Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-12-07
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Representative Young has introduced
a bill in Congress providing for public
building at Portsmouth, to cost $780,
900.
There are a number of Richmond
claimants for the fortune OF $40, 000, 600
said 10 have been left in England by
James Wood.
Mra. Mary E. Laycock, wife of Mr..
Jas. w. Laycock, died at her home IN
Leesburg on Friday morning last in the
63fd year of her age.
A large delegation of ladies waited
upon Rev. DR.. w. A. Barr, rector oil
Monumental Church, Richmond, yes
terday, and protested against his accept
ing call to Norfolk.
James Ramsey B,rtol, of Baltimore,
and Miss Bessie Stuart Fitzhugh, OF
Richmond, were married yesterday
evening at the home of the brides
father, Mr. Henry Battaile Fitzhugh.
Toe Norfolk and West Indies Fruit
aud Steamship C1mpauy was chartered
10 Norfolk yesterday to engage in the
fruit importing business. The new
concern will own plantation property
to the amount CT 10000 acres.
In Richmond yesterday afternoon in
S.. Peters Cathedral, Miss Alice
c .ecilia Murphy, daughter of Col. John
Murphy, was married to Mr.. John Boil
ing Wood, jr The ceremony was per-
formed by Bishop Van de Vyver.
Miss Mary Louise Lockstamper,
daughter of George w. Lockstamper,
of Frederick county, Was taken sud-
denly i'll on Tuesday during the abseuce
Of her family, and died shortly after
wards. The cause OF her death is un-
known. She was sixteen years OF age.
William R. Mays, of Amherst Court
House, was killed yesterday by train
on the Southern Rllwsy. He attempt
cd to cross the track in a buggy just 10
front OF the train. The engine struck
the vehicle, SID asning it into spliuters.
killing both horse and driver.
Mr.. Jonas Potts Neer, WEALTHY and
respected cltilen OF Loudouo county.
died at his home 10 Hillsboro on Tues
day, aged about n years. Mr.. Meier,
vas graduated from the famous school
OF Benjamin Hallowell, in Alexandra.
He taught school in L,udoun county,
for several years, and then conducted q
mercantile business.
A very distressing accident, re
eulting in thu death of MIR. Joseph
Browning, aged ffty-6ve years, we'll
to-do farmer of Culpeper county, &C.
Cured at Viewtown, Rappahannock
county, Tuesday night. Mr.. Brown
iug's horse stumbled and fell, throwing
The rider headforemost upon the
ground, breaking his neck.
The grand jury of Elizabeth City has
Indicted Louis August, the Fort Mon
roe ar:illeryman, charged with being
responsible for the death of Annie
Benedict, the colored woman 30
orutally murdered and mutilated in
Phoebus about ten days ago. The in
dictment charges August with murder
ia the first degree. The case will come
up for hearing in the County Court
at the January term.
At meeting of the Winchester city
council Tuesday night State Senator S.
Lucien Lupton was authorized to petit
ton the legislature to permit the city
of Winchester to issue $50, 900 in bonds
for the Rouss city hall to be built
there. The proposed building will cost
100000, and Mr.. Charles Broadway
R1uss, the New York merchant, has
already contributed 100000 toward it.
Work on the new building will b.
begun by January 1. The formal
transfer of the l.. T. F. Grim property
corner of Market and Water streets, 10
the county of Frederick has been made,
the SUN paid being $4,000. The
county will fix up the property for a
hitching yard. Uoder a compromise
The county recently reliuquisbed its
interest 10 the market square to the
CITY aud was compelled to seek q
hitching yard elsewhere.