Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-07-21
VIRGINIA NEWS.

| The southwest district Sunday school
convention of the Potomac Association
will hold its annual convention at Fall
mouth July %, so and 81.
Miss Elizabeth Eleanor Terry,
daughter of 3. F. Terry, was married
in Trinity Episcopal Church, Staunton,
yesterday morning to Mr.. O. Clay Lux
ford, of Richmond.
Hon. Jacob Yost, republican. pub
lished a card yesterday announcing his
withdrawal as candidate for the re-
publican nomination for Congress in
the Staunton district.
The democrats of Lancaster, in mass
meeting at the courthouse yesterday,
| elected delegates to the congressional
convention and Endorsed Hon. W. A.
| Jones for denomination.
Governor Tyler yesterday appointed
Col. Fred. Peasants member OF his
| staff TO succeed Capt. VIM. l.. Couling,
who resigned to accept q position as
quartermaster in the army.
The State board of education yes er
day elected Philip w. Nelson superln-
tendent of schools for Albemarle county
to succeed the late Isaac r. Barksdale.
There were ten candidates for the po-
sition.
The Irving colored Baptist Church
Mt lrvingtOn, Lancaster county, a
frame structure. was struck by light
ming on Monday last during storm
and set on fire. The building burned
to the ground.
Captain Samuel Thomas Thornburg
died in Stanton on Tuesday night, af
ter an illness of several weeks, having
been paralyzed on June 81 and never
having rallied from the stroke. He
was in his 10Th year.
Mr.. James Blair Farrar, q young
business man Of Richmond, and Miss
May Dacre Gregory, daughter of the
late Fenton Gregory, of King William,
were married yesterday evening at the
home of Hon. B. l.. Winston, in Han
over.
AT the meeting of the board of trus-
tees in Atlanta, Ga, yesterday evening,
it was decided that the Confederate
Memorial Institute, or as it is better
known, the battle Abbey" should be
located in Richmond, the capital Of the
Confederacy.
Mr.. j. Shriver Woods, of Leesburg,
has purchased of the estate OF w. !.
King, the ice factory lot in Fredericks-
burg for $500 cash. Mr.. Woods will
commence building at once a cereal
mill for grinding wheat, corn, oats and
other grain.
The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
Company has received contracts for the
transportation OF 5000 troops and 200
j horses from Cnickamauga to Newport
News. The movement is to begin to-
day, and the transports will be at New
port News on Friday.
/ Yesterday committee of Union vet
Grams, representing more than forty
Grand Army posts, arrived in Rich
mond to urge the members OF Pickett
Camp, Confederate veterns, TO attend
a reunion of the blue and the gray al
Washington Park, Oh the Delaware
river, from the Sth to the l4th of Aug.
The suit for $4,000 damages insti-
tuted by Vernon F. Chalkley against
the Virginia and North Carolina Wheel
Company came to an end in Richmond
yesterday in the Law and Equity Court,
and the plaintiff secured a verdict for
-, 800. He was injured by piece Of
falling timber, which struck him in the
face.
At the recent republican convention
Mt Marion, when General James A
Walker was renominated for Congress,
there was warm side contest, which
created equally as much interest as the
nominstion-the election of members
of the State committee. Three men
opposed 10 Mr.. Agnew as Chairman OF
the State committee were elected, or,
in the language of General Walker,
"They are Walker men," Both fac
tons OF the party are participating in
the election of new committee, and
the committee thus elected may be able
to settle differences that the leaders OF
the two factions in conference have
been unable to reconcile.