Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-10-18
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Work has been commenced on Win
chesters new postoffice.
Senator Martin and Hon. ]. F. Rixey
spoke at Culpeper yesterday.
Senator Tillman, of South Carolina,
will speak in Richmond tomorrow
night.
Mr.. Daniel Wine, residing in the
vicinity of Brandy Station, died at his
home on Sunday of paralysis. He
leaves four daughters and four sons.
DR.. H G. Leigh, ST., one of Peters
burg's oldest and most prominent ply
sicians, died yesterday of heart trouble,
after a weeks illness. He was born
near Boydtop, Mecklenburg county,
March u, 1888.
The Columbian University eleven, Of
the hands of the Virginia Military To-
sttute on Saturday. yesterday defeated
Washington and Lee University at
Lexington by Il score OF II to g.
Basil Jackson, the thirteen-year-old
son of Mr.. j. Tyler Jackson, of Char
louisville, died yesterday of lockjaw,
resulting from wound in the leg,
which left in the wound, imhedded be-
tween the bones, splinter Of wood.
The annual session of the Woman's
Foreign Mission Society of the Virginia
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal
Church South, will begin in the Court
Street Methodist Church, Lynchburg
this evening and continue three days.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. J. Sale, of King
George county, have issued invitations
to the marriage of their daughter, Miss
Willie, to Mr.. Eustace Robinson Con-
way, of Danville The ceremony will
take place at Bethesda church, Caro-
line county, Wednesday afternoon, De-
tober 26th.
Postmaster Knight, of Richmond, has
not been informed that the Postoffce
Department has ordered an inspector
to come there to investigate charges
against him of unfairly using the eli
gible list of substitute letter carriers
and in failing to take the names in the
regular course.
Rev. w. L. Ware, formerly Of Am.
herst county, but now pastor of cir
cult in the lower end of Nelson county,
will be married on October 10Th to Miss
Daisy Marshall, OF Westmoreland coun-
ty. The wedding will take place in a
church in Westmoreland, near the resi-
dence of the bride.
At an early hour on Sunday morning
the police OF Roanoke made a simultane.
Gus raid on three different gambling
dens and succeeded in pulling in forty
FIVE gamblers, together with the gsmb-
lers devices and all the furniture in
the various places, which was carted to
the police court station and coniscated.
At Stanton Saturday night two pris-
ouer5 broke Jail, loosening the bars
with tools left by plumbers and lower
ing themselves by their bed clothing.
One OF the prisoners was young white
man named Thomas, convicted of steal :
ing cattle, and the other was a negro
who had been recaptured after escaping
from the city chain gang.
When the big cloudburst of several
weeks ago washed away the bridges on
Mason's Creek near Roanoke and did
other damage, it cleared away all the
soil off farm owned by S. w. Ragland,
of that city, and broughtto sight a large
vein of hard coal. The vein is on the
side of q mountain and is thought to
extend all the way through.
Edward, the fopr-year.old son of
Prof. 3. F. Sine, principal of the pub.
lie schools at Capon Bridge, was drown
ed in small creek near his parents resi-
dence at that place yesterday. The
child had wandered away from home
and had attempted to cross a foot
bridge over the creek, which was only
three inches deep, when it is supposed
ne lost mis- balance and fell in.
Shortly after l o'clock yesterday
steam launch towing cutter, in leay-
ing the receiving ship Franklin, in Nor
folk harbor, was run into by the Tug
Pioneer and sunk. The launch, being
run down, pulled her tow with her.
Aboard of the launch and cutter to-
gether were fourteen persons, all but
one OF whom were rescued. The I'M
fortunate was J. G.. Pillsbury, marine.
Mr.. Howard Gould, the young New
York millionaire, and his bride, &C
c1mpanied by party of friends, ar
rived 10 Newport News yesterday from
Old Point on special car over the cleo
trio railroad and proceeded to the ship.
yard, where they inspected the plant.
The party returned to Old Point yes
terday afternoon. 1t is said the Nigga
ra will leave for Washington to-day.
Robert Chapman, son ofJames Chap
man, aged fourteen wears, of Summit
Point, is lying at the point of death
with a gaping wound in his side, the
result OF gunshot. Young Chapman
and Benjamin Cliue, also a lad, en-
gagged in friendly scuflle for the pos
session of an old musket, with which
they proposed killing crows, when the
weapon was discharged, the contents
entering Chapman's left side.
Rev. DR.. A. Jaeger, who wss recently
tried by an ecclesiastical court and con-
victed of conduct unbecoming a minis
ter, has purchased for 81 200 the Lynch
burg Orphan Asylum and industrial
School, of which he has been since its
establishment the superintendent and
manager. Thus Dr. Jaeger has become
the absolute possessor of the institution,
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