Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-07-15
VIRGINIA NEWS.

The Virginia Pharmaceutical Asso.
citation will meet in its sixteenth an
nual session at Charlottesville on the
/ Goth.
Mr.. W. Gordon Smith, formerly of
Fredericksburg, now of Pittsburg, Pa,
and Miss Annie Downs were married IN
! Fredericksburg last night in Trinity
Episcopal Church by Rev. E. Il. Green.
Rev. Henry P. Hamhill, president of
Wesleyan Female Institute, at Staun.
ton, has been elected treasurer and
business manager of Randolph. Macon
Woman's College and will begin his
duties at once.
City Sergeant Tillet, of Roanoke, ar
rived at Norfolk yesterday and lefs on
the 10 O'Clock train last night with w.
A. Noble, ex.auditor of Roanoke, un-
der arrest. Mr.. Noble says he ID
anxious for an early trial.
The Episcopal congregations OF Pc
tersburg hive requested Rev. Root. A.
Gibson, recently elected coaoJ utor-
bishop of the diocese of Virginia, TO Sc
lect Grace Church, that city, as the
plsice in which to be consecrated.
Among the patents issued on Tues
day were the following Thomas Il.
Betty, Manchester, tobacco-gum or re-
tainer; Richard Ingram, Roanoke, car
brake; Addie M. Irby, Vernon Hill,
bicycle. step; Richard Mccoy, Riverton,
car; Armin Pollak, Richmond, mouth
piece for cigars.
In the Campbell County Court yes
terday the grand jury brought in an in
lictment against T. s. Moorman, ex-
county treasurer, charging him with
misappropriating 1000 of State and
county funds. Moorman was bailed In
the sum of $1,000 to answer at the Au-
gust term of the court.
It has become the duty of Liberty
Council, Junior Order United Ameri-
can Mechanics, OF Manchester, to pur-.
chase new pair of trousers for one OF
its new members. Tuesday night was
initiation night, and in the act Of intro.
ducing candidate into the secrets OF
the order his trousers were torn from
his body.
Norfolk yesterday elected rs Tyler
and Ellyson delegates to the State
convention. Resolutions were adopted
in several wards endorsing Hon. Mer-
rift T. Cooke, of that city, for Lieuten'
ant Governor. Greene county iustruc'
for Tyler. Alexander was endorsed
for Attorney General and the Chicago
platform was reaffirmed.
| Uy:I1;o-, CLAIMANT tho nQUrn who
narrowly escaped being lynched sew,
eral months ago, was tried at Campbell
Court House yesterday and given five
wears in the penitentiary, the maxi
] mum penalty for his otfense. Clements
made an assault on George Rosser, hit
ting him with rock, for which he was
arrested and confined in Jail at Camp,
bell Court House.
( A dispatch from Wytheville says
Amos Wampler, the young man who
shot aud killed his father, Henry
Wampler, on Cripple creek, last Octo-
Der, and who few weeks since made
his escape from the Marion Hospital,
was captured on Cripple creek, last
night, and is now in jail at this place.
awaiting his trial, which will doubtless
come off at this term of court.
| Petersburg was visited yesterday by
one of the severest hailstorms ever
known there, and in different parts Of
the city the hailstones could be scooped
I'D by the handful. A number of win
dow glass in the large factories OF the
S. W, Venable Tobacco Company were
shattered by the hail, and vegetation
and the gardens badly cut to pieces
The storm was not as severe in the
neighboring counties as it was in Pe'
tersbrirg.
Two young men were found asleep
by a city hall Waterman in Richmond
last night on a miniature balcony at
the apex of tho city hall tower, three
hundred feet from the ground. They
accompanied an excursion from Nor
folk, and while loaded with many
drinks climbed to the top of the tower,
sightseeing, pulled the door to behind
them, and in cramped positions in this
little iron crows n eat slept profoundly
until hauled down.
T. w Clay, a prominent citizen Of
Norfolk county, met horrible death
Yesterday at his home OH the Eastern
Branch of Elizabeth river. He was
gored by an Infatuated bull and died
shortly afterward. a colored farm
} hand rushed to his assista nee, and with
a club belabored the fierce animal until
he diverted his attention from his hor-
ribly mutilated victim. Although ne
risked his own life in attempting to
save Mr.. Clay's the man was too late