Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-08-16
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Two hundred men are working on
the improvements to the Dismal Swamp
canal.
The Virginia State Funeral Directors
Association will meet in annual session
in Portsmouth on Wednesday.
Several persons were hurt in a row
between white and colored people at
a game of baseball at Newport News
yesterday.
The trial of E. s. Moorman, ex.treas.
urer OF Campbell county, for alleged
misrepresentation of county funds, re-
suited in verdict of acquittal.
Two colored girls, aged Is and IA
years respectively, were drowned sat.
urdsy by the upsetting of small boat
while grabbing in Dock creek, near
Norfolk.
Frank n. Dewalt was cowhided by
Miss Ellen G. Alderman, who alleges
that he had slandered her, in Washing
ton on Saturday. A large crowd COL
lacted and much excitement was Gre
ated.
The wife of DR.. James b. Smoot,
who resides four miles west OF Wood
stock, died Saturday afternoon OF
blood poisoning. An infant daughter
survives. Mrs. Smoot was about 70
years of age.
Mr.. Albert N. Eastman and Miss
Frances A. Berry, both of Richmond,
were married in the parsonage of Sa-
cred Hheart Church by the assistant
pastor, Rev. R. L. Carne, on Wednes-
day evening.
Mrs. Scruggs, wife of Col. W. l..
Scruggs, of Atlanta, formerly United
States minister to Venezuela, was Sc
verely and perhaps fatally injured by
falling from train bound for Chatta-
nooga Saturday afternoon. She was
found near the tracks at point near
Cohutta.
Mrs. Finch, lady who resides at
Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, has written
to Richmond and the letter has been
turned over to Major Howard, Chief of
Police, asking for information regarding
the negro, Joe Fife, who is to be hang
ed there on the Goth instant for attempt
cd assault upon two ladies in Rich
mond. Mrs. Finch explains that her
daughter was similarly assaulted by a
man corresponding to the description OF
Fife on April 2Sth last. Fife, when
questioned about the matter, did not
deny the charge.
Some alarm is felt among the friends
of Richard L. Miller, of Lynchburg,
Consul of the United States at Hull,
England, whose whereabouts can
not be a5certained. Mr.. Miller left
England July 25th, and was registered
at the Oxford Hotel, in Washington,
August 9th. He left the hotel, stating
that he was going to Virginia to visit
some friends, and giving instructions to
have his mail kept until his return.
Nothing has been heard from him since,
and considerable mail addressed to him
is being kept at the Oxford.
A serious cutting ARRAY occurred at
Hickory Hill, Albemarle county, on
Wednesday night, between James W.
Houchens and Lincoln Graves, in
which Miss Belle Barnet took an active
part. Houchens stabbed Graves four
times in the breast and abdomen, and
Belle Barnett cut him four times in the
back with large butcher. knife.
Houchens and Miss Barnett were i'm.
mediately arrested and lodged in jail in
Charlottesville, but, owing to the seri-
business of MIR. Graves's wound, the
trial was put off, and Houchens and
Miss Barnett were bailed.
Rev. Fenner s. Stickney died at an
early hour Saturday morning in Rich
mond. He was splendid-looking speci.
men of physical manhood, handsome of
face aud figure and in the prime of life,
being one of the most useful and elo.
quent Protestant Episcopal olergymen
of the Virginia Diocese. He was ex-
tremely popular in Richmond, where
he had been rector of Monumental
Church for two years. BE was son Of
Colonel Joseph B. Stickney: of North
Carolina. One of his first charges was
at Charlotte, N. c., where he was call
ed to succeed Bishop Cheshire. He
leaves widow, who was Miss Eliza
beth Gaylord, Of North Carolina, and
two children. He was sick only few
days. The remains were taken to Will
son, N. c., his old home, for burial.