Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-09-14
VIRGINIA. NEWS.

John w. Patten. aged seventy-one
years, we'll known citizen OF Middle
burg, died on the 9th inst.
Bridgewater, yesterday, celebrated
the building of the Chesapeake and
Western Railroad to that place by q
grand barbecue.
Among the delegates to the Farmers
National Congress at Atlanta, October
10, are Robert l.. Walker, Orange, and
E. v. White, Leesburg.
Mr.. NJ. D. Melbourne, the son of the
late q. T. Melbourne, of Loudoun, died
on the 26th of August last. near st.
Joseph, Missouri, in the 10th year of
his age.
Asuit has been instituted at Peters
burg against Gen. William Mahome to
enforce the payment of judgment for
$4,000 in favor of the Princeton Bank.
ing Company of West Virginia.
Arrangements are being made for q
grand reunion of Confederate veterans
to be held at Fairfax Courthouse on the
I'd of November next, and which will
be attended by the veterans of the Dis
trict, the Virginia democratic associa-
ton of that city, and others.
The Court of Appeals devoted its
to hearing argument in the case of
Crawford's administrator VS.. Smiths
executor. The case was continued un-
til Monday for further argument. No
opinions will be handed down until
Thursday.
Mrs. Lou Toombs, of fredericksburg,
yesterday abducted her child, which
she had surrendered for adoption to
Mr.. and Mrs. W. B. Farley. The child's
name had been changed, and it had
been living with its adopted parents for
two years. A writ of habeas corpus
has been applied for.
Hilary Fentress, seventy-three years
OF age, was missed from his home, in
Norfolk, Wednesday night and was not
seen again till yesterday, when he was
found by colored man lying in the
rushes back of the old aims house prop
erty, nearly dead from starvation and
weakness. He had become demented
and wandered away.
Governor O'Ferrall yesterday an
nounced the appointment of delegates
at large to the road parliament at At
liant, Ca, October 18th. Among them
are D. @. O'Flarity, Front Royal, and
E. Y. White, Leesburg. He has also
named commissioners to represent Vir
ginia at the Cotton States and Interna-
lional Exposition, among whom are w.
A Little, of Fredericksburg, and Gren-
Vile Gaines, of Warrenton.
Mr.. Addison T. Creel, a well-known
resident of the Orlean neighborhood,
died Thursday. About week ago he
helped to hold little boy during am
putation of a toe, and, in the. midst of
the operation, tainted and tellto the
floor. He was carried home, put to
bed, and continued to grow worse un-
i'll his death as stated. His medical at
PENDANTS could not discover any cause
for his death, beyond the shook re-
ctived in witnessing the operation men
toned.
At meeting in Richmond yesterday
of the Jefferson Davis Monument As.
ISOLATION board the president was re-
quested to apply to the Richmond City
Council for permission to erect the
monument in Monroe park, in conform
ity with the action taken by the associ-
alton and a committee of the United
Veterans in September, 1892. The pur-
pose is to remove the fountain just OPP
posite Park Place Methodist Church
and to erect the monument on that
space. The report of Rev. ]. William
Jones was laid before the board, giving
an account of his visit to the South and
the meetings held and the amount
raised in that section. It is expected
that the cornerstone of the Davis mon
ument will be laid in May next. during
the session of the Grand Confederate
Camp.