The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-12-18
A REMARKABLE CASE.
THE MOTHER yINETT-ETGHT And
THE DAUGHTER sEVENTY-SfVE.
Dressed In Rags and Tatters while Money
Was Plentiful and Dress stuHs
stored Away in Qus atty.

HUGhESVILLE, VA. Dec. I.-spe-
caI.-Before the war woman named
Moore and her daughter Fannie lived
near Middleburg. in this county. but al
forwards moved TO Paris. on the fau-
quier border. and resided there. until last
! month. when both died. The mother
who was blind, was ninety-eight years
old. and the daughter seventy-hve. The
younger woman. who had the care OF
| her aged and afflicted mother, went about
in rags and tafterS, and her sympathll-
| ing neighbors contributed to their sup
port. Just before her death Miss Fan
ME directed that snuff-box ana par
OF spectacles should be given 10 cou-
sin living in MddleDurg. because they
once belonged to a Hessian soldier or
Revolutionary times, who married ana
settled in this country, but everything
else in the house was to be carried INTO
the yard and burnt.
An inventory Of the effects Of the Old
! ladies revealed the fact that they mad
been boarding money and merchandise
for years Money was found In un-
expected places, and large quantities OF
dry goods and groceries. and d quanu-
~ of silk and lace was hidden away IN
| Miss Fanny's trunks.
Mr.. b. p. holland, of Round hlli' was
assaulted by two negroes. one of whom
| struck him a severe blow on tine back
| of the head with a stone. Some cru
gems pursued and captured the negro
who. upon a hearing before Justices era
ham and Mammerly, was sent 10 jail to
| await the action Of the grand jury.
c. Barnwell Robinson, dean OF the
United States College Of Veterinary Sur
ST. cot p
| District of Columbia, examined Mr.. G.
| c. Mencier's herd of cows last week, and
! found them all in good health. lie ex-
pressed himself as much pleased with
| Loudoun, q source of milk supply.
Loudoun ships large quantities of milk
TO the District of Columbia.
Miss Elizabeth Francis, daughter OF j.
+ Francis. residing near Mounisville,
and grandniece of Bishop Cranberry and
/ Dr. w. r. Watkins. of near Atlanta, Ca,
were married on Thursday at the NJ
| f.. church. South. Mountsyille, the Rev.
Mr.. Tyler oficiating
Mr.. Lewis Mckenzie Divine, VINO had
! learned the printers trade in the Office
/ of the Leesburg Mirror, and who for
several years worked in the office OF the
| Alexandria Gazette. but more recently
| in that of the Alexandria Times, died re-
Gently. at the home of his mother, IN
| Leesburg. in the fortieth year OF ms
age.
Al Grove" near Leesburg, the resi-
! dence Of the brides father, Captain a.
NJ Chichester, on the 18th instant, MISS
! May Beverly Chichester was married 10
Mr.. J. Wilcox jenkins, OF Wilmington
y. c.. but formerly of Baltimore Nd,
Rev. c. Dennen, Of Wilmington, n. C.,
| officiating.
| At Mt. Calvary T. +. church, at Round
| Hin. on Wednesday by the Rev John
| d. LaMothe. Miss Medora Wade ana
| Mr. Henley GUSTS Hoge were united IN
| the bonds of matrimony
| on Wednesday Mr.. David Axline died
at his residence. near Lovettsville, being
over ninety years of age
Rev. ]. -. LaMotne, Of Hamilton.
preached at St. James church. Leesburg,
on Sunday night.
| Mr.. -. H. Titus had the misfortune 10
| have his finger sawed off with circular
saw' while saving wood at hrs wood
pile on Thursday.
| The case of the Commonwealth VS..
| survick. for violation OF the liquor law
| has been postponed until the next Term
| OF the County Court.
| Lula Creel. the thirtoen-year-old child
who was shot by her step-Iather, Joseph
! Holden, while crazed with whisky, on
| Wednesday, died on Thursday. As
| stated i'm The Times. Holden after shoot
| ing the child. killed himself. The muir
derer and his victim were buried IN the
| Union Cemetery Leesburg. on Friday.
| candid consideration of the matter
ought to convince any intelligent person
! that some changes in our election laws
| are necessary before the presidential
| election. We will undoubtedly have at
! least four electoral tickets TO be voted
| for in this State. This will make forty
district electoral candidates, and eight
| electoral candidates at large. whose
| names will be on the official ballots he
sides the names Of TWO 10 four con-
| gressional candidates i'm each district,
! and if the names of the candidates for
the several Offices be massed together. as
| is the custom with the Walton ballot,
| inextricable confusion must inevitably be
| the result For instance, II the four
| electoral candidates for the First dis
| trict be printed together, and the four
electoral candidates for the Second dis
| trict he printed together, and so on
| through the ten districts, with the eight
electoral candidates NJ large. thus mass
ed together, there are not ten men in a
| hundred. even among the more intelli-
| gent class Of voters. who will have the
| electoral tickets so impressed upon their
| minds as 10 be able To prepare their
tickets. without liability of voting for
| some candidate for whom they do not
| wish TO vote, and failing 10 vote for
! some for whom they wish 10 vote. neither
could the ballot thus printed be prepared
| by the voter within the two-mnutes
| limit. under the present system OF mark
| ing across names. Senator Wickhams
law, though elaborate. seems 10 meet
the requirements for an intelligent, and
! fair ballot.
! We have been having some very cold
weather with snow, and the ice in some
/ places is from two TO three inches thick
on our streams.
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