Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-07-09
VIRGINIA NEWS.

An original widows pensions has
been granted JulialA. jackson, (mother),
Mountyille, Loudoun county.
In the case of @. w. Irvine, of Lex
ington. charged with completely with
@. M. Fggatt in looting the Lexington
bank, the testimony was concluded
yesterday and the argument begun.
A contract was awarded yesterday
for monument to be erected at the
University of Virginia to the memory
of the late DR.. w. @. Dabney. The
shaft will be twenty feet high, plain
and simple.
But little progress was made in the
Massey-Pilot libel suit, in Norfolk
yesterday. Judge Prentiss ruled out
most of the documents from Washing.
ton State which the defense sought
to introduce.
Two prominent citizens of King
George county-Hon. ]. E. Mason and
Col. S. Wexford Corbin-are mention
ed connection with the democratic
nomination for the State Senate from
the 36th district, now represented by
Col. R. ]. Washington.
Prof. James A. Harrison. since 1876
in the chair of English and modern
languages, Washington and Lee Uni
versity, has accepted the chair of ro-
nance languages in the University OF
Virginia. He will enter upon his du-
ties at once. August Is Washington
and Lee will elect Prof. Harrison's sue
cessor.
DIR. w. W. Parker, of Richmond, who
is actively at work endeavoring to raise
money for the Jefferson Davis monu-
ment fund by having collections taken
in the Sunday schools for that purpose,
received letter from San Francisco
yesterday asking for copies of his address
to the children of the south and prom
ising aid.
Bishop Van de Vyver blessed the bell
of st. Joseph's Catholic Church in
Petersburg this morning at $50 o'clock.
After the ceremony of blessing the bell
was over it was placed in the belfry of
the new church, which is fast approach
ing completion. The bell was given to
the church by Mr.. James Bangley. oil
Petersburg, and weighs 1921 pounds
In letter published in Richmond
yesterday the board of trade of Poca
hontas charges Major w. E. Simons,
who has charge of the Virginia troops
there, with being too autocratic, and
intimates that the soldiers are being
used in the interest of the coal opera
tors. The statement says that persons
are made to work against their will and
that innocent citizens are arrested,
placed in prison and kept there for
days, and never given civil hearing.
Major Simons is charged with making
false statements in his letters with re-
ference to affairs there.
An affidavit was made in Richmond
last night which may save the life OF
Philip Norman Nicholas, who is sen
fenced to be hanged July % for the
double murder by drowning of the men
Mills and Wilkinson. The crime was
committed three years ago, and the Su-
preme Court, which has once refused
to interfere with the sentence, now has
before it a petition in his behalf. II
was Mr.. Robert Trimmer, brick con
tractor, who swore to facts which may
be to the condemned mans advantage.
Mr.. Trimmer made oath that he heard
Mr.. Johnson, one of the jurors who
rendered the conviction, say two weeks
before the jury was drawn that he
would give $500 to get on the jury
that should try Nicholas; he believed
the prisoner guilty, and would give his
vote toward convicting him.
The grand jury of Lunenburg county
found true bills of indictment yesterday
against Solomon Marable, and one OF
the women arrested with him, for the
murder of Mrs. E. S. Pollard. The
trial was fixed for next Monday, and
there is some talk of a change of venue
to avoid the necessity of keeping troops
in attendance. Gov. O'Ferrall has ar
ranged for Companies A and B, of the
First Regiment, Richmond, to escort
tide prisoners to Lunenburg, when the
case comes up. The Sheriff OF that
county will bring Marable and his &C
complete to Richmond the night before,
and the two companies will guard the
life of the wretch whom the people are
anxious to subject to summary execu-
ton. The citizens of Lunenbnrg are
greatly wrought up, and tried to lynch
the negro before he was taken to Pet
ersburg.