Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-06-18
Virginia News.

in Front Roysl Saturday. He is sur
viyed by one son and tSo daughters.
A marriage license was issued 10
Washington Saturday 10 Sllss ~ ulAs'
cock, Of Marshall and Lille Il. ul'er-
back, of Haymsrket.
Thomas L. Kirby, Of Front RoyAl,
died suddenly from heart ironbIe FRIDAY
night. Mr.. Kirby served in the Iwe'i.n
Virginia Cavalry aud was about oi
years old.
Senator Daniel will be the orator at
The veteran rGlmion at Fishers mn,
which will be held August 4, under the
auspices OF Slower Camp, Confederate
Veteran, of that place.
Miss Elizabeth Laycock, daughter OF
Charles +. Laycock, commissioner OF the
revenue for Leesburg, and ROBERT
Fletcher, Of Leesburg, were married III
Washington Saturday evening.
w. f. Stairs, white convict, has
disappeared from the penitenllary ana
the officers ave at a loss to understand
where be has gone. He was sent TO
serve eight years for two charges oil
HOUSEKEEPING, being convicted in Man
ches err.
DIR. George Armstrong, of Buffalo, \.
Y, and Miss Janet Dare johnson we're
married Saturday afternoon at the home
of the brides aunt, Mrs. Edw. K. w.
Barker in Warrenton. The ceremony
was performed by the Rev. William II.
Laird, rector of st. James Episcopal
Church.
A wholesale dealer in poultry and
eggs, OF Charlottesville, has shipped
from that section within the last ten
months, to Baltimore, Philadelphia,
New York and Washington, |, 1853 crates
of eggs-over So, 900 dozen-and 2S5
coops of fowls, the coopa averaging go
pounds, making over Il, 900 pounds.
Harvey II. Henderson, civil engi-
neer. son OF the late Rev. II. Ii. Hen
derson, formerly of Atlanta, Ga, was
killed Saturday by train on the ele-
waited road in Chicago. He is survived
by his mother aud one sister, Miss Eula
Henderson, of fredericksburg. His
remains will be brought there for inter
ment.
The commencement exercises OF The
18th session at Washington and Lee
University began yesterday, with the
baccalaureate sermon by Rev. ). e..
Mitchell, ID. d., of Richmond College.
The address before the Young Mems
Christian Association was delivered at
night ut $50 O'Clock by Rev. +. D..
Prettyman, of Baltimore. The exer-
cises will be held daily until Wednes-
day, graduation day.
Mrs. May Adams Walsh, % years
old, in fit of jealous rage drank two
ounces of carbOlic acid in Norfolk,
Saturday night. William Walsh, her
husband, was in the room when the
woman, holding the bottle of poison in
her hand, remarked that she did not
care what became OF her aud swallowed
the contents of the vial before he c0uld
interfere. The police were notified
Immediately and the patrol wagon car
RED the unfortunate woman to 81. VIM
cents Hospital. She will die.
Mrs. Flora Adams Darling and heI
brother, John Q. Adams, OF New York
city, will found scholarship in music
10 William aud Mary College, Will
liamsburg, 10 memory of Edward H.
wing Darling, the young composer,
whose best work was accomplished in
the Virginia home His compositions
will be placed at the college.
On a recent visit to President Tyler at
the college, William b. Matthews, OF
Washington, presented to the college
on oil portrait of James Blair, the first
president of the institution. This gin
was made in memory of the donor i
father, Judge James Muscoe Matthews
of Richmond. Col. George Clinton Batch
eller gave $40, 900 for library ol
history.