Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-09-26
VIRGINIA NEWS.


Robert Tu nLu'l, of Brunswick, was
yesterday nominated for State Senator
from the Twenty-eighth district, IT pre-
sented during the last term by w. A..
Watson.
Mr.. William M. Buck. aged eiehty-
six years, one of the oil lest and mo It
highly respected citizens of w, rren
county, died at his home, Bel All, ne. T
Front Royal, on Tt esd y.
The tug VIM Alexander, of New
York, engaged 10 towing in the Nor
folk harbor, burned to the waters edge
and sunk at Colonnas Ways yesterday
morning at three o'clock.
The first weather crop bulletin is
sued by the bureau just established in
STATE library building, in Richmond,
under the direction of Mr.. E. A.
Evans, was issued yesterday.
Harry T. Spellman, aged twenty
three, killed himself at Harrisonburg
Tuesday night. He had been drinking
and went into a drug store and bought
same trough on rats" which he swal-
lowed.
The following are the recant confir:
nations by Bishop Newton: Round Hill
2; Hamilton 2; Oatlands q; Ewell's l;
Aldie 4; Middleburg 3; Upperville II;
| Manassas 5; Church of Our Saviour Z;
total 65.
It is said that Mr.. Rufus a. Ayers
will be candidate for governor next
term. 1t is not thought Hoge Tyler
will oppose Ayers, as Ayers withdrew
from the contest last time and threw
his entire strength to Tyler.
]. W. Cardwell, the former book
keeper of the State Bank of Richmond,
who is charged with permitting Samuel
| B. Nelson to overdraw his account with
that institution 10 the amount of about
S23, 900, was yesterday indicted for
making false entries. He is out of the
city.
Howard Hathaway, of Lancaster
county, was nominated yesterday by
the democrats for the legislature. Ran.
dolph Harrison was renominated last
night by the democratic voters OF
Lynchburg to represent the city in tn
next House of Delegates. A resolution
cohdemning the Walton election Law
was voted down.
Miss Madge Dorsey Guild. daughter
of the late Judge Robert Ould, and
Mr.. William Francis Powers, 8 son O
the Rev. Pike Powers, well known
and very popular Episcopal minister o
Richmond, were married in that city
Yesterday evening. The ceremony took
place at the home of the BRIDES mother
and was performed by the father of the
groom.
Mr.. John A. Saunders, for many
years an undertaken and furniture
dAaler in Warrenton, died at his home
Tuesday night. He was member Of
Mosby's command during the civil
war. Owing to the vagary of negro
woman that she would kill Mr. Saund
ers, Drs. Hicks aud Carter made 9
post mortem examination, but found
no evidences of poison.
Sunday last the annual service was
held at the "Old Chapel" two miles
north of Wildwood. This chapel was
built in 1870, and was the first charge
of the late Bishop Meade. The occasion
was peculiarly interesting from the fact
hat of the three officiating clergymen
two, the Rev. Everard Meade and Rev,
VIM. N. Meade, were grandsons of the
Bishop and the third, Rev. William
Lee, his godson.
Mr.. James Rush, lifelong citizen OF
Culpeper, lies i'll at his home with
typhoid fever, and is not expected to
recover. His wife and daughter have
been unceasing in their attentions. Last
Saturday Mrs. Rush. worn out with
anxiety for her husband, was taken i'll
and died yesterday. Mrs Metz, Of
Washington, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Rush, was sent for when her father
was taken ill. She now lies at their
home seriously i'll with the same disease
as her father.
The democratic State committee
meets in Richmond tonight to discuss
the pending legislative campaign and
map out the work to be done. The in
dicstions now are that the attendance
will not be very large. There is con-
siderable interest felt among the man
ager in the number of counties that
have already declared for fairer cleo
tiops and in favor of amendments to
the Walton law. It is likely that the
leading members of the committee will
give this phase of the contest their at
tention.
On Tuesday James Donnelly, chief
steward of the Princess Anne Hotel, at
Virginia Beach, went to Norfolk with q
large sum of money, valuable dia-
mond ring and handsome gold watch.
He drove around the city in hack and
wound up with fight, in which he lost
the gold watch, nearly 5000 and the
diamond ring. The money and watch
is in the. hands of q detective, but tie
diamond cannot be found. Donnelly is
lying now at boarding house with
broken rib, the sight of one eye gone
and other injuries. Two physicians are
working on Donnelly's Injuries, and it
is not known whether they will result
fatally or not.
BAsEBALL-The baseball games of yester-
day resulted as follows: Baltimore 7, Phila-
dephia /; Washington z, New York s;