Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-10-23
Virginia News.

b-N'NSN u" w olAoukOu WIN ~ AmSo w .
Jefrits as chief.
Miss Emily Virginia Townes and Or.
William Meade Smith were msrried
yesterday evening at the residence of the
brides mother in Petersburg.
A movement WAS started at the session
of the democratic city committee 10 Rich
mond last night to cast out OF the demo-
cratic party and brand as republicans
the so-cslled "Tsit democrats.
The Rev. Ivan M. Green, of Shensu-
doah county, will be ordained to the
Episcopal priesthood 10 Aqua church,
S,aff I'd county, on November 1st (All
Saints Day.
Mrs. Lucy NJ. Luke and Mr.. Robert
Bould'n Spencer, Of Blackstone, were
married on Wednesday at the residence
of the brides brother, Mr., s W. Mar
shall, OF Chestnut Hill, Richmond.
Four years in the peniteutiary was
yesterday the v,r lict of the jury which
has been trying Dora Smith, the seven
teen-yesr-old Luray girl charged with
burglary and forgery.
Miss Gabrielle Griffin, daughter oil
Mr.. John NJ. Griffin, and DR.. F. T.
Cassidy, a local druggist and physician,
we're married in Fredericksburg yester-
day forenoon st the home OF the BRIDE
parents.
Mrs. Estelle Smith, sentenced 10 Man
chester in September, 1905, for the muir.
der of her little son, Ralph, whom she
was charged with having whipped to
death, was psroled from the peuitentiarj
yesterday for good behavior.
At the home of the Misses Elgin Of
Leesburg, on Tuesday, their sister, Miss
Belle ElgiD, of Roanoke, was married to
Mr.. Arthur'Percival Spencer, of the Vir-
ginis Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg.
The ceremony was performed by Rev.
W. II. Burkhsrdt, rector of st. James
Church.
In st. Psul's Episcopal Church,
LYnchburg, yesterday, Miss Emily A.
Burroughs, daughter of A. H. Bur-
roughs, one of the three general counsel
of the American Tobacco Company, was
married to Robert s. Oglesby, vice pres.
ideut OF the r. s. Oglesby Company, by
Rev. DR.. William Alexander Barr.
Messrs. Davis & Davis, Washington
patent attorneys, report the grant this
week to citizens of this State of the fol-
lowing patents: o. L. Albtrlsou, Of
Richmond, car coupling; |. M. Bond,
of North Tszewell, fire cracker; o. L.
! Davis, OF Dtrau, wire fence stratcher,
and F. W. T. Kreisel, of Wsrrenton,
crib.
Abingdon's dispensary, which is the
talk Of the state, aud which supplies
liquor to practically all the Ninth dis
trlct, between Roanoke and Bristol, may
be put out of business. An effort will
be made soon to call an election and vote
on "dispensary" or "no dspenssry,"
and there are many conservative citizens
who believe the "no dispensary" ticket
will win.
A statue of Captain John Smith pre-
scented to the Association for the Pres.
erVation of Virginia Antiquities by Mr.
aud Mrs. Joseph Bryan, will be unveiled
on jamestown Island at noon tomorrow
Mr.. Almond Blow, of Belleville, Glou
cester county, will present the statue, arc
it will be received on behalf OF the ssso
citation by Lieutenant. Governor ]. Tsylo
Ellyson.
The second section of the Virgins
Air Line Railway which is now in fol
operation from GOrdonsviIIe to Strsth'
more, distance of 95 miles, was formally
opened yesterday. The exercises tool
place at Strsthmore, where connection
is made with the James River Liue Of
The Chesapeake ard Ohio Railway, ia
the south side of Fluvsnns county. The
Golden Spike" was driven by Ostt
I. o. Troy, of Charlottesville, who almost
singe-handed, financed and constructed
| the entire road.
Judge Scott, 10 Heurico circuit court,
yesterday granted an absolute divorce to
Mrs. Sophia Catherine lofts from bar
husband, Francis Edward Tots. la
her petition, Mrs. lofts alleged that in
June last she was wiIlfully abandoned
aud deserted by her husbsbd. The hus-
band, in his cOuuterchsrge, accuses his
wife with having lett bis home with
Davenport Williams, son OF Charles U.
Williams, young society man, whom
acc riding 10 the allegations, she travelled
to Norfolk and thence by steamer to New
Y TX, registering with him at hotels and
on the bost as man and wife. TIE
three children are left In the custody of
the father, who isrequired to pay ali
mony. The couple we're married 10 st.
Geor0e,s Parish. Kent. England.