Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-07-22
VIRGINIA NEWS.

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The receipts of lumber during the
past month at Norfolk were 30,593,07S
feet.
There are said to be more than a
hundred low gambling houses in Rich
mond.
Prof. John Hart, leading educator
of Virginia, and prominent Baptist,
died at Bowling Green, Caroline
county, yesterday.
TIE expense upon this State incurred
by the militia in suppressing mob vic.
lence since May 1, it is estimated, will
amount to $4,000 OF more.
The Sunday closing law was very
generally observed in Richmond yes
terday by saloon men and confection-
ers, and the druggists only dispensed
medicine.
The Harrisonburg Guards left Satur-
day evening for Pocahontss to do guard
duty. They carried 80 men. The
company will relieve one of the COM
panies now on duty.
DR.. VIM. 81. Gingrich, ex-president
of the Virginia Dental Association, a
member of the State board of dental
examiners, and a prosperous physician
in Norfolk, died on Saturday evening.
A detachment of thirty policemen
raided drinking and gambling dens in
Norfolk yesterday, and arrested about
twenty five men and captured lot of
gambling paraphernalia, liquors, beer,
etc.
Four tramps, who were stealing a
ride, were killed in a freight wreck
which occurred on the Atlantic Coast
Line at Pleasant Hill, Saturday morn
ing. Twelve cars were piled upon one
another and the traffic was interfered
with until afternoon.
Irene, the three-year-old daughter
of Mr.. B. W. Summers, living near
Baskerville, in Page county, was found
drowned in the spring near the house
Saturday morning. She had not been
missed, and the grief of her parents
was terrible when the little one WIS
found dead in the spring, into which
she had pitched head foremost.
Woodstock was visited by a heavy
downpour of rain Saturday afternoon,
accompanied by very high wind and
an electric display. Streets and cellars
were flooded. Some injury was done
to hay and oats, both of which are ex-
cellent crops. P. L. Yates sustained
loss in the collapse during the storm Of
fine new building being built in that
town.
A case of smallpox has just been dis
covered at Marion, and the patient has
been in company with numerous peo-
pie, who, it is feared, will take the dis
ease. The town and county authori--
ties are putting forth every means to
prevent the spread of the disease.
There will be a rigid quarantine, al
though it is feared the disease may get
foothold.
Next Wednesday will be the 25th
anniversary of Bishop Van de Yyver's
olive service in the Catholic Church
as priest and bishop. There will be
no formal ceremonies in connection
with the event, the Bishop having re-.
quested that his anniversary be OBJ
served in quiet way and it will there
fore be celebrated with regular mass,
| and many of the leading Catholics will
call upon the bishop 10 express their
congratulations and good wishes. The
Bishop was born in December, 1916, in
Haesdonck, East Flanders, Belgium.
The jury in the case of Pokey Barnes,
on trial at Lunenburg Court House for
completely in the murder of Mrs. E. S.
Pollard, on Saturday found the woman
guilty of murder in the first degree.
Mary Barnes was also tried as an ac-
complete before the fact, found guilty,
and sentenced to ten years in the pen
itentiary. This ends the Pollard trials,
Solomon Marable and Mary Aber-
nathy having heretofore been found
guilty of murder in the first degree.
All is quiet, the people generally be-
ing satisfied with the operation of the
law.
DR.. Robert Bruce Bradford, well
known in public circles in Washington
for twenty years, is dying in Garfield
Hospital. He has had remarkable
career. Born near Culpeper, he went
before he was twenty to New York to
take course in medicine. There he
was elected while very young man to
the Legislature, being at different
times member of both Assembly and
Senate. After his legislative service
lie held the Office of public administra-
tor of New York city. Subsequently
he was sent to Hong Kong as consul
by President Buchanan.