Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-02-25
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Mr.. Howard n. johnson, a promi-
nent lumber dealer of Baltimore, died
in Norfolk yesterday.
The annual session of the grand
council of Royal Arcanum of Virginia
will begin at Stanton, March u.s..
DR.. G. Willett Leach, at one time q
leading Virginia physician, died at Pu-
laski City yesterday, aged eighty i've
years.
A letter from King George county
says that hundreds of partridges died
of cold and starvation during the recent
severe storm period there.
Bookkeeper r. K. Goodwin, of the
collapsed bank of Lexington, was re-
leased on bail on Saturday, the case
being sent to the grand jury.
The old town of Newcastle, Craig
county, was nearly destroyed by fire
on Saturday. Scarcely anything was
saved and there is very little insurance.
The crew of the wrecked schooner
Water Lily arrived at Norfolk yester-
day from Assoteague. They had to
swim considerable distance for their
lives.
The residence of Congressman Jones,
at Warsaw, Richmond county, caught
fire on Thursday from burning chin.
ney, but the flames were e1tinguished
after slight damage had been done to
the roof.
Thomas F. Williams, first assistant
keeper of Smiths Point lighthouse,
committed suicide at his home at Bur-
gess's store, Northumberland county,
last Monday by shooting himself with 8
pistol while alone in his house. his wife
and children being in the yard at the
time.
Captain E. J. Euker, of the Stuart
Horse Guard, whose horse ran over
Mrs. Silva, in Richmond, Friday, and,
knocking her down, inflicted injuries
from which she died two hours later,
and who was arrested, has been dis
charged, the coroner's jury having
shown that the occurrence was acct
dental and unavoidable.
Robert Mantell, the actor, left Rich
mond with his company yesterday for
Brooklyn, where he goes to surrender
himself and go to jail, for contempt Of
court. His Imprisonment, it is said,
grows out of a divorce suit in which he
was legally separated from his wife
and required to pay her alimony
amounting to 500 week or one
fourth of his earnings.
Fire at South Boston on Saturday
destroyed the freight and passenger de-
pot of the Lvnchburg and Durham
Railroad and two large storage ware
houses. The warehouses were the
property of R. W. Lawson & Co., and
Link s. Lyland. Four freight cars, one
of them refrigerator, were destroyed.
The amount of damage sustained will
be about $4,000.
Frank Lockwood Smith, the man
who defrauded A. W. Withers OF IS, 600
by his gold brick, is now prisoner in
the Henrico county Jail. The con-
fidepce man was brought up to the
Hastings Court in Richmond on Satur-
day by the city Jail officials and turned
over to Sheriff Solomon, of the county.
All the pharaphanalia used in working
the scheme was also turned over to the
county officers.
1t is stated that Governor O'Ferrall
will give the First Virginia Regiment a
reasonable time in which to harmonic
their differences, and will then, if the
trouble is not settled, take some de-
cisiye action. 1t is said he has in con-
temptation as remedy, should the limit
of time be reached without harmony
being restored, the disarmament of the
organization and the formation of q new
| regiment, with the Richmond Light In
fantry Blues as the nucleus thereof
the new organization to be known as
the Blues Regiment.