Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-09-18
VIRGINIA NEWS.

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The drought around Fredericksb
ia one of the worst ever known in that
section.
Engineers of the Chesapeake and
Western railroad are locating the route
through Stafford county.
During the past week forest fires
have burned over large area of tim
Der lands in Prince Georges county.
1t is expected that the State Weather
Bureau will be removed from Lynch
burg to Richmond within the next few
days.
Mrs. Mary Brag, relict of Capt. Chas.
Brag, for many years Mayor OF War
rsnton, died Monday night, aged seven
ty-six years.
Mr.. w. n. Littiejohn, widely
known citizen of Petersburg, died at
his home in that city yesterday, of
jaundice, after protracted illness.
Monday night as Mrs. Eliza Light
ner, wife of Mr.. George Lightner, of
Falmouth, attempted to step across 8
ditch near her house, she accidentally
fell, and broke her leg.
Louis Wyatt, who shot his father-in-
law, Edes Holland, q year ago, and
who recently escaped from Jail at
Clafemont, surrendered to the sheriff
of Warwick county yesterday.
DIR. W. B. Lafferty, of Crozet, and
Miss Fannie B. Talley, OF Richmond,
arrived in fredericksburg on Monday
and at 8 o'clock that night were
made man and wife by Rev. Father
Kenefck. -
The democratic primary election was
held in ORANGE county yesterday to
nominate candidate for the House of
Delegates. O. G. Taliaferro was nomi-
mated over the present incumbent, MIR.
G.. w. Barham.
Governor O'Ferrall has appointed
Mr.. Charles M. White, of Warrenton,
Commissioner of Virginia at the Cotton
States and International Exposition at
Atlanta, to take the place of Mr.. Gren-
vile Gaines, resigned.
Jeter B. White, aged fourteen years,
the only son of w. G.. White, of South
ampton county, accidentally shot HIM
self in the head with q shot gun
yesterday evening. The doctor pro-
nounced the wound fatal.
The VIM. B. Page case was called in
the court of the city of Winchester on
Monday, but as he was not present
nothing was done in regard to the
charges of which he stands indicted. 1t
is said he is at an asylum for the in
sane.
P. D. Christian, thought to be TO
bacco drummer from Lynchburg, held
up saloonkeeper at the pistols point
10 Memphis yesterday and took So
from him. He then ran. and was cap
tured after chase of more than
mile. He is believed to be insane from
the effects of liquor.
At the Berryvills town meeting held
on Monday night r. Blackburn Smith
was nominated for Mayor, Doras a.
Jones for Recorder. and H.. w. Baker,
P. ]. Affleck, Jas. l.. Russell and L. v.
Stole for Councilmen. The nominees,
with the exception of the Mayor, are
the present incumbents.
A destructive fire occurred yesterday
morning in Brighton, adjacent to Ports
mouth, which resulted in the total
destruction of Reed Bros large grist-
mill, situated at the crossing of the
Deep Creek turnpike and the Shell
road. The fire was incendiary, and
there was no insurance on the property.
DR.. John Alexander Graham, prom
inant physician of Lexington, died yes
terday at Rockbridge Baths, where he
had been taken in the hope of recov-
cry from the effects of stroke of pa
ralysis which disabled him on May 6
last. For twenty years he had been
surgeon to the Virginia Military Insti-
tute.
About IL o'clock Monday night the
residence owned and occupied by Mrs.
Thomas Harrison, at Fredericksburg,
was discovered to be on fire. and
was soon burned to the ground.
Mrs. Harrison, in endeavoring TO
save some furniture, had her hair
badly scorched, and but for her
son, who carried her out of the build
ing, would probably have persisted in
the flames. This is the sixth fire there
during the past thirty days.
THE ACCIDENT AT LAWYERS.
The authentic account of the accident