Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-07-03
VIRGINIA NEWS.

ROANOKE county, ID ueau.
There was cloudburst in Stafford
county Monday night that did great
damage to the crops.
John W. Ably, for many years a
prominent merchant of Staunton, died
suddenly at that place yesterday.
Mrs. Augusta Roc ser, wife of Carl
Rocser, editor of the Folks Tribune, OF
Washington, died at Dranesville on
Monday.
The grist mill of w. j.. Bradbury,
near Nason's station, Orange county,
was totally destroyed by fire about 9
o'clock Monday night. Los, $1,000;
Insurance, 81 800.
Miss Leila Anna Young, youngest
daughter of Daniel Young. esq, OF
Berryville, and Mr.. Geo. M. Laws, OF
Boyce, Clarke county, were married at
Rerryville on Tuesday.
The Prote tant Episcopal parishes q
Vienna and Falls Church have extend
ed call to Rev. r. A. A. Castleman,
of Herndon, to become their rector, and
it is thought he will accept.
Dogs got into the fine flock of sheep
belonging to Mr.. F. w. Smith, OF Fall
Hill, near Fredericksburg on Monday,
and killed several. Mr.. Smith succeed
ed in killing two of the dogs.
The assessment of land in King
George county shows an increase over
the old assessment of $3,912. The de-
crease in the assessed value of Stafford
county over the last assessment is about
$10S,OO0.
Miss Mary McGregor Murkland,
daughter of Mr.. S. r. Murkland, OF
Lynchburg, was married yesterday in
Baltimore to Mr.. Wilson Lee Camden,
nephew of Senator Camden, of West
Virginia.
Marriage licenses were issued in
Washington yesterday to Carril Dodd
and Blanche e. Lucas, both of West
moreland county, and to George G.
Walker, of Fairfax county, and Mary E.
Gibson, of Nelson county.
The criminal expenses of counties in
this section paid by the State of Vir-
GINA are as follows: Spottsylvania,
1882; Northumberland, 1888; Kappa.
hammock, 1881; Madison, $703; Orange,
S743; Richmond, 1888; Culpeper, 81, 1863;
Fauquier, 50, 26O; Loudoun, $2,1H.
An engineer corps, under the direc-
ton of Mr.. Lewis B. Williams, are sur
veying q route for railroad from Or
ange to deep water. The corps are
following the line of the narrow-gauge
Petersburg, Fredericksburg and Poto-
mac Railroad, to Mugler's, thence to
Lahore and ON southeast.
Daniel Turner, we'll knowE and re-
specled citizen of Clarke county, was
found last Saturday lying a short dis
lance from the river, near Castleman's
Ferry, in an unconscious condition,
with several dangerous wounds about
the throat, he having inflicted the same
with dull knife in moment OF de-
spondency.
Capt. Thomas B. Fry, prominent
citizen of Madison county, died at his
residence yesterday, aged tifty-eight
years. During the late civil war he
commanded Company A, Seventh Vir-
GINA Regiment, Kemper's Brigade of
Pickett's Division. He also represent
I'd Madison county two terms in the
Virginia Legislature.
John L. Borthwick, chief engineer of
the U. S. ship Amphitrite, cut his
throat at the Hygeia Hotel, Old Point,
yesterday evening. He was taken to
the naval hospital and attended by sur.
geons. He is alive but the extent OF
his injuries cannot be learned. A later
dispatch says the wound is not neces-
sarily fatal.
The taking of testimony for the de-
Tense in the Massey. Pilot libel suit al
Norfolk was continued yesterday. The
court having had his attention called to
the matter said for the benefit of the
reporters that incorrect reports are con-
tempt of court and if it occurs again
may be the cause of action by the court.
The proceedings yesterday were devoid
of special interest.
The opening exercises of the State
Normal School took place at Charlottes-
vile yesterday evening. Prof. Charles
81. Winston, of Richmond College, is
the conductor, who responded to the
address of welcome by Mayor John S.
Patton. DR.. w. G. N. Randolph, rector
of the University of Virginia, also made
an address. About $50 teachers are
present, including several from this city.
A horrible wife-murder and attempt
at suicide, which will prove successful,
occurred early yesterday morning at
Dawn, in Caroline county. Edgar Phil
lips, rather worthless but peaceable
white man, with his wife and son, have
lived for some time near Mrs. E. Y.
Seay's store. Yesterday morning
screams were heard at Phillips's house.
Mr.. James Head went there and found
Mrs. Phillips dead. She had been stab
bed and horribly mutilated by her hus-
band. Near the wife lay the husband,
who had cut open his abdomen in sew
eral places. The third victim was the
1O.year-old son, whose stomach was
cut open, and who was stabbed through
the arm.
A dispatch from Pocahontas says !:
"The union strikers on the Elkhorn
yesterday morning proceeded to the
Lick Branch mines in body and COM
PEELED every man, with his goods and
chattels, to form in line. They then
started on line of march up the Elk
horn, gathering in every non-uniop
man they could catch, and proceeds d
through the big tunnel to Bluestone
junction, where they directed their
prisoners to take the railroad and pur
sue an easterly course, giving them