The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1879-09-03
VOL. 15---NO. 5.
OUR OWN STATE.

runs thirty Ddlls 10 lne pOuuui sHOI d ldl sc uOe
at 105 yards, off hand, right through the heart
fine specimen of the way our mountalneer
hunters handle fire arms Valley Vrglnlqn.
Bishop Whittle was guest of the Commercial
House yesterday.-I6.
RAILROAD MEETING AT MADISON C. H.-There
will be large meeting of the citizens of Madi-
son county to-day, 28th inst, (court day. to hear
public discussion as to the proposed county
Subscription of $4,000 for the extension of the
Potomac, Fredericksburg & Piedmont Railroad
from Orange to Madison Court House. Hon.
John L. Marye, by invitation of leading citizens
of Madison, will represent Fredericksburg, and
address the meeting Fredericksburg Ne,cs.
Work has been commenced again on the
Buchanan & Clifton Forge Railroad. The con-
tractors are Messrs. c. r. Mason Dennis Shan
non, and C. f. Hoge.
FINE YIELD OF WHEAT.-Kerr's Creek has
long been noted as a fine corn growing section
of our county; we have reports about the wheat
crop which place it well along side the California
wheat fields Mr. Isaac NJ Taylor sowed eight
acres in Fultz wheat from which he cut IA do
zen sheaves that threshed 254 bushels of good
wheat, an average of 81 6-8 bushels per acre
Isaac makes as good farmer as he was gallant
soldier
Mr.. Samuel R. Moore, another of that immor-
tai band of soldier boys the Liberty Hall Vol
unteers threshed 750 bushels of wheat from 81
acres, or about 28 bushels per acre.
These gratifying evidences of thrift and in
dustry upon the part of our young farmers is
more valuable to the County and State than all
the talk of all the politicians combined -Lering-
ton Gazette.
DEATHs-Mrs Blackburn, wife of our es-
teemed fellow citizen William Blackburn, ESQ.,,
and daughter of the late Capt John Asst died
on Wednesday last Mr. John Ruff, brother
of Mrs. Dr. John S. Martin of this city, died in
Rockbridge on Sunday last. He leaves five sons,
three of whom are Presbyterian ministers.-Ib.
The two daughters of the late Gen R. E. Lee,
Misses Mary and Mildred, are spending the sum-
mer in Norway
There are now 130 Southerners summering in
Wytheville, Va.
Judge James w Harper, of Xenia Ohio,
native of Rockbridge county, Va, who emigrated
to Ohio in 1S42 and has been Judge there for
thirty years, is in Rockbridge on visit to his
relatives
The White Sulphur Springs, it is said, has en-
loyed more prosperous season this year than at
any time since 1859.
The Red Sulphur Springs in Monroe county,
West Virginia, has been bought by Hon 2eaias
min Wilson, of that State for company fsof
S9, 9,050.-LeOisburg w. Vd) Record.
An almost inexhaustble coal mine was dis
covered a few days ago, by Mr.. Shoe,
ne.r Greenbank Pocahontas county, in this
State Finding some traces of it in stream
which flows in the Greenbrier river, at that
point, he followed the creek to its source, where
he came upon bed Of what he regards aS the
very best coal he ever saw. Mr. Shoe is a black
smith, and has used several different kinds of
coal, but is decided in his opinion that none he
has ever used is equal to that found by him.
III.
Gen. P. T. Beauregard, of Louisiana, was in
the city on Saturday accompanied by his daugh
ter, Mrs. G.. A. Larendon and her husband and
the Generals neice, Miss Julie Villere. The
General who is now Adjutant- General of Lou
siana and who was on his way to Rawley
Springs, was serenaded at the Virginia Hotel,
where he stopped, by the Stonewall Brigade
land, a compliment which he briefly acknowl-
edged-Ib.
More than 500 persons have visited the Lu-
ray (Va.) Cave within the past two weeks. To
the owners it is better than a gold mine. We
hear that a Fredericksburg party left to-day,
September 1st, to see its wonders.-Frederscks
burg Ne,cs,
John Howison, the venerable Superintendent
of Schools of Fredericksburg and Spottsylvania
county, was found dead in his yard Saturday
night. He had that afternoon presided over a
political primary meeting and was in full health.
His death was caused by heart disease.
Mr. H. T. Waid from Back Creek, informs us
that maganese has beer discovered about mile
below Sherando on the farms of Messrs. William
Baber and L. T. Wagner in such quantity and
quality as to warrant the belief that there are
large and valuable deposits of that mineral IN
this locality. Companies are being formed for
wo king the veins in which ex-senator Lewis
and Capt. Donald who is experienced in this in
commenced on Mr.. Wagoner's place this week
and on Mr.. Babers farm in fortnight, and if
the expectations of the stockholders are realized
a considerable force will be employed and the
work vigorously pushed forward. Stanton
VindicatOr.
DEATH OF FAITHFUL SERVANT OF THE OLD
EN- TIME.-Died on Sunday night, August 25th,
at the residence of Mrs Murray Forbes in Fred
ericksburg Nancy Beverley. Nanny Nan
cy" as she was afectionately called by three
generations, III The Jotu year VI Hol az nj
her long life, from the age of ten years she had
been a faithful servant and nurse and friend IN
the Thornton family of Virginia and Fall Hill
trusted and true staunch to duty and strong in
affection. Nanny Nancy was remarkable
woman, intelligent, pious, sincere and devoted
for many wears a consistent member of the Pres
byterian Church in Fredericksburg, she filled
most worthily a responsible position in the fami-
ly to which she belonged and by whom she was
loved and cared for to the end. Her biography
would be of great interest, as she herself was to
the generations of "her children" as she called
the sons and daughters of those she had served
with such tenderness and fidelity. We remem-
Der seeing handsome portrait of her hanging at
Fall Hill' before the war, an excellent likeness
by celebrated artist, which was however de-
stroyed with other family portraits at the time OF
the battle of Charlottesville. She was buried