Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-05-20
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Mr.. G. G. Taliaferro, of Orange, has
withdrawn from the State Senatorial
contest in his district.
Mary Huff, a girl about Is years Of
age, was burned almost to death at
Danville yesterday while trying to start
a fire with kerosene oil.
Lewis Pendleton, a p%ensioner, while
drunk fell from Mountain Run bridge,
Just beyound Culpeper Courthouse
Tuesday and was seriously hurt.
Amammoth Confederate bazaar, under
the auspices of the Confederate Camps,
| opened in the First Regiment armory
in Richmond last night with success.
The University College of Medicine
created the Office of proctor at Rich
mond yesterday. and elected DR.. ]. Al
| lison Hodges to the position. DR.. Hun
ter Mcclure continues as president.
The marriage of Miss Hay Watson
Perkins to Mr.. George Rust Bedinger
Niche was performed by Rev. G. l..
Petrie yesterday morning in the Pres.
| byterian Church, at Charlottesville.
The suit of G. E. Moore va. the Bal
| timore and Ohio Railroad for $4,000
damages for being struck by a train
April 30, 1896, terminated at Stanton
yesterday in a verdict for the defen-
dant.
Col. William Lamb, chairman of the
republican party in Virginia, has issued
an address urging the republicans of the
| State to vote against the proposition 10
| hold q convention to revise the present
| constitution.
Samuel ]. Young, a clever young
actor, painter and musician, died in
Richmond yesterday, aged 26. He was
teacher of %elocutiou and expression at
Richmond College, and a native OF
Manchester.
James Young, colored, charged with
assaulting Mrs. M. Bosquet in her at
| tempts to prevent his robbing her hus-
bands store in Richmond, was arrested
last night in IN effort TO escape in wo-
mans clothes.
The Virginia democratic State COM
mittee will meet in Richmond this even-
ing to rame the time and place for the
| holding of the convention to nominate
a candidate for Governor and other
| S ate officers.
The First Presbyterian Church OF
Richmond, of which Rev. Robert Kerr
is the pastor, has extended an invita-
ton for the Presbyterian General As
sembly to meet in Richmond and in that
edifice next year.
The prospect for one of the finest
wheat crops ever raised in Clarke coun-
ty is very bright. The stand is regular
and the plants are thick enough to make
more than an average yield, if fly ard
drought and storms fail to put in their
damaging work before harvest.
Rev. John r. Jacobs, recently the
junior Methodist preacher OF the Mar
shall circuit, but now of Sterling, Fair
fax county, and Miss Edith Stricken,
daughter of the preacher in charge OF
Marshall circuit, went to Washington
yesterday and were quietly married.
Eugene Ferguson, q tobacco sales
man, o widower, with six children, in
bad health and out of employment, Iiv-
ing at No. 1877 west Cary street Rich
mond, wrote q note yesterday that he
was tired of life, and shot himself in
the temple with a revolver and died.
On petition of the Union Bank of
Richmond, a receiver was yesterday ap-
pointed for the Four1urean.P Price Com
pany, and an old and very large retail
dry goods concern in Richmond. A
member of the company was made re-.
ceiyer. The indebtedness to the bank
is $10,000.
1T was announced at Newport News
yesterday in the Office Of the Chesa.
peake and Ohio Railway Company,
that this company would soon add thres
new steamships to its line between that
port and London and Liverpool. This,
it Is said, is the outcome of the recent
trip which President NJ. E. Ingalls, re-
Gently made to England.
The second trial Oft. D. Berry, d.
rector o. the Liberty Savings Bank, on
the charge of alloWing deposits to be
received, knowing the bank to be in
solvent, was terminated at Bedford City,
yesterday. the jury, which was sum-
moned from Charlottesville, returning
q verdict of not guilty. He will DOW
have to stand trial on other indictments.
Theodore Roosevelt, Assistant Secre-
tary OF the Navy, arrived at the Nor
folk navy yard yesterday on a tour of
inspection. He inspected the new gun.
boat Wilmington, the monitor Amphi-
trite, and the cruiser Newark. A gen.
eral view ofthe yard was then taken in.
In the AFTERNOON he received a delega-
ton of some fifty workmen from The
various departments in the yard, who
made complaints of alleged discrimina-
ton against them of violations of civil
service rules by the board of labor en-
ployment.
That tired feeling, which is experienced by
so many people living in Malarial districts,
can be cured by taking Groves Tasteless
Chill Tonic. SO cents. Is as pleasant as Lem