Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-03-14
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Rev. A. ]. Fristoe, Of Petersburg, ha;
accepted a call to the pastorate OF Cen
trail Biptist Church, Chattanooga
Tenn.
Burglars broke into the postoffice a
Ashland on Friday night, blew off The
safe door. and got away with S6OO IL
amps and small sum of money, anC
some valuable trinkets belonging Il
Postmaster Nixon.
Thomas E. KiZer. q gate keeper a
the State penitentiary, went to Roam
oke on Saturday and took Rev. Leslie
Cook, the Baptist minister, to the peni
Tertiary. He was recently convicted
of forgery and sentenced to two years
Imprisonment.
Miss Elizabeth Harrison, of Ken
lucky, and Gen. ]. Watts Kearney, o
New Jersey, were married this evening
at the residence of ex-Proctol
Peyton, of the University of Virginia
Only a few intimate friends of the
family were present.
As soon as working plans can bt
made, work on the immense dry dock
which Coils p. Huntington has de
cided to build at the shipyard at New
port News, will be commenced. Wher
finished, it will perhaps be the largest
dry dock in the world.
By dint of industry unparalleled il
this country, the Newport News Ship
Building and Dry.Dock Company viii
launch the fine new battleships, the
Kentucky and Kearsarge, on the 24tt
of the present month-noU quite TWEEN
ty months from the day the keels were
laid.
At daybreak yesterday morning fire
broke out in the residence of Mr.. AL
bert Fletcher, in Warrenton, which
would have resulted in the destruction
of the property but for the prompt re-
spouse Of the hook and ladder com
psny. Personal effects worth abou
5000 were destroyed.
The stables and barns of Mr.. J. r
Ayres, in Dinwiddie county, sever
miles from Petersburg, were destroyed
by fire on Saturday. Four horses ant
four COWS were burned to death. Mr.
Ayres lost all of his farming nipple
ments, large quantity of feed an(
|, 200 bushels OF peanuts and all of hi
wagons. His cotton and peanut plant
er machinery were also burned. Hi
loss is about $4,000, insurance $4,000
Mrs. May Mann Meade died Satur
day at Prospect Hill, near wildwood
Clarke county, aged seventy nine years
Mrs. Meade was the widow of the lat
Francis X. Meade, youngest son o
Right Rev. William Meade, one of the
first Bishops of the Episcopal Church
in Virginia. Mrs. Meade leaves fv,
} children, Rev. William Meade, Rev
| DR.. Richard Kidder Meade, and F. Key
Meade, Miss Tanesia Meade, ant
Mrs. Francis B. Whiting, ST.. Thu
funeral services were held Sunday at
/ ternoon at the old chapel, in CLARKE
county, and the interment took place
/ the family lot in the adjoining GENE
terry.
After twenty-eight years of nearly
continuous public service Mr.. John +
Massey will retire to private life to
morrow. On that day he will surren
der his Office as superintendent of pub
lie instruction to Mr.. Joseph W. South
all, aud retire to private life. Whethel
be will again enter the arena of polite:
remains to be seen, for though he il
well advanced in years, his love of pub
lie service, reinforced by high abili
ties which have won him thousands o
enthusiastic admirers all over Virginia
may overcome natural desire to spenC
the remainder OF his days in the retire
ment Of his beautiful country home ir
Albemarle. Mr. ]. A. McGiloray
chief clerk of the department and sec
rotary of the board of education, viii
be succeeded by Mr.. Frank T. Brent, o
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