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


Fontaine Smith, of lower Fsuquisr
county, who lived alone, was found dead
at his home few mornings ago.
The State military board is In session
in Richmond aportioning sl2, 800 among
the military organizations of Virginia.
Miss NJ. A.. Elkihs died Tuesday at
the home Of her sister, Mrs. Alexander
Pratt, in King George county, aged AZ
years.
Rev. E. &. Northern, pastor Of
Tabernacle Baptist Church, Newport
News, has accepted call 10 First Baptist
Church, st Winchester.
s. B. Jacobs, II years old, died at his
homo in Richmond yesterday, he was
employed BY the Confsderacy as expert
accountant. and also for many years in
the city departments.
Mrs Phoebe Kishpaueh, widow Of
Jshn Kishpaugh, died Tuesday at the
home Of her daughter, Mrs. William
Parker, in SpottsylvaHis county, OF
pneum0nis, aged So years.
Mrs. Mildred Smith Covell, of Wayne,
Pa, died in Marshall, Fsuquier county,
January At, after short illness. She
was the youngest daughter OF the late
John Glssscll. Of Culpeper county.
Edgar Hardy, 1lbysars old, Was
sccidently shot and killed near Black
stone yesterday. He vas. rabbit huat-
ing with several competitors and in the
excitement of shooting at fleeing rab-
bit he WAS killed.
The Chesapeake aud Ohio Railroad
will hereafter build its own engines, and
will erect large shops either in Rich
mond, Huntington or Clifton Forge.
The shops. it is said, will employ frsn
2, 900 to 5000 men.
A holograph will of the late s. r.
Murkland, Of Madison Heights, in Am
herst county, has been filed in the
clerks Office of this county, which gives
the bulk of his property to the State
Hospital at Staunton.
Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Mathews. who
! was Miss Mary Elizabeth Wallace, a
native OF Fredericksburg, and sister Of
Mayor Thomas 2. Wallace, died on
Tuesday at Bristol, Tennessee, in the
seyenty-fourth year of her age.
1t is said that General 7. L. Rosssr,
of Charlottesville, is an applicant for the
position Of collector of the Richmond
internal revenue district, to succeed
Captain Asa Rogers. 1t is reported that
the President was ready to appoint Gen
eral Rosser to the Charlottesville post
mastership, but that the old veteran
preferred taking his chances OF getting
the collsctorship.
Messrs. Davis 4 Davis, Washington
patent attorneys, report the grant, this
week, to citizens Of this State of the fol-
lowin patents: William j. Sterling, o.
Norfolk, for q truck william j. Branch,
of Richmond, for an awning Charles W.
Blake, of Norfolk, fora ships windlsss
John S. Banks, of Portsmouth. for 8
clothes pin and Joseph L. Bsugloy, o.
Suffolk, for ics-tongs.
Ex-Mayor Seth Low, was at the Uni
versity of Virginia yesterday. en- route
home from Hampton, where be delivered
the founders day GRAFTON Monday. Mr..
Low spoke to the faculty and students
in the public hail of the university ia
the afternoon. Wednesday evening b.
and Mrs. Low were entertained. al
dinuer by President aud Mrs. Alderman
at their home, Comyn Hall.
Miss Edmonia Taylor and Mr.. G. A.
Sinclair, both of Manassas, were mar
ried yesterday in Washington at Trinity
Episcopal Church, in the presence of a
few Of their near relatives and friend.
The bride is the youngest daughter of
L. o. Tayler, ex-Aayor of Manassas,
and is twenty-one years of age. The
groom is the only son and law partner
Of A. w. Sinclair, OF Manassas, and a
graduate in law.