Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-01-11
TIE OLD DOMINION
Brief Items of Interest Picked Up
Here and There.

The century ball in Alexandria on
Friday night was notable event in
the social life Of that city. Only mar
ried men. or beaux over twenty-five
years OF age. were expected to take
part, but no limitation whatever was
imposed on the ladies. The ball was
the success Of the season. The ger
man made no part of the program. but
many dances of "Auld Lang Syne"
more than made up for the omission.
More tobacco was sold last week at
Lynchburg than has been sold there
in the first week for years. The prices
were satisfactory, and the size and col
or were good.
large stable and tobacco barn be-
ed by fire near Amherst Courthouse
Sunday night. The contents Of the
buildings, including three horses. corn,
forage, farming utensils, and a large
quantity of tobacco. were a total loss.
The origin of the fire is unknown.
The stockholders OF the Lynchburg
Cotton Mill Company have practically
decided to double the capacity of their
establishment. The almost phenomenal
success of the mill promises to lead to
big results in the near future.
Gen. Wheeler will probably be in
Richmond next Friday night to attend
meeting OF Lee Camp. at which the
presentation Of the portrait of a dis
tinguished Confederate is to be made.
Gen. Wheeler'S reception on that &C.
casion will be a great ovation.
Harper's Ferry has an organization
of women known as the Village I'm
provemcnt Society, with Mrs. Henry r.
Miles. wife of the superintendent OF the
fre-alarm service at Washington. as
president. and Mrs. L. d. Lightner as
secretary
William II. Lehew. aged IS years. a
prominent citizen of Strasburg died
suddenly a. his home in that place
Monday. Mr.. Lehew was playing with
some grandchildren and died without
warning.
OF the students suspended from the
University of West Virginia for not
having reached an average of 65 per
cent. in their examinations one is n
State Senator, two cadets in the mill
tary corps and thirteen ladies. Some
OF the students have been renstated.
Elias E. Gray. deputy sheriff of Fau-
day in the 62nd year of his age. He
was living in Nashville at the COM
nencement of the war and was badly
wounded under General Zollicoffer in
the first battle in Tennessee.
Samuel Johnson. colored brakeman
on the Atlantic Coast Line, had his
leg broken and was otherwise serious
ly injured Sunday by falling between
freight train near Weldon. N. C.
c. T. Hall, young man who lives in
Henrico county, was run over Mon
day by a train on the Richmond, Fred
erlcksburg and Potomac Railroad and
had his leg crushed off below the knee
Hall was attempting TO board the train
near Glenn Allen at the time of the
accident.
Mr.. VIM Henry Winston, one of the
oldest members OF we'll known Han
over county family, died at his home,
two miles north OF Ashland. to-day.
He was about eightythree years old.
The Winstons have been prominently
identified with the history Of Hanover
for a century.
Agnes Powell. aged ten years. yester-
day while investigating the interior of
dynamite cap. had his left hand fear
fully lacerated and one eye almost de-
ed with small fragments of the metal
part of the cap.
Rev. Mr.. Alfriend. of Pulaski, who
was recently rendered n call by the
vestry of ST. Johns Protestant Ep;sco-
pal Church. Roanoke to the pastorate
made vacant by the resignation of DR.
w. II. Meade. has declined to accept
and SO notified the church.
Rev John d. Eddington. one of Roa-
noke county's oldest citizens, died at
his home Monday. He leaves two sons
and three daughters among them Rev
C. G. Eddington, of El Paso, Texas
a negro bell boy at the Ponce de
Leon Hotel, Roanoke, made n vicious
attack on S. X. Duerson. the night
clerk, last Monday night with an ice
pick, innicting painful wounds in his
arm and side.
John Fritz and Ernest Rowsee, two
young men, became involved in a diff
Guilty in a Roanoke bar-room Monday
night and ended on the street by the