Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-01-25
VIRGINIA NEWS

General Thomas l. Rosser will leave
Charlottesville to-day for Havana.
John Proctor, colored, is in Jail 10
Warrenton for assault and highway
robbery on Gustavus Fugitt. at Upper
vile.
The smallpox scare is about over in
the Norfolk section. New cases are ap
pearing DOW and then, but they are Ike
all others reported there, of q mild char
acter.
Mrs. Mamie w. GaYer, wife of Rev.
J. W. GaYer, pastor OF the u. Z
Church at Stephens City, died, yes
terday of the grip. She was sixty-fve
years OF age.
Mr.. W. L Hancock and Miss Vir.
GINA Kerfoot Bowen were married yes.
ierday at Gently" the home of the
brides mother, Mrs. Jennie Kerioot
Bowen, at Front Royat.
Thieves broke into the Episcopal
church at Parkview, Portsmouth, OF
Monday night and robbed it OF every
thing they could get away with. There
is no clue to their identity.
DR.. ]. N. Estill died at Lexington
Monday night at the residence OF lis
son, DR.. a. D. Estill, aged seventy
eight years. He served in the civil war
ss surgeon in the Fifty-irst Virginia
regiment.
AEpecial meeting OF the stockholders
OF the New York, Philadelphia and
Norfolk Railroad Company was held al
Cape Charles, yesterday, to put into
effect the plans for the reorganization
OF the company.
James Chalmers, president of the
Farmers National Bank of Salem for
for twelve years trustee and treasurer
Of Roanoke College for sixteen years,
ard a trus ee Of Hollins Institute for 8
number of years died at Salem yester
day.
The casa against Samuel T. Ford, jr
for ASSAULT on fve-year-old daughter
OF prominent citizen of Henrico coun-
Is, was If ed behind closed doors in the
County Court yesterday. Ford was
sentenced to three years in the peniten-
tiary.
Miss Mary Billings, principal of Fair
fax Seminary for young ladies, in Win
chester, died last night after brief i'll
ness of pneumonia. Miss Billings wac
daughter OF the late Rev Silss Bill
lings, a we'll known Presbyterian OIL
vine. She was about sixty years OF age
Mrs. Mary G. Scott, widow Of thF
late Francis W. Scott, of Campbell
county, died of paralysis at the honle
Of her daughter, Mrs. John T. Moor7,
in Washington yesterday, aged eighty
seven years. Mrs. Scott had large and
prominent family connection aud &C.
quaintance in Virginia.
The Turner.Ashby Camp, CoDfeder-
ate Veterans, of Winchester on Mon
day passed resolutions taking excep-
ton to the bill of Senator
Pritchard, in regard to the gene
raj government taking charge Of
Confederate cemeteries. tStonewall
cemetery, in which are buried over
5000 soldiers, is the property OF the
city, and the veterans resent any meas
ure to deprive them OF the privilege OF
taking care of their dead.
The hearing in the cases of the first class Of
cadets OF the Virginia Military Institute, dis
missed Fome weeks ago for breach Of disci.
pine, will begin before the board of visitors
at Lexington to-day.
Prof. Herbert L. Rees. a prominent organ
list and musical instructor, was married yes.
terdsy afternoon at the Second Baptist Church
in Richmond to Miss Jessie C. Patterson.
John J. Gloven, proprietor of the BUou
Theatre in Newport News, who was shot by
Walter L. Wood Sunday, died from the Of
fects of his wounds yesterday.