Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-12-17
VIRGINIA NEWS.

BENJAMIN Davis died Monday at the
residence of his nephew, Joseph Hall,
about % miles south of Leesbnrg, aged
60 years.
William Mitchell, of Graham, has
sold the Montgomery White Sulphur
Springs, near Christiansburg, to a party
of capitalists.
A thousand persons attended the kill
ing of two hogs belonging to George I.
Mapp, of Kellar, which together weighed
nearly 1000 pounds.
1t is said that Mr.. d. c. O'Flaherty
will announce himself a candidate to
represent the senatorial district COM
posed of the counties of Warren, Clarke,
and Page.
John Shackelford, of Scots Creek,
Norfolk county, died Monday night.
He was in the one-hundred and fifth
year of his age, having been born IN
Gloucester county April l, 1898.
Mr.. Hay has introduced bill in the
House for the relief of old Thornton S
Gap Baptist church in Rappahannock
county, for 81, 800 damages done by
federal troops during the civil war.
Mrs. Fielding Lewis, of King George,
is very sick in Washington. Mrs. Lewis
was called to Washington a few days
ago by the death of her sister, and was
taken suddenly Ill soon after reaching
there.
The Peoples National Bank, at Lees
burg, has what some say is the largest
deposit of any country banking institu-
ton in the South, the amount being
nearly 100000, according to the last
report.
J. Oscar Athey, charged with being
an accessory to the death of his wife,
was dismissed of the charge in the Cor
poration Court of Winchester on Mon
day, not Washington, as stated in the
| Gazette.
A jury in the Hastings Court of Rich
mond yesterday failed to agree on the
question whether the publication and
issuance of Sunday papers is violation
of the Sunday labor law. Counsel for
the defense contended that Sunday
newspapers are necessity.
The State Board of Medical Exami-
ners met in Richmond yesterday. Sixty
nine men are making application to the
board this year for license to practice
medicine in Virginia; of this number
thirty-five are graduates OF some medical
school and the remaining thirty-four are
yet to receive their diplomas.
Governor Montague has sent to the
General Assembly a communication
from Secretary Wilson, of the Depart
ment of Agriculture, asking the consent
of the legislature to the purchase of a
tract of67 acres of land on thesummit of
the Blue Ridge, near Trappe, in Lou
doun county, upon which a weather OBJ
seryatory is to be erected.
Senator Martin has introduced a
bill to give Charlottesville and Roanoke
two terms of the United States Circuit
and District courts a year. The bill
also provides that there shall be a
clerk appointed for each of these places
instead of deputy clerks, as is the case
under the present law. Similar bills
will be introduced in the House by
Representatives Hay and Glass.
Bishop r. A. Gibson, of the Episcopal
Church, has arrived at Fredericksburg
from a trip through the Northern Neck,
in which he visited ten churches and con-
firned twenty-eight persons. Sunday
he dedicated the new Wicomico Church
in Northumberland county. DR.. r. w.
Micou, of the Episcopal Theological
Seminary, near Alexandria, donated to
this church a handsome reading desk,
prayer desk and communion table in the
name of himself, his wife and the widow
of his son, Rev. Granville Micou, a
former rector of the church.
ELECTRIC Shock on A CAIRNS.
Anna StapletOn was struck dumb and
paralyzed by an electric shock as she was
alighting from an electric car in New
York Monday. 1t was said there that
she had not yet recovered her speech.
The young woman's jaws are not locked
but she cannot utter a sound. Her
tongue was found at first to have assumed
blush tint, but it aferward resumed its
natural color. Mrs. Stapleton and an
other woman were both affected by the
same electric shock. Mrs. Stapleton,
with a baby in her arms, had just
stepped down on the metal groove in
which the sliding doors Of the street car
run, when there was blush fash, and
she fell. Mrs. Stapleton's companion
tainted, but was soon revived. It's
thought that because she wore rubber
oyershoes she was saved from serious in
jury. 1t is not unusual for cars 10
become charged with electricity during
wet weather.