Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-08-21
VIRGINIA NEWS.


session at Winchester, has selected
Madison as the next place of meeting.
Mr.. Ira Dixon farmer of Bolivar
Mills, shot and killed negro in his
watermelon patch Thursday. The ne
gro was stealing the fruit.
Booker Garrett, Of Essex county,
was unanimously nominated delegate
to the State Legislature for the counties
of Essex and Middlese1 by the saluda
convention Wednesday.
The convention to nominate candi-
date for the House of Delegates from
Orange county met at Orange Court
House to-day. Judge W. G. Williams
was nominated, he having been the
choice of the primaries.
Mr.. Thomas M. Almond, OF Lynch.
burg, who has been visiting relatives
and friends in Page county, was bitten
Yesterday by a rattlesnske on top OF
the Blue Ridge. Local remedies were
applied to the wound on his hand and
it is thought he will recover.
The annual reunion of the survivors
of the Clarke Cavalry took place on
Wednesday at the residence of MIR. J.
N. Kitchen, near White Post. There
was q large turnout of the "boys who
wore the gray" and a delightful day
was spent in going over the story OF the
events of the war and in discussing the
goods things provided by the host.
The barn of NJ. R. Brown, south of
Jay;noton WAS DESTROYED by fire at
midnight Thursday night. John Pet
tigrew, colored farm hand, was burned
to death, and Harry Lee, another COL
ored man, was horribly burned, one leg
being burned entirely off. He cannot
live. The barn contained ten tons of
clover and timothy hay. The fire was
of incendiary origin.
A horrible tragedy occurred at Piney
Grove near Salem, Roanoke county,
| Thursday. 1t seems that bad blood has
existed between Basil Ridgeway and
James Smithers for some time past
Thursday, evening Ridgeway waylaid
Smithers on the roadside, and emptied
double.barrel gun into him, nearly
! severing his right arm. The doctors
say the wounded man will die. Ridge
| way was lodged in the Salem jail.
An interesting entertainment was
given in Leesburg last night for the
benefit of the FIRE department of that
town. The thrse-act comedy, My
Awful Dad" was we'll rendered by
Messrs. Harry Harrison, John Nelson,
Sawyer, Mullan, Powell McGill, Will
! Metzger, Julian Rogers, DR.. Luck and
| Anthony Dibrell; Miss Jessie Matthew,
Mrs. VIM. Beverley, Miss Mosa Mat
thew, Mrs. Loughborough, Miss Kath-
J crime Clagett and Mrs. Faunt LIE Roy.
| After the performance dancing was in
dulged in to late hour.
Last Thursday evening negro tramp
went to the residence of Mr.. John Lit
| tie, in Sussex county, during the lat
ter's absence, and demanded of Mrs.
| Little all the money in the house.
Mrs. Little said, call right" and then
won't to her bureau, as if to get the
| money, but instead she took from the
drawer a revolver, and shot the negro
| in the abdomen. The negro ran from
the house, crying as ifin great pain,
while Mrs. Little discharged the con.
tents of the other barrels at him. 1t is
not known whether the negroes wounds
proved fatal.
Mr.. Knebb, q prosperous Norfolk
county farmer, is looking for man
who has violated his confidence to an
annoying degree. While driving home
last Monday Knebb saw an elderly man
sitting by the roadside, and became in
terested in him. Thr stranger claimed
| to be wealthy, and said he was pros
Meeting for q farm. He gave his name
as Walker, and said he was from Louis
Vile, Kentucky. Knebb invited the
stranger home with him. The invita-
ton was accepted, and the Kentuckian
prolonged his stay for several days.
When his host arose in the morning
| the visitor was missing, as we'll as all OF
Knebb's savings, his gold watch, and a
pistol.