Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-06-30
VIRGINIA NEWS.

| The two Virginia colored battalions
will probably be sent to camp at Farm
vile.
! Il is suspected that the death of Mrs.
| Eliza A. Thompson, who died in
Lynchburg May 25, was caused by
poison.
Mr.. J. B. Fcklen, OF Fredericksburg,
was married yesterday in Richmond to
Miss Ellen Z. London, of that city.
Rev. w. D. Smith officiated.
Mr.. Edgar F. Cummings, of Loudoun
county, and Miss Annie Grace Rosa,
of Spotsylvania county, were married
yesterday evening at Walters Church.
Lightning Tuesday night set large
wheat stack on fire on the farm of Miss
Fannie Corson, near Fredericksburg
Seventy. five bushels Of grain were de-
stroyed.
Mrs. Mildred A. Smith, relict of the
late William G. Smith, died in Fred.
ericksburg yesterday at the home OF
her daughter, Mrs. Q. Van Dusen, aged
eighty eight years.
Cadet Capt George Percy Halves. OF
the Virginia Military Institute, has
gone to Tampa and been mustered IN
as a member Of Troop A, of Col.
Woods rough riders.
The democrats of Westmoreland
have elected delegates to the congress
sional convention for the first district
aud unanimously Endorsed Hon. w. a.
Jones for denomination.
Rev. Hugh Med. Martin, the Epis-
copal city missionary and the rector OF
| St. Luke's Chapel, Richmond, has re-
signed both of these positions to accept
| call to St. Johns Church at We's
Point.
The colored republicans. who meet
in Charlottesville to-day to name Con-
gres-ional candidates in every district
of Virginia, will notify the white re-
publicans that they will have to share
the political offices with them.
MIR. Minor Bolts Lewis, of Harrison
1 burg, son of Mr.. D. Shelley Lewis, was
married Yesterday at Grace Episcopal
Church, near Cismont, to Miss Jose.
phine baxter Hancock, daughter of
Mrs. Kate Hancock, of Albemarle.
Private Spottswood, Company K,
Fourth Virginia. is in the hospital at
Jacksonville, Fla, in dying condition,
and Private Banter, of Company @, in
the same regiment, is dying, so the
surgeon says. Both are typhoid cases.
Fire on Thursday destroyed the barn.
corn house and other outouildings on
the farm of Mrs Geo. P. Goodloe, near
Mudd Tavern, in Spotsylvania county.
A lighted cigarette dropped in straw
while wheat was being threshed caused
J the damage.
The marriage of Mr.. W. @. Lauck,
editor of the Page News and mayor Of
Luray, to Miss Annie Rhodes Grayson,
daughter of the late Elder B. F. Gray
f sou, of Page county, took place yester-
iav evening in Broad Street Baptist
Church, Luray.
, Mr.. A. J. Ford, of Richmond, yester-
day received an ugly wound in an en-
counter with Mr.. G. @. Broaddus, act
ing manager of Ford's Hotel. The
trouble occurred over the refusal OF
Broaddus to have changes which Ford
, desired made In his room.
1t was learned yesterday that be-
tween 600 and 500 sick and wounded
soldiers from the South will be sent to
: Fortress Monroe for treatment. This
r place will be made o great hospital
4 point. Tents are to be erected there
, provided with every comfort and con-
venence.
Bessie Hope, twenty-five years ofage,
an inmate of the house OF Cora Hath
away, in Norfolk, on Thursday took
two ounces OF laudanum, and died yes
terdey from the effects OF the drug.
She left note to the Hathaway wom-
an asking that her body be sent to
Richmond, where her parents live. A
love affair was the cause of the suicide.
The Leasburg Mirror says Col. E..
V. White, trustee, sold certain proper
ty of B. Y. White, on Monday, of last
week. The property was knocked
down to Mr.. E. B. White, and COM
prises the grist mill at Falls Church,
for which he paid 81 1850; a one"third
interest in the lime kiln in Leesburg,
together with similar interest in GER
, tain machinery, horses, carts, imple-
ments, &c.
Lieut.. G. T. Lassiter, of the A. P.
Hill Rifles, of Petersburg, now in camp
at Jacksonville, Fla, arrived at Peters
burg Tuesday night for the purpose OF
Qualifying t. the office of Common
wealth's Attorney, to which Office he
--sa elected at the May election. Ees-
y" -'-"s. Lassitef learned that IN
der the law he coulu The
in the United States army and az ~
same time Gil the office of Common
weaith's Attorney.