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GLEANED FROM THE MAILS. The real estate sales in Roanoke for the week ending Saturday evening. the 17th inst., aggregated $675,000, exclusive of sales made by private parties. The Danville Tobacco Exposition commenced Wednesday. There is no doubt that the display will be the largest and finest ever seen in Virginia. Mrs. C. F. Farmer, living near Hillsville, Va., on the 9th of November gave birth to a double child, which was united at the hips, with two distinct abdomens, four arms in their natural positions, two perfectly formed legs, and a fifth arm growing from the hip bone on the opposite side from where the legs grow; with a thumb and fore-finger per fectly developed and the rudiments of the other three fingers undeveloped. The child or children from the place of unity are perfectly formed. They lie facing each other and have long hair on each head. They weighed eighteen pounds undressed. The physician in attendance says this is the nearest approach to the famous Siamese Twins he has ever seen. Chief of Police, Morris of Roanoke, shot and killed a drunhen negro who first fired two shots at him, on last Sunday night. Miss Mary Garrett, one of the wealthiest unmarried women in the world, is short and dark, She always wears glasses and dresses in black. A soltaire diamond ring is her only ornament. But all the same Miss Mary knows where to find the coupons to her B. & O. railroad bonds when she has a call for them. The marriage of Mr. H. Rozier Dulany, of Washington, son of the late H. G. Dulany, of Fauquier county, and Miss Ann Willing Carter, second daughter of Colonel Thomas Car ter, of King William, and a niece of Governor Lee, took place Wednesday afternoon, at the Executive Mansion, in Richmond, in the presense of a large assemblage of relatives and friends of the contracting parties. The ceremony was conducted by Right Rev. A. M. Randolph, assistant bishop of the diocese of Virginia, assisted by Rev. Dr. Charle= Min nigerode of St. Paul's. The ten bridesmaids were dressed in white silkand mull with moire, carrying bouquets of yellow and white chrysanthemums, and the bride's costume was white silk over white brocade entraine, trimmed with point lace and pearls, point lace veil. Captain John Spence, the oldest inhabitant of Accomack county, and probably the oldest in the United States, died last Saturday at his home on Sykes' Island. He was born in 1776 and was therefore 112 years old when he died. His first vote for President was for Thomas Jefferson in 1800, and he voted in every subsequent Presidential election with one exception. His mental faculties remained unimpaired to the last and his memory was rema:kably accurate and retentive, especially in regard to matters that occurred about the beginning of the present century. The Home Savings Bank of Norfolk sus. pended last Wednesday morning. The reason assigned for the failure by the Board of Directors, is that the reports recently circulated affecting its credit produced a run on the bank. The directors stated that from the cashier's statement the Board of Directors hoped the depositors would loose little, if anything The Home Savings Bank was founded upon the ruins of the old Freedman's Savings Bank and had among ite depositors a number of colored people. The failure has caused no alarm in banking and business circles. Dr. Henry B. Sands, the eminent surgeon, died suddenly in New York, Monday afternoon, of heart failure, while in his carriage. Dr Sands was in his 59th year. Among the most noted cases with which he has been conneered were those of General Grant and Roscoe Conkling. A few minutes before 12 o'clock, Monday night, the stage of the Richmond Theatre was the scene of a very pretty wedding. Miss Ida Morris, a member of the Zo-Zo Company, was married to Mr. B. Putman, & commercial traveler for a New York house. The ceremony was performed by Rev. Dr. Melville Jackson, rector of Grace Episcopal church of that city, in the presence of a few friends of the contracting parties, outside of those connecte
