Evening star., 1898-12-20
AF FAIRS IN ALEXANDRIA
Weddings Announced in Which Society Folk
Take Great Interest.
Jurors Drawn for Approaching Term
of United States District Court
-General News Matters.
Evening Star Bureau,
No. 721 King Street,
Bell Telephone No. 1U6.

ALEXANDRIA Va. December 20, 1898.
A fashionable wedding will be celebrated
in old historic Christ Church at $50
o'clock the evening of January I, when
Miss Bette F'itzhugh Smoot will become
the bride of Mr.. Robert Waight Fuller.
The bride-e!ect is daughter of Col. Will
liam A. Smoot of Calross Mansion, this
city, and Mr. Fuller, while employed IN
Washington. is native of Atlanta, Ga.
He is a brother Of Mrs. Harrie {. Ausley
of this city.
Another marriage of great interest to
many AleXandrians, for which cards have
just been issued, is that of Miss Bessie
Lee Carson. daughter of Rev. Thomas b.
Carson of Roanoke Va, ard Mr.. Fra TX
Watkins Thomas. The ceremony will take
Place at o'clock Thursday evening, De
cember %, in Green Memorial Church,
Roanoke Miss Carson has many friends in
this city, where she resided for several
years during her fathers pastorate at the
NJ. E. Church South.
Indorse Senator Lodge for President.
A conference was held last evening on
Gibhon street of some of the leading col
ored men from all the wards, as well as
some Washington citizens, for the pur-
pose of advancing the best interests OF that
race in the next presidential campaign
The speakers all agreed that the oest
friends Of their race in the advocacy or
human rights and equality of citizenship
We're to be found in New England, as sta
tistics would show" and the result OF the
meeting was the orga niZation of a Henry
Cabot Lodge New England Presidential
Association with the following officers: W.
c. Payne, president; NJ. l.. Robinson, secre-
tary: J. w. Coles, vice president; w. III.
Bayne second vice president; L. B. john
son, treasurer. The association will advo-
cate Mr.. Lodge for President, with pos
sible combination with Governor Theodore
Roosevelt of New York.
United States Court.
The session of the United States district
court will be begun in this city January B.
The following have been summoned as petit
jurors James W. Quaintance, Boston; Fl.
Young Alrich; James Hardenburg, jr.,
Hardenburg; Wilton Pendleton, LeannellS;
c. H. Carter. Farmers Fork; Elisha Dyer,
Herndon: John Grim and A. w. Phillips,
Waterford; A r. Pendleton, Frederick
burg; Y T. Brown, f. b. Gregg, James 3.
Peugh and E. McGary, Hamilton; NJ. Schu-
Ter, r. f. Grover, w. p. Cranes and w. F.
Leef, Alexandria; o. E. Hine, Vienna; Wal
ter Wambsley, Toluca; c. w. Pidgeon, Ac-
cotink w. A. Crouch, Clifton; Elijah Dick
ersou Ehart; A. b. johnson, Warsaw; John
Dangerfield, Rixeyville. 1t is stated that
there will be no grand jury
Burial of James Piper.
The burial of James Piper, the aged and
welI-knoWn colored citizen whose death
occurred in Washington last Sunday will
take place at $3.50 o'clock this afternoon
from Roberts Chapel, South Washington
street. Rev. Gaines, the pastor, will Off
ciate and the interment will be in the
Methodist Protestant cemetery. The de-
ceased is described as belonging to what is
known as the 'old school of colored peo-
pie He is said to have been warm friend
of Frederick Douglass. He was large
property owner in Il section of town now
known as Petersburg, and it is stated that
he held the original deed to his possessions,
granted by the crown of England.
General Matters.
Rev. DR.. William G. Andrews of Gull
ford, Conn, delivered the third Reinecker
lecture at the Episcopal Seminary near this
city at noon today. Dr. Andrews theme
was 1.-The Origin of American High
There was only one case before Mayor
Simpson in the police court this morning,
that of Harry Bryant, colored, arrested by
Officer Wilkinson, on a charge of disorder
ly conduct The fine imposed was $3.50.
Annie Howard. colored, whose death oc-
CURED Sunday, was buried this afternoon
a. Louis Bord wse appointed special police
man by the electric railroad yesterday.
Arrangements for Sunday school Christ
mas celebrasionss are about completed in
most of the churches.
A man giving his name as F. NJ. Rogers,
and claiming to reside in Washington, was
picked up today by the police and taken to
the station. =Heu&as in a deplorable condi-
ton. His clothes were covered with mud,
and he claimed to nave been assaulted last
night and rebbeI of over 500 by unknown
at stey es,wssa was s1s n city b and
tie credence by the police. The man is be-
iieyed to be mentally unbalanced