Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-10-08
VIRGINIA NEWS.

ton is to be enlarged.
Mr.. Albert P. Stribling died on the
2nd inst. at his home in Remington.
Rebecca Howell died at the home of
her niece, Alice Birdsall, in Lincoln,
October End, at the advanced age of IS
years.
Mr.. F. NJ. Woody died on Thurs.
day in Richmond, aged rs years. He
Was brother of Capt. Jas. P. Woody,
OF Fredericksburg.
Rev. DR.. ]. Garland Hammer of
Newark, N. J has been called to the
Presbyterian Church at Manassas, in
place of Rev. J. M. Nourse' resigned.
Mr.. James Rodgers, of King George,
and Miss Bette L. Scott, of Essex
county. were married on Thursday at
the home of the groom, near Edge Hill.
The police authorities in Newport
News have decided that the slot ma
chimes, which have been reapiog har-
vest for their owners for the past year,
must 90.
Governor Tyler and staff, will attend
the peace jubilee at Philadelphia, aud
will ask the War Departments permits
sion to take one of the Virginia regi-
ments of volunteers as an escort.
Rev. Thomas N. Potts, pastor OF
Park Place Methodist Church, Rich
mond, declined yesterday very flat
tering offer to become the pastor Of the
Fourth Church, OF Louisville, KY.
10 the event that the Richmond, Pc
tersburg and Carolina Railroad is
brought to Richmond, it is understood
that about 81, 100000 will be spent by
that company in improvements there.
Cards are out for the marriage of.
Miss Bessie Herbert, daughter of Mr.,
John Peyton DeButts, near Welbourn,
and DR.. James Cartwright Wynkoop,
on the 18th instant, at St. Paul's church
Hamilton.
DR.. Edward Amber, son of Mr.. J. J.
Amber, of Amherst, was married
Tuesday to Miss Fannie Brown, daugh.
ter of Judge J. 7. Brown, of Nelson, at
Judge Browns residence, by Rev. DIR.
McBryde, of Lexington.
Walter Jenkins died at the home Of
his father in Warrenton on Friday, of q
complication of troubles brought about
by the life OF soldier at Camp Alger.
He belonged to Company B, Capt
Grimsley, Third regiment.
Gunners are anticipating excellent
sport in Clarke county after November
l, after which time the law prohibiting
the killing of cartridges in that county
will expire. During the two years this
law has been 10 force such game has
increased to large extent.
The woman's Temperance Union in
Richmond yesterday elected these Off
GERS for the ensuing year: President,
Mrs. Howard Hoge, of Loudoun
county; corresponding secretary, Miss
Iona Kern. of Winchester; record.
ing secretary, Mrs. VIM. d. Southall,
of Norfolk.
There is great scarcity of apples in
Clarke county this year, orchards
which in former years have yielded
abundantly have literally none in
them. The crop of Irish potatoes is
almost equally as great failure; they
are selling there at 81 bushel, while
in former years they went begging at
% cents.
{ Mr.. Charles Broadway Rouss will
attend the Winchester fair on Thurs
day with party of friends from New
York and will give a banquet at the
fair grounds during the day, to which
all the visitors at the fair are invited.
1t is expected that over 5000 persons
will partake of his hospitality.
The smallpox scare on account CT
the large number of cases in Norfolk
has caused the Richmond Board of
Health to take strong precautionary
measures and compulsory vaccination
will be ordered. The City Council last
night appropriated $1,000 to carry out
any measure the Health Board thought
necessary.
The third romantic marriage in the
same family occurred Sunday afternoon
at Merrick, Bedford county, when
Miss Virginia D. franklin became the
bride of Mr.. S. S. Welty, of Frederick,
Md. This marriage as we'll as the
marriage OF two of Miss Frsnklin's sis
tiers, was the result OF an advertisement
in the columns of a matrimonial journal.
Mr.. Welty saw his bride for the first
time a week before the marriage.
The loss sustained by Jenkins e Co.
by the burning of their mill at Leesburg
on Thursday night cannot fall below
500. 900, and may reach $4,000, upon
which there was an insurance of about
$13, 900, distributed among half dozen
companies. About 5000 bushels of
wheat were burned. The loss of the
Southern railroad company is only in
their freight depot, small pumphouse
and damaged track, and 81 900 will
amply cover it. The origin of the fire
is mystery.
The Circuit Court of Henrico was
asked yesterday for a construction of
the fifth clause of the will of the late
Major Ginter, which reads in part as
follows: "And to all servants in my
employ at the time of my death the
sum of $50 each" The point to be de-
termined is as to the proper construc.
ton of the word ''servants''-that is,
whether it applies to all actual servants
or to servants employed in the home
only. The bill was filed on behalf of
about seventy five persons who claim
the legacies, including gardeners, sta
blemep, hedgemeD, etc.
DIR. BULLS COUGH SYRUP WILL RID
you of cold more quickly than any
other known remedy. Don't let cold
90 as it comes; for you may endanger
your life. Price % cents.