Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-07-16
Virginia News.

A marriage license was issued in Wash
irglop yest r lay - Henry A. Kahiert
and Marion E. Brady, both of Gaines
vile.
Mr.. Lucien Keith, Of Warrentou, was
m rfied at Westtown, Pa. on Tuesday
lest t. Miss Elizabeth Shsrpless, in the
presence of members OF their respective
families.
The Prohibition aud Evangelical
Association will hold their annual
meeting ct Purcellyile, beginning
Tuesdsy, August 4h, and continuing
until the 18th.
Augustus A., son OF the late William
r. and Mai, Draper Chapman, died
yesterday near Occcqusn in the nifty
eigi tt yesr OF his age. Interment will
be 10 Fairfax Courthouse.
G.. II. Hurkamp, OF Boscobel stock
farm, has sold to Mitchell Harrison, OF
England, his handsome black hunter
G ,odnigbt. The animal was shipped
ir I'M there to Philadelphia by express
and transferred from there by steam saiP.
The Manassas horse show opened yes
teldSy aud closed tedsy. The attend
anc; was not so large as on some pre-
vicus occasions. Among those who we're
there was Mr.. II. @. Start. of Russell
county, one of the gubernht ,rial candi-
dst's.
Lightning Sunday night shattered the
bed 10 which Frank Shuman and his son
we're sleeping in Caroline county, but
did not injurs the two persons. The
ghtnirg passed. dswn into the psrlor,
spInteriDg an organ. No other damSge
was done.
w. T. Foster, OF Fsuquier county, and
Miss Julia L. Vaughan, Of Middlesex
coui t., went to Rockville Nd, last FRI
day, where they were married by Rev
T. II. Campbell. B,th young people
have been going to school In Fredericks-
burg for several years.
Annie Hsltine, fourteen years old, OF
Woodbridge, Va, has been missing
from her home since last Thursday,
and the Washington police have been
fsked to aid 10 locating her. The girl
was said to have been seen on Pennsyl-
vania avenue yesterday morning.
The Wsrrentou German Club has re-
organized for the summer. The firt
German will be b I'D on Friday, the l7th
OF July. Tho club ptoposts to give six
GrrmanS, the dates of the remaining ones
10 be fixed lstsr. James X. Maddox, is
presider t. II. +. Gray. treasur r; w.
h. Gaints, j., secret ~.
The Corp ration Commission has
granted a charter to the Westmoreland
Publishing Company, Iuc., Colonial
Beach. j. B. + tzgerald, president; w.
F. Renshaw, vics-president, Colonial
Bench; F. w. Alexander, sscr,tSry,
Oak Grove, w. Capita stock, 81 900
to IS, 900. Objects and purposes: Job
printing and newspaper business.
A school of rock fish we're in this part
of the Rappshannock Tuesday. Fisher
men along the river front, anywhere De-
tween the Ger fridge aud the steamboat
wharf, caught numbers OF them. Some
little boys, who were fishing at The
steamboat wharf, caught nine punches
OF ten or twelve, running in weight from
half pound to pound and over.
- fredericksburg Journal.
Captain Hsriso1 Robertson died si
his re,iAence in Charlottesville on Tues
DAY night aged SO ye "a. la 1861 he
entered the service of The OOnfederacy,
went ,hrougbt the war with the rank OF
cap'siu, and at its close was in charge
of the Quart rmaster's Department in
Danville. Captain Robertson was mar
ried first in 1855 to Eliza Olarkson
Marshall, granddaughter Of John Mar
shall, the great chief Justice. She died
10 1869, and 10 1880 he married bis
second wife, Laura Forbes, daughter of
DR.. |. T. Forbes, in Baltimore.