Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-08-31
VIRGINIA NEWS.

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county yesterday, aged ninety years.
The vote in the democratic primaries
in Prince William county on Saturday
for candidate for the House of Dele
gates was G. G. Galleher 1874, G. ]. Pat
ton 474.
Major Lewis Ginter, of Richmond,
who has been at Bar Harbor during
the summer, suffering with with dis-
betes, is worse and will be brought
home at once.
Mr.. M. R. Gayle and Miss Estelle B.
Lapdrum, both of Spottsylvania county,
were married Sunday night at the resi-
dence of Mr.. l.. W. Landrum, near
Fredericksburg.
A wind and rain storm passed over
Roanoke yesterday evening blowing
down the tents of the Wallace show
and breaking the leg of man, the arm
of boy and also ipjuring another boy
about the head.
On Sunday night at IL o'clock fire
broke out in the large drug store of w.
B. Goolick, in Fredericksburg, and
completely destroyed the stock and
badly damaged the building. The loss
is covered by Sc, 900 insurance.
James lightly, of Campers Valley,
near Winchester, was taken from his
bed early Sunday morning by large
band of determined men and severely
whipped. 1t is charged that he NAL.
treated his wife.
Captain Richard Taylor, the oldest
Virginia pilot, died at Norfolk on SUM-
day at St. Vincent's Hospital, where he
had been for sixteen years, He passed
the Goth year of his age on the 9Th of
last May, having been born in Eliza.
beth City county, Va, in 1907.
Ella Gibson, a good looking white
woman, from Franklin county, was ar
rested in Roanoke yesterday on the
charge of horse stealing and lodged
in jail. She is also charged with house
breaking. 1t is said that she has five
sisters, and the resemblance between
the six is so close that it is difficult to
tell one from the other.
At the meeting last night of the Sons
of Veterans, in Richmond, Commander
Mahood offered resolution asking the
legislature to remove Mr.. Massey as
Superintendent of Education. The es-
pecial grievance was the action of Mr..
Massey in sending North for normal
teachers and as result their utterances
derogatory of Confederates.
A wind and rainstorm which passed
over the Norfolk section at $50 O'Clock
esterday sevening was one of the
most severe seen there in long time
A big pavilion and adjacent lighthouses
at Willoughby Beach were wrecked
and several small boats containing fish
ing parties were capsized. The occu-
pants of the boats were all rescued. At
Ocean View number of tents belong
ing to camping parties we're blown
away. The storehouse of Mr.. Charles
Pool, on the turnpike between Norfolk
and Ocean View, was damaged by the
wind.
The Hunt Club of Warrenton has
largely increased its membership within
the past year, and preparations are be-
ing made for some big meets this season
to which invitations will be literally OK.
tended to the various cross country or
CARNATIONS. The Warrenton men have
given good account of themselves dur
ing the last twelve months at the horse
shows and in the steeplechase events
on the race courses, both i'll the hunting
stock which they have exhibited and
through their skillfui horsemanship
They report a number of good sales
and at the present time have in school
ing some very promising performers
which will command good prices when
offered on the market.