Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-04-28

to sing Confederate songs during the
encampment in Richmond. Captain
Frank Cunningham will direct the
music.
The $500 appropriated at the last ses-
sion of the Legislature for the purpose of
putting the r. E. Lee monument at
Richmond in perfect repair has been
utilized.
Three deeds of assignment were filed
in Richmond yesterday-D. B. Council,
grocer, liabilities $1,000; Haskell &
Hatton, furniture, $1,000, and A. G.
Braxtcn, wall paper, 81 300.
Mrs. Julia Horsely De Witt, widow
OF B. M. De Witt, formerly one of the
owners and editors of the Richmond
Examiner, died at Amherst Court House
Saturday, aged eighty-three years.
w. S. Camden, of Nelson county, was
killed by street car on the Lynchburg
Electric Company's line yesterday. He
was deaf and stepped on the track just
as the car approached, and too late Tor
the motorman to stop it.
Republicans who attended the State
convention at Staunton say they found
the sentiment of the members favor
able to General James A. Walker for
governor. In fact no one else was
spoken of for the nomination.
Rev. T. c. Whaling, professor OF
philosophy and practical theology at
the Southwestern Presbyterian Uni
versity at GAINESVILLE, Tenn, has re-
signed to accept a call to the First
Presbyterian Church at Lexington.
Walter d. Davenport, a prominent
citizen of Spottsylvania county and a
blood relative of Justice John M. Har.
Lao, of the U. S. Supreme Court, died
Saturday at his home, of pneumonia,
after short illness, aged forty-eight
years.
Governor O'Ferrall yesterday ap.
pointed DR.. M. D. Hoge, jr., of Rich
mond, and DR.. w. d. Turner, of Fergu-
sons Wharf, as delegates from Virginia
to the sixth annual meeting of the
Association of Military Surgeons OF the
United States, to be held at st. Louis
on May 18th.
The report in another paper that
Mrs. John w. Daniel would leave st.
Luke's Hospital yesterday afternoon
for her home, in Lynchburg, was pre-
mature. Mrs. Daniel is still at St.
Luke's, where she 10 improving daily,
Her husband, Senator Daniel, visited
her yesterday. Richmond Times.
Arrangements have been made for
the delivery of a series of lectures by
Mr.. Justice Harlan, of the Supreme
Court of the United States, to the
students of the summer law class at the
University of Virginia during the COM
ing summer. The subject will be con-
stitutional law. The lectures will be-
gin about the 18th of July.
The Halifax county democratic con-
vention yesterday declared in favor Of
free silver, without international agree
ment. The unit rule was voted down
by 3 large majority. The Bedford
county democratic convention yester
day endorsed the course of Senator
Daniel on the free silver question, and
the delegates were instructed to use
their efforts to secure the nomination of
a presidential candidate in favor of free
silver.
The coal miners at Pocahontas,
where troops had to be stationed for
months lsst spring, will go on strike
May ] for the 80 cents per car load
taken off their pay some time ago. The
miners claim that the cars are oyer
loaded and will demand scales to
weigh the hoppers presumably in view
of the expected strike. The traffic has
been yery heavy for months. The
strike will include 1000 men, and will
be very serious affair.
The second verdict was yesterday
REACHED in the famous murder case of
Lunenburg county. In the new trial at
Farmville yesterday, granted BY the
Supreme Court, Mary Abenethy, one
of the colored women accomplices of
Solomon Marable, already under SEN
tence for the murder of Mrs. Pollard,
was convicted of murder in the first de-
gree. One other woman retaain2 TO be
tried. new trial was asked for and
the case will in all probability be taken
to the Supreme Court Of Appeals.
Mr.. Lorillard's horse Berzak won In one Of
the Newmarket, England, races to-day; his