Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-11-15
VIRGINIA NEWS.


Mrs. Fannie Pal ham, wife of Captain
W. 81. Parham, died in Petersburg yes
terday.
C. A. Raine & Co., tobacco manufac-
turers at DanviIle, made an assignment
yesterday, liabilities $4,000.
Miss Ellen Mercer Cooke. daughter
of the late General John R. Cooke, was
married in Richmond last night to MIR.
Austin Brockenbrough.
The coming report of Colonel Morton
Marye, state auditor, will show de-
crease of over eight millions in valua-
ton in Virginia, as compared with 1884.
Work in the gold mines around Nor
risville, Fauquier county, has recon-
menced. The Wycof, Leopold anG
Randolph mines each have corps Ct
laborers at work.
The election of lieutenant colonel
for the First regiment of cavalry, to
fill the vacancy made by the resignation
of Colonel James r. Branch, will be
held on the 26th.
Mrs. F. Lewis Marshall has returned
to her home in Georgetown, having
been called to Richmond by the illness
and death of both mother and aunt
within two days of each other.
Mr.. Thomas Jefferson Randolph, of
Norfolk, and Miss Laura Lester, daugh-
ter of Congressman R. E. Lester, of
Savannah, were married Wednesday
night at st. Johns Episcopal Church,
Savannah, Ga.
Captain Jesse Irving, famous as Con-
federate cavalry officer during the war
and who lost leg in battle, died sud-
denly in a lawyers Office, in Lynch
burg, yesterday, while on business.
he was sixty-fve years old.
Prof. VIM. G. Brown, formerly filing
the chair of chemistry at the Washing
ton and Lee University, now chemist
in the Agricultural Department, at
Washington city, was married in Lex
ington yesterday to Miss Belle White,
daughter of the late Prof. James Jones
White.
After being missing from his home
over five months, Alfred Brown, the
thirteen-year-old son of Mrs. B. B.
Brown, of New York city, has been
found at Manassas, where he has been
under arrest for alleged theft. Mrs.
Brown left with her son for New York
yesterday.
A young Virginia couple were mar
ried in Washington yesterday morning
at the rectory of Trinity Episcopal
church by the pastor, Rev. Thomas G.
Addison. The groom was Edward Z.
Bedout, aged twenty-one, and the lady
of his choice a very pretty girl Of
eighteen, Miss Sallie T. Hudgin, both
of Norfolk. They left for their home
on the Norfolk boat at p. m.
A very heavy windstorm. accompan.
led by the highest tides seen for several
years, visited Cobbs Island Wednes-
day night. Richmond Cottage was en-
tirely destroyed, and the beach is wash
ed badly. The inhabitants of the island
were frightened, as they were unable to
leave the almost submerged island.
The storm abated early yesterday
morning, and the tide yesterday was al
most normal.
Another chapter III what seems to be
the most interminable of legal cases,
the Lunenburg wrangle, was brought
out in Richmond yesterday. Ex-Judge
W. Il. Mann applied to the Supreme
Court of Appeals for mandamus to
compel City Sergeant Epps to deliver
Solmon Marable and the other Lunen-
burg murderers to Sheriff Cardoza, Of
that county. The court will hear the
case tomorrow, when decision may
be given which will dispose of the
whole controversy.
The preliminary trial ofNewton Kib-
Ter, charged with the murder of his
uncle on November s, was held at Lu-
ray yesterday. The defense asked for
the release of Kibler, but he was sent
on to the grand jury. Popular senti-
ment connect others with the crime; as
on Monday last 5000 in notes were
found scattered near the barn. They
could not have been put there by New
ton Kibler, as he was in jail. Mrs.
Fannie KerDs, of Baltimore, who was
held as Witness, was released Tues
day.