Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-06-22
Virginia News.

Ulauys, tue DaDy daugnter vi ~.
Lynch, of Norfolk, fell from window
yesterday and was killed.
The State Department at Washing
ton has been informed of the death IN
Calcutta, India, March 5, 1904, OF U.
Hall, of Virginia. -
More than 400 people attended the
barbecue rendered the Confederate and
Southern societies ofWasbington yester-
day by Mr.. j. j. Darlington at his coun-
try house near Herndon.
Ground has been broken at Flat Top,
near Roanoke, for the erection by the
Dupont Powder Company, of Philadel-
phia, of an immense powder mill, to
cost more than 81, 900, 600.
Chesapeake and Ohio Elevator A, at
Newport News, the largest grain ele-
vator OIL the Atlantic seaboard, resumed
operations yesterday afternoon. 1t was
closed down suddenly six weeks ago for
lack of business.
The marriage of James NJ. Marshall,
of Culpeper county, and Hiss Maria
Minor de Jarnette, daughter OF Capt. +.
II. De Jarnette, OF Spcttsylvania county
took place few days ago at the home Of
the bride near Lewiston.
Miss Mary Jane Morgan, daughter of
DR.. R. w. Morgan, late examining den
tai surgeon, U. S. A., was married yes
terday at her fathers home in Campbell
county to William r. Barksdale, son OF
Judge Barksdale, of Halifax county.
George d. Pleasantsy one of the best
known residents of Richmond, died last
night aged about 20 years. Mr.. Peasants
was one of the Henrico county magis-
trates that sat in the famous trial OF Jeter
Phillips, who was hanged for wife muir
der.
Suit has been brought by Miss Annie
Day, of Fairfax, for IS, 900 against the
Norfolk and Western road. Miss Day
was painfully injured while travelling last
summer, and she attributes the accident
to the carelessness of the officials OF the
railway.
Thomas NJ. Page, formerly an engi-
neer on the Norfolk and Western Rail-
road, but for some years connected with
the Richmond Locomotive Works, acct
dentally fell under an engine in the
yard of the works yesterday afternoon
and was killed, his skull being crushed.
Capt. George p. Shackelford, special
agent of the Fidelity and Casualty Com
pany, of New York, in Richmond, was
married in Lexington, n. c., yesterday
to Miss Alice Senwell. Capt. Shackleford
commanded Company c., Seventeen Vir-
GINA Regiment, during the Spanish
American war.
Messrs. Davis & Davis, Washington,
patent attorneys, report the grant, this
week, to citizens of this State of the fol-
loving patents: William W Dinwiddie,
of Charlottesville, for loom Tor bead
work John A. Elliott, of Richmond, for
a water elevator; Thomas S. Inge, of
Danville, for a piston road packing.
Miss Virginia Sherrard died suddenly
at 5 o'clock yesterday while sitting at
the dinner table in Winchester. Heart
disease caused death. She lived at
Saratoga, the home owned owned by
Gen. Daniel Morgan, of Revolutionary
fame, Which was built by Hessian
prisoners, Miss Sherrard was a daugh-
ter OF the late Judge Joseph II. Sher-
rard. She was about 60 years of age.
Ex-Governor w. 4. Cameron's with.
drawal from the race for Congress in the
Fourth district insures the denomination
and election of Hon. Robert e. South
all, of Amelia, who has served only one
term. Mr.. Southall is opposed only by
former Judge Leo d.. Yalrell, of Greenes-
vile. The retirement of Colonel Cam
eron means the withdrawal from active
political life of one Of the most brilliant
Virginians of the past half century.