Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-06-15
Virginia News.

A marriage license was issued in
Washington yesterday to Daniei b,
Muddiman and Ida l.. Akers, both oil
Manassas.
J. w. Bitter was elected Mayor OF
Leesburg Tuesday over S. G. Chancellor
E. L. Peasants and Joseph Wright, his
opponents.
Mr.. and Mrs. Rozier Dulany will en-
terrain a house party at Oakley, IN
LOudoun county, this week, for the up
perville Colt Show.
The marriage of Miss Clara May
Bishop, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. ID.
Bishop, to Joseph Addison Weeks took
place yesterday at the Baptist Church
10 Warrenton.
Miss Mary Chinn, daughter OF the
late John l.. Chinn, of LoudOun county,
and Mr.. John ID. Moore we're married
yesterday at the home OF DR.. r. w.
Mifllin, cousin of the bride, in Balti-
more.
The wedding of Miss Frances Mon
cure Ashby, daughter of Mr.. James
Ashby, and Mr.. James Garland Boxley,
of Louisa county, wss celebrated in
Aqua Church Stafford county, Tuesday
evening.
George T. Cowherd, of Gordonsville,
and Miss Lula Camper, daughter of
Rev. w. H Camper, of Orange county,
were married yesterday at the Methodist
Church at Orange Court House, Rev.
A. G. Bledsoe officiating.
The twelfth annual convention of the
Virginia Bankers Association will be
held in Richmond, commencing to-
day and continuing for three days.
Speeches are to be made by Secretary of
the Treasury Shaw, Governor Montague
and others.
The young son of John w. Green
how, of Stafford county, has developed
hydrophobia. He was bitten last Feb
ruary by mad dog, and when he acted
strangely yesterday was taken to a ply
stefan, who pronounced his ailment
hydrophobia.
Mr.. James ID. Gravatt, a prominent
citizen of Bowling Green, who suffered a
stroke of paralysis Saturday, died at his
home Tuesday night, aged 81 years. He
was Confederate soldier, member of
the 9th Virginia Cavalry, and is the last
of large family.
In the election for Mayor and Coun-
cilmen of Manassas Tuesday what was
known as the "wet' ticket won over the
"drys" by large majority. This prac-
tically insures the reOpening of at least
some of the saloons early in October
which have been closed since May |,
Yesterday evening Mrs. Lucy Prich-
EFT, while walking along the Southern
Railroad, near the Stamford dye works,
a. Lynchburg, was killed almost instantly
by a time freight, which ran over her
while she was trying 10 get her pet dog
off The track. Deceased was about 80
years of age and lived with daughter
and son on Grace street, her husband be-
ing in Ohio.
Two most interesting features of the
State Central Democratic Committee,
which will convene in Richmond tonight,
will be the fixing of the date for the
State primary and the action on the
question Of primary in Norfolk county
under the supervision ofthe State Cen
trail Committee. The first question will
be settled by the selection of either the
10th or 18th of August as the date for the
primary.
The following young men from Vir-
ginia arrived in Washington yesterday
and have reported to the commandant
at the navy yard to be examined for adj
mission to the pay corps ofthe navy E..
L. Finch, w. G. Reynolds, Center
Cross w. d. jenkins, Portsmouth II.
B. Moore, Hampden-Sidney b. A.
Mckinney, Richmond G. G. r. Kelly,
Norfolk E. A. Smith, Richmond R.
D. Cooke, Norfolk J. I. Booth, Grove :;
4. III. Porter. Portsmouth.