Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-07-26
Virginia News.

William w. blount, OF WasnlnBponj
son of D. w. Blount, Of Pittsy lvsnla
county, and Miss Mary V. Nessmith'
daughter of J. T. Nessmith, of Clarke
county, we're married yesterday afternoon
in Leesburg.
After 40 years of service with the
Western Uuion Telegraph Company,
Col. Nicholas Q. Psmplin, who has been
manager of the compsny's Norfolk oftlce
since 1875, has resigned and will enter
other lines Of business
Judge George l.. Christian, through
whose efforts an investigation of affairs
at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute was
ordered by the legislature, now declares
that his son was guilty of haEing and
does not wish the committee to investi-
tigate the hazing incident.
The Loudoun Camp Meeting Associs-
ton has set apart Monday August, IL,
for the special use Of the Sunday Schools
of all denominations Of that and adJoin-
ing counties. Rev. o. D. Balls, OF
Alexandria, will address the superin-
tendents, teachers and children at ii
=. m.
Judge ]. NJ. Youmans, former mem
Der of the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion, who purchased the estate of Sena-
tor William NJ. Stewart, near Ashburn,
Loudoun county, is seriously Ill at his
home, near Ashburp, with complication
of diseases. There is little hope of his
recovery.
The largest cigar manufacturing plant
in the world will be built and in opera
ton in Richmond within q year. This
is the announcement coming from an Of
fetal source. The mammoth factory Is
to be operated by the American Cigar
Company, which is controlled by the
American Tobacco Company.
John Fauver, widely known Fred
erick county farmer, died yesterday after
noon at his home at Mount Williams,
that county, after lingering illness Of
dropsy, aged sixty-fve years. Mr.. Eau
YER served lie the Confederate army
during the civil war as a member of
Company B, Eleventh Virginia Cav
airy. he is survived by a wife and three
children.
Messrs. Davis & Davis. Washington
patent attorneys, report the grant, this
week, to citizens of this state, Of the
following patents: Michael Branch,
Richmond, parelled square; Charles P.
Breese, Norfolk, railway signaling
system; James E. Dull, ofSuffolk, hame-
tug; Archibald z. Ferguson, Pocahontas,
line-stretcher; and Boniface A. Gras-
berger, Richmond, trolley stand.
Col. Joseph Button, who was elected
insurance commissioner by the legisla-
ture and was denied qualification BY the
State corporation commission on a con-
stitutional question, took the necessary
steps yesterday to bring the question
referred to squarely before the State
Court of Appeals. The proper legal
papers we're served on the commission,
and service of the same was duly ac-
cepted An early session OF the Su-
preme Court has been provided for to
take up the case.
Marcus ] snapp, retired business
man of Winchester, died at his home
early yesterday morning, the anniver-
sary of his birth, after several years
illness, aged seventy-eight years. When
John Brown was taken prisoner by
United States troops at Harpers Ferry
before the civil war Mr.. Snapp was 8
member, of the Winchester Rifles and
took part in the capture of Brown and
the stirring scenes that attended the
latter's trial and execution. A wife,
two daughters, aud number of brothers
and sisters survive him.