Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-01-18
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Mai. Holmes Conrad continues quite
sick at his home in Winchester.
Mrs. Charles 7. Hayes died at her
home heal Warrenton Tuesday night.
Cards are out announcing the marriage
next Thursday of Mr.. j. L. Beverley
Hutchison, of Manassas, and Miss Bessie
Barker, of Dover, Delaware.
Mrs. Ella Scott Maddux, formerly Miss
Hefiebower, of Fauquier, died at her
home at Marshall on Saturday. Death
resulted from an a~poplectic stroke.
The Dimes Savings Bank at Ports
mouth has closed its doors and will go in
to liquidation. The recent defalcation of
Cashier John H. Downing is said to be
the cause of the failure.
Austin Colbert was killed on Friday
evening by a fast train at Bealeton on
the Southern Railway, in Fauquier
county. He was walking on the track
when struck by the train.
At the meeting of the stockholders of
the jamestown exposition held at Nor
folk on Friday Messrs. Park Agnew, Of
Alexandria, and Joseph E. Willard, of
Fairfax, were elected directors at large.
The anniversary of the birthday of
Lee and Jackson was observed in Rich
mond yesterday by the military and
Confederate organizations. There was
a parade, followed by special church
services.
Frank Noll, of Richmond, went to
Lynchburg on Saturday and announced
himself the husband of Mrs. Elsie Noll,
the young woman who committed sui
eide there on Friday. He purchased a
casket and a grave in the cemetery for
her interment.
The colored congregation of the late
John Jasper's church in Richmond will
unveil a statue to the memory of Jasper
this evening. The monument is not
paid for, and admission will be charged
at the door on the occasion to pay for the
memorial to the colored divine whose
''sun-do-moye'' sermon made him world
famous.
The Bristol police on Friday night
broke down the doors to q gambling
o run by George Cornell. Fifteen
men were arrested and taken before
Mayor Rice, who held them in bond.
Many OF those arrested are well-known
men, among them being II. NJ. Smythe,
exhibited States minister to Hayti, and
now a prominent business man.
Edward V. Valentine, the we'll known
sculptor, has recently taken measure
ments of the Houdon statue of George
Washington in the rotunda of the CAPT
tol in Richmond. Mr.. Valentine, who
has been selected as the artist to make
the statute of George Washington to be
placed in the hall Of fame, in Washing
ton, will shortly commence work on the
statue.
After a trial of three days, the case Of
the Commonwealth against Humphrey
Potts was concluded late on Saturday
evening in L~eesburg, the jury returning
a verdict of not guilty. Self.defense
was pleaded by the defendant. Potts
was indicted for killing his cousin,
Johnnie Virts, in Hillsboro, OF Novem-
Der IA, BY stabbing him. Both the
young men were about eighteen years
OF age.
At Spottsylvania Court House on
Friday night, in the trial of j. P. H.
Crismond, formerly clerk of the court,
the jury acquitted him on two more
counts, and on Saturday decided that
he was not guilty on seven other indict-
ments. This leaves only one indict-
ment, which is a charge of forgery, and
hat will 60 over to the Circuit Court.
The case has attracted great interest
throughout that section.