Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-07-22
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Grasshoppers are doing mucn dam
age in Rockbridge county.
DR.. ]. III. Roberts and Miss May G..
Marks were married at Monvale yes
terday.
Miss Alma Marshall Glazebrook and
Mr.. William Woodson Huntley were
married in Richmond yesterday.
Rev. DR.. Moses D. Hoge, who has
been very i'll at the White Sulphur
Springs, is now greatly improved.
Miss Mary Stuart Woodward and
Dr. Rudolph Boiling Teusler, of Rich
mond. were married in that city yester-
day.
Mr.. James BENZ died at his resi-
dence on Sycolin. in Loudoun county,
on Wednesday night of last week, ged
Sc years.
Joseph Spottswood, member of the
A. P. Hill Rifles, of Petersburg, died Of
typhoid fever in hospital at Jackson
vile, Fla, yesterday.
Ford's Hotel in Richmond, which
has recently been the subject matter Of
considerable chancery litigation, has
been leased to Messrs. We'll & Shere, of
East Radford.
John W. Daniel, jr., son of Senator
Daniel, is daily expecting orders to re.
port for service on General Rosser's
staff, in the Porto Rico campaign. His
rank is that OF lieutenant.
A few native watermelons are al
ready being brought into the Fred
ericksburg market from Stafford and
King George counties, which are un-
excelled in the production of this lus-
cious fruit.
John A. Noon, assistant postmaster
of Stauntou, was yesterday appointed
to succeed Capt. Lewis Hartman, demo-
crat, as deputy collector of internal
revenue for the second division Of the
sixth district, with headquarters in
Staunton.
Mrs. Elizabeth A. Edwards, the
widow of Rev. DR.. John E. Edwards,
prominent Methodist minister, died
suddenly yesterday at the residence OF
her son, in Richmond. She was 81
years OF age, and had been in a feeble
condition for some time.
On Wednesday morning at l o'clock,
during festive gathering at "Glenara,"
the country seat of John NJ. Davis, near
Warrenton, the mansion caught on fire
and was considerably damaged. The
active effort of the large company pres
ent saved the building from complete
destruction.
The cornerstone of the Memorial
Chapel at Brandon, Prince George
county, was laid with Masonic cere-
monies on Wednesday afternoon in the
presence of three hundred people
Grand Master of Masons of Virginia R.
Z. w. Duke, of Charlottesville, con-
Quoted the ceremonies.
An unknown man entered the resi-
dence of Mrs. Z. II. Rowzee, highly
respected widow of Roanoke, and was
discovered about l o'clock yesterday
morning in the attempt to perpetrate
criminal assault. The screams of the
the lady aroused the neighborhood and
the brute jumped through the window,
making his escape.
John A. Rinker, auctioneer, sold on
Saturday last for Messrs. J. B. McCabe
and John G. Rust, commissioners in
Hickman VS.. Hickman, the tract OF
land at Taylorstown, Loudoun county,
containing about 953 acres and belong
ing to the estate of the late VIM. Hick-
man for SIG per acre. Mrs. J. c. Slater
was the purchaser.
Clyde, the thirteen year old son of
VIM. NJ. and Alice Oliver, was instant
" killed by lightning during the severe
storm which passed over Caroline
county Tuesday evening. AT the tue
of his death he was playing in one OF
the rooms upstairs with seven other
children, several of whom were also
shocked, but not seriously.
A remarkable freak of lightning &C.
Cured near the Summit Station, on the
Richmond, Fredericksburg and Po-
tomac Railroad, during an electric
storm yesterday. A bolt of lightning
tore the weather boarding from one end
of Mr.. James Cash's house and, passing
through the window, struck Mrs. Cash's
shoe and tore the sole from it, but she
miraculously escaped injury.