Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-01-16
VIRGINIA MEMS.

/ A Christian Endeavor State conven-
ton is in session in Stanton.
Rev. J. Cleveland Hall, rector CT
! Christ Episcopal Church, Roanoke, has
resigned.
Mr.. Charles Trotter Lassiter and
Miss Sallie Alexander Hamilton were
married in Petersi urg yesterday.
Mrs. Lucy A. Moncure, wife of the
late William a. Moncure, died yester-
day afternoon, in the SSth year of her
age, at the residence of her son, near
Richmond.
The sitting of the interstate COM
merce commission, which was to have
been in Lynchburg yesterday to hear
the Lynchburg Board of Trade against
q number of railroad apdtransportation
companies, has been indefinitely post
poned.
! The case of Field VS.. County of Al
bemarle was yesterday submitted to
the Supreme Court of Appeals. Cen
eral Field is claiming damages lor the
burning of a barn on his place. which
was used by the chain-gang, when
burned. The lower court refused to
allow his claim, and he took an appeal.
Wallace Houseworth, aged Is. died
Wednesday morning at the residence of
his father, Mr.. R. E. Houseworth, on
Rose Hill, near Charlottesville. Yes
terday morning another son, Richard,
aged about II, died. The remains of
both young men will be taken to
Orange and inferred in the family bury
ground.
The room occupied by Mr.. c. h.
Couch, in the Bruce House, Lynch
burg, was entered by a masked man
and boy at o'clock yesterday morn
ing. They broke down the door, and
at the point of pistol demanded his
money. They secured $3.50 from his
pockets and then broke open a trunk,
and got three $50 gold pieces.
There will be a general vaccination
in Richmond, but will not be compul-
sorry. This was assured last night when
the Board of Aldermen recousidered
the action taken at their special meet
ing last week, and concurred IN the APP
preparation OF $500 to bear the ex-
peuses of a general vaccination, but
rejected the ordinance making inocula-
ton compulsory.
The scheme for settlement of West
Virginia's portion Of the Virginia State
debt received setback in the West
Virginia House of Delegates yesterday,
that body having unanimously passed
resolution refusing to consider or
even to have anything to do with the
matter. Governor O'Ferrall, when
shown the telegram last night, declined
to enter into any discussion of the mat
ter.
The Investigation of the iusinuations
against the personal character OF Presi-
dent-elect Boatwright, of Richmond
College, resulted in his vindication yes
terday. As was expected, no one ap-
peared before the board to make any
CT argos. The designations of Prof. z.
e. Harris, of the faculty of the college,
and of DR.. Wythe Davis, of the board
of trustees, were then rendered and
were laid upon the table. The meet
ing then adjourned. The result of the
meeting gives general satisfaction in
Richmond. Last night the college was
buried in efligy by the students, when
i weired scene was enacted by them.
PRESIDENT PERIER RESIGNED.
1t was announced in Paris yesterday
evening that NJ, Casimir-Perier, presi-
dent of the French republic, had resign
ed office, as result of the ministerial
crisis. There was no suspicion in that
city that the president contemplated
resigning, and when the news spread to
The clubs, cafes and bouleyards there
was the greatest excitement manifest
ed. The president had been greatly
irritated by the criticisms of his policy.
Early in the day NJ. Challemel-Lacour
employed his utmost eloQuence in a
vain endeayor to persuade the president
to reconsider his decision to resign, and
quilted the Palace of the Elysee under
a sense of deep distress. All the men,
hers of the cabiuet, from Prime Minister
Dupuv downward, followed NJ. Chal-
lemel-Lacour and exhausted every
argument to induce NJ. Casimir Perier
not to resign. Their effortswere with
out success.
An official note was issued at eleven
! o'clock last night announcing the re-
signation of the President. and fore
casting the ideas be intends to develop
in his farewell address to the Chamber
of Deputies. The note says that, in the
ewes of the President, yesterdays sit
TIM of the Chamber and the vote which
overthrow the Cabinet were only Sec
ondary incidents ofthe struggle which
is proceeding against the parliamentary
regime and public liberties. NJ. Casimir-
Periei had hoped that the President of
the Republic, who is deprived of means
of action, would have been exempted
from party attacks, and that the political
confidence of the republicans would
have accorded him power and authority.
He had also hoped that those who,
despite himself, had placed him in a
position where he was unable to defend
himself would have undertaken the
defense of the first magistrate.
Continuing, the note says that Presi-
dent Casimir-Perier has requested the
ministers to temporarily withdraw their
resignation in order to facilitate the
necessary changes.
Prime Minister Dupuy impaired Pre-
sident Casimir- Perier's decision to the
presidents of the Senate and Chamber
of Deputies, who will forthwith call
urgency sittings of those bodies.
The greatest perplexity reigns in all
political centers. During the afternoon
it had been remarked, not without sur
prise. in the Hobbies of the Palais BouI.