Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-01-27
THE OLD DOMINION
Brief Items of Interest Picked Up
Here and There.

Mr. Park Daniel, one of the oldest
citizens of Charlotte county, died Tues
day near Abcline, aged 30 years.
a great deal OF pine wood is now
being shipped from Oak TO New York
City.
Jim Porter, colorcd, who killed John
Staples in Dudley's bar-room. at Char
lottesvile was convicted and impris-
oned for thirty months.
Mr.. John w. Boswell and Miss Helen
Edmonds, of Danvlle. were joined i'll
wedlock Wednesday evening.
Miss salie Virginia Hardy,of rreder-
icksburg. and Mr.. George Hamilton
Lehew. of Alexandria,, were made man
and wife Wednesday night.
ing merchant of Winchester, died after
q protracted illness Wednesday night
at an advanced age.
Mr.. F. Otey Hoffman. late OF Red
ford, is court stenographer in Alabama
Mr. Teeny Cundiff, n large and in
dependent farmer Of Bedford county,
has lost his mind brooding over prop
erty losses.
Ex-Governor T. NJ. w. Holiday is i'll
at his home. in Winchester.
Miss Elizabeth o. Bcckwith. of this
city. and Quartermastcr Sergeant Chas.
Frederick BartelS. of the Fourth Reyi-
ment. United States Volunteers. i'm
munes. were married Wednesday even
ing in Fredericksburg.
Adolphus Tate. 10. yenr-old boy of
Franklin. was killed in Mayberry, w.
Va. on Monday.
Thomas Arlington. of Goose Creek.
Bedford county, died last Friday morn
ing after ten days sickness. He was
most exemplary man, aged about SO,
and unmarried.
Several gentlemen from the northwest
have been in Bedford county recently
looking to purchase farm lands. Mr..
Isaac Draper sold his farm and several
others have options taken on theirs.
The veteran commercial traveller, well
and properly known as Captain AL
Williams, has retired to a large farm
in Missouri. He has a large circle of
wealthy and influential relatives in this
State. The road loses one of its jolliest
and popular travellers.
The steamer Potomac, of the vecms
Line, is still aground on Bar Neck in
Coan river and bids fair to remain so
for some time. Efforts to pull her off
by the steamers Wakefield and Sue and
u tug from Baltimore have all proved
futile. and the steamer has not budged
or even rocked in her position. She
went aground at full speed.
At Staunton. Wednesday evening.
Miss Lizzie c., daughter of Judge
Charles Grattan, became the bride of
MIR. Warner Louis Oliver, Jr
In the chanel of the University of
Virginia Wednesday evening" Miss
Resale. daughter of Prof. Francis Fl. |
Smith was married to DIR. Isaac Car
rington Harrington, of Clarksvillc. |
Mecklenburg countH
Mr.. John G. Melville. superintendent
OF the fredericksburg Wooden Mills, |
died Wednesday. He was born in Scot
land in 1927.
Miss Mary Il. Billings. principal of
Fairfax Seminary. in Winchester. and |
one OF the most noted educators in the |
State died here last night after q |
short illness of pneumonia She was |
the daughter of the late Rev. Slas Bill |
lings, former pastor OF the Loudoun |
Street Presbyterian Church, and was CO
years of age.
Rev Theron H. Rice, of Atlanta. Ga |
who was formerly pastor of the Sec |
ond Presbyterian Church of Alexandria |
was Wednesday attacked with scarlet |
fever at the residence of the late j. j. |
Jameson. of the latter city. Rev. Dr. |
Iice came on from Atlanta and |
preached the funeral of Mr. Jameson.
Mrs Gaver, wife OF Rev. II. a. Gaver, |
OF the Methodist Episcopal Church. |
South. died at her home. at Middletown
yesterday. aged GS years. The deceased
was an aunt of Rev. j. Watts ShoaT, |
of the Baltimore Conference Methodist
Episcopal Church. South.
Mrs. Mary c. Scott widow of the
late Francis w. Scott. Of Campbell
county, died of paralysis at the home
of her daughter, Mrs. John II. Moore.
in Washington. yesterday, aged 81
years. Mrs. Scott had n large and
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