Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-12-27
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Lee, both of Marshall, died last week.
Mr.. w. E. Psrtlow and Miss Eliza
beth Feageanes were married in Cui-
pepper yesterday.
Rev. DR.. T. S. Dunnaway has with.
drawn his resignation as pastor of the
| Baptist Church at Fredericksburg.
! Capt. Rives Hoffman, postal clerk,
was killed in collision on the Norfolk
and Western road, near Pulaski, on
Saturday.
Mr.. Albert Gouldthorpe and Miss
Janette B. Kemper were married at
! the BRIDES home in Warrenton last
Wednesday.
Mr.. Lewis Mcdonald, of Clarke coun-
ty, was perhaps fatally burned by the
explosion of fire crackers in his pocket
on Saturday.
The cold storage building of the Roam
oke Brewery was burned on Friday
night with about two thousand kegs of
beer; loss, about S25 900.
Mr.. Walker B. Freeman, jr., a we'll
known insurance agent of Richmond.
died on Friday from an overdose Of
medicine accidentally taken.
The roasting plant of the Atlantic
Peanut Company in Norfolk was gut
ted by fire Friday evening. supposed to
have originated from an electric light
| wire.
The engagement of Miss Eva Cham
berlain, of Warrenton, to Mr.. Henry
Garner, of Baltimore. has been an
nouuced. The wedding has been set
for January 26.
In Suffolk on Saturday while hunt
ing for Christmas caudy Michael Folk,
only three years old, found package
of strychpine and helped himself. He
died in great agony.
Near Amherst Court House on Sat
urday Marion Bethel, aged eighteen,
and his younger brother, were out gun
ming, when the latter was killed by the
accidental discharge of the formers
gun.
Judge Thomas T. Fitzpatrick, Of
Nelson county, died at his home near
Livingston on Saturday. Judge Fitz-
patrick had been on the bench for q
number of years. He was seventy-two
years old.
Frank ]. Norris, the postmaster at
Leesburg. died on Saturday after an
illness of fsw weeks, aged 80 years.
He was very popular and first class
officer. There will be several appl;-
cants fer the place.
There were five shooting affrays in
Newport News on Saturday and Sun
F, day night, TO say nothing of the street
fights aud cutting scrapes, and as a re-
suit one white man and two negroes
are probably fatally wounded.
The old soldiers at the Confederate
Home at Richmond were royalty en-
tertaiued by Christmas dinner served
them on Saturday. The menu en-
braced numerous delicacies generously
contributed by the friends of the old
Confederates.
Governor and Mrs. Tyler have
seven children-four sons and three
daughters. All will reside with them
in the executive mansion with the ex
ception of the eldest son, who will re-
main at Radford to look after Major
Tyler's business interests.
Mr.. ]. 3 Langley and DR.. Asa Wall,
two Confederate veterans who came to
the Soldiers Home at Richmond from
near Winchester. both got drunk on
Christmas and during quarrel the
former cut the latter on the neck with
a knife. Langley was arrested.
The engagement of Miss Alice Payne,
daughter of the late Capt. A. D. Payne,
to Mr.. Henry Herbert Carr, young
Euglishman, has been announced. The
marriage will take place at Clermont,
the home of the Paynes, on the out
skirts OF Warrenton, on January 10.
The engagement of Miss Mary K.
Moore, daughter of Major S. ]. G.
Moore, who was recently chosen Judge
of Clarke county court, to Mr.. Frank
V. Tilfor3, a well.known young man
of Washington, has been announced.
The wedding, it is said, will take place
on the Goth of January.
Mrs. Mary A. Brummell, widow OF
Mr.. Joseph Brummell, for many years
the senior member of the firm of Stems
& Brummell, distillers, was killed some
time during Friday night on the Chesa-
peske and Ohio track at Elm street,
Richmond. She had been to visit
neighbor, and it is supposed she fell
from foot bridge to the track below.
A feature of Christmas day in Rich
mond with the sporting element was
cooking main at which several fine
birds were pitted against each other.
A bull dog fight was thrown in to make
the occasion all the more interesting.
Everything was SO quietly arranged
that the officers did not know what was
taking place. The main was fought at
quiet spot outside the corporate linn
its.
The mutilated dead body Of W. S.
Roberts, a merchant, who resided near
Stage Bridge, in Nelson county, was
found at an early hour Friday morning
about half way between his store and
dwelling house. Mr.. Roberts closed
his store at the usual hour on Thurs
day evening and started to his home,
which was about a mile and half dis.
tant. No clue has been discovered of
the murderer.
Miss Maggie Huff, the seventeen
yearold daughter of Mrs. Ann Huff,
who lives two miles east of Berryville,
was fatally burned Christmas morning.
She ley down in front of az open fire TO
take nap. A spark from the fire set
her clothing on fire, and before assist.
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