Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-09-06
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Mr.. Paul McGrade died in Richmond
yesterday from hydrophobia. He bad
been bitten by rabid dog some time
ago.
1t is announced that Representative
Tucker, of Virginia, will favor the
cause of sound money in the coming
campaign.
The horse sale at the Idlewild Stock
Farm, Culpeper, attracted o large
crowd, fully 500 buyers and spectators
being present. Bidding wasquite spir-
tied and figures realized were very sat
isfactory.
1t is now said that the negro youth
who attempted criminal assault on a
lady in Lunenburg few days since
and who was taken from the custody
of the constable by mob, was not
hanged, as reported, but that he was
severely whipped.
Judge ]. B. McCabe has accepted
the office of Commonwealth Attorney
of Loudoun, rendered him by Judge
Tebbs upon the resignation of Colonel
John 81. Alexander, and on the LIST
inst. duly qualified and entered upon
the discharge of the duties of that
Office.
Bessie, the seventeen-year-old daugh-
ter of S. M. Douglass, a weil-known
marine engineer, of Norfolk, was found
in a house of bad repute in Fredericks-
burg Wednesday by her father, after q
search of four months in all parts of
the country. She was taken back to
her home.
1t leaked out yesterday that Samuel
B. Nelson, prominent turfman of
Richmond, had overdrawn his account
in the State Bank of Virginia to the
amount of about $4,000. Bookkeeper
Richard W. Cardwell, who allowed MIR.
Nelson to overdraw his account, claims
that it was done by an error.
At Manassas yesterday Judge Lips
comb set aside the verdict rendered on
Wednesday in the case of George Posey
and his son, Fred. Posey, convicted of
murder. The Judge ordered new trial
on the ground of improper conduct on
the part ofone of the jurors, who, it is
alleged, offered to bet that the accused
would be convicted.
The u. S. steamer Texas, just COM
pleted at the Norfolk navy yard, is the
first armored bsttle.ship ever built in
this country, and is one of the
finest of her class-a steel-arm-
ored, twin screwed, second-class bat
tle-ship, of 6,335 tons displacement.
She carries battery of twenty guns.
Assistant Engineer Louis Mccoy
Mutton, United States navy, and Miss
Minnie Clarke Evans, daughter of Mr..
E. ]. Evans, of Winchester, were mar
ried in that city yesterday.
Washington District Conference,
Methodist Episcopal church, which has
been in session in Leesburg for several
DAYS, concluded its business yesterday
and adjourned. Mr.. ]. E. Alexander,
of Alexandra, was elected secretary of
the conference, and made a most &C.
ceptable officer. The licenses of Jos.
Tate and James B. Mitchell, local
preachers, were renewed; d. II. Kern
and J. r. Jacobs were reported for adj
mission to the annual conference; d. l..
Blakemon and D. 81. Kern were re-
ported for ordination as elders, and j.
81. Wine was reported for local dea-
cons orders. The election of delegates
to the annual conference resulted in
the following being elected: Delegates
w. 81. Thomas, Leesburg; F. A.
Sitter, Washington; w. S. Embrey,
Fredericksburg; George R. Hill, Alex
andris. Alternates-L. NJ. Shumate,
Leesburg; T. Japney, Occoquan; w. M.
Ellyson, Falls Church, and a. Nd.
NWoolf, Marshall.