Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-08-07
CONFEDERATE VETERANS MEET.
Ridgely Brown Camp in Session.
Charge of Assault.
,cial Correspondence of The Evening Star.

Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.
ROCKVILLE Md, August 6, 1889.
The annual meeting of Ridgeiy Brown
Camp of Confederate Veterans was held
yesterday. Fourteen were in attendance
and the day proved enjoyable one in
every particular Those present were:
Colonel Gustavus Dorsey, Colonel Spencer
c. Jones, Captain James Anderson, Cap
tain Thomas Griffith, Benjamin Candy,
Edmund l.. Amiss, David H. Horner, Cooke
D. Luckett, John P. Sellman, ]. H. Lawson,
Frank b. Horner, Elgin L. Tschiffely, Will
liam H. Gunnell and David Griffith.
In the morning a business session was
held in the court house. The following
officers were elected for one year. Spencer
Z. Jones, commander; John P. Sellman,
lieutenant commander; Edmund l.. Amiss.
adjutant; Elgin l.. Tschiffeiy, treasurer;
Frank b. Horner, chaplain; David Griffith,
Cooke D. Luckett and David H. Horner,
executive committee. John z. Sellman,
Spencer c, Jones, Elgin L. Tschiffely and
Thomas Griffith were chosen delegates
to the national confederate reunion to be
held at Louisville, and Gustavus Dorsey,
Spencer c. Jones, EIgin l.. Tschiffely and
Thomas Griffith We're elected delegates to
the state confederate reunion, which will
be held in Baltimore.
The camp decided to visit Grace Church
cemetery, in Wheaton district, this county,
next Decoration day for the purpose of
decorating the graves of the seventeen I'M
known confederate dead buried there. A
program of appropriate exercises will be
arranged and an effort will be made to
make the day an important and interesting
one.
matter which was fully discussed and
which met with the unanimous approval of
the camp was the proposed removal of the
remains of the confederate soldiers buried
at Arlington to the Grace Church ceme-
terry, and in the discussion the hope was
expressed that this transfer would be made
in the near future.
After enjoying an elaborate dinner at the
Corcoran Hotel several hours were spent
in relating "reminiscences Of the war and
other interesting stories.
John T. Hawkins. weli-known farmer
of CIarksburg district, this county, was
arrested yesterday afternoon upon charge
of assault upon with intent to kill his
twenty-one-year-old son Oscar. The father
and son became involved in a controversy,
and the old man, 1t is alleged, losing his
temper, grabbed an iron gate hinge and
struck the boy a vicious blow on the head,
inficting a dangerous wound.
Mr.. and Mrs. Warren Choate and daugh-
tiers, Misses Katherine and Eliza, have
gone to Harper's Ferry for week.
Miss Isabelle Bouic of this place is visit
ing Miss Laura Mulhall, at Fort Myer, Va.
Mr.. William Pierce and family of Wash
ington are guests at the WoodaWn.
Miss Mellinell Rhodes of Baltimore Is
visiting Miss Mary Welsh.
Judge and Mrs c. F. Scott and Miss
Mabel Scott of Kensington have gone to
Mountain Lake Park to spend several
weeks.
The annual tournament and festival of
St. Johns Church at Forest Glen will be
held Thursday, August II, in the grove
near the church.
Miss Katherine Brooke, Mr.. and Mrs.
Fred Stabler, Mr.. Alban G. Thomas and
family and Mr.. Warwick P. Stabler of Oh
ney district are at Capon Springs.