National Republican., 1883-08-16
LYNCHBURG AFFAIRS.

Very Serious Fire and n Lively Fire
Intercst-An Old EOirm-Tho Gossip OF
the city.
LYNcHBURG, VA, Aug. 14.-At 1890 last
night fire broke outat tho corner of Twelfth
and Main streets, and before it could be ar
rested several houses were destroyed, with the
loss of much property Adams & Co.'s feed
store with its contents was entirely destroyed.
Several houses occupied by colored people
were consumed, and Odd Fellows hall, Hill
City house, ID. b. Payne & Co.'s carriage re-
pository, and Woodson's shops were seriously
damaged. Most of the property belonged to
the estate Of the late Charles II. Lynch. The
loss was considerable, and the insurance is
supposed TO be small.
The burning of the Kimball house in At
lanta, Ga, on Sunday morning, caused a great
deal of uneasness in this city, as that very
noted hotel was kept by our townsmen,
Messrs. Scoville Terry, proprietors both of
the Norvell house and the Arlington, of this
city. All of the furniture of tho Kimball
was owned by these gentlemen. 1t was
valued at fifty or sixty thousand dollars, and
was badly insured. The loss of Scovlle &
Terry is estimated at fifteen or twenty thou
sand dollars.
The three negroes who shot and murdered
Mr.. Sheppard, very worthy citizen of Pitt
sylvania county, on Saturday last for plunder
and robbery, were identified by tho son of
the murdered man soon thereafter, and ar
rested by the police of Danvile. The crime
was 80 cold blooded and atrocious that public
Indignation became so great that Sheriff
Overbey was compelled to engage the Dam
vile Grays to help him convey the prisoners
to the Jail of the county and prevent lynch
ing. The Grays are still standing guard at
the jail, and will continue to do so until the
new county military company shall receive
their arms from Richmond, which are daily
expected. The murderers are desperate and
noted characters, and hail from the adjoining
county of Halifax. Nothing but the military
will protect them from Judge Lynch, and it
is not certain that they will do so now.
Both of the political parties of Campbell
county held public meetings yesterday at the
court house and organized for the campaign.
The coalitionists were advertised to make
their nominations for the legislature on that
day, but for some reason unknown to the pub
lie 1t was postponed, and the democrats re-
solved to make their nominations on Sept. /.
The remains of the late Mrs. John G. Meem,
whose untimely death at her home in Shen-
andoah county has been already reported in
The NATIONAL REPUBLICAN, were brought
to this city by the Virginia Midland yester-
day evening. Her funeral sermon was
preached at st. Pauls Episcopal church by
the Rev. 4. NJ Carson, before an immense
audience. The remains were entombed at
Springhill cemetery. The whole city was in
deep mourning.
some weeks on a visit to the home of the
brides father in southwest Virginia, and
great number of our people are at watering
places in the mountains and at the sea shore
snutfing the salt breezes.
Mr.. Thos ii. Mosly, of this city, found a
1ax-a g. a 4 r
book, printed in 1744, two very curiouslspeci-
mems of old continental paper money. One
of them reads as follows in letters and fig
ures:
s35. The bearer is entitled to receive 35 Spanish
milled dollars, or an equal sum in gold or silver,
according TO resolution OF Congress OF the 18th
January. 1893.
''Jt Jo. Corr. ~ ''A N'0A'A'
"Thirty-five dollars " is printed all around
the edges of this note, and on the back of it
are emblems of two rudely drawn tobacco
leaves, and on the face palm tree with this
motto underneath: "Hinc Opes,"
The other note, printed on the same sort of
crude paper and types, reads as follows:
f24-V. M.-No 1O46.
This bill of $50 shall be exchanged and re-
deemed in Spanish milled dollars. or The value in
gold or silver, at the rate of one for orty at the
December, in the year 1854, according to an act
passed the fourteenth day of July, one thousand
seven hundred ana elRnty. JOHN LYME,
j. Q. RANDOLPH, j, HOPKINS
f24
Both of these specimens Of unpaid scrip are
about three inches long and two broad and
the paper very thin and imperfectly printed
Capt. j. II. Rives, revenue collector of this
district, goes out of Office at 12 o'clock to-
night, and will be succeeded by the new
appointee, Mr.. Craig, who will consolidate
the districts under his control, and make his
headquarters at Harrisonburg. Mr. G. NJ.
Mclaughlin, one of the present head clerks,
will have charge of the branch office here,
where most of the stamps are sold and rev.
| enue collected.
Messrs. @. II. Locher & Co., of the James
River Cement and Lime mills, at Balcony
| falls, not far above this city, have just COM
pleted large contract with the Grocer Steel
and Iron company, of Roanoke, to furnish
them for their large 100-ton furnace $4,000
tons of limestone at the rate of sixty tons per
day. The stone for this furnace will come
from quarries ON the Shenandoah Valley rail-
way, some forty miles below Roanoke and is
said to be of the finest quality.