Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-28
VIRGINIA NEWS.

A pension has been awarded to Ar
thur Rolls, Ryland, Culpeper county.
The James river steamer S. A. Nc
Call was sold at auction at Norfolk,
yesterday, for $4,000.
Mr.. Charles Hudson and Miss Jane
Vaughn were married at the First
Presbyterian Church in Lynchburg yes
terday.
The Rev. John P. Tyler, of Clarke
county, has declined the call extended
to him by the churches at Eutaw and
Boligee, Ala.
Senator John W. Daniel has decided
not to take a contemplated trip abroad
this year, but will remain at home and
take the stump in behalf of the demo-
Gratis.
Mr.. VIM. Suddith aged IS years died
at his home, near Jeffersonton, on Sum
day morning last. He was a local Meth
odist preacher and very generally es-
teemed.
An unsuccessful effort was made be-
fore Judge Mullins, at Petersburg, yes.
terday, to secure the release on bail OF
Smith, alias Parker, the alleged gold
brick swindler.
In Baltimore yesterday, Captain JEFF
ferson Mears, of Accomac county, was
sentenced to three months in Jail and
fined 500 for cruelty Furnishing a COL
ored boy on his oyster schooner.
The 57th annual commencement of TIE
Medical College of Virginia will take
place at the Academy of Music, Rich
mond, next Tuesday evening. Gov
| ernor O'Ferrall will be the orator.
Several transfers to lumbermen, of
large tracts of timberlands, near Bris-
tersburg, Fauquier county, has lead to
the employment of a number of hands
in working up the timber thereon.
In Spottsylvania last week a youth
of IA years sought a marriage license to
marry a lady of 20. Yesterday a mar
of IS years, in that county, obtained a
marriage license to marry a lady OF 70
years.
Josiah Heath, of Weems, Lancaster
county, charged with assaulting his wife
with intent to kill, in Baltimore, was
| convicted of common assault in the
Criminal Court in chat city yesterday,
sentence being suspended by Judge
Harlan at the request of the counsel for
the defense.
The scaHold upon which Morris Hop
kins, the negro murderer of Henry S.
Parsons, will pay the penalty of his
crime on the third day of next month
is. in course of construction in the
Henrico county Jail yard. Governor
O'Ferrall Yesterday announced his final
determination in the case, declining to
interfere.
Miss Sallie Braxton, daughter of Col.
G. NJ. Braxton, narrowly escaped a hor-
rible death, near Newport News Tues
day. She was riding at full speed in
the lead of large party of fox hunters
when she suddenly tainted, and was on
the point of falling to the ground but
was prevented from doing so by being
caught by Mr.. L. G. Saunders.
Mrs. Elizabeth Dickens died at the
residence of her great grandson, Mr.
William Young, in Fredericksburg ON
Tuesday night. She was q native of
Stafford county, and on the 9Th of this
month was e%ighty-nine years old. She
was the mother of nine children, all of
whom preceded her to the grave. Five
generations of the family were living
under the same roof at the time of her
death.
The democrats of Westmoreland met
in mass-n,eeting at Montrose Monday
and nominated q county ticket as fol-
lows: For commemorative attorney,
Col. R. ]. Washington; commissioner
of revenue, G. j. Gouldman; for treas
urer, James P. Jenkins; for sheriff,
Fred. Griffith. The republicans also
made nominations as follows: For COM
monwealth's attorney, Capt. John N.
Murphy; commissioner of revenue, G.
H. Sanford; for treasurer, J. B. Hard
wick; for sheriff, Taylor Bayne.