Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-01-05
VIRGINIA NEWS.

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His condition is critical.
At Hampton yesterday evening Miss
Katherine West Tabb, daughter of Mr..
William Kemp Tabb, was married to
Mr.. James Van Allen Bickford.
At its meeting Tuesday night the
Newport News city council authorized
the board OF health to adopt rule for
compulsory vaccination should it be
deemed necessary.
Rev. and Mrs. Nelson P. Dame, of
Winchester, were the recipients OF q
handsome donation from the members
OF Christ Episcopal church, of which
| Mr. Dame is rector.
Mr.. D. E Nicol, OF Manassas, land
Miss Ella Garth, of Madison, were
married January 2. Mr.. Nicol is q
! brother to Judge Nicol, and is very
popular young man.
Judge Carr Bailey, al old citizen and
wealthy farmer of Lee county, COM
mtted suicide by jumping in front of a
train yesterday. 1t is thought that his
/ mind was unbalanced. His body was
terribly mutilated.
The residence of Mr.. Mack Stephens,
in Stafford county, near Fredericks-
burg, was on Tuesday destroyed by
fire, together with such of the furniture
aud large quantity OF wheat, oats,
sc, which was stored in two of the
rooms. Loss about 81 200 and no in
surance.
| Miss Estelle Amelia Hirsh, the
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Sampson
Hirsh, was married yesterday evening
at the residence of her parents in Rich
mond. to DR.. Wm. s. Deutsch, we'll
known physician of St. Louis, Mo. Rev.
DR.. E. n. Calisch, rabbi of Beth Ahab,
officiated.
r. L. Sanders, former well-known
citizen of Fauquler, died at Cstharpiu,
Prince William county, on Tuesday
from the grip. He was in his 10th year.
He served as magistrate in. Fauquier
county for number of years, and
at one time conducted a large mercan-
tile business at New Baltimore.
The board of directors OF the Prince
| William Horsemen's Association met
on Friday and decided to have the next
exhibition on the 18th and 10Th OF July
| The Confederate veterans expect a
large crowd at Manassas on the list OF
that month, that date being the ami
versary of the battle OF Manassas.
Mrs. Emma Wigg, widow of the late
AIsi. William Hazard Wigg, died yes
farday ut Ghe residence of her son, Mr.
s P. Wigg, in Portsmouth. She wa-
seventy-f}ur years of age and was q
/ sister of the late Admiral Thomas Stew
ems, U. S. N, and was the last suEviv
ing member of the Stevens family.
Mrs. Wigg formerly lived in this city.
| Sydney Johnson, aged fourteen years,
a son of W. r. Johnson, OF Prince
George county, was choked to death
Tuesday afternoon. a brother of the
unfortunate lad was eating peanuts,
when the latter grabbed some OF the
nuts FROM the hand of his brother and
began eating them. While pitching
some of the nuts in his mouth, one oil
them lodged in his windpipe.
The State commissioner of fisheries
reports that for April of last year until
Decem Der last the revenues from that
intesest. clear of al expenses, amount
ed to about $4,000. This showing is
highly encouraging to Governor Tyler
aud those interested in this subject.
Under the old system the income OF the
State from this source for the whole Of
the proceeding year was about $4,000,
and the expenses almost 81 600 greater.
All the ladies Of the Masonic Home
auxiliary, OF Richmond, who through
bszaars and other means have raised
SIC, 900 for this institution, have decided
t, resign and disband the organization.
| The ladies, numbering 10, feel ag.
grieved that the board Of governors
have lessened their control Of the instl-
tuition which they have practically fitted
out AMI denied them the right to die
tate how the matron shall manage the
home.
The soldiers recently mustered out
of service are grum bling because OF the
delay OF the governor and sdjutant
general in recognizing the State mill
| tia. These people are anxious to re-
enter the State service. The organized
militia now consists of two infantry
companies in Richmond, one in Man
chester, one at Smilhfeld and artillery
at Richmond, Portsmouth and Norfolk.
In the event of riot or other disorder
the three companies Of the First regi-
ment are practically all that are availa-
BILE for service.
Lieut.. David G. Shanks, 0. S. a
previous to the Spanish war assigned
as commandant OF the Virginia Poly
technic Institute, and since the call for
troops acting as muster Office in Rich
mond, was recently examined for pro-
motion, and yesterday received his
commission az captain, and was ordered
to leave New York January 10, via the
Suez canal, with the Eighteenth infan-
try, for Iloilo, Philippine Islands, to
Join the Seventeenth Infantry, now
there. Captain Shauks has the priv-
lego of taking his wife and two child
rem at the governments expense, but
will leave them in Richmond.
The Court of Appeals in Richmond
yesterday heard argument in the case
of Carter against the Commonwealth,
involving the right of the legislature TO
abridge the right of court to inaict
punishment for contempt. This is one
of the several cases which come before
the court under the law passed by the
lhstlegislature providing that in certain
cases the matter OF contempt shall be
tried before jury in the court in which
the offense is alleged. The law was
somewhat modelled after the bill which
passed the United State Senate q few