Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-03-01
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Nearly two million bushels of grain
were shipped from Newport News last
week and nineteen steamships are now
there to load.
William J. Larrew, postmaster at
Greenville, Augusta county, died on
Friday. He served in the Confederate
army in the Twenty-ffth Virginia Regi-
ment, infantry.
The number of matriculates at the
University of Virginia on January l
was 400. 1t is intimated that the
alumni Bulletin of the University Will
suspend publication for lack ofsupport.
The plant of the Wythe Lead and
Zinc Works, at Austinville, Wythe
county, was destroyed by fire Friday
night. Loss $4,000. These mines
were extensively worked during the
war of 1912, as we'll as the late civil
war.
Mrs. Margaret Moncure, wife of Civil
Engineer It. J. Moncure, of Stafford.
died suddenly ut her home in the coun-
ty on Friday. Mrs. Moncure was the
daughter of ex-Chief Justice h. G. IL.
Moncure, of the Virginia Court of APP
peal.
Mrs. Frances P. Baugh, who was,
perhaps, the oldest woman in that i'm
mediate section, died at her home, on
Union Hill, near Danville on Saturday
| afternoon. She was born November
II, 1905, and never lived over hall
mile from where she was born.
The sales of leaf tobacco on the Vir-
| ginia markets last month have been
Unprecedented. In Danville alone they
| were over five and a-half million
pounds, being nearly million pounds
more than for the same month last
year. The prices of good grades are
fine.
When Mr.. Samuel A. Blunt went
home to dinner in Richmond on Satur-
day he found the dead body OF his wife
hanging over the balustrade in the
front hall, she having committed suicide
by hanging. This was the fourth at
tempt. Ill health was the cause. Mrs.
Blunt was only IS years of age, but for
the past two or three years she had
been a great sufferer from cancer.
A telegram was received at Salem
Saturday night announcing the mar
riage at McAlister, Indian Territory,
of Miss Blanche Marx, a handsome and
accomplished young lady of the first
named city, to ]. l. Homer, full-blood-
ed Choctaw Indian, who graduated
from Roanoke College in the class OF
1894 The young lady left Salem last
Monday, ostensibly to visit friends In
Norfolk, but instead of doing this she
vent to Indian Territory, with the re-
suit given above.
A wholesale Jail delivery occurred at
Warwick G. H. Friday night. Every
prisoner made his escape, including
Burnes Lutta and two other prisoners
indicted for murder. One of the pris-
ouers was under sentence of eight years
in the penitentiary for highway rob-
berry and would have been taken to
Richmond the first of the week. 1t is
believed the inmates of the jail received
outside assistance, and had been
furnished tools with which to pick the
lock and afterward piloted out. There
is no clue to the absconding prisoners.
The store of D. c. & R. J. Cone at
Rverton, with its contents, was burned
Yesterday. The loss is covered by in
surance to the amount of So, 200. The
Methodist Church, beautiful edi6ce Of
brick, with slate roof, caught fire from
the burning store, and was only saved
by the efforts of the entire community.
The damage to the church is about
$500, covered by insurance. While the
ire was in progress one of q row of
tenement houses, the property of Sam
uel Carson, commenced to blaze and
general conAagration was narrowly
averted. The entire loss will be about
So 5000.