Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-10-18
Virginia News.

The Medical Society of Virginia will
meet in Richmond tonight.
Mr.. Fielding Slaughter. son of the
late Warren Slaughter. of Fredericks-
burg, died in Norfolk Saturday night.
Mr.. Thomas NJ. Nelson, of Boyce,
Clarke county, has sold his large estate
near that place to Mrs. Harriet Gilpin, oil
Baltimore, Nd, for $4,000
At South Boston yester day a company
Of militia was organized with 100 mem
bers. S. +. Gilliland was chosen cap
tain. He is a newspaper man.
Mrs. Margaret Snellings, widow of the
late Robert Snellings, of Fredericksburg,
died at her home in that city Monday, OF
cancer of the stomach, in the Goth year
of her age.
Rev. H. T. Graham, OF Winchester,
who has been pastor ofthe Fayetteville,
IN. CO. Presbyterian Church for eight
years, yesterday accepted the pastorate
of the Farmville church.
Mrs. Alfred Garrett, wife of Rev. Al
fred Garrett, son of Capt. William E.
Garrett, of Leesburg, died near Asbe-
vile, N. O., on Saturday, after brief
illness from consumption. Her hus-
band and one child survive.
At the home of w. Y. Morgan near
Warsaw yesterday morning, Miss Mary
Virginia Walker became the bride ofRe7-
N. A. Page, Of the West Bedford circuit.
The marriage ceremony was performed
by Rev. w. w. Walker, of Westmore-
land, uncle of the bride, assisted by Rev.
w. +. Davis.
Vice presidential candidate Davis and
party made dash over the West Vir-
ginia line into Virginia and an early
morning stop was made at Roanoke.
This was done to please Senator Daniel,
of Virginia, one of the Davis party. The
special next makes for Blue6eid, w.
Va, a ride of six hours.
Judge A. T. Embry, of the Corpora
ton Court, of Fredericksburg, decided
the quo warranto proceeding in favor Of
Mayor Thomas P. Wallace. This was
the case OF the protest against the action
of Mayor Wallace in presiding over the
new City Council until it was organized
and casting a deciding vote.
The estate of the late r. S. Chinn,
near Middleburg, containing 375 acres,
has been purchased by Mr.. T. U. Dud-
ley, ir., of New York, nephew Of Bis
hop Dudley. The purchaser will i'm
prove it for country residence. Prof
q. f. Barber, of the University of
Nebraska, has purchased from Mrs.
Kate Flagg her farm in Fairfax county.
Moncure d. Conway, who for many
years has been very eminent among the
literary men of England, and close friend
and literary executor of Carlyle, the his
torian, has had grand banquet ten
dered him in London. In lS49 he was
4 clerk in the Circuit Court Clerks Office
in Warrenton under VIM. +. Philips,
and a member of the Warrenton Deba-
ing Society.
The report of the State board of health
for September, which has just been made
public, shows a prevalence OF tuberculo-
sis. Two-fifths of the physicians in the
State sent in reports, the number of
cases noted being 1868. In some coun-
ties the disease is almost wholly among
the negroes. There are 200 cases in the
hospitals, jails and State penitentiary
The number of cases in Norfolk, the
largest reported from any one city, is
S75. Richmond reports 245 cases. In
the list OF counties, Pittsylvania leads,
having l04 cases. President Ewing, OF
the board of health, thinks that complete
reports would show 10000 cases of con-
sumption in the State.