Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-05-07
Virginia News.


of Virginia will meet in Richmond on
the 18th.
A motion to instruct King George del
egates for Hearst yesterday received only
two votes.
Mr.. Harry st. George Tucker wants
tc be elector at large on the democratic
ticket from Virginia.
Albert Alder, son of the late James
Alder, died on Wednesday at his home
near Purcellyille, aged about forty years.
Robert L. Gray, of Winchester, was
yesterday elected president OF the Cum
berland Valley Firemen's Association.
Mrs. James Brown, of Round Hill,
died on Thursday at the residence of her
daughter, Mrs. William Lowe. She was
aged sixty-six.
Six clerks at the Southern Stamp
Works, Richmond, struck yesterday be-
cause the proprietor placed a woman
manager over them.
Mr.. Dulaney De Butts has been elect
ed chief marshal of the Upperville Horse
and Colt Show to be held on June 18th
and 10th at Grafton Hall, near Upper
vile.
In the jail yard at Tazewell Court
house yesterday, Henry Woodland, half
negro and half Indian, was hanged for
the murder of Frank Tabor, of Poca-
hontas, last December.
The Snickersville Telephone Company
has established long-distance telephone
line throughout the county of Loudoun,
connecting with lines to Baltimore,
Washington and Philadelphia.
A large barn belonging to Mrs. Susan
REYNOLDS, in lower Orange county, was
destroyed by fire on Thursday. Three
valuable horses and some other live
stock, together with farming imple-
ments, etc., were also consumed.
Mrs. Ora Langhorne, a former resi-
dent of Lynchburg, died at the home OF
her sister, Mrs. Foxhall Dainger6eld,
near Lexington, KY, yesterday, of heart
disease. She was 65 years old and was
the widow of Thomas Nelson Langhorne,
of Iynchburg.
Since August 6 seven of the nine men,
bers of Mrs. Martha A. E. Kings family
in Richmond have died. Martha Francis,
wife of w. n. Mayes, is the seventh
member of the family who has passed
away recently. She died about mid
night Thursday night. The husband and
a child 4-years-old alone remain.
The monument to be erected to the
memory of the military company of
Little Fork Rangers, which did such
valiant and patriotic service during The
dark days of 1861 to 1865 for the South
ern Confederacy, arrived at Culpeper
this week and will soon be put in posi-
ton on the spot in Culpeper county
where the above company was first or
ganized.
Mr.. e. L. G. Scott, pension clerk in
the Auditors Office, yesterday stated
that about two thousand pensioners had
been paid the amounts due them by the
provisions of the act of 1888. The pay
ment of all those entitled to pensions
under this act will be completed by
about next Wednesday. There are two
subsequent acts under which large sums
are paid out in pensions, and the pay
ments under these will soon be made by
the Auditors Office.
Quite stir has been created by the
Il Il Iylt ,1c
Episcopal Church, in Richmond, where
Patrick Henry made his defiant speech
to British miscontrol, is to be enlarged.
The church has been given new organ,
and there is no place to put it. There
are many people who look on any change
in the old historic pile as something of
a sacrilege. 1t is proposed to extend
the rear end of the church so as to make
room for the organ and new chancel.