Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-07-11
VIRGINIA NEWS.

The ladies of Culpeper county are go
ing to build an Episcopal chapel at
Rixeyville.
Bishop Randolph and family ara at
their country home at Casanova, Fsu-
quier county, for the summer.
Mr.. L. D. Passano, of Baltimore, has
purchased the farm of Mr.. |. K. Mad
dux, mile from Warrenton.
Mrs. Betsy Fisher, very old lady,
relict of John Fisher, well-knoWn
citizen, died near New Baltimore Mon
day.
The four-year. old daughter of Henry
Wine was on Tuesday fatally burned,
near Bethel, by her clothing catching
fire at a pot boiling in the yard.
A fisherman named Howard, resid-
ing 10 Somerset county, Md, was seiz.
ed by Virginia authorities for fishing in
the waters of this State yesterday.
Ga next Monday morning Governor
O'Ferrall will leave Richmond for AL
lie .hany Springs, Montgomery county,
where he expects to spend six weeks.
Mrs. Mary A. Burke died at her
home in Leesburg at an early hour
Sunday morning in the S7th year of
her age-more than sixty of which she
had spent in that town.
Charles Watkins Gryver, the young
lawyer and stenographer who recently
created sensation in Richmond by
flooding the city with worthless checks
and then quietly departing, has been
heard from in Aberdeen, Scotland.
During severe storm at Norfolk
yesterday afternoon the schooner Fifer,
with cargo of phosphate for the fer
tilizer factory on the Southern Branch,
capsized. Her crew of two men were
drowned before tug, which had gone
to their assistance, could reach them.
Joseph Fine, Hebrew merchant in
Norfolk county, was struck on the
head Tuesday night by one of party
of three negroes, who attempted to rob
his store, to which they obtained en-
trance on pretext of desiring to pur-
chase goods. He is probably fatally
injured. His assailants escaped, leav-
ing no clew to their indemnity.
At Berryville yesterday the jury in
the case Of the negro Robinson, charged
With attempting to outrage the person
of Miss Maggie Nails, returned a YER
dict of guilty and fixed his punishment
at fourteen years in prison. The de-
tense applied for new trial and stay
of execution was granted for thirty
days. The troops left yesterday with
the prisoner, who was taken to Char
lottesville for safety.
Major B. w. Lynn, the superinten.
dent of the penitentiary, has turned
over to the authorities of Russell
county twenty convicts, in addition to
twelve sent there some time ago, and
who are employed in working on the
county roads. Recently he supplied
the authorities of Bedford county with
batch of twenty convicts, in addition to
the fourteen already engaged there in
similar work.
Mr.. Joseph R. MacCubbin, formerly
clerk on the steamer Potomac, at
tempted to commit suicide at Lewisetta
yesterday. No physician was within
reach, and he was placed upon the
steamer Tarpon at four o'clock, and
sent to Baltimore. 1t is feared that
thesswound will prove fatal. He lost
his position as purser on the Potomac
when it became the propesty of the
Weems Line, and it is thought that the
loss of his position was the cause for
the act, as he worried considerably
over the matter.
1t has been discovered through a
municipal committee that the accounts
of Supt. Adams, of the Richmond gas
work, who died very suddenly about
month ago, are sos, 900 short. The
theory is now advanced that he COM
mitted suicide. The subcommittee in
their report score both Foreman Walsh
and Bookkeeper Meredith, and declare
that the looseness of methods contin'
ued for so many years must have been
due to collision or incompetency.
They recommend that these officers be
suspended, and that action be brought
against the estate and sureties of Mr..
Adams.
William Sanford, a lad of Peters
burg, was arrested on Tuesday on the
charge of attempting to commit Grim
inal assault on the eleven.year-old
daughter of J. II. Cumba, also of that
place, ard had hearing before JUS
tice Tucker, in Ettricks, Chesterfield
county, Tuesday night. The alleged
assault was committed in Chesterfield
county. The justice sent the accused
on to the September term of the coun-
ty court for trial. The prisoner was
brought to Petersburg and committed
to jail. Yesterday afternoon, however,
he was released on bail in the penalty
of $3.50.
The trial of Mrs. Msjorilla Williams,
charged with the murder of her hus-
band, T. S. Williams, near Brice's
Store, Northumberland county, in Feb.
ruary last, which was set for hearing at
Heathsville on Tuesday, was not taken
up until yesterday evening. Counsel for
defense moved to have the case re-
moved to another county on the ground
that the prisoner could not get a fair
trial at Heathsville owing to public
sentiment against the accused. The
court overruled the motion and ordered
the trial to proceed to-day. Neverthe-
less, the court will hear further evidence
on this point.
The SANDs-GooDE AFFAIR.-Some
time ago Mr.. Jas. E. Goode had Maj.
w. II. Sands before the police court
in Richmond charged with threatening
his life. They had trouble In st.
Johns Lodge of Masons, the exact
hers of the order. Mr., Goode made