Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-01-12
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Rev. Samuel q. Evans, a Tell-knoWn
Baptist preacher, died at his residence
in Richmond, last night.
Governor Tyler has been invited to
preside at reunion Of the Tyler family
in Washington in September next. He
has conditiona!ly accepted.
Captain John NJ. Hudgin, promi-
neut lawyer OF Bowling Green, is e1-
tremely Ill. He was United States mar
shall during Cleveland's last ainiuistra-
[ ton.
Mr.. Walter Olive and Miss Ina Red
man. daughter OF Captsin John h
Redmau, were married in King George
county, last week Rev. B. Il. Tones
officiating.
! Miss Virginia Brown, daughter OF Mr..
VI. Brown, died few days ago at her
| home, in Essex county. near the Caro-
line line. aged twenty ears. She was
sick ouly two or three days.
/ The Diamond shoals lightship, which
parted her cable in the recent gale of
| CapeHatteras last week, returned to her
station from Norfolk, yesterday, after Sc
curing new anchors and cables.
4 telegram was received in Lynch
burg yesterday from Senator Daniel
stating that ne and his wife and their
son Edward would arrive there to day.
They have heen in CUBA for the past
two or three weeks.
Mr.. Arthur Lewis, OF Fredericks-
burg, formerly member OF Company
| Z, Third Virginia regiment, and Miss
| Katherine Purks, of Caroline county,
left there yesterday for Washington,
where they were married.
The four candidates who passed the
examination by the Court Of Appeals.
out OF class OF twenty-five, are ]. 5.
Patterson, Richmond; Percy 5. Ste
pheuson, Norfolk: Gustavus Brown
Wallace, Fredericksburg, and Aubrey
E. Ellis, Amherst.
Three masked men entered the dwell.
! ing house of Jack Sebastiu, in West
moreland, and at the point OF a pistol
| compelled him to open the safe. They
| secured forty dollars in cash and valua
bic papers after which the robbers
bound and gagged him.
| The history committee of the Grand
Camp, Confederate Veterans, of Vir-
GINS, has been called to meet on the
night OF Wednesday the 18th inst. at the
Office Of It's chairman, DR.. Hunter Nc
CURE, in Richmond. the purpose being
10 outline the policy OF the committee
for the coming year.
At Tabernacle Methodist Church, in
| Spottsylyanis county, yesterday, The
marriage of Mr.. Thomas H. Harris, g
merchant OF Spottsylvsuia Court
House, to Miss Ella AlTich, daughter
! OF Col. and Mrs. John z. Alrich, was
solemnized ia the presence OF large
number OF friends and acquaintances.
Receipts from the Stale penitentiary
FOR the first quarter Of the fiscal year
Just passed show an increase OF 81 Az So
over those of the corresponding period
OF the last fiscal year. The State had
at the beginning Of this month 1927
conyicts in the penitentiary, on the
State farm and employed on the public
Torks.
At party given by colored people
near Warsaw, Va, on Tuesday even
ing, Frank Swartzwalder, white, and
William Glascoe. colored, got into a
shooting scrape. Each fred three shots
from their pistols and the former receiv
g ugly wound in the leg. The latter
escaped with only burnt hole through
his oyercoat. No arrests have been
made.
Dir. Richard 4. Gaines, for ten years
chemist OF the Agricultural Depart
ment, rendered his resignation 10 Mr..
George W. Koiner, the newly appoint
ed commissioner. The last legislature
So crippled the department by taking
away its regular appropriations that
there is lack OF funds TO pay the Gala
ries of the office. This is Mr. Gaines's
reason for retiring.
/ a dispatch from Norfolk says the re-
port of the establishment in the nesr
future of line of direct steamers ope.
rated between that port and South
America with ports of call in the Yves.
Indies, is confirmed. The South At.
lantic Steamship Company will employ
q capital of from six 10 seven millions,
and it will be backed financially and
fed with traffic by the numerous railway
lines diverging in Norfolk.
The Court OF Appeals has been en-
gagged for the last three days hearing
argument 10 the celebrated case Of Ten
nant against Dunlop, from the Circuit
Court of Petersburg, which involves
several hundred thousand dollars. The
case grew out of the death of one OF tie
partners (who we're in the tobacco bust
esq and the disposal Of the interest OF
the deceased By his widow. There is
brilliant array of counsel on both
sides.
a PREACHER FOUND GUILTY.
At Munfordville, KY, yesterday the
jury in the case of Rev Gregory Doyle,
the Baptist preacher, for the murder of
lydia Brecher. returned q verdict find.