Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-07-10
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Rev. Robert A. Gibson, of Cincinnati,
has accepted the Office of Bishop Co
adjutor of the diocese of Virginia.
Mr.. c. II. Parrott, one of the most
prominent farmers of Albemarle coun-
ty, died Thursday at his residence, near
Mediums river.
Manchester last night elected its
eight delegates to the Roanoke conven.
ton. Tyler secured seven and a half
aud Ellyson one.half delegate.
Mrs. Walburg A. Sorg died in Rich
mond yesterday of lockjaw produced by
rusty nail piercing her foot week
ago while walking out.
The wheat harvest in Rockbridge
county has been the heaviest in years
and the yield has been about one.third
more to the acre than anticipated.
Constable Samuel Carter, at Martins
vile, yesterday shot Isaiah Dodson, a
desperate negro, who resisted arrest on
the charge of HOUSEKEEPING and criml
nal assault.
Mr.. Lyman Shepard, a well-known
Leesburg citizen, died at Manassas
Thursday night, aged about forty.seven
years. His death was the result OF
bowel trouble, superinduced by the
heat.
The Joint Sunday school convention
and Epworth League conference OF the
M. E. Church South, at Charlesto wD +,
W. Va, adjourned yesterday. The
next annual meeting will be held at
Front Royal.
Mrs. Kate Jenkins, of Rapidan, has
purchased of Hon. n. F. Crismond a
valuable building lot on Washington
avenue, Fredericksburg, on which che
will erect dwelling and make that
city her home.
Mr.. Davidge MacGill, son of the late
DR.. Charles MacGill, of Richmond, died
Thursday at Leakesville. N. G. He
was sixty-one years old and served dur.
ing the war in the First Maryland
cavalry, G. s. A.
Bones of soldiers buried nearly thirty
five years ago near the battlefelds OF
Malvern Hill and Fort Harrison, are by
some subterranean phenomena being
forced from the shallow earth in which
they were buried.
A dispatch from Fredericksburg
says q movement is on foot to have a
reunion of all .Confederates of this
section of the State in September next.
The Confederates are pleased with the
idea. and the occasion will no doubt
be an interesting and successful event.
The old book and stationery house
of Randolph & English, in Richmond,
conducted the last few years as the j..
w. Randolph Company, was placed IN
the hands of receiver yesterday, Col.
y. V. Bidgood, vice president of the
company, being named as receiver.
Col. Jones, of the First Virginia Reg.
iment of Infantry, has caused the ar.
rest of Capts. Bossieux, of Company A,
Crawford, Company d, and Hoyerly,
Company G., for failure 10 hand in their
quarterly reports before the 9TH OF
July, as required by the regulations.
A little stir has been occasion in mill.
tary circles over the order for the ar
rest.
a deed of trust was yesterday re-
corded in the Henrico county court
from Peyton H. Hoge, president of the
board of trustees of the Union Theolog-
ical Seminary, to the Virginia Trust
Company. This is given to secure
$S7 900 leaned to the institution. The
property conveyed embraces all OF the
new seminary buildings and other real
estate.
Miss Isabella Graham Ball, a native
of Eeesburg, died on Thursday at the
Home for Incurables in Georgetown, in
the 10Th year of her age. She was a
daughter of the late DIR. Charles B.
Ball, granddaughter of Col. Burgess
Ball and great-grandniece of General
George Washington, to whom she was
related through both mother and faith
er. Her remains were taken to Lees
burg for interment.
Yesterday evening two colored boys
stopped at meat store in Fredericks-
burg and commenced playing with
Eugene O'Bryhim, a white boy, who
had the store in charge. Suddenly,
without provocation, one of the colored
boys, George Scott, seized knife and
attempted to cut the other colored boy,
who ran away. Scott then turned on
young O'Bryhim and plunged the knife
into his thigh, cutting open the flesh to
the bone. Scott was arrested and lodg-
ed in Jail.