,
which opened an engs cement in Rich
mond last night, while on a York river
boat Thursday night was injured by
the explosion of an alcohol lamp, over
which she was heating curling iron.
Thomas Wood died yesterday at his
home in Charlottesville, aged sc. He
was fine speaker, brilliant writer
and held numerous public positions.
He represented Albemarle county in
the Legislature several years and was
Mayor of Charlottesville three terms.
Percy Bradley, young clerk in Neu-
decker's cigar store, Washington, was
arrested yesterday on warrant charg-
ing him with being fugitive from JUS
tice. The young man is wanted in
Richmond where he is charged with
seduction. He says it is scheme to
cause him to marry Richmond girl.
At meeting in Danville yesterday
the board of directors and trustees of
the Union Theological Seminary, Pres
by.erian, adopted a resolution faVoring
the removal of the seminary from
Prince Edward county to Richmond.
The committee appointed to consider
and inspect new sites reported recon-
mending the acceptance of Richmond's
offer of lot Of eleven and three tenths
acres and $125,000 for a building fund.
The board decided to accept this offer,
subject to the approval of the Synod of
Virginia and North Carolina.
The suit brought by Miss Cornelia
Shield in the Circuit Court of Henrico
county nearly two years ago to break
the will of the late Major Alfred Shield,
her brother, has been settled. By the
provisions of the will the bulk of the
estate was bequeathed to the Uniyer-
sity of Virginia, while small farm and
cottage were left to Oyerton Harris and
his wife, two colored people, who at
tended Major Shield in his last illness.
By the terms of the agreement between
the parties to the suit the last named
bequest remains valid, reversary in.
terest in piece of property on west
Carey street, Richmond, is awarded
Miss Shields and tine BALANCE Of the es-
state is to be sold and divided equally
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