Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-07-23
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Mrs. William McComb, wife of Gen.
William McComb, of Louisa county,
died Sunday night of paralysis of the
brain, after an attack of one hours du-
ration.
Phillip Norman Nicholas, who is SEN
fenced to be hanged in Richmond on
Thursday next, was baptized Sunday
by Rev. Father Welbers, of st. Joseph's
Roman Catholic Church.
1t was stated in Philadelphia yester-
day that the plan for the reorganiza-
ton of the Norfolk and Western rail-
road will not be submitted to the Sc
curity holders until the fall.
Representative Otey is sending out
circulars with the object of securing q
ee-silver convention. 1t is said that
many of them have been returned to
Major Otey with strong letters CRITICS
ing his course.
Morton Archer, widely known cit
izen of Petersburg, fell from bridge on
the Petersburg and Weldon Railroad
over Gill street at late hour Sunday
night while asleep and was seriously
and perhaps fatally injured.
Rev. DIR. E. T. Mullens, of Lee Street
Baptist Church, Baltimore, has accept.
ed the position of corresponding secre-
tary of the foreign mission board of the
Southern convention, to which ne was
recently called. He will enter upon
his duties September l and will reside
in Richmond.
Capt. Lewis N. Huck, 3 prominent
member of the Winchester bar, died at
his residence in that city yesterday, aged
sixty-five years. He served in the Con-
federate army with distinction, having
been captain in the Thirteenth Virginia
infantry. Capt. Huck was Mayor of
Winchester for several terms.
One of the severest wind and rain
storms of the seasons visited the Berea
Church neighborhood, Stafford county,
on Sunday afternoon, blowing down
trees and levelipg the corn with the
ground. 1t was so severe that Mr..
Richard England, who was at his
mothers, did not return to the city I'm
til to-day.
A meeting ofcitizens of Staunton was
held yesterday to purchase the Staun-
ton Spectator, which is offered for sale
by its owner, Richard Mauzy. Solicit
ors will be appointed to secure $50
shares of stock at $25 per share. The
Spectator is the oldest paper in the
State except the ALEXANDRIA GA
zETTE and the Lexington Gazette.
A confa ration was narrowly avert
ed at Falls Church on Sunday by the
presence of mind of Mr.. VIM. II. Veitch
1t seems that one of his children in
lighting a gasoline stove in some way
ignited the gasoline in the reservoir,
causing an explosion, which burned q
hole through the roof OF the kitchen.
MIR. Veitch removed the stove, and the
flames were promptly subdued, with no
great damage to the building.
Martin Sullivan, white sailor on
the cruiser Minneapolis, now ct the
Norfolk navy yard, was ironed Saturday
night for desertion. He escaped from
his cell Sunday night and while hand
cufed leaped overheard and swan
across the river to Berkeley. half a
mile away. He hid under raft while
the cruiser swept the water with her
search lights. When they were turned
off ne made his way to Berkeley,
where some negroes filed his handouts
off. He then exchanged his uniform
for citizens clothes and engaged to
work his passage to New York on a
barge. When launch from the yard
passed the barge yesterday he hid in a
boiler, but was subsequently captured.