Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-06-02
Virginia News.


Governor Montague spoke at the odd
Fellows reunion at Mount Jackson yes
terday.
Miss Fannie Ross, daughter OF Doc.
tor and Mrs. George Ross, was married
yesterday afternoon at the home OF her
parents 10 Richmond to Mr.. William
H. Palmer, jr.
The crops in Culpeper are suffering for
rain,- The hay crop is almost a total
failure, wheat and oats under an average,
fruit nearly all killed except dewberries
aud blackberries.
The final exercises of the eighty-frst
session of the University of Virginia will
begin Sunday, June | /, at p. M, with
baccalaureate sermon by 1t. Rev.
Davis Sessums, Bishop of Louisiana.
A social event was the marriage in
Richmond last night in Grace Street
Presbyterian Church of Miss Elsie
Watkins, daughter of Mrs. J. Judson
Watkins, to Mr.. George Latane Faunt-
leroy.
A pretty home wedding that took
place at noon yesterday was that of Miss
Bessie Houchens, daughter of Mr.. l..
r. HCuchens, of WarrentOn, and DR..
Albert l.. Lawrence, at the home of the
brides arents, in Washington.
In st. Georges Episcopal Church
Fredericksburg. at 6 o'clock yesterday
evening, Miss Elizabeth French Crutch-
field, daughter Of Mrs. f. NJ. Crutch-
field, of that city, was married to Mr.
John Minor Gatewdod, formerly of
West Point, Va, now of Boston, Mass
Surry county was the center Wednes-
day night of terrible storm of wind,
hail and lightning. Many windows
were broken and chimneys demolished,
while fruit and shade trees were hurled
to the ground and lightning struck here
and there. The telephone system was
wrecked. No one was killed.
The Episcopal Council for the Do
ctse of Southern Virginia at Wytheyille
yesterday adjourned to meet in Lynch
burg in October for the purpose of elect
ing a bishop coadjuior, provided favor
able responsei is obtained from the bishops
and standing committees of the. o'her
diocese to the requests for permission to
elect one.
The Court of Appeals will convene at
Wythevile next week for the usual sum-
mer term there. The docket includes q
long list of cases for argument, and il
is expected that opinions will be handed
down next Thursday in a number o. cases
argued at the last term in Richmond. A
large class of applicants for license to
practice law will be examined.
In the graduating class at the Naval
Academy this year will be six men
from Virginia Theodore q. Ellyson,
Richmond Robert A. Jackson, Peters
burg w. V. Woodson, Lynchburg !
Winfield Light, IT,, Harrisonburg,
aud William S. McClintic, Fort Lewis,
Bath county. These young men soon
will begin their long cruise.
Col. Rudolph Bumgardner and Miss
Mamie Brooke Scott, both of Stanton,
we're quietly married in Richmond yes
terday at the residence of Miss SCOTS
cousin, Mrs. Edwin Peasants. The
bride is a daughter of Rev. w. n. Scott,
OF the Second Presbyterian Church,
stanton. Col. Bumgardner is one of
Staunton's most prominent young law
yers.
Mrs. Park G. Bagby. widow of DR..
George c. Bagby, retired yesterday from
her position ir the State Auditors Office,
where she has served 81 years. Mrs.
Bagby is socially prominent, and has
always been active in works of charity.
Her declining health made this step
necessary T.. /, Thornhill, Of Lynch
burg, has been appointed to the Office
so long held by Mrs. Bagby,
Yesterday, which was the anniversary
of the first encounter OF the civil war
and the death of John Quincy Mari, at
Fairfax, the Confederate veterans and
their friends assembled and decorated
the graves in the cemetery and the
mould which is surmounted by the hand
some monument to the memory of the
soldiers of Fairfax who died during the
war. Speeches were made by Messrs.
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