Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-08-10
VIRGINIA NEWS.

| Mr.. W. L. Taylor, q well-known citi-
zen of Caroline county, died Sunday
night, aged seventy.six years.
John Thomas Nurney, who had serv-
ed as councilman at Suffolk for twenty
years is dead, aged ffty-seven years.
Three hundred thousand bushels Of
grain and over five hundred cattle were
exported from Newport News last week
Miss G. R. Randolph, for many years
principal of the well-known Edgehill
Female Seminary, at Keswick, has de-
cided to discontinue the school.
Governor O'Ferrall and Mrs. OFFER
rail- will leave Richmond to-day for Max
Meadows. Wythe county, where they
will spend week or 80 with MIR. and
Mrs. Charles T. O'Ferrall, jr.
The newly elected democratic county
committee of Warren, met at Front
Royal on Saturday. Mr.. A. G. Carson
was elected county chairman for four
years and John ]. Riordan secretary.
The fourteenth annual reunion of the
Association of the Survivors of the
Clarke Cavalry will be held at the res
Hence of Capt. Jno. N. Kitchen, near
White Post, on Wednesday, the 18th.
Maj. John Page, father of Thomas
Nelson Page, is desperately Ill at his
country place, in Hanover: Thomas
Nelson Page and other members oil his
family have gone to his bedside. But
little hope is entertained for his re-
covery.
Yesterday was August court day at
Leesburg and large crowd was 10
town. A noticeable feature was the
unusually small proportion of oolored
people. It was the regular grand jury
term, and there was not single pre-
sentiment before that body.
Joe Fife, the negro who is under SEN
tence of death in Richmond for at
tempted criminal assault upon Mrs.
Marks, and who was also indicted for
attempting to criminally assault q
young lady near Chestnut Hill, in the
| suburbs of the city. has confessed both
crimes.
Rev. William Schultz, recent gradu-
ate of the st. Louis Theological Semi
nary, was Installed pastor of the Luter.
an Church of Charlottesville on Sun.
day. The Rev. Mr.. Mohardt, of Wash.
ington, preached the installation SER
mon in his usual interesting and i'm
pressive style.
Governor O'Ferrall yesterday ap.
pointed MIR. James L. Taliaferao county
Judge of Gloucester county to fill the
vacancy caused by the resignation of his
father, General William B. Taliaferro
which takes effect August 18th. The
appointment is for the unexpired term
which ends December 31st 1897. The
! Legislature will elect q judge for a new
t,rm in December next, as will be done
in all other counties.
The matter of the city attorneyship,
( which has hung fire in the Lynchburg
Council for several weeks. was again
taken up at called meeting of that
body yesterday. The name of Mr.. Ran
dolph Harrison was withdrawn by his
friends, and ex-Mayor N. G. Manson,
who has been his most formidable com
petitor, was elected, the vote standing
s for Manson, 6 for ex-Commonwealth's
Attorney A. 81. Burroughs and l for R.
O.. b. Kean. 1t is announced that MIR.
Manson will decline to accept in view
of the bad feeling which the contest en-.
gendered.
Gov. Russell, of North Carolina, will
spend some time at Virginia Beach
next week, and it is expected that Gov.
O'Ferrall will also be there on the
10Th, for on that day there will be
given at Ocean View grand military
spectacle. Fifteen companies and sew
eral batteries of artillery will partici-
pate in sham battle. Five thousand
rounds of ammunition will be fired.
Adjt. Gen. Anderson will be present,
aud he will witness dress parade,
which will follow the field maneuvers,
and afterward the troops will be re-
viewed by the two governors.
The colored people of Petersburg
held mass meeting last night. The
subject discussed was "lynching and
criminal assault and how to prevent
them" The remedy suggested for put
ting an end to the evil was not lynch.
ing, but trial by the courts. The speak.
ers all held that it was not education
nor desire for social equality that
brought about criminal assault, but -
was immorslty, and that the saloons and
pool tables were responsible for much
of the crime. The speakers all de-
nounced lynohing, and said that they
wanted the law melted out to every
guilty man.