Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-10-20
VIRGINIA NEWS.

A case of smallpox developed in Nor
folk yesterday. and the patient is Geo.
Eley, colored.
Ex-senator William A. Little. of
Fredericksburg. is seriously i'll in New
York city, where he went on visit
several weeks ago.
1t is said that Mr.. R. T. Barton will
be elected mayor OF Winchester to fill
the vacancy caueed by the death of
Mayor ]. J. Williams.
Mrs. Mary Brooks died in Richmond
yesterday morning in the 91st year of
her age. Deceased was probably the
Oldest white woman in Richmond.
The Holy Wood Cemetery Associa-
| tioD, of Richmond, in whose ground
ex-President Tyler is buried, mas de-
cided to erect monument over his
grave.
MIR. ]. B. Beverley has completed his
| contract for making the Leesburg and
Point of Rocks turnpike to the Lime.
stone run, six miles from Leesburg, and
the road is we'll made. The remainder
of the twelve miles is not yet contract
ed for.
Mrs. William B. Taliaferro died at
her home, Durham Maasie, on North
river, Gloucester county, on Wednes-
day. Mrs. Taliaferro WIS the widow
ofthe late General William B. Talia.
ferro, and daughter OF the late Judge
Lyons, of Richmond.
Tie Piedmont Rifles, a volunteer
company recently organized at Mar
tinsville, has been mustered into seiv-
ice. The company has muster.roll OF
81 officers and privates, with o. W.
Stone captain, Plummer Drewry first
lieutenant and r. A.. Fontaine second
lieutenant.
The trouble over candidate for
Fauquier and Loudoun counties has
at last been settled by the withdrawal
of Mr.. Lucien T. Smith, nominated by
the Mddleburg convention, and the in
dorsement of w. 81 Lewis, agreed upon
by the executive committees of the two
counties. There will, therefore, be no
contest.
Miss Adelaide M. Rogers, one of Nor
folks most popular bellies, died sudden
| " yesterday at the home of her par
ents, Col. and Mrs. T. F. Rogers. Miss
Rogers returned from New York Wed
nesday. She was taken i'll CD route
home. Miss Rogers was shortly to
have been married and her psllbearers
will be the men who were to have been
the ushers at her wedding.
Rev. Arthur G. Thomson, of Fern
Bank, Ohio, has accepted the call to
Trinity Church, Portsmouth, to sue
coed Rev. ]. B. Funston, recently
elected to the Bishopric of Boise, Ida
ho. Mr.. Thomson was born abroad, Of
Virginia parents. He received his col
legiate and theological training at the
University of Pennsylvania and Theo-
logical Seminary near this city.
Mrs. Thomas Shaw, seventeen years
old went to the Union Stock Yards, in
Richmond, yesterday, where her hus-
band is employed, ard after conversing
with him few moments, raised two
ounce vial of laudanum to her lips and
swallowed the poison. AS long as she
was conscious she charged her husband
with wrecking her life, and that their
marriage was forced. He ruined her
home, broke her mothers and fathers
hearts, and then deserted her, she said.
The woman will recover.
Sir Moses Ezekiel, of Rome, the
sculptor, spent Tuesday and Wednes-
day ID Lexington as the guest of the
alumni committee OF the New Market
battle monument to be erected to the
corps of cadets of the Virginia Military
Institute. The bronze, which he is to
design, will be ready for unwilling by
May Is, 1901, the day OF the anniver-
sary of the battle OF New Market. 1t
will be cast in Italy and will cost IS 600.
Sir Moses was color guard in the bat
tie of New Market and after the battle
| WAS made ORDERLY sergeant.