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

PERsoNAL.-Misses Josie Robertson
and Janet Davidson are at Mrs. Spill
mans, in Warrenton.
A beautiful cotillion in honor of Miss
Maude Wheat, of this city, was given
on Thursday last at the dancing pavil-
ION of the grottos of the Shenandoah,
which was brilliantly illuminated with
incandescent lights, circled with lovely
lawns, which gradually rise into the
stately Blue Ridge mountains, and are
fringed by the winding historic Shenan-
doah. Here, to the inspiring strains OF
music rendered by competenI orches-
ira, large contingent from Washing.
ton, Alexandria and the adjacent
neighborhood, spent most enjoyable
evening.
This evening Mr.. and Mrs. E. ]. Ores
ham will celebrate ut their new and
handsome country home, az Herndon,
their china wedding, being the twen-
t;eth anniversary of their marriage.
Numerous guests from Washington and
Virginia will be in attendance from s
to II p. m.
Maj. George Dufiey has gone to St.
Georges Island to spend a few weeks.
Mr.. Wibel, who was connected
with the Dies Manufacturing Company,
has returned with his family to Canal
Dover, Ohio, his old home.
Miss Mary Payne has returned from
a visit to Charlottesville.
MIR. J. M. White and family have
gone to Round Hill to spend a few
weeks.
Mrs. David E. Graham, of Danville,
ID on visit to her aunt, Mrs. Richards,
on Royal street.
Rev. Father Mccarthy. OF st. Mary's
Church, left here last night for Norfolk
where he will stay several days.
Mr.. T. L. Cockrell is visiting his
home in Northumberland county.
Mrs. G. G. Carlin is spending q few
weeks at Philomont.
Col. 8. R. Johnston was in the city
yesterday visiting his brother, Maj. Geo.
Johnston.
Miss Ficklin, daughter of Col. Theo.
81. Ficklin, has returned home after a
pleasant visit to relatives in Lancaster
county.
Capt. Fountain Beattie and his son,
who have been seriously i'll at their
home in Fairfax county, continue to i'm
prove and it Ia believed that they are
now out of danger.
Rev. Father Kenefck, who has been
sick at Providence Hospital, in Wash
ington, for the past week, is rapidly
recovering his health.
MAYOR J. G.. Beckham left here on
Saturday evening for the White Sui
phur Springs, where he has gone for
the benefit of his health. He was &C
companied by his nephew, MIR. w. D..
+. Bsckham.
L. D. Yarrell, ESQ.,, now of the Wash
ington bar, was admitted to practice IN
the County Court this morning. MT.
Yarrell, it will be remembered, repre-
sentsd the Greensville district in the
Virginia Senate few years ago.
Judge Chichester arrived here this
morning from Stafford county, where
he has been visiting his son.
Mr.. John Frank, manager of the
Western Union Telegraph Company, at
Wilmington, N. c., and Miss Lille
Smith, of this city, are to be married
next Thursday, the 25th.
A letter to this Office from Fairfax
county says "Rev. 81. F. Kloman, re-
Gently ASST gned to the charge of Oliyet
and Pohick Episcopal Churches, in Fair
fax county, by Bishop Whittle, deliver
ed his initial sermon at the first named
church yesterday morning and made q
good impression on the congregation
assembled to hear him. He is young
minister of rare promise and We recall
the period of nine years when we used
to meet him in his native town, War
ranton, and also at Bethel Military
Academy, and none spoke of him but to
praise. We indulge the wish that his