Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-12-23
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Mr.. Thos. S. Wigfeld died Saturday
last at the residence of Mrs. Warren
Payne, near Catletts, in the S5th year
of his age.
At the Christian Church at Bowling
Green Tuesday night Mr.. Eugene
Broaddus and Miss Blanche Ennis, Of
of that village, were married.
Miss Lilly, daughter OF the late Rev
N. W. Wilson, and Prof l.. r. Ham
berlin, of The University OF Texas, were
married in Richmond last night.
Mr.. Beverly T. Daniel, one of the
most prominent farmers OF Orange,
died at his home near Belmont yester-
day of pneumonia, aged seventy years.
Mr.. c. w. Colbert, a prominent mer-
chant of Spotsylvania, and Miss Ella
Maude Massey, daughter of Mr.. A. w.
Massey, of the same county, were mar
Rod at the home of the bride on Tues.
day.
At meeting yesterday of the board
of directors of the 1.ynchburg Cotton
Mill semi-annual dividend of 4 per
cent. was declared and $4,000 carried
to the reserve fund. This IS a superb
showing.
The Richmond Locomo 1--WE Works
yesterday received from tho Union Pa
ci6c railway an order for twelve CON-
pound consolidation locomo tives. The
engines are OF the largest pc, and will
weight, complete, 1000 pounds each.
Rev. w. w. Southall, who was To-
Gated by the Virginia Conference at its
recent session in Danville, has applied
to his presiding elder, Rev. DR.. Rid
dick, for certificate Of location ard it
is announced that he VI i'll now enter the
Presbyterian Church.
The Christian Ende avor Union OF
Woodstock in m aeting Tuesday
night decided to extep an invitation
to the State Endeavor Union to hold its
next annual convention in Woodstock.
Richmond and Ballston are also COM
peting for the honor and the contest
promises to be lively one.
Thorp Curtis, a young Manchester
man, at 2 O'Clock y yesterday morning
went on the Richmond and Petersburg
Railroad bridge with the intention OF
jumping off into the water below and
committing suicide. The water, he
said, looked so cold and the scene was
so dreary he changed his mind.
Delegate Murphy says he fnds that
his whipping-post bill has more friends
than it had the last session. This ia,
perhaps, true, but the present legisls-
ture will not pass the bill. There are
quite a nun Der OF senators and dele
gates who favor the measure, but will
not vote for it, for the reason that its
passage, in their opinion, would be q
political blunder.
The special joint legislative commit
tee charged with investigating charges
made against County Judge Turnbull,
Of Brunswick, by Delegate Buford, ad
ourned last night until January 4. Mr..
Buford and q number ofother witnesses
were examined. The evidence thus far
taken would seem TO indicate that there
has long been unfriendly feeling be-
tween Mr.. Buford aud Judge TurnbulI
Senator McCune says he will make B.
big fight for his bill, designed to pun
ish persons who fllrt with the pupils Of
the female boarding schools. The SEN
ator offered this measure at the solicit
tation OF lady principals of several
valley schools. This bill will come up
before the committee on public instrrc.
ton and education soon after Christ
mas. Chairman Morris, of the COIN
mittee, is opposed to the measure.