Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-07-13
VIRGINIA NEWS.


The Prince William Horseman's AS
ISOLATION will hold horse show on the
9TH and 9Th of September.
E. B. Kay, merchant of Bowling
Green, made an assignment yesterday.
Liabilities, 81, 500; assets unknown.
VIM. Edwards, photographer from
Petersburg, has disappeared in New
York, and it is believed he was murder
ed OF committed suicide.
Hon. William Lynne Wilson, preai-
dent elect of the Washington and Lee
University, arrived at Lexington yes
terday and will be the guest of the re-
tired president, Gen. Custis Lee.
Mr.. Charles Broadway Rouss, the
New York millionaire, has expressed
the desire to contribute $500 toward
the monument over the Confederate
dead who fell at the battle of Winches-
ter.
In the interest of economy twelve
clerks in the motive power department
OF the Norfolk and Western Road at
Roanoke have been notified that their
services will not be required after
July Is.
The eocial event of the season was
the wedding of Mr.. Horace S. HAYES
and Miss Mary Reid McCaw at ''Straw-
berry Hill" the country home of Chas.
Davenport, esq five miles from Rich
mond last night.
William Jefferson, demented young
man, who has been playing the role OF
Jack the pepper" in the West End,
Richmond, was arrested on Saturday
night and was yesterday committed to
the Williamsburg asylum.
Miss Taliaferro, prominent young
society woman of Roanoke, had mar
row escape from drowning at Virginia
Beach Sunday afternoon. She was res
cued by Dir. st. George Tucker, of Nor
folk, who has saved several lives be-
fore.
An excursion train on the Norfolk
and Ocean View Railroad had q narrow
escape from being wrecked yesterday
an obstruction having been placed
across the track on trestle. Moses
Martin, colored, was arrested on sus'
picion.
L. E. Johnson, late of the Lake Shore
Railroad, has been appointed General
Superintendent of the Norfolk and
Western Railway, in charge of transpor'
tation service, maintenance of track,
real estate and all other property of the
company.
Ecius, the bay horse foaled in 1865
by Miss bennington, dam Fanny
Washington, by Revenue, died in the
Ellerslie stud. at Overtou, Va, July
9. He was the sire of Eolist, St. Savior,
Knight of Ellerslie, Elkwood, Eon Di-
, ablo and Russell Morrello. He was
game to the last, and died standing on
his feet. For twenty years he had
never been seen to lie down, except to
wallow.
The movement to invite the next
national encampment of the Grand
Army of the Republic to be held in
Richmond seems likely to be forced to
be dropped. At the last meeting OIL
this body it was resolved not to hold
future sessions at any place the hotels
of which would not entertain the color
ed members. Colored guests have
never been entertained by the Rich
mond hotels.
A decision was rendered in Norfolk
yesterday in the United States Court in
the cases of Thos. S. Flood, of NeH
York, against William Z. Lewis and
c. R. Lewis & Co., ofthe Eastern Shore
of Virginia. Judge Hughes has given
judgment in favor of the plaintiff for
$50 900 in the first named case, and for
S24 900 in the other. They were suits
brought to recover on promissory notes,
which had been given the plaintiff for
the purchase ola steamboat equipment
Justice Ainsworth, one of the newly
elected officers of Norfolk county, on
Saturday evening sent two constables
to the big Pinner's Point warehouses
armed with authority to summon all
the clerks found working at the South
ern and Norfolk and Carolina ware
houses. Seventeen rate clerks were
gathered in at the Southern and seven
at the Norfolk and Carolina ware
houses, and all were summoned to ap.
pear before Justice Ainsworth, when
they will be charged with violati On Of
the Sabbath law.
The R. E. Lee Camp of Confede rate
Veterans of Richmond last night adopt
ed resolutions explaining the circIm.
stances of the election of Governor
O'Ferrall as an honorary member OF
that organization. The resolutions
adopted last night attest to Governo 7
O'Ferrall's brilliant record as a distin-
guished Confederate officer. The reso-
lutions 60 on to explain that the ques-
ton involved was simply q parlimen-
tary one and consisted of whether the
Governor should be reelected or the
first election should stand. tits under
stood that with this explanation
Governor O'Ferrall will accept his
election.
Cur WITH A RAzoR.-Mr. Augustus
Davis was badly cut Saturday night in
Falls Church by two negroes named
Harris and Carrot. Mr.. Davis was sit
ting on the steps of the Falls Church
bakery when the negroes, who had
been drinking, approached him, and,
he claims, without provocation. pulled
out razors and commenced to slash him
across the face. He received two very
ugly cuts, extending from the eyes to