Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-02-24
VIRGINIA NEWS.

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in Lynchburg.
There is some talk of ex-Attorney
General Rufus A. Ayers entering the
race for the governorship.
At Charlottesville yesterday, Harvey
Bell, colored, convicted OF the murder
of his wife, was granted new trial.
DR.. H. B. Ribble, ST., died at his
home, near Blacksburg, Montgomery
county, yesterday, aged ninety-two
years.
Mr.. William e. Hoffman and Mrs. 5.
Janette Taylor were married at Berry
Vile last night. Rev. Julian Broaddus
officiated,
Mr.. James B. Burton, a well-known
citizen and magistrate for Aqua dis
trict, died yesterday at his home, near
Stafford G. H., of typhoid fever.
Mr.. Joseph N. Pritchett died at his
home, near Massaponax church, Spot
sylvania county, Monday night, OF
pneumonia. Mr. Pritchett was about
thirty years old.
1t is understood the Baltimore and
Ohio road, if necessary, will take the
suit to annul the charter of the Win
chester and Strasburg railroad to the
court Of Appeals.
Mrs. A. P. Thornton died at her resi-
dence in Port Royal Sunday night, She
was the wife of Rev. A. P. Thornton at
one time missionary of the Episcopal
church to China. She was formerly
Miss Anne Leslie Thomson.
Mr.. William Holt Edmunds, of Hous'
ton, Halifax county, and Miss Emma
burlington Rely, daughter OF Judge
John w. Rely, of the Court of Appeals
were msrried last night at the residence
of the BRIDES father in Richmond.
The racing stallion Startle, by Alarm
out of Irene, by bennington, died yes
terday at the Versailles stud, near Cul
pepper, owned by S. l.. Cooper, at the
age OF twenty-one, from general debil
ity. He had long record of victorle:
on the turf.
Joseph Murdoch, Of Scott county
who was supposed to have been muir
dered twenty-five years ago, and fol
which crime Bud Lindsay served TWEEN
ty.one years in the Virginia peniten
tiary, has returned to his former home
Lindsay died recently.
The heaviest rain Of the winter fell q
Berryville on Monday and that nigh
and all the streams in Clarke county
were swollen. Opequon creek was i'm
passable thirty six hours. The Shen
andoah river was higher than it haf
been since the flood ofSeptember, 1896
1t is reported that Judge Stafford G.
White, of the Lynchburg judicial cir
J cult, will be elected professor of con
| stitutional law at Washington aud Lee
University to succeed the late Johr
Randolph Tucker. Judge Whittle ii
said to have declined professorship al
| this institution last year.
The New York SIN says: Genera
Lees indignant resignation rs Consu
General at Havana because Of the su
pineness of the administration in pro
tecting American citizens against Span
ish savagery, would doubtless be fol
lowed by his enthusiastic election as
Governor of Virginia next November
A long span over the iron bridge il
process of erection on the north branch
of the Shenandoah river at RivertOr
was carried out by the high water OF
Monday. The span, which was to re
place one that had been swept down
last October, was almost ready to bt
swung and was resting on wooden tres
ties. These trestles INSTRUCTED the
stream and caught great quantities o
driftwood, which, piling up, made such
pressure that the whole structure
went down with a crash. The lose
which will be considerable, will fal
upon the Wrought-iron Bridge Com
pany of Canton, Ohio, that company
having the erection of the work under
contract.