Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-10-04
VIRGINIA NEWS.

The Willoughby Spit property at
Norfolk was sold yesterday to the
State Realty Company for SS1 600.
A. P. Hill Camp Confederate Vet
Grams at Petersburg last night passed
resolutions of sympathy for Gen. Ma
hone in his illness.
Eugene Miller and Rosa l.. Hudnell,
two young people, said to be an elop-
ing couple from Lexington, were mar
ried in Washington yesterday.
DR.. R. 81. Stuart, of Stratford Mill.
Westmoreland county, in the near
future will erect patent roller flour
mill at his place (Stratford), capacity,
Is barrels per day.
The difficulty in the way of the ap-
preparations for the Culpeper water
works has been overcome and the con-
tract let to Luck & Palmer, of Roanoke,
with instructions to begin work as soon
as possible
At a meeting in Richmond yesterday
of the Ladies' Jefferson Davis Mem
orial Association the offer of Mr.. Chss.
B. Rouss, of New York, to donate, on
certain named conditions, 100000 for
Confederate museum was discussed,
but no action was taken. Work is pro-
crossing on the old Davis mansion,
which is being converted into Con-
| federate museum.
At Martinsville yesterday there was
Confederate reunion and the corner
stone of Confederate monument to
the Confederate dead of Henry county
was laid with imposing ceremonies.
| Five hundred veterans were in line
and from 5000 to 5000 people were in
the town.. Senator John w. Daniel
delivered an Grafton in the morning.
At the laying of the cornerstone James
w. Mashall, ex-Congressman, delivered
the address. The military and civic
procession was imposing.
Miss Irene Langhorne. the noted
Richmond beauty, whose engagement
to Mr.. Charles Dana Gibson has been
announced, is in Baltimore. Miss
Laughorne has recovered from her
recent accident in driving with Mr..
Gibson. Her marriage to Mr.. Gibson
will take place in November, and will
be one of the most elaborate that has
lately taken place in that city. Miss
Langhorne is accompanied by her
mother.
Mr.. William L. Royal in Richmond
yesterday prepared bill in equity for
Mr.. Charles Poindexter, praying Judge
Minor, on behalf of Mr.. Poindexter
and other citizens Of Virginia, to eDjoin
the Secretary of the Commonwealth
from completing the sale of the part of
the State Library sold by him, and Mr..
]. G. Smith from receiving the books.
Mr.. Poindexter is trying to stop the
sale of valuable books as junk. Lii
brarian Scott says the books are worth
less.
John H. Watson, who was charged
with assisting in the abduction of Miss
Florence Brooks, who disappeared from
her home in Fredericksburg, last week,
was yesterday dismissed from further
prosecution, no discriminating evidence
appearing against him. AS Watson
was leaving the court room, w. E.
Brooks, father of the girl, struck him
violent blow, which Watson returned,
when an officer stopped the fight. The
parents of the young lady have received
u letter from her, in which she says
that she is well, and has secured q
position in New York, and will be
home Christmas.
A very pretty sat home" wedding
occurred yesterday evening at $50,
when Miss Ida. youngest daughter OF
the late Col. A. T. M. Rust, of Loudoun
county, was married to Mr.. John D.
Follett, of Cincinnati. The ceremony
took place at Rockland, the handsome
home of the brides mother, about four
miles north of Leesburg. Rev. Harry
B. Lee, of Charlottesville, uncle of the
bride, performed the ceremony, as
sisted by Rev. Bergman Green, of
Leesburg, and was witnessed by large
number of the immediate families of
the contracting parties.
Maj. P. B. Buell. last week sold for J. W.
Baughman to Carl Rossow, of Nebraska, q
farm of 159 scres near Guilfotd, Loudoun
county, for SIG an acre.
Geo. W. Gibson died on Sunday in Upper
vile, aged 60 years.