Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-02-12
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Mrs. Salina Smith, wife of Elias A
Smith, died on Wedn esday at Middle
burg, at auadvapced age.
The trial of Searcey and Morgan
field, the alleged Aqua creek train
robbers. will begin at Stafford Court
House February 20.
Joseph II. Grub, father of Rev. j.
w. Grub, of Leesburg, died at his resi-
dence, near Hillsboro' f, Loudoun cour :
ty, last week aged eighty-seven years.
The valuation of land in Orange
couu.y in 1885 to 1890 was 50 81 per
acre; from 1890 to 1895, $3.50 per acre,
and in the coming assessment 1T Will be
still lower.
A fire Saturday night in the Dan
vile Daily Register composing-room
damaged that establishment to the en-
tent OF 5000 and the Danville Tobacco
Journal $50.
The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
Company has awarded to the W. &
A. Fletcher Company, of Hoboken,
the contract for fine passenger steam
er to run between Newport News and
Norfolk in the place ofthe Louise.
Yesterday morning two men, one
white man and the other negro, were
found frozen to death. The former
was found near Clayville and the other
in the neighborhood of keysville, on
the Richmond and Danville Railroad.
VIM. f. King died at his residence
near Comorn, in King George county,
on February 7th, in the 18th year of
his age, and Mrs G. Mosby Henderson
died of pneumonia Sunday at her home
near Iago, King George county, aged
30 years.
At a meeting OF the executive COM
mittee of the State union of the Viz
ginia Christian Endeavor Society, held
in Richmond last night, it was resolv-
ed to hold the next convention in Sep
tember instead Of January, and Roa-
noke was selected as the place of meet
ing of the convention, provided salts
factory railroad rates can be secured.
Mrs. Amelie Rives. Chanler, who is
suffering with rheumatism, has been
advised by her physician to go to a dry
er climate and has selected Fort Worth,
Texas, whittier she will go at once, &C.
companied by Miss Vera Pratt. Grace
Episcopal Church, near Castle Hill, the
home of Mrs. Chanler, was destroyed
by fire Saturday night. 1t was one of
the most costly churches in that Sec
ticn. 1t was insured for $4,000.
Judge Christian, of the CORPORATION
Court of Lynchburg, has granted final
decree in the suit for divorce of James
NJ. Booker, jr., from his wife, Maize F.
Bocock. on the ground of desertion.
The defendant is the daughter of the
late Hon. Thomas S. Bocock, Speaker
OF the Confederate, States Congress,
and a niece of United States Senator
Faulkner, of West Virginia. She is
given leave to resume her maiden
name.
The friends of Miss Lucy Ann Cox,
who followed the Thirteenth Virginia
Regiment all during the war, have
erected to her memory in Spottsylvania
county q monument with the following
inscription: In Memory of Lucy Ann
Cox, wife of James A. Cox; died De-
cember II, 1891, aged sixty-four years.
A sharer of the tolls, dangers and pri-
vations of the Thirteenth Regiment,
Virginia Infantry, c. S. A., from 1861
TO 1865. and died beloved and respect
ed by the veterans of that command,
Erected by her friends.
The cartridges are dying off in Stat
| ford county from the effect of the cold.
Mr.. Sanford Lnnsford brought two to
the courthouse Saturday in his coat
pocket that he had picked up on the
road. They were almost dead. Eff
forts we're made to bring them around,
hut they died. He states that there
were fifteen in the flock all of which
were in the condition of those he
brought. Sparrows are dying by the
hundred, and if this weather continues
week or ten days longer it will ma
terielly thin out the feathered tribe.
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