Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-10-26
Virginia News.


in bis own defense ia the murder trial
st'Floyd yesterday .s.-=tss@..' &c r.
+ Mrs. Mary Timberlake, of sPottsyl-
vania county, died at her home Monday
night. She is survived by four children
Mrs. George A. Upshur, widow oil
George A. Upshur, died Tuesday at heI
home, near Thornsburg, in Spottsyii'
vania county, of heart disease. aged,
so years.
.. Miss Lou Williams, daughter OF Mrs
Josephine Williams, of Baltimore, wa:
married to Mr.. Augustine King, jr., Of
Front Royal, yesterday, at the home Of
the bride.
The records of the land Office sho"
that $500 Virginia farms were Pur
chased last year by persons from outside
the State, bringing in, in round figures
IS, 900, 900.
Miss Bessie B. Kelley, daughter O
Mr.. William d. Kelly, of Lynchburg
and Mr.. John G. Desmond were married
Tuesday morning at the Holy Gross
Catholic Church in that city.
Miss Alberta Brown. daughter of K
A. Brown, of Wildwood, Clarke county
and William G. Whitmore, Of Jefferson
county, were married Tuesday evening
in the Baptist Church at Wildwood.
Mrs. Anne Terrill, well-known lad!
of Orange county, who had reached thu
ripe old age of ninety years, vas founo
dead in her bed at her home, neal
Clark's Mountain, in that county, or
Sunday.
The faculty and literary societies o.
the University of Virginia have invited
Secretary Root to deliver an address a
the university on February %. Presi
dent Alderman has gone to Washington
to carry the invitation.
William Sisson, of Fairfax county,
and Miss Mary Cecil Durrett, daughter
Of Mr.. G. B. Durrett, Of Spottsylvanif
county, were married yesterday at Gal
Grove, the home of the brides parents
IN Spottsylvania county.
Miss Pauline Casey Wright, daughter
of Gen. and Mrs. Marcus j. Wright, wal
married last evening to Mr.. William
Walter Dinwiddle, of Charlottesville, il
St. Thomas Episcopal Church, Wash
ington.
Mr.. James Whitcomb Riley, the poe
and popular writer, visited on Tuesday
Balls Bluff and other places of historical
interest near Leesburg. Mr.. Riley il
making tour 10 the South, gathering
data for a historical romance.
/ Joel w. Daniel, a prominent Martins
vile tobaccoDist, senior member of The
firm of J. w. Daniel Tobacco Com
pany, was struck by a Norfolk anc
Western freight train near Powhatan,
West Virginia, yesterday morning anc
instantly killed.
Mr.. William Dorsey, Of Howard
county, Md, and Miss Jessica Water
Souder, daughter OF the late Americas
Souder of Lovettesville, Loudoun coun
~, we're married yesterday evening at
o clock in ST. Johns Reformed Church.
at LOvettesville.
S. l.. Lupton, of Frederick county,
has received check for S6,6l6.75 fol
his apple crop produced by his orchard
two miles west of Winchester. In adj
dition to this, Mr.. Lupton sold the
drops" and "culls" for $500. His or
chard contains 100 acres.
The farmers of the Herndon section
have formed an association to be known
AS the Farmers Association of LOndOun
and Fairfax counties, and having for its
object the advancement of agricultural
interests in these counties, and the
mutual protection and assistance of Its
members.
The Synod of Virginia of the Presby-
terrain church in the United States will
begin its one hundred and eighteenth
annual session tonight at eight o'clock
in the Second Presby ierian church, Rich
mond. This synod includes the minis
tiers and churches in the Southern Pres
byterian church in Virginia, West Vir-
GINA and Maryland. This is its first
meeting in Richmond since 1886.
General Eppa Hunton, argued yester-
day in Washington before the Spanish
treaty claims commission the case OF
Mrs. John Sewers against the United
States government for destruction OF
property during the Spanish-American
war. 1t seems that during hOstilites
with Spain, Mrs. Sewers mother, who
owned property in Cuba, suffered losses
by reason of the war, and her daughter,
Mrs. Sewers, is now endeavoring to re-
ceive damages from the government.
In reply to q challenge sent last week
by Mr.. J. G. French, instructor in Eng
lish at the John Hopkins University,
Baltimore, and coach Of the debating
team, a letter was received yesterday
from the debating trio of the University
Of Virginia accepting the challenge and
specifying the last of February as con-
venient for the debate between the two
universities. The letter provides that the
debate is to be held in Charlottesville,
aud the question for debate to be selected
by the Virginia team.
Fight Over "A Young Woman.
New York Oct 26-As the result of a