Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-07-10
VIRGINIA NEWS.

| Bishop F. NJ. White and daugh-
| ter arrived in Winchester Monday
night and are stopping at Miss Pages.
The governor has appointed Hon.
Graham G. Porterfeld judge of the
county court of Grayson to fill q
vacancy.
In Wise county yesterday 3. Q. Nash,
q moonshiner, was shot and killed by
internal revenue officers. One of the
officers was wounded.
In Fredericksburg yesterday Mr.Jas.
P. Corbin was appointed by judge Wal
lace Clerk of Courts, to ill the vacancy
occasioned by the death of Captain
Robert B. Berrey.
The Governor has determined to
order companies a and B of the First
Regiment to 60 to Lunenburg to guard
the prisoners charged with the murder
OF Mrs. Pollard during the trial.
The postoAice at Bedford City was
broken into Monday night and robbed
Of S51.75 in stamps and currency. The
iron safe had been tempered with but
no effort had been made to crack it.
Thomas A. Goodman, who shot and
killed Fl. E. Parsons some time ago
and who on his second trial was &C
quilted, is candidate for the position
of special policeman of Henrico county.
The entire amount of mortgages in
Stafford county does not exceed $50,
600. Its bonded debt is only $500
| The total assessed value of real estate
and personal property in that county
is 81, 130,607.
Lyon G. Tyler, brother of Congress
man D. Gardiner Tyler, and president
of William and Mary College, at Will
liamsburg, has had the degree of LII. d.
conferred upon him by Trinity College,
of Hartford, Conn.
Mrs. Fannie Kent Munford, relict OF
Colonel William Preston Munford, and
daughter of the late Horace l.. Kent,
died suddenly yesterday at the Rich
mond Home for ladies of Presbyterian
and Methodist churches.
The Veteran Confederate States
Cavalry Association of New Orleans
have inaugurated movement to erect
monument at Winchester in com
memoration of Louisiana's dead who
are buried there, and subscribe liberal
sum as an impetus.
Charles w. Irvine, charged with rob-
bling the Bank of Lexington through
his business partner, Charles NJ. Fig
gait, who wrecked that bank by over
drafts, was acquitted at Lexington,
yesterday. Senator John W. Daniel
made two hours speech for the de-
Tense.
Gov. O'Ferrall left Richmond yester-
day evening for Norfolk. where he will
appear 90 2; witness for the defense in
the Massey Pilot libel suit, He will
testify as to the contracts between the
State and the American Book Company,
and the circumstances under which
they were made.
The annual reunion of the survivors
of the First Virginia Regiment will be
held at Blandon Park, near Richmond,
on Thursday, the 18th instant. At the
reunion the splendid silk flag which
ladies of Richmond presented to the
command at the beginning of the war
will be restored to them.
The foreign mission board of the
Southern Baptist convention at meet.
ing in Richmond last night elected
Prof. Charles 81. Winston, of Rich
mond College, to the presidency of the
board as the successor of Prof. Harris,
who, in the fall, goes to Louisville, KY,
to accept profeesorship in the South
ern Baptist Theological Seminary. DR..
Harris had filed the Office with dis
tinction for many years and his resig-
nation was accepted with reluctance.
A letter from Richmond says there is
rumor current there that q Newport
News gentlemen has lately discovered
that his wife is untrue to him. The
gentleman formerly lived in Richmond
and he and his wife were most highly
respected. AS the story goes, some
weeks ago she came to Richmond
ostensibly to visit relatives. Not hear
ing from her in q reasonable length of
time he wrote to her relatives and much
to his establishment learned that she
had not been seen or heard of there.
A little search developed the fact that
Su0 ulQ OCCOuO Qu lhk.ooO VI - hOASS
of bad repute.
Since the arrival of the Monticello
Guards at Berryville Monday night the
town has quoted down considerably,
and Henry Robinson, colored, who is
in Jail charged with criminally assault
ing Miss Maggie Nolls, breathes easier.
There was no attempt Monday night
by the mob to further attack the Jail
and secure the prisoner. Up to yester-
day afternoon there was no disturbance
during the day, and the sheriff is under
the impression that the prisoner is safe,
and that no more attempts to get him
will be made. The argument in the
case was CONCLUDED and the case given
to the jury at 11:30 last night and the
court adjourned till to-day.
THE MASSEY SMALL LIBEL SUIT
The thirteenth day OF the libel suit of
Rev. John E. Massey, superintendent
of public instruction of Virginia, against
the Pilot Publishing Company, the Rev.