Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-07-27
VIRGINIA NEWS.


burg;s best-known citizens died, yester-
day at Buckroe Beach Hotel.
Repre- sen atives of the Italian gov
erpment have purchased six hundred
hogsheads OF tobacco in Petersburg.
In the Circuit Court of Clarke county
Mrs. Florence L. Wheat has brought
suit for divorce from her husband, Prof.
Leo p. Wheat.
A lively competition is going on in
Richmond for the building of the new
Southern Railway depot. 1t is to cost
about $4,000.
A new rectory for Aqua Episcopal
Church, in Stafford county, is being
built on the site of the one recently de-
stroyed by fire.
Mr., ]. B. Townley, q prominent
farmer Of Albermerle, died at his resi-
dence near Red Hill yesterday OF heart
disease, aged seventy-five years.
Josiah l.. Baker, prominent citizen
of Frederick county, died at his resi-
dence, Osborn, one mile east OF Win
chester yesterday, aged seventy-tWo
years.
1t is reported at Newport News that
Alexander Brown & Son, of Baltimore,
have made an offer for the property and
! franchises of the Peninsula Railway
Company.
The Petersburg iron works has an
other contract for furnishing the gov
eminent with projectiles. The con-
tract is for 1000 twelve.inch mortar
shells aud $50 eight-inch solid shot.
The alumni of the University of Vir-
GINA living in Orange county have Or
ganized county association, with MIR.
P. P. Barbour as president and MIR.
George S. Shackelford as secretary.
MIR. Henry a. Mason, of Lagrange,
Ca, has purchased "Clevelan," the fine
old homestead of the Mason family, in
King George county, and will make
many improvements to the property.
The following marriage licenses were
issued in Washington yesterday: To
Theodore a. Young, of Luoketts, and NJ.
Margaret Bursley, Lewis Richards and
Lydia E. Galloway, all of Falls Church.
A letter from Richmond to the Nor
folk Landmark says: According to the
calculations of those who carefully
watch the political situation Hon.
Thomas S. Martin is almost sure to win
in the senatorial fight.
There will be quite contest for the
democratic nomination to represent
Stafford and King George counties in
the next legislature. The following
gentlemen ale named as candidates ::
I. W. Berrey, present member; James
Ashby, G.. B. Wallace, G. J. Henry, and
h. G. l.. Moncure.
The Board of Supervisors of Lou
doun county, who have been making
their annual settlement, adjourned yes
] terday. They fixed the tax levies the
same as last year--couuty levy % per
cent. of State tax and county and dis
trict school levies at 10 cents on the
800 of property each.
1t is said that the Southern Railway
is about to absorb the Norfolk and Yves
tern, and that President Spencer has
recently been in London negotiating
with the heavy foreign bondholders.
Four shares OF the stock OF the Norfolk
and Western, it is claimed, were pur-
chased by the Southern few days ago.
On Tuesday evening Powell Hern,
the twelve-year-old son of the late
John Herr, met terrible death al
Round Hill, Loudoun county. He had
beer climbing on q traction engine for
ride, though put of several times,
and finally fell, the engine passing over
his body, crushing him to death. No
blame was attached to the engineer.
Page County Court has been engaged
for several days in the trial of Sylvanus
TAYLOR, who lives near Marksville, and
who is charged with wronging Miss
Molie Jenkins, daughter of the late
Banks Jenkins, of the same section.
TAYLOR is a married man with several
children. Large crowds are daily in at
tendance on the case.
James S. Bloxton, saw mill owner
and lumber dealer, was instantly kill
ed at his saw mill on Potomac run in
Stafford county, yesterday. A log
striking MIR. Bloxton under the left
Jaw killed him instantly. 1t was the
last log in the mill. MIR. Bloxton was
forty-seven years OF age, and leaves
widow and seven children.
Robert Craig, VINO went to Lynch
burg from Baltimore about q month
ago and who had been engaged in or
ganiziog q new fraternal insurance Or
der, was found dead in his room at the
Mansion House yesterday afternoon.
He leaves widow and children. He
had been drinking heavily of late and
was in the habit of taking laudsnum to
produce sleep.
Colonel Edmund Pendleton, aged
seventy-fve years, died ct Lexington
yesterday at the residence of his dsugh-
ter, Mrs. Walter Coles. Col. Pendle-
ton was born in Amherst county. AT
the outbreak of the civil war be enter
cd the Confederate service as a major of
the Fifteenth Louisiana regiment, OF
which he later became colonel, and so
continued until the close of the war.
A. Rendsburg, one of the oldest resi-
dents of Warrenton, died yesterday
evening, aged ninety-two years. For
years prior to the civil war he conduct
ed large mercantile business in that
place, and amassed considerable
money. He leaves one child. Mrs. G.
Ullman, of Wsrrenton, in whose name
Mr.. Rendsburg's business is now con-
Quoted. His remains will be carried to
Richmond for burial.
Prof ]. w. Mallet, of the University
OF Virginia, spent yesterday examining
the water works of Richmond, in order