Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-02-06
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Mr.. James Parish, OF Cnlpeper coun-
ty, died Thursday night.
Hon. J. Randolph Tucker was suppos.
ed to be dying last night at Lexington.
The Governor has refused the appli.
cation of the Fourth Virginia Regiment
for permission to have full dress uni
form.
The residence of Mr.. Jeff. Davis,
treasurer OF Buckingham county, with
all of its contents, was destroyed by lire
yesterday.
Mr.. James 3. Chamblin, of Loudoun
died on Wednesday in Washington. His
remains were taken back to his old
home and inferred near Bloomfield.
DR.. w. D. Burfoot, well-known
physician of Richmond, died yesterday
after an illness of some weeks. The
deceased was about forty-three years
old.
The firm OF j. V. Bassett, the largest
and oldest millinery establishment in
Norfolk, made al assignment yester-
day The liabilities will aggregate
$15, 600.
The Senate yesterday passed a bill
appropriating $4,000 to w. B. Isaacs
for gold coin taken by the United
States in 1865 from the Bank Of Vir-
ginia, at Richmond.
Henry NJ. Clarkson, jr., son of DR.
II. NJ. Clarkson, died on Tuesday at
"Wateree," the home of his parents
near Haymarket, Prince William coun'
ty, aged % years.
Governor O'Ferrall has received an
invitation from the Massachusetts Re
form Club in Boston to address that or.
ganization on the 18th instant on "The
Real Financial Troubles, Grievances
and Conditions OF the South and Their
Remedy"
Mrs. Jessie j. Hawks, wife of A. w
Hawks, the humorist and lecturer, Of
Baltimore, died yesterday, after ling
ering illness. She was native Of Eau
quier county, and daughter of the late
DIR. J. Wiilett Leache, who was prom
inent practitioner in that section of Vir
ginia.
Special Accountant Carlton McCar
thy has complied with and presented
to the committee on retrenchment and
reform some figures OF great moment tC
the city of Richmond. They show q
deficit in the city's revenues in 1896 o.
more than 500 600, despite the fact thai
tho receipts for that yearwere about
$4,000 larger than usual.
The captains and crews Of the
schooners Ostrich and Rockaway, o.
Baltimore, were arrested by the Vir
ginia police steamer Chesapeake in the
lower Potomac Thursday charged with
illegal oyster dredging oil Smith Point
The schooners, with their captains and
crews, were taken to Reedsville, where
they are still under arrest.
The following suits for damage were
begun yesterday in the Circuit Court o.
Albemarle: E. II. Bunch's admins.
TRAITOR vs. the Manhattan Concrete
Company for $4,000; r. G. fuckers
administrator VS.. the same for 100000
V. w. Chambers VS.. the same for s., 900
Joseph M. Lamb vs.. the same for
$1,000. These suits grew out Of the
collapse last October of the roof Of the
north lecture room of the University oil
Virginia, by which two persons were
killed and three injured.
The sensational trial of George Run
nels and Lizzie King, for the murder oil
Abram King, the latter's husband, has
ended. Runnels gets ten years in the
penitentiary, and the accused wife goes
free. The murder of King was one oil
the most cold -blooded crimes known in
the annals CT Princess Anne county. He
was killed at his home, being shot
through the head while asleep. 1t had
long been known that Runnels and
Kings wife were intimate, and the in.
jured husband had threatened ven.
gence several times.
Prof. w. S. Graves, q teacher in the
graded school at Leesburg, fell dead on
the street there yesterday. Mr.. Graves
had gone to school, as usual, and about
10 o'clock, because he was feeling bad.
ly, dismissed the scholars in his room
and started for the inn where his fami-
ly board. When near the corner OF
King and Cornwall streets he was seen
to catch at the fence for support and
then fall prone upon the pavement
Persons ut once ran ran TO his assist
ance and physician was summoned,
] but he was dead before the doctor
reached him. Mr.. Graves came from
Bedford City, and had only been teach
ing in Leesburg during the present ses-
sion. He was about SO years of age
and leaves wife and several small
children.