Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-08-15
VIRGINIA NEWS.

ilhUlNlh MIND.
Another large silk mill will be built
at Fredericksburg at once by home and
foreign capital.
The Virginia State Dental Associa'
ton convened at the White Sulphur
Springs Tuesday in its twenty-sixth
annual session, DR.. II. Wood Camp
bell, of Suffolk, presiding.
Great interest was excited in Rich
mond yesterday evening by the an
nouncement at the White Sulphur
Springs of the engagement of Mis-:
Irene Larghorne, Virginia's popular so
ciety favorlte, to Charles Dana Gibson,
the New York sketch artist. The date
of the marriage was not named.
Mr.. Rosa Smith, from near SCOTS
vile, who is charged with administer
ing croton-oil to her husband for the
purpose of killing him, is in Albemarle
Jail. Mrs. Smith is about IS years o.
age; is not bad looking, and is disposed
to talk freely. She has brother al
Low Moor and one at Hinton, both
said to be reliable, good men.
News has reached Palmyra that Sc
we're hail storm passed over the north
and northeast parts of Fluvanna coun.
ty, and portion of Louisa, which did
great damage to the corn crop, and
ruined the tobacco in many places. II
did more damage in Louisa, however
than in Fluvanna. Some corn-felds
looked as if the fodder had been pulled
from them.
A negro who is believed to be Ros-
well Easley, the murderer, who escap
ed from the Halifax county Jail Decem.
Der Is, 1894, and who was under sen,
tence of death at the time, was arrested
in Newport News Tuesday night. He
claims that his name is Howard
Easley and that Roswell Easley is his
cousin. He answers to the description
of the murderer for>whose capture the
governor offered 5000 reward.
Judge Hughes, of the United States
Court, yesterday in Norfolk filed an
opinion In the case of the steamship
Prince William, jr., ys. the steamship
City of Para, in which he gives salvage
amounting to 5000, and expenses and
costs amounting to 81, 554, to the first
named steamer. The steamship Prince
William, jr, lowed the disabled steam
or City of Para from the coast off Sa
vannah to Hampton Roads last March
W. E. Hurxthal, residing near War.
renton, received dispatch yesterday
announcing the death of his brother
John Huxthal, at Crystal Springs, Miss
He was o captain in the famous Third
Alabama Regiment, and at the close o.
the war, when the regiment was dig
banded, he was unanimously presented
with the regimental colors as a recog
milton of his conspicuous gallantry. HI
was born in Baltimore, and for some
years had been very prominent bust
ness man in the South.
Afreight train made up of ten car;
was side tracked near Woodstock yes
terday morning to allow q passenger
train to pass. Just after it stopped
Conductor Frank -Norria .ss1a some
tlhli ii;e .20vIng between the ties, over
which the cars had passed. He went
back to investigate, and found, to his
amazement, an eighteen months old
child. The little one belonged to Far
mer Jenkins, and had crawled out upon
the track. The engine moving very slow
ly had pushed the child between the
ties, where it lay until the ten cars had
passed over il, With the exception of
Slight bruise on the shoulder, caused
probably by the pilot of the engine, the
child was uninjured.