Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-11-10
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Mr.. W. G. Palmer, of Bloomfield,
Loudoun county, has leased the Linden
Hotel in Leesburg from w. w. Nixon.
and will open the house to the public
on Monday next.
The Maryland Brewery Company, OF
Baltimore, formerly the Lion Brewing
Company, has decided to build several
large breweries in the South-one at
Lynchburg and on at Newport News.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis and her party
will return to New York today from
Richmond. She expresses great gratiti-
cation at the honor done the members
of her fam ly by the people OF the
South.
The headquarters of the internal
revenue department were removed
from Richmond to Petersburg today.
Col. ] D. Brady, the collector, has
made the transfer owing to his c0ntln-
ued poor health.
Mr.. Fontaine Beckham Hooff, OF
Oharlesiown, W. Va, was married
yesterday evening in Monumental
Episcopal Church, Richmond, to Miss
Margaret Heron Jones, daughter OF
Dr.. and Mrs. George Wardell Jones, OF
that city.
Hon. n. 8. z. Morrison, formerly
Judge of the Seventeenth Judicial Cir
cult of Virginia for number OF years
earlier Judge of the court OF Scott
county, died suddenly at his home at
Gate City yesterday afternoon at the
age of about IS.
Mrs. Elizabeth Powell Moore has
issued cards for the marriage OF her
daughter, Harriette Powell Strother'
to DR.. Jno. Emmett Early, OF Char
lottesville. The ceremony takes place
ia ST.. James Episcopal Church, Lees
burg, Wednesday next, November 10.
DR.. h. G. Sommersville, of Clarke
county, and Miss Philippe B. Ran
dolpb, of Warren, we're married on
Wednesday at the residence OF DIR. 8.
r. Miller in Front Royal. The bride
ia an attractive daughter of the late
Eston Randolph. The bridegroom is
one of the leading physicians OF Clarke
county, where be is well-known and
! has many friends.
Miss Lucy Temple Hundley, dau9h-
ter o Rev. J. Hervey Hundley, of E''
Sax county, Virginia. and DR.. John F.
Anderson, assistant surgeon, Unite d
States Marine Hospital Service, were
| married by Bishop F. M. Whittle, as
sisted by the brides father and Rev.
E. Meade, on Monday, November 6
al o'clock, at the home OF DR.. Jack
M. Hundley, Montagues, Essex county
John T. Alvey, of the firm of dealer;
10 -four, grain and hay in Richmond, has
mysteriously disappeared. He left his
] office Wednesday aft rnooD, and biz
( relatives and friends have heard moth
| ing of him since that time. Before biz
departure he made a will aud LETT it q
| his store addressed to his chief clerk
| He has been a great sufferer from dys
pepsia, and for the past month has
been in law spirits.
The passenger and freight steamship
Comus, the sixth vessel put overheard
at the Newport News shipyard thi
year, was launched yesterday afternoon
| in the presence OF several thousand PEG
pie. The Comus was built for the
Cromwell Line, to run between New
York and New Orleans. Her dimen
sions are: Length over all, 406 feel
nodded breadth, 4S feet; depth 80 fee
9 inches; gross tonnage, 1865 tons; ne
tonnage 1905 tons.
On November l6 the furlough of the
CORPS of cadets of the Virginia Military
Institute will expire, and the cadets
will report for duty. The six cadets
C ,u6ned to the hospital Gre convalesc
ing. Cadet Mcconnell has gone to hi:
home in Mobile, Ala. Superintendent
Ship says that none of the boys fur
loughed have had any symptoms OF fe
yer, nor have any of the employees O.
the institute, and they drink the same
water that the cadets use. The report
that the institute would possibly be re-
move to Staunton for the rest of the
year is without foundation.
In the legislative district composed O.
Surry and Prince George, Brandon
precinct, which gave Baugh, the indie
pendent candidate, 100 majority, has
been thrown out, and Barham, the
regular emocratic candidate, with 8
small majority, has been declared elect
ed. In Brunswick county Powell, the
independent, beat Price. democrat, by
1856 votes. Ellie, independent, won in
Lunenburg Judge W. 81. Mann, regu.
lar nominee for the Senate, was ected
by 1877 majority over Buford. Buforo
and Baugh will contest the election Of
Mann and Barham. respectively.