Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-06-24
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Brigadier. General A. L. Phillips and
Miss Ida Dickel, popular teacher Ia
the West End school, both OF Richmoh"'
will be married some time this monlh.
During a fight in Prince William
county on Wednesday last Robert
Reaves was badly beaten by Jas. Hens
ley, who used rock which he held IN
his hand as a weapon.
The "Pointn farm, in Northampton
county, has been purchased for SSoo
by q club of New York gentlemen,
who will have it as resort for hnnling
and pleasure. Hon. John >. wise rep
resented the purchasers.
Henry Williams, colored, assaulted
Miss Knobs, near Berryvil'e, while
she was milking, Saturday. She was
st, uck on the back and rendered uncon-
scious before the deed was committed.
Williams will probably be lynched.
A meeting of the citizens of Manassas
aad vicinity will be held at the court
house on the 29th instant for the pnr-
pose of considering plans for the esta1,
lishment OF national bank there. All
persons interested are urged to attend
the meeting.
Mr.. Elijah B. White of ST. Louis,
who is now, with his family, visiting
friends and relatives in Leesburg, pur-
chased, on Wednesday last, OF MT;
VIM. James, of Waterford, pair OF
fne-looking bay carriage horses, which
he will take to st. Louis
VIM. B. Page, who WAS recently re-
leased in Clarke county on the charge
of forgery, but who WIS Immediately
thereafter arrested and iaken to Win
chester on the same charge, was releas-
ed on Saturday under writ OF haoeas
corpus and admitted to bail in The sum
ofS1 900 for his appearance on July 10Th.
1t is expected that ail the military
will be withdrawn from Pocahontas III
a day or Two. Reliable accounts from
there are to the effect that no trouble Is
now likely to occur. This is, perhaps,
the largest service the volunteer soldiers
have performed since the war. The
cost to the State, as heretofore stated,
will be upwards of $4,000.
At 2:10 o'clock yesterday morninp
fire broke out in the Office OF the A. r..
Winthrow Lumber Company, at Clifton
Forge, and the building MAS entirel,
DESTROYED, together win large guam
tity OF luwbe in the yard. J. Arthur
Keusey, clerk of the company, slept III
the office, and barely escaped with his
life. getting out With OILY siugle gar
ment, and being quite lady burned.
The Scotch. Irish congress at Licking
ton on Saturday night closed to meet
next June in Harrisburg, Pa. a num-
Der of valuable historical papers were
read on Saturday. General G.. w. c.
Lee, president Of Washington and Lee
University, entertained he delegates al
a reception Saturday ey.ning. In the
university chapel last night DIR. James
R. Hall, of New York, conducted an
old time Covenanters' meeting.
The Charlottesville city stables were
totally destroyed by iirelbout2 o'clock
Saturday morning. ThTe were four
teen horses and mules inthe buildings,
six of them pershing in he flames. A
car load of hay. twenty I've barrels OF
corn and great deal of harness were
burned. A colored woman named
Martha Johnston, and he son, about ] 5
years old, were arrested charged with
being the incendiares.
Mr.. John E Massey, State supern-
tendent of public instruction. and Mrs
Massey and her father of Alabama.
are in Norfolk. The tri.l of Mr.. Mas
sey's $4,000 libel suit aMinst the Nor
folk Pilot and Roy. s!m Small CON-
mences in the Circuit Court today
Judge Prentis, Of Suffolk, presiding
The defense have secuted dispositions
from Winchester, Staunbn, New York,
and points in OHIO and Alabama
Sheriff = lrkc suinmOnid thrty-two
citizens yesterday from which to sci, C
u jury. L. is expected that the trial
will last week or tc: days and Mr.
Massey will remain untithe close.
The business EXCHANGES Of Norfolk
endorsed the proposition of President
Spencer, of the Southern Railroad, to
make that city the deerwater lermi.
nal of that line. The proposition is
a simple one, asking for he lease at a
nominal rate OF this Tobacco warehouse
property and wharf at III. ends of two
streets for ninety-niue Years, with the
privilege of forever continuing, Mt an
annual rental of $500, with the promise
of equal freight and passenger rates
with Richmond, West Pint and Wi
mington and other point; on their road,
the terminal to be at Norfolk. The
Chesapeake and Ohio Company is
making strenuous ellods to induce
the Southern Railroad to come to New