Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-10-29
VIRGINIA NEWS.


the Blue Ridge mountains, northeast Of
Lexington.
A number of vessels lying off Lamb
ert's Point were boarded by thieves
Sunday evening and robbed.
Mary Elizabeth Bird, wife of Charles
D. Bird, formerly ofLessburg, died in
Baltimore yesterday, aged 81 years.
Miss Leila Carpenter Stiles, eldest
daughter of Mejor Robert Stiles, died
of typhoid fever in Richmond on Sun
day.
Mrs. Henry W. Edwards died at her
home in Stafford county Saturday
night, in the fifty eighth year of her
age.
Miss Bette Blackford died at the
residence of her sister. the late Mrs.
Gwatkin, in Richmond, on Sunday
morning.
A mass -meeting is to be held in Roa.
noke Thursday evening to express
sympathy with the Cubans in the fight
for independence.
The large barn of Mahlon Haller,
near Edinburg, Shenandoah county,
was burned yesterday, with six hun
dred bushels of wheat.
Mrs. D. E. Graham, aged seventy
two, died Sunday night in Danville.
When Mr.. D. E. Graham, ST., awoke
yesterday morning, his wife was lying
by his side, cold and stiff in death.
Mrs. Caroline Burr Hull, widow OF
Capt. Burr Hull, of South Carolina,
died on Saturday at "New Port, "
Clarke county, the residence of her
daughter, Mrs. Caroline Jennings, aged
about 80 years.
In the Stonewall neighborhood OF
Appomatta1 county on Sunday Will
mer Martin the fourteen year-old son
of Mr.. John w. G. Martin, was acct
dentally shot and killed by his ten
year-old brother.
Some of the ladies of Staunton have
just organized chapter of the Daugh-
tiers of Confederate Veterans. Mrs.
Flora Cooke Stuart, widow of General
J. E. B. Stuart, is president of the
Staunton chapter.
When the case against Richard 81.
Harris, jr., charged with the killing OF
w. F. Malloy, was called in Petersburg
yesterday, the defendant waived an ex-
animation and the case was certified to
the November term of the Corporation
Court.
The trial of Mrs. Magnolia Williams,
who is charged with the murder of her
husband, T. F. Williams, in Northum-
berland county last Friday, is still in
progress at Saluda, Middlese1 county,
and from appearances will be in pro-
gress for ten days or two weeks to come.
The election is only one week of
from to-day. 1t is believed that the
democrats will secure at least four
fifths of the members of both houses.
There is nothing in the situation to en-
courage the "fair electionists." Their
campaign has fallen short of what they
promised.
A large number of horses will be put
on the market by King George farmers
about the first of November. The pas
lures dried up the latter part of Au-
gust, so that stock had be taken up
and fed, as in winter; hence, the sup
ply of provender will be nearly ex-
hausted before midWinter, thus forcing
many farmers to reduce their stock as
early as possible.
The plans for the monument to be
erected at Wakefield, in Westmoreland
county, to the memory of Washington,
have been accepted 1t will be placed
in position next February, and the
dedicatory exercises will be held in
June. Mr.. Crawford, the contractor,
also built the monument at Fredericks-
burg to the memory OF Mary. the moth
er of Washington. Wakefield is the
birth place of Washington.
The suit for $4,000 brought by Miss
Lottie Gibson, a well-known saleswo-
man, against Mrs. Thomas ]. Todd,
wife of one of Richmond's most promi-
nent and wealthy merchants, for defa-
nation of character, and based upon
certain alleged charges which resulted
in the loss of the young lady's position
with the dry goods establishment Of
Miller &c Rhoads, will come up for
trial in Richmond tomorrow.