Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-10-18
VIRGINIA NEWS.

sold to Robert L. Donahoe for IS 05 per
acre.
Tia Sbe.s:,.. oail river Is said to be
lover now Than for years past. In
many places the water hardly covers
the rocks in the bed of the stream, and
it is fordable at almost any point.
The Norfolk Bank, Savings and Trust
Company has asked the court for de-
cree of sale OF the Norfolk and Ocean
View Railway Company, the property
of which is now in the hands of re
ceiver.
Mrs. Pocahontas Johnston, wife of
Rev. L. B. Johnston, a well-knoWn
Presbyterian minister, who was long
located az Harrisonburg, died in South
Boston on Saturday.
At Salem, Saturday morning, the
Kasey Block of buildings, five in num-
Der, was destroyed by fire. The loss is
$1,000. IL was probably the largest
conhagration that ever occurred in
Salem.
The Church of the Covenant, Rich.
mond, was packed to overlooking Fri
day with the friends of Rev. J. Calvin
Stewart to celebrate the tenth ami
versary of that genlleman's passionate
of the Church of the Covenant.
Major Thomas J. Kirkpatrick, of the
! Lynchburg bar, and one of the most
prominent lawyers in Virginia, died at
his home in that city yesterday, after
an illness of several weeks. Major
kirkpatrick was sixty-nine years Of
age.
The Bar Association of Richmond
held a special meeting on Saturday and
took appropriate action in reference to
he late Attorney General R. Taylor
Scott and Judge Waller r. Staples,
whose deaths occurred during the re
| cent summer.
During a fire in Binswanger's store,
on Broad street, Richmond, on Salur.
day, Adam Stephen and W. ]. Lucas,
iremen, were suffocated to unconscious
| ness by smoke, and were barely rescued
from the burning building in time to
save their lives.
A wealthy student at the University
! of Virginia has made a gift of check
! for SIC, 900 to R. E. Lee, mail, carrier
of Charlottesville. The gift is token
of friendship, and the check has been
sent by Charlottesville bank to New
York bank for collection.
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee was robbed in
Richmond on Saturday night, as he was
getting off or on a car. He was re-
:, lieved of about $40 in money and $3.50
in unpaid notes. The case was report
cd to the police. 1t is believed that
several pickpockets followed the Buf
falo Bill show and that one of them got
General Lees purse.
Hon. E. J. Phelps, of Vermont. ex
Minister to England, arrived in Fred
ericksburg on Saturday for visit OF
several days. Years ago, before he en-
tered the legal profession, when quite a
young man, Mr.. Phelps taught school
at Rappahannock Academy, in Caroline
county, about fifteen miles below Fred
ericksburg, and during his stay he will
visit these scenes again.
Governor O'Ferrall will make re-.
ply to Governor Lown6es's (of Mary
land) letter about the boundary line in
Pocomoke sound and Pocomoke river,
and it is understood the reply will be
quite emphatic. 1t is understood that
Governor OFerrall thinks it quite I'M.
usual that Governor Lowndes's letter
should be published in the newspapers
before it was officially received by him.
In Petersburg on Saturday Miss
Elizabeth Hanson was taken in charge
by the chief of police. Some time ago
a verdict was rendered against her in
the Mayors Court, and since that time
she has believed she has been The vic
tim of conspiracy. o. Saturday she
went into hardware store to purchase
a pistol, with which to blow out the
brains of Mayor Collier. Friends will
take her in charge.
The grand camp of Confederate Vet
Grams will meet in Richmond to.mor-
row and will be in session three days.
An interesting event of the meeting
will be presentations of memorials to
Major Washington Taylor, of Norfolk,
quartermaster- general, and Captain T.
NJ. Norton, of Staunton, inspector.gen,
eral, who have served the grand camp
we'll end faithfully. Gen. Fitz. Lee
will make the speech in one case ard
Judge Theodore 8 Garnett, of Norfolk,
in the other. The last day of the
grand camps session will be devoted to
exercises at the Soldiers Home.
RROTHERHOODO OF ST ANDREW