Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-01-19
PETERSBURG
will Ask the City to Assist the
Fair.
kctch of Romance OF Francis Anto-
matt Rend Bcforo Tuosdny Cub
Marriage Announcements Cour,
matters-Saie of Property.

| petersburg, Va. Jan. ia sub-com
mittee consisting OF Captain e. A.
Goodwin and Messrs. Charles III Davis
and III. =. Stratton has been appointed
! by the committee TO solicit subscrip-
tons to the capital stock of the asso-
citation. under whose auspices the pro-
| posed agricultural and industrial fair
is to be held. to wait on the Common
| Council and request that body to sub
scribe on the part of the city to a Ger
tain number of shares of the capital
stock of the association. This commit
tee will probably appear before the
Council az its next meeting.
| ROMANCE OF FRANCIS ANTO-
MATTI.
At the meeting of the Tuesday Club a
| brief of this character was written for
the Antiquities Committee by Mr.. En-
nett Badger, and read by Mr.. William
boarded in the family of Mrs. Pucci,
on Cross street and his love for her
daughter is supposed to be the direct
cause of his death. On the morning of
July %, 1874. Messrs. Camille Pucci
and Alexander Nelson received a letter
to destroy his life. They proceeded
with all possible haste to the place
designated in the hope of preventing
the crime. only 10 find Antomatti in a
lying condition from bullet fired in
his neck by his own hand. He lin
the 31st of July, 1874, at the age of
twenty-three.
PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert w. Collier. Of
this city. have issued invitations to the
marriage of their daughter. Sarah Hill
10 Mr.. Samuel Gillian Wilson. The
ceremony will take place at the First
Baptist Church Thursday afternoon,
January Goth. ut $50 o'clock.
1t is not probable that the hearing of
the application recently made to Judge
Waddll, of the United States District
Court. 10 adjudge NJ. Levy, of this city,
bankrupt, will take place before next
week Mr.. r. Is. Davis, who represents
the trustees under the deed of assign
mcnt has engagements which will oc-
cupy his time for several days.
Professor Thornton. of the University
OF Virginia, has consented to deliver n
lecture before the Tuesday Club. of this
city. probably on the 3lst instant.
Mr.. T.. w. Tucker has accepted the
position OF stenographer and typcwrit-
er in the Clerks Office. He fills the
vacancy caused by the resignation of
Mr.. Leroy Weber, who has taken n
similar position with Senator Martin.
The grand jury term of the Hastings
Court begins tomorrow. There are n
number of criminal cases, on which the
jury will have to pass.
Thomas PanniN. auctioneer, sold at
public auction yesterday afternoon at
o'clock. on the premises. for the owner.
stores Nos. 2S and 30 east side OF Syca-
more street. Messrs. John II. Rodgers
and w. Gordon McCabe. Jr.. who COM
pose the firm of John II. Rodgers e Co..
were the purchasers and the price paid
was $1,000.
DIR. Frank Hams. who has been sick
for several days with the grip, is i'm
proving.
The law permitting the shooting OF
deer in Prince George county expired on
the 18th inst.
There was sold at Farmers Ware
house yesterday for Mr. V. G. Love,
Of Lunenburg county. fifteen thousand
pounds of loose tobacco. The prices
ranged from two dollars to twelve dol
lars per hundred pounds.
Mr.. Il. T.. Hatch is quite sick at his
home on West Tabb street with an at
tack OF the grip.