Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-06-26
VIRGINIA NEWS.


will be candidate for Congress from
the 1st district in 1898.
John d. Bigbie, a member of the
mercantile firm of Bigbie Brothers, OF
Lynchburg, died in that city yesterday.
Miss Mary D. Stribling, of Fauquier,
and Mr.. Howard G. Ford, of Mem
phis, Tenn, were married at Markham
on Thursday.
Salem Church, Caroline county, was
a scene of gayety on Wednesday after
noon, the occasion being the marriage
of Mr.. Richard Gascoigne Moncure, OF
Bowling Green, and Miss Ruby
Richersop, of Sparta.
Gov. O'Ferrall, with his staff and
narty of ladies, returned to Richmond
yesterday evening from Nashville,
xhere they participated in the celebra-
lou of Virginia Day at the centennial
md attended the veterans reunion.
The s ate Board of Medical Exami-
aers concluded their labors, so far as
me e1 animation of embryo physicians
:. ru.c-rued in Richmond on Thursday
u he result of the examination will
EvL DO made known for some time, as
The papers of the l4S candidates will
all have to be examined and passed up
on by each member of the board.
At democratic mass-meeting held
ct Danville, last night seventeen dele
gates we're elected to represent Dan
vile in the Roanoke convention. They
were instructed for j. Hoge Tyler, fer
governor, and A. j. Montague for At
torney-General. Up to this time, 325
delegates, or little less than one-fourth
of the membership of the Roanoke Con.
veution, have been chosen, and the
vote stands Instructed for Tyler, 233;
for Ellyson, 81; uninstructed, Il.
Joe Black, negro, broke into the
house of Mrs. Fedora Carraway, a very
old lady living near Snow Hill, Greene
county, on Thursday, and assaulted
Miss Stepp, maiden lady aged about
45 years. Miss Stepp fought desperate
ly, but was overpowed, and choked in
to insensibility by the brute. He was
tracked and captured yesterday morn
ing. There was great excitement, and
the people would have lynched him if
he had not been taken to another coun-
ty for safe keeping.
A dispatch from Richmond county
says that section was visited Thursday
afternoon by terrific electric storm
A young man named Clarence Self,
who was assisting in threshing wheat
for Mr.. Clarence Motley, near Sharp's
wharf, while returning from the field
riding a mule was instantly killed by a
stroke of lightning, as was also the
mule. A large barn of Rev. w. A.
Street, near Lebanon Church, Lancas.
ter county, was also struck during the
storm, and was burned to the ground.
A valuable horse belonging to Mr.
Street persisted in the flames.
The Board of Visitors of the Virginia
Military Institute have made the fol.
lowing appointments: Gilliatt scholar
ship, P. B. Arson; Coke scholarship, r
L. Pollard; State cadets-Third district,
B. R. Caldwell; Fourth, B. Tinsley;
Twelfth, ]. 4. Castlemap; Seventeenth,
Il. B. Peyton; Eighteenth, G. A. Elicit;
Twenty-first, L. S. Morris; Twenty
ninth, D. NJ. Burnard; Thirtietb, E. S.
Martin; Thirty-6rst, E. L. Cannon;
Thirty-sixth, R. B. Lemoine; Thirty
ninth, T. S. Nelson; alternates-J. D.
Twitty, B. F. Miller, ]. II. Drake, A.
G. Hathaway, L. II. Earle, R. P. Page,
and G. l.. Kemper. The following were
appointed at large: T. G. Carter, ]. M.
Winston, ]. 0. Steger, and G. P. Craig