Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-08-26
VIRGINIA NEWS.

VIRGINIA NEWS.
Mr.. James Ably Summerville and
Miss Julia Chaplin, both prominent So
ciety people of Front Royal, were mar
ried yesterday.
John E. Brooks, a white man, aged
twenty years, and John Thomas, colored
of the schooner Silver Star, from New
Point, Mathews county, Va, were
drowned Monday while endeavoring to
to raise anchor near Old Plantation
lighthouse. The windlass slipped,
knocking both men senseless, and be-
fore assistance could reach them they
fell overheard.
At meeting of sound-money demo
Gratis held on Onancock yesterday even
ing, DR.. Chas. l.. Harmanson was elect
ed chairman and Ohio L. Parker secre-
tary. Thomas NJ Scott addressed the
meeting in a speech in which he de
nounced the Chicago platform. Sound
money resolutions were adopted. Tnos.
NJ. Scott, ], c. Justis, DR.. Charles l.
Harmanson and DR.. Lewis J. Hartman
son were appointed delegates to the
State sound-money convention.
John A. Lightner was thrown from
his buggy at Staunton yesterday after
noon and instantly killed. Mr.. Light
ner was proprietor of the Buffalo Gap
hotel, and was on his way home. He
could not control his team. As he fell
from the buggy he struck small rock
on the roadside, which punctured his
skull and caused immediate death. Mr..
Lghtner was a son of Hon. Alexander
B. Lightner, who was for number of
years sheriff of Augusta county, aud
also q member of the House of Dele
gates. He leaves wife and several
small children.
The building occupied by William
Dimms, a barber. of Fredericksburg,
was discovered 10 flames at $50 O'Clock
last night. The house being safely
locked, the doors were broken open
and upon examination several small
pieces of candles and kindling wood,
saturated with oil, we're found under
the flooring and between the partitions
of the front and back rooms. Dimms
was arrested. He feigned innocence OF
the affair and was very anxious to save
mis- clothes. Feeling runs high, as the
fire occurred on one of the principal
business squares, and had it not been
for the early hour and prompt action OF
the volunteer fire department serious
conhagration would have taken place.
The sound money democrats of Nor
folk met last night and elected dele
gates to the State convention to be held
in Richmond. A resolution condemn
ing the democratic platform as whole
was modified so as to denounce only
the silver plank aud the clauses con.
demning the sending of federal troops
into States and attacking the integrity
of the Supreme Court. The sensation
of the evening was the speech of Chas.
Sharp, a prominent attorney, who
charged that the evils from which the
country was suffering were chargeable
not to the gold standard, but to un-
scrupulous parties who did not hesitate
to use the power they possessed to cor
ner the money of the country and
squeeze the debtor, regardless of the
destructive effect on the prosperity of
the people.
The Farmers Alliance of the State
of Virginia met in annual session in
Richmond yesterday. The meeting
was purely a business one, and not
word of politics entered into the dellb'
erations of the body. President B. L.
Winston presided over the meeting.
The following officers was elected for
the ensuing year: President, B. L. Win
ston; Vice-Presdent, G. B. Bloxton, of
Appomattox; Secretary and Treasurer,
]. ]. Silvey, of Rappahannock; Lectur-
er, Mann Page, Of Prince George; As
sistant Lecturers, W. J. Kendrick, of
Washington county; James E. Watkins,
of Dinwiddie, and c. B. B.oxton: Exec.
utive Committee B. Jones CHAIR
man), of Appomattox; W. ]. Kendrick,
]. NJ. Ruffin, OF Hanover: Z. E. Booker,
of Amelia, and c. w. Leftwich, OF
Campbell.
The Southern States Freight Associa-
ton is in session at Old Point. Rail-
way magnates to the number of sixty,
representing almost every road of any
Importance in the south, are present.
Colonel 81. s. Haines, commissioner of
the association, presided. The Sea.
board Air Line did not send represent
alive to Mondays session. The exec
utive board held session, and consid-
cred the question of cut rates. The
association as body desires hor-
mony and uniformity of rates. but the
individual members, whose traffic is af-
fected by the water line cuts, would
like to slash if they could. What Judge
Simonton's decision will be is the prime
tonic Of conversation, and if the federal
court should hold that the cut rate
brand of competition is lawful, the out
come is easy to perceive. The rate
committee has schedule Of $50 sub.
jects to be considered Saturday.