Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-02-08
VIRGINIA NEWS.

The Fredericksburg waterpower has
been sold to northern capitalists.
Leading business men OF Suffolk are
considering proposition for the loca-
ton there of large silk mill.
Mr.. Henry Clagett Bennett, a we'll.
known citizen of Waterford, Loudoun
county, died on Saturday of consump-
ton.
The committee appointed by the
legislature to invite VIM. J. Bryan to
address them received telegram from
Mr. Bryan yesterday naming February
II as the date.
Miss Edgar Matte Smith, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Horace Smith, was
married to Mr.. Albert Lsndon Moffett,
at the home of the bride, near Rector
town, yesterday.
John Conway, well.known citizen
OF Winchester and former prominent
railroad contractor, died in Richmond
Tuesday night at the Catholic hospital,
where he had gone for treatment for
cancer.
The Morton-L Lewis Wiley Lumber
| Company, of Bristol, has purchased q
1,OO0.acre tract OF timber land in Hol.
ston Valley, 10 miles east of Bristol,
for which it paid $4,000. The COM
pany will convert the timber into lum-
Der at its Bristol mills.
Mr.. James B. Doherty, of Richmond,
was yesterday appointed by Governor
| Tyler as commissioner of labor and in
dustrial statistics, to succeed Mr.. A. P.
Montague. resigned. The appointment
was confirmed by the Senate. Mr..
Montague is cigarmaker and promi-
nently connected with labor organiza-
tons.
Little progress was made yesterday
! in the trial of Justice of the Peace
Fleming, at Norfolk, charged with the
murder of Clarence Snyder. There is
much uncertainty as to when the case
will be concluded. Judge White, who
is presiding at the trial, expressed the
opinion that the end may not be reach
ed until the end of the week.
Mr.. William Wertenbaker and Miss
Imoeen Peyton, of Charlottesville, went
to Washington on Saturday where they
were married. The groom is the son
of Col. Charles 9. Wertenbaker and the
bride the youngest daughter OF the late
Major Green Peyton, Tor many years
proctor OF the University of Virginia.
Mr.. Wertenbaker is q student 10 the
medical department of the university.
There is talk of railroad from Min
eral City. Louisa county, to deep wa
ter, on the Potomac river, as an outlet
for the products OF the pyrites mines
near that place. If built the direct
route of the line would be through
Spottsylvania county, by Spottsylvania
Court House to Fredericksburg, thence
across Stafford to Belle Plains, on the
Potomac. Much interest is felt around
Fredericksburg in the project.
The trial of Taylor Snuff charger for
the attempted assassination of J. F.
Meyers last November, yesterday, in
the county court of Pulaski, resulted
in an acquittal, as was expected. The
case was tried before the same Jury
which on Tuesday convicted Meyers of
betraying Snuff chargers daughter, in
the course of which the attorney for
the Commonwealth stated that Shuttle
burger did right in shooting Meyers.
The remains of Mrs. Diane Fontaine
Corbin, widow Of the late 8. Wexford
Corbin, of "Farleyvsle," in King
George county. who died at the home
of her brother-in-law, Mr.. James K.
Werth, in Richmond on Tuesday, were
buried in Fredericksburg yesterday IN
the city cemetery. The deceased wac
the second daughter OF the late Com
modore Matthew Fontaine Maury, and
was the author OF biography Of her
distinguished father.
A meeting was held in Culpeper
Tuesday evening to advocate making
the town dispensary community. The
meeting was called by the Social Safety
Club, which announced desire to
Improve the morals of the town."
Many OF those present objected to hav-
ing such matter sprung upon them,
and declined to vote for the PROPOSE
ton, and number left the hall. Those
who remained approved the plan, and
appointed q committee to wait upon
the county's members in the General
Assembly.