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WEDDED AT WETMIXSTER.
Great Granddaughter of Martha Wash?
ington a'Bride.
Hagerstown, July 80?Yesterday In
Wesminster Miss Gertrude McMurran
was married to Mr. Willihm O. Blakey,
of Gordonsvllle. The ceremony was per?
formed at the bride's home by He/,
.lames Cnttanach, of Taneytown, Md.,
assisted by Rev. Mr. Luwson, of Lynch
burg. The bride is a great granddaugh?
ter of Martha Washington.:
Among the hdtnesses of the ceremony
in addition to the bride's mother, were
Misses Jean, Annie and Martha MoMwr
ran, Miss Petie, of Washington; Miss
Lay well, Messrs. Holmes and Curtis Mc
Murran, and Rev. George W. Lawsou, of
Lynchburg. * \ __^
94
ROA
COL. G. W. BAIN
OF JCENTUCKY.
The Golden Mouthed Orator Closes
the College Exercises.
HON. JOHN W. KERN DELIVERS
THE ADDRESS . TO .THE GRAD?
UATES?THE CLOSE OF THE
EIGHTH ANNUAL SESSION A
GRAND SUCCESS?SPLENDID
TRIBUTE TO PROF. ECKERLE
BY THE DISTINGUISHED
SPEAKER.
Tlio eighth annual sess'ou of the Na?
tional BusincsB College closed last night
at the Academy of Music before a mag?
nificent audience. The graduates occu?
pied the boxes and the main floor and
balcony were filled with people.
After an invocation by Rev. Thos. J.
Shlpman, Hon. Joi.n W. Kern, of Iu
Uianapolis, Ind., was introduced by Prof.
Eekerle and he delivered the address to
the Kraduates. Mr. Keraswas tc have ile
'ivered this address the night, before but
failed to make connections and .did not
reach Roauoke until yesterday moi ning.
His address was able, patriotic and full of
good advice to tho graduating class. All
who heard it cannot help being bene
111ted by the words of wisdom autt the
advice rendered on the occasion. Mr.
Kern's address was listened to with the
deepest interest by the vast audience
present, ind the Kraduates themselves
showed their appreciation by manifesting
the keenest possible interest.
At the. close of this address Prof.
Eekerle came forward and in a few well
chosen words introduced Col. Geo. W.
Bain, of Kentucky, as the orator of the
evening who would lecture upon the sub?
ject, "Boys and Girls, Nice and Naughty,
or the Pendulum of Life."
The Colonel began by paying a flbute
to bis audience. He said 'that he was
from the Blue Grass reinon of Kentucky
where they bail the handsomest womou
in the world and the best looking men on
earth, and he deolated that his audience
looked just l'ke a blue grass audience.
He "poke of Virginia and paid a splendid
tribute to the old Dominion as being the
home of his father. Colonel Bain's ad?
dress was unique,besides being thoroughly
practical. It was one that appealed to
tho best instincts in a man's nature, and
made all who had the good fortune to
hear him feel that they were in the pres?
ence of aud listening to one of nature's
noblemen.
He said that he would speak mostly
about the age which lies between that of
a Hi year old boy and his own which he
afterwards declared to be 50.
Tho speaker interwpve with the sub?
ject on which he spoke tho safe side of
life, on account of the large number of
young men in the college. He pointed
out the breakers to bo encountered along
life's channels and declared that chief
among them was idleness, and quoted
the scriptural injunction, "By the sweat
of thy face shalt thou eat bread." After
appealing to the boys not to be lazy, he
declared that the man or woman who
lives in this age of the world aud lives in
idleness should have been born in some
other age. When ox teams crept across the
plains and stage coaches went live miles
an hour idleness ?nay have been iu some
kind of harmony with the aue, but
now when a man takes breakfast one
day in New York, dinner next day in
Chicago and supper next day out on the
plains, when telephones and telegraph
send news faster than light fiies, when
cotton picked from the stalk one day and
made iuto a suit of clothes the next, the
idler is out of place. He is born too
late, and as Dr. Taluinge says. "lie will
die too late." (Laughter.) Carlyle says,
"The race of life has become intense.
The runners are treading on each others
heels. Woe be to the man who slops to
tie his shoo strings."
By an old ancient law founded on idle?
ness the greatest success of the world
have been based. On Miis Abraham Lin?
coln stood splitting rails and wedged
himself to the highest office in tho gift of
the republic. On this Shakespeare stood
weaving wool, and wove for himself a
fame immortal. On this James A. Gar
field tramped a toe path with no company
but an honest mule, but that toopath led
in to the White House in Washington.
(Applause.) Do not be lazy. I saw a
man once who really looked so lazy that
it seemed to rest me to look at him'.
At this juncture of his address Col.
Bain referred to Prof. Eekerle, President
of the National Business College, in a
manner which showed the speaker's
thorough appreciation of the man. He
requested his audience to pardon him for
making the personal reference he was
Koing to make. He said that when he
first mot the president of this college
that it was in the fir West. He was then
struggling for an education, poor, and
having been reared in a log cabin, was
working himself through college. He
said "I now find him at the head of a
college of young men and women to the
number of two hundred. With the same
"I will' indelibly stamped on his brow
that characterized his younger days and
which will yet make the membership of
his college seven hundred."
In his allusions to his youth the
speaker said:. "I would not rob you of
the ideal visions of youth but I would
have you appreciate the responsibilities
of a man, for whom the sun shines,
breezes blow, flowers bloom, the ele?
ments of whose body makes him the
epitome of the universe and the elements
of whose soul is linked w th the eternal."
In speaking of the pleasures of life he
said: "I have no desire to lake from the
young Innocentrpleasures. I would mul?
tiply these pleasures and have you dress
nicely, but remember one of the saddest
scenes on the streets of this groat city to?
night Is that young man whose clothes
ure finest in quality but whose principles
are dilapidated. There are young men
around us tonight by huuureds who
would not enter the company .of young
**> T*1 *"?"? nt\ ?v '*?
NOKE, VA., SATU
ladies unless dressed faultlessly and yet
they will rush into thn oresence of God
before they sleep to-night with half dozen
oaths upon their lips My advice- is pay
more attention to your manners than
your moustache; keep your conduct as
neat as your necktie; polish your lan?
guage as well as your boots. Remember
young man, moustache grows gray,
clothes get seedy, boots wear out, but
honor, virtue and integrity will be as
bright and fresh when you totter with
old age as when your mother first looked
love into your. eyes. (Applause.) Take
care of your principles and to do this
start right and keep right.
The lecture was gram1, sublime and of
more than ordinary interest. A lack of
space forb'ds further .mention whichis a
mutter cf regret.
The exercises closed by a beautiful solo
by Miss Llla Beckley which was repeat?
edly encored and she was forced to the
stage a second time.
A number of the citizens of the city,
including Mayor Andrews, and several of
the pastors were seated on the stage.
Prof. Eckerle then came to the front
and said that he would not worry the
audience by delivering an address, but
spoke of the raro treat furnished them
through Col. Bain's address and simply
stated that the college had risen wit bin
three years from 17 students the first
year to (58 the second and 103 the third,
and this year the enrollment numbered
19(5. A record to be proud of. Judging
the future by the past, *h? prophetic
words of Col. Bain that the membership
would yet reach 700 arc likely to come
true, whuh will be a source of great grat?
ification to Ronuoke and Roanokers.
The catalogues of the school will be
Issued in a few days.
THE ROANOKE CONFERENCE.
The Methodists of This District
Will Meet Next Wednesday.
Rev. B. F. Ball, presiding elder for the
M. E. Church, South, In Roanoko dis?
trict, was in the city yesterday, aud will
leave Salem to-day for Newport, Giles
county, wtere the district conference
will be held. Mr. Ball is presidcutot the
conference, and will preside over the con?
ference during itsdeliheratious. A large
attendance is expected, as the place is ad?
mirably suited for a few days outing.
The opening session will bo held ou Wed?
nesday morning next, at 1) o'clock, in the
church at Newp-rt, and will clo?e on
Thursday following. The opening se
mon will be preached on Tuesday night
previous, by Rev. Jas. E. Armstrong, of
Salem.
The Ronnoke district is composed of
Roanoke city and county, Craig, Bote
tourt aud Montgomery, and portions or
the counties of Rockbridge aud Giles.
There are 22 charges in this district! 7
traveling preachers, 15 local preachers,
and 7.580 lay members. There are 50
church edifices, valued at $113,000, and
18 parsonages valued at $3,500. The dis?
trict paid last year over $1,000 for
prescbers' salaries, and $2,753 for benev?
olent purposes. ,
There are also in the district 20 Ep
worth Leagues with more than 1,000
members; 50 ounday-schools with 000
officers and teachers and 4,723 scholars.
The membership in the district confer?
ence compises all traveling and local
preachers within its bounds, and in ad?
dition to these, laymen are represented as
follows: 22^recording stewards; 22 Bun
day-school delegates anil 44 delegates
from the varions charges.
The principal business of the confer?
ence is the consideration of the spiritual
state of the church, Sunday-schools and
Epworth Leagues, and tc recommend ap?
plicants to the annual conference for
license to preach. The present sesaion
promises to be interesting and profitable.
It is the last session of this conference
over which Rev. B. F. Ball will preside,
as his time as presiding elder will expire
next March. He has done excellent work
throughout his district during the four
years he has filled that position. Most,
all of the weak charges have been greatly
strengthened, aud Methodists all over
the district hold him in high esteem.
ANDRER IN GREAT DANGER.
Stockholm, July 30.?Dr. Ekholm,
who was associated with Herr Andree in
his projected balloon voyaue last year,
writes to the Aftonblndet that, ho declin?
ed to join in the present'attempt becnuse
the impermeability of the balloon was
unsatisfactory.
He says it lost 51 cubic metres of gas
daily from the time of 'inflation. In bis
opinion it would not float longer than
from 22 to 24 days.
Inasmuch ns the voyage, under ordi?
nary conditions of wind, would take at
least 24 days, Dr. Ekho'n. believes An?
dree will be remarkably fortunate if he
succeeds at all.
Suit-making at;
Little Prices.
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GILKESON & TAYLOR.
WENT MAD FROM THIRST.
Liverpool, July 30.?A band of anarch?
ists, who had been exiled from Spain, ar?
rived here to day op, their way.,to Lon?
don. Several of the members of the
party were interviewed and related their
experiences in Spanish prisons. They
si?id they nad been fed upon salt fish and
had been deprived of water for eight
days at a time.
The prison authorities promised to give
them water if they would make confes?
sions. Owing tc this "treatment one of
their nt in her went mad and was shot
down in his cell. Oth'jrs were branded
,'With hot irons,.bad their nails pulled
I out, aud were tortured In other ways.
R?AY, JUIjY 31. 1
A MIXED
SITUATION.
Col. Buford Wants Second Place
on the State Ticket.
MR. ELLYSON ALSO SAID TO BE
WILLING lO TAKE THE [PLACE
OR TO HOLD ON TO THE STATE
CHlIRMANf HIP?SENATOR MAR?
TIN ASPIRES TO IRE GOVERNOR
FOUR YEARS HENCE?PETER J.
OTEY STRONGLY FAVORED FOR
STATE CHAIRMAN.
Richmond. July 30.?(Special.) -Tl.o
political sictuition is~more muddled than
it has been since the beginning of the
campaign. The announcement of Col.
A. S. Buford to the effect that be will ac?
cept the second place on the State ticket
will cause a good deal of changing of
votes but it will not effect'.the result. The
ticKet will he Tyler, Ellyson and Scott.
Mr. Ellyson is still very reticent and tells
no one that hu is driving at. But those
nearest to him say that he is willing to
do anything that his parly requires of
him. Should the convention with any?
thing like unanimity ask him to be the
candidate for lieutenant-governor he will
accept, and should the party desire him
to remain at the hend of the machinery
in the State, there is no doubt that bo
wil' cheerfully accept the chairmanship
of the Slate committee again.
The lieutenant-governorship is called
the political gravyard'of Virginia and it
is now openly asserted that the. move?
ment, which seems so likely to succeed
in placing the cold, icy, deathlike hand
of the "second place" on Mr. Ellyson is
lurgeiy due to the smooth work of Sen
ator"Thomas S. Martin. It is said to be
the dream of his life with Senator Mar?
tin to be elected chairman of the State
committee in order that he may perpetu?
ate himself in power in Virginia politics,
I and that ho knows the moment Mr. Elly?
son leaves the position of chairman of
the party to become a candidate, or
the llouteant-governor he is a dead
duck. His power In Democracy will
then be only a pleasaut memory?a rem?
iniscence of bygone'days. It Is asserted
that Mr. Martin hopes to be his successor
and by skillful manipulation step iuto
Mnjor Tyler's shoes four years henco.
Yes, It is an open secret that the gubera
torlal bee is buzzing a merry roundela>
in the junior Sonator's headgear.
Three of the candidates lor governor
four years from now will be Thomas B.
Martin, Claude A. Swanson and J. Tay?
lor Ellyson.
But Mr. Martin's plans will not suc?
ceed. He will never bo tue chairman of
the party in Virginia. He would make
an excellent manager, but the impres?
sion obtains that his regime would be a
nearer approach to machine politics than
anything that has ever been seen In the
South. I* then would look like Hying in
the face of the Fitzhugb Lee people, nnd
t'*ere are plenty of them.
It is tho opinion of the best informed
people here tin t Mr. Ellyson wlP reshrn
the chairmanship to be lieutenant-gover?
nor and that Hon. Peter J. Otoy, of
Lynchburg, will bo at the helm of the
party's committee He is known to he
one of the best organizers in tho Stato
and bis views are thoroughly in accord
with the party. Many people are skep?
tical about Senator Martin's financial
views.
The nomination of Hon. Edmund R.
Cocke for lieutenant governor by the
Populists at Roanoice yesterday was a
subject of much talk in political circles
here to-day. Many prominent Democrats
Ba'd they would bo glad to see the Dem?
ocratic convont'on endorse him,but no
one prophesied that such a thing would
be done. There are so few Populists in
Virginia that peoplo uro sorry for them.
The Richmond delegation to Roauoko
will be announced by the city committee
io-morrow. Mr. Ellyson's and Major
Tyler's friends will recommend the gen
tlemen who will go and the committee
will endorse them.
The question of inviting theG. A. R. to
vtold Its tirand encampment at Hichmond
in 1000 will come up in PickottCamp
Confederate Veterans to night. A bitter
fight is a expected but the camp will
hardly extend a cordial invitation to
the Grand Army. The business element,
however, wants the Northerners! to come
down. This desire on their iiart is from
a business standpoint.
The question of whether tho 'convicts
will be carried from the counties to the
penitentiary by the sheriff or by the peu
guards will likely c*me up very promi?
nently In the next legislature. It is
already a burning issue in the Henrico
county fight.
SIXTY THOUSAND SHORT.
New York, July 30.?Tarcellus Barl
tate, an Italian banker, who left the city
a year ago, sixty thousand dollars short
in his accounts, was arrested this after
' noon in the City Hall Park, Theodora
Poesa. of Alttoona, Pa., being the com?
plainant, who says Baritntc failed to
transfer three hundred and forty dollars
deposited with him which should have
been sent to Italy.
NO FURTHER TROUBLE EXPECTED
Bluefield, W. Va., July 30. ?Tere are
no new developments in the coal field.
The men are at work and coal Is being
loaded at every operation. The men who
struck have either returned to work at
one colliery or another, and no further
fou bit* is apprehended. The shir men ts
yesterday were: 875 curs; coal, IS 1/0 ami
coke 185.
THE INDEMNITY AGREED UPON.
Constantinople, July 80.? At a meet?
ing of the ambassadors today the Indent:
n'ty clause in a form satisfying the views
fo Germany was agreed on. It now awaits
the npproval of the respective foreign
ollices. Another meeting wlU be held on
Saturday when,so fai as the ambassadors
are concerned, the negotiations will be
concluded. .-7.
THE OUTLOOK BRIGHT.
Duns Review of Trade Shows Great
Improvement in Business.
New York, Jtny 30. ?Duns Weekly Re?
view of Trade will say to-morrow: Dis?
patches from almos* every northern point
reports without exception an improve?
ment in busiuoss and splendid crop pros?
pects. A drop was expected in tne stock
market after the passage of the tariff bill
but instead there has been an advance.
Wheat seemed to meet the realation but
is now moving upward more rapidly than
heretofore. The money market has ac?
quired additional confidence by the de?
clarations ot the President and Secretav
Gage and tho task of adjusting the busi?
ness aud industries of the country to con?
ditions created by ihe new law has pro?
gressed with gratifying ease aud rapidity.
Even the increasing strength of the strik?
ing miners will probably forward tho
adoption of a uniformity plan which
promises to remove most of the causes
of such struggles. Some confusion was
caused by seemingly contradictory even's
such as the closing of largo cottou mills
when many other works were starting
and by a decline In some pi ices when
other" were 'ndvanclug; but the balance
is unmistakably on the right side. There
is an increased dees and in the foreign
market and bank clearings for the week
were III per cent, larger than last year.
The falle-e for the week were 203 against
281 last. ; er.
BUNCOED OUT OK $7,000.
A Pair of BharpersSell Bricks to a Saloon
Keeper.
New Orlens, July 510.?Pascal Lastell,
a well-to-do saloou keeper of this city,
was buncoed to day by swindlers who
not $7,000 out ot him for gold bricks.
The swindlers were alleged ftther and
son. The elder sab' his name was Ralph
Dla/.. They came from Buenos Ayres,
they said, where they were in the gov?
ernment employ, and hinted that they
had got v ? II ahead of the Governemnt.
They lina. . showed Lastell a trunk full
of gold bricks. They said they were
worth $100,000.
They agreed to let Lastell have a third
ownership for $7,000. The bricks were
filed and the Illings analyzed and pro?
nounced pure gold. Lnstell produced
the cash. $7,000. The trunk was left him
as security. Tho young man said his
father was Buffeting from heart disease,
and that they were going to Tampa.
They promised to return soon and wind
up the transaction. Lastell became sus?
picions to-day and had the bricks anal?
yzed. They are brats.
A BATTLESHIP'S ILL LUCK.
The. Maine Runs Into an Excursion
Boat and Sinks a Freight Float
New York, July 510.?The excursion
boat Chancellor, with the T. .1. Kelly
Association, of Jersey City onboard, was
run into and badly damage:! by the
United States battleship Meine, in luist
river to-day. The Chancellor was
smashed on her port bow and for a long
distance back above the water line.
No one on board the Chancellor was In?
jured In seeking to avoid the collision
the Maine came in contact with a pier.
Drawing back from tho pier the "battle
ship ran into a float uelonging to the New
York, N-nv Haven and Hartford Railroad
Company, upon which were ten freight
cars, part of them loaded. A hole was
stove in the float and it sunk with Its
cargo after tho crew had been taken off
by a tug.
SIGNALLING FROM TACOMA.
The Light Plainly Seen Sixty Miles
Away.
Tacoma, Wash., uulyOO.?A beautiful
spectacle, never witnessed before, was
the signal lishts of the club of mountain
cMmbers known as Mnzamas, from the
snow-capped summit of .Mount Tacoma,
sixty miles away. The night wa.-? clear
and favorable, ami for an hour before the
Hash appeared thousands of eyes and
hundreds of field plasses were trained on
tho mountain searching for the signal.
At length a large red light like a ball of
fire over a foot In diameter appeared,
burning steadily for nearly five minutes.
VIEWS OF SCLWATKA'S WIDOW, j
Declares the Government Should Stop
the Tide of Gold Seekers.
Benton Harbor. Mich., July 550.?The
widow of Lieutenant Schwatka, the arc?
tic explorer, being interviewed here con?
cerning the Klondike gold regions,
which country she has repeatedly visited
with her husband, declared that the Gov?
ernment should stop the tide of immi?
grants pouring into the gold fields in
Alaska. She says the mountain passes
are strewn with tho skeletons of uufort
nnate miners who perished from either
cold, heat, malaria or starvation while
trying to reach the golden region.
DR. TALMAGE HURT.
Middletown, O., July 30.?Rev. T. De
Witt Tal mage, D. 1)., Is confined to his
hotel to day under a surgeon's care. He
is sutferinic frcm Injuries received last
night in falling from a platform while
lecturing here. Several others were also
injured. Tho extent of his injuries are
not determined.
BICYCLE TAX RESISTED.
Chicago, July 30?.lodge Collins
brought suit against the city to-day to
restrain the collection of the bicycle tax.
It Is thought that the League 'ol Amerl
can v.'heelmen la bricking the movement,
and that it will win.
Something of great inter?
est to wheelmen ! Call and
ask to sec if at.
ROAN?KE CYCLE CO.,
IIIS Salem Ave. S. W.
We will sell anythtug in our line dur?
in? the coming week at cost for cash.
MARK RE KD,
Trustee for J. Donaldson,
No. 125 Sa'.eiu avenue.
PRICE 3 CE3STT8
THE BOLD
CUBAN REBELS,
They Make a Raid Into the Sub?
urbs of Havana.
AND CREATE ALMOST A PANIC IN
THE CUBAN CAPITOL?GOMEZ'S
MEN HAVE BEEN IN SIGHT OP
HAVANA FOR SOME WEEKS AND
HAVE MOVED ABUDUT WITH
PRACTICALLY NO INTERFER?
ENCE?THE CONFIDENCE OF THE
INSURGENTS GROWING.
Havana, Cubn, July 30.?Havana's
outposts have again been attacked by a
Irage body of rebels who, before the
Spanish troops could bo gathered to re?
sist, had swept through the suburbs, cai
rylng all before them. They 'used, it is
believed, rapid-firing gnus and a large
quantity of dynamite.
The attack was made iate last night.
To day there is an inclination among the
Spanish ofliclals in Havana to deny the
fact that rebels evaded the forts aud
swept into the Havana limits. But the
facts remain, and the path left by the re?
bels through tho suburbs southeast of
the city may be plainly seen.
At the first sounds of the firing *he
Spanish soldiers sprang to arms. They
proceeded hurriedly to tho southeastern
part, whence the rattle of musketry, fol?
lowed by tho boom of heavy guns or
dynamite, could be heard plainly all over
Havana. Then the sound of firing In?
creased, and finally, after a few hours,
died away,showing that the rebels had re?
tired.
Several wounded Spanish soldiers were
brought into the city nod removed to
hospitals after the engagement. I also
understand thnt several were killed.
lu Havana, during the rebel attack,
hundreds poured into the streets, and
cries of "Tho rebels have Tattacked the
city" created almost a panic iu some
quarters.
I The attack was not unexpected. For
weeks the rebels have beeu within sight
of the capital mid have practically moved
without interference. The insurgent
leaders nearest Havana are Brigadier
General Castillo, with a large force, at
Marinnno, nine miles southwest; Col.
Nestor Aranguren,at Guanabacoa, across
the bay; Gen. Alexauder Rodriguez, com?
mander of the Havana province, who,
with a lar>'e force, is near Tnruco, uml
Col. Raoul Arango.Ht ?uatro Caminos.
There is a belief iu Havana that tho
rebel raid tvas led by Aranguren, who is
noted as one of the most daring of the
rebel chiefs. Captain General Weyler
having left Havana for Matauzas, the be?
lief is expressed that tho knowledge by
insurgents of his departure led to the
attack.
I have received the following letter
from General Castillo: "Ourconlldence in
our triumph is daily greater. During
the last month, with our modest force,
we had twenty-eight severe combats with
the enemy. We have applied explosives
to the trains, fought troops on the high?
ways, taken towns and our arms have
been victorious everywhere.
During the same month twenty three
persons, fully armed, who belonged to
the Spanish nrmy, joined our forces. I
am in a position to assure you that our
forces are more than ever nourishing and
vigorous.
"I must also inform you,although "vlth
reserve, that, taking in account the lack
of accommodations .in'our hospitals,' our
sick, especiallj the least injured, are ac?
customed to regain their health in the
enemy's cities by the side of their own
families and return to our midst as soon
as they are well again. That is the rea?
son It sometimes appears that ?ouie of us
pass over to the enemy."
The Spanish authorities iu Havana say
they have found a colony of insurgent
abettors, and many arrests have oeen
mnde^tn Regia, Guanabacoa aud the cap?
ital. In severnl "houses large quantities
of ammunition and medicines have been
found.
Mntanzas is full of starving -econcen
trado. Every night some of them die on
steps of'the!theatrcs*or churches. A cargo
of tile, to be used for some government
par nose, arrived there recently. To un?
load these tiles tho police pressed into
service a number of recoucentrados. They
were too weak to worn and too weak
even to drag themselves down to the har?
bor. Some started to work, but had not
strength enough to carry the tiles. Then
apolice inspector appeared with a heavy
whip and mercilessly beat women and
old men for their inability to work. 2
Tint wi:atuKit.
Forecast for Virginia: Fair Saturday:
slightly w.rracr; weatetly winds, becom?
ing aoutherly.
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